54 research outputs found
Jampa\u27s Worldly Dharmas
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Tennessee Blue Book 2021-2022
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Holding on to Who They Are: Pathways for Variations in Response to Toxic Workplace Behavior Among U.S. Intelligence Officers
The U.S. intelligence community is a critical mission industry responsible for protecting lives and safety in ways that impact the global security environment. Research on the deleterious impact of toxic workplace behavior on other critical mission fields, such as health care and the U.S. military, is robust. However, intelligence scholars publishing within the unclassified arena have been silent on the phenomenon, how personnel respond to it, and how it may impact the intelligence function. This lack of scholarship has afforded an opportunity to understand what constitutes toxic behavior in the intelligence environment and how it may affect U.S. national security objectives. This study presents a theoretical model of response to toxic workplace behavior among intelligence officers in the U.S. intelligence community that centers on a single goal: Holding Self. Using grounded theory methodology and situational analysis in two segments, the study examines how intelligence officers responded and the role that efforts to hold onto self-concepts played in those responses. The findings included three psychological dimensions, three action dimensions, and two inter-dimensions of response. The findings also included identification of the broader ecological situation conditioning response and how those choices operationalized into the business of being intelligence officers. The final model serves as a foundation for future empirical research on the topic. This dissertation is available in open access at AURA: Antioch University Repository and Archive, https://aura.antioch.edu/, and OhioLINK ETD Center, https://etd.ohiolink.edu/
Друга міжнародна конференція зі сталого майбутнього: екологічні, технологічні, соціальні та економічні питання (ICSF 2021). Кривий Ріг, Україна, 19-21 травня 2021 року
Second International Conference on Sustainable Futures: Environmental, Technological, Social and Economic Matters (ICSF 2021). Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, May 19-21, 2021.Друга міжнародна конференція зі сталого майбутнього: екологічні, технологічні, соціальні та економічні питання (ICSF 2021). Кривий Ріг, Україна, 19-21 травня 2021 року
“We Feminine Foresters”: Women, Conservation, and the USDA Forest Service, 1850-1970
The traditional narrative of the Forest Service places the mythic “two-fisted” male ranger as the focus of its history. The reality is that without women he would not have gotten the job done. Women’s work as advocates, foresters, rangers’ wives, clerks, information and education specialists, scientific researchers, and lookouts reveals that although women were excluded from the male domain of forestry, they created a distinct female tradition within the Forest Service—what one called a “feminine forestry” that proved without women, the Forest Service would not have achieved its accomplishments or growth throughout the twentieth century. Throughout their work, women spread their version of the “greatest good” by promoting the conservation cause, a civic and moral responsibility to conserve nature and people’s relationship with the land for the future benefit of American life and values. From the beginning, they played a critical role in pioneering, building, maintaining, and supporting the agency’s forest management infrastructure, information base, conservation education, scientific research, and fixed-point fire detection system, helping to shape the Forest Service’s mission and management of caring for the land and its people into the twenty-first century
Two Centuries of Commodity Cycles - Dynamics of the Metals & Mining Industry in light of Modern Portfolio Theory
This thesis explores the application of Markowitz' Modern Portfolio Theory onto 220 years of financial returns for 13 metals and 21 poly-metallic ore types. The interdisciplinary research shows that poly-metallic ores can be described as naturally occurring portfolios that were diversified by natural geological processes. Safest and optimal portfolios for metals and ores can be computed for different time horizons using portfolio optimization algorithms. Results for optimized ore portfolios are thereby subject to geological constraints. The study revealed that commodity cycles last between six and twenty years and exhibit clockwise and counterclockwise motions in the risk-return framework. The cycle length differences for clockwise cycles are statistically significant and thus specific to all investigated metals and ores. By incorporating novel cycle parameters into decision making tools it is suggested that current industry decisions for resource development can be improved. Insights into the performance of metals and ores through the industrial cycles, as well as into the frequency of profitable super cycles can assist Metals & Mining executives in strategic planning and investment.:Introduction 1
Data 3
Metals & ore types studied 5
2.1 Metals.......................................... 5
2.2 Ore types ........................................ 5
2.3 Prices .......................................... 10
2.4 Summary ........................................ 12
II Analysis 13
3 Modern Portfolio Theory 15
3.1 Overview ........................................ 15
3.2 Definitions........................................ 15
3.3 Assumptions ...................................... 17
3.4 Discussion & Conclusion................................ 18
4 Poly-metallic ores as natural portfolios 19
4.1 Objectives........................................ 19
4.2 Results.......................................... 19
4.3 Summary & Discussion................................. 24
4.4 Conclusion ....................................... 25
5 Static portfolio optimization 27
5.1 Objectives........................................ 27
5.2 Assumptions ...................................... 27
5.3 Results.......................................... 27
5.4 Summary & Discussion................................. 31
5.5 Conclusion ....................................... 32
6 Dynamic portfolio optimization 33
6.1 Assumptions ...................................... 33
6.2 Results.......................................... 34
6.3 Summary & Discussion................................. 44
6.4 Conclusion ....................................... 45
7 Commodity cycles & metal assets 47
7.1 Commodity cycles ................................... 47
7.2 Commodity cycle observations ............................ 54
7.3 Summary ........................................ 76
7.4 Discussion........................................ 77
7.5 Conclusion ....................................... 78
III Application 81
8 Commodity cycles & resource development strategies 83
8.1 The timing of mine development and mining start-up................ 83
8.2 Lead times from discovery to operation........................ 88
8.3 Exploration....................................... 89
8.4 Project valuation considerations............................ 91
8.5 Summary & Discussion................................. 92
8.6 Conclusion ....................................... 93
9 Industrial cycles & modern history 95
9.1 The Metal Markets Indicator-MMI ......................... 95
9.2 The Metal Markets Indicator & the economy .................... 97
9.3 The MMI & military conflict ............................. 105
9.4 MMI cyclicality..................................... 115
9.5 Summary & Discussion................................. 122
9.6 Conclusion ....................................... 123
10 Industrial cycles & metal performance 125
10.1 Methodology ...................................... 125
10.2 Metal performance during technological epochs ................ 126
10.3 Discussion........................................ 133
10.4 Conclusion ....................................... 137
11 Industrial cycles & ore type preferences 139
11.1 Coal Age ........................................ 139
11.2 Oil Age ......................................... 142
11.3 Atomic Age....................................... 144
11.4 Discussion........................................ 146
11.5 Conclusion ....................................... 150
12 Industrial cycles & ore provinces 151
12.1 Ore genetic models and industrial cycles....................... 151
12.2 Ore geology and geography .............................. 154
12.3 Ore provenances and mining technology ....................... 156
12.4 Discussion........................................ 157
12.5 Conclusion ....................................... 157
13 The state and future of the M&M Industry 159
13.1 The current state.................................... 159
13.2 The dawn of a new Industrial Age .......................... 163
13.3 The future........................................ 164
13.4 Summary & Discussion................................. 167
13.5 Conclusion ....................................... 168
14 Summary 169
15 Conclusion 171
IV Appendix 173
Bibliography 233
Index 24
Becoming America: An Exploration of American Literature from Precolonial to Post-Revolution
The University of North Georgia Press and Affordable Learning Georgia bring you Becoming America: An Exploration of American Literature from Precolonial to Post-Revolution. Featuring sixty-nine authors and full texts of their works, the selections in this open anthology represent the diverse voices in early American literature. This completely-open anthology will connect students to the conversation of literature that is embedded in American history and has helped shaped its culture.
Features: Contextualizing introductions from Pre- and Early Colonial Literature to Early American Romanticism Over 70 historical images In-depth biographies of each author Instructional Design, including Reading and Review Questions
This textbook is an open Educational Resource. It can be reused, remixed, and reedited freely without seeking permission.
About the editor:
Wendy Kurant, Ph.D., teaches Early American Literature, American Romanticism, Realism, Naturalism, and Southern Literature at the University of North Georgia (UNG). Her research interests center on new Historicism and depictions of the South and the Civil War in Literature. She has taught at UNG since 2005.https://oer.galileo.usg.edu/english-textbooks/1019/thumbnail.jp
THE ANZICK ARTIFACTS: A HIGH-TECHNOLOGY FORAGER TOOL ASSEMBLAGE
The Anzick Site (24PA506) is a multi-component archaeological site located in the Shields River Valley of south-central Montana approximately 125 km north of Yellowstone National Park. The site was accidentally discovered in 1968, leading to the unfortunate destruction of its archaeological context. Included in the recovered elements of the site are the fragmentary human remains of two individuals, as well as approximately 116 lithic and osseous tools diagnostic of Clovis Culture technology. These tools were thickly covered with red ochre, as was one set of remains, presumably indicative of a burial from which osseous tool samples were dated to approximately 11,000 radiocarbon years before present (rcybp) with the remains dating to approximately 10,900 rcybp. The other set of remains, discovered ten meters distant and uphill from the ochre-covered remains dates to approximately 8,600 rcybp and are thought to be from a separate interment. The purpose of this dissertation is to assess certain facts associated with the Anzick Site, remains and artifacts. More specifically, does the site represent an assemblage deposited during a single event or possibly a collection of materials from several separate depositional events? Additionally, the artifacts may serve to elucidate a pattern of landscape and material use by this particular group of people, living at the end of the Pleistocene Epoch. Past research has shown that the Clovis Culture was highly proficient in terms of subsistence strategy and likely employed a “high technology forager” (HTF) land use system, incorporating attributes of both “forager” and “collector” hunter-gatherer systems. In keeping with the HTF system, the Clovis hunter-gatherers were very mobile, and likely focused primarily on technology as it applied to prey acquisition and the availability of raw materials required for tool manufacture. Although the context of the site was destroyed, the existing data pertaining to the recovered elements do allow for further analyses
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