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In-Service Teachers' Attitudes, Knowledge And Classroom Teaching Of Global Climate Change, Shiyu Liu, Gillian Roehrig, Devarati Bhattacharya, Keisha Varma

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Joint Leaf Chlorophyll Content And Leaf Area Index Retrieval From Landsat Data Using A Regularized Model Inversion System (Regflec), Rasmus Houborg, Matthew Mccabe, Alessandro Cescatti, Feng Gao, Mitchell Schull, Anatoly A. Gitelson

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

Leaf area index (LAI) and leaf chlorophyll content (Chll) represent key biophysical and biochemical controls on water, energy and carbon exchange processes in the terrestrial biosphere. In combination, LAI and Chll provide critical information on vegetation density, vitality and photosynthetic potentials.However, simultaneous retrieval of LAI and Chll fromspace observations is extremely challenging. Regularization strategies are required to increase the robustness and accuracy of retrieved properties and enable more reliable separation of soil, leaf and canopy parameters. To address these challenges, the REGularized canopy reFLECtance model (REGFLEC) inversion system was refined to incorporate enhanced techniques for exploiting ancillary LAI and temporal …

Factors Affecting Female Space Use In Ten Populations Of Prairie Chickens, Virginia L. Winder, Kaylan M. Carrlson, Andrew J. Gregory, Christian A. Hagen, David A. Haukos, Dylan C. Kesler, Lena C. Larsson, Ty W. Matthews, Lance B. Mcnew, Michael A. Patten, Jim C. Pitman, Larkin A. Powell, Jennifer A. Smith, Tom Thompson, Donald H. Wolfe, Brett K. Sandercock

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

Conservation of wildlife depends on an understanding of the interactions between animal

movements and key landscape factors. Habitat requirements of wide-ranging species often vary spatially,

but quantitative assessment of variation among replicated studies at multiple sites is rare. We investigated

patterns of space use for 10 populations of two closely related species of prairie grouse: Greater Prairie-

Chickens (Tympanuchus cupido) and Lesser Prairie-Chickens (T. pallidicinctus). Prairie chickens require large,

intact tracts of native grasslands, and are umbrella species for conservation of prairie ecosystems in North

America. We used resource utilization functions to investigate space use by female prairie chickens during …

Are Preserved Farms Actively Engaged In Agriculture And Conservation?, Paul D. Gottlieb, Brian J. Schilling, Kevin Sullivan, J. Dixon Esseks, Lori Lynch, Joshua M. Duke

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

This study addresses the question of whether farms enrolled in land preservation programs are actively engaged in agricultural or conservation activities. Data are drawn from an original survey administered to preserved farm owners in the states of New Jersey, Maryland, and Delaware in 2011. “Actively engaged” is defined as investment in conservation projects, buildings, equipment, or irrigation since the land was preserved. Affirmative answers to the survey’s investment questions range from a low of 19% for irrigation to a high of 69% for equipment. Special attention was paid to differences between lifestyle farmers and small and large commercial farmers, which …

Thermal-Based Modeling Of Coupled Carbon, Water, And Energy Fluxes Using Nominal Light Use Efficiencies Constrained By Leaf Chlorophyll Observations, M. A. Schull, M. C. Anderson, R. Houborg, Anatoly A. Gitelson, W. P. Kustas

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

Recent studies have shown that estimates of leaf chlorophyll content (Chl), defined as the combined mass of chlorophyll a and chlorophyll b per unit leaf area, can be useful for constraining estimates of canopy light use efficiency (LUE). Canopy LUE describes the amount of carbon assimilated by a vegetative canopy for a given amount of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation (APAR) and is a key parameter for modeling land-surface carbon fluxes. A carbonenabled version of the remote-sensing-based two-source energy balance (TSEB) model simulates coupled canopy transpiration and carbon assimilation using an analytical submodel of canopy resistance constrained by inputs of nominal …

Remote Sensing Of Drought: Progress, Challenges And Opportunities, A. Aghakouchak, A. Farahmand, F. S. Melton, J. Teixeira, M. C. Anderson, Brian D. Wardlow, C. R. Hain

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

This review surveys current and emerging drought monitoring approaches using satellite remote sensing observations from climatological and ecosystem perspectives. We argue that satellite observations not currently used for operational drought monitoring, such as near-surface air relative humidity data from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder mission, provide opportunities to improve early drought warning. Current and future satellite missions offer opportunities to develop composite and multi-indicator drought models. While there are immense opportunities, there are major challenges including data continuity, unquantified uncertainty, sensor changes, and community acceptability. One of the major limitations of many of the currently available satellite observations is their short …

Criticality In Graphic Design, Clare Bell

Articles

No abstract provided.

The Economic Impact Of The Wine And Wine Grape Industries On The Oregon Economy 2015, Full Glass Research

Oregon Wine Board Documents

This report reviews the economic impact of wine in the state of Oregon. The growth and outlook of the industry are discussed, as well as sales and production for the year. The report further explains employment rates and gives details on various aspects of the industry.

Teaching And Assessing Professional Communication Skills In Law School, Denitsa R. Mavrova Heinrich

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

The Same Sex Marriage Debate For Dummies: A Breakdown Of The Twenty-First Century's First Civil Rights Movement, Marc Anthony Consalo

Child and Family Law Journal

No abstract provided.

"Catholic" Healthcare: A Universal Right, Elizabeth Braun

Ethics and Social Justice Center Essay Prizes

This essay presents an argument as to why healthcare is a universal right and examines why governments should be expected to provide healthcare access to their citizens.

Annual Report Of The Tennessee Judiciary, 2015, Tennessee. Administrative Office Of The Courts

Annual Reports

No abstract provided.

Annual Report Of The Tennesee Emergency Communications Board, Fiscal Year 2015, Tennessee. Emergency Communications Board., Tennessee. Department Of Commerce And Insurance

Annual Reports

Pursuant to Tenn. Code Ann. §§ 7-86-108(a)(1)(B)1 and 7-86-315,2 the Tennessee Emergency Communications Board (“Board” or “TECB”) hereby proffers its annual report to the Governor, Speakers of the General Assembly and the Senate and House Finance, Ways and Means Committees. This annual report of the Board’s activities covers the period from July 1, 2014 through June 30, 2015.

Lincoln University Graduate Bulletin 2015-2017, Lincoln University, Jefferson City Missouri

Bulletins and Catalogs

It is each graduate student’s responsibility to be familiar with the information presented in this bulletin and to know and observe all regulations and procedures relating to the program he/she is pursuing. In no case will a regulation be waived, or an exception be granted, because students plead ignorance of, or contend that they were not informed of, the regulations and procedures. Responsibility for following all policies and meeting all requirements and deadlines for graduate programs rests with the student. --Taken from Notice of Student Responsibility

Lincoln University Undergraduate Bulletin 2015-2017, Lincoln University, Jefferson City Missouri

Bulletins and Catalogs

The Lincoln University Undergraduate Bulletin contains the academic regulations and degree requirements of the University. A student may choose to satisfy the requirements for graduation from any one Bulletin issued in the eight years prior to the awarding of a bachelor's degree or the three years prior to the awarding of an associate degree, provided that he/she was enrolled during the school year for which that Bulletin was issued.

The Lincoln University Undergraduate Bulletin also serves as a guide to the academic programs of the University and is intended to assist students in the selection of their programs of study. …

From Higher Education To Work In West Virginia, 2013, Eric Bowen, John Deskins, Rachelle Cook

Bureau of Business & Economic Research

No abstract provided.

The Economic Impact Of Historic Rehabilitation In West Virginia, Eric Bowen, Brad Evans, Justin Matthews

Bureau of Business & Economic Research

No abstract provided.

The Economic Impact Of West Virginia University On North Central West Virginia, Eric Bowen, John Deskins

Bureau of Business & Economic Research

No abstract provided.

Coal Production In West Virginia: 2015-2035, Brian Lego, John Deskins

Bureau of Business & Economic Research

No abstract provided.

The Economic Impact Of Right To Work Policy In West Virginia, Christiadi, Eric Bowen, John Deskins

Bureau of Business & Economic Research

No abstract provided.

West Virginia Economic Outlook 2016, Brian Lego, Christiadi, Eric Bowen, John Deskins, Jane Ruseski, John Meszaros, Shree Baba Pokharel

Bureau of Business & Economic Research

No abstract provided.

Government Incentives To Promote Demand For West Virginia Coal, Christiadi, Eric Bowen, John Deskins

Bureau of Business & Economic Research

No abstract provided.

Voluntary Action In New Commons, Roger A. Lohmann

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

A major new social, economic, political and cultural space (actually, a sector of many spaces) we can call the new commons has gradually emerged outside of markets, governments and households. It currently goes by many names and reaches far beyond the recognized and incorporated nonprofit sector to include many additional forms of voluntary assembly and organized action. This space is legally defined and is the domain of fundraising, volunteering, advocacy, mutual aid, self-help and various forms of collective behavior. It includes associations, groups and clubs but also constitutionally protected assembly - not only public gatherings but also parades, festivals, cosmopolitan …

The High Time Resolution Universe Survey – Xi. Discovery Of Five Recycled Pulsars And The Optical Detectability Of Survey White Dwarf Companions, S. D. Bates, D. Thornton, M. Bailes, L. Levin

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

We present the discovery of a further five recycled pulsar systems in the mid-Galactic latitude portion of the High Time Resolution Universe (HTRU) Survey. The pulsars have rotational periods ranging from 2 ms to 66 ms, and four are in binary systems with orbital periods between 10.8 hours and 9.0 days. Three of these binary systems are particularly interesting; PSR J1227-6208 has a pulse period of 34.5 ms and the highest mass function of all pulsars with near-circular orbits. The circular orbit suggests that the companion is not another neutron star, so future timing experiments may reveal one of the …

Kermit Gosnell’S Babies: Abortion, Infanticide And Looking Beyond The Masks Of The Law, Richard F. Duncan

Nebraska College of Law: Faculty Publications

If, as Laurence Tribe has observed, “all law tells a story,” this Article tells two stories occurring forty years apart—the story of Justice Harry Blackmun and the unborn human beings he covered with the legal mask of “potential” lives in Roe v. Wade in 1973, and the story of Doctor Kermit Gosnell and the unmasked babies he was convicted of murdering in his Philadelphia abortion clinic in 2013. As Professor Tribe also observes, these stories amount to “a clash of absolutes, of life against liberty,” and therefore they are stories that must be told time and again, until we get …

Taxing Honesty, Adam Thimmesch

Nebraska College of Law: Faculty Publications

It is commonly accepted that state use taxes, most notably those that are due on Internet purchases, are largely unenforceable against individual consumers. Consistent with that view, states have focused their enforcement efforts on forcing retailers to collect those taxes at the point of sale, and taxpayers have maintained nearly complete indifference toward remitting the tax of their own accord. This combination of factors has transformed the state use tax into a de facto tax on honesty—a tax with which only our most principled, risk-averse, or perhaps foolish even attempt to comply. The current structure of these taxes is further …

Civil Shoplifting Statutes By State, Ryan Sullivan

Nebraska College of Law: Faculty Publications

What follows is a collection of state statutes that provide merchants a civil remedy against individuals accused of shoplifting.

For additional information on civil shoplifting statutes see: National Survey of State Laws, http://heinonline.org/HOL/Index?collection=nssl, search: Civil Shoplifting Statutes

Ryan P. Sullivan, et al., Stolen Profits: Civil Shoplifting Demands and the Misuse of NEB. REV. STAT. § 25-21,194, Neb. L. Rev. (forthcoming August 2016)

This collection of state shoplifting statutes was last updated February 8, 2016.

The Rhetoric Of Constitutional Absolutism, Eric Berger

Nebraska College of Law: Faculty Publications

Though constitutional doctrine is famously unpredictable, Supreme Court Justices often imbue their constitutional opinions with a sense of inevitability. Rather than concede that evidence is sometimes equivocal, Justices insist with great certainty that they have divined the correct answer. This Article examines this rhetoric of constitutional absolutism and its place in our broader popular constitutional discourse. After considering examples of the Justices’ rhetorical performances, this Article explores strategic, institutional, and psychological explanations for the phenomenon. It then turns to the rhetoric’s implications, weighing its costs and benefits. This Article ultimately argues that the costs outweigh the benefits and proposes a …

The Executioners‘ Dilemmas, Eric Berger

Nebraska College of Law: Faculty Publications

When people learn that I study lethal injection, they are usual-ly curious to know more (or at least they are polite enough to ask questions). Interestingly, the question that arises most often—from lawyers, law students, and laypeople—is why states behave as they do. In the wake of botched executions and ample evidence of lethal injection‘s dangers, why do states fail to address their execution procedures‘ systemic risks? Similarly, why do states so vigorously resist requests to disclose their execution procedures‘ details? This symposium essay takes a stab at answering these ques-tions. In the interest of full disclosure, I should admit …

Evangelism And Diakonia In Context, Rose Dowsett, Isabel Phiri, Dawit Olika Terfassa, Hwa Yung, Knud Jorgensen

Regnum Edinburgh Centenary Series

Evangelism and diakonia belong together in the perspective of the Great Commission. Evangelism is sharing one’s faith and conviction with other people and inviting them to discipleship. Diakonia is the gospel and our faith in action and is expressed through loving our neighbor. Evangelism and diakonia are like the two blades on a pair of scissors. They give the church identity and they are functions of the church. This is not just a matter of doing evangelism and diakonia in balance and alongside each other. Rather, evangelism and proclamation have social and diaconal consequences as we call people to discipleship …