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Violence Against Aboriginal Women In Australia: Redress From The International Human Rights Framework, Penelope Andrews

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No abstract provided.

When The Hazard Is Human: Irrationality, Inequity, And Unintended Consequences In Federal Regulation Of Contagion, Paula Berg

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No abstract provided.

The Intersection Of Socio-Economic Class And Gender In Hostile Housing Environment Claims Under Title Viii: Who Is The Reasonable Person?, Deborah Zalesne

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No abstract provided.

Medicaid Forecasting Practices, Dan Williams

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This paper examines forecasting activities among Medicaid agencies in the fifty United States, Washington, D.C., and five U.S. territories (American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, Northern Mariana Islands, and Virgin Islands). Most frequently, studies of state or local forecasting practice focus on revenue forecasting. There are several reasons why comparison of state Medicaid forecast practice may be better than comparison of state revenue forecasting practices. First, there is no consistent reporting of state revenue estimates. States make forecasts when it suits them and report them in a manner that is satisfactory to their governors or legislatures. Collection of data through national …

Dominican New Yorkers: A Socioeconomic Profile, 1997, Ramona Hernández, Francisco Rivera-Batiz

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This Directory provides a list of US-based scholars working on Dominican topics.

Dominican Studies: Resources And Research Questions, Luis Alvarez-López, Sherrie Baver, Jean Weisman, Ramona Hernández, Nancy López

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This collection of bibliographies, research reports, listings of resources, and discussions of research question, gathers the results of various projects sponsored by the Dominican Studies Institute.

Charles Hugh Callison, John A. Drobnicki

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Charles Hugh Callison helped turn the National Audubon Society into a significant wildlife advocacy organization.

Thomas Mayo Brewer, John A. Drobnicki

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Thomas Mayo Brewer was an ornithologist, oologist, and publisher whose work was concerned with eggshells as well as the breeding habits, life histories, and geographical distribution of birds.

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Edward Augustus Bowers, John A. Drobnicki

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Edward Augustus Bowers was a lawyer, government employee, and conservationist whose work in government service brought about the creation of national forests that would be managed in the public interest.

A Response To Mark Weber, John A. Drobnicki

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Mark Weber, who at the time was both the editor of the Journal of Historical Review and the Director of the Institute for Historical Review, wrote a letter to the editor of Public & Access Services Quarterly objecting to a 1995 article written by John Drobnicki, Carol Goldman, Trina Knight, and Johanna Thomas ("Holocaust-Denial Literature in Public Libraries: An Investigation of Public Librarians’ Attitudes Regarding Acquisition and Access"). Drobnicki wrote a detailed response, which not only refutes the claims of Mr. Weber, but which also demonstrates how Holocaust "revisionists" often make claims which do not hold up.

Karl Patterson Schmidt, John A. Drobnicki

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Karl Patterson Schmidt turned herpetology firom a hobby into a branch of biology, and influenced numerous young biologists as an editor, teacher, author, and curator.

Merritt Lyndon Fernald, John A. Drobnicki

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Merritt Lyndon Fernald trained the future leaders in taxonomy and descriptive botany and helped maintain a high level in botanical writing through his work as editor of Rhodora.

Three Film Reviews, John A. Drobnicki

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Reviews of Advertising Missionaries, directed by Chris Hilton and Gauthier Flauder; Chastie (Paradise), a film by Sergey Dvortsevoy; and Wilbert: Street Kid in Nicaragua, a video by Bent Erik Kroyer.

Effects Of A Sugar-Free Hypoallerdenic Diet And Nutrtional Supplementation On Ulcerative Colitis, William (Bill) H. Williams, Robert C. Atkins Md, Joel S. Edman

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Few clinical studies have found that dietary or nutritional factors significantly influence ulcerative colitis (UC}(l,2}. It is noteworthy, however, that a range of factors have been researched including dietary components such as refined sugars (3,4}, allergenic foods (1,5,6} and fast foods (7), as well as nutritional supplement effects from fish oil (2), zinc (8), glutamine (9), folate (10, 11} and alpha-tocopherolquinone (12}. More recently investigators have also examined the interelationships between bowel flora and UC, including factors such as flora changes (13,14), endotoxemia (15} and supplementation effects with Lactobacillous species (16,17). These studies taken together and a recent review of …

Rhodococcus Equi And Arcanobacterium Haemolyticum: Two "Coryneform" Bacteria Increasingly Recognized As Agents Of Human Infection, R. Linder

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Rhodococcus equi and Arcanobacterium haemolyticum, formerly classified in the genus Corynebacterium, are members of the loosely defined taxon "coryneform" bacteria. Although they are the etiologic agents of distinct human infections, both organisms are frequently overlooked, which results in missed or delayed diagnoses. R. equi, long known as an important pathogen of immature horses, has become in the past three decades an opportunistic pathogen of severely immunosuppressed humans. Most cases are secondary to HIV infection. When specifically sought in throat swab cultures, A. haemolyticum is found responsible for 0.5% to 2.5% of bacterial pharyngitis, especially among adolescents. These two microorganisms represent …

Psychiatric Outcomes In Low Birthweight Children At Age Six: Relation To Neonatal Cranial Ultrasound Abnormalities, Agnes H. Whitaker, Ronan Van Rossem, Judy F. Feldman, Irvin Sam Schonfeld, Jennifer A. Pinto-Martin, Carolyn Torre, David Shaffer, Nigel Paneth

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Examined the relation of neonatal cranial ultrasonography abnormalities to later psychiatric disorder in 564 low birth weight children (aged 5.2–8.7 yrs). Psychiatric diagnoses were assessed by means of the Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children–Parent version, and detailed information was collected on other predictors and outcomes. Results show that 454 Ss had no cranial abnormalities, 78 had germinal matrix hemorrhage (GMH) and/or intraventricular hemorrhage (IVH), and 32 had a parenchymal lesion (PL) or ventricular enlargement (VE). 22% of the Ss had at least 1 psychiatric disorder, the most common being attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Isolated GMH/IVH did not increase …

Exploitation Of Cetaceans In Venezuela, Aldemaro Romero Jr., A. Ignacio Agudo, Steven M. Green

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No abstract provided.

Patterns Of Reconciliation Among Captive Gelada Baboons (Theropithecus Gelada), Larissa Swedell

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Animals that live in groups are frequently exposed to conflict situations and must in some way maintain group cohesion. One mechanism that appears to restore social relationships after they have been disrupted by conflict is reconciliation. This study investigated reconciliatory behavior in the gelada baboon, Theropithecus gelada. The subjects were 11 adult geladas, housed in a large outdoor enclosure at the Bronx Zoo/Wildlife Conservation Park, New York. Five-minute focal animal samples following spontaneous aggression were compared with 5-min matched-control samples. The results of this study were: (1) geladas reunited in a friendly way after aggression; (2) former opponents were attracted …

Demythifying Multicultural Education: Social Semiotics As A Tool Of Critical Pedagogy, Stephanie Urso Spina

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This article discusses the assumptions and curricular implications of a social semiotic approach to education. Semiotics refers to the meaning we make with language as well as other objects. events, and actions. Social semiotics emphasizes the social, cultural, historic, and political contexts that shape that meaning. A social semiotic approach to education can help teachers and teacher educators to deconstruct the reproduction of class, politicize the ideology of colonialism, and overcome the inequities they engender. By providing a way to challenge selectively reproduced cultural politics, social semiotics provides a way to reconstruct and democratize schools and society.

White Supremacist Movement(S) In A White Supremacist Context, Jessie Daniels

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This chapter excerpt describes the relationship between so-called "extremist" groups of violent white supremacists and mainstream understandings of whiteness.

Minor Physical Anomalies: Modifiers Of Environmental Risk For Psychopathology, Daniel S. Pine, David Shaffer, Irvin Sam Schonfeld, Mark Davies

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Tested the hypothesis that minor physical anomalies (MPAs) modify an adolescent's vulnerability to environmental risk factors for psychopathology. 118 male 17-yr-olds who had been evaluated as 7-year-olds received a comprehensive neuropsychiatric evaluation. The evaluation included standardized assessments of environmental risk factors for psychiatric impairment, neurological signs, IQ, MPAs, and psychiatric impairment. The relationship between psychiatric status and environmental risk was examined as a function of the MPA profile. There was a significant interaction between MPAs and environmental risk in predicting psychiatric status. Environmental risk was more predictive of psychiatric impairment at age 17 in Ss with high scores on the …

The Deculturation Of The Brunei Dusun, Jay H. Bernstein

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No abstract provided.

Music, Identity, And Images Of India In The Indo-Caribbean Diaspora, Peter L. Manuel

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Examines the role of one set of fragments in the identities of a diasporic population which is at once unique, and uniquely representative.

Interview: Cindi Katz. Creating Safe Space And The Materiality Of The Margins, Cindi Katz

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Cindi Katz, associate professor and chair of the environmental psychology program at the Graduate School of the City University of New York, visited the University of Kentucky in February of 1996 to deliver the keynote address at the 5 1/2 Annual Geography Graduate Student Conference. In her address, entitled "Power, Space and Terror: Social Reproduction and the Public Environment," Professor Katz discussed how changes jn urban built environments, particularly the privatization of urban public space, negatively affected New York City children. Privatization, she argued, not only serves a 'child hating' mentality prevalent in our society, but fosters, among other things, …

"The Teacher Would Call Me 'Piggy', 'Smelley', 'Dirty', Names Like That": Prying Open A Discussion Of Domestic Violence For Educators, Lois M. Weis, Michelle Fine

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(The Teacher) would call me "piggy", "smelly", "dirty", names like that, and the kids started following along with it. And I'd say, by the fourth grade, I started cleaning myself out. I didn't care anymore, but my father had this thing that you were allowed to take a bath once a week. He would measure the shampoo, he would measure the soap, and if he thought somebody was using the shampoo when he said you shouldn't, you'd get a beating. But I got sick of it, and the beatings almost became to be painless when hit with a belt or …

On Epistemology, Whiteness, And Sexual Politics: Personal Reflections On Standpoint And White Supremacist Discourse, Jessie Daniels

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The preface to White Lies in which the author explains her personal relationship to the work of scholarship in the book.

Global Attractors From The Explosion Of Singular Cycles, Carlos Arnoldo Morales, Maria José Pacífico, Enrique Ramiro Pujals

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In this paper we announce recent results on the existence and bifurcations of hyperbolic systems leading to non-hyperbolic global attractors.

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Nous présentons dans cette Note des résultats récents concernant l’existence et les bifurcations d’un nouvel attracteur global chaotique.

Babbitt And Stravinsky Under The Serial "Regime", Joseph N. Straus

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It is a great honor and a personal pleasure to participate in this Symposium in honor of Milton Babbitt. Babbitt's work, his "thinking in and thinking about music," have so profoundly shaped my own work and the field in which I work, the field of music theory, that it is hard imagine what either would have been without him. I have a deep and grateful sense of his influence on me.

Babbitt's more general influence, his role in shaping our larger musical culture, is the topic of this article. I want to focus in particular on the 1950s and 1960s …

Holocaust-Denial Literature: An Additional Bibliography, John A. Drobnicki

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This bibliography is a supplement to an earlier one that was published in the Bulletin of Bibliography. Holocaust denial is a body of literature that seeks to prove that the Jewish Holocaust did not happen. This bibliography includes both works about Holocaust denial and works of Holocaust denial.

The Post-Soviet Handbook: A Guide To Grassroots Organizations And Internet Resources In The Newly Independent States, John A. Drobnicki

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Review of the book The Post-Soviet Handbook: A Guide to Grassroots Organizations and Internet Resources in the Newly Independent States.