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Birch Hill Park: A Case Study of Interpretive Planning
The Fairbanks North Star Borough Parks and
Recreation Department is responsible for the planning,
acquisition, development, improvement, and
maintenance of lands and facilities to meet the
community's needs for park and open space lands in
accordance with established standards. 1 Current
department emphasis is on sports facilities and programs.
Some small neighborhood parks and the Growden
Park and Picnic Area are the only significantly
developed areas in which organized sports are not
emphasized.
Birch Hill Park was acquired to expand the
spectrum of recreational resources and opportunities
available to borough residents. Cross-country skiing,
both competitive and recreational, is an important
winter activity, but the area's size and its natural
environment provide for a variety of other uses. The
park has a summer youth camp, and planned developments
will enhance the opportunities for visitors of
all ages to picnic, hike, and study nature.
This paper presents a direct contribution to the
diversification of the borough's recreational program
by highlighting the interpretive resources and opportunities
of the park and by making specific recommendations
for the implementation of an interpretive
program. The interpretive plan proposed here can be
integrated with the comprehensive development planning
for Birch Hill Park now underway at the Parks
and Recreation Department.
Preliminary research for this study was done as a
University of Alaska class project in the spring semester
of 1976. The students in LR 493, Interpretive
Services, developed basic information on the natural
and cultural resources of Birch Hill and its surrounding
region. They also identified policy gaps and
provided general guidance for interpretation in the
park.2 The plan presented here is a fo llow-up to that
work. Additional fieldwork and library research have
been done to supplement the earlier effort, and the
implementation aspects have been made more specific
with regard to the trail and visitor center recommendations.
The process followed in this study is adapted
from Perry J. Brown's Procedures for Developing an
Interpretive Master Plan
Policing the Campus: Academic Repression, Surveillance, and the Occupy Movement
Book review of Policing the Campus: Academic Repression, Surveillance, and the Occupy Movement, edited by Anthony J. Nocella II and David Gabbard (2013)
Policing the Campus: Academic Repression, Surveillance, and the Occupy Movement
Book review of Policing the Campus: Academic Repression, Surveillance, and the Occupy Movement, edited by Anthony J. Nocella II and David Gabbard (2013)
Visualizing the semantic content of large text databases using text maps
A methodology for generating text map representations of the semantic content of text databases is presented. Text maps provide a graphical metaphor for conceptualizing and visualizing the contents and data interrelationships of large text databases. Described are a set of experiments conducted against the TIPSTER corpora of Wall Street Journal articles. These experiments provide an introduction to current work in the representation and visualization of documents by way of their semantic content
What can AI do for you?
Simply put, most organizations do not know how to approach the incorporation of AI into their businesses, and few are knowledgeable enough to understand which concepts are applicable to their business models. Doing nothing and waiting is not an option: Mahidar and Davenport (2018) argue that companies that try to play catch-up will ultimately lose to those who invested and began learning early. But how do we bridge the gap between skepticism and adoption? We propose a toolkit, inclusive of people, processes, and technologies, to help companies with discovery and readiness to start their AI journey. Our toolkit will deliver specific and actionable answers to the operative question: What can AI do for you
Writing with Discipline: A Call for Avoiding APA Style Guide Errors in Manuscript Preparation
The education community in the United States—as in many countries—is extremely large and diverse. Indeed, as documented by Mosteller, Nave, and Miech (2004),
The United States has more than 3.6 million teachers in elementary and secondary education, more than 100,000 principals, and about 15,000 school districts, each with its own set of district administrators, school board members, and concerned citizens. The parents and family members of the 60 million students in elementary and secondary education represent another constituency, as do the policymakers and legislators in the 50 states (along with the District of Columbia) and at the federal level. Postsecondary education represents another 1 million faculty members, along with an enrollment of 15 million undergraduates and 1.8 million graduate students. (p. 29)
Indeed, with the number of individuals involved in the educational system, educational research has the potential to play a pivotal role in improving the quality of education—from Kindergarten through primary, through secondary, through tertiary education. Yet, for educational research to play such a role, its findings must be disseminated to individuals (e.g., educators, administrators, stakeholders, policymakers) and groups (e.g., teacher associations) who can most effectively use them (Mosteller et al., 2004; Onwuegbuzie, Leech, & Whitmore, 2008). Unfortunately, research findings do not disseminate themselves, regardless of how statistically, practically, clinically, or economically significant they are for the field of education. Rather, it is educational researchers in general and practitioner-researchers in particular who must convey these findings
Virtual in situs: Sequencing mRNA from cryo-sliced Drosophila embryos to determine genome-wide spatial patterns of gene expression
Complex spatial and temporal patterns of gene expression underlie embryo
differentiation, yet methods do not yet exist for the efficient genome-wide
determination of spatial expression patterns during development. In situ
imaging of transcripts and proteins is the gold-standard, but it is difficult
and time consuming to apply to an entire genome, even when highly automated.
Sequencing, in contrast, is fast and genome-wide, but is generally applied to
homogenized tissues, thereby discarding spatial information. It is likely that
these methods will ultimately converge, and we will be able to sequence RNAs in
situ, simultaneously determining their identity and location. As a step along
this path, we developed methods to cryosection individual blastoderm stage
Drosophila melanogaster embryos along the anterior-posterior axis and sequence
the mRNA isolated from each 25 micron slice. The spatial patterns of gene
expression we infer closely match patterns previously determined by in situ
hybridization and microscopy. We applied this method to generate a genome-wide
timecourse of spatial gene expression from shortly after fertilization through
gastrulation. We identify numerous genes with spatial patterns that have not
yet been described in the several ongoing systematic in situ based projects.
This simple experiment demonstrates the potential for combining careful
anatomical dissection with high-throughput sequencing to obtain spatially
resolved gene expression on a genome-wide scale.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures, 7 supplemental figures (available on request from
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Prairie Farms Dairy, Inc.: Economic Impact of a Dairy Cooperative [This report is now at http://purl.umn.edu/180971]
This report is now at http://purl.umn.edu/180971Dairy cooperative, fluid milk, processing, distribution, history, economic impact., Livestock Production/Industries,
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