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- ItemU.S. Caribbean Hogfish Lachnolaimus Maximus Conservation and Management: Filling Critical Life History GapsDrake, Delaney MHogfish is an important food fish for local Caribbean communities, so managing stocks in such a way that people can continue to utilize this species for food and economic stability is critical. Ecologically, hogfish enhance the biodiversity of reefs and contribute to top-down control of macroalgae on vulnerable coral reef ecosystems. This study collected fishery-dependent specimens from 2015–2020 in order to characterize size, age, and sex structure of the hogfish population in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands and describe the reproductive biology of U.S. Caribbean hogfish including size and age at maturity and transition, spawning seasonality, and spawning frequency. Results from the present study provide key life history information for an exploited population of hogfish. This study is the first to comprehensively describe age, growth, and reproductive biology for hogfish in the U.S. Caribbean and the first to utilize the 14C chronometer to directly validate the accuracy of ageing hogfish by counting opaque zones on sagittal otolith sections. Fisheries-dependent samples provided insights into the fished population. Our study supports previous research documenting hogfish is a monandric protogynous hermaphrodite species, is characterized by a low male to female sex ratio, is moderately long-lived with a maximum age of 20+ years, and sexually matures within the first few years of life. Hogfish females appear to have a protracted spawning season encompassing at least 11 months of the year. Future life history research on U.S. Caribbean hogfish should target fishery-independent samples caught with a variety of gear types to better understand the population as a whole. Going forward, continued monitoring of hogfish life history parameters in this region is essential.
- ItemA PLAN FOR PLANTING: AN ANALYSIS OF STRATEGIC PLANNING FOR SMALL FARMS AND APPLICATIONS IN SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURECranford, Charles MichaelLittle information exists in the literature regarding Agricultural Planning, particularly in relation to small-scale farms. This paper attempts to address the gap in literature through an examination of small farms and the potential for strategic planning in agricultural planning. A literature review was conducted to develop and understanding of small farms and the applications strategic planning. Additionally, semi-structured interviews were performed amongst farmers in the South Carolina Lowcountry to develop a case study on the planning practices, mission focuses, and influences surrounding small farms. A recommendation was made for farms to utilize Strategic Issue Management, and for not- for-profit farms to formalize their strategic planning processes. Additional policy recommendations were made in regards to small farm issues.
- ItemThe American Occupation of West Germany and the Formation of the New German Politic 1945-1953Beafore, Sydney AnthonyWith the collapse of the Nazi German state in 1945 the American, Soviet, British and French governments each operated occupation zones with the purpose of demilitarization, deindustrailization, denazification, decartelization and democraticization. In order to enact each of these programs the American Military Government (USMG) first had to establish stability inside American occupied Germany. It was this mission, the establishment of stability, that took precedence over all others. The eventual relaxation of denazification at the end of 1947 and 1948 occurred in efforts to promote economic stability and sustainability. Konrad Adenauer’s and the Christian Democratic Union’s (CDU) rise to political power comes from the centrist policies they adopted in their founding after the war. Adenauer’s ability to place the CDU in association with the West's economic recovery along with the inability of Social Democrats (SPD) to form coalition governments allowed the CDU to rise and maintain their unity of government long into the 1950s.
- ItemA PLAN FOR PLANTING: AN ANALYSIS OF STRATEGIC PLANNING FOR SMALL FARMS AND APPLICATIONS IN SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURECranford, Charles MichaelLittle information exists in the literature regarding Agricultural Planning, particularly in relation to small-scale farms. This paper attempts to address the gap in literature through an examination of small farms and the potential for strategic planning in agricultural planning. A literature review was conducted to develop and understanding of small farms and the applications strategic planning. Additionally, semi-structured interviews were performed amongst farmers in the South Carolina Lowcountry to develop a case study on the planning practices, mission focuses, and influences surrounding small farms. A recommendation was made for farms to utilize Strategic Issue Management, and for not- for-profit farms to formalize their strategic planning processes. Additional policy recommendations were made in regards to small farm issues.
- ItemThe Egyptian Lure: A Social History of Western Tourism at the Colonial Contact Zone in Egypt, 1905-21Wait, Elisabeth ShannonScholarly discussion of tourism's role in modern Egypt is commonly reflected as a byproduct of orientalism and Egyptomania. While this is true, tourism's relationship with colonialism in the early twentieth century is underrepresented in scholarship. Modern tourism's origins in the elitist concept of the Grand Tour shaped nineteenth-century imperial travel in Egypt. Trade and expedition routes evolved into the modes of transportation for leisure that directly contributed to a new industry – mass-tourism. Using advertisements, guidebooks, and a society journal called The Sphinx, this thesis argues that the tourism industry in Egypt had a relationship with colonialism in two ways. First, health travel was a response to urbanization in European cities that drove tourists to visit Egypt. Cairo's crowded hotel industry pushed hoteliers to capitalize on the winter resorts in healthier areas such as Helwan. Climatology and the healing effects of Egypt's waters lured European tourists to Egypt in the early twentieth century. Second, there was a connection between tourism and international relations in Egypt. Cairo's tourism industry served as a colonial frontier and site of entanglement for soldiers, tourists, and Egyptians. Rooted in imperial travel, tourism infrastructure in Egypt served as the Allied Powers' defense during World War I. The British Empire converted cruise liners, sleeping cars, and hotels into hospitals in 1914 through the end of the war. Though mass-tourism ceased during the war, soldiers and diplomats occupied the hotels, bars, and restaurants. After the war, the British converted bomber airplanes into passenger saloons. Tourism's relationship with colonialism gives a new meaning to the politics of leisure in modern Egypt.