Bridging a biogeographic 'gap' : microfossil evidence for the quillwort Isoetes on the Cumberland Plain west of Sydney during the early Colonial period

Fossil spores preserved on historical archaeological sites at Parramatta and Richmond indicate that two or more species of the quillwort genus Isoetes (family Isoetaceae) were growing along rivers on the Cumberland Plain, west of Sydney, during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Perispore ornamentation indicates the parent plants were related to Isoetes drummondii A.Braun and Isoetes muelleri A.Braun: A possible third species produced microspores that are similar to, but much larger than, the spores produced by modern Isoetes muelleri. Apart from one dubious record, Isoetes has not been found in the Sydney flora or on the New South Wales Central Coast and Central Tablelands botanical subdivisions, but does occur in the Central Western Slopes, and botanical subdivisions to the north of Sydney (North Coast, Northern Tablelands) and south (Southern Tablelands, South-Western Slopes, South-Western Plains), as well as in other States. Our data indicate the present day disjunct distribution of Isoetes in New South Wales is most likely to be due to European settlement. The ability of quillworts to survive moderate levels of disturbance during the early Colonial period raises the possibility that remnant populations may still survive in protected areas on the Cumberland Plain

GK Chesterton's Views on an ideal society

Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University, 1945. This item was digitized by the Internet Archive

Conceptions and Receptions: A Case Study Analysis of Community Engagement at Four Local Museums

The theme of community engagement has been a prevalent topic of debate and discussion among museum professionals across the country, and so this thesis seeks to examine how four local museums connect with their local audiences in meaningful and successful ways. I focus on local museums because they have the unique opportunity to intimately engage their immediate community’s perceptions of identity and heritage, and relate the interpreted past in innovative ways that effectively resonate with the contemporary lives of current residents.The Historical Museum at Fort Missoula, Strawbery Banke Museum, The Tuck Museum of Hampton History, and the James House Museum, were selected as case studies and analyzed in an attempt to identify the varied approaches utilized by the leadership at each museum to preserve their collections and engage their community members. Having completed seven months of qualitative research that included participant-observation, semi-formal interviews, surveys, photographic documentation and document analysis, this presentation will summarize the results of this research and illuminate the complex socio-cultural, political, and economic contexts that influence community engagement tactics utilized by the leadership at each of the four museums

Understanding Violence Against Foreigners in Cape Town: Conceptions of Autochthony and Xenophobia in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Examining the correlation between the history of colonialism and structures of Apartheid in South Africa and the current xenophobic violence experienced by Black African immigrants settling in Cape Town. This thesis explores theories of autochthony and belonging in the context of Cape Town, Black South African relationships and ownership of land, access to resources and opportunities for employment, and the continued disenfranchisement of Black South Africans in the wake of Apartheid. These components of the issue of xenophobia in Cape Town are factored into an analysis of how and why violence persists against immigrants in the city

Natural History of Discourse of Missouri House Bill 1042: Bringing a Critical Perspective to Policy Engagement in Two-Year Contexts

In this autoethnographically-infused natural history of discourse (NHD) (Silverstein and Urban, 1996; Slembrouck, 2001), I use methods from critical discourse studies (CDS) to trace 10 years of changes in “remediation” discourses within a corpus of texts associated with Missouri HB 1042, a piece of legislation passed in 2012 that requires higher education institutions to “replicate best practices in remediation” (CBHE, 2013). After providing national and state context related to HB 1042 and the discourses circulating within the HB 1042 corpus of texts, I describe what I call the “higher ed’s remediation problem” discourse, focusing on three discourse features that I surmise provoked affective responses on the part of the two-year faculty and program administrators who participated in the early HB 1042 policy creation and implementation process. Then, I document the near disappearance of the three features of the “higher ed’s remediation problem” discourse and describe the shift to a student deficit discourse in the finalized “remedial” education policy that resulted from HB 1042, paying particular attention to what is known as a placement floor or threshold. After describing faculty and program administrator beliefs and rationales for supporting the threshold, I describe how the “remediation” discourses began to intermingle. Next, I discuss how the “higher ed’s remediation problem” discourse has been circulated and taken up in recent years in a new form: the “higher ed’s remediation equity problem” discourse. Drawing upon my experiences engaging with HB 1042 and reflecting on the critical discourse study, I conclude with a justification for using a critical engagement lens in policy contexts and begin to sketch out frameworks and principles that might be useful for applying this lens in two-year contexts

Alien Registration- Leahbourque, Mary (Portland, Cumberland County)

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Review of research on word recognition in grade one

Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University, 1948. This item was digitized by the Internet Archive

An exploratory study into the use of information technology as an important enabler of organisational differentiation in the financial sector

Organisations need to differentiate themselves from their competitors if they are to survive. This research project explores the role of information technology as an important enabler of organisational differentiation. Senior executives were interviewed from 9 New Zealand financial organisations to determine if information technology was an important enabler of organisational differentiation. No examples, where information technology was to used as an important enabler of organisational differentiation, were found