Alien Registration- Morgan, Elizabeth (Sanford, York County)

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Associations Between Young Adults\u27 Use of Sexually Explicit Materials and Their Sexual Preferences, Behaviors, and Satisfaction

The present study examined how levels of sexually explicit material (SEM) use during adolescence and young adulthood were associated with sexual preferences, sexual behaviors, and sexual and relationship satisfaction. Participants included 782 heterosexual college students (326 men and 456 women; Mage = 19.9) who completed a questionnaire online. Results revealed high frequencies and multiple types and contexts of SEM use, with men’s usage rates systematically higher than women’s. Regression analyses revealed that both the frequency of SEM use and number of SEM types viewed were uniquely associated with more sexual experience (a higher number of overall and casual sexual intercourse partners as well as a lower age at first intercourse). Higher frequencies of SEM use were associated with less sexual and relationship satisfaction. The frequency of SEM use and number of SEM types viewed were both associated with higher sexual preferences for the types of sexual practices typically presented in SEM. These findings suggest that SEM use can play a significant role in a variety of aspects of young adults’ sexual development processes

Processes of Sexual Orientation Questioning Among Heterosexual Women

Because very little is known about heterosexual identity development, this study assesses and describes sexual orientation questioning processes of heterosexual-identified women, and offers a comparison of these processes with those employed by their sexual-minority counterparts. Participants included 333 female college students (ages 18-23; M = 19.2). Two-hundred and twenty-eight participants primarily identified as “exclusively straight/heterosexual”; 105 participants indicated a sexual-minority identity. Sixty-seven percent of exclusively heterosexual respondents (n = 154) indicated having thought about and/or questioned their sexual orientation. The processes by which heterosexual participants described questioning their sexual orientation were coded for the presence of five emergent categories using an inductive thematic coding methodology. These five categories included: unelaborated questioning (19%), other-sex experiences (16%), exposure to sexual minorities (26%), assessment of same-sex attraction (48%), and evaluations of same-sex behavior (26%). Several unifying and differentiating themes emerged between sexual orientation groups. Results from this study suggest that contemporary young women’s heterosexuality is not necessarily an unexamined identity; indeed, the large majority of young women in this sample were deliberately identifying as heterosexual after contemplating alternative possibilities

Telemaco Signorini: spokesman of the Macchiaioli

Telemaco Signorini was a member of a nineteenth-century Italian group of artists called the Macchiaioli. He was the son of Giovanni Signorini, a painter. The group came together against the Italian academies and drew inspiration from Decamps and the artists of the Barbizon school in France. Their style emphasizes effect and emotion. The Macchiaioli were a short lived group that only lasted from 1855 to 1862. Signorini and the members of the group participated in 1859 in the Risorgimento, the Italian struggle for independence. Based on this experience Signorini created several canvases depicting the Italian countryside, especially at La Spezia. He was also devoted to literature and in his essays he defended the Macchiaioli on several occasions. After the Macchia had been declared dead by Signorini, he traveled extensively to London and Paris. During these travels, Signorini succumbed to the popular influences of photography and Japanese prints. He began to travel in Italy exclusively beginning in 1884 and continued painting, using a mix of inspirations he had gathered throughout his life, until his death in 1901. This thesis is a comprehensive study of Signorini

Geochemical and Petrographic Analysis of Gore Mountain Garnets, Adirondacks NY

The mine at Gore Mountain is famous for its giant garnets and long history of garnet abrasive production. This location, Warrensburg (Wall St.), and others were examined to attempt to better understand the petrogenesis of these remarkable rocks. Our studies have emphasized the geochemistry of bulk rocks and rock and mineral separates (122 analyses), thin section petrology, and thermodynamic modeling of mineral assemblages. At Gore Mtn. the ore has the assemblage hornblende-plagioclase-garnet-OPX-biotite, and formed over a ~2 m thick transition zone from a layered olivine corona gabbro, metamorphosed at granulite facies. Petrographically the delicate corona structures and fine-grained garnets were replaced by hornblende and progressively larger garnets across the transition zone, indicating that the small number of large garnets in the ore resulted from growth driven by surface energy reduction rather than low nucleation rate. That chemical components must have rapidly migrated through the rock volume via a fluid phase seems obvious. The transition zone is compositionally the same as the gabbro in most cases, except addition of water to form hornblende. However, in the ore there are highly variable trace element composition differences compared to the gabbro. There is also a subtle, variable, loss of LREE relative to HREE. This suggests strongly channelized fluid flow. The situation at Warrensburg is not so clear because gabbro-garnet amphibolite contacts are not exposed. The big garnet rock and nearby corona gabbro have more evolved magmatic compositions than the Gore Mtn. rocks, and the chemical changes are less extreme and different. This may indicate more homogeneous fluid flow and a somewhat different fluid composition. Regional granulite facies metamorphism has been reported at ~750°C and ~8 kbar. New thermodynamic modeling indicates that Gore Mtn. ore formation took place at ~750°C and 4.5-5 kbar, in the presence of silicate melt and hydrous fluid, indicating isothermal uplift followed by fluid infiltration

Differences in Person Perception

The purpose of this study was to investigate trait characteristics that influence a person’s perspective towards the prisoner population. Participants completed a perception exercise where they scored prisoners with and without special circumstances (defined in this research as mental illness symptoms). Results demonstrated that the judgement of prisoners was dependent upon the order in which the material was presented as well as the characteristics in question. The findings provide further insight into societal norms of mental illness stigma and their influence on perception of the people involved with the criminal justice system

Tennyson's Idylls and their sources

Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University, 1937. This item was digitized by the Internet Archive

An Evaluation of Landscape, Climate, and Management Impacts on Bumble Bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: \u3cem\u3eBombus\u3c/em\u3e) in Agroecosystems

Bumble bees play pivotal roles in pollinating wild and cultivated plant communities. Unfortunately, bumble bee populations are declining due to disturbances such as landscape conversion and climate change. Additionally, traps used to monitor pest insect populations often capture bumble bees, leading to a concern that trap captures increase bumble bee mortality. First, I studied bumble bee communities based on land cover and weather variables in agricultural fields in Utah. Bumble bee communities were more diverse in agricultural fields with more agricultural land in the surrounding area, low temperatures, and high humidity during the growing season, and less diverse in fields with more urban land, high temperatures and low humidity. However, differences in species among sites suggest that all agricultural fields from this study have high conservation value for bumble bees; therefore, management strategies should maintain a variety of habitat types to promote resiliency of bumble bee assemblages. Next, I examined the effects of climate and landscapes on bumble bees in agricultural fields throughout the U.S. Bumble bee assemblages varied based on habitat characteristics, emphasizing that management practices should differ across the U.S. based on the local climate and landscapes in order to conserve bumble bees. I then measured the impact of trap captures on the size and development of field-released brown-belted bumble bee colonies. Only three brown-belted bumble bees were collected from traps, suggesting that these captures had negligible effects on the observed differences in weight and foraging activity. However, this does not mean that all bumble bee species are not affected. Finally, I evaluated the commercial potential of brown-belted bumble bees by determining if they can be successfully raised in a laboratory setting and by identifying the maximum temperature worker bumble bees can withstand before death. Brown-belted bumble bees can successfully be raised in a lab and can tolerate high temperatures, so they should continue to be evaluated for commercial purposes throughout the U.S. Overall, this research increased knowledge to provide more accurate management practices of bumble bee communities in agricultural systems throughout the U.S. and provided a foundation for developing brown-belted bumble bees as a commercialized pollinator

Accounting for Critical Attributes and Uncertainty in Flow-Ecology Relationships

Environmental flows are used to maintain streamflow for aquatic species in rivers while also sustaining human water requirements. While there are many approaches to develop environmental flows, they all rely on a strong conceptual understanding of flow-ecology relationships, which are often uncertain. Uncertainty in flow-ecology relationships can stem from using limited data to develop or test relationships or an incomplete understanding of the attributes inherent to each relationship, such as climate and land conditions. Accounting for these attributes and uncertainty in flow-ecology relationships is critical given mounting interest to develop and implement environmental flows at large scales, often with limited information. Using the South Fork Eel River watershed in northern California USA as a case study, I explored attributes and uncertainty in flow-ecology relationships through a targeted review of academic journal articles and Bayesian Network modeling. I found that few relationships describe explicit links between the flow regime and species or cover the full range of climate and land conditions present in the watershed. These gaps informed several scenarios within a Bayesian Network model—represented as different sets of probabilities—which show that model results can differ by up to 50% depending on the uncertainty scenario. This study informs future field monitoring efforts to develop flow-ecology relationships and promotes effective translation and modeling of existing flow-ecology relationships and their uncertainties