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Public Participation Gis And Neighbourhood Recovery: Using Community Mapping For Economic Development, Michelle M. Thompson Phd, Gisp Jan 2015

Public Participation Gis And Neighbourhood Recovery: Using Community Mapping For Economic Development, Michelle M. Thompson Phd, Gisp

Planning and Urban Studies Faculty Publications

In 2005, New Orleans, Louisiana experienced an interruption in its neighborhood life cycle due to Hurricane Katrina. While federal, state and local administrative policies have tried to manage the process of recovery, the non-profit sector has been a key to the recovery. This paper will examine the case study of the Beacon of Hope Resource Centre (BOH) whose ability to collect data, expand citizen engagement and influence policy made a positive impact upon economic development through public participation geographic information systems (PPGIS) with the Regional Planning Commission and the Department of Planning and Urban Studies, University of New Orleans. This …

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Ua1c11/56 George Page Photo Collection, Wku Archives Jan 2015

Ua1c11/56 George Page Photo Collection, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Photographs taken by and of George Page.

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Ua3/8/1 President's Office-Meredith Correspondence / Subject File, Wku Archives Jan 2015

Ua3/8/1 President's Office-Meredith Correspondence / Subject File, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Correspondence and subject files created by the President's Office during Thomas Meredith's tenure as president of WKU.

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Quaking Aspen At The Residential-Wildland Interface: Elk Herbivory Hinders Forest Conservation., Paul C. Rogers, Allison Jones, James Catlin, James Shuler, Arthur Morris, Michael R. Kuhns Jan 2015

Quaking Aspen At The Residential-Wildland Interface: Elk Herbivory Hinders Forest Conservation., Paul C. Rogers, Allison Jones, James Catlin, James Shuler, Arthur Morris, Michael R. Kuhns

Aspen Bibliography

T: Quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) forests are experiencing numerous impediments across North America. In the West, recent drought, fire suppression, insects, diseases, climate trends, inappropriate management, and ungulate herbivory are impacting these high biodiversity forests. Additionally, ecological tension zones are sometimes created at residential-wildland interfaces with divergent management directives. For example, private conservation reserves bordering public land may be degraded from browsing where game species find refuge from hunting and plentiful forage. We examined putative herbivore impacts to nearly pure aspen forests at Wolf Creek Ranch (WCR), a sparsely developed residential landscape in northern Utah. Forty-three one-hectare monitoring …

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Orda Fy2015 Grant Awardees, Office Of Research Development And Administration Jan 2015

Orda Fy2015 Grant Awardees, Office Of Research Development And Administration

ORDA Grant Awardees​

No abstract provided.

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Gearing Up For The Next Industrial Revolution: 3d Printing, Home-Based Factories, And Modes Of Social Control, Elizabeth J. Kennedy, Andrea Giampetro-Meyer Jan 2015

Gearing Up For The Next Industrial Revolution: 3d Printing, Home-Based Factories, And Modes Of Social Control, Elizabeth J. Kennedy, Andrea Giampetro-Meyer

Loyola University Chicago Law Journal

While former industrial factories are being converted into modern living spaces in cities across the country, residential homes are being converted into modern factories thanks to advances in three-dimensional (“3D”) printing technology, an emerging “Maker Movement,” and the rise of online marketplaces like Etsy. Despite growing environmental, child-labor, and safety concerns, these “home-based factories” are largely unregulated. In the absence of traditional workplace protections, how can we gear up for the “next industrial revolution” while guarding against the sweatshop conditions of the last? How can we harness the Maker Movement’s commitment to do-it-yourself democracy in order to combat abuses by …

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Diary Of Two Mad Black Mormons: Finding The Lord's Lessons In Everyday Life, Sydney Hughes Jan 2015

Diary Of Two Mad Black Mormons: Finding The Lord's Lessons In Everyday Life, Sydney Hughes

BYU Studies

Diary of Two Mad Black Mormons: Finding the Lord’s Lessons in Everyday Life, by Zandra Vranes and Tamu Smith (Salt Lake City: Ensign Peak, 2014).

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The Necessity Of Political Parties And The Importance Of Compromise, David B. Magleby Jan 2015

The Necessity Of Political Parties And The Importance Of Compromise, David B. Magleby

BYU Studies

BYU Studies has a long history of publishing the annual lecture given by the recipient of the Karl G. Maeser Distinguished Faculty Lecturer Award, BYU’s highest faculty honor. It is with great pleasure that BYU Studies Quarterly publishes this year’s lecture by Dr. David B. Magleby, a professor of political science. His speech was delivered as a forum address on May 19, 2015, at Brigham Young University.

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Review: Branscome, David. Textual Rivals: Self-Presentation In Herodotus' Histories. Ann Arbor: University Of Michigan Press, 2013., Joel Alden Schlosser Jan 2015

Review: Branscome, David. Textual Rivals: Self-Presentation In Herodotus' Histories. Ann Arbor: University Of Michigan Press, 2013., Joel Alden Schlosser

Political Science Faculty Research and Scholarship

No abstract provided.

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Imagining The Afterlife In Greek Religion, Radcliffe Emonds Iii Jan 2015

Imagining The Afterlife In Greek Religion, Radcliffe Emonds Iii

Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies Faculty Research and Scholarship

No abstract provided.

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Transnational Forms, Jennifer Harford Vargas Jan 2015

Transnational Forms, Jennifer Harford Vargas

Literatures in English Faculty Research and Scholarship

No abstract provided.

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Political Economy Of Regulating Competition In A Challenged Global Metropolis: The Hong Kong Blueprint, Miron Mushkat, Roda Mushkat Jan 2015

Political Economy Of Regulating Competition In A Challenged Global Metropolis: The Hong Kong Blueprint, Miron Mushkat, Roda Mushkat

North Carolina Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.

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The Spillikin (Vol. 32), Valparaiso University Jan 2015

The Spillikin (Vol. 32), Valparaiso University

The Spillikin - The Christ College Newsletter

No abstract provided.

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Global Delivery Models: The Role Of Talent, Speed And Time Zones In The Global Outsourcing Industry, Stephan Manning, Marcus Larsen, Pratyush Bharati Jan 2015

Global Delivery Models: The Role Of Talent, Speed And Time Zones In The Global Outsourcing Industry, Stephan Manning, Marcus Larsen, Pratyush Bharati

Management Science and Information Systems Faculty Publication Series

We investigate antecedents and contingencies of location configurations supporting global delivery models (GDMs) in global outsourcing. GDMs are a new form of IT-enabled client-specific investment promoting services provision integration with clients by exploiting client proximity and time-zone spread allowing for 24/7 service delivery and access to resources. Based on comprehensive data we show that providers are likely to establish GDM configurations when clients value access to globally distributed talent pools and speed of service delivery, and in particular when services are highly commoditized. Findings imply that coordination across time zones increasingly affects international operations in business-to-business and born-global industries.

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Re-Envisioning Community-Wildfire Relations In The U.S. West As Adaptive Governance, Jesse B. Abrams, Melanie Knapp, Travis B. Paveglio, Autumn Ellison, Cassandra Moseley, Max Nielsen-Pincus, Matthew S. Carroll Jan 2015

Re-Envisioning Community-Wildfire Relations In The U.S. West As Adaptive Governance, Jesse B. Abrams, Melanie Knapp, Travis B. Paveglio, Autumn Ellison, Cassandra Moseley, Max Nielsen-Pincus, Matthew S. Carroll

Environmental Science and Management Faculty Publications and Presentations

Prompted by a series of increasingly destructive, expensive, and highly visible wildfire crises in human communities across the globe, a robust body of scholarship has emerged to theorize, conceptualize, and measure community-level resilience to wildfires. To date, however, insufficient consideration has been given to wildfire resilience as a process of adaptive governance mediated by institutions at multiple scales. Here we explore the possibilities for addressing this gap through an analysis of wildfire resilience among wildland-urban interface communities in the western region of the United States. We re-engage important but overlooked components of social-ecological system resilience by situating rural communities within …

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Potential Range Expansion Of The Invasive Lionfish In The Western Atlantic Ocean, Brian Grieve Jan 2015

Potential Range Expansion Of The Invasive Lionfish In The Western Atlantic Ocean, Brian Grieve

Theses and Dissertations

Lionfish (Pterois volitans) are an invasive, predatory fish native to the reefs of the Indo-Pacific. In the mid-1980s, lionfish were introduced off the coast of Miami, FL and have since transformed many of the reef ecosystems throughout the Western Atlantic Ocean. Although lionfish are found year-round as far north as Cape Hatteras, NC, they are confined to the warm Gulf Stream during winter months. Seasonal inshore expansion is possible in the summer, and further poleward expansion is limited by cold bottom-water temperatures in winter. Here, I use an ensemble of 17 different climate models to project lionfish habitat by the …

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Bankruptcy Survival, Lynn M. Lopucki, Joseph W. Doherty Jan 2015

Bankruptcy Survival, Lynn M. Lopucki, Joseph W. Doherty

UF Law Faculty Publications

Of the large, public companies that seek to remain in business through bankruptcy reorganization, only 70% succeed. The assets of the other 30% are absorbed into other businesses. Success is important both because it is efficient and it preserves jobs, communities, supplier and customer relationships, and tax revenues. This Article reports the findings of the first comprehensive study of the division into successful and failed reorganizations. Eleven conditions best predict companies’ survival prospects. First, a company that even hints in the press release announcing its bankruptcy that it intends to sell its business is highly likely to fail. Second, reorganizations …

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Guidance Counselor Survey, Chery Justice, Kathleen Sherman-Morris, Kimberly Hall Jan 2015

Guidance Counselor Survey, Chery Justice, Kathleen Sherman-Morris, Kimberly Hall

CAS Publications

This is a survey created to study guidance/career counselor opinions about the geosciences and other STEM fields, and the career counseling activities they use.

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Snow Cover Variability In A Forest Ecotone Of The Oregon Cascades Via Modis Terra Products, Tihomir Sabinov Kostadinov, Todd R. Lookingbill Jan 2015

Snow Cover Variability In A Forest Ecotone Of The Oregon Cascades Via Modis Terra Products, Tihomir Sabinov Kostadinov, Todd R. Lookingbill

Geography and the Environment Faculty Publications

Snowcover pattern and persistence have important implications for planetary energy balance, climate sensitivity to forcings, and vegetation structure, function, and composition. Variability in snow cover within mountainous regions of the Pacific Northwest, USA is attributable to a combination of anthropogenic climate change and climate oscillations. However, snowcovered areas can be heterogeneous and patchy, requiring more detailed mapping of snow trends to understand their potential influences on montane forests. We used standard dailyMODIS snow products (MOD10A1.5) to investigate the 15-year record (2000–2014) of snow cover in the predominant forest ecotone of the Oregon Western Cascades. We modeled the ecotone using field …

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Transformando La Educación Superior Para Una Amazonía Cambiante, David S. Salisbury, Elizabeth Anderson, Richard Bilsborrow, Connie Campbell, Javier Maldonado-Ocampo, Stephen Perz, Edgar Díaz-Zúñiga Jan 2015

Transformando La Educación Superior Para Una Amazonía Cambiante, David S. Salisbury, Elizabeth Anderson, Richard Bilsborrow, Connie Campbell, Javier Maldonado-Ocampo, Stephen Perz, Edgar Díaz-Zúñiga

Geography and the Environment Faculty Publications

El tesista tiene un desafío. ¿Cómo puede construir una metodología para que su trabajo de tesis ayude a una comunidad indígena a enfrentarse a una Amazonía cambiante? Afortunadamente, él es uno de los 21 estudiantes universitarios peruanos que participan en un proyecto que combina la ciencia de vanguardia y la formación tecnológica con la investigación participativa en comunidades indígenas biodiversas. Este Proyecto de Cooperación es un Consorcio entre la Universidad Nacional de Ucayali, Pucallpa, Perú, y la University of Richmond, EE.UU, apoyado por el Programa de Educación Superior para el Desarrollo (HED) del Consejo Americano de Educación (ACE). Esta asociación, …

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Communal Division And Constitutional Changes In Colonial Fiji, 1959-1970, Donald D. Johnson Jan 2015

Communal Division And Constitutional Changes In Colonial Fiji, 1959-1970, Donald D. Johnson

Open Access Theses

This essay examines the role of communal division in changes to Fiji’s constitution during the decade prior to Fiji becoming an independent state. Amicable relations between indigenous Fijians and Indians who migrated under indentured servitude began to crack in 1959 and broke open during political negotiations and the constitutional conference of the 1965. The subsequent election in 1966 solidified the political gains of fledgling parties and entrenched communal divides between the pro-Indian National Federation Party and the Alliance Party, theoretically race neutral, representing the interests of Fijians. By 1969 the political calculus of both the National Federation Party and the …

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Multiple-Cosmogenic-Nuclide Approaches To Studying The Holocene And Late Pleistocene History Of Small Ice Caps In Western Greenland, Casey Robert Beel Jan 2015

Multiple-Cosmogenic-Nuclide Approaches To Studying The Holocene And Late Pleistocene History Of Small Ice Caps In Western Greenland, Casey Robert Beel

Open Access Theses

This thesis contains two chapters; one dealing with long-term landscape evolution and late Quaternary ice sheet history along the western margin of the Greenland Ice Sheet (GIS), and the other with assessing the sensitivity of exposure durations calculated from paired bedrock 14C/10Be measurements in glacial troughs. Both chapters were designed to improve our understanding of the glacial history of Greenland.

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Ohio's Home-Rule Amendment: Why Ohio's General Assembly Creating Regional Governments Would Combat The Regional Race To The Bottom Under Current Home-Rule Principles, Jonathon Angarola Jan 2015

Ohio's Home-Rule Amendment: Why Ohio's General Assembly Creating Regional Governments Would Combat The Regional Race To The Bottom Under Current Home-Rule Principles, Jonathon Angarola

Cleveland State Law Review

This Note argues that Ohio’s home-rule principles foster a regional “race to the bottom and proposes that the Ohio General Assembly pass legislation creating regional governments to combat the absence of coordination among regional localities".

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A Citizen's Guide To Redisticting Reform Through Referendum, Grayson Keith Sieg Jan 2015

A Citizen's Guide To Redisticting Reform Through Referendum, Grayson Keith Sieg

Cleveland State Law Review

This Note proposes to explain the construction and political history of the 2012 Ohio Ballot Issue 2, extract lessons learned from its defeat, and, using those lessons, construct an alternative model referendum for congressional redistricting reform. What events led up to the November General Election defeat? Part II explores the history of redistricting and referendum. I also include a discussion on the various models of citizens redistricting commissions, including those adopted in California and Arizona (from which Ohio Issue 2 was largely borrowed), as well as recent constitutional challenges to citizens redistricting commissions. In Part III, I discuss the lessons …

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Associations Between The Built Environment And Physical Activity From Analyses Of Spatial Clusters, Trail Use, And Locations Where Physical Activity Occurs, Kosuke Tamura Jan 2015

Associations Between The Built Environment And Physical Activity From Analyses Of Spatial Clusters, Trail Use, And Locations Where Physical Activity Occurs, Kosuke Tamura

Open Access Dissertations

Over the past two decades, an increasing number of scientific studies have examined associations between the built environment and physical activity and obesity. These studies have documented positive associations between environmental variables, such as population density, street connectivity, and composite measures of neighborhood walkability and physical activity. Studies have also shown inverse relationships between the presence of neighborhood grocery stores and recreational facilities and obesity. Despite this evidence, there continues to be limitations in built environment studies conducted to date. The three dissertation studies described here were designed to address several different aspects of built environment research that warrant greater …

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The Lesser Of Two Evils: The Figure Of The Jew In Elizabethan Literature, Karen Angelle Feiner Jan 2015

The Lesser Of Two Evils: The Figure Of The Jew In Elizabethan Literature, Karen Angelle Feiner

Open Access Dissertations

Critics tend to take one of three attitudes towards the Jewish figure in Early Modern drama: either a) the depiction is intended to be anti-Semitic; b) philo-Semitic; c) that the playwrights are merely observing and documenting the anti-Semitism prevalent in Elizabethan London. This reductive view oversimplifies our understanding of the complexities of Jewish characters on the British Renaissance stage. By looking past the label “Jew” that Shakespeare in The Merchant of Venice and Marlowe in The Jew of Malta use, we can understand that the Jewish character is a proxy for more relevant and threatening figures to an Anglican Christian …

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Cinderella And Other Fairy Tales As Secular Scripture In Contemporary America And Russia, Kate Christine Moore Koppy Jan 2015

Cinderella And Other Fairy Tales As Secular Scripture In Contemporary America And Russia, Kate Christine Moore Koppy

Open Access Dissertations

Koppy, Kate C. M. PhD, Purdue University, December 2015. Cinderella and Other Fairy Tales as Secular Scripture in Contemporary America and Russia. Major Professor: Charles Ross.

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Three Traveling Women Writers: Cross-Cultural Perspectives Of Brazil, Patagonia, And The U.S., 1859-79, Natalia Fontes De Oliveira Jan 2015

Three Traveling Women Writers: Cross-Cultural Perspectives Of Brazil, Patagonia, And The U.S., 1859-79, Natalia Fontes De Oliveira

Open Access Dissertations

The technological progress of the nineteenth century made travelling across the seas and the publishing of travel narratives both possible and desirable. Women used this as an opportunity to gain greater freedom of mobility and authorship. Instead of focusing on solitary travelers, this dissertation brings to the forefront the elaborate rhetoric and discourse strategies married women travel writers used in their narrative to transcend their husband's shadow. The British Lady Florence Dixie (1855-1905), the Argentine Eduarda Mansilla de García (1834-1892), and the American Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz (1822-1907) are pionner women that accompany their husbands on travels to foreign lands and …

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Consumer Bankruptcy Panel: Undue Hardship: An Analysis Of Student Loan Debt Discharge In Bankruptcy, C. Ray Mullins, Dalié Jiménez, Rafael Pardo, Elaine Poon Jan 2015

Consumer Bankruptcy Panel: Undue Hardship: An Analysis Of Student Loan Debt Discharge In Bankruptcy, C. Ray Mullins, Dalié Jiménez, Rafael Pardo, Elaine Poon

Emory Bankruptcy Developments Journal

The Consumer Panel focused on student loan debt, featuring judicial, academic, and practical insights and a call to action to help consumers.

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Seeking Educational Equality In The North: The Integration Of The Hilburn School System, Peter C. Alexander Jan 2015

Seeking Educational Equality In The North: The Integration Of The Hilburn School System, Peter C. Alexander

Law Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

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