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The Level Of Polyaromatic Hydrocarbon Contamination On The Kalamazoo River Shoreline Remains High Following The 2010 Enbridge Oil Spill, Wisam Abdulabbas Flayyih Al Isawi

Research and Creative Activities Poster Day

• One of the nation’s worst inland oil spills occurred near Marshall in Michigan in 2010.
• The recent Enbridge Line 6B rupture released over three million liters of diluted bitumen crude oil into the environment.
• The spilled oil entered the Talmadge Creek and flowed into the Kalamazoo River, a Lake Michigan tributary.
• Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) together with other pollutants were released into the environment.
• PAHs represents significant threats to aquatic organisms due to their carcinogenic and mutagenic properties and their persistence in the environment.
• Five years following the oil spill accident, the levels and identities of PAHs were investigated in …

Whitson Presented 2016 Outstanding Graduate Faculty Award, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

No abstract provided.

Virtual Currencies And Blockchains: A Primer, Benjamin Geva

Editorials and Commentaries

With the advent of virtual currencies and blockchain technologies the global payments landscape may be irreversibly transformed. This bulletin is designed to present basic concepts underlying this transformation.

Minutes From The April 14, 2016 Meeting Of The University Of Montana Faculty, University Of Montana--Missoula. Faculty

University of Montana Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes

Meeting minutes from the April 14, 2016 meeting of the University of Montana faculty.

Lanthorn, Vol. 50, No. 57, April 14, 2016, Grand Valley State University

Volume 50, July 13, 2015 - June 6, 2016

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

The George-Anne, Georgia Southern University

The George-Anne

• Opinions
• News
• Features
• Puzzles
• Sports

Housing Affordability In Portland, City Club Of Portland (Portland, Or.)

City Club of Portland

No abstract provided.

The Antelope, University Of Nebraska At Kearney

The Antelope

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How Landscape Ecology Informs Global Land-Change Science And Policy, Buma, Audrey Mayer, Amelie Davis, Sara Gagne, E. Louise Loudermilk, Robert Scheller, Fiona Schmiegelow, Yolanda Wiersma, Janet Franklin

Faculty, Staff, and Students

Landscape ecology is a discipline that explicitly considers the influence of time and space on the environmental patterns we observe and the processes that create them. Although many of the topics studied in landscape ecology have public policy implications, three are of particular concern: climate change; land use–land cover change (LULCC); and a particular type of LULCC, urbanization. These processes are interrelated, because LULCC is driven by both human activities (e.g., agricultural expansion and urban sprawl) and climate change (e.g., desertification). Climate change, in turn, will affect the way humans use landscapes. Interactions among these drivers of ecosystem change can …

The State Courts And Alaska Politics: Independence, Public Accountability, And Political Influence, Michael L. Boyer

Faculty, Staff, and Students

From the chapter introduction: "How does the Alaska political and governmental process deal with the tension between the need for judicial independence, public accountability, and the court system’s role in politics and public policy making? The following two sections explore the influences that have shaped the Alaska court system and its organization. The next section explains the devices that work to promote independence and impartiality. Then we explore in more detail six aspects of the role of the courts in Alaska politics and policy making.

Volume 53, Number 35: April 13, 2016, University Of North Dakota

University Letter Archive

No abstract provided.

"Sustaining Compassion Through Entrepreneurship: Bellows Magazine", Ben Riddle

Furman Engaged!

No abstract provided.

The Treatment For Malpractice – Physician, Enhance Thyself: The Impact Of Neuroenhancements For Medical Malpractice, Harvey L. Fiser

Pace Law Review

This article will introduce some of the issues and offer some possible guidelines which may eventually guide cases of medical malpractice and medical care in the face of neurointerventions. First, I will briefly address the standard of care in medical malpractice cases in general. Second, I will discuss some of the existing and potential physical and neurological enhancements available for physicians. Finally, I will explore how these neurointerventions could alter the standards for medical malpractice for both the enhanced doctors and the entire medical profession.

It's What's For Dinner - Furman University's Sustainable Dining Initiative, Allie Buff

Furman Engaged!

No abstract provided.

Application Of Nasa Earth Observations To River Blindness Elimination Initiatives In The Amazon Rainforest, Sara Amirazodi, Kel Markert

Research Horizons Day Posters

No abstract provided.

2016 Undergraduate Research Competition Program, Coastal Carolina University

Undergraduate Research Symposium Programs

8th Annual Undergraduate Research Competition, April 12-13, 2016. Document includes schedule and abstracts. Schedule was also included in the 12th Celebration of Inquiry from 2016. Theme: Beyond Borders: Living in a Global Society.

Ucc Minutes, April 12, 2016, University Curriculum Council

UCC Agendas/Minutes

No abstract provided.

The Danger Of Bootstrap Formalism In Copyright, Alfred C. Yen

Journal of Intellectual Property Law

No abstract provided.

Emissions And Deforestation Associated With Household Energy Use: A Case Of The Thulamela Local Municipality, South Africa, Se Uhunamure, Ns Nethengwe, A Musyoki

CO2 Summit II: Technologies and Opportunities

Fuel wood is regarded as a major source of energy around the world, particularly in developing nations forming part of the energy mix. Most rural communities around the world, consider forests as the repository of stored energy. The study focused on the role of fuel wood in deforestation and the emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) in the Thulamela local municipality in South Africa. Information regarding the fuel wood consumption was collected during a manual field survey of 200 households in four villages in the municipality using questionnaires and interviews. The carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions were calculated using the …

Faculty Senate Executive Committee Agenda, April 11, 2016, Utah State University

Faculty Senate & Faculty Senate Executive Committee

• Calendar Committee
• EPC Items for April 2016
• Committee on Committees
• Code search & replace to remove “and Distance Education”
• 402.12.7(1) Name change Undergraduate Faculty Advisor of the Year(Second Reading)
• Faculty Senate President & President-Elect coverage for 2016-2017
• FS needs to caucus for Executive Committee Member election
• Sustainability Council proposal
• Interstate Passport changes

Tracing And Predicting Collaboration For Junior Scholars, Chun-Hua Tsai, Yuru Lin

Information Systems and Quantitative Analysis Faculty Publications

Academic publication is a key indicator for measuring scholars' scientific productivity and has a crucial impact on their future career. Previous work has identified the positive association between the number of collaborators and academic productivity, which motivates the problem of tracing and predicting potential collaborators for junior scholars. Nevertheless, the insufficient publication record makes current approaches less effective for junior scholars. In this paper, we present an exploratory study of predicting junior scholars' future co-authorship in three different network density. By combining features based on affiliation, geographic and content information, the proposed model significantly outperforms the baseline methods by 12% …

Searching For Fair Housing, Lee Anne Fennell

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

No abstract provided.

Searching For Fair Housing, Lee Anne Fennell

Kreisman Working Paper Series in Housing Law and Policy

No abstract provided.

Exploring Schools' Use Of Natural Spaces, M Gilchrist, R Passy, S Waite, R Cook

Plymouth Institute of Education

This chapter focuses on the changing ways in which schools are using natural spaces as part of their pupils’ learning experience. We suggest that learning in natural spaces has undergone something of a renaissance in recent times, and explore the reasons that this might be so. We then examine ways in which schools and other practitioners are using outdoor spaces for play, for non-curricular and for curricular learning. The chapter draws on a range of countries for examples that show how a nation’s cultural ideas about the outdoors can be incorporated into a country’s outdoor learning, and how other ideas …

Searching For Fair Housing, Lee Anne Fennell

Articles

No abstract provided.

In Paradisum: The Music Of Maurice Druflé, April 10th And 15th, 2016 [Program, Uni Choirs [Program], University Of Northern Iowa. School Of Music.

Music Recital Programs

Program of a music recital given by faculty, students, or guest artists from the School of Music at the University of Northern Iowa.

2016-04-09 Aaup Presentation, American Association Of University Professors., Howard Bunsis

Faculty Senate Records

A presentation by Howard Bunsis, chair of the AAUP Collective Bargaining Congress, to the Faculty Senate on April 9, 2016.

Discovering Local Food, Lauren Kemp, Gail Patton, Ben Gilmer, Bill Woodrum

Southern Anthropological Society - Annual Conference

Gail Patton will tell the story of her journey into the local food world and her special interest in locally driven economic development. Gail is a key founder of the Wild Ramp and sees the market as an opportunity to grow small businesses in the Tri-State Area.

Sustainability & The Environment, Marissa Parker

George Modlin Book Award

Marissa Parker, Environmental Studies and Geography, Class of 2016 at the University of Richmond, describes her process of building a book collection focusing on Sustainability and the Environment.

Writing/Trauma, Natasha Noel Liebig

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

In writing/trauma, I address the association of trauma with knowledge, language, and writing. My discussion first works to establish the relationship between trauma and knowledge. I argue that trauma does not fit into the traditional Enlightenment model of scientific knowledge or the ontological model of what Michele Foucault calls the ‘truth-event.’ Rather, I contend that trauma is unique embodied knowledge, different from that of praxis and normal memory. In general, embodied knowledge is a matter of prenoetic and intentional operations. The body schema and body image maintain a power of plasticity and adjust to new motilities in …