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Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 31, Issue 1, Florida Historical Society Sep 2020

Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 31, Issue 1, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Pensacola Indian Trade Peter A. Brannon
A Voyage to the Miami Region in 1793 Richard K. Murdoch
Settlers from Connecticut in Spanish Florida, 1808-1816 Robert E. Rutherford (ed.)
Book Reviews:

  • Varner, “The Florida of the Inca” Charlton W. Tebeau
  • Rouse, “A Survey of Indian River Archeology”
  • Ferguson, “Chronology at South Indian Field” Frederick W. Sleight
  • Stanley, “A History of Jackson County” J. E. Dovell

The Historical Association of Southern Florida
The Florida Historical Society

  • The annual meeting
  • The program
  • Minutes
  • Report of the treasurer
  • New officials
  • New members
  • Rembert W. Patrick, Associate Editor

Contributors to this number
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Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 30, Issue 3, Florida Historical Society Sep 2020

Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 30, Issue 3, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Education in St. Augustine 1821-1845 Frank G. Lewis
The Early Career of Edwin T. Jenckes A Florida Pioneer of the 1830’s Earl C. Tanner
The Addison Blockhouse John W. Griffin
Arizona Apaches as “Guests” in Florida Omega G. East Albert C. Manucy
Book reviews:

  • Murdoch, “The Georgia-Florida Frontier, 1793-1796” Jesse L. Keene
  • Transportation in Florida

Local and regional historical societies:

  • Historical Association of Southern Florida
  • Jacksonville Historical Society
  • Tallahassee Historical Society

Florida Historical Society
Contributors to this number


Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 26, Issue 4, Florida Historical Society Sep 2020

Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 26, Issue 4, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Secession in Florida-Pensacola on its Own Documents, letters, and other papers
Comte de Castelnau in Middle Florida, 1837-1838 Translated by Arthur R. Seymour
Governor Cespedes and the Religious Problem in East Florida, 1786-1787 Richard K. Murdoch
The Siege of St. Augustine in 1702 A report to the King of Spain by the governor of East Florida Translated by Mark F. Boyd
A New Collier County Map John M. Goggin
Currency and Banking in Florida
The Florida Historical Society

  • The annual meeting
  • Minutes
  • Report of the treasurer
  • Membership report
  • Accessions to the Library


Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 26, Issue 3, Florida Historical Society Sep 2020

Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 26, Issue 3, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Essay on Middle Florida (Essai sur la Floride du Milieu) Comte de Castelnau Translated by Arthur R. Seymour Foreword by Mark F. Boyd
Flagler’s Associates in East Florida Development S. Walter Martin
Tequesta: The Journal of the Historical Association of Southern Florida, No. 7, 1947
Book review: Douglas, “The Everglades : River of Grass” J. E. Dovell
The Florida Historical Society

  • The membership campaign
  • The annual meeting with the Jacksonville Historical Society
  • New members
  • Accessions to the Library


Negative Consequences Of Innovation-Igniting Urban Developments: Empirical Evidence From Three Us Cities, Ahoura Zandiatashbar, Carla Maria Kayanan Sep 2020

Negative Consequences Of Innovation-Igniting Urban Developments: Empirical Evidence From Three Us Cities, Ahoura Zandiatashbar, Carla Maria Kayanan

Faculty Publications, Urban and Regional Planning

Emergent economic development policies reflect the challenges urban growth coalitions face in attracting the footloose tech-entrepreneurs of the global economy. This convergence between the focus on place and the harnessing of global capital has led to the proliferation of innovation-igniting urban developments (IIUD)—place-based economic development strategies to boost the local knowledge economy. Economic developers are using IIUD strategies to convert areas of the city into entrepreneurial “launch pads” for innovation. However, because these developments remain young, considerations to implement IIUDs lack an evidence-base to show the potential for negative consequences on the communities where they are embedded. This research addresses …


Techs And The Cities: A New Economic Development Paradigm?, Gary Sands, Pierre Filion, Laura A. Reese Sep 2020

Techs And The Cities: A New Economic Development Paradigm?, Gary Sands, Pierre Filion, Laura A. Reese

Urban Studies and Planning Faculty Research Publications

Large technology firms pose new challenges for local economic development in the 21st century. They are attractive targets for local economic developers because they have the potential of providing permanent, well-paying jobs. This article examines two mega-economic development deals. Amazon’s proposed second headquarters in Queens and Sidewalk Labs’ Quayside proposal for the Toronto waterfront pit large and prosperous Big Tech firms against local governments with healthy economies. Amazon abandoned the New York City site it had chosen, rather than open new negotiations with local officials and citizens. Sidewalk Labs withdrew from the Quayside proposal after two and a half years …


Property Value Impacts Of Commercial-Scale Solar Energy In Massachusetts And Rhode Island, Vasundhara Gaur, Corey Lang Sep 2020

Property Value Impacts Of Commercial-Scale Solar Energy In Massachusetts And Rhode Island, Vasundhara Gaur, Corey Lang

Environmental and Natural Resource Economics Working Papers

While utility-scale solar energy is important for reducing dependence on fossil fuels, solar arrays use significant amounts of land (about 5 acres per MW of capacity), and may create local land use disamenities. This paper seeks to quantify the externalities from nearby solar arrays using the hedonic method. We study the states of Massachusetts and Rhode Island, which have high population densities and ambitious renewable energy goals. We observe over 400,000 transactions within three miles of a solar site. Using a difference-in-differences, repeat sales identification strategy, results suggest that houses within one mile depreciate 1.7% following construction of a solar …


“She’S Me”: An Exploration Of Pet Ownership From The Perspective Of People Who Are Homeless, Lana Parker, Leonie Boland, Alison Warren Sep 2020

“She’S Me”: An Exploration Of Pet Ownership From The Perspective Of People Who Are Homeless, Lana Parker, Leonie Boland, Alison Warren

People and Animals: The International Journal of Research and Practice

For many people who experience homelessness, having a pet is an important part of their lives. Although the benefit and meaning of pet ownership has been well recognized in the literature, few studies have explored its meaning from the perspectives of individuals who are homeless. This qualitative study explored the meaning of pet ownership from the perspectives of three men who previously or currently owned a pet while experiencing homelessness. In line with the chosen methodology, interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA), semi-structured, in- depth interviews explored the phenomena of pet ownership. This paper is based on one of three themes from …


Trainable Structure Tensors For Autonomous Baggage Threat Detection Under Extreme Occlusion, Taimur Hassan, Samet Akçay, Mohammed Bennamoun, Salman Khan, Naoufel Werghi Sep 2020

Trainable Structure Tensors For Autonomous Baggage Threat Detection Under Extreme Occlusion, Taimur Hassan, Samet Akçay, Mohammed Bennamoun, Salman Khan, Naoufel Werghi

Computer Vision Faculty Publications

Detecting baggage threats is one of the most difficult tasks, even for expert officers. Many researchers have developed computer-aided screening systems to recognize these threats from the baggage X-ray scans. However, all of these frameworks are limited in identifying the contraband items under extreme occlusion. This paper presents a novel instance segmentation framework that utilizes trainable structure tensors to highlight the contours of the occluded and cluttered contraband items (by scanning multiple predominant orientations), while simultaneously suppressing the irrelevant baggage content. The proposed framework has been extensively tested on four publicly available X-ray datasets where it outperforms the state-of-the-art frameworks …


Kidogo: Addressing The Childcare Needs Of Low-Income Families In East Africa, Jill Howard, Fiona Wilson, E. Hachemi Aliouche Sep 2020

Kidogo: Addressing The Childcare Needs Of Low-Income Families In East Africa, Jill Howard, Fiona Wilson, E. Hachemi Aliouche

Carsey Publications

In this white paper, authors Jill Howard, Fiona Wilson, and E. Hachemi Aliouche explore how Kidogo, an innovative East African social enterprise, is harnessing the power of social sector franchising. By discussing Kidogo’s combination of best-practice early childhood Centres of Excellence with a social franchising method that supports the quality improvement and growth of local childcare micro-businesses, the authors provide insight into Kidogo’s expansion and success and look forward to the future of the organization.


Understanding The Impact Of Antibiotic Perturbation On The Human Microbiome, Drew J Schwartz, Amy E Langdon, Gautam Dantas Sep 2020

Understanding The Impact Of Antibiotic Perturbation On The Human Microbiome, Drew J Schwartz, Amy E Langdon, Gautam Dantas

2020-Current year OA Pubs

The human gut microbiome is a dynamic collection of bacteria, archaea, fungi, and viruses that performs essential functions for immune development, pathogen colonization resistance, and food metabolism. Perturbation of the gut microbiome's ecological balance, commonly by antibiotics, can cause and exacerbate diseases. To predict and successfully rescue such perturbations, first, we must understand the underlying taxonomic and functional dynamics of the microbiome as it changes throughout infancy, childhood, and adulthood. We offer an overview of the healthy gut bacterial architecture over these life stages and comment on vulnerability to short and long courses of antibiotics. Second, the resilience of the …


A Synthesis Of The Effects Of Cheatgrass Invasion On Us Great Basin Carbon Storage, R. Chelsea Nagy, Emily J. Fusco, Jennifer K. Balch, John T. Finn, Adam Mahood, Jenica M. Allen, Bethany A. Bradley Sep 2020

A Synthesis Of The Effects Of Cheatgrass Invasion On Us Great Basin Carbon Storage, R. Chelsea Nagy, Emily J. Fusco, Jennifer K. Balch, John T. Finn, Adam Mahood, Jenica M. Allen, Bethany A. Bradley

Articles

  1. Non-native, invasive Bromus tectorum (cheatgrass) is pervasive in sagebrush ecosystems in the Great Basin ecoregion of the western United States, competing with native plants and promoting more frequent fires. As a result, cheatgrass invasion likely alters carbon (C) storage in the region. Many studies have measured C pools in one or more common vegetation types: native sagebrush, invaded sagebrush and cheatgrass-dominated (often burned) sites, but these results have yet to be synthesized.
  2. We performed a literature review to identify studies assessing the consequences of invasion on C storage in above-ground biomass (AGB), below-ground biomass (BGB), litter, organic soil and total …


Dynamic Changes Analysis Of Land Resource Balance In North Maluku Province, Indonesia, Faroh Elya Pratiwi Isti, Puspaningrani Fatih Cinderaswari, Reinadova Gema, Akbar Muhammad Rais, Anggraeni Novanna Dwi Septyo, Wildiyanti Oki Silvie, Kafafa Utia, Putri Ratih Ratih Sep 2020

Dynamic Changes Analysis Of Land Resource Balance In North Maluku Province, Indonesia, Faroh Elya Pratiwi Isti, Puspaningrani Fatih Cinderaswari, Reinadova Gema, Akbar Muhammad Rais, Anggraeni Novanna Dwi Septyo, Wildiyanti Oki Silvie, Kafafa Utia, Putri Ratih Ratih

ASEAN Journal on Science and Technology for Development

Land resources are part of nature related to the availability of water, nutrients, and food that are dynamic and play an important role in the lives of living creatures, including humans. From time to time, land use experiences changes in response to human activities that benefit their lives. This research was conducted to determine trends in land use change in North Maluku Province, Indonesia, as well as to find out the land resource balance and land carrying capacity in the province. The methods comprised a simple descriptive and quantitative analysis along with spatial analysis using GIS. The results showed that …


Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 25, Issue 3, Florida Historical Society Sep 2020

Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 25, Issue 3, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Stephen Russell Mallory Occie Clubbs
Captain Bunce’s Tampa Bay Fisheries Dorothy Dodd
Henry Morrison Flagler S. Walter Martin
Governors of Florida as Members of Congress James B. Whitfield
Thomas Frederick Davis
Book Reviews:

  • Hanna, “A Prince in Their Midst” Robert S. Cotterill
  • Jonathan Dickinson’s Journal Lawrence C. Wroth

Local and Regional Historical Societies:

  • Jacksonville Historical Society
  • Madison County Historical Society Edwin B. Browning

Notes
The Florida Historical Society

  • New members
  • Deceased members
  • Donations to the Library


Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 24, Issue 1, Florida Historical Society Sep 2020

Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 24, Issue 1, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Florida in 1845 Dorothy Dodd
Florida's Population in 1845 Dorothy Dodd
The Last Spanish Census of Pensacola Duvon C. Corbitt
Pioneer Florida: Jackson’s Premature Proclamation, 1821 T. Frederick Davis
Early Settlers in British West Florida Clinton N. Howard
Notes on Seminole Negroes in the Bahamas Kenneth W. Porter
Territorial Florida: Martin, “Florida in Territorial Days”
The Jacksonville Historical Society
The Florida Historical Society:

  • The annual meeting
  • The Quarterly
  • Accessions to the library
  • New members


Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 18, Issue 4, Florida Historical Society Sep 2020

Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 18, Issue 4, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

A Prelude to the Creek War of 1813-1814 John Innerarity to James Innerarity Elizabeth Howard West
Quincy Conservative Convention, 1868
The Great Storm, Tallahassee, August, 1851
The Tekesta Indians of Southern Florida John Mann Goggin
The Bemrose Manuscript on the Seminole War Robert Charles Stafford
The Florida Guide Federal Writers’ Project

The Florida Historical Society

  • The Annual Meeting
  • The Palm Beach 4th District Meeting
  • The Lake Wales 1st District Meeting
  • Local Historical Societies
  • Conference of Historical Societies


Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 17, Issue 1, Florida Historical Society Sep 2020

Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 17, Issue 1, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The Voluntary Exile of Free Negroes of Pensacola Ruth B. Barr and Modeste Hargis
A Map of, the Road from Pensacola to St. Augustine, 1778 (with nine plates) Mark F. Boyd
Transportation in Territorial Florida Alice Whitman
The Panton, Leslie Papers: Letters of Edmund Doyle, Trader, 1814
The Historical Records Survey and State Archives Survey of Florida
Notes
The Florida Historical Society


First Science Pub Focuses On Hurricane Sheltering And Evacuating During The Pandemic, Dan Campbell Sep 2020

First Science Pub Focuses On Hurricane Sheltering And Evacuating During The Pandemic, Dan Campbell

News Items

No abstract provided.


High Impact Practices—Encouraging Empowerment And Self-Care Through Participatory Women’S Groups And Group Antenatal Care: Supporting Women To Be At The Center Of Their Own Care As Active Participants, Tracy Mcclair Sep 2020

High Impact Practices—Encouraging Empowerment And Self-Care Through Participatory Women’S Groups And Group Antenatal Care: Supporting Women To Be At The Center Of Their Own Care As Active Participants, Tracy Mcclair

Reproductive Health

The Population Council developed High Impact Practice (HIP) briefs for three strategies that show promise for improving prevention, detection, and management of Hypertensive Disorders in Pregnancy (HDPs). This brief focuses on one of those strategies: encouraging empowerment and self-care through participatory women’s groups and group antenatal care. Key points presented are: highly participatory, group-based interventions—such as community-based women’s groups and group antenatal and postnatal care (ANC/PNC)—provide opportunities for women to share their experiences and knowledge with others, discuss the local context for challenges and how to address them, and promote empowerment and agency; participation in these groups is associated with …


Fiscal Impacts: A Literature Review, Jim Robey, Kathleen Bolter Sep 2020

Fiscal Impacts: A Literature Review, Jim Robey, Kathleen Bolter

Reports

No abstract provided.


‘Mind The Gap’: Reconnecting Local Actions And Multi-Level Policies To Bridge The Governance Gap. An Example Of Soil Erosion Action From East Africa, Claire Kelly, Maarten Wynants, Linus K. Munishi, Mona Nasseri, Aloyce Patrick, Kelvin M. Mtei, Francis Mkilema, Anna Rabinovich, David Gilvear, Geoff Wilson, William Blake, Patrick A. Ndakidemi Sep 2020

‘Mind The Gap’: Reconnecting Local Actions And Multi-Level Policies To Bridge The Governance Gap. An Example Of Soil Erosion Action From East Africa, Claire Kelly, Maarten Wynants, Linus K. Munishi, Mona Nasseri, Aloyce Patrick, Kelvin M. Mtei, Francis Mkilema, Anna Rabinovich, David Gilvear, Geoff Wilson, William Blake, Patrick A. Ndakidemi

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Achieving change to address soil erosion has been a global yet elusive goal for decades. Efforts to implement effective solutions have often fallen short due to a lack of sustained, context-appropriate and multi-disciplinary engagement with the problem. Issues include prevalence of short-term funding for ‘quick-fix’ solutions; a lack of nuanced understandings of institutional, socio-economic or cultural drivers of erosion problems; little community engagement in design and testing solutions; and, critically, a lack of traction in integrating locally designed solutions into policy and institutional processes. This paper focusses on the latter issue of local action for policy integration, drawing on experiences …


Moving Cleveland Above The Trend: Benchmarking Regional Performance (Report), Iryna V. Lendel, Merissa Piazza, Molly Schnoke, Jinhee Yun, Nora Walsh Sep 2020

Moving Cleveland Above The Trend: Benchmarking Regional Performance (Report), Iryna V. Lendel, Merissa Piazza, Molly Schnoke, Jinhee Yun, Nora Walsh

All Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs Publications

When analyzing economic development, we must consider both the factors that can be changed through policy and those that cannot. This report includes our model for understanding and predicting economic growth in U.S. mid-sized regional economies to analyze structural and policy-based factors among similar regional economies. Our research used a multi-stage process that involved collecting 43 variables on a variety of topics that are associated with regional growth, such as educational attainment, business composition, regional assets, and quality of life. In total, our mid-sized regional economies encompass 135 metro areas, and includes populations spanning from 352,823 to 3.9 million. We …


Agglomeration Economies: A Literature Review, Kathleen Bolter, Jim Robey Sep 2020

Agglomeration Economies: A Literature Review, Kathleen Bolter, Jim Robey

Reports

No abstract provided.


Impacts Of Microplastic Fibres On The Marine Mussel, Mytilus Galloprovinciallis, Nashami Alnajar, Awadhesh N. Jha, Andrew Turner Sep 2020

Impacts Of Microplastic Fibres On The Marine Mussel, Mytilus Galloprovinciallis, Nashami Alnajar, Awadhesh N. Jha, Andrew Turner

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

No abstract provided.


An Unlikely Correspondence: Gps And Body In Place, Patti Pente Sep 2020

An Unlikely Correspondence: Gps And Body In Place, Patti Pente

Artizein: Arts and Teaching Journal

This visual essay investigates the significance of GPS technology and the human body in relation to a sense of place. Framed by posthumanism, the poetic images offer an approach to transformative education through a local site. Agency of place is key to this exploration of dynamic relationships with technology, body and the earth. As a creative performance, I executed a series of movements in a place of personal significance, and then further developed the essay through visual poetry. The research is informed by an underlying assumption that creative understanding and artistic analysis can foster deeper environmental care, and although this …


Finding Home: Belonging During A Pandemic, Mark Burstein Sep 2020

Finding Home: Belonging During A Pandemic, Mark Burstein

Presidential Addresses

Lawrence University President Mark Burstein officially opens the university’s 172nd academic year, along with its 2020-21 convocation series, with his virtual matriculation address, “Finding Home: Belonging During a Pandemic.”

Now in his eighth year as Lawrence’s 16th president, Burstein has focused on creating learning communities in which all members can reach their full potential.


Vanishing Acts: Civil Rights Reform And Dramatic Inversion In Douglas Turner Ward's Day Of Absence, Gershun Avilez Sep 2020

Vanishing Acts: Civil Rights Reform And Dramatic Inversion In Douglas Turner Ward's Day Of Absence, Gershun Avilez

Study the South

Dramatist Douglas Turner Ward's innovative play Day of Absence first premiered in November 1965 in New York City and has seen a recent national revival, having been staged by theatre companies in Berkeley, New York, Washington, D. C., Omaha, and Chicago, as well as the Maitisong Festival in Gaborone, Botswana. It stands as a creative response to the African American civil rights situation after the 1964 act. Ward explores questions of Black labor and mobility and, in doing so, creates opportunities to invert the dynamics that have historically characterized U. S. society.


Estimating School-Level Achievement In Belize, Betty Jean Usher-Tate Sep 2020

Estimating School-Level Achievement In Belize, Betty Jean Usher-Tate

College of Education and Human Sciences: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

This dissertation consists of five chapters: introduction, literature review, methodology, results, and discussion with final thoughts. The research design of this dissertation study attended to structures, cultures, and characteristics associated with, and specific to, the Belize education system. The processes for data collection and types of analyses were appropriate, yielded meaningful results, and served as a segue for national application. The Belize Educator Survey was developed to capture the educators’ voices and illuminate their relationship to educational achievement in Belize. The Belize Educator Survey was piloted and revised with direct input from educators and experts who work in the Belize …


Enhancing Our Understanding Of A Regional Economy: The Complementarity Of Cge And Eio Models, Andrew Crawley, Geoffrey J.D. Hewings Sep 2020

Enhancing Our Understanding Of A Regional Economy: The Complementarity Of Cge And Eio Models, Andrew Crawley, Geoffrey J.D. Hewings

Regional Research Institute Working Papers

Economic impact models are powerful tools for the assessment of policy changes in regional economies. Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) models have grown in popularity, becoming the dominant choice of practitioners and academics in this field. This popularity has been at the expense of an older class of model, the Econometric Input Output (EIO). The present paper demonstrates how both models, using the same input data, may yield different outcomes. However, the paper suggests that EIO has been underutilized even though it provides a strong complementary tool accompany that enhance analyses using a CGE approach. This paper urges regional economists to …


Verification And Utility In The Arabic Commentaries On The Canon Of Medicine: Examples From The Works Of Fakhr Al-Dīn Al-Rāzī (D. 1210) And Ibn Al-Nafīs (D. 1288), Nahyan Fancy Sep 2020

Verification And Utility In The Arabic Commentaries On The Canon Of Medicine: Examples From The Works Of Fakhr Al-Dīn Al-Rāzī (D. 1210) And Ibn Al-Nafīs (D. 1288), Nahyan Fancy

History Faculty publications

Although over two dozen Arabic commentaries on the Canon of Medicine were composed between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries, historians of medicine have paid scant attention to them. Instead, these commentaries have often been dismissed as being uncritical expositions that further entrenched the dogma of Galenic/Avicennan medical theory. In this article, I shall show that in fact the opposite was the case for at least a subset of the Canon commentaries from this period. Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī developed a new style of verification commentary across his philosophical corpus that he also deployed in his Canon commentary. Even though Fakhr al-Dīn …