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Qualitative And Visualization Methodologies For Modeling Social-Ecological Dimensions Of Regional Water Planning On The Rio Chama, Moises Gonzales, José A. Rivera, J. Jarrett García, Sam Markwell

The Rio Chama Basin: Land, Water and Community

No abstract provided.

“All In” For Composition Education: Opportunities And Challenges For Pre-Service Music Teacher Curricula, John W. Richmond

Glenn Korff School of Music: Faculty Publications

The editors of this volume have asked me to describe our pre-service teacher education program that includes a concentration in music composition education. Naturally, I am pleased and flattered to do so. The considerable journey that we have begun at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) to bring this program into being has been extremely rewarding, occasionally frustrating, and always remarkably challenging. Indeed, it remains rewarding, frustrating, and challenging today.

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This narrative will address the set of practical questions that so often dominate discussions I have had about this curriculum when I have been asked to speak about …

Climate Change Beliefs, Concerns, And Attitudes Toward Adaptation And Mitigation Among Farmers In The Midwestern United States, J. Gordon Arbuckle, Linda Stalker Prokopy, Tonya Haigh, Jon Hobbs, Tricia Knoot, Cody Knutson, Adam Loy, Amber Saylor Mase, Jean Mcguire, Lois Wright Morton, John Tyndall, Melissa Widhalm

National Drought Mitigation Center: Faculty Publications

A February 2012 survey of almost 5,000 farmers across a region of the U.S. that produces more than half of the nation’s corn and soybean revealed that 66% of farmers believed climate change is occurring (8% mostly anthropogenic, 33% equally human and natural, 25% mostly natural), while 31% were uncertain and 3.5% did not believe that climate change is occurring. Results of initial analyses indicate that farmers’ beliefs about climate change and its causes vary considerably, and the relationships between those beliefs, concern about the potential impacts of climate change, and attitudes toward adaptive and mitigative action differ in systematic …

Oracles, Advisers, And Poets Constructing Authority In The Histories Of Herodotus, William Kingdon

Theses & ETDs

Herodotus was a fifth-century writer who produced The Histories. He is considered the "Father of History", and his work is likewise considered the first text of the genre "history". This new genre had to borrow conventions from earlier texts, and also establish new ones. This thesis will make several arguments about those conventions, especially the convention of Herodotus's persistent first-person voice. In the first chapter, close-reading of the text will show that Herodotus uses the authority and knowledge of the Oracle at Delphi as a model for his own authoritative voice. It is argued that Herodotus also models his "wise-advisers" …

Leaving The Homeland On La Jornada Del Muerto The Archaeology Of Tiffany Pueblo, Evan Giomi

Theses & ETDs

The history of the late pre-contact and early Colonial periods along the lower Rio Grande in New Mexico has been poorly studied archaeologically. Without an indigenous occupation after the 1680 Pueblo Revolt, the region has had little academic attention comparative to the histories of the Pueblos along the middle and northern Rio Grande, many of which maintain an indigenous population into the present. Yet, a descendent population of the Piro people who lived in the lower Rio Grande does exists in the present day, centered mainly in El Paso and Ciudad de Juarez. Following developments in indigenous archaeology in the …

"The Black Hills Are Not For Sale" Environmental Justice In Lakota Country, Olivia Brockmeier

Theses & ETDs

From the beginnings of what has been defined as the Environmental Justice Movement in the United States, public attention has been primarily focused on injustices based on race and class involving exposure to polluted air, water, toxic wastes, and dangerous working conditions. Since the 1800's, the Black Hills have been at the center of a bitter dispute between the United States federal government and Native inhabitants of the region. The history of the Black Hills land dispute is intertwined with a history of land dispossession, marginalization, and discriminatory federal policies. For the Lakota and other Native communities to whom the …

The Chilam Balam Of Ixil The Contents And Contexts Of A Colonial Maya Manuscript, Gail Fish

Theses & ETDs

This work is an extended discussion and analysis of the colonial Maya manuscript, the Chilam Balam of Ixil. This manuscript was written in the Yucatec village of Ixil in the late eighteenth century and is a compilation of various sources. Its focus is primarily on astronomy and astrology, both of European and Mesoamerican origin. This research is historically and anthropologically grounded to provide a more holistic view of the work itself. I argue that the Ixil manuscript is analogous to a fixed landscape in which sources from multiple times and places are resituated in a coherent work. This new whole …

Comrade Wolf Knows Whom To Eat Language Policy And Negotiated Boundaries In Regional Russia, Michael Getz

Theses & ETDs

The dissolution of the USSR created an institutional vacuum in which the Russian Federation was formed. During this process, the ethnically defined republics of the nascent federation lobbied for greater sovereignty, partially on the basis of their national distinctness from the Russian ethnicity. Ethnic elites and political entrepreneurs advocated cultural revival movements as a means of assuring the protection of national identities from the forces of cultural assimilation prevalent in a modernizing society. One element of these efforts is the development of national languages, which can be promoted by implementing language policies that address the use of native languages in …

Place And Space In J.R.R. Tolkien's And Peter Jackson's The Lord Of The Rings, Chelsea Corarito

Theses & ETDs

My thesis argues that J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings develops "space" and "place" through character while Peter Jackson's adaptations of the novels craft character through landscapes. I use Michel de Certeau's philosophies on "space" and "place" to discuss the transitory nature of liminal landscapes by comparing the different notions of place created by the Fellowship with those by the supernatural entities. The quest structure and the relationship between character and landscape can be seen in both medieval literature and Tolkien's work. This demonstrates how Tolkien is progressing and advancing the genre of fantasy literature through medieval literary practices. …

Hiding Behaviors In Octopus Joubini Cuvier, Ben King

Theses & ETDs

Octopus joubini is a species of cephalopod that is not well studied because of its relatively small size for an octopus. It is an ideal subject for behavioral research. To further understand how the pygmy octopus interacts with its natural environment, which is inshore sea grass beds, three Octopus joubini were subjected to two choice oriented experiments involving dens. Each octopus was given four different objects in their aquaria to make their dens: a plastic vial, a PVC tube, a flat rock, and half of a bivalve shell. Each octopus chose to live in the PVC tube. Then during a …

The Independence And The Fantasy Negotiating Bohemian Identity In The Fin-De-Siecle Montmartre Cabaret, Andrew Kotick

Theses & ETDs

This thesis examines the establishments known collectively as cabarets-artistiques that emerged and proliferated throughout the Parisian neighborhood of Montmartre at the end of the nineteenth century as a cultural medium for negotiating relations between the bourgeois and bohemian sects of urban society there. It problematizes the self-articulated function of the cabaret as the primary visual and cultural medium for constructing bohemian identity in fin-de-siecle Paris, by interrogating the manifold ways in which it reinforced bourgeois norms and values while ostensibly trying to deconstruct, satirize, and subvert them in an effort to codify the cabaret as bohemian space. The thesis' individual …

If School Is Not For Me, Then It Is Against Me Self-Regulation, Perceived Cognitive Competence And Perceived Social Acceptance In The Preschool Child, Heather Harmon

Theses & ETDs

A sample of 13 preschoolers was interviewed on personal perceptions of cognitive competence and social acceptance, in order to explore correlations between these perceptions and self-regulatory abilities of working memory and inhibitory control. These scores were obtained using the Perceived Competence and Social Acceptance Scale for Preschool and Kindergartners, the Knock-Tap task and a delay of gratification task. A teacher of each child's preschool classroom also completed the Preschool Behavior Questionnaire, which tallied problematic behaviors in the classroom. No significant correlations were found, however a nearly significant negative correlation was found between reported problem behaviors and delay of gratification scores. …

On The Hem Of Heresy, Kyra Berman-Gestring

Theses & ETDs

The exclusive division of public and private realms carries gendered social, political and historical implications. The persisting distinction of "high," masculine, fine art, from "low," feminine, applied craft has normalized patriarchal traditions in the American canon. Feminist interventionism challenges the stereotypical perspective of artist as male, genius and individual and art as non-utilitarian and antisocial. In my exhibition thread, textiles and tactual engagement challenge residual dogmatic conventions. The incorporation of craft traditions invokes historically gendered hierarchies, upsetting boundaries between "high" arts, characterized by concept and aesthetics, and "low" arts, characterized by labor and utility. Using embroidery, quilting and other sewn …

The Queer And The Uncanny In Gothic Literature, Erin Jayes

Theses & ETDs

This thesis focuses on how the word "queer" helps us understand why Gothic fiction is so fluid, indeterminate, and unsettling. I designate a broad definition of the word "queer" based on non-normative sexualities and genders to illustrate the word's flexible definition. I chose novels that have a physical connection between characters that is marked as erotic and dangerous to good British social order. I use Freud's theory of "the uncanny" as a tool to identify the queer elements in these works because it is interested in the repressed, the disoriented, and the rediscovered. The uncanny describes the feeling of disorientation …

The Politicization Of Popular Culture: A Case Study In Reagan And Star Wars, Nathan A. Wingert

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

This project examined the use of Ronald Reagan’s rhetoric, specifically the “Star Wars,” “Zero Option” and “Evil Empire” speeches. It answers the question: Why do we know SDI as Star Wars? It also The rationale for the study came from myriad sources, including the historical and political undertones of the Star Wars films and rhetorical criticism of other Reagan speeches. G. Thomas Goodnight’s analysis linked all three speeches together as a reformulation of wartime rhetoric, so that was the rationale for analyzing three speeches. After performing a rhetorical criticism using Burkean identification as the lens, there are several results: Reagan …

Forking Paths? Matthew Paris, Jorge Luis Borges, And Maps Of The Labyrinth, Asa Simon Mittman

Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture

No abstract provided.

Peregrinations: Journal Of Medieval Art And Architecture (Volume 4, Issue 1)

Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture

No abstract provided.

Mercury Concentrations In Tropical Resident And Migrant Songbirds On Hispaniola, Jason M. Townsend, Christopher C. Rimmer, Charles T. Driscoll, Kent P. Mcfarland, Eduardo E. Inigo-Elias

Civil and Environmental Engineering - All Scholarship

Despite growing concerns over mercury (Hg) exposure to humans and wildlife on a global scale, little is known about Hg bioaccumulation in the New World tropics. From 2005 to 2011, we monitored Hg concentrations in blood of nine avian species occupying a geographic range of tropical wet broadleaf sites on the island of Hispaniola, including eight passerines (two Nearctic- Neotropical migrant and six resident species) and one top order predatory accipiter. Invertivorous songbirds were further differentiated by foraging guild, with six species of groundforagers and two species of foliage-gleaners. Blood Hg concentrations were orders of magnitude higher in birds sampled …

Rights In Transit: Public Transportation And The "Right To The City" In California's East Bay, Kafui Ablode Attoh

Geography and the Environment - Dissertations

In recent years, a number of researchers in geography and in urban studies have taken to the idea of the "right to the city." These scholars have drawn on the idea to frame debates on topics as wide ranging as urban social movements, the regulation of urban public space, to the relationship between cities and citizenship. Implicit in this literature is a conception of the city and of urban space in which political conflict and class struggle are dominating features. This dissertation seeks to add to that discussion by focusing on debates over transit policy in California's East Bay. In …

Spatial Distribution Of G6pd Deficiency Variants Across Malaria-Endemic Regions, Rosalind E. Howes, Mewahyu Dewi, Frederic B. Piel, Wuelton M. Monteiro, Katherine E. Battle, Jane P. Messina, Anavaj Sakuntabhai, Thomas N. Williams, J. Kevin Baird, Simon I. Hay

United States Public Health Resources

Background: Primaquine is essential for malaria control and elimination since it is the only available drug preventing multiple clinical attacks by relapses of Plasmodium vivax. It is also the only therapy against the sexual stages of Plasmodium falciparum infectious to mosquitoes, and is thus useful in preventing malaria transmission. However, the difficulties of diagnosing glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency (G6PDd) greatly hinder primaquine’s widespread use, as this common genetic disorder makes patients susceptible to potentially severe and fatal primaquine-induced haemolysis. The risk of such an outcome varies widely among G6PD gene variants.

Methods: A literature review was conducted to identify surveys of …

Up Moons Grove Road, Jo Brachman

Birmingham Poetry Review

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Economic Value Of Managing Genetics—How To Capture The Value?, Lisa M. Elliott

Range Beef Cow Symposium

Capturing value from managing beef genetic depends on three key complementary components—genetic management, organization design, and market differentiation. Without complementary changes to organization and market differentiation mechanisms, value from better management of beef genetics may not be fully captured, or beef genetics may be undermanaged. The purpose of this paper is to frame the problem of obtaining optimal beef genetic management as identifying, and employing, complementary organization arrangements and market differentiation mechanisms that reduce transaction costs and facilitate greater beef genetic management. The paper concludes with specific recommendations for northern beef producers to improve capturing the value of greater genetic …

University Of Malaya-Kyoto University Secretariat Newsletter, Issue 6, Volume 3, 2013, Malaysia University Of Malaya

Archival Material (2010s)

No abstract provided.

University Of Malaya-Kyoto University Secretariat Newsletter, Issue 7, Volume 3, 2013, Malaysia University Of Malaya

Archival Material (2010s)

No abstract provided.

Bulletin Of The Museum Of Zoology, Volume 1, Issue 3, 2013, Faculty Of Science University Of Malaya

Archival Material (2010s)

No abstract provided.

Genetic Diversity In The Modern Horse Illustrated From Genome-Wide Snp Data, Jessica Lynn Petersen, James R. Mickelson, E. Gus Cothran, Lisa S. Andersson, Jeanette Axelsson, Ernie Bailey, Danika L. Bannasch, Matthew M. Binns, Alexandre S. Borges, Pieter Brama, Artur Da Câmaro Machado, Ottmar Distl, Michela Felicetti, Laura Fox-Clipsham, Kathryn T. Graves, Gérard Guérin, Bianca Haase, Telhisa Hasegawa, Karin Hemmann, Emmeline W. Hill, Tosso Leeb, Gabriella Lindgren, Hannes Lohi, Maria Susana Lopes, Beatrice A. Mcgivney, Sofia Mikko, Nicholas Orr, M. Cecilia T. Penedo, Richard J. Piercy, Marja Raekallio, Stefan Rieder, Knut H. Røed, Maurizio Silvestrelli, June Swinburne, Teruaki Tozaki, Mark Vaudin, Claire M. Wade, Molly E. Mccue

Department of Animal Science: Faculty Publications

Horses were domesticated from the Eurasian steppes 5,000–6,000 years ago. Since then, the use of horses for transportation, warfare, and agriculture, as well as selection for desired traits and fitness, has resulted in diverse populations distributed across the world, many of which have become or are in the process of becoming formally organized into closed, breeding populations (breeds). This report describes the use of a genome-wide set of autosomal SNPs and 814 horses from 36 breeds to provide the first detailed description of equine breed diversity. F_ST calculations, parsimony, and distance analysis demonstrated relationships among the breeds that largely …

The Consequences Of Consequentialist Criteria, Nicholas Stephanopoulos

Articles

No abstract provided.

On The Interpretability Of Law: Lessons From The Decoding Of National Constitutions, Tom Ginsburg, James Melton, Zachary Elkins, Kalev Leetaru

Articles

No abstract provided.

Policing Immigration, Thomas J. Miles, Adam B. Cox

Articles

No abstract provided.

Innovation In China: Fragmentation, Structured Uncertainty, And Technology Standards, Michael Murphree, Dan Breznitz

Cardozo Law Review de•novo

This Article discusses the history of China’s attempts to develop indigenous technology standards. A case study is presented on China’s attempts to develop digital optical storage media standards, the failure of which we attribute to fragmentation of production and structured uncertainty in China’s economy. Despite the market failures of China’s domestic standards development efforts, we conclude by highlighting some of the appurtenant benefits they produce for Chinese manufacturers.