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New Paleoclimate Reconstruction Techniques In Archaeology: Applications In Greece, New Mexico, And Portugal, Brandon Lee Drake

Anthropology ETDs

This dissertation develops new techniques of analysis that make existing archaeological data more useful for understanding past climate change. These techniques are introduced through three key case studies in the San Juan Basin of New Mexico, the Lower Alentejo of Portugal, and the Eastern Mediterranean. A 12,000 year record of pollen collected from packrat middens across Chaco Canyon were analyzed using a new normalization procedure to produce a Holocene record of piñon and ponderosa pine abundance. The normalization procedure, species occurrence, enabled statistical analysis of the data. Simple linear models indicated that piñon and ponderosa pollen were strongly correlated with …

Opportunistic Discipline: Using Eurasian Integration To Improve Sanctions Against Belarus, Ilya Zlatkin

Law Student Publications

This comment does not condemn or condone the Lukashenko regime's policies. Instead, it evaluates the effectiveness of the U.S. sanctions and provides some feasible alternatives. Also, this comment avoids normative arguments against sanctions, concentrating more on the probable economic and political effects. Part II supplies background information on the political developments within Belarus since the Soviet Union's collapse, including prior sanctions that the West imposed. Part III explains why the United States can legally institute sanctions. Parts IV and V discuss how American sanctions facilitate appropriation of significant Belarusian state assets by Russia and China, respectively. Part VI posits that …

Toward A Culture Of Healing: Why Alternative Therapies And A Feminist Framework Are Needed In The Care Of Pregnant Women And Treatment Of Postpartum Mood Disorders, Angela Leonardo

Anthós

Pregnancy, birth, and early motherhood are areas of human development that have systematically migrated away from their roots as a series of natural life events to a highly, and perhaps unnecessarily, medicalized arena. This shift has been detrimental for women, especially for poor, socially isolated, single, and/or ethnic minority women. In this paper, I outline my concerns with the increased medicalization of birth and postpartum care, as well as with the status of mothers in the United States, and critically examine the patriarchal context in which this shift has occurred. My focus is on maternal health and mortality, including depression …

Lost In Translation: Oral Advocacy In A Land Without Binding Precedent, Sabrina Defabritiis

Suffolk University Law School Faculty Works

Robert Frost first famously penned “Poetry is what gets lost in translation.” In the world of advocacy, persuasion is what gets lost in translation. This article examines the distinctions in the common law and civil law methods of legal reasoning. It analyzes why, in form and substance, the traditional common law oral argument methods are neither effective nor persuasive when presented in a civil law jurisdiction. Although the common law and civil law legal traditions share similar social objectives, arguing based on stare decisis is incompatible with the Code-based method applied by civil law courts. This article explores how to …

The Abcc Collection In The Texas Medical Center Library As A Nuclear Age Memory, Philip Montgomery

Library Staff Publications

No abstract provided.

Valuing The Goodness Of Earth, Jame Schaefer

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

Though John Chrysostom, Augustine, and Thomas Aquinas, when reflecting on the creation story, valued all types of creatures, living and non-living, intrinsically for their unique goodness and instrumentally for the sustenance they provide to others, they valued most highly their complex interrelation in the physical world.

Mobile Marketplace Designing Digital Devices To Connect Rural & Urban China, Francesca Valsecchi, Serena Pollastri, Yongqi Lou, Diego Dalia

DRS Biennial Conference Series

The paper describes the methodology and process of an ongoing research project, conducted by Studio TAO and Tongji University with Nokia, to demonstrate how digital communication devices can help bridge the social gap between rural and urban China. Rapid growth, substantial socio-economic changes, and massive migration from the countryside to the urban areas, are creating an imbalance in the urban-rural system. No visible value is given to activities and resources related to the countryside. Young people move to urban areas to find a job to economically sustain their families; social fabric is weakening and traditional practices and local skills are …

Relating Methanogen Community Structure And Function In Anaerobic Digesters, Benjamin T.W. Bocher

Dissertations (1934 -)

A deeper understanding of how microbial community structure relates to process function would help improve anaerobic digester design. This dissertation describes both qualitative and quantitative relationships between anaerobic digester function and microbial community structure. Community structure was characterized using banding pattern intensities from denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) for the mcrA gene of methanogenic Archaea. The first project compared a single-stage continuously mixed stirred tank reactor (CSTR) and staging with an acidogenic CSTR followed by a methanogenic CSTR. After seeding with the same biomass, these unique process configurations exhibited different function and qualitatively different methanogen communities. Compared to a single-stage …

A Constitutional Approach To Maritime Personal Injury Law, Rod Sullivan

Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce

No abstract provided.

Focus, 2012, Summer, Andrews University

Focus

FOCUS (ISSN 1077-9345) is published quarterly, free of charge, for alumni and friends of Andrews University, an institution owned and operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

The Roles Of Carma1 And Pkcθ In T Cell Function And Immunity, Katy Korzekwa

Biomedical Sciences ETDs

T cells are critical players in adaptive immunity. They migrate throughout the body scanning the lymph nodes for antigen, then migrate to an infection site to help clear pathogen. Migrating T cells use multiple receptors and adhesion proteins to migrate to and enter different tissues. While the cell surface molecules involved in T cell motility are well understood, less is known about intracellular signaling pathways involved in T cell migration. PKCθ and CARMA1 signal downstream of TCR activation to induce NF-κB activation. However, the roles of PKCθ and CARMA1 in other T cell functions are unknown. In this study we …

Sfa Gardens Newsletter, Summer 2012, Sfa Gardens, Stephen F. Austin State University

SFA Gardens Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Modeling A Solar-Heated Anaerobic Digester For The Developing World Using System Dynamics, Johanna Bentley

Theses

Much of the developing world lacks access to a dependable source of energy. Agricultural societies such as Mozambique and Papua New Guinea could sustain a reliable energy source through the microbacterial decomposition of animal and crop waste. Anaerobic digestion produces methane, which can be used directly for heating, cooking, and lighting. Adding a solar component to the digester provides a catalyst for bacteria activity, accelerating digestion and increasing biogas production. Using methane decreases the amount of energy expended by collecting and preparing firewood, eliminates hazardous health effects linked to inhalation of particles, and provides energy close to where it is …

A Cup Is A Corpse: A Thesis Project Implementing An Experimental Approach To Visual Communication And Advocating The Concept Of Slow Design, Yu Fen Kung

Theses

Based on the dissection of the phenomenon of coffee culture and the introspection of the negative environmental impact from the overwhelming usage of paper coffee cups, this thesis explores a design approach to advocate the paper coffee cup issue in an educational and experimental way. A Cup Is A Corpse is a thesis that defines the possibilities between environmental topic and design resolution. It is an advertising campaign targeted on local coffee shops, providing fundamental knowledge of the paper coffee cup matter to regular consumers. A slow design approach is applied to the final design application for the reason of …

Why The "Originalism" In Balkin's Living Originalism?, Hugh Baxter

Faculty Scholarship

Jack Balkin’s "Living Originalism" (2011), together with the companion volume "Constitutional Redemption," is an extraordinary achievement that secures his position in the front rank of American constitutional theorists. In those works, Balkin develops a constitutional theory he identifies alternatively as “living originalism” and as “framework originalism.” In this latter expression, Balkin distinguishes two senses of the term “framework.” In the first sense of “framework,” the Constitution establishes a framework for governance and politics. The second sense of “framework” derives from the first. Governance, Balkin argues, involves state-building and constitutional construction by the political branches, not just by the courts. Social …

Jacques Ranciere’S Politics Of Literature, Writing And Aesthetics In The Letters Of John Keats, Darcie Hart Riedner

Anthós

Through his numerous works on the philosophy of aesthetics, literature and writing Jacques Rancière has crafted a body of work based on the premise of equality as recognized through aesthetics. In the introduction to the English translation of Rancière’s The Politics of Aesthetics, author Gabriel Rockhill writes Rancière supports abolishing "any presupposed inequalities of intelligence". Rancière argues against any "privileged position usurped by philosophy in its various attempts to speak for others, be it the proletariat, the poor, or anyone else who is not 'destined to think'" Rancière's political positioning of aesthetics finds "those who have no name, who remain …

What Chlorine Can't Kill: Cryptosporidium And Our Water Supply, Amanda Pampuro, Dylan Grimes

Institute of Metropolitan Studies Publications

Does cryptosporidium lurk in Portland's water supply? Should Portlanders be worried? Amanda Pamparo and Dylan Grimes look at the issues involved in the controversy keeping Bull Run water safe.

Transitioning Mine Action Programmes To National Ownership I Albania, Gichd

Global CWD Repository

In response to the limited guidance on the topic of transition to national ownership, the GICHD commissioned nine country case studies in 2011 to highlight different contexts, processes, challenges, good practices and lessons learnt from the process of transition to national ownership.

Based on lessons learnt and the good practices highlighted in the case studies, the GICHD, in collaboration with UNMAS, produced a Guide on Transitioning Mine Action Programmes to National Ownership.

Beyond War: Bin Laden, Escobar, And The Justification Of Targeted Killing, Luis E. Chiesa, Alexander K.A. Greenawalt

Journal Articles

Using the May 2011 killing of Osama bin Laden as a case study, this Article contributes to the debate on targeted killing in two distinct ways, each of which has the result of downplaying the centrality of international humanitarian law (IHL) as the decisive source of justification for targeted killings.

First, we argue that the IHL rules governing the killing of combatants in wartime should be understood to apply more strictly in cases involving the targeting of single individuals, particularly when the targeting occurs against nonparadigmatic combatants outside the traditional battlefield. As applied to the bin Laden killing, we argue …

Exploring The Use Of Synthetic Delivery Platforms And Small Molecule Adjuvants To Improve The Efficacy Of Spinal Interleukin-10 Gene Therapy For Chronic Neuropathic Pain, Ellen C. Dengler

Biomedical Sciences ETDs

The focus of the work in this dissertation is to improve the efficiency of a gene therapy for the treatment of chronic pain. The introduction, Chapter 1, is intended to orient the reader to the underlying physiological principles and anatomical structures involved in general sensory and pain transmission in the peripheral and central nervous systems. Pain modulatory systems are described in detail. Also included is a discussion of how peripheral nerve injury can provoke immune changes at the spinal level, including the activation of spinal macrophages and glial cells (microglia, astrocytes and oligodendrocytes) with the release of immune modulators, such …

Boots On The Ground: A History Of Fort Bascom In The Canadian River Valley, James Blackshear

New Mexico Historical Review

No abstract provided.

Life Cycle Boundaries And Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Beef Cattle, Quentin M. Dudley

Department of Agricultural and Biological Systems Engineering: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Beef cattle are estimated to directly contribute 26% of U.S. agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and future climate change policy may target reducing these emissions. Life cycle assessment (LCA) of GHG emissions from U.S. feedlot beef cattle was conducted to compare methods of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with a more complete evaluation of emissions. The inclusion of emissions from crop production for feed, associated land use change, and other minor factors nearly doubled GHG emissions associated with beef feedlots from the EPA Annual Inventory estimate of 1611 kgCO₂e hd^-1 yr^-1 to 3182 ± 167 …

From Paper Trails To Dna Barcodes: Enhancing Traceability In Forest And Fishery Certification, Andrea Migone, Michael Howlett

Natural Resources Journal

No abstract provided.

Decision-Making Triggers, Adaptive Management, And Natural Resources Law And Planning, Courtney Schultz, Martin Nie

Natural Resources Journal

No abstract provided.

Proposal To Modify The Mixing System For Hydrosolution's Processing Plant., Alan Michael Hanley 1988-

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

A processing facility in Trenton, Ky owned by HydroSolutions is in need of modernization in order to increase efficiency in the mixing process, improve the safety of the facility, and give the facility the ability to expand in the future. The main idea of HydroSolution’s processing strategies is based on a lean manufacturing policy, and as such this zero waste mentality must be maintained after the modifications have been completed. The plant produces a number of chemical combinations that are provided mainly to rendering facilities, as well as other companies in order to remove odors and unwanted chemicals from air …

Program Notes For The Graduate Degree Recital Of Michael Wheatley, Michael Wheatley

Research Papers

The purpose of this document, in partial fulfillment of the degree requirement for the Master of Music degree in Orchestral Conducting, is to explore the historical, contextual, stylistic, programmatic, and general thematic aspects of the major works performed in a set of two graduate degree recitals which included Claude Debussy’s Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun; Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3, Op. 30 in d; Hector Berlioz’ Symphonie Fantastique; and, Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 4. The works programmed range from early in the Romantic era of western classical music history through the first half of the …

Were Multiple Stressors A "Perfect Storm" For Northern Gulf Of Mexico Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops Truncatus) In 2011?, Ruth H. Carmichael, William M. Graham, Allen Aven, Graham Worthy, Stephan D. Howden

Faculty Publications

An unusual number of near term and neonatal bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) mortalities occurred in the northern Gulf of Mexico (nGOM) in 2011, during the first calving season after two well documented environmental perturbations; sustained cold weather in 2010 and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill (DWHOS). Preceding the stranding event, large volumes of cold freshwater entered the nGOM due to unusually large snowmelt on the adjacent watershed, providing a third potential stressor. We consider the possibility that this extreme cold and freshwater event contributed to the pattern of perinatal dolphin strandings along the nGOM coast. During the 4-month period starting …

Hope, But Not For Us: Ecological Science Fiction And The End Of The World In Margaret Atwood's Oryx And Crake And The Year Of The Flood, Gerry Canavan

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Camas, Summer 2012

Camas

The Nature of this Place / Sara Call -- UL Bend / David Jachowski -- The Great Silent Places / Erica Watson -- Yellowstoning the Treeburbs / David Oates -- Kittitas County Town Park / Roberta Feins -- Kittitas County Thorp Mill / Roberta Feins -- Wind / Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhran -- New Day / Sheryl Noethe -- At the Dungeness Cemetery / Mike McCormick -- From Debris / Laurel Nakanishi -- Song in the Key of Redemption / Robin Keisic -- Solar Flare / Sheryl Noethe -- Finding Montana / David Salner -- Eternal Summer / Wendi Sims Schupbach …

Integration Of Eeg-Fmri In An Auditory Oddball Paradigm Using Joint Independent Component Analysis, Jain Mangalathu Arumana

Dissertations (1934 -)

The integration of event-related potential (ERP) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) can contribute to characterizing neural networks with high temporal and spatial resolution. The overall objective of this dissertation is to determine the sensitivity and limitations of joint independent component analysis (jICA) within-subject for integration of ERP and fMRI data collected simultaneously in a parametric auditory oddball paradigm. The main experimental finding in this work is that jICA revealed significantly stronger and more extensive activity in brain regions associated with the auditory P300 ERP than a P300 linear regression analysis, both at the group level and within-subject. The results …