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Glaciers Melt, Lake Dries, Water Supply Diminishes In Bolivia As Climate Change Wreaks Havoc, Andrã©S Gaudã­N

NotiSur

No abstract provided.

Andrew Zimmern's Field Guide To Exceptionally Weird, Wild, And Wonderful Foods: An Intrepid Eater's Digest, Aylea Stephens

Children's Book and Media Review

For Andrew Zimmern, host of the TV show Bizarre Foods, no food is too weird. In this book, he explores foods from around the world that might seem unusual to eat, such as alligator meat, brains, cockroaches, dung beetles, garlic ice cream, haggis, liver, octopus, rabbit, stuffed lamb spleen, turducken, and many others. He discusses the benefits, or lack of benefits, from each food, but then expands the information with recipes, photos, related trivia about the area it comes from; famous sayings related to the food, the area it comes from, or other fun trivia.

Lotting Large: The Phenomenon Of Minimum Lot Size Laws, Paul Boudreaux

Maine Law Review

A dominant feature of American metropolitan areas is large lot zoning—the policy through which only house lots of a minimum size are permitted. This practice of "lotting large" contributes greatly to the sprawling nature of American suburbs. By restraining the supply of housing, large lot zoning laws please existing suburban homeowners. But they harm all other segments of the American populace, including the million new households who seek a home in the United States each year. This article explains how courts have been unwilling or unable to impose any meaningful restraints on local governments. It develops a simple economic model …

The Economic And Employment Consequences Of Repealing Federal Health Reform: A 50 State Analysis, Leighton Ku, Erika Steinmetz, Erin Brantley, Brian K. Bruen

Health Policy and Management Issue Briefs

Donald Trump and Congressional leaders have stated their intent to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA or Obamacare). This report examines the consequences of repealing two key elements: (1) federal premium tax credits that help low and middle income Americans afford insurance policies bought through the Health Insurance Marketplaces (exchanges) and (2) federal payments to states for expansions of Medicaid eligibility for low-income adults. Congress passed similar legislation (H.R. 3762) in late 2015, which President Obama vetoed.

This report analyzes how the repeal of these policies could affect state-level employment, economies and fiscal conditions. If tax credits …

Failure Matters: Reassembling Eco-Urbanism In A Globalizing China, I-Chun Catherine Chang

Faculty Publications

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Space, Land, Territory, And The Study Of The Bible, Stephen C. Russell

Publications and Research

In this brief volume, written for professional biblical scholars and graduate students being trained in biblical studies, Stephen C. Russell introduces the reader to the interdisciplinary study of space and its related concepts, including land, territory, border, frontier, nature, scale, spatial flows, and rhythm. He offers a synopsis of eight approaches to the study of space that have been influential in the humanities and social sciences in recent decades—sacred, legal, political, economic, ecological, visual, social, and urban approaches. He pays special attention to Henri Lefebvre’s treatment of social space as a social product. The volume also briefly notes some of …

20170105: Office Of Assessment, Program Reviews, 2000-2002, Academic Affairs

Guides to University Archives

These items include materials from the office of Academic Affairs at Marshall University from 2000-2002. Items were received in 2017 and include program reviews for programs in the College of Liberal Arts (Geography, International Affairs, Political Science), the College of Education and Professional Development (Special Education, Reading Education, Teaching, Leadership), and more. Please download the finding aid for a full list of contents

The Database Of The Predicts (Projecting Responses Of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) Project, Lawrence N. Hudson, Tim Newbold, Sara Contu, Samantha L.L. Hill, Igor Lysenko, Palma A De, Helen R.P. Phillips, Tamera I. Alhusseini, Felicity E. Bedford, Dominic J. Bennett, Hollie Booth, Victoria J. Burton, Charlotte W.T. Chng, Argyrios Choimes, David L.P. Correia, Julie Day, Susy Echeverría-Londoño, Susan R. Emerson, Di Gao, Morgan Garon, Michelle L.K. Harrison, Daniel J. Ingram, M Jung, Victoria Kemp, Lucinda Kirkpatrick, Callum D. Martin, Yuan Pan, Gwilym D. Pask-Hale, Edwin L. Pynegar, An Robinson

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

No abstract provided.

Examining San Francisco And Its Suburbs, Roshan Rama

Historical Perspectives: Santa Clara University Undergraduate Journal of History, Series II

No abstract provided.

Historical Perspectives Vol. 21 2016

Historical Perspectives: Santa Clara University Undergraduate Journal of History, Series II

No abstract provided.

Out In "The Numbers": Youth And Gang Violence Initiatives And Uneven Development In Portland's Periphery, Dirk Kinsey

Dissertations and Theses

Incidence of youth and gang violence in the Portland, Oregon metro area has increased dramatically over the past five years. This violence has recently become more spatially diffuse, shifting outwards from gentrified, inner city neighborhoods, towards the city's periphery. These incidents exist within the context of a shifting regional political economy, characterized by a process of gentrification associated displacement and growing, and distinctly racialized and spatialized, inequalities. While gang researchers have long argued a corollary between the emergence of gangs and economically and culturally polarized urban landscapes, the ongoing suburbanization of poverty in American cities suggests a new landscape of …

Spring Temperature Variability Over Turkey Since 1800 Ce Reconstructed From A Broad Network Of Tree-Ring Data, Nesibe Köse, H. Tuncay Güner, Grant L. Harley, Joel Guiot

Faculty Publications

The meteorological observational period in Turkey, which starts ca. 1930 CE, is too short for understanding long-term climatic variability. Tree rings have been used intensively as proxy records to understand summer precipitation history of the region, primarily because they have a dominant precipitation signal. Yet, the historical context of temperature variability is unclear. Here, we used higher-order principle components of a network of 23 tree-ring chronologies to provide a high-resolution spring (March–April) temperature reconstruction over Turkey during the period 1800– 2002. The reconstruction model accounted for 67 % (Adj. R 2 = 0.64, p < 0.0001) of the instrumental temperature variance over the full calibration period (1930–2002). The reconstruction is punctuated by a temperature increase during the 20th century; yet extreme cold and warm events during the 19th century seem to eclipse conditions during the 20th century. We found significant correlations between our March–April spring temperature reconstruction and existing gridded spring temperature reconstructions for Europe over Turkey and southeastern Europe. Moreover, the precipitation signal obtained from the tree-ring network (first principle component) showed highly significant correlations with gridded summer drought index reconstruction over Turkey and Mediterranean countries. Our results showed that, beside the dominant precipitation signal, a temperature signal can be extracted from tree-ring series and they can be useful proxies in reconstructing past temperature variability.

Interplay Between Stress Permutations And Overpressure To Cause Strike-Slip Faulting During Tectonic Inversion, David C.P. Peacock, Enrico Tavarnelli, Mark W. Anderson

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.

Campus Vol Viii N 4, Tom Skidmore, Clyde Lado, Sam Mckenny, John Pullets, Mary Watkins, Ted Shaw, Tom Dailey, Lyn Martin, Joe Lefever, Bruce Mcintosh, Rasor Shackelford

Campus

Howard Studio. Cover. Picture. 0.

Skidmore, Tom. "Washington Confidential". Prose. 5.

Anonymous. Untitled. Prose. 7.

Texas Ranger. Untitled. Cartoon. 7.

Lado, Clyde. "Letters From Six Nephews". Prose. 8.

McKenny, Sam. "41 Years of Denison Track". Prose. 10.

Pullets, John. "Miss Campus---1953". Picture. 11.

Watkins, Mary. "Miss Campus---1953". Poem. 11.

Shaw, Ted. "Touch Not Mine Anointed". Prose. 14.

Dailey, Tom. "Touch Not Mine Anointed". Prose. 14.

Martin, Lyn. "Modern Dance in Action". Prose. 16.

LeFever, Joe. "To Njorth". Poem. 17.

Pritikin. Untitled. Cartoon. 17.

Anonymous. "Senior Will". Prose. 18.

McIntosh, Bruce. Untitled. Cartoon. 21.

Anonymous. Untitled. Cartoon. 22.

Anonymous. Untitled. Prose. …

Quantitative Literacy For The Future Flourishing Of Our Students: A Guiding Aim For Mathematics Education, Samuel L. Tunstall

Numeracy

In this essay, I examine the extent to which mathematics education and education for quantitative literacy support students’ present and future flourishing, a concept that entails realizing objective goods in a life lived from the inside. This perspective requires disentangling philosophical assumptions about the aims of mathematics education, which—in the context of flourishing—I take to be a hybrid of those that have informed curricular discussions over the past two centuries. In the process, I problematize ("make strange") many of the common reasons given for students learning mathematics, including: learning it for one’s career, for one’s logical reasoning skills, or …

A Twenty-Year Look At “Computational Geology,” An Evolving, In-Discipline Course In Quantitative Literacy At The University Of South Florida, Victor J. Ricchezza, H. L. Vacher

Numeracy

Since 1996, the Geology (GLY) program at the USF has offered “Computational Geology” as part of its commitment to prepare undergraduate majors for the quantitative aspects of their field. The course focuses on geological-mathematical problem solving. Over its twenty years, the course has evolved from a GATC (geometry-algebra-trigonometry-calculus) in-discipline capstone to a quantitative literacy (QL) course taught within a natural science major. With the formation of the new School of Geosciences in 2013, the merging departments re-examined their various curricular programs. An online survey of the Geology Alumni Society found that “express quantitative evidence in support of an argument” was …

Which Food Security Determinants Predict Adequate Vegetable Consumption Among Rural Western Australian Children?, Stephanie L. Godrich, Johnny Lo, Christina R. Davies, Jill Darby, Amanda Devine

Research outputs 2014 to 2021

Improving the suboptimal vegetable consumption among the majority of Australian children is imperative in reducing chronic disease risk. The objective of this research was to determine whether there was a relationship between food security determinants (FSD) (i.e., food availability, access, and utilisation dimensions) and adequate vegetable consumption among children living in regional and remote Western Australia (WA). Caregiver-child dyads (n = 256) living in non-metropolitan/rural WA completed cross-sectional surveys that included questions on FSD, demographics and usual vegetable intake. A total of 187 dyads were included in analyses, which included descriptive and logistic regression analyses via IBM SPSS (version 23). …

The Intersection Of Historical Injustices And Ecological Destruction In Asia: Enriching Catholic Social Teaching On Indigenous Peoples, Reynaldo D. Raluto

Landas

This article examines how colonization and exploitative developmentalism have inflicted structural violence upon Asian indigenous communities, resulting in land displacement and severe environmental degradation. Raluto argues that the marginalization of indigenous peoples is profoundly linked to the destruction of their ancestral lands, which they hold as sacred. By analyzing these interrelated crises through an Asian lens, the author seeks to expand the scope of Catholic Social Teaching (CST). Ultimately, the paper calls for a theological shift that embraces an integral ecology, respects indigenous self-determination, and integrates their non-anthropocentric ecological wisdom into the Church's global social doctrine.

Differential Methylation Between Ethnic Sub-Groups Reflects The Effect Of Genetic Ancestry And Environmental Exposures, Joshua M. Galanter, Christopher R. Gignoux, Sam S. Oh, Dara Torgerson, Maria Pino-Yanes, Neeta Thakur, Celeste Eng, Donglei Hu, Scott Huntsman, Harold J. Farber, Pedro C. Avila, Emerita Brigino-Buenaventura, Michael A. Lenoir, Kelly Meade, Denise Serebrisky, William Rodriguez-Cintron, Rajesh Kumar, Jose R. Rodrıguez-Cintron, Max A. Seibold, Luisa N. Borrell, Esteban G. Burchard, Noah Zaitlen

Publications and Research

Populations are often divided categorically into distinct racial/ethnic groups based on social rather than biological constructs. Genetic ancestry has been suggested as an alternative to this categorization. Herein, we typed over 450,000 CpG sites in whole blood of 573 individuals of diverse Hispanic origin who also had high-density genotype data. We found that both self- identified ethnicity and genetically determined ancestry were each significantly associated with methylation levels at 916 and 194 CpGs, respectively, and that shared genomic ancestry accounted for a median of 75.7% (IQR 45.8% to 92%) of the variance in methylation associated with ethnicity. There was a …

Microplastics Affect The Ecological Functioning Of An Important Biogenic Habitat., Ds Green, B Boots, Ne O'Connor, R Thompson

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

Biological effects of microplastics on the health of bivalves have been demonstrated elsewhere, but ecological impacts on the biodiversity and ecosystem functioning of bivalve-dominated habitats are unknown. Thus, we exposed intact sediment cores containing European flat oysters (Ostrea edulis) or blue mussels (Mytilus edulis) in seawater to two different densities (2.5 or 25 μg L(-1)) of biodegradable or conventional microplastics in outdoor mesocosms. We hypothesized that filtration rates of the bivalves, inorganic nitrogen cycling, primary productivity of sediment dwelling microphytobenthos, and the structure of invertebrate benthic assemblages would be influenced by microplastics. After 50 days, filtration by M. edulis was …

What’S Your Cq? A Framework To Assess And Develop Individual Student Cultural Intelligence, Kathleen J. Barnes, George E. Smith, Olivia Hernandez-Pozas

Organization Management Journal

This article’s goal is to provide suggestions for teaching students about culture and cultural intelligence. This article pursues this goal by first exploring and defining culture and presenting the nuances and challenges of teaching students about culture in an environment supportive of multiple cultures (e.g., national, regional, local, corporate, etc.). Finally, the article concludes with a discussion of a cultural intelligence development process consisting of a cultural intelligence pre assessment and feedback, cultural intelligence transformation activities, and a cultural intelligence post assessment and feedback.

The Inequality Of America‘S Death Penalty: A Crossroads For Capital Punishment At The Intersection Of The Eighth And Fourteenth Amendments, John D. Bessler

Washington and Lee Law Review Online

No abstract provided.

Discovery And Geology Of The Guinness World Record Lake Copper, Lake Superior, Michigan, Theodore J. Bornhorst, Robert Barron

A. E. Seaman Mineral Museum Publications

No abstract provided.

City Of Dover, New Hampshire Comprehensive Annual Financial Report For The Year Ended June 30, 2017., Dover Town Representatives

Dover, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

Pennsylvania Local Government: A Peculiar System And Its Implications, Robert Clark

Law Student Papers

No abstract provided.

Justice In The Era Of Silent Crimes: Addressing The Need To Update International And Domestic Law To Respond To The Threat Of Cyber Warfare And Cyber Crimes, Patrick Macaluso

Law Student Papers

No abstract provided.

Central Washington University 2017-2018 Graduate Catalog, Central Washington University

Course Catalogs

No abstract provided.

Central Washington University 2017-2018 Undergraduate Catalog, Central Washington University

Course Catalogs

No abstract provided.

People Who Made A Difference Over Cwu’S First 125 Years 2017, Central Washington University

Central Connections

Central connections was the free magazine for Central Washington University alumni and friends. In 2019 it was replaced by Crimson and Black. This special issue was part of the 125th anniversary celebration.

Review Of "Voices From Within: Grotowski’S Polish Collaborators" Edited By P. Allain And G. Ziółkowski And "Acting With Grotowski: Theatre As A Field For Experiencing Life" By Z. Cynkutis, Allen J. Kuharski

Theater Faculty Works

No abstract provided.