Utilizing Highway Rest Areas for Electric Vehicle Charging: Economics and Impacts on Renewable Energy Penetration in California

California policy is incentivizing rapid adoption of zero emission electric vehicles for light-duty and freight applications. This project explored how locating charging facilities at California’s highway rest stops might impact electricity demand, grid operation, and integration of renewables like solar and wind into California’s energy mix. Assuming a growing population of electric vehicles to meet state goals, state-wide growth of electricity demand was estimated, and the most attractive rest stop locations for siting chargers identified. Using a California-specific electricity dispatch model developed at UC Davis, the project estimated how charging vehicles at these stations would impact renewable energy curtailment in California. It estimated the impacts of charging infrastructures on California’s electricity system and how they can be utilized to decrease the duck curve effect resulting from a large amount of solar energy penetration by 2050.View the NCST Project Webpag

Distribution and evolution of Chasmistes (Pisces: Catostomidae) in western North America

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Appreciation of the Sustainability of the Tourism Industry in Cyprus

Because of their specific features (isolation, important sea shores, difficult access, scattering, limited natural resources, prone to cultural disasters, large imports, etc.) islands and small island states need to be protected. They represent case studies regarding sustainable tourism, just like arid zones and mountainous regions. This article takes Cyprus as an example to assess positive and negative aspects which, from a tourist point of view, characterize each of the traditional pillars of sustainability: social, environmental and economic, including patrimonial and cultural. The appraisal as described is largely positive.Cyprus; Sustainability; Tourism; Social; Economic; Environmental; Island

Hollywood\u27s Indian: The Portrayal of the Native American in Film

Offering both in-depth analyses of specific films and overviews of the industry\u27s output, Hollywood\u27s Indian provides insightful characterizations of the depiction of the Native Americans in film. This updated edition includes a new chapter on Smoke Signals, the groundbreaking independent film written by Sherman Alexie and directed by Chris Eyre. Taken as a whole the essays explore the many ways in which these portrayals have made an impact on our collective cultural life. Raises interesting issues and challenges readers to consider the complex realities of American Indian cultures and Indian/non-Indian relations that major motion pictures often fail to communicate. -- American Graduate Important and groundbreaking work. -- Bookman News Enables readers to construct a cinematic chronology of the Hollywood Indian and to comprehend the larger cultural forces at work interpreting the Indian-white past on screen. -- Choice Rollins and O’Connor have skillfully blended a variety of thoughtful veiwpoints. -- Chronicles of Oklahoma A collection of quality essays, put together by two of the leading experts in this particular topic area. -- Communication Booknotes Quarterly Hollywood\u27s representation of Indians is a subject which up till now has generated a lot more heat than light. This welcome new collection of essays covers a lot of ground . . . including a valuable piece on Michael Mann\u27s The Last of the Mohicans and earlier versions of Cooper\u27s \u27Leatherstocking Tales,\u27 a surprisingly and convincingly sympathetic essay on Dances with Wolves , and an informative account of Pocahontas . -- Edward Buscombe Will become the standard source for reference for an important subject, not only in American contemporary popular culture, but for evolving attitudes in a new century. -- Film and History The essays provide valuable ways to think about the meaning and impact of Hollywood\u27s portrayal of American Indian characters. -- Great Plains Quarterly Offers an engaging and timely update to previous critical anthologies. -- H-Net Book Review An engaging and timely update to previous critical anthologies. -- Journal of American Culture The value of this collection resides in the concentrated attention it gives to the portrayal of Native Americans on film. -- Journal of American Ethnic History The essays are solid pieces that place the films in a proper historical and artistic context. -- Journal of American History The essays add to the growing literature on films about American Indians, and individually, they provide interesting insights into the process of movie-making and viewing. -- North Carolina Historical Review A welcome contribution to the lively and timely debate on the representation of ethnic minorities in the media. -- Zeitscrift fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik An excellent set of essays on the subject. -- Choicehttps://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_film_and_media_studies/1022/thumbnail.jp

1927 - Letter to U.S. Commissioner of Indian Affairs regarding Homeless California Indians

A June 23, 1927, letter from L. A. Dorrington, Superintendent of the Sacramento Indian Agency, to the U.S. Commissioner of Indian Affairs regarding the purchase of land for homeless California Indians. Detailed 25-page report listing the number of Indians in each band identified in each county and advising as to whether it would be necessary to purchase public land for them. Dorrington expressed concern about the failure of certain bands to adequately develop the land noting that in some instances the need for provision of adequate water supply for domestic use, proper fencing and construction of better homes.https://digitalcommons.csumb.edu/hornbeck_usa_3_d/1056/thumbnail.jp

Pogogyne Floribunda (Lamiaceae), A New Species from the Great Basin in Northeastern California

Pogogyne jloribunda is described as a new endemic species from Lassen and Modoc counties in northeastern California. Its occurrence on the eastern Modoc Plateau of the Great Basin Floristic Province is the first record for the genus outside the California Floristic Province. Pogogyne zizyphoroides also is reported from the Great Basin in Lassen County

Phonological Alternation in Numerals in Sungai Penuh Dialect of Kerinci

Kerinci is a Malayic language spoken primarily in Sungai Penuh City and Kerinci Regency, Sumatra which is considered unique as most lexicons have two or more forms, differing in the phonological realisation of their final syllables. These word-final syllable rhymes are referred to as Absolute and Oblique forms since they bear syntactic functions. This paper describes phonological alternation in numerals and their morphosyntactic functions based on data from a synchronic descriptive study conducted in Koto Renah village, Sungai Penuh, Kerinci. The study reveals that most cardinal and ordinal numbers have two or more forms. The last unit of a compound numeral is the absolute form, while all preceding units are oblique forms. The phrasal alternations in numerals lends credence to the view that the Kerinci language is indeed unique

The “Tinker” Figure in the Children’s Fiction of Patricia Lynch

This article explores the representation of Travellers or “tinkers” in some of Patricia Lynch’s children’s books from the first half of the twentieth century. One of the first children’s writers to create a world directly recognizable to her young readers, in which she used to shape a concept of “Irishness,” Lynch establishes the “tinker” as a bridging figure between the realism of rural Ireland and the magical “other world” of the supernatural, but belonging properly to neither. Tinkers are tools through which the child is taught, by negative example, to value the domestic realm and to be a good citizen. Relief from the domestic routine should be found in fairy tales, and not in the actual world of the tinkers. Excluded from both the real world and its acceptable alternative, Travellers are denied a legitimate status within an Irish context. Lynch suggests that the only way for a Traveller to become legitimate is to cease being a Traveller.This article explores the representation of Travellers or “tinkers” in some of Patricia Lynch’s children’s books from the first half of the twentieth century. One of the first children’s writers to create a world directly recognizable to her young readers, in which she used to shape a concept of “Irishness,” Lynch establishes the “tinker” as a bridging figure between the realism of rural Ireland and the magical “other world” of the supernatural, but belonging properly to neither. Tinkers are tools through which the child is taught, by negative example, to value the domestic realm and to be a good citizen. Relief from the domestic routine should be found in fairy tales, and not in the actual world of the tinkers. Excluded from both the real world and its acceptable alternative, Travellers are denied a legitimate status within an Irish context. Lynch suggests that the only way for a Traveller to become legitimate is to cease being a Traveller