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Fors 250.00: Introduction To Gis And Cartography, Kevin G. Mcmanigal

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2016-2020

No abstract provided.

Gphy 335.01: Water Policy, Sarah J. Halvorson

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2016-2020

No abstract provided.

Gphy 468.01: Community And Regional Analysis Serv, Christiane Von Reichert

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2016-2020

No abstract provided.

Gphy 400.01: Geography Undergraduate Capstone, David O. Shively

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2016-2020

No abstract provided.

Gphy 317.01: Geomorphology, Ulrich Kamp

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2016-2020

No abstract provided.

Gphy 481.01: Advanced Cartographic Design, Kevin G. Mcmanigal

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2016-2020

No abstract provided.

Gphy 500.01: Geography Graduate Colloquiuum, David O. Shively

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2016-2020

No abstract provided.

Enst 225.01: Community And Environment, Stephanie L. Potts

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2016-2020

No abstract provided.

Forum, Volume 40, No. 2, Fall 2016, Florida Humanities Council, Barbara O'Reilley

FORUM: The Magazine of Florida Humanities

Contents: Letter from the Director -- Intrigue, Wild Rides, Colorful Characters -- Haiku Ready? -- A Witty Guide and Generous Soul -- Florida Nonfiction -- General Fiction -- General Nonfiction -- Popular Fiction -- Humanities Alive! -- Visual Arts -- Spanish Language -- Children's Literature -- Young Adult -- Poetry -- Reflections on Florida Poetry: Florida's African Soul and Soil -- My Favorite Florida Place: Ybor City: A Historian's Dreamland

Health Insurance Coverage In The United States: 2015 - Current Population Reports, Jessica C. Barnett, Marina S. Vornovitsky

28th Annual Data Users Conference Reference Documents

Health insurance is a means for financing a person’s health care expenses. While the majority of people have private health insurance, primarily through an employer, many others obtain coverage through programs offered by the government. Other individuals do not have health insurance at all (see the text box “What Is Health Insurance Coverage?”).

Over time, changes in the rate of health insurance coverage and the distribution of coverage types may reflect economic trends, shifts in the demographic composition of the population, and policy changes that impact access to care. Several such policy changes occurred in 2014, when many provisions of …

Academic Department Indicators 2015-2016, Uno Office Of Institutional Effectiveness

Program Review

The audience is the Academic Planning Council (APC), college and department heads, and faculty. The purpose is to report instructional productivity measures useful for making comparisons and observing trends. Selected departmental information in this report is submitted annually to the Delaware Study, a National Study of Instructional Costs and Productivity.

This Instructional Productivity information corresponds to the UNO state- and tuition-funded budget. The Supplemental Information at the end of the document provides counts and statistics for campuswide programs embedded in most colleges. Only Dual Enrollment instruction is excluded from the productivity report since it is a fee-based instructional program for …

Congressional Apportionment: A Liberal Arts Perspective, Charles M. Biles

Congressional Apportionment

No abstract provided.

Systematic Bias In Baroclinic Energy Estimates In Shelf Seas, Gordon R. Stephenson, J. A. Mattias Green, Mark E. Inall

Faculty Publications

A simple model of an internal wave advected by an oscillating barotropic flow suggests flaws in standard approaches to estimating properties of the internal tide. When the M₂ barotropic tidal current amplitude is of similar size to the phase speed of the M₂ baroclinic tide, spectral and harmonic analysis techniques lead to erroneous estimates of the amplitude, phase, and energy in the M₂ internal tide. In general, harmonic fits and bandpass or low-pass filters that attempt to isolate the lowest M₂ harmonic significantly underestimate the strength of M₂ baroclinic energy fluxes in shelf seas. Baroclinic …

September 2016 Quicknotes, Southern Adventist University

QuickNotes – Advancement e-Newsletter

QuickNotes is an e-newsletter that comes from Advancement at Southern Adventist University. September 2016 edition features the article "Inauguration and Gala Celebrate New Beginnings".

A Targeted Approach? A Study Of Ngo Roles And Practices In Promoting Economic Development, Emma Shoaf

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

In recent years, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) have become key actors promoting economic development. Despite their rapid rise, there are still significant gaps in the development sphere regarding what NGOs do in specific contexts. This research evaluates how NGOs promote economic development among Palestinian refugees in Lebanon to give context to general trends within development literature. Through an in-depth case study of the NGO Cives Mundi and their recent development project Tatreez–focused on promoting economic empowerment among Palestinian refugee women through the formation of a weaving co-op–this study seeks to evaluate key advantages and disadvantages to NGO work in specific …

Greater New Haven Community Index 2016, Mark Abraham, Mary Buchanan

Reports

No abstract provided.

Assessing Character Of Place To Guide Geotourism - A Case Study Of Two Montana Communities, Evan Tipton, Norma P. Nickerson, Jennifer Thomsen

Institute for Tourism and Recreation Research Publications

In 2007 the governor’s Montana Tourism Advisory Council adopted the Montana Tourism and Recreation Charter. Its guiding principle of geotourism pledges to sustain and enhance the character of the places that the people of Montana call home. How can the state’s efforts to keep this pledge be assessed when “character of place” has never been defined in detail? To keep this pledge, and chart the future of geotourism in the state, it was important to clarify what is meant by character of place and identify the full range of present and potential problems that threaten the integrity of a character. …

Notes From The Border: Writing Across The Administrative Law/Financial Regulation Divide, Robert B. Ahdieh

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.

A Bead Analysis Of Northern Chumash Village Site, Tstyiwi: Ca-Slo-51/H, Kaya Wiggins

Social Sciences

In the Spring of 2015, California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly), San Luis Obispo, conducted a field methods class at CA-SLO-51/H, led by Dr. Terry Jones. The site was found to correlate to the Northern Chumash village, Tstyiwi. The site included a rich assemblage of shell beads. Of the 302 beads recovered from the site, 27 different types of beads were identified. The diagnostic Olivella (Callianax biplicata) shell beads indicate a village occupation spanning from the Early Period through to contact and early post-contact. Shell bead manufacturing at the site is demonstrated by abalone shell bead blanks and …

Twenty-Five Years Of Bananas, Beaches And Bases: A Conversation With Cynthia Enloe, Cynthia Enloe, Anita Lacey, Thomas Gregory

Sustainability and Social Justice

Cynthia Enloe’s book Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics brought a new approach to the study of war, conflict and political economy, an approach informed by and starting from a feminist curiosity. Such a starting point allows for recognition of the diverse, often disregarded gendered dynamics of militarization. A feminist curiosity facilitates making visible the politicization of everyday life via what Enloe calls a bottom-up approach to research and investigation. This account of a conversation between feminist scholars draws attention to the means by which researchers exercise the sociological imagination in their work on labour, militarism …

Booklover--White Garden, Donna Jacobs

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.

From The Reference Desk--Reviews Of Reference Titles, Tom Gilson

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.

Delillo's Falling Man And The Trouble With Sympathy In Narratives Of Terrorism, Jessica Mcdonald

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "DeLillo's Falling Man and the Trouble with Sympathy in Narratives of Terrorism" Jessica McDonald discusses the ways Don DeLillo's characterization of a 9/11 terrorist elicits reader sympathy in his 2007 novel Falling Man. McDonald argues that introducing sympathy into narratives of terrorism undermines attempts to understand the contextual issues out of which terrorism arises even if the rhetoric of sympathy may seem to foster a sense of "fellow-feeling" that makes acts of political protest and resistance more accessible to broader publics.

Geographic And Age-Based Variations In Medicare Reimbursement Among Assh Members., Michael P. Gaspar, Patrick M. Kane, Grace B. Honik, Eon K. Shin, Sidney M. Jacoby, A. Lee Osterman

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery Faculty Papers

Background: The purpose of this study was to investigate how American Society for Surgery of the Hand (ASSH) members' Medicare reimbursement depends on their geographical location and number of years in practice. Methods: Demographic data for surgeons who were active members of the ASSH in 2012 were obtained using information publicly available through the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). "Hand-surgeons-per-capita" and average reimbursement per surgeon were calculated for each state. Regression analysis was performed to determine a relationship between (1) each state's average reimbursement versus the number of ASSH members in that state, (2) average reimbursement versus …

Residential Electricity Demand In El Paso: 1977-2014, Thomas M. Fullerton Jr., David R. Macias, Adam G. Walke

Border Region Modeling Project

This study analyzes the demand for residential electricity in El Paso, Texas, USA. Annual data are provided by El Paso Electric Company covering the period from 1977 to 2014. This study reports a negative long-run income elasticity for residential electricity demand. Per customer residential electricity usage declines by 0.68 percent for every 1-percent increase in real per capita income over the long run, indicating that electricity is treated as an inferior good by households in this metropolitan economy. That result runs counter to many earlier studies, but corroborates recent empirical evidence for Seattle, Washington and other regions of the United …

Vagabond: Returning To Autoethnography As A Doctoral Nomad, Karyn Mcelroy

Dissertations

Vagabond: Returning to Autoethnography as a Doctoral Nomad is a journey into what is described as a purposeful and rhizomatic inquiry of spaces and places in knowing. It prompts questioning within the author such as, “What has this doctoral journey come to mean, and where do I go now as I step outside the roots which have planted in me this need to wander? How do I navigate this struggle?” The work is a coming-to-terms piece. It is a hopeful wandering and documented artifact capturing an organic process of unlearning, relearning, and examining locations of being, while recognizing the emergent …

Untangling The Role Of Race In Capital Charging And Sentencing In North Carolina, 1990-2009, Barbara O'Brien, Catherine M. Grosso, George Woodworth, Abijah Taylor

North Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

Tasker: Behavioral Insights Via Campus-Based Experimental Mobile Crowd-Sourcing, Thivya Kandappu, Jaiman, Tandriansyah, Archan Misra, Shih-Fen Cheng, Chen, Hoong Chuin Lau, Deepthi Chander, Koustuv Dasgupta

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

While mobile crowd-sourcing has become a game-changer for many urban operations, such as last mile logistics and municipal monitoring, we believe that the design of such crowdsourcing strategies must better accommodate the real-world behavioral preferences and characteristics of users. To provide a real-world testbed to study the impact of novel mobile crowd-sourcing strategies, we have designed, developed and experimented with a real-world mobile crowd-tasking platform on the SMU campus, called TA$Ker. We enhanced the TA$Ker platform to support several new features (e.g., task bundling, differential pricing and cheating analytics) and experimentally investigated these features via a two-month deployment of TA$Ker, …

The Willie And Martin Handcart Companies: Application And Insights Into A Recurring Rescue, Jeffrey D. Meservy

Religious Educator: Perspectives on the Restored Gospel

The purpose of this paper is not to retell the stories of the handcart companies, one led by James G. Willie and another led by Edward Martin; many have done that very well. Rather, the purpose of this paper is to draw from their examples and experiences and find application for us today. Context, stories, and quotes of these pioneers are used here only in a supportive effort to identify principles, which can guide us today as we strive to live the gospel. President Gordon B. Hinckley stated, “Stories of their rescue need to be repeated again and again. They …

Capacity Building For Sustainable Workforce In The Construction Industry, Edelmiro F. Escamilla, Mohammadreza Ostadalimakhmalbaf

The Professional Constructor

Research has shown that the construction industry will face workforce shortages that will increase delivery cost and completion time. The purpose of this paper is to first identify and synthesize the fundamental factors impacting recruitment and retention of the potential construction workforce. A qualitative approach was employed in order to collect and synthesize known factors related to workforce development and capacity building for the construction industry. The paper then presents a conceptual framework for conducting research on capacity generation of a sustainable construction workforce—by considering the impact of family unit and cultural values, career path perceptions, higher educational attainment, and …