Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Digital Commons Network™

Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

2014

Discipline
Institution
Keyword
Publication
Publication Type
File Type

Articles 2551 - 2580 of 6272

Full-Text Articles in Entire DC Network

Synoptic And Lake-Effect Classification Of Snowfall In The Lake Michigan Region, Eleanor Delap, Sarah Fingerle, Kaitlyn Heinlein, Allison Young, Craig Clark May 2014

Synoptic And Lake-Effect Classification Of Snowfall In The Lake Michigan Region, Eleanor Delap, Sarah Fingerle, Kaitlyn Heinlein, Allison Young, Craig Clark

Symposium on Research and Creative Expression (SORCE)

This research is part of a broader project that explores the role of Lake Michigan in its regional climatology. Since 1950, the wintertime temperatures have risen, but snowfall amounts have stayed constant. This study explores snowfall events in October and November to see the role that early lake-effect snow has on the constant yearly snowfall average, as well as to see which areas around the lake are most impacted by lake-effect snow. In order to understand the role of lake-effect snow in the regional climatology, this study used the daily weather map archive to focus on the overall synoptic-scale pattern …

Go to article

Interannual And Seasonal Variability Of Tropical Cyclone Genesis In The Northwest Australia Basin, Eleanor Delap, Nathan Kelly, Mallory Row, Zachary Sefcovic, Kevin Goebbert May 2014

Interannual And Seasonal Variability Of Tropical Cyclone Genesis In The Northwest Australia Basin, Eleanor Delap, Nathan Kelly, Mallory Row, Zachary Sefcovic, Kevin Goebbert

Symposium on Research and Creative Expression (SORCE)

Common genesis regions for Tropical Cyclones (TCs) worldwide have been identified, but TC genesis in the Northwest Australian Basin (NWAUS) has not been thoroughly studied. Studies conducted in other TC basins show distinct trends in spatial and temporal patterns of TC genesis, but these trends are largely unknown in the NWAUS. The analysis begins by describing the spatial and temporal distribution of TC genesis points for the region. Then statistical correlations are calculated to connect specific genesis regions, in both space and time, to atmospheric teleconnection patterns such as the IOD, ENSO and NAO. In addition, statistical correlations between TC …

Go to article

Analysis Of Monthly, Seasonal, And Yearly Wind Flow Over The Ometepe Island In Lake Nicaragua, Allison Young, Ricky Cody, Adam Brainard May 2014

Analysis Of Monthly, Seasonal, And Yearly Wind Flow Over The Ometepe Island In Lake Nicaragua, Allison Young, Ricky Cody, Adam Brainard

Symposium on Research and Creative Expression (SORCE)

The health issues on the Ometepe Island in Lake Nicaragua are directly influenced by the open-pit fires inside of homes on the island and the particulates they produce. Understanding the prevailing wind patterns of the area would result in better advice for local homeowners on how to foster natural air flow through their homes and minimize the concentrations of trapped particulates. The purpose of this study is to identify prevailing wind patterns over the island in the monthly, seasonal, and yearly time frames. Due to the limited observations in the island area, the Weather Research and Forecasting model (WRF) was …

Go to article

The Spread Of Country Music To An Urban Setting Seen Through The Spread Of Dance Halls, Karl Walsh May 2014

The Spread Of Country Music To An Urban Setting Seen Through The Spread Of Dance Halls, Karl Walsh

Symposium on Research and Creative Expression (SORCE)

Country music has become one of the most popular genres of music in today's world. A genre that grew out of the rural societies of America, its popularity has spread into the urban setting and has influenced social life there as well. This poses a question about whether country music has a become more popular in an urban/suburban setting versus a rural setting. There has been a large increase in country music's popularity in an urban setting and it is where the genre is becoming more popular. The spread of country music will be represented by country music dance halls …

Go to article

Forecasting And Intercepting The 28 May 2013 Bennington, Ks Tornadic Supercell: A Student Perspective, Kevin Wagner May 2014

Forecasting And Intercepting The 28 May 2013 Bennington, Ks Tornadic Supercell: A Student Perspective, Kevin Wagner

Symposium on Research and Creative Expression (SORCE)

This project examines the 28 May 2013 mesoscale case over north-central Kansas and focuses on the step-by-step process from a student perspective. The project describes the tools, models, parameters, and observations used to determine the focus for the day, including a classic loaded-gun sounding measured and observed by the field team. The decisions made by the team on this day placed them in position to observe an EF-3 tornado near Bennington, Kansas. The main goal of the project is to educate students about how to forecast and safely observe severe weather events through a how-to-guide compiled from experiences in the …

Go to article

Exploration Of Synoptic-Scale Patterns In Early-Season Snowfall Around The Lake Michigan Region, Andrew Vande Guchte, Zachary Sefcovic May 2014

Exploration Of Synoptic-Scale Patterns In Early-Season Snowfall Around The Lake Michigan Region, Andrew Vande Guchte, Zachary Sefcovic

Symposium on Research and Creative Expression (SORCE)

This research is part of a broader project that explores the role of Lake Michigan in the regional snowfall climatology. This study explores the statistics of snowfall through the month of November in the Lake Michigan region. Each November snowfall event was classified by whether it was a synoptic event or a lake-effect snow event. From these classifications, a table of dates and snowfall statistics were compiled for Lake Michigan snowfall events from 1950 to 2012. This table was used in coordination with NCDC netCDF re-analysis files to find relationships between the type of the event and 850-hPa, 500-hPa, and …

Go to article

Beyond The Volcanoes: A Community Partnership For Health In Rural Nicaragua, Claire Simonpietri, Carly Crave, Christina Lundy, Jamielynn Tinkey May 2014

Beyond The Volcanoes: A Community Partnership For Health In Rural Nicaragua, Claire Simonpietri, Carly Crave, Christina Lundy, Jamielynn Tinkey

Symposium on Research and Creative Expression (SORCE)

Background: Health inequities related to gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and geography exist in rural Nicaragua due in part to lack of access to health services. The purpose of this ongoing project is to improve health equity in rural Nicaragua through social transformation using community-based participatory action research. Bronfenbrenner’s ecological model of human development, school health, and primary health care theories provided the framework for this research. Methods: Community-based participatory action research involves six phases: partnership, assessment, planning, implementation, evaluation, and dissemination. In the implementation phase, community residents were randomly selected to participate in the cookstove intervention. Survey data were collected …

Go to article

Up-Scaled Fish Barrier: Vertically Mounted Electrodes Are Economical, Maintainable, Safe, Brandon Benninger May 2014

Up-Scaled Fish Barrier: Vertically Mounted Electrodes Are Economical, Maintainable, Safe, Brandon Benninger

Symposium on Research and Creative Expression (SORCE)

Our Great Lakes are under attack by the invasive Asian carp. If they were to establish themselves in the lakes, it would prove detrimental to the ecosystem, the multi-billion dollar fishing industry, and recreational lake use. They become harmful airborne projectiles when disturbed by watercraft and will starve out native species. My focus is on the $200 million barrier system put in place to stop the migration of these fish. Currently, these fish are being stopped by a massive horizontal electrode fish barrier system located in Romeoville, Illinois. My research was spurred by the amount of problems with the maintenance …

Go to article

Cartographic Representation Of Grain Crops In Al-Rumaitha District, Dawood Jassim Al-Rubaie, Hassan Aday, May God Bless Him May 2014

Cartographic Representation Of Grain Crops In Al-Rumaitha District, Dawood Jassim Al-Rubaie, Hassan Aday, May God Bless Him

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

The purpose of creating agricultural land use maps is to understand the result of the interaction between natural and human factors in the agricultural sector. This allows for the assessment of the current distribution of agricultural land use, as well as highlighting future trends in its development. It also provides a comprehensive overview of the spatial relationships between different land uses, and is important for evaluating human impact on the surrounding environment and for distinguishing different crops at different times of the year. The success of this type of map depends on the balance of its constituent elements, such as …

Go to article

Evaluation Of The Efficiency Of The Paved Road Network Between Urban Centers In Maysan Governorate (A Quantitative Study), Hamid Attia Abdul Hussein Al-Jawrani May 2014

Evaluation Of The Efficiency Of The Paved Road Network Between Urban Centers In Maysan Governorate (A Quantitative Study), Hamid Attia Abdul Hussein Al-Jawrani

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

This study addressed the quantitative analysis of paved roads connecting urban centers in Maysan Governorate. The aim was to quantitatively analyze the road network in Maysan Governorate, as well as to determine its efficiency, density, connectivity, and accessibility. Maysan Governorate is located geographically between latitudes 31.30° and 32.30° North and longitudes 46.30° and 47.30° East. It borders Wasit Governorate to the north, Iran to the east, Basra Governorate to the south, and Dhi Qar Governorate to the west. The area of ​​Maysan Governorate is 16,072 km². It comprises 12 urban centers. The study focused on the quantitative analysis of several …

Go to article

A Content Analysis Of The Chinese Destinations Portrayals In The National Geographic From 1980-2013, Qinran Pan May 2014

A Content Analysis Of The Chinese Destinations Portrayals In The National Geographic From 1980-2013, Qinran Pan

Open Access Theses

With the development of Chinese tourism during the past few decades, China has become one of the top destinations of American travelers. National Geographic Magazine is a representative in foreign destination portrayals. However, there was little research on the portrayal of Chinese destinations in U.S. magazines. This research paper was aimed at providing a consensus of Chinese destination portrayals in National Geographic, using the method of content analysis. All 111 articles in National Geographic from the years 1980 to 2013 were studied, which yielded 896 photographs. The cultural aspect of Chinese destinations was a dominant theme used by most of …

Go to article

Commencement Convocation Program, Usf, Baccalaureates, May 2, 2014, University Of South Florida May 2014

Commencement Convocation Program, Usf, Baccalaureates, May 2, 2014, University Of South Florida

USF Graduation and Convocation Programs

President's Fellow Medallion - Stuart Silverman; Outstanding Graduate - Dazaun Soleyn; King O'Neal Scholars - Katherine Allen, Nicholas Arnal, Adrienne Barrett, Donna Barth, Lisa Bejos, William Bentley, Anesta Boice, Charles Bonfield, Nicholas Gunther, Kristen Hanenian, Avery Johnson, Andrew Krajewski, Stefanie Kwit, Shaina Maldonado, Jolene Neuman, Theresa Novak, Colleen Pascalli, Madison Wahler, and Stephanie Wilson

Go to article

Agenda And Minutes, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg General Education Committee Meeting, May 2, 2014, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. Faculty Senate. General Education Committee May 2014

Agenda And Minutes, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg General Education Committee Meeting, May 2, 2014, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. Faculty Senate. General Education Committee

USF St. Petersburg General Education Committee Meetings

Agenda and minutes from the May 2, 2014, meeting of the General Education Committee of the University of South Florida St. Petersburg's Faculty Senate.

Go to article

Mode, Method, And Medium: The Affordance Of Online Tutorials In The Writing Center, Erik V. Holtz May 2014

Mode, Method, And Medium: The Affordance Of Online Tutorials In The Writing Center, Erik V. Holtz

Honors Scholar Theses

While the body of literature regarding online tutorials in the writing center is growing, researchers seem hesitant to fully endorse, or even commend, online writing tutorials. This seems appropriate for work in communication theory and human-computer interaction; working across a medium may be different, but this could create new and interesting ways of tutoring. This research reports on a comparative analysis of online and in-person tutoring at three different universities, focusing on tutor self-perceptions and on affordances, a concept drawn from systems engineering, human-computer interaction and ecological psychology. Unstructured interviewing is used to create a set of preliminary affordances of …

Go to article

Climate Change Vulnerabilities: Case Studies Of The Maldives And Kenya, Katherine A. Peinhardt May 2014

Climate Change Vulnerabilities: Case Studies Of The Maldives And Kenya, Katherine A. Peinhardt

Honors Scholar Theses

This paper examines the political and social vulnerabilities of climate change, with the use of two salient case studies, the Republic of the Maldives and Kenya as exemplars of effects observed and projected. The susceptibilities for each nation are examined, with unique sensitivities highlighted and common themes synthesized between the two states. Examples of existing conflict, and implications of projected territorial conflict will be discussed. Policy outcomes will also be discussed for the situation of each nation, each with its own set of contextual sensitivities in the face of climatic shifts. Generalized policy options will be proposed for the common …

Go to article

Dodge, Duck, Elude, And Eschew: Fluctuations In American Public Opinion Regarding Intervention In Darfur, Libya, And Syria, Ashley E. V. Palma May 2014

Dodge, Duck, Elude, And Eschew: Fluctuations In American Public Opinion Regarding Intervention In Darfur, Libya, And Syria, Ashley E. V. Palma

Honors Scholar Theses

Since the beginning of the 21st century, the world has suffered through several humanitarian crises. Few have captured the attention and imagination of Americans quite like the crises in Darfur, Libya, and Syria have. As each situation has developed – and the violence in each place has come to light – Americans have spent long hours debating the merits of intervention in each place. Americans seemed to support an intervention in Darfur, had mixed feelings about an intervention in Libya, and opposed intervention in Syria. This thesis asks why the American public has had different reactions to each crisis. …

Go to article

An Analysis Of Municipality-Level Election Results Of The 2012 Presidential Election In New York, Pennsylvania, And Ohio, And Comparison Of These Results To Those From The 2008 Presidential Election, Gregory Naigles May 2014

An Analysis Of Municipality-Level Election Results Of The 2012 Presidential Election In New York, Pennsylvania, And Ohio, And Comparison Of These Results To Those From The 2008 Presidential Election, Gregory Naigles

CLAS: Colby Liberal Arts Symposium

The 2008 and 2012 Presidential elections were both similar and different in many ways. On one hand, the Democratic candidate was the same in both elections, and similar strategies were employed by both sides in the two elections. On the other hand, the candidates formed slightly different coalitions, turnout rates were different, and there were some differences in which states the campaigns chose to focus on. I have analyzed the results of these two elections, particularly the 2012 presidential election, in the three states of New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, in order to try to determine where the election results …

Go to article

Intellectual Property Without Borders? The Effect Of Copyright Exhaustion On Global Commerce, Diepiriye A. Anga May 2014

Intellectual Property Without Borders? The Effect Of Copyright Exhaustion On Global Commerce, Diepiriye A. Anga

Brigham Young University International Law & Management Review

No abstract provided.

Go to article

Impact Of Ethnic Identity On Adaptation To Surgery For Breast Cancer In Hispanic And Non-Hispanic White Women, Devika R. Jutagir May 2014

Impact Of Ethnic Identity On Adaptation To Surgery For Breast Cancer In Hispanic And Non-Hispanic White Women, Devika R. Jutagir

Open Access Theses

Women vary widely in their ability to adapt psychologically and physiologically to the stressors of diagnosis and treatment for breast cancer, and such adaptation may depend on a number of cognitive and cultural individual difference factors. Research has found that women differ in the degree to which they identify with their ethnic group and in the type of strategies they use for coping. These differences have been associated with differences in various aspects of quality of life, psychosocial and physiological adaptation in particular, in women with early stage breast cancer. However, research has yet to clarify the roles of ethnicity, …

Go to article

Commidifying "Islamic Law" In The U.S. Legal Academy, Lena Salaymeh May 2014

Commidifying "Islamic Law" In The U.S. Legal Academy, Lena Salaymeh

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.

Go to article

Advancing National Intellectual Property Policies In A Transnational Context, Marketa Trimble May 2014

Advancing National Intellectual Property Policies In A Transnational Context, Marketa Trimble

Boyd Briefs / Road Scholars

Professor Marketa Trimble presented these materials at the Third International Intellectual Property Scholars Roundtable, which was held at the DePaul University College of Law on May 1, 2014.

Go to article

Volunteers' Cross-Cultural Experience In Tanzania And Zambia, Josephine Elaine Talarski May 2014

Volunteers' Cross-Cultural Experience In Tanzania And Zambia, Josephine Elaine Talarski

Theses & Dissertations

Despite a growing interest in international volunteerism, there is a scarcity of literature concerning returning volunteers’ cross-cultural experience in developing countries. The purpose of the study was to examine the phenomenon of volunteers’ cross-cultural experience of participating in immersion trips to Tanzania and Zambia. The study also explored whether volunteers believed their cross-cultural experience to be life changing. The following research questions were used to guide this study: 1. What motivated volunteers to participate in immersion trips to Tanzania and Zambia? 2. How has the immersion experience changed the volunteers’ beliefs about themselves while engaging in a cross-cultural environment? 3. …

Go to article

Networks Of Military Alliances, Wars, And International Trade, Matthew O. Jackson, Stephen Nei Stephen Nei May 2014

Networks Of Military Alliances, Wars, And International Trade, Matthew O. Jackson, Stephen Nei Stephen Nei

Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei Working Papers

We investigate the role of networks of military alliances in preventing or encouraging wars between groups of countries. A country is vulnerable to attack if some allied group of countries can defeat the defending country and its (remaining) allies based on their collective military strengths. We show that there do not exist any networks which contain no vulnerable countries and that are stable against the pairwise addition of a new alliance as well as against the unilateral deletion of any existing alliance. We then show that economic benefits from international trade provide incentives to form alliances in ways that restore …

Go to article

Testing And Data Recovery Excavations At 11 Native American Archeological Sites Along The U.S. Highway 271 Mount Pleasant Relief Route, Titus County, Texas Volume I, Ross C. Fields, Virginia L. Hatfield, Damon Burden, Eloise Frances Gadus, Michael C. Wilder, Karl W. Kibler May 2014

Testing And Data Recovery Excavations At 11 Native American Archeological Sites Along The U.S. Highway 271 Mount Pleasant Relief Route, Titus County, Texas Volume I, Ross C. Fields, Virginia L. Hatfield, Damon Burden, Eloise Frances Gadus, Michael C. Wilder, Karl W. Kibler

Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State

This report deals with three episodes of archeological work that began in 2005 and concluded in 2010 for the proposed U.S. Highway 271 Mount Pleasant relief route in Titus County, Texas. The early part of the work was done for the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), Environmental Affairs Division. The later part was done for PTP, LP, acting on behalf of Titus County. The work was done to address the requirements of Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act and the Texas Antiquities Code and was governed by the terms of Texas Antiquities Permit Nos. 3786, 4303, and 5495. …

Go to article

The American Compound, Kelley A. Snowden, Perky Beisel May 2014

The American Compound, Kelley A. Snowden, Perky Beisel

CRHR Publications

Scarcely addressed in the literature, the compound has gained broad recognition in the American vernacular as a spatially separate and unique form of settlement. Although largely viewed as a fringe development, compounds have deep roots in the historical development of the American landscape.

Go to article

The American Compound, Kelley A. Snowden, Perky Beisel May 2014

The American Compound, Kelley A. Snowden, Perky Beisel

CRHR: Archaeology

Scarcely addressed in the literature, the compound has gained broad recognition in the American vernacular as a spatially separate and unique form of settlement. Although largely viewed as a fringe development, compounds have deep roots in the historical development of the American landscape.

Go to article

Interannual Variations And Trends In Global Land Surface Phenology Derived From Enhanced Vegetation Index During 1982–2010, Xiaoyang Zhang, Bin Tan, Yunyue Yu May 2014

Interannual Variations And Trends In Global Land Surface Phenology Derived From Enhanced Vegetation Index During 1982–2010, Xiaoyang Zhang, Bin Tan, Yunyue Yu

GSCE Faculty Publications

Land surface phenology is widely retrieved from satellite observations at regional and global scales, and its long-term record has been demonstrated to be a valuable tool for reconstructing past climate variations, monitoring the dynamics of terrestrial ecosystems in response to climate impacts, and predicting biological responses to future climate scenarios. This study detected global land surface phenology from the advanced very high resolution radiometer (AVHRR) and the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data from 1982 to 2010. Based on daily enhanced vegetation index at a spatial resolution of 0.05 degrees, we simulated the seasonal vegetative trajectory for each individual pixel …

Go to article

No One Cried For Help: The Integration Of Groupthink Into Modern Rape Culture, Jourdin Hermann May 2014

No One Cried For Help: The Integration Of Groupthink Into Modern Rape Culture, Jourdin Hermann

Themis: Research Journal of Justice Studies and Forensic Science

Rape symbolizes lost innocence. Many young females increasingly endure sexual violence at the hands of multiple male assailants. Despite the common coupling of group dynamics and rapes, little evidence proposes Irving Janis’s theory of groupthink as one plausible explanation. This paper argues that the two concepts are related; groupthink needs to hold a more prominent position within the sexual violence literature. A case in the small town of Steubenville, Ohio provides the backdrop for investigating how groupthink impacts instances of gang rapes. Integration of the scholarly literature available on groupthink and sexual violence establishes the basis of this research. Janis’s …

Go to article

Mandala Spring/Summer 2014, Center For Southeast Asian Studies May 2014

Mandala Spring/Summer 2014, Center For Southeast Asian Studies

Mandala

No abstract provided.

Go to article

Validation Of Satellite Rainfall Products For Western Uganda., Jeremy E. Diem, Joel N. Hartter, Sadie J. Ryan, Michael W. Palace May 2014

Validation Of Satellite Rainfall Products For Western Uganda., Jeremy E. Diem, Joel N. Hartter, Sadie J. Ryan, Michael W. Palace

Geography

Central equatorial Africa is deficient in long-term, ground-based measurements of rainfall; therefore, the aim of this study is to assess the accuracy of three high-resolution, satellite-based rainfall products in western Uganda for the 2001–10 period. The three products are African Rainfall Climatology, version 2 (ARC2); African Rainfall Estimation Algorithm, version 2 (RFE2); and 3B42 from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission, version 7 (i.e., 3B42v7). Daily rainfall totals from six gauges were used to assess the accuracy of satellite-based rainfall estimates of rainfall days, daily rainfall totals, 10-day rainfall totals, monthly rainfall totals, and seasonal rainfall totals. The northern stations had …

Go to article

First Prev Next Last