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A New Species Of Chrysina Kirby (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae) From The Sierra Madre Occidental Of Mexico, With Notes On The Type Locality Of Chrysina Adelaida (Hope, 1841), David C. Robacker, David C. Hawks, Naidely Castillo, Brianna Miranda

Insecta Mundi

This paper presents a taxonomic review of the genus Boreocanthon Halffter, restored generic sta­tus, a group of ball-rolling (telocoprid) dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) endemic to North America. The genus, heretofore treated as a subgenus of Canthon, comprises 13 species, each keyed, diagnosed, illustrated and presented with information on distribution, relationships, and biology (*signifies restored generic combination): *Boreocanthon ateuchiceps (Bates, 1887); B. coahuilensis (Howden, 1966); *B. depressipennis (LeConte, 1859c); *B. ebenus (Say, 1823); *B. forreri (Bates, 1887); *B. integricollis (Schaef­fer, 1915); *B. lecontei (Harold, 1868); …

Population Trajectory And Stressors Of Acropora Palmata Sites In The Florida Keys, Karen L. Neely, Kevin A. Macaulay, Kate S. Lunz

Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles

The decline of elkhorn coral, Acropora palmata, has been ongoing for decades, but the causes of decline and the resulting population status continue to be topics of study. Past efforts to categorize stressors have ranged from spatially and/or temporally focused efforts that detect local stressors but may miss broader patterns to meta-analyses that identify large-scale trends but may not account for finer-scale variability. We here conduct an analysis of sites surveyed across five years (2010-2015) and much of the Florida Reef Tract in order to look at large-scale patterns while also accounting for site, habitat, seasonal, and annual variability. …

Emotional Perspectives On Existential Threat: Evaluating The Rationality Of Climate Anxiety, Rachael Lange

Honors Program: Senior Projects (Public)

This thesis seeks to answer the following question: Is climate anxiety a rational emotion? In order to arrive at an answer, several queries embedded in the main question must be addressed. This paper will outline a theory of emotion in order to define anxiety, assess climate change as a specific emotional object, and compare the rationality of anxiety using two evaluative standards. Climate anxiety is an emerging emotional phenomenon experienced in response to the perceived detrimental effects of a warming climate. Due to the novel identification of this contemporary emotional phenomenon with the established emotion of anxiety, there has thus …

Ethical Negotiation And Postcapitalist Politics: An Essay For Carrie, Amy J. Cohen

Texas A&M Law Review

In a 1983 article, Legal Negotiation: A Study of Strategies in Search of a Theory, Carrie Menkel-Meadow took stock of what was motivating a diverse range of scholars to want to reimagine negotiation theory. She described these negotiation scholars as shaped by the exigencies of their own political moments. Some were lawyers concerned about too much litigation of an unsatisfying quality. Many, however, were concerned more broadly about “the general level of hostility in the world,” even haunted by the possibility that nuclear weapons could destroy all of humanity. Negotiation scholars included “[e]conomists and game theorists . . . concerned …

Brazil's Family Health Strategy: An Examination Of The Experience Of Community Health Workers And Their Impact On The Commonwealth, Ximena Perez-Velazco

The Winthrop McNair Research Bulletin

This study explores the experience of community health workers―front line public health workers― who provide low-level health intervention as they are integrated into multidisciplinary teams of health professionals, under the constitution of Brazil’s Family Health strategy, a policy established in order to provide universal primary care in Brazil. Furthermore, this research looks into how the community health workers’ role in bridging the gap between the public health efforts and the commonwealth initiates health literacy and health practices within the community and the CHWs themselves. There is little to no research on the subject of community health workers’ physical or mental …

Critical Inquiry, Conceptual Clarity, And Contextual Limits. A Response To “Re-Centering Civics: A Framework For Building Dispositions And Action Opportunities”, Peter M. Nelson, Avner Segall

Democracy & Education

In Re-centering Civics: A Framework for Building Dispositions and Action Opportunities, the authors presented a framework to help social studies teachers in any subject or grade level re-center civic education. The authors’ article draws from the C3 Framework and C3Teachers.org to offer six civic dispositions teachers might focus on cultivating with their students, and the article highlights ways in which student engagements with any historical inquiry might be steered toward real-world civic action. In this response, we underscore the strengths of Re-centering Civics while also outlining a necessary, critical attention to the concepts undergirding the authors’ framework. Our response …

Refocusing The Agenda Of Public Education: District Mission Statements And The Manners Of Democracy As A Way Of Life, Robert V. Bullough

Democracy & Education

Mission statements and public statements of values are widely recognized as important for educational improvement, even if often ignored. The mission statements and supporting documents of Utah's 41 school districts were analyzed to locate prominent themes and significant omissions. An unexpected and disturbing neglect of democratic citizenship aims was found. Recognizing democracy is a complex educational ideal, the author argues for refocusing mission aims on the distinctive qualities of democracy as a way of life to be lived in schools by identifying for both modeling and practice across the curriculum the distinctive manners of democracy beginning with but moving beyond …

Reconstituting Teacher Education: Toward Wholeness In An Era Of Monumental Challenges, Jessica E. Masterson, Lauren Gatti

Democracy & Education

Speaking to the political and social upheaval of our present moment, and drawing on discourses of democratic education, we argue that the U.S.’s racial reckoning propelled by recent events constitutes a sort of “founding” for our democracy and that this founding has important implications for reconfiguring citizenship within institutions and practices of teacher education. In building this argument, the authors articulate the aims of teacher education in a democracy and expand upon political scientist Danielle Allen’s theoretical concepts of "sacrifice," "reconstitution," and "wholeness," demonstrating their urgent utility within our “thinning” democracy (Hess & McAvoy, 2015). We then draw on relevant …

Advancing The Scholarship And Practice Of Stakeholder Engagement In Working Landscapes: A Co‑Produced Research Agenda, Weston M. Eaton, Morey Burnham, Tahnee Robertson, J. G. Arbuckle, Kathryn J. Brasier, Mark E. Burbach, Sarah P. Church, Georgia Hart-Fredeluces, Douglas Jackson-Smith, Grace Wildermuth, Katherine N. Canfield, Carolina Córdova, Casey D. Chatelain, Lara B. Fowler, Mennatullah Mohamed Zein Elabdeen Hendway, Christine J. Kirchhoff, Marisa K. Manheim, Rubén O. Martinez, Anne Mook, Christina A. Mullin, A. Laurie Murrah-Hanson, Christiana O. Onabola, Lauren E. Parker, Elizabeth A. Redd, Chelsea Schelly, Michael L. Schoon, W. Adam Sigler, Emily Smit, Tiff Van Huysen, Michelle R. Worosz, Carrie Eberly, Andi Rogers

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

Participatory approaches to science and decision making, including stakeholder engagement, are increasingly common for managing complex socio-ecological challenges in working landscapes. However, critical questions about stakeholder engagement in this space remain. These include normative, political, and ethical questions concerning who participates, who benefits and loses, what good can be accomplished, and for what, whom, and by who. First, opportunities for addressing justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion interests through engagement, while implied in key conceptual frameworks, remain underexplored in scholarly work and collaborative practice alike. A second line of inquiry relates to research–practice gaps. While both the practice of doing engagement …

2022.10.13 - Academic/Student Affairs, Enrollment, And Technology Committee Meeting Minutes, Northeastern Illinois University Board Of Trustees

Board of Trustees - 2022

Meeting materials for the NEIU Academic/Student Affairs, Enrollment, and Technology Committee

Meteor Radar Vertical Wind Observation Biases And Mathematical Debiasing Strategies Including The 3dvar+Div Algorithm, Alan Z. Liu, Zishun Qiao, Gunter Stober, Alexander Kozlovsky, Ales Kuchar, Christoph Jacobi, Chris Meek, Diego Janches, Guiping Liu, Masaki Tsutsumi, Njål Gulbrandsen, Satonori Nozawa, Mark Lester, Evgenia Belova, Johan Kero, Nicholas Mitchell

Publications

Meteor radars have become widely used instruments to study atmospheric dynamics, particularly in the 70 to 110 km altitude region. These systems have been proven to provide reliable and continuous measurements of horizontal winds in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere. Recently, there have been many attempts to utilize specular and/or transverse scatter meteor measurements to estimate vertical winds and vertical wind variability. In this study we investigate potential biases in vertical wind estimation that are intrinsic to the meteor radar observation geometry and scattering mechanism, and we introduce a mathematical debiasing process to mitigate them. This process makes use of …

Timing Of Tectonic And Magmatic Events In The Philippine Sea Plate Since 50 Ma From High‐Resolution Magnetostratigraphy Of Iodp Site U1438, M Maffione, A Morris

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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The Chernobyl Nuclear Meltdown And Health Complications Among The Citizens Of Pripyat, Elizabeth A. Tarter

PANDION: The Osprey Journal of Research and Ideas

On April 25, 1986, reactor number 4 in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near the city Pripyat went into a catastrophic meltdown. In the aftermath of the atomic disaster, the Soviet government misrepresented the severity of the danger to those who lived in the immediate area near the plant. This paper uses medical studies and firsthand accounts to argue that the meltdown at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant and the delay of government involvement resulted in lifelong negative impacts on the lives and health of Pripyat citizens and neighboring towns.

Creating The Cultural “Other”: Ableism, Racism, And Imperialism In The 19th And 20th Centuries, Stephanie Baskin

PANDION: The Osprey Journal of Research and Ideas

This project argues that disability and physical difference were simultaneously both sensationalized and hidden in the United States and the United Kingdom, while also being overemphasized in non-Western countries, with the intention of evoking either revulsion, a sense of racial superiority, or pity, all of which was used as justification for Western imperialism. In order to make this argument, the project looks at varying attitudes and actions toward the disabled, physically different, and visibly ill in the U.K. and U.S.A., as well as the varying attitudes and actions toward the disabled, physically different, and visibly ill in the broader imperial …

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Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

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Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

Message of the Joseph Smith Papyri,edited by John Gee and Michael Rhodes, is a second edition of Hugh Nibley’s 1975 book of the same title on the Egyptian endowment. It is still the only book-length treatment of the important Egyptian text now known as the “Document of Breathings Made by Isis,” a copy of which was found among the Joseph Smith Papyri. The new edition features previously excised material, corrections of numerous typographical errors, improved illustrations, and accurate placement of illustrations in the text. This book, published jointly with Deseret Book, is now at press after years of intense effort. …

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Library Of Congress Hosts Academic Conference On Joseph Smith, Part 2

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

This report covers the proceedings of the second day of “The Worlds of Joseph Smith,” an academic conference held on 6–7 May 2005 at the Library of Congress, in Washington DC, in recognition of the bicentennial of the Prophet Joseph Smith’s birth. For a report of the first day of proceedings, see the article in Insights 25/3 (2005).

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Lehi’S Journey Of Faith Topic Of Farms Documentary

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

FARMS has teamed with award-winning Latter-day Saint filmmaker Peter Johnson to produce a documentary on Lehi and company’s route from Jerusalem to the New World.

Based on the most recent research, the 90-min-ute DVD documentary will feature Latter-day Saint scholars commenting on proposed sites for the party’s first base camp near the Red Sea; Nahom, where Ishmael was buried; and Bountiful, the fertile coast-al locale where Nephi directed the building of his ship. The documentary will also feature the latest findings on Lehi’s ocean voyage and explore candidates for Book of Mormon sites in Mesoamerica.

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Farms Review Probes Geography, Papyri, Isaiah, Creation, And More

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

The latest FARMS Review (vol. 16, no. 2, 2004) is another weighty issue flush with articles covering a wide array of interesting topics. In the lineup are reviews of works on Book of Mormon geography, de-Christianization of the Old Testament, the Joseph Smith Papyri, Isaiah’s central message, Jerusalem in Lehi’s day, creation theology, gospel symbolism, and the Christian countercult movement. Also included are two freestanding essays, one older article of lasting appeal (initiating a new feature in the Review), book notes, a 2003 Book of Mormon bibliography, and the editor’s top picks of recent publications. A foretaste of the many …

Latest Addition To The Collected Works Of Hugh Nibley Series

Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship

FARMS is pleased to announce the release of a new volume of previously unpublished class lectures by celebrated Latter-day Saint scholar Hugh Nibley, who recently passed away at age 94. Apostles and Bishops in Early Christianity, volume 15 in the Collected Works of Hugh Nibley series, comprises Nibley’s finely detailed lecture notes for a course he taught at Brigham Young University in 1954 on the office of bishop in the early Christian church.

إقليم ورش صيانة السيارات في مدينة بعقوبة دراسة في جغرافية المدن, م.م. علي عبد محمود

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

تتوزع في مدينة بعقوبة عددُ من ورش صيانة السيارات ويقع اكبر تركز لها في حي المعلمين، والحي الصناعي غرب المدينة ، ويعود ذلك إلى حاجة هذه الورش إلى المواد الاحتياطية التي تتركز في حي المعلمين ، وقد يذهب إلى هذه الورش أصحاب السيارات من مختلف نواحي محافظة ديالى وأقضيتها ، ومن خلال الدراسة الميدانية ابتداءَ من 12ـ27/3/2019 حدد الباحث إقليمين هما الإقليم الكثيف والإقليم الواسع اعتماداً على محل سكن المراجعين إلى الورش الصناعية في مدينة بعقوبة مستبعداَ أصحاب السيارات الذين يسكنون مدينة بعقوبة كونهم لا يمثلون إقليم المدينة ، وقد تبين أن هناك تبايناً في حدود الإقليم الكثيف والواسع بين …

الاجتياح الياباني للفِلِبِّين (كانون الأول 1941- آيار 1942) دراسة تأريخية, أ.م.د.وسام هادي عكار

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

أحتلتْ الفِلِبِّين موقعاً إستراتيجياً مهماً بالنسبة لليابان, وغدتْ الهيمنة عليها ضروري لمواصلة حركة التوسع الياباني عند نشوب الحرب العالية الثانية، إذ عكستْ خصوصيات الموقع الإستراتيجي والاقتصادي في جزر المحيط الهادئ وبلدان جنوب شرق آسيا، أهمية الأثر الذي تسعى اليابان لشغله، بهدف الاستحواذ على مقدرات تلك المنطقة. كما كشفتْ عن احد الأسباب الرئيسة لسعي الولايات المتحدة الأميركية لمنافسة اليابان من أجل الحصول على مصادر المواد الخام والأسواق الكبيرة ذات الكثافة السكانية والاستهلاكية العاليتين، وهو ما حول بلدان جنوب شرق أسيا عموماً؛ والفِلِبِّين على وجه الخصوص إلى منطقة صراع على النفوذ بين اليابان والولايات المتحدة الأميركية.

جاء هذا البحث لُيسلط الضوء على …

Approved Engineering Technology And Management Site Review October 11, 2022, Angela Brock

Program Review Committee

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Nationwide Public Perceptions Regarding The Acceptance Of Using Wastewater For Community Health Monitoring In The United States., A. Scott Lajoie, Asli Aslan, Rochelle H. Holm, Lauren B. Anderson, Heather D. Ness, Ted Smith

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

To assess the levels of infection across communities during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, researchers have measured severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 RNA in feces dissolved in sewer water. This activity is colloquially known as sewer monitoring and is referred to as wastewater-based epidemiology in academic settings. Although global ethical principles have been described, sewer monitoring is unregulated for health privacy protection when used for public health surveillance in the United States. This study used Qualtrics XM, a national research panel provider, to recruit participants to answer an online survey. Respondents (N = 3,083) answered questions about their knowledge, …

Language Proficiency And Use Of Interpreters/Translators In Fieldwork: A Survey Of Us-Based Anthropologists And Sociologists, Katarzyna Sepielak, Dawid K. Wladyka, William Yaworsky

Sociology Faculty Publications

The proficiency in vernacular has long been a methodological ethos pervasive among field researchers and—despite new dynamics of fieldwork—still overshadows discussions related to collaboration with translators and interpreters, which are either marginalized or hidden within the category of a ‘research assistant’. The purpose of this study is to take a step beyond anecdotal evidence and explore trends in language proficiency and use of translation services among US based field researchers who had conducted international or domestic studies in an area where a language other than English was present. We conducted the largest-to-date survey on the subject and analyzed 913 responses …

الخصائص الهيدروجيومورفولوجية لنهر الفرات بين هيت والفلوجة, الأستاذ الدكتور خلف حسين علي الدليمي, المدرس المساعد سحر عبد جاسم الجميلي

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

ان دراسة الخصائص الهيدرولوجية والجيومورفولوجية لمجاري الانهار في أي مكان تتواجد فيه مهمة جدا لعلاقتها بشكل مباشر

بالنشاط البشري بكل انواعه،لغرض التعرف على كمية المياه الجارية في النهر ومدى تغير تلك الكمية بتغير فصول السنة،كما يتم التعرف على الخصائص النوعية للنهر،سواء الكيميائية او الفيزيائية، لغرض بيان مدى صلاحية تلك المياه سواء للاستعمال البشري المباشر او الانشطة المختلفة، ففي هذا البحث تم تناول دراسة جزء من نهر الفرات بين هيت والفلوجة ضمن محافظة الانبار، وقد ضم البحث خمسة مباحث هي:

المبحث الاول موقع منطقة الدراسة، المبحث الثاني الخصائص لمجرى نهر الفرات، المبحث الثالث الخصائص الكمية والنوعية لمياه نهر الفرات في منطقة …

تحليل الخصائص المورفومترية ودلالاتها الهيدرولوجية في حوض ذاراوة شمال شرق العراق وامكانية استغلال مياهه في مشاريع الحصاد المائي, تبلغ مساحة الدكتور أحمد فليح فياض اللهيبي

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

تبلغ مساحة حوض ذاراوة (335كم2)ويصنف الحوض من حيث المساحة من الاحواض الكبيرة الاقليمية، وان لهذا الامتداد المساحي ونوع المناخ السائد (شبه رطب الى رطب) يوفر كميات جيدة من التصاريف المائية يمكن استغلالها في عملية الري التكميلي، وانشاء تقانات الحصاد المائي. كما اشارت جميع الخصائص الشكلية، الى ابتعاد اشكال الاحواض من الاشكال الدائرية المنتظمة، واقترابها من الاشكال المستطيلة والثلاثية، وهذا مؤشر الى انتظام التصريف المائي، وتوالى وصول الموجات المائية، من المنابع الى المصبات، الا ان لهذه الاشكال الطولية للأحواض مساوئ منها زيادة الفاقد من المياه عن طريق التبخر والترشيح، كما تشير هذه الاشكال المستطيلة الى انخفاض دلالة خطر الفيضانات، وبالتالي قلة …