Journal articles: 'Nevada, description and travel'

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Nepeina, K. S., and V. A. An. "TRAVEL TIME CURVES FOR YUCCA TEST SITE (NEVADA TEST SITE) – SEISMIC ARRAYS «OZHEREL’E» (GEOPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY «BOROVOYE»)." NNC RK Bulletin, no. 4 (December 31, 2022): 74–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.52676/1729-7885-2022-4-74-81.

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This paper presents the travel times of P waves for 8 Yucca Flat (Nevada Test Site NTS) explosions from 1979 to 1984, with magnitudes mb = 4.9–5.9. Travel times were obtained by revising seismograms from the archives Sadovsky Institute of Geosphere Dynamics for the subsystem “Ozherel’e” (Necklace) of peripheral points Zerenda, Vostochniy, Chkalovo of the large-base seismic array system (SAS) of the geophysical observatory Borovoye. This system has been operating since 1979 on the territory of Kazakhstan. By the example of registration of underground nuclear explosions at the Yucca site of the Nevada Test Site (NTS), local travel time curves and linear trends in the P wave travel time in the range of epicentral distances 89.3110°–90.3701° are investigated. We estimate of the velocities of effective P waves for the Yucca-“Ozherel’e” and peripheral points.

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Lonergan, David. "Lemuria—Description and Travel." Community & Junior College Libraries 15, no. 3 (July 20, 2009): 159–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02763910902979486.

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Leonard, Michael A., and Lane R. Johnson. "Velocity structure of Silent Canyon Caldera, Nevada Test Site." Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 77, no. 2 (April 1, 1987): 597–613. http://dx.doi.org/10.1785/bssa0770020597.

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Abstract A laterally averaged, one-dimensional P- and S-wave velocity structure is obtained for Silent Canyon Caldera, located beneath Pahute Mesa at the Nevada Test Site. The velocity models are derived from a linearized damped least-squares travel-time inversion for slowness gradient perturbations. A total of 72 P- and 20 S-wave travel times generated from 13 different explosions, obtained at locations above the caldera, are used in the inversion. The structure is modeled using linear velocity gradients in a series of horizontal layers. The inversion produces a model in which velocity for P waves increases from 1.5 km/sec at the surface to 4.5 km/sec at 2.3 km depth and from 1.0 km/sec at the surface to 2.3 km/sec at 2.0 km depth for S waves. The P- and S-wave models produce travel-time residuals which are typically less than 0.1 and 0.2 sec, respectively, which is within observational error. In an attempt to estimate the degree of lateral velocity variations over which the one-dimensional model averages, waveform data collected above the caldera are examined for indications of a laterally heterogeneous structure.

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Nepeina, K. S., and V. A. An. "REGISTRATION OF UNDERGROUND NUCLEAR EXPLOSIONS OF THE NEVADA POLYGON BY SEISMIC STATIONS OF THE SOVIET UNION." NNC RK Bulletin, no. 2 (June 23, 2022): 62–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.52676/1729-7885-2022-2-62-69.

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The paper presents information from the digitized register of underground nuclear explosions (UNE) of the Nevada test site from 1960 to 1975 stations of the Unitied Geophysical Survey USSR (EGGN USSR), preserved in the archives of the Institute of Geosphere Dynamics of the Russian Academy of Sciences named after M.A. Sadovsky (IDG RAS). Particular attention is paid to the records of those explosions that were registered by one, two or at most three stations. Such reports were checked for the presence of UNE records on seismograms in the archives of the IDG RAS and the Geophysical Survey RAS (FRC GS RAS). For these explosions at the found stations, the travel time of the primary body wave (tp) was obtained. Tables of registration times and travel times for various phases of body waves are compiled. This material is intended to be the publication of a part of the consolidated catalog of registered UNEs of the Nevada test site to replenish the database on the travel times of seismic waves collected over the past two decades.

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Mezin, Sergey A. "Moscow Travel Guide for Voltaire." Izvestiya of Saratov University. History. International Relations 21, no. 4 (November 22, 2021): 431–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.18500/1819-4907-2021-21-4-431-436.

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The manuscript “Description of the city of Moscow” from the Voltaire Library has been subjected to special study for the first time. In this essay, the ancient Russian capital is presented as a vast and crowded city, the distinctive feature of which is the abundance of churches and monasteries. The description of the city is conducted according to the historically formed parts: the Kremlin, Kitay-gorod, White City, Earthen City. The description is based on the “Plan of the Imperial city of Moscow” by I. Michurin (1739). The most likely the author of this kind of guidebooks is I. C. Taubert.

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Acosta, Fortino. "Linking Nevada to Doughnut Economics." Sustainability 14, no. 22 (November 17, 2022): 15294. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su142215294.

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Doughnut economics (DE) is an economic model that expresses the social and ecological dimensions of nexus designed by Dr. Kate Raworth in 2012. The concept, which is based on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), intends to rethink our economy for the twenty-first century to meet social demands within a safe environmental ceiling. The DE model’s parameters are achieved only through interconnections, but these links are not well-defined for integrated strategic decision-making. A deeper description of Nevada illustrates the relevance of a cross-disciplinary decision-making tool that could identify interconnectivity among diverse but essential sustainability indicators. The state surpasses the planet’s water demand boundaries, greenhouse gases emitted by nonrenewable energy sources, and chemical pollution; meanwhile, the state is falling short in food security, housing, gender equality, social equity, political voice, safety, and justice. The research brings a circular economic model to an American state-level context and introduces the model to dynamic thinking.

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Llorente-Bousquets, Jorge, and Jean François Le Crom. "Description of two new Dismorphiini (Lepidoptera: Pieridae) with reflections of endemism in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia." Revista Colombiana de Entomología 39, no. 2 (December 31, 2013): 276–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.25100/socolen.v39i2.8250.

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We describe two new subspecies in two species of Dismorphia Hübner, 1816, from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia. It also provides a list of about 40 endemics taxa of Pieridae and Nymphalidae supporting taxonomic differentiation (evolutive) and biogeographic center of the Sierra (Nevada) de Santa Marta. We also recorded a Dismorphia amphione bertha as new taxon from from Amazonas, Colombia.

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Dewi Amelia Lestari. "TINJAUAN JOB DESCRIPTION STAFF CUSTOMER SERVICE TERHADAP TINGKAT KUALITAS PELAYANAN DI PT ROSALIA INDAH TOUR & TRAVEL SLAMET RIYADI." NAWASENA : Jurnal Ilmiah Pariwisata 1, no. 2 (August 22, 2022): 54–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.56910/nawasena.v1i2.333.

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Dilihat dari segi semakin padatnya penduduk serta kebutuhan yang semakin tinggi, menjadikan daerah Surakarta dan sekitarnya menjadi potensi pasar tersendiri untuk industri transportasi. Salah satu perusahaan transportasi secara nasional yang berada di wilayah Surakarta adalah PT Rosalia Indah Tour & Travel Slamet Riyadi. Selama ini belum diketahui pelaksanaan job description staff customer service di PT Rosalia Indah Tour & Travel Slamet Riyadi dan tingkat kualitas pelayanan di PT Rosalia Indah Tour & Travel Slamet Riyadi, padahal saat ini kompetitor semakin banyak dan berkembang. Penelitian ini dilakukan menggunakan metode kualitatif dimana metode pengumpulan data dengan melakukan observasi, studi pustaka, dokumentasi. Hasil penelitian ini antara lain: Pertama, bahwa job description staff customer service terdapat 15 point sesuai dengan dokumen job description staff customer service di PT Rosalia Indah Tour & Travel Slamet Riyadi. Kedua, pelaksanaan mengenai job description staff customer service ada 76,7 % menjawab sudah melaksanakan dan 23,3 % menjawab kadang-kadang melaksanakan. Sedangkan penilaian pelaksanaan job description staff customer service dapat diketahui bahwa ada 2 (100%) orang staff (Customer Service) yang sudah melaksanakan job description. Ketiga, prosentase tingkat kualitas pelayanan di PT Rosalia Indah Tour & Travel harapan dari segi mutu, proses dan service sangat penting 49,3%, penting 50,2% dan kurang penting 0,4%. Sedangkan untuk prosentase kenyataan dari segi mutu, proses dan service sangat baik 30,2%, baik 64% dan kurang baik 4,4%.

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Meek, Reed H. "A new Late Triassic (Norian) conodont species." Journal of Paleontology 61, no. 1 (January 1987): 196–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s002233600002833x.

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The description of Norian conodonts from northwest Nevada recently published (Meek, 1984) includes reference to a new Late Triassic conodont Epigondolella humboldtensis n. sp. on p. 316, fig. 2 and PL 1, figs. 5-11 and 19. Description of this species was to have been included as appendix 3 to the paper but was inadvertently omitted. In order to conform to the international rules of zoological nomenclature, a description of the species follows and this becomes the valid reference for Epigondolella humboldtensis n. sp.

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Anderson, Julia, Sheniz Moonie, Mary Beth Hogan, and Brian Labus. "A description of eosinophilic esophagitis in the Southwestern state of Nevada." Postgraduate Medicine 132, no. 3 (November 5, 2019): 251–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00325481.2019.1687192.

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Jung, In-Chul. "Herodotus’ Histories as Travel Writing and Geographical Description." Association of Korean Cultural and Historical Geographers 30, no. 2 (August 30, 2018): 28–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.29349/jchg.2018.30.2.28.

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Sander, P. Martin, and Hugo Bucher. "On the presence ofMixosaurus(Ichthyopterygia: Reptilia) in the Middle Triassic of Nevada." Journal of Paleontology 64, no. 1 (January 1990): 161–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022336000042396.

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The small ichthyosaurMixosaurusis the most widely distributed ichthyosaur. It is known from Lower Triassic rocks of British Columbia, Canada (Callaway and Brinkman, 1989), and Middle Triassic rocks of northwestern North America (Alaska, British Columbia), China, Timor, the western Tethys (Switzerland, Italy, Turkey), the Germanic Triassic, and the high Arctic (Spitsbergen, Exmouth Island) (Mazin, 1986; Callaway and Brinkman, 1989; Callaway and Massare, 1989). The presence ofMixosaurusin one of the richest ichthyosaur provinces, the Middle Triassic of Nevada (Merriam, 1908), has been difficult to establish. The history of this problem is very colorful and is the topic of this note together with the description of a new specimen from the Nevada Middle Triassic.

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Mitruka, Kiren, Haley Blake, Philip Ricks, Roque Miramontes, Sapna Bamrah, Carla Chee, and Laurie Hickstein. "A Tuberculosis Outbreak Fueled by Cross-Border Travel and Illicit Substances: Nevada and Arizona." Public Health Reports 129, no. 1 (January 2014): 78–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/003335491412900112.

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Taylor, Kathryn. "Making Statesmen, Writing Culture: Ethnography, Observation, and Diplomatic Travel in Early Modern Venice." Journal of Early Modern History 22, no. 4 (August 3, 2018): 279–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15700658-12342596.

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AbstractNumerous scholars have sought to locate the origins of social scientific research in the late-sixteenth-century ars apodemica, the northern European body of literature dedicated to methodizing educational travel. Little attention has been paid, however, to the earlier model of educational travel that emerged from sixteenth-century Venetian diplomatic culture. For many Venetian citizens and patricians, accompanying an ambassador on a foreign mission served as a cornerstone of their political education. Diplomatic travelers were encouraged to keep written accounts of their voyage. Numerous examples of these journals survive from the sixteenth century, largely following a standard formula and marked by an emphasis on the description of customs. This article examines the educational function of diplomatic travel in Venice and the practices of cultural description that emerged from diplomatic travel, arguing that Venetian diplomatic travel offers an earlier model for the methodization of travel—one with its own distinctive norms of observation.

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Roberson, Susan L. "Jumping Frogs and Roughing It Out West." Studies in the American Short Story 1, no. 2 (October 1, 2020): 159–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/studamershorstor.1.2.159.

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ABSTRACT Comparing episodes in the travel narrative Roughing It, in which Mark Twain critiques the materialism of the Nevada Silver Rush, with “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” illustrates the ways the short story is another instance in which Twain creates rhetorical spaces to debunk an imaginary West and the storytellers like Simon Wheeler who perpetuate it. In the process he also reveals the materialism, greed, and inhumanity that propelled a nation into spending themselves and the natural world in a frenzied compulsion to “win” at all costs. In many ways “Jumping Frog” mirrors the speculation on future fortunes and the addiction to gambling that were endemic to the mining West, Jim Smiley and the Stranger standing in for the miners and speculators that Twain parodies in the travel volume.

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Ebel, B. A., and J. R. Nimmo. "Simple estimation of fastest preferential contaminant travel times in the unsaturated zone: application to Rainier Mesa and Shoshone Mountain, Nevada." Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions 7, no. 3 (June 28, 2010): 3879–930. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/hessd-7-3879-2010.

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Abstract. Simulating contaminant transport in unsaturated zones with sparse hydraulic property information is a difficult, yet common, problem. When contaminant transport may occur via preferential flow, simple modeling approaches can provide predictions of interest, such as the first arrival of contaminant, with minimal site characterization. The conceptual model for unsaturated zone flow at two areas within the Nevada Test Site, Rainier Mesa and Shoshone Mountain, establishes the possibility of preferential flow through lithologies between potential radionuclide sources and the saturated zone. Lithology, saturated or near-saturated conditions in portions of the rock matrix, and relatively high recharge rates may act in concert at Rainier Mesa to promote preferential flow, despite the semi-arid climate. After identifying preferential flow as a possible contaminant transport process at Rainier Mesa and Shoshone Mountain, we apply a simple model to estimate fastest unsaturated travel times for conservatively-transported radionuclides to initially reach the saturated zone. Preferential flow travel times at Rainier Mesa are tens to hundreds of years for non-ponded water sources and one to two months for continuously-ponded water sources. If preferential flow occurs at Shoshone Mountain, the fastest travel times are approximately twice the Rainier Mesa estimates. A siliceous rock unit is present at Shoshone Mountain that may provide a barrier to preferential flow; if so, estimated transport times increase to more than a thousand years. Our analysis of unsaturated transport of radionuclides via preferential flow, using a relatively simple model, suggests that contaminated locations associated with continuously-supplied water sources, such as effluent ponds and water-filled tunnels, may have significantly shorter radionuclide travel times than locations not associated with such sources. The simple approach demonstrated here for estimating travel times can be useful in situations where predictions are needed by managers for the fastest arrival of contaminants, yet budgetary or time constraints preclude more rigorous analysis, and when additional model estimates are needed for comparison (i.e. model abstraction).

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Rigon, Riccardo, Marialaura Bancheri, and Timothy R. Green. "Age-ranked hydrological budgets and a travel time description of catchment hydrology." Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 20, no. 12 (December 15, 2016): 4929–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/hess-20-4929-2016.

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Abstract. The theory of travel time and residence time distributions is reworked from the point of view of the hydrological storages and fluxes involved. The forward and backward travel time distribution functions are defined in terms of conditional probabilities. Previous approaches that used fixed travel time distributions are not consistent with our new derivation. We explain Niemi's formula and show how it can be interpreted as an expression of the Bayes theorem. Some connections between this theory and population theory are identified by introducing an expression which connects life expectancy with travel times. The theory can be applied to conservative solutes, including a method of estimating the storage selection functions. An example, based on the Nash hydrograph, illustrates some key aspects of the theory. Generalization to an arbitrary number of reservoirs is presented.

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Barkasi, Michael, and Melanie G. Rosen. "Is mental time travel real time travel?" Philosophy and the Mind Sciences 1, no. 1 (May 26, 2020): 1–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.33735/phimisci.2020.1.28.

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Episodic memory (memories of the personal past) and prospecting the future (anticipating events) are often described as mental time travel (MTT). While most use this description metaphorically, we argue that episodic memory may allow for MTT in at least some robust sense. While episodic memory experiences may not allow us to literally travel through time, they do afford genuine awareness of past-perceived events. This is in contrast to an alternative view on which episodic memory experiences present past-perceived events as mere intentional contents. Hence, episodic memory is a way of coming into experiential contact with, or being again aware of, what happened in the past. We argue that episodic memory experiences depend on a causal-informational link with the past events being remembered, and that, assuming direct realism about episodic memory experiences, this link suffices for genuine awareness. Since there is no such link in future prospection, a similar argument cannot be used to show that it also affords genuine awareness of future events. Constructivist views of memory might challenge the idea of memory as genuine awareness of remembered events. We explain how our view is consistent with both constructivist and anti-causalist conceptions of memory. There is still room for an interpretation of episodic memory as enabling genuine awareness of past events, even if it involves reconstruction.

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Waggoner, Benjamin M., and Mary F. Poteet. "Unusual oak leaf galls from the middle Miocene of northwestern Nevada." Journal of Paleontology 70, no. 6 (November 1996): 1080–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022336000038762.

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Distinctive galls have been found on a fossil oak leaf from the Miocene Gillam Springs Flora of Washoe County, Nevada. The described galls are located on the leaf surface of Quercus hannibali Dorf, an analogue of the modern species Q. chrysolepis Liebmann. Similar galls are found on extant Quercus, but the fossils seem distinctive enough to warrant description as Antronoides schorni new genus and species. The occurrence of Antronoides schorni coincides with a rapid episode of change from a mesic to a more xeric habitat, with a concomitant shift from an oak-dominated to a conifer-dominated paleoflora. Recent work suggests that speciation and radiation of galling insects is highest in xeric environments, possibly due to decreases in rates of parasitism and disease. This pattern has been documented for modern galling insects and fits the qualitative fossil evidence we present. These galls also support the hypothesis that cynipids in the Antron group originated in Nevada or eastern California and migrated from their point of origin to their current range in the Sierra Nevada and Coast Ranges.

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Page, Douglas H., and Thomas J. Straka. "In Search of the Hidden Kilns: A Report on Two "New" Charcoal Kilns." Nevada Historical Society Q 66, no. 4 (2023): 39–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/nhs.2023.a917360.

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Abstract: This note adds to the authors' 2018 Nevada Historical Society Quarterly article to update the authors' 2018 list of "commonly known" Nevada charcoal kilns by adding two kilns at one site to the list. It gives a description of how these were located, the general lay of the land where the kilns are found, as well as a discussion of some of the site and area details. In so doing it also adds to the 2018 article a discussion of the common factors that influenced the selection of a kiln's location, and why finding forgotten kilns in a "normal" location may be somewhat unlikely. As their location does not fit the norm, the two kilns reported on needed more than conventional wisdom to find.

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TSUBOI, Hyota, and Takamasa AKIYAMA. "Fuzzy-Neural Network Models for Description of Travel Behaviour." INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING REVIEW 14 (1997): 567–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.2208/journalip.14.567.

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PRIETO, CARLOS. "Description of a new high Andean butterfly species (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae: Theclinae) from the “Sierra Nevada del Cocuy”, Colombia." Zootaxa 2506, no. 1 (June 15, 2010): 59. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2506.1.5.

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A new species of Penaincisalia, P. elisabeth sp. n. is described and diagnosed from the “Sierra Nevada del Cocuy” in north-eastern Colombia. Adult specimens and genitalia of both sexes are illustrated and compared with P. saraha, hypothetically the most closely related species.

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Hall, Mark R., Donald Hanks, William Kvasnicka, Alan Bosomworth, Harry Smith, Jeffrey L. Stott, Myra T. Blanchard, and Mark L. Anderson. "Diagnosis of Epizootic Bovine Abortion in Nevada and Identification of the Vector." Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation 14, no. 3 (May 2002): 205–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/104063870201400303.

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In the 43 years since the first description in California, epizootic bovine abortion (EBA) has been considered but not definitively diagnosed as a cause of late-term abortions on Nevada ranches. Examination of aborted full-term bovine fetuses obtained from Nevada ranches revealed gross abnormalities consistent with EBA (enlarged lymph nodes, petechial hemorrhages of the oral mucosa and conjunctiva, ascites, and splenohepatomegaly), and EBA was confirmed by histologic examination of fetal tissues. The histologic thymic changes were characteristic of EBA and included severe histocytic thymusitis with depletion of thymocytes, interlobular hemorrhage, and fibrinocellular exudation. The gross enlargement of lymph nodes was the result of cortical follicular hyperplasia and histiocytic lymphadenitis. In addition, widespread, predominately nonsuppurative histologic lesions typical of EBA were observed in most organs, including the brain, lung, heart, liver, and spleen. Furthermore, the presence of Ornithodorus coriaceus, the argasid tick vector of EBA, was established by tick collection using CO2 traps. The tick was identified on ranches and in geographic areas (northern and northwestern counties of Nevada) coincident with diagnosis of multiple cases of EBA. This study establishes the presence of EBA as a cause of late-term abortion in Nevada. Additionally, identification of the EBA tick vector, O. coriaceus, in the same areas as the abortions provides strong evidence that the disease is endemic.

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Douglas, A. "An Analysis of P Travel Times for Nevada Test Site Explosions Recorded at Regional Distances." Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 95, no. 3 (June 1, 2005): 941–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1785/0120030153.

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Sohn, I. G. "Biostratigraphic value of the Late Mississippian Ostracode Amphissites insignis Croneis and Thurman, 1939." Journal of Paleontology 60, no. 1 (January 1986): 158–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022336000021600.

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Amphissites insignis Croneis and Thurman, 1939, is a readily identifiable ostracode species because of the unique configuration of carinae and ridges on the surface of the valves. The species had adapted to both shale and limestone environments of deposition, has a wide geographic distribution in the United States (Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Montana, Nevada, Tennessee, and Texas), and is confined to the uppermost part of the Chesterian Series (foraminiferal zones 18 and 19). The description of this species is amended and specimens are illustrated for the first time from Nevada, Montana, Arkansas, and Tennessee, indicating that the species is a biostratigraphic indicator of the uppermost part of the Chesterian sedimentary sequence. Ontogenetic development of A. insignis is reconstructed. A. sp. 1 (Late Mississippian) and A. sp. 2 (Early Pennsylvanian) are illustrated in open nomenclature.

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Weber, Sylvain, Martin Péclat, and August Warren. "Travel distance and travel time using Stata: New features and major improvements in georoute." Stata Journal: Promoting communications on statistics and Stata 22, no. 1 (March 2022): 89–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1536867x221083857.

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The community-contributed command georoute is designed to calculate travel distance and travel time between two addresses or two geographical points identified by their coordinates. Since its conception and description by Weber and Péclat (2017, Stata Journal 17: 962–971), the command has been gradually maintained and enriched. The new version of georoute presented in this article encompasses major improvements, such as the possibility to specify transport mode and departure time. The new features open the way to a multitude of more sophisticated research applications.

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Tretyakova, Marina V. "Russian travelers of the XVII century about the osteries of Italian cities." Izvestiya of Saratov University. History. International Relations 23, no. 1 (February 21, 2023): 4–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.18500/1819-4907-2023-23-1-4-11.

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The article discusses the description of the osteria of Italian cities by Russian travelers of the XVII century – stolnik P. A. Tolstoy and boyar B. P. Sheremetev. Only in the travel notes of stolnik P. A. Tolstoy is a detailed description of the osteria given. The author of the article comes to the conclusion that the entries of the travel diaries of Russian travelers of the XVII century and their actual tour contributed to the active penetration of such an institution into the everyday life of Russia.

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GASMI, CHahinaz, and MESSAOUD Bensari. "Landscape Illustration Flashing in Al-Aghouati Trip." Milev Journal of Research and Studies 8, no. 1 (June 30, 2022): 202–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.58205/mjrs.v8i1.610.

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Travel literature used to be a favorite resource for intelligentsia in general ; historians depend on it as an authentic document and ;geographers explore more about the countries and places ;anthropologists try to study the origin and development of human societies; cultures ;customs ; and tradition . As for the writer; he will be involved in different literary styles ,storytelling fact and fiction ; narration ;description ;dialogue and exciting scenes. This article aims to shed light on the Ibn E-Din Al- Aghouati travel document which was dominated by a brief flash description ; without prejudice to the meaning.

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Pidberezna, V., and S. Demianenko. "Travel through Ukrainian labyrinths as a direction on speleoturism." Constructive geography and rational use of natural resources, no. 4 (2024): 104–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/2786-4561.2024.4.special-16/19.

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The article presents the basics of speleotourism, highlights the state and development of speleotourism in Ukraine. An analysis of the territory was carried out for the development of the excursion. As part of the study, objects were selected and a route was planned, which runs through the territory of Chernivtsi and Ternopil regions. A technological map of the excursion, a description of the main objects and the main that of the excursion have been developed. A project track of the route with a detailed description has been compiled.

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Means, James D. "GPS Precipitable Water as a Diagnostic of the North American Monsoon in California and Nevada." Journal of Climate 26, no. 4 (February 15, 2013): 1432–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/jcli-d-12-00185.1.

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Abstract Precipitable water derived from archived global positioning system (GPS) zenith travel-time delays is used to describe the seasonal and interannual variation of the North American monsoon in California and Nevada. A 3-hourly dataset of precipitable water from 2003 to 2009, for over 500 sites in California and Nevada using temperature and pressure interpolated from the North American Regional Reanalysis (NARR), is constructed to study the temporal and spatial extent of the North American monsoon in the desert regions of California and Nevada. The statistical distribution of precipitable water values is shown to delineate the region that is most often affected by the monsoonal influence. A normalized precipitable water index is employed to indicate when the monsoon starts and stops and to investigate spatial variability. The GPS network provides much higher spatial resolution than other meteorological networks using surface-based methods, such as dewpoint criteria and rainfall, and is seen to contain comparable ability in capturing temporal variations. This dataset reveals the northwestward propagation of the monsoon onset both synoptically and seasonally. The GPS observations indicate that in the mean the decay of the monsoon is less well defined than the onset. Seven-year reanalysis 700-mb geopotential height composites for the monsoon onset and 3 days prior indicate that the onset of the monsoon is associated with a shift in the synoptic pattern characterized by upper-level high pressure building from the east and offshore troughing retreating to the northwest.

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Baldizzone, G. "Description of Coleophora oreiosella Baldizzone, sp. n. and new records on the distribution of some European Coleophoridae (Lepidoptera: Coleophoridae)." SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología 47, no. 186 (June 30, 2019): 269–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.57065/shilap.583.

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A new species of the genus Coleophora Hübner, 1822, C. oreiosella Baldizzone, sp. n., known to be found only in the Sierra Nevada, Spain, is described. New data on the distribution of some European species are provided. The male of C. depunctella Toll, 1961, is shown for the first time.

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Kinsley, Zoë. "Narrating Travel, Narrating the Self: Considering Women‘s Travel Writing as Life Writing." Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 90, no. 2 (September 2014): 67–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.7227/bjrl.90.2.5.

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This article considers the ways in which eighteenth-century womens travel narratives function as autobiographical texts, examining the process by which a travellers dislocation from home can enable exploration of the self through the observation and description of place. It also, however, highlights the complexity of the relationship between two forms of writing which a contemporary readership viewed as in many ways distinctly different. The travel accounts considered, composed (at least initially) in manuscript form, in many ways contest the assumption that manuscript travelogues will somehow be more self-revelatory than printed accounts. Focusing upon the travel writing of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Katherine Plymley, Caroline Lybbe Powys and Dorothy Richardson, the article argues for a more historically nuanced approach to the reading of womens travel writing and demonstrates that the narration of travel does not always equate to a desired or successful narration of the self.

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DRITSAS, LAWRENCE. "From Lake Nyassa to Philadelphia: a geography of the Zambesi Expedition, 1858–64." British Journal for the History of Science 38, no. 1 (March 2005): 35–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0007087404006454.

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This paper is about collecting, travel and the geographies of science. At one level it examines the circumstances that led to Isaac Lea's description in Philadelphia of six freshwater mussel shells of the family Unionidae, originally collected by John Kirk during David Livingstone's Zambesi Expedition, 1858–64. At another level it is about how travel is necessary in the making of scientific knowledge. Following these shells from south-eastern Africa to Philadelphia via London elucidates the journeys necessary for Kirk and Lea's scientific work to progress and illustrates that the production of what was held to be malacological knowledge occurred through collaborative endeavours that required the travel of the specimens themselves. Intermediaries in London acted to link the expedition, Kirk's efforts and Lea's classification across three continents and to facilitate the novel description of six species of freshwater mussel. The paper demonstrates the role of travel in the making of mid-nineteenth-century natural history and in developing the relationships and credibility necessary to perform the research on which classifications undertaken elsewhere were based.

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Lee, D., and J. Riechel. "AUBURN, CA, EVACUATION PLAN." International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences XLVIII-M-3-2023 (September 5, 2023): 135–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-xlviii-m-3-2023-135-2023.

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Abstract. Auburn is a small but famous gold mining and railroad town in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of Placer County, California. The city has seen recent and historically reoccurring wildfires. In 2021, 1.5 million acres burned in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, a new record. Auburn consists of three (3) nonadjacent and nonoverlapping sections or parcels of land. The three (3) centroids of each section of Auburn are identified and used in three (3) evacuation scenarios: First, Auburn is evacuated away from the three (3) centroids. We look at how far evacuees can reach in 5, 10, 15, and 30 minutes using emergency vehicle travel times, so signal lights, one-way streets, etc., are ignored. Second, we evacuate away from the three (3) centroids while also avoiding previous burn areas. Third, we evacuate Auburn toward the only area hospital, a structure likely to be defended from fire by first responders. Also, some evacuees might require medical attention. Future work includes looking at how far emergency vehicles from places like fire stations can reach in 5, 10, 15, and 30 minutes, providing a coverage area for first responders.

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Caron, James E. "Mark Twain’s Rival Washoe Correspondents: William Wright and J. Ross Browne." Mark Twain Annual 20 (November 1, 2022): 22–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/marktwaij.20.1.0022.

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Abstract As a contribution to a literary portrait of Nevada that can provide background for Roughing It, this article examines two newspaper correspondents who were contemporaries of Sam Clemens to discern similarities and differences in their travel writings: William Wright, who also worked for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise; and J. Ross Browne, who traveled to Virginia City to report on the beginning of the Comstock silver strike for Harper’s Monthly. Both writers evince the vividness, intimacy, and accurate detail Mark Twain said defined a good correspondent. Though both writers employ comic elements, Browne comes closer to the Mark Twain persona in his willingness to burlesque and satirize.

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Katsoni, Vicky, and Anna Fyta. "From Pausanias to Baedeker and Trip Advisor: Textual proto-tourism and the engendering of tourism distribution channels." Turyzm/Tourism 31, no. 1 (June 11, 2021): 11–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/0867-5856.31.1.11.

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The key aim of this article is to provide an interdisciplinary look at tourism and its diachronic textual threads bequeathed by the ‘proto-tourist’ texts of the Greek travel author Pausanias. Using the periegetic, travel texts from his voluminous Description of Greece (2nd century CE) as a springboard for our presentation, we intend to show how the textual strategies employed by Pausanias have been received and still remain at the core of contemporary series of travel guides first authored by Karl Baedeker (in the 19th century). After Baedeker, Pausanias’ textual travel tropes, as we will show, still inform the epistemology of modern-day tourism; the interaction of travel texts with travel information and distribution channels produces generic hybrids, and the ancient Greek travel authors have paved the way for the construction of networks, digital storytelling and global tourist platforms.

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GODIN, OLEG A. "A 2-D DESCRIPTION OF SOUND PROPAGATION IN A HORIZONTALLY-INHOMOGENEOUS OCEAN." Journal of Computational Acoustics 10, no. 01 (March 2002): 123–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0218396x02001425.

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Effects of horizontal refraction on underwater sound propagation in deep and shallow water are considered within geometrical acoustics and adiabatic normal modes approximations. Several distinct formulations of the adiabatic approximation have been proposed in the literature on modal propagation. These formulations differ in the predicted values of mode amplitudes and, hence, in their reciprocity and energy-conserving properties. The formulations are compared with respect to their accuracy and domain of validity, assuming small and smooth variation of mode propagation constants characteristic of underwater acoustic waveguides. Perturbation theory for horizontal (modal) rays is used in the analysis. An approximate expression for the adiabatic mode amplitude in 3-D problems is derived which requires environmental information only along the source-receiver radial and which has greater accuracy than previous formulations. It is shown that the uncoupled azimuth approximation, also known as the N × 2-D approximation, overestimates travel times of ray arrivals as well as phases of adiabatic normal modes in a horizontally-inhomogeneous ocean. The travel time and phase biases rapidly increase with the value of cross-range environmental gradients and propagation range. Simple and explicit expressions for leading-order corrections to the travel time and the phase are found in terms of path-averaged cross-range environmental gradients. Implications on applicability of the uncoupled azimuth approximation for sound propagation modeling in a horizontally-inhomogeneous ocean are discussed. A perfect-wedge model of the coastal ocean is chosen to illustrate the importance of the travel-time and phase biases due to horizontal refraction.

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Pendyala, Ram M., Ryuichi Kitamura, Akira Kikuchi, Toshiyuki Yamamoto, and Satoshi Fujii. "Florida Activity Mobility Simulator." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 1921, no. 1 (January 2005): 123–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0361198105192100114.

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The development of modeling systems for activity-based travel demand ushers in a new era in transportation demand forecasting and planning. A comprehensive multimodal activity-based system for forecasting travel demand was developed for implementation in Florida and resulted in the Florida Activity Mobility Simulator (FAMOS). Two main modules compose the FAMOS microsimulation model system for modeling activity–travel patterns of individuals: the Household Attributes Generation System and the Prism-Constrained Activity–Travel Simulator. FAMOS was developed and estimated with household activity and travel data collected in southeast Florida in 2000. Results of the model development effort are promising and demonstrate the applicability of activity-based model systems in travel demand forecasting. An overview of the model system, a description of its features and capabilities, and preliminary validation results are provided.

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McGrath, Pam. "Relocation for treatment for leukaemia: A description of need." Australian Health Review 21, no. 4 (1998): 143. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ah980143.

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As rural Queenslanders are isolated geographically due to dispersed populationpatterns, they are often required to travel long distances to access services, especiallyservices of a specialist nature. The distress of this relocation for treatment is particularlyintensified for patients with leukaemia and associated haematological disorders andtheir carers, as they must often relocate for long periods of time and face invasive anddemanding treatments away from the comfort of their own homes. Because suchtreatments are now highly technical and specialised, even patients from moreurbanised areas are also required to relocate for prolonged specialist treatment notavailable locally. Consequently, for many rural and urban patients with leukaemia,relocation for specialist treatment is a major concern.This discussion presents findings from recent research on a Queensland Governmentinitiative, the Patient Transit Assistance Scheme, designed to address this concern.These findings indicate a high level of hardship for these patients and their familieswho must travel long distances, often relocate for long periods, and endure additionalfinancial burdens at a time when a majority are dependent on government assistance.

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Engel, Michael S. "An Illustrated Key to Anthophoroides With the Description of Three New Species (Hymenoptera: Apidae)." Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 159, no. 3 (July 28, 2023): 147–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.31184/m00138908.1593.4197.

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Three new species of the cosmopolitan bee genus Anthophora Latreille are described and figured from North America, all of the subgenus Anthophoroides Cockerell & Cockerell and all based on a series of females and males. Anthophora (Anthophoroides) buchmanni sp. n. from Arizona, USA and Sonora, Mexico; A. (A.) cinerula sp. n. from California, Nevada, Utah, and Arizona, USA; whileA. (A.) kellieae sp. n. is recorded from southern California and Arizona, USA and Baja California, Mexico. An illustrated key is presented to the species of Anthophoroides.

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Zhang, Quan, and Juan Li. "Self-Organized Critical Condition of Travel Mode Choice Model Analysis." Advanced Materials Research 1030-1032 (September 2014): 2235–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.1030-1032.2235.

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By studying the service property of different travel modes, the self-organization theory presented in this paper to research the self-organized criticality, highlighting by the discovery and description of self-organized critical condition of travel mode choice, is of inspiring importance. The state equation and critical property analysis proposed in the paper is validated by practical example in Macao.

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Polezzi, Loredana. "Description, appropriation, transformation: Fascist rhetoric and colonial nature." Modern Italy 19, no. 3 (August 2014): 287–303. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13532944.2014.927355.

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During the period of Fascism, a variety of discourses and representations were attached to colonial landscapes and to their uses. African nature was the subject of diverse rhetorical strategies, which ranged from the persistence of visions of wilderness as the locus of adventure to the domesticating manipulations of an incipient tourist industry aiming to familiarise the Italian public with relatively tame forms of the exotic. Contrasting images of bareness and productivity, primitivism and modernisation, resistance to change and dramatic transformation found their way into accounts of colonial territories ranging from scientific and pseudo-scientific reports to children's literature, from guidebooks to travel accounts, all of which were sustained not just by written texts but also by iconographic representations. This article will look at the specific example of accounts of Italian Somalia in order to explore Fascist discourses regarding colonial nature and its appropriation. Documents examined will include early guidebooks to the colonies, a small selection of travel accounts aimed at the general public, as well as the works of a number of geographers and geologists who were among the most active polygraphs of the period, and whose writings addressed a wide range of Italian readers.

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Goperhoeva, D. R. "REFLECTIONS OF N. V. GOGOL ABOUT HIS TRAVELS IN RUSSIA AGAINST THE BACKGROUND OF A. S. PUSHKIN’S LITERARY TRAVELS." Culture and Text, no. 45 (2021): 47–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.37386/2305-4077-2021-2-47-54.

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The article discusses the attitude of A. S. Pushkin and N. V. Gogol to the journey and its description - a travelogue. The material for the analysis was “Travel to Arzrum during the campaign of 1829”, the article “Travel from Moscow to St. Petersburg” by Pushkin and the chapter “We need to travel around Russia” in “Selected Passages from Correspondence with Friends” by Gogol, where travel topics are most fully presented. It is noted that Pushkin appreciated the travel genre for its versatility and the ability to combine different topics - both global and private. In contrast to him, Gogol argued that traveling around Russia and observing its life would help compatriots overcome ignorance in relation to themselves and the world around them. The differences in the approaches of Pushkin and Gogol are also conditioned by the fact that they appealed to travel topics in different periods of the development of travel literature in Russia.

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Kowalenko, Olena. "Radziecki przewodnik turystyczny po Moskwie: retrospektywa." Z Badań nad Książką i Księgozbiorami Historycznymi 11 (December 29, 2017): 377–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.33077/uw.25448730.zbkh.2017.44.

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The article gives a brief description of Moscow guide books printed between 1922 and 1991. The retrospective of Soviet texts is preceded by tracing the origins of Moscow travel guides, which goes back to travel notes from the 16th and 17th centuries. The paper presents 34 Soviet itineraries by providing their composition and content summary. Also, it demonstrates and explains the referential and syncretic patterns of Soviet guidebooks, and the shift made at the turn of the NEP era and the 1930s. Tourism evolution, city planning and state censorship are discussed among the factors that influence travel itineraries. The diachronic approach allows to note continuity and transformation elements of Soviet travel guides to Moscow.

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Xu, Meng, and Zhongke Shr. "Behaviors of Outflows under Description of Linear Link Travel Time Model." Journal of Highway and Transportation Research and Development (English Edition) 1, no. 1 (December 2006): 75–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/jhtrcq.0000148.

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Anderson, Kimberly, and Jessica Maddox. "Surveying as Unsettlement: The Protocols Alignment Survey at the University of Nevada, Reno." American Archivist 84, no. 1 (March 1, 2021): 34–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.17723/0360-9081-84.1.34.

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ABSTRACT This article describes a collections survey project undertaken by the staff of the University Libraries' Special Collections and University Archives Department at the University of Nevada, Reno, to begin the archives' alignment with the Protocols for Native American Archival Materials. The method devised to survey the collection is assessed for its validity and potential application to further survey work. The analysis of the Protocols alignment survey as a case study also offers insights about critical self-reflection and ways for non-Indigenous archivists to strive toward social justice and Protocols alignment using existing discovery and description frameworks as a starting point.

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Ramantova, O. V. "The Value Semantics in “Intelligent Travel” Discourse." Discourse 7, no. 4 (September 28, 2021): 92–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.32603/2412-8562-2021-7-4-92-103.

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Introduction. The present paper aims at describing the results of researching the axiological aspect of the category “intelligent travel” functioning in the English language travel discourse. The relevance of the research is defined, firstly, by continuously developing tourist industry and the emergence of new tourist concepts which are embodied in numerous travel editions and, secondly, by insufficient knowledge of axiological aspect of certain travel-genres. The research is completed within the anthropooriented paradigm of linguistic studies and thus contributes to the development of this approach. The novelty of the study lies in revealing specific values represented in intelligent travel-texts and forming a special value line.Methodology and sources. The research is based on the English language texts about travelling. National Geographic was used as the main source of material. For the selection of travel texts, the continuously sampling method was used. The general methodology of studying the “intelligent/slow travel” concept also includes the method of semantic analysis, the method of semantic-stylistic analysis, elements of communicative-pragmatic analysis.Results and discussion. The results of the study include the description of the content of the intelligent travel category, the review of existing types of values, and the description of basic meanings forming the value picture of the world in travel-texts of this genre – sensory values, aesthetic values, morally-ethical and rationalistic value meanings. Within this research it is important to consider “anti-value” which is represented predominantly in texts about wildlife conservation and which enhances the pragmatic impact of the text on the reader. The result of the study is the conclusion about certain language specific of the category of intelligent travelling which is actualized through special value prism.Conclusion. The study reveals the specificity of the value paradigm of slow/intelligent travel texts. The semantic space of texts about intelligent travelling is filled with certain value markers in total constructing the value picture of the world through the prism o f which the travelling and experiencing author expresses not only his own vision of things, but the moral side of life aspects. The chosen methodology can be applied for further research and similar studies of other genres of travel-discourse.

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Chen, Qi, Yibo Yan, Xu Zhang, and Jian Chen. "Impact of Subjective and Objective Factors on Bus Travel Intention." Behavioral Sciences 12, no. 11 (November 19, 2022): 462. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs12110462.

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Given the lack of quantitative descriptions on the interaction between psychological factors and the built environment in existing urban bus travel behavior, this study examines the simultaneous influences of the objective-built environment and subjective psychological factors on bus travel intentions. An empirical study on the influence path of bus travel intention was conducted using structural equation modeling. Then, personal attribute factors were introduced, and a linear regression model was used to explore the influence of behavioral intentions. This study uses 410 investigated samples from the residents in Zhengzhou, China. The findings proved that psychological factors play mediating roles between the travel environment and its impact on travel behaviors and confirms the validity of the description of the measurement variable with respect to the bus travel intentions proposed in the study. We also found that the retirement factor among the personal attribute factors could significantly affect bus travel intentions, which means that the retired group prefers to use buses for traveling. This study shows innovations in catching the intermediary effect of psychological factors between the built environment and travel behavior while also quantifying the effects of both subjective and objective factors when choosing bus travel.

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Fresneda, Javier, and Ignacio Ribera. "Revision of the Limnebius nitidus (Marsham) subgroup (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae), with description of two new species and comments on their phylogeny and biogeography." Insect Systematics & Evolution 29, no. 4 (1998): 395–409. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187631298x00032.

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AbstractThe nine known species of the Limnebius nitidus subgroup sensu Jäch (1993) are revised, and two new species are described, L. monfortei sp. n. from the Sierra Nevada (Spain), and L. ordunyai sp. n. from Puertos de Beceite (Spain). The phylogenetic relationships of the species of the group are tentatively discussed based on the characters of the aedeagus, and in relation to their present distributions.

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Bies, Michael. "At the Threshold to the New World." Transfers 6, no. 3 (December 1, 2016): 83–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/trans.2016.060307.

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This article deals with representations of equator crossings in travel literature. Focusing on the accounts of European travelers to Brazil, it considers descriptions of crossing-the-line ceremonies that were performed on board ships since the sixteenth century and shows that, since the late eighteenth century, writers have increasingly staged crossings of the equator as an individual and private experience. Furthermore, it addresses the relation of travel and knowledge that descriptions of equator crossings establish by referring to distinctive epistemological approaches to the New World and by producing a “liminal knowledge” characteristic of travel narratives. The article draws on travel literature from the sixteenth to the twentieth century, paying special attention to the postromantic description of an equator crossing in Claude Lévi-Strauss’s famous memoir Tristes Tropiques.

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