A comprehensive survey of aquatic plant communities in Pickerel Lake, Colchester/East Haddam, Connecticut, was conducted during the growing season of most regional macrophyte species (May 2001 to October 2001). Five weed maps were constructed to...
Crabs -- Long Island Sound (N.Y. and Conn.); Introduced animals -- Long Island Sound (N.Y. and Conn.)
Hemigrapsus sanguineus, the Japanese shore crab, is native to the western Pacific
Ocean and was first reported in Long Island Sound in 1992. Since then, it has become
firmly established and, in many locations, is the most common crab in the rocky...
Cyprus -- Politics and government -- 1960-2004; Cyprus -- Politics and government -- 2004-; Cyprus -- History -- Cyprus Crisis, 1974-; Cyprus -- Social conditions -- 1960-; Cyprus, Northern
In 1974, the island of Cyprus underwent a drastic geographical change that separated, by force, the population of the island. Though not uneventful, the island's history has shown that for centuries, both Greek and Turkish Cypriots lived together....
Moroccans -- Spain -- Social conditions; Immigrants -- Spain -- Social conditions; Spain -- Emigration and immigration; Morocco -- Emigration and immigration
In light of globalization, it is important to understand the immigrant identity and experience. The Moroccan immigrant experience in Spain is especially important because it is an example of the cultural and physical convergence of Europe and...
Heaney, Seamus,1939- -- Criticism and interpretation
Politics in the North of Ireland deserves a paper all its own. To attempt to condense the political situation in the North in a few short chapters is to try and distill the essentials. In such a location, politics becomes more than an argument,...
Secondary educators covering the topic of American slavery have the arduous challenge of breaking down one of the darkest periods of United States History. A daunting prospect for the classroom teacher is the idea of helping their students...
Scotland -- Politics and government -- 20th century; Home rule -- Scotland
The democratic way in which the Scots pressed for more say in their own affairs is an object lesson in constitutional politics. On September 11, 1997 the voting booth and ballot box were the weapons the Scots used to attain Home Rule and the return...
Macedonia -- Ethnic relations; Macedonia -- History -- 21st century
The Muslim Albanian-speaking population in the Balkan Peninsula has sought historically to unify the ethnic "Albanian lands" of Kosovo, western Macedonia and Albania but has been denied a single country. For example, in 1878 this dream of ethnic...
The purpose of this thesis was to uncover the most recent climactic conditions of the Arctic and Antarctic regions. This research was conducted in two ways. First a meta-analysis was conducted on papers and research involving global warming and...
The Rocky Hill anticline is a broad open fold in Triassic strata transverse to the
Eastern Border Fault of the Connecticut Valley of Southern New England, and is
crisscrossed by a complex pattern of faults and other brittle fractures. This study...
This thesis argues that the South-to-North Water Transfer Project that is being implemented in China today has been well overdue because the water shortage situation in Northern China has already become unbearable. The Chinese government has...
This thesis focuses on the alga Polysiphonia subtilissima, specifically its reproductive phenology and photosynthetic rates. At its northern limits including New England, P. subtilissima occurs in areas of lower salinity and in Connecticut it is...
This thesis is based on the premise that textile arts, including those produced in West Africa, naturally reflect the cultures and customs of the ethnic groups in which they are created. As such, they can provide us with unique and fascinating...
To investigate leaf litter processing in local streams, a study was conducted during the fall of 2009 with two native tree species, northern red oak (Quercus rubra) and red maple (Acer rubrum) and an invasive species, Japanese knotweed (Fallopia...
