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Understanding The Factors Affecting The Humanitarian Health And Nutrition Response For Women And Children In Somalia Since 2000: A Case Study, Zahra Ahmed, Anushka Ataullahjan, Michelle F. Gaffey, Mohamed Osman, Chantal Umutoni, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta, Abdirisak A. Dalmar May 2020

Understanding The Factors Affecting The Humanitarian Health And Nutrition Response For Women And Children In Somalia Since 2000: A Case Study, Zahra Ahmed, Anushka Ataullahjan, Michelle F. Gaffey, Mohamed Osman, Chantal Umutoni, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta, Abdirisak A. Dalmar

Woman and Child Health

Background: Somalia has been ravaged by more than two decades of armed conflict causing immense damage to the country's infrastructure and mass displacement and suffering among its people. An influx of humanitarian actors has sought to provide basic services, including health services for women and children, throughout the conflict. This study aimed to better understand the humanitarian health response for women and children in Somalia since 2000.
Methods: The study utilized a mixed-methods design. We collated intervention coverage data from publically available large-scale household surveys and we conducted 32 interviews with representatives from government, UN agencies, NGOs, and health facility …

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Impact Of Conflict On Maternal And Child Health Service Delivery - How And How Not: A Country Case Study Of Conflict Affected Areas Of Pakistan, Jai K. Das, Zahra Ali Padhani, Sultana Jabeen, Arjumand Rizvi, Uzair Ansari, Malika Fatima, Ghulam Akbar, Wardah Ahmed, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta May 2020

Impact Of Conflict On Maternal And Child Health Service Delivery - How And How Not: A Country Case Study Of Conflict Affected Areas Of Pakistan, Jai K. Das, Zahra Ali Padhani, Sultana Jabeen, Arjumand Rizvi, Uzair Ansari, Malika Fatima, Ghulam Akbar, Wardah Ahmed, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta

Woman and Child Health

Introduction: In conflict affected countries, healthcare delivery remains a huge concern. Pakistan is one country engulfed with conflict spanning various areas and time spans. We aimed to explore the effect of conflict on provision of reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health and nutrition (RMNCAH&N) services and describe the contextual factors influencing the prioritization and implementation in conflict affected areas of Pakistan (Balochistan and FATA).
Method: We conducted a secondary quantitative and a primary qualitative analysis. For the quantitative analysis, we stratified the various districts/agencies of Balochistan and FATA into the conflict categories of minimal-, moderate- and severe based on …

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Spatial Synchrony Is Related To Environmental Change In Finnish Moth Communities: Synchrony And Environmental Change, Tad A. Dallas, Laura H. Antão, Juha Pöyry, Reima Leinonen, Otso Ovaskainen May 2020

Spatial Synchrony Is Related To Environmental Change In Finnish Moth Communities: Synchrony And Environmental Change, Tad A. Dallas, Laura H. Antão, Juha Pöyry, Reima Leinonen, Otso Ovaskainen

Faculty Publications

© 2020 The Author(s). Spatially distinct pairs of sites may have similarly fluctuating population dynamics across large geographical distances, a phenomenon called spatial synchrony. However, species rarely exist in isolation, but rather as members of interactive communities, linked with other communities through dispersal (i.e. a metacommunity). Using data on Finnish moth communities sampled across 65 sites for 20 years, we examine the complex synchronous/anti-synchronous relationships among sites using the geography of synchrony framework. We relate site-level synchrony to mean and temporal variation in climatic data, finding that colder and drier sites-and those with the most drastic temperature increases-are important for …

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Religiosity Competitiveness On Knowledge Conversion:A New Approach To Boost Adaptive Selling Capability, Ken Sudarti, Olivia Fachrunnisa May 2020

Religiosity Competitiveness On Knowledge Conversion:A New Approach To Boost Adaptive Selling Capability, Ken Sudarti, Olivia Fachrunnisa

BISNIS & BIROKRASI: Jurnal Ilmu Administrasi dan Organisasi

A very dynamic market conditions and the diversity of customers’ character in the financial services industry requires companies to be able to adjust selling methods according to the conditions encountered. In the knowledge management perspective, the wealth and variety of knowledge possessed by salespersons are determinants of adaptive selling capability which will ultimately contribute to the growth of the financial services industry. Various studies have tried to explore the leverage factors of adaptive selling, but not much studies who used perspective of knowledge conversion activities based on personal values as approach. Thus, this study offers a new concept, namely Religiosity …

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Icdp Workshop On The Lake Tanganyika Scientific Drilling Project: A Late Miocene-Present Record Of Climate, Rifting, And Ecosystem Evolution From The World's Oldest Tropical Lake, James M. Russell, Philip Barker, Andrew Cohen, Sarah Ivory, Ishmael Kimirei, Christine Lane, Melanie Leng, Neema Maganza, Michael Mcglue, Emma Msaky, Anders Noren, Lisa Park Boush, Walter Salzburger, Christopher Scholz, Ralph Tiedemann, Shaidu Nuru, Christian Albrecht, Rahma Ali, Ramon Arrowsmith, Danstan Asanga, Yemane Asmerom, Charles Bakundukize, Thorsten Bauersachs, Catherine Beck, Melissa Berke, Emily Beverley, Martin Blaauw, Lisa Boush, Erik Brown, Chris Campisano, Barbara Carrapa, Isla Castaûeda, Andy Cohen, Sylvia Dee, Alan Deino, Cindy Ebinger May 2020

Icdp Workshop On The Lake Tanganyika Scientific Drilling Project: A Late Miocene-Present Record Of Climate, Rifting, And Ecosystem Evolution From The World's Oldest Tropical Lake, James M. Russell, Philip Barker, Andrew Cohen, Sarah Ivory, Ishmael Kimirei, Christine Lane, Melanie Leng, Neema Maganza, Michael Mcglue, Emma Msaky, Anders Noren, Lisa Park Boush, Walter Salzburger, Christopher Scholz, Ralph Tiedemann, Shaidu Nuru, Christian Albrecht, Rahma Ali, Ramon Arrowsmith, Danstan Asanga, Yemane Asmerom, Charles Bakundukize, Thorsten Bauersachs, Catherine Beck, Melissa Berke, Emily Beverley, Martin Blaauw, Lisa Boush, Erik Brown, Chris Campisano, Barbara Carrapa, Isla Castaûeda, Andy Cohen, Sylvia Dee, Alan Deino, Cindy Ebinger

Graduate School of Oceanography Faculty Publications

The Neogene and Quaternary are characterized by enormous changes in global climate and environments, including global cooling and the establishment of northern high-latitude glaciers. These changes reshaped global ecosystems, including the emergence of tropical dry forests and savannahs that are found in Africa today, which in turn may have influenced the evolution of humans and their ancestors. However, despite decades of research we lack long, continuous, well-resolved records of tropical climate, ecosystem changes, and surface processes necessary to understand their interactions and influences on evolutionary processes. Lake Tanganyika, Africa, contains the most continuous, long continental climate record from the mid-Miocene …

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Developing Measurement Scales Of Collaboration In Shipping Logistics, Chang Soo Kim, John Dinwoodie, Saeyeon Roh May 2020

Developing Measurement Scales Of Collaboration In Shipping Logistics, Chang Soo Kim, John Dinwoodie, Saeyeon Roh

Plymouth Business School

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Collection Development Policy, Modern Languages, John Venecek May 2020

Collection Development Policy, Modern Languages, John Venecek

Libraries' Documents

No abstract provided.

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Universal Metabolic Constraints Shape The Evolutionary Ecology Of Diving In Animals, Wilco C.E.P. Verberk, Piero Calosi, François Brischoux, John I. Spicer, Theodore Garland, David T. Bilton May 2020

Universal Metabolic Constraints Shape The Evolutionary Ecology Of Diving In Animals, Wilco C.E.P. Verberk, Piero Calosi, François Brischoux, John I. Spicer, Theodore Garland, David T. Bilton

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

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Italian Soldiers In Wwi And The Emergence Of A National Culinary Identity, David Michael Bell, Theresa Moran May 2020

Italian Soldiers In Wwi And The Emergence Of A National Culinary Identity, David Michael Bell, Theresa Moran

Dublin Gastronomy Symposium

Emilio Lusso (2014, pp.127–128), in his WWI memoir of the Italian southern front, remembers his orderly telling him: ‘I like eating all those little birds with polenta, don’t get me wrong. Fig peckers are tasty. But, no offense to the Veneto, I prefer roasted blackbirds and thrushes.’ The birds, he insists, must be roasted on a wooden spit, never metal: ‘You have to use soft wood. Chew on it a little and check the flavor.’ Encounters over food customs, choices, and preferences are consequences of war’s disruption. This disruption of foodways is most immediately felt in terms of shortages, rationing, …

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Determinants Of County-Level Poverty Rates In 2017: An Upper-Midwest Comparison, Trey V. Perez May 2020

Determinants Of County-Level Poverty Rates In 2017: An Upper-Midwest Comparison, Trey V. Perez

Undergraduate Economic Review

The American upper-Midwest as a region throughout the 2010s has experienced lower-than-average poverty rates. This paper seeks to uncover the determinants that have the greatest impact on the county-level poverty rates for five states (Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and the Dakotas). Outcomes for this study came from an Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression to estimate the impact each independent variable had on the poverty rate. The empirical results showed the unemployment rate, the percentage of households headed solely by females, and percent of the population that was Native American in 2017 had a significant impact on a county’s poverty rate.

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Architecture And Geography Of China Proper: Influence Of Geography On The Diversity Of Chinese Traditional Architectural Motifs And The Cultural Values They Reflect, Shiqi Liang May 2020

Architecture And Geography Of China Proper: Influence Of Geography On The Diversity Of Chinese Traditional Architectural Motifs And The Cultural Values They Reflect, Shiqi Liang

Culture, Society, and Praxis

This article examines regional geographical differences and their reflection in the diversity of Chinese traditional architectural motifs within China proper. This article specifically focuses on how regional geographical differences lead people to prioritize different cultural values and how those values were reflected in their respective architectural motifs.

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Eating Abroad, Remembering Home: Violent Disruption, The Irish Diaspora, And Their Food Parcels, 1845–1960, John Mulcahy May 2020

Eating Abroad, Remembering Home: Violent Disruption, The Irish Diaspora, And Their Food Parcels, 1845–1960, John Mulcahy

Dublin Gastronomy Symposium

Disruption, like change, is a constant in human history. So is food, a component of survival so vital that it, and the ecosystem which produces it, becomes as ‘invisible’ as breathing (Symons, 1998, p.185). Arguably, when the wellbeing of self, friends or family is at stake, food becomes a primary concern and we get innovative, no matter what role is imposed by the disruption, especially if violent. At a fundamental level, violent disruption redefines what food is, and how and when it is available (Mulcahy, 2019, p.24). in this regard, food parcels have been significant, particularly for both troops and …

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Towards A Civil Rights Approach To Insurance Anti-Discrimination Law, Daniel Schwarcz May 2020

Towards A Civil Rights Approach To Insurance Anti-Discrimination Law, Daniel Schwarcz

DePaul Law Review

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More Pricks Than Kicks: The Southern Economy In The Long Twentieth Century, Peter A. Coclanis May 2020

More Pricks Than Kicks: The Southern Economy In The Long Twentieth Century, Peter A. Coclanis

Study the South

Most scholars and journalists working on the South would likely agree that over the past fifty or sixty years southern states on balance benefitted from a diverse, but generally reasonable and reasonably successful portfolio of policies and programs in the “economic development” space. The fact that the region is still the poorest, the unhealthiest, and the least educated in the United States, a half century or more after the beginning of the “Sunbelt boom” says a lot about the difficulty of extricating a region once it is headed down a pernicious economic path.

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Immigrants And Their Voting Power In Nevada, Elia Del Carmen Solano-Patricio, Caitlin J. Saladino, William E. Brown Jr. May 2020

Immigrants And Their Voting Power In Nevada, Elia Del Carmen Solano-Patricio, Caitlin J. Saladino, William E. Brown Jr.

Demography

This Fact Sheet presents the number of both documented and undocumented immigrants in Nevada, synthesizing data provided by New American Economy (NAE), a bipartisan research non-profit organization. To estimate the total number of immigrants in the U.S. and across each of the 50 states, researchers reviewed various data sources including the U.S. Census, the American Community Survey, the Center for Migration Studies, and the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).

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Migratory Behavior And Winter Geography Drive Differential Range Shifts Of Eastern Birds In Response To Recent Climate Change, Clark S. Rushing, J. Andrew Royle, David J. Ziolkowski Jr, Keith L. Pardieck May 2020

Migratory Behavior And Winter Geography Drive Differential Range Shifts Of Eastern Birds In Response To Recent Climate Change, Clark S. Rushing, J. Andrew Royle, David J. Ziolkowski Jr, Keith L. Pardieck

Ecology Center Publications

Over the past half century, migratory birds in North America have shown divergent population trends relative to resident species, with the former declining rapidly and the latter increasing. The role that climate change has played in these observed trends is not well understood, despite significant warming over this period. We used 43 y of monitoring data to fit dynamic species distribution models and quantify the rate of latitudinal range shifts in 32 species of birds native to eastern North America. Since the early 1970s, species that remain in North America throughout the year, including both resident and migratory species, appear …

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Achieving ‘Good Health And Well-Being’ For Women In Diverse Socio-Economic Neighbourhoods., Seyeon Lee May 2020

Achieving ‘Good Health And Well-Being’ For Women In Diverse Socio-Economic Neighbourhoods., Seyeon Lee

The Lender Center for Social Justice

The article examines initiatives to improve women’s health and wellness in diverse neighborhoods. It emphasizes holistic strategies for achieving sustainable health outcomes.

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Involving Anthroponomy In The Anthropocene: On Decoloniality, Jeremy Bendik-Keymer May 2020

Involving Anthroponomy In The Anthropocene: On Decoloniality, Jeremy Bendik-Keymer

Faculty Scholarship

This book introduces the idea of anthroponomy – the organization of humankind to support autonomous life – as a response to the problems of today’s purported "Anthropocene" age. It argues for a specific form of accountability for the redressing of planetary-scaled environmental problems. The concept of anthroponomy helps confront geopolitical history shaped by the social processes of capitalism, colonialism, and industrialism, which have resulted in our planetary situation. Involving Anthroponomy in the Anthropocene: On Decoloniality explores how mobilizing our engagement with the politics of our planetary situation can come from moral relations. This book focuses on the anti-imperial work of …

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Hist 101 Early Modern Europe, Tracey L. Billado May 2020

Hist 101 Early Modern Europe, Tracey L. Billado

Open Educational Resources

This course introduces the major social, intellectual, political, religious, and cultural trends of Europe during the early modern period.

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To What Extent Does The Eddy Covariance Footprint Cutoff Influence The Estimation Of Surface Energy Fluxes Using Two Source Energy Balance Model And High-Resolution Imagery In Commercial Vineyards?, Ayman Nassar, Alfonso F. Torres-Rua, William Kustas, Héctor Nieto, Mac Mckee, Lawrence Hipps, Joseph Alfieri, John H. Prueger, Maria Mar Alsina, Lynn Mckee, Calvin Coopmans, Louis Sanchez, Nick Dokoozlian May 2020

To What Extent Does The Eddy Covariance Footprint Cutoff Influence The Estimation Of Surface Energy Fluxes Using Two Source Energy Balance Model And High-Resolution Imagery In Commercial Vineyards?, Ayman Nassar, Alfonso F. Torres-Rua, William Kustas, Héctor Nieto, Mac Mckee, Lawrence Hipps, Joseph Alfieri, John H. Prueger, Maria Mar Alsina, Lynn Mckee, Calvin Coopmans, Louis Sanchez, Nick Dokoozlian

Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications

Validation of surface energy fluxes from remote sensing sources is performed using instantaneous field measurements obtained from eddy covariance (EC) instrumentation. An eddy covariance measurement is characterized by a footprint function / weighted area function that describes the mathematical relationship between the spatial distribution of surface flux sources and their corresponding magnitude. The orientation and size of each flux footprint / source area depends on the micro-meteorological conditions at the site as measured by the EC towers, including turbulence fluxes, friction velocity (ustar), and wind speed, all of which influence the dimensions and orientation of the footprint. The …

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Performing Mystical Union In Mechthild Of Magdeburg’S The Flowing Light Of The Godhead, Jessi C. Piggott May 2020

Performing Mystical Union In Mechthild Of Magdeburg’S The Flowing Light Of The Godhead, Jessi C. Piggott

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

Thirteenth-century mystic Mechthild of Magdeburg characterizes her revelations not as visions but as greetings, a term she uses to encompass gestures, verbal exchanges, and experiences perceived through multiple senses. Mechthild’s mysticism is thus best understood as a series of scenarios, the embodied nature of which cannot be fully contained by text. Using a performance studies approach, this paper identifies the traces of performance—textual prompts inextricable from their (explicit or implied, real or imagined) completion in physical and vocal acts—that can be found throughout Mechthild’s Flowing Light of the Godhead. How does Mechthild’s use of performance repertoires convey the mystical …

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Talking Back: Sodomy Laws And Transgressive Subjectivity In Medieval Venice, Alex Baldassano May 2020

Talking Back: Sodomy Laws And Transgressive Subjectivity In Medieval Venice, Alex Baldassano

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

Urban Italian law, by the fifteenth-century, would become particularly aggressive in comparison to the rest of Europe not only in prosecuting sodomy, but also in implementing the threatened capital punishment. The 1354 Venetian court case of Rolandinus/a Ronchaia, in the century leading up to the officialization of the law, both exemplifies this trend and yet also stands out as unique because of the subject’s gender presentation; the case seeks to resolve whether or not this person, perceived either as ambiguously gendered or as a man dressed as a woman, can be convicted of committing sodomy or prostitution. Ronchaia, however, is …

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Cooperatives, Agri-Tourism And Food Trails: Promoting Sustainable Food Systems In Le Marche, Italy, Daniela Monaldi, Brigit Ramsingh May 2020

Cooperatives, Agri-Tourism And Food Trails: Promoting Sustainable Food Systems In Le Marche, Italy, Daniela Monaldi, Brigit Ramsingh

Dublin Gastronomy Symposium

The growing recognition of the environmental and health costs of the post-war industrial-production food model has led to urgent calls globally to transition to more sustainable food systems (Lang and Heaseman, 2004; Willet et al., 2019). Future fixes or ‘innovations’ that are disruptive to the current model of food production have been proposed to address the challenge of achieving such ‘Great Food Transformation’ (Willet et al., 2019, p.448). Such disruptions toward sustainability can include, for example, alternative food networks or short food supply chains, a turn (or return) to local food or ‘glocalism’, refocusing on small-scale farming, emphasising biodiversity and …

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Changes In The Breakfast Traditions Of An Old World Country: How The Breakfast Traditions In Turkey Have Changed Causing The Loss Of An Important Food Culture, Banu Ozden May 2020

Changes In The Breakfast Traditions Of An Old World Country: How The Breakfast Traditions In Turkey Have Changed Causing The Loss Of An Important Food Culture, Banu Ozden

Dublin Gastronomy Symposium

No abstract provided.

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Pie And Mash: A Victorian Anachronism In Modern Cosmopolitan Britain?, Ronald Ranta May 2020

Pie And Mash: A Victorian Anachronism In Modern Cosmopolitan Britain?, Ronald Ranta

Dublin Gastronomy Symposium

No abstract provided.

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Rangeland Ecology And Management In A Changing World, Joel R. Brown, Brandon T. Bestelmeyer, Kris M. Havstad May 2020

Rangeland Ecology And Management In A Changing World, Joel R. Brown, Brandon T. Bestelmeyer, Kris M. Havstad

IGC Proceedings (1977-2023)

No abstract provided.

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Effects Of Aurora Kinase C Expression On Retina Pigmented Epithelial Cell Migration, Proliferation, And Anchorage Independent Growth, Justin Bejar May 2020

Effects Of Aurora Kinase C Expression On Retina Pigmented Epithelial Cell Migration, Proliferation, And Anchorage Independent Growth, Justin Bejar

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

Cancer is a common and deadly disease in the United States with 1,806,590 new cancer cases in 2019 and 606,520 cancer deaths projected in 2020. These deaths are primarily due to the uncontrolled cell proliferation and migratory nature of the disease. Many cancer cells express genes normally restricted to meiotic cells. For example, Aurora Kinase C (AURKC) is known to regulate chromosome segregation in meiotic cells yet it is expressed in many different types of cancer, such as breast, prostate, colorectal, liver, cervical, thyroid, and testicular cancers. As a means to study the function of AURKC, an …

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Storm Surges In The Bohai Sea: The Role Of Waves And Tides, Yuanyi Li, Huan Feng, Guillaume Vigouroux, Dekui Yuan, Guangyu Zhang, Xiaodi Ma, Kun Lei May 2020

Storm Surges In The Bohai Sea: The Role Of Waves And Tides, Yuanyi Li, Huan Feng, Guillaume Vigouroux, Dekui Yuan, Guangyu Zhang, Xiaodi Ma, Kun Lei

Department of Earth and Environmental Studies Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

A storm surge is a complex phenomenon in which waves, tide and current interact. Even though wind is the predominant force driving the surge, waves and tidal phase are also important factors that influence the mass and momentum transport during the surge. Devastating storm surges often occur in the Bohai Sea, a semi-enclosed shallow sea in North China, due to extreme storms. However, the effects of waves on storm surges in the Bohai Sea have not been quantified and the mechanisms responsible for the higher surges that affect part of the Bohai Sea have not been thoroughly studied. In this …

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Uas-Based Tracking Of The Santiaguito Lava Dome, Guatemala, Edgar U. Zorn, Thomas R. Walter, Jeffrey B. Johnson, René Mania May 2020

Uas-Based Tracking Of The Santiaguito Lava Dome, Guatemala, Edgar U. Zorn, Thomas R. Walter, Jeffrey B. Johnson, René Mania

Geosciences Faculty Publications and Presentations

Imaging growing lava domes has remained a great challenge in volcanology due to their inaccessibility and the severe hazard of collapse or explosion. Changes in surface movement, temperature, or lava viscosity are considered crucial data for hazard assessments at active lava domes and thus valuable study targets. Here, we present results from a series of repeated survey flights with both optical and thermal cameras at the Caliente lava dome, part of the Santiaguito complex at Santa Maria volcano, Guatemala, using an Unoccupied Aircraft System (UAS) to create topography data and orthophotos of the lava dome. This enabled us to track …

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A Drawing A Day Keeps The Pandemic Away: Vol 6, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas May 2020

A Drawing A Day Keeps The Pandemic Away: Vol 6, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas

A Drawing a Day Keeps the Pandemic Away

The project is called A Drawing a Day Keeps the Pandemic Away. We created it on March 17th, which was the day when we realized that we weren’t going to be able to go back into the museum and continue installing the exhibitions we had been planning to open on March 27th. People were asking us what we, as an art museum, were going to do to reach out to the community during the pandemic shutdown and honestly we were wondering that ourselves, so we had an online brainstorming session and came up with the idea of posting a daily …

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