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The Ethics Of Exclusion In Infertility Care, Richard Storrow Jan 2011

The Ethics Of Exclusion In Infertility Care, Richard Storrow

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What The Mississippi Personhood Amendment Tells Us About "Life", Caitlin Borgmann Jan 2011

What The Mississippi Personhood Amendment Tells Us About "Life", Caitlin Borgmann

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Sustainability: Can Law Meet The Challenge?, Rebecca Bratspies Jan 2011

Sustainability: Can Law Meet The Challenge?, Rebecca Bratspies

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Diversity Dialogues: Finding Common Ground, Raquel Gabriel Jan 2011

Diversity Dialogues: Finding Common Ground, Raquel Gabriel

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Travel Into The Future Of Reproductive Technology, Richard Storrow Jan 2011

Travel Into The Future Of Reproductive Technology, Richard Storrow

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Padilla V. Kentucky: Sound And Fury Or Transformative Potential, Steven Zeidman Jan 2011

Padilla V. Kentucky: Sound And Fury Or Transformative Potential, Steven Zeidman

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National Archives And International Conflicts: The Society Of American Archivists And War, Douglas Cox Jan 2011

National Archives And International Conflicts: The Society Of American Archivists And War, Douglas Cox

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Inalienable Archives: Korean Royal Archives As French Property Under International Law, Douglas Cox Jan 2011

Inalienable Archives: Korean Royal Archives As French Property Under International Law, Douglas Cox

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Diversity Dialogues: Managing Conflict, Raquel Gabriel Jan 2011

Diversity Dialogues: Managing Conflict, Raquel Gabriel

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Gender Violence And Work In The United States And South Africa: The Parallel Processes Of Legal And Cultural Change, Julie Goldscheid Jan 2011

Gender Violence And Work In The United States And South Africa: The Parallel Processes Of Legal And Cultural Change, Julie Goldscheid

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Learning In Context: Land Use And Community Lawyering, Andrea Mcardle Jan 2011

Learning In Context: Land Use And Community Lawyering, Andrea Mcardle

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Bridging The Justice Gap: Building Community By Responding To Individual Need, Alizabeth Newman Jan 2011

Bridging The Justice Gap: Building Community By Responding To Individual Need, Alizabeth Newman

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Why Don't They Get It?: Academic Intelligence And The Under-Prepared Student As 'Other', Deborah Zalesne, David Nadvorney Jan 2011

Why Don't They Get It?: Academic Intelligence And The Under-Prepared Student As 'Other', Deborah Zalesne, David Nadvorney

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Anthropologist Sees How Cultures Use Medicine, Aldemaro Romero Jr. Jan 2011

Anthropologist Sees How Cultures Use Medicine, Aldemaro Romero Jr.

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\African-Centered Psychology, Education And The Liberation Of African Minds: Notes On The Psycho-Cultural Justification For Reparations, Karanja Keita Carroll, Dereef F. Jamison Jan 2011

\African-Centered Psychology, Education And The Liberation Of African Minds: Notes On The Psycho-Cultural Justification For Reparations, Karanja Keita Carroll, Dereef F. Jamison

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One means through which reparations can be provided to communities of African descent within America is through the creation and institutionalization of culturally enriching after-school programming, African-centered Saturday schools and independent Black educational institutions. Rather than looking to reparations as merely financial compensation for the descendants of the formerly enslaved, we can look to reparations as they relate to the building of educational infrastructures that will impact future generations of African descendants in America. This essay outlines the psychological and epistemological consequences of miseducation that many students of African descent experience within the Eurocentrically orientated education institutions they attend; The …


Archaeology Not Much Like Indiana Jones, Aldemaro Romero Jr. Jan 2011

Archaeology Not Much Like Indiana Jones, Aldemaro Romero Jr.

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Suicide And Suicide Risk In Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, And Transgender Populations: Review And Recommendations, Ann P. Haas, Mickey Eliason, Vickie M. Mays, Robin M. Mathy, Susan D. Cochran, Anthony R. D'Augelli, Morton M. Silverman, Prudence W. Fisher, Tonda Hughes, Margaret Rosario, Stephen T. Russell, Effie Malley, Jerry Reed, David A. Litts, Ellen Haller, Randall L. Sell, Gary Remafedi, Judith Bradford, Annette L. Beautrais, Gregory K. Brown, Gary M. Diamond, Mark S. Friedman, Robert Garofalo, Mason S. Turner, Amber Hollibaugh, Paula J. Clayton Jan 2011

Suicide And Suicide Risk In Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, And Transgender Populations: Review And Recommendations, Ann P. Haas, Mickey Eliason, Vickie M. Mays, Robin M. Mathy, Susan D. Cochran, Anthony R. D'Augelli, Morton M. Silverman, Prudence W. Fisher, Tonda Hughes, Margaret Rosario, Stephen T. Russell, Effie Malley, Jerry Reed, David A. Litts, Ellen Haller, Randall L. Sell, Gary Remafedi, Judith Bradford, Annette L. Beautrais, Gregory K. Brown, Gary M. Diamond, Mark S. Friedman, Robert Garofalo, Mason S. Turner, Amber Hollibaugh, Paula J. Clayton

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Despite strong indications of elevated risk of suicidal behavior in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, limited attention has been given to research, interventions or suicide prevention programs targeting these populations. This article is a culmination of a three-year effort by an expert panel to address the need for better understanding of suicidal behavior and suicide risk in sexual minority populations, and stimulate the development of needed prevention strategies, interventions and policy changes. This article summarizes existing research findings, and makes recommendations for addressing knowledge gaps and applying current knowledge to relevant areas of suicide prevention practice.


Flight Control Design For A Tailless Aircraft Using Eigenstructure Assignment, Clara Nieto-Wire, Kenneth Sobel Jan 2011

Flight Control Design For A Tailless Aircraft Using Eigenstructure Assignment, Clara Nieto-Wire, Kenneth Sobel

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We apply eigenstructure assignment to the design of a flight control system for a wind tunnel model of a tailless aircraft. The aircraft, known as the innovative control effectors (ICEs) aircraft, has unconventional control surfaces plus pitch and yaw thrust vectoring. We linearize the aircraft in straight and level flight at an altitude of 15,000 feet and Mach number 0.4. Then, we separately design flight control systems for the longitudinal and lateral dynamics. We use a control allocation scheme with weights so that the lateral pseudoinputs are yaw and roll moment, and the longitudinal pseudoinput is pitching moment. In contrast …


A Multi-Temporal Analysis Of Amsr-E Data For Flood And Discharge Monitoring During The 2008 Flood In Iowa, Marouane Temimi, Teodosio Lacava, Tarendra Lakhankar, Valerio Tramutoli, Hosni Ghedira, Riadh Ata, Reza Khanbilvardi Jan 2011

A Multi-Temporal Analysis Of Amsr-E Data For Flood And Discharge Monitoring During The 2008 Flood In Iowa, Marouane Temimi, Teodosio Lacava, Tarendra Lakhankar, Valerio Tramutoli, Hosni Ghedira, Riadh Ata, Reza Khanbilvardi

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The objective of this work is to demonstrate the potential of using passive microwave data to monitor flood and discharge conditions and to infer watershed hydraulic and hydrologic parameters. The case study is the major flood in Iowa in summer 2008. A new Polarisation Ratio Variation Index (PRVI) was developed based on a multi-temporal analysis of 37 GHz satellite imagery from the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR-E) to calculate and detect anomalies in soil moisture and/or inundated areas. The Robust Satellite Technique (RST) which is a change detection approach based on the analysis of historical satellite records was adopted. A …


Panting In The Dark: The Ambivalence Of Air In Cinema, Kevin L. Ferguson Jan 2011

Panting In The Dark: The Ambivalence Of Air In Cinema, Kevin L. Ferguson

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Moving Towards Adaptive Search In Digital Libraries, Udo Kruschwitz, M-Dyaa Albakour, Jinzhong Niu, Johannes Leveling, Nikolaos Nanas, Yunhyong Kim, Dawei Song, Maria Fasli, Anne De Roeck Jan 2011

Moving Towards Adaptive Search In Digital Libraries, Udo Kruschwitz, M-Dyaa Albakour, Jinzhong Niu, Johannes Leveling, Nikolaos Nanas, Yunhyong Kim, Dawei Song, Maria Fasli, Anne De Roeck

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Information retrieval has become very popular over the last decade with the advent of the Web. Nevertheless, searching on the Web is very different to searching on smaller, often more structured collections such as digital libraries, local Web sites and intranets. One way of helping the searcher locating the right information for a specific information need is by providing well-structured domain knowledge to assist query modification and navigation. There are two challenges: acquiring the domain knowledge and adapting it automatically to the specific interests of the user community. We will outline how a domain model can be automatically acquired using …


Open-Access Electronic Textbooks: An Overview, Steven Ovadia Jan 2011

Open-Access Electronic Textbooks: An Overview, Steven Ovadia

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The article presents an overview of open-access electronic textbooks, also known as open education resources. The article explores projects like Flat World Knowledge, Connexions and Community College Open Textbook Project.


An Early Introduction To The Google+ Social Networking Project, Steven Ovadia Jan 2011

An Early Introduction To The Google+ Social Networking Project, Steven Ovadia

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The article reviews the Google+ social network.


Managing Citations With Cost-Free Tools, Steven Ovadia Jan 2011

Managing Citations With Cost-Free Tools, Steven Ovadia

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The article explores cost-free bibliographic management tools for managing citations. This includes Zotero, Mendeley, and citeulike. There is also a short discussion of BibTeX, which is often used with LaTeX document markup.


Quora.Com: Another Place For Users To Ask Questions, Steven Ovadia Jan 2011

Quora.Com: Another Place For Users To Ask Questions, Steven Ovadia

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The article offers information on Quora.com, an online question-and-answer service reminiscent of reference. Librarians providing virtual reference might want to monitor Quora informally, just to see what kinds of questions emerge and whether they might be questions from a local population.


Bundles, Big Deals, And The Copyright Wars: What Can Academic Libraries Learn From The Record Industry Crash?, Edward P. Keane Jan 2011

Bundles, Big Deals, And The Copyright Wars: What Can Academic Libraries Learn From The Record Industry Crash?, Edward P. Keane

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This article reviews the contention that U.S. laws favor copyright owners over consumers, and pre-existing models over innovation. The relationship of commercial publishers to the Open Access movement is compared to that of the creators/users of file sharers and the Record Industry. The library literature bears out the contention that journal publishers have exhibited some of the behaviors that contributed to the decline of the major record labels. Librarians who support free scholarship will find the music industry plight instructive; just as iTunes fulfilled consumer demand, Open Access and other alternatives will transform publishing.


Climate Change: The Fork At The End Of Now, Micha Tomkiewicz Jan 2011

Climate Change: The Fork At The End Of Now, Micha Tomkiewicz

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There are many books on global warming written entirely from a layman's perspective, and there is a great deal of scientific literature on this subject. But few if any books attempt to bridge the science to those who lack a rigorous background in mathematics, physics and chemistry-but who may be working on careers in environmental science and policy. The new text is designed to introduce the field of global climate change from a scientific perspective-but written in a way that is accessible to students with some or little science background. It reviews the basic principles of climatic thermodynamics and atmospheric …


Other People’S Money: Adapting Entrepreneurial Techniques To Build Capital In Challenging Economic Times, Robert Farrell Jan 2011

Other People’S Money: Adapting Entrepreneurial Techniques To Build Capital In Challenging Economic Times, Robert Farrell

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Drawing on the “predator” model of entrepreneurship put forward by Villette and Vuillermot in their 2009 book “From Predators to Icons,” this article argues that challenging economic times reveal that self-funded, collaborative information literacy models have in many cases unsustainably overstretched staff and budgets. In such circumstances, it is necessary for librarians to shift to an entrepreneurial approach that seeks profitable opportunities funded by parties other than the library in order to build capital for current and future instructional services. Following Villette and Vuillermot, the article seeks to refute a cultural myth that sees the entrepreneur as someone who is …


Edward Alan Peckwas, John A. Drobnicki Jan 2011

Edward Alan Peckwas, John A. Drobnicki

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Edward Alan Peckwas was a businessman and genealogist who founded the Polish Genealogical Society of America.


Frank Mocha, John A. Drobnicki Jan 2011

Frank Mocha, John A. Drobnicki

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Frank Mocha was a professor of foreign languages who also published on aspects of Polish-American history.