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Economic Feasibility of Aquaponics in Arkansas
<p>Concerns regarding population growth and resource scarcity have led to a recent renaissance of food production research. Over the past few decades, scientists have discovered new and innovative methods for growing food that, cumulatively, may hold the key to efficiently and sustainably feeding …
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"The Africans Have Taken Arkansas": Political Activities of African-American Members of the Arkansas Legislature, 1868-73
<p>African-American lawmakers in the Arkansas General Assembly during Radical Reconstruction became politically active at a time when the legislature was addressing the most basic issues of public life, such as creating the infrastructure of public education and transportation in the state. They …
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Gentrification and Income Segregation in Fayetteville, Arkansas
… measure economic gentrification in Fayetteville, Arkansas using an index based on property values and median rent prices and how much they have changed between 2000 and 2015. Then, using U.S. Census and American Community Survey disaggregated income data, changes in income segregation were …
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Remembering Arkansas Debate: The Use of Collective Memory in Analyzing the Role of Intercollegiate Debate at the University of Arkansas
… campus for nearly a century, the University of Arkansas debate team created many memories and stories from their time in competition. According to the framework of collective memory, the production and dissemination of these stories is what connects the past, present, and future of a debate team …
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Lost Names in the Paleozoic Lithostratigraphy of Arkansas
<p>The geology of Arkansas has been studied for nearly 160 years, and our understanding of it is continually evolving. Part of this ever-changing study is the nomenclature of the stratigraphy. From the early reports to today, several lithostratigraphic names have been proposed and abandoned to …
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GIS Modeling of the Prominent Geohazards in Arkansas
<p>The State of Arkansas is prone to numerous geohazards. This thesis is a twofold study of prominent geohazards in Arkansas: the first fold includes a novel triggerless approach for mass wasting susceptibility modeling applied to the Boston Mountains in NW Arkansas, and the second fold is a …
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The Vascular Flora of Lost Valley, Newton County, Arkansas
… vascular plants of Lost Valley, Newton County, Arkansas, was made between April 1974 and May 1975. An annotated checklist of 636 taxa representing 102 families, 366 genera, and 249 Newton County records is included. Five plant communities are described which contain a number of endemics, …
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Politics of poverty in Arkansas : a decision-making study.
Poverty in Arkansas, as elsewhere in the nation, is a severe blight upon the social, economic, and political structures of society. Focussing upon this national problem, the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 proposed solutions to poverty. Community Action Agencies, a creation of the Act, were …
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Subsurface Analysis of Mississippian Tripolitic Chert in Northwest Arkansas
… 70 years the Mississippian strata of Northwest Arkansas have been studied in great detail. The study area is located on the escarpment between the Boston Mountains Plateau and the Springfield Plateau where a surface occurrence of Mississippian age rock allows for access to outcrops in close …
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Educational Technology and Innovation Capacity in Arkansas Public Schools
… system’s innovation capacity. A survey of 126 Arkansas high school teachers, indicates that two variables, student’s global literacy skills and integrity of the system, are seen as positive influences on Arkansas public schools innovation capacity and that the quality of the educational system …
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Changes of Winter Severity in Arkansas during 1901-2100
… winter severity by season across the state of Arkansas. The variables that go into the AWSSI calculation are maximum daily temperature, minimum daily temperature, daily snowfall, and daily snow depth. When the snowfall and snow depth were missing, they can be estimated using daily temperature …
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Description of Job Embeddedness in Arkansas County Extension Agents
… voluntary turnover among CEAs even further. Arkansas CES has had its problems with turnover, and studying this issue through the lens of Job Embeddedness Theory was identified as a gap in the literature. </p> <p>Job Embeddedness Theory is a relatively new theory that seeks to understand why …
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Got Breadfruit? Marshallese Foodways and Culture in Springdale, Arkansas
… of traditional Marshallese foods in Springdale, Arkansas. Springdale is home to the highest population of Marshallese people outside of the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI); the population is expected to rise as people continue to migrate from the RMI because of global climate change and …
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The mineralogy of a drill core of Arkansas bauxite
Thesis. (Sc.D.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Geology, 1947.
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Structural Geology of the Caddo Gap Area, Ouachita Mountains, Arkansas
… members (Lower, Middle and Upper) of the Arkansas Novaculite. Major folds within the study area include the Nelson Mountain Anticline and two synclinal folds (“South Caddo Mountain” and “Arrowhead Mountain”) where south-dipping Novaculite has been folded around very sharply in map view, …
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The Impact of a Ballot Education Program on Arkansas Voters
<p>The University of Arkansas Division Of Agriculture’s Public Policy Center has educated Arkansas voters about statewide ballot issues for 10 years. The ballot issue education program, was evaluated during the 2014 election cycle to determine the program’s impact on voters. This descriptive study …
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An Evaluation of Arkansas’ Developmental Coursework Policy at Postsecondary Institutions
… remedial coursework in the state of Arkansas. In this study, I evaluate the impacts of the policy on students’ academic achievement and attainment as measured by graduation rates and persistence. I include subgroup analyses of these outcomes to determine whether there are …
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Use of Harvest Weed Seed Control Strategies in Arkansas Soybean
… Experiments were conducted at the University of Arkansas in 2014 and 2015 to test the efficacy of HWSC on weeds in a soybean production system. Palmer amaranth, which has been deemed the most troublesome weed in the U.S., retains better than 97% of its seed at crop maturity, making it a viable …
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Initial Exploration of Reduced Gyrations for Arkansas Asphalt Mix Designs
… of mixes with a slightly higher binder content. Arkansas is not one of those states. Therefore, this research investigating the performance of lower design gyrations for Arkansas asphalt mix designs is the initial exploration and proof of concept for Arkansas. By comparing the cracking tolerance …
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