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A Holistic Approach To Guide Development Of Future Climate Scenarios For Water Resource Applications, Michael J. Puma

Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

Changes in climate are expected to have a substantial impact on water resources. Consequently, numerous hydrologists have studied the widely recognized challenge of using climate-change projections to address questions related to management of future water resources. Significant effort has been invested in formulating methods to overcome the difference in spatial scales between available future climate scenarios and water management needs. While numerous downscaling options exist, resource evaluation for the various approaches is rarely discussed; most assessments are focused on evaluating the skill of different methodologies. In this study, a framework is described that water managers can use 1) to identify …

Intranational Cooperation And Conflict Over Freshwater: Examples From The Western United States, Nathan T. Eidem, Kristel J. Fesler, Aaron T. Wolf

Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

From the Klamath basin in the Pacific Northwest to the Jordan basin in the Middle East, water conflicts can be disruptive, and affect a wide range of stakeholders, often with varying interests. As competition between water users and water use sectors increases, the potential for conflict increases, especially when governing institutions differ ( Jarvis et al. 2005 ). However, research has shown that cooperation is more prevalent than conflict in international river basins ( Wolf 1998 ; Wolf et al. 2003 ). As the demand for water approaches or meets available supply, intranational conflicts may increase ( Postel and Wolf …

Niceshirt.Org-Helping Communities In Need Through The Creation Of A Supportive Fundraising Platform, Skyler A. Rogers

Honors Projects

Presents a business plan for the Nice Shirt company. The Nice Shirt company specializes in creating apparel for fundraising campaigns. The business plan outlines: the apparel industry, the company, concept and products, market for the company's goods, economics, marketing plan, operations and development plan and management team and financials.

Past Answers To Present Problems, Andrew Mccaffrey

Honors Projects

Examines the current governmental and economic problems facing the United States before discussing the United States' moral problems. After discussing the problem, the author offers a prescription to the current problems facing the United States. Following this, the author presents a case study.

Faculty Senate Summarized Minutes, 4/24/2012, Unm Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes, 1920 - 2013

No abstract provided.

A Woman’S World: How Afternoon Tea Defined And Hindered Victorian Middle Class Women, Mary E. Heath

Constructing the Past

I do want to submit an abstract.

The Effects Of Teacher Background, Teacher Preparation, And Support On Attitudes And Expectations Of K-12 Urban Music Educators, Jennifer L. Doyle

Open Access Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of personal and professional background factors, teacher preparation, and support on urban music teacher disposition. Specifically, the study aimed to examine the status of K-12 urban music education; verify the psychometric appropriateness of the researcher-created survey instrument; analyze whether and how teacher disposition varied as a function of background match/mismatch, teacher preparation, and support; and determine what combination of factors best predicted positive teacher Attitudes and high teacher Expectations. The Culturally Relevant Teaching Questionnaire was administered to K-12 public school music educators (N=447) from 17 American metropolitan areas. Results indicated …

2012 April 23

Minutes

No abstract provided.

April 23, 2012, James Madison University

The Breeze, 2010-2019

The Breeze is the student newspaper of James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

Organizational Responsiveness To Anti-Offshoring Institutional Pressures, Shaji Ahmed Khan

Dissertations

This study explores the extent to which organizations are responsive to pressures from institutional constituents against offshoring of information technology and business processes. Drawing on a theoretical framework that integrates institutional and strategic explanations, it proposes that organizational responsiveness to anti-offshoring institutional pressures is a function of both the characteristics of such pressures as well as organizations’ prior success with offshoring. Results based on moderated hierarchical multiple regression analyses on survey data from 84 offshoring client organizations indicate the following. First, both greater organizational expectations of enhanced social legitimacy obtained from compliance and mimetic influences from other organizations led to …

Gop Presidential Candidate Newt Gingrich To Visit Gardner-Webb, Office Of University Communications

Gardner-Webb NewsCenter Archive

GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich will throw out the ceremonial first pitch at the Gardner-Webb University baseball game against North Carolina A&T on Wednesday, April 25 at 2:45 p.m. at John Henry Moss Stadium. The event is one of several Cleveland County stops for Gingrich on Wednesday, including lunch with the Kings Mountain GOP at the Cherokee Street Tavern in Kings Mountain, and a visit to Thomas Jefferson Classical Academy in Mooresboro. University officials say the event does not represent the University’s endorsement of Gingrich’s candidacy.

Looking For A Diverse Teacher Force, Guy Trainin, William England, Britney Tonniges

Research and Evaluation in Education, Technology, Art, and Design

At some point over the next 10 to 12 years, the nation’s public school student body will have no one clear racial or ethnic majority. But the makeup of the nation’s teacher workforce is not keeping up with these changing demographics. At the national level, students of color make up more than 40 percent of the public school population. In contrast, teachers of color—teachers who are not non-Hispanic white—are only 17 percent of the teaching force. (Boser,2011- Teacher Diversity Matters) This infographic presentes a snapshot of the situation in Nebraska 2012.

Whalesong 2012-04-23, Tyler Preston, Mckenzie Dornbirer, Irene Muller, Justin Parish, Daniel Peterson

Whalesong

No abstract provided.

Korean And American Leadership Styles In Business, Diana Estes

Senior Honors Theses

Korea and the USA have recently proceeded in efforts to become closer trading partners through the passing of the United States-Korea Free Trade Agreement (KORUS) and FTAs. More economic integration calls for a stronger understanding of the influences of each other’s cultures. Whether culture influences leadership style or not will be explored. Major influences include history, philosophy, and religion. The meaning of leadership and the characteristics of both of the cultures will succeed after the discussion of the major facets of culture. The application of the cultures and leadership in a business setting will be evaluated and explored. Sources will …

Lanthorn, Vol. 46, No. 60, April 23, 2012, Grand Valley State University

Volume 46, July 14, 2011 - June 18, 2012

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

Environmental Health News, Georgia Southern University

Biostatistics, Epidemiology & Environmental Health Sciences: News & Publications (2011-2018)

• NOAA Research Grant

An Examination Of Students' Perceptions Of Civic Issues: A Comparison Of 1957 And 2011, Cody Long Lawson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Illuminated by a historical review of trends in educating for citizenship in American social studies classroom, the purpose of this study was to investiagte students' perceptions of civic principles across three domains- democratic values, economic principles, and constitutional rights and responsibilities. To this end, a purposive, nonrandom sample of two hundred 12th grade students from eight high schools in a suburban school district in a Sour=theastern state was drawn and subsequently surveyed using an instrument originally developed during the 1950's by Purdue University researchers. To determine whether there were generational differences in perceptions, the responses of the contemporary sample of …

Investigation Of The Calcification Response Of Foraminifera And Pteropods To High Co2 Environments In The Pleistocene, Paleogene And Cretaceous, M Hart, L Pettit, D Wall-Palmer, J Hall-Spencer, C Smart, A Medina-Sanchez, Rm Prol-Ledesma, R Rodolfo-Metalpa, P Collins

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

No abstract provided.

2012 Undergraduate Research Symposium Abstract Book, Academic Center For Enrichment

Undergraduate Research Symposium Abstract Books

Abstract book from the 2012 Twelfth Annual UMM Undergraduate Research Symposium (URS) which celebrates student scholarly achievement and creative activities.

Nineteenth Annual Uni Csbs Student Research Conference Program, April 21, 2012, University Of Northern Iowa

INSPIRE Student Research & Engagement Conference Programs

A program for the INSPIRE conference where undergraduate and graduate students present their research, internship, volunteer and study abroad experiences, club activities and creative performances.

Caribbean Art In Dialogue: Connecting Narratives In Wrestling With The Image , Marta Fernandez Campa

Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal

No abstract provided.

Histories Of Corporeal Meaning-Making In Kingston's Dancehall, Jeannine Murray-Román

Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal

No abstract provided.

The Politics Of Intimacy In Caribbean Women’S Fiction, April Shemak

Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal

No abstract provided.

Marshall University Music Department Presents The College Of Fine Arts 17th Annual Awards Convocation, April 20, 2012, Marshall University

All Performances

No abstract provided.

Science Faculty Grading Practices On Quantitative Problems: Are Their Values Consistent With Their Practices?, Jeffrey Barney, Jacinta Macinta

Research and Creative Activities Poster Day

Grading practices can send a powerful message to students about what is expected. Research in physics education has identified a misalignment between what college instructors value and their actual scoring of quantitative student solutions. This work identified three values that guide grading decisions: (1) a desire to see students’ reasoning, (2) a readiness to deduct points from solutions with obvious errors and a reluctance to deduct points from solutions that might be correct, and (3) a tendency to assume correct reasoning when solutions are ambiguous. When values are in conflict, the conflict is resolved by placing the burden of proof …

The Tiger Vol. 106 Issue 12 2012-04-20, Clemson University

Tiger Newspapers

No abstract provided.

Revitalized Streets Of San Francisco: A Study Of Redevelopment And Gentrification In Soma And The Mission, Lucy K. Phillips

Scripps Senior Theses

San Francisco's South of Market (SoMa) neighborhood and the Mission District are facing new forms of redevelopment. The deindustrialization of SoMa has posed an opportunity for a 'new model' of gentrification to create a mixed-use, mixed-income neighborhood from an area previously occupied by abandoned warehouses and vacant lots. In the Mission, awareness of the threats of gentrification and increased community participation are fighting to preserve the neighborhood and eliminate displacement. The innovative approaches to urban revitalization in these two neighborhoods demonstrate how redevelopment may occur without gentrification.

Value‐Added Analysis Of 2010 Census Urban/Rural Data For Various Nebraska Geographies, David Drozd

Past Publications

Note: an urbanized area can cross county or state lines but has a minimum of 50,000 people. An urban cluster has at least 2,500 people.

Quantifying Urbanization In Grand Traverse County, Mi, Benjamin T. Roush

Honors Theses

Grand Traverse County, MI has witnessed population growth in the past thirty years, largely because of its popularity as a tourist destination and “wilderness” area in Michigan and around the Great Lakes basin in general. Accordingly, there has been human development and urbanization in the county, particularly around its major community, Traverse City. This paper seeks to quantify that urbanization. This will be done by classification of Landsat 5 – TM imagery collected in 1984 and 2010, utilizing the Gaussian maximum likelihood supervised classification method. After this process, changes in proportions of the various land use types in the county …

Increasing The Youth Vote: Communication Strategies For Nonprofits, Whitney Richards

Communication Honors Theses

No abstract provided.