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Wgss Panel Discusses Global Gender Justice Transnational Feminism, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

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Marxist Education Across The Generations: A Dialogue On Education, Time, And Transhumanism, Derek Ford

Education Studies Faculty publications

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Recognizing And Addressing Risk Ambiguity In Sea Level Rise Adaptation Planning: A Case Study Of Miami-Dade County, Florida, Mary Ann Rozance

Dissertations and Theses

As coastal cities around the world identify and implement adaptations to sea level rise, they are faced with competing interests around what should be done and how to prioritize actions. Often, environmental problems--like confronting the challenge of sea level rise--are posed as requiring expert driven, technical solutions to identify and mitigate risks across the landscape. This framing, however, ignores the way in which diverse knowledge can help inform long-term planning horizons that address complex ways that sea level rise affects communities. The failure to integrate diverse knowledge into sea level rise adaptation can result in barriers to implementation and outcomes …

Military Strategic Significance Of The Amu Darya Waterway In Ancient Period And Middle Ages, Y.A Karimov

Central Asian Problems of Modern Science and Education

In the article there is analyzed military strategic significance of the waterway of Amu Darya in ancient and Middle Ages on the basis of sources.

Complex Network Modeling And Visualization Analysis For Ocean Observation Data, Sun Xin, Zhenhua Li, Junyu Dong, Xinyan Luo, Yuting Yang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Ocean data analysis is one of the important foundations in marine science research. Analysis on the sea surface temperature based on complex network theory helps explore the marine dynamics in a new perspective. The ocean is divided into grids, and the annual average of the sea surface temperature is calculated to reflect the properties of the corresponding grid area. The mutual information and the Pearson correlation coefficient are used to measure the similarity between different areas. The nonlinear and linear complex network models which reflect the station of the global marine climate can be built. Finally some popular measures …

Southern History On Screen, Bryan M. Jack

Civil Rights

Hollywood films have been influential in the portrayal and representation of race relations in the South and how African Americans are cinematically depicted in history, from The Birth of a Nation (1915) and Gone with the Wind (1939) to The Help (2011) and 12 Years a Slave (2013). With an ability to reach mass audiences, films represent the power to influence and shape the public's understanding of our country's past, creating lasting images—both real and imagined—in American culture.

In Southern History on Screen: Race and Rights, 1976–2016, editor Bryan Jack brings together essays from an international roster of scholars …

Delayed Sedimentary Response To Abrupt Climate Change At The Paleocene-Eocene Boundary, Northern Spain, Robert A. Duller, John J. Armitage, Hayley R. Manners, Stephen Grimes, Jones T Dunkley

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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Putting Research To Action: Integrating Collaborative Governance And Community-Engaged Research For Community Solar, Emily Prehoda, Richelle Winkler, Chelsea Schelly

Department of Social Sciences Publications

Community solar involves the installation of a solar electricity system that is built in one central location with the costs and benefits distributed across voluntary investors who choose to subscribe and receive credits based on the generated energy. Community solar is gaining attention because of its potential to increase access to renewable energy and to democratize energy governance. This paper reflects on community-engaged research experiences in two rural community case studies in Michigan, USA, focusing on obstacles that were experienced during the research process rather than empirical findings from the research. We highlight difficulties we experienced to help advance a …

Cross-Mediterranean Egyptian Migrants: A Discursive Analysis, Sara Hussein

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis investigates how the Egyptian migrant subject who chooses to cross the Mediterranean through irregular means to reach Europe is discursively constructed in Egyptian media, particularly in the wake of the 2016 Rashid boat sinking. In both official and public discourse, this highly visible and well-documented accident raised questions on accountability and the role of the state in this situation. By identifying and analyzing the themes represented throughout a diverse collected fieldwork corpus of various Egyptian media, statements by public officials and organizations, newspaper articles and editorials, television talk show programming, and popular cultural production, this thesis offers a …

Airframe Damage Region Division Evaluation Method Based On Boundary Grid Gradient, Shuyu Cai, Lizhong Shi

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: In order to provide decision support for efficiently choosing and evaluating airframe damage region division methods, the characteristic of airframe damage region was analyzed, evaluating indicator of damage image division-boundary grid gradient was established. By introducing entropy method, combining with indicator of boundary grid gradient, the optimization of TOPSIS was presented, and the evaluation system of airframe damage region division was completely established. Airframe damage region division evaluation experiments were performed by different gray level entropy threshold of damage division image. Experimental results showed that, the proposed method efficiently represented division status of damage adjacency region, and avoided the …

Faculty Senate Monthly Packet January 2019, Portland State University Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Monthly Packets

The January 2019 Monthly packet includes the January agenda and appendices and the Faculty Senate minutes and attachments from the meeting held December 3, 2018.

Daily Eastern News: January 07, 2019, Eastern Illinois University

January

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Alumni News | Roberts Named Curator At Nevada Historical Society, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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Alumni News | Oldham Named Presiding Judge For Akron Municipal Court, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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Are We Ready?: A Review Of Getting College Ready: Latin@ Student Experiences Of Race, Access, And Belonging At Predominantly White Universities, Jung Eun Hong

The Qualitative Report

Getting College Ready: Latin@ Student Experiences of Race, Access, and Belonging at Predominantly White Universities by Julie Minikel-Lacocque describes the pre-college and college experiences of six Latin@ college students (four female and two male) at a specifically predominantly White flagship higher education institution in the Midwest United States. By delivering those six Latin@ students’ voices through the author’s interpretation based on the lens of Critical Race Theory, she presented their challenges applying to college, maintaining enrollment, and being successful at the college as underrepresented minority students, most of whom were first-generation college students. The author also discussed effective ways to …

Race/Ethnicity And Geographic Access To Urban Trauma Care, Elizabeth L. Tung, David A. Hampton, Marynia Kolak, Selwyn O. Rogers, Joyce Yang, Monica E. Peek

Psychology

Importance Little is known about the distribution of life-saving trauma resources by racial/ethnic composition in US cities, and if racial/ethnic minority populations disproportionately live in US urban trauma deserts.

Objective To examine racial/ethnic differences in geographic access to trauma care in the 3 largest US cities, considering the role of residential segregation and neighborhood poverty.

Design, Setting, and Participants A cross-sectional, multiple-methods study evaluated census tract data from the 2015 American Community Survey in Chicago, Illinois; Los Angeles (LA), California; and New York City (NYC), New York (N = 3932). These data were paired to geographic coordinates of all adult …

Washington Post Science Outlets Report On Houser Tornado Discoveries, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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The Prairie Resilience: Myth And/Or Reality?

Research Papers, Working Papers, Conference Papers

In 2016 provinces and territories in Canada with the exception of Saskatchewan and Manitoba endorsed the PanCanadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change PCF A year later Saskatchewan released its climate policy 'The Prairie Resilience' a policy which departs from the carbon pricing centric PCF and rather centred resilience and innovation as more appropriate policy emphases In 2018 a new conservative government in Ontario upturned the province's previous climate policy in favour of a framework which mirrors the Prairie Resilience Within a frame of the defined metrics of effectiveness flexibility and equitability this article critically appraises the Prairie resilience …

Forecasters, May Be Looking In Wrong Place When Predicting Tornadoes Housers Research Shows, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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Climate Change Woes: Unh Researcher Leads Transportation Chapter Of National Climate Assessment, Beth Potier

UNH Today Archive

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Mapw In The Community, Jackson

MAPWriting

A selection of MAPW faculty, students, and alumni showcase their community projects and outreaches.

Understanding The Neighborhood Concentration Of Affluent Black Households In The 1990'S, Ronald W. Malega

College of Natural and Applied Sciences

This study examines the intersection of race, class, and place by exploring the neighborhood concentration of affluent black households in the United States during the 1990s using Census 2000 data. It adds to the literature seeking a more nuanced understanding of the black community. The author assesses the theories of spatial assimilation and place stratification in understanding the processes associated with the neighborhood-level concentration of affluent black households. Regression analyses reveal that, in general, such concentrations are positively associated with black neighborhood socioeconomic status and negatively associated with white status. Furthermore, neighborhood quality and demographic factors are important for understanding …

Application Of Multiple-Stepwise And Kalman Filtering In Haze Forecast, Yunhao Xian, Hengde Zhang, Yonghua Xie, Le Yang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Considering the importance of objective haze forecast and the low accuracy rate of haze forecast, a new haze objective forecast correction method based on the multiple stepwise regression algorithms and the Kalman filtering algorithm is proposed. The multiple stepwise regression method is used to control the physical factor of the dependent variable, and the visibility forecast equation is established. The Kalman filtering method is adopted to correct the regression coefficient in multivariate stepwise regression algorithm according to the actual data, and the haze objective forecast correction model is established. The experiments are carried out in Beijing, Guangzhou, Nanjing and …

Modeling And Simulation Of Travelers’ Route Choice Behavior Based On Disequilibrium Theory, Zhongxiang Huang, Jianhui Wu, Aiwu Kuang, Zhang Sheng, Xu Yan

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Considering the influence of heterogeneous travel on traffic flow distribution, the travelers’ route choice behaviors are classified into three types: price regulation, quantity regulation and price-quantity regulation. Three day-to-day dynamical stochastic assignment models based on the disequilibrium theory are established, and the existence, uniqueness, and stability of the solutions to these models are proved. Through model simulation, it proved that each path flow in these three models can converge to a steady state after a finite travel adjustment, and the day-to-day dynamical stochastic assignment model under price-quantity regulation can simulate the influence of heterogeneous travel behaviors on the distribution …

The Urban Inn: Gathering Space, Hierarchy And Material Culture In The Eighteenth-Century British Town, Daniel Maudlin

School of Law, Humanities and Social Sciences

ABSTRACT: This article locates the ‘principal inn’ within the physical and cultural space of the eighteenth-century British town. The principal inn was the all-purpose venue for the sociable activities of polite society: from dining, drinking and conversing with friends to business deals, meetings of club and societies, legal proceedings, military musters, civic and religious proceedings. Through their central location, carefully designed interior spaces and refined material culture of furniture, fixtures and fittings, principal inns were key sites in the elite control of urban space, the enforcement of social hierarchies and the reinforcement of social values.

Digital Environment And Social Exclusion In Nigeria: Roles Of Libraries And Other Information Service Providing Institutions, Florence Onyeisi Otonekwu, Janet Titilayo Oludipe, Grace Olabisi Babafemi, Akawu Lami, Tunde Toyese Oyedokun

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Social exclusion is more or less a deliberate act of negligence, wherefore group of people in society are disengaged from mainstream culture because of their background, geographical location and other demographical characteristics that demarcate them from others. Social exclusion is an omnibus term, which encompasses many multidimensional social variables such as inequalities of opportunity, lack of access to basic amenities, digital divide and many more. However, for the sake of this current study, emphasis would be on digital divide existing between urban and rural settlers, in respect of their accessibility to information in today digital age. This study is a …

Moving Beyond "Agreeing To Disagree": Honoring Life Narratives With The Tools Of Civil Discourse, Lisa M. Perhamus

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2018 - Status And Understanding Of Groundwater Quality In The Monterey-Salinas Shallow Aquifer Study Unit, 2012-13 - California Gama Priority Basin Project

Miscellaneous Monterey and San Luis Obispo County Documents and Reports

The study was designed to provide a statistically robust assessment of untreated-groundwater quality in the shallow aquifer systems. The assessment was based on water-quality samples collected by the U.S. Geological Survey from 100 groundwater sites and 70 household tap sites, along with ancillary data such as land use and well-construction information. The shallow aquifer systems were defined by the depth interval of wells associated with domestic supply. The Monterey-Salinas Shallow Aquifer study unit consisted of four study areas—Santa Cruz (210 km2), Pajaro Valley (360 km2), Salinas Valley (2,000 km2), and Highlands (5,250 km2).

The first primary component of this study—the …

Evaluation Model On The Vulnerability Of Mining Area Ecosystem Based On Object-Function Petri Net, Su Jia, Guangqiu Huang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Introducing the concept of function into traditional object Petri net, a new evaluation model of ecosystem vulnerability named object-function Petri net model (OFPNEM) was put forward. The facilitating and suppressing factors of the ecosystem degradation were analyzed in this evaluation model. Trigger conditions of vulnerability were depicted as transitions and the state of ecosystem in the process of change were depicted as object places. Logical causality of environmental degradation could be represented directly. Furthermore, evaluation model on the vulnerability of mining area ecosystem based on object-function Petri net was proposed. Through object-function Petri net, combining the rules of model, …

Applications Of Satellite Data In Analyses Of Surface Pm2.5, Minghui Diao, Frank R. Freedman, Sen Chiao, Isa Cruz, Ana Rivera, Mohammad Z. Al-Hamdan, Akula Venkatram

Faculty Publications, Meteorology and Climate Science

Fine particulate is among the most harmful air pollutants for human health. There is ongoing interest in developing reliable methods to estimate PM2.5 concentrations 1) at unmonitored locations and 2) at finer horizontal resolution for improved health risk assessment and public health tracking.We aim to develop an efficient system that can reliably estimate PM2.5 at unmonitored locations and at finer horizontal resolution at important locations.• MODIS aerosol optical depth (AOD) provides an input for particulate levels at unmonitored locations in methods used to construct regional PM2.5 fields.• Dispersion model fields can be fused into portions of these regional fields for …