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Religious Switching Does Parents' Education Matter?, Amy Adamczyk

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How are switching to more liberal religious preferences and apostasy affected by educational attainment? Previous research has focused on the relationship between religious adherence and college attendance. In this paper, I extend this work by looking at whether differences between parent and child educational attainment affect later religious devotion among respondents who at one time were Protestant. Using data from the 1998 General Social Survey, I test whether conservative religious commitment among college-educated children with less educated parents is different from commitment among the college-educated children of educated parents. Findings reveal that respondents who have earned an associate’s degree, but …

Resources For Forensic Psychology., Ellen A. Sexton

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Libraries supporting a forensic psychology undergraduate and/or graduate level college program need to collect materials from a range of disciplines – psychology, law, psychiatry and criminal justice. In this guide I identify the major reference works, journals, databases and other resources that should be in a good forensic psychology collection.

Trusset: Parallel Development Of Software And Construction Systems For Space-Truss Structures, Cory Clarke, Phillip Anzalone

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Superior Protection Against Malaria And Melanoma Metastases By A C-Glycoside Analogue Of The Natural Killer T Cell Ligand Α-Galactosylceramide, John Schmieg, Guangli Yang, Richard W. Franck, Moriya Tsuji

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α-Galactosylceramide (α-GalCer) is a glycolipid that stimulates natural killer T cells to produce both T helper (Th) 1 and Th2 cytokines. This property enables α-GalCer to ameliorate a wide variety of infectious, neoplastic, and autoimmune diseases; however, its effectiveness against any one disease is limited by the opposing activities of the induced Th1 and Th2 cytokines. Here, we report that a synthetic C-glycoside analogue of α-GalCer, α-C-galactosylceramide (α-C-GalCer), acts as natural killer T cell ligand in vivo, and stimulates an enhanced Th1-type response in mice. In two disease models requiring Th1-type responses for control, namely malaria and melanoma metastases, α-C-GalCer …

Thoughts On Reading "The Personal": Toward A Discursive Ethics Of Professional Critical Literacy, Jane Hindman

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Notes this special issue of College English that author has edited focuses primarily on embodied personal writing. Identifies and argues for a powerful alternative to masculinist discourse by incorporating an "embodied rhetoric" into professional discursive practices. Considers how embodied rhetoric requires gestures to the material practices of the professional group and to the quotidian circumstances of the individual writer.

Writing Intensive Courses In Theatre, Alisa Roost

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Most professors believe writing matters. Through writing our students are better able to synthesize ideas, communicate those ideas, and make connections across fields. While it can take significant time to grade all the assignments, it can threaten coverage of material, and our students rarely appreciate it, writing assignments can be crafted to reduce grading, add depth to coverage, and spark interest. What follows is an overview of how I incorporate writing into my theatre courses and some ways of crafting engaging writing-intensive courses.

Europarl: The European Parliament On-Line, John A. Drobnicki

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Review of EUROPARL: The European Parliament On-Line.

Health Beliefs And Parenting Attitudes Influence Breastfeeding Patterns Among Low-Income African-American Women, Phyllis W. Sharpe, Ayman A.E. El-Mohandes, M. Nabil El-Khorazaty, Michele Kiely, Tessa Walker

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OBJECTIVE: To describe breastfeeding initiation among 210 urban African-American mothers with inadequate prenatal care.

METHODS: This study is a case–control study of postpartum mothers recruited from four large urban hospitals.

RESULTS: Mothers who chose to breastfeed were more educated, employed before birth, married, and using contraception postnatally. Regression model analysis controlling for demographic differences revealed that breastfeeding was significantly associated with a higher perception of severity of illness and higher confidence in the ability of health care to prevent illness. Breastfeeding mothers were less likely to reverse parent– child roles and had a lower perception of hassle from their infant’s …

Consumer-Directed Services: Lessons And Implications For Integrated Systems Of Care, Dennis L. Kodner

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Abstract Over the past decade, policy makers in developed countries have begun to pay increasing attention to reform of the long-term care system for the frail elderly and younger people with disabilities. A continuum of strategies have generated interest, including integrated systems of care with agency/professionally managed service packages on the one end, and programs offering cash benefits along with the flexibility to decide how to best use these funds to meet individual needs and preferences, on the other. The latter approach, known as “consumer-directed care,” is found in various forms and degrees in Europe and North America. Primarily organised …

About Chinese Names, Sheau-Yueh J. Chao

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In traditional Chinese society, the family (Chia) and the clan (tsu) play an indispensable role in establishing and sustaining the prevailing value system, in molding the life of individuals and in shaping a community's social relations into an orderly and stable pattern. This article includes the study of several important topics about the Chinese names. It details the significance of Chinese names and introduces the types of Chinese names and their meanings, followed by the historical development of surnames, clan names, and generation names. The article concludes with a statistical analysis of Chinese surname rankings and population in the United …

The Race For Globalization: Modernity, Resistance And The Unspeakable In Three African Francophone Texts, Francesca Sautman

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The "global village" that media pundits and politicians evoke as general currency might well be visualized, in this onset of the twenty-first century, as a village beset by fires, riot, and rampage, where hunger reigns unopposed. The paradox of the term poorly conceals the untold violence that the violence of rhetoric seeks to erase. Yet, contemporary African Francophone texts have been tearing off this mask for decades, locating themselves less often in idyllic villages, and more frequently, on the cable lines of suffering between dying villages and indigent cities. In the literature of the 1980s, the focus of this essay, …

Study Of Deconfinement In Na50, Paula Bordalo, M. C. Abreu, B. Alessandro, C. Alexa, R. Arnaldi, M. Atayan, C. Baglin, A. Baldit, M. Bedidian, S. Boelè, V. Boldea, Samuel Borenstein, C. Borges, A. Bussière, L. Capelli, C. Castagner, J. Castor, B. Chaurand, E. Chiavassa, C. Cicalò, T. Claudino, M. P. Comets, N. Constans, S. Constantinescu, P. Cortese, J. Cruz, A. De Falco, G. Dellacasa, N. De Marco, A. Devaux, S. Dita, O. Drapier, B. Espagnon, J. Fargeix, P. Force, M. Gallio, Y. K. Gavrilov, C. Gerschel, P. Giubellino, M. B. Golubeva, M. Gonin, A. A. Grigorian, J. Y. Grossiord, F. F. Guber, A. Guichard, H. Gulkanyan, R. Hakobyan, R. Haroutunian, M. Idzik, D. Jouan, T. L. Karavitcheva, L. Kluberg, A. B. Kurepin, Y Le Bornec, C. Lourenço, P. Macciotta, M. Mac Cormick, A. Marzari-Chiesa, M. Masera, A. Masoni, M. Monteno, M. Musso, P. Petiau, A. Piccotti, J. R. Pizzi, W. Prado Da Silva, F. Prino, G. Puddu, C. Quintans, L. Ramello, Laboratory Of Instrumentation And Experimental Particle Physics, L. Riccati, A. Romana, P. Saturnini, H. Santos, E. Scalas, E. Scomparin, S. Serci, R. Shahoyan, F. Sigaudo, S. Silva, M. Sitta, P. Sonderegger, X. Tarrago, N. S. Topilskaya, G. L. Usai, E. Vercellin, L. Villatte, N. Willis

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The J/Ψ production in 158 A Ge V Pb-Pb interactions is studied, in the dimuon decay channel, as a function of centrality, as measured with the electromagnetic or, alternatively, with the very forward hadronic calorimeters. After a first sharp variation at mid-centrality, both patterns continue to fall down and exhibit a curvature change at high centrality values. This trend excludes any conventional hadronic model and finds a natural explanation in a deconfined quark-gluon phase scenario.

Quality Accounting For Equity Analysis, Stephen H. Penman

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Constant Star (Review), Alisa Roost

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Researching Your Asian Roots For Chinese Americans, Sheau-Yueh J. Chao

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This article was revised from the author's invited lecture presented at the American Librarians Association Annual Conference of the Reference and User Services (RUSA) Meeting in the Local History Section in San Francisco, June 2001. It includes an introduction to the history of Chinese surnames, types and functions of Chinese genealogical records, problems in Chinese genealogical research, and how to conduct a typical Chinese-American genealogical research with examples for further research.

Meiotic And Mitotic Phenotypes Conferred By The Blm1-1 Mutation In Saccharomyces Cerevisiae And Msh4 Suppression Of The Bleomycin Hypersusceptibility, Georgia Anyatonwu, Ediberto Garcia, Ajay Pramanik, Marie Powell, Carol Wood Moore

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Oxidative damage can lead to a number of diseases, and can be fatal. The blm1-1 mutation of Saccharomyces cerevisiae confers hypersusceptibility to lethal effects of the oxidative, anticancer and antifungal agent, bleomycin. For the current report, additional defects conferred by the mutation in meiosis and mitosis were investigated. The viability of spores produced during meiosis by homozygous normal BLM1/BLM1, heterozygous BLM1/blm1-1, and homozygous mutant blm1-1/blm1-1 diploid strains was studied and compared. Approximately 88% of the tetrads derived from homozygous blm1-1/blm1-1 mutant diploid cells only produced one or two viable spores. In contrast, just one tetrad among all BLM1/BLM1 and BLM1/blm1-1 …

Two "Colored" Women's Conversation About The Relevance Of Feminist Law Journals In The 21st Century, Penelope Andrews, Taunya Lovell Banks

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Critical Challenges: A Conversation On Complicity And Civility In Legal Education, Penelope Andrews, Sharon Hom, Ruthann Robson

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Emotional Harm In Housing Discrimination Cases: A New Look At A Lingering Problem, Victor Goode, Conrad Johnson

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Rethinking The Death Penalty: Can We Define Who Deserves Death?: Panel Presentation Before The Association Of The Bar Of The City Of New York (May 22, 2002),, Jeffrey Kirchmeier

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Exploiting The Joint Employer Doctrine: Providing A Break For Sweatshop Workers, Shirley Lung

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Why A Feminist Law Journal? Moving The Margins, Jenny Rivera

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The Availability Of Domestic Violence Services For Latinas In New York State: Phase Ii Investigation, Jenny Rivera

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Assimilation And/Or Resistance, Ruthann Robson

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Reflections Upon The 25th Anniversary Of The Lawyering Process, Susan Bryant, Elliott S. Milstein

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Using Distance Learning To Enhance Cross-Listed Interdisciplinary Law School Courses, Paula E. Berg

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International Human Rights Dimensions Of Intimate Violence: Another Strand In The Dialectic Of Feminist Lawmaking, Rhonda Copelon

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The Role Of Performance Measurement In The Public Administration Discipline: Then And Now, Dan Williams

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This paper discusses the link between performance measurement and administrative discretion. It examines the centrality of administrative discretion and professional public administration. It was originally a conference paper published on the conference website, which was taken down some years ago.

Freshmen's Use Of Library Electronic Resources And Self-Efficacy, Michael Waldman

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To encourage students' use of the library, and in particular of its electronic resources, we need to understand what factors encourage students to seek out information in the library setting. Research has shown that self-efficacy influences academic achievement. This paper looks at the role self-efficacy plays in their search for information and use of the library's electronic resources, by surveying a class of freshmen at Baruch College. Their library and computer use were analyzed and correlated with their self-efficacy scores. Through statistical analysis, we found that use of the library correlated to the students' use of the library's electronic resources. …

Tribromo(3,5-Dimethyl-2-Nitrophenyl-J2 C1 ,O)Tellurium(Iv), Bromo(3,5-Dimethyl-2-Nitrophenyl-J2 C1 ,O)Tellurium(Ii) And Bromo(3,5-Dimethyl-2-Nitrosophenyl-J2 C1 ,O)Tellurium(Ii), Prabodhika R. Mallikaratchy, Richard E. Norman, Frank R. Fronczek, Thomas Junk

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All three title compounds, prepared from bis(3,5-dimethyl-2- nitrophenyl)ditellurium, exhibit high degrees of intramolecular TeÐO coordination. Their TeÐO distances increase in the order C8H8BrNOTe < C8H8BrNO2Te < C8H8Br3NO2Te, with distances of 2.165 (3), 2.306 (1) and 2.423 (6) AÊ , respectively, indicating that C8H8BrNOTe may be more aptly described as 1-bromo-4,6-dimethyl-2,1,3-benzoxatellurazole.