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Geomorphology: Changing The Scholarly Sources Landscape With Geology Students, Heidi Blackburn, Ashlee L. Dere Mar 2015

Geomorphology: Changing The Scholarly Sources Landscape With Geology Students, Heidi Blackburn, Ashlee L. Dere

Criss Library Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

Find out how we changed the landscape for geology students from a popular sources wasteland to a lush garden of scholarly sources through a library instruction intervention. Data from before and after the library instruction will be shared, showing student growth from Wikipedia in first drafts to meeting ACRL Information Literacy Standards for Science through the use of scholarly sources in the final paper. The library instruction activity, learning outcomes, and assessment components are included.

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Military Training In An Academic Environment The University Of Toronto Canadian Officers Training Corps, 1914-L968, Robert Spencer Mar 2015

Military Training In An Academic Environment The University Of Toronto Canadian Officers Training Corps, 1914-L968, Robert Spencer

Canadian Military History

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The Royal Military College Of Canada And The Education Of Officers For The Great War, Andrew B. Godefroy Mar 2015

The Royal Military College Of Canada And The Education Of Officers For The Great War, Andrew B. Godefroy

Canadian Military History

No abstract provided.

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Cbpr And A Multitrack Model Of Development: A Proposed Critical Ethnography, Jeanette M. Dillon Mar 2015

Cbpr And A Multitrack Model Of Development: A Proposed Critical Ethnography, Jeanette M. Dillon

Graduate Communication Association Conference (2015)

The modernization paradigm of development still dominates in practice, according to Sparks (2007), and apparently, that is only one indicator of how the participatory development paradigm has not lived up to its elegant theoretical promise. This paper argues that the community-based participatory paradigm can live up to its promise as it works in tandem with the dominant paradigm, despite seemingly antithetical epistemologies. A critical ethnography of a community-based participatory research project in a Midwest university health communication class is proposed to assess this contention. Some research questions that could be addressed include: Do group members connect their experience to the …

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Michigan Geographic Bee, John M. Dunn Mar 2015

Michigan Geographic Bee, John M. Dunn

WMU President John Dunn

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An Evaluation Of Kipp Charter High Schools Utilizing The Framework For Academic Quality, Kimberly Denise Crosby Mar 2015

An Evaluation Of Kipp Charter High Schools Utilizing The Framework For Academic Quality, Kimberly Denise Crosby

Student Theses and Dissertations

This study conducted comparison analyses in a range of academic achievement and attainment levels between students enrolled in selected KIPP charter high schools and a matched group of peers enrolled in geographically and demographically similar traditional public schools in Texas. Contexts of the academic achievement and attainment levels were framed by the following four academic quality indicators outlined by the National Consensus Panel of the Charter School Quality Consortium in its 2008 report A Framework for Academic Quality: (1) student achievement as measured by standardized testing, (2) student growth over time as measured by annual and longitudinal gains, (3) postsecondary …

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Undergraduate Symposium, 2015, College Of Arts & Sciences Mar 2015

Undergraduate Symposium, 2015, College Of Arts & Sciences

Undergraduate Symposium Programs

No abstract provided.

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2015-03-27 Minutes & Appendices, Longwood University Mar 2015

2015-03-27 Minutes & Appendices, Longwood University

Board of Visitors Meeting Minutes 1964-

No abstract provided.

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The Political Pilgrim: William Lithgow Of Lanark On God And Country, Philip Anthony Davis Mar 2015

The Political Pilgrim: William Lithgow Of Lanark On God And Country, Philip Anthony Davis

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Travel literature has been understood to comment on the expectations and impressions of the traveler as they encountered foreign spaces, customs, and people. There has been an unspoken understanding, at best, that travelers who wrote their tales used these foreign spaces to engage in debates that were meaningful to their domestic audience. However, the author has been central to much of the analysis, disconnecting travel literature from other linguistic exercises that more directly offered observations that were directly rooted in domestic culture. Author-centered analysis isolates the traveler from the wider world in which they engaged. It also ignores the other …

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The Impact Of Bus Rapid Transit Implementation On Residential Property Values: A Case Study In Reno, Nv, Steven Thomas Ulloa Mar 2015

The Impact Of Bus Rapid Transit Implementation On Residential Property Values: A Case Study In Reno, Nv, Steven Thomas Ulloa

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Since literature that evaluates the impacts that Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) has on surrounding property values is limited, this research contributes to this research by investigating if proximity to a BRT station has an effect, either positive or negative, on residential housing values. Further, it investigates if the nature and extent of this effect varied during different stages of implementation of the BRT system and different housing market conditions. Fluctuations in sale prices were mitigated based on a six month moving median. Four hedonic price models were then used to evaluate the influence of independent variables on the dependent variable, …

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Trash Talk: Understanding Food Waste At A Charter Elementary School In Florida, Steven A. Williams Mar 2015

Trash Talk: Understanding Food Waste At A Charter Elementary School In Florida, Steven A. Williams

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Waste as a topic for anthropological investigation has enjoyed a recent resurgence in interest, mirroring burgeoning discussion among policy-makers and the general public about questions of environmental impacts, economic costs, and social detriments of contemporary waste management paradigms. While waste management in the United States has largely focused on technical and organizational solutions typically considered the domain of environmental planning and engineering (such as source reduction, recycling, and reuse), anthropology and the social sciences have become more prominently involved in efforts to inform policy-makers and researchers about the social and behavioral factors influencing waste norms and habits, particularly in educational …

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Sticky Stuff: Redefining Bedform Prediction In Modern And Ancient Environments, Robert J. Schindler, Daniel R. Parsons, Leiping Ye, Julie A. Hope, Jaco H. Baas, Jeff Peakall, Andrew J. Manning, Rebecca J. Aspden, Jonathan Malarkey, Steve Simmons, David M. Paterson, Ian D. Lichtman, Alan G. Davies, Peter D. Thorne, Sarah J. Bass Mar 2015

Sticky Stuff: Redefining Bedform Prediction In Modern And Ancient Environments, Robert J. Schindler, Daniel R. Parsons, Leiping Ye, Julie A. Hope, Jaco H. Baas, Jeff Peakall, Andrew J. Manning, Rebecca J. Aspden, Jonathan Malarkey, Steve Simmons, David M. Paterson, Ian D. Lichtman, Alan G. Davies, Peter D. Thorne, Sarah J. Bass

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

The dimensions and dynamics of subaqueous bedforms are well known for cohesionless sediments. However, the effect of physical cohesion imparted by cohesive clay within mixed sand-mud substrates has not been examined, despite its recognized influence on sediment stability. Here we present a series of controlled laboratory experiments to establish the influence of substrate clay content on subaqueous bedform dynamics within mixtures of sand and clay exposed to unidirectional flow. The results show that bedform dimensions and steepness decrease linearly with clay content, and comparison with existing predictors of bedform dimensions, established within cohesionless sediments, reveals significant over-prediction of bedform size …

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College Senate Minutes March 26, 2015, Bronx Community College Senate Mar 2015

College Senate Minutes March 26, 2015, Bronx Community College Senate

BCC Governance Archives

Minutes for the meeting of the College Senate on March 26, 2015.

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Evolution And Creation Conflicting Or Compatible, March 26, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences Mar 2015

Evolution And Creation Conflicting Or Compatible, March 26, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

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A Study Of Thunderstorm Microphysical Properties And Lightning Flash Counts Associated With Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flashes, D. E. Barnes, M. E. Splitt, J. R. Dwyer, S. Lazarus, D. M. Smith, H. K. Rassoul Mar 2015

A Study Of Thunderstorm Microphysical Properties And Lightning Flash Counts Associated With Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flashes, D. E. Barnes, M. E. Splitt, J. R. Dwyer, S. Lazarus, D. M. Smith, H. K. Rassoul

Aerospace, Physics, and Space Science Faculty Publications

The terrestrial gamma ray flash (TGF) is an emission of highly energetic radiation produced by or at least in close association with lightning. Previous investigations attempted to isolate the production mechanisms and production altitude(s) of TGFs as well as macrophysical characteristics, while thunderstorm microphysical characteristics were largely ignored. This investigation into thunderstorms and their hydrometeor and flash characteristics utilize temporal and spatial coincident satellite passes between the Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager and the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission to determine the bulk (or footprint) microphysical properties of two types of study events, the thunderstorm complexes which are associated …

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The Alestle - Vol. 67 No. 26 - 03/26/2015, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Mar 2015

The Alestle - Vol. 67 No. 26 - 03/26/2015, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

The Alestle

Vol. 67 No. 26

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Quaker Campus, March 26, 2015 (Vol. 101, Issue 22), Whittier College Mar 2015

Quaker Campus, March 26, 2015 (Vol. 101, Issue 22), Whittier College

Quaker Campus

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Cross-Cultural Spaces In An Anonymously Painted Portrait Of The Ottoman Sultan Mahmud Ii, Alison Paige Terndrup Mar 2015

Cross-Cultural Spaces In An Anonymously Painted Portrait Of The Ottoman Sultan Mahmud Ii, Alison Paige Terndrup

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This thesis analyzes an anonymous portrait painting of the Ottoman Sultan Mahmud II (r. 1808-1839), called by its descriptive title Seated Portrait of Mahmud II, within the context of the extensive portrait campaign commissioned by the sultan. Surviving examples from this series of diplomatic portraits share a unique set of intercultural iconographic vocabularies as a reflection of their time as well as implicit reinforcement of the sultan's political goals. By focusing on Seated Portrait of Mahmud II, I argue that a closer inspection of the campaign within a context that pays attention to Ottoman, European, and Persian visual practices reveals …

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Patterns Of Housing Voucher Use Revisited: Segregation And Section 8 Using Updated Data And More Precise Comparison Groups, 2013, Molly Metzger, Danilo Pelletiere Mar 2015

Patterns Of Housing Voucher Use Revisited: Segregation And Section 8 Using Updated Data And More Precise Comparison Groups, 2013, Molly Metzger, Danilo Pelletiere

Center for Social Development Research

What role does the Housing Choice Voucher program play in the economic and racial segregation of its beneficiaries? Expanding upon Metzger’s (2014) analysis of the 50 most populous U.S. metropolitan areas with contemporaneous data, this paper substantiates the finding that voucher households are more segregated by income and race at the tract level than households that earn less than $15,000 annually. However, the evidence is mixed when the nonvoucher comparison group is more precisely defined using the specific income limits of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development voucher program and a minority household designation. Voucher households are still …

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Modeling Navigation System Performance Of A Satellite-Observing Star Tracker Tightly Integrated With An Inertial Measurement Unit, Scott J. Pierce Mar 2015

Modeling Navigation System Performance Of A Satellite-Observing Star Tracker Tightly Integrated With An Inertial Measurement Unit, Scott J. Pierce

Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation evaluates a navigation system using satellite observations from a star tracker tightly-integrated with an inertial measurement unit (IMU) and a barometric altimeter using an extended Kalman filter. The star tracker measurement accuracy of a satellite is derived. Several system configurations are simulated comparing the performance of the estimate with respect to system parameters of the IMU, and star tracker, as well as comparing performance when providing a remote sensor satellite ephemeris error correction. Experimental observations are used to evaluate the model performance. Additionally, power requirements were calculated for a satellite signal operating in imaging bands, such that a …

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A Predictive Logistic Regression Model Of World Conflict Using Open Source Data, Benjamin C. Boekestein Mar 2015

A Predictive Logistic Regression Model Of World Conflict Using Open Source Data, Benjamin C. Boekestein

Theses and Dissertations

Nations transitioning into conflict is an issue of national interest. This study considers various data for inclusion in a statistical model that predicts the future state of the world where nations will either be in a state of violent conflict or not in violent conflict based on available historical data. Logistic regression is used to construct and test various models to produce a parsimonious world model with 15 variables. Further analysis shows that nations differ significantly by geographical area. Therefore six sub-models are constructed for differing geographical areas of the world. The dominant variables for each sub-model vary, suggesting a …

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An Optimization Of The Maintenance Assets Distribution Network In The Argentine Air Force, Santiago Hernandez Mar 2015

An Optimization Of The Maintenance Assets Distribution Network In The Argentine Air Force, Santiago Hernandez

Theses and Dissertations

The Argentine Air Force Materiel General Directorate is responsible for the supply and distribution of reparable and consumable assets to support the operations of more than thirty different weapons systems. The Materiel General Directorate recently initiated an effort to assure logistic support and to gradually increase the productivity and efficiency of the related processes. The distribution of consumable and reparable assets was a key process identified as inefficient and targeted for improvement, and a recommendation was made to consider organic or private transportation and reduce transportation time in order to improve responsiveness and drive down logistic pipeline costs. This thesis …

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Predicting Citizen Satisfaction With Government Services In Belize, Samuel W. Logan Mar 2015

Predicting Citizen Satisfaction With Government Services In Belize, Samuel W. Logan

Theses and Dissertations

Assessing the effectiveness of humanitarian assistance and foreign aid has presented a challenge to personnel tasked with these operations. Answering the question "are we winning hearts and minds" has similarly eluded military personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan. This research presents a review of humanitarian assistance and foreign aid conducted by the U.S. government and literature on U.S. military doctrine regarding humanitarian assistance and infrastructure investment. The research builds upon expectancy disconfirmation theory to determine the strongest predictors of citizen satisfaction with government services. Case study data was collected in Belize before and after a U.S. military humanitarian and civil assistance …

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Governance And Private Investment In Sub-Saharan Africa, Idrissa Mohamed Ouedraogo, Pascal T. Kouman Mar 2015

Governance And Private Investment In Sub-Saharan Africa, Idrissa Mohamed Ouedraogo, Pascal T. Kouman

International Journal of African Development

Africa is one of the world regions whose development potentials are particularly important. But despite this situation, Africa is one of the continents where poverty exists on a large scale. More than 44 % of the African population lives below the poverty line. Yet, various forms of development strategies have been designed and implemented in the African countries. In 1992, in its publication Governance and Development, the World Bank refers to the quality of government as the cause of the failure of several of these strategies. Attention is henceforth focused on how governments organize the management of state and …

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International Journal Of African Development, Vol. 2, Issue 1 Mar 2015

International Journal Of African Development, Vol. 2, Issue 1

International Journal of African Development

Complete issue of International Journal of African Development, Volume 2, Issue 1.

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Awareness And Usage Of Electronic Databases By Geography And Resource Development Information Studies Graduate Students In The University Of Ghana, Gladys Kwadzo Mrs Mar 2015

Awareness And Usage Of Electronic Databases By Geography And Resource Development Information Studies Graduate Students In The University Of Ghana, Gladys Kwadzo Mrs

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The purpose of this study was to examine the awareness level and usage of electronic databases by graduate students in the University of Ghana. The focus was on graduate students of Departments of Geography and Development Resource, and Information Studies. Questionnaire was used to collect the data. The findings were that students were very much aware of the databases available to them as indicated by 96.9%and 93.8% indicated to use them. The studies has also established that majority of students knew about the databases from their lecturers and most of them accessed from the central library. Despite the claimed usage …

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Editor's Note, Ahmed I. Samatar Mar 2015

Editor's Note, Ahmed I. Samatar

Bildhaan: An International Journal of Somali Studies

No abstract provided.

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Mirrored Images: The Passion And The First Crusade In A Fourteenth-Century Parisian Illuminated Manuscript (Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale De France, Ms Fr. 352), Susanna A. Throop Mar 2015

Mirrored Images: The Passion And The First Crusade In A Fourteenth-Century Parisian Illuminated Manuscript (Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale De France, Ms Fr. 352), Susanna A. Throop

History Faculty Publications

This lavish mid-fourteenth-century Parisian illuminated manuscript (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS fr. 352) combines a description of the Holy Land with an abridged version of the history and continuations of William of Tyre in Old French known as the Eracles. It is both visually familiar to scholars and under-studied. Several of its Gothic panel miniatures, especially folio 62r, the conquest of Jerusalem, have been published more than once, yet the manuscript's illumination programme as a whole has not been assessed since Jaroslav Folda's 1968 doctoral dissertation. Analysis of folio 62r in the context of both the full illumination …

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The Cord (March 25, 2015) Mar 2015

The Cord (March 25, 2015)

The Cord

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Further Examination Of The Geographic Range Of Eriogonum Corymbosum Var. Nilesii (Polygonaceae, Eriogoneae), Mark W. Ellis, Paul G. Wolf, Shannon Bardot, James A. Walton, Carol Rowe, Sarah Kulpa, Karen E. Mock Mar 2015

Further Examination Of The Geographic Range Of Eriogonum Corymbosum Var. Nilesii (Polygonaceae, Eriogoneae), Mark W. Ellis, Paul G. Wolf, Shannon Bardot, James A. Walton, Carol Rowe, Sarah Kulpa, Karen E. Mock

Biology Faculty Publications

The wild buckwheat Eriogonum corymbosum is widely distributed throughout the southwestern United States, forming a complex of eight varieties. E. corymbosum var. nilesii is a predominantly yellow-flowered variant reported primarily from Clark Co., Nevada. A previous genetic study by our research group found that var. nilesii is genetically distinct from other E. corymbosum varieties, based on a limited number of populations. Here, we assess genetic variation in 14 newly sampled yellow-flowered populations from southern Nevada, southern Utah, and northern Arizona, and compare them to genetic variation in six populations of previously determined E. corymbosum varieties. Of the new populations, we …

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