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Estimating Bedload Transport Rates In A Gravel-Bed River Using Seismic Impact Plates: Model Development And Application, Pj Soar, Pw Downs Apr 2017

Estimating Bedload Transport Rates In A Gravel-Bed River Using Seismic Impact Plates: Model Development And Application, Pj Soar, Pw Downs

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

A data-driven, uncertainty-bound estimation technique for bedload transport rates is developed based on passive sensing devices. The model converts sediment samples to a mass in transit for each instantaneous discharge according to impacts detected and a Monte Carlo simulation of the load determined at random from the particle size distribution. Using impact count data autogenically produces a supply-limited, location-specific and high-resolution time-series of bedload rates, while the probabilistic approach inherently accommodates the stochastic nature of bedload transport. Application to the River Avon (Devon, U.K.) provides cross-sectional bedload rate estimates within the bounds of experimental data and calibrated to observed field …

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Ash Aggregation During The 11 February 2010 Partial Dome Collapse Of The Soufrière Hills Volcano, Montserrat, F. A. Burns, C. Bonadonna, L. Pioli, P. D. Cole, A. Stinton Apr 2017

Ash Aggregation During The 11 February 2010 Partial Dome Collapse Of The Soufrière Hills Volcano, Montserrat, F. A. Burns, C. Bonadonna, L. Pioli, P. D. Cole, A. Stinton

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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Dreaming As A Critical Discourse Of National Belonging: China Dream, American Dream And World Dream, William A. Callahan Apr 2017

Dreaming As A Critical Discourse Of National Belonging: China Dream, American Dream And World Dream, William A. Callahan

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

This article explores the normative politics of national belonging through an analysis of the ‘China Dream’ and the ‘American Dream’. It traces how politicians and public intellectuals employ such slogans to highlight how national dreams emerge in times of crisis and involve a combination of aspirations and anxieties. It compares parallel rhetorical strategies – ‘patriotic worrying’ in China and the American Jeremiad in the US – to examine how belonging to these two nations involves a nostalgic longing for the past as a model for the future. Debates about the meaning of these national dreams highlight the tension between freedom …

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Leviathan Inc. And Corporate Environmental Engagement, Po-Hsuan Hsu, Hao Liang, Pedro Matos Apr 2017

Leviathan Inc. And Corporate Environmental Engagement, Po-Hsuan Hsu, Hao Liang, Pedro Matos

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

In a special report in 2010, The Economist called the resurgence of state-owned mega-enterprises, especially those in emerging economies, “Leviathan Inc.”, and warned about the dangers of the state capitalism model. Traditionally, state-owned firms have been criticized for poor governance and questionable efficiency. In fact, they may be better positioned to deal with market failures and externalities. Our findings based on publicly-listed firms in 45 countries suggest that government-controlled companies engage more in environmental issues, and this engagement does not come at a cost to shareholder value. The effect is more pronounced among firms in emerging market economies and in …

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A Perpetually Interrupted Interbasin Water Transfer As A Modern Greek Drama: Assessing The Acheloos To Pinios Interbasin Water Transfer In The Context Of Integrated Water Resources Management, Hristos Tyralis, Tegos Aristoteles, Anastasia Delichatsiou, Nikos Mamassis, Demetris Koutsoyiannis Mar 2017

A Perpetually Interrupted Interbasin Water Transfer As A Modern Greek Drama: Assessing The Acheloos To Pinios Interbasin Water Transfer In The Context Of Integrated Water Resources Management, Hristos Tyralis, Tegos Aristoteles, Anastasia Delichatsiou, Nikos Mamassis, Demetris Koutsoyiannis

Open Water Journal

Interbasin water transfer is a primary instrument of water resources management directly related with the integrated development of the economy, society and environment. Here we assess the project of the interbasin water transfer from the river Acheloos to the river Pinios basin which has intrigued the Greek society, the politicians and scientists for decades. The set of criteria we apply originate from a previous study reviewing four interbasin water transfers and assessing whether an interbasin water transfer is compatible with the concept of integrated water resources management. In this respect, we assess which of the principles of the integrated water …

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A Geospatial Model For Characterizing The Fish Resources Of The Similkameen River, British Columbia, Canada, Ning Liu, Andrew Harwood, James Kells, Karl-Erich Lindenschmidt Mar 2017

A Geospatial Model For Characterizing The Fish Resources Of The Similkameen River, British Columbia, Canada, Ning Liu, Andrew Harwood, James Kells, Karl-Erich Lindenschmidt

Open Water Journal

A geospatial model was been developed in order to rapidly characterize fluvial geomorphological features associated with the fish resources in a river system. The model uses four easily-quantified geospatial attributes – channel width, plan view sinuosity, longitudinal slope and fractal dimension – for classifying a stream channel into geomorphic response units (GRUs), which are the key working elements of the geospatial model used in this work. Using the geospatial model, a total of five GRUs were defined along the river channel. The model framework was tested using data from a 1983 fish survey conducted along the Canadian portion of the …

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Michigan Geographic Bee, John M. Dunn Mar 2017

Michigan Geographic Bee, John M. Dunn

WMU President John Dunn

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An Evidence-Based Review Of Academic Web Search Engines, 2014-2016: Implications For Librarians’ Practice And Research Agenda, Jody C. Fagan Mar 2017

An Evidence-Based Review Of Academic Web Search Engines, 2014-2016: Implications For Librarians’ Practice And Research Agenda, Jody C. Fagan

Libraries

Academic web search engines have become central to scholarly research. While the fitness of Google Scholar for research purposes has been examined repeatedly, Microsoft Academic and Google Books have not received much attention. Recent studies have much to tell us about the coverage and utility of Google Scholar, its coverage of the sciences, and its utility for evaluating researcher impact. But other aspects have been understudied, such as coverage of the arts and humanities, books, and non-Western, non-English publications. User research has also tapered off. A small number of articles hint at the opportunity for librarians to become expert advisors …

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Prediction Of Water Discharge And Sediment In Teak Forested Areausing Artificial Neural Network Model, Nining Wahyuningrum Mar 2017

Prediction Of Water Discharge And Sediment In Teak Forested Areausing Artificial Neural Network Model, Nining Wahyuningrum

Jurnal Penelitian Kehutanan Wallacea

Information on the relationship of rainfall with discharge and sediment are required in watershed management.This relationship is known to be highly nonlinear and complex. Although discharge and sediment has been monitored continuously, but sometimes the information is not or less complete. In this condition, modeling is indispensable. The research objective is to create a model to predict the monthly direct runoff and sediment using Artificial Neural Network (ANN).The model was tested using rainfall data at t-3 and t-4 as input, and discharge and sediment at t+3 and t+4 as output. The data used is the data from 2001 to 2014. …

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Daily Eastern News: March 31, 2017, Eastern Illinois University Mar 2017

Daily Eastern News: March 31, 2017, Eastern Illinois University

March

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The Echo: March 31, 2017, Taylor University Mar 2017

The Echo: March 31, 2017, Taylor University

2016-2017 (Volume 104)

Guinness answers community’s questions – To dance or not to dance – Always learning – Behind the Headlines – Accreditation process – Spring cleaning – Town manager wanted – Long story short – Spring break testimonials – Apartment living – The million-dollar idea – Tennis scholarship breakdown – The bi-weekly bachelor and bachelorette – Echograms #TaylorU -- #TaylorU’s Top Tweets – Future in film and music – Davis’ Top 10 – “Unashamed” – A&E Events – You foolish Galatians! – The Question: Is Captain America or Thor more attractive? – Cap, obviously – Thor is king – Men’s basketball season …

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Geographical Proximity Is Not Enough: How Culture Shaped Placement, Spatiality, And The Outcomes Of The Arab Spring’S Uprisings., Olesya Venger Mar 2017

Geographical Proximity Is Not Enough: How Culture Shaped Placement, Spatiality, And The Outcomes Of The Arab Spring’S Uprisings., Olesya Venger

Hank Greenspun School of Journalism and Media Studies Faculty Research

This paper investigates the phenomenon of the Arab Spring against the background of cultural traditions and attitudes that sustained these protests and carried them across borders of more than twenty countries in the Middle East in a move of cultural contagion of conflict (Gelfand et al. 2012). Tracing the placement and spatiality of the Arab Spring uprisings, their media and ideascapes (Appadurai 1990), this paper draws upon theoretical frameworks of Homi Bhabha’s (2004) third space, Margaret Kuhn’s (2003) radical space, and Geert Hofstede’s (2014) cultural indicators. Given the information about self-immolations as the events that stirred the uprisings in the …

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Utopia Atbp: Versions Of The Ideal In Philippine Fiction, Vicente Garcia Groyon Mar 2017

Utopia Atbp: Versions Of The Ideal In Philippine Fiction, Vicente Garcia Groyon

Perspectives in the Arts and Humanities Asia

In Utopia, Thomas More delivers a specific and context-bound critique of Tudor England through a faux anthropological report on a perfect society, “perfect” being defined as everything that Tudor England was not. Philippine fiction can similarly be read as visions of what the nation could and should be, delivered in oblique flashes that project a fragmentary composite picture of everything that the Philippines is not, or no longer is. The supposedly opposed vectors of romance and realism coincide in their explicit and implicit yearnings for contentment and happiness, echoing More’s own bemused, amused impatience with his flawed country. Through a …

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Interview With Luis H. Francia On February 22, 2017 At Coffee Bean And Tea Leaf, Katipunan Avenue, Quezon City, Francis C. Sollano Mar 2017

Interview With Luis H. Francia On February 22, 2017 At Coffee Bean And Tea Leaf, Katipunan Avenue, Quezon City, Francis C. Sollano

Perspectives in the Arts and Humanities Asia

Excerpt: Luis H. Francia is a multi-genre writer, editor, and teacher. His poetry collections include Her Beauty Likes Me Well (1979), The Arctic Archipelago and Other Poems (1991), Museum of Absences (2004), and Tattered Boat (2014). He has also written a memoir, Eye of the Fish (2001, winner of the 2002 PEN Open Book Award, and the 2002 Asian American Writers award); a history book, A History of the Philippines: From Indios Bravos to Filipinos (2010); collections of essays, Memories of Overdevelopment (1998) and RE: Reflections, Reviews, and Recollections (2015), winner of the National Book Award (given by the National …

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Rural Change In The Context Of Globalization : Examining Theoretical Issues, F Da Silva Machado Mar 2017

Rural Change In The Context Of Globalization : Examining Theoretical Issues, F Da Silva Machado

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Early discussions and theoretical positions concerning rural change were developed by researchers from countries with post-production economies in order to explain the rural transformations. When discussing economic change in rural space over the last decades, Marsden, T. et al. (1993) presented a new perspective for understanding rural restructuring that includes new subjects, such as capital mobility, flexible production regimes, complexity in the relationship between technology and environment, economic deregulation and new political processes. According to these authors, in order to understand such processes, it is necessary to research the effects of globalization at local scale of action. A recurrent theme …

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Mineral Assemblages And Textures Of Granite-Hosted Veins In The Hemerdon W–Sn Deposit: Constraints From Scanning Electron Microscope Chemical X-Ray Mapping, C Wilkins, B Jeffery, J Speer, Ah Dijkstra, J Mcfarlane Mar 2017

Mineral Assemblages And Textures Of Granite-Hosted Veins In The Hemerdon W–Sn Deposit: Constraints From Scanning Electron Microscope Chemical X-Ray Mapping, C Wilkins, B Jeffery, J Speer, Ah Dijkstra, J Mcfarlane

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

We report the results of a petrological and mineralogical microscopy study of granite-hosted greisen-bordered veins within granite of the Hemerdon W–Sn deposit, Devon, one of the five largest W deposits in the World. The deposit is currently mined at the Drakelands Mine. The Hemerdon granite is a satellite intrusion of the larger Dartmoor pluton of the post-Variscan Cornubian granitoid batholith. Using a range of microscopy techniques, including fast large-area chemical mapping by means of energy dispersive x-ray spectrometry (EDS) on a scanning electron microscope, we identified three types of mineralised veins in drill core material: W-only veins, Sn-only veins and …

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Annual Report, Aurora Health Care Metro Region Cancer Program, 1999, Advocate Aurora Health Mar 2017

Annual Report, Aurora Health Care Metro Region Cancer Program, 1999, Advocate Aurora Health

Aurora Health Care Books, Documents, and Pamphlets

Aurora Health Care, Milwaukee, WI: Annual report of the cancer programs at three Aurora hospitals in the Milwaukee metro region: St. Luke’s Medical Center, Sinai Samaritan Medical Center, and West Allis Memorial Hospital. Includes sections on colorectal cancer and regional activities.

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Riding The Silk Road, Ayaz Achakzai Mar 2017

Riding The Silk Road, Ayaz Achakzai

Colby Magazine

As development approaches, a mountain trek is an opportunity to contemplate what lies in its path.

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Full Issue Mar 2017

Full Issue

Colby Magazine

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The Effects Of Oportunidades On Mexican Presidential Elections, Chen Yao Mar 2017

The Effects Of Oportunidades On Mexican Presidential Elections, Chen Yao

Open Access Theses

This thesis explores the effects of Mexico’s most famous Conditional Cash Transfer program (CCT program), Oportunidades, on presidential elections in 2006 and 2012. In addition, this paper will investigate this topic from a gender perspective which will lead us to re-think the gender-gap in voting decisions among beneficiary families. In addition, this paper provides a new perspective from which to view remittances’ effects on beneficiaries’ voting decisions. The majority of research about CCT programs were conducted on the basis of Latin American presidential election results during which time those CCT programs were started at the initial stage or were …

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Western News, March 30, 2017, Western Michigan University Mar 2017

Western News, March 30, 2017, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Grad programs ranked among nation’s best, University gets final OK to offer classes in Florida, Presidential search process ‘on track and on time’, Fulbright Scholarship has Jon Davis talking math in South Africa, Open house slated to obtain input on new student center, Today’s changing perspectives on gender to be discussed, On Campus with Deanne Puca, Psychologist to deliver lecture in honor of Croteau

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Global Analysis Of Population Growth And Decline, Mark Sneddon, William D. Pearse Mar 2017

Global Analysis Of Population Growth And Decline, Mark Sneddon, William D. Pearse

Biology Posters

Species of plants and animals have populations that are declining at a rapid rate and possibly face extinction. To combat this decline, we must first understand where and why species are declining. We compared known species population growth rates in the COMPADRE (7024 different plant populations) and COMADRE (1927 different animal populations) databases to a variety of possible factors and other databases.

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Geography Professors Name To Adorn Hill Near His Former Home, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences Mar 2017

Geography Professors Name To Adorn Hill Near His Former Home, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

No abstract provided.

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Fall 2017 Wealth And Poverty | Certificate Offers Menu Of Courses, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences Mar 2017

Fall 2017 Wealth And Poverty | Certificate Offers Menu Of Courses, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

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Exploring The Potential For Artificial Reefs In Coral Reef Restoration: Responses And Interactions Of Associated Biota To Varying Experimental Treatments In The Mexican Caribbean, Audie Kirk Kilfoyle Mar 2017

Exploring The Potential For Artificial Reefs In Coral Reef Restoration: Responses And Interactions Of Associated Biota To Varying Experimental Treatments In The Mexican Caribbean, Audie Kirk Kilfoyle

HCNSO Student Theses and Dissertations

Coral reefs are being negatively impacted by various causes worldwide, and direct intervention is often warranted following disturbance to restore or replace lost ecosystem structure and function. An experimental coral reef restoration study involving standardized artificial reef modules (ReefballsTM) was conducted in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula in the towns of Puerto Morelos and Akumal. The purpose was to explore the use of artificial structure for restoration and mitigation applications in a highly diverse and dynamic Caribbean coral reef environment by applying and evaluating the performance of select experimental treatments hypothesized to accelerate development of the associated biota. The first …

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Ten Simple Rules For Responsible Big Data Research, Matthew Zook, Solon Barocas, Danah Boyd, Kate Crawford, Emily Keller, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, Alyssa Goodman, Rachelle Hollander, Barbara A. Koenig, Jacob Metcalf, Arvind Narayanan, Alondra Nelson, Frank Pasquale Mar 2017

Ten Simple Rules For Responsible Big Data Research, Matthew Zook, Solon Barocas, Danah Boyd, Kate Crawford, Emily Keller, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, Alyssa Goodman, Rachelle Hollander, Barbara A. Koenig, Jacob Metcalf, Arvind Narayanan, Alondra Nelson, Frank Pasquale

Geography Faculty Publications

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Entrepreneurship And Competitiveness In The Eu Member States, With Special Regard To The Visegrad Countries, Anita Pelle, Marcell Zoltán Végh Mar 2017

Entrepreneurship And Competitiveness In The Eu Member States, With Special Regard To The Visegrad Countries, Anita Pelle, Marcell Zoltán Végh

European Management Studies

Our research primarily aims at studying the competition and competitiveness in the EU internal market, both at the level of the EU and its member states. As the main tool of our analysis, we create three indicators based on the dataset and methodology of the World Economic Forum (WEF). These indicators are to measure the competitiveness of 1) the state, 2) the enterprise sector and 3) the institution of the market in the EU member states. In order to assess entrepreneurship, we apply the GEDI index. Then we compare our findings along the two dimensions. EU member states obviously form …

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Enterprises’ Development In Peripheral Regions: Patterns And Determinants, Justyna Zygmunt Mar 2017

Enterprises’ Development In Peripheral Regions: Patterns And Determinants, Justyna Zygmunt

European Management Studies

The goal of the paper is to identify the essential determinants of enterprises’ growth in a peripheral region, with regard to particular patterns of regional development. Literature studies have been conducted to recognise the patterns and determinants of the development in question. Characteristics of lagging regions have been provided in the first section, while another section contains a discussion on aspects related to enterprises’ growth in non-core regions. The main finding is associated with a crucial value of innovation, knowledge spillovers, as well as social and human capital as fundamental for enterprises facing scarcity of regional endogenous resources. Thus, necessary …

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The East Texan, 2017-03-30, Texas A&M University-Commerce Mar 2017

The East Texan, 2017-03-30, Texas A&M University-Commerce

All Issues

A color copy of The East Texan, a student newspaper published at Texas A&M University-Commerce.

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Cola Faculty Awarded Professorships, Unh Communications And Public Affairs Mar 2017

Cola Faculty Awarded Professorships, Unh Communications And Public Affairs

UNH Today Archive

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