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Newsletter, Spring 2010, College Of Arts And Sciences

Physics Newsletter

Contents from Vol 7, No. 1 of the Newsletter for Friends of the Western Michigan University Department of Physics:

• President Emeritus Diether Haenicke
• Faculty News
• Staff Highlights
• Annual Student Awards
• Alumni News
• Accelerator Laboratory
• Department of Physics Roster
• Feedback Form

“Hers Is But The Common Lot Of All Her Protestant And Infidel Sisters:” Margaret Fuller And The Restrictive Language Of Spirituality, Luella Putnam

Journal of South Texas English Studies

A literary criticism of the book "Woman in the Nineteenth Century," by Margaret Fuller is presented. It explores Fuller's style and belief on the gendered societal norms during the antebellum period. It examines how the language of spirituality was used to confine women, in comparison to Ralph Waldo Emerson's transcendentalism philosophy and Orestes A. Brownson's Christianity approach. It discusses the boundaries supporting the current dichotomies between men and women.

Suitability Of Land For Agriculture In Tanzania, Taylor Tully, Megan Browning

Atlas of Maine

Agriculture is vital to the economy of Tanzania, providing many jobs and contributing to a large portion of the GDP. This project sought to answer the following question: What land is suitable for agriculture in Tanzania? We hypothesized that in addition to land currently in use for agriculture, there would exist additional land suitable for agriculture that had not yet been realized as such. We used logistic regression to created a model that predicted agricultural suitability across the country. We evaluated twenty variables and came up with nine predictors of agriculture that we included in our final model. The results …

Driving Towards Lower Emissions: Analyzing The Vehicle Usage Of The Campus Management Department At Bryant University, Brittany Murphy

Honors Projects in Science and Technology

No abstract provided.

Geochemical Analysis Of Cenozoic Fossil Conifers At High Latitudes: Implications For Molecular Preservation And Environmental Change, Caitlyn Witkowski

Honors Projects in Science and Technology

Fossil materials record ancient life and their adapted environment. Arctic plant fossils are critical for our understanding of the Earth’s paleoenvironment when high latitudes were under ice-free conditions. All Arctic plant fossils in this research are conifers, plants conducive for morphological and molecular study because of their incredible genetic stability. Miocene (15 million year old) and Pliocene (5 million year old) conifer leaves were collected from Banks Island, Canada (Williams et al., 2008). Samples were analyzed and compared with Paleocene (60 million year old) and Eocene (45 million year old) samples from Axel Heiberg Island, Canada and with modern equivalent …

A New Model For Higher Education: A Look At Cooperation Between The College Of Saint Benedict And Saint John’S University From 1960 To Early 1970’S, Tiffany A. De Leon

History Student Work

No abstract provided.

Sex Education: The Effectiveness Of Comprehensive-Based Compared To The Effectiveness Of Abstinence-Only, Caitlin Motherway

Social Work Theses

Sex education has the potential to be a powerful way to educate children and adolescents about the risks and implications of sex. There currently is a debate about what type of information should be appropriately delivered to students in school; supporters of Comprehensive-Based sex education argue that information regarding Sexually Transmitted Diseases and contraceptives should be delivered to students, while supporters of Abstinence-Only sex education hold that the only method of safe sex that should be taught to students is abstinence. There are an alarming number of children and adolescents dealing with the consequences of unprotected sex, so sex education …

Section Abstracts: Education

Virginia Journal of Science

Abstracts of the Education Section for the 88th Annual Meeting of the Virginia Academy of Science, May 20--21, 2010, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA.

A Prairie Rendezvous, Vol. 12, No. 2 (Spring 2010), Grand Prairie Friends

Newsletters

No abstract provided.

A Modular One-Generation Reproduction Study As A Flexible Testing System For Regulatory Safety Assessment, Richard Vogel, Troy Seidle, Horst Spielmann

Experimentation Collection

The European Union’s Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals (REACH) legislation mandates testing and evaluation of approximately 30,000 existing substances within a short period of time, beginning with the most widely used “high production volume” (HPV) chemicals. REACH testing requirements for the roughly 3000 HPV chemicals specify three separate tests for reproductive toxicity: two developmental toxicity studies on different animal species (OECD Test Guideline 414) and a two-generation reproduction toxicity study (OECD TG 416). These studies are highly costly in both economic and animal welfare terms. OECD TG 416 is a fertility study intended to evaluate reproductive performance of animals …

April 1, 2010, James Madison University

The Breeze, 2010-2019

The Breeze is the student newspaper of James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

Sense Of Place And Design, Rachelle Lopez

Focus

No abstract provided.

Progress Toward Sustainability In Planning: San Francisco And Montreal

Focus

No abstract provided.

Tallgrass Prairie Center Newsletter, Spring 2010, University Of Northern Iowa. Tallgrass Prairie Center.

Tallgrass Prairie Center Newsletter

Inside This Issue:

-- 22nd North American Prairie Conference: Restoring a National Treasure
-- Fewer Grass Seeds Increases Wildflowers
-- Another Semester of Successful Seminars at the TPC
-- Wetland Plant Materials Development Meeting
-- Recent Publications about Center programs and projects
-- Another Roadside Infraction
-- Student Employee Profiles
-- Can You Identify this Seedling

The Observer, Spring 2010, Women's & Gender Studies Department

Women and Gender Studies Department Newsletter

No abstract provided.

The Effects Of Handedness And Bilateral Saccadic Eye Movements On False Alarms In Recognition Memory, Lisa Weinberg

Psychology Honors Projects

Handedness can be used as a marker for interhemispheric interaction, which can produce memory benefits. Bilateral saccadic eye movements can be used to manipulate levels of interhemispheric interaction. This study measured the effects of handedness and bilateral saccadic eye movement on memory using the Deese-Roediger-McDermott paradigm. This study predicted a memory advantage for left-handers and mixed-handers without eye movements and an advantage for right-handers with the eye movements. The results do not support these predictions but do suggest that handedness is a factor in episodic memory performance. The analyses for this study were run using A’ to compare false alarm …

An Entrepreneurial Approach To Librarianship, Flora Shrode, Jennifer Duncan, Wendy Holliday

Library Faculty & Staff Publications

Librarians from Utah State University explain recent efforts to encourage subject librarians to take a more holistic view of their roles. We are shifting from a traditional emphasis primarily on collection development and refocusing on natural connections between collections, instruction, liaison, and reference service. The poster provides background about Utah State University’s situation and explains our approach to analyzing local needs and culture to inform development of a new organizational structure. We describe our vision of subject librarianship, the process by which we assessed librarians’ ideas and goals for performing as subject librarians, and the actions we are taking to …

Coastal And Marine Resource Condition Monitoring – Scoping Project, Brett A. Human

Fisheries Research Reports

This pilot study investigated potential resource condition indicators, remote sensing, and ground truthing methodologies, for their use in long term monitoring of mangroves and intertidal mudflats in the Pilbara and Kimberley.

Section Abstracts: Environmental Science

Virginia Journal of Science

Abstracts of the Environmental Sciences Section for the 88th Annual Meeting of the Virginia Academy of Science, May 20-21, 2010.

Section Abstracts: Statistics

Virginia Journal of Science

Abstracts of the Statistics Section for the 88th Annual Meeting of the Virginia Academy of Science, May 20-21, 2010, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia.

Ua64 Newsletter For The College Of Education And Behavioral Sciences, Wku College Of Education & Behavioral Sciences

College of Education and Behavioral Sciences Publications

No abstract provided.

Echinococcus: Presence In Wolves, And Agency Efforts On Public Education And Outreach, Jennifer Ramsey

Zoonotics and Wildlife Disease: Publications

What is Echinococcus?

Life Cycle of Echinococcus

Echinococcus multilocularis

Echinococcus granulosus

Potential Sources of E. granulosus in Montana

Echinococcus granulosus

Echinococcus granulosus in the Wildlife Intermediate Host

Echinococcus granulosus: Human Infection

Echinococcus granulosus: Human Exposure

Precautions to Minimize Risk

Efforts on Public Education and Outreach

Women's Studies Newsletter 04-2010, Susana Peña

Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Coloured Identity In The Rainbow Nation: Historical Narratives Of The Durban Coloured Community, Olivia Greene

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

South Africa is working to come to terms with the residual effects of institutionalized racist policies that governed all aspects of its citizens’ lives during Apartheid. One struggle individuals and communities must wage is to define how they see their own racial identity in a post-Apartheid South Africa. There are many questions to ask. Is race no longer pertinent, or does it have a past that must be earnestly engaged and challenged, or does it constitute eternally fixed boundaries embodying cultural norms and biological traits? I, as I show in this paper, see the concept of race itself as a …

Banking For The Rich: A Case Study, Cindy Shuck

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

Microfinance in China can be unexpectedly described by an old Chinese proverb that literally translates “Dongshi, the ugly maiden, furrows her brow.” In this story, a famous Chinese beauty, Xishi, falls ill and as a result begins to clutch her stomach and furrow her brow in pain. Despite her sickness and her anguished expression, everyone continues to comment on her breathtaking beauty. One day her neighbor, another maiden named Dongshi who is known for her ugliness, notices Xishi’s facial expression and, taking note of everyone’s comments about her everlasting beauty, decides that in order to be beautiful she should imitate …

Un Estudio Ecológico De Las Lagartijas Del Valle Seco De Buenavista Y De Los Valles Húmedos De La Josefina Y Salango, Ross Brennan

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

La región costera del sur de la provincia de Manabí, Ecuador es un lugar de gran biodiversidad y endemismo. En esta zona el desierto peruano del Tumbes y el bosque húmedo del Chocó se encuentran. La gran cantidad de especies endémicas y la alta biodiversidad resultan de la interacción entre las dos regiones y la diversidad de hábitats que crean. Hay bosques secos tropicales y bosques húmedos muy cerca de Puerto López. Sin embargo, esta región está cambiando rápidamente debido a las actividades humanas; hay progresiva desertificación y otras amenazas a la diversidad. Además, no hay muchos estudios de la …

Alcohol And Dutch Masculinity: How Does Alcohol Influence The Dutch Male Image?, Adriana Lara

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

The present study investigated the impact alcohol has in creating Dutch masculinity. Twenty Young men between the ages of thirteen and nineteen participated in interviews for this project, participants under the age of eighteen were required to have a parental consent form signed. The focus of the research was to find out how, and if, alcohol plays a role in creating masculinity. It was assumed that most participants would drink alcohol on a regular basis and believe that drinking it was essential to be a man. In my results, my assumptions were proven incorrect. Most of the boys were not …

Shark Bay Prawn And Scallop Fisheries. Final Review Report, Department Of Fisheries Western Australia

Fisheries Management Papers

In recent times, the Department of Fisheries has received representations from both sectors about the ongoing interaction of the fisheries and their respective management settings. As a result, a decision was made to comprehensively review the fisheries, taking into account matters of fishery sustainability and gear interactions, together with industry economics and market considerations.

The review has also addressed research requirements to ensure an appropriate scientific basis for decision-making into the future.

Shark Bay Prawn And Scallop Fisheries: Final Review Report, Western Australia. Department Of Fisheries

Fisheries Management Papers

The Shark Bay Prawn Fishery and Shark Bay Scallop Fishery operate in the same general areas of Shark Bay (although there are some differences in their areas of operation). The interrelationship between trawling activities for the two target species (prawns and scallops) has raised both management challenges and industry conflicts over time. Harvest level settings for each fishery (in the form of effort levels and the timing and/or location of fishing) are independently set, on the basis of recruitment and abundance surveys of each target species. However, each industry sector strongly believes that the interactions between the fisheries arise because …

Commencement, 2010, Marshall University

Marshall University Commencement

Program for the One Hundred Seventy-Third Commencement of Marshall University.