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Biodiversity And Ecosystem Function In The Gulf Of Maine: Pattern And Role Of Zooplankton And Pelagic Nekton, Catherine L. Johnson, Jeffrey A. Runge, K. Alexandra Curtis, Edward G. Durbin, Jonathan A. Hare, Lewis S. Incze, Jason S. Link, Gary D. Melvin, Todd D. O'Brien, Lou Van Guelpen

Graduate School of Oceanography Faculty Publications

This paper forms part of a broader overview of biodiversity of marine life in the Gulf of Maine area (GoMA), facilitated by the GoMA Census of Marine Life program. It synthesizes current data on species diversity of zooplankton and pelagic nekton, including compilation of observed species and descriptions of seasonal, regional and cross-shelf diversity patterns. Zooplankton diversity in the GoMA is characterized by spatial differences in community composition among the neritic environment, the coastal shelf, and deep offshore waters. Copepod diversity increased with depth on the Scotian Shelf. On the coastal shelf of the western Gulf of Maine, the number …

Eastern Michigan University Undergraduate Catalog, 2011-2012, Office Of The Registrar

Undergraduate Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Eastern Michigan University Undergraduate Catalog, 2011-2012, Office Of The Registrar

Undergraduate Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Cellar Roots, Vol. 40, April 2011, Eastern Michigan University

Cellar Roots

No abstract provided.

Focus Emu, March 8, 2011, Office Of Public Information

Focus EMU

No abstract provided.

The Post And Lintel, Spring 2011, Preservation Eastern

Post & Lintel

No abstract provided.

The Post And Lintel, Fall 2011, Preservation Eastern

Post & Lintel

No abstract provided.

The Prospects For Family Business In Research Universities, Alex Stewart, Anne S. Miner

Management Faculty Research and Publications

Family business shows the promise of becoming a respected scholarly field in research universities. However, success is not a given. We inquire about its prospects, with reference to the sociology of science. A key requirement for success that has been met is identification with an important and distinctive domain of inquiry. This domain is at the intersection two phenomena - of kinship and business - but more attention has been paid to enterprise than to kinship. We suggest that this creates important windows for theoretical development, an important requirement for a core presence in research universities. We further suggest additional …

Review Of Historical Atlas Of The American West: With Original Maps By Derek Hayes, J. Clark Archer

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The Historical Atlas of the American West is a visually appealing and well-organized representation of cartographic works thoughtfully selected from several centuries of map making. As demarcated for the Atlas, the American West extends from the eastern borders of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, and the Dakotas to the Pacific coasts of California, Oregon, Washington, and Alaska. While some of the included maps show the entire American West, most depict smaller subregions of interest such as one or a few states or even individual cities or towns. The cartographic scales, map themes, and graphical styles of the maps reproduced vary greatly, …

"We Were Beet Workers, And That Was All" Beet Field Laborers In The North Platte Valley, 1902-1930, Dustin Kipp

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

John and Alex Loos, two brothers who spent their childhood summers working in the beet fields of western Nebraska in the 1910s, suggested that a migrant beet field laborer could become, by the end of one season, "a trusted member of the community."¹ It took years of hard work and saving, but field workers could become farmers. Families could own land and work for their own benefit rather than for the subsistence wages of the migratory laborer. Although locals often viewed them with suspicion as outsiders, German Russian migrants were increasingly encouraged to stay to help build the burgeoning …

Great Plains Quarterly Volume 31 / Number 1 / Winter 2011

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Contents

Book Reviews

Notes and News

Bridgewater Magazine, Volume 21, Number 2, Fall 2011, Bridgewater State University

Bridgewater Magazine

Contents include articles about the newly-named Louis M. Ricciardi College of Business, the aviation science program, and the recent accomplishments of faculty members Nancy Moses, Donald Running, Darcy Boellstorff, and Diana Fox. Also Bridgewater and Alumni News.

2010-2011 Annual Report, Graduate And Professional Student Association

GPSA Documents

The GPSA has been the recognized Graduate and Professional Student Government at the University of New Mexico since 1969. We strive to represent students on issues ranging from research grants to health insurance to academic freedom. GPSA stays involved on campus by sending representatives to numerous university boards, university and faculty senate committees, and the UNM Board of Regents. GPSA actively lobbies the New Mexico State Legislature for graduate and professional student interests. We also try to meet individual student needs, whether by providing access to our computer lab in SUB 1021, or by funding student research or travel through …

Gis Will Affect The Political Landscape For The Next Decade And Beyond, Mark Salling

All Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs Publications

No abstract provided.

Reconsidering Racial And Partisan Gerrymandering, Adam B. Cox, Richard T. Holden

Articles

In recent years, scholars have come to a general agreement about the relationship between partisan gerrymandering and racial redistricting. Drawing districts that contain a majority of minority voters, as is often required by the Voting Rights Act, is said to help minority voters in those districts but hurt the Democratic Party more broadly. This Article argues that this familiar claim is based on a mistaken assumption about how redistricters can best manipulate districts for partisan gain -an assumption grounded in the idea that all voters can be thought of as either Democrats or Republicans. Relaxing this assumption, and acknowledging that …

Mythology In The Middle Ages: Heroic Tales Of Monsters, Magic, And Might, Christopher R. Fee

Gettysburg College Faculty Books

Myths of gods, legends of battles, and folktales of magic abound in the heroic narratives of the Middle Ages. Mythology in the Middle Ages: Heroic Tales of Monsters, Magic, and Might describes how Medieval heroes were developed from a variety of source materials: Early pagan gods become euhemerized through a Christian lens, and an older epic heroic sensibility was exchanged for a Christian typological and figural representation of saints. Most startlingly, the faces of Christian martyrs were refracted through a heroic lens in the battles between Christian standard-bearers and their opponents, who were at times explicitly described in demonic terms. …

Supporting Documents For Journal Of Law And Inequality . Article On The Minnesota Deseg Rule, Institute On Metropolitan Opportunity

Studies

Data is compiled from various sources cited in the Journal of Law and Inequality article: “Regional Strategies for Racial Integration of Schools and Housing Post-‘Parents Involved.’”

Women, Vulnerability, And Humanitarian Emergencies, Fionnuala Ní Aoláin

Articles

The catastrophic dimensions of humanitarian emergencies are increasingly understood and more visible to states and international institutions. There is greater appreciation for the social, economic and political effects that follow in the short to long term from such catastrophes whatsoever their causes. Rhetorically too, there is some recognition of the gendered dimensions of humanitarian emergencies in policy and institutional contexts. It is generally acknowledged that women are more visible in the refugee and internally displaced communities that typically result from many humanitarian crises. Women, because of their acute care responsibilities in most societies, also disproportionately bear the brunt of familial …

Nonmetric Trait Correlation: A Look At Environmental And Biological Influences On Third Trochanter Formation Among Pre-Contact Upper Midwest Populations, Sarah Jean Binkley

All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects

Nonmetric traits of the human skeleton are thought to correlate with genetic and/or environmental influences; however, to what extent each may affect the presence of nonmetric traits has not been clearly substantiated in the literature. Nonmetric traits as defined by Larsen are, "discrete or quasi-continuous anatomical entities often expressed as gradations from absence to full expression" (1997:305). More precisely, nonmetric traits are anomalies that express themselves in the skeleton and are recorded as absent or present. A third trochanter is one of many nonmetric traits present in the femur and is defined by Finnegan as, "a rounded tubercle that can …

The Roots Of Psychology In Early Philosophy, Elysse B. Arnold

USF St. Petersburg campus Honors Program Theses (Undergraduate)

No abstract provided.

Enhancing The Connectivity Of High Speed Rail In The Orlando-Tampa Corridor With Local Public Transportation Systems: Issues And Opportunities, Cutr

Research Reports

No abstract provided.

The Dodd-Frank Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Provision: Was It Effective, Needed Or Sufficient?, Richard W. Painter

Articles

In Morrison v. National Australia Bank, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June 2010 that securities fraud suits could not be brought under Section 10(b) of the Exchange Act against foreign defendants by foreign plaintiffs who bought their securities outside the United States (so called, “f-cubed,” securities litigation). The Court held that Section 10(b) reaches only fraud in connection with the, “purchase or sale of a security listed on an American stock exchange, and the purchase or sale of any other security in the United States.” Congress responded to Morrison with Section 929P of the Dodd-Frank Act, which gives federal …

Understanding Environmental Deficit Phenomenon: Influences Affecting Children's Connectedness To Nature, Lauren Bates

USF St. Petersburg campus Master's Theses (Graduate)

The contemporary generation of young people experiences a childhood unlike any other previous generation. Federal funding for high achievement on standardized tests in the areas of reading and math have resulted in a narrowed school curricula focusing predominantly on these two subjects, and leaving little instructional time and resources for hands-on learning and unstructured time outdoors. Furthermore, children report spending less time outdoors and note that their parents are too busy to take them out to play. These circumstances at school and at home may indicate a decreasing value for nature experiences held by the adults who supervise children, which …

Linking Watershed, Soil And Landuse Characteristics To The Spatial Variability Of In-Stream Water Quality In Selected Florida Watersheds, Frederick B. Bradley

USF St. Petersburg campus Master's Theses (Graduate)

This thesis characterized terrestrial source and aquatic sink relationships of water mediated transport of terrestrial materials from the adjacent terrestrial source (watersheds) to the aquatic sinks (streams and coastal waters). Previous researchers noted that coastal waters of the West Florida Shelf showed variation in concentrations of Colored Dissolved Organic Matter (CDOM) along the north-south gradient. It was hypothesized that since the dominant constituents of CDOM are derived from terrestrial sources, characterization of the adjacent watersheds in terms of their source and water mediated transport potential of terrestrial materials to the aquatic sinks would help explain the variability reported along the …

An Evaluation Of Image Processing Techniques For Mapping Seagrass From Ikonos Satellite Imagery In Springs Coast Florida And Evaluating The Effectiveness Of These Techniques In Replacing Traditional Photo-Interpretation Methods, Rene Dieter Baumstark

USF St. Petersburg campus Master's Theses (Graduate)

Seagrass mapping in Florida provides important information about the spatial distribution and density of seagrass habitat in coastal waters. New image processing and satellite technologies present the opportunity to leverage quantitative, objective and cost effective techniques that have the potential to improve upon traditional aerial photography photo-interpretation techniques. Pan-sharpening, light attenuation correction and spatial/spectral image processing techniques were evaluated for their effectiveness in mapping seagrass from an IKONOS satellite image of Springs Coast, Florida. Pan-sharpening techniques, which are limited by the quality of the panchromatic band, were found to alter original multi-spectral pixel values in a statistically significant way and …

The Ethics Of Shaping Perceptions Of Reality: What Journalists Can Learn From Cartographers And Shamans, Christopher J. Dorsey

USF St. Petersburg campus Master's Theses (Graduate)

Journalism has the unique ability to shape the public’s perception of reality. Because humans are limited in experience and knowledge, an understanding of the world is shaped by what information is available to each individual. As a major societal institution, journalism has a public forum with which to release relevant, timely and useful information that can influence these perceptions. When it comes to building perceptions of reality, there are potential harms that can arise such as enhancing fear, confusion, stress, and building a worldview that can lead to uninformed or destructive decisions. Essentially, a journalist has as much ability to …

The Quarterly Interview: Tony Stamatoplos, Anthony Stamatoplos

USF St. Petersburg Campus Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Faculty Library Satisfaction Survey 2010/11, Kaya Van Beynen, Carol G. Hixson

USF St. Petersburg Campus Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Public Services Department : Annual Report : 2010 - 2011, Nelson Poynter Memorial Library

USF St. Petersburg Campus Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Heritage Villagers: A Social History Of The Pinellas Peninsula As Revealed Through The Structures At Heritage Village, James Anthony Schnur

USF St. Petersburg Campus Faculty Publications

Staff at Heritage Village submitted a grant to the Florida Humanities Council in 2002. At the time, Heritage Village hoped to develop an interpretive plan for the structures on site and realized that the archival materials related to historical structures and features had many gaps. James A. Schnur served as a humanities scholar tasked with reviewing archival holdings, compiling accurate information about the owners/occupants of the structures on site, and creating instructional documents that would guide the interpretive plan. This booklet, subdivided by chapters for each notable structure, includes a summary of important information and a detailed narrative. The research …