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Wetland bird case study for application of habitat association models across Great Lakes and Prairie Pothole regions
No full textGL_Data.csv: point count data for Pied-billed Grebe, Virginia Rail, Sora, and American Bittern and associated environmental variables from the Coastal Wetland Monitoring Program (2016-2017) and the Great Lakes Marsh Monitoring Program (1995-1997, 2016-2017).
variableList.csv: a list of environmental variables used in the data analysis
wetland classifications.csv: a list of hydroperiods associated with five classes of wetlands
Data prep_Ecosphere.R: Load DWS data and combine with GL_Data.csv into a single dataset (wetlandData)
DataSetCreation_Ecosphere.Rmd: Use the wetlandData dataset to create training and validation datasets.
RegionalAnalysis_Ecosphere.Rmd: Conduct analysis of training dataset, evaluate model performances with validation dataset
RegionalAnalysis_landscapeOnly_Ecosphere.Rmd: Re-run analysis using only landscape-scale environmental covariates
TablesResultsDiscussion_Ecosphere.Rmd: Markdown script for tables, appendices, and additional calculations for Results and Discussion sections of accompanying manuscript
Figures2_Ecosphere.Rmd: Markdown script for Figure 2 of the accompanying manuscriptSpecies often exhibit regionally specific habitat associations, and, thus, habitat association models developed in one region might not be accurate or even appropriate for other regions. Three programs to survey wetland-breeding birds covering (respectively) North American wetland breeding bird survey programs in Great Lakes coastal wetlands, inland Great Lakes wetlands, and the Prairie Pothole Region offer an opportunity to test whether regionally specific models of habitat use by wetland-obligate breeding birds are transferrable across regions. This dataset includes wetland bird point count and habitat characteristics data from the Great Lakes Coastal Wetland Monitoring Program (2016-2017) and Great Lakes Marsh Monitoring Program (1995-1997 and 2016-2017). These data are then combined with publicly available data from the Dakotas Wetland Survey (1995-1997). The included code files cover the creation and selection of habitat association models, and test the transferability of these models across datasets. These data are now released to accompany publication of "Application of habitat association models across regions: useful explanatory power retained in wetland bird case study."USGSUSFWSGreat Lakes Restoration InitiativeGreat Lakes National Program Office of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, grant number GL-00E01567Ducks Unlimited CanadaEastern Habitat Joint VentureEnvironment and Climate Change CanadaUSEPAGovernment of OntarioJohn and Pat McCutcheon Charitable FoundationNature Conservancy of CanadaTD Friends of the Environment FoundationWildlife Habitat CanadaElliott, Lisa H; Bracey, Annie M; Niemi, Gerald J; Johnson, Douglas H; Gehring, Thomas M; Gnass Giese, Erin E; Fiorino, Giuseppe E; Howe, Robert W; Lawrence, Gregory J; Norment, Christopher J; Tozer, Douglas C; Igl, Lawrence D. (2022). Wetland bird case study for application of habitat association models across Great Lakes and Prairie Pothole regions. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://doi.org/10.13020/3gvn-9t46
Earthquake and tsunami impact analysis for coastal Lane, Douglas, and Coos counties, Oregon
No full textReport -- Coos Countywide Tables -- Douglas Countywide Tables -- Lane Countywide Tables.by Jonathan C. Allan and Fletcher E. O'Brien.Title from PDF cover (viewed on September 23, 2022)."This report evaluates a Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake (MW 9.0) and tsunami (M1, L1, and XXL1 scenarios) affecting coastal Lane, Douglas, and Coos counties, Oregon, to understand the degree of potential destruction, including building losses, debris generated, fatalities and injuries, and estimated numbers of the displaced populations. The goal is to help coastal communities prepare for this inevitable disaster"--Page ii.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.Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Argyres-Douglas theories and S-duality
No full textThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons
Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits any use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are creditedM.B. and T.N. are partly supported by the U.S. Department of Energy under grants DOE-SC0010008, DOE-ARRA-SC0003883, and DOE-DE-SC0007897.
This research was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant No.
NSF PHY11-25915. S.G. is partially supported by the ERC Advanced Grant “SyDuGraM”,
by FNRS-Belgium (convention FRFC PDR T.1025.14 and convention IISN 4.4514.08) and by the “Communaut´e Francaise de Belgique” through the ARC progra
Intercalation of poly[oligo(ethylene glycol) oxalate] into vanadium pentoxide xerogel: Preparation, characterization and conductivity properties
No full textInternet Identifiability and Beyond: A Model of the Effects of Identifiability on Communicative Behavior
No full textK.M. Douglas and C. McGarty (in press) demonstrated that being identifiable to an ingroup
audience in a computer-mediated communication (CMC) setting leads people to describe
anonymous outgroup targets in more abstract, or stereotypical ways. Based on these findings,
and on the social identity model of deindividuation effects (SIDE: S.D. Reicher, R. Spears,
& T. Postmes, 1995), we aimed to test a model of the effects of identifiability on
communicative behavior, in and beyond CMC. Participants in three studies, one CMC and
two pen/paper, were asked to write responses to controversial messages. In all three studies,
communicators who were identifiable to an ingroup audience used more stereotypical
language to describe anonymous outgroup targets. Although Study 1 suggested that this
increase in stereotypical language use may be strategic, Studies 2 and 3 suggested instead that
it may result from more subtle, or implicit communicative processes. These results are
discussed in relation to the revised SIDE model and a final model is proposed
On spherically symmetric Finsler metrics with vanishing Douglas curvature
No full textWe obtain the differential equation that characterizes the spherically symmetric Finsler metrics with vanishing Douglas curvature. By solving this equation, we obtain all the spherically symmetric Douglas metrics. Many explicit examples are included. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.Mathematics, AppliedMathematicsSCI(E)1ARTICLE6746-7583
Against recycling nature - Carl Douglas considers buildings beyond site
No full text‘Ecology’ sounds like something to do with science and solar panels, animal liberationists and atmospheric chemists. But Timothy Morton, author of Ecology without Nature (2007) and The Ecological Thought (2010) claims otherwise. Rather than being a topic or an area of study, he suggests ecology is simply exploring the consequences of a single thought: that everything is connected. Because there is no outside, ecology, in Morton’s eye, has little use for the concept of Nature. To imagine that our projects are sited in Nature is to fantasise about disconnection: to imagine that there is a world out there separate and unaffected by the world within the borders of the project
Against recycling nature - Carl Douglas considers buildings beyond site
No full text‘Ecology’ sounds like something to do with science and solar panels, animal liberationists and atmospheric chemists. But Timothy Morton, author of Ecology without Nature (2007) and The Ecological Thought (2010) claims otherwise. Rather than being a topic or an area of study, he suggests ecology is simply exploring the consequences of a single thought: that everything is connected. Because there is no outside, ecology, in Morton’s eye, has little use for the concept of Nature. To imagine that our projects are sited in Nature is to fantasise about disconnection: to imagine that there is a world out there separate and unaffected by the world within the borders of the project
Connecting does not necessarily mean learning: Course handbooks as mediating tools in school-university partnerships
No full textThis is the author's accepted manuscript (titled "Course handbooks as mediating tools in learning to teach"). The final published article is available from the link below. Copyright @ 2011 American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.Partnerships between schools and universities in England use course handbooks to guide student teacher learning during long field experiences. Using data from a yearlong ethnographic study of a postgraduate certificate of education programme in one English university, the function of course handbooks in mediating learning in two high school subject departments (history and modern foreign languages) is analyzed. Informed by Cultural Historical Activity Theory, the analysis focuses on the handbooks as mediating tools in the school-based teacher education activity systems. Qualitative differences in the mediating functions of the handbooks-in-use are examined and this leads to a consideration of the potential of such tools for teacher learning in school–university partnerships. Following Zeichner’s call for rethinking the relationships between schools and universities, the article argues that strong structural connections between different institutional sites do not necessarily enhance student teacher learning
Irony, innocence, and myth: Douglas C. Macintosh's untraditional orthodoxy
No full textThis study analyzes the relationship of Douglas Clyde Macintosh to the time in which he lived using the concepts of irony, innocence, and myth. By employing these concepts, the author identifies four significant moves that Macintosh made to break with philosophical idealism. The author explores Macintosh's relationship to an older, reigning Ritschlian liberal theology, and the development of neo-orthodoxy by his students H. Richard and Reinhold Niebuhr. This Yale strand of neo-orthodoxy is relevant to the "new historicism" as described by William Dean. The author explores the relevance of Macintosh's work to the developing new historicism including neopragmatism in philosophy, radical empiricism, the American evasion of epistemology, and the role of apologetics in inter-religious dialogue. Macintosh's Yale strand of empirical theology emerges as a significant critique of the new historicist position.
In response to the social, intellectual and religious crisis of modernity, Macintosh moved to recover objectivism in theology, attempted to rehabilitate the apologetic arguments for the existence of God and the reasonableness of religious belief, employed the Radical Method in theology to define and to defend an essence of Christianity, and employed the Anselmian apologetic tactic of leaving Christ aside to prove his necessity for human salvation. His use of the Ritschlian Radical Method in theology produced differences in Macintosh's and Ritschl's theological content.
The author also analyzes the criticisms that H. Richard and Reinhold Niebuhr leveled against Macintosh. Eight reasons are presented for the eclipse of Macintosh's empirical theology in scholarship
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