6,183 research outputs found
Interview with Janice Wilson
Full text linkInterview with the Honorable Janice Wilson by Heather Petrocelli on July 16, 2015. Wilson was appointed to Oregon District Court in 1991 by Governor Barbara Roberts and appointed from that position to Multnomah County Circuit Court in 1994. Following numerous re-elections, she retired in 2013. Interview at Portland State University Library in Portland, OR.https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/pope_oralhist/1004/thumbnail.jp
A Gaggle of Saints [program]
No full textTargoff, Allison; Wilson, Heather; Vasta, Brittany; Chaippantanawich, Tab; Hooten, Mason; Arroyo, Shanno
Aspects of red grouse Lagopus lagopus scoticus population dynamics at a landscape scale in northern England and the implications for grouse moor management
Full text linkRed grouse Lagopus lagopus scoticus are an important game species in the United Kingdom, with many areas of heather moorland managed specifically to produce them for driven shooting. In order to effectively manage red grouse populations it is important to have an understanding of their population dynamics and to determine which of the vital rates most effect population growth and recovery and whether these parameters can be influenced by management activities. The focus of my research was to provide a greater understanding of the respective roles of juvenile dispersal, heather management and mortality causes in red grouse population dynamics at a landscape scale in northern England. The study was undertaken between 1999 and 2005 and encompassed four privately owned grouse moors, covering some 113 km(^2) of heather dominated moorland. Central to my research was the ability to accurately and efficiently survey the distribution and abundance of red grouse across the study area. To facilitate this I evaluated a distance sampling method to survey red grouse across the study area pre-breeding in spring and post-breeding in summer. The distance sampling technique proved a reliable, repeatable and practical method for extensive surveys of red grouse. Grouse distribution data were used to construct spatial patterns of grouse abundance at a moor scale using a geostatistical interpolation technique. Rotational heather burning is practised by grouse moor managers to create a mosaic of heather ages which provide food, shelter and nesting habitats for red grouse. To assess the spatial and temporal effects of heather burning on grouse, I used an earth observation technique, using satellite remote sensing to map the habitat mosaic across all four study moors in 2000. Temporal effects of heather burning, from 2000 to 2005 were studied on one moor, with annual heather burning mapped annually. Dispersal is an important element of population dynamics which influences population growth and spread, gene flow and disease transmission. I used radio telemetry to investigate the timing, frequency and distances of dispersal in juvenile red grouse. Dispersal distance differed between sexes, with juvenile females dispersing on average 861 m (±120 SE) compared to 343 m (±31 SE) recorded in males. Population growth did not appear to be limited by dispersal and abundance increased until the density dependent effect of the parasitic nematode worm Trichostrongyle tenuis caused a population crash. On the study moors, grouse moor management resulted in rapid population growth with population oscillations caused by density dependent strongylosis induced crashes. The main cause of mortality was found to be shooting and to dampen population oscillations, modified shooting programmes to limit population growth in conjunction with parasite control measures should be adopted to better manage grouse populations
Review: Artist as Author: Action and Intent in Late-Modernist American Painting
Full text linkBook review of Artist as Author: Action and Intent in Late-Modernist American Painting by Christa Noel Robbins. University of Chicago Press, June 2021. 256 p. Ill. ISBN 9780226752952 (h/c), $45.00. Reviewed November 2021 by Heather Saunders, Dean of Libraries and Archives, Acadia University, [email protected]
Section 28, three decades on: the legacy of a homophobic law through the LSE Library's collections
Full text linkKevin Wilson, Heather Dawson, and Gillian Murphy discuss the controversial Section 28 clause that banned the promotion of homosexuality by UK local authorities 30 years ago this month, and highlight the LSE's rich collections on the issue
The Times, They Are Changing
No full textIn 2015, Rutgers became only the second accredited law school in the United States to select the open-source ILS, Koha. The merger of two unique catalogs at Rutgers Law School has presented unique challenges with respect to migration mapping, data recall for large records, and relevancy ranking, all of which affect search results and usability of the OPAC. System migrations always result in some data being lost or incorrectly transferred. The hope is to minimize just how much data is compromised while fixing errors that might not have come to light but for the migration.Peer reviewe
Heather McHugh, 4th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textThe author of Dangers, published in 1978 in Houghton Mifflin\u27s New Poetry Series, and A World of Difference, also a Houghton Mifflin publication (1981), Heather McHugh is a rare poet, known for her formal elegance, her piercing wit, and her supple use of rhyme and rhythm. The Denver Quarterly remarked on her interest in seeing doubly and double-talking and praised her passionate intelligence and affection for the tongue\u27s intimate intricacies. McHugh\u27s Thursday evening reading will conclude the 1981 Literary Festival. McHugh grew up in Williamsburg and now teaches at the State University of New York at Binghamton. She is a member of the board of directors of the Associated Writing Programs
Ep. #121 - Heather Paxson
No full textThis recording and transcript form part of a collection of podcasts conducted by the Cultures of Energy at Rice University. Cultures of Energy brings writers, artists and scholars together to talk, think and feel their way into the Anthropocene. We cover serious issues like climate change, species extinction and energy transition. But we also try to confront seemingly huge and insurmountable problems with insight, creativity and laughter.Dominic and Cymene plug Cultures of Energy 7—this year’s energy humanities symposium at Rice which begins today, details at culturesofenergy.org—and then they turn to cheese, why it’s funny, how it can be applied to cats, “cheddaring,” and much more. Is there an anthropologist who knows more about cheese than anyone? Yes of course there is, it’s MIT’s Heather Paxson, author of the award-winning The Life of Cheese: Crafting Food and Value in America (U California Press, 2012). She joins us (14:59) to talk about her research on the microbiopolitics of food and naturally we begin with what’s in her fridge. Heather tells us about her investigation of artisanal cheesemaking and what it tells us about the shift from Pasteurian to Post-Pasteurian regimes of microbiopower. We hear about goat ladies as revolutionaries, the truth about vegan cheese, and debate whether artisanal foodmaking is an elite project. Heather discusses the search for moral meaning in everyday life as a throughline in her work and we turn to her latest research on food safety inspections, the porosity of food borders and the synecdochic reasoning of the state when it comes to managing food flows. We close by discussing the impact of feminist analytics of labor in her research. What is “beef candy China”? Listen on and you might just find out
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