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1	Predicting the Growth Potential of a Shallow, Warm-Water Sport Fishery: A Spatially Explicit Bioenergetics Approach Dahle, Samuel Kirk 01 May 2009 (has links) Capturing the range of fish consumption and growth potential of large, heterogeneous lentic systems can be challenging due to strong gradients in productivity, the diversity of habits types present, and in some cases, site-specific water quality issues. Cutler Reservoir (Utah, USA) displays a high degree of spatial and temporal variation in physical conditions and potential water quality limitations for fish, including high summertime water temperature and large, diel fluctuations in dissolved oxygen concentrations. The combination of bioenergetics modeling and GIS spatial analysis offers a promising interface for quantifying the fish consumptive and growth potential across a spatially and temporally heterogeneous system like Cutler Reservoir, as well as identifying the role of potential water quality impairment on fish population abundance and condition. Within a bioenergetics framework, we combined empirical field estimates of fish growth and diet composition with a novel use of Thermal Remote Imaging (TIR) as a measure of spatially explicit thermal regime across a very large spatial scale (9,601,200 m2). We used these data inputs and a Geographic Information System (GIS) to generate spatially explicit, high-resolution maps of the growth potential of the primary sport fishes of Cutler Reservoir across spring, summer, and autumn seasons. The predicted growth potential of these fishes varied widely according to spatial and temporal differences in temperature and food availability, acting in concert with species-specific physiological tolerances and habitat preferences. Walleye (Sander vitreus) and black crappie (Pomoxis nigromaculatus) experience high growth potential throughout much of the reservoir during spring and fall, but are constrained to small thermal refugia during the heat of the summer. In contrast, channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) growth potential is low during spring and fall, but peaks strongly during the warm summer period. The proportion of habitat suitable for each primary sport fish ranged from highs of > 90% for channel catfish for most of the summer season to lows < 5% for crappie in July. Our approach provides a useful tool for analyzing factors that control fish growth in complex water bodies such as Cutler Reservoir as well as identifying the role of water quality in structuring fish community composition. bioenergetics cutler reservoir fisheries thermal remote imaging Biology Environmental Sciences
2	The designing and building of two Linnebach projectors for a Readers' Theatre production of A West Wind Rises Hawes, Clayton E. January 1965 (has links) Call number: LD2668 .T4 1965 H39 / Master of Science Projectors. Stage lighting. Theaters--Stage setting and scenery. Masters theses
3	The Twenty-First Century Learning Grant Wiese, Jenny 18 April 2007 (has links) No description available. Education, General 21st Century Learning Grant Cutler Bartlett improve test scores reading math
4	Spatial Trends and Facies Distribution of the High-Energy Alluvial Cutler Formation, Southeastern Utah Allred, Isaac John 01 June 2016 (has links) The Cutler Formation is composed of thick, arkosic, alluvial conglomerate, sandstone, and mudstone shed southwestward from the Uncompahgre Uplift into the Paradox Basin. More basin-ward the Cutler is recognized as a group consisting of differentiable formations. Discrete formations historically have not been distinguished near the uplift, but this study identified several separate successions in the Richardson Amphitheater. Research at the Richardson Amphitheater, ~12 km southwest of the uplift and ~30 km northeast of Moab, Utah, led to a systematic subdivision of the Permian Cutler Formation proximal to the uplift. Likely driven by channel cutting and migration across the alluvial fan, six 10-20 m thick successions are partially exposed. The dominant observed facies are basal conglomerate and channel-fill trough cross-stratified sandstone overlain by finer-grained distal sheetflood and frequently pedogenically altered sandstone. Down-warping of identified successions and the presence of additional sands within the area of flexure suggest that localized salt withdrawal created a sediment depocenter in the Richardson Amphitheater, ~6 km northwest of the Onion Creek salt diapir. The identified salt withdrawal feature is more proximal to the Uncompahgre Uplift than any of the major documented salt structures in the area and was not previously documented. Six measured stratigraphic sections and hundreds of high-precision differential GPS data points outlining major lateral erosional surfaces form the basis for interpretation. Five mapped erosional surfaces (bounding surfaces based upon differential GPS point interpolation) are laterally extensive within the approximately one square kilometer study area, and as such, represent stratigraphically significant surfaces. Within the generated structural geocellular model, stratigraphic data from measured sections informed facies modeling between major surfaces. This outcrop model may serve as an analogue for subsurface systems deposited in similar settings. Alluvial fan arkosic facies bounding surface Cutler Formation conglomeratic sandstone digital outcrop model fluvial pedogenic carbonate Richardson Amphitheater salt tectonics trough cross-stratified sandstone Utah Geology
5	Near-Salt Stratal Geometries and Implications for the Evolution of the Onion Creek Diapir Moab, UT Cook, Ethan L. 01 April 2017 (has links) The Onion Creek Diapir is one of many salt domes proximal to the Uncompahgre thrust front of the ancestral rockies in the Paradox Basin. It is comprised of Paradox Formation evaporites and large blocks of Honaker Trail Formation carbonates that were deformed by loading of Permian Cutler Formation progradational alluvial to fluvial fans. The history of salt movement in the Onion Creek Diapir is recorded in the near-salt strata. Large salt bodies and their adjacent mini-basins evolve conforming to a complex relationship between salt withdrawal, creating localized accommodation, and sediment deposition. Migrating mini-basin depo-centers, thinned and folded strata, and spatial facies trends reveal the relative rates of diapirism and sedimentation. The study area outcrop, north of the diapir, is divided by significant stratigraphic horizons that help define depositional periods. Six measured sections in the study area reveal higher preservation rates of fine grained floodplain deposits, typically destroyed in alluvial environments, than at locations correlating to stratigraphic levels high in the outcrop suggesting a low accommodation environment evolving into higher accommodation where stacked channel complexes are preserved. Preserved slump folding at the base of the outcrop reveals that although some salt emergence occurred in the earliest depositional period it was not significant enough to preclude sediment deposition or to divert the Cutler fluvial network and destroy floodplain facies. A 3-D digital outcrop, modeled from photogrammetric data, illustrates the development of localized accommodation, attracting fluvial channel in a near-salt, tight axial syncline during the later depositional period. These evidences suggest a greater emergence of the diapir and likely diversion of the Cutler channel complexes. Onion Creek salt diapir halokinetic sequence stratigraphy Cutler Formation 3-D digital model photogrammetry salt withdrawal salt basin dissolution collapse salt deformation Geology
6	A Stratigraphic Analysis of Rico Strata in the Four Corners Region Bailey, James S. January 1955 (has links) Rico strata are recognised throughout the Four Corners region of southwestern Colorado, southeastern Utah, northeastern Arizona, and northwestern New Mexico. The term Rico has been applied to a group of strata which exhibit a lateral and vertical transition between two contrasting environments, the marine Hermosa and the non-marine Cutler. Two faunal provinces reflect these widely diverse conditions of sedimentation. However, few fossils of diagnostic value have been discovered despite the abundance of fossiliferous strata within the Rico. Rico strata are believed to range between Desmoinesian and Virgilian in age. Lithofacies data on the Rico were assembled from literature, outcrop sections, and various well logs. These data were then compiled on an isopach-lithofacies map. The isopach-lithofacies map shows the thickness trends and the lithologic variations of Rico strata throughout the region of study. The tectonic framework of the region is reconstructed from the isopach-lithofacies map and mechanical analyses of the elastic strata. Clastic material in the Rico increases in average grain size from west to east toward the Uncomphagre Uplift suggest that this area was actively positive during Rico time. The vertical variation of normal marine limestone and clastic red beds in the Rico reflect an alternately transgressing and regressing sea over much of the Four Corners region. This intricate intertonguing of normal marine limestone and clastic red beds probably resulted from deposition in a shallow basin on an unstable shelf. The occurrence of oil, gas, and cement quality limestone in the Rico is examined from an economic aspect. A. brief review of the general geology and geologic history of tile region is also included. Arizona Carboniferous Colorado Cutler Formation Four Corners Montezuma County Colorado New Mexico Paleozoic Pennsylvanian Permian Rico Member stratigraphy United States Utah Geology, Stratigraphic -- Permian Geology -- Southwest, New Geology, Economic -- Southwest, New Four Corners Region
7	Untersuchung zu mittelalterlichen und frühneuzeitlichen Messern / Inquiry of medieval and post medieval knives Holtmann, Wulf Gerhard Folke 09 February 1994 (has links) Auswertung von 1300 Messern aus deutschen, niederländischen, skandinavischen, baltischen; nordrussischen und polnischen archäologischen Ausgrabungen, die über ein eigens dafür entwickeltes Klassifizierungsmodell von Klingen- und Griffformen erfolgte. Ausgewertet wurden Maße, Formen, Verzierungen und Marken. Die Ergebnisse werden zunächst in Diagrammen dargestellt und im beschreibenden Teil der Arbeit ausführlicher diskutiert. Die Entwicklung der Griffkonstruktionen und ihrer damit einhergehenden Formen werden exemplarisch dargestellt. Dabei wird besonders auf das Auftreten und die Verbreitung der Griffzungenkonstruktionen eingegangen, als Beispiel einer technischen Innovation mit römisch-kaiserzeitlichen Wurzeln, die im späten Mittelalter ihre Hochblüte erreichte. Verzierungselemente an Griffangel- und Griffzungenkonstruktionen werden als Übersichten getrennt nach Materialien sowie in besonders aussagekräftigen Einzelbeispielen näher spezifiziert dargestellt. Mittelalterliche Personendarstellungen auf beinernen Vollgriffen (Hilzen) oder die zeitgleiche Griffplättchentechnik als Beispiel einer auf Metall basierenden Verzierungsart werden in ihrem historischen Kontext behandelt. An Messerklingen werden Verzierungselemente und Marken separat diskutiert. Die Verteilung verschiedener Gruppen von Klingenformen innerhalb unterschiedlicher Fundorte ist ein Versuch, soziologische Bedingungen in offenen und geschlossenen bzw. befestigten Siedlungen unterschiedlicher Regionen an Beispielen der materiellen Kultur nachzuzeichnen. Nach Exkursen zu völkerwanderungszeitlichen Messern und Falt- oder -Klappmessern wird abschließend zu den Themen Herstellungsverfahren und Funktionszuweisung Stellung genommen, wobei das Messer als archäologische Quelle in naturwissenschaftlichen /(metallurgischen) Analysen ebenso dargestellt wird wie im Vergleich mit kunsthistorischen / (bildlichen) Quellen bzgl. einer Annäherung an Aussagen zu Funktion und Gebrauch im Untersuchungsraum. 60 Archäologie, Vorgeschichte O Archäologie Philosophy Messer Mittelalter Frühneuzeitlich Klinge Griffangel Griffblättchen Griffzungen Klingenformen Marken Metallarchäologie Messergriffverzierungen knives archeological medieval post medieval blade knife hold cutler cutlery 15.18 Mittelalterliche Archäologie neuzeitliche Archäologie
8	Female Friendship Films: A Post-Feminist Examination of Representations of Women in the Fashion Industry Geloğullari, Gülin 12 1900 (has links) This thesis focuses on three fashion industry themed female friendship films: Pret-a-Porter/Ready to Wear (1994) by Robert Altman, The Devil Wears Prada (2006) by David Frankel, and The September Issue (2009) by R.J. Cutler. Female interpersonal relationships are complex – women often work to motivate, encourage and transform one another but can just as easily use tactics like intimidation, manipulation, and exploitation in order to save their own jobs and reputations. Through the lens of post-feminist theory, this thesis examines significant female interpersonal relationships in each film to illustrate how femininity is constructed and driven by consumer culture in the fashion industry themed films. fashion fashion industry fashion films post-feminism post-feminist theory women representations of women misrepresentations of women consumer culture film analysis female friendships female friendship films The Devil Wears Prada Pret-a-Porter/Ready to Wear The September Issue Robert Altman R.J Cutler David Frankel Angela McRobbie Karen Hollinger Tasker and Negra Anna Wintour Grace Coddington Vogue fashion magazines fashion reporters fashion and post-feminism women's relationships Fine Arts Women's Studies Journalism Prêt-à-porter (Motion picture) September issue (Motion picture) Devil wears Prada (Motion picture) Female friendship in motion pictures. Fashion in motion pictures.

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