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Introduction: The Sexual Body, Shelly J. Eversley, Jennifer L. Morgan

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Introduction to the special issue, "The Sexual Body," edited by Shelly Eversley and Jennifer L. Morgan.

Greening The Campus: Contemporary Student Environmental Activism, Ashley Dawson

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In November 1992, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) issued a report entitled "World Scientists' Warning to Humanity." Written by UCS Chair Henry Kendall and signed by 1,700 of the worlds leading scientists, including the majority of Nobel laureates in the sciences, the report's admonition was conveyed in the strongest terms.

Female Agency And Oppression In Caribbean Bacchanalian Culture: Soca, Carnival, And Dancehall, Kevin Frank

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In this essay Kevin Frank discerningly analyzes agency and gender in public sexual performances emanating out of what Paul Gilroy identifies as part of the compensatory politics of the subordinated within Black Atlantic culture, Jamaican dancehall (dancehall reggae/ dancehall queens).

Automated Refactoring Of Legacy Java Software To Enumerated Types, Raffi Khatchadourian, Jason Sawin, Atanas Rountev

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Modern Java languages introduce several new features that offer significant improvements over older Java technology. In this article we consider the new enum construct, which provides language support for enumerated types. Prior to recent Java languages, programmers needed to employ various patterns (e.g., the weak enum pattern) to compensate for the absence of enumerated types in Java. Unfortunately, these compensation patterns lack several highly-desirable properties of the enum construct, most notably, type safety. We present a novel fully-automated approach for transforming legacy Java code to use the new enumeration construct. This semantics-preserving approach increases type safety, produces code that is …

Segregated Schools: Educational Apartheid In Post-Civil Rights America And Unfinished Business: Closing The Racial Achievement Gap In Our Schools, Kristopher B. Burrell

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This book review of Segregated Schools and Unfinished Business assesses each author's views on the question: can schools be agents of social change? Both books also illustrate that there is much more work that needs to be done in order to fulfill the letter and spirit of the Brown v. Board of Education decision of 1954.

Inhibition Of Caveolar Uptake, Sv40 Infection, And Β1-Integrin Signaling By A Nonnatural Glycosphingolipid Stereoisomer, Raman Deep Singh, Eileen L. Holicky, Zhi-Jie Cheng, Seong-Youl Kim, Christine L. Wheatley, David L. Marks, Robert Bittman, Richard E. Pagano

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Caveolar endocytosis is an important mechanism for the uptake of certain pathogens and toxins and also plays a role in the internalization of some plasma membrane (PM) lipids and proteins. However, the regulation of caveolar endocytosis is not well understood. We previously demonstrated that caveolar endocytosis and β1-integrin signaling are stimulated by exogenous glycosphingolipids (GSLs). In this study, we show that a synthetic GSL with nonnatural stereochemistry, β-d-lactosyl-N-octanoyl-l-threo-sphingosine, (1) selectively inhibits caveolar endocytosis and SV40 virus infection, (2) blocks the clustering of lipids and proteins into GSLs and cholesterol-enriched microdomains (rafts) at the PM, and (3) inhibits β1-integrin activation and …

Rely-Guarantee Approach To Reasoning About Aspect-Oriented Programs, Raffi Khatchadourian, Neelam Soundarajan

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Over the last few years, the question of reasoning about aspect-oriented programs has been addressed by a number of authors. In this paper, we present a rely-guarantee approach to such reasoning. The rely-guarantee approach has proven extremely successful in reasoning about concurrent and distributed programs. We show that some of the key problems encountered in reasoning about aspect-oriented programs are similar to those encountered in reasoning about concurrent programs; and that the rely-guarantee approach, appropriately modified, helps address these problems. We illustrate our approach with a simple example.

The Impact Of Receiver Aperture Design And Telescope Properties On Lidar Signal-To-Noise Ratio Improvements, Yasser Hassebo, Khaled El Sayed

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Range and sensitivities of lidar measurements in daylight are limited by sky background noise power (BGP). This is particularly important for Raman lidar techniques where the Raman backscattered signal is relatively weak. This often restricts Raman lidar measurements to nighttime where BGP is absent. The background noise elimination is particularly important in daytime measurements in case where full overlap between laser beam and receiver telescope field-of-view (FOV) is necessary. Results of numerical simulations for a vertically pointing Lidar show that significant improvements in Lidar signal to noise ratio (SNR) can be obtained, by minimizing the detected sky BGP. This can …

Review Of The Database Proquest Obituaries, John A. Drobnicki

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Review of the database ProQuest obituaries.

Home Telehealth: Connecting Care Within The Community, Dennis L. Kodner

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Secular Trends In The Association Of Socio-Economic Position With Self-Reported Dietary Attributes And Biomarkers In The Us Population: National Health And Nutrition Examination Survey (Nhanes) 1971–1975 To Nhanes 1999–2002, Ashima K. Kant, Barry I. Graubard

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Objective: Recent reports suggest persistence of health disparities related to socioeconomic position (SEP). To understand if diet may be a contributor to these trends, we examined secular trends in the association of diet and indicators of SEP from 1971–1975 to 1999–2002.

Design: We used data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES) I (1971–1975), II (1976–1980), III (1988–1994) and 1999–2002 to examine the independent associations of poverty income ratio (PIR) and education with diet and biomarkers of diet and disease in 25–74-year-olds (n ¼ 36 600). We used logistic and linear regression methods to adjust for multiple covariates …

Maintenance Of Visual Stability In The Human Posterior Parietal Cortex, Erik Chang, Tony Ro

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Visual stability refers to our stable visuospatial perceptions despite the unstable visual input caused by saccades. Functional neuroimaging results, studies on patients with posterior parietal cortex (PPC) lesions, and single-unit recordings in the lateral intraparietal sulcus of primates indirectly suggest that the PPC might be a potential locus of visual stability through its involvement with spatial remapping. Here we directly explored the role of the PPC in visual stability by applying transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) while participants performed a perisaccadic displacement detection task. We show that TMS over the PPC but not a frontal control site alters sensitivity to displacement …

Overdose Prevention For Injection Drug Users: Lessons Learned From Naloxone Training And Distribution Programs In New York City, Tinka Markham Piper, Sasha Rudenstine, Sharon Stancliff, Susan Sherman, Vijay Nandi, Allan Clear, Sandro Galea

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Background: Fatal heroin overdose is a significant cause of mortality for injection drug users (IDUs). Many of these deaths are preventable because opiate overdoses can be quickly and safely reversed through the injection of Naloxone [brand name Narcan], a prescription drug used to revive persons who have overdosed on heroin or other opioids. Currently, in several cities in the United States, drug users are being trained in naloxone administration and given naloxone for immediate and successful reversals of opiate overdoses. There has been very little formal description of the challenges faced in the development and implementation of large-scale IDU naloxone …

Learning To Love After Learning To Harm: Post-Conflict Reconstruction, Gender Equality And Cultural Values, Penelope Andrews

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Minority Groups And Intimate Partner Violence: A Selected Annotated Bibliography, Raquel Gabriel

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Poverty, Inequality, And Class In The Structural Constitutional Law Course, Stephen Loffredo

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Viewing Family Court Practice Through The Prism Of Purpose, Donna Lee

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Disclosure And Disqualification Standards For Neutral Arbitrators: How Far To Cast The Net And What Is Sufficient To Vacate Award, Merrick T. Rossein, Jennifer Hope

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Integrating Academic Skills Into First Year Curricula: Using Wood V. Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon To Teach The Role Of Facts In Legal Reasoning, Deborah Zalesne, David Nadvorney

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An Equal Protection Standard For National Origin Subclassifications: The Context That Matters, Jenny Rivera

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Transnational Operations, Bi-National Injustice: Chevrontexaco And Indigenous Huaorani And Kichwa In The Amazon Rainforest In Ecuador, Judith Kimerling

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Elusive Equality In Domestic And Sexual Violence Law Reform, Julie Goldscheid

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Rethinking Decisionmaking In International Environmental Law: A Process - Oriented Inquiry Into Sustainable Development, Rebecca Bratspies

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Some Thoughts On The American Approach To Regulating Genetically Modified Organisms, Rebecca Bratspies

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Public Interest Lawyers And Resistance Movements, Sameer Ashar

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Careful What You Wish For: Tough Questions, Honest Answers And Innovative Approaches To Appointive Judicial Selection, Steve Zeidman

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Scientists Are Urged To Look For Extraterrestrial Life Forms, Aldemaro Romero Jr., David Gilmore

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Researchers Scrutinize Environmental Programs In American Academia, Aldemaro Romero Jr., Michel Conner

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Lessons From Equal Opportunity Harasser Doctrine: Challenging Sex-Specific Appearance And Dress Codes, Deborah Zalesne

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Disclosure And Disqualification Standards For Neutral Arbitrators: How Far To Cast The Net And What Is Sufficient To Vacate Award, Merrick Rossein, Jennifer Hope

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