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Indigenous human rights and knowledge in archives, museums, and libraries: Some international perspectives with specific reference to New Zealand and Canada
This article highlights the extent to which international law has changed rapidly in recent years in relation to the rights of Indigenous peoples generally and in particular how this impacts upon the legal status of traditional knowledge and culture. It reviews the recognition of the unique legal status of Māori in Aotearoa and Aboriginal peoples in Canada in relation to self-determination and how their changing place within these nations are affecting the operations of museums, libraries, and archives as case studies, illustrating some of the key legal and practical challenges that now impinge upon the work of archivists and related professionals in many countries
Effect of White Spruce Release on Subsequent Defoliation by the Yellowheaded Spruce Sawfly, Pikonema Alaskensis (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae)
Hand release of 22 5-year-old white spruce, Picea glauca (Moench) Voss, dramatically increased the amount of defoliation by the yellowheaded spruce sawfly, Pikonema alaskens is . The percent defoliation of the released trees was six times the defoliation in the control trees. A light overstory for young white spruce is suggested as a silvicultural method of reducing defoliation by this sawfly
Handbook explaining the fundamentals of nuclear and atomic physics
Indoctrination document presents nuclear, reactor, and atomic physics in an easy, straightforward manner. The entire subject of nuclear physics including atomic structure ionization, isotopes, radioactivity, and reactor dynamics is discussed
Minnesota Extension's Mixed Regional/County Model: Greater Impacts Follows Changes in Structure
The Cooperative Extension Service has as its mission helping the public use the research generated at land-grant universities. Since 1914, most states have used a county-based Extension model, with educators in every county and campus-based faculty supporting local educational efforts. This paper outlines why and how the Minnesota Extension Service has replaced this model with a mixed regional/county model, the major features of the new delivery model and the employment consequences of the shift as well as the non-financial advantages of the new model. The structural changes in Minnesota are of interest to Extension stakeholders in other states who are facing similar challenges and want to learn more about the benefits and costs of Minnesota's new model. Within Minnesota the public is beginning to ask a much more important question: What are the impacts of the programs being delivered? Structural change is only valuable if it results in increased programming and greater impacts than would have happened without the change. Although this paper starts to outline some of the changes in program impact, the bulk of that discussion will be reserved for later papers.Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession,
State Specialists’ Views of Minnesota’s Evolving Extension System
extension, Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession,
MICC: A tool for computing short distances in the curve complex
The complex of curves of a closed orientable surface of
genus is the simplicial complex having its vertices,
, are isotopy classes of essential curves in . Two
vertices co-bound an edge of the -skeleton, , if there
are disjoint representatives in . A metric is obtained on
by assigning unit length to each edge of
. Thus, the distance between two vertices, ,
corresponds to the length of a geodesic---a shortest edge-path between and
in . Recently, Birman, Margalit and the second author
introduced the concept of {\em initially efficient geodesics} in
and used them to give a new algorithm for computing the
distance between vertices. In this note we introduce the software package MICC
({\em Metric in the Curve Complex}), a partial implementation of the initially
efficient geodesic algorithm. We discuss the mathematics underlying MICC and
give applications. In particular, we give examples of distance four vertex
pairs, for and 3. Previously, there was only one known example, in genus
, due to John Hempel.Comment: 19 pages, 9 figures, Version 2 has updated figures and reference
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