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Mimi Stewart: Her Life, Career, & Contributions, Jerold Widdison, Susan Kelly

Water Matters!

Mimi is energetic, knowledgeable, deeply engaged, and a vital public servant.

Unm Libqual+ 2011 Survey, Association Of Research Libraries

Assessment and Statistics

No abstract provided.

Sustainable Development In The Cultural Context: A Review Of Sources And Analysis Of Gaps, Joann Jacoby, Liz Cooper

University Libraries & Learning Sciences Faculty and Staff Publications

In order to be effective, sustainable development efforts must be grounded in a fundamental understanding of the local context. Two librarians with backgrounds in anthropology will address the issue of culturally-grounded sustainable development resources available online and in digital repositories. The presenters will review the literature on the importance of the cultural context in sustainable development, identify strengths of current culturally-grounded online collections, and review gaps in order to identify areas where libraries should focus further efforts to develop these types of collections.

The New Mexican, Ana Maria Trujillo, José Rivera

09. La Sociedad Book Reviews

January 30, 2011

Building On Innovation: The Significance Of Anchor Institutions In A New Era Of City Building, Tom Murphy

President Schmidly's Administration

Murphy, Tom. Building on Innovation: The Significance of Anchor Institutions in a New Era of City Building. Washington, D.C.: Urban Land Institute, 2011

New Adventures Of The Old Bureau: Modern-Day Reclamation Statutes And Congress Unfinished Environmental Business, Reed D. Benson

Faculty Scholarship

Congress established the reclamation program in 1902, and the hundreds of federal water projects built in the 20th century helped shape the West. Today, the Bureau of Reclamation plays an enormously important role in managing these projects. But with no big new dams to build, the Bureau has been forced to revise its mission to address todays water management challenges, such as stretching finite water supplies and restoring aquatic ecosystems. Through both site-specific enactments and programmatic statutes, Congress in recent years has given the Bureau new authority and direction to address these modern challenges. But Congress has left a significant …

Too Hot To Handle: Climate Change And Agricultural Water Use, Denise D. Fort

Faculty Scholarship

The world faces enormous challenges in responding to looming crises in food and water. Responding to this challenge will require flexibility; such flexibility may be impeded by legal institutions. This paper looks at the western United States and discusses the role of irrigated agriculture in that region. Because of climate change, a growing population, declining groundwater, the need to protect ecosystems and other conflicts, the author suggests that all water uses, including long-standing agricultural water rights, need to be examined in light of these changes. Legal systems have tended to serve the status quo, but perhaps the law can help …

Universal Citation And The American Association Of Law Libraries: A White Paper, Jennifer Laws, Timothy L. Coggins, John Cannan

Faculty Scholarship

This white paper is a collaborative endeavor of many individuals, including members of the American Association of Law Libraries and its Digital Access to Legal Information Committee (DALIC), formerly the Electronic Legal Information Access & Citation (ELIAC) Committee. First, Justice Yvonne Kauger introduces the topic by identifying the groundbreaking steps taken by the Oklahoma Supreme Court. Law librarians Carol Billings and Kathy Carlson next provide a detailed and comprehensive history of citation reform and the American Association of Law Libraries’ leadership and involvement in the issue. They also summarize the citation reform steps taken in selected jurisdictions. Finally, John Cannan, …

A Crisis Of Confidence And Legal Theory: Why The Economic Downturn Should Help Signal The End Of The Doctrine Of Efficient Breach, Dawinder S. Sidhu

Faculty Scholarship

To understand subprime behavior and efficient breaches, it is imperative to first examine the necessary social predicate for economic transactions. Accordingly, Part I will offer an overview of society and the market, highlighting the importance of reciprocity and trust to both. Part II will define the economic transactions implicated by this Article: basic contracting, efficient breach of contract, and the subprime behavior of the current economic crisis. Part III will make explicit the nexus between subprime behavior and efficient breaches by explaining that subprime behavior and efficient breaches are linked by shared elements; they are opportunistic in nature, are interested …

Public On Paper: The Failure Of Law To Protect Public Water Uses In The Western United States, Reed D. Benson

Faculty Scholarship

Water conflicts in the western United States increasingly arise from competition between traditional economic uses (especially irrigation, municipal supply and hydropower) and public uses (especially environmental protection and water-based recreation). Western United States water law, based on the prior appropriation doctrine, has always promoted maximizing ‘beneficial use’ of the resource and has effectively protected water allocations for traditional purposes. Public water uses also enjoy some legal protection, but it exists mostly on paper; in practice, neither statutory public interest provisions nor the non-statutory public trust doctrine has been widely effective. This paper identifies the relevant legal principles and briefly explains …

Unm's Science And Technology Corporation: The Impact Of Start-Up Companies, Unm Bureau Of Business And Economic Research

Office of the Vice President for Research

The University of New Mexicos Science & Technology Corporation (STC) is a nonprofit corporation formed for the purposes of protecting, commercializing and transferring faculty inventions and university patents and is a vital tool in the economic development of a high-tech industry in New Mexico.'

The Impact Of U.S. Highway 550 Design On Health And Safety In Cuba, New Mexico, Unm Prevention Research Center, Viva-Step Into Cuba Alliance, Healthy Kids Healthy Cuba

Reports & Documents

Health Impact Assessment (HIA) is a set of procedures, methods and tools that estimate the effects of a policy, program or project on the health of a population. Ideally an HIA is conducted before the policy, program or project is implemented so that findings and recommendations can influence decision-making. An HIA can take a variety of different forms ranging from a “rapid” HIA that is written based on existing data and published literature to an HIA that could require months to complete and where local data is collected and analyzed to inform recommendations. The result of an HIA is evidence-based …

Untangling Ricci V. Destefano: The Wards Cove Of The Twenty-First Century, D'Ontae D. Sylvertooth

New Mexico Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Convergence Of Water Rights, Structural Change, Technology, And Hydrology: A Case Study Of New Mexico's Lower Rio Grande, Rhonda Skaggs, Zohrab Samani, A. Salim Bawazir, Max Bleiweiss

Natural Resources Journal

No abstract provided.

Methane As A Greenhouse Gas: Why The Epa Should Regulate Emissions From Animal Feeding Operations And Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations Under The Clean Air Act, John Verheul

Natural Resources Journal

No abstract provided.

Quo Vadis? Public Colleges And Their Funding, Andres C. Salazar

Electrical & Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

This paper reviews the current debate about the motivation, adequacy and distribution of funding for public colleges. Although the debate has been ongoing for some time, it has become especially heated in recent years due to serious budget problems in many states. In addition, the paper outlines significant trends in higher education which appear to be a reaction to the increasing tuition costs, demographic changes and expectations of employment from a college education. It is expected that the trends in distance education growth, part-time attendance, competition from for-profit colleges, lower subsidy from the state, stagnant population, the lack of college-ready …

Issue No. 86: January 2011, Historical Society Of New Mexico

La Crónica de Nuevo México

1 Frank Lloyd Wright Visited University of New Mexico Campus
1 We Are Born at a Time
6 Alfonso Ortiz, 1939-1997
6 Mescalero
6 In Memoriam
7 From Our President
7 Membership Benefits Historical Society of New Mexico
8 Books, Open Range: The Life of Agnes Morley Cleaveland
8 New Books for Your New Mexico History Bookshelves

The Due Diligence Process And Its Impact On The Deal: A Primer On Bayoneting The Wounded, Alex Ritchie, A. John Davis

Faculty Scholarship

In earlier times of more rationale schedules, reasonable billing rates, and less client scrutiny over bills and efficiency, an associate could learn due diligence with a partner looking over her shoulder, offering wisdom and encouragement. In the modern age of instantaneous information, excessive billing rates, and unrealistic expectations, transactional firms devote too little attention to due diligence processes and training. The stresses, tensions and risks associated with due diligence only multiply in the context of the big deal – the high-stakes, all-asset, equity and merger transactions. This article seeks to provide insight into the due diligence process, particularly the big …

Theorizing The More Responsive State: Transcending The National Boundaries Of Law, Laura Spitz

Faculty Book Display Case

Literature theorizing the state typically focuses on the nation-state as the locus of state power and authority, bounded by territorial and/or geopolitical borders. Within legal scholarship, an even narrower focus is common: the state as adjudicatory apparatus. Yet it may be more productive to shift the conceptual lens to embrace a wider and less vertical conception of state power. Thus, this chapter takes Fineman’s invitation to begin the task of theorizing a “more responsive state” in the US, by looking beyond the US, and putting two groups of scholars in conversation with one another: feminist legal theorists on the one …

Comparative Analysis Of Research Output Of Federal Universities In Southern Nigeria, Victoria N. Okafor

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study was carried out to compare the research output of academics in science and engineering faculties in southern Nigeria using bibliometric analysis. Descriptive survey method was used for the study. Through stratified random sampling six federal universities were selected out of 13 for the study. Two hundred and ninety-one academic staff with the rank of lecturer II and above were used for the study. The research output considered in this study was counting of journal articles and supervision of postgraduate students. The study showed that University of Benin had the highest publication of all the universities but mainly in …

A Knowledge Centre For Ladakh, Tabasum Maqbool

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This paper explores the idea of a Knowledge Centre in Ladakh with a view to improve the socioeconomic, educational, and cultural aspects of the region. It gives a detailed sketch of different characteristics of the regionin order to improve the lives of residents through knowledge and learning.

Use Of Electronic Information Sources By Postgraduate Students In Nigeria: Influencing Factors, Olatokunbo Christopher Okiki, S. M. Asiru

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study investigated the factors that influenced the use of electronic information sources by postgraduate students in six Universities in the South West, Nigeria. Questionnaire was the main research instrument used. 2500 copies of questionnaire were distributed and 2,187 copies were returned. The findings revealed that the factors that influenced the use of electronic information sources by respondents varied according to their program of study, the need to carry out researches to excel in their academic endeavour and versatility in the use of information technologies to search for information recommendations were made for the identified problems in the use of …

Factors Affecting Student Use Of Information Technology: A Comparative Study Of Federal University Of Technology, Owerri And Niger Delta University, Amazoma, Joyce Chinyere Oyadonghan, Felix Mmanuoma Eke

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

A survey of two universities in Nigeria explored the use of information technology by students. Registered student users of FUTO and NDU library make adequate use of IT resources. However the return of duly completed questionnaire shows that 500 level students of FUTO and 400 level of students of NDU uses the IT in the library more than other levels as shown in table 1. The use of photocopying machine ranked highest amongst the student of both University. But a similar study on the use of internet and electronic resources by Dental science students at Baba Farid university of health …

Use Of The Internet In Government First Grade College Libraries In Bidar District, D. B. Patil

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Internet has revolutionized the world of information. It is one of two technological innovations that have greatly influence the development of communication strategies and practices in both the general and the business communities of the world. The first was the invention of the printing press, Gutenberg’s invention served to democratize the possession and transmission of texts, made the production of books much easier and cheaper than the manuscript method it replaced. The Internet provides new horizons for the researcher. A potentially vast population of all kinds of individuals and groups may be more easily reached than ever before, across geographical …

Use Of E-Resources And Ugc-Infonet Consortium By The Teachers And Research Scholars In Aligarh Muslim University, Md. Sohail, Md. Imran Ahmad

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Recent developments in Information Technology has changed the world. Libraries and Information Centers have embraced the new information technology more profoundly than many other fields and most of them are currently using electronic products and services. Mention about e-journal consortium. Assess the use of UGC-Infonet Consortium by the Teachers and Research Scholars in Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh Conclude to implement the opinions and suggestions of the users for improving the system.

Algebraic Structures Using Super Interval Matrices, Florentin Smarandache, W.B. Vasantha Kandasamy

Branch Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications

The advantage of using super interval matrices is that one can build only one vector space using m × n interval matrices, but in case of super interval matrices we can have several such spaces depending on the partition on the interval matrix.

This book has seven chapters. Chapter one is introductory in nature, just introducing the super interval matrices or interval super matrices. In chapter two essential operations on super interval matrices are defined. Further in this chapter algebraic structures are defined on these super interval matrices using these operation. Using these super interval matrices semirings and semivector spaces …

Finite Neutrosophic Complex Numbers, Florentin Smarandache, W.B. Vasantha Kandasamy

Branch Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications

In this book for the first time the authors introduce the notion of real neutrosophic complex numbers. Further the new notion of finite complex modulo integers is defined. For every C(Zn) the complex modulo integer iF is such that 2 Fi = n – 1. Several algebraic structures on C(Zn) are introduced and studied. Further the notion of complex neutrosophic modulo integers is introduced. Vector spaces and linear algebras are constructed using these neutrosophic complex modulo integers. This book is organized into 5 chapters. The first chapter introduces real neutrosophic complex numbers. Chapter two introduces the notion of finite complex …

Interval Algebraic Bistructures, Florentin Smarandache, W.B. Vasantha Kandasamy

Branch Mathematics and Statistics Faculty and Staff Publications

Authors in this book construct interval bistructures using only interval groups, interval loops, interval semigroups and interval groupoids. Several results enjoyed by these interval bistructures are described. By this method, we obtain interval bistructures which are associative or non associative or quasi associative. The term quasi is used mainly in the interval bistructure B = B1 ∪ B2 (or in n-interval structure) if one of B1 (or B2) enjoys an algebraic property and the other does not enjoy that property (one section of interval structure satisfies an algebraic property and the remaining section does not satisfy that particular property). The …

Recognition Of Library Terms And Concepts By Undergraduate Students, Lydia Ola Adedibu, Isaac Olugbenga Ajala

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The study investigated the recognition of library terms and concepts used by undergraduate students of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology students, Ogbomoso, Nigeria. 2,039 questionnaires were analysed. Four hypotheses were tested using Analysis of variance (ANOVA). The study revealed that the variables; age, gender, use of library, visitation to library, educational level, and familiarity with library before admission into the university were all significantly positive (P<0.01) thus influencing the extent of awareness of the respondents to the library terms, and concepts. Various recommendations such as librarians to always try to define terms, concepts, and jargon used for the first time, request for feedbacks from students either monthly, quarterly or bi-annually, and try to make access and retrieval of library resources more efficient and user friendly by using the language that users understand.

Indispensability Of Library Services To All Professions, C. O. Ajidahun

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Delivered at the Annual Lecture organised by the Nigerian Library Association, Ekiti State Chapter on Tuesday, December 23, 2008 at the Conference Hall, Federal Polytechnic, Ado-Ekiti.