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Catherine Ceniza Choy And Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Eds. Gendering The Trans-Pacific World: Diaspora, Empire And Race, Review Author: Cuenca

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

No abstract provided.

Editorial: Geoscience Communication - Building Bridges, Not Walls, Sam Illingworth, Iain Stewart, Jonathan Tennant, Elverfeldt K Von

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

No abstract provided.

An Analysis Of The Bizx Commercial Trade Exchange: The Attitudes And Motivations Behind Its Use, Ján André Montoya

Dissertations and Theses

The Global Financial Crisis underscored both the complexity and brittleness of the global financial system, especially for small to medium enterprises dependent on the current banking regime for credit. More than ever, we have also begun to see the disentanglement of small businesses from traditional banks at the local and regional level in the form of CDFIs, fintech alternative lending, and now complementary currencies. Through interviews with the management and members of the BizX complementary currency this study asks what the attitudes and motivations are behind its offering and use. In addition, it inquires into the economic and psychological benefits …

Developing Polar Networks : Ideas & Possibilities For The Future, Stephen J. Rollins, Daria O. Carle

Articles

Alaska’s geographic location places it at the forefront of research activity and information gathering about the Arctic and the changing environment of the Polar Regions. To facilitate sharing such information with the residents of the state, the Alaska Discovery Portal uses an integrated approach to retrieve materials from for-profit publishers, vetted websites, Alaska’s Digital Archives, open access resources such as the University of Alaska’s Institutional Repository, online topical Research Guides, and more. By licensing resources for all Alaska residents, the Discovery Portal can do what Google and other search engines cannot—pass through pay walls put in place by commercial publishers. …

In Her Place: Subverting The Woman/Terrorist Binary In Marco De Franchi's La Carne E Il Sangue, Claire Buckley

Books/Book Chapters

In Her Place: Subverting the Woman/Terrorist Binary in Marco De Franchi's La Carne e il Sangue.

Militant women tend to be sensationalized or denigrated by the media, frequently portrayed as being 'doubly deviant'; first, for committing a crime against the state, and, second, for having transgressed the boundaries of tolerable female behavior. Marco De Franchi, chooses a refreshing approach in his crime novel, La carne e il sangue (2008), focusing on commonality, rather than exceptionality, in his depiction of the terrorist, Lucia. Serena, a police investigator in charge of this case, contemplates how she would behave if …

U.S. Policy In The Arctic: The Implications Of The South China Sea Arbitration Award On American Policy And Unclos, Brian Finneran

Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs (2012 - Present)

No abstract provided.

Foreward

Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs (2012 - Present)

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Journal Collection Analysis: How We Developed New Tools To Improve Collection Assessment, Evaluation And Outreach, Evan Rusch, Nat Gustafson-Sundell

Library Services Publications

If you could create any collection management report, including any data, what would it look like? At Minnesota State University, Mankato, we’ve created a tool to provide journal collection analysis and evaluation (JCAE) reports which bring together a wide variety of data in one place. These reports can include Scimago journal evaluative data, any number of COUNTER JR1s, cost and payment data from the integrated library system or from vendor licenses, holdings data from the knowledgebase, subject data from indexes, Scimago, or the knowledgebase, journal data from Ulrich’s, custom data from academic departments, and more, as well as calculations based …

Feeling Of / Feeling For
 Queer Community: The Social Activism Of The San Francisco Sisters Of Perpetual Indulgence, Jason B. Crawford

Conexión Queer: Revista Latinoamericana y Caribeña de Teologías Queer

This interdisciplinary article explores the queer social activism of the San Francisco Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. Based on over ten years of participant observation and archival research, I examine their rituals and public performances in order to illuminate the complex ways in which queer community is identified, felt, thought and lived out in response to social injustices rooted in religion. Using a theoretically informed lens, I alternate between academic and liturgical styles of writing to convey the feelings for, and feelings of, community that motivate and inspire the Sisters’ unique sacred clown aesthetic inspired by a desire to queer and …

Automated Mound Detection Using Lidar And Object-Based Image Analysis In Beaufort County, Sc, Carl P. Lipo, Matt Sanger, Dylan Davis

Anthropology Datasets

The study of prehistoric anthropogenic mounded features– earthen mounds, shell heaps, and shell rings – in the American Southeast is stymied by the spotty distribution of systematic surveys across the region. Many extant, yet unidentified, archaeological mound features continue to evade detection due to the heavily forested canopies that occupy large areas of the region, making pedestrian surveys difficult and preventing aerial observation. The use of object-based image analysis (OBIA) as a tool for analysing light detection and ranging (LiDAR) data, however, offers an inexpensive opportunity to address this challenge. Using publicly available LiDAR data from Beaufort County, South Carolina …

Globalization, Conflict, And The Effects Of The Rate Of Change Of Globalization: An Empirical Analysis, Ashley Stephens

Honors Projects

The world is becoming increasingly more interconnected with technological advances leading to more and more globalization. It is important to see how globalization affects society, especially in the lesser developed post-conflict regions of Africa. The theories of liberalism, Marxism, and realism all offer plausible, yet strikingly different theories on the relationship between globalization and conflict. This paper conceptually examines the dominant theories of globalization and conflict, then uses open-source panel data on globalization and conflict in Africa to empirically test which theory is supported by the data, then tests if there is a correlation between the rate of globalization and …

Empirical Satellite Characterization For Realistic Imagery Generation, Nilay Vijay Mokashi

Theses

There is an increasing interest in the use of machine learning deep networks to automatically analyze satellite imagery. However, there are limited annotated satellite imagery datasets available for training these networks. Synthetic image generation offers a solution to this need, but only if the simulated images have comparable characteristics to the real data. This work deals with analysis of commercial satellite imagery to characterize their imaging systems for the purpose of increasing the realism of the synthetic imagery generated by RIT’s Digital Imaging and Remote Sensing Image Generation (DIRSIG) model.

The analysis was applied to satellite imagery from Planet Labs …

Understanding Agricultural-Land Conservation From The Perspective Of Landowners In Franklin County, Massachusetts, Rocio Lalanda

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

What motivates agricultural-land owners to use conservation easements? As these legal tools have become a popular strategy for private land conservation in the U.S., a growing body of literature is examining how and why landowners conserve their properties through conservation easements. This research project expands upon environmental, geographical and rural land development literature through a qualitative fieldwork study of 34 private, conservation landowners associated with the Franklin Land Trust, a nonprofit conservation organization in western Massachusetts. The study identifies a broad range of environmental, social, spiritual and financial motivations for agricultural-land owners to conserve their properties, and indicates that for …

Bilingual Teachers' Experiences: Being English Learners, Becoming Teachers, And Bilingual Education, Carrie Susan Larson

Dissertations and Theses

Bilingual students are the fastest growing demographic group in U.S. P-12 public schools and offer promise and hope to our increasingly global workforce. However, many bilingual students are lagging behind in school, too many do not complete high school, and their schooling experiences are overshadowed by racial and linguistic segregation, low-academic tracking, and subtractive educational experiences. There is a growing body of literature that recognizes the importance of bilingual and bicultural teachers and leaders who can include students' linguistic, cultural, and community assets in school. This qualitative research study explores the experiences of a specialized group of elementary bilingual and …

Water Shortage And Water Law: The Impending Crisis In Semi-Arid Climates, Bonnie Persons

Journal of Comparative Urban Law and Policy

Water is a business driver and a substantial source of both wealth and risk. Water is also under increasing statutory and legislative pressure as jurisdictions strive to manage water resources more holistically by addressing both surface and groundwater together, but on a more decentralized and sustainable basis. The potential collapse of the municipal water system in Cape Town, South Africa serves as a stark alarm for cities in arid and semi-arid, Mediterranean-like environments. This risk is especially true of cities like Marseilles, France and regions like California. By comparing the impacts of the water law in these different jurisdictions, this …

The Return Of The Ring (2016), Edited By Lynn Forest-Hill, Dennis Wilson Wise

Journal of Tolkien Research

Book review, by Dennis Wilson Wise, of The Return of the Ring (2 vols, 2016), ed. by Lynn Forest-Hill

Bibliometric Analysis Of Cited References In Commerce Journals, Nishat Fatima

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The paper examines the distribution of cited references in three commerce journals pertaining to the years 2012 to 2014. The study reveals that maximum number of cited references was found in Journal of World Business, followed by The International Journal of Accounting and Journal of Commerce and Management Thought. Most of the cited references were authored by more than one author. M. W.Peng's articles were most cited and maximum journals were from the fields of business and management.

Information Search Technologies And Academic Library Databases In A Nigerian University Of Technology., Scholastica Chukwu, Ifeoma Stella Njoku

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Databases are collection of electronic books, journals and other study materials available through the internet. While some can be accessed free of charge, others are subscribed to by universities before clients can access them online. Consequently, the library Federal University of Technology, Owerri has provided accesses to both online and offline databases. This article explored various databases of the library Postgraduate students were aware of and use. It also identified the challenges hindering its use and made some suggestions on the way forward. Descriptive survey research method was adopted to investigate a total population of 305 Postgraduate Students of Federal …

Athens News Reviews Bernard's Book Latek Lunacy, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

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Dynamic Responses Of Tree-Ring Growth To Multiple Dimensions Of Drought, Wei Fang, Shan Gao, Ruishun Liu, Tao Zhou, Chuixiang Yi, Ruijie Liu, Xiang Zhao, Hui Luo

Publications and Research

Droughts, which are characterized by multiple dimensions including frequency, duration, severity and onset timing, can impact tree growth profoundly. Different dimensions of drought influence tree growth independently or jointly, which makes the development of accurate predictions a formidable challenge. Measurement-based tree-ring data have obvious advantages for studying the drought responses of trees. Here, we explored the use of abundant tree-ring records for quantifying regional response patterns to key dimensions of drought. Specifically, we designed a series of regional-scaled “natural experiments”, based on 357 tree-ring chronologies from Southwest USA and location-matched monthly water balance anomalies, to reveal how tree-ring growth responds …

Health Disparity Asthma In African American Communities, Enna Edouard Trevathan

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

The United States and other industrialized nations are experiencing an increase in asthma. Despite medical and scientific advances in treating asthma in the past few decades, racial and ethnic disparities persevere in the rates of prevalence, morbidity and mortality in the U.S. (Joseph, Williams, Ownby, Saltzgaber, & Johnson, 2006).

Implicit Regional Economic Goals And Objectives: A Study Of U.S. Development Programs, Peter V. Schaeffer, Randall Jackson, Eric Bowen

Regional Research Institute Working Papers

At the present time, U.S. regional economic development policies tend to be focused on sectors, infrastructure, human capital, innovation capability, or to be problem oriented, and only a few programs can be described as being place-based. In this paper, we are looking at major federal regional development programs to deduce their combined implicit place-based goals and objectives. Because the U.S. seems to be relatively unique among OECD countries in its scant use of place-based policies, we compare the United States to, in particular, Canada to gain further insights into the reasons for and potential effects of such policy differences.

Using Hermeneutic Phenomenology And The Ethnographic Principle Of Cultural Interpretation With Malaysian Nurses, N Arunasalam

School of Nursing and Midwifery

BACKGROUND: The interpretive paradigm and hermeneutic phenomenological design are the most popular methods used in international cross-cultural research in healthcare, nurse education and nursing practice. Their inherent appeal is that they help researchers to explore experiences. The ethnographic principle of cultural interpretation can also be used to provide meaning, clarity and insight. AIM: To examine the use of hermeneutic phenomenology and the ethnographic principle of cultural interpretation in a research study conducted with Malaysian nurses on part-time, transnational, post-registration, top-up nursing degree programmes provided by one Australian and two UK universities. DISCUSSION: To enable the researcher to undertake international cross-cultural …

Simulation Training; Allowing Students To Fail Safely, Brad Benhart

Polytechnic Institute Summit

No abstract provided.

The “Invisible Government” And Conservative Tax Lobbying 1935–1936, Marjorie E. Kornhauser

Law and Contemporary Problems

No abstract provided.

Economic Impacts Of The Marcellus Shale Energy And Environment Laboratory (Mseel), Caleb Stair, Randall Jackson

Regional Research Institute Resource Documents

No abstract provided.

June 6, 2018 Faculty Senate Minutes, University Of South Carolina

Faculty Senate

No abstract provided.

Domestic Economic Freedom And Regional Integration In Sub-Saharan Africa, Brevin Anderson

Honors Projects

This paper examines the relationship between policies facilitating domestic economic freedom in Sub-Saharan African states and the degree of regional integration of those states into their respective regional economic communities. It conducts a linear regression analysis with data from the Economic Freedom of the World Report 2017 and the AFRICA Regional Integration Index to conduct a quantitative study of Sub-Saharan African states. The regression finds strong evidence that domestic economic freedom is a significant contributing factor, between 5% and 15% causality, to a state’s degree of regional integration. The paper hypothesizes that private sector political and economic activity is the …

The Dispute Over The Commons: Seed And Food Sovereignty As Decommodification In Chiapas, Mexico, Carol Frances HernáNdez RodríGuez

Dissertations and Theses

Seeds have become one of the most contested resources in our society. Control over seeds has intensified under neoliberalism, and today four large multinational corporations control approximately 70 percent of the global seed market. In response to this concentration of corporate power, an international social movement has emerged around the concept of seed sovereignty, which reclaims seeds and biodiversity as commons and public goods. This study examines the relationship between the global dynamics of commodification and enclosure of seeds, and the seed sovereignty countermovement for decommodification. I approach this analysis through an ethnographic case study of one local seed sovereignty …

Applied Research And Undergraduates: Why A Community Integrated Approach Can Transform Students And Universities, Nels Paulson, Gonzalo Urbina

Polytechnic Institute Summit

No abstract provided.