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Facebookistan, Anupam Chander Jun 2012

Facebookistan, Anupam Chander

North Carolina Law Review

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Legacy Effects In Material Flux: Structural Catchment Changes Predate Long-Term Studies, Daniel J. Bain, Mark B. Green, John L. Campbell, John F. Chamblee, Sayo Chaoka, Jennifer M. Fraterrigo, Sujay S. Kaushal, Sherry L. Martin, Thomas E. Jordan, Anthony J. Parolari, William V. Sobczak, Donald E. Weller, Wilfred M. Wollheim, Emery R. Boose, Jonathan M. Duncan, Gretchen M. Gettel, Brian R. Hall, Praveen Kumar, Jonathan R. Thompson, James M. Vose, Emily M. Elliott, David S. Leigh Jun 2012

Legacy Effects In Material Flux: Structural Catchment Changes Predate Long-Term Studies, Daniel J. Bain, Mark B. Green, John L. Campbell, John F. Chamblee, Sayo Chaoka, Jennifer M. Fraterrigo, Sujay S. Kaushal, Sherry L. Martin, Thomas E. Jordan, Anthony J. Parolari, William V. Sobczak, Donald E. Weller, Wilfred M. Wollheim, Emery R. Boose, Jonathan M. Duncan, Gretchen M. Gettel, Brian R. Hall, Praveen Kumar, Jonathan R. Thompson, James M. Vose, Emily M. Elliott, David S. Leigh

Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Research and Publications

Legacy effects of past land use and disturbance are increasingly recognized, yet consistent definitions of and criteria for defining them do not exist. To address this gap in biological- and ecosystem-assessment frameworks, we propose a general metric for evaluating potential legacy effects, which are computed by normalizing altered system function persistence with duration of disturbance. We also propose two distinct legacy-effect categories: signal effects from lags in transport and structural effects from physical landscape changes. Using flux records for water, sediment, nitrogen, and carbon from long-term study sites in the eastern United States from 1500 to 2000, we identify gaps …

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Observations And Assessment Of Forest Carbon Dynamics Following Disturbance In North America, Scott J. Goetz, B. Bond-Lamberty, Beverly E. Law, J. A. Hicke, C. Huang, R. A. Houghton, S. G. Mcnulty, T. O'Halloran, M. E. Harmon, A. J.H. Meddens, E. M. Pfeifer, David J. Mildrexler, Eric Kasischke Jun 2012

Observations And Assessment Of Forest Carbon Dynamics Following Disturbance In North America, Scott J. Goetz, B. Bond-Lamberty, Beverly E. Law, J. A. Hicke, C. Huang, R. A. Houghton, S. G. Mcnulty, T. O'Halloran, M. E. Harmon, A. J.H. Meddens, E. M. Pfeifer, David J. Mildrexler, Eric Kasischke

Numerical Terradynamic Simulation Group Publications

Disturbance processes of various types substantially modify ecosystem carbon dynamics both temporally and spatially, and constitute a fundamental part of larger landscape-level dynamics. Forests typically lose carbon for several years to several decades following severe disturbance, but our understanding of the duration and dynamics of post-disturbance forest carbon fluxes remains limited. Here we capitalize on a recent North American Carbon Program disturbance synthesis to discuss techniques and future work needed to better understand carbon dynamics after forest disturbance. Specifically, this paper addresses three topics: (1) the history, spatial distribution, and characteristics of different types of disturbance (in particular fire, insects, …

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Transcending Scale Dependence In Identifying Habitat With Resource Selection Functions, Nicholas J. Decesare, Mark Hebblewhite, Fiona Schmiegelow, David Hervieux, Gregory J. Mcdermid, Lalenia Neufeld, Mark Bradley, Jesse Whittington, Kirby G. Smith, Luigi E. Morgantini, Matthew Wheatley, Marco Musiani Jun 2012

Transcending Scale Dependence In Identifying Habitat With Resource Selection Functions, Nicholas J. Decesare, Mark Hebblewhite, Fiona Schmiegelow, David Hervieux, Gregory J. Mcdermid, Lalenia Neufeld, Mark Bradley, Jesse Whittington, Kirby G. Smith, Luigi E. Morgantini, Matthew Wheatley, Marco Musiani

Wildlife Biology Faculty Publications

Multi-scale resource selection modeling is used to identify factors that limit species distributions across scales of space and time. This multi-scale nature of habitat suitability complicates the translation of inferences to single, spatial depictions of habitat required for conservation of species. We estimated resource selection functions (RSFs) across three scales for a threatened ungulate, woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou), with two objectives: (1) to infer the relative effects of two forms of anthropogenic disturbance (forestry and linear features) on woodland caribou distributions at multiple scales and (2) to estimate scale-integrated resource selection functions (SRSFs) that synthesize results across scales for …

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Law And Policy Entrepreneurs: Empirical Evidence On The Expansion Of School Choice Policy, Michael Heise Jun 2012

Law And Policy Entrepreneurs: Empirical Evidence On The Expansion Of School Choice Policy, Michael Heise

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

This study leverages event history analysis to help explain the expansion of public charter school legislation between 1991–2006. This study expands previous work in two important ways. First, while critical distinctions separate public charter school and school voucher programs, both fall comfortably within the broader rubric of “school choice.” As such, it is difficult to understand the development of state legislation for one school choice variant independent of the other. Thus, this analysis includes the presence of publicly- or privately-funded voucher programs in a state as a possible factor influencing the adoption of charter school legislation in a state. Second, …

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Sexual Misconduct And International Aid Workers: An Afghanistan Case Study, Jennifer Fluri Jun 2012

Sexual Misconduct And International Aid Workers: An Afghanistan Case Study, Jennifer Fluri

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

This paper seeks to add to existing study of gender and conflict by examining the complexities of interactions between international workers and local populations in spaces mired in war or post-war conflicts. Feminist scholarship on gender, war, and political violence/security provides the theoretical and empirically informed framework for this examination. I argue that in order to discuss Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (SEA), it is necessary to first consider context with respect to location, gender, belief, and praxis. "Universal" conceptions of sexual conduct, misconduct, and SEA may be in opposition to acceptable practices within a particular site and situation. This includes …

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Refugees, Sexual Violence, And Armed Conflict: The Nuances Between Victims And Agents, Erin Rider Jun 2012

Refugees, Sexual Violence, And Armed Conflict: The Nuances Between Victims And Agents, Erin Rider

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

The examination of forced migration of political refugees from sexual violence in armed conflict offers a unique vantage point for exploring the relationship between structure and agency. While it is significant to acknowledge the lack of autonomy accessible to political refugees, simultaneously, it is problematic to assume that their actions do not qualify as agency. I argue that it is possible on one hand to address the lack of agency related to the imposed structure, while on the other hand, to theorize marginalized actors’ form of agency based on their ability to actively negotiate forced conditions in order to secure …

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Resilience, Mêtis And Survival: How Egyptian Women Outsmart The Ills Of Global Capitalism, Nahed Eltantawy Jun 2012

Resilience, Mêtis And Survival: How Egyptian Women Outsmart The Ills Of Global Capitalism, Nahed Eltantawy

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

In this essay, I examine Egyptian women’s survival tactics to counter the dominant capitalist public sphere. This analysis is based on data from qualitative interviews I conducted with three Egyptian female microclients. I chose phone interviews as an appropriate method for my study, as I was able to hear firsthand from these women about their individual experiences with microloans. These women discussed in detail the dire economic conditions of their individual families. They also explained how they were introduced to microloans, how they applied for loans, the size of their loans, and the overall impact of these loans on their …

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At Home, At Work: Indian Immigrant Women In Colonial East Africa (C.1920-1940), Savita Nair Jun 2012

At Home, At Work: Indian Immigrant Women In Colonial East Africa (C.1920-1940), Savita Nair

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

Situated in the broader context of the South Asian diaspora, Indian Gujarati merchant families in colonial East Africa participate in creating a modern history of migration. Building on preexisting connections between western India and eastern Africa, families create networks and recreate community in a unique diasporic context. Constituted not only of men, but also women who accompany and follow their entrepreneurial, adverturer husbands, and later daughters and wives, Gujarati business families are ensured a place in the historical record as a constituent community in British East Africa. In this new colonial site, newly marked by the railway systems, market towns, …

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Skirting The Issue: How International Law Fails To Protect Traditional Cultural Marks From Ip Theft, Sonali Maulik Jun 2012

Skirting The Issue: How International Law Fails To Protect Traditional Cultural Marks From Ip Theft, Sonali Maulik

Chicago Journal of International Law

Countries have different levels of intellectual property (IP) protections. While developed countries tend to prefer more stringent IP laws, developing countries prefer weaker ones. With the enactment of the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), which established minimum standards of intellectual property rights (IPRs) for states party, the level of IPRs became much higher globally. However, despite affording strong protection to many types of IP, this Comment argues that TRIPS fails to provide adequate protection for traditional cultural marks (TCMs), particularly those used in developing countries. As a result, companies in developed countries have been able to …

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Patterns For Success: Women In Technology: Analyzing Top Technical Women For Repeated Mindsets, Life Experiences, And Career Navigation, Julie L. Gill Jun 2012

Patterns For Success: Women In Technology: Analyzing Top Technical Women For Repeated Mindsets, Life Experiences, And Career Navigation, Julie L. Gill

Honors College Theses

The purpose of this thesis is to discuss and discover why some women are so successful in the computing fields when public opinion continues to hold that computing is not a women’s field because there are so few women in computing. The roots for this shortage begin in theAmerican educational system, “Nationwide only about 20 percent of the bachelor's degrees incomputer science go to women,” according to a November 11, 2011 NPR story titled “Addressing the Shortage of Women in Silicon Valley”. This shortage is well noted and heavily researched, Plausible solutions have been proposed and it is critically important …

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Federal Home Loan Bank Advances And Commercial Bank Portfolio Composition, W. Scott Frame, Diana Hancock, Wayne Passmore Jun 2012

Federal Home Loan Bank Advances And Commercial Bank Portfolio Composition, W. Scott Frame, Diana Hancock, Wayne Passmore

Documents

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The Indian Diaspora And Reading Desai, Mukherjee, Gupta, And Lahiri, Amit Shankar Saha Jun 2012

The Indian Diaspora And Reading Desai, Mukherjee, Gupta, And Lahiri, Amit Shankar Saha

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article "The Indian Diaspora and Reading Desai, Mukherjee, Gupta, and Lahiri" Amit Shankar Saha argues that displacement produces a point of encounter between the alien and authority. Saha analyses aspects of (im)migration in texts about the Indian diaspora: if the host society is intolerant then it is through reactionary self-fashioning that the (im)migrant asserts his/her ethnicity as a defensive mechanism to rescue self-respect. However, while the host society is welcoming, it does not guarantee ready assimilation because there is always the question of severing the (im)migrants ties with his/her home land. (Im)migrants start living in two worlds simultaneously …

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Offshore Control: A Proposed Strategy For An Unlikely Conflict, T.X. Hammes Jun 2012

Offshore Control: A Proposed Strategy For An Unlikely Conflict, T.X. Hammes

Strategic Forums

As America ends its military commitment to Iraq and continues its drawdown in Afghanistan, a lively discussion has emerged on what future challenges the Nation faces. High on every list is the requirement to deal with a rising China. In his remarks to the Australian Parliament on November 17, 2011, President Barack Obama stated, “As we end today’s wars, I have directed my national security team to make our presence and mission in the Asia Pacific a top priority.” As part of this rebalancing to Asia, the administration has stated that it seeks “to identify and expand areas of common …

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Locating Keith Aoki: Space, Geography, And Local Government Law, Rick Su Jun 2012

Locating Keith Aoki: Space, Geography, And Local Government Law, Rick Su

Journal Articles

The late legal scholar Keith Aoki wrote on a wide range of legal issues, from intellectual property and genetic engineering to immigration and racial politics. This retrospective highlights his work on space, legal geography, and local government law. Aoki not only began his legal career exploring these issues, he also continuously drew upon their insights to frame legal inquiries in other fields as the scope of his research expanded. This essay shows Aoki to be more than an innovator in the study of space, legal geography and local government law. Indeed, he was one of their most important ambassadors.

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Wellness Works: A Collaborative Program For Youth And Adults In Rural Utah, Lindsey Shirley, Mark F. Roark, Lisa Lewis Jun 2012

Wellness Works: A Collaborative Program For Youth And Adults In Rural Utah, Lindsey Shirley, Mark F. Roark, Lisa Lewis

Kinesiology and Health Science Faculty Publications

The article focuses on the need of Cooperative Extension programs for rural communities of Central Utah residents who are leading an unhealthy lifestyle. It is discussed that the Family and Consumer Sciences (FCS) Extension Agent in Utah developed a wellness community program to address the health concerns of adults. It is discussed that the program promotes healthy living in adults by emphasizing on physical activity and nutrition.

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Report, Faculty Library Satisfaction Survey 2011/12, June 2012, Kaya Van Beynen, Carol G. Hixson, Tina M. Neville Jun 2012

Report, Faculty Library Satisfaction Survey 2011/12, June 2012, Kaya Van Beynen, Carol G. Hixson, Tina M. Neville

Library Faculty Assessments

A report with the results of a survey of University of South Florida St. Petersburg faculty about their satisfaction with the library.

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Collateral Matters: Housing Code Compliance In The Mortgage Crisis, Kermit J. Lind Jun 2012

Collateral Matters: Housing Code Compliance In The Mortgage Crisis, Kermit J. Lind

Northern Illinois University Law Review

This article begins by describing the paradigm shift in mortgage loan servicing produced over the past two decades by securitization and exotic financing products using residential property for collateral. It shows how current mortgage servicing and debt collection practices ignore mortgage collateral and renders conventional housing code compliance procedures obsolete. It then suggests that new strategic thinking is needed to redesign and retool code compliance processes. Residential neighborhoods and communities need to protect themselves against the wanton lending and servicing practices produced in the wake of the mortgage disaster. There is still immanent disaster not only from the new financial …

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A Promised Land In The Diaspora: Christian Religion, Social Memory, And Identity Among Banabans In Fiji, Wolfgang Kempf Jun 2012

A Promised Land In The Diaspora: Christian Religion, Social Memory, And Identity Among Banabans In Fiji, Wolfgang Kempf

Pacific Studies

This article explores the evolving concept of diaspora, highlighting its departure from its original religious connotations to a broader framework encompassing migration, transnationalism, and identity. While religion has often been overlooked in contemporary diaspora studies, the article argues that Christian institutions play a pivotal role in shaping identity and social organization among Pacific Islanders living abroad. Focusing on diasporic Banabans in Fiji, the study examines how Christian discourses and biblical narratives—particularly the Exodus motif—have been appropriated to articulate a collective history of displacement and survival. The article situates Pacific migration within a historical and colonial context, demonstrating how religion functions …

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Issues Of Concern To Rotumans Abroad: A View From The Rotuma Website, Alan Howard, Jan Rensel Jun 2012

Issues Of Concern To Rotumans Abroad: A View From The Rotuma Website, Alan Howard, Jan Rensel

Pacific Studies

This article examines the Rotuman diaspora and its impact on cultural identity, focusing on expatriates’ perceptions of Rotuma as an ancestral home. Despite Rotuma's political affiliation with Fiji for over a century, its people maintain distinct linguistic and cultural ties to Polynesian islands like Tonga, Samoa, and Futuna. Today, most Rotumans live abroad, primarily in Fiji and across various global locations. Drawing on decades of research and online postings from the Rotuma Website, the authors explore how expatriates engage with their heritage, sustain community connections, and navigate identity in the diaspora. Through interviews and long-term fieldwork, the study highlights the …

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Vol. 35 No. 1/2 (2012): Pacific Studies Full Issue, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies Brigham Young University–HawaiʻI Jun 2012

Vol. 35 No. 1/2 (2012): Pacific Studies Full Issue, The Jonathan Nāpela Center For Hawaiian And Pacific Islands Studies Brigham Young University–HawaiʻI

Pacific Studies

Pacific Studies is published two times a year by The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies, Brigham Young University Hawai‘i #1979, 55–220 Kulanui Street, Lāʻie, Hawai‘i 96762, but responsibility for opinions expressed in the articles rests with the authors alone. Subscription rate is US$26.00 yearly, payable to The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies. The Jonathan Nāpela Center for Hawaiian and Pacific Studies (formerly The Pacific Institute) is an organization funded by Brigham Young University Hawai‘i. The Center assists the University in meeting its cultural and educational goals by undertaking a program of teaching, research, and …

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Teaching Culture With A Modern Valuable: Lessons About Money For And From Tongan Youth In New Zealand, Ping-Ann Addo Jun 2012

Teaching Culture With A Modern Valuable: Lessons About Money For And From Tongan Youth In New Zealand, Ping-Ann Addo

Pacific Studies

This article explores how diaspora, monetary wealth, and kinship intersect in transnational Tongan families, framing diaspora as both a cultural phenomenon and a means of engaging with modernity. While remittances are often emphasized, the study examines nonremittance money practices among Tongans in New Zealand, showing how shifting uses of money redefine kinship and obligation. Traditional forms of wealth, like koloa and ngāue, remain significant, but money now plays a vital role in expressing family values and sustaining social bonds. The article highlights tensions between tradition and modernity, obligation and autonomy, and material and relational value, offering insights into how …

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A Case Study Of Mobile Learning Pilot Project In K-12 Schools, Chientzu Candace Chou, Lanise Block, Renee Jesness Jun 2012

A Case Study Of Mobile Learning Pilot Project In K-12 Schools, Chientzu Candace Chou, Lanise Block, Renee Jesness

Journal of Educational Technology Development and Exchange (JETDE)

This case study reports findings from a four-month pilot project of one-to-one learning with iPads in four 9th grade Geography classrooms in a large K-12 school district in the United States. The findings of the study revealed many promising opportunities and technical challenges for both teachers and students. The positive impact of iPad integration on student learning includes active engagement, increased time for projects, improved digital literacy, and digital citizenship. The challenge for student learning is mainly distraction by the multitude of irrelevant apps and Websites. With regard to instructional activities, the positive impact includes the implementation of student-centered …

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Project-Based Learning: An Effective Approach To Link Teacher Professional Development And Students Learning, Shaoqing Guo, Yanjun Yang Jun 2012

Project-Based Learning: An Effective Approach To Link Teacher Professional Development And Students Learning, Shaoqing Guo, Yanjun Yang

Journal of Educational Technology Development and Exchange (JETDE)

Professional development for teachers is a key mechanism for improving classroom instruction and student achievement, yet there is little empirical evidence upon which to damonstrate the connection between teachers’ professional development and students’ achievement. This paper presents a pilot research which adopts project-based teaching and learning(PjBL) as an approch to link teahcer professional development and student learning. In our longitudinal study, a resource-rich school in urban areas and a less developed school in outlying areas join hands to carry out a research project. Study groups were composed of 2-3 teachers and 10-15 students in each school. The groups from …

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Identifying Core Components In Software Systems, Phillip Meyer Jun 2012

Identifying Core Components In Software Systems, Phillip Meyer

Student Work

As large software systems are highly complex, they can be difficult for a developer to understand. If a core subset of a software system could be extracted which contains the most important classes and connections of the larger system, studying this core would be useful for efficiently understanding the overall system. In this research we examine research into core/periphery structures in networks, primarily focusing on the use of k-core decomposition. The extracted dependencies of three open source Java software systems provide the inputs, with forty different versions of these systems analyzed in total. We derive inter-class dependencies from these releases …

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Innovation For Inclusive Growth: Towards A Theoretical Framework And A Research Agenda, Gerard George, Anita M. Mcgahan, Jaideep Prabhu Jun 2012

Innovation For Inclusive Growth: Towards A Theoretical Framework And A Research Agenda, Gerard George, Anita M. Mcgahan, Jaideep Prabhu

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Inclusive innovation, which we define as innovation that benefits the disenfranchised, is a process as well as a performance outcome. Consideration of inclusive innovation points to inequalities that may arise in the development and commercialization of innovations, and also acknowledges the inequalities that may occur as a result of value creation and capture. We outline opportunities for the development of theory and empirical research around this construct in the fields of entrepreneurship, strategy, and marketing. We aim for a synthesis in views of inclusive innovation and call for future research that deals directly with value creation and the distributional consequences …

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A Postulate For Tiger Recovery: The Case Of The Caspian Tiger, Carlos A. Driscoll, I. Chestin, H. Jungius, O. Pereladova, Y. Darman, E, Dinerstein, J. Seidensticker, J. Sanderson, S. Christie, Shu-Jin Luo, S. Shrestha, Y. Zhuravlev, Olga Uphyrkina, Y. V. Jhala, S. P. Yadav, D. G. Pikunov, Nobuyuki Yamaguchi, David E. Wildt, J. L. D. Smith, L. Marker, P. J. Nyhus, R. Tilson, David W. Macdonald, Stephen J. O'Brien Jun 2012

A Postulate For Tiger Recovery: The Case Of The Caspian Tiger, Carlos A. Driscoll, I. Chestin, H. Jungius, O. Pereladova, Y. Darman, E, Dinerstein, J. Seidensticker, J. Sanderson, S. Christie, Shu-Jin Luo, S. Shrestha, Y. Zhuravlev, Olga Uphyrkina, Y. V. Jhala, S. P. Yadav, D. G. Pikunov, Nobuyuki Yamaguchi, David E. Wildt, J. L. D. Smith, L. Marker, P. J. Nyhus, R. Tilson, David W. Macdonald, Stephen J. O'Brien

Biology Faculty Articles

Recent genetic analysis has shown that the extinct Caspian Tiger (P. t. virgata) and the living Amur Tigers (P. t. altaica) of the Russian Far East are actually taxonomically synonymous and that Caspian and Amur groups historically formed a single population, only becoming separated within the last 200 years by human agency. A major conservation implication of this finding is that tigers of Amur stock might be reintroduced, not only back into the Koreas and China as is now proposed, but also through vast areas of Central Asia where the Caspian tiger once lived. However, under the current tiger conservation …

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Sustainable Agriculture, Charlene Mills Jun 2012

Sustainable Agriculture, Charlene Mills

Social Sciences

This paper is about sustainable agriculture and how we can strive to achieve it. It discusses what is wrong with our food system today and how we can go about changing that. It incorporates Geography and Anthropology while discussing different issues around the world.

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The Invasion Of California Grasslands: Past, Present, And Future Implications, Danielle Simone Caziarc Jun 2012

The Invasion Of California Grasslands: Past, Present, And Future Implications, Danielle Simone Caziarc

Social Sciences

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The Courier, June 2012, Tennessee. Historical Commission. Jun 2012

The Courier, June 2012, Tennessee. Historical Commission.

Tennessee Historical Commission

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