Michigan Academician articles from August 2000

Michigan Academician archives from August 2000

An Evaluation of Techniques for Tallgrass Prairie Creation, Rose Lake Wildlife Research Area, Clinton County, Michigan.
August 1, 2000... ABSTRACT The tallgrass prairie has decreased to an estimated 4% of its original area in North America, mainly as a result of agriculture. Today, only small tallgrass prairie remnants exist and populations of the associated wildlife and...

Accuracy of the Michigan Rural Property Inventory (MRPI) for Historic Land Use/Land Cover Determinations.
August 1, 2000... INTRODUCTION This paper examines the accuracy of a secondary resource known as the Michigan Rural Property Inventory (MRPI). Housed at the State Archives of Michigan, Lansing, Michigan, the inventory embodied an effort to equalize property...

Tax Incentives for the Environmental Cleanup of Urban Areas: Initial Considerations, Comparisons, and Challenges.
August 1, 2000... ROBERT A. VIEWEG [1] BACKGROUND Questions concerning the cleanup and reuse of brownfields take place against a background of increased societal concern with urban sprawl as well as a renewed focus on the inner city as reflected in...

Our Understanding of Thin Film Morphology.
August 1, 2000... ABSTRACT The widespread uses of thin films in a variety of industries and applications (such as microlectronics) have been allowed in part by our ability to predict the morphology in an amazingly accurate and detailed manner. A number of...

Waldensian Immigration to Algeria and the Impact on Indigenous Moslems from 1880 to 1920.
August 1, 2000... All life stories, especially those of one's ancestors, are not written without bias. But even if the point of view of the biographer-historian is biased, his subject does not stay isolated from the historical context in which it evolves. At the...

The African American Church Experience in Black and White Denominations: A Historical Profile of Political Differences.
August 1, 2000... INTRODUCTION This study will examine the historical background of various Black religious denominations and the possible connection that exists between these histories and the political activities of contemporary African American churches...

Accumulation of a Basic Peroxidase Isoenzyme in Leaves of Arabidopsis thaliana Following Inoculation with Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae or Wounding.
August 1, 2000... ABSTRACT Pathogens inflict billions of dollars of damage on crop plants every year. However, despite the importance of plant diseases, the mechanisms by which plants suppress the growth of potential pathogens are not well understood. One...

An Urban GIS Database Model for Integrated Land and Building Property Management.
August 1, 2000... ABSTRACT Since the introduction of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in South Korea in the early 1980s, GIS have been widely used for effective facility and land resource management. Specifically, an extensive GIS implementation...

Biochemistry & Molecular Biology of Plants.(Review)
August 1, 2000... Biochemistry & Molecular Biology of Plans. Edited by Bob B. Buchanan, Wilhelm Gruissem, and Russell L. Jones. American Society of Plant Biologists (Physiologists), Rockville, Maryland, 2000. 1,406 PP. Paperback, $99.95. Within the last...