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Shamanism In Cross-Cultural Perspective, Michael Winkelman

International Journal of Transpersonal Studies

This article reviews the origins of the concept of the shaman and the principal sources of

controversy regarding the existence and nature of shamanism. Confusion regarding the

nature of shamanism is clarified with a review of research providing empirical support for a

cross-cultural concept of shamans that distinguishes them from related shamanistic healers.

The common shamanistic universals involving altered states of consciousness are examined

from psychobiological perspectives to illustrate shamanism’s relationships to human nature.

Common biological aspects of altered states of consciousness help explain the origins of

shamanism while social influences on this aspect of human nature help to explain …

2012 July, Office Of Communications & Marketing, Morehead State University.

Morehead State Press Release Archive, 1961 to the Present

Press releases for July of 2012.

The Challenge Of Measuring Performance Of Academia In Malaysia, K. Ratnavelu

Research Publications (2011 to 2015)

No abstract provided.

The Role Of Islamic Institutions In The Adoption Of Reduce, Reuse, And Recycle (3r) Practices Among Muslim Communities In Malaysia., N. Idris

Research Publications (2011 to 2015)

It has been argued in the literature that religious belief has a role to play in dealing with environmental issues and enhancing environmental practices. In line with this perspective, it is interesting to observe that Muslim communities have started to use the Islamic institutions as an organizational and institutional platform for shown their environmental programmes. In some mosques and small mosques (surau), inspiring green programmes such as the 3R programme have also conducted. However, previous research on the role of religious community in enhancing environmental practices is mostly discussed at the theoretical level and only a handful have undertaken in …

Blast Brain Injury Elevates Catecholamine Biosynthesis In The Nucleus Tractus Solitaries And Oxidative Stress In The Hypothalamus In Rats, Nihal Tumer, Stanislav Svetlov, Nataliya Kirichenko, Melissa Whidden, Benedek Erdos, Victor Prima, Alexandra Sherman, Firas H. Kobeissy, Robert Yezierski, Charles Vierck, Kevin Wang

Kinesiology Faculty Publications

Introduction: Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) produces major health problems impacting the lives of both military and civilian personnel. TBI disrupts autonomic function but the nature of this disruption is unknown. Following blast brain injury, we assessed selective biochemical markers for autonomic function in adult male Sprague Dawley rats. Methods: Rats were subjected to head-directed overpressure blast injury (OBI) of 358 kPa magnitude at the target. At the same time for sham controls, rats were anesthetized as the previous group but instead of OBI were exposed just to noise being placed at ~ 2 m distance from the shock tube nozzle. …

Can The Rat Get Mad?: The Relevance Of Schizophrenic Animal Models To The Patients, Pritsana Piyabhan

Asian Medical Journal and Alternative Medicine

Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder in which there is impaired judgement and loss of contact with reality.The lifetime prevalence of schizophrenia is approximately 1% worldwide. To understand the mechanisms and investigate the treatments of schizophrenia, the studies in animal are necessary. Several schizophrenic animal models have been produced. Some animal models have been reported irrelevant to the disorder and no longer used. To date, there are three valuable animal models, which show the most similarity to clinical aspects of schizophrenia: 1) Sub-chronic phencyclidine (PCP) administration, 2) Amphetamine administration, and 3) Isolation rearing model. “Can these animal struly express the …

“The Girl Who Was On Fire”: A Study Of Archetypes And Mythology In The Hunger Games By Suzanne Collins [9th Grade], Melissa Jimenez

Understanding by Design: Complete Collection

Is any story ever truly original? This unit illustrates how even contemporary writers allude to and reinterpret the stories of the past in order to tell new stories that are socially relevant, but still universal in scope. Specifically in The Hunger Games, archetypes and mythology play a prominent role. Students will learn how to identify character, situation, and symbolic archetypes in myths, film, and visual art. Through the process of observing these texts, students will not only construct an understanding of the relationship between literature and culture, but also look for patterns to interpret unfamiliar texts. In the performance assessment, …

Plate Tectonic: Plates And Their Consequences [8th Grade], Alexander Serna-Wallender

Understanding by Design: Complete Collection

By the end of this unit students will able to identify the various layers of the earth and their characteristics. Students will be able to describe the relationship between the lithosphere and the mantle. Using their knowledge of this relationship, students will then be engaged in exploring how tectonic plates work and their interactions along plate boundaries. Students will also be able to predict the resulting geologic activity given a specific plate boundary type. Lastly, students will be able describe the formation and consequences of three common geologic events: earthquakes, volcanoes, and mountain building.

Reread, Rethink, Recycle [3rd Grade], Karen Morrison

Understanding by Design: Complete Collection

This unit integrates writing, media/technology and economics via collaboration differentiation. The goal is to publish a niche newspaper solely focused on going green. The unit opens with an analysis of the power of persuasion by exposure and examples. Students will then be learning researching skills necessary as they read books & navigate through websites about how to be environmentally friendly. The research and essays written will become the articles in the newspaper, the foundation. Students will be invited to learn a basic understanding of the parts of a newspaper, applying for a job and how to persuade for positions based …

Take A Stand For Australia: Considering Australia’S Economic And Environmental Concerns Now And In The Future [9th Grade], Adele Barnett

Understanding by Design: Complete Collection

While studying the region of Australia, students will study differing perspectives on its economic development and efforts to protect its environment. Students will adopt roles of different Australian citizens and conduct research in order to draw conclusions about how people as different as coal mine owners and marine biologists would feel about economic and environmental issues. After learning about these crucial contemporary issues and dilemmas that face the country, students will complete a performance task of writing a persuasive letter or speech advocating for a specific position of course of action that will promote the best possible future or Australia …

Myself And Others [Pre-Kindergarten], Anne Peppers

Understanding by Design: Complete Collection

This unit addresses the Texas Pre-Kindergarten Guideline “Child identifies similarities and differences in characteristics of people.” At the conclusion of this unit, students will know that people are different from one another, people share some characteristics, personal characteristics can be physical or behavioral, and we can describe or name characteristics of people. Students will be able to identify similarities and differences between self and others, identify physical similarities and differences between others, and identify unique characteristics about themselves.

Texas Regions [4th Grade], Hannah Rinn

Understanding by Design: Complete Collection

This is a unit on Texas Regions written for fourth graders. The unit covers the four Texas regions. While learning about the Texas regions, students will gain an understanding that regions are formed based on common characteristics that influence the human environment. Students will also be required to look at how technology has impacted the land that we live on. This unit helps students to think critically about- what is a region and how it is “formed” and how technology has changed our land.

Title Vii Works – That’S Why We Don’T Like It, Chuck Henson

University of Miami Race & Social Justice Law Review

In response to the universal belief that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is not fulfilling its purpose, this Article presents a different perspective on the reality of this federal employment discrimination law. Title VII is fulfilling the purpose of the Congress that created it. The purpose was not the eradication of all discrimination in employment. The purpose was to balance the prohibition of the most obvious forms of discrimination with the preservation of as much employer decision-making latitude as possible. Moreover, the seminal Supreme Court decision, McDonnell Douglas v. Green, accurately implemented this balance. This Article …

Ua64/2 The Challenge: Magazine For The Center For Gifted Studies (No. 29, Summer 2012), Center For Gifted Studies, Tracy Inman Editor

Gifted Studies Publications

No abstract provided.

Negrocity: An Interview With Greg Tate, Camille Goodison

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

Tissue Engineering A Blood Vessel Mimic While Monitoring Contamination Through Sterility Assurance Testing, Navid Djassemi

Master's Theses

Tissue Engineering A Blood Vessel Mimic While Monitoring Contamination Through Sterility Assurance Testing

Navid Djassemi

Tissue engineering blood vessel mimics has been proposed as a method to analyze the endothelial cell response to intravascular devices that are used in today’s clinical settings for the treatment of cardiovascular disease. Thus, the development of in vitro blood vessel mimics (BVMs) in Cal Poly’s Tissue Engineering Lab has introduced the possibility of assessing the characteristics of cellular response to past, present, and future intravascular devices that aim at treating coronary artery disease.

This thesis aimed at improving the methods and procedures utilized in …

Geoinformation Technologies In The Identification Of Meandering Section Of The River, Beata Wieczorek, Katarzyna Glińska-Lewczuk, Anna Sobieraj

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

The aim of this study was to present the capabilities of using geoinformation technologies in the process of outlining meandering section of the river.Development of valley plain rivers landscape is connected with occurrence of old river beds, which came into existence because of natural changing of river-bed (meandering) or man interference in water system (Glińska-Lewczuk et al. 2010). Survey results from terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) combined with hydrologic data can be successfully used to determine area, borders and duration of overflow of the old river beds. It is a complex problem which requires operations with large data sets. These actions …

The Impact Of Production And Price Risk On Ecosystem Goods And Services Provision From Agriculture And Forestry In Mountainous Regions, S. Briner, P. Bebi, C. Elkin, Natalie Zurbriggen, R. Finger

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

Assessing the impact of climate change on Ecosystem Services (ES) requires an understanding of the dynamic link between land cover, ES and economically driven land use decisions. Land use decisions taken by farmers and foresters depend on the yield levels as well as on the prices for outputs and inputs the decision maker expect. However, the variability of yields and prices, i.e. income risk, is also highly relevant for the decision maker. Increasing volatility of climate and more volatile markets for commodities will enhance the relevance of risk for land use decisions in the future. To assess the impact of …

Model Components For Evaluating Climate Change Impact On Wetlands, Nikolay Zavalishin

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

Reaction of terrestrial ecosystems to climate change and human perturbations can be complex and uncertain. It is reflected in changes of ecosystem biogeochemical cycles of carbon and nitrogen. For wetland and spruce forest ecosystems of boreal forest area in European territory of Russia and Western Siberia the series of compartment models for combined carbon-nitrogen cycle dynamics is developed and analyzed. The models are realized in several software modules allowing make estimates of stability boundaries for equilibria, trajectories of ecosystem dynamics under climate change and perturbations initiated by human activities.

Implementing Biodiversity Risks In The Classroom - The Educational Software Pronas, Karin Ulbrich, Oliver Schweiger, Josef Settele

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

Climate change and dramatic loss of biodiversity are essential subjects for EU research. However, little of current knowledge is reaching the young generation. In order to implement biodiversity research into the reality of school education we brought members of the scientific and educational communities together. Educational software has been developed which combines desk (or rather lap-)top work with field experiences by combining virtual excursions with real ones.The software PRONAS shows how scientists handle questions about the impact of climate change on species’ habitats. It makes core results of research projects available for students from 12 to 19 and is freely …

Application Of A Metapopulation Approach For Analysis Of Space-Time Population Dynamics (Case Study Using Ungulates), Matvey Kulakov, Oksana Revutskaya, Efim Frisman

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

This paper is devoted to the analysis of basic regularities in spatialdynamics of the wild boar (Sus scrofa ussuricus Heude, 1888) and the red deer(Cervus elaphus xanthopigus Milne-Edwards, 1867) numbers in the Russian MiddleAmur area, on the example of the Jewish Autonomous Region. We research amodel of space-time metapopulation dynamics based on a coupled map lattice. Weuse the metapopulation approach for quantitative analysis of migration activity forthe wild boar and the red deer populations. Using the model estimates of migrationand reproductive parameters we described the main migration routes of thesepopulations. It is shown that individuals of wild boar population migrate …

Approaching Uncertainties In Land-Use Change Modeling In The Amazon Rainforest With Bayesian Belief Networks, Carsten Krüger, Dennis Funke, Tobia Lakes

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

In recent years, modeling techniques to study land-use change and to develop scenarios for highlighting possible future pathways of land-use change have been increasingly applied and studied. While modeling results always incorporate uncertainties in terms of input data, model parameters, model boundaries, and model structure, up to now, only few land-use change modeling approaches have explicitly focused on uncertainties using e.g. Monte-Carlo simulation or Fuzzy logic. Decision makers, however, are not only interested in understanding possible consequences, but also in evaluating the reliability of these. Since land-use change is spatially dependent on its neighborhood, we especially address uncertainties associated with …

Determinator – A Generic Dss For Hazard Identification Of Species Or Other Physical Subjects, Michel Uiterwijk, Leo W. D. Van Raamsdonk, Sander Janssen

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

Our living environment poses all kinds of obvious and perhaps less obvious hazards. As an example, Ragwort (Senecio jacobaea) and related species of the genus Senecio are the main source of toxic pyrollizidine alkaloids. The plants commonly grow in road verges, meadows and production fields and are equally toxic for humans and animals. Therefore, proper identification of such a hazardous object is vital. This paper describes Determinator DSS, a Decision Support System, that aims to cover problems of proper identification of a hazardous object, either in the field or in a lab, and in diverse domains. Determinator DSS is used …

Visual Integration Of Diverse Environmental Data: A Case Study In Central Germany, C. Helbig, Karsten Rink, A. Marx, Joerg A. Priess, M. Frank, Olaf Kolditz

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

Land use and climate changes are some of the most important phenomena which will influence our life in the coming decades. To analyze these phenomena and the projections of their impact, diverse and dynamic data are collected and complex projects for observation and measurement are being developed (e.g. GLUES and TERENO projects). The goal is to find an appropriate way to visualize measured data in combination with simulation results. We propose to develop a generic methodology that can be used beyond the envisaged case study region ’Central Germany’ (Thuringia / Saxony / Saxony-Anhalt). The basis of the visualization consists of …

Which Household Tolerates Droughts? – Strategies To Secure Pastoral Livelihoods, Romina Drees, A. Linstadter, Karin Frank, Birgit Müller

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

Increasing frequencies of droughts pose a threat to pastoral livelihoods in drylands. Using a rangeland model, we analyze the effects of droughts and mobility strategies on herd size dynamics. Since the herd provides the basic income for mobile pastoralists, we evaluate herd dynamics as income to estimate the risk of endangered livelihoods due to droughts. This methodology enables us to identify critical changes in natural resource use systems which are prone to shocks. Model results show that the socio-economic type of the household and therewith its adaptive capacity to be mobile rather than the obvious ecological effects of droughts determine …

Weight-Of-Evidence-Based Assessment Of Sediment Quality Of The São Francisco River (Brazil) With The Help Of Software Tool Sqa, Alla Khosrovyan, Maria Jose Salamanca Marin, André Moldenhauer Peret, Débora Fernandes De Almeida, T. Angel Delvalls, Inmaculada Riba

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

Weight-of-evidence (WOE) approach is a requirement for comprehensive integrated sediment quality assessment and management worldwide. WOE is a system approach based on collection of several lines of evidences that are able to derive multi-aspect characterization of availability and adverse effects of contaminants for living organisms in water environments. A software tool addressing this approach is already available and based on the statistical package STATISTICA 6.0. The tool provided user-friendly and user-assisting interface for entering and analyzing of data, as well as presented a summary of the results of the conducted analysis. It was designed for environmental scientists and managers, academia …

Combining Socio-Economic And Ecological Modelling To Inform Natural Resource Management Strategies, Johannes P. M. Heinonen, Justin M. J. Travis, Steve M. Redpath, Michelle A. Pinard

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

Effective management of natural resources requires understanding both the dynamics of the natural systems being subjected to management and the decision-making behaviour of stakeholders who are involved in the management process. We suggest that simulation modelling techniques can provide a powerful method platform for the transdisciplinary integration of ecological, economic and sociological aspects that is needed for exploring the likely outcomes of different management approaches and options. A concise review of existing literature on ecological and socio-economic modelling and approaches at the interface of these fields is presented followed by a framework coupling an individual-based ecological model with an agent-based …

Model Lifecycle Management: Options For A Rural Watershed Practitioners In Ontario, Thorsten Arnold

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

This paper makes the argument that the lifecycles of numerical models changesdramatically if the paradigm of watershed management (WM) organizations shifts towardadaptive management practices. However, model lifecycle management has not receivedsufficient attention. As a result, WM organizations are struggling to apply numericalmodeling efficiently and cost-effectively under their obligation to promote cyclic learning. Inthis paper, Model Lifecycle Management (MLM) is defined as the process of organizingmodel building and maintenance within organizations. It includes procedural guidelines,standards on commissioning consultant work and deliverables, knowledge managementsuch that relevant knowledge is available to watershed practitioners, and embeddedsoftware solutions that minimize technical knowledge requirements. As a …

Land Systems Modelling: An Atomistic Approach To Improve Handling Of Complexity In Land-Use And Land-Cover Change Modelling, Daniel T. Rutledge, Robbie Price, Alexander Herzig

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

Improved understanding of land-use/land-cover change will be essential to help identify and follow more sustainable development pathways in a resource constrained world. While land-use/land-cover change models have advanced to address different domains, questions, processes, themes, scales and levels of complexity, they continue to have several inherent limitations. The limitations stem mainly from conceptualisation of landscapes as “scanned paper maps” that represent land use/cover as simple, non-overlapping categorical objects and include: 1) confounding of cover and use, 2) inability to depict more than one cover/use, 3) simplification of highly complex systems, 4) one process for many different types of change, and …

The Impact Of Uncertain Ecological Knowledge On A Water Suitability Model Of Riverine Vegetation, Baihua Fu, Wendy S. Merritt

International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software

Freshwater aquatic ecosystems are increasingly under threat due to climate change and river regulation. Water management is considered important for maintaining and restoring freshwater aquatic ecosystems in Australia. A habitat model based on the water requirements of four riverine vegetation species was developed to assess the suitability of water regimes for the maintenance and regeneration of these species in the Namoi Catchment, Australia. This model identifies characteristics of flooding events (e.g. duration, timing and inter-flood dry period) from hydrological data or models, and generates suitability indices based on the species’ water requirement preference curves. These preference curves are central to …