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Evaluating Tree Species' Migration Potential Using Latitudinal Tree Growth Rate Across The Eastern United States, Michelle Marie Field

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

Predicting climate-driven tree species’ future redistribution is a key element to guide preemptive forest management to mitigate the adverse consequences of climate change. This study uses the Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) database to determine tree species’ potential. The dynamic variable calculated in the study is the standardized growth rate residual by basal area for a ten-year period (2003-2013). Residuals of growth rate are examined by latitude within each species’ range, indicating on-going habitat preference. This study examined six, US confined species that are climate sensitive. While this study hypothesized that high growth rate residuals would be present at northern …

Do Genetic Differences Explain The Ability Of An Alkaline Shrub To Grow In Both Uplands And Wetlands?, Carol A. Rowe, Paul G. Wolf, Robert W. Lichvar

Western North American Naturalist

The hydrophyte Allenrolfea occidentalis (S. Watson) Kuntze (iodinebush) is a halophytic shrub of the arid southwest that is listed as a facultative wetland species on the National Wetland Plant List. This rating means that the species is usually a hydrophyte but occasionally is found in uplands. We tested for genetic (ecotypic) differences between plants sampled from wetlands versus uplands. We used the technique of genotyping by sequencing to generate data from 132 plants from 30 locations representing both wetland and upland occurrences for over 1300 loci. Analyses indicated that the strongest genetic signal is from differences in geographic distribution: samples …

Is Transportation Planning Effective? A Critical Review Of Long-Range Regional Transportation Planning In The United States, Razieh Nadafianshahamabadi

Civil Engineering ETDs

The Federal-Aid Highway Act requires urban areas with a population greater than 50,000 to create Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) to ensure that funding for transportation projects and programs are based on a continuing, cooperative, and comprehensive planning process. A major responsibility of each MPO is the creation of a long-range transportation plan (LRTP) that addresses the transportation needs of a metropolitan region over the next twenty years or more. While long-range regional transportation planning goals have grown to include a wide range of concerns and technical methods for evaluating planning scenarios have advanced substantially over the past 50 years, there …

Domain Analysis Of ‘Urban’ In Library Classification Schemes, B Preedip Balaji

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Urban is a complex domain, dealing with characteristics of life in cities to meet the needs of urban society. With a changing demography, spatial and socio-economic conditions, urbanization is experienced in the globalized cities, as half of the world’s population live in large cities and towns in 21st century. There are ongoing debates on positing ‘urban’ in social science, science and technology and in arts disciplines, which interpret and define the meaning of ‘urban.’ However, the existing disciplines are interdisciplinary, intersectional and diversified with various approaches, models and theories to study urbanism. Towards the goal of arriving at the subject …

Enhancing Slice Awareness Of 5g Radio Access Network Using Self-Organizing Network, Sushanth C. K, Krishna Prasad Rao, Vivek Sivadas

Defensive Publications Series

Techniques are described herein for enhancing the slice awareness of a Radio Access Network (RAN) using a Self-Organizing Network (SON). This may solve the problem of slice allocation to a gNodeB (gNB), monitor the slice resources of the gNB and the handover of devices which are registered to a slice, and reduce handover time. In addition, the SON may push slicing policies for the gNB such as hardware based slicing, scheduler based slicing, geography based slicing, etc.

Youth And Politics: Is There Space For Youth In Cabo-Verdean Politics?, Aleida Mendes Borges

Journal of Cape Verdean Studies

All over Africa young people face serious economic, social and emotional challenges in their everyday lives as the generation hardest hit by the failures of neoliberalism (Honwana 2012). In the absence of political role models, this so-called ‘waithood generation’, has rejected traditionally understood notions of political participation associated with representative democracy and are taking the role of active citizens moving away from the ‘myopic obsession’ over voting and party systems.

In Cabo Verde in particular, where politics are characterised by vertical relations of everyday political life and citizen-state interactions, this paper analyses young people as a window to understanding broader …

17-08 Transportation Access And Individuals With Disabilities' Community Integration, Keith M. Christensen, Ziqi Song

Transportation Research Center Reports

This study examined the relationship between transit service patterns and the spatial organization of individuals with disabilities’ activities of daily living residing within Utah’s Wasatch Front region to provide recommendations to improve the design, planning, and management of the Utah Transit Authority’s public transportation system. The study objectives included an accessibility Index of Transit Provision to represent fixed-route bus and light-rail service capacity, and an Index of Transit Need representing the spatial organization of individuals with disabilities’ activities of daily living and indicators of transportation disadvantage.

The findings suggest that 58.7% of individuals with disabilities living within the Wasatch Front …

Where Blackness And Cape Verdeanness Intersect: Reflections On A Monoracial And Multiethnic Reality In The United States, Callie Watkins Liu

Journal of Cape Verdean Studies

As a Black American and fourth generation Cape Verdean American growing up in the United States, I’ve found that race and ethnicity are frequently conflated in ways that obscure my social reality and identity or put two integrated parts of myself into opposition with each other. In examining my own ethno-racial experience, I use critical race studies and identity construction to disentangle the structural concepts of race and ethnicity and build a frame work for understanding my own integrated existence within the United States. My personal trajectory is situated within the current and historical sociostructural context of Diaspora, White Supremacy …

Ohio's Meteorology Major Peter Vanden Bosch Saved Lives During Dayton Tornadoes On, May 27, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

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Affect & Race/(Blackness), Colin Patrick Ashley, Michelle Billies

Publications and Research

We question the question of affect and race as one that has already built itself upon blackness and anti-blackness, such that the question a priori for an affect theory seeking to address race, we argue, is that of black ontology. We first examine various works in affect theory that theorize race through new mechanisms of discourse, works that theorize interpersonal and emotive affects, and works that have contributed to a biopolitical understanding of race, affect, and assemblage. Delving deeper into a Deleuzian legacy of affect as capacity we assert that the theoretical works of afro-pessimism and black optimism (as black …

A New Plumbing System Framework For Mantle Plume-Related Continental Large Igneous Provinces And Their Mafic-Ultramafic Intrusions, Richard E. Ernst, Dustin A. Liikane, Simon M. Jowitt, K. L. Buchan, J. A. Blanchard

Geoscience Faculty Research

The magmatic components of continental Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) include flood basalts and their plumbing system of giant mafic dyke swarms (radiating, linear, and the recently discovered circumferential type), mafic sill provinces, a lower crustal magmatic underplate, mafic-ultramafic (M–UM) intrusions, associated silicic magmatism, and associated carbonatites and kimberlites. This paper proposes a new plumbing system framework for mantle plume-related continental LIPs that incorporates all of these components, and provides a context for addressing key thematic aspects such as tracking magma batches “upstream” and “downstream” and their geochemical evolution, assessing the setting of M-UM intrusions and their economic potential, interpreting deep …

Volume 56, Number 47: July 10, 2019, University Of North Dakota

University Letter Archive

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Mind The Gap: Improving Care Delivery And Patient Outcomes, Anna Dermenchyan, Therese Offer

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Health care delivery requires an illustration of high quality and low cost. Addressing quality care gaps has historically relied on physicians with highly variable processes and inconsistent results. A standard system in the EHR can be used by all members of the healthcare team to track and improve care delivery.

Barriers To Treating And Managing Obesity, Anna Dermenchyan

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Obesity rates are on the rise in the United States and worldwide. Primary care providers are key to treating and managing patients who are obese. This presentation highlights some of the barriers faced by primary care providers in treating and managing obesity.

Training And Development Of Undergraduate Researchers To Address Diabetes Health Disparities Using Geographical Information Systems, Barbara Ann Graves

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

This presentation will describe faculty perspective of innovative and interprofessional development and training of undergraduate researchers focused on addressing social determinants of diabetes health disparities. It will discuss use of geographical information systems as emerging technology for nursing research, student research mentoring, and the scope of student research involvement.

Character Strengths Of Ninth Grade Students In Accelerated Curricula: A Mixed-Methods Investigation, Hannah L. Gilfix

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Students in accelerated curricula tend to have greater stress when compared to students in general education (Suldo, Shaunessy, & Hardesty, 2008). It is important for stakeholders to be able to help these students reach their goals and attain happiness. One potential method to help these students is to attend to their character strengths. People who effectively utilize their character strengths have achieved numerous positive outcomes including greater levels of well-being, self-esteem, and positive affect (Proctor, Malby, & Linley, 2011; Quinlan, Swain, Cameron, & Vella-Brodrick, 2014; Wood, Linley, Maltby, Kashan, & Hurling, 2011). Unfortunately, there is a lack of research on …

Foreword

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

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Learning Through Industry-University Collaboration: Observation Of Product Innovation Cases Targeting Low-Income Communities, Hande Işik-Tosun

Learn X Design Conference Series

Poverty is one of the most significant problems faced by humanity. Today, a high number of the world’s population, known as the bottom or base of the (economic) pyramid (BoP), lives on less than $1.90 daily income. Various stakeholders take part in a range of efforts aiming to solve this multi-faceted and complex problem. Among these efforts, innovative product development has gained acceleration in the last two decades with the contribution of private sector actors. Yet, the challenges in practice force these actors to embrace the problem area creatively. At this point, university collaborations offer creative and inspiring ways of …

Unheard Voices Of Haiti's 2010 Earthquake Traumatic Amputees, Margarett Alexandre

International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)

Little is known about the experience of traumatic amputation for Haitian Adults. The purpose of this descriptive phenomenological study was to investigate the lived experience of traumatic amputations as talked about by eight female Haitian adults who suffered an amputation as a result of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti.

Education, Motivation, Maker Practice: The Case Of Woodworking, Gökçe Deniz, Dilek Akbulut

Learn X Design Conference Series

Maker movement arose with democratisation of technology and outspreading of the culture of sharing knowledge. Makers are involved in every steps of creation and distribution of the items they make; ideation, production and selling. For production, both traditional and digital techniques are used by makers. Woodworking, which appears as one of the most common practices performed by makers, has a material-oriented skill knowledge which is mostly based on personal experience. Makers from different educational and professional backgrounds are able to acquire the tacit knowledge for woodworking via easily accessible printed and online resources. Besides, their relationship with craftsmen and customers …

Familiar Strangers: Enhancing Underground Travel Experience Through Digital Screens, Guler Akduman, Yumna Mohammed Ali

Learn X Design Conference Series

Facial expression is the most effective way which humans display their emotions. Such expressions play a significant role in social communication in humans because they transmit social signals about the mental and internal emotional state. This paper addresses an important issue of the underground travel in Istanbul; the lack of social interaction which is also a reflection of negative psychological impacts of metropolitan life on individuals. Underground travel is a daily routine of a remarkable number of people in Istanbul and it is an isolating experience for most. Moreover, people living in big cities are exposed to risk factors originating …

How Inquiries Into Craft Generate New Avenues For Multicultural Collaborations In Design, Bettina Minder, Shilpa Das, Praveen Nahar, Karina Kaindl, Sabine Junginger

Learn X Design Conference Series

This paper reflects on the STICH research project, an international research cooperation between Switzerland and India that investigated the topic of requirements of future design education by jointly exploring topic issues in the area of craft, design and social innovation. The cultural differences between these two countries allowed for an inquiry into the transformation of craft, design in new contexts of social innovation – and to discover similarities in the re-interpretation and significance of craft and design in the context of entirely different social challenges. The paper builds on existing theories of design education, crafts and design to propose future …

Making The Students Of Interior Architecture Design Seating Furniture, Seçil Şatir, Hüma Bakir Doğru

Learn X Design Conference Series

The authors of this paper taught the course “Furniture Design and the Principles of its Construction” during the spring term 2018. While teaching this course to the students in their second year, they guided them to have a fairly different perspective on furniture design. Thus, the objective of this study is to provide the main points of that quest. In this respect, this study investigates the process of guiding the students through the design of a piece of furniture and tries to provide solutions to the insufficiency of a three-hour course for the whole class. The design methodology applied in …

Reimagining The Future Of Design Education: Nurturing Mindsets And Skillsets In Students, Gary Pritchard

Learn X Design Conference Series

This paper reveals the outcomes of an investigation to develop a radical manifesto for the future of creative design and media higher education. The result was the development of a manifesto (Mindsets and Skillsets) that sought to profoundly redefine how creative design and media education could be delivered. At its heart – the manifesto attempts to create the optimum environment for students to thrive in education, careers and through life. Ravensbourne University London began a review of its portfolio of courses and academic delivery in May 2016. This provided a unique opportunity to evaluate the existing programme delivery philosophy along …

Representation And Context Based Design Process: Studio Education Re-Investigated, İpek Akpinar, Canan Ganiç

Learn X Design Conference Series

In architectural education, imparting of stationary knowledge, which establish the space only as physically, is insufficient to achieve the skill that will enable the architect to find solutions to the problems that are encountered in the future. In that case, to perceive the space both tangibly and intangibly, a trans-disciplinary milieu is required to acquire the derivable knowledge and create a setting of debate and criticism over that acquired knowledge. What might be methods and approaches that can stimulate and re-shape thought, encourage curiosity to acquire creative and critical knowledge in the architectural design studio? How can new experiences and …

Ux Modelling In Design Education: Methods, Processes And Examples, Gülşen Töre Yargın, Aslı Günay, Sedef Süner

Learn X Design Conference Series

This paper presents user experience (UX) modelling as an educational goal, outlining and grounding on the growing need for trained UX professionals and opportunities for expanding design expertise in this direction; and emphasises the importance of developing a sustained teaching agenda to address the requirements of the contemporary professional practice. After an overview of use and types of models in UX, we offer UX modelling as a teaching tool to equip design students with the theoretical and applied knowledge and skills relevant in user experience research (UXR) and design process. From this point of view, we demonstrate how we utilised …

Why Design Students Need Application Programming Interfaces (Apis), Mahshid Farzinfar, Stan Ruecker

Learn X Design Conference Series

One of the perennial questions faced by designers, researchers, and students of design is to what extent they should develop a prototype in order to learn the most from it. In some cases, a simple paper sketch is sufficient. In others, a fully functional version is necessary in order to adequately convey the core concept. In this paper, we focus on the latter end of the spectrum, and propose that one way to quickly and efficiently create these kinds of prototypes is to identify and use one of the publicly-available application programming interfaces (APIs) that can be quickly found in …

Willingness To Pay Of Nigerian Poultry Producers And Feed Millers For Aflatoxin-Safe Maize, Andrew M. Johnson, Tahirou Abdoulaye, Bamikole Ayedun, Joan R. Fulton, Nicole Olynk Widmar, Akande Adebowale, Ranajit Bandyopadhyay, Victor Manyong

Department of Agricultural Economics Faculty Publications

Dietary aflatoxin exposure is a widespread problem in the developing world and causes severe negative health consequences to humans and livestock animals. A new biological control product, called Aflasafe, has been introduced in Nigeria to mitigate aflatoxin contamination of maize in the field and in storage. No known prior work has estimated how much African agribusinesses using maize for animal feed will pay for aflatoxin-safe maize. This study measured the levels of Aflasafe awareness, surveyed current aflatoxin management practices, and estimated, using choice experiments, willingness to pay (WTP) for aflatoxin-safe maize by Nigerian poultry producers and feed millers. Data was …

Contributions Of Fire Refugia To Resilient Ponderosa Pine And Dry Mixed‐Conifer Forest Landscapes, Jonathan D. Coop, Timothy J. Delory, William M. Downing, Sandra L. Haire, Meg A. Krawchuk, Carol Miller, Marc-André Parisien, Ryan B. Walker

Biology Faculty Publications

Altered fire regimes can drive major and enduring compositional shifts or losses of forest ecosystems. In western North America, ponderosa pine and dry mixed‐conifer forest types appear increasingly vulnerable to uncharacteristically extensive, high‐severity wildfire. However, unburned or only lightly impacted forest stands that persist within burn mosaics—termed fire refugia—may serve as tree seed sources and promote landscape recovery. We sampled tree regeneration along gradients of fire refugia proximity and density at 686 sites within the perimeters of 12 large wildfires that occurred between 2000 and 2005 in the interior western United States. We used generalized linear mixed‐effects models to elucidate …

Wine Not? Putting A Cork In The Semi-Generic Category Of Wine, Aris D. Suarez

DePaul Law Review

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