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On The Translation Of 白骨精, Gang Zhao

Gang Zhao

No abstract provided.

Rejecting Politics Of Injury, Ananya Vajpeyi

Ananya Vajpeyi

No abstract provided.

The Knowledge Debate Reopened, Ananya Vajpeyi

Ananya Vajpeyi

No abstract provided.

"Por Uma Geografia Das Relações Internacionais", Eloi Martins Senhoras

Elói Martins Senhoras

No abstract provided.

Social Capital And Inequality In Latin America, Hector Faya

Hector Faya

No abstract provided.

Citation List: Working Papers, Seth Barrett Tillman

Seth Barrett Tillman

This is a citation list to my working papers.

[27 May 2015]

Ordenanza De Seguridad Y Convivencia Ciudadanas, Fernando Carrión Mena

Fernando Carrión Mena

Que los artículos 1 y 11 de la Ley Orgánica de Régimen Municipal establecen, como finalidad del municipio, el bien común local y el bienestar material y social de la colectividad;

Que el número 18 del artículo 14 de ia Ley Orgánica de Régimen Municipal y el artículo 155 de la misma Ley asignan al municipio, como función primordial, colaborar y coordinar con la Policía Nacional, la protección, seguridad y convivencia ciudadana; así mismo, de manera conjunta actuarán con la Policía Nacional, la comunidad y otros organismos en la formulación de políticas locales, definición de formas de coordinación, contribución al …

Shadow Study Of Student Talmud High School, Arthur Lang

Arthur Lang

Shadow study of Talmudic high school student in private school.

Evaluating And Estimating The Effect Ofland Use Changed On Water Quality At Selorejo Reservoir, Indonesia, Mohammad Sholichin - -

Mohammad Sholichin - -

Nutrients are necessary for the survival of living organisms. The most important nutrient in aquatic ecosystem is typically Nitrogen (N) and Phosphorus (P). It was considered to be an important water quality concern in Konto River Basin due to a high water pollutant indication problem of reservoir Selorejo. Nitrogen and phosphorous are the two nutrients originating from inorganic and organic fertilizer that affect the reservoir water quality due to intensive agricultural farming. Increased N and P fertilizer application on the agriculture activity has larges N and P nutrient burdens to the reservoir through runoff and leaching. The aim of this …

Everyday Law For Gays And Lesbians: An Introduction, Anthony C. Infanti

Anthony C. Infanti

This is the (revised) introductory chapter of a book that I am currently writing. The book is titled Everyday Law for Gays and Lesbians, and is part of Paradigm Publishers' Everyday Law series.

The introductory chapter - indeed, the entire book - is built upon and around the power of narrative. I begin the chapter with a personal narrative that illustrates what I refer to as the current predicament of the lesbian and gay movement. In the first part of the chapter, I survey the social and legal landscape that surrounds the movement, explain why I view the current situation …

La Responsabilità Dell'intermediario Finanziario Nel Diritto Austriaco Sullo Sfondo Del Diritto Comunitario E Un Suggerimento Al Legislatore Italiano, Valerio Sangiovanni

Valerio Sangiovanni

No abstract provided.

Doveri E Responsabilità Degli Amministratori Di S.R.L. In Comparazione Con La Gmbh Tedesca, Valerio Sangiovanni

Valerio Sangiovanni

No abstract provided.

Americana, Camilo Martinez

Camilo Martinez

No abstract provided.

Blind Speaker Clustering, Ananth N. Iyer, Uchechukwu O. Ofoegbu, Robert E. Yantorno, Brett Y. Smolenski

Ananth N Iyer

A novel approach to performing speaker clustering in telephone conversations is presented in this paper. The method is based on a simple observation that the distance between populations of feature vectors extracted from different speakers is greater than a preset threshold. This observation is incorporated into the clustering problem by the formulation of a constrained optimization problem. A modified c-means algorithm is designed to solve the optimization problem. Another key aspect in speaker clustering is to determine the number of clusters, which is either assumed or expected as an input in traditional methods. The proposed method does not require such …

Generic Modeling Applied To Speaker Count, Ananth N. Iyer, Uchechukwu O. Ofoegbu, Robert E. Yantorno, Brett Y. Smolenski

Ananth N Iyer

The problem of determing the number of speakers participating in a conversation and building their models in short conversations, within an unknown group of speakers, is addressed in this paper. The lack of information about the number of speakers and the unavailability of sufficient data present a challenging task of efficiently estimating the speaker model parameters. The proposed method uses a novel generic speaker identification (GSID) system as a guide in the model building process. The GSID system is designed performing speaker identification where the speaker associated with the test data may not be enrolled. The models in the GSID …

An Overview Of The Near-Death Experience Phenomenon, David San Filippo Ph.D.

David San Filippo Ph.D.

Near-death experiences appear to be universal phenomena that have been reported for centuries. A near-death encounter is defined as an event in which the individual could very easily die or be killed, or may have already been considered clinically dead, but nonetheless survives, and continue his or her physical life. Reports of near-death experiences date back to the Ice Age. There are cave paintings, in France and Spain that depict possible after life scenes that are similar to reported scenes related to near-death experiences. Plato's Republic presents the story of a near-death experience of a Greek soldier named Er. In …

Thinking About Law And Policy: Lessons For Lawyers, Matthew S. R. Palmer

The Hon Justice Matthew Palmer

The paper outlines a simplified view of the paradigmatic approaches of the disciplines of law to legal issues and policy analysis to policy issues. It examines the strengths and weaknesses of the inherent biases likely to emanate from each approach when applied to matters of policy advice within Government. It suggests that, when approaching policy issues, those with legal training should be aware of the need to: identify the government’s objective; identifying all relevant policy options; and the need to undertake a broad analysis of all relevant considerations.

"Resolving The Foreshore And Seabed Dispute", Matthew S. R. Palmer

The Hon Justice Matthew Palmer

There has been serious political and legal conflict in New Zealand in recent years between indigenous Maori claims of rights to the foreshore and seabed and the understandings of non-Maori New Zealanders. This book chapter analyses the political leadership provided in this conflict from 1997 to 2005. It applies an approach to leadership developed by Ronald Heifetz which emphasizes the importance of identifying and addressing the real issues underlying a conflict. Applying Heifetz's diagnostic to the foreshore and seabed conflict suggests that the absence of constitutional mechanisms for dealing with the relationships between the Crown, Maori and other New Zealanders …

Wavelet-Based Functional Mixed Models To Characterize Population Heterogeneity In Accelerometer Profiles: A Case Study. , Jeffrey S. Morris, Cassandra Arroyo, Brent A. Coull, Louise M. Ryan, Steven L. Gortmaker

Jeffrey S. Morris

We present a case study illustrating the challenges of analyzing accelerometer data taken from a sample of children participating in an intervention study designed to increase physical activity. An accelerometer is a small device worn on the hip that records the minute-by-minute activity levels of the child throughout the day for each day it is worn. The resulting data are irregular functions characterized by many peaks representing short bursts of intense activity. We model these data using the wavelet-based functional mixed model. This approach incorporates multiple fixed effects and random effect functions of arbitrary form, the estimates of which are …

Alternative Probeset Definitions For Combining Microarray Data Across Studies Using Different Versions Of Affymetrix Oligonucleotide Arrays, Jeffrey S. Morris, Chunlei Wu, Kevin R. Coombes, Keith A. Baggerly, Jing Wang, Li Zhang

Jeffrey S. Morris

Many published microarray studies have small to moderate sample sizes, and thus have low statistical power to detect significant relationships between gene expression levels and outcomes of interest. By pooling data across multiple studies, however, we can gain power, enabling us to detect new relationships. This type of pooling is complicated by the fact that gene expression measurements from different microarray platforms are not directly comparable. In this chapter, we discuss two methods for combining information across different versions of Affymetrix oligonucleotide arrays. Each involves a new approach for combining probes on the array into probesets. The first approach involves …

Raphidophyceae [Chadefaud Ex Silva] Systematics And Rapid Identification: Sequence Analyses And Real–Time Pcr Assays, Torstein Tengs

Dr. Torstein Tengs

Species within the class Raphidophyceae were associated with fish kill events in Japanese, European, Canadian, and U.S. coastal waters. Fish mortality was attributable to gill damage with exposure to reactive oxygen species (peroxide, superoxide, and hydroxide radicals), neurotoxins, physical clogging, and hemolytic substances. Morphological identification of these organisms in environmental water samples is difficult, particularly when fixatives are used. Because of this difficulty and the continued global emergence of these species in coastal estuarine waters, we initiated the development and validation of a suite of real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assays. Sequencing was used to generate complete data sets for …

Equal Performance Of Taqman, Mgb, Molecular Beacon, And Sybr Green-Based Detection Assays In Detection And Quantification Of Roundup Ready Soybean, Torstein Tengs

Dr. Torstein Tengs

We have tested and compared the performance of 12 different assays representing four different real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) chemistries in the context of genetically modified organism detection. Several different molecular beacon, SYBR Green, TaqMan, and MGB assays were designed for the event specific detection and quantification of the 3' integration junction of GTS 40-3-2 (Roundup Ready) soybean. Sensitivity as well as robustness in the presence of background DNA were tested. None of the PCR-based approaches appeared to be significantly better than any of the other, but the molecular beacon assays had the lowest efficiency and also seemed more sensitive …

The Idea Of The Law Review: Scholarship, Prestige, And Open Access, Michael Madison

IR Research

This Essay was written as part of a Symposium on open access publishing for legal scholarship, held at Lewis & Clark Law School. It makes the claim that “open access” publishing models will succeed, or not, to the extent that they account for the existing “economy of prestige” that drives law reviews and legal scholarship. What may seem like a lot of uncharitable commentary is intended instead as an expression of guarded optimism: Imaginative reuse of some existing tools of scholarly publishing (even by some marginalized members of the prestige economy – or perhaps especially by them) may facilitate the …

New Journal: World Political Science Review, Irene Perciali

Irene Perciali

The Berkeley Electronic Press is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new peer-reviewed journal in political science, World Political Science Review. This is the 9th new journal added in 2006, and brings the bepress journal collection total to 35.

The World Political Science Review publishes prize-winning articles nominated by prominent national political science associations around the world, and translated into English. In a field as international as political science, scholars have a vital need to know about important political research produced outside the English-speaking world. WPSR bridges the language barriers that have made this cutting-edge research inaccessible up …

Cross-Cultural Reliability Of The Health Control & Competence Index And The Health Perception Index, Dr. Vincent L. Salyers

Dr. Vincent L Salyers

It is well documented that men of Latino origin are subject to health disparities with an increased morbidity and mortality from preventable diseases. Despite their proclivity for health problems, these men also have the lowest participation in health promotion services. This may be due to health disparity factors, health access factors, cultural factors, gender role factors, and constraints to receiving culturally competent health care. Addressing such factors as health knowledge, health perceptions, access to care, and culturally/linguistically competent care is essential to increasing participation in health care, health promotion and screening activities by men of Latino origin. This mixed-measures exploratory …

Internette Ifade Ozgurlugu (Turkish Version), Baris Gunaydin

Baris GUNAYDIN

No abstract provided.

Law Is For One And All, Aparna Meduri

Aparna Meduri

This paper is mainly a brief study on the case adjudicated by National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. (NASD) of United States. It explains that no one is excused from law though how well a person tries to escape from it. In the given case, the respondents conducted the securities business even when it is put under suspension by the NASD. Many a times the respondents tried to evade the information requested by NASD. Infact, at times, they even given the incorrect information and also wrongly questioned the authority of the officer who passed a decision against them. The case …

Introduction, Symposium On The People Themselves: Popular Constitutionalism And Judicial Review, Daniel W. Hamilton

Daniel W. Hamilton

No abstract provided.

Popular Constitutionalism In The Civil War: A Trial Run, Daniel W. Hamilton

Daniel W. Hamilton

No abstract provided.

Refusing The Right To Refuse: Coerced Treatment Of Mentally Disabled Persons, Grant H. Morris

Grant H Morris

Under the common law doctrine of informed consent, if a person is competent to understand the risks, benefits, and alternatives to proposed treatment, that person is allowed to decide whether to accept or reject the proposed treatment. Informed consent is not required if the person is incompetent or if an emergency arises that necessitates treatment to save the person’s life.

Nevertheless, various devices are used to deny mentally disordered persons their right to refuse treatment even when they are competent decisionmakers and even when no emergency exists. For example, some courts substitute a “limited due process” model for a “full …