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Stalled: Gender Diversity On Corporate Boards, Barbara Black

University of Dayton Law Review

No abstract provided.

Talking To Yourself: Garfield Minus Garfield As An Introduction To Techno-Companionship, Andy Engel

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

[First paragraph]

A year ago while surfing the Internet, I came across a website called Garfield Minus Garfield (GMG), operated by artist/businessman Dan Walsh. Walsh received notoriety for his adaptations of the popular Garfield comic strip in which he removed its title character [1]. This act results in Garfield’s human counterpart, Jon Arbuckle, alone and talking to himself in the now empty space of the strip. A radical transformation occurs because of Garfield’s deletion that serves to emphasize the crucial role Jon and Garfield’s relationship plays in our perception of the world within the strip. Walsh begins the site with …

Canada Goose Crop Damage Abatement In South Dakota, Troy M. Radtke, Charles D. Dieter

Natural Resource Management Faculty Publications

Canada geese (Branta canadensis) can cause considerable damage to crops during summer when geese are flightless. We evaluated the effectiveness of a program designed to alleviate crop damage on soybeans by Canada geese in South Dakota, USA. The applications of electric fences, feeding stations, and propane cannons reduced the area of crop damage by 90% in 2006 and 80% in 2007, but the timing was important. Fields where abatement practices were applied early in the growing season had less damage than fields where they were applied later. Abatement practices that were properly applied as soon as damage started …

Model For Predicting The Impact Upon Economic Development Resulting From Highway Improvement Projects, Eric Thompson, Kanou Comlavi, Mallory Dimmit

Nebraska Department of Transportation: Research Reports

The Nebraska Department of Roads (NDOR) has an interest in integrating state economic development impact as another factor in prioritizing transportation investments. Such efforts require the development of a comprehensive model that can be used to estimate a consistent final measure of economic development impact that can be readily integrated into existing prioritization formulas. This report summarizes the efforts of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Bureau of Business Research (UNL-BBR) to develop such a model, by measuring the impact of expressway, viaduct, and other major investments projects around the state. Specifically, UNL-BBR developed an economic model to predict the economic impact …

Earth News, V35, Fall 2011, Department Of Earth Science, University Of Northern Iowa.

Earth News

Inside this issue:

--- Faculty & Staff News
--- Emeritus News
--- Sunday at the Quarry
--- STORM 2011
--- Grant Activities in Hydrologic Sciences
--- Geology for Iowa Teachers
--- Award Recipient: Sherman Lundy
--- Award Recipient: De Anna Tibben
--- Award Recipient: Aaron Spurr
--- Student Award Recipient: Matt Even
--- Student Research Presentations
--- Internships & Seminars
--- Earth Science Graduates
--- Sigma Gamma Epsilon
--- Making a Difference
--- Alumni News
--- Gifts from Alumni & Friends

Punishment V. Restoration: A Comparative Analysis Of Juvenile Delinquency Law In The United States And Mexico, Beth Caldwell

Cardozo Journal of International and Comparative Law

The article critiques the punitive approach to juvenile justice in the United States, particularly in California, by contrasting it with Mexico's restorative model, as seen in Oaxaca. It argues that the U.S. system violates international human rights standards, fails to address adolescent development, and prioritizes punishment over rehabilitation, while Oaxaca's approach aligns with the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child and incorporates restorative justice principles. The analysis calls for U.S. juvenile justice reform, urging policymakers to consider Oaxaca's model and align policies with adolescent brain development research and human rights frameworks.

Population Structure, Long-Term Connectivity, And Effective Size Of Mutton Snapper (Lutjanus Analis) In The Caribbean Sea And Florida Keys, Evan W. Carson, Eric A. Saillant, Mark A. Renshaw, Nancie J. Cummings, John R. Gold

Faculty Publications

Genetic structure and average long-term connectivity and effective size of mutton snapper (Lutjanus analis) sampled from offshore localities in the U.S. Caribbean and the Florida Keys were assessed by using nuclear-encoded microsatellites and a fragment of mitochondrial DNA. No significant differences in allele, genotype (microsatellites), or haplotype (mtDNA) distributions were detected; tests of selective neutrality (mtDNA) were nonsignificant after Bonferroni correction. Heuristic estimates of average long-term rate of migration (proportion of migrant individuals/generation) between geographically adjacent localities varied from 0.0033 to 0.0054, indicating that local subpopulations could respond independently of environmental perturbations. Estimates of average long-term effective population sizes varied …

Fall 2011: Arriving, St. Norbert College

St. Norbert College Magazine 2007-2012

Right place, right time, right person

Arrivals can be geographical, temporal or philosophical. Whatever shape they take, they mark the point at which anticipation and “Are we there yet?” give way to promise and possibility.

On the cover: For incoming freshmen, the toll of the Victory Bell at Convocation signals the official start of their lives as Green Knights. They have arrived in a new place within a new community, and at a new stage in life. This issue explores such moments of arrival.

Identifying Curriculum Components For Classroom Management Training For School Counselors: A Delphi Study, Jill A. Geltner, Teddi J. Cunningham, Charmaine D. Caldwell

Journal of Counselor Preparation and Supervision

The Delphi Study was conducted to determine recommended curriculum components to be used in training school counselors to be effective classroom managers when conducting (large-group counseling) classroom guidance. Thirty-five participants, including nationally certified school counselor practitioners and prominent school counselor educators, were the two expert groups in the study. Eighty-nine initial curriculum items were identified, both knowledge and skill items included. After three rounds of the survey, the 40 items that remained were the final recommendations of the expert panel. In further analyses, no statistically significant differences were found when examining responses by expert group, gender, years of experience, or …

The Journal Of Counselor Preparation And Supervision Volume 3, Number 2, Edina Renfro-Michel, Larry Burlew

Journal of Counselor Preparation and Supervision

No abstract provided.

Framed By Privilege: Perpetuating And Resisting White Supremacy In White, Middle-Class Parenting, Kelly Brianne Baldwin

College of Education Theses and Dissertations

Parenting is a primary site for the socialization of young children, including socialization around issues of race and racism. Giving careful attention to the implications of a socially privileged racial status, this study draws on the personal narratives of three White, middle-class, heterosexual mothers living in Chicago to improve understanding of White, middle-class parenting around issues of race and racism and to critically examine the ways parenting practices relate to larger social Discourses in the United States that perpetuate or disrupt White supremacy. When parenting around issues of race and racism, mothers adherent to White supremacy typically abandoned parenting strategies …

College Students’ Negotiation Of Privilege In A Community-Based Violence Prevention Project, Bet S. Catlett, Amira Proweller

Scholarship of Engagement

Recent scholarship on service-learning has departed from examination of more traditional models and outcomes to explore how service-learning shapes students’ understanding of social change. This study builds on existing research to further interrogate the ways in which service-learning relates to power and privilege, specifically exploring how college students in a service-learning experience reflect on notions of privilege and how this informs their work with urban youth. Data was collected from 15 undergraduate student participants in a violence prevention program. Findings point to the potential that lies within change models of service-learning for students to reflect on the complex relationship among …

Dialogue: October 2011, Staff And Writers Of Dialogue

Dialogue

Prose

05 William Overbeeke, The Orchid Shop; 10 Andrew Steiner, Saint Daniel of Padua; 12 Jonathan Hielkema, Riffs and Variations on Coastal Rise; 15 Ta nice Mast, Untitled; 34 Maxwell Howard, Night Driving; 39 Caroline Higgins, Never See Me; 43 Jake Schepers, Antithises to Stork; 49 Joshua Epperly, Elysium

Visual Art

17 Bjorn Sparrman, Kotengu, Kappa; 19 Joanna Bayliss, Untitled; 20 Jenny Swim, #15. #3; 22 Bridgette Keehl, Untitled, Untitled; 24 Hannah Abma, Untitled, Untitled; 26 Ashleigh Vandel

Poetry

09 Leah Sienkowski, Delighted Audio, Darling You are Mine; 11 …

The Evolution Of Riparianism In The United States, Joseph W. Dellapenna

Marquette Law Review

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The Law School Firm, Bradley T. Borden, Robert J. Rhee

South Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

Political Science Fall 2011, Dan Sabia

Political Science Newsletter Fall 2011

No abstract provided.

Tennessee Birth Defects 2004-2008, Tennessee. Department Of Health.

Tennessee Birth Defects

No abstract provided.

A Sense Of Place: Examining Music-Based Tourism And Its Implications In Destination Venue Placement, Richard Bret Campbell

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

Music, and the ability to make it, understand it and interpret it, is one of the characteristics that make us uniquely human. However, when it comes to seeing the performance of live music, there are other variables that come into play when determining where to see a concert. The potential connection between people, music, and a “sense of place” are explored in this examination of music-based tourism. Based on information from journals and related news media, and using parallels to the sports tourism industry, the paper found a distinct connection between humans and music in the context of human development, …

Twice Through The Glass Ceiling: Sue Birdwell Alves, Cynthia Devlin

East Texas Historical Journal

No abstract provided.

Fall 2011, ‘Meet’ Our 2011 International Affairs Faculty, Center For International Education

UNH International Educator Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Foreword, James L. Olmsted

Law and Contemporary Problems

The land trust community and governments at all levels have become married to conservation easements as their land conservation tool of choice. The numbers speak for themselves: as of the date of this writing, there were reportedly 1,700 land trusts that have protected twelve million acres of land by use of conservation easements. The bulk of this growth both in conservation easements and the land trusts that deploy them has occurred since the 1980s when federal income tax incentives became more fully utilized by conservation easement donors. But the parties to this marriage have become complacent and inattentive in the …

Exploring Net Benefit Maximization: Conservation Easements And The Public-Private Interface, Julie Ann Gustanski, John B. Wright

Law and Contemporary Problems

Gustanski and Wright talk about conservation easements and the public-private interface. The ease of application across varied lands coupled with the financial and tax-associated benefits of conservation easements have driven the popularity of their use in conserving private lands across the US. Conservation easements typically require sizeable public funding resources, which are provided through either direct public expenditures via diverse public programs established to promote the conservation of land or through tax benefits.

Evaluating Conservation Effectiveness And Adaptation In Dynamic Landscapes, Adena R. Rissman

Law and Contemporary Problems

Rissman talks about evaluating conservation easement effectiveness requires interdisciplinary research that reaches beyond legal analysis to examine how easements influence human behaviors, which subsequently influence environmental conditions. Conservation easement effectiveness is not a fixed target, but is influenced over time by social and ecological landscape change. The promise of perpetuity is central to the appeal of conservation easements within the conservation movement.

Conservation Easements And Perpetuity: Till Legislation Do Us Part, Richard Brewer

Law and Contemporary Problems

Brewer talks about conservation easements and perpetuity. Although conservation easements have many appealing features, their drawbacks have caused some observers to see the heavy reliance on them by land trusts as a weakness with possibly serious consequences. The protection provided may be fragile or, at least, of unproven dependability.

Montana Business Quarterly, Fall 2011, University Of Montana--Missoula. Bureau Of Business And Economic Research

Montana Business Quarterly, 1949-2021

This is an academic publication produced by the Bureau of Business and Economic Research (BBER) at the University of Montana’s College of Business. This is volume 49, number 3.

Changing Farm Policies For Changing Times, Bradley D. Lubben, Jim A. Jansen, Matthew C. Stockton

Cornhusker Economics

It has long been said that farm policy and farm bills are much more evolutionary than revolutionary. Policy changes tend to occur rather slowly and gradually, unless some economic or policy shock creates an opportunity or urgent need for a change in policy direction.

The current debate in Washington could provide just that shock to point federal farm policy in a new direction. Farm legislation authorized in the 2008 Farm Bill expires in 2012, and the initial debate over re-authorization was already well underway when the Federal Debt Ceiling/Deficit Reduction Compromise legislation was passed in August. That legislation created a …

Recommending People In Developers' Collaboration Network, Didi Surian, Nian Liu, David Lo, Hanghang Tong, Ee Peng Lim, Christos Faloutsos

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Many software developments involve collaborations of developers across the globe. This is true for both open-source and closed-source development efforts. Developers collaborate on different projects of various types. As with any other teamwork endeavors, finding compatibility among members in a development team is helpful towards the realization of the team’s goal. Compatible members tend to share similar programming style and naming strategy, communicate well with one another, etc. However, finding the right person to work with is not an easy task. In this work, we extract information available from Sourceforge.Net, the largest database of open source software, and build developer …

Creating & Optimizing Children & Youth Planning Boards, Institute For Public Health And Justice, Community Participatory Work

Policy & Position Papers

No abstract provided.

The Octofoil, October/November/December 2011, Ninth Infantry Division Association

The Octofoil

The Octofoil is the offical publication of the Ninth Infantry Division Association, Inc., an organization formed by the officers and men of the 9th Infantry Division in order to perpetuate the memory of fallen comrades, preserve the esprit de corps of the Division, promote peace and serve as an information bureau about the 9th Infantry Division. The Association is made up of 9th Infantry veterans from WWII and Vietnam, spouses, widows and lineal descendants.

Fact Book 2011, Planning, Research, And Policy Analysis

Fact Book (1988-2019)

Fact Book 2011 for Illinois State University