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Results Of C14 Analysis [Of] Big Room Guano Deposits, Patricia Jablonsky

KIP Data Sets and Technical Reports

The author describes the results of efforts to accurately date guano deposits found in the Big Room of Carlsbad Caverns. Open Access - Permission by Author(s) See Extended description for more information.

If You Build Them, They Will Come: Nest Boxes Increase Eastern Bluebird Recruitment Within A Site In Northwest Georgia, Renee E. Carleton, Hannah Pruett

Oriole

No abstract provided.

Biospeologica Bibliographia Publications 2010-2, Jean-Pierre Besson, Bernard Lebreton

KIP Articles

No abstract provided.

Communication Technology And Education, Paul A. Soukup

Communication

Probably as far back as people can remember, education has drawn on communication technologies, either to teach students how to use them effectively or to make use of those technologies in the educational process itself. In the former instance, the educational sector typically follows a cultural valuation that regards a given technology as so essential that people cannot leave its use or teaching to chance—reading and writing provide the clearest examples here, with schools teaching both the mechanics of writing and reading (forming or deciphering letters, spelling properly, adhering to a common grammar, and so on) and the composition of …

En Tus Manos... Cueva De Las Manos, Maria Onetto, Andrea Murgo, Maria Luz Funes

KIP Articles

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Is Usda Organic A Seal Of Deceit: The Pitfalls Of Usda Certified Organics Produced In The United States, China And Beyond, Chenglin Liu

Faculty Articles

American consumers' appetite for organic foods (organics) has dramatically increased since Congress passed the Organic Foods Production Act (OFPA) in 1990. Because the domestic organic food industry has been unable to meet the growing demand for these products, U.S. groceries have increasingly relied on imported organics. Studies show that 40% of organic foods consumed in the United States are imported from over 100 foreign countries.

To regulate organic food production, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) accredits certifying agents, which in turn certify organic farms and handlers according to U.S. organic standards. Certifying agents can be state agencies or …

International Intellectual Property Law, Susan Brushaber, Robin S. Fahlberg, Henry Blanco White, Daniel Marugg, Stephen W. Feierabend, Carolina Keller Jupitz, Paul Jones, Mariano Municoy, Bruce Mcdonald, Matt Hofmeister, Navine Karim, Carl Kestens, Melvyn J. Simburg, David Taylor, Michelle Wynne

The International Lawyer

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Conditionalities In The Generalized System Of Preference As Instruments Of Global Economic Governance, Pallavi Kishore

The International Lawyer

No abstract provided.

Santiago As Matamoros: Race, Class, And Limpieza De Sangre In A Sixteenth-Century Spanish Manuscript, Rebecca C. Quinn

The Larrie and Bobbi Weil Undergraduate Research Award

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The Future Of Labor: Plenary Panel Discussion, Jack Ahern, Edward Egan, Samuel Estreicher, Richard Michael Fischl, Lawrence Joseph, Cynthia Nance, Gene Orza, Bernie Ricke, Judith A. Scott, Theodore J. St. Antoine, Wilma B. Liebman

Faculty Articles

"The Future of Labor" panel discussion was moderated by the Honorable Wilma B. Liebman, Chairman of the National Labor Relations Board. The panel was preceeded by brief remarks by Professor David L. Gregory and President of the St. John's Labor Relations and Employment Law Society and J.D. Candidate, '12, Melissa Schneer, honoring '73 graduate Gene Orza with the Distinguished Alumnus Award. Mr. Orza accepted the award, giving his own brief remarks.

Remedies On And Off Contract, Richard R. W. Brooks, Alexander Stremitzer

Faculty Articles

Liberal allowance of rescission followed by restitution has, for centuries, unsettled legal authorities who fear it as a threat to commercial order or other normative values. Responding to these fears, authorities have limited the ease with which rescission may be elected. Their responses, however, are often excessive and based on misunderstandings of the remedy’s effects. Rescission, followed by restitution, may in fact promote contracting by allowing parties to create efficient incentives. Concern about the stability of contracting is not entirely unfounded, but the problem is not primarily due to the ease of rescission following breach; rather, the problem concerns the …

Climate Change And Future Generations, Richard L. Revesz, Matthew R. Shahabian

Faculty Articles

Efforts to reduce greenhouse gases and control climate change implicate a wide range of social, moral, economic, and political issues, none of them simple or clear. But when regulators use cost-benefit analysis to evaluate the desirability of climate change mitigation, one factor typically determines whether mitigation is justified: the discount rate, the rate at which future benefits are converted to their present value. Even low discount rates make the value of future benefits close to worthless: at a discount rate of three percent, ten million dollars five hundred years from now is worth thirty-eight cents today. Thirty-eight cents is therefore …

A Course Unbroken: The Constitutional Legitimacy Of The Dormant Commerce Clause, Barry Friedman, Daniel T. Deacon

Faculty Articles

The article focuses on the dormant commerce clause, which prevents states from regulating interstate commerce due to the constitutional jurisdiction of the U.S. federal government. Information is provided on the U.S. Supreme Court's interpretation of the clause and the constitutionality of federalist protections against states' rights.

Senior Professionals, January/February 2011, Illinois State University, Office Of The Provost

Senior Professionals Newsletter

Newsletter for the Illinois State University Office of the Provost

The Missing Ingredient: How Oft-Overlooked Modern Conflict Of Laws Principles Will Dictate The Reach Of Same-Sex Marriage In America, Alexander V. Maugeri

Saint Louis University Public Law Review

With the start of same-sex marriage in New York, fifteen U.S. states and the nation’s capital now celebrate a form of homosexual union, whether marriage, civil union or domestic partnership. Litigants and scholars—both in favor of and opposed to these legal statuses—have routinely claimed that in the absence of state-level Defense of Marriage Acts, these relationships must be recognized by other states for the full range of purposes including adoption, health and welfare benefits, taxes, and alimony, unless those states have a public policy to the contrary. They claim this consequence follows because of the long-standing American legal rule that …

Abdullahi V. Pfizer & The Alien Tort Statute: Kicking Open A Door Left Slightly Ajar By Sosa V. Alvarez-Machain, Tiffany A. Hetland

Saint Louis University Journal of Health Law & Policy

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Making Health Markets Work Better Through Targeted Doses Of Competition, Regulation, And Collaboration, Len M. Nichols

Saint Louis University Journal of Health Law & Policy

No abstract provided.

Argument Encoding And Pragmatic Marking Of The Transitive Subject In Shiwilu (Kawapanan), Pilar Valenzuela

World Languages and Cultures Faculty Articles and Research

Shiwilu (a.k.a. Jebero) is a nearly extinct Kawapanan language from Peruvian Amazonia. The goal of this article is twofold. First, it investigates the obligatory cross-referencing of arguments in the complex Shiwilu verb. This system is predominantly nominative accusative, with the caveat that main clause object markers coincide with those conveying subject in one type of clause involving nominal predicates, as well as subject and object of dependent clauses. Second, this article provides a first analysis of the enclitic =ler, which may attach to transitive subjects and thus exhibits an ergative-like distribution. Unlike the situation in languages with syntacticized ergative systems, …

Polyethylenimine-Conjugated Gold Nanoparticles: Gene Transfer Potential And Low Toxicity In The Cornea, Ajay Sharma, Ashish Tandon, Jonathan C. K. Tovey, Rangan Gupta, J. David Robertson, Jennifer A. Fortune, Alexander M. Klibanov, John W. Cowden, Frank G. Rieger, Rajiv R. Mohan

Pharmacy Faculty Articles and Research

This study examined the gene transfer efficiency and toxicity of 2-kDa polyethylenimine conjugated to gold nanoparticles (PEI2-GNP) in the human cornea in vitro and rabbit cornea in vivo. PEI2-GNP with nitrogen-to-phosphorus (N/P) ratios of up to 180 exhibited significant transgene delivery in the human cornea without altering the viability or phenotype of these cells. Similarly, PEI2-GNP applied to corneal tissues collected after 12 h, 72 h, or 7 days exhibited appreciable gold uptake throughout the rabbit stroma with gradual clearance of GNP over time. Transmission electron microscopy detected GNP in the keratocytes and the extracellular matrix of the rabbit corneas. …

Lakes As Buffers Of Stream Dissolved Organic Matter (Dom) Variability: Temporal Patterns Of Dom Characteristics In Mountain Stream-Lake Systems, K. J. Goodman, Michelle A. Baker, Wayne A. Wurtsbaugh

Watershed Sciences Faculty Publications

Lakes within fluvial networks may affect dissolved organic matter (DOM) dynamics in streams by dampening spring DOM snowmelt flushing responses and/or by increasing summer DOM production. We assessed the temporal variability of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) concentration and DOM characteristics (specific ultraviolet absorbance (SUVA254); DOC:dissolved organic nitrogen (DOC:DON)), as well as DOC export in seven paired lake inflows and outflows in the Sawtooth Mountain lake district, Idaho. We hypothesized that lakes would decrease stream DOM temporal variability and increase DOM export as a result of autotrophic production. We correlated DOM variability with landscape factors to evaluate potential drivers of DOM …

First And Second Majors In Baccalaureate Programs (Spring Semester Counts) Durham And Manchester Degree Candidates Ten Years, 2002-2011, University Of New Hampshire. Institutional Research And Assessment

UNH Factbooks

University of New Hampshire factbook data from the 2010-2011 academic year

A/R/Tographic Collaboration As Radical Relatedness, Barbara Bickel, Stephanie Springgay, Ruth Beer, Rita L. Irwin, Kit Grauer, Gu Xiong

Publications

In this paper the authors examine a/r/tographical collaboration in a communityengaged research study investigating immigrant understandings of home and place. The study, The City of Richgate, involves a complex collaboration between community members, community organizations, educational institutions, and a research team comprising artist-educators. The study crosses border zones of cultural, ethnic, geographic, institutional, public, private, and disciplinary boundaries, reflecting the ever-changing character of postmodern reality. In this paper the authors reflect critically and theoretically on the lived experience of radical relatedness found within the complex collaboration, particularly within the a/r/tographic research team. This offers a qualitative methodology of radical …

Re/Turning To Her: An A/R/Tographic Ritual Inquiry, Barbara Bickel, Tannis Hugill

Publications

This article reaches into the depths of a collaborative a/r/tographic ritual inquiry between two women artist-educators-priestesses. Within this we reflect on the intersections of research, art, spirituality, and education as thresholds of collaborative learning. Throughout the ritual-infused research process, we generated source material and imagery from trance, Authentic Movement, the labyrinth, reflective writing and co-interviews. Each of these process practices took us outside of ourselves, and attuned us to Spirit, offering a larger perspective on the inquiry while simultaneously bringing us closer to actualizing the performance ritual. In co-creating what became a performative ritual narrative of the loss and restoration …

A Neural Network Approach To Tornado Forecasting In North Alabama And Southern Middle Tennessee, Sandra G. Lacorte

Theses

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Paraffin: An Economic And Ecological Alternative For Bone Conservation, Victoria E. Luksha

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

Fragile bone materials are ubiquitous in archaeological museum and forensic settings. Although there are many chemical and industrial options for conservation, these may adversely affect the bone objects undergoing preservative treatment. Here, paraffin is explored as a biologically friendly alternative to bone material conservation. Modern domestic pig ribs were subjected to paraffin treatment and then to isotopic analysis to quantify and investigate the chemical effects of paraffin. Although the results showed that paraffin had a limited impact, the sample size proved too small to display the definitive parameters of paraffin’s effects. The results were nevertheless compelling enough to warrant more …

Corticosterone As A Mediator Of The Tradeoff Between Survival And Reproduction, Stephen Harold Patterson

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

Organisms cannot simultaneously maximize their investment in survival and reproductive success, thus these traits are said to trade off against one another. The physiological mechanisms that help guide these investment decisions are not fully understood. Stress-induced corticosterone is a strong candidate mechanism, because it is thought to promote survival-oriented behavior and physiology at the expense of non-critical functions such as reproduction. In this dissertation, I studied multiple components of corticosterone physiology (baseline corticosterone and stress-induced corticosterone) in several species of passerine birds to address this question from a variety of angels. I first provide direct support for corticosterone playing a …

Noxious Weed Control: 2011, Mike Moechnig, Leon J. Wrage, Darrell L. Deneke

SDSU Extension Fact Sheets

Noxious weeds are non-native plant species that are a concern to South Dakota land owners and managers. They can seriously impact the native plant community by altering or affecting agriculture, recreation, and wildlife.

The Columbia Gardens Amusement Park: Company Sponsored Community In Butte, Montana, Matthew R. Carl

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

In 1899, William A. Clark, one of Butte, Montana’s famous “Copper Kings,” purchased 21 acres of land east of Butte, on which he created the Columbia Gardens amusement park. Clark ran his park at personal expense, refusing to charge admission and regularly offering special deals so that Butte residents, particularly children, could enjoy the park. After Clark’s death in 1925, his estate sold most of his Montana holdings, including the Columbia Gardens, to the Anaconda Copper Mining Company in 1928. Without the sentimental attachment to the park that Clark had had, the fact that the Columbia Gardens was not created …

Evaluating Repeat Photography In Documenting Natural And Cultural Landscape Changes: A Changing Crown Of The Continent Ecosystem Between 1899 And 2010, Dusty Leigh Waltner

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

Photography can be an invaluable tool in human geographical research, for example, to better understand the importance of place to people. Increasingly, geographers are looking at how photography can play an active role in the construction of geographical knowledge, that is, how photographs are seen rather than what they show. This study examines the use of repeat photography as a research method by conducting a case study on landscape change in the Crown of the Continent Ecosystem. Grounded in extensive archival research on the past, present, and future uses of photography as a research method, a repeat photography survey was …

Listen To The Bones: An Analysis Of The Variation Within The Faunal Remains At The Bridge River Site, Ogden Wyatt Ward

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

Analysis of faunal material from the 2008 and 2009 excavations at the Bridge River site (EeR14) show that variation exists within the assemblages, particularly through time between the occupation phases of Bridge River 2 and Bridge River 3. The data show that reliance on anadromous salmon (Oncorhynchus sp.) remain an important food source between Bridge River (BR) 2 and Bridge River 3 occupation phases, while reliance on important secondary resources, particularly deer (odocoileus sp.) increases. A shift in the distribution of elements from deer remains suggests a change in subsistence strategies that were used to harvest theses animals. It is …