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Environmental Monitoring Report: For Work Performed: July 1, 2018 Through June 30, 2019, Tennessee. Department Of Environment And Conservation

Environmental Monitoring Reports

This FY 2019 EMR presents the results of the 20 independent projects proposed in the FY2018 Environmental Monitoring Plan (EMP) and completed throughout FY2019. This monitoring report focuses on the following seven general areas: Radiological Monitoring, Biological Monitoring, Air Monitoring, Surface Water Monitoring, Sediment Monitoring, Groundwater Monitoring and RadNet.

A Relationship Among Neighborhood Traits, Home Sales And Mortgage Fraud: The Atlanta Market Leading Into The Mortgage Crash Of 2008, M. Cary Collins, Ann Fulmer, Keith Harvey, Peter J. Nigro

Marketing Faculty Publications and Presentations

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) categorizes mortgage fraud as either fraud for property or fraud for profit. Fraud for profit, which includes the vast majority of cases, may involve several parties to the transaction, including professional agents such as brokers, appraisers, builders, title examiners, escrow officers, attorney, and lenders. Fraud for profit schemes usually include several purchase transactions where homes are quickly sold, with lenders and subsequent purchasers suffering the losses. Reports of mortgage loan fraud grew exponentially in the years leading up to the 2008 financial crisis, becoming one the fastest growing white-collar crimes in the United …

Technology Deployment In Maritime Security : Emerging Issues, D. Dalaklis

Presentations

No abstract provided.

Expanding The Use Of Liquefied Natural Gas In The Baltic Sea Region Via Tailor-Made Training Activities, D. Dalaklis, M. Kitada, A.I. Ölçer, A. Schönborn, M. Canepa, F. Ballini

Chapters

No abstract provided.

The Scholarly Impact Of Books Acquired Via Approval Plan Selection, Librarian Orders, And Patron-Driven Acquisitions As Measured By Citation Counts, David C. Tyler, Brianna D. Hitt, Francis A. Nterful, Mckenna R. Mettling

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

Patron-driven acquisition has been an important, if contentious, topic for decades, with numerous programs having been piloted, adopted, and reported on, largely favorably, in the library literature. Still, questions and doubts persist for academic libraries, especially where the composition of vendor plans and packages and the judgment of patrons are concerned. Past literature has approached the assessment of patron-driven acquisition by analyzing circulation/usage, comparing peer-library holdings, seeking patrons’ or librarians’ judgments of utility and suitability, looking for evidence of collection imbalances, and testing for overlap in patrons’ and librarians’ purchases. To contribute to this literature, this study addresses scholarly impact …

Board Of Regents Meeting Materials, February 7, 2019, Eastern Michigan University

Board of Regents Meeting Materials

No abstract provided.

Board Of Regents Meeting Materials, December 13, 2019, Eastern Michigan University

Board of Regents Meeting Materials

No abstract provided.

Drought Impacts And Management In Prairie And Sandhills State Parks, Theresa M. Jedd, Devarati Bhattacharya, Cara Pesek, Michael J. Hayes

National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration: Technical Reports and Related Materials

The combination of decreased water availability and increased temperatures can interfere with outdoor activities, particularly with surface water decline and the increased risk of wildfire. Drought is a longer-term climate trend, but there is a tendency toward short-term reactions only when a drought occurs. Policy mechanisms for drought, where present, are often left to managerial discretion because they are not needed every year, and lack specific indicators. Recreator choices contribute to adaptation and public lands managers also shape drought response by monitoring meteorological trends and managing resources wisely. Despite these trends, no singular recreational drought definition exists. To understand socio-environmental …

Drought Impacts And Management In Prairie And Sandhills State Parks, Theresa M. Jedd, Devarati Bhattacharya, Cara Pesek, Michael J. Hayes

National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration: Technical Reports and Related Materials

The combination of decreased water availability and increased temperatures can interfere with outdoor activities, particularly with surface water decline and the increased risk of wildfire. Drought is a longer-term climate trend, but there is a tendency toward short-term reactions only when a drought occurs. Policy mechanisms for drought, where present, are often left to managerial discretion because they are not needed every year, and lack specific indicators. Recreator choices contribute to adaptation and public lands managers also shape drought response by monitoring meteorological trends and managing resources wisely. Despite these trends, no singular recreational drought definition exists. To understand socio-environmental …

Coastal Wetlands: A Synthesis, Charles S. Hopkinson, Eric Wolanski, Mark M. Brinson, Donald R. Cahoon, Gerardo M.E. Perillo

United States Geological Survey: Staff Publications

What are coastal wetland ecosystems, what are their limits of distribution, and where do they exist in the overall coastal landscape? There are several general definitions for wetlands, but the Ramsar definition is likely the most broadly encompassing (http://www.ramsar. org/), whereas others are more focused definitions tailored to country-specific protection and management policies (Mitsch and Gosselink, 2006). We offer a very general approach rather than a precise definition: coastal wetlands are ecosystems that are found within an elevation gradient that ranges between subtidal depths where light penetrates to support photosynthesis of benthic plants to the landward edge where the sea …

รูปแบบการดำเนินชีวิต การเปิดรับสื่อ และพฤติกรรมการซื้อสินค้าออนไลน์ของผู้บริโภคหญิงวัยทำงาน, นัทชนิดา วัชรินทร์

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

การวิจัยเชิงสำรวจครั้งนี้ มีวัตถุประสงค์เพื่อศึกษา 1) รูปแบบการดำเนินชีวิต การเปิดรับสื่อ และพฤติกรรมการซื้อสินค้าออนไลน์ของผู้บริโภคหญิงวัยทำงาน และ 2) ความสัมพันธ์ระหว่างตัวแปรต่างๆ โดยใช้แบบสอบถามเป็นเครื่องมือในการเก็บข้อมูลจากกลุ่มตัวอย่างเพศหญิง อายุ 22 - 44 ปี จำนวน 1,140 คน ที่อาศัยอยู่ในกรุงเทพมหานคร ผลการวิจัยพบรูปแบบการดำเนินชีวิตที่แตกต่างกัน 6 กลุ่ม ได้แก่ 1) กลุ่มสาวยุคใหม่ ใช้ชีวิตมีสาระ 2) กลุ่มสาวเพียบพร้อมสมบูรณ์แบบ 3) กลุ่มสาวมั่น เฉียบ ตรงไปตรงมา 4) กลุ่มสาวติดโซเชียล 5) กลุ่มแม่ศรีเรือน ใช้ชีวิตเรียบง่าย และ 6) กลุ่มนางเอกเจ้าน้ำตา สำหรับพฤติกรรมในการเปิดรับสื่อ พบว่า กลุ่มตัวอย่างผู้หญิงวัยทำงานมีการเปิดรับสื่อดั้งเดิมในระดับที่ต่ำ ซึ่งสื่อดั้งเดิมที่ยังเปิดคงรับอยู่ได้แก่ สื่อโทรทัศน์ สื่อโฆษณา ณ จุดซื้อ และสื่อโฆษณากลางแจ้ง และมีการเปิดรับสื่อใหม่ในระดับที่สูง โดย 3 อันดับแรก ได้แก่ โปรแกรมสนทนาไลน์ โปรแกรมสืบค้นข้อมูล และการส่งข้อความทางเฟซบุ๊ก นอกจากนั้น รูปแบบการดำเนินชีวิตที่แตกต่างกัน ยังส่งผลให้การเปิดรับสื่อแต่ละประเภท พฤติกรรมการค้นหาข้อมูลก่อนการซื้อ ประเภทของสินค้าที่ซื้อ และเหตุผลในการซื้อสินค้าผ่านทางออนไลน์ในช่องทางต่างๆ มีความแตกต่างกันอีกด้วย

Predictive Relationship Between Socio-Demographics, Medication, And Treatment Completion Among Persons Experiencing Homelessness Treated For Tuberculosis, Sophia Ajoku

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Approximately 80% of people who contract tuberculosis (TB) in the United States are first infected with untreated latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI). LTBI is an ongoing public health concern in people who experience homelessness. Because of the transient nature of this population, it is often difficult for them to adhere to and complete treatment for LTBI. In this quantitative, correlational of a cross-sectional study, secondary data was from a public health clinic in southern U.S. The theoretical framework used for the study was the social ecological framework. Multiple logistic regression was used to determine if a statistically significant predictive relationship existed …

Tropical Forest Canopy Height And Aboveground Biomass Estimation Using Airborne Lidar And Landsat-8 Data, A Sensitivity Study With Respect To Landsat-8 Data Temporal Availability, In Mai Ndombe Province, Democratic Republic Of Congo, Herve B. Kashongwe

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Tropical forests’ structure information, such as forest canopy height, is a key component in any estimate of carbon stock. Tropical rainforests constitute the most forested ecosystems that harbor the largest biodiversity on Earth and store more carbon (above and belowground biomass) than any other ecosystem in the world. However, estimates of forest canopy structure is lacking over most of the regions that host this ecosystem because of both the structure’s complexity of this ecosystems and the incomplete or lack of up-to-date national forest inventory data necessary to derive forest canopy height and aboveground biomass. This study explores the capability of …

An Analysis Of The Effect Of Tooth Wear On Bovid Identification, Juliet K. Brophy, Gregory J. Matthews, George K. Thiruvathukal

Faculty Publications

Previous research provides a method for reducing the subjectivity in taxonomic identification of species in the family Bovidae by quantifying the occlusal surface of molar teeth using elliptical Fourier analysis. In this current study, we specifically test what effect medium to late tooth wear has on the identification of bovids when using the form (size and shape) of the occlusal surface to classify specimens. To achieve this, the classification results of teeth with ≥85% of their occlusal surface (training data set) were compared with the results of teeth with 87% of the time with both Alcelaphini and Reduncini classifying correctly …

Twin Text In The Secondary Social Studies And English Classroom, Sarah Booth Quong

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This mixed-method study explores the implementation of Twin Text and its effectiveness in the U.S. History and English classrooms with regard to: mastery of the objectives laid out within the course curriculum, perpetuation of deeper learning, and fostering empathy and civic engagement through the use of Twin Text involving tenth and eleventh grade students and United States History and English teachers. The study answers the following questions: (1) What are the experiences of students in a Twin Text setting classroom environment? Three sub questions emerged: (A) In what ways does cross-curriculum teaching with an English Language Arts instructor affect student …

Social Identity, Economic Interest, And The Formation Of Host Attitudes Toward Refugees, Jeremy Cox

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Scholarly studies of refugee crises have historically focused on the causes of refugee flight, the experience of the refugees themselves, or the impacts of refugees on host countries. More recently, a growing body of literature has examined the interaction of refugees and host populations, and more specifically the orientations of host individuals toward refugees. This study focuses on attitude formation during refugee crises, seeking to better understand the role of social and economic factors in shaping the attitudes of host populations. The core questions for this study are whether and how social identity and economic considerations relate to attitudes. Original …

The New White Flight, Erika K. Wilson

Faculty Articles

White charter school enclaves—defined as charter schools located in school districts that are thirty percent or less white, but that enroll a student body that is fifty percent or greater white— are emerging across the country. The emergence of white charter school enclaves is the result of a sobering and ugly truth: when given a choice, white parents as a collective tend to choose racially segregated, predominately white schools. Empirical research supports this claim. Empirical research also demonstrates that white parents as a collective will make that choice even when presented with the option of a more racially diverse school …

An Intersectional Critique Of Tiers Of Scrutiny: Beyond 'Either/Or' Approaches To Equal Protection, Devon W. Carbado, Kimberlé W. Crenshaw

Faculty Articles

For the past forty years, Justice Powell’s concurring opinion in University of California v. Bakke has been at the center of scholarly debates about affirmative action. Notwithstanding the enormous attention Justice Powell’s concurrence has received, scholars have paid little attention to a passage in that opinion that expressly takes up the issue of gender. Drawing on the theory of intersectionality, this Essay explains several ways in which its reasoning is flawed. The Essay also shows how interrogating Justice Powell’s “single axis” race and gender analysis raises broader questions about tiers of scrutiny for Black women. Through a hypothetical of a …

When Stop And Frisk Comes Home: Policing Public And Patrolled Housing, Alexis Karteron

Faculty Articles

In response to programmatic stop-and-frisk, police killings, and other recent controversies in American policing, many have called for “smart policing”—the evidence-based deployment of police resources. An often-heralded example of smart policing is hot spots policing, which involves directing police attention to locations where crime and disorder fester. It is difficult to argue with the logic of hot spots policing, and this Article does not do so. Instead, it critically examines how the Fourth Amendment operates when hot spots policing and similar targeted strategies are used in a common setting: public housing developments and their private counterparts. Largely because of mass …

The Geography Of Bigotry, Melissa Murray

Faculty Articles

This Essay proceeds in four parts. Part I briefly rehearses the rhetorical evolution of objections to same-sex marriage and LGBTQ rights, noting particularly how objectors have invoked their “private” rights in opposition. As it explains, although objections to LGBTQ rights and same-sex marriage were initially framed explicitly in discriminatory terms, over time, the rhetoric shifted to more neutral terms, and specifically to appeals to parental rights and religious liberty. Part II focuses on the rise of religious accommodation claims. It argues that that religious accommodations recharacterize the challenged portions of the public sphere as private space where dissenting views—and rank …

Small-Donor-Based Campaign-Finance Reform And Political Polarization, Richard H. Pildes

Faculty Articles

The communications revolution has led to a sudden, dramatic explosion in smalldonor contributions to national election campaigns. In response, many political reformers, including most Democrats in Congress, have abandoned traditional public financing of elections and now advocate small-donor-based matching programs, such as those in which $6 of public funds would be provided to candidates for every $1 they raise from small donors. But the evidence suggests that online fundraising is subject to many of the same pathologies as the internet in general; the candidates who are most successful at small-donor fundraising are those who are able to generate national media …

Philippine Air Transportation: Impact And Challenges, Krista Danielle Yu, Paulynne Castillo, Cesar C. Rufino, Maria Zunally Rapada, Tereso S. Tullao Jr.

Angelo King Institute for Economic and Business Studies (AKI)

With the Philippines’ archipelagic geography, air transport is the most efficient way to connect its islands and boost economic activities. Using the latest Philippine input-output tables (National Statistical Coordination Board, 2006; Philippine Statistics Authority, 2014, 2017), the air transport sector proves to be the leading driver of economic activities. Ranking first relative to all other sectors in the economy, in terms of backward linkages, indicates its general dependence on the rest of the economy for inputs to the services that it provides.

Apis And Your Privacy, N. Cameron Russell

Faculty Scholarship

Application programming interfaces, or APIs, have been the topic of much recent discussion. Newsworthy events, including those involving Facebook’s API and Cambridge Analytica obtaining information about millions of Facebook users, have highlighted the technical capabilities of APIs for prominent websites and mobile applications. At the same time, media coverage of ways that APIs have been misused has sparked concern for potential privacy invasions and other issues of public policy. This paper seeks to educate consumers on how APIs work and how they are used within popular websites and mobile apps to gather, share, and utilize data.

APIs are used in …

Reference Guide: Identifying Policy Levers To Improve The Massachusetts System Of Public Supports For Low-Income Families, Jason Wright, Uchenna Nwangwu, Caitlin A. Carey, Susan Crandall

Center for Social Policy Publications

The goal of this reference guide is to provide background information on eligibility requirements for public assistance programs available to low-income families in the state of Massachusetts to demonstrate the inconsistencies and complexities that arise from those eligibility requirements. In order to better understand these complex systems, the policy levers are identified in the form of information about the associated legislation and government agencies for each public support program. This information can be used to develop more effective and efficient policies and better serve the needs of low-income families.

Massachusetts Community Mediation Center Grant Program: Fiscal Year 2019 Report & Evaluation, Massachusetts Office Of Public Collaboration, University Of Massachusetts Boston

Massachusetts Office of Public Collaboration Publications

In Fiscal Year 2019, the Community Mediation Center Grant Program continued to make progress in implementing its mission to increase public access to community mediation in Massachusetts. Out of an appropriation of $990,000, operational funds amounting to $785,600 were distributed to 12 community mediation centers that did their part to advance public access to community mediation throughout Massachusetts. Notwithstanding a small decline of 1.6% in demand for services, in FY 2019, centers handled over 4,000 cases – 82% of which were court-referred and 18% were non-court-referred – that involved an estimated 8,000 parties, who hailed from cities and towns throughout …

Should Governments Tax The Rich And Subsidize The Poor? A Comparative Study Of Muslim And Christian Respondents, Robert W. Mcgee, Serkan Benk, Bahad?R Yüzba??

College of Business and Economics

This study used the most recent World Values Survey (WVS) dataset to determine whether Christian and Muslim views on the acceptability of taxing the rich and subsidizing the poor was an essential feature of democracy. The sample size included more than 23,000 individuals from more than 50 countries. More than a dozen socioeconomic and attitudinal variables were also examined to determine whether significant differences existed. The study found that differences in viewpoint were often significant.

Junior High School Student Preference: Teaching Taiwanese Folk Songs Using Orff Activites Vs Traditional Teaching, Mei-Chi Wu

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This research explores the development of the Orff approach in Taiwan and its applications in the teaching of singing. The researcher seeks to examine the effects of Orff activities in raising the interest of junior high school students in singing. The literature review includes the historical background of the Orff approach and the examination of potential creative adaptations in the teaching of folk songs. In this research, the following are discussed: music education in Taiwan, the development of the Orff approach in private schools, comparisons and contrasts between the New and the Old Curricula in Taiwan, the nature of folk …

Do It For The Culture, Priyanka Iyer

Dean James E. McLeod Freshman Writing Prize

This researched argument essay grapples with one of the most difficult questions in the field of foodways: what does ethnic authenticity (in a culinary context) truly mean? In it, the author argues that the term is widely misunderstood and usually comes from a Euro-American, coded white, racialized point of view that colors how consumers see other cultures. Ultimately, the author contends that "limiting restaurants to what is often a subjective definition of 'ethnic authenticity' damages cultural understanding and bolsters stereotypes." In other words, globalization and culinary fusion have had a profound effect on how we define and understand other cultural …

The Anti-Carolene Court, Nicholas Stephanopoulos

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

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Essays On Applications Of Spatial Econometric Models, Jihu Zhang

Wayne State University Dissertations

Since the infamous riot of 1967, high crime rates and negative media reports have labeled the city of Detroit as one of the most dangerous cities in the U.S. For a better understanding of crime situation in Detroit, we discuss the spatial interactions of crime rates among block groups as well as the impact of socioeconomic variables on crime by using spatial autoregressive models, crime data, and socioeconomic data. In particular, we introduced a geographical methodology: inverse distance weighting (IDW), which is mainly used to estimate distance based weighting from a scattered set of points. This paper is an essential …