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Biotic Paleothermometry Constrains On Arctic Plates Reconstructions: Carboniferous And Permian (Zhokhov Island, De-Longa Group Islands, New Siberian Archipelago), Vladimir I. Davydov

Geosciences Faculty Publications and Presentations

A warm-water fauna and flora from a Carboniferous limestone xenolith that was captured during penetration of deep intraplate Cenozoic basalts through a Paleozoic carbonate platform have been found on Zhokhov Island, New Siberian Archipelago (NSA). This limestone xenolith contains a very high taxonomic diversity of Moscovian (Middle Pennsylvanian) tropical foraminifera and calcareous algae. As this warm-water biota never occurs north of the forbiddance line, i.e., 30–35°N/S, this fauna and algal flora constrain the paleogeography and interpretation of the paleotectonics in the region. Thus, the location of the most of the New Siberian Archipelago islands at that time must have been …

Academic Affairs Update, September 2016, University Of Northern Iowa. Office Of The Provost And Executive Vice President For Academic Affairs.

Academic Affairs Update

Inside this issue:

-- Welcome to the 2016-17 academic year!
-- A Breath of Fresh AIR: Alums Return for Alumni in Residence Program

Architecture Of Diversity: Using The Lens And Language Of Space To Examine Racialized Experiences Of Students Of Color On College Campuses, Michelle Samura

Education Faculty Books and Book Chapters

"[A]n examination of racial diversity in higher education requires serious consideration of space... [A] spatial perspective offers a lens for locating and examining processes of racialization. And a spatial approach also provides a language participants and researchers can use to talk about the discreet ways race still operates in everyday interactions, including subtle forms of racism that are overlooked or ignored because race is often understood by students to matter less today. Essentially, a spatial approach sheds light on race relations and racial structures in tangible campus environments."

Ohio Energy Ecology Culture A Humanities Roundtable, Sept. 30, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

No abstract provided.

Trends In Mobile Transit Information Utilization: An Exploratory Analysis Of Transit App In New York City, Niloofar Ghahramani, Candace Brakewood

Journal of Public Transportation

Smartphone applications that provide transit information are now very popular. However, there is limited research that examines when and where passengers use mobile transit information. The objective of this research was to perform an exploratory analysis of the use of a smartphone application known as Transit App, which provides real-time transit information and trip planning (schedule) functionality. Backend data from Transit App were examined by time of day and day of week in the New York City metropolitan area. The results show that the pattern of both the trip planning feature and overall real-time information usage follow the typical pattern …

Full Issue 19(3)

Journal of Public Transportation

No abstract provided.

Seismic/Ley Lines, Brook Wr Pearson

The Goose

Poetry by Brook Pearson

Concrete Poem Diary, Karen Barton

The Goose

Poetry by Karen Barton

The Plus Nines Of Climate Change, Lucy Burnett

The Goose

Poetry by Lucy Burnett

Short-Interval Cortical Inhibition And Rhetoric And The Law, Or The Law Of Rhetoric: How Countries Oppose Novel Tobacco Control Measures At The World Trade Organization, Raphael Lencucha, Jeffrey Drope, Ronald Labonte

Political Science Faculty Research and Publications

The tobacco industry has developed an extensive array of strategies and arguments to prevent or weaken government regulation. These strategies and arguments are well documented at the domestic level. However, there remains a need to examine how these arguments are reflected in the challenges waged by governments within the World Trade Organization (WTO). Decisions made at the WTO have the potential to shape how countries govern. Our analysis was conducted on two novel tobacco control measures: tobacco additives bans (Canada, United States and Brazil) and plain, standardized packaging of tobacco products (Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, EU and UK). We analyzed …

Transportation System Vulnerability And Resilience To Extreme Weather Events And Other Natural Hazards: Report For Pilot Project — Kytc District 1, Benjamin L. Blandford, Scott Schurman, Candice Y. Wallace, Sarah M. Mccormack

Kentucky Transportation Center Research Report

This research’s objective is to assist the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) in its efforts to develop strategies to address natural hazard vulnerabilities and improve the resiliency of Kentucky’s transportation infrastructure. Recent federal legislation calls for state transportation agencies to develop a risk-based asset management plan for National Highway System (NHS) assets that includes consideration of natural hazards. Similarly, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) calls for state transportation agencies to identify potential vulnerabilities associated with extreme weather events and climate change, and to incorporate these findings into transportation planning, design, and maintenance practices.

Under The Radar: Policing Non-Violent Domestic Abuse In The Us And Uk, Amanda L. Robinson, Gillian M. Pinchevsky, Jennifer A. Guthrie

Criminal Justice Faculty Research

Physical violence is but one of many tools that may be used to gain greater power within intimate relationships, yet the legal response has been critiqued for failing to recognize and respond to the full spectrum of abusive behaviors, such as coercive control. Using a sample of police officers from the United States (US) and the United Kingdom (UK), the current study utilizes hypothetical vignettes to assess police officers’ perceptions of domestic abuse, including those incidents that are not necessarily physically violent, but involve stalking and other coercive, controlling behaviors that are harmful and require intervention. Within- and between-country similarities …

Beyond Density & Diversity: Understanding The Socio-Cultural Geography Of Contemporary Presidential Elections, David F. Damore, Robert E. Lang

Brookings Mountain West Publications

In the aftermath of the 2012 presidential election, a good deal of commentary held that President Obama’s reelection resulted from the country’s changing demography and his overwhelming support among nonwhite voters residing in the country’s urban spaces. Less discussed was the fact that Republican Mitt Romney also carried many urbanized states with ethnically and racially diverse populations and that President Obama would not have been reelected without securing the Electoral Votes of a number of rural states with large white populations. In this paper, we argue that the combination of educated populations and a socio-cultural construct we call northernness allow …

Gphy 111n.01: Introduction To Physical Geography, Ulrich Kamp

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2016-2020

No abstract provided.

Gphy 112n.01: Introduction To Physical Geography Lab, Ulrich Kamp

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2016-2020

No abstract provided.

Gphy 141s.01: Geography Of World Regions, Fernando Sanchez-Trigueros

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2016-2020

No abstract provided.

Gphy 284.00: Introduction To Gis And Cartography, Kevin G. Mcmanigal

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2016-2020

No abstract provided.

Gphy 487.01: Remote Sensing And Raster Gis, Anna E. Klene

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2016-2020

No abstract provided.

Gphy 588,01: Spatial Analysis And Modeling, Fernando Sanchez-Trigueros

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2016-2020

No abstract provided.

Gphy 589.02: Cartography / Gis Laboratory, Anna E. Klene

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2016-2020

No abstract provided.

Soci 212s.01: Social Issues In Southeast Asia, Teresa R. Sobieszczyk

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2016-2020

No abstract provided.

Gphy 489.01: Remote Sensing And Raster Gis & Laboratory, Anna E. Klene

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2016-2020

No abstract provided.

The Macroecology Of Infectious Diseases: A New Perspective On Global-Scale Drivers Of Pathogen Distributions And Impacts, Patrick R. Stephens, Sonia Altizer, Katherine F. Smith, A. Alonso Aguirre, James H. Brown, Sarah A. Budischak, James E. Byers, Tad A. Dallas, T. Jonathan Davies, John M. Drake, Vanessa O. Ezenwa, Maxwell J. Farrell, John L. Gittleman, Barbara A. Han, Shan Huang, Rebecca A. Hutchinson, Pieter Johnson, Charles L. Nunn, David Onstad, Andrew Park, Gonzalo M. Vazquez-Prokopec, John P. Schmidt, Robert Poulin

Faculty Publications

© 2016 John Wiley & Sons Ltd/CNRS. Identifying drivers of infectious disease patterns and impacts at the broadest scales of organisation is one of the most crucial challenges for modern science, yet answers to many fundamental questions remain elusive. These include what factors commonly facilitate transmission of pathogens to novel host species, what drives variation in immune investment among host species, and more generally what drives global patterns of parasite diversity and distribution? Here we consider how the perspectives and tools of macroecology, a field that investigates patterns and processes at broad spatial, temporal and taxonomic scales, are expanding scientific …

“Lord Forgive Me, But He Tried To Kill Me”*: Proposing Solutions To The United States’ Most Vexing Racial Challenges, André Douglas Pond Cummings

Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice

No abstract provided.

Black Boys Matter: Developmental Equality, Nancy E. Dowd

Hofstra Law Review

The life course of Black boys is a stark reminder of the realities of inequality. While recent attention to policing and high profile deaths of Black youth and adults has raised consciousness of life-threatening situations, this focus exposes the most visceral and deadly aspect of a much larger set of issues. Those issues begin at birth, and are powerfully framed before adulthood, creating inequality particularly when the individual is most vulnerable, in childhood. This Article confronts the inequalities of Black boys and their subordination, as a vehicle to expose inequalities more generally based on children’s identities. The life course of …

Book Review Of Everyday Renaissances: The Quest For Cultural Legitimacy In Venice, Brian Jeffrey Maxson

ETSU Faculty Works

Review of Everyday Renaissances: The Quest for Cultural Legitimacy in Venice by Sarah Gwyneth Ross

Friends Of The Court: Evaluating The Supreme Court's Amicus Invitations, Katherine Shaw

Cornell Law Review

No abstract provided.

Geographies Of Desecration: Race, Indigeneity, And The Militarization Of Hawai'i, Laurel Turbin Mei-Singh

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Geographies of Desecration: Race, Indigeneity, and the Militarization of Hawai‘i develops a genealogy of military fences and their relationship to Hawaiian struggles for self-determination and national liberation. Military occupation has transformed entire ways of life on the islands by altering Hawaiian land tenure systems through displacement, disruption of subsistence practices, and environmental degradation. Hawaiian mo‘olelo (stories, history) also structure life in a highly militarized place, centering interconnectivity between human and nonhuman realms while impelling grassroots efforts that shape its landscape.

This dissertation develops in-depth case studies of militarized sites on the Wai‘anae Coast of O‘ahu, where military bases occupy 34% …

Geographical Analysis Of Community Resilience To Seismic Hazard In Southwest China, Xiaolu Li, Lei Wang, Shan Liu

Faculty Publications

This article presents an explorative analysis of community resilience to seismic hazard in the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake area of Southwest China. We used a regression model to analyze the impact of 13 key socioeconomic and demographic variables on community resilience in 105 counties, based on data derived from population census and provincial statistical yearbooks of China. In this research, we argue that community resilience should be measured by the change of population growth rate (Δdp) instead of population growth rate (dp) when using socioeconomic data from a fast-growing country such as China. Using Δdp as the dependent variable resulted in …

Gphy 344.01: Crown Of The Continent, Rick Graetz

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2016-2020

No abstract provided.