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Alessandro Malaspina And The Voyage Of Disenchantment, Michael James Letzring May 2012

Alessandro Malaspina And The Voyage Of Disenchantment, Michael James Letzring

Arctic and Northern Studies

Between 1775 and 1792 the shores of what is now Alaska and British Columbia were opened to European reconnaissance by a series of mostly Spanish expeditions. The most ambitious and prestigious of the Spanish expeditions was also one of the last; the Spanish hydrographic expedition of 1789-1794 --the Viaje Politico-Cientifico Alrededor del Mundo, created and commanded by Alessandro Malaspina. The Malaspina expedition was a technical tour-de-force that was meant both materially and symbolically to assert Spain's program of reform and modernization under the Bourbon monarchs, but Malaspina's liberal Enlightenment philosophy would in the end isolate him from the absolutist monarchy …


Diet And Affinity From The Middle Neolithic To Early Bronze Age, Estremadura, Portugal: A Comparison Of Human Dental Remains From Feteira Ii And Bolores, Briana Christa Horwath May 2012

Diet And Affinity From The Middle Neolithic To Early Bronze Age, Estremadura, Portugal: A Comparison Of Human Dental Remains From Feteira Ii And Bolores, Briana Christa Horwath

Anthropology

The social and political changes accompanying the transition from the Neolithic through Early Bronze Age in southwestern Iberia are reasonably well understood; much less is known about population movements and dietary changes that accompanied these transformations. To address possible population movements and dietary change, human dental remains from the Middle Neolithic through Late Neolithic site of Feteira II (3600-2900 B.C.E) and the Late Neolithic through the Early Bronze Age site of Bolores (2800-1800 B.C.E) will be used to examine diet and affinity. Two hypotheses are tested: the period of social change was associated with dietary change between individuals interred at …


Population Continuity Or Replacement At Ancient Lachish? A Dental Affinity Analysis In The Levant, Clarissa R. Dicke-Toupin May 2012

Population Continuity Or Replacement At Ancient Lachish? A Dental Affinity Analysis In The Levant, Clarissa R. Dicke-Toupin

Anthropology

Are material culture changes between late Bronze and early Iron Age inhabitants of Lachish, in modern day Israel, the result of immigrants settling the region, or an in situ evolution of practices by the same indigenous peoples? The research objectives are to: 1) assess dental affinity of an Iron Age Lachish sample relative to its Bronze Age predecessor, and 2) compare data in both groups with European and North African comparative samples to estimate biological affinity within the Mediterranean area. In the process, two competing hypotheses are tested; one postulates continuity and the other population replacement between the Bronze and …


Sedimentology Of Thermokarst Lakes Forming Within Yedoma On The Northern Seward Peninsula, Louise M. Farquharson May 2012

Sedimentology Of Thermokarst Lakes Forming Within Yedoma On The Northern Seward Peninsula, Louise M. Farquharson

Geosciences

Thermokarst lakes forming in yedoma (organic-rich permafrost containing massive syngenetic Pleistocene ice wedges) play an important role in periglacial landscape evolution. These lakes alter landscape elevation and topography, as well as redistribute upland sediment into lower basins. However, sediment deposition within yedoma thermokarst lakes is not well understood. Sedimentological, biogeochemical and macrofossil analyses enabled identification of five prominent fades in yedoma thermokarst lakes in my study region on the northern Seward Peninsula, Alaska. These include a Yedoma Taberal Silt facies situated below a sub-lacustrine unconformity, three types of basal facies and a Lacustrine Silt facies. A preliminary geomorphological model based …


The Taphonomy And Phylogenetic Relationships Of The Talkeetna Mountains Hadrosaur, Kevin P. Stack May 2012

The Taphonomy And Phylogenetic Relationships Of The Talkeetna Mountains Hadrosaur, Kevin P. Stack

Geosciences

The fossil record of hadrosauroids (Ornithopoda, Hadrosauroidea) from the Albian to Santonian is very sparse, with few described North American and Asian taxa compared to the diverse record of Campanian to Maastrichtian hadrosaurids. In 1994, the partial postcranial remains of a hadrosauriform dinosaur were found in the Matanuska Formation of southern Alaska. The Matanuska Formation is a thick succession of Albian¬to Maastrichtian-aged, dominantly marine, sediments deposited in a forearc basin along the actively accreting western North American margin. The Alaskan specimen is assigned a Turonian age based on molluscan biostratigraphy. The skeleton consists of postcranial elements including cervical, dorsal and …


Introduction: The Pinoy Writer And The Asia-Pacific Century, Emmanuel Torres May 2012

Introduction: The Pinoy Writer And The Asia-Pacific Century, Emmanuel Torres

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

No abstract provided.


An Embarrassment Of Riches (Excerpt From A Novel In Progress), Charlson Ong May 2012

An Embarrassment Of Riches (Excerpt From A Novel In Progress), Charlson Ong

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

No abstract provided.


Eduardo Masferre And The Phillippine Cordillera, Ma. Luisa Aguilar-Cariño May 2012

Eduardo Masferre And The Phillippine Cordillera, Ma. Luisa Aguilar-Cariño

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

No abstract provided.


Philippine Indigenous Aesthetics, David B. Baradas May 2012

Philippine Indigenous Aesthetics, David B. Baradas

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

No abstract provided.


The Economics Of Pre-Hispanic Visayan Slave Raiding, Henry M. Schwalbenberg May 2012

The Economics Of Pre-Hispanic Visayan Slave Raiding, Henry M. Schwalbenberg

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

No abstract provided.


Evaluating Vegetation Response To Water Stress Using Close-Range And Satellite Remote Sensing, Sharmistha Swain May 2012

Evaluating Vegetation Response To Water Stress Using Close-Range And Satellite Remote Sensing, Sharmistha Swain

Department of Geography: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Drought is a weather related natural disaster that occurs in virtually all climatic zones of the world. In the last century, almost all parts of the contiguous United States have experienced several prolonged drought events with considerable impacts on the agricultural economy and environment. With changing climates, the droughts are expected to be more severe, longer, and widespread in many parts of the world including sections of the United States. Understanding the response of vegetation to water stress using remote sensing technologies will enhance our ability to detect and monitor drought. This research evaluates the response of vegetation to drought-related …


Volume 49, Number 39: May 16, 2012, University Of North Dakota May 2012

Volume 49, Number 39: May 16, 2012, University Of North Dakota

University Letter Archive

No abstract provided.


Unprecedented View Of N.H. Landscape Is Available From Unh, David Sims May 2012

Unprecedented View Of N.H. Landscape Is Available From Unh, David Sims

Media Relations

No abstract provided.


Mapping Populations At Risk: Improving Spatial Demographic Data For Infectious Disease Modeling And Metric Derivation, Andrew J. Tatem, Susana Adamo, Nita Bharti, Clara R. Burgert, Marcia Castro, Audrey Dorelien, Gunter Fink, Catherine Linard, Mendelsohn John, Livia Montana, Mark R. Montgomery, Andrew Nelson, Abdisalan M. Noor, Deepa Pindolia, Greg Yetman, Deborah Balk May 2012

Mapping Populations At Risk: Improving Spatial Demographic Data For Infectious Disease Modeling And Metric Derivation, Andrew J. Tatem, Susana Adamo, Nita Bharti, Clara R. Burgert, Marcia Castro, Audrey Dorelien, Gunter Fink, Catherine Linard, Mendelsohn John, Livia Montana, Mark R. Montgomery, Andrew Nelson, Abdisalan M. Noor, Deepa Pindolia, Greg Yetman, Deborah Balk

Publications and Research

The use of Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and Geographical Information Systems (GIS) in disease surveys and reporting is becoming increasingly routine, enabling a better understanding of spatial epidemiology and the improvement of surveillance and control strategies. In turn, the greater availability of spatially referenced epidemiological data is driving the rapid expansion of disease mapping and spatial modeling methods, which are becoming increasingly detailed and sophisticated, with rigorous handling of uncertainties. This expansion has, however, not been matched by advancements in the development of spatial datasets of human population distribution that accompany disease maps or spatial models. Where risks are heterogeneous …


Squatter Access To Land In Metro Manila, Ton Van Naerssen May 2012

Squatter Access To Land In Metro Manila, Ton Van Naerssen

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

No abstract provided.


The Indonesian Diaspora And Philippine-Indonesian Relations, Evelyn Tan- Cullamar May 2012

The Indonesian Diaspora And Philippine-Indonesian Relations, Evelyn Tan- Cullamar

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

No abstract provided.


Contributors, No. 1. Volume 41 May 2012

Contributors, No. 1. Volume 41

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

No abstract provided.


Marriage In Philippine-American Fiction, Dolores De Manuel May 2012

Marriage In Philippine-American Fiction, Dolores De Manuel

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

No abstract provided.


Artist Alien Ghost Juggler: Performance Of “Troilus And Cressida” As Graduate Thesis, Vladislav Smolkin May 2012

Artist Alien Ghost Juggler: Performance Of “Troilus And Cressida” As Graduate Thesis, Vladislav Smolkin

Theses and Dissertations

Through an analysis of my adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Troilus and Cressida”, I will deconstruct the artist’s studio within an institution as a paradoxical heterotopic space.


Book Reviews, Criticism Editors May 2012

Book Reviews, Criticism Editors

Criticism

Curiosity: A Cultural History of Early Modern Inquiry (Barbara M. Benedict) (Reviewed by Dennis Todd, Georgetown University)

Ehud’s Dagger: Class Struggle in the English Revolution (James Holstun) (Reviewed by Sharon Achinstein, Oxford University)

Feeding on Infinity: Readings in the Romantic Rhetoric of Internalization (Joshua Wilner) (Reviewed by Alison Hickey, Wellesley College)

Romantic Returns: Superstition, Imagination, History (Deborah Elise White) (Reviewed by Lisa M. Steinman, Reed College)

Irish Classics (Declan Kiberd) (Reviewed by Lauren Onkey, Ball State University)

Dracula’s Crypt: Bram Stoker, Irishness, and the Question of Blood (Joseph Valente) (Reviewed by Carol A. Senf, Georgia Institute of Technology)

Blake and …


Book Reviews, Criticism Editors May 2012

Book Reviews, Criticism Editors

Criticism

Day Late, Dollar Short: The Next Generation and the New Academy (Ed. Peter C. Herman) (Reviewed by Jerry Herron, Wayne State University)

Jewish Enlightenment in an English Key: Anglo-Jewry’s Construction of Modern Jewish Thought (David B. Ruderman) (Reviewed by Michael Scrivener, Wayne State University)

Beckett and Poststructuralism (Anthony Uhlmann) (Reviewed by Thomas J. Cousineau, Washington College)

The Hieroglyph of Tradition, Freud, Benjamin, Gadamer, Novalis, Kant (Angelika Rauch) (Reviewed by Agne`s Conacher, Queen’s University)

Shakespeare and the Bible (Steven Marx) (Reviewed by Harmonie Loberg, University of South Florida)

Shakespeare Jungle Fever: National-Imperial Re-Visions of Race, Rape, and Sacrifice (Arthur L. Little, …


Rancho Santa Fe Foundation (Rsff) Plan-To-Plan Report, Scott Campbell, Karen Gould, Jessica Hanson York, Susan Pyke, Christy Wilson May 2012

Rancho Santa Fe Foundation (Rsff) Plan-To-Plan Report, Scott Campbell, Karen Gould, Jessica Hanson York, Susan Pyke, Christy Wilson

Strategic Planning

Over the past two months, a USD project team conducted extensive research to inform the strategic planning process of the Rancho Santa Fe Foundation (RSFF). The team identified three key questions that will be important for the RSFF to address as it positions itself for growth. Those questions are: 1) What is the identity of the RSFF, both internally and externally; 2) How should the RSFF define community; and 3) How should the RSFF define growth?


Daily Eastern News: May 15, 2012, Eastern Illinois University May 2012

Daily Eastern News: May 15, 2012, Eastern Illinois University

May

No abstract provided.


The Effects Of State Eitc Expansion On Children’S Health, Reagan A. Baughman May 2012

The Effects Of State Eitc Expansion On Children’S Health, Reagan A. Baughman

Carsey Publications

This brief examines the impact of state-level adoption of Earned Income Tax Credits (EITCs) on a set of health-related outcomes for children, including: (1) health insurance coverage, (2) use of preventive medical and dental care, and (3) health status measures including maternal reports of child health and body mass index. It also considers the possibility that the effect of the EITC on these outcomes may vary depending on where a child lives; families in urban and rural communities have different access to medical care and other resources that promote good health. Author Reagan Baughman reports that the expansion of state …


Indications Of Social Development Of Women In Iraq, Adnan Kadhim Jabbar Al-Sheibani May 2012

Indications Of Social Development Of Women In Iraq, Adnan Kadhim Jabbar Al-Sheibani

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

This study is aiming at presenting the reality of Iraqi women by analyzing the indications of social development in Iraq in order to gain knowledge on the progress achieved in this respect and demonstrate the challenges women face in the fields of education. economics. health and politics. To achieve the objective of the research. The researcher has followed analysis method for the indications of human development for women and


Executive Committee - Agenda, 5/15/2012, Academic Senate May 2012

Executive Committee - Agenda, 5/15/2012, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Agendas

No abstract provided.


The Natural Factors Affecting The Production Of Cotton Crop In Ifaq District For The Period From 2000 To2010, Sebriah Ali Hussein Al-Ubeidi May 2012

The Natural Factors Affecting The Production Of Cotton Crop In Ifaq District For The Period From 2000 To2010, Sebriah Ali Hussein Al-Ubeidi

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

Its very important to study the natural factors that affect farm in all and influence cotton farming in private because of the great importance of cotton that is an essential in wide diet and wear industries. Due to the ability and nature to vary accordingly, it makes that effect on the quality and quantity at farming in each area. way by the farmers to get the best results.


Economic Developments In Antique Province: 1800-1850 Joselito N., Joselito N. Fornier May 2012

Economic Developments In Antique Province: 1800-1850 Joselito N., Joselito N. Fornier

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

No abstract provided.


Procopio Solidum: A Negrense Poet, Regina Garcia-Groyon May 2012

Procopio Solidum: A Negrense Poet, Regina Garcia-Groyon

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

No abstract provided.


Coffee Culture In Dublin: A Brief History, Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire May 2012

Coffee Culture In Dublin: A Brief History, Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire

Articles

This paper discusses the history and development of coffee and coffee houses in Dublin from the 17th century, charting how coffee culture in Dublin appeared, evolved, and stagnated before re-emerging at the beginning of the 21st century, with a remarkable win in the World Barista Championships. The historical links between coffeehouses and media—ranging from print media to electronic and social media—are discussed. In this, the coffee house acts as an informal public gathering space, what urban sociologist Ray Oldenburg calls a “third place,” neither work nor home. These “third places” provide anchors for community life and facilitate and foster broader, …