The scholarly community’s dependence on electronic resources is rapidly increasing and those electronic resources are increasingly preserved in digital repositories or other preservation services. Whether locally hosted at libraries, collaboratively hosted between institutions, or externally hosted by a third party, one method for these digital repositories to take to assure themselves and thei...

This essay uses narratives from the author’s life (childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood) to claim that regional identity is an overlooked aspect of intersectionality. By focusing on intersections queerness U.S. South, this approaches region as example Yep’s “thickening” intersectionality, using poetry narrative make case a complicating, messy, inseparable intersectional including preconc...

Aedes albopictus is the most invasive mosquito in the world, an important disease vector, and a biting nuisance that limits outdoor activities. Area-wide integrated pest management (AW-IPM) is the recommended control strategy. We conducted an economic evaluation of the AW-IPM project in Mercer and Monmouth Counties, New Jersey with a controlled design (AW-IPM vs. control) from 2009 through 2011...

Tony was my first social service case; the child had failed to attend the clinic regularly, and the hospital sent me into the crowded back street where he lived to visit his home and discover what kept him from his treatments. The house at the address given me proved to be a dilapidated, tipsy looking, two story affair, with a front porch that tilted rakishly forward, and a patch of front yard ...

The truck idled in the street as we walked up steps to house's porch. I wore a company baseball cap and field shirt, along with requisite jeans. suppose looked part, but quickly would learn that was out of my element. knocked on door took step back wait for someone answer. No sooner had feet come rest front than partner shoved me; he pushed hard, knocking me awkwardly side “What for?” snapped. ...

Portico, a digital preservation archive for the scholarly community and a National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) partner, has successfully extended the NDIIPP network to include a diverse and broad set of publishers and libraries through the development of a model that encourages institutions of all sizes to participate in digital preservation. Over the pa...