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Building Responsive Library Collections With The Getting It System Toolkit, Tim Bowersox, Cyril Oberlander, Kate Pitcher, Mark Sullivan
Building Responsive Library Collections With The Getting It System Toolkit, Tim Bowersox, Cyril Oberlander, Kate Pitcher, Mark Sullivan
IDS Project Press
The Getting It System Toolkit (GIST), a suite of free and open source tools & software, leverages systems to optimize library acquisitions and deselection workflow, reducing the staff time necessary to make informed decisions and process materials. The Toolkit is divided into two functions:
GIST for ILLiad consists of three components that enhance the ILLiad® interlibrary loan request management software: addons, webpage customizations, and the acquisitions manager. All three components may be selectively utilized in ILLiad, for instance, ILLiad web pages may be applied to enhance the end-user request interface to add full-text discovery, or an ILLiad Addon can help …
State-Level Carbon Taxes And The Dormant Commerce Clause: Can Formulary Apportionment Save The World?, Darien Shanske
State-Level Carbon Taxes And The Dormant Commerce Clause: Can Formulary Apportionment Save The World?, Darien Shanske
Chapman Law Review
No abstract provided.
Still More Studies In Rio Grande Valley History, Milo Kearney, Anthony K. Knopp, Antonio Zavaleta
Still More Studies In Rio Grande Valley History, Milo Kearney, Anthony K. Knopp, Antonio Zavaleta
Studies in Rio Grande Valley Regional History Series
Resaca, a poem / Josie Mixon -- Matamoros before the Texas Revolution : becoming Mexico’s pivitol port city on the northern frontier / Craig H. Roell -- The Great Sequoyah Mystery : a cover-up that stretched from the Cumberland Mountains to the Rio Grande Delta (and into Mexico) / Don Clifford -- Immigration to South Texas, 1850-1900 / Thomas Daniel Knight -- Cattle barons and the creation of an empire : a case study of the expansion of the Kennedy Ranch of South Texas / Elmer Sierra, William Yaworsky, and Amy Frazier -- A history of the Brownsville Police Department …
Sea-Ice Melt Co2-Carbonate Chemistry In The Western Arctic Ocean: Meltwater Contributions To Air-Sea Co2 Gas Exchange, Mixed-Layer Properties And Rates Of Net Community Production Under Sea Ice, N. R. Bates, R. Garley, K. E. Frey, K. L. Shake, J. T. Mathis
Sea-Ice Melt Co2-Carbonate Chemistry In The Western Arctic Ocean: Meltwater Contributions To Air-Sea Co2 Gas Exchange, Mixed-Layer Properties And Rates Of Net Community Production Under Sea Ice, N. R. Bates, R. Garley, K. E. Frey, K. L. Shake, J. T. Mathis
Geography
The carbon dioxide (CO2)-carbonate chemistry of sea-ice melt and co-located, contemporaneous seawater has rarely been studied in sea-ice-covered oceans. Here, we describe the CO2-carbonate chemistry of sea-ice melt (both above sea-ice as "melt ponds" and below sea-ice as "interface waters") and mixed-layer properties in the western Arctic Ocean in the early summer of 2010 and 2011. At 19 stations, the salinity (∼0.5 to <6.5), dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC; ∼20 to <550 μmol kg-1) and total alkalinity (TA; ∼30 to <500 μmol kg-1) of above-ice melt pond water was low compared to the co-located underlying mixed layer. The partial pressure of CO2 (pCO2) in these melt ponds was highly variable (∼<10 to >1500 μatm) with the majority of melt ponds acting as potentially strong sources of CO2 to the atmosphere. The pH of melt pond waters was also highly variable ranging from mildly acidic (6.1 to 7) to slightly …
Tropical Pacific Influence On The Source And Transport Of Marine Aerosols To West Antarctica, Alison S. Criscitiello, Sarah B. Das, Kristopher B. Karnauskas, Matthew J. Evans, Karen E. Frey, Ian Joughin, Eric J. Steig, Joseph R. Mcconnell, Brooke Medley
Tropical Pacific Influence On The Source And Transport Of Marine Aerosols To West Antarctica, Alison S. Criscitiello, Sarah B. Das, Kristopher B. Karnauskas, Matthew J. Evans, Karen E. Frey, Ian Joughin, Eric J. Steig, Joseph R. Mcconnell, Brooke Medley
Geography
The climate of West Antarctica is strongly influenced by remote forcing from the tropical Pacific. For example, recent surface warming over West Antarctica reflects atmospheric circulation changes over the Amundsen Sea, driven by an atmospheric Rossby wave response to tropical sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies. Here, it is demonstrated that tropical Pacific SST anomalies also influence the source and transport of marine-derived aerosols to theWest Antarctic Ice Sheet. Using records from four firn cores collected along the Amundsen coast of West Antarctica, the relationship between sea ice-modulated chemical species and large-scale atmospheric variability in the tropical Pacific from 1979 to …
Aspects Of Allegory In Medieval Literature: Monstrous Punishments And Monstrous Women As Symptoms Of A Decaying Society / Social Structure In Tristan, Beowulf, And Piers Plowman, Samantha M. Valcarcel
Aspects Of Allegory In Medieval Literature: Monstrous Punishments And Monstrous Women As Symptoms Of A Decaying Society / Social Structure In Tristan, Beowulf, And Piers Plowman, Samantha M. Valcarcel
Dissertations and Theses
No abstract provided.
The Short Stories Of Jhumpa Lahiri, Stuart Waterman
The Short Stories Of Jhumpa Lahiri, Stuart Waterman
Dissertations and Theses
No abstract provided.
Writing Fanny's Room & Reading Emma's House Jane Austen's Spatial Construction Of A Subjective, Social Self, Brent Chamberlain
Writing Fanny's Room & Reading Emma's House Jane Austen's Spatial Construction Of A Subjective, Social Self, Brent Chamberlain
Dissertations and Theses
No abstract provided.
Assessing The Impact Of International Human Rights Pressures: The Dominican Republic And China, Limer Batista
Assessing The Impact Of International Human Rights Pressures: The Dominican Republic And China, Limer Batista
Dissertations and Theses
No abstract provided.
Renewing The Oyate; Dakota Language And Cultural Revitalization And Commemorations Of The U.S.-Dakota War, 1962-2012, Deborah Edwards-Anderson
Renewing The Oyate; Dakota Language And Cultural Revitalization And Commemorations Of The U.S.-Dakota War, 1962-2012, Deborah Edwards-Anderson
Dissertations and Theses
No abstract provided.
A Briny Crossroads Salt, Slavery, And Sectionalism In The Kanawha Salines, Cyrus Forman
A Briny Crossroads Salt, Slavery, And Sectionalism In The Kanawha Salines, Cyrus Forman
Dissertations and Theses
The Kanawha Salines are a place whose history challenges conventional narratives and popular assumptions about slavery and freedom in the antebellum South. The paradoxical nature of slavery in this locale can be seen in the identity of the first documented people forced to labor in the salt works. A half century before enslaved Africans were imported to this region, European women and their families were kidnapped, enslaved, and marched to the salt mines by Native Americans: “In 1755, the Indians had carried Mary Ingles, her newborn baby, and others as captives....to this spot on the Kanawha to attain a salt …
Reproducing Nicaragua; A Feminist Reading Of Debates Over Motherhood And Abortion Under Sandinista Rule, 1983-1988, Rocio Rayo
Dissertations and Theses
No abstract provided.
Art As Dissent In The Midst Of Mexico's Drug War, Ana Lorena Marron Nozari
Art As Dissent In The Midst Of Mexico's Drug War, Ana Lorena Marron Nozari
Dissertations and Theses
No abstract provided.
Responsibility To Protect; A Questionable Norm, Albana Hykaj
Responsibility To Protect; A Questionable Norm, Albana Hykaj
Dissertations and Theses
No abstract provided.
Racial Gap In Income, Wealth And Asset Allocation Between Ethnic Groups In America, Herby Brutus
Racial Gap In Income, Wealth And Asset Allocation Between Ethnic Groups In America, Herby Brutus
Dissertations and Theses
No abstract provided.
The Status Of Women Under Neoliberal Reform; A Test Of Two Theories, Donnett Lee
The Status Of Women Under Neoliberal Reform; A Test Of Two Theories, Donnett Lee
Dissertations and Theses
No abstract provided.
Assessing The Impact Of International Human Rights Pressures: The Dominican Republic And China, Limer Batista
Assessing The Impact Of International Human Rights Pressures: The Dominican Republic And China, Limer Batista
Dissertations and Theses
Human rights abuses occur regularly around the world, affecting millions of people each year. In the post-World War II era, a human rights movement helped create regional and international human rights regimes. This thesis tries to assess the impact of international human rights pressure on state compliance with international human rights norms and conventions. In investigating the impact of human rights pressure on states, I hypothesize that certain conditions are helpful. The first condition is the absence of a strong public opinion and/or cultural sentiment against what the pressuring entities are trying to achieve. The second condition is dependency: dependent …
Methodological Advancements For Improving Performance And Generating Ensemble Ecological Niche Models, Robert Boria
Methodological Advancements For Improving Performance And Generating Ensemble Ecological Niche Models, Robert Boria
Dissertations and Theses
This study employs spatial filtering of occurrence data with the aim of reducing overfitting to sampling bias in ecological niche models (ENMs). Sampling bias in geographic space leads to localities that may also be biased in environmental space. If so, the model can overfit to those biases. As a preliminary test addressing this issue, we used Maxent, bioclimatic variables, and occurrence localities of a broadly distributed Malagasy tenrec, Microgale cowani (Family Tenrecidae: Subfamily Oryzorictinae). We modeled the abiotically suitable area of this species using three distinct datasets: unfiltered, spatially filtered, and rarefied unfiltered localities. To quantify overfitting and model performance, …
Elephant In The Dark, Eli Samuel
Assessing Satellite Image Data Fusion With Information Theory Metrics, James Cross
Assessing Satellite Image Data Fusion With Information Theory Metrics, James Cross
Dissertations and Theses
A common problem in remote sensing is estimating an image with high spatial and high spectral resolution given separate sources of measurements from satellite instruments, one having each of these desirable properties. This thesis presents a survey of seven families of algorithms which have been developed to provide this common pattern of satellite image data fusion. They are all tested on artificially degraded sets of satellite data from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (“MODIS”) with known ideal results, and evaluated using the commonly accepted data fusion assessment metrics spectral angle mapper (“SAM”) and Erreur Relative Globale Adimensionelle de Synth`ese (“ERGAS”). …
Momentum 2014, Sam Chase
The Research Journey: Travels Across The Idiomatic And Axiomatic Toward A Better Understanding Of Complexity, Katharine A. Mcgowan, Frances Westley, Evan D.G. Fraser, Philip A. Loring, Kathleen C. Weathers, Flor Avelino, Jan Sendzimir, Rinku Roy Chowdhury, Michele Lee Moore
The Research Journey: Travels Across The Idiomatic And Axiomatic Toward A Better Understanding Of Complexity, Katharine A. Mcgowan, Frances Westley, Evan D.G. Fraser, Philip A. Loring, Kathleen C. Weathers, Flor Avelino, Jan Sendzimir, Rinku Roy Chowdhury, Michele Lee Moore
Geography
In this paper, seven researchers reflect on the journeys their research projects have taken when they engage with and synthesize complex problems. These journeys embody an adaptive approach to tackling problems characterized by their interconnectedness and emergence, and that transcend traditional units of analysis such as ecosystems. In this paper we argue that making such a process deliberate and explicit will help researchers better combine different research paradigms such as expert-driven and participant-directed work, thus resulting in both broad explanations and specific phenomenon; research tensions traditionally defined as oppositional must be approached as complimentary. This paper includes researchers’ personal journeys …
Opting-In Online: Participants’ Perceptions Of Knowledge Construction In Public Forum Communities, Jennifer C. Lee
Opting-In Online: Participants’ Perceptions Of Knowledge Construction In Public Forum Communities, Jennifer C. Lee
Open Access Dissertations
This project examines knowledge making and sharing amid special interest forums, specifically, online forums for herp (reptile and amphibian) hobbyists. In doing so, it addresses a gap in rhetoricians’ understanding of publicness: its effect on writing and people’s perceptions thereof. Few studies measure public writing unless its telos is change or activism. Additionally, despite increased rhetorical scholarship focusing on new media, much current research on forums situates them in classroom-based learning and collaboration, neglecting online forums that are open to public access. This project is a naturalistic inquiry using qualitative methods to explore collaborative public writing that occurs in discourse …
Forecasting The Spread Of Raccoon Rabies Using A Purpose-Specific Group Decisionmaking Process, Aaron M. Anderson, Stephanie A. Shwiff, Richard B. Chipman, Todd Atwood, Tyler Cozzens, Frank Fillo, Robert Hale, Brody Hatch, Joanne Maki, Olin E. Rhodes, Erin E. Rees, Charles E. Rupprecht, Rowland Tinline, Kurt C. Vercauteren, Dennis Slate
Forecasting The Spread Of Raccoon Rabies Using A Purpose-Specific Group Decisionmaking Process, Aaron M. Anderson, Stephanie A. Shwiff, Richard B. Chipman, Todd Atwood, Tyler Cozzens, Frank Fillo, Robert Hale, Brody Hatch, Joanne Maki, Olin E. Rhodes, Erin E. Rees, Charles E. Rupprecht, Rowland Tinline, Kurt C. Vercauteren, Dennis Slate
Human–Wildlife Interactions
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and USDA Wildlife Services (WS) have been involved in an oral rabies vaccination (ORV) program for raccoons (Procyon lotor) that has slowed the westward spread of raccoon rabies. The objective of this study was to forecast the spread of the disease if an ORV zone was not maintained. A group decision-making process was designed to address the forecasting problem and was implemented using a group of 15 experts and 4 support personnel at a meeting at the USDA National Wildlife Research Center. Ten expansion regions were constructed that described the spread of …
Valuing Foreign Lives, Arden Rowell, Lesley Wexler
Valuing Foreign Lives, Arden Rowell, Lesley Wexler
Georgia Law Review
Should government actors allocate scarce domestic resources to protect the lives of foreign persons? This Article argues that foreign life valuation poses distinctive psychological, philosophical, social, political, and economic challenges, and analyzes current U.S. practices of foreign life valuation in light of these challenges. After identifying multiple possible methods of foreign life valuation, we suggest that the best default valuation method would allocate domestic resources according to domestic willingness to pay to protect foreign lives.
Micro (Wind) Generation: 'Urban Resource Potential & Impact On Distribution Network Power Quality', Keith Sunderland
Micro (Wind) Generation: 'Urban Resource Potential & Impact On Distribution Network Power Quality', Keith Sunderland
Doctoral
Of the forms of renewable energy available, wind energy is at the forefront of the European (and Irish) green initiative with wind farms supplying a significant proportion of electrical energy demand. This type of distributed generation (DG) represents a ‘paradigm shift’ towards increased decentralisation of energy supply. However, because of the distance of most DG from urban areas where demand is greatest, there is a loss of efficiency. The solution, placing wind energy systems in urban areas, faces significant challenges. The complexities associated with the urban terrain include planning, surface heterogeneity that reduces the available wind resource and technology obstacles …
Beyond Child Welfare - Theories On Child Homelessness, Jessica Dixon Weaver
Beyond Child Welfare - Theories On Child Homelessness, Jessica Dixon Weaver
Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters
According to recent federal data from 2013, the number of children who experience homelessness in the United States has reached an astonishing 2.5 million. Among industrialized nations, America has a one of the highest poverty rates among children, peaking at 22% in 2010. This Article considers why there is an ambivalent and sometimes hostile response to chronic, persistent poverty among families with young children. Various reports on the state of homeless families state that the cause of homelessness is a combination of lack of affordable housing, extreme poverty, decreasing government support, domestic violence, the challenge of raising children alone, and …
What Is Extraterritorial Jurisdiction?, Anthony J. Colangelo
What Is Extraterritorial Jurisdiction?, Anthony J. Colangelo
Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters
The phenomenon of extraterritorial jurisdiction, or the exercise of legal power beyond territorial borders, presents lawyers, courts, and scholars with analytical onions comprising layers of national and international legal issues; as each layer peels away, more issues are revealed. U.S. courts, including the Supreme Court, have increasingly been wrestling this conceptual and doctrinal Hydra. Any legal analysis of extraterritorial jurisdiction leans heavily on the answers to two key definitional questions: What do we mean by “extraterritorial”? And, what do we mean by “jurisdiction”? Because the answer to the first question is often conditional on the answer to the second, the …
Towards Proactive And Flexible Agent-Based Generation Of Policy Packages For Active Transportation, Araz Taeihagh, Rene Bañares-Alcántara
Towards Proactive And Flexible Agent-Based Generation Of Policy Packages For Active Transportation, Araz Taeihagh, Rene Bañares-Alcántara
Research Collection School of Social Sciences
One of the approaches gaining ground in policy design is the implementation of combinations of policy measures as policy packages with the aim of increasing efficiency and effectiveness of the designed policies. In this paper, we describe the recent advancements in the developments of a virtual environment for the exploration and analysis of policy packages. The virtual environment uses an agent-based modelling approach for the generation of different configurations of policy measures in the policy packages. The benefit of using the approach is the proactive and flexible generation of policy packages as the agents can react to the changes that …
Social Innovation In Development: A Call To Break Down Silos, John A. Donaldson, Victoria Gerrard, Sanushka Mudaliar
Social Innovation In Development: A Call To Break Down Silos, John A. Donaldson, Victoria Gerrard, Sanushka Mudaliar
Research Collection School of Social Sciences
What distinguishes “social innovation” from other efforts to address social problems? And why should the answer matter to anyone genuinely interested in social change? The authors offer an in-depth discussion of the possibilities and pitfalls of pursuing social innovation in the context of international development.