Species composition of coastal dune vegetation in Scotland has proved resistant to climate change over a third of a century

Climate change is expected to have an impact on plant communities as increased temperatures are expected to drive individual species' distributions polewards. The results of a revisitation study after c. 34years of 89 coastal sites in Scotland, UK, were examined to assess the degree of shifts in species composition that could be accounted for by climate change. There was little evidence for either species retreat northwards or for plots to become more dominated by species with a more southern distribution. At a few sites where significant change occurred, the changes were accounted for by the invasion, or in one instance the removal, of woody species. Also, the vegetation types that showed the most sensitivity to change were all early successional types and changes were primarily the result of succession rather than climate-driven changes. Dune vegetation appears resistant to climate change impacts on the vegetation, either as the vegetation is inherently resistant to change, management prevents increased dominance of more southerly species or because of dispersal limitation to geographically isolated sites.

Award for the Best Cornell Quarterly Article in 2002

[Excerpt] I am pleased to announce that the following article has been named Cornell Quarterly article of the year for 2002 (it appeared in the August 2002 issue): "Assessing the Profitability of Premium Players," by Anthony Lucas, Jim Kilby, and Jocelina Santos

Duo Geminiani and the Bach Ensemble, January 7, 1979

Concert program for Duo Geminiani and the Bach Ensemble, January 7, 1979

The Contemporary Group, October 24, 1979

Concert program for The Contemporary Group, October 24, 1979

The Contemporary Group, February 12 and 13 , 1975

Concert program for The Contemporary Group, February 12 and 13, 1975

Analysis and visualization of energy use for university campus

The reduction of greenhouse gas emissions is one of the big global challenges for the next decades due to its severe impact on the atmosphere that leads to a change in the climate and other environmental factors. One of the main sources of greenhouse gas is energy consumption, therefore a number of initiatives and calls for awareness and sustainability in energy use are issued among different types of institutional and organizations. The European Council adopted in 2007 energy and climate change objectives for 20% improvement until 2020. All European countries are required to use energy with more efficiency. Several steps could be conducted for energy reduction: understanding the buildings behavior through time, revealing the factors that influence the consumption, applying the right measurement for reduction and sustainability, visualizing the hidden connection between our daily habits impacts on the natural world and promoting to more sustainable life. Researchers have suggested that feedback visualization can effectively encourage conservation with energy reduction rate of 18%. Furthermore, researchers have contributed to the identification process of a set of factors which are very likely to influence consumption. Such as occupancy level, occupants behavior, environmental conditions, building thermal envelope, climate zones, etc. Nowadays, the amount of energy consumption at the university campuses are huge and it needs great effort to meet the reduction requested by European Council as well as the cost reduction. Thus, the present study was performed on the university buildings as a use case to: a. Investigate the most dynamic influence factors on energy consumption in campus; b. Implement prediction model for electricity consumption using different techniques, such as the traditional regression way and the alternative machine learning techniques; and c. Assist energy management by providing a real time energy feedback and visualization in campus for more awareness and better decision making. This methodology is implemented to the use case of University Jaume I (UJI), located in Castellon, Spain.

Men's Basketball Team

1981-1982 Men's Basketball Team Front - Doug Fast. John Radaslav, Jim Zareski, Kelly Baker, Jim Baldin, Doug Johnson, Tim Mcalpine Back - Manager Britt Fischer, ??, Bob Blasko, David Hodges, Mark Green, Bob Yuhasz, Paul Treitz, Mike Creighton, Trainer Joe Kenney, Coach Garney Henley

1969-70 Men's Basketball

Pictured here from left to right: Back Row - Les Korchok (Coach), Ken Cripps, Mike McGinnis, Bill Butler, Tim McKillop, Gary Jellum, Fred Kovacs (Manager). Front Row - Jim Leach, Wally Dick, Bob Tatti, Paul Zutautas, Tom Kearney (Trainer). Kneeling - Dave Luff, Dave Brent. Missing - Bill Levesque.

1970-71 Hockey Team

1970-71 Brock Generals Hockey team. The members from left to right - Back row: Tom Kearney (trainer), Joel Finlay, Tony Grey, Gregg Carrigan, Craig Morrison, Pat Moroney, Rick Charron, Jim Swain, Bill Fuller, Barry Hopkins, Mike McNiven, Rick Sullivan, Ed Barszcz, Phil McCann, Randy Oiling (Manager), Al Kellogg (Coach). Front row: Wayne Butt, Ron Powell, Tim Goodman, Pat McCann, Arkell Farr, Dave Perrin, Gregg Law. Missing: Jeff Della Vedova.

Part of the 1970-71 Hockey Team

Likely a photo of Jim Swain, Tony Grey, Ron Powell, Barry Hopkins, and Joel Finlay circa 1971. (From Left to Right) Second from the right remains unknown.

1970-71 Rugby Team

Back Row: ?, John Stokes, Jim Brandford, Geoff Cudmore, Mike Nictota, Dave Iogna, Mike Cocca, Mike Taylor Front Row: ?, Rob Kelly, Alun Huges, Dave Underhill, Ken White, Joe ?, Mike ?, Jim Robinson

Avoiding Injury

Jim Baldassaro leaping over the opposing goalie in a 1981 game.

Men's Soccer Team (1981-82)

Back Row: John MacNeil (Coach), John MacNail Jr, John Murray, Joel Walton, Frank Cipriano, Benny Grossi, Rino Berardi, Louis Famelos, Doug Rowan, Ron Di Felice Front Row: Ivan Hunt, Roger Vanoostveen, Dave Gibson, Joe Perri, Kent Mayhew, Jim Baldassarro, Guenther Baur Absent: Neil Dunsmore

Athletes with their Trophies

Dave Burt, Ken Murray, Anna Lathrop, Jim Nelligan standing with their newly presented trophies on March 23 1978. Dave Burt was co-recipient of the Patricia Lowenberger Memorial Trophy for outstanding male athletic achievement and of the Ed Davis MVP award. His number, along with Ken Murray's, was retired that night. Anna Lathrop received the O'Keefe Trophy for outstanding female athletic achievement and Jim Nelligan was the other co-recipient of the Patricia Lowenberger Memorial Trophy. Anna Lathrop is now (2008) acting Dean of the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences and Ken Murray is the Head Coach of Basketball.

Monstrum : the vampire in the detective story /

My approach to the vampire detective highlights its connections to the private detective's story and reveals the monstrous investigators' debt to early feminist forms of detection -specifically in their reformation of the' other' and of traditional forms of power and authority. Seen in this light the movement of horror's imaginary 'other' into the rational world of detection can be seen as not an abrupt breach of detection's realist conventions, but an almost seamless transition into symbolic spaces that point to the detective's primary function -- to make sense of the senseless. It is in this light that I explore the monster that is a detective as a symbol that is also a sense-maker, and a quintessential postmodern figure. I argue that the distinctions between monsters and 'others', and between popular narratives and postmodern religion have faded, culminating in a character that can not only model 'otherness' as an exemplary condition, but also provide strategies for modeling the form of active postmodern subjectivity that postmodern theorist Jim Collins' (1989) conceives of as heretical activity.