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Confronting Socially Generated Uncertainty In Adaptive Management, Andrew J. Tyre, Sarah Michaels Jan 2011

Confronting Socially Generated Uncertainty In Adaptive Management, Andrew J. Tyre, Sarah Michaels

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

As more and more organizations with responsibility for natural resource management adopt adaptive management as the rubric in which they wish to operate, it becomes increasingly important to consider the sources of uncertainty inherent in their endeavors. Without recognizing that uncertainty originates both in the natural world and in human undertakings, efforts to manage adaptively at the least will prove frustrating and at the worst will prove damaging to the very natural resources that are the management targets. There will be more surprises and those surprises potentially may prove at the very least unwanted and at the worst devastating. We …

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Evaluating The Efficacy Of Adaptive Management Approaches: Is There A Formula For Success?, Jamie E. Mcfadden, Tim L. Hiller, Andrew J. Tyre Jan 2011

Evaluating The Efficacy Of Adaptive Management Approaches: Is There A Formula For Success?, Jamie E. Mcfadden, Tim L. Hiller, Andrew J. Tyre

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

Within the field of natural-resources management, the application of adaptive management is appropriate for complex problems high in uncertainty. Adaptive management is becoming an increasingly popular management-decision tool within the scientific community and has developed into two primary schools of thought: the Resilience-Experimentalist School (with high emphasis on stakeholder involvement, resilience, and highly complex models) and the Decision-Theoretic School (which results in relatively simple models through emphasizing stakeholder involvement for identifying management objectives). Because of these differences, adaptive management plans implemented under each of these schools may yield varying levels of success. We evaluated peer-reviewed literature focused on incorporation of …

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England [Medieval Music], Peter M. Lefferts Jan 2011

England [Medieval Music], Peter M. Lefferts

Glenn Korff School of Music: Faculty Publications

English musical life in the Middle Ages is often treated in standard textbook surveys as peripheral to that of France and Italy. This approach has several causes, but is rooted especially in musicology's preoccupation over the past 150 years of scholarship with medieval France. Noteworthy also in this negligence is the pairing of France and Italy late in the era in the emergence of polyphonic refrain songs as the chief new artefacts of secular high music culture in the 1300s, an attractive trend with no contemporary English-language counterpart. Musicology's paradigmatic narrative of English entrance onto the international stage, through its …

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Exhibition Catalog For Blind Corners, Portals And Turning Points, Ronald Mills De Pinyas, Brian Winkenweder Jan 2011

Exhibition Catalog For Blind Corners, Portals And Turning Points, Ronald Mills De Pinyas, Brian Winkenweder

Exhibition Catalogs, Essays, and Related Materials

This catalog features work from the exhibit Blind Corners, Portals and Turning Points by Ronald Mills de Pinyas. Blind Corners, Portals and Turning Points was presented by the Linfield Gallery and the Department of Art and Visual Culture at Linfield College from October 10 through November 12, 2011. Brian Winkenweder's essay "Painting to Be" is included in the catalog.

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From Higher Education To Work In West Virginia 2010, George Hammond Jan 2011

From Higher Education To Work In West Virginia 2010, George Hammond

Bureau of Business & Economic Research

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From Higher Education To Work In West Virginia 2009, George Hammond, Adam Hoffer Jan 2011

From Higher Education To Work In West Virginia 2009, George Hammond, Adam Hoffer

Bureau of Business & Economic Research

No abstract provided.

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Interfaith Relations After One Hundred Years: Christian Mission Among Other Faiths, Marina Ngursangzeli Behera Jan 2011

Interfaith Relations After One Hundred Years: Christian Mission Among Other Faiths, Marina Ngursangzeli Behera

Regnum Edinburgh Centenary Series

The essays in this book reflect not only this acceptance and celebration of pluralism within India but also by extension an acceptance as well as a need for unity among Indian Christians of different denominations. The essays were presented and studied at a preparatory consultation on Study Theme II: Christian Mission Among Other Faiths under the theme "Interfaith Relations Among Other Faiths" at the United Theological College, Bangalore, India

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Witnessing To Christ In A Pluralistic World: Christian Mission Among Other Faiths, Lalsangkima Pachuau, Knud Jorgensen Jan 2011

Witnessing To Christ In A Pluralistic World: Christian Mission Among Other Faiths, Lalsangkima Pachuau, Knud Jorgensen

Regnum Edinburgh Centenary Series

'Christian Mission among Other Faiths' was one of the Edinburgh 2010 themes. As part of the study process, position papers and case studies were invited from a wide range of contributors representing various theological positions, confessional traditions and denominational bodies. The quality of the studies and the variety they represent convinced us to publish in this form. The position papers are reflections on the theme by scholars belonging to Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, Protestant-Conciliar, Protestant-Evangelical, Pentecostal, and Seventh-Day Adventist Churches. Among the case studies are articles on Christian mission among Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, Jews, new religious movements and folk or …

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Home Literacy Factors Affecting Emergent Literacy Skills, Robyn Valerie Cassel Jan 2011

Home Literacy Factors Affecting Emergent Literacy Skills, Robyn Valerie Cassel

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study is to identify factors in the home literacy environment using the Stony Brook Family Reading Survey (SBFRS) in order to understand the extent to which these factors predict phonemic awareness and other basic reading skills, as assessed by selected subtests from the Woodcock-Johnson III (WJ III). The present study used archival data to examine the home literacy habits of a sample of parents and preschool children ages 3-5 years (range in months= 36-67) from a private and a public preschool with a combination of high- and low-income backgrounds and various ethnicities. Using exploratory factor analyses …

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From Divergence To Convergence? A Comparative And International Law Analysis Of Lgbti Rights In The Context Of Race And Post-Colonialism, James D. Wilets Jan 2011

From Divergence To Convergence? A Comparative And International Law Analysis Of Lgbti Rights In The Context Of Race And Post-Colonialism, James D. Wilets

Faculty Scholarship

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The Unidroit Principles Of International Commercial Contracts: An Overview Of Their Utility And The Role They Have Played In Reforming Domestic Contract Law Around The World, Christine M. Whited Jan 2011

The Unidroit Principles Of International Commercial Contracts: An Overview Of Their Utility And The Role They Have Played In Reforming Domestic Contract Law Around The World, Christine M. Whited

ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law

Efforts to promote the unification of private substantive law took off in the latter part of the 20th century due to globalization, which rapidly increased the volume of international trade.

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The 2011 Philip C. Jessup International Law, The State Of Ardenia, The State Of Rigalia Jan 2011

The 2011 Philip C. Jessup International Law, The State Of Ardenia, The State Of Rigalia

ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law

The State of Ardenia filed this case against the State of Rigalia before the International Court of Justice pursuant to Article 36(2) of the Statute of the Court on May 5, 2010

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The 2011 Philip C. Jessup International Law, The State Of Ardenia, The State Of Rigalia Jan 2011

The 2011 Philip C. Jessup International Law, The State Of Ardenia, The State Of Rigalia

ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law

The State of Rigalia and the State of Ardenia submit the present dispute concerning the Zetian Provinces to the International Court of Justice by Special Agreement, dated 5 May 2010, pursuant to article 40(1) of the Statute of the International Court ofJustice.

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Fish From Afar Marine Resource Use At Caracol, Belize, Smith Petra Cunningham Jan 2011

Fish From Afar Marine Resource Use At Caracol, Belize, Smith Petra Cunningham

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The ancient Maya had strong ties to the sea. The trade, transportation and use of marine resources were important not only to coastal Maya communities, but also to the heavily populated cities that lay many miles inland. A review of zooarchaeological evidence recovered from excavations at the inland site of Caracol, Belize suggests that the inhabitants imported marine fish for food, marine shell for working into trade items, and sharks teeth and stingray spines for ritual use. This thesis examines the manner in which fish and other marine resources were used, procured and transported from the coast to the site …

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Connecting Visual Design And Hofstede's Cultural Dimensions The United States, Latin America And Spain, Suzanne Mcdonough Jan 2011

Connecting Visual Design And Hofstede's Cultural Dimensions The United States, Latin America And Spain, Suzanne Mcdonough

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

My thesis discusses whether culture can be used to predict visual design preferences in documentation and whether cultures with similar attributes demonstrate similar visual design preferences. The visual design of a document is an important element in effective communication to an audience. If the audience is outside the United States, it is important to understand the attributes of that culture to create documents that are most effective for the audience. Cultural theorist Geert Hofstede describes cultural attributes in terms of six cultural dimensions: individualism versus collectivism, high versus low power distance, high versus low uncertainty avoidance, masculinity versus femininity, long-term …

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Double Reading: Young Black Scholars Responding To Whiteness In A Community Literacy Program, Carter Power Stephanie, Kafi D. Kumasi Jan 2011

Double Reading: Young Black Scholars Responding To Whiteness In A Community Literacy Program, Carter Power Stephanie, Kafi D. Kumasi

School of Information Sciences Faculty Research Publications

This paper examines how W.E.B. DuBois' concept of double consciousness influenced the interactions of 13 Black youth inside an after school Community Literacy Intervention Program (CLIP). Du Bois, a pre-eminent 20th century Black sociologist, used double consciousness as a lens to help explain social and psychological tensions that African Americans encounter while negotiating their identities in a societal context structured mainly upon dominant white cultural and linguistic norms and values. The authors provide a conceptual framework for understanding the interpretive processes that signify double consciousness which includes: surveying the context; assessing risks and identity consequences; articulating mainstream or race conscious …

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“Is It Because I’M Black?”: Creating Space For Diversity In The Christian University, Mary Ashun, Steve Sider Jan 2011

“Is It Because I’M Black?”: Creating Space For Diversity In The Christian University, Mary Ashun, Steve Sider

Education Faculty Publications

This paper examines the experiences of a black female faculty member as she enters the Christian university where there is limited ethnic diversity. She experiences critical student responses to her teaching which lead her to consider the reasons why she may be experiencing such resistance. As she confronts the possibility that it’s because she’s black, she enters into an on-going dialogue with a white male faculty member. Their experiences and conversations create a space for shared learning. The paper raises the question of how Christian universities might intentionally create space for faculty of color to feel welcome and embraced in …

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2011-2012 Boise State University Undergraduate Catalog, Boise State University Jan 2011

2011-2012 Boise State University Undergraduate Catalog, Boise State University

University Catalogs

No abstract provided.

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Variationist Approaches: External Factors Conditioning Variation In Spanish Phonology, Antonio Medina-Rivera Jan 2011

Variationist Approaches: External Factors Conditioning Variation In Spanish Phonology, Antonio Medina-Rivera

World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Faculty Publications

This chapter will focus on the external factors conditioning phonological variation. I will introduce the traditional factors to analyze social variation (e.g. sex, age, social class) and stylistic variation (careful vs. casual speech), as well as other possible factors not fully explored in Spanish. These other factors are mostly inspired by Allan Bell's model of language style as audience design (1984), and Rickford and McNair-Knox's incorporation of addressee and topic of conversation as two important factors to analyze variation (1994).

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Cultural And Linguistic Capital In Early Years Education And Care, Maire Mhic Mhathuna Jan 2011

Cultural And Linguistic Capital In Early Years Education And Care, Maire Mhic Mhathuna

Conference papers

This paper discusses the concept of cultural and linguistic capital in relation to early years education and care (EECE) in Ireland. Bourdieu describes cultural capital as a form of symbolic capital or non-economic asset. Linguistic capital is a subset of cultural capital and refers to linguistic competence and control of linguistic resources. At a time of great change in ECCE it is appropriate to consider the cultural references on which early childhood education and care in Ireland is premised. What is distinctly Irish about ECEC in Ireland? How do we develop an inclusive viewpoint that values the totality of our …

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Systemy Systemus, Anna Macleod Jan 2011

Systemy Systemus, Anna Macleod

Exhibition Catalogues

No abstract provided.

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Cross-National Comparative Analysis Of Community Radio Funding Schemes, Kenneth W. Murphy Jan 2011

Cross-National Comparative Analysis Of Community Radio Funding Schemes, Kenneth W. Murphy

Other resources

Community radio programming is distinguished by its production, its content and its purposes. It is made by the community, for the community and is primarily about the community. This report is a comparative assessment of the programme production support scheme available to the community radio sector in Ireland and those deployed in a number of comparative national settings. The research project provides a description of Irish and International (Austria, Canada, Denmark, France and New Zealand) models for supporting programme production by community radio broadcasters. It also evaluates how different aspects of the various models contribute to the capacities and sustainability …

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Review Of Van Der Donck's "A Description Of New Netherland" And Wendell's "To Do Justice To Him & Myself", Paul Otto Jan 2011

Review Of Van Der Donck's "A Description Of New Netherland" And Wendell's "To Do Justice To Him & Myself", Paul Otto

Faculty Publications - Department of History and Politics

No abstract provided.

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Imagining Transcultural Fandom: Animation And Global Media Communities, Sandra Annett Jan 2011

Imagining Transcultural Fandom: Animation And Global Media Communities, Sandra Annett

English and Film Studies Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

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Entre Muchas Islas: An Afro-Latina Legal Critic In The Paradoxical Age Of Obama, Nise Guzman Nekheba Jan 2011

Entre Muchas Islas: An Afro-Latina Legal Critic In The Paradoxical Age Of Obama, Nise Guzman Nekheba

Law Raza

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Beyond Xenophobia: The Role Of Race And Gender Expectations Behind The Lpga's English Language Policy, Lajuana Davis Jan 2011

Beyond Xenophobia: The Role Of Race And Gender Expectations Behind The Lpga's English Language Policy, Lajuana Davis

Law Raza

No abstract provided.

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Using Law To Fight A Silent Epidemic: The Role Of Healthy Literacy In Health Care Access, Quality & Cost, Brietta Clark Jan 2011

Using Law To Fight A Silent Epidemic: The Role Of Healthy Literacy In Health Care Access, Quality & Cost, Brietta Clark

Annals of Health Law and Life Sciences

The dominant rhetoric in the health care policy debate about cost has assumed an inherent tension between access and quality on the one hand, and cost effectiveness on the other; but an emerging discourse has challenged this narrative by presenting a more nuanced relationship between access, quality, and cost. This is reflected in the discourse surrounding health literacy, which is viewed as an important tool for achieving all three goals. Health literacy refers to one's ability to obtain, understand and use health information to make appropriate health decisions. Research shows that improving patients' health literacy can help overcome access barriers …

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Transnational Transgressions: Multidisciplinary Approaches To Global Mexican Cultural Productions, Rosana Blanco Cano, Rita Urquijo-Ruiz Jan 2011

Transnational Transgressions: Multidisciplinary Approaches To Global Mexican Cultural Productions, Rosana Blanco Cano, Rita Urquijo-Ruiz

Modern Languages and Literatures Faculty Research

The city of San Antonio, Texas, historically has maintained close artis-tic, political, social, and economic relations with Mexico. Because it embodies the complexity of transcultural and transnational exchanges in everyday life, in 2008 it became the site of a series of academic and artistic exchanges, out of which this text on global Mexican cultural productions emerges. A variety of artistic and theoretical perspectives were conceptualized to reflect the multiple transcultural dynamics of San Antonio and also other transnational Mexican areas physically and metaphorically located on both sides of the border.

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Exploring Organizational Culture Through Metaphor Analysis, Felice D. Billups Jan 2011

Exploring Organizational Culture Through Metaphor Analysis, Felice D. Billups

Higher Education

How would you describe your campus culture or your school environment? Would you carefully outline the details of the working conditions, the way people interact in meetings, or the unique communication style of your organization? Or would you rather use a descriptive phrase, or even a metaphor, to summarily reveal your organization’s culture? Metaphor analysis, as a means to uncover organizational culture, is an increasingly popular strategy for qualitative researchers. In interpretative qualitative studies, metaphors comprise a form of linguistic analysis which assists researchers who are interested in an intensive but short-term evaluation of organizational culture (Patton, 2002; Schmitt, 2005). …

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Aquilegia, Vol. 35 No. 3, Fall 2011: Newsletter Of The Colorado Native Plant Society, Bob Henry, Mo Ewing Jan 2011

Aquilegia, Vol. 35 No. 3, Fall 2011: Newsletter Of The Colorado Native Plant Society, Bob Henry, Mo Ewing

Aquilegia - Colorado Native Plant Society

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