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5 Bfts Association Newsletter No 17 - September, Jenifer A. Harding

Newsletters

Back to normal by Christmas! Brave words from the UK Prime Minister in early September but even as he spoke, it seemed unlikely, and now we know that ‘it’ won’t be over by Christmas. “Hands, Face, Space” – three words that now dominate every activity!

Globally, nearly a million people have lost their lives to Covid-19, of these
approximately one-fifth are Americans. Jennifer Nuzzo, a public health researcher
at Johns Hopkins put it in context “The [US] death toll from coronavirus is
equivalent to a 9/11 attack every day for 67 days, and roughly equal to the population of Salt …

Chicanx Murals: Decolonizing Place And (Re)Writing The Terms Of Composition, Nora K. Rivera

English Faculty Articles and Research

Drawing from an interpretive decolonial framework that understands multimodal writing as the act of creating co-composed knowledge, this article analyzes Chicanx murals as multimodal compositions that exemplify the continuation of the Aztec tlacuilolitztli practice of writing with images. This work also invites rhetoric and composition scholars to reexamine Western understandings of history, particularly the history of writing.

A Return To State-Led Integrated Regional Planning? Emerging Approaches From Three U.S. States, Timothy Green, Donovan Finn

School of Marine & Atmospheric Sciences Faculty Publications

After decades of neglect, several U.S. states have increased support for regional development planning, creating new programs, organizations, and funding streams to support it. Analysis of programs in three states (New York, Michigan, and Indiana) shows similarities among them as well as contrasts with prior episodes of state-led regional planning. The new programs deliberately sidestep older regional planning organizations like COGs and RPCs in favor of new organizations with larger roles for the private sector and greater access to public funds. The resulting plans focus on individual projects within a pro-development agenda, but still have potential to coordinate action at …

The Impact Of Visual Displays On Learning Across The Disciplines: A Systematic Review, Daibao Guo, Erin M. Mctigue, Sharon D. Matthews, Wendi Zimmer

Literacy, Language and Culture Faculty Publications and Presentations

The current systematic review aimed to investigate in what ways the incorporation of visual display tasks benefits K-12 students’ content-area learning. After screening 1693 articles at abstract level and a systematic evaluation of methodological quality, we synthesized 44 articles for this review. The qualitative synthesis of the studies is organized by categories of interaction with visual displays (ViDis), instructional support, and types of knowledge and learning. Overall findings indicate the simple inclusion of visual displays does not guarantee a positive learning effect. More detailed findings distinguish three categories of ViDis: author-provided, student-filled-in, and student-created visual displays. Furthermore, we discuss …

How Neighbourhood Food Environments And A Pay-As-You-Throw (Payt) Waste Program Impact Household Foodwaste Disposal In The City Of Toronto, Paul Van Der Werf, Kristian Larsen, Jamie A. Seabrook, Jason Gilliland

Paediatrics Publications

Household food waste has negative, and largely unnecessary, environmental, social and economic impacts. A better understanding of current household food waste disposal is needed to help develop and implement effective interventions to reduce food wasting. A four-season waste characterization study was undertaken with 200 single-family households across eight neighbourhoods in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The City of Toronto provides residents with a pay-as-you-throw (PAYT) waste program that includes a choice of four garbage cart sizes (Small [S], Medium [M], Large [L], Extra Large [XL]), with increasing annual user fees ($18.00-$411.00 CAD), as well as a green cart (organic waste) and blue …

Does Religiosity Affect Attitudes Toward The Ethics Of Tax Evasion? The Case Of Turkey, Robert W. Mcgee, Serkan Benk, Bahad?R Yüzba??, Tamer Budak

College of Business and Economics

This study surveys the opinion of a wide segment of Turkish society on the ethics of tax evasion. The survey instrument includes 18 statements used to justify tax evasion in the past. The research also finds that some reasons to justify tax evasion proved more attractive to participants than others. In our survey, the strongest support for tax evasion was in cases where the government abused human rights, where the government was corrupt or wasted tax funds, or where the taxpayer did not benefit from the tax expenditures. Conversely, the weakest arguments were in cases where the taxpayer did benefit …

Grmn 201.R02: Intermediate German I, Hiltrudis M. Arens

University of Montana Course Syllabi

No abstract provided.

Spns 101.50: Elementary Spanish I (Online), Micaela Oria Downey

University of Montana Course Syllabi

No abstract provided.

Spns 101.B05: Elementary Spanish I, Manolita López Connor

University of Montana Course Syllabi

No abstract provided.

Spns 101.R03: Elementary Spanish I, Manolita López Connor

University of Montana Course Syllabi

No abstract provided.

Going The Distance: Flipped Classrooms And The Research Appointment

The Southeastern Librarian

This case study examines the use of online help guides and their potential impact in helping graduate distance students prepare for a scheduled meeting with a reference librarian. Students taking a dissertation planning course were surveyed to determine if a custom LibGuide and accompanying class assignments prepared them for in-depth research during their meeting with a reference librarian. Findings revealed that the majority of students believed that this flipped-classroom style approach had a positive impact on their research abilities and skills. Recommendations are provided for online help resources that can be adapted for use in online and hybrid courses.

Potential Pollen Evidence For The 1933 M 7.5 Diexi Earthquake And Implications For Post-Seismic Landscape Recovery, Hongyan Xu, Hanchao Jiang, Kam-Biu Liu, Ning Zhong

Faculty Publications

The relationships between strong earthquakes, landslides, and vegetation destruction and the process of post-seismic recovery in tectonically active alpine valley areas have not been adequately documented. Here we show detailed pollen study results from a swamp located near the epicenter of the 1933 M 7.5 Diexi earthquake in eastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP) to reveal the impact of earthquake on vegetation, and the post-seismic recovery process. Based on(210)Pb-Cs-137 age model, the seismic event layer is well constrained. The earthquake event corresponds stratigraphically to a zone with the lowest pollen concentrations, the lowest pollen diversity, and a high frequency of non-arboreal pollen. …

Corporate Social Responsibility And Sustainable Finance: A Review Of The Literature, Hao Liang, Luc Renneboog

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) refers to the incorporation of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) considerations into corporate management, financial decision making, and investors’ portfolio decisions. Socially responsible firms are expected to internalize the externalities (e.g. pollution) they create, and are willing to be accountable to shareholders as well as a broader group of stakeholders (employees, customers, suppliers, local communities,…). Over the past two decades, various rating agencies developed firm-level measures of ESG performance, which are widely used in the literature. A problem for past and a challenge for future research is that these ratings show inconsistencies, which depend on the …

Pretrial Justice Reform And Property Crime: Evidence From New Jersey, Jung K. Kim, Yumi Koh

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Several states and localities have begun to implement various forms of pretrial justice reforms aimed at reducing the size of pretrial detainee population. However, empirical investigation of the effect of such reforms on crimes more broadly (other than recidivism) is limited. We analyse the effect of the 2017 New Jersey Criminal Justice Reform on property crimes. We find that property crime per 100,000 population increased by 22.5% within the first two years. Our findings suggest that reducing the likelihood of pretrial detention for less violent crimes can have substantial impact on behavioural incentives for offenders of such crimes.

Role Of The Botoh As Political Brokers And Gamblers During The Tulungagung Local Election Of 2018, Mohammad Darry Abiyyu

Jurnal Politik

Current studies on the botoh generally focus on gambling in village-head elections (pilkades) and how its role transforms from pilkades to local elections (pilkada). However, this article defines the botoh as a political broker and gambler during the 2018 local election of Tulungagung Regency. This research found that the botoh’s way of persuading voters had a positive effect on an unfavorable candidate and helped him win. This study conducted in-depth interviews of “big” botoh, observed field operation patterns, and collected documents from related parties. The practice of gambling during pilkada is categorized into three types: ngapit, leg-leg’an, and biting. This …

Characterization Of The Cazy Repertoire From The Marine-Derived Fungus Stemphylium Lucomagnoense In Relation To Saline Conditions, Wissal Ben Ali, David Navarro, Abhishek Kumar, Elodie Drula

Open Access archive

Even if the ocean represents a large part of Earth’s surface, only a few studies describe marine-derived fungi compared to their terrestrial homologues. In this ecosystem, marine-derived fungi have had to adapt to the salinity and to the plant biomass composition. This articles studies the growth of five marine isolates and the tuning of lignocellulolytic activities under different conditions, including the salinity. A de novo transcriptome sequencing and assembly were used in combination with a proteomic approach to characterize the Carbohydrate Active Enzymes (CAZy) repertoire of one of these strains. Following these approaches, Stemphylium lucomagnoense was selected for its adapted …

Microglial Response To Aspergillus Flavus And Candida Albicans: Implications In Endophthalmitis, Jaishree Gandhi, Poonam Naik, Inderjeet Kaur, Ashok Kumar

Open Access archive

Aspergillus flavus is the most common etiology of fungal endophthalmitis in India, while Candida albicans is the causative agent in the West. In this study, we determined the role of microglial cells in evoking an inflammatory response following an infection with A. flavus and C. albicans strains isolated from patients with endophthalmitis. Microglia (CHME-3) cells were infected with A. flavus and C. albicans and the expression of Toll-Like Receptors (TLRs), cytokines and Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) were assessed at various time intervals. A. flavus infected cells induced higher expressions of TLR-1,-2,-5,-6,-7 and-9 and cytokines such as IL-1α, IL-6, IL-8, IL-10 and …

Recognition And Repetition Counting For Local Muscular Endurance Exercises In Exercise-Based Rehabilitation: A Comparative Study Using Artificial Intelligence Models, Ghanashyama Prabhu, Noel E. O’Connor, Kieran Moran

Open Access archive

Exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation requires patients to perform a set of certain prescribed exercises a specific number of times. Local muscular endurance exercises are an important part of the rehabilitation program. Automatic exercise recognition and repetition counting, from wearable sensor data, is an important technology to enable patients to perform exercises independently in remote settings, e.g., their own home. In this paper, we first report on a comparison of traditional approaches to exercise recognition and repetition counting (supervised ML and peak detection) with Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). We investigated CNN models based on the AlexNet architecture and found that the performance …

Vol. 24, No. 1: Full Issue, Water Law Review

Water Law Review

No abstract provided.

Hss 404-H01: Human Subjects - The History Of Experimenting On Humans, Rosanna Dent

History Syllabi

No abstract provided.

A Thing Called Character: Bringing The Export-Import Bank Of The United States And West Virginia To The World, Kimberly A. Reed

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Quest For Greener Pastures: Evaluating The Livelihoods Impacts Of Providing Vegetation Condition Maps To Pastoralists In Eastern Africa, Elia Machado, Helene Purcell, Andrew M. Simons, Stephanie Swinehart

Publications and Research

The survival of millions of pastoral households in Eastern Africa has become increasingly at risk. Due to mounting socioeconomic and climatic stressors, pastoral households are faced with making migration decisions under increasing uncertainty about resource availability and limited coping strategies. We assess the potential of providing vegetation condition maps to support the migration decision of pastoralists in Ethiopia and Tanzania and the effect of map usage on their herd condition and size. The maps were generated from remotely sensed data using the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) as a proxy for vegetation condition and overlain with pastoralists’ preferred grazing areas. …

Applying The Values Of Geoethics For Sustainable Speleotourism Development, Aleksandar Antić, Silvia Peppoloni, Giuseppe Di Capua

KIP Articles

Establishing sustainable and responsible speleotourism development is a major challenge and involves complex activities. Adequate theoretical starting point is the application of geoethical values related to the conservation and protection of the caves to be used for touristic purposes. Positive and negative cases of human behaviors towards speleological geoheritage are discussed, in order to highlight what should be done in cave management to avoid malpractices and on what elements could be founded adequate strategies aimed at promoting sustainable speleotourism. This is important to tourism management organizations involved in the promotion of caves and in creating economic opportunities for local populations, …

Cutr Connections [September 2020], Cutr

CUTR Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Gphy 121s.B01: Human Geography, Elena A. Bigart

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2016-2020

No abstract provided.

Gphy 385.B01: Field Techniques In Water Science And Society, Sarah J. Halvorson

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2016-2020

No abstract provided.

Gphy 489.B01: Remote Sensing And Raster Gis Laboratory, Anna E. Klene

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2016-2020

No abstract provided.

Gphy 433.R01: Community Resilience, David D. Shively

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2016-2020

No abstract provided.

Nrsm 513.R01: Natural Resources Conflict Resolution, Shawn M. Johnson

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2016-2020

No abstract provided.

Gphy 284.R00: Introduction To Gis And Cartography, Kevin G. Mcmanigal

University of Montana Course Syllabi, 2016-2020

No abstract provided.