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Memories of Robert F. Heizer (1915ñ1979)
No full textThe Pioneers section of the Journal features personal reflections on major figures in the study of the indigenous
cultures of the region. Neither obituary nor memorial, Pioneers shares candid recollections that convey insight into the
personalities and the cultural context of anthropology that shaped the scholarship of these pioneers.
Pioneers began with the 2015 issue, and in these first few years the focus has tilted toward the Great Basin rather
than interior and coastal California. This decision was based on the existence of a similar effort, ìSands of Time,î in
the journal California Archaeology that does an admirable job of remembering some of the early scholars of California
anthropology. Perhaps it is time to broaden our geographic range for the JCGBA Pioneers section, and to also remind
readers that the subject matter is anthropology, not just archaeology. The Pioneers sections in the 2016 issues of the
Journal featuring Isabel Kelly and Julian Steward remind us of the intellectual breadth of these pioneers. If you have
suggestions regarding a potential Pioneer, and the names and contact information for those who may wish to share a
recollection, please contact Steven Simms ([email protected])
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Acquisition Costs and Nutritional Data on Great Basin Resources
No full textAs part of an earlier study (Simms 1984), data on the costs and benefits of obtaining native food resources in the Great Basin were generated for use in foraging models developed from evolutionary ecology. Portions of these data are presented here for the benefit of researchers interested in the acquisition costs and nutrition of wild foods
The Driving Force Behind Theater : an Examination of Three Facets of Professional Theater : The Theater, Theatrical Companies, and the Freelance Designer
No full textiv, 66 p.The author interned with freelance lighting and stage designer Steven R. Espach, working on three shows for two non-for-profit theater companies on Long Island, New York.East Hampton, New York
"Closing the R&D Gap, Evaluating the Sources of R&D Spending"
No full textBoth spending and tax policies have been implemented in the United States with the goal of stimulating private sector research and development (R&D). Karier questions whether current R&D policy, especially the research and experimentation tax credit, can contribute to closing the gap between nondefense expenditures on R&D in the United States and such expenditures in other countries, such as Japan and Germany. He also explores possible changes to our current R&D policy to make it more effective.
Illustrated key to the Dendroctonus of North America
No full textJames R. LaBonte, Steven A. Valley, Oregon Dept. of Agriculture.Title from PDF cover (viewed on December 11, 2020).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
Illustrated key to the species of Ips, Orthotomicus, and Pseudips of North America (or spines, spines, and more spines)
No full textJames R. LaBonte, Steven A. Valley, Oregon Dept. Agriculture.Title from PDF cover (viewed on December 11, 2020).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
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The Structure of the Bustos Wickiup Site, Eastern Nevada
No full textThis paper describes an experiment in which the Bustos site is treated as if it were an ethnoarchaeological situation in addition to being an interesting example of a late prehistoric site in the Great Basin. Ethnoarchaeological studies of site formation processes shaping the structure of sites (e.g., Kent 1984, 1987; O'Connell 1987) have been important to our understanding of site function, task organization, duration of occupation, seasonality, and the role of storage. The archaeological visibility of lightly constructed, perishable structures is another issue. A high percentage of past hunter-gatherer residential behavior has likely left archaeologists with a disproportionate number of lithic scatters, while decayed structures, requiring far more attention to locate, go unrecognized. Inferences from ethnoarchaeology conducted in other regions of the world have been applied to a case in the northeastern Great Basin to help identify the location of small structures whose superstructures have vanished (Simms and Heath n.d.). These kinds of studies hold implications for the use of negative evidence (i.e., the absence of residences) to interpret site function, as well as the assessment of significance, and policies for survey and test excavations in cultural resource management
Screening aid for the Buprestidae of the western United States of America
No full textJames R. LaBonte, Steven A. Valley, 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
Professor Steven R. Morrison appointed to NACDL Amicus Curiae Committee
No full textAssistant Professor Steven R. Morrison has been appointed to as the Eighth Circuit\u27s Vice Chair for the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyer\u27s Amicus Curiae Committee.
The Amicus Curiae Committee’s mission is to provide amicus assistance on the federal and state level in those cases that present issues of importance to criminal defendants, criminal defense lawyers, and/or the criminal justice system as a whole. Membership in NACDL is not a prerequisite either for amicus assistance from the Committee, or for authorship of an NACDL amicus brief. However, the Committee’s amicus endeavors offer an excellent opportunity to recruit new members among those we assist, and those who author NACDL amicus briefs. In that context, members who bring amicus issues to the Committee’s attention are encouraged to urge attorneys for parties benefitting from such assistance to recognize the work NACDL performs on behalf of the criminal defense community, and to join NACDL to support further activities of the organization
Unified mathematical treatment of complex cascaded bipartite networks: The case of collections of journal papers
No full textIn this study, a mathematical treatment is proposed for analysis of entities and relations among entities in
complex networks consisting of cascaded bipartite networks. This treatment is applied to the case of
collections of journal papers. In this case, entities are distinguishable objects and concepts, such as papers,
references, paper authors, reference authors, paper journals, reference journals, institutions, terms, and term
definitions. Relations are associations between entity-types such as papers and the references they cite, or
paper authors and the papers they write. An entity-relationship model is introduced that explicitly shows
direct links between entity-types and possible useful indirect relations. From this a matrix formulation and
generalized matrix arithmetic are introduced that allow easy expression of relations between entities and
calculation of weights of indirect links and co-occurrence links. Occurrence matrices, equivalence
matrices, membership matrices and co-occurrence matrices are described. A dynamic model of growth
describes recursive relations in occurrence and co-occurrence matrices as papers are added to the paper
collection. Graph theoretic matrices are introduced to allow information flow studies of networks of papers
linked by their citations. Similarity calculations and similarity fusion are explained. Derivation of feature
vectors for pattern recognition techniques is presented. The relation of the proposed mathematical
treatment to seriation, clustering, multidimensional scaling, and visualization techniques is discussed. It is
shown that most existing bibliometric analysis techniques for dealing with collections of journal papers are
easily expressed in terms of the proposed mathematical treatment: co-citation analysis, bibliographic
coupling analysis, author co-citation analysis, journal co-citation analysis, Braam-Moed-vanRaan (BMV)
co-citation/co-word analysis, latent semantic analysis, hubs and authorities, and multidimensional scaling.
This report discusses an extensive software toolkit that was developed for this research for analyzing and
visualizing entities and links in a collection of journal papers. Additionally, an extensive case study is
presented, analyzing and visualizing 60 years of anthrax research through a collection of journal papers.
When dealing with complex networks that consist of cascaded bipartite networks, the treatment presented
here provides a general mathematical framework for all aspects of analysis of static network structure and
network dynamic growth. As such, it provides a basic paradigm for thinking about and modeling such
networks: computing direct and indirect links, expressing and analyzing statistical distributions of network
characteristics, describing network growth, deriving feature vectors, clustering, and visualizing network
structure and growth
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