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Range-Wide Determinants Of Plague Distribution In North America, Sean P. Maher, Christine Ellis, Kenneth L. Gage, Russell E. Enscore, A. Townsend Peterson

College of Natural and Applied Sciences

Plague, caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, is established across western North America, and yet little is known of what determines the broad-scale dimensions of its overall range. We tested whether its North American distribution represents a composite of individual host-plague associations (the "Host Niche Hypothesis"), or whether mammal hosts become infected only at sites overlapping ecological conditions appropriate for plague transmission and maintenance (the "Plague Niche Hypothesis"). We took advantage of a novel data set summarizing plague records in wild mammals newly digitized from paper-based records at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to develop range-wide tests of …

Impact Of Employment Transitions On Health Insurance Coverage Of Rural Residents, Nathaniel J. Anderson Ms, Mph, Erika C. Ziller Phd, Melanie M. Race Ms, Andrew F. Coburn Phd

Access / Insurance

Numerous studies have found that rural residents are more likely to be uninsured than urban residents. This coverage difference is generally due to more limited access for rural workers to employer-sponsored health insurance. Lower wages, and the tendency for rural residents to work for small employers, account for this reduced access. While we have substantial information on static insurance coverage rates for rural residents, our knowledge about how coverage changes with employment transitions is limited. Prior research indicates that loss of a job puts workers at greater risk of becoming uninsured, and there is some evidence that this risk is …

Vol. 86, No. 1 | Fall 2010, Bridgewater College

Bridgewater Magazine

No abstract provided.

Crown Of The Continent Magazine - Fall 2010, University Of Montana, Missoula

Crown of the Continent and the Greater Yellowstone Magazine

Table of Contents: Scapegoat -- Glacier Archival Photos -- Scientific Discovery in Glacier -- Research in the Crown -- Featured Photographer: Eric Reese -- Crown Place Names -- Crown Roundtable -- Montana Legacy Project -- Snow Avalanches -- Flathead Lake Lodge -- Exploring Mount Siyeh -- Book Recommendation

Mcnair Messenger- Fall 2010, Mcnair Staff

McNair Messenger

McNair Scholars Program

Umm Curriculum Changes Summary 2010, Curriculum Committee

Curriculum Committee Reports

No abstract provided.

The Faculty Notebook, October 2010, Provost's Office

Faculty Notebook

The Faculty Notebook is published periodically by the Office of the Provost at Gettysburg College to bring to the attention of the campus community accomplishments and activities of academic interest. Faculty are encouraged to submit materials for consideration for publication to the Associate Provost for Faculty Development. Copies of this publication are available at the Office of the Provost.

Money, Power And Landscapes Of Consumption, Ana Miscolta-Cameron

Geography Capstone Projects

This paper explores the phenomenon of national parks and reserves in Tanzania as a product of early colonial ideology and the evolution of that ideology into a post-independence capitalist enterprise. Serengeti National Park, Selous Game Reserve and the Ngorongoro Conservation Area are examined as historically contested sites in which indigenous people have been denied customary use rights by successive regimes of power keen on profiting through resource exploitation and tourism. Though this paper’s focus is Tanzania, it attempts to reveal a pattern of colonial and neo-colonial environmentalism widespread throughout the developing world.

Megaphone Fall 2010, Macalester College

Megaphone Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Early Continental Philosophy Of Science, Babette Babich

Articles and Chapters in Academic Book Collections

No abstract provided.

The View From Ventress - 2010, University Of Mississippi. College Of Liberal Arts

Liberal Arts Newsletters

Special Section: At Your Service. College contributes valuable resources to the state.

The Institute Of Archaeology & Siegfried H. Horn Museum Newsletter Volume 31.4, Owen Chesnut, Bethany J. Walker, Øystein S. Labianca, Douglas R. Clark, Kent V. Bramlett

Institute of Archaeology & the Horn Archaeological Museum Newsletter

Umm al-Jimal Project, Owen Chesnut

Hisban 2010, Bethany J. Walker and Øystein S. LaBianca

'Umayri 2010, Douglas R. Clark and Kent V. Bramlett

Random Survey

Geogram 2010, David J. Keeling Editor, Wku Department Of Geography And Geology

Earth, Environmental, and Atmospheric Sciences Publications

No abstract provided.

Neocolonialism In Cold War Afghanistan, Jonathan Reed

Middle Eastern Communities and Migrations Student Research Paper Series

No abstract provided.

“From Where I Sit”: Filipino Youth, Sexuality And Immigration In Participatory Action Research, Valerie Francisco

Faculty Publications, Sociology

Studies of young people's experiences of sexuality rarely discuss how immigration and settlement impact youths' understanding of their bodies, sexual identities, and knowledge. In this paper, Filipino youth in collaboration with adult allies, conducted a New York City-based participatory action research project and found that young people's experiences and understanding of sexuality are narrated by silences, solidarity and paradoxical spaces. This study explores the contradictory experiences of passivity and subjectivity in the sexual lives of young people. Lastly, as an adult collaborator on the project I assess how “participation” as a logic of inquiry allows for youth and adult collaborators …

Changing Depositional Environments In An Upper Ordovician Stratigraphic Sequence, Ashlock Formation, Madison County, Kentucky, Kevin Greff

Geosciences Undergraduate Theses

We investigate the sedimentology, stratigraphy, and depositional environments of a 7-meter, Upper Ordovician limestone sequence cropping out in Richmond, Kentucky. The stratigraphic section lies within the Ashlock Formation with good lateral exposure stretching along 200 meters of a highway roadcut. We took approximately 20 samples from the measured section, focusing on representative samples and lithologic transitions. We use standard laboratory procedures in slabbing rock samples and making thin sections.

The Ashlock Formation at this locality consists of alternating layers of limey mudstone and limestone. Megafossils - brachiopods, bryozoans, trilobites, gastropods, ostracodes, coralline algae, and bivalves - are abundant in various …

Southern Register. 2010.4 (Fall 2010), University Of Mississippi. Center For The Study Of Southern Culture

Southern Register

No abstract provided.

Friends Of Musselman Library Newsletter Fall 2010, Musselman Library

Friends of Musselman Library Newsletter

Table of Contents: From the Director: Open Stacks (Robin Wagner); Save the Date: Books and Reading in the Australian Outback; Library Gets Makeover; Honor with Books (Gregg Williams ’10, Karen Pinto); Call for Entries for 30^th Remembrances; GettDigital: Theatre Arts (George Muschamp ’66); Naval Civil War Broadside Purchased; Focus on Philanthropy (Paul Muchinsky ’69, Karen Drickamer); Glatfelter Lodge Glass Windows (J. William Warehime ’50, Jean LeGros ’73); Paulette and Students Shift Books Over Summer (Paulette Bount, Ross Nicholas ’13); Exhibits: Classes, Photo of the Day (Lucy Marinova ’12, Munya Choga ’12, Jennifer Lazuta ’07, Kathy Cain, Michael Hobor ’69, …

Sticks And Stones: The Strategic Use Of Development By The Maoists In The Mobilization Of Nepal‘S Rural Population, Iyla Shornstein

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

Nepal is a country with a brutal history of endemic domestic conflict and economic inequality. With the majority of the population living below the poverty line, development discourse has been crucial to political discussions for the past 20 years. The advent of the People‘s War marked a highly significant turn in the history of Nepali politics as the formation of the United Communist Party of Nepal (CPN-M) and the subsequent insurgency that followed brought issues of socio-economic equality and empowerment of marginalized peoples to the forefront of the national agenda. The CPN-M rapidly gained support predominantly in the rural countryside …

Fall 2010 Farquhar Forum, Farquhar College Of Arts And Sciences

The Farquhar Forum College Magazine

No abstract provided.

Ua41 University College Connection, Dennis K. George, Dean, Wendi Kelley

UC Publications

No abstract provided.

Re-Hashing Haiti: Empowering The People, Edward Dudley

Architecture Senior Theses

Thesis contends that integrating an architecture at a local level that economic and political sectors will produce a community that temporarily manifests a relationship among existing social actively contributes to aself sustaining haiti of the future.

Ua68/1/3 Arts & Letters, Vol. 2, No. 1, Wku Potter College Of Arts & Letters

WKU Administration Documents

Magazine created by WKU Potter College of Arts & Letters regarding faculty and student research, events and programs.

Eastern Illinois Alumni (Fall 2010), Eastern Illinois University Alumni Association

Old Main Line/Eastern Illinois Alumni (2010)

EI & U Expect Greatness: The Campaign for Eastern Illinois University; Remembering Gilbert Fite (1918-2010); New Textbook Rental Service Facility Opens; EIU Beyond the Classroom; Tainted Love at EIU; Panther Athletics; etc.

Addressing Collective-Action Problems In Securitized Credit, Nancy P. Jacklin

Law and Contemporary Problems

No abstract provided.

Re-Branding Alternative Tourism In The Caribbean: The Case For ‘Slow Tourism’, Dennis Conway, Benjamin F. Timms

Social Sciences

Slow tourism represents a progressive genre of alternative tourism for remote locales in the Caribbean beyond mass-tourism complexes. We propose this new form of slow tourism as a viable promotional identity for alternative tourist offerings, which are in need of re-branding, through the decentralized medium of information technologies. A further contribution to this new construct's identity is our recognition of the potential for the Caribbean diaspora to participate as stakeholders in slow tourism ventures in under-developed spaces of the Caribbean that lack the requisite resources and bundle of social and economic advantages that mass-tourism relies upon. Thus, the unevenness of …

Macalester Today Fall 2010, Macalester College

Macalester Today

No abstract provided.

Instruction Size Report, Fall 2010, University Of Northern Iowa

Institutional Effectiveness & Planning Documents

Gives breakdowns of student credit hours offered by status of instructor, average class size overall, and average class size by status of instructor.

Legality And [Dis]Membership: Removal Of Citizenship And The Creation Of ‘Virtual Immigrants', Leila Kawar

Political Science Faculty Publications

This article seeks to show that liberal law continues to justify and legitimize displacements of minority populations, even in an age of universal human rights. As demonstrated by the Israeli court’s 1988 decision legitimating the deportation of Mubarak Awad, citizenship and immigration laws provide juridical justifications for contemporary ethno-national settler projects. In the aftermath of a territorial conflict that defines or redefines the bounds of the state, racially-marked indigenous populations are vulnerable to being legally recast as “aliens” or “virtual immigrants.” National conflict may thus be transformed by legal formalism into a question of immigration law, allowing the power relations …

Nationalism In Afghanistan - A Descriptive Analysis, Jawan Shir Rasikh

Middle Eastern Communities and Migrations Student Research Paper Series

No abstract provided.