Monitoring Huckleberry in Northwest Montana to Investigate Response to Vegetative Treatments

The remote and ecologically rich forests of northwest Montana are home to an endangered population of grizzly bears (Ursus arctos). Within the Cabinet/Yaak ecosystem, recent research suggests an average population estimate of 45 bears. While grizzly bear core-areas and security requirements have been identified in the Cabinet/Yaak ecosystem, figuring out how to best manage the lush vegetation that provides foraging opportunities within that defined habitat has yet to occur. Large portions of this designated habitat are in need of ecological restoration. Since a high percentage of the Cabinet/Yaak grizzly bear’s diet is supplied through berries, grasses, and forbs, it is crucial to develop the knowledge today that can transform portions of the forest back into the edible landscapes that were once historically abundant. Because huckleberries (Vaccinium spp.) comprise a substantial amount of the annual diet volume for Cabinet/Yaak grizzly bears, land managers are beginning to design projects with the intention of increasing the amount of huckleberry foraging opportunities on the forest. Strong anecdotal evidence suggests that huckleberry prefers minimal overstory, yet few studies have been undertaken that document the plant’s response to management. Addressed is a partnership that has formed between the Yaak Valley Forest Council, USDA Forest Service, and the USDI Fish and Wildlife Service to monitor and document the effects the vegetative treatments have on huckleberry abundance

Engineering PhD Returners and Direct‐Pathway Students: Comparing Expectancy, Value, and Cost

BackgroundProfessionals who pursue a doctorate after significant post‐baccalaureate work experience, a group we refer to as returners, represent an important but understudied group of engineering doctoral students. Returners are well situated to leverage their applied work experiences in their advanced engineering training.Purpose/HypothesisWe drew on results from the Graduate Student Experiences and Motivations Survey to explore the dimensionality of our scales measuring value and cost constructs. We used these scales, as well as measures of student expectancy of success, to compare returners with direct‐pathway students.Design/MethodWe surveyed 179 returners and 297 direct‐pathway domestic engineering doctoral students. We first conducted Exploratory Factor Analysis on our cost and value measures. We then used both Ordinary Least Squares and Ordinal Regression Model analyses to assess the relationships of various student characteristics and experiences (including returner status) with student expectancy of success and the emergent cost and values factors associated with doctoral study in engineering.ResultsFactor analysis revealed three categories of values (interest, attainment, and career utility) that were largely consistent with those in Eccles’ expectancy‐value framework. A similar analysis identified three categories of costs (balance, financial, and academic) associated with pursuing a PhD. Returners felt significantly less confident in their ability to complete their degrees prior to enrolling and perceived higher levels of all cost types than direct‐pathway students.ConclusionsGiven the differences between returning and direct‐pathway students, it is important to consider how universities might best recruit and retain returners. Tracking returner status could be critical in better supporting these students.Peer Reviewedhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/140046/1/jee20182.pdfhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/140046/2/jee20182_am.pd

Earle M. Giesey Poetry Booklets

Original handwritten booklets of poetry. One booklet entitled "Bits of Verse" contains two poems, one entitled 'Voiceless heartaches' and 'To My Ideal.' The other booklet entitled "Poems" contains The separation-beginning & end, Tis mine to sacrifice, A year ago today, My love (this poem's annotation mentions a woman named Agnes whom the poet apparently met while in Fargo, N.D.), I thank Thee, Lord, Someone cares, A birdie's life, Little insect, and Friendship. Each poem in this book is dated and briefly annotated

FEMALE CHARACTERS IN MOZART’S OPERAS: POSITIVE VS. NEGATIVE PORTRAYAL

Music is very closely related to the social norms and views held during the time the music was created. It often reflects these social norms and views and helps to perpetuate them. Mozart’s operas were no exception, and they helped to perpetuate norms and views regarding women. Mozart’s operas were written during the eighteenth century, and they express the socially accepted views about women that were held at this time

Modèles de pouvoir dans les rites royaux en France

Power Models in French Royal Rituals. R. E. Giesey. Four important French royal (or "state") ceremonies can be correlated—due to their constitutional meanings—with four successive models of leadership: coronations can be correlated with "religious kingship" (predominant up until the 13th century), funerals with "legal kingship" (in the 15th and early 16th centuries), entrances with "humanistic kingship" (in the 16th century) and the lit de justice with "absolutist kingship" (in the 17th century). These were all great public events which strengthened the relationship between ruler and ruled, contrasting with ritualized court life conducted out of the public eye, mostly at Versailles, which began with Louis the Fourteenth.Giesey Ralph E. Modèles de pouvoir dans les rites royaux en France. In: Annales. Economies, sociétés, civilisations. 41ᵉ année, N. 3, 1986. pp. 579-599

Letter to H.B. Stenzel from S.C. Giesey on 1930-10-02

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Letter to John T. Lonsdale from S.C. Giesey on 1930-10-02

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Letter to Donald G. Dunbar, Jr. from S.C. Giesey on 1951-05-15

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Speckle reduction in ultrasonic imaging using two-dimensional phase-insensitive receiving arrays.

Speckle noise, which is inherent in all coherent energy forms, can limit the quality of ultrasonic images. This speckle can be reduced by adding images formed by transducers with different characteristics and the amount of this speckle reduction is dependent on the correlation between the transducers' responses. A function, called the generalized correlation function, was developed that found the correlation between arbitrary transducers as a function of their transducer response. Simulation studies were done with both spatial and frequency compounding and the function accurately predicted the correlation found in experiments. A pulse-echo imager, which utilizes two-dimensional phase-insensitive receiving arrays, was developed to reduce speckle in ultrasonic images. Three receiving arrays were designed, constructed and tested, each containing individually addressable elements. The elements were combined coherently to form subapertures with varying size, shape and overlap. Images were made of a point-like scatter, a uniformly scattering material, a tissue-mimicking phantom, with simulated cysts, and liver tissue sample with different scattering strengths. The resolution characteristics of the arrays were found including a new measure called the homogeneous resolution cell size that gives a measure of the effective point spread function of the transducer for imaging in essentially homogeneous tissues. In addition to this, the speckle signal-to-noise ratio was measured, as was the speckle spot size. These parameters were used to find the normalized contrast-to-speckle ratio (CSR/d), a measure of the ability of the system to detect low-contrast lesions. Incoherent summation of images from small groups of elements was found, in comparison to coherent summation, to decrease the speckle noise by a factor of up to four, while maintaining enough resolution to show almost a factor of two improvement in image quality as measured by CSR/d. Image quality was found to be affected by the size and shape of the subapertures used to form the image. It was found that there was significant correlation between non-overlapping elements used as receivers with a common transmitter. This was found experimentally as evidenced by the measure of 16.7 independent views when 64 nonoverlapping subapertures were used to form the image. The impulse response was computed for an annular segment, the element shape for one of the arrays, and used to predict the correlation of the array using the developed correlation function. The simulations confirmed the correlation between elements and yielded a value for effective number of views of 13.5. Overall, it was shown that two-dimensional receiving arrays can be used to reduce speckle and improve image quality, and that this behavior can be modeled accurately.Ph.D.Biomedical engineeringMedical imagingUniversity of Michiganhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/162190/1/8920537.pd