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No. 11: The State Of Household Food Security In Nairobi, Kenya, Samuel Owuor

Hungry Cities Partnership

This report presents the results of a city-wide household food security survey of 1,434 Nairobi households, conducted by the Hungry Cities Partnership and the University of Nairobi. Among the key findings was that 70% of households in Kenya’s capital experience food insecurity, with one-quarter severely food insecure. As the first city-wide survey of household food security in Nairobi, this report provides researchers and policy-makers with detailed data and information about the overall food security picture, as well as important insights into the operation of the city’s food system. In particular, the report demonstrates the vital importance of Nairobi’s food markets …

Assessing Hazard Vulnerability, Habitat Conservation, And Restoration For The Enhancement Ofmainland China’S Coastal Resilience, Muhammad Sajjad, Yangfan Li, Zhenghong Tang, Ling Cao, Xiaoping Liu

Community and Regional Planning Program: Faculty Scholarly and Creative Activity

Worldwide, humans are facing high risks from natural hazards, especially in coastal regions with high population densities. Rising sea levels due to global warming are making coastal communities’ infrastructure vulnerable to natural disasters. The present study aims to provide a coupling approach of vulnerability and resilience through restoration and conservation of lost or degraded coastal natural habitats to reclamation under different climate change scenarios. The integrated valuation of ecosystems and tradeoffs model is used to assess the current and future vulnerability of coastal communities. The model employed is based on seven different biogeophysical variables to calculate a natural hazard index …

Brazilian Insecurity, Luiz Fernando Valente, Marguerite Itamar Harrison, Leila M. Lehnen

Spanish and Portuguese: Faculty Publications

The position papers below formed the basis for a roundtable on “Brazilian Insecurity,” sponsored by the American Portuguese Studies Association at the Convention of the Modern Language Association of America, in New York City, January 4-7, 2018, in response to the presidential theme for the convention, “States of Insecurity.” The papers deal with such issues as the shape of undergraduate education, the training of graduate students, faculty hiring and promotion, and the future of the humanities in the American academy. The authors represent three different types of academic institutions in the United States: a private research university (Brown University), a …

Provision Of Climate Services For Agriculture: Public And Private Pathways To Farm Decision-Making, Tonya Haigh, Vikram Koundinya, Chad Hart, Jenna Klink, Maria Lemos, Amber Saylor Mase, Linda Prokopy, Ajay Singh, Dennis Todey, Melissa Widhalm

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Rollins Magazine, Spring 2018, Rollins College Office Of Marketing And Communications

Rollins Magazine

No abstract provided.

Food Law Gone Wild: The Law Of Foraging, Baylen J. Linnekin

Fordham Urban Law Journal

No abstract provided.

2017-2018 Lynn University Common Data Set, Lynn University

Lynn University Common Data Set

2017-2018 Lynn University Common Data Set (CDS), prepared by Lynn University Office of Institutional Research, Planning and Assessment (AY2018)

The Honor Society Of Agriculture Gamma Sigma Delta, Nebraska Chapter, History, May 25, 1918-2018

Gamma Sigma Delta, Nebraska Chapter: Bylaws and Other Documents

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GAMMA SIGMA DELTA is a faculty governed society that selects its members from junior and senior students, graduate students, faculty, and alumni for the promotion and recognition of high achievement. While Gamma Sigma Delta is an honor society of agriculture, it may elect members from related fields such as biology, botany, chemistry, economics, entomology, family and consumer sciences, forestry, natural resources, plant pathology, sociology, statistics, veterinary medicine, or zoology when the work of the individual is related to agriculture. Officers, committee chairpersons, and others leading the chapter are faculty or alumni.

Volumetric Histological Characterization Of Optic Nerve Degeneration Using Modified Clear, Unobstructed Brain Imaging Cocktails And Computational Analysis (Mcubic), April Myers

Theses & ETDs

Tissue clearing technologies such as CUBIC (clear, unobstructed brain imaging cocktails and computational analysis) have the potential to greatly improve the accuracy with which the three-dimensional structure of biological tissues can be depicted. In the present study, a modified CUBIC protocol (mCUBIC) was applied to full-length fixed optic nerves (ON) of mice having undergone repeated mild traumatic brain injury (rmTBI) or a sham treatment (rsham). Direct fluorescent staining and immunohistochemistry was used to assess inflammatory and degenerative activity in the tissue by confocal microscopy. It was demonstrated that mCUBIC tissue retained quantifiable microstructural and morphological characteristics, was amenable to immunostaining, …

Impact Of Urbanization On Salinity Of Sarasota Bay Tidal Creeks, Claudia Vila

Theses & ETDs

Urbanization of watersheds causes more runoff to be discharged into surrounding estuaries. Some studies have connected increased discharge to decreased salinity in the estuaries. Salinity is a very important characteristic of these ecosystems, because it can influence biotic distribution. The Sarasota Bay watershed is highly urbanized and stormwater runoff is an established consequence of development. In this study, I looked at the impact of urbanization on salinity in Sarasota Bay, Florida. To detect variation through space and through time, I used spatial data that indicates percent imperviousness, salinity data collected at the mouths of each tidal creek, and time series …

Neonicotinoids: A Comparative Pesticide Policy Analysis Between The European Union And The United States, Tara Olson

Theses & ETDs

Neonicotinoids are an insecticide group, introduced in the 1980s, as a more effective method to combat insect pests. Within the past decade, unexpected side-effects of neonicotinoids have been discovered. The most prominent species that has shown negative side effects is the European honey bee, Apis mellifera. By targeting the nervous system, chronic, sub-lethal exposure to neonicotinoids causes behavioral changes and neurological damage, leading to eventual mortality in this species. The United States and the European Union are both affected by the loss of this globally essential pollinator. However, they have taken diverging approaches to manage the risk to this pollinator …

Audible Sound Treatment Of Chlorella Vulgaris Beijerinck (1890) Has No Effect On Growth Rate, Nathan Burnaman

Theses & ETDs

Microalgae, a group of single celled or simple multicellular organisms responsible for a significant portion of the world’s primary productivity, have the potential to be utilized for sustainable and potentially remediative production of fuel, food, and medicine. Recent experiments have shown that treating microalgae with sound can enhance growth and lipid production. Chlorella vulgaris, a microalga of interest in multiple industries, was cultured with continuous single frequency sound stimulation at 2200 Hz to observe changes in growth rates. Sound-treated alga cultures showed no significant difference in growth compared to control cultures. The literature on microalgal applications, as well as sound …

Modeling Ecological And Economic Effects Of Sea Level Rise On Wetlands In Sarasota County, Brandon Stevens

Theses & ETDs

Climate change has become one of the most prominent environmental issues in the last couple decades. There are numerous threats associated with climate change, including sea level rise, that must be addressed. Coastal ecosystems, such as wetlands, are at a high risk of loss from sea level rise, which may result in a loss in ecosystem services. The purpose of this study is to model some potential ecological and economic risks associated with wetlands loss in Sarasota County. Using GIS various sea level rise projections were used to identify wetlands that may be permanently inundated by 2050 and 2100. Data …

Wolbachia Detection In The Tawny-Edged Skipper (Polites Themistocles), Gabriella Elmir

Theses & ETDs

In this study, I screened a Tawny-edged Skipper (Polites themistocles) population of 26 individuals collected from northeastern South Dakota for Wolbachia. Wolbachia is an endosymbiotic bacteria that negatively affects host reproduction. PCR products for Wolbachia 16S and arthropod 28S were prepared and gel electrophoresis was used to detect Wolbachia infection in the population. This study found that 96% of the Tawnyedged Skipper population presented with Wolbachia. This supports the literature that Wolbachia is prevalent in insect species. I then selected five P. themistocles (Poth) individuals from the population and performed sequence analysis using an established multilocus sequence typing (MLST) protocol …

The War Isn’T Over: The Decolonial Praxis Of Laying Bare Environmental Violence In The #Nodapl Movement, Sadé Holmes

Theses & ETDs

Modern/colonial states and corporate interests perpetually engage in industrial practices that cause environmental violence ( NYSHN and WEA 2014 ), and th is is a continuation of the logics of modernity/coloniality that developed at the onset of settler colonialism in the Americas (Mignolo 2000; Quijano 1991). Decolonial art plays an integral role in the formation of responses to modernity/coloniality (Maldonado-Torres 2002) and environmental violence, which can be clearly seen within the #NODAPL movement (Martineau and Ritskes 2014). This thesis engages in a qualitative content analysis of creative writings of contemporary Indigenous women artists in a #NODAPL-inspired issue of the Apogee …

Power Is Sexy; Climate Change Is Not: A Look Into How Green Energies Can Mitigate Climate Change While Allowing Growth, Daviana King

Theses & ETDs

The thesis research investigates finding out how first climate change works and influences the globe, how that influences human activities and economies, and then how best markets can respond to climate change with focus on green energy. Research shows that (1) green technology in much of its production of energy has been in the small scale compared to fossil fuels but have grown to become effective sources of energy, (2) government support by subsidy, education, regulation, or guidance is necessary to getting the energy to be implemented and cost-effective, (3) many programs have risen in the US and globally and …

The Stability Of Theories From Categoricity To Their Spectrum, Alexander Johnson

Theses & ETDs

This thesis is an expository work on major results in stability theory, a subfield of mathematical logic. We begin by proving Morley's Categoricity Theorem, which states that a complete countable theory has one model in some uncountable power if and only if it has one model in every uncountable power. A necessary condition for this uncountable categoricity to hold is stability in some infinite power l, which states that for every set of size less than l there are fewer than l types thereover. We then develop a rich toolbox including transcendence rank, indiscernible sequences, and forking with the goal …

A Social-Ecological Sustainability Analysis Of Sarasota Food Forests, Kaylynn Elizabeth Low

Theses & ETDs

This thesis draws upon previous research in ecological sustainability and social sustainability to implement a framework that incorporates both aspects when determining the long-term viability of a green space; specifically food forests. Principles of civic ecology and agroecology were drawn upon to develop this framework. Ecological sustainability was quantified using data collected from inventorying the foundational species of local food forests, which for this research was fruiting trees. For the purpose of this research, the term “tree” was broadened to include woody, fruiting plants. The trees were measured in terms of their health, productivity, and abundance within the established boundaries …

Soil Carbon Sequestration Potential For Two Species Of South Florida Lawn Trees, Zach Zildjian

Theses & ETDs

Soil carbon could be considered one of the most important resources that no one really talks about. Not only is this huge pool of carbon directly related to the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere, but it is also vital for agricultural productivity as well as soil health and function in general. The flux of carbon in and out of the soil has always been large, but recently human land use changes have caused more carbon to be released from the soil than is replaced. Planting trees is seen as one of the ways to mitigate this issue because of …

Urban Infrastructure And Environmental Interaction In Late Medieval And Tudor Period England, Adilyne Mckinlay

Theses & ETDs

The motivation for this research is to investigate the historical development of the nature-culture divide, an anthropological concept that identifies tension between the ideas of nature and culture and seeks to understand where on the scale between autonomy and interaction the two operate. This study analyzes the divide in late medieval and Tudor period England (1250-1600) through the lens of urban infrastructure in order to add to literature concerned with human-environmental interaction and thinking. Using documents from lay culture, such as ordinances, building contracts, financial accounts, and wills, as evidence, this study demonstrates that Englishmen during this period were clearly …

Washington University Magazine, Spring 2018

Washington University Magazine

No abstract provided.

Gonzaga University Factbook 2018-19, Institutional Research, Gonzaga University

Institutional Research

The Gonzaga University Factbook contains information on student enrollments, demographic profiles, admissions statistics, majors, retention and graduation rates, degree completions, faculty information, and more. It is updated annually with the most current and commonly-needed information about Gonzaga University.

2018 Usd Fact Book, University Of San Diego

USD Fact Books (1985- )

No abstract provided.

Front Matter

The Gettysburg Historical Journal

No abstract provided.

Evader, Avoider, Or None Of The Above? Shedding Light On The Implications Of The Illinois Employee Classification Act On Small Construction Contractors, And Considerations For Their Exemption, 51 J. Marshall L. Rev. 341 (2018), Taso Tsiganos

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Coastal Monitor: Fall 2017/ Spring 2018, John T. Tanacredi Ph.D.

The Coastal Monitor

As I sat there in the Members Lounge at the Explorers Club; the world center for exploration, getting ready for our first Spring Saturday Science for Students @the EC lecture, I was putting together some notes on the accomplishments of our science students and CERCOM over the last few months since our last newsletter. Our visit to the Galapagos, a spectacular academic experience for our Molloy College students was at the top of my list! This was certainly not an epiphany but as I accumulated the items on this list, I was impressed not only with what we have conducted …

Great South Bay, Long Island, New York Summer Water Quality Monitoring Program, Cercom, Molloy University, John Tanacredi Ph.D., Kyle F. Maurelli

CERCOM Reports

CERCOM visits 11 locations in Great South Bay to monitor dissolved oxygen (DO), pH, salinity, clarity, and temperature. This monitoring program has been conducted for the past 20 years. These parameters are critical in determining long-term water quality conditions in Long Island estuaries.

Medicine@Yale February/March 2018 Volume 14, Issue 1, Yale School Of Medicine Office Of Communications

Medicine@Yale - development newsletter

Medicine@Yale : advancing biomedical science, education and health care was a print and online newsletter which published news about academics, research and philanthropy for alumni, donors, faculty, students and the general public. It was initially published 6 times a year and then changed to a quarterly schedule. The first issue came out June/Jul. 2005. The final issue was published in May/June 2022, vol. 17, issue 1. Published by Yale School of Medicine, Office of Communications.

Kenyon College Alumni Bulletin - Winter 2018

Kenyon College Alumni Bulletin

No abstract provided.

Synthesis And Characterization Of Novel Unsymmetrical Phthalocyanine/Tio$_{2}$ Composites And Their Evaluation As Photocatalysts For Degradation Of 4-Chlorophenol Under Visible Light, Yunus Alp Sütcüler, Görkem Gezek, Yaghub Mahmi̇ani̇, Altuğ Mert Sevi̇m

Turkish Journal of Chemistry

We prepared novel unsymmetrical A$_{3}$B-type zinc and cobalt phthalocyanines bearing monocarboxylic acid groups on peripheral positions using statistical condensation method, especially designed to anchor on the TiO$_{2}$ semiconductor surface. The novel complexes were anchored on TiO$_{2}$ semiconductor to prepare effective dye sensitized photoactive composites as heterogeneous catalysts. The results indicated that modified TiO$_{2}$ nanocrystals possessed only the anatase phase and MPc-TiO$_{2}$ photocatalysts with loading amount of dye ca. 8.27 $\mu $mol/g TiO$_{2}$ exhibit strong visible light absorption. Photocatalytic degradation of 4-chlorophenol (4-CP) under illumination with visible light ($\lambda >$ 400 nm) was tested with the composites prepared. The degradation profile …