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Art+Politics, Shannon Egan, Jenna L. Birkenshock, Hillary B. Goodall, Tessa M. Sheridan, Josiah B. Adlon, Megan E. Hilands, Emily A. Francisco, Molly E. Reynolds, Shelby P. Glass, Colleen L. Parrish, Francesca S. Debiaso

Schmucker Art Catalogs

For the exhibition Art + Politics, students worked closely with the holdings of Gettysburg College's Special Collections and College Archives to curate an exhibition in Schmucker Art Gallery that engages with issues of public policy, activism, war, propaganda, and other critical socio-political themes. Each of the students worked diligently to contextualize the objects historically, politically, and art-historically. The art and artifacts presented in this exhibition reveal how various political events and social issues have been interpreted through various visual and printed materials, including posters, pins, illustrations, song sheets, as well as a Chinese shoe for bound feet. The students' …

Wright State University Magazine, Fall 2011, Office Of Communications And Marketing, Wright State University

Wright State University Magazine

Thirty-six page issue of the Wright State University Magazine. This magazine is published twice a year and focuses on news related to Wright State alumni, faculty, staff, and friends of the university.

Eastern Illinois Alumni (Fall 2011), Eastern Illinois University Alumni Association

Eastern Illinois Alumni (2011)

Distance Junkies; Portrait of a Soldier; Behind Team Wilkerson; Bob Spoo Steps Down; etc.

Fall 2011 Program Guide, Academy Of Lifelong Learning

Program Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Faculty Notes - John Carroll University, John Carroll University

Faculty Notes - John Carroll University

October 2011, Volume 4, Issue 3

Gardy Loo 2011 Fall

Gardy Loo, 2010-19

No abstract provided.

To Be Or Not To Be...A School Leader: Motivators Of Educational Administration Candidates, Gerald Beach, Kay Anne Keiser

Educational Leadership Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

Leading a school presents unique opportunities and obstacles to the individuals who may aspire to become a principal. The balance between incentives and disincentives to seek building leadership is currently shifting as the pool of qualified candidates willing to assume positions in school leadership is growing smaller (Browne-Ferrigno, 2003; Carr & Million, 2010; Sava, 1998). At the same time, record numbers of school administrators are now reaching retirement age; so many school districts are finding it increasingly difficult to fill vacancies (Howley, Andrianaivo, & Perry, 2005).

Strong leadership by the principal is a crucial ingredient in school improvement (Berry, 2009; …

Jeanne Clery Disclosure Of Campus Security Policy And Campus Crime Statistics Report, 2010, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Police Department

Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy

No abstract provided.

Wellness Made Simple - Fall 2011/ Winter 2012, Nova Southeastern University

Wellness Made Simple

No abstract provided.

Nimbus (Fall/Winter 2011), New College Alumnae/I Association

Alumnae/i Association Collection

No abstract provided.

No. 26: Social Media, The Internet And Diasporas For Development, Jonathan Crush, Cassandra Eberhardt, Mary Caesar, Abel Chikanda, Wade Pendleton, Ashley Hill

Southern African Migration Programme

The recent focus on diasporas by policy-makers researchers has highlighted the rich potential of migrants as a force for shaping development activities in their countries of origin. The study of diasporas in development presents researchers a number of significant challenges. As Vertovec and Cohen suggest, ‘one of the major changes in migration patterns is the growth of populations anchored … neither at their places of origin nor at their places of destination’. The fluid, multi-sited and multi-generational nature of diaspora groupings poses considerable methodological challenges of definition, identification, location, sampling and interviewing.

As the nature of African diasporas are constantly …

Inside Information Fall 2011, Amanda Watson

Inside Information

No abstract provided.

“El Tema No Existe”: La Salud Sexual Lésbica En Valparaíso, Chile, Isabel Osgood-Roach

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

This independent study project investigates the status of lesbian health care in Valparaíso, Chile. Over the course of three weeks, I conducted interviews with six women who engage in non-heterosexual intimate relationships. These individuals identify on a spectrum of sexual orientation that includes lesbian, bisexual and hetero-dissident. I also participated in a political demonstration organized by Acción Gay supporting a proposed Anti-Discrimination law. Finally, I attended a meeting of the recently formed lesbian health group Colectivo Ropa Tendida to gain insight into an organization working towards visibilizing lesbian realities. To contextualize my investigation, I worked with theories regarding essentialist and …

This Land Is Our Land: The Ngöbe Stuggle For Land, Fran Del Rosario

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

Los Ngobes han estado luchando por su tierra por muchos años. En los 1500s, debido al conquista española, Los Ngobes fueron forzados a huir a otras aéreas. Hoy, ellos están luchando por su tierra contra inversión y comercialización. Su tierra es muy importante para ellos porque su manera de vivir viene directamente de su tierra. La construcción de calles adentro y alrededor de su tierra se ha afectado mucho. Entre mas abierta su tierra, mas vlnerable son ellos a contacto con el exterior. Es más difícil preservar su cultura y tradición con proyectos de desarrollo amenazando su manera de vivir …

Redefinir “Desarrollo Sustentable”: El Caso De Un Grande Proyecto Hidroeléctrico, Keely Mccaskie

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

En la región de los Manduriacos en el noroccidente del Ecuador, el río Guayllabamba pasa entre las provincias de Pichincha e Imbabura. El área es campo rural—una colección de bosques subtropicales primarios y secundarios, fincas, y pueblos pequeños que nacieron en las últimas cuatro décadas. Estas tierras forman parte de la subcuenca media del río Guayllabamba, donde la lluvia se captura y fluye hacia el río. Cerca de los pueblos de Cielo Verde (Imbabura), Santa Rosa (Pichincha) y Guayabillas (Pichincha), el gobierno del Ecuador ha propuesto el proyecto hidroeléctrico Manduriacu. Esta grande represa sería parte de una cascada de represas …

Seaweed Farmer Education: Is It Enough To Sustain The Industry? Analyzing The Status Of Stakeholder Investment In Muungoni And Jambiani, Unguja, Erika Davis

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

Since Filipino researchers arrived in Zanzibar to determine the potential for cultivation of seaweed more than 20 years ago, the islands' coastal communities have relied on the resource as a main or alternative source of income. When the companies started investing at the industry’s onset, trained personnel offered farmers' education on proper farming techniques for Spinosum (Eucheuma denticulatum) and Cottonii (Kappaphycus spp.) by establishing demonstrative (demo) farms and holding seminars. Today, informal training involves experienced farmers teaching the newcomers their techniques. While demo farms remain in some villages, companies offer no extension services based on the belief that the farmers …

Sempush: Privacy-Aware And Scalable Broadcasting For Semantic Microblogging, Pavan Kapanipathi, Julia Anaya, Alexandre Passant

Kno.e.sis Publications

Users of traditional microblogging platforms such as Twitter face drawbacks in terms of (1) Privacy of status updates as a followee - reaching undesired people (2) Information overload as a follower - receiving uninteresting microposts from followees. In this paper we demonstrate distributed and user-controlled dissemination of microposts using SMOB (semantic microblogging framework) and Semantic Hub (privacy-aware implementation of PuSH3 protocol) . The approach leverages users' Social Graph to dynamically create group of followers who are eligible to receive micropost. The restrictions to create the groups are provided by the followee based on the hastags in the micropost. Both SMOB …

Sam Van Aken: New Edens, Shannon Egan

Schmucker Art Catalogs

Hybridized fruit trees, grafted orchids on shiny, reflective aluminum pedestals, fluorescent lights placed vertically on stands, and sheets of silver Mylar create a lush and somewhat disorienting space in contemporary artist Sam Van Aken’s most recent body of work New Edens. Van Aken makes Gettysburg College’s Schmucker Art Gallery into a kind of fantastical and futuristic winter garden. Without daylight and despite the cool fall weather of the Northeast, the dozen trees in the gallery are leafy and green, some even bearing fruit. Peach, plum, cherry, nectarine and apricot branches emerge from a single trunk and grow productively alongside their …

Patterns In The Temporal Variability Of Temperate Reef Fishes And The Implications For Sampling Frequency In Citizen Science Monitoring Programs, Chelsea Parrish-Kuhn

SNS Master's Theses

Ecological monitoring enables our understanding of ecosystem change and is fundamental to the process of developing sound management policies. One major gap in all current California kelp forest monitoring programs is the limited frequency at which kelp forest fishes are sampled. Citizen science has been identified as a valuable tool to help meet monitoring needs in the marine environment, most recently in the California Marine Life Protection Act (1999). Because the costs of citizen science programs are mitigated by the use of volunteers, they are more able to expand their monitoring efforts to capture seasonal variations than other professional programs. …

The Distribution Of Demersal Fishes Over Heterogenous Seafloor Habitats: An Application Of Landscape Ecology To Video Imagery Collected In A Central California State Marine Conservation Area, Ashley Knight

SNS Master's Theses

Using landscape ecology approaches, this study investigated the importance of structural patterning in the seafloor landscape and the scales at which demersal fishes associate with different habitats. The following document describes the project in three parts: 1) The circumstances surrounding the management of the study site and the methodological approaches used; 2) The analytical framework and results; 3) Potential applications of these results in management. By describing the landscapes across which demersal fish are distributed at the Piedras Blancas State Marine Conservation Area (PBSMCA), within the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, we evaluated fish-habitat associations in the context of other …

An Assessment Of Control Methods For Cape Ivy In Coastal Riparian Ecosystems, Jennifer Stern

SNS Master's Theses

The goals of this research were to quantify the achievable outcomes and associated costs of controlling Cape ivy (Delairea odorata), a non-native invasive plant. Current gaps in the knowledge-base limit decision makers from assigning appropriate costs, and therefore funding, for invasive species control (D’Antonio and Chambers 2006). Towards these goals, I measured and compared the success and cost-effectiveness of three control methods on Cape ivy in riparian areas along the Central Coast region of California. The control methods used in this study included hand removal, herbicide application (glyphosate), and a combination of these two methods. Control methods were applied to …

Wmu International News Fall 2011, Haenicke Institute For Global Education

WMU International News

Longing for American food streamlines career paths for four alumni

American-style teaching covered in CELCIS graduate assistant training program

Fifty years later: Tragic loss of Japanese alumna continues to give life to WMU’s strongest exchange program

Japanese language and literature capture attention of WMU researcher

Engineering college draws Kenyan to Kalamazoo

International volunteerism leads to global studies major

Electronic Health Records (Ehr) Implementation And Post Implementation Challenges, Muhammad A. Razi, Christopher Emmert, Dan Mcalpine-Austin, J. Michael Tarn, Khandaker N. Islam

Transactions of the International Conference on Health Information Technology Advancement

The US Healthcare Industry lags behind other industries in its use of technologies for process improvement and improvement in quality of services for its patients. Globally, United States is significantly behind some European and Australian countries in implementation of EHR. While the federal government is now mandating this change and also offering incentive programs, healthcare providers remain slow to comply because of challenges they face regarding EHR implementation. This paper discusses EHR architecture, presents implementation challenges, provides a case study and offers future research ideas. The information provided in this research could be beneficial for successful EHR implementation.

Ua35/8 The Topper, Veterans Upward Bound Program, Western Kentucky University

Veterans Upward Bound Publications

THE TOPPER is published three times yearly by the Veterans Upward Bound Project at Western Kentucky University. VUB is funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Education (Fiscal Year 09-10: $278,881). The opinions expressed within this newsletter do not necessarily reflect the position or policy of either the U.S. Department of Education or WKU, and no official endorsement should be inferred. Printed with grant funds provided by the U.S. Department of Education.

Dipl 6201 Aa U.N. Security Council Issues, Jacques Fomerand Phd

Diplomacy Syllabi

Under the Charter of the United Nations, the Security Council is one of the principal organs of the organizations charged with the "primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security". The Council is so organized as to be able to function continuously. Five powerful countries sit as "permanent members" along with ten elected members with two-year terms. Since 1990, the Council has dramatically increased its activity and its powers include the establishment of peacekeeping operations, the dispatch of military operations, the imposition of sanctions. It has also mandated arms inspections and deployed election monitors.

Set up sixty years …

Profile, Fall 2011, Columbia College Chicago

Profile

Interactive Arts and Media Department Newsletter. 20 pages. Includes student, faculty, and alumni profiles, game reviews, departmental news, student community project updates, and a photo essay.

Government Prediction Markets: Why, Who, And How, Tom W. Bell

Dickinson Law Review (1908-2003)

This paper describes how prediction markets can make governments smarter, cheaper, and more responsive to changing conditions. A prediction market resembles a stock exchange where traders buy and sell not shares of companies, but claims about various future events. Academic and commercial use of prediction markets indicates that they offer a useful tool for encouraging, collecting, and quantifying widely scattered expertise. Government administrators have begun experimenting with prediction markets, too. Many questions remain, however, about the proper way to implement government prediction markets. This paper opens with a brief survey of the costs and benefits of government prediction markets. It …

Governmental Data Mining And Its Alternatives, Tal Z. Zarsky

Dickinson Law Review (1908-2003)

Governments face new and serious risks when striving to protect their citizens. Of the various information technology tools discussed in the political and legal sphere, data mining applications for the analysis of personal information have probably generated the greatest interest. Data mining has captured the imagination as a tool which can potentially close the intelligence gap constantly deepening between governments and their targets. Data mining initiatives are popping up everywhere. The reaction to the data mining of personal information by governmental entities came to life in a flurry of reports, discussions, and academic papers. The general notion in these sources …

Ua64 Cebs Magazine, The College Of Education And Behavioral Sciences At Wku, Sam Evans, Dean, Michelle Kahler, Wku College Of Education & Behavioral Sciences

College of Education and Behavioral Sciences Publications

No abstract provided.

Integrating Science And Policy: A Case Study Of The Hubbard Brook Research Foundation Science Links Program, Charles T. Driscoll, Kathy Fallon Lambert, Kathleen C. Weathers

Civil and Environmental Engineering - All Scholarship

Scientists, related professionals, and the public have for decades called for greater interaction among scientists, policymakers, and the media to address contemporary environmental challenges. Practical examples of effective “real-world” programs designed to catalyze interactions and provide relevant science are few. Existing successful models can be used, however, to develop and expand the work of integrating, synthesizing, and communicating ecosystem science for environmental policy and natural-resource management. We provide an overview of the structure and strategies used in the Hubbard Brook Research Foundation Science Links program, now in its thirteenth year as a successful boundary-spanning organization. We detail project activities and …