Watershed Response To Climate Change And Fire-Burns In The Upper Umatilla River Basin, Usa, Kimberly Crystal Yazzie, Heejun Chang

Geography Faculty Publications and Presentations

This study analyzed watershed response to climate change and forest fire impacts in the upper Umatilla River Basin (URB), Oregon, using the precipitation runoff modeling system. Ten global climate models using Coupled Intercomparison Project Phase 5 experiments with Representative Concentration Pathways (RCP) 4.5 and 8.5 were used to simulate the effects of climate and fire-burns on runoff behavior throughout the 21st century. We observed the center timing (CT) of flow, seasonal flows, snow water equivalent (SWE) and basin recharge. In the upper URB, hydrologic regime shifts from a snow-rain-dominated to rain-dominated basin. Ensemble mean CT occurs 27 days earlier in …

A Blueprint To Evaluate One Health, Simon R. Rüegg, Barry J. Mcmahon, Barbara Häsler, Roberto Esposito, Helen O'Shea, Et Al

Department of Biological Sciences Publications

One Health (OH) positions health professionals as agents for change and provides a platform to manage determinants of health that are often not comprehensively captured in medicine or public health alone. However, due to the organization of societies and disciplines, and the sectoral allocation of resources, the development of transdisciplinary approaches requires effort and perseverance. Therefore, there is a need to provide evidence on the added value of OH for governments, researchers, funding bodies, and stakeholders. This paper outlines a conceptual framework of what OH approaches can encompass and the added values they can provide. The framework was developed during …

Illinois State University Founders Day Convocation Program, February 16, 2017, Illinois State University

Founding Celebration Programs

Program for annual event celebrating the founding of Illinois State Normal University on February 18, 1857.

The Death Of Opec? The Displacement Of Saudi Arabia As The World's Swing Producer And The Futility Of An Output Freeze, Christopher Hanewald

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

On November 27, 2014, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries met in Vienna and adopted a bold stance against increasing supply from beyond the reach of the cartel. Rather than reduce their own production, the cartel decided to allow market forces to dictate the price of a barrel of oil. By doing this, Saudi Arabia-the de-facto leader of the cartel-made a bet that the burgeoning shale gas industry within the United States would be unable to cope with a sharp fall in the price of oil. Over the course of the following two years, the U.S. energy sector-aided by further …

Developing A Flexible Disaster Relief Supply Chain Model, Eric Hoffman

Doctoral Dissertations

Archival abstract submitted

Comparison Of Bacterial Communities From Lava Cave Microbial Mats To Overlying Surface Soils From Lava Beds National Monument, Usa, Kathleen H. Lavoie, Ara S. Winter, Kaitlyn J. H. Read, Evan M. Hughes, Michael N. Spilde, Diana E. Northup

KIP Articles

Subsurface habitats harbor novel diversity that has received little attention until recently. Accessible subsurface habitats include lava caves around the world that often support extensive microbial mats on ceilings and walls in a range of colors. Little is known about lava cave microbial diversity and how these subsurface mats differ from microbial communities in overlying surface soils. To investigate these differences, we analyzed bacterial 16S rDNA from 454 pyrosequencing from three colors of microbial mats (tan, white, and yellow) from seven lava caves in Lava Beds National Monument, CA, USA, and compared them with surface soil overlying each cave. The …

The Lumberjack, February 15, 2017

Cal Poly Humboldt's Student Newspaper

The student newspaper of Humboldt State University.

Recurrent Flooding And Social Vulnerability: A Model Ordinance, Sarah Edwards

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

No abstract provided.

Factors Affecting The Prevalence Of The Trematode Parasite Echinostephilla Patellae (Lebour, 1911) In The Limpet Patella Vulgata (L.), Louise B. Firth, Lisa M. Grant, Tasman P. Crowe, Jonathan S. Ellis, Christena Wiler, Christopher Convery, Nessa E. O'Connor

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

Parasites are ubiquitous throughout nature and can have dramatic effects on their hosts. Although much is known about the pathology of parasites, the environmental factors influencing the distribution and abundance of parasites are poorly understood. Investigations into these factors could help predict the effect of parasites on the functioning of ecosystems. The limpet Patella vulgata is a key grazer on European rocky shores and is the first intermediate host for the trematode parasite, Echinostephilla patellae. This study investigated the spatial distribution of E. patellae in relation to P. vulgata at fourteen rocky shores around Ireland. Despite P. vulgata recruiting into …

Sheila Kazar V. Slippery Rock University Of Pe

2017 Decisions

USDC for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Winter Wren By Theresa Kishkan, Vivian M. Hansen

The Goose

Review of Theresa Kishkan's Winter Wren.

Niche By Basma Kavanagh, Vivian M. Hansen

The Goose

Review of Basma Kavanagh's Niche.

Ucc Minutes, February 14, 2017, University Curriculum Council

UCC Agendas/Minutes

No abstract provided.

Ensuring Kindergarten Readiness: The Role Of Social Capital, Jennifer E. Subban

CoLA Research Conference

No abstract provided.

Corporate America And "The Perks" Of Being A Woman: Increasing Gender Diversity In Corporate Boardrooms, Enkelena Gjuka

Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development

No abstract provided.

The Mississippi Encyclopedia To Be Published In May, Admin

Blog Posts

Work on a Center project that began in 2003 is at long last winding up. The Mississippi Encyclopedia -- a mammoth collaboration that includes over 1,600 entries, 1,451 pages, and features more than 700 scholars who wrote entries on every county, every governor, and numerous musicians, writers, artists, and activists -- will be in print and for sale this May. This is the first encyclopedic treatment of the state since 1907.

School Gardens And The School Food Plan: Contributing To A Culture Of Healthy Living, A Page, M Bremner, R Passy

Plymouth Institute of Education

Significantly revised and updated the second edition now includes 7 brand new chapters on: · Methods of Assessment and Evaluation · Global perspectives on Outdoor Learning · Developing whole school approaches to indoor and outdoor ...

The Geography Of Cruel And Unusual Punishment, Jeffrey Wermer

Denver Law Review Forum

No abstract provided.

Theories Of Space And Place In Abstract Caribbean Art, Shelby Miller

Africana Studies Student Research Conference (2013-2019)

How can one define the concepts of space and place and further translate those theories to the Caribbean region? Through abstract modes of representation, artists from these islands can shed light on these concepts in their work. Involute theories can be discussed in order to illuminate the larger Caribbean space and all of its components in abstract art. The trialectics of space theory deals with three important factors that include the physical, cognitive, and experienced space. All three of these aspects can be displayed in abstract artwork from this region. By analyzing this theory, one can understand why Caribbean artists …

The Economic Impact Of Changing Water Levels: A Regional Economic Analysis Of Lake Thurmond, Rob Carey, Lori A. Dickes, Elizabeth L. Crouch

Journal of Public Management & Social Policy

This article examines the economic impact of declining lake levels on the local economy in six counties near the publically managed Thurmond Reservoir, located along the border of Georgia and South Carolina. A regression analysis of the relationship between lake level elevations and lake front real estate transactions is used in conjunction with an input-output model to estimate the median monthly economic impact of a one-foot increase in lake level in terms of employment, output, disposable income, and net local government revenue on the six counties bordering the lake. Thurmond Lake elevations have a statistically significant impact on regional economic …

Anthropocene Or Capitalocene? Nature, History, And The Crisis Of Capitalism Edited By Jason W. Moore, Robert M.W. Brown

The Goose

Review of Jason W. Moore's Capitalocene or Anthropocene? Nature, History, and the Crisis of Capitalism

Among Animals 2 Edited By John Yunker, Gina M. Granter

The Goose

Review of John Yunker's Among Animals 2.

Synthetic Aperture Radar (Sar)-Based Paddy Rice Monitoring System: Development And Application In Key Rice Producing Areas In Tropical Asia, T. D. Setiyono, F. Holecz, N. I. Khan, M. Barbieri, E. Quicho, F. Collivignarelli, A. Maunahan, L. Gatti, G. C. Romuga

Faculty Publications

Reliable and regular rice information is essential part of many countries' national accounting process but the existing system may not be sufficient to meet the information demand in the context of food security and policy. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery is highly suitable for detecting lowland paddy rice, especially in tropical region where pervasive cloud cover in the rainy seasons limits the use of optical imagery. This study uses multi-temporal X-band and C-band SAR imagery, automated image processing, rule-based classification and field observations to classify rice in multiple locations across Tropical Asia and assimilate the information into ORYZA Crop Growth …

Full Issue 46(1)

International Journal of Speleology

No abstract provided.

The Scarlet - Volume Xcvi, No. 12 (February 10, 2017), Scarlet Staff

The Scarlet (Student Newspaper) (2011-present)

The February 10, 2017 edition of The Scarlet (est. 1939), Clark University's student-run newspaper. The Scarlet is intellectually and editorially independent of the University.

Individual Decision Making In Online Public-Participation Transportation Planning, Martin Swobodzinski

PSU Transportation Seminars

The empirical evaluation of complex decision support systems is often limited to the self-reported satisfaction of the systems’ users.

Such an approach is problematic due to the conflation of the user's satisfaction related to the decision support system and the decision making process and its outcomes.

In addition, it bears limitations that are common among most techniques that solicit participant-stated feedback.

In this talk, based on data that was gathered by a web-based participatory system for transportation planning in the Puget Sound region, I present analytical methods for the empirical evaluation of decision support systems based on human-computer interaction. In …

"Women's Marches": Socio-Political Activism Of Central Asian Women (An Interview With Svetlana Peshkova), Unh Communications And Public Affairs

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Road Ecology: Shifting Gears Toward Evolutionary Perspectives, Steven P. Brady, Jonathan L. Richardson

Dartmouth Scholarship

Recent advances in understanding the often rapid pace of evolution are reshaping our view of organisms and their capacity to cope with environmental change. Though evolutionary perspectives have gained traction in many fields of conservation, road ecology is not among them. This is surprising because roads are pervasive landscape features that generate intense natural selection. The biological outcomes from these selection pressures – whether adaptive or maladaptive – can have profound consequences for population persistence. We argue that studying evolutionary responses is critical to accurately understand the impacts of roads. Toward that end, we describe the basic tenets and relevance …

The Impact Of Parents Having Health Insurance On Their Children’S Health Care, Andrea Bennett

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Capstones

Abstract of the Dissertation

This study examines the impact of parents having health insurance on their children’s health care in Kentucky. Child health insurance status and child a usual source of medical care are the two health care measures analyzed. The author builds on prior research that indicated more children would become insured if parents had access to affordable health insurance options. Through the implementation of the ACA in 2014, Kentucky expanded Medicaid eligibility to low-income adults up to 138% of the federal poverty level (FPL) and offered discounts on private health insurance plans for families in certain income thresholds …

Growing Up And Living In Shades Of Grey: Ambiguity, Carnival, And The Bildungsroman In Elizabeth Smart’S By Grand Central Station I Sat Down And Wept, Matthew Benoit

Laurier Undergraduate Journal of the Arts

No abstract provided.