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Virtual Book Launch: Russ Davidson author of: Joaquín Ortega: Forging Pan-Americanism at the University of New Mexico
No full textRuss Davidson, author of Joaquín Ortega: Forging Pan-Americanism at the University of New Mexico In conversation with Felipe Gonzales and Christine Sierra
Russ Davidson served as a curator of Latin American and Iberian collections and was a professor of librarianship at the University of New Mexico from 1979 to 2004.
Phillip b. (Felipe) Gonzales is a professor emeritus of sociology at the University of New Mexico. As a historical sociologist, his research has primarily focused on the Nuevomexicano Hispanic group of New Mexico. He is the author, co-author, or editor of four books and numerous articles on Nuevomexicano identity, politics, and economic status.
Christine Marie Sierra is a professor emerita of political science at the University of New Mexico and a former director of the Southwest Hispanic Research Institute. Her teaching career at UNM spanned twenty-eight years, and her research has focused on the study of race, ethnicity, and gender in US politics, Mexican American activism on immigration policy, and Hispanic politics in New Mexico.https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/laii_events/1091/thumbnail.jp
Q & A - Eric Davidson
No full textEric Davidson graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1954 and received his PhD from Rockefeller University in 1963. He remained at Rockefeller until 1971 when he moved to Caltech in Pasadena, California. He was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 1985, and is at present Norman Chandler Professor of Cell Biology in the Division of Biology, Caltech. He is the author of 5 books and over 400 papers on developmental gene regulation and evolution of genomic programs for development. For the last decade his work has focused on theory and operation of developmental gene regulatory networks
Deborah DAVIDSON (dir.) (2017), The Tattoo Project. Commemorative Tattoos, Visual Culture, and the Digital Archive
No full textL’ouvrage collectif dirigé par Deborah Davidson constitue une partie du projet concernant les tatouages commémoratifs, réalisés donc précisément en mémoire d’un être disparu. Dans le même mouvement, une archive internétique (films, photographies, textes, diaporamas, etc.) a été mise en place pour expliciter le projet à un plus grand nombre (http://thetattooproject.info). Le livre est le fruit du travail de 22 auteurs (chercheurs et chercheures en anglais, humanités, philosophie, sociologie, s..
Developing Environmental Sustainability Metrics A Study of Harley-Davidson Dealerships
No full textAbstract
Developing Environmental Sustainability Metrics
A Study of Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Dealerships
By
Matthew J. Redmann, CHMM
May 2011
The Harley-Davidson dealership network has 600 locations in the United States. Currently there is no common methodology to measure the impact that these dealerships have on the environment. With no method to measure the environmental impact there is little that can be done to reduce impact.
This project developed a common way to assess environmental sustainability at a Harley dealership. Any environmental sustainability metric has to be relevant to the business, simple to use, provide dynamic feedback, and reveal performance levels. Examples of environmental sustainability metrics and similar dealership programs were reviewed to see if the knowledge was transferable.
Once a metric was developed a survey was sent out to Harley dealerships to validate the metric performance. The metric uses both non-normalized and normalized energy, waste and water data to complete the environmental picture. Due to inconsistent waste and water data in the sample, only the energy metric was tested. The non-normalized energy metric is the annual energy consumed BTU per square foot of building (building performance). The normalized energy metric is annual energy consumed BTU per square foot / annual dealer revenue (operational performance).
The metric is able to detect both good and poor performance and provide information to help dealers make decisions to make improvements. This metric can be used at any dealership regardless of size or location. Additional research using the metrics developed could be used to develop an environmental strategy guide for Harley-Davidson dealerships.
Approved
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Dr. Deborah Rigling-Gallagher, Advisor
________4/25/2011___________________
Date
Master's Project submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Environmental Management degree in the Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University May 201
Frege and Davidson on Predication
No full textDavidson's conception of predication is examined and critically discussed with reference to Frege's functional conception of concept and first-and higher order predication. The author argues that Frege's account of predication for all its difficulties, included the ones pointed aout by Davidson, is still the best at our disposal
A note on behaviour of stabled horses with foraging devices in mangers and buckets
No full textProcessed feed for stabled horses is usually presented in buckets or mangers, and is easily and rapidly consumed. Foraging devices based on the Edinburgh foodball can be used to provide part of the ration. Current designs are all placed on the floor, raising concerns regarding ingestion of foreign materials along with the dispensed food. Alternative devices were evaluated, when presented within suitable, clean containers to prolong food-handling times but avoid such issues.In four Latin square designed replicated trials we investigated behaviour of 12 stabled horses with three foraging devices. These were separately presented for 5 min, varied in sensory complexity (round, square, polyhedral) and contained 500 g high fibre pellets. In Trials 1 and 2 six geldings were presented with devices in buckets then mangers. All individuals foraged successfully from at least one device and behaviour was compared. However, all individuals exhibited some frustration while using the devices (either pawing or biting them). Horses frequently removed the devices from the buckets in Trial 1 terminating these sessions. In Trial 2 mean device foraging duration was ranked polyhedral > round > square. Mean pawing rate in Trial 2 was calculated for horses (frequency of pawing per individual/summed duration manipulation and foraging) and was highest with square (0.11, npawers = 6). In Trial 3 six stabled mares were presented with the same foraging devices in mangers. Mean foraging duration with devices again ranked polyhedral > round > square. Mean pawing rate was highest with round device (0.08, npawers = 4). Trial 4 investigated behaviour of six horses when devices initially containing five high fibre pellets became empty. Mean foraging duration with devices ranked round > polyhedral > square. Mean pawing rate was highest with square device (0.11, npawers = 4).All horses foraged successfully from at least one foraging device in buckets and mangers. Devices met initial objectives but the unpredictability of reward suggests a source of frustration and warrants further investigation
Gertrude M. Davidson telegram to Franklin County Woman Suffrage Association, October 22, 1914
No full textThis telegram was sent on October 22, 1914, to the Woman Suffrage Headquarters in Franklin County, Ohio. Gertrude M. Davidson, a member of the Scioto County Association for women's suffrage, sent the telegram to request fliers in support of women's suffrage. Davidson said she needed the fliers by her organization's Saturday afternoon meeting. She requested the flier titled "Women in the Home," but stated that if there weren't enough of those to send the best fliers they had on hand.
The Franklin County Woman Suffrage Association was formed in 1912, after the Ohio Constitutional Convention elected to bring to a vote the question of removing the words "white male" from the state constitution with regard to voting rights. Headquartered in the Chamber of Commerce building in Columbus, Ohio, the organization put out regular publications, organized public speeches and meetings, distributed literature and held parades in support of the suffrage movement. Women's suffrage in Ohio was defeated in a special election in 1912 and again in 1914 and 1916 before a resolution narrowly passed in 1917 allowing municipal voting by women in Columbus. In 1920, the 19th Amendment passed, extending the vote to women and prohibiting state and federal government from denying suffrage on the basis of sex
To stable, or not to stable? That is the question
No full textThe horse:human conflict of interests began as a predator prey relationship. When the horse was domesticated it traded its freedom of movement ability to choose its own mates and diet, for a relationship with man where food, protection from predators and health care were provided. However, the ease with which domestic horses can assume a feral lifestyle indicates that the basic biology of its behavior, which ensured its survival for 65 million years, remains relatively unchanged. One of the major changes that domestication has imposed on the horse has been restriction in its opportunity to choose its own food. Many competition and leisure horses are currently maintained under very different conditions from those in which their ancestors evolved. The diet of feral domestic horses includesa range of forbes, grasses and browse species, however, the majority of stabled horses are provided with a single forage. In the trials reported here we offered horses the opportunity to choose between environments with restricted and multiple forage sources available and studied their behavior.In a series of four replicated trials, twelve competition horses were introduced for five minutes into each of two identical stables which contained either a single forage, or six forages.Their behavior as recorded on videotape and compared using an ethogram of 13 mutually exclusive behavior patterns. At the end of these sessions the horses were allowed a further five minutes to choose between the stables and the duration in each stable was recorded and compared.Data was analyzed using the Observer 3 and SPSSPCV 8. Square root transformations normalized the data allowing GLM factorial ANOVAs to be used. When in the single forage stable, horses looked out over the stable door more frequently (F=66.0, df=ll P<0.001), moved around the stable for longer (F=161.6, df=ll P<0.001), manipulated straw bedding for longer (F=34.8, df=ll P<0.001), and exhibited a group of other behavior patterns which may have been indicative of frustration (F=8.5, df=ll P<0.05). When allowed to choose between the stables horses were found to spend significantly more time in the Multiple forage stable (t58.3, 10df, P0.001).In these trials the behavior of stabled horses with single or multiple forages available was significantly different. When allowed to choose between these stables the horses showed a clear preference for the multiple forages table. Further study is required to determine whether these effects persist over longer periods. However, it appears that when horses are allowed to choose a diverse forage diet, more closely resembling the abundance of forage species available in the feral or free-ranging state, these stabled domestic horses preferred the multiple forage stable. As the stable environment restricts much of the horses' behavioral repertoire through social isolation, making the stable environment more diverse through foraging enrichment may represent an important method of promoting the welfare of domestic horses
Danforth Agent Deborah Brewster, 1956 Visit
No full textStudents Bob Crosby (chairman of the chapel committee) and Edward Davidson (president of the Student Government Association) are shown with Ms. Deborah Brewster (Danforth Foundation representative at Auburn) who visited Jacksonville State College during the chapel drive. (circa May 2, 1956)https://digitalcommons.jsu.edu/lib-ac-histimg/10709/thumbnail.jp
Behaviour of stabled horses presented with foraging devices in mangers and buckets
No full textProcessed feed for stabled horses is usually presented in buckets or mangers, and is easily and rapidly consumed. Foraging devices based on the Edinburgh Foodball can be used to provide part of the ration. Current designs are all placed on the floor, raising concerns about ingestion of foreign materials with the dispensed food. Alternative devices were evaluated, used within suitable, clean containers to prolong food-handling times but avoid such issues.
In four Latin Square designed replicated trials we investigated behaviour of 12 stabled horses with three foraging devices. These were separately presented for five minutes, varied in sensory complexity (Round, Square, Polyhedral) and contained 500g high fibre pellets. In Trials I and II six geldings were presented with devices in buckets then mangers. All individuals foraged successfully from at least one of the devices and behaviour was compared. However, all individuals exhibited some frustration while using the devices (either pawing or biting them). Horses frequently removed the devices from the buckets in Trial I terminating these sessions. In Trial II mean device foraging duration was ranked Polyhedral>Round>Square. Mean pawing rate in Trial II was calculated for horses (frequency of pawing per individual/summed duration manipulation and foraging) and was highest with Square (0.11, npawers=6). In Trial III six stabled mares were presented with the same foraging devices in mangers. Mean foraging duration with devices again ranked Polyhedral>Round>Square. Mean pawing rate was highest with Device round (0.08, npawers=4). Trial IV investigated behaviour of six horses when devices initially containing five high fibre pellets became empty. Mean foraging duration with devices again ranked Polyhedral>Round>Square. Mean pawing rate was highest with Square (0.05, npawers=3).
Device polyhedral had highest mean duration of foraging in all Trials. Devices met objective but unpredictability of pellet rewarding stimulus may indicate a source of frustration and warrants further investigation
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