239 research outputs found
Hall of Fame 2009-2010, Composite Photo
No full textAndre\u27 Bernard Cotten, Artair Joel Rogers, Claire Elizabeth Graves, Elizabeth Jayne Joseph, Joshua Steven Randle, Melissa Carol Cole, Patrick Joseph Woodyard, Richard William McKay, Sederia Natasha Gray, Tommy Vincent Chambleehttps://egrove.olemiss.edu/halloffame/1079/thumbnail.jp
Screening aid for the Cerambycidae of the western United States of America
No full textJames R. LaBonte, Steven A. Valley, Joshua Vlach, Christine Niwa.Title from PDF cover (viewed on October 26, 2021).This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
'Living lightly on the Earth': Building an ark for Prince Edward Island, 1974–76 by Steven Mannell (review)
No full textLiving Lightly on the Earth is a shining example of publicly engaged scholarship in the environmental humanities. Steven Mannell, an architect and director of Dalhousie University’s College of Sustainability, is not a historian but, rather, a public scholar, and, like the college, this book is an accomplishment in interdisciplinary public teaching and research. Mannell curated an exhibit at the Confederation Centre of the Arts in Charlottetown in the months prior to the book’s publication. The book’s “project team” lists three members, including Mannell as author and exhibit curator, Lukas Bergmark as assistant curator, and Megan Peck as research and curatorial assistant. Full credit is also given to the two original architects, two curators at the Confederation Centre, one additional writer (historian Daniel A. Barber wrote a short introduction), and four other collaborators. The ratio of authors to words published is thus substantially higher than most of the books reviewed in this journal, but the result is a richly illustrated, well-researched, and deeply personal account of this unique moment in architectural and environmental history
Adapting authoritarianism: institutions and co-optation in Egypt and Syria
No full textThis PhD thesis compares Egypt and Syria’s authoritarian political systems. While the tendency in social science political research treats Egypt and Syria as similarly authoritarian, this research emphasizes differences between the two systems with special reference to institutions and co-optation. Rather than reducibly understanding Egypt and Syria as sharing similar histories, institutional arrangements, or ascribing to the oft-repeated convention that “Syria is Egypt but 10 years behind,” this thesis focuses on how events and individual histories shaped each states current institutional strengthens and weaknesses. Specifically, it explains the how varying institutional politicization or de-politicization affects each state’s capabilities for co-opting elite and non-elite individuals.
Beginning with a theoretical framework that considers the limited utility of democratization and transition theoretical approaches, the work underscores the persistence and durability of authoritarianism. Chapter two details the politicized institutional divergence between Egypt and Syria that began in the 1970s. Chapter three and four examines how institutional politicization or de-politicization affects elite and non-elite individual co-optation in Egypt and Syria. Chapter five discusses the study’s general conclusions and theoretical implications.
This thesis’s argument is that Egypt and Syria co-opt elites and non-elites differently because of the varying degrees of institutional politicization in each governance system. Rather than view one country as more politically developed than the other, this work argues that Syria’s political institutions are more politicized than their Egyptian counterparts. Syria’s political arena is, thus, described as politicized-patrimonialism. Syria’s politicized-patrimonial arena produces uneven co-optation of elites and non-elites as they are diffused through competing institutions. Conversely, the Egyptian political arena remains highly personalized as weak institutions and individuals are manipulated and molded according to the president’s ruling clique. This is referred to as personalized-patrimonialism. As a consequence, Egypt’s political establishment demonstrates more flexibility in ad hoc altering and adapting its arena depending on the emergence of crises.
This study’s theoretical implications suggest that, contrary to modernization and democratization theory’s adage that institutions lead to a political development, politicized institutions within a patrimonial order actually hinder regime adaptation because consensus is harder to achieve and maintain. It is within this context that Egypt’s de-politicized institutional framework advantages its top political elite. In this reading of Egyptian and Syrian politics, Egypt’s personalized political arena is more adaptable than Syria’s. These conclusions do not indicate that political reform is a process underway in either state
Bull trout conservation and recovery in the Odell Lake core area: distribution, behavior, ecology, and fisheries evaluations (2013-2014)
No full textMichael H. Meeuwig, Steve J. Starcevich, Elizabeth J. Bailey, Shaun P. Clements, and Joshua L. McCormick.This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Includes bibliographical references (pages 63-68).Funding for this project was provided in part by USFWS (F14AF01131 and F13AF01080).Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Leverage and Access: Understanding Why Foreign States Lobby the United States Government
No full textThe lobbying efforts of foreign states within the United States government of the most prevalent, compelling, and interesting phenomena within the American political system. Through primarily seeking leverage and access within the American government, foreign states spend millions of dollars annually to protect thennational interests within the domestic policy realm of the United States. To better understand this increasingly compelling and highly lucrative phenomenon, this thesis observes and analyzes the actual lobbying disclosures, pursuant to the Federal Agents remains one Registration Act of 1938, often foreign countries from 1998 to 2010: China, Umted Kingdom, Brazil, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, Peru, Qatar, and Uganda. The countries : those states that possess military alliances or are evenly divided into two study groups maintain major economic relationships with the United States and those countries that lack such politically beneficial relationships. Through understanding the different relationships the United States employs to interact with other foreign states, and through analyzing the empirical aspects of each country’s disclosed lobbying efforts, patterns in lobbying efforts emerge. This thesis reveals that countries possessing major pre-existing relationships with the United States utilize the private lobbying sector far more than those countries lacking such beneficial relationships, and it further proves that the extent to which foreign principals understand and participate in this political conundrum is remarkably fascinating and perpetually evolving
“Living lightly on the earth”: Building an ark for Prince Edward Island, 1974–76 . Steven Mannell
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Signal Detection on the Battlefield: Priming Self-Protection vs. Revenge-Mindedness Differentially Modulates the Detection of Enemies and Allies
No full textDetecting signs that someone is a member of a hostile outgroup can depend on very subtle cues. How do ecology-relevant motivational states affect such detections? This research investigated the detection of briefly-presented enemy (versus friend) insignias after participants were primed to be self-protective or revenge-minded. Despite being told to ignore the objectively nondiagnostic cues of ethnicity (Arab vs. Western/European), gender, and facial expressions of the targets, both priming manipulations enhanced biases to see Arab males as enemies. They also reduced the ability to detect ingroup enemies, even when these faces displayed angry expressions. These motivations had very different effects on accuracy, however, with self-protection enhancing overall accuracy and revenge-mindedness reducing it. These methods demonstrate the importance of considering how signal detection tasks that occur in motivationally-charged environments depart from results obtained in conventionally motivationally-inert laboratory settings.National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.) (Grant MH64734)U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences (Grant W74V8H-05-K-0003)National Science Foundation (U.S.) (Grant BCS-0642873
A resource induced shift in growth strategy and rhizome morphology in a non-native clonal plant species
No full textIn recent years, a non-native plant, Aralia elata, has emerged as an invasive plant species in the eastern United States. Introduced in New York in the 1830s, A. elata has since spread, via avian dispersal, across much of the mid-Atlantic region. The large scale windthrow and resulting canopy gaps created by the storms of 2011 and 2012 produced the disturbed habitat preferred by A. elata. Clonal growth is a life history trait common among invasive plant species, including A. elata, affording the genet the benefit of improving its fitness through the production of an exploratory rhizome system capable of foraging to acquire limited resources. I hypothesized that the amount of canopy cover will affect rhizome growth dynamics and main stem size over the first three years of invasion. Rhizome dimension data of 150 individual genets were collected and plotted against the percent open canopy. Results indicate that rhizome size and structure are significantly affected by the percent of open canopy. Plants occupying higher light locations had larger main stems, more rhizomes with more branching points, and were shorter in total length than plants growing in low light, indicating investment by the genet into its current location. Unexpectedly, plant growing in low light conditions possessed the longer, less branching rhizome morphology often observed in foraging plants, suggesting that they were attempting to escape the lower light location.M.S.Includes bibliographical referencesby Joshua D. Echol
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