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Internationalization: Utilizing The University Museum, Adrienne Turnbull-Reilly

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

A review of the literature on the nature of international education in the United States reveals that although most international students want to engage socially and academically with their peers, many encounter cultural, linguistic, and institutional obstacles. Using this information to guide interview questions and format workshops, the author explored the question of how university museums can contribute to a more holistic and enriching educational experience for international students on American campuses, using the University of Denver as a case study. Findings from workshops and interviews conducted by the author reveal similar obstacles (cultural, linguistic, and institutional) when engaging students …

When Wells Run Dry: Water And Tourism Along The Western Coast Of Nicaragua, Gary Thomas Lavanchy

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation uses a political ecology approach to examine the relationship between tourism development and groundwater in southwest Nicaragua. Tourism in Nicaragua is a booming industry bolstered by ‘unspoiled’ natural beauty, low crime rates, and government incentives. This growth has led to increased infrastructure, revenue, and employment opportunities for many local communities along the Pacific coast. Not surprisingly, it has also brought concomitant issues of deeper poverty, widening gaps between rich and poor, and competition over natural resources. Adequate provisions of freshwater are necessary to sustain the production and reproduction of tourism; however, it remains uncertain if groundwater supplies can …

2015 Annual Report Transportation Research Center For Livable Communities, Western Michigan University, University Of Texas Arlington, Wayne State University, Utah State University, Tennessee State University

Transportation Research Center Reports

Table of Contents

• Messages from the Director and Representatives
• TRCLC Mission and Objectives
• Center Personnel
• Research Investigators
• Consortia
• Our Research
• List of Research Projects
• Highlighted Projects
• Technology Transfer and Outreach Activities
• Student Awards
• Upcoming Events

Fact Book 2015-16, Western Michigan University

Western Michigan University Fact Books

• General Information
• Enrollment Information
• Institutional Comparison
• Student Information
• Faculty Information
• Budgets and Resources

Business Magazine (2015), Haworth College Of Business

Haworth College of Business News

• Greetings from the Dean’s Office
• Critical Decisions
• Perspectives
• In the Spotlight
• Making a Difference
• Significant Insight
• Focus on Faculty and Staff
• Leadership and Decision Making
• Celebrating Alumni and Friends
• Alumni and Businesses to Watch
• Class Notes

Parental Knowledge & Experience Regarding Their Children's Dental Insurance Following Enactment Of The Affordable Care Act, Bianca Hillers

Student Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

Goal and Objectives: The goal of this study is to assess parental knowledge and experience regarding children's dental insurance, following enactment of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The ACA emphasizes the importance of oral health, making pediatric dental services one of ten essential health benefits. With this major change in health care reform, parents should be equipped to make informed decisions regarding their children's dental care and insurance. Data from the first open enrollment period show lack of true mandate and subsequent lack of compliance to this pediatric dental objective. One of our aims was to assess uptake of pediatric …

Ua45 2015-2016 Four-Year Degree Paths, Wku Registrar

WKU Administration Documents

An addendum to the 2015-2016 Undergraduate Catalog

The purpose of the Four-Year Degree Path is to assist undergraduate students in determining a timeline for completion of their undergraduate degree program. Each path displayed within this website provides students with the anticipated order in which a degree would typically be completed in a timely fashion at Western Kentucky University.

The Degree Paths show appropriate timing and spacing of general education, core course requirements, elective suggestions, prerequisites and displays how each of these requirements may be met during a four-year time frame.

The Degree Path is simply a guideline and might not …

Review Of Lifeblood: Oil, Freedom, And The Forces Of Capital, Dustin Mulvaney

Faculty Publications, Environmental Studies

A review of Lifeblood: oil, freedom, and the forces of capital, by Matthew T. Huber, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2013, 253 pp., $25 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-8166-7785-6

The Digital Atlas Of Ancient Life: Delivering Information On Paleontology And Biogeography, Jonathan R. Hendricks, Alycia L. Stigall, Bruce S. Lieberman

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Eastern Kentucky University Libraries Biennial Report: 2012-2014, Eastern Kentucky University Libraries

Eastern Kentucky University Libraries Biennial Report

Table of Contents:

• Dear Colonels and Friends (message from Betina Gardner, Dean of EKU Libraries) (p. 2)
• Developing and Managing Resources: By the Numbers (p. 3-4)
• Enhancing our Collections: Acquiring Material "Just in Time" (p. 5)
• Strengthening Communication: The Noel Studio for Academic Creativity (p. 6)
• Collecting and Sharing EKU's Research, Creative Works, and History: Encompass (p. 7-8)
• Sharing the Eastern Story: Digitization of the Eastern Progress (p. 9)
• Preserving Community History: Elmwood (p. 10)
• Inspiring our Region's Children: The Future Colonels Project (p. 11-12)
• Celebrating Scholarship: Student Awards (p. 13-14)
• Breaking through the Noise: Silent Study Zone (p. 15) …

Triennial Report: 2012-2014, Geospatial Sciences Center Of Excellence

GSCE Triennial Reports

Triennial Report Purpose [Page] 3

Geographical Information Science Center of Excellence [Page] 5

SDSU Faculty [Page] 6

EROS Faculty [Page] 13

Research Professors [Page] 19

Postdoctoral Fellows [Page] 24

GSE Ph.D Program [Page] 36

Ph.D. Fellowships [Page] 37

Ph.D. Students [Page] 38

Recent Ph.D. Graduates [Page] 46

Masters Students [Page] 56

Previous Ph.D. Students [Page] 58

Center Scholars Program [Page] 59

Research Staff [Page] 60

Administrative and Information Technology Staff [Page] 62

Computer Resources [Page] 66

Research Funding [Page] 67

Glancing Back, Looking Forward [Page] 68

Appendix I Alumni Faculty and Staff

Appendix II Cool Faculty Research and Locations

Appendix …

A One Year Landsat 8 Conterminous United States Study Of Cirrus And Non-Cirrus Clouds, Valeriy Kovalskyy, David P. Roy

GSCE Faculty Publications

The first year of available Landsat 8 data over the conterminous United States (CONUS), composed of 11,296 acquisitions sensed over more than 11 thousand million 30 m pixel locations, was analyzed comparing the spatial and temporal incidence of 30 m cloud and cirrus states available in the standard Landsat 8 Level 1 product suite. This comprehensive data analysis revealed that on average over a year of CONUS observations (i) 35.9% were detected with high confidence cloud, with spatio-temporal patterns similar to those observed by previous Landsat 5 and 7 cloud analyses; (ii) 28.2% were high confidence cirrus; (iii) 20.1% were …

Building Disaster Resilience To Address Household Food Security: The Case Of Sta. Rosa-Silang Subwatershed, Roberto F. Ranola Jr., Mi Cuesta, Bam Zaraf

Journal of Economics, Management and Agricultural Development

The Laguna Lake Region is one of the places in the Philippines that are most vulnerable to natural disasters because of their location and ecological condition. Among the natural calamities that regularly hit the country, one of the most frequent and disastrous is flooding. The most affected are the poor who are faced with the double risk of being food insecure and living in conditions that are very vulnerable to natural hazards. The most negative and long-term effect of flooding is reduction in food security because flooding erodes the asset base of households that in turn results in the adoption …

Somos & Estamos, 2015, Department Of Spanish

Somos y Estamos

2015 Department of Spanish Newsletter

Tom Fraser Intro To The Issues, Carl Milofsky

Northern Ireland Archive

Fraser gives a history of Northern Ireland, the geopolitics of Northern Ireland's geographic and political relationship to the United Kingdom, and the historic relationships between Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, and England and also the historic relationship between Catholics and Protestants. This lecture is meant to take students up to the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement and the period of the Troubles, which began in 1968. History from that time point forward is given on the Paul Arthur tapes available elsewhere in this archive.

The California Supreme Court And The Popular Will, Kenneth P. Miller

Chapman Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Highs And Lows Of Wild Justice, Corinna Barrett Lain

Tulsa Law Review

Reviewing Evan J. Mandery, A Wild Justice: The Death and Resurrection of Capital Punishment in America, and Thane Rosenbaum, Payback: The Case for Revenge.

2014-15 Annual Report, University Center For The Humanities

University Center for the Humanities Events

The mission of the Center is to recognize and support the humanities at Western Michigan University. As a gathering place for dialogue, the Center acts an incubator for the exchange of ideas among faculty, emeriti, alumni, undergraduate and graduate students, and people in the wider community. Through the understanding of diverse cultural, professional, political, and intellectual landscapes, we nurture engaged and vital academic life.

Discovery, January 2015, Office Of Vice President For Research

Research and Discovery News

• Discovery Advances
• BLVS Receives Four Separate Grants, Totaling $3.7m
• $3.2m from U.S. Department of Education
• Discovery Communities Being Formed
• Survey: Complete by Feb. 14 to Win Ipad
• Facilities & Administrative Cost Rates

Calling Science Pseudoscience: Fleck’S Archaeologies Of Fact And Latour’S ‘Biography Of An Investigation’ In Aids Denialism And Homeopathy, Babette Babich

Articles and Chapters in Academic Book Collections

Fleck’s Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact foregrounds claims traditionally excluded from reception, often regarded as opposed to fact, scientific claims that are increasingly seldom discussed in connection with philosophy of science save as examples of pseudo-science. I am especially concerned with scientists who question the epidemiological link between HIV and AIDS and who are thereby discounted—no matter their credentials, no matter the cogency of their arguments, no matter the sobriety of their statistics—but also with other classic examples of so-called pseudo-science including homeopathy and other sciences, such as cold fusion. The pseudo-science version of the demarcation problem turns …

Explorative Study Of Barriers To Care For Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Among Combat Veterans From Operation Iraqi Freedom And Operation Enduring Freedom, Joshua Smith

College of Health Sciences Presentations

There are a number of perceived barriers that preclude Combat Veterans of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom from seeking care for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.

This study will conduct an exploratory analysis of perceived barriers to treatment in an attempt to identify institutional, logistical, and stigma related barriers to accessing care.

Using one-on-one interviews, data will be collected for perceived barriers to accessing care in domains of Institutional issues arising from the Department of Veterans Affairs and Logistical issues in accessing care due to time and transportation constraints. Additionally, stigma related barriers in the areas of social stigma, occupational …

Bridgewater State University Undergraduate & Graduate Catalog 2015-2016, Bridgewater State University

Bridgewater State University Catalogs, 2010-

This 2015-2016 Bridgewater State University Catalog outlines programs of study.

This catalog is an official publication of Bridgewater State University. The rules, regulations, policies, fees and other charges, courses of study, and academic requirements that appear in this catalog were in effect at the time of its publication.

Whether noted elsewhere in this catalog or not, the university reserves the right to change, eliminate, and add to any existing (and to introduce additional) rules, regulations, policies, fees and other charges, courses of study and academic requirements that appear in this catalog, in the Student Handbook or on its website or …

Bridgewater State University Undergraduate & Graduate Catalog 2015-2016, Bridgewater State University

Bridgewater State University Catalogs, 2010-

This 2015-2016 Bridgewater State University Catalog outlines programs of study.

This catalog is an official publication of Bridgewater State University. The rules, regulations, policies, fees and other charges, courses of study, and academic requirements that appear in this catalog were in effect at the time of its publication.

Whether noted elsewhere in this catalog or not, the university reserves the right to change, eliminate, and add to any existing (and to introduce additional) rules, regulations, policies, fees and other charges, courses of study and academic requirements that appear in this catalog, in the Student Handbook or on its website or …

A Study On Visible Minority Immigrant Women's Experiences With Domestic Violence, Masiya Ahmadzai

Social Justice and Community Engagement

The purpose of this exploratory and qualitative research was to better understand the personal experiences of visible minority immigrant women seeking help with domestic violence in Southern Ontario, Canada. Over the course of two months, I interviewed two survivors of domestic violence and three professionals about their personal and professional experiences on the issue of domestic violence impacting visible minority immigrant women. A gender-based analysis of the participants’ narratives revealed that a number of diversity-related axis such as, gender, visible minority, immigrant status and economic status influenced women’s experiences with abuse. The results exemplify the various barriers they experience and …

An Introduction To The Loop Analysis Of Qualitatively Specified Complex Causal Systems, Alexis Dinno

Community Health Faculty Publications and Presentations

This presentation introduces the loop analysis method.

L’Argent N’Apporte Pas Le Bonheur Mais Il Achète La Liberté : Carrière Et Refus Du Bonheur Conjugal Chez Les Personnages Femmes De Malika Mokeddem, Simona Pruteanu

Languages and Literatures Faculty Publications

Malika Mokeddem s’inscrit dans la lignée d’écrivaines francophones qui traitent dans leurs textes de la situation socio-politique et culturelle de la femme en Algérie, mais aussi de l’entre-deux dans lequel se situent les femmes migrantes. On ne peut s’empêcher de noter que, sur les dix romans publiés jusqu'à date, aucune de ses héroïnes ne connait la sérénité dans le couple et elles rejettent toutes la maternité. Nous nous interrogerons donc, dans cet article sur les raisons de ces manques, afin de voir si on peut y lire plutôt une affirmation absolue de la liberté de la femme que des échecs. …

Le Mouvement Des Harraga — Un Traumatisme Historique Et Politique Qui Dévoile La Face Cachée De L’Europe, Simona Pruteanu

Languages and Literatures Faculty Publications

Cet article traite le dépassement des frontières des harraga (des sans-papiers) du Maghreb vers l’Europe (à travers l’Espagne) tout en analysant ce que cela implique du point de vue des lois d’immigration, de l’idée de la clandestinité ainsi que des créations d’une identité musulmane qui s’oppose à l’identité européenne. L’article s’attarde aussi sur l’historique des relations compliquées entre le Maghreb et l’Espagne en termes de relations (post)coloniales. En vue de cette contextualisation, les deux romans du corpus, Partir de Tahar Ben Jelloun et Harraga de Sansal Boualem, sont analysés du point de vue de l’histoire du pays en rapport …

Gang Policing: The Post Stop-And-Frisk Justification For Profile-Based Policing, K. Babe Howell

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

Town Of Surry Annual Report Town Officers & Inventory Of Ratable Property Of Surry, New Hampshire For The Year Ending December 31, 2014 & School District Officers For The Year Ending June 30, 2013., Surry Town Representatives

Surry, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

Ua66 Ogden College Of Science & Engineering Newsletter, Cheryl Stevens, Dean

Ogden College of Science & Engineering Publications

No abstract provided.