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Mena And The Internet : Technology And The Democratic Divide., Jason Gainous, Kevin M. Wagner Jan 2014

Mena And The Internet : Technology And The Democratic Divide., Jason Gainous, Kevin M. Wagner

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

No abstract provided.


Seven-Year Responses Of Trees To Experimental Hurricane Effects In A Tropical Rainforest, Puerto Rico, Jess K. Zimmerman, James Aaron Hogan, Aaron B. Shiels, John E. Bithorn, Samuel Matta Carmona, Nicholas Brokaw Jan 2014

Seven-Year Responses Of Trees To Experimental Hurricane Effects In A Tropical Rainforest, Puerto Rico, Jess K. Zimmerman, James Aaron Hogan, Aaron B. Shiels, John E. Bithorn, Samuel Matta Carmona, Nicholas Brokaw

United States Department of Agriculture Wildlife Services: Staff Publications

We experimentally manipulated key components of severe hurricane disturbance, canopy openness and detritus deposition, to determine the independent and interactive effects of these components on tree recruitment, forest structure, and diversity in a wet tropical forest in the Luquillo Experimental Forest, Puerto Rico. Canopy openness was increased by trimming branches, and we manipulated debris by adding or subtracting the trimmed materials to the trimming treatments, in a 2 X 2 factorial design replicated in three blocks. Tree (stems > 1 cm diameter at breast height) responses were measured during the 9-year study, which included at least 1 year of pre-manipulation monitoring. …


Survival Strategies: Doctoral Students’ Perceptions Of Challenges And Coping Methods, Shirley H. Dickerson, Valerie Tharp Byers, Rachel N. Smith, Eunjin Hwang, Kay E. Angrove, Jason I. Chandler, Kelsey M. Christian, Leah Mcalistar-Shields, Stephen P. Thompson, Magdalena A. Denhem, Anthony J. Onwuegbuzie Jan 2014

Survival Strategies: Doctoral Students’ Perceptions Of Challenges And Coping Methods, Shirley H. Dickerson, Valerie Tharp Byers, Rachel N. Smith, Eunjin Hwang, Kay E. Angrove, Jason I. Chandler, Kelsey M. Christian, Leah Mcalistar-Shields, Stephen P. Thompson, Magdalena A. Denhem, Anthony J. Onwuegbuzie

Librarian and Staff Publications

The purpose of this collective case study was to use a critical dialectical pluralistic (CDP) philosophical lens to investigate select doctoral students’ perceptions about the challenges that they encountered while in a doctorate program and the coping strategies that they found effective in mitigating these challenges. A major goal of CDP is to empower research participants maximally by giving them the role of participant-researchers. Participants were 10 doctoral students enrolled at a Tier-II university in the United States, who were selected via convenience sampling. Each student participated in a face-to-face interview with a member of the research team—consistent with a …


Narrowing The Gap Between Rights And Resources: Finding A Role For Law Students In Court-Annexed Resource Centers, Faith Mullen Jan 2014

Narrowing The Gap Between Rights And Resources: Finding A Role For Law Students In Court-Annexed Resource Centers, Faith Mullen

Scholarly Articles

This article relates the experience of law students from The Catholic University of America providing assistance in the Small Claims Resource Center during the past eight years. During this time, the District of Columbia Bar Pro Bono Program has played a pivotal role in the development and the ongoing success of court-annexed resource centers in the District of Columbia. They have recruited law firms and legal services providers (including law school clinics) to staff the resource centers, sought changes in the rules of professional responsibility, and developed intake forms and model pleadings. Their steady oversight, provided by knowledgeable and resourceful …


Interested, But Not Injured: The Compromised Status Of Qui Tam Plaintiffs Under The Amended False Claims Act And The Return Of The Citizen Suit, A.G. Harmon Jan 2014

Interested, But Not Injured: The Compromised Status Of Qui Tam Plaintiffs Under The Amended False Claims Act And The Return Of The Citizen Suit, A.G. Harmon

Scholarly Articles

No abstract provided.


Bridging The Gaps In Property Theory, Adam J. Macleod Jan 2014

Bridging The Gaps In Property Theory, Adam J. Macleod

Scholarly Articles

Though several others can rightly be said to have done as much, no one has done more to rehabilitate the idea of property as a meaningful normative concept than James Penner and Henry Smith. That the two of them have edited a collection together is a substantial reason to read it. That the collection contains contributions from many of the best property theorists is another. The introduction to the book sets the ambitious goal of identifying what needs explaining in the ‘broad space that lies between’ the philosophy of property and scholarship about particular legal doctrines. For anyone interested in …


Quantitative, Qualitative, And Collaborative Methods: Approaching Indigenous Ecological Knowledge Heterogeneity, Jeremy Spoon Jan 2014

Quantitative, Qualitative, And Collaborative Methods: Approaching Indigenous Ecological Knowledge Heterogeneity, Jeremy Spoon

Anthropology Faculty Publications and Presentations

I discuss the use of quantitative, qualitative, and collaborative methods to document and operationalize Indigenous ecological knowledge, using case studies from the Nepalese Himalaya and Great Basin. Both case studies applied results to natural and cultural resource management and interpretation for the public. These approaches attempt to reposition the interview subjects to serve as active contributors to the research and its outcomes. I argue that the study of any body of Indigenous knowledge requires a context-specific methodology and mutually agreed upon processes and outcomes. In the Nepalese Himalaya, I utilized linked quantitative and qualitative methods to understand how tourism influenced …


Controlling For Out-Of-Plane Lumbar Moments During Unidirectional Trunk Efforts: Learning And Reliability Issues Related To Trunk Muscle Activation Estimates, Christian Larivière, Denis Gagnon, Karine Genest Jan 2014

Controlling For Out-Of-Plane Lumbar Moments During Unidirectional Trunk Efforts: Learning And Reliability Issues Related To Trunk Muscle Activation Estimates, Christian Larivière, Denis Gagnon, Karine Genest

Études primaires

No abstract provided.


World Transit Research January 2014 Newsletter, Institute Of Transport Studies, Monash University Jan 2014

World Transit Research January 2014 Newsletter, Institute Of Transport Studies, Monash University

World Transit Research Newsletter

No abstract provided.


World Transit Research November 2014 Newsletter, Institute Of Transport Studies Monash University Jan 2014

World Transit Research November 2014 Newsletter, Institute Of Transport Studies Monash University

World Transit Research Newsletter

No abstract provided.


Comins V. Vanvoorhis, Florida District Court Of Appeals Jan 2014

Comins V. Vanvoorhis, Florida District Court Of Appeals

Historical and Topical Legal Documents

No abstract provided.


Tarantino V. Gawker Media, United States District Court For The Central District Of California Jan 2014

Tarantino V. Gawker Media, United States District Court For The Central District Of California

Historical and Topical Legal Documents

Amended complaint


Flower Mound Dermatology V. Nicole Reed Medical, United States District Court For The Eastern District Of Texas Jan 2014

Flower Mound Dermatology V. Nicole Reed Medical, United States District Court For The Eastern District Of Texas

Historical and Topical Legal Documents

No abstract provided.


Seidman V. Chobani, United States District Court For The Southern District Of New York Jan 2014

Seidman V. Chobani, United States District Court For The Southern District Of New York

Historical and Topical Legal Documents

No abstract provided.


Ross V. Ftc, Supreme Court Of The United States Jan 2014

Ross V. Ftc, Supreme Court Of The United States

Historical and Topical Legal Documents

No abstract provided.


In Re Hulu Privacy Litigation, United States District Court For The Northern District Of California Jan 2014

In Re Hulu Privacy Litigation, United States District Court For The Northern District Of California

Historical and Topical Legal Documents

No abstract provided.


Curry V. Yelp, United States District Court For The Northern District Of California Jan 2014

Curry V. Yelp, United States District Court For The Northern District Of California

Historical and Topical Legal Documents

No abstract provided.


Pdx V. Hardin, California Supreme Court Jan 2014

Pdx V. Hardin, California Supreme Court

Historical and Topical Legal Documents

No abstract provided.


Fox News Network V. Tveyes, United States District Court For The Southern District Of New York Jan 2014

Fox News Network V. Tveyes, United States District Court For The Southern District Of New York

Historical and Topical Legal Documents

No abstract provided.


Demetriades V. Yelp, California Supreme Court Jan 2014

Demetriades V. Yelp, California Supreme Court

Historical and Topical Legal Documents

Petition for review


Mavrix V. Livejournal, United States District Court For The Central District Of California Jan 2014

Mavrix V. Livejournal, United States District Court For The Central District Of California

Historical and Topical Legal Documents

No abstract provided.


Mavrix V. Livejournal, United States District Court For The Central District Of California Jan 2014

Mavrix V. Livejournal, United States District Court For The Central District Of California

Historical and Topical Legal Documents

SUPPLEMENTAL FIRST AMENDED COMPLAINT FOR COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT


Mavrix V. Livejournal, United States District Court For The Central District Of California Jan 2014

Mavrix V. Livejournal, United States District Court For The Central District Of California

Historical and Topical Legal Documents

Civil Minutes from June 12, 2014


Facebook V. Dla Piper, New York Supreme Court Jan 2014

Facebook V. Dla Piper, New York Supreme Court

Historical and Topical Legal Documents

No abstract provided.


Victoria's Secret Stores Brand Management, Inc. V. Cafepress Inc., United States District Court For The Southern District Of Ohio Jan 2014

Victoria's Secret Stores Brand Management, Inc. V. Cafepress Inc., United States District Court For The Southern District Of Ohio

Historical and Topical Legal Documents

No abstract provided.


An Analysis Of Ebrary Academic Complete At Adelphi University, Kimberly R. Abrams Jan 2014

An Analysis Of Ebrary Academic Complete At Adelphi University, Kimberly R. Abrams

Publications and Research

This paper examines the academic and financial value of the ebrary Academic Complete package to the Adelphi University Libraries.


Nonword Repetition Performance Patterns In English - Spanish Bilingual Adults And English And Spanish Monolingual Adults, Nadia Arriazola Flores Jan 2014

Nonword Repetition Performance Patterns In English - Spanish Bilingual Adults And English And Spanish Monolingual Adults, Nadia Arriazola Flores

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

Nonword repetition (NWR) is known to be a less biased measure for assessing language abilities of culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) children (Dollaghan & Campbell, 1998). NWR is used to examine phonological short-term memory mechanisms (also called working memory), because the tasks require the capability to discriminate, store, remember and reproduce phonological sequences (Baddeley, 1989; Braddeley 1974). The purpose of this study was to collect normative data on the NWR performance of bilingual and monolingual adults. This may contribute to the interpretation of performance in bilingual children by providing the standard of adult-like performance. This study examined the performance patterns …


Smart Grids: A Paradigm Shift On Energy Generation And Distribution With The Emergence Of A New Energy Management Business Model, Jesus Alvaro Cardenas Jan 2014

Smart Grids: A Paradigm Shift On Energy Generation And Distribution With The Emergence Of A New Energy Management Business Model, Jesus Alvaro Cardenas

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

An energy and environmental crisis will emerge throughout the world if we continue with our current practices of generation and distribution of electricity. A possible solution to this problem is based on the Smart grid concept, which is heavily influenced by Information and Communication Technology (ICT). Although the electricity industry is mostly regulated, there are global models used as roadmaps for Smart Grids' implementation focusing on technologies and the basic generation-distribution-transmission model. This project aims to further enhance a business model for a future global deployment. It takes into consideration the many factors interacting in this energy provision process, based …


Computationally Efficient Representation Of Statistically Described Material Microstructure For Tractable Forming Simulations, Nicholas Landry Jan 2014

Computationally Efficient Representation Of Statistically Described Material Microstructure For Tractable Forming Simulations, Nicholas Landry

Honors Theses and Capstones

The purpose of this project is to reduce a large statistical distribution of metal microstructure orientations to a manageable distribution to be used in metal forming simulations. Microstructure sensitive simulations at the macro-scale are impractical, because with so many state variables associated with material microstructure data, these simulations are extremely computationally expensive.

The goal was to develop a framework to accurately model plastic material response while repre- senting the material microstructure in a more compact form, reducing 106 or more microstructure orientations to a significantly smaller statistical distribution of representative orientations. This will significantly increase the computational efficiency and make …


Front Cover, Florida Field Naturalist Jan 2014

Front Cover, Florida Field Naturalist

Florida Field Naturalist

No abstract provided.