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Review Of The Book Historical Dictionary Of Turkmenistan, John A. Drobnicki Jun 2005

Review Of The Book Historical Dictionary Of Turkmenistan, John A. Drobnicki

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Review of the book Historical dictionary of Turkmenistan.


Public Health Advocacy To Change Corporate Practices: Implications For Health Education Practice And Research, Nicholas Freudenberg Jun 2005

Public Health Advocacy To Change Corporate Practices: Implications For Health Education Practice And Research, Nicholas Freudenberg

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Corporate practices, such as advertising, public relations, lobbying, litigation, and sponsoring scientific research, have a significant impact on the health of the people in the United States. Recently, health professionals and advocates have created a new scope of practice that aims to modify corporate practices that harm health. This article describes how corporate policies influence health and reviews recent health campaigns aimed at changing corporate behavior in six industries selected for their central role in the U.S. economy and their influence on major causes of mortality and morbidity. These are the alcohol, automobile, food, gun, pharmaceutical, and tobacco industries. The …


The Dilemma Of Access: Describing Open Access Journals With Marc And [Other] Metadata Schemes, Monica Berger, Gloria Rohmann May 2005

The Dilemma Of Access: Describing Open Access Journals With Marc And [Other] Metadata Schemes, Monica Berger, Gloria Rohmann

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Evolutionary Explanations In Medical And Health Profession Courses: Are You Answering Your Students' "Why" Questions?, Eugene E. Harris, Avelin A. Malyango May 2005

Evolutionary Explanations In Medical And Health Profession Courses: Are You Answering Your Students' "Why" Questions?, Eugene E. Harris, Avelin A. Malyango

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Background Medical and pre-professional health students ask questions about human health that can be answered in two ways, by giving proximate and evolutionary explanations. Proximate explanations, most common in textbooks and classes, describe the immediate scientifically known biological mechanisms of anatomical characteristics or physiological processes. These explanations are necessary but insufficient. They can be complemented with evolutionary explanations that describe the evolutionary processes and principles that have resulted in human biology we study today. The main goal of the science of Darwinian Medicine is to investigate human disease, disorders, and medical complications from an evolutionary perspective. Discussion This paper contrasts …


Advanced Employment Retaliation Issues, William A. Herbert Apr 2005

Advanced Employment Retaliation Issues, William A. Herbert

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This paper presented at the American Bar Association 2005 Equal Employment Opportunity Committee Midwinter Meeting discusses three issues relating to retaliation claims in the private and public sectors: the use of union information demands with regard to potential retaliation claims; the anti-retaliation provisions contained in certain federal environmental laws and regulations; and the standards for establishing causation regarding an adverse personnel action in First Amendment retaliation claims by public employees.


The Challenges Facing Auditors And Analysts In U.S. Capital Markets, Paul M. Healy Apr 2005

The Challenges Facing Auditors And Analysts In U.S. Capital Markets, Paul M. Healy

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Is Expanding Medicare Coverage Cost-Effective?, Peter Franks, Peter Muennig, Marthe Gold Mar 2005

Is Expanding Medicare Coverage Cost-Effective?, Peter Franks, Peter Muennig, Marthe Gold

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Background Proposals to expand Medicare coverage tend to be expensive, but the value of services purchased is not known. This study evaluates the efficiency of the average private supplemental insurance plan for Medicare recipients. Methods Data from the National Health Interview Survey, the National Death Index, and the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey were analyzed to estimate the costs, changes in life expectancy, and health-related quality of life gains associated with providing private supplemental insurance coverage for Medicare beneficiaries. Model inputs included socio-demographic, health, and health behavior characteristics. Parameter estimates from regression models were used to predict quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) …


Daily Rhythm Of Cerebral Blood Flow Velocity, Deirdre A. Conroy, Arthur J. Spielman, Rebecca Q. Scott Mar 2005

Daily Rhythm Of Cerebral Blood Flow Velocity, Deirdre A. Conroy, Arthur J. Spielman, Rebecca Q. Scott

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Background: CBFV (cerebral blood flow velocity) is lower in the morning than in the afternoon and evening. Two hypotheses have been proposed to explain the time of day changes in CBFV: 1) CBFV changes are due to sleep-associated processes or 2) time of day changes in CBFV are due to an endogenous circadian rhythm independent of sleep. The aim of this study was to examine CBFV over 30 hours of sustained wakefulness to determine whether CBFV exhibits fluctuations associated with time of day.

Methods: Eleven subjects underwent a modified constant routine protocol. CBFV from the middle cerebral artery was monitored …


Review Of The Book Dictionary Of Literary Biography, Vol. 299: Holocaust Novelists, John A. Drobnicki Mar 2005

Review Of The Book Dictionary Of Literary Biography, Vol. 299: Holocaust Novelists, John A. Drobnicki

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Review of the book Dictionary of literary biography, Vol. 299: Holocaust novelists.


Judicial Politics: Making The Case For Merit Selection, Steve Zeidman Jan 2005

Judicial Politics: Making The Case For Merit Selection, Steve Zeidman

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Policing The Police: The Role Of The Courts And The Prosecution, Steve Zeidman Jan 2005

Policing The Police: The Role Of The Courts And The Prosecution, Steve Zeidman

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Enforcing The Contract At All (Social) Costs: The Boundary Between Private Contract Law And The Public Interest, Deborah Zalesne Jan 2005

Enforcing The Contract At All (Social) Costs: The Boundary Between Private Contract Law And The Public Interest, Deborah Zalesne

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No abstract provided.


Creating An Intimate Partner Violence Against Women Legal Theory, Jenny Rivera Jan 2005

Creating An Intimate Partner Violence Against Women Legal Theory, Jenny Rivera

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No abstract provided.


Organs Of Society: A Plea For Human Rights Accountability For Transnational Enterprises And Other Business Entities, Rebecca Bratspies Jan 2005

Organs Of Society: A Plea For Human Rights Accountability For Transnational Enterprises And Other Business Entities, Rebecca Bratspies

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The Devil In The Details: A Reaction To Wu Changhua's Improving The Legal And Policy Foundation For Public Access To Environmental Information In China, Rebecca Bratspies Jan 2005

The Devil In The Details: A Reaction To Wu Changhua's Improving The Legal And Policy Foundation For Public Access To Environmental Information In China, Rebecca Bratspies

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Glowing In The Dark: How America’S First Transgenic Animal Escaped Regulation, Rebecca Bratspies Jan 2005

Glowing In The Dark: How America’S First Transgenic Animal Escaped Regulation, Rebecca Bratspies

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The Civil Rights Remedy Of The 1994 Violence Against Women Act: Struck Down But Not Ruled Out, Julie Goldscheid Jan 2005

The Civil Rights Remedy Of The 1994 Violence Against Women Act: Struck Down But Not Ruled Out, Julie Goldscheid

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No abstract provided.


Internet Access To Court Records: Balancing Public Access And Privacy, Natalie Gomez-Velez Jan 2005

Internet Access To Court Records: Balancing Public Access And Privacy, Natalie Gomez-Velez

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No abstract provided.


Overwork And Overtime, Shirley Lung Jan 2005

Overwork And Overtime, Shirley Lung

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The Confluence Of Law And Antebellum Black Literature: Lawyerly Discourse As A Rhetoric Of Empowerment, Andrea Mcardle Jan 2005

The Confluence Of Law And Antebellum Black Literature: Lawyerly Discourse As A Rhetoric Of Empowerment, Andrea Mcardle

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Oy Science Fiction: On Genre, Criticism, And Alien Love: An Interview With Marleen S. Barr, C. Jason Smith, Ximena C. Gallardo, Marleen S. Barr Jan 2005

Oy Science Fiction: On Genre, Criticism, And Alien Love: An Interview With Marleen S. Barr, C. Jason Smith, Ximena C. Gallardo, Marleen S. Barr

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Marleen S. Barr is a pioneer of feminist science fiction criticism and a leader in the fight against the ghettoizing influences of genre-labeling in literary criticism. While the noteworthy Feminist Fabulation: Space/Postmodern Fiction (University of Iowa Press, 1992) has been praised as Barr's seminal work in feminist science fiction criticism and theory, it is in Genre Fission: A New Discourse Practice for Cultural Studies (U of Iowa P, 2000) where she takes on literary critics' discriminatory practices against "genre fiction" in general and fantasy and science fiction in particular.

Currently teaching at Fordham University in New York City, Barr has …


In A Creative Voice: Talking Back To Lawyers' Texts, In Notes From A Difficult Case, Andrea Mcardle Jan 2005

In A Creative Voice: Talking Back To Lawyers' Texts, In Notes From A Difficult Case, Andrea Mcardle

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Race And The American Originary Moment: The Boston Massacre Narratives And The Idea Of Citizenship, Andrea Mcardle Jan 2005

Race And The American Originary Moment: The Boston Massacre Narratives And The Idea Of Citizenship, Andrea Mcardle

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No abstract provided.


A Unifying Theory Of Contract Damage Rules, Deborah Zalesne, David W. Barnes Jan 2005

A Unifying Theory Of Contract Damage Rules, Deborah Zalesne, David W. Barnes

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No abstract provided.


In The Land Of The Mermaid: How Culture, Not Ecology, Influenced Marine Mammal Exploitation In The Southeastern Caribbean, Aldemaro Romero Jr., Joel E. Creswell Jan 2005

In The Land Of The Mermaid: How Culture, Not Ecology, Influenced Marine Mammal Exploitation In The Southeastern Caribbean, Aldemaro Romero Jr., Joel E. Creswell

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On The Evolutionary Significance Of The Paleocyphonautidae: How Fossils And Larvae Impact Evolutionary Reconstructions, Aldemaro Romero Jr., Raymond R. Rogers, Julio Seguí Jan 2005

On The Evolutionary Significance Of The Paleocyphonautidae: How Fossils And Larvae Impact Evolutionary Reconstructions, Aldemaro Romero Jr., Raymond R. Rogers, Julio Seguí

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No abstract provided.


Tiger Beetles Common During Summer Months, Tanja Mckay, Aldemaro Romero Jr. Jan 2005

Tiger Beetles Common During Summer Months, Tanja Mckay, Aldemaro Romero Jr.

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No abstract provided.


Quest For The ‘Holy Grail Bird’. Discovery Of The Ivory-Billed Woodpecker Brings Arkansas Unprecedented Attention, Aldemaro Romero Jr., Jim Bednarz Jan 2005

Quest For The ‘Holy Grail Bird’. Discovery Of The Ivory-Billed Woodpecker Brings Arkansas Unprecedented Attention, Aldemaro Romero Jr., Jim Bednarz

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No abstract provided.


As Puffball Season Approaches, It Pays To Know Your Mushroom, Aldemaro Romero Jr. Jan 2005

As Puffball Season Approaches, It Pays To Know Your Mushroom, Aldemaro Romero Jr.

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No abstract provided.


Discovery Shook Medical, Pharmaceutical Industries, Aldemaro Romero Jr., David Gilmore Jan 2005

Discovery Shook Medical, Pharmaceutical Industries, Aldemaro Romero Jr., David Gilmore

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No abstract provided.