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Land Cover Mapping And Change Analysis At The Tensleep Preserve In Wyoming, Tyler Richard Grupa Jan 2016

Land Cover Mapping And Change Analysis At The Tensleep Preserve In Wyoming, Tyler Richard Grupa

All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects

Mapping land cover and land cover change are important, especially for land managers who protect natural lands and generate restoration projects. Accurate land cover assessment of rangelands can be difficult because the spectral difference between plant species may be minimal. The goal of this research is to map the land cover in the Tensleep Preserve and highlight change that has occurred over the past twenty-three years using the Feature Analyst extension. The land cover change map will highlight significant changes and Feature Analyst will accurately identify different land covers using historical aerial photographs and ground truthing data collected in 2013. …

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An Ensemble Model Of Qsar Tools For Regulatory Risk Assessment, Prachi Pradeep, Richard J. Povinelli, Shannon White, Stephen Merrill Jan 2016

An Ensemble Model Of Qsar Tools For Regulatory Risk Assessment, Prachi Pradeep, Richard J. Povinelli, Shannon White, Stephen Merrill

Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science Faculty Research and Publications

Quantitative structure activity relationships (QSARs) are theoretical models that relate a quantitative measure of chemical structure to a physical property or a biological effect. QSAR predictions can be used for chemical risk assessment for protection of human and environmental health, which makes them interesting to regulators, especially in the absence of experimental data. For compatibility with regulatory use, QSAR models should be transparent, reproducible and optimized to minimize the number of false negatives. In silico QSAR tools are gaining wide acceptance as a faster alternative to otherwise time-consuming clinical and animal testing methods. However, different QSAR tools often make conflicting …

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Chilling Effects: Online Surveillance And Wikipedia Use, Jonathon Penney Jan 2016

Chilling Effects: Online Surveillance And Wikipedia Use, Jonathon Penney

Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press

This article discusses the results of the first empirical study providing evidence of regulatory “chilling effects” of Wikipedia users associated with online government surveillance. The study explores how traffic to Wikipedia articles on topics that raise privacy concerns for Wikipedia users decreased after the widespread publicity about NSA/PRISM surveillance revelations in June 2013. Using an interdisciplinary research design, the study tests the hypothesis, based on chilling effects theory, that traffic to privacy-sensitive Wikipedia articles reduced after the mass surveillance revelations. The Article finds not only a statistically significant immediate decline in traffic for these Wikipedia articles after June 2013, but …

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Land Claim Settlement In Canadian Arctic: Pragmatism And Instrumentalism At Work, Diana Ginn Jan 2016

Land Claim Settlement In Canadian Arctic: Pragmatism And Instrumentalism At Work, Diana Ginn

Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press

In Canada, comprehensive land claims based on Aboriginal title can be pursued through either litigation or negotiation. Generally, the relationship between litigation and negotiation of these claims is understood as one where the Supreme Court of Canada initially prodded the Canadian state to action, and then in a series of decisions developed the legal parameters within which the political realities of negotiation occur. Thus, settlement tends to follow and be shaped by the contours of the legal doctrine. However, settlement of land claims in Canada’s Arctic moved ahead of the case law in two key areas, as manifested in: (a) …

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Indian Act By-Laws: A Viable Means For First Nations To (Re)Assert Control Over Local Matters Now And Not Later, Naiomi Metallic Jan 2016

Indian Act By-Laws: A Viable Means For First Nations To (Re)Assert Control Over Local Matters Now And Not Later, Naiomi Metallic

Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press

Section 81 in the Indian Act, RSC 1985, c I-5, contains a broad range of subject matters over which Band Councils may pass by-laws. To date, this provision has been underutilized by most First Nation governments. One of the main reasons for this relates to the fact that, for over a hundred years, the Indian Act gave the federal government the power to disallow any such by-laws and Canada historically took a narrow view of the expanse of the Section 81 by-law powers and exercised its disallowance power broadly. Recent amendments to the Indian Act, however, have repealed this …

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Beyond Deportation: Understanding Immigration Prosecutorial Discretion And United States V. Texas, Shoba S. Wadhia Jan 2016

Beyond Deportation: Understanding Immigration Prosecutorial Discretion And United States V. Texas, Shoba S. Wadhia

Faculty Scholarship

In this article, I place the Supreme Court case of United States v. Texas into a broader context by describing the history and legal authority for prosecutorial discretion in immigration law and highlighting the contents and recommendations in my book, Beyond Deportation: The Role of Prosecutorial Discretion in Immigration Cases. Part I of this article offers a primer on the role of prosecutorial discretion in immigration law and also describes two related programs announced by President Obama on November 20, 2014 and the subject of litigation for nearly two years as of this writing. Part II provides a history …

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Sustainable Arctic Shipping: Are Current International Rules For Polar Shipping Sufficient?, Aldo Chircop Jan 2016

Sustainable Arctic Shipping: Are Current International Rules For Polar Shipping Sufficient?, Aldo Chircop

Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press

On January 1, 2017, the International Code for Ships Operating in Polar Waters (Polar Code) will enter into force, ushering in a new era in regulation of shipping in Arctic and Antarctic waters. The Polar Code was adopted by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) after years of difficult deliberations. The adoption of the Code required amendment of two of the most important conventions concerning safety of life at sea and vessel-source pollution. A third convention on standards of training for seafarers was also amended after the Code was adopted and the changes will come into effect on January 1, 2018. …

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Agricultural Science And Technology: Tensions And Contradictions, Leland Glenna, Elizabeth P. Ransom Jan 2016

Agricultural Science And Technology: Tensions And Contradictions, Leland Glenna, Elizabeth P. Ransom

Sociology and Anthropology Faculty Publications

Agricultural science and farm-based technologies have been important forces behind the dramatic rise in agricultural production in the industrial world during the 20th century, as well as in large portions of the developing world (Stanton, 1998). In the United States, mechanisation, improved seeds and breeds, chemical inputs, and other scientifically inspired production technologies and techniques are often credited with productivity gains (Dimitri, Effland & Concklin, 2005). In past decades, agricultural science and technology have contributed to the productivist goals of maximising production while seeking the greatest efficiency from inputs. However, there have always been tensions and contradictions because the distribution …

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Is Theocracy Our Politics? Thoughts On William Baude's 'Is Originalism Our Law?', Richard A. Primus Jan 2016

Is Theocracy Our Politics? Thoughts On William Baude's 'Is Originalism Our Law?', Richard A. Primus

Articles

In Is Originalism Our Law?, William Baude has made a good kind of argument in favor of originalism. Rather than contending that originalism is the only coherent theory for interpreting a constitution, he makes the more modest claim that it happens to be the way that American judges interpret our Constitution. If he is right—if originalism is our law—then judges deciding constitutional cases ought to be originalists. But what exactly would the content of that obligation be? Calling some interpretive method “our law” might suggest that judges have an obligation to decide cases by reference to that method. But the …

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Solar Garden: On-Site Education, Audrey Tappenden, Mckinsey Doolaard, Megan Jecks, Benjamin Hunt Jan 2016

Solar Garden: On-Site Education, Audrey Tappenden, Mckinsey Doolaard, Megan Jecks, Benjamin Hunt

Environmental and Sustainability Studies Undergraduate Projects

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Rethink Gv Landscape, Chantelle Ash, Ashley Brecken, Matthew Jolman Jan 2016

Rethink Gv Landscape, Chantelle Ash, Ashley Brecken, Matthew Jolman

Environmental and Sustainability Studies Undergraduate Projects

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Farming The Future, Andrijka Holton, Brittany Jacobs, Cassie Swanson, Hannah Swanson, Taylor Young Jan 2016

Farming The Future, Andrijka Holton, Brittany Jacobs, Cassie Swanson, Hannah Swanson, Taylor Young

Environmental and Sustainability Studies Undergraduate Projects

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Seventh-Day Quaker: A Spiritual Memoir, Kim L. Ranger Jan 2016

Seventh-Day Quaker: A Spiritual Memoir, Kim L. Ranger

Books

In an intimate spiritual memoir, Ranger shares her reflections on a journey of self-discovery. Through a narrative written in diary format, she compares and contrasts the Religious Society of Friends and the Seventh-day Adventists and calls for better understanding of and bridges between liberal and conservative Christians. Seventh-day Quaker examines the role and practice of sabbath, silence, prayer, rites and rituals, evangelicalism, the Bible, Creationism, God's existence, and the call to ministry.

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Calder Pollinator Garden Proposal, Lauren Maher, Betsy Vollmar, Amanda Lautner, Noah Fettig Jan 2016

Calder Pollinator Garden Proposal, Lauren Maher, Betsy Vollmar, Amanda Lautner, Noah Fettig

LIB 322: Wicked Problems of Sustainability

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Project Summary And Developmental Programs For Ishew, Lindsey Lequia, Dallas Rohraff Jan 2016

Project Summary And Developmental Programs For Ishew, Lindsey Lequia, Dallas Rohraff

Honors Projects

On a seemingly normal day during my study abroad in Ghana, we noticed that the sun was shining in a sky that seemed to have no clouds. We were taking a trip to visit the water source of a community that contained nearly 1,000 people. Although it amazed us to think that that many people were fetching water each day from a river, we understood that others do not have access to the purified, city water that we are fortunate to have at home. When we pulled into the community, the reality of their lifestyle contrasted with what we had …

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After Humanity: Science Fiction After Extinction In Kurt Vonnegut And Clifford D. Simak, Gerry Canavan Jan 2016

After Humanity: Science Fiction After Extinction In Kurt Vonnegut And Clifford D. Simak, Gerry Canavan

English Faculty Research and Publications

This article takes up the question of whether and to what extent humanistic values can survive confrontation with the "deep time" of the Anthropocene, specifically with the inevitability of human extinction. In particular, I focus on representations of human extinction and the emergence of sapient successor species in H.G. Wells's The Time Machine (1895). Kurt Vonnegut's Galápagos (1985). and Clifford D. Simak's City (1952), identifying in the latter two submerged humanisms that belie the surface anti-humanism and cosmic pessimism of the novels .

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‘But Who Will Bell The Cat?’: Deschamps, Brinton, Langland, And The Hundred Years’ War, Elizaveta Strakhov Jan 2016

‘But Who Will Bell The Cat?’: Deschamps, Brinton, Langland, And The Hundred Years’ War, Elizaveta Strakhov

English Faculty Research and Publications

This essay investigates the mutual use of the ‘belling the cat’ fable in Langland’s Prologue to Piers Plowman, in Thomas Brinton’s sermon from 1376, and in a cluster of poems about the Hundred Years War by Langland’s French contemporary, Eustache Deschamps. Although the fable was popular in their day, only these three authors offer it a specifically topical application, and each, the essay argues, uses it to critique administrative dysfunction and excessive taxation during the Hundred Years War. By teasing out this Anglo-French political context, the essay offers a new reading of Langland’s mouse’s exhortation of inaction before the …

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Science Fiction, Gerry Canavan Jan 2016

Science Fiction, Gerry Canavan

English Faculty Research and Publications

Science fiction (SF) emerges as a distinct literary and cultural genre out of a familiar set of world-famous texts ranging from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) to Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek (1966–) to the Marvel Cinematic Universe (2008–) that have, in aggregate, generated a colossal, communal archive of alternate worlds and possible future histories. SF’s dialectical interplay between utopian optimism and apocalyptic pessimism can be felt across the genre’s now centuries-long history, only intensifying in the 20th century as the clash between humankind’s growing technological capabilities and its ability to use those powers safely or wisely has reached existential-threat propositions, not …

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Towards A Human Right To Food: Implications For Urban Growing In Baltimore City, Maryland, Becky L. Witt Jan 2016

Towards A Human Right To Food: Implications For Urban Growing In Baltimore City, Maryland, Becky L. Witt

Fordham Urban Law Journal

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Financing Local Food Factories, Stephen R. Miller Jan 2016

Financing Local Food Factories, Stephen R. Miller

Fordham Urban Law Journal

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Stops And Stares: Street Stops, Surveillance, And Race In The New Policing, Jeffrey Fagan, Anthony A. Braga, Rod K. Brunson, April Pattavina Jan 2016

Stops And Stares: Street Stops, Surveillance, And Race In The New Policing, Jeffrey Fagan, Anthony A. Braga, Rod K. Brunson, April Pattavina

Fordham Urban Law Journal

No abstract provided.

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Starchy Surveillance, Ashley Meyer, Deborah Herrington, Stephen Rybczynski Jan 2016

Starchy Surveillance, Ashley Meyer, Deborah Herrington, Stephen Rybczynski

Peer Reviewed Articles

Students start learning about photosynthesis in early grade school, yet it is a topic they still struggle with in college. Misconceptions and lack of a deep understanding of photosynthesis may result from a paucity of quality science labs that address photosynthesis using inquiry. A quick internet search reveals that although a number of photosynthesis lessons are widely available, very few engage students in activities that allow them to actively construct an understanding of the principles of photosynthesis. Rather, most are cookbook style confirmation labs. The lesson presented here requires students to answer fundamental questions underlying photosynthesis using data they collected. …

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Conserved Intramolecular Interactions Maintain Myosin Interacting-Heads Motifs Explaining Tarantula Muscle Super-Relaxed State Structural Basis, Lorenzo Alamo, Dan Qi, Willy Wriggers, Antonio Pinto, Jingui Zhu, Aivett Bilbao, Richard E. Gillilan, Songnian Hu, Raúl Padrón Jan 2016

Conserved Intramolecular Interactions Maintain Myosin Interacting-Heads Motifs Explaining Tarantula Muscle Super-Relaxed State Structural Basis, Lorenzo Alamo, Dan Qi, Willy Wriggers, Antonio Pinto, Jingui Zhu, Aivett Bilbao, Richard E. Gillilan, Songnian Hu, Raúl Padrón

Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Faculty Publications

Tarantula striated muscle is an outstanding system for understanding the molecular organization of myosin filaments. Three-dimensional reconstruction based on cryo-electron microscopy images and single-particle image processing revealed that, in a relaxed state, myosin molecules undergo intramolecular head head interactions, explaining why head activity switches off. The filament model obtained by rigidly docking a chicken smooth muscle myosin structure to the reconstruction was improved by flexibly fitting an atomic model built by mixing structures from different species to a tilt-corrected 2-nm three-dimensional map of frozen-hydrated tarantula thick filament. We used heavy and light chain sequences from tarantula myosin to build a …

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Economic Feasibility Of High Omega-3 Soybean Oil In Mariculture Diets: A Sustainable Replacement For Fish Oil, Subir Bairagi, Richard K. Perrin, Lilyan E. Fulginiti, Tom Clemente, Cory Hungate, G. Key Jan 2016

Economic Feasibility Of High Omega-3 Soybean Oil In Mariculture Diets: A Sustainable Replacement For Fish Oil, Subir Bairagi, Richard K. Perrin, Lilyan E. Fulginiti, Tom Clemente, Cory Hungate, G. Key

Department of Agricultural Economics: Faculty Publications

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Where The Rubber Meets The Clouds: Anticipated Developments In Conflict And Conflict Resolution Theory, Heather Pincock, Timothy Hedeen Jan 2016

Where The Rubber Meets The Clouds: Anticipated Developments In Conflict And Conflict Resolution Theory, Heather Pincock, Timothy Hedeen

Faculty Articles

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Beyond The Screen: Uneven Geographies, Digital Labour, And The City Of Cognitive-Cultural Capitalism, Dillon Mahmoudi, Anthony M. Levenda Jan 2016

Beyond The Screen: Uneven Geographies, Digital Labour, And The City Of Cognitive-Cultural Capitalism, Dillon Mahmoudi, Anthony M. Levenda

Urban Studies and Planning Faculty Publications and Presentations

In this paper, we demonstrate that an examination of the socio-environmental impacts of digital ICTs remains a fruitless enterprise without “materializing” digital labour. We suggest one approach to materializing digital labour: this first includes connecting political economic analyses of digital ICTs to the co-evolution and geography of planetary urbanization and technological change, and second, examining the relationships between immaterial, digital, labour with the material industrial production system. In the context of broad changes in technology, social life, and urbanization, many scholars have theorized a shift towards a third phase of capitalism, beyond mercantilism and industrialism, based in immaterial, digital, and …

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Effective Online Lectures: Improving Practice Through Design And Pedagogy, Terry Lane Bese Jan 2016

Effective Online Lectures: Improving Practice Through Design And Pedagogy, Terry Lane Bese

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this research project was to improve the practice of using online lectures at a small private university. Using action research methodology, the researcher worked with a group of five university instructors to refine the use of online lectures through design and pedagogical practice. Beginning with a template or guide based on the literature, the instructors developed online lectures connected with a student activity. Following the principles of the TPACK framework, instructors were urged to develop student activities that worked best for their specific content as well as their desired student outcomes. Two cycles of implementation, analysis, and …

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The Neurobiology Of Groupthink: A Qeeg Approach To The Study Of Followership, Angela A. Deulen Jan 2016

The Neurobiology Of Groupthink: A Qeeg Approach To The Study Of Followership, Angela A. Deulen

Theses and Dissertations

In recent decades, the study of leadership has focused on the qualities of leaders rather than on those of followers. However, it has been argued that there can be no meaningful construct of leadership without a coherent understanding of followership and group behavior. While the body of literature is replete with information on the study of groupthink and conformity as it relates to followership, the neurobiological drivers of such behavior remain under-investigated. The purpose of this work was to investigate the neurobiological basis of groupthink (conformity of thought) as a component of followership. Specifically, this work seeks to investigate six …

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Reconstructing Pregnancy, Sarudzayi M. Matambanadzo Jan 2016

Reconstructing Pregnancy, Sarudzayi M. Matambanadzo

SMU Law Review

Congress passed the Pregnancy Discrimination Act in 1978 to amend Title VII’s prohibition against sex discrimination to include discrimination on the basis of pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions. More than thirty-five years after the passage of the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, courts have failed to fulfill its promise. This failure lies, in part, from a tendency to reduce pregnancy, with all of its social and cultural meaning, to its “purely” biological elements. For the purposes of the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, courts ground the legal conception of pregnancy in a form of biomedical essentialism that treats pregnancy as a universal given. …

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Patentable Subject Matter: Alice Does Not Permit The Dead To Frolic In A 3d Wonderland, Hao J. Wu Jan 2016

Patentable Subject Matter: Alice Does Not Permit The Dead To Frolic In A 3d Wonderland, Hao J. Wu

SMU Law Review

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