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Efficiency Of Entertainment Services In The City Of Basra (A Study In Urban Geography), Salman Mughamis Aboud

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

The study aims to identify the efficiency of recreational services in the city of Basra and ways of development of the reality of 2015 and needs assessment of recreational services according to local standards and the reality of the population for the year 2015 in terms of the numbers and types of services and the space they occupy.

Philosophy Of Place (An Analytical Study Of Geographical Concepts, Trends And Schools Of Thought), Ali Hakim Abdul Faris, Abbas Hamza Ali

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

Lt is known that geography is the science of the place they are interested in studying the relationship between the natural and human phenomena in (into place) because of the constant interaction between these phenomena that produce differentiated and multi-0 forms where the spatial interaction between the phenomena leads, including the rights to create spatial patterns produce different spatial surface Earth, and this difference is the result of many and varied operations may geographically destroy Bmenhjha than to come to their interpretation and analysis within the framework of the place, including the interaction between geographical phenomena (natural and human) is …

The Reality Of The Geographical Distribution Of Services Of Health Centers In The Municipality Of Good Governance And Efficiency For 2015, Meer Wahid Abduel A. Donia

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

The research aims to study the reality of the geographical distribution of services of health centers in the municipality of good within the geographic vision demonstrated by the extent of the importance of this distribution with the population size and the implications on the aspects of quantity and quality, and at the geographical distribution of the study of health centers found that there is variation in the distribution of health centers on the basis of population size which had an impact on the efficiency of health services, there is also a divergence in some centers, particularly in the (Maysaloun neighborhood, …

Inclusiveness, Foresight, And Decisiveness: The Practical Wisdom Of Barrier-Crossing Leaders, Michael A. Cowan

New England Journal of Public Policy

This article previews a study under way to compare and contrast the attitudes, thinking, and action of leaders around the world who manage to bridge social divisions in their respective locales with those who work within their own groups. After briefly describing the planned assessment of their forms of social cohesion and empathy, the article examines the practical wisdom of effective actors in the social world and how it contrasts with academic knowledge for insight into how wise practitioners think about what they are doing. It also looks at the history of the conception of practical wisdom. Finally, examples of …

China Lake Microbiome Project, Wu Qinglong, Jiang Helong

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

Lake is one of the most important ecosystems on the Earth. Lakes are vital for sustainable development of economy and society not only because lakes can provide important resources like water resources, aquatic products and tourisms, but also that lakes play key roles in flooding control, regional climate regulation, biodiversity protection, as well as the maintaining of regional ecosystem stability. China has plenty of lakes, covering very broad environmental gradients across different area of its continent. China is regarded as one of the countries with the highest diversity of lake ecotypes. Microbes are key components of lake ecosystems and are …

A Numerical Model Investigation Of The Role Of The Glacier Bed In Regulating Grounding Line Retreat Of Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica, Michael Scott Waibel

Dissertations and Theses

I examine how two different realizations of bed morphology affect Thwaites Glacier response to ocean warming through the initiation of marine ice sheet instability and associated grounding line retreat. A state of the art numerical ice sheet model is used for this purpose. The bed configurations used are the 1-km resolution interpolated BEDMAP2 bed and a higher-resolution conditional simulation produced by John Goff at the University of Texas using the same underlying data. The model is forced using a slow ramp approach, where melt of ice on the floating side of the grounding line is increased over time, which gently …

Investment Bank Expertise In Cross-Border Mergers And Acquisitions, Matteo P. Arena, Michael Dewally

Finance Faculty Research and Publications

We study the influence of country expertise of investment banks in facilitating cross‐border merger deals by analyzing a large international sample of merger and acquisition (M&A) deals. We provide evidence that the geographical proximity, cultural affinity, and local experience of investment banks advising bidding firms on cross‐border M&A deals significantly increase the probability of completion of the deal, significantly decrease the time required to complete the deal, and significantly increase the operating performance of the acquiring firm after the deal. Our results are robust to firm, deal, country‐specific factors, and endogeneity concerns.

Teaching Irish Sign Language In Contact Zones: An Autoethnography, Noel Patrick O'Connell

The Qualitative Report

The central purpose of this autoethnographic study is to provide an account of my experiences as a deaf teacher teaching Irish Sign Language (ISL) to hearing students in a higher education institution. My cultural and linguistic background and personal history guided the way I interacted with students who found themselves confronted by a unique culture quite separate from what they had known before. By engaging in autoethnographic journal writing recorded over a period of three months, I reveal the complex social and historical relations manifested in the contact between deaf and hearing cultures in the classroom. More specifically, I consider …

New Middle East And North Africa Studies Certificate Announced, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

No abstract provided.

Finding, Organizing, And Creating Spatial Data, Sarah Watson

Research Data and Scholarly Communications Committee Workshops

To produce a compelling and attractive map, it is necessary to have quality data. However, finding quality data and using it to prepare maps can be quite challenging. This workshop will begin with a review of different types of spatial data, how to access it, and strategies for understanding and organizing it. We will then focus on creating our own data by georeferencing scanned paper maps. Georeferencing involves assigning geographic coordinates to images (e.g., maps, aerial photos) that lack a defined coordinate system. Georeferencing helps us locate where an image is located in the world so we can effectively use …

Understanding The Personalistic Aspects Of Jola Ethnomedicine, Theo Randall

Journal of the Indiana Academy of the Social Sciences

This paper discusses the contemporary expression of the personalistic aspects of Jola ethnomedicine. Ethnomedicine pertains to the culturally specific health- associated beliefs and behaviors of a society. Personalistic pertains to medical beliefs and practices that associate disease with direct or intentional factors of a social and supernatural origin. The inherent personalistic aspects of contemporary Jola ethnomedicine are heavily associated with the contemporary religious beliefs and practices of the Jola. In the Gambia, Jola religious beliefs and practices reflect a synthesis of traditional Jola religion and Islam. Contemporary Jola religious beliefs and practices manifest themselves in contemporary Jola ethnomedical beliefs and …

Culture And Politics: The Relationship Between The Modernist Intellectuals And The Brazilian State (1920–1950), Bruno Gontyjo Do Couto

Journal of the Indiana Academy of the Social Sciences

This paper attempts to comprehend the existent connections between culture and politics in the development of modern nation-states. My reflection is based on a long-term analysis of the relations between intellectuals and political elites during the period of state building and nation building in Brazil (1822–1970). In this article, I intend to analyze specifically the period from 1920 to 1950, trying to understand the significance of the Brazilian intellectual movement designated as modernism and its influences over the cultural and political scenario. My hypothesis is that the cultural ideals of the modernist intellectuals were directly linked to political issues of …

It Services Offshoring To Africa: Assessing The Attractiveness And Readiness Of Nigeria, Joshua O. Omoju

The African Journal of Information Systems

This paper presents one of the first comprehensive analyses of Nigeria’s future readiness and attractiveness as a potential destination for IT-enabled services offshoring. The paper examines existing literature on IT services offshoring to Africa, and presents results from in-depth evaluation of seven important location selection criteria. The study indicates that while Nigeria appears to be making progress in many areas, the country is neither yet ready nor attractive as an offshoring destination. Nevertheless, the analysis suggests that Nigeria might already be on the path to attaining readiness in the future. However, significant hurdles will need to be surmounted if Nigeria …

Ict Infrastructure And It’S Impact On National Development: A Research Direction For Africa, Felix Bankole Dr, Lucas Mimbi

The African Journal of Information Systems

Discussions on Development that encompasses how ICTs can make a difference in climate, political, health disturbances and business environment require a multidisciplinary approach which demand contributions from IS community, the private sector, development agencies, practitioner and other academia. This would enable the development community to identify the objectives of technology for empowerment and how they should be achieved in the practice of national development. This study serves as a response to the call for more macro/micro level policy research on the role of ICT on national development. The paper reviews the previous research in this domain and proposes a research …

2017 Conference Program, Bgsu Popular Culture Scholars Association, Bgsu Culture Club

Ray Browne Conference on Cultural and Critical Studies (2015-2021)

No abstract provided.

March 17, 2017, Ohio University Board Of Trustees Meeting Minutes, Ohio University Board Of Trustees

Board of Trustees Meeting Minutes

Meeting minutes document the activities of Ohio University's Board of Trustees.

Groundcover Community Assembly In High-Diversity Pine Savannas: Seed Arrival And Fire-Generated Environmental Filtering, Kyle E. Harms, Paul R. Gagnon, Heather A. Passmore, Jonathan A. Myers, William J. Platt

Biology Faculty Research

Environmental filtering—abiotic and biotic constraints on the demographic performance of individual organisms—is a widespread mechanism of selection in communities. A given individual is “filtered out” (i.e., selectively removed) when environmental conditions or disturbances like fires preclude its survival and reproduction. Although interactions between these filters and dispersal from the regional species pool are thought to determine much about species composition locally, there have been relatively few studies of dispersal × filtering interactions in species-rich communities and fewer still where fire is also a primary selective agent. We experimentally manipulated dispersal and filtering by fire (pre-fire fuel loads and post-fire ash) …

Spring 2017: Quiet Wisdom For A New Field, Amy Mrotek

St. Norbert College Magazine 2013-2018

Amy Mrotek ’16, in the first semester of her post-graduation role as program manager at the Cassandra Voss Center, was assigned to serve as teaching assistant to Harry Brod while he was resident on campus. She reflects on what she learned from working alongside the distinguished visiting scholar.

How Lessons From A Past Disaster Can Influence Resilience And Climate Adaptation In Broward County, Florida, Hannah Rose Torres

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

In the face of future uncertainties, many places are struggling with decisions about how to prepare for and adapt to climate change. The purpose of this research is to shed light on the concept of resilience, and uncover lessons for resilience-building exposed by a past disaster, Hurricane Wilma.

The dissertation begins with an introduction (Chapter 1) detailing the research problem, key terms and overall research design. The study was conducted in three distinct phases. The first phase (Chapter 2), explored the concept of resilience to understand how it was defined in three South Florida communities. Content analyses of city and …

Indigenous Blockades And The Power To Speak The Law: From Settler Colonialism To Indigenous Resurgence, Christopher Eric Jon Albinati

LLM Theses

This thesis traces tensions between pluralism, elimination and resistance in the centuries-old narrative underlying the uncertain legal foundations of Crown sovereignty in the territory now known as Canada. The first half of the work applies the emerging literature of settler colonialism to a close reading of a selection of leading scholarship on Aboriginal rights jurisprudence to identify whether the Canadian courts are reproducing elements of settler colonialism in their decisions. The second half of this work draws on the literature of Indigenous resurgence, blockades, jurisdiction and the rule of law to construct a framework for examining juridical sites where conflicting …

Educational Inequality In Indiana: The Impact Of Socioeconomic Status And Race On Istep+ Exam Performance, Jennifer S. Clark

Journal of the Indiana Academy of the Social Sciences

A gap in education outcomes exists in Indiana for female and male students. The gap in educational outcomes can be seen in the standardized tests that are a requirement for students to take as a part of their education. In Indiana, students in K–12 education are required to take the ISTEP+ exam in grades 3–8, and in grade 10 as a graduation requirement. Indiana had 292 school districts or corporations, which were used in this analysis to determine the gap in educational outcomes. The 2011 and 2012 ISTEP+ exam scores were analyzed to determine how SES and race affect male …

Guide To The Cole Danehower Collection, Linfield College Archives

Linfield Archives Finding Aids

This collection is comprised of materials from Cole Danehower’s careers, both his time as a wine writer and before he relocated to Oregon. Materials include articles written by Danehower, information collected on a variety of topics related to the wine industry, interviews he conducted, books he acquired over time, and his on-site photographs. There are also materials celebrating his wedding and honoring his death.

Responses Of Terrestrial Ecosystem Phosphorus Cycling To Nitrogen Addition: A Meta-Analysis, Qi Deng, Dafeng Hui, Samuel Dennis, Chandra Reddy

Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Faculty Research

Aim

Anthropogenic additions of nitrogen (N) are expected to drive terrestrial ecosystems toward greater phosphorus (P) limitation. However, a comprehensive understanding of how an ecosystem's P cycle responds to external N inputs remains elusive, making model predictions of the anthropogenic P limitation and its impacts largely uncertain.

Location

Global.

Time period

1986-2015.

Major taxa studied

Terrestrial ecosystems.

Methods

We conducted a meta-analysis including 288 independent study sites from 192 articles to evaluate global patterns and controls of 10 variables associated with ecosystem P cycling under N addition.

Results

Overall, N addition increased biomass in plants (+34%) and litter (+15%) as …

The Effects Of Scale Variation On Single-Family Residential Water Use In Portland, Or, Matthew Ryan Lee Bonnette

Dissertations and Theses

With growing urban populations and increasing concerns over the effects of climate change on water supplies, there has recently been a significant amount of interdisciplinary research focused on identifying the drivers of urban water use. Due to unavailability of individual or household level data, these studies are often limited to using spatially aggregated data. There is concern that this aggregation of data may be leading to misrepresentations of the drivers of urban water use, yet there have been few studies that have addressed this concern. As in all spatial quantitative analyses, studies in this area should consider how the spatial …

2017-03-16 Faculty Regent's Report, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate.

Faculty Senate Records

Faculty Senate Regent's report from March 16, 2017.

Geographical Information Systems (Gis) Applied To Urban Nutrient Management: Data Scarce Case Studies From Belize And Florida, Charlotte Juliane Haberstroh

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Nutrient inputs into the environment greatly impact urban ecosystems. Appropriate management strategies are needed to limit eutrophication of surface water bodies and contamination of groundwater. In many existing urban environments, retrofits or complete upgrades are needed for stormwater and/or wastewater infrastructure to manage nutrients. However, sustainable urban nutrient management requires comprehensive baseline data that is often not available. A Framework for Urban Nutrient (FUN) Management for Geographic Information Systems (GIS) was developed to specifically address those areas with limited data access. Using spatial analysis in GIS, it links water quality, land use, and socio-demographics, thereby reducing data collection and field-based …

Understanding Utah’S Water Resources Through The Red Canyon Bristlecone Pine Tree, Shawn Wortham, Matthew Bekker

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The purpose of this research project is to properly cross date samples of the Bristlecone Pine Tree in order to learn more of the past, present, and future of Utah’s Water Resources. Under the mentorship of Dr. Bekker, we will take both living and dead cross sections of the Bristlecone Pine Trees found in Red Canyon, UT and add them to a tree ring database with hundreds of other samples. This will build a master chronology of tree ring measurements to help our team to discover more about the water supply for Utah.

On The Relationship Between Spring Nao And Snowmelt In The Upper Southwestern United States, Boksoon Myoung, Seung Hee Kim, Jinwon Kim, Menas Kafatos

Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science Faculty Articles and Research

This study examines the relationship between the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) and snowmelt in spring in the upper southwestern states of the United States (UP_SW) including California, Nevada, Utah, and Colorado, using SNOTEL datasets for 34 yr (1980–2014). Statistically significant negative correlations are found between NAO averages in the snowmelt period and timings of snowmelt (i.e., positive NAO phases in spring enhance snowmelt, and vice versa). It is also found that correlations between El Niño–Southern Oscillation and snowmelt are negligible in the region. The NAO–snowmelt relationship is most pronounced below the 2800-m level; above this level, the relationship becomes weaker. …

Regulating Pavement Dwellers: The Politics Of The Visibly Poor In Public Space, Lauren Marie Larin

Dissertations and Theses

Many researchers argue the increasing reliance on sit/lie ordinances to regulate homeless people's use of public space is one in a suite of neoliberal policies that shape the geographies of public space in cities to serve the needs of global capital. However, these policies are developed at the local, not global, level as specific actors make claims in the public sphere that communicatively shape policy formation. Through comparative case study, this research asks, how do different actors, situated in specific local and global contexts, influence the adoption of sit/lie ordinances?

I examine two cases of policymaking in Portland and San …

Krillbase: A Circumpolar Database Of Antarctic Krill And Salp Numerical Densities, 1926–2016, Angus Atkinson, Simeon L. Hill, Evgeny A. Pakhomov, Volker Siegel, Ricardo Anadon, Sanae Chiba, Kendra L. Daly, Rod Downie, Sophie Fielding, Peter Fretwell, Laura Gerrish, Graham W. Hosie, Mark J. Jessopp, So Kawaguchi, Bjørn A. Krafft, Valerie Loeb, Jun Nishikawa, Helen J. Peat, Christian S. Reiss, Robin M. Ross, Langdon B. Quetin, Katrin Schmidt, Deborah K. Steinberg, Roshni C. Subramaniam, Geraint A. Tarling, Peter Ward

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Abstract. Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) and salps are major macroplankton contributors to Southern Ocean food webs and krill are also fished commercially. Managing this fishery sustainably, against a backdrop of rapid regional climate change, requires information on distribution and time trends. Many data on the abundance of both taxa have been obtained from net sampling surveys since 1926, but much of this is stored in national archives, sometimes only in notebooks. In order to make these important data accessible we have collated available abundance data (numerical density, no. m−2) of postlarval E. superba and salp individual (multiple species, and whether …