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Low-Tech Riparian And Wet Meadow Restoration Increases Vegetation Productivity And Resilience Across Semiarid Rangelands, Nicholas L. Silverman, Brady W. Allred, John Patrick Donnelly, Teresa B. Chapman, Jeremy D. Maestas, Joseph Michael Wheaton, Jeff White, David E. Naugle Aug 2018

Low-Tech Riparian And Wet Meadow Restoration Increases Vegetation Productivity And Resilience Across Semiarid Rangelands, Nicholas L. Silverman, Brady W. Allred, John Patrick Donnelly, Teresa B. Chapman, Jeremy D. Maestas, Joseph Michael Wheaton, Jeff White, David E. Naugle

Watershed Sciences Faculty Publications

Restoration of riparian and wet meadow ecosystems in semiarid rangelands of the western United States is a high priority given their ecological and hydrological importance in the region. However, traditional restoration approaches are often intensive and costly, limiting the extent over which they can be applied. Practitioners are increasingly trying new restoration techniques that are more cost‐effective, less intensive, and can more practically scale up to the scope of degradation. Unfortunately, practitioners typically lack resources to undertake outcome‐based evaluations necessary to judge the efficacy of these techniques. In this study, we use freely available, satellite remote sensing to explore changes …

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Nature, Place, And Story: Rethinking Historic Sites In Canada By Claire Campbell, Emma K. Morgan-Thorp Aug 2018

Nature, Place, And Story: Rethinking Historic Sites In Canada By Claire Campbell, Emma K. Morgan-Thorp

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Review of Claire Campbell's Nature, Place, and Story: Rethinking Historic Sites in Canada.

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Gentrifier By John Joe Schlichtman, Jason Patch, And Marc Lamont Hill, Hannah Brais Aug 2018

Gentrifier By John Joe Schlichtman, Jason Patch, And Marc Lamont Hill, Hannah Brais

The Goose

Review of John Joe Schlichtman, Jason Patch, and Marc Lamont Hill's Gentrifier.

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Commencement Convocation Program, St. Petersburg Campus, August 5, 2018, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg Aug 2018

Commencement Convocation Program, St. Petersburg Campus, August 5, 2018, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg

USF St. Petersburg Graduations and Commencements

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Pubh 4234 – International Development In Health, Nandi A. Marshall Aug 2018

Pubh 4234 – International Development In Health, Nandi A. Marshall

College of Public Health: Faculty Syllabi (2014-2021)

This course will describe key cultural, social, and economic issues and methods in global health, and thus provide essential background for other core courses. The course is interdisciplinary, emphasizing the fields of anthropology, sociology, public health, global health, and critical global health studies. This course explores aspects of health inequalities and demonstrates how the sources of health inequalities (including globalization, the impact of social, economic, and political systems, the local and global economy, transnational organizations, culture, race, class, gender, and sexuality) are rooted in injustices that create and sustain the conditions that lead to disparities in health status and health …

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Adapting Low-Cost Drone Technology To Cubesats For Environmental Monitoring And Management: Harmful Algal Bloom Satellite-1 (Habsat-1), Richard Beck, Hongxing Liu, Richard Johansen, Min Xu, Catharine Mcghan, George Thomas Black, Ou Ma, Uc Cubecats, Molly K. Reif, Erich B. Emery, Richard Stumpf, Greg Emerick, Ryan Nelson Aug 2018

Adapting Low-Cost Drone Technology To Cubesats For Environmental Monitoring And Management: Harmful Algal Bloom Satellite-1 (Habsat-1), Richard Beck, Hongxing Liu, Richard Johansen, Min Xu, Catharine Mcghan, George Thomas Black, Ou Ma, Uc Cubecats, Molly K. Reif, Erich B. Emery, Richard Stumpf, Greg Emerick, Ryan Nelson

Small Satellite Conference

HABsat-1 is designed to improve our understanding of algal bloom dynamics and their causes on land by addressing several current limiting factors for this application using existing satellites. For example, there is suboptimal imager design for water, insufficient spatial resolution for precise co-registration of surface observations, and too few satellites with such capabilities to defeat cloud cover in maritime, tropical and temperate climates. We will overcome these problems by merging a new low-cost multispectral imaging technology with a low-cost CubeSat bus. CubeSats cost roughly 1/100th to 1/1000th of most current long-life imaging satellites. Such cost decreases are necessary to improve …

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Commencement Convocation Program, Usf, August 4, 2018, University Of South Florida Aug 2018

Commencement Convocation Program, Usf, August 4, 2018, University Of South Florida

USF Graduation and Convocation Programs

King O'Neal Scholars - Katlyn Eastridge, James Garrett, Gautam Krishna Koipallil, Kayla Li, and Olivia Taylor; Outstanding Graduate - Barbora Skopalova; Global Citizens Award - Kayla Li, Phoung Ly, and Hannah Seamans

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Summer Commencement Program, August 3, 2018, Coastal Carolina University Aug 2018

Summer Commencement Program, August 3, 2018, Coastal Carolina University

Commencement Programs

Program of Commencement Exercises at Coastal Carolina University.

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The Larger Conversation: Contemplation And Place By Tim Lilburn, Emory Shaw Aug 2018

The Larger Conversation: Contemplation And Place By Tim Lilburn, Emory Shaw

The Goose

Review of Tim Lilburn's The Larger Conversation: Contemplation and Place.

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Predators Shape Sedimentary Organic Carbon Storage In A Coral Reef Ecosystem, Trisha Brooke Atwood, Elizabeth M. P. Madin, Alastair R. Harborne, Edd Hammill, Osmar J. Luiz, Quinn R. Ollivier, Chris M. Roelfsema, Peter I. Macreadie, Catherine E. Lovelock Aug 2018

Predators Shape Sedimentary Organic Carbon Storage In A Coral Reef Ecosystem, Trisha Brooke Atwood, Elizabeth M. P. Madin, Alastair R. Harborne, Edd Hammill, Osmar J. Luiz, Quinn R. Ollivier, Chris M. Roelfsema, Peter I. Macreadie, Catherine E. Lovelock

Watershed Sciences Faculty Publications

Trophic cascade theory predicts that predator effects should extend to influence carbon cycling in ecosystems. Yet, there has been little empirical evidence in natural ecosystems to support this hypothesis. Here, we use a naturally-occurring trophic cascade to provide evidence that predators help protect sedimentary organic carbon stocks in coral reef ecosystems. Our results show that predation risk altered the behavior of herbivorous fish, whereby it constrained grazing to areas close to the refuge of the patch reefs. Macroalgae growing in “riskier” areas further away from the reef were released from grazing pressure, which subsequently promoted carbon accumulation in the sediments …

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Lindenwood Digest, August 3, 2018, Lindenwood University Aug 2018

Lindenwood Digest, August 3, 2018, Lindenwood University

Lindenwood Digest

The Lindenwood Digest has been an employee newsletter since 2009.

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Are Biological Science Knowledge, Interests, And Science Identity Framed By Religious And Political Perspectives In The United States?, Joseph C. Jochman, Alexis Swendener, Julia Mcquillan, Luke Novack Aug 2018

Are Biological Science Knowledge, Interests, And Science Identity Framed By Religious And Political Perspectives In The United States?, Joseph C. Jochman, Alexis Swendener, Julia Mcquillan, Luke Novack

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

Science trust and views of science differ by political and religious orientations. In this study we examine whether political and religious perspectives are also associated with biological science knowledge, science interest, and general science identity. Results show that conservative Protestants have lower biological science knowledge than other religious groups on several specific topics. Party affiliation is associated with vaccine knowledge but not science interest and identity. Adjusting for demographic characteristics explains some political and religious group differences, but not all. We discuss implications regarding attention to potential political and religious framings of science topics in public education efforts.

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Summer Commencement: August 3, 2018, University Of North Dakota Aug 2018

Summer Commencement: August 3, 2018, University Of North Dakota

UND Commencement Programs

UND Summer Commencement program from August 3, 2018.

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Evolutionary Dynamics Of Host Specialization In Wood-Decay Fungi, Franz Sebastian Krah, Claus Bässler, Christoph Heibl, John Soghigian, Hanno Schaefer, David S. Hibbett Aug 2018

Evolutionary Dynamics Of Host Specialization In Wood-Decay Fungi, Franz Sebastian Krah, Claus Bässler, Christoph Heibl, John Soghigian, Hanno Schaefer, David S. Hibbett

Biology

Background: The majority of wood decomposing fungi are mushroom-forming Agaricomycetes, which exhibit two main modes of plant cell wall decomposition: white rot, in which all plant cell wall components are degraded, including lignin, and brown rot, in which lignin is modified but not appreciably removed. Previous studies suggested that brown rot fungi tend to be specialists of gymnosperm hosts and that brown rot promotes gymnosperm specialization. However, these hypotheses were based on analyses of limited datasets of Agaricomycetes. Overcoming this limitation, we used a phylogeny with 1157 species integrating available sequences, assembled decay mode characters from the literature, and coded …

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Narratology Beyond The Human: Storytelling And Animal Life By David Herman, Brian Mccormack Aug 2018

Narratology Beyond The Human: Storytelling And Animal Life By David Herman, Brian Mccormack

The Goose

Review of David Herman's Narratology beyond the Human: Storytelling and Animal Life.

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Making Meaning Of Ib Approaches To Teaching And Learning: A Phenomenological Study Of Teachers’ Experiences Implementing The International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, Dale O. Taylor Aug 2018

Making Meaning Of Ib Approaches To Teaching And Learning: A Phenomenological Study Of Teachers’ Experiences Implementing The International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, Dale O. Taylor

CUP Ed.D. Dissertations

The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to explore how teachers perceive, make meaning of, and implement the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP). Best practices for effectively implementing the IBDP were also explored. A total of 10 teachers and coordinators who were new to IBDP and had implemented the program since 2015 were interviewed. These educators were outside their home countries in Macao, Malaysia, Qatar, and Turkey. The study was designed to answer two research questions. RQ 1 asked, How do teachers perceive, make meaning of, and individually construct their implementation of the IBDP according to Knowles et al.’s …

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The National Health Service (Nhs) In 'Crisis': The Role Played By A Shift From Horizontal To Vertical Principles Of Equity., Sheena Asthana, Alex Gibson Aug 2018

The National Health Service (Nhs) In 'Crisis': The Role Played By A Shift From Horizontal To Vertical Principles Of Equity., Sheena Asthana, Alex Gibson

Peninsula Medical School

Explanations of the state of 'crisis' in the English National Health Service (NHS) generally focus on the overall level of health care funding rather than the way in which funding is distributed. Describing systematic patterns in the way different areas are experiencing crisis, this paper suggests that NHS organisations in older, rural and particularly coastal areas are more likely to be 'failing' and that this is due to the historic underfunding of such areas. This partly reflects methodological and technical shortcomings in NHS resource allocation formulae. It is also the outcome of a philosophical shift from horizontal (equal access for …

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California's Coast And Ocean Summary Report, Part Of California's Fourth Climate Change Assessment, Leila Sievanen, Jennifer Phillips, Charles Colgan, Gary Griggs, Juliette Finzi Hart, Eric Hartge, Raphael Kudela, Nathan Mantua, Karina Nielsen, Liz Whiteman Aug 2018

California's Coast And Ocean Summary Report, Part Of California's Fourth Climate Change Assessment, Leila Sievanen, Jennifer Phillips, Charles Colgan, Gary Griggs, Juliette Finzi Hart, Eric Hartge, Raphael Kudela, Nathan Mantua, Karina Nielsen, Liz Whiteman

Working Papers

This report synthesizes current scientific understanding about the impacts of climate change on California’s coast and ocean and presents a forward-looking summary of challenges and opportunities for the future. It is one component of California’s Fourth Climate Change Assessment (Fourth Assessment). To prepare this report, the state called upon the California Ocean Protection Council (OPC) and California Ocean Science Trust (OST) to convene an Ocean Protection Council Science Advisory Team (OPC-SAT) working group composed of science and policy leaders. Similar to other components of the Fourth Assessment, the 12-member working group was guided by an Advisory Group of end users …

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Can Network Theory-Based Targeting Increase Technology Adoption?, Lori Beaman, Ariel Benyishay, Jeremy Magruder, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak Aug 2018

Can Network Theory-Based Targeting Increase Technology Adoption?, Lori Beaman, Ariel Benyishay, Jeremy Magruder, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak

Discussion Papers

No abstract provided.

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Progress Notes, Lehigh Valley Health Network Aug 2018

Progress Notes, Lehigh Valley Health Network

Progress Notes

No abstract provided.

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Integrating Remote Sensing And Spatiotemporal Statistics To Develop Prescription Maps For Variable Rate Irrigation Systems, Neil Hansen, Bryan Hopkins, Ruth Kerry, Ryan Jensen, Matthew Heaton, Ryan Christensen, Colin Campbell Aug 2018

Integrating Remote Sensing And Spatiotemporal Statistics To Develop Prescription Maps For Variable Rate Irrigation Systems, Neil Hansen, Bryan Hopkins, Ruth Kerry, Ryan Jensen, Matthew Heaton, Ryan Christensen, Colin Campbell

BYU Research Development Office Research Networking Conference

Areas of Interest: Water use and conservation; spatio-temporal statistics; remote sensing; machine learning

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Saying "No" To (The) Oxygen Capital? Amenity Migration, Counter-Territorialization, And Uneven Rural Landscape Change In The Kaz Dağları (Ida Mountains) Of Western Turkey, Patrick T. Hurley, Yılmaz Arı Aug 2018

Saying "No" To (The) Oxygen Capital? Amenity Migration, Counter-Territorialization, And Uneven Rural Landscape Change In The Kaz Dağları (Ida Mountains) Of Western Turkey, Patrick T. Hurley, Yılmaz Arı

Environment and Sustainability Faculty Publications

Diverse forms of conservation and development are transforming the material landscapes and related livelihoods of communities in rural places around the world. While many studies focus on changing protected area governance and ecotourism efforts associated with nature protection, other studies focus on residential development in areas experiencing amenity migration. We use a comparative political ecology approach that draws on key insights from the political ecology literature, first, on neoliberal protected area expansion, and, second, on exurbia that highlight the dynamics of competing rural capitalisms and reterritorialization in areas experiencing amenity migration to explore these coupled conservation and development dynamics. Drawing …

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Mitigating Risk: A Delphi Study Identifying Competencies In Sport And Event Security Management, Elizabeth Voorhees Aug 2018

Mitigating Risk: A Delphi Study Identifying Competencies In Sport And Event Security Management, Elizabeth Voorhees

Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to identify core competencies for supervisory-level security management professionals working in the sports and entertainment industry. Qualified and trained sport and event security-management professionals are essential to support the U.S. homeland security objectives outlined in Presidential Policy Directive-21. Providing effective safety and security for sports and entertainment events requires specialized knowledge and skill on the behalf of security-management practitioners who detect, deter, prevent, and respond to potential risks and threats. This qualitative research study employed a Delphi research design to elicit expertise from a purposefully selected panel of experts (N = 36). The …

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Play And Exhibitions: Expanding Definitions Within Museums, Helena Sizemore Aug 2018

Play And Exhibitions: Expanding Definitions Within Museums, Helena Sizemore

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis is an exploration of the utilization of play, as a method for visitor engagement, within the context of the museum. Play, as a method for learning and engagement, is often a contested topic between scholars and practitioners within the museum field. This is in part due to the ambiguous nature of defining play, the ever-present dichotomy between work and play, and the struggles museums find in balancing education and entertainment. The Denver Museum of Nature and Science in Denver, Colorado names play as part of one of its core values. Using anthropological theoretical and methodological approaches, I examine …

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Professor Who? A Phenomenological Exploration Of Working Professionals Who Feel Called To Teach As Adjunct Faculty, Molly A. Smith Aug 2018

Professor Who? A Phenomenological Exploration Of Working Professionals Who Feel Called To Teach As Adjunct Faculty, Molly A. Smith

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This phenomenological study explores the meaning that those who feel called to teach make out of their adjunct teaching experience in higher education. In addition to understanding more about how these individuals describe their call to teach, the study explores how adjunct faculty characterize the relationship between personal identity, calling, and professional identity as a teacher. This study also explores how adjunct faculty articulate the relationship between their identity, teaching intentions, and professional practice. Five essential themes emerged as characterizing the phenomenon of feeling called to teach as an adjunct member in higher education, including (1) Enjoyment, (2) Alignment, (3) …

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Puerto Rico: Two Years After Hurricane Maria, Center For Puerto Rican Studies Aug 2018

Puerto Rico: Two Years After Hurricane Maria, Center For Puerto Rican Studies

CUNY Centro, The Center for Puerto Rican Studies

Two years since Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico on September 20, 2017, between 220,000 to 255,000 residents of the island have relocated to the United States. This exodus represents one of the most significant movements of Puerto Ricans to the U.S. mainland in the island’s history in terms of both volume and duration. Two-years post-Hurricane Maria, we expect that an estimate of 60,000 to as high as 78,751 left the Island in 2019. One year since Hurricane-Maria, emigration estimates — of 159,415, with an upper bound confidence interval of 176,603 — is as high as the net migration …

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Cenozoic Development Of The Nonmarine Mula Basin In The Southern Yidun Terrane: Deposition And Deformation In The Eastern Tibetan Plateau Associated With The India-Asia Collision, W. T. Jackson, D. M. Robinson, A. L. Weislogel, X. Jian, M. P. Mckay Aug 2018

Cenozoic Development Of The Nonmarine Mula Basin In The Southern Yidun Terrane: Deposition And Deformation In The Eastern Tibetan Plateau Associated With The India-Asia Collision, W. T. Jackson, D. M. Robinson, A. L. Weislogel, X. Jian, M. P. Mckay

College of Natural and Applied Sciences

To advance tectonic models of plateau growth in response to the India-Asia collision, parameters such as the timing, mechanism (s), and extent of Cenozoic deposition and deformation throughout the eastern Tibetan Plateau need to be determined. To better understand these parameters, we examine the Mula basin, located in the southern Yidun terrane, using field data, detrital zircon geochronology, εHf zircon isotopic values, and thin section petrology. The Mula basin is a NW-SE elongate (~28 km long and 5–8 km wide) exposure of nonmarine strata ~1,000 m thick, deposited in alluvial environments. The basin is bound to the northeast by a …

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Climate-Informed Environmental Inflows To Revive A Drying Lake Facing Meteorological And Anthropogenic Droughts, Mojtaba Sadegh Aug 2018

Climate-Informed Environmental Inflows To Revive A Drying Lake Facing Meteorological And Anthropogenic Droughts, Mojtaba Sadegh

Civil Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

The rapid shrinkage of Lake Urmia, one of the world’s largest saline lakes located in northwestern Iran, is a tragic wake-up call to revisit the principles of water resources management based on the socio-economic and environmental dimensions of sustainable development. The overarching goal of this paper is to set a framework for deriving dynamic, climate-informed environmental inflows for drying lakes considering both meteorological/climatic and anthropogenic conditions. We report on the compounding effects of meteorological drought and unsustainable water resource management that contributed to Lake Urmia’s contemporary environmental catastrophe. Using rich datasets of hydrologic attributes, water demands and withdrawals, as well …

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Agreeing To Submit: Authority Constructions In Modern Sunni Islam, Trevor E. Wolff Aug 2018

Agreeing To Submit: Authority Constructions In Modern Sunni Islam, Trevor E. Wolff

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

In the modern age, Sunni communities are often claimed to be in a moment of crisis. However, despite outward arguments about this crisis, Sunni communities are more accurately described as within a state of transformation. By analyzing constructions of authority from Sayyid Qutb, the clerical establishment of Saudi Arabia, and the greater American Muslim communities, Sunni theology is best seen as seeking out methods to transform and re-center authority within Sunni communities.

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Understanding Public Library Services And Use: A Structural Equation Modeling Framework, Ian Burke Aug 2018

Understanding Public Library Services And Use: A Structural Equation Modeling Framework, Ian Burke

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation describes the process of fitting publicly available data from the 2015 Public Libraries Survey and 2015 American Community Survey to a structural equation model based on a theory of action for public libraries relating operating revenue to latent factors measuring service availability and library use within the context of matched community demographic data. The process of using theory-based data analysis to investigate publicly-available data is examined. Key findings include acceptable estimates of goodness-of-fit for hypothesized factors representing public library service availability and public library use, an inconsistent mediation effect of service availability on the relationship between public library …

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