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Brushfire, Ariel Gordon

The Goose

“Brushfire” concerns itself with how people use urban forests, from indecent exposure to poaching to teenage drinking party-bonfires that get out of control. Though it could be construed as a manifesto on walking-in-the-woods, it also touches on some of the conflicts inherent in urban/nature experiences.

Ekosistem Hutan Pegunungan Bawah Taman Nasional Bantimurung Bulusaraung: Hotspot Keanekaragaman Hayati Burung Dan Manajemen Konservasinya, Indra A.S.L.P. Putri

Jurnal Penelitian Kehutanan Wallacea

Hutan pegunungan bawah dikenal sebagai salah satu hotspot keanekaragaman hayati. Namun informasi mengenai keanekaragaman hayati burung yang terdapat di ekosistem ini tergolong masih sangat minim. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk memperoleh informasi ilmiah mengenai ekosistem hutan pegunungan bawah yang kaya akan keanekaragaman hayati burung dan manajemen konservasinya. Pengumpulan data keanekaragaman burung dilakukan di tiga lokasi ekosistem hutan pegunungan bawah Taman Nasional Bantimurung Bulusaraung (TN Babul) dan dilakukan dengan menggunakan metode count point. Analisis data dilakukan dengan menggunakan indeks keanekaragaman jenis Shannon-Weiner, indeks kemerataan jenis Pielou, indeks dominasi Simpson, indeks kekayaan jenis Margalef dan indeks kesamaan jenis Sorensen. Beda nyata pada populasi …

Admissions Report - Detailed Data - August 2015, Office Of Institutional Research & Effectiveness, Wright State University

Admissions Reports

Detailed report of applicants to Wright State including data on county of residency, intended major, and ethnicity for Fall Semester 2015.

Tacit Cultural Knowledge: An Instrumental Qualitative Case Study Of Mixed Methods Research In South Africa, Debra Rena Miller

College of Education and Human Sciences: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Notwithstanding the dramatic expansion of mixed methods research, research methodologies, methods, and findings are culturally situated. Problematically, studies conducted outside the global north often embrace canonical methodologies aimed at understanding concepts more explicit than tacit. Learning about the needs of researchers and participants in South Africa may bring to light taken-for-granted assumptions in Anglo-American orientations of mixed methods. Hence, the purpose of this study is to explore aspects of tacit cultural knowledge that contextualize mixed methods research in South Africa.

In-person interviews among South African professors as well as a corpus of books, sections, journal articles, and theses informed the …

Eleven Tenure-Track Professors And One Tenured Professor Join Macalester Faculty This Fall, Macalester College

College Press Releases

No abstract provided.

Payment Habits Of Rural Population In Poland: Barriers And Challenges For The Financial Services System, Michał Soliwoda

European Management Studies

Socio-demographic features differentiated significantly habits of users of financial services, thus allowing a partial segmentation. The aim of the study is to diagnose and identify barriers and challenges facing the system of financial services in Poland – in the context of the prevalence of non-cash payment services among the rural population. We put emphasis on the presentation of potential models for the development of cashless payments in the country. Consumers of financial services in rural areas are accustomed to the “traditional” methods of cash withdrawals. It is less popular to take cash from an ATM. The proportion of population using …

Use Of Social Media As A Virtual Community And Support Group By Left Ventricular Assist Device (Lvad) Patients, Bryan Boling, Amanda Hart, Chizimuzo T.C. Okoli, Tamra Halcomb, Peggy El-Mallakh

The VAD Journal

Abstract

Background

Left ventricular assist device (LVAD) patients may benefit from participating in a social support group; however, several factors may limit the availability of these communities. Alternatively, online social support communities may be more accessible for LVAD patients. No studies have examined patterns and reasons for health-related social media use among people with LVADs

Methods

An online survey of patients actively participating in LVAD social media groups was conducted using both multiple choice and open-ended questions.

Results

Thirty-nine participants (65% male) completed the survey. Participants’ reasons for weekly engagement in online communities were to seek (69.2%) and offer (66.7%) …

Situational Crime Prevention And Worldwide Piracy: A Cross‑Continent Analysis, Jon M. Shane, Eric Piza, Marissa Mandala

Publications and Research

Relying on situational crime prevention perspective, this study compares successful and unsuccessful pirate attacks reported to the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) from the year 2000 through 2013 (n = 4,902). The study builds upon the recent work of Shane and Magnuson in Justice Quarterly, pp 1–26 (2014), which found various SCP techniques effectively prevented piracy attacks on a global level. The current study builds upon these findings by testing whether the global effect of SCP is consistent across individual continents. A series of mixed-effects logistic regression models and follow-up likelihood ratio tests were incorporated to explore the research question. In …

Race And The Death Penalty: An Empirical Assessment Of First Degree Murder Convictions In Tennessee After Gregg V. Georgia, Hemant Sharma, John M. Scheb Ii, David J. Houston, Kristin Wagers

Tennessee Journal of Race, Gender, & Social Justice

No abstract provided.

The Un As Good Samaritan: Immunity And Responsibility, Kristen Boon

Chicago Journal of International Law

Since the United Nation’s founding, its need for immunity from the jurisdiction of member states courts has been understood as necessary to achieve its purposes. Immunities, however, conflict with an individual’s right to a remedy and the law’s ordinary principles of responsibility for causing harm. This inherent conflict at the center of the immunity doctrine has evolved into a very public rift in the Haiti Cholera, Kosovo Lead Poisoning, and Mothers of Srebrenica cases against the United Nations.

In these three cases alleging mass torts by the UN, the independence of the organization is perceived by some to have trumped …

Media Literacy In Teacher Education: A Good Fit Across The Curriculum, Jessica Meehan, Brandi Ray, Sunny Wells, Amanda Walker, Gretchen Schwarz

Journal of Media Literacy Education

Abstract

Current preoccupations in teacher education reform include data gathering, teaching technique, and preparing PK-12 students for standardized tests. The purpose of American education has been reduced to economic benefit. Concerns with ethical behavior, the good life, and democratic citizenship have fallen by the wayside except perhaps in a single social foundations course. Media literacy education infused in the teacher education curriculum offers one way to restore purpose to teacher education, encouraging both pre-service teachers and their students to think critically about their media-dominated society.

Soviet Cineclubs: Baranov’S Film/Media Education Model, Alexander Fedorov, Elizaveta Friesem

Journal of Media Literacy Education

In this paper we discuss a historical form of media literacy education that is still insufficiently explored in English-language literature: Soviet cineclubs. We focus on one particular cineclub that was created by a Soviet educator Oleg Baranov in the 1950s. We admit that Baranov’s teaching practices might have been rooted in and shaped by ideological requirements of the time. However, we believe that the structure of his model can be used as an inspiration for a media literacy club in today’s schools.

Assessment Variability Among States In Determining Part C Eligibility Criteria, April Siktar

Theses and Dissertations

Early intervention (EI), known as Part C, is an integral component of providing young children with individualized attention that enriches their development. The EI services are provided to children zero to two years old that are deemed eligible by specific diagnosis, clinical opinion, or based on assessment scores. States have flexibility on which assessments should be used and the qualifications of the examiner. The variations among states and districts can have implications on who is eligible to receive services throughout the country. The purpose of this study is to investigate the assessments and examiner's qualification in each state. The ongoing …

Gender And Capital Punishment: The Case Of Gaile Owens, Jenna Brashear

Kaleidoscope

The United States’ use of capital punishment is a practice oft-debated in many disciplines, but the gender imbalance of the death penalty in favor of women makes feminists one group hesitant to discuss the practice. Although females account for one in ten murder arrests, they are only one percent of the criminals actually executed. This paper examines the implications of capital punishment for women, and attempts to explain why women are executed at a disproportionately low rate. Trends that emerge include institutional structures, such as aggravating or mitigating factors, which are constructed in a manner that dictates the severest punishments …

Do Demographics Trump Party Loyalty?: A Study Of Legislative Representation, Catherine Soliman

Political Analysis

No abstract provided.

Object-Oriented Interindustry Systems: Proof Of Concept, Péter Járosi, Randall Jackson

Regional Research Institute Technical Documents

This document provides a proof-of-concept demonstration of an object-oriented approach to modeling an inter-industry system. The example framework uses a small CGE model based on a three-sector social accounting matrix (SAM). The economy is shocked by changing total factor of productivity in the production function, the new equilibrium is determined in classical CGE fashion, and the original SAM is updated to conform to the new equilibrium solution. In this way, the efficiency of the Object-oriented modeling (OOM) approach can be emphasized in the context of the computational simulations of interindustry systems by a simplified CGE example written in Python. Since …

Mph Principles Of Public Health: Powerpoint: Formulating Questions, Jonathan Eldredge

Principles of Public Health 2010-2017

No abstract provided.

Quantifying Undisturbed Land In Minnesota's Prairie Coteau And Lac Qui Parle Valley Regions, Pete Bauman, Ben Carlson, Tanner Butler

Quantifying Undisturbed Lands in MInnesota's Prairie Coteau and Lac qui Parle Valley Regions

We employed simple GIS methods utilizing the Minnesota Farm Service Agency’s Common Land Unit (CLU) cropland data layer from 2013, along with 2013 USDA National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) county mosaic aerial imagery, to evaluate over 5 million acres of land in 14 southwest Minnesota counties, including all or portions of 10 counties within the Minnesota portion of the Prairie Coteau region and the entirety of four counties in the Lac qui Parle region. We utilized the CLU cropland layer to first identify and remove any areas with a cropping history, regardless of current land use. We then analyzed the …

The Innovation Makerspace: Geographies Of Digital Fabrication Innovation In Greater New York City, Kathryn Dickerson

Theses and Dissertations

Desktop digital fabrication technology has the potential to powerfully alter the economics, geography, and sociology of production. The desktop technology cannot reach its potential for widespread impact until it improves in quality and decreases in price. Makerspaces have emerged in the United States in the last eight years as informal social organizations where innovation in this technology may be occurring. This study examines whether innovation in digital fabrication technology has occurred, or has the potential to occur, at makerspaces in the New York City area.

The Weekly Challenger, August 27, 2015, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The August 27, 2015, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

The Daily Gamecock, Thursday, August 27 2015, The University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

August

No abstract provided.

The Pacifican August 27, 2015, University Of The Pacific

All Issues - Student Newspaper, The Pacifican, Pacific Weekly

No abstract provided.

Arctic Maritime Activities In Changing Climatic & Market Conditions: Impacts On Local Community Security & Adaptation, Julia Olsen, Grete K. Hovelsrud

ShipArc 2015 Conference

No abstract provided.

The Polar Code : Gap Analysis For Protection Of Marine Environment & Arctic Safety, Mohammed Essallamy

ShipArc 2015 Conference

No abstract provided.

In Defense Of Ecosystem Services, J.B. Ruhl

Pace Environmental Law Review

It is a great honor and pleasure to deliver the Garrison lecture at the Pace University Law School, especially on an evening during which we have paid fitting tribute to the lives of two giants of environmental law and policy, Joe Sax, and David Sive. I chose the topic of ecosystem services for this auspicious occasion for three reasons and to answer three questions.

First, the path of ecosystem services as a theme in environmental law and policy spans my practice (1982-1994) and academic (1994-present) careers. The importance of nature to human well-being seems so obvious one would think it …

A Phylogenetic Revision Of Superfamily Himerometroidea (Echinodermata: Crinoidea), Kristian Taylor

HCNSO Student Theses and Dissertations

Superfamily Himerometroidea AH Clark, 1908 (Echinodermata: Crinoidea) (formerly Mariametroidea) is the second most speciose superfamily in order Comatulida. Although it includes some of the most common species on tropical western Pacific reefs, its phylogeny is poorly understood. Genus- to species-level taxa are currently distinguished by plastic morphological characters. We revised the superfamily from species- to family-levels using a combined morphological and molecular approach. A phylogeny using two nuclear and three mitochondrial markers recovered Colobometridae and Himerometridae as paraphyletic and Mariametridae and Zygometridae as polyphyletic. Within genus Himerometra (Himerometridae), sequence data and detailed morphological examinations of multiple specimens of H. magnipinna, …

The Political Ideologies Of American Lawyers, Adam Bonica, Adam S. Chilton, Maya Sen

Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper Series

No abstract provided.

Engaging San Francisco’S Western Addition In A Community Needs Assessment: A Field Work Report, Bridget Walsh-Dahlberg

Master's Projects and Capstones

San Francisco’s Western Addition is a neighborhood steeped in a history of discriminative policies and actions. Today, while the Western is a vibrant community, it continues to feel the effects of the historic discriminatory practices. This is evident in the disparities seen across many indicators, including: educational success and attainment; health; employment; and housing opportunities. Engage San Francisco, an initiative born from the University of San Francisco’s Leo T. McCarthy for Public Service and Common Good seeks to help improve the lives and success of children, youth and families in the Western Addition through community identified needs. Through campus-community relationships …

Increasing Ecosystem Services Benefits Through Spatially Coordinated Land Management: Role Of Transaction Costs And Communication In An Experimental Setting, Simanti Banerjee, Timothy N. Cason, Frans P. De Vries, Nick Hanley

Cornhusker Economics

The delivery of ecosystem services benefits from proenvironmental land use and land management activities on farmland can often be substantially enhanced if landowners are able to coordinate their decisions across space. For example, in the face of pollinator population collapse, greater crop pollination benefits will accrue if neighboring farmers commit to reducing pesticide usage, than if only a single farmer unilaterally curbs use, leaving bees vulnerable to pesticide drift from neighboring farms. Other examples which illustrate the importance of spatial coordination for generating environmental benefits across space are water quality improvement and biodiversity protection via reduction in habitat fragmentation.

Water Diplomacy From A Duck's Perspective: Wildlife As Stakeholders In Water Management, Charles Van Rees, J. Michael Reed

Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education

Contemporary water management strategies call for the inclusion of ecological research in the decision-making process and emphasize environmentally sustainable management solutions. Most ecological information used in water management shares two problematic characteristics; 1) simplistic, phenomenological approaches and aggregated data that may not properly describe system behavior, and 2) a "zero-sum" perspective treating ecological water needs as constraints to management. We argue that the newly devised Water Diplomacy Framework (WDF) can help overcome these shortcomings. We also provide a simple and intuitive method for integrating ecological factors into the WDF. We suggest that treating ecological phenomena as "surrogate stakeholders" in water …