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T22s, R13e, Blm Plat_316585_1 - Feb. 28, 1952, Supplemental Plat, Sections 11 & 12 Survey

Township and Range Surveys - BLM

A Feb. 28, 1952 survey or plat reflecting the Township, Range and Sections of T22S, R13E, located in Monterey County, California, USA

T21s, R11e, Blm Plat_317023_1 - Mar. 28, 1873 Survey

Township and Range Surveys - BLM

A Mar. 28, 1873, survey or plat reflecting the Township, Range and Sections of T21S, R11E, located in Monterey County, California, USA

T20s, R12e, Blm Plat_317354_1 - Mar. 28, 1873 Survey

Township and Range Surveys - BLM

A Mar. 28, 1873, survey or plat reflecting the Township, Range and Sections of T20S, R12E, located in Monterey County, California, USA

T21s, R6e, Blm Plat_319876_1 - June 2, 1883 Survey

Township and Range Surveys - BLM

A June 2, 1883, survey or plat reflecting the Township, Range and Sections of T21S, R6E, located in Monterey County, California, USA

T22s, R6e, Blm Plat_319882_1 - June 14, 1884 Survey

Township and Range Surveys - BLM

A June 14, 1884, survey or plat reflecting the Township, Range and Sections of T22S, R6E, located in Monterey County, California, USA

T21s, R12e, Blm Plat_317367_1 - Mar. 28, 1873 Survey

Township and Range Surveys - BLM

A Mar. 28, 1873, survey or plat reflecting the Township, Range and Sections of T21S, R12E, located in Monterey County, California, USA

T21s, R7e, Blm Plat_281406_1 - Jan. 27, 1922, Plat Of Homestead Entry Survey No. 270 Survey

Township and Range Surveys - BLM

A Jan. 27, 1922, survey or plat reflecting the Township, Range and Sections of T21S, R7E, located in Monterey County, California, USA

The Price Of A Vote: Diseconomy In Proportional Elections, Hygor Piaget M. Melo, Saulo D. S. Reis, Andre ́ A. Moreira, Hernan Makse, Jose ́ S. Andrade Jr.

Publications and Research

The increasing cost of electoral campaigns raises the need for effective campaign planning and a precise understanding of the return of such investment. Interestingly, despite the strong impact of elections on our daily lives, how this investment is translated into votes is still unknown. By performing data analysis and modeling, we show that top candidates spend more money per vote than the less successful and poorer candidates, a relation that discloses a diseconomy of scale. We demonstrate that such electoral diseconomy arises from the competition between candidates due to inefficient campaign expenditure. Our approach succeeds in two important tests. First, …

Nebraska Monthly Economic Indicators: August 22, 2018, Eric Thompson

Leading Economic Indicator Reports

The Leading Economic Indicator – Nebraska (LEI-N) 1 was flat during July of 2018, rising by just 0.05%. A flat value for the LEI-N, which is designed to predict economic activity six months into the future, suggests that Nebraska economic growth will slow significantly at the end of 2018 and the beginning of 2019. Business expectations were a positive component of the leading indicator. Respondents to the July Survey of Nebraska Business reported plans to increase both sales and employment at their businesses over the next six months. However, a rising U.S. dollar and a drop in building permits for …

Rural Sense: Value, Heritage, And Sensory Landscapes: Developing A Design-Oriented Approach To Mapping For Healthier Landscapes, Judith Van Der Elst, Heather Richards-Rissetto, Lily Díaz-Kommonen

Department of Anthropology: Faculty Publications

Landscape design needs a novel value system centred on human experience of the landscape rather than simply on economic value. Design-oriented research allows us to shift the focus from mechanistic paradigms towards new sensemaking approaches that value both the sensual and the cognitive in human experience. To move in this direction, we investigate cultural and natural aspects of sensory experience in rural landscapes, arguing that: (1) rural (non-urban) regions offer diverse sensory experiences for optimising human health; and (2) spatial interconnectedness between rural and urban areas means that healthy rural regions are critical for urban development. Our key argument is …

An Evaluation Of How Repealing West Virginia’S Prevailing Wage Law Affected The Cost Of Public Construction, Michael W. Clark, Kenneth Tester

CBER Research Report

This study compared school construction costs before and after legislative changes to prevailing wage laws in West Virginia. The study uses data provided by the School Building Authority of West Virginia (SBA). The data suggests that school construction costs increased in the years prior to the legislative changes and decreased after. Comparing projects bid with and without prevailing wages since 2013 suggests construction costs per square foot decreased by 7.3 percent since the removal of the wage requirement. However, the magnitude of the decrease depends on the time-period examined and the individual schools included in the analysis. States that border …

Of Typicality And Predictive Distributions In Discriminant Function Analysis, Lyle W. Konigsberg, Susan R. Frankenberg

Human Biology Open Access Pre-Prints

While discriminant function analysis is an inherently Bayesian method, researchers attempting to estimate ancestry in human skeletal samples often follow discriminant function analysis with the calculation of frequentist-based typicalities for assigning group membership. Such an approach is problematic in that it fails to account for admixture and for variation in why individuals may be classified as outliers, or non-members of particular groups. This paper presents an argument and methodology for employing a fully Bayesian approach in discriminant function analysis applied to cases of ancestry estimation. The approach requires adding the calculation, or estimation, of predictive distributions as the final step …

Survey And Insights Into Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-Based Detection And Documentation Of Clandestine Graves And Human Remains, Bryce Murray, Derek T. Anderson, Daniel J. Wescott, Robert Moorhead, Melissa F. Anderson

Human Biology Open Access Pre-Prints

Numerous biological and archaeological studies have demonstrated the legitimacy of remote sensing in anthropology. Herein, focus is placed on detecting and documenting terrestrial clandestine graves and surface remains (CGSR) of humans using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), sensors and automatic processing algorithms. CGSR is a complex decision making under uncertainty problem that requires the identification and intelligent reasoning about direct evidence of human remains and their environmental fingerprints. As such, it is as much an engineering and geospatial problem as it is an anthropology problem. This article is a cross- disciplinary effort to survey existing work across disciplines and to provide …

Parenting, Culture, And The Development Of Externalizing Behaviors From Age 7 To 14 In Nine Countries, Jennifer E. Lansford, Jennifer Godwin, Marc H. Bornstein, Lei Chang, Kirby Deater-Deckard, Laura Di Giunta, Kenneth A. Dodge, Patrick S. Malone, Paul Oburu, Concetta Pastorelli, Ann T. Skinner, Emma Sorbring, Laurence Steinberg, Sombat Tapanya, Liliana Maria Uribe Tirado, Liane Peña Alampay, Suha M. Al-Hassan, Dario Bacchini

Psychology Department Faculty Publications

Using multilevel models, we examined mother-, father-, and child-reported (N = 1,336 families) externalizing behavior problem trajectories from age 7 to 14 in nine countries (China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, the Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and the United States). The intercept and slope of children's externalizing behavior trajectories varied both across individuals within culture and across cultures, and the variance was larger at the individual level than at the culture level. Mothers’ and children's endorsement of aggression as well as mothers’ authoritarian attitudes predicted higher age 8 intercepts of child externalizing behaviors. Furthermore, prediction from individual-level endorsement of aggression and authoritarian …

Childrearing Stages And Work–Family Conflict: The Role Of Job Demands And Resources, Kei Nomaguchi, Marshal Neal Fettro

Sociology Faculty Publications

Objective

The authors examine the role of job characteristics in influencing variation in mothers' work–family conflict by childrearing stage.

Background

Although researchers generally contend that having younger children is related to greater work–family conflict, examination of this association is limited.

Method

Using data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (N = 774), we conduct fixed effects models to examine variations in mothers' job characteristics across four waves when their children are 6 months old, 15 months old, third graders, and fifth graders and their links to variations …

Note-Taking And Science Inquiry In An Open-Ended Learning Environment, Yang Jiang, Jody Clarke-Midura, Bryan Keller, Ryan S. Baker, Luc Paquette, Jaclyn Ocumpaugh

Instructional Technology and Learning Sciences Faculty Publications

Note-taking is important for academic success and has been thoroughly studied in traditional classroom contexts. Recent advancements of technology have led to more students taking notes on computers, and in different situations than are common in traditional instructional contexts. However, research on computer-based note-taking is still an emerging area, and findings from these studies are mixed. In this exploratory study, we conducted multilevel analysis to comprehensively investigate the relationship between note-taking measures and subsequent student success at science inquiry among middle school students, using two scenarios of an open-ended learning environment named Virtual Performance Assessments. Analysis revealed an advantage for …

A Longitudinal Examination Of Factors Associated With Network Bridging Among Ymsm: Implications For Hiv Prevention, Dexter R. Voisin

Faculty Scholarship

Social-environmental factors may be associated with social network stability, which has implications for HIV acquisition. However, the link between social-environmental factors, network composition and HIV risk has not been examined previously among a city-population based sample of young Black men who have sex with Men (YBMSM). Respondent driven sampling was used to recruit a cohort of 618 YMBSM. Respondents were evaluated at baseline, 9 and 18 months beginning June 2013. A logistic regression model was used to assess the relationship between bridging (i.e. having non-redundant contacts in one’s network, indicating network instability) and social-environmental factors and HIV risk factors between …

Economics Of Experimental Design: Finding The Optimal Design Of A Whole Field Randomized Experiment, Taro Mieno, David S. Bullock, Aolin Gong

Cornhusker Economics

An April 2017 Cornhusker Economics article Getting to Know Your Yield Response Better through Whole-field Randomized Experiments discussed a case study detailing a whole-field randomized agronomic experiment (nitrogen and seed rate). The study was conducted in Kentucky and funded through the USDA-NIFA Data Intensive Farm Management (DIFM) project. The project has so far resulted in more than 50 experiments across several states, including Illinois, Nebraska, Kansas, and Washington. The overarching goal of the project is to provide agricultural producers with the best input rate, variable or uniform, which maximizes their farm profits. This involves statistically estimating the crop response function …

T22s, R7e, Blm Plat_320057_1 - Dec. 6, 1961 -- Dependent Resurvey Survey

Township and Range Surveys - BLM

A Dec. 6, 1961, survey or plat reflecting the Township, Range and Sections of T22S, R7E, located in Monterey County, California, USA

T22s, R9e, Blm Plat_319566_1 - May 6, 1879 Survey

Township and Range Surveys - BLM

A May 6, 1879, survey or plat reflecting the Township, Range and Sections of T22S, R9E, located in Monterey County, California, USA

T22s, R10e, Blm Plat_317522_1 - May 4, 1860 Survey

Township and Range Surveys - BLM

A May 4, 1860, survey or plat reflecting the Township, Range and Sections of T22S, R10E, located in Monterey County, California, USA

T22s, R11e, Blm Plat_317029_1 - Dec. 16, 1896 Survey

Township and Range Surveys - BLM

A Dec. 16, 1896, survey or plat reflecting the Township, Range and Sections of T22S, R11E, located in Monterey County, California, USA

T21s, R6e, Blm Plat_319880_1 - Nov. 10, 1964, Retracement & Corner Monumentation Survey

Township and Range Surveys - BLM

A Nov. 10, 1964, survey or plat reflecting the Township, Range and Sections of T21S, R6E, located in Monterey County, California, USA

T21s, R7e, Blm Plat_320047_1 - June 2, 1883 Survey

Township and Range Surveys - BLM

A June 2, 1883, survey or plat reflecting the Township, Range and Sections of T21S, R7E, located in Monterey County, California, USA

T21s, R11e, Blm Plat_317025_1 - Dec. 16, 1896 Survey

Township and Range Surveys - BLM

A Dec. 16, 1896, survey or plat reflecting the Township, Range and Sections of T21S, R11E, located in Monterey County, California, USA

T20s, R12e, Blm Plat_317360_1 - Nov. 22, 1892, Diagram, Sec. 19 Survey

Township and Range Surveys - BLM

A Nov. 22, 1892, survey or plat reflecting the Township, Range and Sections of T20S, R12E, located in Monterey County, California, USA

T17s, R3e, Blm Plat_321233_1 - May 4, 1883 Survey

Township and Range Surveys - BLM

A May 4, 1883, survey or plat reflecting the Township, Range and Sections of T17S, R3E, located in Monterey County, California, USA

Assessing And Improving Library Services At Georgia Southern University, Clement Chu Sing Lau

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Many academic libraries in America, including Georgia Southern University Zach S. Henderson Library are required to document and prove how its performance contributes to institutional goals and outcomes. Over the years, Henderson Library has been assessing its service performance, making improvements, and demonstrating its values. It has been applying various assessment tools and methods to evaluate its services and programs, and using the findings to make improvements. This case study article will describe how Henderson Library continuously assesses and improves its services.

Ptsd In U.S. Veterans: The Role Of Social Connectedness, Combat Experiences And Discharge, Sara Kintzle, Nicholas Barr, Gisele Corletto, Carl A. Castro

Social Work Faculty Research

Service members who transition out of the military often face substantial challenges during their transition to civilian life. Leaving military service requires establishing a new community as well as sense of connectedness to that community. Little is known about how social connectedness may be related to other prominent transition outcomes, particularly symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The purpose of this study was to explore the role of social connectedness in the development of PTSD, as well as its relationship to the known risk factors of combat exposure and discharge status. Data used were drawn from a needs assessment survey …

T22s, R9e, Blm Plat_319568_1 - June 16, 1893 Survey

Township and Range Surveys - BLM

A June 16, 1893, survey or plat reflecting the Township, Range and Sections of T22S, R9E, located in Monterey County, California, USA