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Export Promotion As A Development Strategy: Evidence From Selected Southeast Asian Countries And Lessons For Ghana, Ohenewaa B. Newman

Journal for the Advancement of Developing Economies

Developing countries have adopted various development strategies such as import substitution industrialization (ISI) and export promotion strategies. For Latin-American and developing countries, some level of economic growth was experienced using ISI after the Second World War. However, these countries could not attain the needed economic growth, technological advancement or guarantee food security with the adoption of ISI. It led to unequal income distribution, less internal competition, and distortions of their economy, among others. The rise of export promotion strategies in the 1970s was evidenced by an impressive economic growth and a decline in poverty in jurisdictions like Taiwan, Tanzania and …

Biological Activity Of Saussurea Amara (L.) Dc., Shagjjav Oyungerel

Erforschung biologischer Ressourcen der Mongolei / Exploration into the Biological Resources of Mongolia, ISSN 0440-1298

The medicinal application of specific plants over the long period in traditional medicine, suggests the presence of biologically active substances in those plant species. Saussurea amara (L.) DC. is a wild plant with a high feeding value because of its high protein content, vitamins, and minerals. S. amara is used in the traditional Mongolian medicine for the treatment of hepato-biliary disorders. The goal of this study was to evaluate the antioxidant and antimicrobial activities of S. amara. The antioxidant capacity of a methanol extract of plants was evaluated by analyzing its DPPH free-radical scavenging activity and reducing power …

The Formation Of Aufeis And Its Impact On Infrastructure Around Ulaanbaatar, North-Central Mongolia, Michael Walther, Vanchindorj Batsaikhan, Avirmed Dashtseren, Yamkhin Jambaljav, Khurelbaatar Temujin, Ganbold Ulanbayar, Ulrich Kamp

Erforschung biologischer Ressourcen der Mongolei / Exploration into the Biological Resources of Mongolia, ISSN 0440-1298

In this study aufeis features and their formation under natural conditions and in an urban surrounding in north-central Mongolia were investigated. Used methods included field observations, Electrical Resistivity Tomography (ERT) as well as analyses of satellite imagery and meteorological data. Aufeis formation is related to streams, springs, and ground conditions, particularly soil moisture; the formation of both spring aufeis and river aufeis follows a seasonal cycle. The meteorological data from 1969 to 2018 indicate that the mean annual air temperature (MAAT) increased by 2.6 °C, whilst no significant changes were observed for precipitation. Between 1992 and 2018, aufeis areas significantly …

Water Use By Khulan In The Dzungarian Gobi In Sw Mongolia, Petra Kaczensky, Chris Walzer, John Payne, Oyunsaikhan Ganbaatar, Nanjid Altansukh

Erforschung biologischer Ressourcen der Mongolei / Exploration into the Biological Resources of Mongolia, ISSN 0440-1298

Water is the lifeline for the world’s drylands and the key for the distribution of water-dependent equids like khulan. We developed a simple algorithm using khulan tracks from GPS telemetry to identify waterpoints. This approach allowed us to obtain the first landscape-scale information on the use of waterpoints by khulan in Great Gobi B SPA. We discuss the merits and limitations of the algorithm and the implication for landscape level conservation.

The Effect Of News Format And Personal Relevance On Affect, Sophia R. Morrow, Hannah M. Hood-Johnson, Brianna L. Scandell, Matthew P. Newman, Grace E. Fink

UReCA: The NCHC Journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity

Research titled The Effect of News Format and Personal Relevance on Affect by Sophia R. McMorrow, Hannah M. Hood-Johnson, Brianna L. Scandell, Matthew P. Newman, and Grace E. Fink in UReCA: The NCHC Undergraduate Journal of Research and Creative Activity, 2021, pages 25-52.

Abstract

Considering the ubiquitous news coverage of COVID-19, it is important to examine the relationship between news consumption and affect, an important aspect of mental health. This study examined how news format and personal relevance influence affect. Participants watched 15 minutes of news clips or read their text transcriptions, which had either high personal relevance (e.g. COVID-19 …

Molecular Genetic Modifications In The Human Genome: Racial Discrimination As A Biological Stressor, Nicolette Dobson

UReCA: The NCHC Journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity

Research titled Molecular Genetic Modifications in the Human Genome: Racial Discrimination as a Biological Stressor by Nicolette Dobson in UReCA: The NCHC Undergraduate Journal of Research and Creative Activity, 2021, pages 1-24.

Abstract

Racial discrimination enhances group separation and places individuals into stereotypical categories based on race and other factors (e.g. gender, behavior, etc.). As seen in studies on physiological diseases and psychological disorders, minority groups (e.g. African Americans) face cellular senescence at an increased risk due to health-related comorbidities and prevalent experiences of racism. This review provides an analysis of modifications within the human genome that may lead to …

Abused, Abandoned, Neglected, And Still Not Protected: The Need For An Expansion Of Juvenile Immigrants’ Rights In Nebraska, Jayden Barth

Nebraska Law Review

Given the extremely high number of undocumented juveniles in the country at any given moment, the pathways that allow for documentation and eventual citizenship are gravely important to understand. Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS) is just one option available to immigrant children who have been abused, abandoned, or neglected, as a pathway to permanent legal resident status in the United States. Since SIJS is highly dependent on state courts and statutes, states must provide for the most efficient and effective ways for juveniles to navigate through SIJS proceedings to better protect immigrant children in the United States. This Comment considers …

Section 1031 Like-Kind Exchanges: Treatment Of Nebraska’S Certified Irrigated Acres, Carolyn Davis

Nebraska Law Review

Water—a powerful resource involved in daily life. Whether it is for personal use or use in production, water is the liquid fueling advancement. While some areas of the United States have abundant water sources, others do not. Ranging in definition, the Midwest region of the United States has various sources of water: groundwater, surface water, and rainwater.

A prominent use of these water sources in the Midwest region— and specifically in Nebraska—is irrigation. Irrigation is the use of water to encourage growth, otherwise defined as the “watering of land by artificial means to foster plant growth.” Whether using the daily …

Finding Our Voice: Highly Flexible Ed For The Hyflex World, Kristine Larsen, Cristina Robinson, Jason A. Melnyk, Jennifer Nicoletti, Amy Gagnon, Kelly Mclaughlin, Mina Hussaini

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

The COVID-19 pandemic brought about unprecedented changes in our approach to delivering educational development (ED) programming. In this article we discuss how our dual ED centers pivoted during the sudden switch to online learning, highlighting how we overcame challenges such as a small staff, tight timelines, and faculty anxieties. Particularly, we explore how we adapted to the university’s investment in technologically advanced Hybrid-Flexible (HyFlex) classroom spaces and utilized a multi-pronged team approach to provide effective and timely ED to faculty. By identifying key faculty leaders, identifying multiple sources of data, and using multiple modalities, we supported the faculty in their …

Constellations Of Support: A Community Development Model, Tracy Smith, Melba Spooner

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

This article describes the rationale, development process, and initial artifacts and outcomes of a faculty support (a.k.a. mentoring) model developed for a specific academic context: a College of Education at a Southeastern comprehensive public university. The purposes of this article are to (1) describe the research and theoretical models that guided the development of the program; (2) provide a research-based rationale for a context-based community development model of faculty support; (3) propose a set of principles for a context-based developmental community model of faculty support; (4) describe the process for developing a community development mentoring model for faculty at all …

Motivation To “Keep Pushin’”: Insights Into Faculty Development Facilitating Inclusive Pedagogy, Kelly Erby, Melanie Burdick, Sandra Winn Tutwiler, Dan Petersen

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

This study focuses on the lived experiences of nine university faculty who were attempting to implement inclusive teaching practices following university-sponsored faculty development. While the participants were each successful in their respective implementations, they all expressed anxiety at the beginning of the semester as well as at the end when they reflected upon the changes they made. This occurred despite deeply held motivations to change their teaching and make a difference for their students. The participants encountered barriers that centered on feelings related to self-confidence, student perception, and peer approval. Findings include descriptions of these anxieties and the supports that …

Beyond Instructional Development: An Exploration Of Using Formal Pedagogy Training To Benefit Perceived Quality Of Life And Sense Of Community In Graduate Students, Matthew Mahavongtrakul, Ashley Hooper, Daniel Mann, Brian Sato

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development

The Association of American Colleges and Universities calls for improvements in teaching preparation in graduate programs as a transferable skill for future faculty. However, the amount of institutional and faculty support for these programs is limited. For the relatively few programs that exist, rarely do they have their outcomes assessed in a data-driven manner. This is disconcerting considering that participation in professional development can improve work-life balance, and graduate students often work long hours, suffer from mental health issues, and face increasing career competition. In this case study, we explore how two teaching development programs impacted pedagogical knowledge, perceived quality …

Court Review: Journal Of The American Judges Association, Vol. 57, No. 2

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

Court Review, the quarterly journal of the American Judges Association, invites the submission of unsolicited, original articles, essays, and book reviews. Court Review seeks to provide practical, useful information to the working judges of the United States and Canada. In each issue, we hope to provide information that will be of use to judges in their everyday work, whether in highlighting new procedures or methods of trial, court, or case management, providing substantive information regarding an area of law likely to be encountered by many judges, or by providing background information (such as psychology or other social science research) …

As Judge And Citizen: An Ethical Path To Racial Justice, Reba Ann Page, Robert J. Torres, Jr.

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

The headlines have become frighteningly familiar: a deadly pandemic is engulfing the world including our nation, our streets have become byways for mobs intent on committing racially motivated violence, and our government institutions of public safety are being used as instruments of political control. Although these are among today’s captions, this was also the state of affairs a hundred years ago.¹ According to the United States Centers for Disease Control, approximately one-third of the world’s then-population was affected by the deadly global pandemic of 1918-1919. There were an estimated 50 million deaths worldwide, with about 675,000 of these occurring …

Judicial Stress And Resiliency Survey Covid-19 Update, Katheryn Yetter, David X. Swenson

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

Judges in the United States preside in many different courts, both on state and federal levels. Judges exercise a considerable amount of power as the ultimate decision makers in matters of legal controversy. However enviable this position may seem, the daily challenges of this role are stressful and can have an adverse effect on any judge’s health and well-being. While some would argue that these challenges are part of the job, the judiciary, legal community, and public in general would be remiss not to recognize the strain that these challenges create. To shed light on the matter, the 2019 National …

Civil Cases In The Supreme Court’S October Term 2020, Thomas M. Fisher

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

The Supreme Court’s October Term 2020 provided plenty of compelling storylines, principally the appointment of Justice Amy Coney Barrett to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Other noteworthy features included telephonic oral arguments (featuring regular participation by Justice Thomas) and high-profile use of the so-called shadow docket for injunctions and stays (most famously in cases seeking to undo presidential election results in various States—and arising post-Term in the challenged Texas abortion statute). With all that excitement, the focus shifted away from the Court’s civil docket in argued cases (the subject of this column); indeed, the Court’s decision at the …

Judging In The Time Of A Pandemic: The Impact Of Covid-19 On Bail And Sentencing In Canada, Wayne K. Gorman

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

At “the end of 2019 the World Health Organization was alerted to several cases of pneumonia in Wuhan, China, caused by an unknown virus. On 7 January 2020, China advised the world that a new coronavirus was the cause, later labelled SARS-CoV-2. It causes the disease known as COVID-19. In mid-January 2020, the Public Health Agency of Canada activated the Emergency Operation Centre in support of Canada’s response to COVID-19. On 22 January 2020, Canada implemented COVID-19 screening requirements for travelers returning from China. On 25 January 2020, Canada confirmed its first case of COVID-19 related to travel from Wuhan, …

Court Review: Journal Of The American Judges Association, Vol. 57, No. 3

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

Court Review, the quarterly journal of the American Judges Association, invites the submission of unsolicited, original articles, essays, and book reviews. Court Review seeks to provide practical, useful information to the working judges of the United States and Canada. In each issue, we hope to provide information that will be of use to judges in their everyday work, whether in highlighting new procedures or methods of trial, court, or case management, providing substantive information regarding an area of law likely to be encountered by many judges, or by providing background information (such as psychology or other social science research) …

Recent Changes In Federal Policy Will Decrease Immigration Arrests At State And Local Courthouses, James D. Gingerich

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

Changes in the policies and procedures of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) enacted in early 2017 increased the number of enforcement actions by federal immigration officers in state and local courthouses across the U.S.¹ Many court leaders expressed concerns about the negative impacts of the arrests on the public’s access to justice. Several state supreme court chief justices wrote letters expressing their concerns in letters to federal immigration officials. The Conference of Chief Justices established a special workgroup to study and document the incidents and their impacts on the …

Court Review: Journal Of The American Judges Association, Vol. 57, No. 1

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

Court Review, the quarterly journal of the American Judges Association, invites the submission of unsolicited, original articles, essays, and book reviews. Court Review seeks to provide practical, useful information to the working judges of the United States and Canada. In each issue, we hope to provide information that will be of use to judges in their everyday work, whether in highlighting new procedures or methods of trial, court, or case management, providing substantive information regarding an area of law likely to be encountered by many judges, or by providing background information (such as psychology or other social science research) …

Warrantless Blood Draws And The Fourth Amendment: A Chronological Look At U.S. Supreme Court And State Supreme Court Cases From Missouri V. Mcneely To Commonwealth V. Bell, Jessica Rider

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reports in the United States 30 people die every day in drunk-driving crashes.¹ Crashes involving alcohol-impaired drivers cost the United States $44 billion in 2010 (the most recent year for which cost data are available).² The issue of impaired driving is not limited to alcohol; the NHTSA’s data show the number of drivers killed in crashes who test positive for marijuana doubling between 2007 and 2015.³ As states create laws to try and crackdown on the rates of impaired driving those finding themselves facing criminal prosecution have raised constitutional challenges. …

Charting A Path Forward To Create Justice For All, Danielle Elyce Hirsch, Lillian Wood

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

It has been an unprecedented year, and the challenges we face are not yet over. Chief among them are the dual crises of coronavirus and racism, challenges which are distinct, yet undeniably intertwined. Existing research indicates that members of poor and minority groups are less likely than their white and higher-income counterparts to seek help when they experience a civil legal problem. Indeed, roughly three-quarters of the members of poor and minority groups do not seek legal help when they experience such problems.² Frequently, people’s legal problems are connected to other issues in their lives, including domestic violence, substance …

Jury Trials In A (Post) Pandemic World - National Survey Analysis, Gbao

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

The coronavirus pandemic has had a profound impact on state courts’ commitment to meet their constitutional duty to provide fair, timely jury trials. As many states begin to reopen public buildings and courthouses, court administrators face an unprecedented challenge in understanding how public concerns about the ongoing pandemic will impact their ability to recruit a representative jury pool and to meet the public health expectations of the citizens they serve.

Judging And Emotion Work: Discipline Processes As Guidance, Sharyn Roach Anleu, Jennifer Elek, Kathy Mack

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

What constitutes good judging has long been a matter of discussion.¹ Models of good judging contain norms about judicial demeanor and emotion, especially in court, though typically not expressed in those terms.² The conventional model of the impartial judge characterises emotion as incompatible with, and potentially undermining, impartiality and so threatening the legitimacy of judicial authority and the rule of law.³ However, judicial work necessarily engages a wide range of emotions and requires considerable emotion capacities, which can (appear to) conflict with this expectation of dispassionate, impersonal, and detached judging.⁴ Performing judicial authority can entail considerable …

Covid-19 Employer Liability Still Unknown, Heather R. Falks

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred a new era of personal injury litigation. Across the United States, lawsuits for wrongful death, negligence, and retaliation are being filed against businesses for their failure to protect employees and the public from the known dangers of COVID-19.¹ Tyson Foods was sued for wrongful death by the widow of a Tyson employee who contracted COVID-19 five days after administering temperature checks for Tyson employees at a meatpacking plant. He died from COVID-19 two weeks later.² A Trader Joe’s employee filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board claiming he was terminated in …

The Resource Page, Vol. 57, No. 1

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

ONE MORE ITEM ON EQUAL JUSTICE IN THE COURTS

JUDICIAL WELL-BEING

AND FOR YOUR FAMILY

COMING SOON, EFFECTIVENESS OF REMOTE PROCEEDINGS IN FAMILY MATTERS

FOR FAMILY LAW JUDICIAL OFFICERS

The Compassionate Court: Reforming The Justice System Inside And Outside, Jamey H. Hueston

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

There is growing scholarship and justice system attention regarding the quality and effect of court interactions on citizens who come before the bar, as well as court system employees. From this research and the impact of therapeutic court experience, the Compassionate Court is born. The Compassionate Court considers court matters from a wider perspective that factors human behavior and disabilities, as well as community and societal influences that caused conflicts, and encourages courts to formulate alternative therapeutic solutions. The Compassionate Court reflects a coherent, navigable, and humanistic judicial process no matter the severity of the matter or difficulty of the …

Homes, History, And Shadows: Select Criminal Law And Procedure Cases From The Supreme Court’S 2020-21 Term, Eve Brensike Primus, Lily Sawyer-Kaplan

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

The death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in September 2020 and the appointment of Justice Amy Coney Barrett to replace her solidified a 6-3 majority on the Court for Republican appointees and is already affecting how the Court approaches and decides its criminal law and procedure cases. Justice Ginsburg, a strong advocate for equality and fair treatment, generally construed criminal statutes narrowly and stressed the importance of defendants’ procedural rights. Justice Barrett is an originalist who will look to history to seek answers on the scope of criminal procedure amendments. The combined appointments of Justice Gorsuch and Justice Barrett mean …

Court Review: Journal Of The American Judges Association, Vol. 57, No. 4

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

Court Review, the quarterly journal of the American Judges Association, invites the submission of unsolicited, original articles, essays, and book reviews. Court Review seeks to provide practical, useful information to the working judges of the United States and Canada. In each issue, we hope to provide information that will be of use to judges in their everyday work, whether in highlighting new procedures or methods of trial, court, or case management, providing substantive information regarding an area of law likely to be encountered by many judges, or by providing background information (such as psychology or other social science research) …

Why Judges Should Not Mistake The Norm For The Neutral, Debra Stephens, Veronica Galván

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

This statement from the Washington Supreme Court Open Letter, issued after Minneapolis police officers killed George Floyd on May 25, 2020, reflects both an acknowledgment of responsibility and a commitment to action. The Washington Supreme Court’s letter was one of many written by courts and individual judges across the United States, who felt compelled to speak out about racial injustice and our role as keepers of a system called Justice. Questions quickly followed: Are those who speak out against racial injustice taking sides on a social issue? What can a judge do or say within the ethical constraints of codes …