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Bird Responses To Habitat Change In The Karst Area Of Bantimurung Bulusaraung National Park, Indra A.S.L.P. Putri, Bayu W. Broto, Fajri Ansari

Jurnal Penelitian Kehutanan Wallacea

Birds are useful bioindicatorsto habitat changes. This study aims to determine the responses of birds to habitat change at Maros-Pangkep karst area, Bantimurung-Bulusaraung National Park. The research was carried out in three disturbance degrees (core-zone, wilderness-zone,and the community-gardens), which represents minimal, middle, and high interference level.  A modifiedsquare-line method was used to observe vegetation of bird habitat. Point count method was used to observe bird population. Data of the bird habitat vegetation was analyzed using vegetation density. The difference of vegetation composition was analyzed using Sorensen-similarity index. Data of the bird was analyzed using abundance, and indexes of Shannon-Weinnerdiversity, Simpson …

Peningkatan Aktivitas Dan Hasil Belajar Siswa Melalui Pembelajaran Kooperatif Tipe Make A Match, Wahyu Indrastuti, Sugeng Utaya, Edy Bambang Irawan

Jurnal Pendidikan: Teori, Penelitian, dan Pengembangan

This research aims to describe the implementation of cooperative learning types Make A Match to increased the activity and students learning outcomes of the 4C grade of SDN Beluk Klaten. This research was Action Research Classroom (ARC) in two cycles. Each of the cycle consisted of two meetings. The date collected through observation sheets of students activity and the test results of students learning. The results of the research which an increased of the students activity from 76,10% (Good) in the first cycle to 92,24% (Very Good) in the second cycle. The result of classical learning competences in the first …

Distribution Of Pelagic Phytoplankton-Derived Lipid Biomarkers Along A Transect From The East Sea To The Bering Sea: Insights Into Their Suitability As Open-Water Indicators, J-K Gal, J-H Kim, L Smik, Sy Ha, St Belt, S-I Nam, K-H Shin

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

In this study we collected suspended particulate matter (SPM) along a transect from the East Sea to the Bering Sea from 18 to 28 July in 2015. We then analyzed the samples for the Arctic sea ice proxy IP25 together with various phytoplankton-derived lipids including a tri-unsaturated highly branched isoprenoid (HBI triene) and two sterols (brassicasterol and dinosterol) to assess the suitability of these compounds for the so called PIP25 index in the western Arctic region as a proxy for sea ice change in the past. The distributions of some other commonly reported sterols (cholesterol and 24-methylene cholesterol) were also …

The Rights Of The Child - What Can An International Body Of Catholic Jurists Do?, Christine Godsil Cooper

The Catholic Lawyer

No abstract provided.

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 042, Number 01, August 29, 2017, Grand Valley State University

2017-2018, Volume 42

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

Physical Layer Security For Wireless Implantable Medical Devices, Zekeriyya E. Ankarali, Ali F. Demir, Huseyin Arslan, Richard D. Gitlin

USF Patents

In various embodiments, the present invention presents a physical layer (PHY) authentication technique for implantable medical devices (IMDs) that does not use existing methods of cryptology. Instead, a friendly jamming mechanism is established and malicious attempts by adversaries are prevented, without sharing any secured information, such as secret keys. In addition to ensuring authentication, the invention also provides advantages in terms of decreasing processing complexity of IMDs and enhances overall communications performance.

A Comparative Analysis Of Viral Richness And Viral Sharing In Cave-Roosting Bats, Anna R. Willoughby, Kendra L. Phelps, Kevin J. Olival

KIP Articles

Caves provide critical roosting habitats for bats globally, but are increasingly disturbed or destroyed by human activities such as tourism and extractive industries. In addition to degrading the habitats of cave-roosting bats, such activities often promote contact between humans and bats, which may have potential impacts on human health. Cave-roosting bats are hosts to diverse viruses, some of which emerged in humans with severe consequences (e.g., severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus and Marburg virus). Characterizing patterns of viral richness and sharing among bat species are therefore important first steps for understanding bat-virus dynamics and mitigating future bat-human spillover. Here we …

University Of Northern Iowa Faculty Senate Meeting Agenda, August 28, 2017, University Of Northern Iowa. Faculty Senate.

Documents - Faculty Senate

Meeting agenda from the Faculty Senate of the University of Northern Iowa.

University Of Northern Iowa Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes, August 28, 2017, University Of Northern Iowa. Faculty Senate.

Documents - Faculty Senate

Meeting minutes from the Faculty Senate of the University of Northern Iowa.

August 28, 2017 Armstrong State University Faculty Senate Minutes, Armstrong State University

Armstrong Faculty Senate: Minutes (Archived)

August 28, 2017 Armstrong State University Faculty Senate Minutes

Influence Of Community Ties On Rural Single Mothers' Participation In Community College: A Qualitative Cross Case Study, Melanie Shea Austin

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

The purpose of this study was to understand how resources in the community impact rural single mothers' access, participation, and success in higher education. In particular, this study focused on how rural single mothers' community ties impact their social capital resources and perception of agency and achievement in pursuing higher education. The theoretical framework for this study inclduded a critical feminist social capital theory and utilized a community cultural wealth model, focusing on social capital, to highlight how rural single mothers navigate and develop social capital in rural communities to open up opportunities and provide them with social mobility. Research …

Analysis Of Traffic Collisions In Dublin Using Gis Based System, Jagteshwar Singh, Niamh O' Reilly

Conference papers

This study aims to analyse traffic collisions in the Greater Dublin Region between the period 2006-2012, using GIS to identify hotspots and examine the relationship between collisions and a range of contributory factors including vehicular speeds, traffic volume, road curvature, road category and distance from intersection that could enable prediction of traffic collisions. To this end, Road Safety Authority (RSA) collision data for Dublin Region geocoded as point events, road profiles, traffic flow characteristics on which these occur are spatially merged using ArcGIS and FME software to establish if a significant relationship exists between collision frequencies on road links and …

Research On The Maritime Search And Rescue Cooperation Mechanism In The South China Sea, Cancan Qin

Maritime Safety & Environment Management Dissertations (Dalian)

No abstract provided.

Neighborhood Food Infrastructure And Food Security In Metropolitan Detroit, Scott W. Allard, Maria V. Wathen, H. Luke Shaefer, Sandra K. Danziger

Social Work: School of Social Work Faculty Publications and Other Works

Concern about spatial access to food retailers and its relationship to household food security has increased in recent years, placing greater importance on understanding how proximity to food retailers is related to household food consumption. Using data from the Michigan Recession and Recovery Study (MRRS), a panel survey of working‐age adults in the Detroit Metropolitan Area, this article explores whether access to the food retailers is associated with food insecurity. We use unique data about food retailers in metropolitan Detroit to develop an array of food retailer access measures that account for distance to nearest retailer, density of retailers, commute …

Conflicting Evolutionary Histories Of The Mitochondrial And Nuclear Genomes In New World Myotis Bats, Thomas Lee Jr.

Biology

The rapid diversification of Myotis bats into more than 100 species is one of the most extensive mammalian radiations available for study. Efforts to understand relationships within Myotis have primarily utilized mitochondrial markers and trees inferred fromnuclear markers lackedresolution. Our current understanding of relationships withinMyotis is therefore biased towards a set of phylogenetic markers that may not reflect the history of the nuclear genome. To resolve this,we sequenced the full mitochondrial genomes of 37 representativeMyotis, primarily fromtheNewWorld, in conjunction with targeted sequencing of 3648 ultraconserved elements (UCEs). We inferred the phylogeny and explored the effects of concatenation and summary phylogenetic …

The Study On Shanghai International Air Transportation Hub, Diandian Li

World Maritime University Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Port Competition And Cooperation In A Shipping Alliance Era : A Case Study On The Port Of Shanghai And Ningbo, Tianyi Jiang

World Maritime University Dissertations

No abstract provided.

A Barge Fleet Composition For An Industrial Dry Bulk Transportation : Operating Between River Wharf And Coastal Floating Transshipment Platform, Boyu Jin

World Maritime University Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Analyzing Shipping Cycles Of Dry Bulk Shipping Market Over The Past 50 Years, Cong Wang

World Maritime University Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Research On Import Trade Of Chinese Construction Machinery Parts Under The Background Of “The Belt And Road” - Influential Factors And Potential Analysis Based On Gravity Model, Kai Chen

World Maritime University Dissertations

No abstract provided.

August 25, 2017 - From The President's Desk, Cheryl B. Schrader

From the Desk of the President

President Cheryl B. Schrader sends out the 2017 President's Awards for Excellence and the Faculty Award for Excellence. She continues to extend an invitation to an awards ceremony in which she will provide her first State of the University Address.

No Time To Defend The Pre-Post-Truth World, Richard Pickard

The Goose

As much as the "post-truth" needs to be challenged and countered, the humanities can play a crucial role in keeping alive the understanding that the pre-post-truth world ought not to be conserved, but transformed positively. After all, this was a world marked by accelerating anthropogenic climate change, by ongoing and transforming colonialism, by racism as a structural pillar, by misogyny and sexism. The environmental humanities must retain their historic radical mission, and they will founder if they surrender such a potential.

Defending Truths, Restoring Worlds, Bart H. Welling

The Goose

The "post" in "post-truth" is premature, and also assigns too much importance to Brexit and the victory of Donald Trump in the US. Worst of all, it can foster the impression that people like Brexit voters and Trump supporters are irredeemably exiled in "alternative fact" bubbles beyond the reach of science, rational thought, and common decency. We have to find ways to work productively with these kinds of citizens, instead of merely condemning them, if we want to trigger both a worldwide alternative energy revolution and the revolution in politics and economics that a truly just and sustainable energy transition …

Getting Out Of The Basement: Space, Performance, And The Oscillation Of Diy Punk Publics, Ryan L. Bince

Theses - ALL

This thesis takes the example of two scenes of activity—a punk house in Huntington, West Virginia and a 2016 DIY punk rock festival—to investigate the material-spatial influences that play out across the worldmaking performances of DIY Punk counterpublics as they oscillate across spaces that range from the intimate underground to the public writ large. Drawing on a mass of data including field interviews from punk house residents and fragments gathered from the festival and the internet, I render these scenes as radical activist worldmaking spaces that organize and prepare the international DIY punk community to do instrumental activist work. This …

Controls On Erosion In The Western Tarin Basin: Implications For The Uplift Of Northwest Tibet And The Parmir, Peter D. Clift, Hongbo Zheng, Andrew Carter, Philipp Böning, Tara N. Jonell, Hannah Schorr, Xin Shan, Katharina Pahnke, Xiaochun Wei, Tammy M. Rittenour

Geosciences Faculty Publications

We present here bulk sediment major element chemistry, Nd and Sr isotope ratios, and detrital apatite fission-track (AFT) and U-Pb zircon ages to characterize the provenance of the southwestern Taklimakan Desert (northwest China) and the three major rivers draining this region. We establish the spatial and temporal controls on erosion and sediment transport in the modern Tibetan rain shadow. The Hotan River drains the North Kunlun block and is characterized by zircon populations at 160–230 Ma and 370–520 Ma. The Yarkand River shares these grains with the Hotan, but also has a very prominent zircon population at 40–160 Ma, which …

Towards Understanding Entrepreneurship’S Role In Our Common Future: Essays From The Sustainability-Entrepreneurship Nexus, Kiven Pierre

Dissertations - ALL

The purpose of this dissertation is to facilitate a better understanding of the relationship between entrepreneurship and attainment of sustainable development. Drawing on prior work, I present three related essays that together provide both an evaluation and extension of research at the intersection of the entrepreneurship and sustainable development concepts – herein referred to as the Sustainability-Entrepreneurship Nexus. In addition, the findings from these essays provide some interesting research opportunities for management and entrepreneurship scholars alike.

Essay 1 provides a literature review of extant research within the S-E Nexus. Focusing on the composition of conceptual and empirical articles, and the …

Charter School Funding: Inequity In New York City, Larry D. Maloney, Patrick J. Wolf

School Choice Demonstration Project

Charter schools have been a part of the educational landscape in New York City since the first New York charter school opened in Harlem in 1999. We define a charter school as any school that (1) operates based on a formal charter in place of direct school district management and (2) reports its finances independently from the school district. We define all other public schools as district schools. According to the New York State Department of Education (NYSDoE), New York City was home to 1,575 district and 183 charter schools in Fiscal Year 2014 (FY2014). Seven percent of all public …

Assessing The Impact Of The Eqip High Tunnel Initiative, Analena B. Bruce, James R. Farmer, Elizabeth Maynard, Julia C.D. Valliant

Department of Horticulture & Landscape Architecture Faculty Publications

Natural Resources Conservation Service (USDA NRCS) Seasonal High Tunnel Initiative, or HTI, that the USDA expects to strengthen local and regional food production by increasing the availability of fresh, locally grown food. Goals of the HTI include improved plant and soil quality, reduced nutrient and pesticide run­off, and increased availability of fresh vegetables and fruits for local food markets. This study explored the farm-level impacts of production via high tunnels among Indiana farmers relying on the infrastructure. We identify characteristics of farmers who have obtained high tunnels through the cost-share program, to better understand the types of farm enterprises that …

Mestizaje Ideology As Color-Blind Racism: Students' Discourses Of Colorism And Racism In Mexico, Yvonne Perez Lopez

Dissertations - ALL

This study will open the discourse on inequity and its maintenance through colorism in

Mexico. The largest percent of the population is a mixture of indigenous and Spanish

descent. This is where racism via colorism occurs. Considered only as one group,

mestizos of a lighter skin color have more resemblance to being of white Spanish descent

and therefore are accepted over mestizos of darker skin color, who have a resemblance to

indigenous people. Racism is scarcely documented in Mexico. It is systematically

embedded in political, cultural and economic practices; and therefore limits democratic

and inclusive practices for all. Working with …

Rotational Deployments Vs. Forward Stationing: How Can The Army Achieve Assurance And Deterrence Efficiently And Effectively?, John R. Deni

Books, Monographs & Collaborative Studies

The Department of Defense can achieve deterrence and assurance objectives more effectively and efficiently through a rebalancing of its force posture. The Army should reverse the trend of the last 2 decades and forward station additional heavy units in Europe and on the Korean Peninsula, while ending lengthy, heel-to-toe rotational noncombat deployments.