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Effects Of The Invasive Asian Shore Crab, Hemigrapsus Sanguineus, On New England Trophic Cascade: Diet And Predation, Madison Bradley Jan 2019

Effects Of The Invasive Asian Shore Crab, Hemigrapsus Sanguineus, On New England Trophic Cascade: Diet And Predation, Madison Bradley

Writing Across the Curriculum

Trophic cascades occur when the community structure is influenced by indirect effects of predation on the lower trophic levels. The trophic cascade can be disrupted when an invasive species is introduced. The Asian shore crab, Hemigrapsus sanguineus has invaded ecosystems in New England and we predict this invasion will negatively affect the classic New England trophic cascade. By the predation indirectly affecting lower trophic levels, H. sanguineus can influence the community structure and diversity at the lower levels. To understand the trophic cascade, we manipulated the food source and competitors in four different mini-ecosystems. By introducing H. sanguineus into an …

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Gendering Toys: How Pink And Blue Define Life Outcomes For Children, Laura James Jan 2019

Gendering Toys: How Pink And Blue Define Life Outcomes For Children, Laura James

Writing Across the Curriculum

In order to best understand the established gender “norms” in a society, it is pertinent to observe the behaviors of others surrounding one another. Norms within a society are the usual, typical or standard behaviors that are placed on individuals before they are even born. From the time a baby is in the womb, society established what colors represent them best, buy clothes that will look the “cutest” on them, and name them certain names that will best suite that person’s gender. This type of gender normative behavior will continue throughout that child’s life, placing them within a rigid box …

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Learning To Write In An Academic Genre: Adult English Learners’ Use Of Sociocultural Resources, Lyudmyla Ivanyuk Jan 2019

Learning To Write In An Academic Genre: Adult English Learners’ Use Of Sociocultural Resources, Lyudmyla Ivanyuk

Theses and Dissertations--Curriculum and Instruction

In this multiple case study, I examined what types of sociocultural resources adult English learners brought with them from their previous contexts and what new resources they drew upon in the U.S. while learning to write in the essay genre. The study also identified how the participants chose to use previous and new sociocultural resources as mediated by the essay genre in the U.S. The following research foci shaped this study: (1) What types of sociocultural resources do adult English learners use while learning to write in the essay genre prior to and after their arrival in the U.S.? (2) …

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Ms Environmental Biology Capstone Project, Jenna M. Slabe Jan 2019

Ms Environmental Biology Capstone Project, Jenna M. Slabe

Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)

MS Environmental Biology Capstone Project

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Sustainability Perceptions Of The Nappie Project, Katherine Trumbo Jan 2019

Sustainability Perceptions Of The Nappie Project, Katherine Trumbo

Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)

Diaper need is a critical issue that often falls through the cracks of traditional assistance pathways. There are no state or federal programs that subsidize the cost of diapers. Some families must choose between food and diapers when finances fall short. This study employed a mixed methods approach and a cross-sectional design. Quantitative data was collected using the Program Sustainability Assessment Tool (PSAT), a 40-item multiple-choice survey instrument that assesses eight domains of sustainability. Nineteen individuals from The Nappie Project board, agency partners, community advisors, and volunteers received an email invitation to participate in the PSAT survey. The survey was …

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Agroforestry Strategic Framework, Fiscal Years 2019-2024, Susan Stein Jan 2019

Agroforestry Strategic Framework, Fiscal Years 2019-2024, Susan Stein

United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

America’s farmers, ranchers, and forest landowners are integrating trees with agriculture to address a variety of conservation and production goals. A unique land management approach, agroforestry provides opportunities to integrate productivity and profitability with environmental stewardship to support healthy, sustainable agriculture systems, economies, and communities.

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Sullivan County, New Hampshire Annual Report For The Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 2019., Sullivan County Representatives Jan 2019

Sullivan County, New Hampshire Annual Report For The Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 2019., Sullivan County Representatives

Sullivan County, NH Annual Reports

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

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Temporal Effectiveness Of Biodiversity Surrogates In Coral Reefs In The British Virgin Islands, Nicole B. Keefner Jan 2019

Temporal Effectiveness Of Biodiversity Surrogates In Coral Reefs In The British Virgin Islands, Nicole B. Keefner

Open Access Master's Theses

Global biodiversity declines associated with anthropogenic stressors have motivated researchers to implement monitoring programs to estimate species richness for major taxonomic groups. Due to logistical challenges of species identification, there have been efforts to use biological and abiotic surrogates as indicators of species richness targets. An effective surrogate has two essential features: first, it takes less time, money, and experience to measure than the target and second, it maintains a consistently strong correlation with the target over space and time. Few studies, however, have explicitly investigated surrogate effectiveness over time, and those that have are typically quite short. Our main …

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Be Wary Of Black-Box Trading Algorithms, Gary N. Smith Jan 2019

Be Wary Of Black-Box Trading Algorithms, Gary N. Smith

Pomona Economics

Black-box algorithms now account for nearly a third of all U. S. stock trades. It is a mistake to think that these algorithms possess superhuman intelligence. In reality, computers do not have the common sense and wisdom that humans have accumulated by living. Trading algorithms are particularly dangerous because they are so efficient at discovering statistical patterns—but so utterly useless in judging whether the discovered patterns are meaningful.

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It Is Time To Kill The Economic Theory Of Suicide, Gary N. Smith Jan 2019

It Is Time To Kill The Economic Theory Of Suicide, Gary N. Smith

Pomona Economics

A seminal paper by Hamermesh and Soss modeled suicide as a rational economic decision based on a comparison of the financial costs and benefits of staying alive. Their model is fundamentally flawed and their prediction that suicide rates increase with age is wrong.

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The Paradox Of Big Data, Gary N. Smith Jan 2019

The Paradox Of Big Data, Gary N. Smith

Pomona Economics

Data-mining is often used to discover patterns in Big Data. It is tempting believe that because an unearthed pattern is unusual it must be meaningful, but patterns are inevitable in Big Data and usually meaningless. The paradox of Big Data is that data mining is most seductive when there are a large number of variables, but a large number of variables exacerbates the perils of data mining.

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Leading A National School Of Character Through The Lens Of Organizational Change, Mark R. Chapin Jan 2019

Leading A National School Of Character Through The Lens Of Organizational Change, Mark R. Chapin

All Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to understand the role of the principal and the role of the change recipient in the organizational change process specific to the implementation of effective character education. The study utilized a constructivist grounded theory approach in conducting research and formulating a conclusion. Respondents included eight middle school principals from across the United States who led a National School of Character in the past three years. Transferability and credibility were enhanced through the participation of the researcher in a bracketing interview to identify potential biases, double coding by an outside analyst of the regular interviews, …

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Suffolk Journal, Vol.82, No.18, 4/17/2019, Suffolk Journal Jan 2019

Suffolk Journal, Vol.82, No.18, 4/17/2019, Suffolk Journal

Suffolk Journal

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Suffolk Journal, Vol.83, No.9, 11/13/2019, Suffolk Journal Jan 2019

Suffolk Journal, Vol.83, No.9, 11/13/2019, Suffolk Journal

Suffolk Journal

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Suffolk Journal, Vol.82, No.12, 2/20/2019, Suffolk Journal Jan 2019

Suffolk Journal, Vol.82, No.12, 2/20/2019, Suffolk Journal

Suffolk Journal

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Suffolk Journal, Vol.82, No.13, 2/27/2019, Suffolk Journal Jan 2019

Suffolk Journal, Vol.82, No.13, 2/27/2019, Suffolk Journal

Suffolk Journal

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Suffolk Journal, Vol.82, No.17, 4/10/2019, Suffolk Journal Jan 2019

Suffolk Journal, Vol.82, No.17, 4/10/2019, Suffolk Journal

Suffolk Journal

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Suffolk Journal, Vol.83, No.2, 9/25/2019, Suffolk Journal Jan 2019

Suffolk Journal, Vol.83, No.2, 9/25/2019, Suffolk Journal

Suffolk Journal

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Suffolk Journal, Vol.83, No.4, 10/09/2019, Suffolk Journal Jan 2019

Suffolk Journal, Vol.83, No.4, 10/09/2019, Suffolk Journal

Suffolk Journal

No abstract provided.

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Ms Environmental Biology Capstone Project, Natalie Moreno Jan 2019

Ms Environmental Biology Capstone Project, Natalie Moreno

Regis University Student Publications (comprehensive collection)

MS Environmental Biology Capstone Project

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Conflicts Of Interest And Law-Firm Structure, Cassandra Burke Robertson Jan 2019

Conflicts Of Interest And Law-Firm Structure, Cassandra Burke Robertson

Faculty Publications

Business and law are increasingly practiced on a transnational scale, and law firms are adopting new business structures in order to compete on this global playing field. Over the last decade, global law firms have merged into so-called “mega-brands” or “mega-firms”—that is, associations of national or regional law firms that join together under a single brand worldwide. For law firms, the most common mega-firm structure has been the Swiss verein, though the English “Company Limited by Guarantee” structure is growing in popularity as well, as is the similar “European Economic Interest Grouping.” All of these structures allow related entities to …

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Principal Component Analysis Of The Magnetic Transition In The Three-Dimensional Fermi-Hubbard Model, Ehsan Khatami Jan 2019

Principal Component Analysis Of The Magnetic Transition In The Three-Dimensional Fermi-Hubbard Model, Ehsan Khatami

Faculty Publications

Machine learning techniques have been widely used in the study of strongly correlated systems in recent years. Here, we review some applications to classical and quantum many-body systems and present results from an unsupervised machine learning technique, the principal component analysis, employed to identify the finite-temperature phase transition of the three-dimensional Fermi-Hubbard model to the antiferromagnetically ordered state. We find that this linear method can capture the phase transition as well as other more complicated and nonlinear counterparts.

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A Humble And Savory Joy: An Interview With Toi Derricotte, Parneshia Jones Jan 2019

A Humble And Savory Joy: An Interview With Toi Derricotte, Parneshia Jones

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 38-49

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Structural Basis Of 7sk Rna 5′ Γ-Phosphate Methylation And Retention By Mepce, Yuan Yang, Catherine D. Eichhorn, Yaqiang Wang, Duilio Cascio, Juli Feigon Jan 2019

Structural Basis Of 7sk Rna 5′ Γ-Phosphate Methylation And Retention By Mepce, Yuan Yang, Catherine D. Eichhorn, Yaqiang Wang, Duilio Cascio, Juli Feigon

Department of Chemistry: Faculty Publications

Among RNA 5′-cap structures, γ-phosphate monomethylation is unique to a small subset of noncoding RNAs, 7SK and U6 in humans. 7SK is capped by methylphosphate capping enzyme (MePCE), which has a second non-enzymatic role as a core component of the 7SK RNP that is an essential regulator of RNA transcription. We report 2.0 and 2.1 Å X-ray crystal structures of human MePCE methyltransferase domain bound to S-adenosylhomocysteine (SAH) and uncapped or capped 7SK substrates, respectively. 7SK recognition is achieved by protein contacts to a 5′ hairpin-single-stranded RNA region, explaining MePCE specificity for 7SK and U6. The structures reveal SAH and …

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Rabbit-Light, Lesley Jenike Jan 2019

Rabbit-Light, Lesley Jenike

Nelle (literary magazine)

pp. 26-38

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How To Eat A Crawfish, Olivia Murphy Jan 2019

How To Eat A Crawfish, Olivia Murphy

Nelle (literary magazine)

pp. 41-42

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Something I Could Have With Low Probability, Alina Stefanescu Jan 2019

Something I Could Have With Low Probability, Alina Stefanescu

Nelle (literary magazine)

pp. 67-68

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Status Reports Of The Fisheries And Aquatic Resources Of Western Australia 2017/18. State Of The Fisheries, Daniel J. Gaughan, Brett Molony, K. Santoro Jan 2019

Status Reports Of The Fisheries And Aquatic Resources Of Western Australia 2017/18. State Of The Fisheries, Daniel J. Gaughan, Brett Molony, K. Santoro

Status Reports of the Fisheries and Aquatic Resources

The Status Reports of the Fisheries and Aquatic Resources of Western Australia (SRFAR) provide an annual update on the state of the fish stocks and other aquatic resources of Western Australia (WA). These reports outline the most recent assessments of the cumulative risk status for each of the aquatic resources (assets) within WA’s six Bioregions using an Ecosystem Based Fisheries Management (EBFM) approach.

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Interest And Its Development, Revisited, K. Ann Renninger, Stephanie Su , '11 Jan 2019

Interest And Its Development, Revisited, K. Ann Renninger, Stephanie Su , '11

Educational Studies Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

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North Central Louisiana Folklife Project Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University Jan 2019

North Central Louisiana Folklife Project Collection, University Archives And Special Collections, Prescott Memorial Library, Louisiana Tech University

Manuscript Finding Aids

Items from the North Central Louisiana Folk life Project and Susan RoachLankford. pictorial representations of contemporary North Louisiana folk-culture, arts and crafts.

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