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Building Social Capital Through Events: Some Insights From The Gathering, Ziene Mottiar, Bernadette Quinn, Theresa Ryan

Conference papers

No abstract provided.

The Intersection Between Urban Agriculture And Form-Based Zoning: A Return To Traditional Planning Techniques, Joshua Yellin

UC Law Environmental Journal

No abstract provided.

Food: A Human Rights Issue Ignored In Sociology, Kathryn Strother Ratcliff, Trisha Tiamzon

Societies Without Borders

Mainstream sociology, including the sociology of health, has been remiss by ignoring food as an important human right both in the United States and globally. This article documents the neglect of food as a topic of sociological inquiry and argues for the centrality of a sociological lens in understanding food as a human right. Sociological ideas are important in understanding forces which have encouraged the globalization of food production and distribution, decreased the equality of access to nutritious food, and threatened core human rights. Sociologists as teachers and researchers need to become academic activists on this important human rights topic.

Adapting School-Based Substance Use Prevention Curriculum Through Cultural Grounding: A Review And Exemplar Of Adaptation Processes For Rural Schools, Margaret Colby, Michael L. Hecht, Michelle Miller-Day, Janice L. Krieger, Amy K. Syvertsen, John W. Graham, Jonathan Pettigrew

Communication Faculty Articles and Research

A central challenge facing twenty-first century community-based researchers and prevention scientists is curriculum adaptation processes. While early prevention efforts sought to develop effective programs, taking programs to scale implies that they will be adapted, especially as programs are implemented with populations other than those with whom they were developed or tested. The principle of cultural grounding, which argues that health message adaptation should be informed by knowledge of the target population and by cultural insiders, provides a theoretical rational for cultural regrounding and presents an illustrative case of methods used to reground the keepin’ it REAL substance use prevention curriculum …

Website: 2013 Colby College Undergraduate Research Symposium, Colby College

Undergraduate Research Symposium (UGRS)

Colby College Undergraduate Research Symposium 2013 Website

Contents:

Keynote Speaker

Schedule - Wednesday

Schedule - Thursday

Schedule - Friday

Poster Program

Associated Sessions

Abstracts

Honors Program

Participating Departments/Programs

The Effect Of Visual Wulst Lesions And Trigeminal Nerve Sectioning On The Discrimination Of Magnetic Inclination In The Homing Pigeon (Columba Livia), Merissa Acerbi

Honors Projects

The ability of homing pigeons to return to their loft from unknown places has fascinated scientists for centuries. It is well established that homing pigeons, like migratory birds, posses an innate magnetic inclination compass to determine direction by measuring the angle between the magnetic field vector and the Earth's surface. Recent work has indicated that the avian magnetic compass is light mediated and appears to mediate magnetic information to the brain. This occurs via a visual pathway with processing in the visual Wulst area of the forebrain. There is, however, also evidence from other avian species that magnetic direction may …

Situating Neogeography, Matthew W. Wilson, Mark Graham

Geography Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Political Applications Of The Geoweb: Citizen Redistricting, Jeremy W. Crampton

Geography Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Charter Schools In The Twin Cities: 2013 Update, Institute On Metropolitan Opportunity

Studies

This report uses 2012-13 data and shows that charters are still much more likely to be segregated than their traditional counterparts.

Global Kentucky (Winter 2013), University Of Kentucky International Center

Global Kentucky

No abstract provided.

Cyber-Conflict, Cyber-Crime, And Cyber-Espionage, David Weissbrodt

Articles

Computers and the Internet have changed and are continuing to change the way governments, militaries, businesses, and other organs of society manage their activities. While computers can improve efficiency, they are vulnerable to cyber-attack, cyber-crime, and cyber-espionage. 1 The international community, states, and businesses are still adapting to the unique set of challenges posed by cyber-attack, cyber-crime, and cyber-espionage. States are creating military operations that specialize in cyber-attack and defense to adapt to these relatively new threats to national security operations. 2

Cutr Connections [January 2013], Cutr

CUTR Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Crimean Rhetorical Sovereignty: Resisting A Deportation Of Identity, Christian Berry

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

On a small contested part of the world, the peninsula of Crimea, once a part of the former Soviet Union, lives a people who have endured genocide and who have struggled to etch out an identity in a land once their own. They are the Crimean Tatar. Even their name, an exonym promoting the Crimeans’ “peripheral status” (Powell) and their ensuing “cultural schizophrenia” (Vizenor), bears witness to the otherization they have withstood throughout centuries. However, despite attempts to relegate them to the history books, Crimeans are alive and well in the “motherland,” but not without some difficulty. Having been forced …

Home Gardens As Transported Landscapes: Ethnobotanical Encounters With Southeast Asian- American Horticulturists, Lauren A. Munim

USF St. Petersburg campus Honors Program Theses (Undergraduate)

This research examines the belief systems, knowledge base and practice of Southeast Asian-Americans residing on the West Coast of Florida. The importance of traditional ecological knowledge in the cultivation of home gardens as relocated venues for cultural preservation of migrant horticulturalists is illustrated. Data collection methods include: participant observations, semi-structured interviews, geospatial mapping, and identification of key food and medicinal plant species. Home gardens serve as reconstructed landscapes for immigrant populations by stimulating cultural preservation of plants used in traditional healing, thus space providing a venue for the intergenerational transfer of traditional knowledge. Transported landscapes require traditional ecological knowledge regarding …

The Big Watermelon: A Cultural History Of Florida's Brooksville Ridge, Douglas E. Ponticos

USF St. Petersburg campus Master's Theses (Graduate)

The Brooksville Ridge has long been the dominant cultural landscape of westcentral Florida. Though rarely used as a cultural designation today, the region’s landscapes continue to unify a people. More than simply an environmental or geologic region, the Brooksville Ridge was born in a period of colonialism and exuberant extraction for distant markets. Before the Ridge, west-central Florida landscapes, such as Amasura and Withlacoochee, were defined predominantly by local and regional needs. This thesis uses a number of primary and secondary documents to trace the changing cultural landscapes of west-central Florida, from pre-Columbian and Seminole landscapes to the rise of …

Gardening As Ethnographic Research: Volunteering As A Means For Community Access, Andrew Flachs

Journal of Ecological Anthropology

This paper shows the ways that ethnographers can develop a more effective qualitative understanding of community gardens by volunteering as gardeners. It explains how volunteering helps gain access to different facets of the garden community. Ultimately, it shows that volunteering can provide an anthropological perspective on the idea, prevalent in the literature, that many people join community gardens only for the economic benefits.

Remapping Bolivia: Resources, Territory, And Indigeneity In A Plurinational State, Maryann Cairns

Journal of Ecological Anthropology

No abstract provided.

Inter-American War Game, Wargaming Department, Shawn W. Burns, Dustin Martin, Keith Powell

Game Reports

The 2013 Inter-American War Game (IAWG) was hosted by the U.S. Naval War College. The IAWG is intended to provide an opportunity for professional exchange of views among maritime war colleges in the Western Hemisphere, ultimately to enhance multinational cooperation among our maritime forces.

The 2013 IAWG was organized into an on-line planning phase in Feb 2013, an on- line execution phase in May 2013, and Closing Conference analysis phase in Aug 2013.

IAWG countries include: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, United States, Uruguay, and Venezuela. Invitations were to participate were provided to …

Bringing Sustainability Programs To Usfsp., Anna Lewis, Karin Braunsberger, Leon Hardy, Richard Ferner, David O'Neill, Sharon Joy Kleitsch, Frederick Bennett, Daphne Lambright, Debra T. Sinclair, Aaron Wasserman, Catherine Wonders, Kevin Blossfeld, Lauren Reilly, Usfsp Sustainability Work Group

USF St. Petersburg Campus Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Leroy Collins And Legislative Interposition : A Portrait Of Emerging Moderation In Gubernatorial Politics, James Anthony Schnur

USF St. Petersburg Campus Faculty Publications

Paper written by Schnur for a research project with Gary R. Mormino that received the 1989 President's Prize (later renamed the Carolyn Mays Brevard Award for best undergraduate in Florida history) from the Florida Historical Society. Also included is information about the award; correspondence relating to the award; publicity; and materials about Schnur offering public programs on LeRoy Collins at USFSP on 18 April 1990 for the Campus Lecture Series and on 22 June 1991 at the Grace Allen Room, Special Collections, USF Tampa Library, for the First Annual LeRoy Collins Memorial Lecture, co-sponsored by the Tampa Historical Society and …

Litigation's Regulatory Pathways And The Administrative State: Lessons From U.S. And Australian Climate Change Governance, Hari Osofsky, Jacqueline Peel

Articles

The administrative state struggles to address massive, complex problems such as ameliorating the financial crisis, preventing terrorism, or responding to climate change. These problems cut across levels of government — local, state, national, international — and substantive areas of law. Yet our governance structures, for the most part, are not designed to deal well with issues that involve multiple types of governance authority and institutions. A burgeoning literature by leading U.S. scholars describes this problem and proposes solutions. These analyses often include some case law, but their primary focus has been on the legislative and executive branches in the United …

Penetration Of Uv-Visible Solar Radiation In The Global Oceans: Insights From Ocean Color Remote Sensing, Zhongping Lee, Chuanmin Hu, Shaoling Shang, Keping Du, Marlon Lewis, Robert Arnone, Robert Brewin

Marine Science Faculty Publications

Penetration of solar radiation in the ocean is determined by the attenuation coefficient (K_d(λ)). Following radiative transfer theory, K_d is a function of angular distribution of incident light and water's absorption and backscattering coefficients. Because these optical products are now generated routinely from satellite measurements, it is logical to evolve the empirical K_d to a semianalytical K_d that is not only spectrally flexible, but also the sun-angle effect is accounted for explicitly. Here, the semianalytical model developed in Lee et al. (2005b) is revised to account for the shift of phase …

Combating Violence Against Women Through C4d: The “Use Your Voice” Campaign And Its Implications On Audience-Citizens In Papua New Guinea, Vipul Khosla, Akina Mikami, Lauren B. Frank, Isabel Popal, Klara Debeljak, Amelia Shaw

Communication Faculty Publications and Presentations

Violence against women (VAW) is universally identified as a barrier to legal, social, political, and economic equality for women, violating their rights and fundamental freedoms. This article brings together existing literature and empirical research on addressing such violence in Papua New Guinea (PNG), providing results that can inform future work in this area. The literature review examines the causes of violence against women and the role that communication for development (C4D) can play in addressing these issues. The Use Your Voice campaign was implemented in PNG in late 2011 in an effort to promote speaking out against violence and displace …

Linking Disability Rights And Democracy: Insights From Brazil, Lyusyena Kirakosyan

Societies Without Borders

This article explores the purport and portent of the 2006 United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) for disabled Brazilians. The analysis proceeds in three stages. First, it traces the evolution of the Convention as the culmination of a 30-year dialogue between the UN, governments and civil society organizations worldwide. As a legally binding instrument, the UNCRPD enables disabled citizens and interested civil society organizations to hold signatory states accountable for the protection and furtherance of disability rights. Second, the article examines how the Brazilian government came to adopt the Convention and how it has implemented …

Negotiating Uncertainty In The Right To Asylee Status, Erin Rider

Societies Without Borders

The asylum system regards asylum seekers as actors with privilege and resources, and expects them to present sound cases documenting their rights to asylee status. However, the asylum system fails to consider the lack of autonomy of asylum seekers, as they must manage trauma, lack of resources, new host societies, and the asylum process. Based on interviews (n=14) with asylum seekers, general findings reveal that inherent barriers within the asylum system position asylum seekers into a context of insecurity that undermines their agency and ability to achieve asylee status. The examination of asylum seekers interacting with the United States asylum …

Mexicans In New York City, Luis F. Nuno

Societies Without Borders

New York City witnessed a substantial growth of Mexican immigration in the postCold War Era. This paper reviews the research literature on these changes across the urban landscape in light of the sociology of human rights in the contemporary era criminalizing migration. The number of births to Mexican mothers in New York City’s hospitals between 1985-2006 documents a near ten times growth in the number of Mexican American babies born in New York City for the twenty-year period between 1985-2005. Additionally, ethnographic data examine the lived experiences of Mexican immigrants in New York City during this era. The research offers …

All Your Base Are Belong To Me! The Relation Of Personality, Sociability, And Addiction In The Virtual Place, Christopher Pollman

Theses & ETDs

The growing popularity of multiplayer video games and online communication has introduced a whole new virtual place for human communication and social activity. Video games in particular have very unique social dynamics involving their virtual space. Unfortunately not very much psychological research has been devoted to understanding and analyzing in-game behavior and how it relates to the player. In the current study, 272 participants recruited from an online gaming forum were given a questionnaire including a measure of in-game sociability, a slightly modified version of the Experiences in Close Relationships Short-form scale (ECR-S), as well as a measure of video …

End Of Life Of Electronic Devices, Hanë Jahiu

Theses and Dissertations

Considering that an electronic recycling system is a cost-benefit controlled management process that utilizes end-of-life/surplus electronic devices as resource to recover the greatest return from the materials at the lowest possible cost while complying with applicable environmental laws and regulations.

Knowing that Kosovo has economic problems and it is very necessary to make electronic equipment recycling.

Considering that electronic equipment contain substances harmful to the environment and human health is necessary to make electronic equipment recycling.

Kosovo is a country that claims state to join the EU, one of the conditions is that Kosovo must find solution about waste management …

Powering The Tap Dry: Regulatory Alternatives For The Energy-Water Nexus, Amy Hardberger

Faculty Articles

Water and energy are indivisibly linked and interwoven into every aspect of our culture and lifestyle. Large quantities of water are required to generate energy, and energy is required at all stages of the water supply process. Population growth and corresponding demand create significant community consequences including energy blackouts and water shortages. In order to help avoid these unintended consequences, appropriate planning must be done on the local, state, and federal level.

A critical first step in achieving better sustainability is understanding the quantifying relationship between energy and water. This relationship needs to be recognized by both the power and …

Burchard Of Mount Sion And The Holy Land, Ingrid Baumgärtner

Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture

No abstract provided.