Federal spending on wildfire suppression in the United States has grown over the past decade, but outside of land management agencies, little is known about how funds are spent, which activities are contracted out, and ...

The purpose of this project is to gain a better understanding about how the Forest Service uses best value and government estimates in contract awards. Specifically, this paper analyzes evaluation criteria and proposal- rating ...

This Article examines Novartis in the context of pharmaceutical evergreening, and suggests that the U.S. intellectual property regime could be improved by adopting a provision similar to section 3(d). Part I discusses ...

From the moment States created political boundaries to define their territory, they have shared water. There are 263 transboundary lake and river basins worldwide and 300 known transboundary aquifer systems. Whenever sharing ...

Presented by lead author, Hixson, at the Open Access Un/Conference, San Jose State University October 25, 2013.

While nationalism remains a vital element in the production of the political and economic landscape, it is often treated as a static container for other processes or neglected altogether. Rather, it must itself be treated ...

Provides overview of watershed; identifies issues, key trends, causes, and resources at risk; and lists goals and opportunities by domain.

The last thirty years have seen a resurgence in the research of sonata form. One groundbreaking treatise in this renaissance is James Hepokoski and Warren Darcy’s 2006 monograph Elements of Sonata Theory: Norms, Types, and ...

Sonata form is arguably the most important form to develop in eighteenth-century instrumental music. In their 2006 treatise, Elements of Sonata Theory, James Hepokoski and Warren Darcy identify five sonata types prominent ...