RISKY BUSINESS: VISUALIZING AND HISTORICIZING THE ROLE OF GEOGRAPHIC REPRESENTATION AND THINKING IN AMERICAN BUSINESS

Geographic representation and thinking has a long history in the American business world. This thesis examines the role of geographic representation and thinking in the fire insurance industry in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries through the Sanborn Map Company and in the development of site selection as a concept in the mid-twentieth century through the biography of William Applebaum. Through these case studies, I explore the relevance applied cartographic representations to the business world and the opportunities it presents towards advancing geography as a discipline

The amphibians and reptiles of Luzon Island, Philippines, VIII: the herpetofauna of Cagayan and Isabela Provinces, northern Sierra Madre Mountain Range

A grant from the One-University Open Access Fund at the University of Kansas was used to defray the author’s publication fees in this Open Access journal. The Open Access Fund, administered by librarians from the KU, KU Law, and KUMC libraries, is made possible by contributions from the offices of KU Provost, KU Vice Chancellor for Research & Graduate Studies, and KUMC Vice Chancellor for Research. For more information about the Open Access Fund, please see http://library.kumc.edu/authors-fund.xml.We provide the first report on the herpetological biodiversity (amphibians and reptiles) of the northern Sierra Madre Mountain Range (Cagayan and Isabela provinces), northeast Luzon Island, Philippines. New data from extensive previously unpublished surveys in the Municipalities of Gonzaga, Gattaran, Lasam, Santa Ana, and Baggao (Cagayan Province), as well as fieldwork in the Municipalities of Cabagan, San Mariano, and Palanan (Isabela Province), combined with all available historical museum records, suggest this region is quite diverse. Our new data indicate that at least 101 species are present (29 amphibians, 30 lizards, 35 snakes, two freshwater turtles, three marine turtles, and two crocodilians) and now represented with well-documented records and/or voucher specimens, confirmed in institutional biodiversity repositories. A high percentage of Philippine endemic species constitute the local fauna (approximately 70%). The results of this and other recent studies signify that the herpetological diversity of the northern Philippines is far more diverse than previously imagined. Thirty-eight percent of our recorded species are associated with unresolved taxonomic issues (suspected new species or species complexes in need of taxonomic partitioning). This suggests that despite past and present efforts to comprehensively characterize the fauna, the herpetological biodiversity of the northern Philippines is still substantially underestimated and warranting of further study

A Ready to Play Game on Cooperative Resource Management: Let’s Regenerate!

Regenerate! is a cooperative resource management board game that simulates two decades of community-building at Fly Ranch, a 3,800 acre, off-grid property in the intermountain west (Nevada, USA). Starting with an undeveloped landscape, the team (1 to 6 players) must organize and prioritize projects, strategically budgeting resources (water, food, energy, capital) as they grow their community in the high-desert. Each player assumes the role of a unique partner and with that, must manage their special abilities and actions as they cooperate with their teammates. As the team manages resources and attempts to maximize their Community Score (the victory points of the game), they must also minimize degradation across the landscape, as the team is penalized for degenerative habitat conditions and rewarded for regenerative conditions at the end of the game. Further, the team must also manage random events which are revealed at the beginning of each round. To simulate the escalating impact of climate change on community development and landscape conservation, more event cards are revealed as the game progresses and the positive or negative impact of events are intensified

Role-Playing as Experiential Learning: Using Dungeons and Dragons to Teach Management Concepts

In this manuscript, we discuss role-playing as a gamification activity. We introduce the creation of content-specific fictional characters, allowing management and leadership students to meaningfully engage with course material, while also stimulating students’ creative and outside-the-box thinking. Further, the character-building classroom activity develops students’ skills in decision making, the weighing and assessing of choices, and further, communicating those challenges all while engaging with the course content in a novel and interesting way. Though this activity can be applied to a range of courses, we highlight an example character-building activity in which students create their ‘Ideal Leader’ in undergraduate and graduate classrooms

Amphibians and reptiles, Romblon Island group, central Philippines: comprehensive herpetofaunal inventory

We present results from several recent herpetological surveys in the Romblon Island Group (RIG), Romblon Province, central Philippines. Together with a summary of historical museum records, our data document the occurrence of 55 species of amphibians and reptiles in this small island group. Until the present effort, and despite past studies, herpetological diversity of the RIG and their biogeographical affinities has remained poorly understood. We report on observations of evolutionarily distinct amphibian species, including conspicuous, previously known, endemics like the forest frogs Platymantis lawtoni and P. levigatus and two additional suspected undescribed species of Platymantis. Moderate levels of reptile endemism prevail on these islands, including taxa like the karst forest gecko species Gekko romblon and the newly discovered species G. coi. Although relatively small and less diverse than the surrounding landmasses, the islands of Romblon Province contain remarkable levels of endemism when considered as percentage of the total fauna or per unit landmass area

When Play And Work Collide: An Interactive Panel Symposium Exploring The Use Of Gaming To In Management Education

This panel symposium brings together management researchers with experience of the gaming industry, and industry professionals to explore the use of gaming in management education. We focus on how educators can use board games and role-playing games to increase student engagement and highlight the use of specific games in several different management courses including Leadership, Organizational Behavior, Human Resource Management, Entrepreneurship and Strategic Management as experiential learning activities. Guided by the facilitators, and through active participation, attendees will use commercially available games such as Dungeons and Dragons, and Forbidden Island to illustrate management course material. We give participants a hands-on experience of some of the games we have successfully used to creatively illustrate management material

Did geckos ride the Palawan raft to the Philippines?

Aim We examine the genetic diversity within the lizard genus Gekko in the Philippine islands to understand the role of geography and geological history in shaping species diversity in this group. We test multiple biogeographical hypotheses of species relationships, including the recently proposed Palawan Ark Hypothesis. Location Southeast Asia and the Philippines. Methods Samples of all island endemic and widespread Philippine Gekko species were collected and sequenced for one mitochondrial gene (NADH dehydrogenase subunit 2) and one nuclear gene (phosducin). We used maximum likelihood and Bayesian phylogenetic methods to derive the phylogeny. Divergence time analyses were used to estimate the time tree of Philippine Gekko in order to test biogeographical predictions of species relationships. The phylogenetic trees from the posterior distribution of the Bayesian analyses were used for testing biogeographical hypotheses. Haplotype networks were created for the widespread species Gekko mindorensis to explore genetic variation within recently divergent clades. Results Both maximum likelihood and Bayesian phylogenetic analyses indicated that Philippine Gekko species are a diverse clade with a long history in the archipelago. Ancestral range reconstruction and divergence time analyses suggest a Palawan microcontinental origin for this clade, coinciding with Palawan’s separation from Asia beginning 30 Ma, with subsequent diversification in the oceanic Philippine islands. The widespread species G. mindorensis and G. monarchus diversified in the late Miocene/early Pliocene and are potentially complexes of numerous undescribed species. Main conclusions The view of the Philippine islands as a ‘fringing archipelago’ does not explain the pattern of species diversity in the genus Gekko. Philippine Gekko species have diversified within the archipelago over millions of years of isolation, forming a large diverse group of endemic species. Furthermore, the Philippine radiation of gekkonid lizards demonstrates biogeographical patterns most consistent with stochastic colonization followed by in situ diversification. Our results reveal the need to consider deeper time geological processes and their potential role in the evolution of some Philippine terrestrial organisms

Appendix B. Sensitivity analyses of age-specific survival rates, fecundities, germination rates, seed bank survival, and standard deviations.

Sensitivity analyses of age-specific survival rates, fecundities, germination rates, seed bank survival, and standard deviations

Appendix A. Fire hazard function parameters.

Fire hazard function parameters