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Cultural Influences On Parental Advocacy For Inclusion: Experiences Of South Asian Families With Children With Extensive Support Needs, Sudha Krishnan

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

This qualitative study examined the cultural factors in parental advocacy in South Asian parents of children with extensive support needs (ESN), concerning the educational placement decisions for their children. Data were collected using semi-structured interviews and analyzed using thematic coding. The findings revealed that the predominant preference for segregated educational settings among participants was shaped by various cultural influences: persistent social stigma surrounding disability, a culturally-rooted belief in the curability of the disability, the prioritization of safety over academic integration, perceived inadequacies within general education settings, institutional pressures from school or IEP recommendations, advocacy for intensive home-based instruction, and a …

Physical And Mental Health Experiences Of Obese Men Living In The United States During The Covid-19 Pandemic, James Cunningham

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

The COVID-19 pandemic posed unprecedented challenges to public health worldwide, significantly impacting vulnerable populations like obese men in the United States. This qualitative descriptive study involved exploring how these men perceived the pandemic’s impact on their physical and mental health, addressing a critical gap in existing literature. The research question that guided this study was: How did obese men living in the United States perceive the stressor that was the COVID-19 pandemic on their physical and mental health? Guided by the biopsychosocial model, the study involved using semi-structured interviews with 15 participants who were recruited online through social media. Thematic …

Research On The Packaging Design Of Rural Tourism Food Based On Meishan Culture, Chen Shufang, Li Shicheng, Xie Qi

Food and Machinery

Starting from Meishan culture,on the basis of analyzing the present situation of rural tourist food packaging design in Meishan area,the paper summarized the primordial,pluralistic and mysterious characteristics of Meishan culture,extracted the primitive and plain cultural symbol elements,proposed three design methods of prototype symbol translation,form multiple composition and emotion memory expression method,and applied those methods into the Meishan area tourist food packaging design practice,in order to promote the inheritance of Meishan culture and development of Meishan area tourism.

Toward Quantifying Interpolation Uncertainty In Set-Line Spacing Hydrographic Surveys, Elias Adediran, Christos Kastrisios, Kim Lowell, Glen Rice, Qi Zhang

Faculty Publications

The oceans remain one of Earth’s last great unknowns, with about 74% still unmapped to modern standards. Consequently, interpolation is employed to create seamless digital bathymetric models (DBMs) from incomplete hydrographic datasets, but this introduces unquantified depth uncertainties. This study aims to estimate and characterize uncertainties arising from set-line spacing hydrographic surveys, which are important for nautical charting, navigational safety, and many other applications. By sampling at different line spacings four complete coverage testbeds that vary in slope and roughness, the study interpolates across entire testbed areas using Spline, Inverse Distance Weighting, and Linear interpolation. The resulting interpolation uncertainties are …

Cover And Forewords, C. Nicholas Raphael

The Geographical Bulletin

Cover and Forewords

The Geography Of The European Dreadnought Race: 1884-1919, William D. Walters, Jr.

The Geographical Bulletin

The launching of HMS Dreadnought in 1906 is sometimes regarded as the start of the warship building race preceding World War One and is often seen as one of the causes of that war. In fact, the European battleship building race goes back to the 1880s. Most of the countries of Europe participated in some way in this race, which involved significant transfer of technology from the more developed to the less developed countries of Europe. Spain, Italy and Russia received significant aid from armaments firms in northern and western Europe. During the period before the war, battleships dominated naval …

Volume 34-1 Complete Issue, C. Nicholas Raphael

The Geographical Bulletin

Volume 34-1 Complete Issue

Late Holocene Coastal And Estuarine Environments Of The Shanghai Area, People's Republic Of China, Li Jinan, Yan Qinshang

The Geographical Bulletin

Four major sedimentary environments have been identified in the Shanghai area which were deposited over the past 7,000 years, 3 to 20 meters above a Pleistocene basal clay. These are marsh, lagoon, recurved spit and tidal flat. The morphology west of Shanghai is a fresh water marsh since it was not transgressed by rising Holocene sea levels. In the central area, a recurved spit and lagoon had developed from 6,500 years B.P. to 3,500 years B.P. However, the tidal flat has characterized coastal sedimentation in the eastern part of Shanghai since 3,000 years B.P.

Thematic Innovation On The North American Colonial Frontier: Comparisons Of The Four Historic Maps Of Fort Michilimackinac, Michigan 1749-1769, Richard Alan Sambrook

The Geographical Bulletin

To date, four historic maps of Fort Michilimackinac, Michigan are recognized: de Lotbiniere's Plan and Description (1749), the Magra Map (1766), the Nordberg Map (1769), and the Crown Collection Map (circa 1766-1769). These maps are all different in a number of important map features, including scale, style, technique, and portrayal of the type and detail of information included on the map, especially the accuracy of the location and size of structures within the fort. This paper also demonstrates the wealth of social, cultural and architectural information contained within the four existing historic maps. In conjunction these maps have both aided …

Planning With Place: Sense Of Place In Berlin, New Hampshire, Brooks Preston

The Geographical Bulletin

This study applies a phenomenological framework to the study of place in Berlin, New Hampshire. The results of Berlin's efforts to identify sense of place are compared with the findings generated by a phenomenological approach to the study of place. It is shown that the attributes and qualities of place that are most important to the people of Berlin are mentioned in the phenomenological interviews but sometimes overlooked or misinterpreted by the city's efforts. Sense of place is not embodied purely in the landscape or heritage, but exists in the minds of the people. Sense of place is a dynamic …

Projections And Perceptions-Editorial Comments. The Good Fortune Of Being A Geographer, Charles F. Gritzner

The Geographical Bulletin

How refreshing it is to see this brief and very upbeat reference to being a geographer in "Notes from Ptolemy" (January 1992 AAG Newsletter). Extremely fortunate we are indeed to be geographers! Being a geographer and " doing geography" are challenging, meaningful, satisfying, and fun. Geographic knowledge can be a marvelous source of intrinsic satisfaction; increasingly it also can offer substantial vocational rewards. During most of more than three decades in academe, an aura of gloom and doom prevailed for all but a select few young students aspiring to become geographers. Employment opportunities were sparse. Geography languished in the elementary …

Volume 34-2 Complete Issue, C. Nicholas Raphael

The Geographical Bulletin

Volume 34-2 Complete Issue

Cover And Forewords, C. Nicholas Raphael

The Geographical Bulletin

Cover and Forewords

Climatic Trends And Variability During Winter And Summer In Central Montana, Elizabeth G. Lowell, Philip W. Suckling

The Geographical Bulletin

Seasonal values of maximum temperature, minimum temperature and precipitation were examined in a study of climatic trends and variability for winter and summer in central Montana. Regional trends for the three climatic elements were graphed for the period 1949- 1986. A Student's T-test was utilized in order to detect significant changes. For winter, temperature declined significantly from the 1960s into the 1970s while snowfall increased slightly followed by a slight decrease during the 1980s. For summer, although maximum temperatures were significantly cooler during the 1950s, very little change in temperatures generally occurred. Although rainfall fluctuations were observed, no distinct trends …

News From The Chapters1991-1992, C. Nicholas Raphael

The Geographical Bulletin

The 1991-1992 school year for the Alpha Chapter of GTU was truly a successful one with 25 active members participating in quite a few events. During National Geography Awareness Week we sold world T-shirts at the student union, held a geography quiz contest, and had our annual Geography White Elephant Auction which brought in over $350.00. We had our Christmas Party at the local Best Western with great food and happy spirits. Throughout the year members participated in the " Return to Prairie at Funks Grove" where we cleaned out bushes and burned grass. We also had weekly Thursday Happy …

Terrain Influences On Total Length Of Snow-Avalanche Paths In Southern Glacier National Park, Montana, Jay K. Gao

The Geographical Bulletin

This research was designed to determine the impact of topographic variables on the total length of avalanche chutes in southern Glacier National Park, Montana. Seventy-eight snow avalanche paths were manually interpreted from aerial photographs within the study area, and their outlines were delineated on U.S. Geological Survey topographic maps with a scale of 1 :24,000. Terrain variables were either measured directly from the maps or derived from the original ones. Terrain parameters were first analyzed by using the descriptive statistical method. Total path length was then regressed against the independent variables elevation, orientation, and slope gradient. We found that: (a) …

Gravestone Landscape Evolution Of A Japanese Rural Community, Tadashi Nakagawa

The Geographical Bulletin

Quantitative and chronological examination of 99 gravestones of four cemeteries in a rural community northeast of Tokyo reveals the effectiveness of gravestone study in reconstructing historical geography of Japanese rural villages. Temporal patterns of gravestone inscription, the number of bases and such design elements as vases, water holders, and incense burners clearly show the changing styles and values toward burial customs, economic conditions, and some aspects of family units.

Spatial Variation In Poverty Levels Within The Lower Mississippi Delta Development Region, Wendy Shaw

The Geographical Bulletin

In 1988 a Senate bill established the Lower Mississippi Delta Development Commission, whose stated purpose was to address the poverty of the region. The region identified spanned seven states and included 187 counties, and was said to share economic, social, and cultural ties. While some underlying similarities may exist in the region, the manner in which poverty manifests itself is differentiated spatially, and the region is far from homogeneous. Variations with respect to the national average in per capita income, percentage of families below the poverty level, rate of high school graduation, and unemployment rate were examined and mapped. A …

Projections And Perceptions-Editorial Comments. The Changing Importance Of College And University Teaching: The 1960s Versus The 1990s, James O. Wheeler (University Of Georgia), James O. Wheeler

The Geographical Bulletin

Approximately thirty years ago, when I was just starting graduate school in geography, one of the first impressions I gained was the low priority accorded teaching. The emphasis, instead, was on research. The attitude was that anyone could teach but not everyone could do hotshot research. In fact, I got the impression that professors who were so wrapped up in research that their lectures were disorganized and confused were admired more than professors who did little or no research but whose lectures were superb. (There were, of course, inexplicably, those rare professors who did both remarkably well.) In general, poorly …

Cover And Forewords, C. Nicholas Raphael

The Geographical Bulletin

Cover and Forewords

Spatial Variation In Tourism In The United States: An Industrial View, Chad Meadows, Keith Debbage

The Geographical Bulletin

This paper attempts to empirically document the spatial variations in employment and revenue for selected businesses in the tourism industries of 20 states under study. Employment and revenue figures were classified by US Census SIC codes, and separated into two classifications : direct and supporting tourist services. In states with large economies, a diversified economic base frequently minimizes tourism's proportional importance to statewide service economy employment; however, in many states with small economic and population bases, tourism employment made a significant proportional contribution to the service labor market. States with large economies have high absolute revenue in both the direct …

Volume 35-1 Complete Issue, C. Nicholas Raphael

The Geographical Bulletin

Volume 35-1 Complete Issue

The Active Voice: One Key To More Effective Geographic Writing, Michael D. Sublett

The Geographical Bulletin

Despite admonitions from grammarians, journal editors, and conference program chairs, many geographers apparently either know not or care not about the advantages of choosing the forceful active voice over the feeble, often anonymous, passive voice. Paired examples of (1) previously published sentences, from geographic sources, containing at least one passive expression and (2) my revisions of the same sentences provide herein illustrative material for authors wishing to activate their prose.

An Economic Location Model For Texas Wineries, Mary Luanne Napton, Darrell E. Napton, James D. Harrison

The Geographical Bulletin

Sunbelt migration and increased per capita wine consumption have stimulated the opening of 27 new wineries in Texas since 1976. Choosing the location of a winery is one of the vintner's most important decisions. A survey of vintners provided a ranking of locational criteria that was used to develop an economic locational model of winery location. A preliminary model was tested and discarded in favor of a more narrowly defined model. Critical marketing locational criteria included proximity to tourist areas, access to grapes, distance from urban areas, access to an interstate highway, and severity of county alcohol laws.

Changing Rural Settlement Patterns In New Pudong Development Area, Shanghai, People's Republic Of China, Gu Qilin

The Geographical Bulletin

The delta region on the south bank of the Yangtze River displays a diversity of urban/rural settlement patterns. The area, referred to as the New Pudong Development Area, includes belt or linear settlement patterns parallel to artificial dikes and rivers, as well as clustered settlements which occur further inland. The more diverse settlements are most often associated with administrative centers within the town. To the west, extended urbanization related to the expansion of Shanghai is impacting the rural landscape. Urban land uses are replacing rural land uses. Settlement types are identified and a classification is proposed. These types are Belt, …

Projections And Perceptions-Editorial Comments. The Geographer's Role In The Solution Of Environmental Problems: An Invitation, Arthur A. Davis

The Geographical Bulletin

I have a story for engineers, and one for economists, and of course, one for lawyers; but I do not have a story for geographers. I do have a strong admiration for the profession, however, for the sweep of its concerns and the inclusivity of its perspectives. Years ago I worked briefly with Gilbert White on some water resource policy, and much admired his ability to relate the natural world with human demands on it. His ideas certainly challenged some conventional whims. I recall the furor he created when he suggested that the water needs of Chicago could be met …

Culture Of German Speaking Countries, Monica Rossi-Miller

Open Educational Resources

LG401 FNET is a 3 hours, 3 credits course with ENGL101 as a pre or co-requisite. It is an upper level course, however, no previous knowledge in Cultures of German speaking Countries is required, nor any knowledge of German language. The focus will be on cultures of countries in which German is an official language such as Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein. It fulfills 2A of the Common Core, WI (Writing intensive) requirement and Humanities elective.

Description: Students will be exposed to and discuss cultural developments in German-speaking countries including their role in the European Union. They will read …

The Daily Gamecock: February 2025, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

2025

No abstract provided.

Reorienting Climate Law And Economics: Carbon Recovery Fees Versus Climate Industrial Policy And The Problem Of Social Cost Of Carbon Pricing, Carter F. Smith

LSU Journal of Energy Law and Resources

No abstract provided.

Should Owners Of American Land Be . . . American? An Examination Of The Global Implications Of U.S. Agricultural Land Ownership And The Need For A Federal Regulation, Mattie Zepernick

LSU Journal of Energy Law and Resources

No abstract provided.