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Operationalizing And Measuring Climate Change Adaptation Success, Henry A. Bartelet, Michele L. Barnes, Lalu A.A. Bakti, Graeme S. Cumming

Quantitative Methods and Information Technology Faculty Publications

In a context of rapid global change, understanding whether and how adaptation to climate change can be considered successful has become an important research gap within the climate change adaptation literature. Although definitions of adaptation success have been formulated, it remains unclear how they can be operationalized and tested empirically. To address this gap, we operationalized one of the most prominent definitions of successful adaptation within the academic literature, which describes success as adaptations that support reductions in risk and vulnerability without compromising sustainability. Specifically, drawing on data collected from 209 coral reef tourism operators across 28 locations and eight …

3d Printing Insect Models For K-12 Education, Henry L. Whittemore, Jason Oliver, Karla M. Addesso

Extension Publications

No abstract provided.

Nh Stormwater Manual 2025, Unh Stormwater Center, Comprehensive Environmental Inc., Nh Department Of Environmental Services

UNH Stormwater Center

No abstract provided.

An Approach To Estimate Angling Effort, Catch, And Harvest Of Burbot Lota Lota, Collin J. Mitchell

Biology Graduate Theses

Once commonly thought of as a nuisance, Burbot Lota lota are now being frequently targeted by anglers in Minnesota. However, the amount of angling effort directed at Burbot, the distribution of effort, catch, and harvest are unknown. Historically, creel surveys have been used to estimate angling effort, catch, and harvest. Additionally, digital cameras have been used independently and supplementally to estimate angling effort, catch, and harvest. In this study, we estimate angling effort, catch, and harvest of Burbot using creel survey techniques and motion-activated digital cameras on Bad Medicine Lake, Minnesota, while also investigating and exploring the limitations of these …

A Numerical Assessment Of Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement Efficiency On A River-Dominated Continental Shelf—A Case Study In The Northern Gulf Of Mexico, Yanda Ou, Z. George Xue, Xinping Hu

Faculty Publications

A robust high-resolution coupled hydrodynamic-biogeochemical model was applied to the northern Gulf of Mexico to assess the efficiency of river- and ocean-sourced ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE). Sensitivity tests indicate that the effectiveness of OAE-induced CO2 uptake is primarily influenced by the amount of alkalinity introduced and local wind-driven mixing, with the former determining the overall uptake and the latter affecting short-term variability. Compared to ocean-sourced OAE (direct ocean release), river-sourced OAE (elevated river alkalinity) is more effective and sustainable. River-sourced OAE has higher CO2 uptake efficiency with reduced spatial and temporal uncertainty and greater overall CO2 uptake. For river-sourced OAE, …

An Integrated Global-To-Regional Scale Workflow For Simulating Climate Change Impacts On Marine Ecosystems, Kelly Ortega-Cisneros, Denisse Fierros-Arcos, Max Lindmark, Camilla Novaglio, Phoebe Woodworth-Jefcoats, Tyler D. Eddy, Marta Coll, Elizabeth Fulton, Ricardo Oliveros-Ramos, Jonathan Reum, Yunne Jai Shin, Cathy Bulman, Leonardo Capitani, Samik Datta, Kieran Murphy, Alice Rogers, Lynne Shannon, George A. Whitehouse, Ezekiel Adekoya, Beatriz S. Dias, Alba Fuster-Alonso, Cecilie Hansen, Bérengère Husson, Vidette Mcgregor, Alaia Morell, Hem Nalini Morzaria Luna, Jazel Ouled-Cheikh, James Ruzicka, Jeroen Steenbeek, Ilaria Stollberg, Roshni C. Subramaniam, Vivitskaia Tulloch, Andrea Bryndum-Buchholz

Faculty Publications

As the urgency to evaluate the impacts of climate change on marine ecosystems increases, there is a need to develop robust projections and improve the uptake of ecosystem model outputs in policy and planning. Standardizing input and output data is a crucial step in evaluating and communicating results, but can be challenging when using models with diverse structures, assumptions, and outputs that address region-specific issues. We developed an implementation framework and workflow to standardize the climate and fishing forcings used by regional models contributing to the Fisheries and Marine Ecosystem Model Intercomparison Project (FishMIP) and to facilitate comparative analyses across …

Family Structure And Parents’ Perceptions Of The Importance Of Youth Developmental Assets: Challenging The Deficit Orientation Of Structurally Diverse Families, Jonathon J. Beckmeyer, Luke T. Russell, Gabrielle C. Kline

Faculty Publications - Family and Consumer Sciences

Critical family scholars have highlighted that structurally diverse families (e.g. stepfamilies, single-parent families) are often unfairly viewed through a deficit-comparison lens. This includes assumptions that these families are less optimal contexts for raising children than married different-sex nuclear families or hold different parenting and family values. In the present study, we sought to challenge that assumption by having parents rate the importance of developmental assets for their adolescent children and then comparing perceived importance across family structures. To do so we used data from 354 parents (24.6% single-parent families, 16.7% stepfamilies, 58.8% two-biological/adoptive parent families). We found that the overwhelming …

Agenda 2025-02, Staff Council

Staff Advisory Council Meeting Agendas

A meeting agenda is a list of the topics that will be discussed during a meeting, along with other details. The agenda is usually shared with participants before the meeting so they can prepare. The agenda's purpose is to give participants a clear outline of what should happen in the meeting, who will lead each task, and how long each step should take.

Masthead

UC Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Should I Stay Or Should I Go? Why Nebraska’S Rural Veteran Teachers Chose To Remain In Their Position, Nate Seggerman

Educational Leadership Theses, Dissertations, and Student Creative Activity

Where have all the teachers gone? This is the question that school districts nationwide have been asking in recent years as the country faces a continued shortage of highly qualified K-12 educators. To date, much of the research has focused on the reasons why teachers are leaving the profession and why prospective teachers elect for other vocations altogether. Increased public scrutiny, criticism of public education from politicians, demanding working conditions, lack of financial and/or professional support, and burnout are all common culprits. Yet there remains a core population of, admittedly aging, veteran teachers who have persevered, thus begging the question: …

Generalization Enhancement Strategies To Enable Cross-Year Cropland Mapping With Convolutional Neural Networks Trained Using Historical Samples, Sam Khallaghi, Rahebeh Abedi, Hanan Ali Abou, Hamed Alemohammad, Mary Dziedzorm Asipunu, Ismail Alatise, Nguyen Ha, Boka Luo, Cat Mai, Lei Song, Amos Olertey Wussah, Sitian Xiong

Geography

Mapping agricultural fields using high-resolution satellite imagery and deep learning (DL) models has advanced significantly, even in regions with small, irregularly shaped fields. However, effective DL models often require large, expensive labeled datasets, which are typically limited to specific years or regions. This restricts the ability to create annual maps needed for agricultural monitoring, as changes in farming practices and environmental conditions cause domain shifts between years and locations. To address this, we focused on improving model generalization without relying on yearly labels through a holistic approach that integrates several techniques, including an area-based loss function, Tversky-focal loss (TFL), data …

The Extent To Which Accounting Information Is Affected By Creative Accounting Methods, Omar Obaid Abdullah

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

The paper focuses on investigating the impact on the Korean financial sphere, specifically Creative Accounting Practices (CAPs), by using the model in the paper, upon any type of AI. Included are various systems used for recording, monitoring, and reporting financial activities with AI as an intermingling agent for financial decision-making and resources management. The survey was carried out in Iraqi Carpet and Furnishing Company, where CAPs were plead to penance for their (mis-) deeds by artificially fast improvements in the appearance of the financial statements, thus eroding the trust in the adequacy and potency of the statements. The study referred …

Insights For The Future Of Car Rental And Ridesharing: Driving Behavior Across Different Levels Of Automation, Pranav Meda, Aubrey Victoria Contreras, Wei-Hsiang Lo, Gaojian Huang, Yue Luo

Mineta Transportation Institute

Autonomous vehicles are reshaping the car rental and ridesharing industries, potentially leading to a unified model of on-demand transportation suitable for both uncommon (e.g., business trips) and daily commuting. An exploratory study of human behavior towards autonomous vehicles can uncover the challenges and opportunities inherent in different levels of vehicle automation. This study aims to (a) identify behavioral differences in drivers operating vehicles at various levels of automation and (b) explore how these behaviors vary with different assistance feature styles, specifically between risky and conservative modes. Human-subject experiments were conducted among twelve participants (aged 21 to 29, including four women) …

Understanding The Prevalence Of Mental Health And Behavioral Distress In Transit Assaults And Presenting Targeted Response And Mitigation Methods To Reduce Victimization Trends, Kathleen Moore, Emilie Ellenberg, Melissa Carlson, Jodi Godfrey, Lisa Staes

Mineta Transportation Institute

This research project was performed to better understand the prevalence of mental health and behavioral distress in transit assaults and present corresponding targeted response and mitigation methods to reduce victimization trends. It includes a literature review, a data presentation and overview of reported public transit assault-related events, an examination of the contributing factors to those events, and documentation of 10 transit agency case studies. The literature review discusses some of the misconceptions of mental illness and associated stigmas and discrimination that can occur in response to these misconceptions. It discusses various approaches and strategies that transit agencies have used to …

Rethinking Sovereign Veil-Piercing, George K. Foster

William & Mary Law Review

This Article undertakes a wholesale reassessment of the sovereign veil-piercing framework created by Bancec, a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case. The Bancec framework limits foreign states’ ability to insulate themselves from accountability by acting through corporate entities. Plaintiffs often need to satisfy Bancec to secure jurisdiction over sovereigns or enforce rulings against them, but rarely succeed. The Author argues that one reason why is that lower courts are reading the case too narrowly. Specifically, some courts are conflating the Bancec framework with the more restrictive alter ego doctrine. In addition, some courts are insisting on certain formal indicia of …

Confronting Catastrophic Risk: The International Obligation To Regulate Artificial Intelligence, Bryan Druzin, Anatole Boute, Michael Ramsden

Michigan Journal of International Law

While artificial intelligence (“AI”) holds enormous promise, many experts in the field are warning that there is a non-trivial chance that the development of AI poses an existential threat to humanity. Existing regulatory initiatives do not address this threat but instead merely focus on discrete AI-related risks such as consumer safety, cybersecurity, data protection, and privacy. In the absence of regulatory action to address the possible risk of human extinction by AI, the question arises: What obligations, if any, does public international law impose on states to regulate its development?

At present there is no scientific consensus as to the …

School-Based Protective Factors For Hiv Prevention In The United States: Secondary Analysis Of The Youth Risk Behavior Survey 2015-2019, David R. Garcia, Jason Fletcher, Lloyd Goldsamt, David L. Bell, Yaguang Zheng, Ann-Margaret Dunn Navarra

School of Nursing Faculty Publications

This secondary analysis of the National Youth Risk Behavior Survey (years 2015-2019) examines associations between school-based protective factors (i.e., safe school environments and academic achievement) and HIV risk behaviors among sexually experienced adolescent gay and bisexual men ( n = 644), a population with the highest prevalence of undiagnosed HIV infections. Demographics included Hispanics/Latinos (25%, n = 158), Other race/ethnicity (14%, n = 88), and non-Hispanic Blacks/African Americans (13%, n = 81). Adjusted models showed that protective factors reduced odds for early sexual debut, multiple sexual partners, sex under the influence of drugs/alcohol, and condomless sex, with an additive effect …

Application Of Cementitious Materials And Fiber Reinforcement To Enhance Lime Stabilization For Nebraska Shale Soils, Jongwan Eun, Seunghee Kim, Chung R. Song, Laith Ibdah, Kenaz Owusu

Nebraska Department of Transportation: Research Reports

Lime stabilization is a widely used technique to improve weak subgrades; however, its effectiveness under freeze-thaw cycles remains a critical challenge. This study investigates the incorporation of cementitious materials and fiber to enhance the mechanical properties and environmental resistance of lime-stabilized soils under such conditions. Two types of soil, gray shale (plasticity index of 37.8) and clay soil (plasticity index of 19.0) from Nebraska, were used. Stabilization mixtures included lime dosages of 0%, 3%, and 6% by weight, combined with either 10% fly ash or 3% and 6% cement by weight, and 0% and 1% fiber. The experimental program comprised …

Reforming Copyright Or Toward Another Science? A More Human Rights-Oriented Approach Under The Rebspa In Constructing A "Right To Research" For Scholarly Publishing, Klaus Beiter

Joint PIJIP/TLS Research Paper Series

This article identifies copyright impediments existing in the sphere of science, and then tentatively suggests how such impediments may be overcome. It focuses on scholarly publishing only, and here primarily on digital content, and specifically asks whether expensive commercial scholarly publishers continue to “add value” to research in the digital era. The deficits of copyright law and potential solutions thereto are assessed in the light of the right of everyone “to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and its applications” (REBSPA) as laid down in Article 15(1)(b) of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) of 1966. …

Access To Scholarly Publications In The Global North And The Global South—Copyright And The Need For A Paradigm Shift Under The Right To Science, Klaus Beiter

Joint PIJIP/TLS Research Paper Series

This paper assesses the deficits of copyright law for digital science, and potential solutions thereto, in the light of the right of everyone “to enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and its applications” (“REBSPA” or “right to science”), as protected in Article 15(1)(b) of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of 1966. While, in the shorter term, existing copyright law needs to undergo certain reforms (which would all be supported by the REBSPA) to accommodate the needs of science, in the longer term, the right to science, thus the argument here, requires something else – much more, …

What's The Matter With Batna? It's Misleading And Doesn't Help Advance Parties' Important Interests, John Lande

Faculty Publications

Many dispute resolution experts misunderstand the concept of BATNA (the best alternative to a negotiated agreement), believing that it is the most favorable possible outcome if the parties don’t settle. In fact, BATNA isn’t an expected result. It’s a course of action, not the value resulting from the course of action.

Attorneys often make unrealistic predictions of court outcomes because of inherent uncertainty and cognitive biases. Moreover, parties have many intangible interests that aren’t included in estimates of BATNA values.

This article offers suggestions for attorneys and mediators to advance clients’ interests by better understanding and valuing non-settlement outcomes.

Render, Katherine Nikolau

Project Mend Books

render, a publication created by Writing and Rhetoric graduate Katherine Nikolau, celebrates the creative work and activism of nine justice-impacted artists, considering how different acts of composing can be healing for people who have experienced incarceration. The nine featured artists create artwork that spans across genres, including poetry, spoken word, visual art, music, theater, and fabric art. At the same time, these artists are also working on the frontlines of criminal justice reform, getting involved with various advocacy organizations and working to heal others in their communities. Through profile pieces chronicling multiple-hour-long interviews conducted with each of these artists, …

Nursing News & Views - February 2025, Brenda Rocha Rn, Cno

Nursing Newsletters

Nursing News & Views - February 2025

The Archie Family Interview, Shane Hand, John Brundrett

Oral Histories

This is an interview related to the integration of Alvin Community College (ACC), which was called Alvin Junior College (AJC) from its founding in 1948 until 1976. The interview is with Sharmeal Archie, Mary L. Smith, and Lynette Mason and takes place on February 10, 2025. The interviewers are Dr. Shane Hand and Professor John Brundrett.

February 2025 Library & Learning Newsletter, Minnesota State University, Mankato. Library & Learning Dean’S Office Communications Team

Library & Learning Newsletters

PDF version of the February 2025 (Volume 3, Issue 4) Library & Learning Newsletter.

Tremblings, February 2025, Western Aspen Alliance

Tremblings

Bridging Conservation Science With Native Meaning

James Calabaza, Indigenous Lands Director; Trees, Water & People

Last fall, I had the privilege of collaborating with the Western Aspen Alliance and other partners to carry out a 3-day workshop focused on quaking aspen genetics, fire ecology, and co-stewardship. Held at Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory (Gothic, Colorado), the workshop brought together academics, NGOs, federal agencies, and Tribal members to share diverse perspectives on aspen's significance and management futures.

Extravaganza 2025 Poster, Multicultural Student Union

MSU Gallery

No abstract provided.

League Of Women Voters Of The Huntington Area Newsletter, February, 2025, League Of Women Voters Of The Huntington Area

League of Women Voters of the Huntington Area Bulletin 2020 - Present

The periodical is published by the League, which is a nonpartisan political organization that encourages the informed and active participation of citizens in government and influences public policy through education and advocacy.

2025 February, Cleveland State University College Of Law

2020s

No abstract provided.

What We Mean When We Say Semantic: Toward A Multidisciplinary Semantic Glossary, Jamie Reilly, Cory Shain, Valentina Borghesani, Philipp Kuhnke, Gabriella Vigliocco, Jonathan E. Peelle, Bradford Z. Mahon, Laurel J. Buxbaum, Asifa Majid, Marc Brysbaert, Anna M. Borghi, Simon De Deyne, Guy Dove, Liuba Papeo, Penny M. Pexman, David Poeppel, Gary Lupyan, Paulo Boggio, Gregory Hickok, Laura Gwilliams, Leonardo Fernandino, Daniel Mirman, Evangelia G. Chrysikou, Chaleece W. Sandberg, Sebastian J. Crutch, Liina Pylkkänen, Eiling Yee, Rebecca L. Jackson, Jennifer M. Rodd, Marina Bedny, Louise Connell, Markus Kiefer, David Kemmerer, Greig De Zubicaray, Elizabeth Jefferies, Dermot Lynott, Cynthia S. Q. Siew, Rutvik H. Desai, Ken Mcrae, Michele T. Diaz, Marianna Bolognesi, Evelina Fedorenko, Swathi Kiran, Maria Montefinese, Jeffrey R. Binder, Melvin J. Yap, Gesa Hartwigsen, Jessica Cantlon, Yanchao Bi, Paul Hoffman, Frank E. Garcea, David Vinson

Moss-Magee Rehabilitation Papers

Tulving characterized semantic memory as a vast repository of meaning that underlies language and many other cognitive processes. This perspective on lexical and conceptual knowledge galvanized a new era of research undertaken by numerous fields, each with their own idiosyncratic methods and terminology. For example, "concept" has different meanings in philosophy, linguistics, and psychology. As such, many fundamental constructs used to delineate semantic theories remain underspecified and/or opaque. Weak construct specificity is among the leading causes of the replication crisis now facing psychology and related fields. Term ambiguity hinders cross-disciplinary communication, falsifiability, and incremental theory-building. Numerous cognitive subdisciplines (e.g., vision, …