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U.S. Drought Monitor, October 2, 2018

United States Agricultural Commodities in Drought Archive

U.S. Drought Monitor, October 2, 2018

U.S. Drought Monitor, October 16, 2018

United States Agricultural Commodities in Drought Archive

U.S. Drought Monitor, October 16, 2018

U.S. Drought Monitor, October 23, 2018

United States Agricultural Commodities in Drought Archive

U.S. Drought Monitor, October 23, 2018

U.S. Drought Monitor, November 13, 2019

United States Agricultural Commodities in Drought Archive

U.S. Drought Monitor, November 13, 2019

U.S. Drought Monitor, November 20, 2018

United States Agricultural Commodities in Drought Archive

U.S. Drought Monitor, November 20, 2018

U.S. Drought Monitor, November 27, 2018

United States Agricultural Commodities in Drought Archive

U.S. Drought Monitor, November 27, 2018

U.S. Drought Monitor, December 11, 2018

United States Agricultural Commodities in Drought Archive

U.S. Drought Monitor, December 11, 2018

U.S. Drought Monitor, December 18, 2018

United States Agricultural Commodities in Drought Archive

U.S. Drought Monitor, December 18, 2018

The Great War And Lake Superior Part 2, Russell M. Magnaghi

Upper Country: A Journal of the Lake Superior Region

This two-part article documents World War I’s influence in the Lake Superior Basin, in both Canada and the United States. It examines how the Great War affected Native Americans, recent immigrants, and the host society, with an emphasis on rumored and actual sabotage activities. It likewise explores vigilantism and regional responses. The War also engendered food production, scrap metal drives, and other habits of resource. These and other activities, designed to further the war effort in the Lake Superior region, are also studied. This final part of the two-part article focuses on recruitment, transportation, mining, and industry among other topics.

Hopkins, A.G.: American Empire: A Global History, L. M. Lees

History Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Droughtscape, Winter 2018, National Drought Mitigation Center

DroughtScape: Quarterly Newsletter of the National Drought Mitigation Center (2007–2023)

Contents

Year in review: Drought eased in California, developed in Northern Plains

Quarterly Summary: Drought creeps across the country

Annual impact summary: A year of wildfires

Quarterly impact summary: Drought expands in Texas, Colorado

Drought and water crisis book updated

U.S. Drought Monitor available in Spanish

Study shows cities step up when drought occurs

New staff at the NDMC

Drought Summit in photos

U.S. Drought Monitor, January 9, 2018

United States Agricultural Commodities in Drought Archive

U.S. Drought Monitor, January 9, 2018

U.S. Drought Monitor, March 27, 2018

United States Agricultural Commodities in Drought Archive

U.S. Drought Monitor, March 27, 2018

U.S. Drought Monitor, April 17, 2018

United States Agricultural Commodities in Drought Archive

U.S. Drought Monitor, April 17, 2018

U.S. Drought Monitor, May 22, 2018

United States Agricultural Commodities in Drought Archive

U.S. Drought Monitor, May 22, 2018

U.S. Drought Monitor, June 26, 2018

United States Agricultural Commodities in Drought Archive

U.S. Drought Monitor, June 26, 2018

U.S. Drought Monitor, July 24, 2018

United States Agricultural Commodities in Drought Archive

U.S. Drought Monitor, July 24, 2018

U.S. Drought Monitor, September 4, 2018

United States Agricultural Commodities in Drought Archive

U.S. Drought Monitor, September 4, 2018

U.S. Drought Monitor, December 4, 2018

United States Agricultural Commodities in Drought Archive

U.S. Drought Monitor, December 4, 2018

U.S. Drought Monitor, December 25, 2018

United States Agricultural Commodities in Drought Archive

U.S. Drought Monitor, December 25, 2018

U.S. Drought Monitor, October 9, 2018

United States Agricultural Commodities in Drought Archive

U.S. Drought Monitor, October 9, 2018

2018 Constitution Day Essay Contest 2nd Place, Courtney Vice

Constitution Day Essay Contest

No abstract provided.

When The Clocks Strike Thirteen: Political Repression In Modern America (1990-2015), Faiza Begani

Honors Undergraduate Theses

Abounding acts of repression committed in democracies have continued to be overlooked and under-analyzed by many researchers and scholars due to "democratic exceptionalism". As the United States enters yet another consecutive year of declining political satisfaction and freedom. It has become pertinent that as conflict study researchers, scholars, and readers alike that there is a basic understanding of coercion including acts that have been committed within our own countries. Countless scholars have focused conflict study research on underdeveloped or emerging democracies, yet many have overlooked the seamy side of developed ones. This article aims to explain the relationship between the …

Analysis Of Current Thyroid Function Test Ordering Practices, Joseph K. Kluesner, Darrick J. Beckman, Joshua M. Tate, Alexis A. Beauvais, Maria I. Kravchenko, Jana L. Wardian Phd, Sky D. Graybill, Jeffrey A. Colburn, Irene Folaron, Mark W. True

Journal Articles: Hospital Medicine

RATIONALE: Current guidelines recommend thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) alone as the best test to detect and monitor thyroid dysfunction, yet free thyroxine (FT4) and free triiodothyronine (FT3) are commonly ordered when not clinically indicated. Excessive testing can lead to added economic burden in an era of rising healthcare costs, while rarely contributing to the evaluation or management of thyroid disease.

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate our institution's practice in ordering thyroid function tests (TFTs) and to identify strategies to reduce inappropriate FT4 and FT3 testing.

METHODS: A record of all TFTs obtained in the San Antonio Military Health System during a 3-month …

Banking On Remittances? How Bank Account Possession In The United States Affects Mexican Migrants Sending Money Home, Elizabeth Durden

Faculty Journal Articles

Data from 154 different Mexican communities, housed within the Mexican Migration Project (mmp), is used to explore the influence of U.S. assimilation on a Mexican migrant’s propensity to remit money back to Mexico. A migrant opening a U.S. bank account is employed as a proxy for assimilation. Sociodemographic, U.S. migration, and Mexican community control variables are included. It is found that a migrant opening a bank account during the last U.S. migration is associated with a reduced probability of remitting money back to Mexico, suggesting a shift in social and economic activity from Mexico to the U.S. for migrants abroad

Bankruptcy Law—Rethinking The Discharge Of Late-Filed Taxes In Consumer Bankruptcy, Justin H. Dion, Barbara Curatolo

Western New England Law Review

The 2005 amendments to the Bankruptcy Code, Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act (BAPCPA) was enacted in order to improve bankruptcy law. However, BAPCPA has made the issue of whether late-filed taxes are dischargeable even murkier than before the amendments. After BAPCPA, some courts continued to analyze claims as they had before the amendment. Others used a “one-day-late rule” that prevented late-filed taxes from being dischargeable—even if the taxes were filed only one day late. This Article suggests a different approach. It argues that the legislature intended tax debt associated with late-filed income tax returns be dischargeable if the …

Constitutional Law/Reproductive Justice—Breaking The Trap: How Whole Woman’S Health Protects Abortion Access, And The Substantive Due Process Clause’S Rebuke Of Anti-Abortion Regulations, Chelsea M. Donaldson

Western New England Law Review

The Fourteenth Amendment’s Substantive Due Process Clause is a powerful sword that protects certain rights and liberties. Most of these non-fundamental rights are examined underneath the “rational basis” standard of constitutional review. Despite being a right protected underneath the Substantive Due Process Clause, abortion stands alone in using a unique form of constitutional review: Planned Parenthood v. Casey’s “undue burden” standard.

The striking down of Roe v. Wade’s trimester analysis, and the subsequent creation of the “undue burden” standard, resulted in a catastrophic tidal wave of targeted regulations against abortion providers (TRAP laws). One such TRAP law, House Bill 2 …

Marijuana/Constitutional Law—State Ballot Reforms 2016: The Ramifications On Probable Cause In Massachusetts With Legal Marijuana Cultivation In The Home, Jacob T. Winniman

Western New England Law Review

2016 was a monumental year for state sovereignty regarding marijuana regulation. A total of nine states voted on marijuana reforms, with five deciding whether to legalize recreational use. Among them, Massachusetts voters came together in a display of democracy to end their decades long prohibition on recreational marijuana possession, distribution, and cultivation with a “Yes” on Question 4. By doing so, Massachusetts, as well as California, Alaska, and Nevada, joined the four other states in the Union to have legalized recreational marijuana, Colorado, the District of Columbia, Oregon, and Washington. As Massachusetts implements their marijuana reform, law enforcement faces a …

Higher Education Law—The Negative Effects Of Student Loans: A Plea For Impacted Students, Kelly A. Bednarz

Western New England Law Review

Throughout the United States, college enrollment has overwhelmingly increased, reaching its peak in 2010 with approximately twenty million students. Due to the expanded accessibility to attend college through the Department of Education’s higher education programs, the ability to attend college is no longer solely for the elite. This rapid growth, however, has created additional challenges. Despite the evolving higher education demand, government regulations and oversight have mostly remained stagnant. Colleges began to capitalize and take advantage of this market, prompting the rise of for-profit colleges. In 2012, about 12 percent of students attended for-profit colleges, as opposed to the 0.2 …

National Security, Islamophobia, And Religious Freedom In The U.S., Rosemary Hancock

Arts Papers and Journal Articles

A central argument in Hurd’s (2015) Beyond Religious Freedom is that the religious freedom policy framework pursued by the United States not only entrenches lines of division between religious faiths, but also is constructive of those very divisions. Where foreign and domestic policies purport to promote tolerance and respectful pluralism in the name of religious freedom, Hurd (2015, 41) contends they instead create ‘new forms of social friction defined by religious difference.’ Utilizing Hurd’s (2015) categories of Official, Governed, and Lived religion I examine Islamophobia and the racialization of Muslims in the United States and demonstrate how over-identification with religious …