00516nas a2200169 4500008004100000020001800041245004000059210004000099260001300139300000900152100001700161700002200178700002100200700002100221700002400242856008000266 2021 eng d a978144087196200aWomen and Religion in North America0 aWomen and Religion in North America bABC-CLIO a1-361 aFurman, Kali1 aVenable, Jennifer1 aMae, Leida, (LK)1 aWhitebear, Luhui1 aLambert, Rebecca, J uhttps://liberalarts.oregonstate.edu/biblio/women-and-religion-north-america01405nam a2200205 4500008004100000245003300041210003100074260003100105520079900136653002700935653001100962653001500973653002700988100002301015700002101038700002301059700001801082700002501100856007401125 2013 eng d00aDeutsch im Blick (Edition 2)0 aDeutsch im Blick Edition 2 bUniversity of Texas Austin3 a

This textbook of classroom activities and homework accompanies Deutsch im Blick, http://coerll.utexas.edu/dib/, the web-based German program developed and in use at the University of Texas since 2004, and its companion site, Grimm Grammar (2000) http://coerll.utexas.edu/gg/. These are open access sites, free and open multimedia resources, which require neither password nor fees. Deutsch im Blick, used increasingly by students, teachers and institutions throughout the world, includes 307 videos (American students in Germany, native German interviews, vocabulary and culture presentation videos) recorded vocabulary lists, phonetic lessons, online grammar lessons (600 pages) with self-correcting exercises and audio dialogues, online grammar tools and diagnostic grammar tests.

10aForeign Language Study10aGerman10aHumanities10aLanguage and languages1 aAbrahms, Zsuzsanna1 aSchuchard, Sarah1 aWeilbacher, Jasmin1 aGhanem, Carla1 aVanderHeijden, Vince uhttps://liberalarts.oregonstate.edu/biblio/deutsch-im-blick-edition-200581nam a2200121 4500008004100000020010400041245006100145210005700206260006100263100002500324700002200349856008800371 2010 eng d a9781936353002 1936353008 9781936353019 1936353016 9788484894773 8484894770 9783865275097 386527509500aSpanish of the U.S. Southwest : a language in transition0 aSpanish of the US Southwest a language in transition aNorwalk, CTbIberoamericana Vervuert Pub. Corp.c2010///1 aRivera-Mills, Susana1 aVilla, Daniel, J. uhttps://liberalarts.oregonstate.edu/biblio/spanish-us-southwest-language-transition03315nas a2200205 4500008004100000020001400041245006100055210006000116260000900176300001300185490000700198520271700205100002202922700001602944700001602960700001702976700000502993700001102998856010003009 2008 eng d a0888-889200aHuman impacts on regional avian diversity and abundance.0 aHuman impacts on regional avian diversity and abundance c2008 a405 - 160 v223 a

Patterns of association between humans and biodiversity typically show positive, negative, or negative quadratic relationships and can be described by 3 hypotheses: biologically rich areas that support high human population densities co-occur with areas of high biodiversity (productivity); biodiversity decreases monotonically with increasing human activities (ecosystem stress); and biodiversity peaks at intermediate levels of human influence (intermediate disturbance). To test these hypotheses, we compared anthropogenic land cover and housing units, as indices of human influence, with bird species richness and abundance across the Midwestern United States. We modeled richness of native birds with 12 candidate models of land cover and housing to evaluate the empirical evidence. To assess which species were responsible for observed variation in richness, we repeated our model-selection analysis with relative abundance of each native species as the response and then asked whether natural-history traits were associated with positive, negative, or mixed responses. Native avian richness was highest where anthropogenic land cover was lowest and housing units were intermediate based on model-averaged predictions among a confidence set of candidate models. Eighty-three of 132 species showed some pattern of association with our measures of human influence. Of these species approximately 40% were negatively associated, approximately 6% were positively associated, and approximately 7% showed evidence of an intermediate relationship with human influence measures. Natural-history traits were not closely related to the direction of the relationship between abundance and human influence. Nevertheless, pooling species that exhibited any relationship with human influence and comparing them with unrelated species indicated they were significantly smaller, nested closer to the ground, had shorter incubation and fledging times, and tended to be altricial. Our results support the ecosystem-stress hypothesis for the majority of individual species and for overall species diversity when focusing on anthropogenic land cover. Nevertheless, the great variability in housing units across the land-cover gradient indicates that an intermediate-disturbance relationship is also supported. Our findings suggest preemptive conservation action should be taken, whereby areas with little anthropogenic land cover are given conservation priority. Nevertheless, conservation action should not be limited to pristine landscapes because our results showed that native avian richness and the relative abundance of many species peaked at intermediate housing densities and levels of anthropogenic land cover.

1 aHammer, Roger, B.1 aCA, Lepczyk1 aCH, Flather1 aVC, Radeloff1 a1 aJ, Liu uhttps://liberalarts.oregonstate.edu/biblio/human-impacts-regional-avian-diversity-and-abundance03077nas a2200217 4500008004100000020001400041245004800055210004700103260000900150300001500159490000700174520247200181100002202653700001602675700001702691700001502708700001702723700001602740700001602756856008702772 2007 eng d a1051-076100aHuman influence on California fire regimes.0 aHuman influence on California fire regimes c2007 a1388 - 4020 v173 a

Periodic wildfire maintains the integrity and species composition of many ecosystems, including the mediterranean-climate shrublands of California. However, human activities alter natural fire regimes, which can lead to cascading ecological effects. Increased human ignitions at the wildland-urban interface (WUI) have recently gained attention, but fire activity and risk are typically estimated using only biophysical variables. Our goal was to determine how humans influence fire in California and to examine whether this influence was linear, by relating contemporary (2000) and historic (1960-2000) fire data to both human and biophysical variables. Data for the human variables included fine-resolution maps of the WUI produced using housing density and land cover data. Interface WUI, where development abuts wildland vegetation, was differentiated from intermix WUI, where development intermingles with wildland vegetation. Additional explanatory variables included distance to WUI, population density, road density, vegetation type, and ecoregion. All data were summarized at the county level and analyzed using bivariate and multiple regression methods. We found highly significant relationships between humans and fire on the contemporary landscape, and our models explained fire frequency (R2 = 0.72) better than area burned (R2 = 0.50). Population density, intermix WUI, and distance to WUI explained the most variability in fire frequency, suggesting that the spatial pattern of development may be an important variable to consider when estimating fire risk. We found nonlinear effects such that fire frequency and area burned were highest at intermediate levels of human activity, but declined beyond certain thresholds. Human activities also explained change in fire frequency and area burned (1960-2000), but our models had greater explanatory power during the years 1960-1980, when there was more dramatic change in fire frequency. Understanding wildfire as a function of the spatial arrangement of ignitions and fuels on the landscape, in addition to nonlinear relationships, will be important to fire managers and conservation planners because fire risk may be related to specific levels of housing density that can be accounted for in land use planning. With more fires occurring in close proximity to human infrastructure, there may also be devastating ecological impacts if development continues to grow farther into wildland vegetation.

1 aHammer, Roger, B.1 aAD, Syphard1 aVC, Radeloff1 aJE, Keeley1 aTJ, Hawbaker1 aMK, Clayton1 aSI, Stewart uhttps://liberalarts.oregonstate.edu/biblio/human-influence-california-fire-regimes02631nas a2200205 4500008004100000020001400041245008600055210006900141260000900210300001400219490000700233520195900240100002202199700002502221700001702246700001702263700001602280700001602296856011302312 2007 eng d a1051-076100aPatterns of houses and habitat loss from 1937 to 1999 in northern Wisconsin, USA.0 aPatterns of houses and habitat loss from 1937 to 1999 in norther c2007 a2011 - 230 v173 a

Rural America is witnessing widespread housing development, which is to the detriment of the environment. It has been suggested to cluster houses so that their disturbance zones overlap and thus cause less habitat loss than is the case for dispersed development. Clustering houses makes intuitive sense, but few empirical studies have quantified the spatial pattern of houses in real landscapes, assessed changes in their patterns over time, and quantified the resulting habitat loss. We addressed three basic questions: (1) What are the spatial patterns of houses and how do they change over time; (2) How much habitat is lost due to houses, and how is this affected by spatial pattern of houses; and (3) What type of habitat is most affected by housing development. We mapped 27 419 houses from aerial photos for five time periods in 17 townships in northern Wisconsin and calculated the terrestrial land area remaining after buffering each house using 100- and 500-m disturbance zones. The number of houses increased by 353% between 1937 and 1999. Ripley's K test showed that houses were significantly clustered at all time periods and at all scales. Due to the clustering, the rate at which habitat was lost (176% and 55% for 100- and 500-m buffers, respectively) was substantially lower than housing growth rates, and most land area was undisturbed (95% and 61% for 100-m and 500-m buffers, respectively). Houses were strongly clustered within 100 m of lakes. Habitat loss was lowest in wetlands but reached up to 60% in deciduous forests. Our results are encouraging in that clustered development is common in northern Wisconsin, and habitat loss is thus limited. However, the concentration of development along lakeshores causes concern, because these may be critical habitats for many species. Conservation goals can only be met if policies promote clustered development and simultaneously steer development away from sensitive ecosystems.

1 aHammer, Roger, B.1 aCE, Gonzalez-Abraham1 aVC, Radeloff1 aTJ, Hawbaker1 aSI, Stewart1 aMK, Clayton uhttps://liberalarts.oregonstate.edu/biblio/patterns-houses-and-habitat-loss-1937-1999-northern-wisconsin-usa02545nas a2200181 4500008004100000020001400041245007400055210006800129260001900197300001400216490000700230520195100237100002202188700001602210700001502226700001902241856010302260 2006 eng d a0167-592300aThe American Community Survey in counties with "seasonal" populations0 aAmerican Community Survey in counties with seasonal populations bSpringerc2006 a275 - 2920 v253 a

The U.S. Census Bureau designed the American Community Survey (ACS) to provide annual estimates of social and economic characteristics for states, counties, municipalities, census tracts, and block groups. Because of its April 1 reference date, in northern nonmetropolitan counties with substantial seasonal population fluctuations the decennial census provides a statistical representation of the demographic and social characteristics of the population at a time when the population is close to its annual minimum. The year-round monthly ACS sample survey has the potential to provide local communities with an unprecedented understanding of the average population characteristics over the course of a year. In the future, the ACS even has the potential for providing social and economic characteristics of the population by season. This paper examines four ACS pilot data collection counties, Oneida and Vilas Counties in northern Wisconsin, and Lake and Flathead Counties in northwest Montana. We hypothesize that the ACS will reflect a resident population over the course of the year that is different from the traditional April 1 decennial census population. While the ACS holds much promise, our research uncovered some sampling problems that are not yet fully resolved. In addition, our analysis was not able to examine ACS estimates for minor civil divisions (MCDs), which are functioning governmental units in many states. The fact that these MCDs often have very small populations, together with the fact that estimated standard errors at the much larger census tract level in these counties are disconcertingly large, raises (currently unanswerable) questions concerning the eventual statistical quality of ACS estimates for small MCDs. Consequently, the adequacy of the ACS as a replacement for the census long form may depend on the ability of the Census Bureau to effectively address the concerns presented in this analysis.

1 aHammer, Roger, B.1 aAuken, Paul1 aVoss, Paul1 aVeroff, Daniel uhttps://liberalarts.oregonstate.edu/biblio/american-community-survey-counties-seasonal-populations02318nas a2200181 4500008004100000020001400041245007200055210006900127260001900196300001400215490000700229520171900236100002201955700001501977700001601992700002302008856010502031 2006 eng d a0167-592300aCounty child poverty rates in the US: a spatial regression approach0 aCounty child poverty rates in the US a spatial regression approa bSpringerc2006 a369 - 3910 v253 a

We apply methods of exploratory spatial data analysis (ESDA) and spatial regression analysis to examine intercounty variation in child poverty rates in the US. Such spatial analyses are important because regression models that exclude explicit specification of spatial effects, when they exist, can lead to inaccurate inferences about predictor variables. Using county-level data for 1990, we re-examine earlier published results [Friedman and Lichter (Popul Res Policy Rev 17:91-109, 1998)]. We find that formal tests for spatial autocorrelation among county child poverty rates confirm and quantify what is obvious from simple maps of such rates: the risk of a child living in poverty is not (spatially) a randomly distributed risk at the county level. Explicit acknowledgment of spatial effects in an explanatory regression model improves considerably the earlier published regression results, which did not take account of spatial autocorrelation. These improvements include: (1) the shifting of "wrong sign" parameters in the direction originally hypothesized by the authors, (2) a reduction of residual squared error, and (3) the elimination of any substantive residual spatial autocorrelation. While not without its own problems and some remaining ambiguities, this reanalysis is a convincing demonstration of the need for demographers and other social scientists to examine spatial autocorrelation in their data and to explicitly correct for spatial externalities, if indicated, when performing multiple regression analyses on variables that are spatially referenced. Substantively, the analysis improves the estimates of the joint effects of place-influences and family-influences on child poverty.

1 aHammer, Roger, B.1 aVoss, Paul1 aLong, David1 aFriedman, Samantha uhttps://liberalarts.oregonstate.edu/biblio/county-child-poverty-rates-us-spatial-regression-approach00604nas a2200145 4500008004100000245009300041210006900134260003100203100001700234700001800251700001800269700001900287700002200306856013000328 2006 eng d00aYou Never Miss the Water ‘Till the Well Runs Dry: Crisis and Creativity in California.0 aYou Never Miss the Water Till the Well Runs Dry Crisis and Creat bCambridge University Press1 aLach, Denise1 aIngram, Helen1 aRayner, Steve1 aVerweij, Marco1 aThompson, Michael uhttps://liberalarts.oregonstate.edu/biblio/sociology/you-never-miss-water-till-well-runs-dry-crisis-and-creativity-california