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Air Pressure Propagation Through Wind Cave And Jewel Cave: How Do Pressure Waves Travel Through Barometric Caves?, Annika K. Gomell, Daniel C. Austin, Marc J. Ohms, Andreas Pflitsch

International Journal of Speleology

In barometric caves, air pressure gradients between the outside atmosphere and the cave induce strong bidirectional compensating currents, which control almost all elements of speleoclimatology, including air temperature, humidity, and CO₂ dynamics. Therefore, this study set out to investigate air pressure propagation through Wind Cave and Jewel Cave – two major barometric cave systems in the Black Hills of South Dakota, USA. Based on high-resolution air pressure data from both the surface and several measurement sites inside the caves, four systematic changes of pressure waves during their journey through the caves and their related speleoclimatological processes were identified and …

Letter From The Editor: The Journal Of Conventional Weapons Destruction Celebrates 25 Years!, Steven Costner

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction is the leading publication in the fields of humanitarian mine action (HMA) and munitions destruction and security. Since 1997, experts in these fields have shared their critical thinking and innovative ideas on how to make their practical work safer and more efficient at the same time. For this 25th edition of The Journal, I invite you to join me in celebrating all the present and past authors who have shared their ideas, inventions, and perspectives to improve the lives of countless communities around the world.

Remembering 9/11, Keith Testa

UNH Today Archive

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Seamless Wayfinding By A Deafblind Adult On An Urban College Campus: A Case Study On Wayfinding Performance, Information Preferences, And Technology Requirements, Martin Swobodzinski, Amy T. Parker, Julie D. Wright, Kyrsten Hansen, Becky Morton

Geography Faculty Publications and Presentations

This article reports on an empirical evaluation of the experience, performance, and perception of a deafblind adult participant in an experimental case study on pedestrian travel in an urban environment. The case study assessed the degree of seamlessness of the wayfinding experience pertaining to routes that traverse both indoor and outdoor spaces under different modalities of technology-aided pedestrian travel. Specifically, an adult deafblind pedestrian traveler completed three indoor/outdoor routes on an urban college campus using three supplemental wayfinding support tools: a mobile application, written directions, and a tactile map. A convergent parallel mixed-methods approach was used to synthesize insights from …

Smart Irrigation System Is One Of The Modern Applied Agricultural Geography Tools., Aintizar \'Iibrahim Almusawii, Aqeel Hassan Yasser Al-Najm

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

Many studies indicate that geography is applied if its content or content includes an applied research project in any of its natural and human fields, especially the latter because its field is broad and more prejudicial to man, his community and his environment. Therefore, it was necessary to take the concept of sustainable environmental development into consideration because it is one of the interests of applied scientific geography that searches for human interest and benefit in the present and future. The topic of the research is one of the modern topics that pave the way towards sustainable development and its …

Components And Obstacles To Urban Development Of Salman City In Muthanna Governorate, Yahya Abdul Hassan Falih Al-Jiashi, Zainab Zghair Jaber Al-Ziyadi

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

It is of utmost importance to achieve urban development for any city that is intended to be inhabited by residents who wish to live in it, as it achieves an adequate quality of life for them in all economic, social and environmental aspects. In order to achieve urban development, it is necessary to understand and analyze the geographical characteristics that envelop that city and the shape of its environment, so that we distinguish the positive effect from it and develop it, identify the same negative impact and evaluate it or discuss its alternatives.

Efficiency Of Spatial Distribution Of Kindergarten Services In Kufa City, Zilal Jawad Kazim, Iqdam Jabbar Hassan Al-Qatrani

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

The education sector is one of the most important basic needs of the human being, without which it is not possible to achieve his humanity. Through the education sector, man has been able to preserve, transfer and develop his civilization, and education includes the activities of the individual and society. It is evident from the above that people's interest in education in order to achieve their goals side by side with the humanitarian goals.

Oil Production And Its Impact On Land Cover Using Remote Sensing In Kirkuk – Iraq, Rebin Samad Abdullah, Ali, Recep Gündoğan

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

The most of the country industrial in the worlds heavily on the oil consumption and crude oil use of main source energy and raw materials in industrial sectors, this increases in world demand for crude oil, this increases the used of oil in the world and puts pressure on the oil producing country to depends on oil production operations, in Iraq the first in history oil discovered in Kirkuk, oil was discovered in 1927 years and drilling began on 10 October, Kirkuk has a four big oil producing fields with six oil fields not oil producing, Kirkuk oil fields consists …

Spatial Analysis Of The Relationship Of Ground Slopes With Water Erosion Using The Ordinary Least Squares (Ols) And Geographically Weighted Regression (Gwr) Method In Arcgis Desktop, Nahdh H. Mohammed, Falah H. Abed, Sarhan Naeem Al-Khafaji

Uruk Journal of Human Sciences

In this study, performances of two method techniques ordinary least square (OLS) regression and geographically weighted regression (GWR) were compared for the task of predicting the values ​​of water erosion across a study area in Dewana basin as a part of Sulaymaniyah Province, northeast Iraq. The study showed a clear difference between the two methods Because least squares regression methods do not take into account local variations within the study area and it does not give weight to the area or to any other weighted element, it gives a general impression of the type of relationship between the independent variables …

If You Are Not Ready, Then Step Aside: Intentionally Centering The Black Male Body In Teacher Education, Cherrel Miller Dyce, Julius Davis

Northwest Journal of Teacher Education

The conditions of Black male students in K-12 schools have been well-documented by scholars and clearly illustrate institutionalized anti-Black maleness that continues to go unaddressed or, in some cases, never addressed in most educator preparation programs and school systems in the U.S. We call for the centering of Black male bodies in teacher education and offer Afrocentric Assessment Mattering Pathways (AAMP) for guidance for intentionally centering the Black male body in teacher education: 1) critical anti-black self-reflection, 2) Afrocentric curricular change using Black history, and 3) engaging in off-campus Afrocentric environments.

Forest Fire Effects On The Temporal Variability Of Landscape Snow Albedo Relative To Burn Severity, Max Gersh

Dissertations and Theses

Snow-water storage is decreasing, while forest fires are increasing in duration, size, frequency, and intensity, due to climate change. Most forest fires occur in the seasonal snow zone, altering snow mass and energy balance for many years following fire. Following forest fires, Surface snow albedo (SSA) decreases, as light absorbing particles (LAP), particularly black carbon (BC) produced in forest fires get deposited throughout the snowpack, altering snowpack energy balance driving earlier snowmelt in burned forests. While SSA decreases, landscape snow albedo (LSA) increases following fire, as more of the snow-covered surface becomes visible beneath the burned forest canopy, brightening the …

Geographical Analysis For Sport Services And Its Improvability In The City Of Saqlawiya, Abd Ulrzzaq Mohammed, Hameed Hussein Farhan

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The services of sport are considered one of the necessary activities, as well as being societal services that serve vast part of youth. These services are subject to many violations as a result of other usages and especially in the area of study which became without sport services. The ration of per person 2.71 M2 out of 7m2 and recession is 57% . the researcher is aided by Delvi technique to indicate the valuable places which are appropriate to be used for sport services and to choose the best in order to improve its serving level. This study follows the …

Assessment Of Heavy Metals Concentrations In Groundwater- Kefal District A Case Study, Mohemmed Bahjet

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The purpose of current study is zoning and determining the concentration of heavy metals including Manganese (Mn), Lead (Pb), Cadmium (Cd), Copper (Cu), Iron (Fe), Zinc (Zn), and Boron (B) in the groundwater resources of Al-Kefal area located around the area in the southern part of Babil governorate. The amounts of heavy metals in the collected samples were determined by the Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometry (ICP-OES) technique. The maximum concentrations of Mn, Pb , Cd , Cu, Fe, Zn, and B were 6.0, 4.0 , 0.05, 1.6, 4.6 and 3.5 mg/l, respectively. The correlation analysis shows highly positive …

Emergency Medicine And Covid-19: Now And Next Year, Theodore A. Christopher, Adrienne N. Christopher

Department of Emergency Medicine Faculty Papers

The COVID-19 pandemic is responsible for infecting to date more than 93 million people worldwide and causing more than 2 million deaths. That the vast majority of deaths have occurred in the United States (U.S.) can be attributed to nonadherence by Americans to basic public health mitigation strategies that are known to curtail coronavirus spread. Emergency Departments (ED’s) throughout the U.S. experienced a dramatic decrease in patient visits during the first surge of COVID-19, followed by an ED patient visit rebound to approximately 80% of pre-COVID-19 numbers, which have remained relatively stable through the current second COVID-19 surge. The pandemic …

Inorganic Nitrogen And Phosphorus In Western European Aerosol And The Significance Of Dry Deposition Flux Into Stratified Shelf Waters, Caroline White, Simon J. Ussher, Mark F. Fitzsimons, Sov Atkinson, E. Malcolm S. Woodward, Mingxi Yang, Thomas G. Bell

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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The Role Of Syrian Television In Addressing Environmental Issues: An Applied Study On The Envirnment And People Program, Ahed Al-Asimi

Al Jinan الجنان

In specifying the problem of this research, the researcher started in analyzing the current situation of environment in Syria which clarify the negative effects caused by the different kinds of pollutants. Therefore, there should be powerful means in order to increase the awareness towards the environmental issues, that means are the mass media. And because television is the most widely spread public media, the researcher wanted to study The Media Role of The Syrian Television In Spreading The Environmental Awareness. The researcher used the survey method in its two different types; "the descriptive and the analytical" in order to analyze …

A History Of Physics At Otterbein University, David G. Robertson

Faculty Books

This is an informal history of the Physics Department at Otterbein, including the story of the natural sciences prior to the founding of the department in 1908.

Growth–Defense Trade-Offs Shape Population Genetic Composition In An Iconic Forest Tree Species, Olivia L. Cope, Ken Keefover-Ring, Eric L. Kruger, Richard L. Lindroth

Aspen Bibliography

All organisms experience fundamental conflicts between divergent metabolic processes. In plants, a pivotal conflict occurs between allocation to growth, which accelerates resource acquisition, and to defense, which protects existing tissue against herbivory. Trade-offs between growth and defense traits are not universally observed, and a central prediction of plant evolutionary ecology is that context-dependence of these trade-offs contributes to the maintenance of intraspecific variation in defense [Züst and Agrawal, Annu. Rev. Plant Biol., 68, 513–534 (2017)]. This prediction has rarely been tested, however, and the evolutionary consequences of growth–defense trade-offs in different environments are poorly understood, especially in long-lived species …

Research, Writing, And Publication: What Do You Want To Know?, Amanda K. Izenstark, Holly Jackson, Linds W. Roberts

Public Services Faculty Presentations

Presentation for the 2021 New England Library Association Annual Conference.

Research, writing, and publication are requirements for many academic library positions, but what about others? Hearing the voices and experiences of librarians across all library types improves the profession as a whole. The conveners of this session collaborated with librarians across the country to publish an article on writing and publication. That team is now considering how to help colleagues find topics, beat procrastination and imposter syndrome, and share their wealth of knowledge with others. This table talk will preview a free program the team is developing to help …

Temporal Geospatial Analysis Of Covid-19 Pre-Infection Determinants Of Risk In South Carolina, Tianchu Lyu, Nicole Hair, Nicholas Yell, Zhenlong Li, Shan Qiao Ph.D., Xiaoming Li Ph.D.

Faculty Publications

Disparities and their geospatial patterns exist in morbidity and mortality of COVID-19 patients. When it comes to the infection rate, there is a dearth of research with respect to the disparity structure, its geospatial characteristics, and the pre-infection determinants of risk (PIDRs). This work aimed to assess the temporal-geospatial associations between PIDRs and COVID-19 infection at the county level in South Carolina. We used the spatial error model (SEM), spatial lag model (SLM), and conditional autoregressive model (CAR) as global models and the geographically weighted regression model (GWR) as a local model. The data were retrieved from multiple sources including …

Daily Eastern News: September 14, 2021, Eastern Illinois University

September

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Gap-Filling Of 8-Day Terra Modis Daytime Land Surface Temperature In High-Latitude Cold Region With Generalized Additive Models (Gam), Dianfan Guo, Cuizhen Wang, Shuying Zang, Jinxi Hua, Zhenghan Lv, Yue Lin

Faculty Publications

Land surface temperature (LST) is a crucial parameter driving the dynamics of the thermal state on land surface. In high-latitude cold region, a long-term, stable LST product is of great importance in examining the distribution and degradation of permafrost under pressure of global warming. In this study, a generalized additive model (GAM) approach was developed to fill the missing pixels of the MODIS/Terra 8-day Land Surface Temperature (MODIS LST) daytime products with the ERA5 Land Skin Temperature (ERA5ST) dataset in a high-latitude watershed in Eurasia. Comparison at valid pixels revealed that the MODIS LST was 4.8–13.0 °C higher than ERA5ST, …

Temporal Geospatial Analysis Of Covid-19 Pre-Infection Determinants Of Risk In South Carolina, Tianchu Lyu, Nicole L. Hair, Nicholas Yell, Zhenlong Li, Shan Qiao, Chen Liang, Xiaoming Li

Faculty Publications

Disparities and their geospatial patterns exist in morbidity and mortality of COVID-19 patients. When it comes to the infection rate, there is a dearth of research with respect to the disparity structure, its geospatial characteristics, and the pre-infection determinants of risk (PIDRs). This work aimed to assess the temporal–geospatial associations between PIDRs and COVID-19 infection at the county level in South Carolina. We used the spatial error model (SEM), spatial lag model (SLM), and conditional autoregressive model (CAR) as global models and the geographically weighted regression model (GWR) as a local model. The data were retrieved from multiple sources including …

Session 1: Water Research: Impacting The Lives Of Kentuckians, Kentucky Water Resources Research Institute, University Of Kentucky

Kentucky Water Resources Annual Symposium

• Investigation and Remediation of an Urban Karst Groundwater Gasoline Leak at Lost River Cave, Bowling Green, Kentucky
• Spatial and Seasonal Variation in Concentrations of Disinfection Byproducts in the Public Drinking Water System of Martin County, Kentucky
• Farmer to Farmer: Virtual Shop Talks
• Solutions Begin with Understanding: Off-the-Grid Communities and Contaminated Karst Groundwater in Southcentral Kentucky*

Proceedings Of 2021 Kentucky Water Resources Annual Symposium, Kentucky Water Resources Research Institute, University Of Kentucky

Kentucky Water Resources Annual Symposium

This symposium was planned and conducted as a part of the state water resources research institute annual program that is supported by Grant/Cooperative Agreement Number G20AS00025 from the United States Geological Survey (USGS). The contents of this proceedings document and the views and conclusions presented at the symposium are solely the responsibility of the individual authors and presenters and do not represent the official views of the USGS or of the symposium organizers and sponsors. This publication is produced with the understanding that the United States Government is authorized to reproduce and distribute reprints for government purposes. Mention of trade …

2021 September 13 - University Council Agenda And Minutes, University Council, East Tennessee State University

University Council Agendas and Minutes

No abstract provided.

Cseas Weekly Bulletin (September 13, 2021), Center For Southeast Asian Studies

CSEAS Bulletin

No abstract provided.

Crow's Nest, September 13, 2021, Crow's Nest Staff

Crow's Nest

The September 13, 2021, issue of the Crow's Nest.

Real-Time Geospatial Analysis Identifies Gaps In Covid-19 Vaccination In A Minority Population, Cici Bauer, Kehe Zhang, Miryoung Lee, Michelle Jones, Arturo Rodriguez, Isela De La Cerda, Belinda Reininger, Susan P Fisher-Hoch, Joseph B Mccormick

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

COVID-19 vaccination is being rapidly rolled out in the US and many other countries, and it is crucial to provide fast and accurate assessment of vaccination coverage and vaccination gaps to make strategic adjustments promoting vaccine coverage. We reported the effective use of real-time geospatial analysis to identify barriers and gaps in COVID-19 vaccination in a minority population living in South Texas on the US-Mexico Border, to inform vaccination campaign strategies. We developed 4 rank-based approaches to evaluate the vaccination gap at the census tract level, which considered both population vulnerability and vaccination priority and eligibility. We identified areas with …

Chimes: September 13, 2021, Calvin University

Chimes

Freshman enrollment sees first growth in eight years by Harm Venhuizen

Calvin puts up historic numbers in 13-0 win over Finlandia by Jamison Van Andel

Student organizations experience loss in numbers due to COVID-19, chartering process confusion by Grace Toma

Presidential Search Committee hunts for new hire by Abigail Ham

Top five ways to get out and exercise while at Calvin by Jamison Van Andel

New art installations offer break from first semester stress by Ezra Craker

NSF grant funds STEM ambassadors, builds interdepartmental community by Timothy Lin

Faith, science and self-determination: the long history of vaccine hesitancy by Michaela …