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Preparing for a Northwest Passage: A Workshop on the Role of New England in Navigating the New Arctic
Preparing for a Northwest Passage: A Workshop on the Role of New England in Navigating the New Arctic (March 25 - 27, 2018 -- The University of New Hampshire) paired two of NSF\u27s 10 Big Ideas: Navigating the New Arctic and Growing Convergence Research at NSF. During this event, participants assessed economic, environmental, and social impacts of Arctic change on New England and established convergence research initiatives to prepare for, adapt to, and respond to these effects. Shipping routes through an ice-free Northwest Passage in combination with modifications to ocean circulation and regional climate patterns linked to Arctic ice melt will affect trade, fisheries, tourism, coastal ecology, air and water quality, animal migration, and demographics not only in the Arctic but also in lower latitude coastal regions such as New England. With profound changes on the horizon, this is a critical opportunity for New England to prepare for uncertain yet inevitable economic and environmental impacts of Arctic change
Annual Report: 2013
I submit herewith the annual reports from the
Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station,
School of Natural Resources and Agricultural
Sciences, University of Alaska Fairbanks, for the
period ending December 31, 2013. This is done
in accordance with an act of Congress, approved
March 2, 1887, entitled, âAn act to establish
agricultural experiment stations, in connection with
the agricultural college established in the several
states under the provisions of an act approved
July 2, 1862, and under the acts supplementary
thereto,â and also of the act of the Alaska Territorial
Legislature, approved March 12, 1935, accepting
the provisions of the act of Congress.
The research reports are organized according to
our strategic plan and by broad subject, focusing
on geography, high-latitude agriculture, forest
sciences, and the interaction of humans and the
environment. Research conducted by our graduate
and undergraduate students plays an important
role in these grants and the impact they make on
Alaska.Financial Statement -- Funding & Grants -- Students -- Research at SNRAS & AFES -- Publications -- Facult
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The shape of online meetings
Live videoconferencing has become an integral part of international virtual learning and working with professionals, educators and students using online meetings to enhance their collaboration from different parts of the world. This paper explores the visualization of a set of different online meetings produced by the FlashMeeting' videoconferencing system. Our polar area visualization analysis reveals interesting patterns in participant dominance in online meetings: seminars, interviews, moderated project meetings, peer-to-peer meetings, web-casts and video lectures. Visualizing patterns in the use of foreground and background communication channels is a promising way to help us to start to explore individual user roles in different communities and in different meeting types
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The rise of emerging market multinationals and its impact on marketing
The purpose of this paper is to review and discuss the rise of emerging market multinationals (EMMs), with a special focus on its impact on marketing. Emerging market countries not only have millions newly affluent consumers and are also the home of a new generation of multinational companies. The rise of EMMs challenges the extant thinking in strategy and marketing, and creates both threats and opportunities for western firms. With unique character and behaviour, EMMs are different from both developed countries multinationals and Japanese and Korean firms. It is imperative to study EMMs in order to win the new competition
An investigation into the comparative learning gain and âvalue addedâ for students from widening participation and non-widening participation groups:a case study from sports degrees
Increasingly universities are expected to demonstrate the impact of studentsâ higher education experiences; learning gain is one of the metrics that can evidence this. The Scottish Funding Council (SFC) agrees Widening Participation (WP) objectives with the universities with an implicit expectation that Scottish higher education institutions (HEIs) work within their communities to enable those who could benefit from a university education to enrol. The Abertay sport programmes have historically supported students from diverse backgrounds. This case study focuses specifically on the graduate outcomes of WP and non-WP students graduating from these programmes in the years 2000â2015. An e-mail survey and departmental database of graduate destinations were linked with the student record. Analysis confirmed that those from WP backgrounds were equally as likely to gain a good degree as their non-WP counterparts and to be in graduate and/or sports employment. Longitudinal graduate outcomes are considered in the context of pedagogic strategy
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