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Scholarly Works (56 results)

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American Indian Culture and Research Journal , Volume 34, Issue 1 (2010)
    Cover page: The Nature Way: Wisdom from a Western Shoshone Elder. By Corbin Harney.Creative Commons 'BY-NC' version 4.0 license
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    Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Volume 19 (1997)
      Cover page: Adult and Child Differences in the Production of Novel Language Input
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      UCLA Electronic Theses and Dissertations (2025)

      This study aimed to understand the experiences that contribute to the success of Black men in graduate programs at UCLA, a predominantly white institution (PWI), and how support has helped them overcome challenges. The research focused on three key areas: factors shaping positive graduate school experiences, the role of faculty in supporting successful matriculation, and the impact of on- and off-campus support on persistence. The study conducts qualitative interviews with 22 Black male students who had attended UCLA for at least one academic year. Despite primarily negative experiences, participants showed resilience and continued with their studies. The findings emphasize the reasons for the participants' selection of UCLA and their experiences with connections, support systems, learning environments, and growth opportunities. The significance of Black male affinity groups is emphasized in the study, which also promotes the need for faculty and staff training to address biases and foster diversity and inclusivity.

        Cover page: Break Barriers: The Inspiring Journey of Black Men in UCLA Graduate Programs
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        Rangelands and Grazing Livestock (2020)

        The Ranch Water Quality Planning Instructor's Guide and Lesson Plan (RWQP Guide) is a multi-part curriculum for extension professionals, watershed organization staff and volunteers, and the ranching community. The goal is to provide an objective, adaptive blueprint for organizing short course-type educational programs to enable ranchers to complete their RWQPs.

        This updated guide and lesson plan provides a scientific overview of water quality, specifically for livestock operations, with a wealth of new information discovered since the curriculum was first written in 1995. Designed for "turn-key" operation with a guide, lesson plans, participant worksheets, and video modules.

        Through the 6 modules and 19 lessons short course participants will learn about key issues presented in advanced management practices that protect water quality and support grazing livestock operation viability.

          Cover page: UCCE Ranch Water Quality Planning: Instructor's Guide and Lesson Plan
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          Ecosystem Restoration, Invasive Species (2009)
          Private landowners, ecosystem restoration professionals, and resource agency staff can work together to increase native vegetation on the banks of streams and rivers. This publication gives practical advice on how to make this kind of project work.
            Cover page: Developing a Monitoring Program for Riparian Revegetation Projects
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            Ecosystem Restoration, Invasive Species (2006)
            A debris-free stream is not always a happy stream! Large woody debris is a critically important resource for California's fish and wildlife. Learn how fallen tree trunks and limbs benefit stream ecosystems.
              Cover page: Maintaining Wood in Streams: A Vital Action for Fish Conservation
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              UC Berkeley Previously Published Works (2023)
              High-entropy materials are a nascent class of materials that exploit a high configurational entropy to stabilize multiple elements in a single crystal lattice and to yield unique physical properties for applications in energy storage, catalysis, and thermoelectric energy conversion. Initially, the synthesis of these materials was conducted by approaches requiring high temperatures and long synthetic time scales. However, successful homogeneous mixing of elements at the atomic level within the lattice remains challenging, especially for the synthesis of nanomaterials. The use of atom-up synthetic approaches to build crystal lattices atom by atom, rather than the top-down alteration of extant crystalline lattices, could lead to faster, lower-temperature, and more sustainable approaches to obtaining high entropy materials. In this Perspective, we discuss some of these state-of-the-art atom-up synthetic approaches to high entropy materials and contrast them with more traditional approaches.
                Cover page: Synthetic Strategies toward High Entropy Materials: Atoms-to-Lattices for Maximum Disorder.Creative Commons 'BY' version 4.0 license
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                Farm (2006)
                Irrigated orchards, vineyards, and row crops have high erosion rates. The vegetative filter strip (VFS) offers one way to control erosion rates and keep soil in the field rather than letting it be carried off site in drainage water.
                  Cover page: Vegetative Filter Strips for Nonpoint Source Pollution Control in Agriculture
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                  Farm (2006)
                  Soil erosion is a major cause of water quality degradation. Included is an introduction to the properties of soil that influence its erodibility and an explanation of soil properties that you can manage to minimize erosion.
                    Cover page: Reducing Runoff from Irrigated Lands: Erodibility of Agricultural Soils, with Examples in Lake and Mendocino Counties
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                    UC Davis Previously Published Works (2022)
                    Kraepelin, in his early descriptions of schizophrenia (SZ), characterized the illness as having "an orchestra without a conductor." Kraepelin further speculated that this "conductor" was situated in the frontal lobes. Findings from multiple studies over the following decades have clearly implicated pathology of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) as playing a central role in the pathophysiology of SZ, particularly with regard to key cognitive features such as deficits in working memory and cognitive control. Following an overview of the cognitive mechanisms associated with DLPFC function and how they are altered in SZ, we review evidence from an array of neuroscientific approaches addressing how these cognitive impairments may reflect the underlying pathophysiology of the illness. Specifically, we present evidence suggesting that alterations of the DLPFC in SZ are evident across a range of spatial and temporal resolutions: from its cellular and molecular architecture, to its gross structural and functional integrity, and from millisecond to longer timescales. We then present an integrative model based upon how microscale changes in neuronal signaling in the DLPFC can influence synchronized patterns of neural activity to produce macrocircuit-level alterations in DLPFC activation that ultimately influence cognition and behavior. We conclude with a discussion of initial efforts aimed at targeting DLPFC function in SZ, the clinical implications of those efforts, and potential avenues for future development.
                      Cover page: Mechanisms underlying dorsolateral prefrontal cortex contributions to cognitive dysfunction in schizophrenia
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