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Limited Access To Ap Courses For Students In Smaller And More Isolated Rural School Districts, Douglas J. Gagnon, Marybeth J. Mattingly

Carsey Publications

This brief assesses trends in access to, enrollment in, and success in Advanced Placement (AP) coursework in relation to school district poverty, racial composition, and urbanicity. It uses data merged from the 2011–2012 Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC), the 2012 Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE), and the 2010 Decennial U.S. Census. Authors Douglas Gagnon and Marybeth Mattingly report that nearly one-half (47.2 percent) of rural districts have no secondary students enrolled in AP courses, compared with only 20.1 percent of town, 5.4 percent of suburban, and 2.6 percent of urban districts. Remote rural districts with small populations are …

Colonization Of Lake Erie Tributaries By Allocapnia Recta (Capniidae), Alison L. Yasick, Robert A. Krebs, Julie Wolin

Biological, Geological, and Environmental Faculty Publications

Plecoptera display a variety of dispersal mechanisms. The most reduced of these, walking, is common for winter stoneflies in the family Capniidae. To examine dispersal in a winter stonefly, Allocapnia recta, we sequenced a fragment of the 16s rRNA mitochondrial gene from four adjacent Lake Erie drainages. Nineteen unique haplotypes were obtained from 107 specimens. The four watersheds explained 37% of the haplotype diversity and all pairwise contrasts among streams were statistically significant; not one haplotype was common to all four watersheds. This extreme level of divergence among populations separated briefly in both space and time suggest minimal if …

Two Meteorology Students Interviewed About Storm Fest, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

No abstract provided.

High Clear Bell Of Morning By Ann Eriksson, Lauri Chose

The Goose

Review of Ann Eriksson's High Clear Bell of Morning.

The Fragility Of Things: Self-Organizing Processes, Neoliberal Fantasies, And Democratic Activism By William E. Connolly, Brian Mccormack

The Goose

Review of William E. Connolly's The Fragility of Things: Self-Organizing Processes, Neoliberal Fantasies, and Democratic Activism.

Animals Among Us: The Lives Of Humans And Animals In Contemporary American Fiction Edited By John Yunker, Ashley E. Reis

The Goose

Review of Animals Among Us: The Lives of Humans and Animals in Contemporary American Fiction, edited by John Yunker.

Masculindians: Conversations About Indigenous Manhood By Sam Mckegney, P. Kelly Mitton

The Goose

Review of Sam McKegney’s Masculindians: Conversations About Indigenous Manhood.

Urban Ecology & Conservation Symposium 2015: 13th Annual (Abstracts), Urban Ecosystem Research Consortium Of Portland/Vancouver

Urban Ecosystem Research Consortium of Portland/Vancouver

The UERC is a consortium of people from various universities and colleges, state and federal agencies, local governments, non-profit organizations and independent professionals interested in supporting urban ecosystem research and creating an information-sharing network of people that collect and use ecological data in the Portland/Vancouver area.

UERC Mission Statement:

To advance the state of the science of urban ecosystems and improve our understanding of them, with a focus on the Portland/Vancouver metropolitan region, by fostering communication and collaboration among researchers, managers and citizens at academic institutions, public agencies, local governments, non-profit organizations, and other interested groups.

The principal organizers span …

The Ticker, February 9, 2015

The Ticker

The Ticker is the student newspaper of Baruch College. It has been published continuously since 1932, when the Baruch College campus was the School of Business and Civic Administration of the City College of New York.

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 039, Number 20, February 09, 2015, Grand Valley State University

2014-2015, Volume 39

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

A&S Departments Share Advising Goals For 2014-15, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

No abstract provided.

Faculty Team-Teach Wealth & Poverty Seminar, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

No abstract provided.

Daily Eastern News: Feburary 09, 2015, Eastern Illinois University

February

No abstract provided.

Heat Sources Within The Greenland Ice Sheet: Dissipation, Temperate Paleo-Firn And Cryo-Hydrologic Warming, M. P. Lüthi, C. Ryser, L. C. Andrews, G. A. Catania, M. Funk, R. L. Hawley

Dartmouth Scholarship

Ice temperature profiles from the Greenland Ice Sheet contain information on the deformation history, past climates and recent warming. We present full-depth temperature profiles from two drill sites on a flow line passing through Swiss Camp, West Greenland. Numerical modeling reveals that ice temperatures are considerably higher than would be expected from heat diffusion and dissipation alone. The possible causes for this extra heat are evaluated using a Lagrangian heat flow model. The model results reveal that the observations can be explained with a combination of different processes: enhanced dissipation (strain heating) in ice-age ice, temperate paleo-firn, and cryo-hydrologic warming …

Theories And Applications Of Geospatial Technologies, Hua Liu

Undergraduate Research Symposium

No abstract provided.

Quanah And Cynthia Ann Parker: The History And The Legend, Booth Library

Quanah & Cynthia Parker: Exhibit Booklet

No abstract provided.

An Annotated Bibliography Of Books, Dvds, And Internet Resources On Glbt Latinos And Latinas, Walt Walker, Glbtrt Resources Committee

Librarian Publications & Presentations

Latino communities have long been parts of our society and culture, but many people, including in the mainstream media, have only recently noticed that 1/6 of the U.S. population is of Latino or Hispanic heritage. The United States is the second-largest Spanish-speaking country in the world, trailing only Mexico. This underrepresented demographic group is starting to receive more recognition in U.S. culture, including in its literature. Gay men, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgender persons make up another minority group that is increasingly visible in our culture. The subject of this bibliography is the intersection of these two minority groups, GLBT Latino/as. …

February 5 And 6, 2015- Board Of Trustees Meeting Minutes, Regular And Special Meetings, Central Washington University Central Washington University

Board of Trustees Meeting Minutes

Meeting minutes for the Regular Meeting of the Board of Trustees at Central Washington University, February 5 and 6, 2015

Interested In Urban Sustainability? Study In Scotland This Summer, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

No abstract provided.

New Distributional Records For Pleasing Lacewings (Neuroptera: Dilaridae, Nallachius Spp.) In The Americas, David E. Bowles, Atilano Contreras-Ramos, Mariza A. Sarmiento-Cordero, Michael L. Ferro

Insecta Mundi

We report on collections of seven species of pleasing lacewings (Neuroptera: Dilaridae) from the Americas. New country distributional records are reported for Nallachius pulchellus (Banks) from Honduras and Trinidad, and Nallachius phantomellus Adams from Ecuador. Nallachius ovalis Adams and Nallachius prestoni (McLachlan) are reported from Brazil representing the second reported collections of those species. Additional state records and in-country distributional information are presented for the other species. Two species could not be identifi ed with certainty.

Convergence Of Soil Nitrogen Isotopes Across Global Climate Gradients, Joseph M. Craine, Andrew J. Elmore, Lixin Wang, Laurent Augusto, W. Troy Baisden, E. N. J. Brookshire, Michael D. Cramer, Niles J. Hasselquist, Erik A. Hobbie, Ansgar Kahmen, Keisuke Koba, J. Marty Kranabetter, Michelle C. Mack, Erika Marin-Spiotta, Jordan R. Mayor, Kendra K. Mclauchlan, Anders Michelsen, Gabriela B. Nardoto, Rafael S. Oliveira, Steven S. Perakis, Pablo L. Peri, Carlos A. Quesada, Andreas Richter, Louis A. Schipper

Faculty Publications

Quantifying global patterns of terrestrial nitrogen (N) cycling is central to predicting future patterns of primary productivity, carbon sequestration, nutrient fluxes to aquatic systems, and climate forcing. With limited direct measures of soil N cycling at the global scale, syntheses of the 15N:14N ratio of soil organic matter across climate gradients provide key insights into understanding global patterns of N cycling. In synthesizing data from over 6000 soil samples, we show strong global relationships among soil N isotopes, mean annual temperature (MAT), mean annual precipitation (MAP), and the concentrations of organic carbon and clay in soil. In both hot ecosystems …

The Pervasive Role Of Biological Cohesion In Bedform Development., Jonathan Malarkey, Jaco H. Baas, Julie A. Hope, Rebecca J. Aspden, Daniel R. Parsons, Jeff Peakall, David M. Paterson, Robert J. Schindler, Leiping Ye, Ian D. Lichtman, Sarah J. Bass, Alan G. Davies, Andrew J. Manning, Peter D. Thorne

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Sediment fluxes in aquatic environments are crucially dependent on bedform dynamics. However, sediment-flux predictions rely almost completely on clean-sand studies, despite most environments being composed of mixtures of non-cohesive sands, physically cohesive muds and biologically cohesive extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) generated by microorganisms. EPS associated with surficial biofilms are known to stabilize sediment and increase erosion thresholds. Here we present experimental data showing that the pervasive distribution of low levels of EPS throughout the sediment, rather than the high surficial levels of EPS in biofilms, is the key control on bedform dynamics. The development time for bedforms increases by up …

Editorial, Robin A. Leaver

Yale Journal of Music & Religion

No abstract provided.

The Observer, Central Washington University

Student Newspaper

Student newspaper for Central Washington University for February 5-11, 2015. Vol. 99, No. 4.

Comparing Vegan And Vegetarian Attitudes, Beliefs, And Perceptions With Risk For Disordered Eating Behaviors, Chaya Lee Charles

Theses - ALL

ABSTRACT Objective: Evaluate the following for effect on disordered eating behaviors and body image: An individual's motivation for consuming a vegan/vegetarian diet; Accuracy in self-–reporting of vegan/vegetarian status and; Level of acculturation in vegan/vegetarian American immigrants. Design: A descriptive, cross-–sectional study evaluating vegan/vegetarian beliefs and current practices, using the theoretical framework of the Theory of Planned Behavior. Subjects/Setting: Participants recruited via e-–mail list-–servs for the Vegetarian Resource Group and the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Vegetarian Nutrition Dietetic Practice Group. Data were collected in 2010, using SurveyMonkey©©. This research utilized a survey tool developed for this study, with the Eating …

Comparing Vegan And Vegetarian Attitudes, Beliefs, And Perceptions With Risk For Disordered Eating Behaviors, Chaya Lee Charles

Theses - ALL

ABSTRACT Objective: Evaluate the following for effect on disordered eating behaviors and body image: An individual's motivation for consuming a vegan/vegetarian diet; Accuracy in self-–reporting of vegan/vegetarian status and; Level of acculturation in vegan/vegetarian American immigrants. Design: A descriptive, cross-–sectional study evaluating vegan/vegetarian beliefs and current practices, using the theoretical framework of the Theory of Planned Behavior. Subjects/Setting: Participants recruited via e-–mail list-–servs for the Vegetarian Resource Group and the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Vegetarian Nutrition Dietetic Practice Group. Data were collected in 2010, using SurveyMonkey©©. This research utilized a survey tool developed for this study, with the Eating …

February 2015 General Studies Council Minutes, University Of Nebraska At Kearney General Studies Council

General Education Council

No abstract provided.

February 5, 2015, University Of North Dakota

University Senate Meeting Minutes

Minutes from the February 5, 2015, meeting of the University Senate. 37 pages

The Scarlet - Volume Xciv, No. 13 (February 5, 2015), Scarlet Staff

The Scarlet (Student Newspaper) (2011-present)

The February 5, 2015 edition of The Scarlet (est. 1939), Clark University's student-run newspaper. The Scarlet is intellectually and editorially independent of the University.

Yealand Manor School, Susan Vipont Hartshorne

Quaker Studies

In 1939 a small group of Manchester Friends set up a school for Quaker children evacuated from the northern cities for the duration of the war. It was open from September 1939 to July 1944 and during this time 183 children, aged between three and twelve years, passed through the school. In addition a number of refugees, mainly Jewish children, came to the school. The maximum number at the school at any one time was 76. It was staffed almost entirely by volunteers. In this article I focus on several of the more unusual aspects of this school. These include …