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Exceptional River Gorge Formation From Unexceptional Floods, L. Anton, A. E. Mather, M. Stokes, A. Muñoz-Martin, Vicente G De

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

An understanding of rates and mechanisms of incision and knickpoint retreat in bedrock rivers is fundamental to perceptions of landscape response to external drivers, yet only sparse field data are available. Here we present eye witness accounts and quantitative surveys of rapid, amphitheatre-headed gorge formation in unweathered granite from the overtopping of a rock-cut dam spillway by small-moderate floods (~100–1,500 m3 s−1). The amount of erosion demonstrates no relationship with flood magnitude or bedload availability. Instead, structural pattern of the bedrock through faults and joints appears to be the primary control on landscape change. These discontinuities facilitate rapid erosion ( …

A Community Of World Class Engineering Students, Devshikha Bose, Krishna Pakala

Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

This paper is a work in progress report on an Engineering Living Learning Community (LLC) at Boise State University. Though the LLC under consideration is for the time period of Fall 2014 to Fall 2016, this report is limited to student as well as instructor anecdotal and self-reported experiences, observations, and evaluations made during Fall 2014 and Spring 2015. The mission of the Residential College program at BSU is to integrate student academic and personal life in a residential setting, so as to develop interdisciplinary knowledge, foster deep learning, and maximize student success. In support of this goal, students completed …

Gec Meeting Minutes For Aug 4, 2015, General Education Committee

General Education Committee Minutes

No abstract provided.

A Case Study: The Nurse Researcher In The Home Setting, Wendy Lovelace Ray

Journal of Health Ethics

The expansion of home health nursing over the past two decades has resulted in the increase of nursing research in home settings.. Many healthcare organizations have adopted a customer service approach in which the patient is viewed as a guest. The role of the nurse in the home care setting has also been described in the literature as guest. Other studies have reported that patients, as well as nurses, view nurses as a guest while care is being provided in the home setting. This potentially creates conflicting role expectations between the patient and the research nurse in home care settings. …

Predicting Landscape-Scale Co 2 Flux At A Pasture And Rice Paddy With Long-Term Hyperspectral Canopy Reflectance Measurements, J. H. Matthes, S. H. Knox, C. Sturtevant, O. Sonnentag

Dartmouth Scholarship

Measurements of hyperspectral canopy reflectance provide a detailed snapshot of information regarding canopy biochemistry, structure and physiology. In this study, we collected 5 years of repeated canopy hyperspectral reflectance measurements for a total of over 100 site visits within the flux footprints of two eddy covariance towers at a pasture and rice paddy in northern California. The vegetation at both sites exhibited dynamic phenology, with significant interannual variability in the timing of seasonal patterns that propagated into interannual variability in measured hyperspectral reflectance. We used partial least-squares regression (PLSR) modeling to leverage the information contained within the entire canopy reflectance …

Artificial Superintelligence: Extinction Or Nirvana?, Jens Pohl

Architecture

The purpose of this paper is to explore the subject of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) and identify in summary form the principal drivers and current status of Artificial Narrow Intelligence (ANI), the impact that intelligent software in combination with the Internet serving as a Global Knowledgebase is already having on human capabilities, the likely path to ASI, the possible threats posed by ASI and proposed measures to curtail those threats, and finally the potential benefits to the human species if AGI and ASI remain under human control.

Positionality And Racialization In A Par Project: Reflections And Insights From A School Reform Collaboration, Elizabeth R. Drame, Decoteau Irby

The Qualitative Report

This paper shares findings from a critical reflection on a collaborative participatory research initiative called “The Improving Schools Project." The first author’s reflections explored the interaction of race, space, and positionality within the context of a cross-racial participatory research project. She considered how the racial identity of organizations and individuals nested within organizations impacted patterns of engagement and participation in this project. Through engaging in critical reflexive work facilitated by co-inquirers, she developed a clearer understanding of how the racialization of organizations played a critical role in mediating participants’ engagement in terms of control, collaboration, and commitment. Organizational histories and …

A Multi-Scalar Model To Identify The Causes Of Decreased Vehicle Miles Traveled (Vmt) In The United States, Timothy J. Garceau

Doctoral Dissertations

Archival abstract submitted

Diversity Of Synechococcus At The Martha's Vineyard Coastal Observatory: Insights From Culture Isolations, Clone Libraries, And Flow Cytometry, Kristen R. Hunter-Cevera, Anton F. Post, Emily E. Peacock, Heidi M. Sosik

Graduate School of Oceanography Faculty Publications

The cyanobacterium Synechococcus is a ubiquitous, important phytoplankter across the world’s oceans. A high degree of genetic diversity exists within the marine group, which likely contributes to its global success. Over 20 clades with different distribution patterns have been identified. However, we do not fully understand the environmental factors that control clade distributions. These factors are likely to change seasonally, especially in dynamic coastal systems. To investigate how coastal Synechococcus assemblages change temporally, we assessed the diversity of Synechococcus at the Martha’s Vineyard Coastal Observatory (MVCO) over three annual cycles with culture-dependent and independent approaches. We further investigated the abundance …

Kinematic And Kinetic Effects Of Alterations In Lumbar Lordosis In People With Tight Hamstrings, Dema Assaf

Theses and Dissertations (ETD)

The etiology of nonspecific low back pain is sparsely understood. To better understand the contributing factors to nonspecific low back pain, there are often common concurrent pathologies that are investigated to determine their functional relationship to low back pain. One such pathology, investigated further in this thesis, is tight hamstrings. Specifically, the effect of hamstring length on pelvic position during gait and activities of daily living under normal and altered spinal position were investigated as part of this study in a motion analysis lab.

First, a marker validation study was conducted to ensure the accuracy of sagittal spinal measures of …

Inefficiency And Self-Determination: Simulation-Based Evidence From Meiji Japan, Eric Weese, Masayoshi Hayashi, Masashi Nishikawa

Discussion Papers

No abstract provided.

Image Interpretation-Guided Supervised Classification Using Nested Segmentation, A. V. Egorov, M. C. Hanson, David P. Roy, A. Kommareddy, P. V. Patapov

GSCE Faculty Publications

We present a new binary (two-class) supervised non-parametric classification approach that is based on iterative partitioning of multidimensional feature space into variably-sized and nested hyper-cubes (partitions). The proposed method contains elements of active learning and includes classifier to analyst queries. The spectral transition zone between two thematic classes (i.e., where training labels of different classes overlap in feature space) is targeted through iterative training derivation. Three partition categories are defined: pure, indivisible and unlabeled. Pure partitions contain training labels from only one class, indivisible partitions contain training data from different classes, and unlabeled partitions do not contain training …

Guide To Resources On Africa, Ida E. Jones

Moorland Spingarn Research Center Publications

No abstract provided.

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization's Bid To Transform International Law, David Ward

Brigham Young University International Law & Management Review

No abstract provided.

Working Toward World Peace In Non-International Armed Conflict: In A World Of Uncertainty, Terrorism, And Disagreements, Is It Ossible?, Victoria Carlton

Brigham Young University International Law & Management Review

No abstract provided.

Freedom Of Speech In Schools And The Right To Participation: When The First Amendment Encounters The Convention On The Rights Of The Child, Lotem Perry-Hazan

Brigham Young University Education and Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Landscape Heterogeneity Drives Contrasting Concentration–Discharge Relationships In Shale Headwater Catchments, E. M. Herndon, Ashlee L.D. Dere, P. L. Sullivan, D. Norris, B. Reynolds, S. L. Brantley

Geography and Geology Faculty Publications

Solute concentrations in stream water vary with discharge in patterns that record complex feedbacks between hydrologic and biogeochemical processes. In a comparison of three shale-underlain headwater catchments located in Pennsylvania, USA (the forested Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory), and Wales, UK (the peatland-dominated Upper Hafren and forest-dominated Upper Hore catchments in the Plynlimon forest), dissimilar concentration–discharge (C–Q) behaviors are best explained by contrasting landscape distributions of soil solution chemistry – especially dissolved organic carbon (DOC) – that have been established by patterns of vegetation and soil organic matter (SOM). Specifically, elements that are concentrated in organic-rich soils due to biotic …

Backward Bending, Forward Falling, And Inverted S Labor Supply Curves: Us And Mexico, Jacques Lartigue Mendoza

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

This dissertation studies and compares the individual and household Labor Supply Curves (LSCs) of a developing Mexican versus a developed American economy. In the individual case, our results suggest that regardless of the underlying assumption of heterogeneous or homogeneous units of labor -that is, disaggregating or not the labor market by levels of education-, the individual American and Mexican LSCs exhibit a backward bending (inverted C) and a forward falling (C) shapes respectively, implying the existence of a survival constraint at very low wages, not observed in the more developed American economy. Considering both economies together, an international inverted S …

Conveniently Located Disaster: Socio‐Spatial Inequality In Hurricane Sandy And Its Implications For The Urban Sociology Of Climate Change, Gordon Douglas, Liz Koslov, Eric Klinenberg

Faculty Publications, Urban and Regional Planning

Hurricane Sandy was a major event with major implications for how sociologists think about the relationship between climate change and crisis in urban areas. The storm’s impact on New York provides a valuable case for considering how to study the impacts of climate change on large, densely settled cities with vulnerable hard infrastructure and highly complex social conditions that produce differentiated experiences across many different communities. This working paper considers data at several levels of analysis with the aim of assessing neighborhood inequalities in the impacts of such extreme weather. Drawn from the authors’ ongoing research project on unequal vulnerability …

Youtube Videos And The Rip Current Hazard: Swimming In A Sea Of (Mis)Information, Katherine M. Mackellar, Robert W. Brander, Wendy S. Shaw

International Journal of Aquatic Research and Education

Rip currents are strong, narrow, offshore flows found on many global beaches and contribute to hundreds of drownings and tens of thousands of rescues each year. Yet despite long-standing educational efforts, public understanding of rip currents is poor. YouTube represents a new visual-based social media platform with the potential to educate a large and global audience about the rip current hazard. This study analyzed the content of 256 rip current–related YouTube videos with over 5 million total views as of March 2, 2015 finding that the accuracy of information disseminated about rip currents on YouTube is mixed and of varying …

Ua12/2/1 View Of The Hill, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

Special student guide edition of the College Heights Herald.

• Ransdell, Gary. Welcome Class of 2019!
• Belknap, Abby. Welcome & Traditions – Fight Song, Red Towel, Alma Mater, Big Red, Mascots
• MASTER Plan – Making Academic & Social Transitions Educationally Rewarding
• Dorm Life: A Guide to the Perfect Room for You – Housing & Residence Life
• Making the Most of Your Dorm
• Academics – Curriculum
• Academic Resources
• What About Advising & Class Registration?
• Study Abroad
• Campus Life
• What Can Your Student ID Do For You?
• Student Services
• Under the Big Top – Homecoming
• Parent & Family Weekend
• Staying Healthy
• Clubs & …

Protecting Dixie: Southern Girlhood In Children's Literature, 1852-1920, Laura Anne Hakala

Dissertations

Most scholarship about girlhood in children’s literature tends to rely on national models of girlhood. My project complicates those models by demonstrating how region shapes distinct forms of American girlhood. In particular, I examine representations of southern girlhood in children’s literature published between 1852 and 1920, drawing on the four types of literature that most featured southern girls during this time period: abolitionist literature, Confederate literature, postbellum plantation fiction, and family stories. Using a historicist methodology and spatial analysis, I place these texts in relation to information about the spatial arrangements and protocols of southern domestic sites. By viewing girlhood …

Research & Strategic Partnerships: Quarterly Review, Volume 2, Issue 4, Portland State University. Research & Strategic Partnerships

Portland State Research Magazine

The profiles in this issue highlight the many ways PSU researchers are helping to make Portland and other cities greener, more livable, and smarter. Several of the projects, including ones dealing with the urban heat island, green infrastructure, the food economy, air quality, and transportation, are funded in part by the Portland Climate Action Collaborative, a path-breaking program through which PSU faculty and students work on problems prioritized by Portland’s Bureau of Planning and Sustainability. The Seattle-based Bullitt Foundation and PSU’s Institute for Sustainable Solutions jointly fund the Collaborative.

A few of the stories also describe how PSU faculty and …

Here, I Used To Be: Mobile Media And Practices Of Place-Based Digital Memory, Jordan Frith, Jason Kalin

Publications

This article examines how location-based mobile media technologies are affecting the ways individuals experience the relationship between memory and place. We argue that location-based mobile applications that allow people to check in to places or record their routes represent new practices of place-based digital memory. Many individuals are using mobile media to mobilize place and memory together to create new forms of digital network memory from which they may begin to remember their pasts and to write their histories—a kind of rhetorical and poetic memory making. To help illuminate these practices, we analyze applications such as Foursquare and My Tracks …

Using A Smartphone Application To Promote Healthy Dietary Behaviours And Local Food Consumption, Jason A. Gilliland, Richard C. Sadler, Andrew F. Clark, Colleen O'Connor, Malgorzata M. Milczarek, Dean Doherty

Human Environments Analysis Lab (HEAL)

Smartphone “apps” are a powerful tool for public health promotion, but unidimensional interventions have been ineffective at sustaining behavioural change. Various logistical issues exist in successful app development for health intervention programs and for sustaining behavioural change. This study reports on a smartphone application and messaging service, called “SmartAPPetite,” which uses validated behaviour change techniques and a behavioural economic approach to “nudge” users into healthy dietary behaviours. To help gauge participation in and influence of the program, data were collected using an upfront food survey, message uptake tracking, experience sampling interviews, and a follow-up survey. Logistical and content-based issues in …

The Scarlet - Volume Xcv, No. 1 (Week One 2015), Scarlet Staff

The Scarlet (Student Newspaper) (2011-present)

A late August 2015 edition of The Scarlet (est. 1939), Clark University's student-run newspaper. The Scarlet is intellectually and editorially independent of the University. This issue was written for incoming undergraduate students and serves as an introduction to Clark from the student perspective.

Overcoming The Loss Of Nonverbal Cues Encountered By The Adventitiously Blind: Reconstructing Relationships And Identity, Vernon Floyd Humphrey

Dissertations

In this study, couples shared their experiences adjusting to one of the members loss of sight. Through interviews, their narratives expressed their values, actions, inactions, successes, failures, needs, obstacles, and feelings. Participants explained their standpoint/perspective about vision loss, when it happened, how it affected them, how they reacted and responded, through hindsight how they thought they should have responded, and how they reconstructed a shared interpersonal relationship. Narratives about situations and events after the loss of sight revealed descriptions of their relationships and interactions with each other and other people in their circle. Through constant comparative analysis the individual narratives …

Understanding Fruit And Vegetable Consumption: A Qualitative Investigation In The Mitchells Plain Sub-District Of Cape Town, Catherine Pereira, Milla Mclachlan, Jane Battersby

Hungry Cities Partnership

Objectives: Many South Africans do not consume enough fruit and vegetables. However, people are generally aware of the benefits of adequate consumption. To understand this gap between knowledge and practice, this study investigated underlying factors influencing consumption through a qualitative, cross-sectional, descriptive case study conducted in Mitchell’s Plain, Cape Town.

Methods: Four focus groups to gain broad understanding and 15 interviews with strategically selected individuals influential in food preparation, distribution or consumption, to gain in-depth understanding of specific factors influencing fruit and vegetable consumption were conducted.

Results: The study identified a number of drivers of fruit and vegetable consumption patterns. …

Graduate Bulletin | 2015-2016, Jacksonville State University

Bulletins & Catalogs | Graduate

Vol. 37, No. 1 (August 2015). Jacksonville State was granted University status in 1966 and began adding graduate programs to its curriculum at that time. Graduate bulletins and catalogs contain information on the academic calendar, policies and procedures, faculty, scholarships and tuition, and degree requirements for graduate programs.

Sexual Networks And Hiv Risk Among Black Men Who Have Sex With Men In 6 U.S. Cities, Hong-Van Tieu, Ting-Yuan Liu, Sophia Hussen, Matthew Connor, Lei Wang, Gregory Phillips Ii, + 11 More

Epidemiology Faculty Publications

Background

Sexual networks may place U.S. Black men who have sex with men (MSM) at increased HIV risk.

Methods

Self-reported egocentric sexual network data from the prior six months were collected from 1,349 community-recruited Black MSM in HPTN 061, a multi-component HIV prevention intervention feasibility study. Sexual network composition, size, and density (extent to which members are having sex with one another) were compared by self-reported HIV serostatus and age of the men. GEE models assessed network and other factors associated with having a Black sex partner, having a partner with at least two age category difference (age difference between …