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Institutional Data Book 2009-2010, University Of Minnesota, Morris Office Of Institutional Research

Institutional Effectiveness and Research Reports

No abstract provided.

Stimulating Students’ Interest In And Curiosity About Nature Through Frequent And Brief Trips Outdoors, Joanne Claire Kornoelje

Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects

This study considers whether frequent and brief trips outdoors can affect students’ interest in and curiosity about nature. Recent research shows that people - and children in specific - are not spending as much time outdoors as in previous generations. This has raised concerns that today’s children will be less likely to champion environmental issues as adults, due to their lack of connection to the environment that surrounds and supports them.

I took my five sixth-grade science classes outdoors eleven times for ten-minute field trips during the 2009-10 school year. Using inquiry-based instruction, the initial trips were focused observation. Subsequent …

Simulation Of Contaminant Transport From Solid Domestic Waste Disposal Sites In The Warri Deltaic Plain Sands, Warri-Effurun, Nigeria, Charles Onoriode Usiaphre

Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects

Protecting the groundwater resource in the Warri Deltaic Plain sand from the impact of anthropogenic contamination requires an understanding and knowledge of groundwater flow paths, transport processes and the source of contamination. This study was carried out to find out contaminant transport from solid domestic waste sites to the groundwater. The U.S. Geological Survey three-dimensional finite-difference code, MODFLOW, was used to simulate the groundwater flow. The flow pattern reveals predominantly downward flow, with major horizontal motion towards towns around Ekurede Urhobo and Ekurede Itsekiri in Warri. Simulation of advective contaminant transport using MODPATE1 for particle tracking indicates local movement of …

Patent Inflation, Jonathan Masur

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

No abstract provided.

Mustang Daily, July 29, 2010

Cal Poly Student Newspaper

Student newspaper of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA.

Asbury Park V. Greenbriar Estate Homeowners' Assoc Clerk's Record V. 3 Dckt. 37556

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

No abstract provided.

Research On The Competitiveness Of China Hn Chemical Shipping Company, Yue Luan

World Maritime University Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Environmental Analysis In Ship Investment Decision-Making, Zhangzhang Ding

World Maritime University Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Refinement Of The Method For Using Pseudo-Invariant Sites For Long Term Calibration Trending Of Landsat Reflective Bands, Clifton R. Anderson

Theses

The long term calibration history of the Landsat 5 TM instrument has recently been defined using a time series of desert sites in Northern Africa. This correction is based on the assumption that the atmosphere is invariant and the reflectance of each site is approximately constant and Lambertian over time. As a result, the top of the atmosphere reflection is assumed constant when corrected for variations in the solar elevation angle and earth-sun distance. While this is true to first order and is the basis for all current temporal calibration, there are multiple known sources of residual error in the …

The Dirt On The Ancient Maya: Soil Chemical Investigations Of Ancient Maya Marketplaces, Daniel Aaron Bair

Theses and Dissertations

Various criteria or lines of evidence have been used to identify ancient Maya marketplaces, including location near trade routes, artifactual evidence of trade, open space adjacent to transportation routes, proximity to public structures, low platforms and rock alignments to denote market spaces, and regular patterns in soil and floor chemical concentrations. Seibal and Mayapán were important economic Maya polities controlling the trade routes at the apex of their civilizations. The objectives of these studies were to apply geochemical and geospatial analyses of the soils and floors from public plazas and household patios, to discover the anthropogenic chemical residues of phosphorus …

Human Powered Production Tool For The Renewable Material, Bamboo, Rashmi Kinariwala

Theses

Sustainable design in a simple manner usually involves the impact of the things we design - their manufacturing process, time of use, and final disposal - on the earth's environment. In India, I was exposed to a different definition and concept of "sustainable design," some similar to the West, and some rather different. When a particular object is related to its context, it becomes a part of the living system, making it human-centered and deeply rooted in the culture. It has to do more by defining a relationship between the object and the user environment. In order to attain sustainability …

How Does The Stock Market React To Corporate Environmental News?, Charles H. Anderson-Weir

Undergraduate Economic Review

The environmental decisions of corporations can have a huge impact on both the environment and a company’s value. This paper finds that the stock market reacts negatively to news about the environmental behavior of firms. A 2009 Newsweek study on the “greenness” of companies is used in the study. The event study methodology is used with stock prices to measure the stock market reaction by creating Cumulative Abnormal Returns. The average abnormal returns of all the companies are significantly negative suggesting that investors react adversely to “green” news.

Remarks At Memorial Service For The Honorable Morris E. Lasker, U.S. District Court, Southern District Of New York, Nicholas A. Robinson

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

A Location-Aware Framework For Intelligent Real-Time Mobile Applications, Sean J. Barbeau, Rafael A. Perez, Miguel A. Labrador, Alfredo J. Perez, Nevine Labib Georggi, Philip L. Winters

Computer Science Faculty Publications

The Location-Aware Information Systems Client (LAISYC) supports intelligent, real-time, mobile applications for GPS-enabled mobile phones by dynamically adjusting platform parameters for application performance while conserving device resources such as battery life.

Food Orbits: A Novel Design Tool For Complex Systems, Stephen Brogan, Seaton Baxter

DRS Biennial Conference Series

Food and our relationship with it is important to our very survival. To understand the different natures of various food systems it is critical to understand some of their general characteristics. We must know the components of the system and how they work together. Currently, there are several conceptual models of food systems available to facilitate the understanding of such: the linear, radial and loop models, none of which seem suitable for a design application. Natural food systems are complex adaptive systems that operate in a closed loop, with all inputs emanating from and all residuals returning to the source. …

Holy Cross Magazine, Vol. 44, No. 3, Summer 2010, College Of The Holy Cross

Holy Cross Magazine

Syllabus: Sea Power
Cmdr. John K. Bishop, USN, acting commanding officer, visiting associate professor and acting chair, naval science, Holy Cross NROTC Unit
By Pam Reponen

Reporting for Duty
Starting with the very first students to arrive on Mount St. James, Holy Cross alumni have a long legacy of military service
By Christine Hofmann-Bourque

Cheeseburgers and Brotherly Love
On a happy Christmas evening, Phil Juska unveiled a masterpiece that took three months to perfect: a model of the Miss Worcester diner, crafted for his brother, Bill Juska ’66, a longtime fan of the late-night eatery.
By Sarah Saffian

Kellie Terry-Sepulveda …

The Suzuki Diaries: Sustainability In Action, Thomas A. Ipri

Library Faculty Research

Given the number of gloom and doom environmental films flooding the market, the more optimistic approach of The Suzuki Diaries: Sustainability in Action is refreshing. David Suzuki, geneticist, environmentalist, author and broadcaster, takes his daughter, Sarika, around Europe to investigate some of the more proactive approaches various countries have take that lessen their impact on the environment. Suzuki is quick to note that many of these projects were not done to help the environment, per se, but done for practical, economic and quality of life reasons.

July 2, 2010, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

You've Gotta Read This: Summer Reading At Musselman Library (2010), Musselman Library

You’ve Gotta Read This: Summer Reading at Musselman Library

Each year Musselman Library asks Gettysburg College faculty, staff, and administrators to help create a suggested summer reading list to inspire students and the rest of our campus community to take time in the summer to sit back, relax, and read. These summer reading picks are guaranteed to offer much adventure, drama, and fun!

Lawrence Today, Volume 90, Number 4, Summer 2010, Lawrence University

Lawrence Today

No abstract provided.

Insider Vol. 10 No. 4 Summer 2010, College Of Arts & Sciences

College of Arts and Sciences news

Special Awards Edition

Ummra Info: Volume Xiii, Number 1, University Of Minnesota, Morris Retirees' Association

UMMRA Info

This newsletter includes: a letter from the UMMRA president, 2010-2011 dates to save, sad news, 2010-2011 in review, Mini-grants for UMMRA members, UMMRA kudos, bits and pieces, another high rank for UMM, and an article titled Memories of UMM.

Australian Regional Higher Education: Student Characteristics And Experiences, Sarah Richardson, Tim Friedman

Higher education research

This study was undertaken for the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) during May, June and July of 2010. It focuses on students who study at higher education institutions (HEIs) in regional parts of Australia, with particular attention paid to their characteristics, motivations, experiences and outcomes, both in terms of further study and of employment. The study catalogues a number of existing data sources which can be utilised for research into this population and identifies key gaps in the current collections which inhibit some areas of analysis into students at …

Modelling Urban Land Use Change Using Geographically Weighted Regression And The Implications For Sustainable Environmental Planning, Noresah Mohd Shariff, Sanjay Gairola, Anita Talib

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

In this study we applied Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) approach to model urban landuse changes in Penang Island from 1990 to 2005, covering the period during which the Island has experiencedtremendous urban growth due to in migration from adjacent areas. Land use change has potential impacts on thephysical and social environment. We identified spatial variables describing environment, physical and socioeconomicfactors which are hypothesized to influence the change in the land use in the study area. An ordinaryleast squares regression (OLS) model is applied to the variables followed by a GWR model and the results arecompared. The results show that the …

Using Nvidia Gpu For Modelling The Lagrangian Particle Dispersion In The Atmosphere, Jiye Zeng, Tsuneo Matsunaga, Hitoshi Mukai

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

A Lagrangian particle dispersion model computes trajectories for a large number of particles and is often used for describing the transport and diffusion of tracers in the atmosphere. In a typical application, computing the position changes of particles is the bottleneck that controls the total execution time. Such a model presents a good case for investigating the use of NVIDIA’s Graphic Processor Unit or GPU. We developed a Lagrangian particle dispersion model based on FLEXPART to take the advantage of the GPU’s parallel computing power. Preliminary tests show that using a GPU can improve the performance by as much as …

Meta-Modelling The European Environmental Information Space, Werner Pillmann, Karl-Heinz Simon

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

In this paper a conceptual Meta-Model is presented with the aim to structure environmental information, relevant for the environmental part of sustainable development. It is focused on crucial environmental information flows handled in the discipline of Environmental Informatics. The introduced structure is a conceptual systems dynamics type model which describes the natural environment (air, water, soil, climate etc.), the private sector (industry, trade, transport etc.) and households. It uses the input-output presentation where causeeffect chains and information feedback paths are considered. The Meta-Model brings together substantial information about environmental indicators from different areas and organizations, the knowledge about levels of …

Modelling Needs Assessment For Social Adaptation To Climate Change In Siberia, G. A. Alexandrov, G. Inoue, T. Matsunaga

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

Despite the common expectation that climate change may make Siberia a warm heaven, this would not be good for local people. Surprisingly the people of Siberia do rely on the winter cold. Warming may be a serious challenge here. Climate change threatens Siberian forests, lakes and permafrost. In the region where landscapes are unstable this implies the risks of losing the traditional means of subsistence, at least for a while. Social adaptation to climate change is becoming an urgent issue, as the first signs of warming are becoming noticeable to local people. This article reports an attempt to explore the …

Baselines Newsletter, No. 6, Summer/Fall 2010, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center

Baselines: The Natural Resources Law Center Newsletter (2007-2011)

No abstract provided.

Macalester Today Summer 2010, Macalester College

Macalester Today

No abstract provided.

Camas, Summer 2010

Camas

Art and Photography / Grace Brogan, Tony Bynum, Bob Friend, Beth Gibson, M Jackson, Sara Mintz, Elizabeth Ruff, Sarah Weatherby, Liz Williams -- Will You Speak Before I Am Gone / Christopher Zumski Finke -- Through the Heart of It / Erica Bloom -- Berry Soup / Elaine Dugas Shea -- Kyi-Yo Traditional, Grass, Jingle Dress and Fancy / Elaine Dugas Shea -- Ice in Isolation, a lament / M Jackson -- The Limits of Landscape / Rebecca Solnit -- Why We Go A-Wolverining / Douglas H. Chadwick -- on our backs: many glacier / Rick White -- Stan Meets …