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A Storm Like No Other: Changes That Shaped Seward Peninsula Communities At The Turn Of The 20th Century, Amy Russell Dec 2009

A Storm Like No Other: Changes That Shaped Seward Peninsula Communities At The Turn Of The 20th Century, Amy Russell

Arctic and Northern Studies

"This thesis explains how four events at the turn of the twentieth century--the start of an American administration, the introduction of schools and missions, the introduction of reindeer, and the 1918 influenza epidemic--brought sweeping changes to Inupiat on the Seward Peninsula, and contributed to the decline of two formerly-prominent Seward Peninsula communities: Kingegan and Kauwerak"--Leaf iii


Influence Of Soil Water Repellency On Post-Fire Revegetation Success And Management Techniques To Improve Establishment Of Desired Species, Matthew D. Madsen Dec 2009

Influence Of Soil Water Repellency On Post-Fire Revegetation Success And Management Techniques To Improve Establishment Of Desired Species, Matthew D. Madsen

Theses and Dissertations

The influence of soil water repellency (WR) on vegetation recovery after a fire is poorly understood. This dissertation presents strategies to broaden opportunities for enhanced post-fire rangeland restoration and monitoring of burned piñon and juniper (P-J) woodlands by: 1) mapping the extent and severity of critical and subcritical WR, 2) determining the influence of WR on soil ecohydrologic properties and revegetation success, and 3) evaluating the suitability of a wetting agent composed of alkylpolyglycoside-ethylene oxide/propylene oxide block copolymers as a post-fire restoration tool for ameliorating the effects of soil WR and increasing seedling establishment. Results indicate that:

• Post-fire patterns …


A Closer Look At One Elementary School's Use Of Informational Text In Classroom Instruction, Marjean Sorensen Dec 2009

A Closer Look At One Elementary School's Use Of Informational Text In Classroom Instruction, Marjean Sorensen

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this action research study was to explore the use of informational text in kindergarten through sixth grade classrooms in one elementary school. The research was based on analyzing responses given by teachers on a self-report survey; which addressed various aspects of their use of informational texts. The survey included questions about the sources teachers used to find informational texts, the criteria used in selection of such texts, and the frequency and purposes for informational text use. These data were then compared according to teachers' years of teaching experience and grade level taught to see the influence of …


Civil Rights—Shades Of Race: An Historically Informed Reading Of Title Vii, Michael J. Fellows Dec 2009

Civil Rights—Shades Of Race: An Historically Informed Reading Of Title Vii, Michael J. Fellows

Western New England Law Review

No abstract provided.


Constitutional Law—The "Grape" March On Washington: The Twenty-First Amendment, The Dormant Commerce Clause, And Direct Alcohol Shipments, Pamela R. Cote Dec 2009

Constitutional Law—The "Grape" March On Washington: The Twenty-First Amendment, The Dormant Commerce Clause, And Direct Alcohol Shipments, Pamela R. Cote

Western New England Law Review

No abstract provided.


When Trial And Punishment Intersect: New Defects In The Death Penalty, Alexander Bunin Dec 2009

When Trial And Punishment Intersect: New Defects In The Death Penalty, Alexander Bunin

Western New England Law Review

No abstract provided.


Accepting Evolution In Workplace Justice: The Need For Congress To Mandate Arbitration, Frederick L. Sullivan Dec 2009

Accepting Evolution In Workplace Justice: The Need For Congress To Mandate Arbitration, Frederick L. Sullivan

Western New England Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Girl-Wife And The Alienists: The Forgotten Murder Trial Of Josephine Terranova, Jacob M. Appel Dec 2009

The Girl-Wife And The Alienists: The Forgotten Murder Trial Of Josephine Terranova, Jacob M. Appel

Western New England Law Review

No abstract provided.


Constitutional Law—You Can't Take It With You: The Constitutionality Of Workers' Compensation Rules Based On Residency, Michelle L. Himes Dec 2009

Constitutional Law—You Can't Take It With You: The Constitutionality Of Workers' Compensation Rules Based On Residency, Michelle L. Himes

Western New England Law Review

No abstract provided.


Criminal Law—Kosilek V. Maloney: In Prison While Imprisoned In The Body Of The Opposite Sex: Examining The Issue Of "Cruel And Unusual Punishment" Presented By An Incarcerated Transsexual, Nikolas Andreopoulos Dec 2009

Criminal Law—Kosilek V. Maloney: In Prison While Imprisoned In The Body Of The Opposite Sex: Examining The Issue Of "Cruel And Unusual Punishment" Presented By An Incarcerated Transsexual, Nikolas Andreopoulos

Western New England Law Review

No abstract provided.


Evidence—The Motion In Limine And The Marketplace Of Ideas: Advocating For The Availability Of The Necessity Defense For Some Of The Bay State's Civilly Disobedient, Luke Shulman-Ryan Dec 2009

Evidence—The Motion In Limine And The Marketplace Of Ideas: Advocating For The Availability Of The Necessity Defense For Some Of The Bay State's Civilly Disobedient, Luke Shulman-Ryan

Western New England Law Review

No abstract provided.


Business Support Of Affirmative Action And Discriminatory Hiring Practices: Contradictory Or Compatible?, Arthur M. Wolfson Dec 2009

Business Support Of Affirmative Action And Discriminatory Hiring Practices: Contradictory Or Compatible?, Arthur M. Wolfson

Western New England Law Review

No abstract provided.


A Critical Look At Student Resistance To Non-Traditional Law School Professors, Kathryn P. Nordick Dec 2009

A Critical Look At Student Resistance To Non-Traditional Law School Professors, Kathryn P. Nordick

Western New England Law Review

No abstract provided.


Civil Rights—"A Mere Paper Guarantee?": Congressional Intent, Judicial Manipulation, And The Current State Of Municipal Liability Under 42 U.S.C. § 1981, Allison M. Mckeen Dec 2009

Civil Rights—"A Mere Paper Guarantee?": Congressional Intent, Judicial Manipulation, And The Current State Of Municipal Liability Under 42 U.S.C. § 1981, Allison M. Mckeen

Western New England Law Review

No abstract provided.


Bankruptcy—The Defalcation Exception To Discharge: Should A Fiduciary's Mistake Prohibit A Discharge From Debt?, Andrea Johnson Dec 2009

Bankruptcy—The Defalcation Exception To Discharge: Should A Fiduciary's Mistake Prohibit A Discharge From Debt?, Andrea Johnson

Western New England Law Review

No abstract provided.


White Investment In Black Bondage, Geiza Vargas-Vargas Dec 2009

White Investment In Black Bondage, Geiza Vargas-Vargas

Western New England Law Review

No abstract provided.


Judicial Discretion, Sentencing Guidelines, And Lessons From Medieval England, 1066-1215, Eric G. Barber Dec 2009

Judicial Discretion, Sentencing Guidelines, And Lessons From Medieval England, 1066-1215, Eric G. Barber

Western New England Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Fair Labor Standards Act—Where The Fourth Circuit Went Wrong In Shaliehsabou V. Hebrew Home Of Greater Washington: Judicial Expansion Of Fair Labor Standards Act Exemptions To Include Ministerial Employees, Sarah L. Santos Dec 2009

The Fair Labor Standards Act—Where The Fourth Circuit Went Wrong In Shaliehsabou V. Hebrew Home Of Greater Washington: Judicial Expansion Of Fair Labor Standards Act Exemptions To Include Ministerial Employees, Sarah L. Santos

Western New England Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Wiretap Act—Reconcilable Differences: A Framework For Determining The "Interception" Of Electronic Communications Following United States V. Councilman's Rejection Of The Storage/Transit Dichotomy, Michael D. Roundy Dec 2009

The Wiretap Act—Reconcilable Differences: A Framework For Determining The "Interception" Of Electronic Communications Following United States V. Councilman's Rejection Of The Storage/Transit Dichotomy, Michael D. Roundy

Western New England Law Review

No abstract provided.


Civil Rights/Civil Procedure—Is It The Officer Or The Gentleman?: Issues Of Capacity In § 1983 Actions Brought In Federal Court, Jeffrey K. O'Connor Dec 2009

Civil Rights/Civil Procedure—Is It The Officer Or The Gentleman?: Issues Of Capacity In § 1983 Actions Brought In Federal Court, Jeffrey K. O'Connor

Western New England Law Review

No abstract provided.


Blaine Amendments And Polygamy Laws: The Constitutionality Of Anti-Polygamy Laws Targeting Religion, Elijah L. Milne Dec 2009

Blaine Amendments And Polygamy Laws: The Constitutionality Of Anti-Polygamy Laws Targeting Religion, Elijah L. Milne

Western New England Law Review

No abstract provided.


Fighting The Good Fight: The Role Of Environmental Civil Rights Litigators Going Forward And The Need For A Continuance Of The Litigation Tool In The Environmental Justice Movement, Sean-Patrick Wilson Dec 2009

Fighting The Good Fight: The Role Of Environmental Civil Rights Litigators Going Forward And The Need For A Continuance Of The Litigation Tool In The Environmental Justice Movement, Sean-Patrick Wilson

Western New England Law Review

No abstract provided.


Diversity's Divergence: A Post-Grutter Examination Of Racial Preferences In Public Employment, Lorin J. Lapidus Dec 2009

Diversity's Divergence: A Post-Grutter Examination Of Racial Preferences In Public Employment, Lorin J. Lapidus

Western New England Law Review

No abstract provided.


Ratifying The Fourteenth Amendment In Ohio, Gabriel J. Chin Dec 2009

Ratifying The Fourteenth Amendment In Ohio, Gabriel J. Chin

Western New England Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Paradigm Recursion: Is It More Accessible When Introduced In Middle School?, Katherine Gunion, Todd Milford, Ulrike Stege Dec 2009

The Paradigm Recursion: Is It More Accessible When Introduced In Middle School?, Katherine Gunion, Todd Milford, Ulrike Stege

The Journal of Problem Solving

Recursion is a programming paradigm as well as a problem solving strategy thought to be very challenging to grasp for university students. This article outlines a pilot study, which expands the age range of students exposed to the concept of recursion in computer science through instruction in a series of interesting and engaging activities. In this study, a small number of students (n = 9) aged 11 to 13 years, were presented with a new and unique recursion curriculum involving hands-on experiences over a seven-week period at the University of Victoria, Canada. The curriculum was comprised of a series of …


The Effects Of Number And Level Of Restructuring In Insight Problem Solving, James N. Macgregor, John B. Cunningham Dec 2009

The Effects Of Number And Level Of Restructuring In Insight Problem Solving, James N. Macgregor, John B. Cunningham

The Journal of Problem Solving

Insight problem solving is characterized by restructuring. We hypothesized that the difficulty of rebus puzzles could be manipulated by systematically varying the restructurings required to solve them. An experiment using rebus puzzles varied the number of restructurings (one or two) required to solve a problem and the level at which the restructuring took place (sub-word level, word level, and supra-word level). Solution rates were higher for one restructuring than two, and higher for restructuring at the supra-word level (relation between words) than at lower levels. To explain the findings, we suggest that rebus puzzles initially engage normal reading processes, which …


Examining The Role Of Manipulatives And Metacognition On Engagement, Learning, And Transfer, Daniel M. Belenky, Timothy J. Nokes Dec 2009

Examining The Role Of Manipulatives And Metacognition On Engagement, Learning, And Transfer, Daniel M. Belenky, Timothy J. Nokes

The Journal of Problem Solving

How does the type of learning material impact what is learned? The current research investigates the nature of students’ learning of math concepts when using manipulatives (Uttal, Scudder, & DeLoache, 1997). We examined how the type of manipulative (concrete, abstract, none) and problem-solving prompt (metacognitive or problem-focused) affect student learning, engagement, and knowledge transfer. Students who were given concrete manipulatives with metacognitive prompts showed better transfer of a procedural skill than students given abstract manipulatives or those given concrete manipulatives with problem-focused prompts. Overall, students who reported low levels of engagement showed better learning and transfer when getting metacognitive prompts, …


Modeling Human Performance In Restless Bandits With Particle Filters, Michael S.K. Yi, Mark Steyvers, Michael Lee Dec 2009

Modeling Human Performance In Restless Bandits With Particle Filters, Michael S.K. Yi, Mark Steyvers, Michael Lee

The Journal of Problem Solving

Bandit problems provide an interesting and widely-used setting for the study of sequential decision-making. In their most basic form, bandit problems require people to choose repeatedly between a small number of alternatives, each of which has an unknown rate of providing reward. We investigate restless bandit problems, where the distributions of reward rates for the alternatives change over time. This dynamic environment encourages the decision-maker to cycle between states of exploration and exploitation. In one environment we consider, the changes occur at discrete, but hidden, time points. In a second environment, changes occur gradually across time. Decision data were collected …


Causal Induction From Continuous Event Streams: Evidence For Delay-Induced Attribution Shifts, Marc J. Buehner, Jon May Dec 2009

Causal Induction From Continuous Event Streams: Evidence For Delay-Induced Attribution Shifts, Marc J. Buehner, Jon May

The Journal of Problem Solving

Contemporary theories of Human Causal Induction assume that causal knowledge is inferred from observable contingencies. While this assumption is well supported by empirical results, it fails to consider an important problem-solving aspect of causal induction in real time: In the absence of well structured learning trials, it is not clear whether the effect of interest occurred because of the cause under investigation, or on its own accord. Attributing the effect to either the cause of interest or alternative background causes is an important precursor to induction. We present a new paradigm based on the presentation of continuous event streams, and …


Obstacles In Investigating The Role Of Restructuring In Insightful Problem Solving, Ivan K. Ash, Patrick J. Cushen, Jennifer Wiley Dec 2009

Obstacles In Investigating The Role Of Restructuring In Insightful Problem Solving, Ivan K. Ash, Patrick J. Cushen, Jennifer Wiley

The Journal of Problem Solving

In the present article, we articulate three assumptions underlying theories proposing that restructuring processes play a key role in insightful problem solving: representational difficulty, representational change, and discontinuity in solution processes. We argue that these assumptions need empirical validation to justify the proposition of restructuring mechanisms that are unique from those involved in classic information-processing theories of problem solving. To this end, we review some theoretical and methodological obstacles that are inherent in the investigation of the existence and nature of restructuring processes. We then offer some recommendations on how to overcome or avoid these obstacles in future studies. Finally, …