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Daily Eastern News: August 23, 2018, Eastern Illinois University

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A Red List Of Mites From The Suborder Uropodina (Acari: Parasitiformes) In Poland, Agnieszka Napierała, Zofia Książkiewicz‑Parulska, Jerzy Błoszyk

Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology: Library Materials

This article presents a Red List of mite species from the suborder Uropodina (Acari: Parasitiformes) occurring in Poland. Evaluation of the conservation status of the analyzed species was compiled on the basis of new criteria, which may also be applied to other groups of soil fauna. The authors employ the names of categories proposed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). One of our aims was to review the IUCN criteria to ascertain whether they are applicable in an attempt to assess the danger of extinction of soil invertebrates, and to see whether the criteria can be adapted …

Adaptive Leadership And Social Innovation: Overcoming Critical Theory, Positivism, And Postmodernism In Planning Education, Ivis García

eJournal of Public Affairs

It is an unfortunate fact that adaptive leadership and social innovation remain underdeveloped as tools for professional planners and others in public affairs. The assumption, however tacit, is that if plans are drawn up with enough rigor, if planners possesses the correct set of skills, and if they remain true to the goals of equitability, collaboration, inclusion, diversity, multiculturalism, and access, the problems of leadership and social innovation will simply resolve themselves. Highlighting three theoretical foundations—critical theory, positivism, and postmodernism—the author seeks to provide a groundwork from which adaptive leadership and social innovation might be cultivated deliberately toward creative ends …

Automated Mapping Of Relict Patterned Ground: An Approach To Evaluate Morphologically Subdued Landforms Using Unmanned-Aerialvehicle And Structure-From-Motion Technologies, A. E. Mather, R. M. Fyfe, C. C. Clason, M. Stokes, S. Mills, T. T. Barrows

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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Cultural Humility: An Open Door For Planners To Locate Themselves And Decolonize Planning Theory, Education, And Practice, Elizabeth L. Sweet

eJournal of Public Affairs

Cultural humility can help planning faculty, students, and practitioners commit to ongoing self-reflection and critique of their social, cultural, racial, gendered, and other identities in an effort to identify how they are implicated in inequity, especially in relation to working in communities of color. While cultural competence has become an increasingly popular way to encourage more equitable relationships between professionals and communities, the author suggests that the colonial underpinnings of its logic make it not only less desirable than cultural humility but also a potential facilitator of inequity in planning work. Drawing from her experience as a planning theorist and …

Counternarratives Of Community-Based Advocacy As Sources Of Knowledge For Urban Planning, Monique López, Pueblo Planning, Adonia Lugo, Omar Vargas, Allison Mattheis

eJournal of Public Affairs

Informed by the deliberate work of advocates to address the positioning of community voices as subaltern, the last three decades have seen a growing push for alternative approaches to urban planning. In order to foster the culturally competent use and development of public space in the United States, urban planning education must include a focus on the centrality and persistence of racist ideologies and the current fueling of anti-immigrant sentiments that challenge the idea of who “belongs” in communities. Even planners informed by critical theories of participatory practice face challenges working within systems based on positivist and Western-dominant epistemologies. In …

Aligning Our Pedagogy And Practices With Our Cultural Competency Goals: Clarifying The Learning Continuum, José W. Meléndez

eJournal of Public Affairs

This invited reflective piece seeks to contextualize the journal’s special issue on cultural competency in urban affairs programs from a learning-sciences perspective, which centers on how students learn. The author reflects on his own teaching practices, introduces key frameworks—such as praxial pedagogy, understanding by design, and activity systems—and incorporates insights from all of the articles comprising the special issue.

The Collegian: August 22, 2018, The Collegian Staff, South Dakota State University

The Collegian, 2018-2019

Volume: 134

Issue: 1

University Diversity Committee Report (2018), University Diversity Committee

University Diversity Committee records

2018 University Diversity Committee Report submitted by Dean Cesar Caballero.

State Of The College Address 2018: College Of Arts & Letters, Kent Sandstrom

College of Arts & Letters Reports and Documents

PDF of powerpoint presentation for the Old Dominion University State of the College of Arts & Letters address on August 22, 2018.

Rural Sense: Value, Heritage, And Sensory Landscapes: Developing A Design-Oriented Approach To Mapping For Healthier Landscapes, Judith Van Der Elst, Heather Richards-Rissetto, Lily Díaz-Kommonen

Department of Anthropology: Faculty Publications

Landscape design needs a novel value system centred on human experience of the landscape rather than simply on economic value. Design-oriented research allows us to shift the focus from mechanistic paradigms towards new sensemaking approaches that value both the sensual and the cognitive in human experience. To move in this direction, we investigate cultural and natural aspects of sensory experience in rural landscapes, arguing that: (1) rural (non-urban) regions offer diverse sensory experiences for optimising human health; and (2) spatial interconnectedness between rural and urban areas means that healthy rural regions are critical for urban development. Our key argument is …

Survey And Insights Into Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Based Detection And Documentation Of Clandestine Graves And Human Remains, Bryce Murray, Derek T. Anderson, Daniel J. Wescott, Robert Moorhead, Melissa F. Anderson

Human Biology Open Access Pre-Prints

Numerous biological and archaeological studies have demonstrated the legitimacy of remote sensing in anthropology. Herein, focus is placed on detecting and documenting terrestrial clandestine graves and surface remains (CGSR) of humans using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), sensors and automatic processing algorithms. CGSR is a complex decision making under uncertainty problem that requires the identification and intelligent reasoning about direct evidence of human remains and their environmental fingerprints. As such, it is as much an engineering and geospatial problem as it is an anthropology problem. This article is a cross- disciplinary effort to survey existing work across disciplines and to provide …

Mechanisms Of Dissolved And Labile Particulate Iron Supply To Shelf Waters And Phytoplankton Blooms Off South Georgia, Southern Ocean, Christian Schlosser, Katrin Schmidt, Alfred Aquilina, William B. Homoky, Maxi Castrillejo, Rachel A. Mills, Matthew D. Patey, Sophie Fielding, Angus Atkinson, Eric P. Achterberg

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Abstract. The island of South Georgia is situated in the iron (Fe)-depleted Antarctic Circumpolar Current of the Southern Ocean. Iron emanating from its shelf system fuels large phytoplankton blooms downstream of the island, but the actual supply mechanisms are unclear. To address this, we present an inventory of Fe, manganese (Mn), and aluminium (Al) in shelf sediments, pore waters, and the water column in the vicinity of South Georgia, alongside data on zooplankton-mediated Fe cycling processes, and provide estimates of the relative dissolved Fe (DFe) fluxes from these sources. Seafloor sediments, modified by authigenic Fe precipitation, were the main particulate …

What Counts As Evidence In Rural Schools.Pdf, Karen Eppley, Amy Price Azano, Devon G. Brenner, Patrick Shannon

The Rural Educator

This policy breif examines the importance of practice-based evidence for rural education.

Kennedy Lecture Series And Frontiers In Science Lecture Series Announce 2018-19 Speakers (August 21, 2018), University Communications And Marketing

OHIO News Articles Archive

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Geographic Differences In Obesity Prevalence And Its Risk Factors Among Asian Americans: Findings From The 2013–2014 California Health Interview Survey, Shaoqing Gong, Kesheng Wang, Ying Li, Arsham Alamian

ETSU Faculty Works

Geography disparities exist in obesity and obesity related conditions. This study aimed to examine the geographic differences in obesity prevalence and its risk factors among Asian Americans in California. Data (n = 4,000) from the 2013–2014 California Health Interview Survey were used. Obesity (≥27.5 kg/m2) was defined according to the World Health Organization Asian body mass index cut points in Asian groups. Results suggest that 66.5% of Asians lived in urban areas. Among Asian adults, obesity prevalence was highest in Filipinos (33.8%) and lowest in Koreans (12.8%). Compared to rural Vietnamese, obesity prevalence was higher for urban Vietnamese (8.3% vs. …

Impact Of Multiplex Relationships On Rural Science Education.Pdf, Peter Knutson, Dawn Del Carlo

The Rural Educator

Relationships play a strong role in rural communities and education, and multiplex relationships – relationships that can overlap due to multiple contexts of interaction in a rural school – are unique to the rural setting. This study focused on multiplex relationships and their impact on science classroom performance, as measured by science standardized test scores, through the lens of Social Capital Theory. Quantitative survey results from rural science teachers regarding number of student relationships and state-based science test scores were correlated. Additionally, qualitative survey answers from a subset of respondents were used to construct a more complete picture of the …

Latina/O Students In K-12 Schools: A Synthesis Of Empirical Research On Factors Influencing Academic Achievement, Amanda Taggart

Teacher Education and Leadership Faculty Publications

The purpose of this systematic review is to provide a comprehensive synthesis and analysis of the empirical evidence to date on the factors related to Latina/o student academic achievement in the country’s increasingly Latina/o K-12 schools. Factors found to be related to academic achievement outcomes (e.g., grades, test scores, high school completion, college enrollment) for Latina/o students include a combination of (1) demographic variables, (2) sociocultural variables, (3) academic experiences, (4) psychological variables, and (5) school/institutional variables. In addition, this research synthesis identified several methodological trends in the research on Latina/o student success.

The Geotraces Intermediate Data Product 2017, Reiner Schlitzer, Robert F. Anderson, Elena Masferrer Dodas, Maeve Lohan, Walter Geibert, Alessandro Tagliabue, Andrew Bowie, Catherine Jeandel, Maria T. Maldonado, William M. Landing, Donna Cockwell, Cyril Abadie, Wafa Abouchami, Eric P. Achterberg, Alison Agather, Ana Aguliar-Islas, Aken Hm Van, Morten Andersen, Corey Archer, Maureen Auro, Baar Hj De, Oliver Baars, Alex R. Baker, Karel Bakker, Chandranath Basak, Mark Baskaran, Nicholas R. Bates, Dorothea Bauch, Beek P Van, Melanie K. Behrens

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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Establishing China Infrastructure For Big Biodiversity Data, Ma Keping, Zhu Min, Ji Liqiang, Ma Juncai, Guo Qinghua, Ouyang Zhiyun, Zhu Li

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

Biodiversity is not only important strategic resource, but also the safeguard to the ecological security and success of the development of ecological civilization. Gathering "big data" of biological sciences at different levels, the in-depth data mining and novel discoveries stemmed from cross disciplines will switch life sciences to the new data-intensive science paradigm, and eventually leads to the change of the way how life system should be understood, and how biodiversity resources should be utilized sustainably. Therefore, to establish an infrastructure for the big biodiversity data in China is urgently needed. This infrastructure incorporates big biodiversity data from both macro …

Big Data Science For Ocean: Present And Future, Qian Chengcheng, Chen Ge

Bulletin of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Chinese Version)

With major improvements in ocean observations and modeling, as well as in data science development, current oceanography has gone through three critical transformations:theory-driven, technology-driven, and data-dominant. Oceanography big data are indispensable in humankind's journey to better learn the seas. The importance of big data in society development and national core competence is increasingly recognized by all countries. This paper addresses the overall development of big data acquiring, analysis, and application. Big data now can be obtained from platforms based in the space, the air, the land, and the ocean. However, breakthroughs are needed in such conditions as deep seas, extreme …

Long-Term Evolution Of Sand Transport Through A River Network: Relative Influences Of A Dam Versus Natural Changes In Grain Size From Sand Waves, David J. Topping, Erich R. Mueller, John C. Schmidt, Ronald E. Griffiths, David J. Dean, Paul E. Grams

Watershed Sciences Faculty Publications

Temporal and spatial nonuniformity in supplies of water and sand in a river network leads to sand transport that is in local disequilibrium with the upstream sand supply. In such river networks, sand is transported downstream as elongating waves in which coupled changes in grain size and transport occur. Depending on the magnitude of each sand-supplying event and the interval between such events, changes in bed-sand grain size associated with sand-wave passage may more strongly regulate sand transport than do changes in water discharge. When sand transport is controlled more by episodic resupply of sand than by discharge, upstream dam …

The Geotraces Intermediate Data Product 2017, Reiner Schlitzer, Robert F. Anderson, Elena Dodas, Maeve Lohan, Walter Geibert, Alessandro Tagliabue, Kristen N. Buck, Tim Conway, Stephen Galer, Ruifang Xie

Marine Science Faculty Publications

The GEOTRACES Intermediate Data Product 2017 (IDP2017) is the second publicly available data product of the international GEOTRACES programme, and contains data measured and quality controlled before the end of 2016. The IDP2017 includes data from the Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic, Southern and Indian oceans, with about twice the data volume of the previous IDP2014. For the first time, the IDP2017 contains data for a large suite of biogeochemical parameters as well as aerosol and rain data characterising atmospheric trace element and isotope (TEI) sources. The TEI data in the IDP2017 are quality controlled by careful assessment of intercalibration results and …

Crow's Nest, August 20, 2018, Crow's Nest Staff

Crow's Nest

The August 20, 2018, issue of the Crow's Nest.

Alumni News | Kathleen Dedicates Career To Increasing Recycling, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

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Message From The Chair: Geofest Awards Alumni Visitors Faculty Kudos, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

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Houser Gets Nsf Funding For Study Of Tornado Formation And Intensity, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

No abstract provided.

Happy Beginnings: Geography Seniors Headed To Careers Military Graduate Schools, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

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Probing The Non-Linearity In Galaxy Clusters Through The Analysis Of Fractal Dimension Via Wavelet Transform, Loay Ali Khalifa

College of Science and Health Theses and Dissertations

The study of large scale structure (LSS) of the Universe armed with both all-sky surveys and numerical simulations has become an increasingly important tool to probe basic cosmology. We used the method of wavelet transforms combined with the fractal based point-processes to investigate the clustering of matter on galactic scales through the fractal analysis approach. In particular, we developed a method to calculate the angular fractal dimension of galaxy distributions as a function of the cosmological comoving space. Taking advantage of the self-similarity and lo- calization properties of the wavelets, allows us to compute the fractal dimension of galaxies in …

Housing, Relationships, And Substance Use Among Female Ex-Offenders, Arturo Soto-Nevarez

College of Science and Health Theses and Dissertations

Female ex-offenders with histories of substance abuse face many difficulties upon reentry into the general population, such as acquiring adequate housing. The purpose of this proposal is to explore the relations between housing settings, relationships, and substance use. Two hundred adult females participated in the initial baseline study. Two methods of data analyses were proposed to predict substance use: one clustering participants into groups based on the endorsement of those settings and relationships, and one using multi-level modeling examining housing settings and relationships both independently as well as unique settings comprised of housing setting and relationship. Participants fell into one …