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Faculty Senate Committee Book (September 2010), Csusb Faculty Senate

CSUSB Faculty Senate records

No abstract provided.

Making Ecodistricts Concepts And Methods For Advancing Sustainability In Neighborhoods, Ethan Seltzer, Timothy W. Smith, Joseph Cortright, Ellen M. Bassett, Vivek Shandas

Institute for Sustainable Solutions Publications and Presentations

This report is about how developing "EcoDistricts" in Portland can result in more sustainable neighborhoods and a more sustainable city. With generous funding from the Bullitt Foundation in Seattle, we have been able to take a deeper look into core concepts underlying the notion of pursuing citywide sustainability through neighborhood-scale action. The question becomes: What needs to be done to enable communities to self-manage their resource using behavior by creating community-inspired interventions that change relationships between people and between people and place? To answer these questions and to contribute to the emerging practice of EcoDistrict formation and development, what follows …

Prism #48, September 2010, Office Of The Provost

Prism: Western Michigan University's Newsletter for Academic Affairs

No abstract provided.

Island Times, Sep 2010, Kevin Attra

Island Times Newspaper, 2010

No abstract provided.

The Anchor, Volume 124.01: September 1, 2010, Hope College

The Anchor: 2010

The Anchor began in 1887 and was first issued weekly in 1914. Covering national and campus news alike, Hope College’s student-run newspaper has grown over the years to encompass over two-dozen editors, reporters, and staff. For much of The Anchor's history, the latest issue was distributed across campus each Wednesday throughout the academic school year (with few exceptions). In recent years The Anchor moved to monthly print issues and a more frequently updated website. The Anchor is now published in print twice per academic semester. Occasionally, the volume and/or issue numbering is irregular.

Action Items, Wku Graduate Council

Graduate School

Overview of action items handled by the Graduate Council.

Use Of An Integrated System Dynamics Model For Analyzing Behaviour Of The Social-Economic-Climatic System In Policy Development, Christopher J. Popovich, Slobodan P. Simonovic, Gordon A. Mcbean

Water Resources Research Report

Climate change remains one of the most critical issues that humans and the natural world face today. Yet while a strong body of scientific research has identified the risks if mitigation and adaptation measures are not taken, there still remains a policy lag. This leads researchers to pose several questions: is there an identified need by the policy domain for more or different science? Is the science that is conducted made policyrelevant? If not, are there tools to better link science to policy? This report will explain the process of science-policy communication related to the development of an integrated system …

Oil, Labor Markets, And Economic Diversification In The Gcc: An Empirical Assessment, Tarek Coury, Chetan Dave

Topics in Middle Eastern and North African Economies

No abstract provided.

A Citizens Guide To National Defense And National Security, 2010 September, Clinton H. Whitehurst Jr.

Publications

A Strom Thurmond Institute Special Project

"We're Not Running A Charity Here": Rethinking Public Interest Lawyers' Relationships With Bottom-Line-Driven Pro Bono Programs, Leonore F. Carpenter

Buffalo Public Interest Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Nato Command Structure: Considerations For The Future, W. Bruce Weinrod, Charles L. Barry

Defense and Technology Papers

This paper explores potential future reforms of the NATO command structure. The intent is to stimulate thought on the current structure’s fit to oversee the forces and operations of a growing array of NATO missions.

An Assessment Of The "Diploma In Computer Engineering" Course In The Technical Education System In Nepal, Kul Bahadur Basnet, Jinsoo Kim

Journal of STEM Teacher Education

The purpose of this study was to asses the Diploma in Computer Engineering (DCE) courses offered at affiliated schools of the Council for Technical Education and Vocational Training (CTEVT) with a focus on the goals of the curriculum and employment opportunities. Document analysis, questionnaires, focus group discussions and semi-structured interviews were conducted to gather the data. This study analyzed and described current issues and future policy strategies associated with employment opportunities of graduates. The study indicates that there is potentiality for job opportunities in foreign and domestic markets, especially for DCE graduates. The study also reveals that a remarkable number …

Cooperative Upland Wildlife Research And Surveys, Clay Nielsen, Donald Sparling, Eric Schauber, Charlotte Roy, Eric Hellgren, Leah Berkman, Joanne Crawford, Doug Osborne, Tiffany Osborne, Lyann Rubert, Paul Scharine, Dan Stoelb

Final Reports Archive

No abstract provided.

Climate Change: Helping Nature Survive The Human Response, Will R. Turner, Bethany A. Bradley, Lyndon D. Estes, David G. Hole, Michael Oppenheimer, David S. Wilcove

Geography

Climate change poses profound, direct, and well-documented threats to biodiversity. A significant fraction of Earth's species is at risk of extinction due to changing precipitation and temperature regimes, rising and acidifying oceans, and other factors. There is also growing awareness of the diversity and magnitude of responses, both proactive and reactive, that people will undertake as lives and livelihoods are affected by climate change. Yet to date few studies have examined the relationship between these two powerful forces. The natural systems upon which people depend, already under direct assault from climate change, are further threatened by how we respond to …

Vulnerability-Based Spatial Sampling Stratification For The National Children's Study, Worcester County, Massachusetts: Capturing Health-Relevant Environmental And Sociodemographic Variability, Timothy Downs, Yelena Ogneva-Himmelberger, Onesky Aupont, Yangyang Wang, Ann Raj, Paula Zimmerman, Robert Goble, Octavia Taylor, Linda Churchill, Celeste Lemay, Thomas Mclaughlin, Marianne Felice

Sustainability and Social Justice

Background: The National Children's Study is the most ambitious study ever attempted in the United States to assess how environmental factors impact child health and development. It aims to follow 100,000 children from gestation until 21 years of age. Success requires breaking new interdisciplinary ground, starting with how to select the sample of > 1,000 children in each of 105 study sites; no standardized protocol exists for stratification of the target population by factoring in the diverse environments it inhabits. Worcester County, Massachusetts, like other sites, stratifies according to local conditions and local knowledge, subject to probability sampling rules.Objectives: We answer …

Mending The Fabric Of Small Town America: Health Reform & Rural Economies, Sidney D. Watson

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.

A Tie That Binds: Forum Selection Clause Enforceability In West Virginia, J. Zac Ritchie

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.

Volume 30, Number 3, September 2010, Kate James, Nathan Putnam, Jan Mayo, Barbara Vaughan, Katie Eller, Jay Weitz

OLAC Newsletters

Digitized September 2010 issue of the OLAC Newsletter.

The St. Mary River And The Milk River: Two Rivers, One Stream, Ryan P. Mclane

Water Law Review

No abstract provided.

September 2010 News Releases, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of University Relations

University of Montana News Releases, 1928, 1956-present

No abstract provided.

Law Library Newsletter, Volume 2, Issue 3 - September/October 2010, Kresge Law Library

Law Library Newsletter

How to find part- time employment in the law library. Learn about a great legal re- search database you may not even know exists (hint: it’s not West, Lexis, or Hein Online) Lost in the new law library? Never fear, we have maps and other info to help! Meet our newest Librarian-in- Residence, Naomi Bishop

Comparing Narratives Of Personal And Preferred Partner Characteristics In Online Dating Advertisements, Elizabeth M. Morgan, Tamara C. Richards, Emily M. Vanness

Psychological Sciences Faculty Publications and Presentations

This study explored online personal ads of 294 heterosexual and homosexual men and women in the United States through a qualitative analysis and comparison of participant-generated “personal” and “preferred partner” narratives. Nine characteristics were identified and combined into three overarching categories: physical, lifestyle, and personality characteristics. These three personal and preferred partner characteristics were examined for difference by gender, sexual orientation, age and desired relationship type of the advertisers. Main effects emerged for all four predictors, most notably for age and desired relationship type. Additionally, this study explored the possibility that personal and preferred partner narratives contained similar constellations of …

Education Policies And Practices To Address Cultural Diversity: An Assessment Of Malaysian Schools, S. Malakolunthu

Research Publications (2006 to 2010)

The relationship between education and national unity in Malaysia can be put into perspective based on the policies and practices that were introduced before and after 1969, When a racial riot put the efforts of the government to build nationhood at peril. The earlier policies were essentially transitory and transformational to recreate the British educational set lip into an indigenous system. The post-independent Malaysia had accepted the vernacular schools approach from the British to cater for the educational needs of the Malays, Chinese, and Indians, who formed the major groups of the population. Nevertheless, it introduced Malay as the national …

September 1, 2010 Faculty Senate Minutes, University Of South Carolina

Faculty Senate

No abstract provided.

Politicizing The Courts And Undermining The Law: A Legal History Of Colonial North Carolina, 1660-1775, William E. Nelson

North Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

Race, Educational Loans & Bankruptcy, Abbye Atkinson

Michigan Journal of Race and Law

This Article reports new data from the 2007 Consumer Bankruptcy Project revealing that college graduates and specifically White graduates are less likely to file for bankruptcy than their counterparts without a college degree. Although these observations suggest that a college degree helps graduates to weather the setbacks that sometimes lead to financial hardship as measured by bankruptcy, they also indicate that a college degree may not help everyone equally. African American college graduates are equally likely to file for bankruptcy as African Americans without a college degree. Thus, a college education may not confer the same protective benefit against financial …

Revolutions In Local Democracy? Neighborhood Councils And Broadening Inclusion In The Local Political Process, Matthew J. Parlow

Michigan Journal of Race and Law

Political marginalization of minorities and government corruption are two key factors that have led to the overwhelming decline and decay of America's major cities. Local governments must combat the historical entrenchment of these two evils in order to reverse the trend toward demise. Neighborhood councils may be the best structural changes to local government because they provide more meaningful opportunities for political engagement of minority groups, while also serving as an antidote to systemic corruption in local government. This Essay analyzes the problems plaguing local government in urban cities and explores how neighborhood councils may be able to help address …

Cabin, Quarter, Plantation: Architecture And Landscapes Of North American Slavery, Leland Ferguson

Civil War Book Review

Studying Slavery Architecturally

Freight Sequencing To Improve Hub Operations In The Less-Than-Truckload Freight Transportation Industry, Xiangshang Tong, Kimberly Ellis, Amy Brown Greer

11th IMHRC Proceedings (Milwaukee, Wisconsin. USA – 2010)

In less-than-truckload freight transportation, hub operations affect the service levels that carriers are able to provide their customers. This paper focuses on improving the efficiency of hub operations by reducing freight handling time and cost. Specifically, the freight sequencing problem (FSP) is investigated to determine the freight unloading and loading sequence that minimizes the time for dock workers to transfer shipments from origin trailers to destination trailers. The FSP is modeled as a Rural Postman Problem (RPP) and three algorithms are compared: trailer-at-atime, nearest neighbor, and balance-and-connect. Using five industrial data sets, the results demonstrate the effectiveness, advantages, and disadvantages …

Lao Buddhist Women: Quietly Negotiating Religious Authority, Karma Lekshe Tsomo Phd

Theology and Religious Studies: Faculty Scholarship

Throughout years of war and political upheaval, Buddhist women in Laos have devotedly upheld traditional values and maintained the practice of offering alms and other necessities to monks as an act of merit. In a religious landscape overwhelmingly dominated by bhikkhus (fully ordained monks), a small number have renounced household life and become maekhaos, celibate women who live as nuns and pursue contemplative practices on the periphery of the religious mainstream. Patriarchal ecclesiastical structures and the absence of a lineage of full ordination for women have combined to render the religious roles of Buddhist nuns and laywomen virtually invisible throughout …