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Peccaries (Artiodactyla: Tayassuidae) from the Late Miocene to Early Pliocene Gray Fossil Site: Regional Implications with a Review of Tayassuinae
Analysis of the Gray Fossil Site peccary material indicates the presence of up to three species. Comparisons with the tayassuid material known from the Tyner Farm and Bone Valley Formation of Florida allows the identification of Mylohyus elmorei and at the GFS. Within the GFS material, Prosthennops cf. P. serus and cf. Catagonus sp. are also tentatively recognized but further verification is required. The known range for Prosthennops is expanded into the Appalachian region. Presence of M. elmorei at the Gray Fossil Site provides the first known occurrence of this species outside of the Palmetto fauna of Florida, indicating that the species once exhibited a larger range within the southeastern United States than previously known. Overall, the presence of M. elmorei.indicates another parallel to the Palmetto Fauna of the Bone Valley Formation whereas Prosthennops cf. P. serus may indicate a connection to the Hemphillian of the western United States
Alien Registration- Doughty, Linwood M. (Lubec, Washington County)
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The Time for Judgment Has Arrived: The Zivotofsky v. Clinton Effect on the Political Question Doctrine\u27s Application to the War Powers Resolution
The War Powers Resolution was enacted to serve as a congressional restraint on the President’s power to engage in Military Action. Since then, Congress and the President have disagreed over the enforcement and constitutionality of the statute. Nonetheless, courts have dismissed cases regarding the War Powers Resolution claiming it is of a solely political nature i.e. a political question. The Judiciary traditionally apply the political question doctrine to issues regarding foreign affairs and, in effect, avoided hearing cases regarding the specifics of the war powers pertaining to Executive and Congress. This lack of judicial determination has resulted in the and unclear assignment of constitutional war powers authority to the branches. In Zivotofsky v. Clinton, the Supreme Court held that the political question doctrine cannot be applied to cases regarding statutory and constitutional interpretation. This narrowing of the political question doctrine potentially lowers the standard of justicability. This Comment advocates, under the new Zivotofsky standard, for the Supreme Court to review statutory and constitutional disputes arising from the War Power’s resolution
Assessing Learning Outcomes in Middle-Division Classical Mechanics: The Colorado Classical Mechanics/Math Methods Instrument
Reliable and validated assessments of introductory physics have been
instrumental in driving curricular and pedagogical reforms that lead to
improved student learning. As part of an effort to systematically improve our
sophomore-level Classical Mechanics and Math Methods course (CM 1) at CU
Boulder, we have developed a tool to assess student learning of CM 1 concepts
in the upper-division. The Colorado Classical Mechanics/Math Methods Instrument
(CCMI) builds on faculty consensus learning goals and systematic observations
of student difficulties. The result is a 9-question open-ended post-test that
probes student learning in the first half of a two-semester classical mechanics
/ math methods sequence. In this paper, we describe the design and development
of this instrument, its validation, and measurements made in classes at CU
Boulder and elsewhere.Comment: 11 pages, 6 figures, 1 tabl
Heavy Metal Chemistry of Sediments in Caves of the Springfield Plateau, Missouri-Arkansas-Oklahoma: A Link to Subterranean Biodiversity
We used X-ray fluorescence (XRF) to compare the heavy metal chemistry of sediments in caves in rural and urban areas to the chemistry of sediments from a control cave in a relatively undisturbed watershed in the Springfield (MO) Plateau. Sediment from Smallin Cave near Ozark, MO, the control cave, has the smallest peak sizes for Zn and Mn and a moderately-sized Pb peak. Sediment from the rural cave exhibited larger peaks of Zn and Mn and a smaller Pb peak. Sediment from the urban cave had the largest Zn, Mn and Pb peaks. Interestingly, smaller peak sizes appear to correlate to the presence of aquatic troglobites. The control cave hosts the most diverse troglobitic fauna and has sediment with smaller peak sizes. Ruark caves are rural caves, and are barren of troglobites and have sediment with larger peak sizes. Giboney Cave, an urban cave in Doling Park in Springfield, MO, provides the most interesting evidence. Giboney Cave splits into two branches, each of which has a unique chemical fingerprint. One channel is barren of cave life and has sediment that exhibits large metal peaks. The second channel hosts aquatic troglobites and has sediment that has small metal peaks. These findings are of particular importance because the caves of the Springfield Plateau host abundant troglobitic species, including the endangered Ozarks cavefish (Amblyopsis rosae). Sediment metal concentrations may indicate which cave systems are capable of supporting life, with XRF analysis providing a non-destructive, rapid way to identify such systems
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Capacity investigation of brine-bearing sands of the Frio Formation for geologic sequestration of CO2
The capacity of fluvial brine-bearing formations to sequester CO2 is investigated using numerical simulations of CO2 injection and storage. Capacity is defined as the volume fraction of the subsurface available for CO2 storage and is conceptualized as a product of factors that account for two-phase flow and transport processes, formation geometry, formation heterogeneity, and formation porosity. The space and time domains used to define capacity must be chosen with care to obtain meaningful results, especially when comparing different authors’ work. Physical factors that impact capacity include permeability anisotropy and relative permeability to CO2, brine/CO2 density and viscosity ratios, the shape of the trapping structure, formation porosity and the presence of low permeability layering.National Energy Technology LaboratoryBureau of Economic Geolog
A5: Grafton Notch State Park: Glacial Gorges and Streams Under Pressure in the Mahoosic Range, Maine
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The environments and hosts of metal absorption at z>5
A growing population of metal absorbers are observed at z>5, many showing
strong evolution in incidence approaching the epoch of hydrogen reionization.
Follow-up surveys examining fields around these metals have resulted in galaxy
detections but the direct physical relationship between the detected galaxies
and absorbers is unclear. Upcoming observations will illuminate this
galaxy-absorber relationship, but the theoretical framework for interpreting
these observations is lacking. To inform future z>5 studies, we define the
expected relationship between metals and galaxies using the Technicolor Dawn
simulation to model metal absorption from z=5-7, encompassing the end of
reionization. We find that metal absorber types and strengths are slightly
better associated with their environment than with the traits of their host
galaxies, as absorption system strengths are more strongly correlated with the
local galaxy overdensity than the stellar mass of their host galaxy. For
redshifts prior to the end of the epoch of reionization, strong high ionization
transitions like C IV are more spatially correlated with brighter galaxies on
scales of a few hundred proper kpc than are low ionization systems, due to the
former's preference for environments with higher UVB amplitudes and those ions'
relative rarity at z>6. Post-reionization, the galaxy counts near these
high-ionization ions are reduced, and increase surrounding certain
low-ionization ions due to a combination of their relative abundances and
preferred denser gas phase. We conclude that galaxy-absorber relationships are
expected to evolve rapidly such that high-ionization absorbers are better
tracers of galaxies pre-reionization while low-ionization absorbers are better
post-reionization.Comment: Accepted to MNRA
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