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Assessing the role of commercial aquaculture in displacing mangrove forest
(2013)To fill a gap in the marine science literature, I calculated the amount of mangrove deforestation in tropical estuaries that is attributable to commercial aquaculture. The eight countries analyzed were Indonesia, Brazil, ... -
Before the garage: Beginnings of Silicon Valley, 1909–1960
(Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation, 2015-10-23)Stephen Adams, Lemelson Center Fellow and Professor at Salisbury University delivers September's colloquium talk, "Before the Garage: Beginnings of Silicon Valley, 1920–1960," which examines the origins of the Silicon ... -
Business community structures and urban regimes: A comparative analysis
(Journal of Urban Affairs, 2007)Regime theorists often present business interests as coherent and unified communities with unitary interests. A central principle of regime theory, however, is that business elites tend to occupy privileged positions within ... -
Characteristics of teachers' conversations about teaching mean, median, and mode
(2009)The study analyzed a conversation among a group of teachers responsible for teaching the concepts of mean, median, and mode. After reading an article describing some specific student difficulties in learning the concepts, ... -
Characterizing key developmental understandings and pedagogically powerful ideas within a statistical knowledge for teaching framework
(2013)A hypothetical framework to characterize statistical knowledge for teaching (SKT) is described. Empirical grounding for the framework is provided by artifacts from an undergraduate course for prospective teachers that ... -
Creation of a high spatiotemporal resolution global database of continuous mangrove forest cover for the 21st Century (CGMFC-21)
(2016)Aim: To provide high-resolution local, regional, national and global estimates of annual mangrove forest area from 2000 through to 2012 with the goal of driving mangrove research questions pertaining to biodiversity, carbon ... -
A Cross-Cultural Exploratory Study of the Linkage between Emotional Intelligence and Managerial Effectiveness
(2003)Multinationals increasingly require a cadre of skilled managers to effectively run their global operations. This exploratory study examines the relationship between emotional intelligence (EI) and managerial effectiveness ... -
Cutting without Cursing: A Successful Cancellation Project
(2016-07-01)The Salisbury University Libraries embarked on a serials and database cancellation project in the 2014-2015 academic year, eventually cutting nearly 20% of journals without causing any faculty protests. Picking up ideas ... -
A day in the life of a statistical knowledge for teaching course
(2013)Teachers’ statistical learning needs differ from those of individuals in other professions. Along with learning statistical content, they must develop the ability to teach statistics to others. This paper illustrates how ... -
Developing a Library Collection in Bioinformatics: Support for an Evolving Profession
(IGI Global, 2013)This chapter provides guidelines for developing a university library collection for bioinformatics programs. The chapter discusses current research and scholarly communication trends in bioinformatics and their impact on ... -
Ecuador’s mangrove forest carbon stocks: A spatiotemporal analysis of living carbon holdings and their depletion since the advent of commercial aquaculture
(2015)In this paper we estimate the living carbon lost from Ecuador’s mangrove forests since the advent of export-focused shrimp aquaculture. We use remote sensing techniques to delineate the extent of mangroves and aquaculture ... -
Examining the Role of Leadership in an Undergraduate Biology Institutional Reform Initiative
(2016)Undergraduate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education reform continues to be a national priority. We studied a reform process in undergraduate biology at a research-intensive university to ... -
An exploration of students' statistical thinking
(2006)The statistical thinking exhibited by 14-19 year old students during clinical interview sessions is described. The students’ thinking in regard to fundamental statistics concepts is reported in order to help inform ... -
An exploration of two online approaches to mathematics teacher education
(2009)The purpose of the present study was to examine the nature of the discourse generated by two different online approaches to mathematics teacher professional development. Thirty mathematics teachers participated in online ... -
Exploring location patterns of gasoline stations on Virginia’s Eastern Shore: Field logistics and lessons learned
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Gasoline station morphology on Virginia’s Eastern Shore
(Southeastern Geographer, 2013)Gasoline stations are a ubiquitous component of the modern built environment. Gasoline stations are largely included within people’s daily spatial routines given the nature of modern transportation, particularly in mobile ... -
Geographers mobilize: A network-diffusion analysis of the campaign to free Ghazi-Walid Falah
(Antipode, 2010)In summer 2006, Professor Ghazi-Walid Falah, a political geographer and editor-in-chief of the journal Arab World Geographer, was arrested by Israeli police after taking photographs of rural landscapes in Northern Galilee. ... -
Geopolitics from above: A review of US-Turkey bilateral relations, 1947-2006
(The Arab World Geographer, 2008)This paper analyzes geopolitical changes and continuity in bilateral relations between Turkey and the United States from the Truman Doctrine in 1947 to the present. While the relationship was referred to as an “alliance” ... -
Geopolitics from below: Student perceptions of contemporary US-Turkey relations
(The Arab World Geographer, 2008)This paper analyzes a survey involving 288 participants from three Turkish universities (Sabanci University, Gebze Institute of Technology, and Istanbul University) that was carried out to evaluate and analyze students’ ...