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Reclaiming A Presence In Ancestral Lands: The Return Of Native Peoples To The National Parks, Jeanette Wolfley

Natural Resources Journal

For Native peoples, sacred sites and other traditional cultural properties are of critical importance to the preservation of their culture, society, and overall tribal sovereignty. Often these traditional cultural resources are part of present day national park landscapes. Today, tribes have unprecedented opportunities to reclaim a presence on their aboriginal lands, and in turn the National Park Service has an opportunity to ensure that parks remain a sanctuary for the practice of native traditions by accommodating and prioritizing native interests in the implementation of Indian policies and government-to-government obligations. This Article provides an overview of the tribal-NPS relationship, a discussion …

Cooperative Federalism In Biscayne National Park, Ryan B. Stoa

Natural Resources Journal

Biscayne National Park is the largest marine national park in the United States. It contains four distinct ecosystems, encompasses 173,000 acres (only five percent of which are land), and is located within densely populated Miami-Dade County. The bay has a rich history of natural resource utilization, but aggressive residential and industrial development schemes prompted Congress to create Biscayne National Monument in 1968, followed by the designation of Biscayne National Park in 1980. When the dust settled, Florida retained key management powers over the Park, including joint authority over fishery management. States and the federal government occasionally share responsibility for regulating …

Working Together To Combat Invasive Species Threats: Strategies For Facilitating Cooperation Between The National Park Service And States, Stephanie Showalter Otts, Catherine Janasie, Paula Cotter

Natural Resources Journal

Invasive species are a significant environmental and economic threat throughout the United States. Over 6,500 non-native species have been documented on national park lands. To adequately address invasive species issues, the National Park Service must work cooperatively with state governments to prevent the introduction and spread of non-native species. A variety of mechanisms, both formal and informal, are available to the National Park Service to cooperatively manage park ecosystems with their neighboring land management agencies. Coordination of programs can be achieved through simple informal working relationships between agency staff, incorporation of state laws into park policies, or negotiation of formal …

Wolves, Courts, And Public Policy: The Children Of The Night Return To The Northern Rocky Mountains, Mark Peralta-Silva

Natural Resources Journal

No abstract provided.

Focus, 2016, Winter, Andrews University

Focus

FOCUS (ISSN 1077-9345) is published quarterly, free of charge, for alumni and friends of Andrews University, an institution owned and operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

Full Issue

Journal of Applied Christian Leadership

No abstract provided.

Chipping Away At The Rock: Perez V. Mortgage Bankers Association And The Seminole Rock Deference Doctrine, Kevin O. Leske

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

Largely escaping judicial and scholarly examination for close to seventy years, the Seminole Rock deference doctrine directs federal courts to defer to an administrative agency’s interpretation of its own regulation unless such interpretation “is plainly erroneous or inconsistent with the regulation.” But at long last the United States Supreme Court is poised to re-evaluate the doctrine.

In March 2015, in Perez v. Mortgage Bankers Association, the Court addressed whether a federal agency was required to follow the notice-and-comment procedures of the Administrative Procedure Act after it changed a prior interpretation of its regulation under the “Paralyzed Veterans doctrine.” Although …

Human Reason And Biblical Hermeneutics: An Introduction, Angel Manuel Rodriguez

Journal of the Adventist Theological Society

"It is our intention to explore some of the issues involved in the use of reason in a hermeneutics that seeks to properly interpret the Scripture. This is necessary in an intellectual context where reason, in spite of postmodernism, remains the omnipotent ruler of knowledge. I will approach the assignment as a Christian who believes that God is the Creator and Redeemer and that He has revealed to us the fundamental elements and concepts necessary to find meaning in life and in the world in which live. The content of this revelation, preserved for us in the Holy Scripture, should …

70th Anniversary, Mandarin Garden Club

Mandarin Garden Club Scrapbooks

Scrapbook includes images, club ephemera, club news and news clippings. Cover material: Binder Size: 11.5" x 10.0625" x 1.5"

Writing On Water Writing On Air: Poetry Installations By Clark Lunberry At The University Of North Florida, Thomas G. Carpenter Library, And Beyond, Clark Lunberry, Elizabeth A. Curry, A Samuel Kimball

Writing on Water Writing on Air

Contains photographs and descriptions of visual poetry installations by Clark Lunberry, Professor of English at the University of North Florida. The installations originated at the University of North Florida's Thomas G. Carpenter Library and expanded to various locations around the world.

Contents: Writing on water, Writing on air: seeing in time, reading in motion -- Water on water, March 2007 -- Murmur of words, April 2008 -- Floating form less, November 2009 -- Sensation: water/trees/sky, March 2011 -- No such thing, March 2012 -- Bodies of water, March 2014 -- The uncomprehending window (Paris, France), March 2010 -- Providing positioning …

How New York City Invented The Holiday Season: The Rise And Fall Of The World’S First Global Holiday, Ronald J. Brown

New York School for Career and Applied Studies (NYSCAS) Publications and Research

Jesus may have been born in Bethlehem, but it was the city of New York that transformed the traditional day of his birth, December 25, into a national and eventually global holiday season. The evolution of the Christian religious holiday of Jesus’ birth into a secular global holiday that embraces all religions, cultures, and traditions is a unique example of the emergence of a global culture. Little did Clement Clarke Moore realize when he transferred the holiday of St. Nicholas from December 6 to the 25th, nor Macy’s Department Store when it organized its first Thanksgiving Day Parade, that they …

Fossil Fuel Abolition: Legal And Social Issues, Karl S. Coplan

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

This Article will examine the practical, ethical, legal, and socio-political implications of fossil fuel abolition. First, the Article will consider the practical, ethical, and legal arguments in favor of fossil fuel abolition. Then, the Article will examine possible legal means and authorities to implement abolition in the United States, as well as potential legal objections to fossil fuel abolition. Finally, the Article will consider legal abolition’s capacity to effect the far-reaching changes in our socioeconomic system that a ban on fossil fuels will entail. The Article also will compare the climate reform movement to other social law reform movements in …

Don't Be Cruel (Anymore): A Look At The Animal Cruelty Regimes Of The United States And Brazil With A Call For A New Animal Welfare Agency, David N. Cassuto

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

In the United States and around the world, animals exploited for human use suffer cruel and needless harm. The group bearing the brunt of this exploitation--agricultural animals--is routinely exempted from the largely ineffective and rarely enforced animal welfare and anti-cruelty regulations that exist today. This Article offers a comparative analysis of the agricultural animal welfare regimes of two countries with globally significant presence in the agriculture industry: the United States and Brazil. Even though the two countries approach agricultural animal welfare differently, they arrive at the same outcome: institutionalized indifference to animal suffering. To remedy the current regulatory structure, this …

Ppap2b Expression Limits Lesion Formation In Murine Models Of Atherosclerosis, Paul A. Mueller

Theses and Dissertations--Physiology

Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the leading cause of death in both men and women worldwide and is defined as a narrowing of the coronary arteries due to accumulation of atherosclerotic plaques. Genome-wide association studies have identified risk loci within the gene PPAP2B that confers increased risk of developing CAD. Evidence suggests these aforementioned SNPs are regulating PPAP2B expression in a cis-manner through the interruption of transcription factor binding sites. PPAP2B encodes the lipid phosphate phosphatase 3 enzyme that plays a key role in degrading bioactive lysophosphatidic acid (LPA). LPA has a plethora of effects on vascular tissue and is …

Cell Ray 3d Bioprinter, John Bocinsky, Eric Mason, Nevada Weaver, Kristin Wood

Biomedical Engineering and Sciences Student Publications

For research of cancer and other diseases,it has become increasingly more important to have accurate 3D culture models that more closely mimic in vivo tissues and the surrounding extracellular matrix (ECM). The current and past two-dimensional (2D) cell culture models fail to provide a complex ECM environment that is necessary to understand the cellular reactions that occur in response to different drugs and therapeutics, while animal models are time consuming, expensive, and constantly fail to reflect human tumor biology. 3D bioprinting has recently emerged as a viable solution to this problem offering increased efficiency and reproducibility, however, these options are …

Impacts Of Wood Energy On Timber Markets In New England And New York, Iuliia Drach

Master's Theses and Capstones

Renewable energy has a number of environmental and socioeconomic advantages over the energy derived from finite fossil fuels, which is why it has been increasingly promoted on the state and federal levels. Growing interest in renewable energy calls for detailed analysis of the effects the potential increase in production of such energy might have on the existing markets.

The obvious choice for the source of renewable energy in New England and New York is wood biomass due to the region’s abundant forest resources and extensive wood harvesting and processing infrastructure. To analyze the impacts of increased wood biomass consumption for …

Relating Shell Morphometrics And Heterozygosity To Byssogenesis, Byssal Thread Attachment Strength And Motility In The Blue Mussel, Ellie Daniels

Master's Theses and Capstones

Heterozygote deficiencies have been noted in both wild and farmed populations of Mytilus edulis Linnaeus 1758, yet the underlying causes for this deficit remain unclear. This is especially surprising considering that advantageous fitness traits (i.e., increased fecundity, reduced basal metabolism, higher growth rate in farmed mussels) as well as decreased mortality under environmental stressors (i.e., air exposure, increased water temperature) are positively correlated with heterozygosity in these mussels. The dislodgement hypothesis states that more heterozygous mussels are migrating to the periphery of a rope culture or mussel bed to gain an energetic advantage where they become more susceptible to drop-off. …

Challenges In Developing Applications For Aging Populations, Drew Marie Williams, Md O. Gani, Ivor D. Addo, Akm Jahangir Alam Majumder, Chandana Tamma, Mong-Te Wang, Chih-Hung Chang, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed, Cheng-Chung Chu

Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science Faculty Research and Publications

Elderly individuals can greatly benefit from the use of computer applications, which can assist in monitoring health conditions, staying in contact with friends and family, and even learning new things. However, developing accessible applications for an elderly user can be a daunting task for developers. Since the advent of the personal computer, the benefits and challenges of developing applications for older adults have been a hot topic of discussion. In this chapter, the authors discuss the various challenges developers who wish to create applications for the elderly computer user face, including age-related impairments, generational differences in computer use, and the …

Crisis Across The Dog-Starred Verse: Tales Of Heroism, Horror, And Apocalypse, David Arroyo

Stonecoast MFA Theses and Capstones

Crisis Across the Dog-Starred Verse: Tales of Heroism, Horror, and Apocalypse is a collection of formal and free-verse poems. Although a few pieces are confessional in nature, many of the poems borrow from the genres of speculative fiction: horror and science fiction specifically. The thesis is not divided into sections, rather it alternates visions of a confessional real world and fantasy space. Many poems cover the death of my dog and our adventures in the multiverse, while others like “Together We Are Monsters” are meditations on monsters and pornography. Two longer pieces, however, “Campus of the 21st Century,” and “The …

Graphic And Digital Keats: “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” In Poetry Comics, Brian Bates

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

[First paragraph]

In the twenty-first century, John Keats's canonical poem "La Belle Dame sans Merci" has been given new lives through visual adaptations. [i] Hidetoshi Oneda's fifteen-minute film (2005), which adds a ship-wreck frame narrative that doubles the poem's existing frame narrative, was the first of several short movie versions of "La Belle Dame."[ii] Amidst these cinematic adaptations, in 2013 PM Buchanan and Karen Yumi Lusted began publishing a serialized graphic narrative anime version that, according to one reviewer, "drags The Beautiful Lady out of the forest and screaming into the modern world."[iii] Buchanan and Lusted's adaptation has received considerable …

Affordances And Possibilities Around The Personal Portable Library In Art And Research, Henry Warwick

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

[First paragraph]

The Personal Portable Library is basically a very simple device. It is a hard drive or USB memory stick filled with files. What kinds of files depends on curator or librarian's interests. Many people have hard drives filled with music, and they share drives, USB sticks, CDRs and DVDRs filled with music. In fact, according to the RIAA, Offline File Sharing exceeds online file sharing of music. [1] Music files, like font files, are small and easily transferred from one machine to another. Video files are another issue. A film can be 2 or more gigabytes in size …

Nature & Spirit: A Digital Lens Of Gay-Male Culture, Brandon S. Gellis

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

History is fraught with critical reactions toward homosexuality. Within the United States, response by the culture-at-large (mainstream culture) towards this sexual orientation underwent a radical transformation within the last one hundred years. Toward the beginning of the 20th century, homosexuality was deemed immoral and punishable by law, necessitating that most homosexuals remained closeted and forcing gay communities to evolve separately from, yet in parallel to, the culture-at-large. However, by the 1960s gay political organizations began publicly protesting the mistreatment of gay communities, and arguing for equal treatment and the decriminalization of homosexuality. Burdened by the mid-20th century art world's homophobic …

Making The Posters Dance: Victor Moscoso’S Four-Dimensional Posters And Adventures In Exhibition Concept, Design, And Archiving, Scott B. Montgomery

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

[First paragraph]

Generally, posters do not move, let alone dance, wave, wink, or fly. They tend to stay still, affixed to walls. In keeping with the advertising mandate originally inherent in the medium, clarity in delivering a message is frequently a guiding principle in poster design. Artistry is employed in the service of communicating the idea, whether political, social, or commercial. But art's role has tended to be subservient - to attract the viewer's eye toward the advertising message. Transcending this, the poster reached its first artistic apotheosis in the late 19th/early 20th century work of Art Nouveau masters such …

The Perpetual Archive: Mapping Living Archive As Inventory, Jenny Filipetti

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

[First paragraph]

Inventory is the new archive. It is strange that no one has said it before. Inventory: apprehending the records of the past in order to understand the present and prepare for the future. Today's inventories are entire living ecosystems of products, control systems, consumers, barcode scanners, warehouse shipments, Internet shopping carts. Inventory has ceased to track, merely: inventory does. And who would ever stop with inventory? Inventory is only always an invitation to access, a means to a (never-)end(ing).

Section 1: Bio-Medical/Bioengineering, Ectc Coordinating Committee

Early Career Technical Journal (ECTJ)

Proceedings of the 16th Annual Early Career Technical Conference, November 5, 2016. School of Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama; pp. 1-30

Section 4: Materials, Ectc Coordinating Committee

Early Career Technical Journal (ECTJ)

Proceedings of the 16th Annual Early Career Technical Conference, November 5, 2016. School of Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama; pp. 95-124

Proceedings Of The 16th Annual Early Career Technical Conference (Complete Issue), Ectc Coordinating Committee

Early Career Technical Journal (ECTJ)

Proceedings of the 16th Annual Early Career Technical Conference, November 5, 2016. School of Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama

A Subject-Variability Study Of Airflow Transport For Three Human Lung-Airway Configurations, Yu Feng, Clement Kleinstreuer

Early Career Technical Journal (ECTJ)

Section 1: Bio-Medical/Bioengineering; pp. 22-29

Hierarchical Grouping In Particle Swarm Optimization – Hgpso, Sanjay Sarma O V, Ramana M. Pidaparti, Ankita Joshi

Early Career Technical Journal (ECTJ)

Section 4: Materials; pp. 97-103

Judicial Review Of Parliamentary Rulemaking: A Provisional Case For Restraint, Firoz Cachalia

NYLS Law Review

No abstract provided.