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Capitalizing On Distinctiveness: Creating West Virginia For A New Economy, Brian A. Hoey

Sociology and Anthropology Faculty Research

This paper explores use of images and ideas of place to promote particular social and economic agendas within the regional context of Appalachia. Despite prevailing imageries of backwardness and isolation that adhere to the region, as well as recent history of often-bleak economic conditions, communities such as Huntington, West Virginia, are ideal places to observe inventive forms of community-building, place-making, and place-marketing that borrow from emerging cultural and economic models and stand in sharp contrast to a once-dominant paradigm that encouraged capital investment by relying simply on tax breaks and the provision of cheap land and labor to attract large, …

Armed Humanitarian Intervention: The Role Of Powerful Leaders In Framing And The National Security Decision Making Process, John Marshall Callahan

Graduate Program in International Studies Theses & Dissertations

This study identifies and analyzes the decision making and framing processes for selected cases of armed humanitarian intervention by the United States in the post-Cold War Era. It fills a gap in the literature on decision making, focusing on the role of the powerful individual leader in national security decision making and the framing of interventions to the U.S. public and other stakeholder audiences. An examination of extant literature on the subject of U.S. foreign policy decision making, and development and implementation of framing strategies is used to determine the role of the individual leader in those processes using three …

Does Institutional Design Make A Difference?, Steven G. Calabresi

Northwestern University Law Review

This Essay argues that there are two unappreciated aspects of U.S. constitutional design that have contributed to our country’s success. The first is the fact that the United States is divided into fifty rather than four states. This greatly strengthens the national government and renders secession almost impossible. The second is the formidable set of checks and balances set up on presidential power that makes it impossible for U.S. presidents to become dictators. The fact that thirty-nine of the fifty state governors are elected in off-year or midterm elections, elections in which the incumbent president’s party almost always loses ground …

International Panther, Spring 2015, University Of Northern Iowa. Culture And Intensive English Program.

International Panther

Inside this issue:

-- From the CIEP Director
-- UNI Connections: UNI Office of Business Operations dedicated to supporting UNI & CIEP students
-- Class Exchanges with Kathy Oakland
-- CIEP Alumni: Masahiro Takhashi, Japan
-- CIEP Current Student: Nouran Othman, Syria
-- Exploring STEM Education across cultures
-- CIEP Activities
-- CIEP Staff Spotlight: Meet Patricia Ferguson, Academic Support Specialist
-- CIEP Staff Projects
-- CIEP World’s Window Afghanistan: The celebration of Nowroz

Geography News, V38n1, Spring 2015, Geographic Alliance Of Iowa.

Geography News

Inside This Issue:
--Coordinator's Corner
--Teaching the Holocaust Today: Why and How
--National Parks and Bioblitz
--2015 Workshops

Collection Development Policy, Civil, Environmental & Construction Engineering, Ven Basco

Libraries' Documents

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Collection Development Policy, Communications, Richard H. Harrison

Libraries' Documents

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Collection Development Policy, Digital Media, Athena Hoeppner

Libraries' Documents

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Collection Development Policy, Film, Richard H. Harrison

Libraries' Documents

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Collection Development Policy, History, Richard H. Harrison

Libraries' Documents

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Collection Development Policy, Industrial Engineering And Management System, Ven Basco

Libraries' Documents

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Collection Development Policy, Judaic Studies, Richard H. Harrison

Libraries' Documents

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Collection Development Policy, Nursing, Andrew Todd

Libraries' Documents

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“At-Risk” Food Deserts In Lincoln, Nebraska, Samantha Corr

Department of Environmental Studies: Undergraduate Student Theses

This investigational study conducted in Lincoln, Nebraska seeks to explore the link between geographic and economic barriers to food access. Food access is a problem in the United States. 29 percent of U.S. ZIP codes do not contain a grocery store or supermarket. Families also face barriers to food economically, as low income individuals are less able to afford food. Through the use of ArcGIS 10.2.2 for Desktop software this project seeks to visually represent the areas in which access to food is limited both geographically and financially. Creating one mile buffer zones around each grocery store in Lincoln, Nebraska …

Temperature Dependency Of Population Dynamics And Trophic Cascades In A Model Aquatic System, Reed Brodersen

Department of Environmental Studies: Undergraduate Student Theses

Determining how temperature alters direct predation and indirect trophic cascade effects will be crucial in understanding how global climate change affects community structure and stability. While we are starting to comprehend the effects of warming on individual trophic interactions and underlying mechanisms, effects of warming on multilevel food webs are mostly unknown. This study sought to experimentally observe potential effects of temperature on population and community dynamics, and the magnitude of trophic cascades. To reach these objectives, a three-tiered food web (Scenedesmus, Daphnia and Hydra) was designed, maintained, and observed at two different temperatures (17°C and 21°C) …

Determination Of Factors That Influence Passengers’ Airline Selection: A Study Of Low Cost Carriers In Thailand, Thapanat Buaphiban

Doctoral Dissertations and Master's Theses

This research examined the factors that influenced the airline selection of Low Cost Carriers (LCCs) in Thailand. The research was justified based on the rapid growth of LCC travel in Thailand, particularly in domestic and regional travel. There is a relative lack of successful explanation of the choice of LCCs in Thailand, with only a few studies addressing topics like passenger satisfaction and perceptions of service quality. Following an extensive literature review, the author used a theoretical framework based on the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) (Ajzen, 1991) in order to explain passenger behavioral intentions. This framework was supplemented by …

Meeting In The Middle: Organizing Sustainability Goals To Redevelop Jacksonville, Florida Suburbs, James Robert Reynolds Ii

Theses

The United States is at a developmental turning point in how it grows, responds to the housing needs of its existing citizens, and utilizes its existing infrastructure. Since 1945, population has doubled, however land use has increased by nearly 400%. This indicates that we are developing at lower densities, which have been shown to increase the environmental, social, and economic costs of development due to infrastructure construction, operations and maintenance, transportation use, and lifestyle.

Jacksonville, Florida is spatially the largest city in the USA, and most populated in Florida. Due to the wide array of foreclosed and vacant houses in …

Fast Nearest Neighbor Search With Keywords, Ramu Anthati, Santosh Aditya Kokku, Tejaswini Vodapally

All Capstone Projects

Conventional spatial queries, such as range search and nearest neighbor retrieval, involve only conditions on objects’ geometric properties. Today, many modern applications call for novel forms of queries that aim to find objects satisfying both a spatial predicate, and a predicate on their associated texts. For example, instead of considering all the restaurants, a nearest neighbor query would instead ask for the restaurant that is the closest among those whose menus contain “steak, spaghetti, brandy” all at the same time. Currently the best solution to such queries is based on the IR2-tree, which, as shown in this paper, has a …

Childhood Cancer Incidence In Georgia: Descriptive Epidemiology, Geographic Trends, And Disparities In Insurance Coverage, And Health Care Access, Florence A. Kanu, Sara Wagner Robb, Rosemary Corriero

Journal of the Georgia Public Health Association

Background: Limited research has been conducted concerning childhood cancer (CC) incidence in Georgia, which is a leading cause of death for children in the US. The purpose of this study was to determine if county-level CC incidence rates differed by geography or race and if health care access disparities exist.

Methods: Incidence data were obtained from the Georgia Comprehensive Cancer Registry for 2000-2011. Age-adjusted incidence rates per 100,000 were analyzed by sex, race, and county. Hotspots and coldspots of CC incidence were analyzed using the Getis-Ord GI* statistic. Health care access data for children under 19 were obtained using US …

Perceptions Of Hiv/Aids Testing Among Urban And Rural African American Church Members, Roblena E. Walker

Journal of the Georgia Public Health Association

Background: The prevalence of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) continues to affect African Americans (AA) disproportionately. The purpose of this mixed methods study, guided by the health belief model, was to examine associations linking church and ambient social environment with knowledge and perceptions of HIV/AIDS testing amongst urban and rural AA church members.

Methods: Multiple regressions and t tests were used to compare perceptions of HIV/AIDS testing and knowledge of HIV/AIDS among 236 participants selected from two AA churches located in a large city (n = 122) and in a rural town (n =114) in the Southern U.S.

Results: The …

Optimizing Reservoir Operations To Adapt To 21st Century Expectations Of Climate And Social Change In The Willamette River Basin, Oregon, Kathleen M. Moore

Publications

Reservoir systems in the western US are managed to serve two main competing purposes: to reduce flooding during the winter and spring, and to provide water supply for multiple uses during the summer. Because the storage capacity of a reservoir cannot be used for both flood damage reduction and water storage at the same time, these two uses are traded off as the reservoir fills during the transition from the wet to the dry season. Climate change, population growth, and development in the western US may exacerbate dry season water scarcity and increase winter flood risk, creating a need to …

Cosmographies In Stone: Polly Schaafsma's Contributions To Southwestern Archaeology, Robert W. Preucel

New Mexico Historical Review

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Meanderings: The Possibility Of Art, Polly Schaafsma

New Mexico Historical Review

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The Political Geography Of Plea Bargaining In Federal Death Penalty Cases, Greg Goelzhauser

New Mexico Law Review

This Article employs the Breaking Bad counterfactual to motivate a preliminary empirical analysis of plea bargaining outcomes in federal capital cases. Given the Justice Department’s express commitment to applying the federal death penalty uniformly across states, New Mexico’s lack of a death penalty should be immaterial in determining whether Walt and other characters would have faced the federal death penalty. Nonetheless, scholars have demonstrated that there is considerable geographic variation in the federal death penalty’s administration. Moreover, scholars have devoted considerable attention to illuminating the “[s]ignificant federalism and state sovereignty issues lurk[ing] beneath the surface of a nationally uniform federal …

Introduction, Matthew Zidovsky

New Mexico Law Review

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The Good And (Breaking) Bad Of Deceptive Police Practices, Elizabeth N. Jones

New Mexico Law Review

This Article questions whether a nexus exists between Breaking Bad, the popular series that regularly depicts strategic police deception, and the systemic abuse of force infecting the actual police department featured on that show. First, it focuses on investigative “strategic police deception” depicted in Breaking Bad as a potential gateway to the unreasonable use of force. The recent transgressions perpetrated by the APD evidence this concern. The show demonstrates the multi-faceted complexities of such police practices—from questionable discretionary decisions and psychological coercion, to deliberate deception and outright lies. Much of the policing depicted on Breaking Bad passes technical legal muster, …

Front Matter, New Mexico Law Review

New Mexico Law Review

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Defining "Navigability": Balancing State-Court Flexibility And Private Rights In Waterways, Maureen E. Brady

Cardozo Law Review

Over the course of American history, state courts have eliminated property rights in waterways through a quirk of public trust law: declaring the water in question to be "navigable" makes it public property, while declaring it "non-navigable" leaves the water subject to private control. The historical record is flooded with examples of these declarations by state courts. While some navigability rulings have protected public rights in waters against irrational private claims, others have abused this peculiarity to seize private property to placate irate, and even violent, interest groups.

The scope of this authority to craft navigability doctrine - especially whether …

Rural Health Care Information Access And The Use Of The Internet: Opportunity For University Extension, Biswa R. Dias, John C. Leatherman, Bonnie M. Bressers

Journal of Extension

The Internet has potential for improving health information delivery and strengthening connections between rural populations and local health service providers. An exploratory case study six rural health care markets in Kansas showed that about 70% of adults use the Internet, with substantial use for accessing health information. While there are statistical differences for general Internet use based on socio-economic characteristics, these "digital divides" are not so apparent in relation to Internet usage for health-related information. The study opens opportunities for Extension to include Internet usage as an added dimension to programs to aid in community and economic development.

Farmer Responses To Resistance Issues In Corn Rootworm To Bt Corn: Qualitative Analysis Of Focus Groups, Erin W. Hodgson, Robert Wright, Michael Gray, Tom Hunt

Journal of Extension

Western corn rootworm is an important corn pest in the U.S. Some farmers noted unexpected corn rootworm injury of transgenic hybrids as early as 2008; however, the full extent of product performance is still not fully understood. We conducted telephone focus groups with farmers in 2013 to gain their perspective of current and future issues for corn rootworm. Respondents were surprised how quickly corn rootworm injury escalated in their fields and were disappointed with incorrect diagnoses from consultants and seed companies. Most participating farmers saw university Extension as an unbiased source of information.