The Influence of Educational Ability on Cognitive Mapping Ability: A Study of School Children in Halifax, Nova Scotia

The purpose of this thesis is to find how a child’s cognitive abilities affect his cognitive map. Most of the earlier studies concentrated on socio-economic factors as the main factors affecting cognitive mapping, either ignoring cognitive ability or giving it minor consideration. This study surveyed a group of children ages 12 to 15 years in a Junior High School in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The study revealed that cognitive ability significantly affected the forms of the cognitive maps of the students, but was not a significant factor in influencing the elements placed on the cognitive maps. Children of high achievement and I.Q. affected the quality of various forms of the cognitive maps. However, more work could be done in the area of which particular factors of cognitive ability affected which aspects of cognitive mapping

Budget execution exercise for use in the Financial Management in the Armed Forces course at the Naval Postgraduate School.

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Cybercartography and the historical geography of Roman Britain

Adopting a multi-method geomatics approach offers fewer limitations to spatial research compared to the use of a single spatial tool. This research combines, Cybercartography, a geographic information system (GIS) with fuzzy set theory, and remote sensing in the study of Roman Britain. The cybercartographic framework Nunaliit offers a flexible environment for collecting and visualizing historical data. Building on this tool, GIS with fuzzy set theory was performed for a site selection analysis to determine potential sites to investigate using remote sensing image analysis techniques

Natural disturbance regimes for implementation of ecological forestry: a review and case study from Nova Scotia, Canada

Ecological forestry is based on the idea that forest patterns and processes are more likely to persist if harvest strategies produce stand structures, return intervals, and severities similar to those from natural disturbances. Taylor et al. (2020) reviewed forest natural disturbance regimes in Nova Scotia, Canada, to support implementation of ecological forestry. In this follow-up paper, we 1) review use of natural disturbance regimes to determine target harvest rotations, age structures, and residual stand structures; and 2) describe a novel approach for use of natural disturbance regimes in ecological forestry developed for Nova Scotia. Most examples of ecological forestry consider only the local, dominant disturbance agent, such as fire in boreal regions. Our approach included: 1) using current ecological land classification to map potential natural vegetation (PNV) community types; 2) determining cumulative natural disturbance effects of all major disturbances, in our case fire, hurricanes, windstorm, and insect outbreaks for each PNV; and 3) using natural disturbance regime parameters to derive guidelines for ecological forestry for each PNV. We analyzed disturbance occurrence and return intervals based on low, moderate, and high severity classes (The accepted manuscript in pdf format is listed with the files at the bottom of this page. The presentation of the authors' names and (or) special characters in the title of the manuscript may differ slightly between what is listed on this page and what is listed in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript; that in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript is what was submitted by the author