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Is There a Difference in Bird Diversity Among Prairie and Lake Habitats in Central Minnesota?
Full text linkBiodiversity plays an essential role in ecosystem stability. Habitat changes from human activities also threaten this role. Our study examined how habitat type and urbanization affect the number of birds and bird diversity across two campuses in central Minnesota. The first campus is rural Saint John’s University (SJU), and the second is suburban College of Saint Benedict (CSB). We predicted that more bird species would be in habitats with water than habitats without water bodies. We also predicted that bird species numbers would be more significant on SJU, which has a large natural area, which CSB lacks. Observations were conducted weekly in prairie (non-water adjacent) and water-adjacent areas at four locations over two months. Data was analyzed with chi-square goodness of fit. We did not find a significant difference in bird numbers between habitat types (χ²=1.080, df=1, p=0.299). We did find a significant difference in the type of bird group found in the habitats (songbirds, corvids, and waterfowl). Based on the data results, songbirds and corvids preferred prairie habitats, while waterfowl preferred water-adjacent areas (songbirds: χ²=6.231, df=1, p=0.012) (corvids: χ²=341.822, df=1, p\u3c 0.0001) (waterfowl: χ²=455.008, df=1, p\u3c 0.0001). Additionally, due to data limitations, we could not draw a clear conclusion about the differences in bird diversity between the two campuses. Our findings highlight the importance of conserving habitats to support bird populations and maintain ecosystem balance. Further research is needed to better understand biodiversity patterns in both urban and rural environments
Westside St. Paul Cinco de Mayo | History, Community, and Identity
No full textAs part of our semester programming dedicated to parades and manifestations of public identity in Latinx communities, LLAS is excited to host this talk by long time community organizer Santino Franco, who talks to us about one of the most important Cinco de Mayo events in the United States
The Athena Parthenos: A Historiographical Critique of the History of the Athena Parthenos
No full textThis paper analyzes how the Athena Parthenos disappeared and the historical limitations found when trying to learn about how it disappeared. To answer this question, this paper will use 4 theories created for the purpose of looking further into what happened to the Athena Parthenos and how they show the various limitations of our knowledge of history. This paper will look into people who saw the Athena Parthenos and replicas used to learn more about it today. This will stem from its known existence, from before the 1st century CE, into our modern world. Our results showed there is no one limitation that keeps the history of the Athena Parthenos hidden, instead there are many. Results showed the biggest limitation of our historical knowledge is humanity themselves and how they have altered, destroyed, and changed much of history to their liking. From a historiographical perspective this study emphasizes the need to create a standard for how people document history going forward to insure these mistakes do not happen again
Impartial geodetic building games on graphs
No full textA subset of the vertex set of a graph is geodetically convex if it contains every vertex on any shortest path between two elements of the set. The convex hull of a set of vertices is the smallest convex set containing the set. We study variations of two games introduced by Buckley and Harary, where two players take turns selecting previously-unselected vertices of a graph until the convex hull of the jointly-selected vertices becomes too large. The last player to move is the winner. The achievement game ends when the convex hull contains every vertex. In the avoidance game, the convex hull is not allowed to contain every vertex. We determine the nim-value of these games for several graph families
Awakening Hearts - Godfrey Diekmann Center for Patristics and Liturgical Studies
No full textA round table discussion with seven members of a group from the Catholic diocese of St. Cloud who participated in National Eucharistic Congress as the diocesan delegation in July 17-21, 2024, in Indianapolis, IN. The speakers shared their experience attending the Congress and took questions from the audience
Toward Integral Security: How Environmental Protection Was Incorporated into the United Nations System and Why it Matters Today and Tomorrow
Full text linkHow did the United Nations - an international organization built on 19th century worldviews and state-centric structures, integrate 21st century challenges of environmental protection into its mission and programs? The UN Charter includes no mandate for environmental protection. Ecological integrity was not included in the scope of peace and security held by member states when they ratified the UN Charter. Yet, despite this and other historical, philosophical and structural limitations, the UN became the leading body for the development of global environmental policy
Christian Ethics and Business Leadership
Full text linkThis essay discusses the ethical principles of listening, community, stewardship, and interreligious and intercultural understanding with respect to business leadership. It opens by discussing definitions of ethics and their relevance to businesses and business leaders. It continues by providing a description of the consulting company Accenture’s ethical principles and practices, as positive examples. The essay provides Arthur Andersen and its work with Enron and WorldCom, both of which went bankrupt in the early 2000s, as examples of the failures that occur when ethical principles are not practiced. Then, the essay states that Christianity and the Benedictine tradition constitute a basis of the ethical ideas in this essay. After that, the essay specifically explains the Benedictine ethical principles of listening, community, stewardship, and interreligious and intercultural understanding with respect to the Benedictine tradition and business leadership, while emphasizing that those principles are inclusive and potentially relevant to all persons