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Conflicts And Attitudes Regarding The Return Of The Grey Wolf To California, Kendall Burke

Humboldt Geographic

No abstract provided.

Mapping Marijuana Cultivation Sites And Water Storage In The Redwood Creek Watershed, Southern Humboldt County, Cristina Bauss

Humboldt Geographic

No abstract provided.

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Humboldt Geographic

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To Be A Guide In The Mountains, Among The Pumas, Mithra Derakshan

Humboldt Geographic

No abstract provided.

Dental Practice Success Special Issue: Design Innovation Awards (January 2020), American Dental Association, Publishing Division

Dental Practice Success

No abstract provided.

Using Unmanned Aircraft Systems To Identify Invasive Species, Tithe Ahmed

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

Invasive species serve as a threat to native biodiversity and ecosystem sustainability. Combatting the spread of invasive species requires long-term physical and monetary commitments. In Balule Nature Reserve of Greater Kruger National Park, South Africa, Opuntia ficus-inidica (the common prickly pear) has been a relentless invader, displacing the local flora and fauna. The goal of this project is to battle invasive species such as prickly pear using efficient and inexpensive technology: unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs or drones) and multispectral sensors.

Using a 4-bandwidth Parrot Sequoia multispectral sensor in tandem with the DJI Phantom Pro 3^TM UAV, images of land …

Geochemical Flux Analysis Of Glacial River Runoff For Sólheimajökull, Iceland, Jessica Garrison

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

Geochemical fluxes in aqueous studies are an essential component of research to understand weathering and changes in a hydrologic system. These data can indicate any discrepancies, outliers, or gradual changes in a water environment to gain information on pollutants, carbon cycles, biological input, etc. Glacial melt is the majority of the surface water present throughout the country. The melting amount is increasing with the temperatures, which can be monitored by the changes in geochemical flux during increased discharge in glacial rivers. A high-resolution data set of Sόlheimajökull Glacier in Iceland was used to determine how changing climatic conditions for the …

Bridging The Food Gap: Founding And Sustaining A Food Recovery Network Chapter At Wku, Elaine Losekamp

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

Food waste is a pervasive global issue with many environmental and social repercussions. While about one-third of all food produced for human consumption goes to waste, many people in the United States and the world are affected by food insecurity. Food recovery, the process of rescuing edible food that would otherwise go to waste and delivering to hungry people, is an effective solution for both food waste and food insecurity. The author of this capstone created a food recovery program at Western Kentucky University (WKU) in January 2019 and has grown the program’s scope and impact since that time. This …

Mass Seizure And Mass Search, Gregory Brazeal

Faculty Publications

As courts attempt to develop Fourth Amendment doctrine to address the threats to privacy created by digital surveillance technologies, a valuable doctrinal resource has been largely neglected: the law governing the seizure of persons. Just as courts today struggle with the specter of mass search using digital technologies, courts in the 1960s were confronted with the problem of mass seizure through the growing use of stop-and-frisk by police departments. The responses to mass seizure developed by the Supreme Court in Terry v. Ohio, 592 U.S. 1 (1968), and its progeny provide lessons for courts today considering how to respond to …

Learning Wakanda: Assessing The Responses Of African-American Children And Their Caregivers Toward Concordant Educational Media, Cameron L. Coleman

LMU Theses and Dissertations

Screen-based educational media, as an extension of the schooling process whose history has mirrored brick and mortar institutions, have traditionally espoused narratives of Eurocentricity, shifting relatively recently to multicultural yet simultaneously raceless narratives. While many viewers have learned from and been inspired by these media, the enthusiastic response to the film Black Panther (2018), as demonstrated by financial earnings and sustained social media energy, revealed an intense yearning in the Black community for media positively centering the strengths and successes of Black lives. Launched from the sociocultural fervor for Black concordance in media, and extending concordance into the educational media …

Estimating Free-Flow Speed With Lidar And Overhead Imagery, Armin Hadzic

Theses and Dissertations--Computer Science

Understanding free-flow speed is fundamental to transportation engineering in order to improve traffic flow, control, and planning. The free-flow speed of a road segment is the average speed of automobiles unaffected by traffic congestion or delay. Collecting speed data across a state is both expensive and time consuming. Some approaches have been presented to estimate speed using geometric road features for certain types of roads in limited environments. However, estimating speed at state scale for varying landscapes, environments, and road qualities has been relegated to manual engineering and expensive sensor networks. This thesis proposes an automated approach for estimating free-flow …

Physical Activity In Two Low-Income Detroit Neighborhoods: Disentangling Human Agency From Social Structure, Daniel J. Rose

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

This article explores strategies developed by African American residents in response to barriers to physical activity in two low-income Detroit neighborhoods. Using 47 in-depth, qualitative interviews, a grounded theory approach allowed the analysis to be reframed around the ways in which structural factors conditioned, but did not determine the human agency of residents seeking physical activity. Interviews revealed numerous responses to structural barriers such as devising home routines, cognitive mapping to avoid perceived threats, and leaving the neighborhood to access resources. Differences in neighborhood contexts, along with unique individual concerns, showed that agency was neither a constant nor independent force, …

Review Of The Social Question In The Twenty-First Century: A Global View. By Jan Breman, Kevan Harris, Ching Kwan Lee, And Marcel Van Der Linden, Melanie Reyes

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Review of The Social Question in the Twenty-First Century: A Global View.

Earth News, V43, Winter 2020, University Of Northern Iowa. Department Of Earth And Environmental Sciences.

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Exploring The Physical And Mental Health Disparities In The Transgender Male Community In A Southern Community-Based Medical Lgbtq Organization, Karen E. Musgrove

All ETDs from UAB

This dissertation examined the physical and mental health disparities in the transgender male community in a Southern community-based medical LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer) organization via a convergent mixed methods study design. There is a paucity of research on the transgender male community in terms of their physical and mental health care needs, services, and disparities. Quantitative data were col-lected via a chart review of 130 transgender male medical charts at the Magic City Well-ness Center (MCWC). The MCWC transgender male medical chart data were compared to three groups separately of the 2018 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) …

Internet Penetration And Consumption Inequality In China, Shu Zhang, Feng Li, Jing Jian Xiao

Human Development and Family Science Faculty Publications

Growing research shows that information technology accelerates economic growth and development, but the effect of Internet penetration on inequality is less well documented, especially about consumption inequality. On the one hand, Internet lowers transaction costs and offers equal access to online products especially beneficial for remote and poor populations, seemingly reducing inequality. On the other hand, uneven access to the Internet may increase divergences. This study examines the relationship between Internet penetration and consumption inequality. Using data from 155 counties available from 2010 to 2016 China Family Panel Studies, this study examines whether Internet penetration potentially impacts consumption inequality considering …

Global Drivers On Southern Ocean Ecosystems: Changing Physical Environments And Anthropogenic Pressures In An Earth System, Simon A. Morley, Doris Abele, David K.A. Barnes, César A. Cárdenas, Cedric Cotté, Julian Gutt, Sian F. Henley, Juan Höfer, Kevin A. Hughes, Stephanie M. Martin, Carlos Moffat, Marilyn Raphael, Sharon E. Stammerjohn, Coleen Suckling, Vivitskaia J.D. Tulloch, Cath L. Waller, Andrew J. Constable

Fisheries, Animal and Veterinary Sciences Faculty Publications

The manuscript assesses the current and expected future global drivers of Southern Ocean (SO) ecosystems. Atmospheric ozone depletion over the Antarctic since the 1970s, has been a key driver, resulting in springtime cooling of the stratosphere and intensification of the polar vortex, increasing the frequency of positive phases of the Southern Annular Mode (SAM). This increases warm air-flow over the East Pacific sector (Western Antarctic Peninsula) and cold air flow over the West Pacific sector. SAM as well as El Niño Southern Oscillation events also affect the Amundsen Sea Low leading to either positive or negative sea ice anomalies in …

Ba Criminology, 2020-21, Arkansas State University - Jonesboro

Bachelor of Arts and others

No abstract provided.

Ba Sociology, 2020-21, Arkansas State University - Jonesboro

Bachelor of Arts and others

No abstract provided.

Ba History, 2020-21, Arkansas State University - Jonesboro

Bachelor of Arts and others

No abstract provided.

Ur Scholarship Repository: 2019-2020 Year In Review, Lucretia Mcculley, Crista Lembeck Laprade

UR Scholarship Reports and Statistics

Annual Report for the University of Richmond's institutional repository, UR Scholarship.

Law, Race, And The Epistemology Of Ignorance, George A. Martinez

Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters

Philosophers and other theorists have developed the field of epistemology which is the study of human knowledge. Critical race theorists have begun to explore how epistemological theory and insights may illuminate the study of race, including the analysis of race and the law. Such use of epistemology is appropriate because theoretical work on knowledge can be used to advance one of the key goals of critical race theory which is to understand how a regime of white supremacy and its subordination of people of color have been created and maintained in America. In this regard, philosophers and other theorists have …

Reducing Barriers To Accessing Fistula Repair In Nigeria And Uganda: An Implementation Research Study, Pooja Sripad, Elly Arnoff, Charity Ndwiga, George Odwe, Emmanuel Nwala

Reproductive Health

Female genital fistula predominately affects women who are marginalized within their societies and lack access to quality maternal health care. While efforts to promote fistula identification and treatment exist, systematic knowledge about the barriers women face in accessing fistula treatment is lacking, in addition to rigorous evidence about interventions that effectively respond to these barriers. A partnership between the Population Council and the USAID Fistula Care Plus project implemented by EngenderHealth sought to understand and address critical barriers to fistula care in Nigeria and Uganda. The study examined whether a comprehensive information, screening, and referral intervention reduced transportation, communication, and …

The Impact Of A Candidates [Sic] Race On Voter Opinion, Yssis Patterson

Senior Honors Theses and Projects

INTRODUCTION: Race has always played a significant role in politics. Identifying what degree race and/or political party identification has will help to further determine and explain the outsized significance of these factors in modern American politics.

HYPOTHESIS: We hypothesized that a candidate's race would have a significant impact on the way that a voter votes. Based on a candidate’s initial appearance and biographer, a voter may prefer one candidate over another simply based on an isolated variable.

METHODS: For this study, we conducted two surveys through Amazon M Turk. We asked a series of questions based on two candidates of …

“You Don’T Wanna Teach Little Kids About Climate Change”: Beliefs And Barriers To Sustainability Education In Early Childhood, Julia L. Ginsburg, Shannon Audley

Education and Child Study: Faculty Publications

To support a sustainable planet, preschools need to engage young children with sustainability education. In the United States of America (USA), nature-based preschool programs are likely to promote environmental science and nature education, given their outdoor curricula, but very little is known about how these programs might also cultivate sustainability education. The purpose of the present study was to investigate nature-based preschool teachers’ craft knowledge (Grimmett & MacKinnon, 1992) about sustainability education within curricula as they presently exist. We interviewed 22 early childhood educators and administrators across nine early childhood nature-based education centers in the Northeastern United States. Following Davis' …

The Power Of Children’S Voices: Potentials For Teacher Education, Beth D. Tolley, Cristina Valencia Mazzanti

Education and Child Study: Faculty Publications

Research literature documents a richness of innovations and projects advocating school-university partnerships that facilitate robust clinical practice. In the context of this focus on clinical work and school-university partnerships there are many possibilities to explore the way children may participate in these partnerships as contributors and experts; particularly, when we acknowledge that their role has predominantly been that of the benefactors of partnership efforts. Children have often been seen as the targets and recipients of the combined efforts of pre-service and in-service teacher collaborations with a focus on student achievement and social/emotion growth. In response to the call for innovative …

Obesity And Cardiovascular Health Differences Between Urban And Suburban Philadelphia High School Athletes, Kyle W. Prochno, Peri Levey, Prashant Rao, Md, David M. Shipon, Md, Facc, Facp, Jeremy D. Close, Md

Phase 1

Introduction: Limited data exist regarding hypertension and obesity levels of Philadelphia-area high school student-athletes. We aim to assess their prevalence in an urban population, investigate whether they are correlated with demographic factors, and determine whether urban student-athletes differ in these outcomes compared to their suburban/non-urban counterparts.

Methods: Demographic and physical data were extracted from Athlete Health Organization (AHO) 2018 pre-participation physical exams. Adiposity classifications were made from body mass index (BMI) calculations applied to appropriate Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) growth charts, while systolic/diastolic measurements were used to classify students’ blood pressure according to current American Academy of …

Improving The Value Of The Coconut With Biotechnology, Fabian M. Dayrit, Quang Nguyen

Chemistry Faculty Publications

The fruit of the coconut tree is perhaps the most useful plant resource in the tropics. All parts of the coconut fruit have traditional uses that have been developed commercially in recent times (Foale 2003, Dayrit and Dayrit 2013). Due to its widespread household use, trade and industry statistics on coconut products reflect only part of the actual importance of the coconut. Today, coconut-based products have gone beyond the tropics and are consumed in many temperate countries and global regions such as Australia, China, Europe, North America, and the Middle East (Costello 2018). Coconut milk is the basic ingredient of …

Lessons From Our Educators, Tennessee Educator Survey 2019 Results In Context, Tennessee. Department Of Education.

Tennessee Educator Survey

No abstract provided.

Educational Access In King County For Adult Refugees From East Africa And The Democratic Republic Of The Congo (2020), Colleen Cronnelly

International Studies Undergraduate Honors Theses

While there is global research on the topic of adult refugee education, there is limited research into accessibility of education for adult refugees within King County, Washington. My research offers an analysis of educational accessibility in King County for refugees from the African nations of Somalia, Eritrea, Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which together make up the largest refugee population in the area. I conducted interviews with representatives from the local organizations: Refugee Women’s Alliance, Refugees Northwest, Seattle Public Libraries, and Literacy Source in order to gain a better understanding of the strengths and challenges the organizations …