854 research outputs found
Assessment of Thermo Fluids spill on macroinvertebrate communities of Johnson Creek
No full textDoug Drake and David Huff, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, Laboratory Division, Watershed Assessment Section.Title from PDF cover (viewed on April 16, 2021).Includes bibliographical references (page 4).Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Globalization and labor market integration in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Asia
No full textThis chapter uses new data sets to analyze labor market integration between 1882 and 1936 in an area of Asia stretching from South India to Southeastern China and encompassing the three Southeast Asian countries of Burma, Malaya, and Thailand. We find that by the late nineteenth century, globalization, of which a principal feature was the mass migration of Indians and Chinese to Southeast Asia, gave rise to both an integrated Asian labor market and a period of real wage convergence. Integration did not, however, extend beyond Asia to include core industrial countries. Asian and core areas, in contrast to globally integrated commodity markets, showed divergent trends in unskilled real wages
Conservation assessment for fungi included in Forest Service Region 6 Sensitive and BLM Oregon and Washington Special Status Species programs
No full text[Report] -- Appendix I. Fungi species currently listed as Sensitive -- Appendix II. Survey and Manage species -- Appendix III. Table of species, their classification, and important traits -- Appendix IV. Table of species and results from the scientific literature -- Appendix V. Descriptions of ecosystem scale forest mycology experiments -- Appendix VI. Sensitive species habitat summaries.by: Michael Russell ; edited by Rob Huff."Originally created July 2007, Kathleen Cushman and Rob Huff; Updated August 2013 by: Rob Huff, Helen Lau, and Rick Dewey."Title from PDF title page (viewed on August 12, 2021).This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Includes bibliographical references.Mode of access: Internet from the State Library of Oregon U.S. Government Publications Collection.Text in English
ADVOCACY LITERATURE SANS FRONTIÉRES: AFRICAN WARSCAPES, INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY, AND POPULAR NARRATIVES FOR EMERGING HUMAN RIGHTS NORMS
No full textThis dissertation analyzes a set of contemporary works that have all been conceived, produced, and circulated in frameworks of international concern as advocates work to popularize narratives representing grave injustices, thereby strengthening the basis for international response to African conflicts characterized by massive human rights violations. All of the feature advocacy literature examined here—Kony 2012 (documentary), Johnny Mad Dog (a film), Johnny Chien Méchant (a novel), What is the What (a novel), and Ruined (a play)—intersect with a variety of institutional and organizational efforts seeking recognition for victims—ones that can be translated into means of support, protection, and redress. This study traces the life of these particular works, their relationships to such organizational efforts, and the ways they contribute to advancing a social project central to human rights culture: developing in the audience or readers a sense of civic duty attached to common membership in the “international community.” These representations support the central project of human rights, but also highlight the political complexity of undertaking such a project in the face of radical inequalities and the history of interventionism sanctioned by empire in the name of humanitarianism and aid of African subjects. A central argument in this study is that one must understand these works in the context of emerging patterns in “international civil society.” The popularity of these works, and the interpretations of conflict they promote, can be read as an important index of emerging norms in human rights, particularly the 2005 United Nations initiative, the Responsibility to Protect, which has sought to redefine state sovereignty with greater emphasis on its responsibilities toward citizens. Drawing from the insights of philosophy, reception theory, cultural anthropology, and postcolonial critique, this study highlights a series of salient ethical and political complexities involved in these projects of gaining recognition for victims, including the possibilities and limits tied to the concept of an international community—a group with trans-national solidarities faithful to human rights principles—envisioned as a limitation on state power
According to our ancestors: Folk texts from Guatemala and Honduras
No full textcontains: 'Quiché (Joyabaj dialect)' by Souder, Shirley D. and Phyllis Doty // 'Jicaque' by Oltrogge, David F. and Judith J. Oltrogge // 'Pocomam' by Zinn, Raymond and Gail Zinn // 'Kʼekchiʼ ' by Eachus, Francis and Ruth Carlson // 'Quiché (Cantel dialect)' by Fox, David G., Carol Fox, David L. Henne, and Marilyn G. Henne // 'Jacaltec' by Stratmeyer, Dennis and Jean Stratmeyer // 'Uspantec' by Huff, Wayne and Alice Huff // 'Mopan' by Ulrich, Matthew and Rosemary Ulrich // 'Ixil' by Elliott, Raymond and Helen Elliott // 'Cakchiquel' by King, Martha // 'Carib' by Howland, Lillian G // 'Achí' by Neuenswander, Helen L. and Mary Shaw // 'Aguacatec' by McArthur, Harry S. and Lucille E. McArthur // 'Chuj' by Williams, Kenneth L. and Barbara Williams // 'Pocomchi' by Mayers, Marvin K. and Marilyn A. Mayers // 'Rabinal-Achí' by Brawand, John and Alice Brawand // 'Tzutujil' by Butler, James H. and Judy G. Butle
Using and evaluating CASE tools : from software engineering to phenomenology
No full textCASE (Computer-Aided Systems Engineering) is a recent addition to the long line of
"silver bullets" that promise to transform information systems development, delivering
new levels of quality and productivity. CASE is particularly intriguing because
information systems (IS) practitioners spend their working lives applying information
technology (IT) to other people's work, and now they are applying it to themselves.
CASE research to date has been dominated by accounts of tool development,
normative writings (for example practitioner success stories) and surveys recording
IT specialists' perceptions. There have been very few in-depth studies of tool use,
and very few attempts to quantify benefits, therefore the essence of the CASE process
remains largely unexplored, and the views of stakeholders other than the IT specialists
have yet to be heard.
The research presented here addresses these concerns by adopting a hybrid research
approach combining action research, grounded theory and phenoinenology and using
both qualitative and quantitative data in order to tell the story of a system developer's
experience in using CASE tools in three information systems projects for a major UK
car manufacturer over a four year period. The author was the lead developer on all
three projects. Action research is a learning process, the researcher is an explorer.
At the start of this project it was assumed that the tools would be the focus of the
work. As the research progressed it became evident that the tools were but part of
a richer organisational context in which culture, politics, history, external initiatives
and cognitive limitations played important roles. The author continued to record
experiences and impressions of tool use in the project diary together with quality and
productivity metrics. But the diary also became home to a story of organisational
developments that had not originally been foreseen.
The principal contribution made by the work is to identity the narrow positivistic
nature of CASE knowledge, and to show via the research stories the overwhelming
importance of organisational context to systems development success and how the
exploration of context is poorly supported by the tools. Sixteen further contributions
are listed in the Conclusions to the thesis, including a major extension to Wynekoop
and Conger's CASE research taxonomy, an identification of the potentially
misleading nature of quantitative IS assessment and further evidence of the limitations
of the "scientific" approach to systems development.
The thesis is completed by two proposals for further work. The first seeks to
advance IS theory by developing further a number of emerging process models of IS
development. The second seeks to advance IS practice by asking the question "How
can CASE tools be used to stimulate awareness and debate about the effects of
organisational context?", and outlines a programme of research in this area
The indirect effects of solar ultraviolet radiation on the early life stages of yellow perch (Perca flavescens) in lakes of different trophic status
No full textManagement as a design science, mindful of art and surprise : a conversation between Anne Huff, David Tranfield and Joan van Aken
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Patterns of ancestry and genetic diversity in reintroduced populations of the slimy sculpin: implications for conservation
No full textReintroductions are a common approach for
preserving intraspecific biodiversity in fragmented landscapes.
However, they may exacerbate the reduction in
genetic diversity initially caused by population fragmentation
because the effective population size of reintroduced
populations is often smaller and reintroduced populations
also tend to be more geographically isolated than native
populations. Mixing genetically divergent sources for
reintroduction purposes is a practice intended to increase
genetic diversity. We documented the outcome of reintroductions
from three mixed sources on the ancestral composition
and genetic variation of a North American fish, the
slimy sculpin (Cottus cognatus). We used microsatellite
markers to evaluate allelic richness and heterozygosity in
the reintroduced populations relative to computer simulated
expectations. Sculpins in reintroduced populations
exhibited higher levels of heterozygosity and allelic richness
than any single source, but only slightly higher than
the single most genetically diverse source population.
Simulations intended to mimic an ideal scenario for maximizing
genetic variation in the reintroduced populations
also predicted increases, but they were only moderately
greater than the most variable source population. We found
that a single source contributed more than the other two
sources at most reintroduction sites. We urge caution when
choosing whether to mix source populations in reintroduction
programs. Genetic characteristics of candidate
source populations should be evaluated prior to reintroduction
if feasible. When combined with knowledge of the
degree of genetic distinction among sources, simulations
may allow the genetic diversity benefits of mixing populations
to be weighed against the risks of outbreeding
depression in reintroduced and nearby populations.Huff, David, D.; Miller, Loren, M.; Vondracek, Bruce. (2010). Patterns of ancestry and genetic diversity in reintroduced populations of the slimy sculpin: implications for conservation. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/183583
Ancestry of the Iban is predominantly Southeast Asian: Genetic evidence from autosomal, mitochondrial, and Y chromosomes
No full textExtent: 8p.Humans reached present-day Island Southeast Asia (ISEA) in one of the first major human migrations out of Africa. Population movements in the millennia following this initial settlement are thought to have greatly influenced the genetic makeup of current inhabitants, yet the extent attributed to different events is not clear. Recent studies suggest that southto-north gene flow largely influenced present-day patterns of genetic variation in Southeast Asian populations and that late Pleistocene and early Holocene migrations from Southeast Asia are responsible for a substantial proportion of ISEA ancestry.
Archaeological and linguistic evidence suggests that the ancestors of present-day inhabitants came mainly from north-tosouth migrations from Taiwan and throughout ISEA approximately 4,000 years ago. We report a large-scale genetic analysis of human variation in the Iban population from the Malaysian state of Sarawak in northwestern Borneo, located in the center of ISEA. Genome-wide single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers analyzed here suggest that the Iban exhibit greatest genetic similarity to Indonesian and mainland Southeast Asian populations. The most common non-recombining Y(NRY) and mitochondrial (mt) DNA haplogroups present in the Iban are associated with populations of Southeast Asia. We conclude that migrations from Southeast Asia made a large contribution to Iban ancestry, although evidence of potential gene flow from Taiwan is also seen in uniparentally inherited marker data.Tatum S. Simonson, Jinchuan Xing, Robert Barrett, Edward Jerah, Peter Loa, Yuhua Zhang, W. Scott Watkins, David J. Witherspoon, Chad D. Huff, Scott Woodward, Bryan Mowry, Lynn B.Jord
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