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10-09-01 (The Liberty Champion, Volume 19, Issue 5)

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09-25-01 (The Liberty Champion, Volume 19, Issue 4)

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09-18-01 (The Liberty Champion, Volume 19, Issue 3)

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09-11-01 (The Liberty Champion, Volume 19, Issue 2)

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09-04-01 (The Liberty Champion, Volume 19, Issue 1)

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05-01-01 (The Liberty Champion, Volume 18, Issue 22)

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04-10-01 (The Liberty Champion, Volume 18, Issue 20)

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04-03-01 (The Liberty Champion, Volume 18, Issue 19)

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Peterson And Rasmussen: State And Local Politics Study Guide, Steven Alan Samson

Faculty Publications and Presentations

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03-27-01 (The Liberty Champion, Volume 18, Issue 18)

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02-20-01 (The Liberty Champion, Volume 18, Issue 16)

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02-13-01 (The Liberty Champion, Volume 18, Issue 15)

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02-06-01 (The Liberty Champion, Volume 18 Issue 14)

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01-30-01 (The Liberty Champion, Volume 18, Issue 13)

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01-29-02 (The Liberty Champion, Volume 19, Issue 13)

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01-23-01 (The Liberty Champion, Volume 18, Issue 12)

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01-22-02 (The Liberty Champion, Volume 19, Issue 12)

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The Stability Of The Dniester Moldovan Republic: A Post-Election Analysis, Oazu Nantoi, Stephen R. Bowers, Valeria Ciobanu, Marion T. Doss, Jr.

Faculty Publications and Presentations

The communists' electoral victory and the elevation of Voronin to the Presidency drew Moldova closer to the Russian Federation and raised new questions about the stability of the Dniester Moldovan Republic.

The existence of the DMR no longer serves Russian interests as it did in the past.

The prospects for confrontation between the DMR and Moldova are greater today as a result of the Communist Party victory.

While President Voronin has privately expressed his disdain for the DMR leadership, he seems willing to accept the existence of the DMR.

By the latter part of the past decade, the DMR existed …

The Meaning And Identification Of God's Eschatological Trumpets, James A. Borland

SOR Faculty Publications and Presentations

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Montenegro: Vassal Or Sovereign?, Octavian Sofansky, Stephen R. Bowers, Stephanie E. Cameron, Marion T. Doss, Jr.

Faculty Publications and Presentations

A move toward Montenegrin independence would cause Serbian public opinion to focus inward and would likely be the first step in the process towards true democratic evolution. Russia is not likely to support Montenegrin independence and Russia is unlikely to take decisive action to save the Yugoslav Federation. The removal of Slobodan Milosevic from power will have a modest impact on the prospects for maintaining independence.

The Moldovan Confederation Conundrum, Stephen R. Bowers, Valeria Ciobanu, Marion T. Doss, Jr.

Faculty Publications and Presentations

The Gagauz leadership has advanced several basic demands. The first category of demands relates to economic concerns and these appear to be the most fundamental. The situation that they insist be addressed in that there is an economic disparity between Gagauzia and the rest of the Moldovan Republic.

If one looks beyond the rhetoric of Comrat, Gagauz political demands are secondary to the economic ones. They demand political parties that would operate in local elections. They want more seats in the Moldovan Parliament and believe that all laws should be published in the Gagauz language as well as in Russian …

Praying The Lord's Prayer (Indonesian), Elmer Towns

Towns Foreign Language Book Collection

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Ab(1-42) And Aluminum Induce Stress In The Endoplasmic Reticulum In Rabbit Hippocampus, Involving Nuclear Translocation Of Gadd 153 And Nf-Kb, David A. Dewitt

Faculty Publications and Presentations

Apoptosis may represent a prominent form of neuronal death in chronic neurodegenerative disorders, such as Alzheimer’s disease. Although apoptosis under mitochondrial control has received considerable attention, mechanisms used within the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and nucleus in mediating apoptotic signals are not well understood. A growing body of evidence is emerging from different studies which suggests an active role for the ER in regulating apoptosis. Disturbances of ER function have been shown to trigger two different apoptotic pathways; one involves cross-talk with mitochondria and is regulated by the antiapoptotic Bcl-2, and the second is characterized by the activation of caspase-12. Also, …

Gdnf Protects Against Aluminum-Induced Apoptosis In Rabbits By Upregulating Bcl-2 And Bcl-Xl And Inhibiting Mitochondrial Bax Translocation, David A. Dewitt, Othman Ghribi, Mary M. Herman, Michael S. Forbes, John Savory

Faculty Publications and Presentations

Direct (intracisternal) injection of aluminum complexes into rabbit brain results in a number of similarities with the neuropathological and biochemical changes observed in Alzheimer’s disease and provides the opportunity to assess early events in neurodegeneration. This mode of administration induces cytochrome c release from mitochondria, a decrease in Bcl-2 in both mitochondria and endoplasmic reticulum, Bax translocation into mitochondria, activation of caspase-3, and DNA fragmentation. Coadministration of glial cell neuronal-derived factor (GDNF) inhibits these Bcl-2 and Bax changes, upregulates Bcl-XL, and abolishes the caspase-3 activity. Furthermore, treatment with GDNF dramatically inhibits apoptosis, as assessed by the TUNEL technique for detecting …

The Stability Of The Dniester Moldovan Republic: A Post-Electoral Analysis, Oazu Nantoi, Stephen R. Bowers, Thomas Houlahan

Faculty Publications and Presentations

This paper analyzes the issue of the stability of the Dniester Moldovan Republic in the context of the communists’ electoral victory and Voronin's rise to the Presidency, which drew the Republic of Moldova closer to the Russian Federation.

Encyclopedia Of Jihad, Alexei Malashenko, Stephen R. Bowers, Valeria Ciobanu

Faculty Publications and Presentations

The Western powers are the chief targets of a global Islamic jihad. Once believed to be a relic of history, the notion of Islamic jihad regained a political role in the 1980s. There are multiple meanings of the term jihad. While “great jihad” implies peaceful activity “small jihad” denotes the use of violence. There has never been a war in which Christians and Muslims have participated where the latter has not appealed to the slogan of holy war. The failure of Iran’s “white revolution” in 1979 set the stage for development of violent strategies against the West. The Chechen conflict …

Introduction: Issues Of Post-Communist Transition, Stephen R. Bowers, Marion T. Doss, Jr.

Faculty Publications and Presentations

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Islam In The North Caucasus: A People Divided, Yavus Akhmadov, Stephen R. Bowers, Marion T. Doss, Jr.

Faculty Publications and Presentations

Religious diversity has had a dramatic impact on the development of the North Caucasus region. People do not indentify primarily with either a national or international Islamic community. The fundamentalist Vakhabite community has become a major regional force during the past decade in spite of numerous efforts to suppress its influence. Official suppression of the Vakhabites has resulted in the emergence of a clandestine Vakhabite network supported from abroad. Islamic radicals throughout the regions (mostly Saudi and North African Arabs) have joined with the Khattab group in order to receive military training in camps which are operated to support Arab …

11-14-00 (The Liberty Champion, Volume 18, Issue 10)

2000 -- 2001

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11-09-00 (The Liberty Champion, Volume 18, Issue 9)

2000 -- 2001

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