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Physical Geography And Climate: Overview, Andrew Sluyter, Tereza Cavazos

Faculty Publications

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Colonialism And Landscape In The Americas: Material/Conceptual Transformations And Continuing Consequences, Andrew Sluyter

Faculty Publications

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Imperfect Balance: Landscape Transformations In The Precolumbian Americas, Andrew Sluyter

Faculty Publications

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Ganadería Española Y Cambio Ambiental En Las Tierras Bajas Tropicales De Veracruz, México, Siglo Xvi, Andrew Sluyter

Faculty Publications

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Patterns Of Ancestral Human Diversity: An Analysis Of Alu-Insertion And Restriction-Site Polymorphisms, W. S. Watkins, C. E. Ricker, M. J. Bamshad, M. L. Carroll, S. V. Nguyen, M. A. Batzer, H. C. Harpending, A. R. Rogers, L. B. Jorde

Faculty Publications

We have analyzed 35 widely distributed, polymorphic Alu loci in 715 individuals from 31 world populations. The average frequency of Alu insertions (the derived state) is lowest in Africa (.42) but is higher and similar in India (.55), Europe (.56), and Asia (.57). A comparison with 30 restriction-site polymorphisms (RSPs) for which the ancestral state has been determined shows that the frequency of derived RSP alleles is also lower in Africa (.35) than it is in Asia (.45) and in Europe (.46). Neighbor-joining networks based on Alu insertions or RSPs are rooted in Africa and show African populations as separate …

Identity Crisis: "Intersectionality," "Multidimensionality," And The Development Of An Adequate Theory Of Subordination, Darren Lenard Hutchinson

Michigan Journal of Race and Law

This Article arises out of the intersectionality and post-intersectionality literature and makes a case against the essentialist considerations that informed the Human Rights Campaign's endorsement of United States Senator Alfonse D'Amato. Part I discusses the pitfalls that occur when scholars and activists engage in essentialist politics and treat identities and forms of subordination as conflicting forces. Part II examines how essentialism negatively affects legal theory in the equality context. Part III considers the historical motivation for and the efficacy of the "intersectionality" response to the problem of essentialism. Part III also extensively analyzes the "multidimensional" critiques of essentialism offered by …

A General Theory Of Cultural Diversity, Steven A. Ramirez

Michigan Journal of Race and Law

This Article seeks to extend the analysis of these developments in the corporate world to anti-discrimination law under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. This Article will show that discrimination based upon cultural insights or experiences is distinct from race discrimination and will articulate a general theory of why and under what circumstances this holds true. The difference between culture-based discrimination and using culture as a proxy for race (Which would then be race discrimination) requires a careful and non-mythological understanding of what race is, and what race is not. Moreover, showing that culture discrimination is not prohibited …

Utpa Institutional Fact Book 2001, University Of Texas-Pan American

UTPA Archives - Stats At A Glance

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Pirsig's Phaedrus: The Journey Of The Shaman, Joseph E. Levora

Masters Theses

Robert Pirsig, in both his novels Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and Lila, explores the conflict one man has with the beliefs and values of the culture he is living in. This conflict leads him to mental collapse and eventually a kind of rebirth into a new outlook and way of viewing the cultural values and beliefs of the society he is living in. In this thesis, I propose that Phaedrus, the central character of both of Pirsig's novels, can be compared to a shaman. I am not suggesting that Pirsig deliberately intended the reader to view …

A Comparative Study Of Standard American English And Non-Standard American English Accents, Casey S. Gleason

Masters Theses

Through the birth and maturation of the American society, dominant cultures have developed and become the accepted norm of America. However, with the constant flow of immigrants entering America, a variety of cultures and languages entered, also. The English language has remained the dominant language, while Standard American English has remained the dominant accent. Those who do not display Standard American English (SAE) often fall victim to a lower level of speaker credibility than those who speak SAE. One's sex may also affect speaker credibility due to different communication styles. The affect one's combination of accent and sex has on …

Still Not Behaving Like Gentlemen, Ann Bartow

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

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The Lsat Myth, Jeffrey S. Kinsler

Saint Louis University Public Law Review

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A Poetics Of Student Writing, Dennis Young

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

Focusing on student reflective essays about learning writing, I rely on depth psychology and hermeneutics to illustrate the image-making, poetic dimension of student work.

What's In A Name? Law's Identity Under The Tort Of Appropriation, Jonathan Kahn

Faculty Scholarship

This article is divided into three parts. In Part I, the article explores the notion that under the tort of appropriation, a person’s name is understood to implicate critical aspects of her identity. This notion is explored in relation to specific historical cases raising the issues of whether a woman who adopts her husband’s name has a property right in that name and whether a person who adopts a professional or stage name has separate rights in that name apart from his legal name. Second, Part II focuses on a person’s right to maintain the integrity of his physical image. …

University Of Minnesota, Morris Campus Class Schedule, University Of Minnesota - Morris

UMN Morris Class Schedules

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Ph 740 Cosmology, Chaos, And Cloning: The New Dialogue Of Science And Theology, David Wilkinson

Syllabi

John Hedley Brooke, Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991). Malcolm A. Jeeves and R. J. Berry, Science, Life and Christian Belief: A Survey of Contemporary Issues (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker, 1998). John C. Polkinghorne, Belief in God in an Age of Science (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998). David Wilkinson, God, the Big Bang and Stephen Hawking (Crowborough, UK: Monarch, 1996). David Wilkinson, Alone in the Universe? The X-Files, Aliens, & God (Downes Grove, Illinois: InterVarsity, 1998).

Between Student And Teacher: Learning To Teach As Translation, Alison Cook-Sather

Education Program Faculty Research and Scholarship

In this article, I propose that teacher educators use the metaphor of translation to illuminate the process of preparing to teach. Drawing on my analysis of the experience of preservice teachers enrolled in a methods course required for certification to teach at the secondary level, I explain how a project based in that class supports the preservice teachers' translations. Through a weekly exchange of letters with selected students who attend a local public high school, and ongoing reflection on that exchange, preservice teachers enrolled in this methods course face two challenges: to translate what it means to be a teacher …

2000-2001 Annual Report Of The Board Of Trustees Of Southern Illinois University, Southern Illinois University Board Of Trustees

Reports of the Board of Trustees, Southern Illinois University - Archives

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Altruistically Inclined?: The Behavioral Sciences, Evolutionary Theory, And The Origins Of Reciprocity, Alexander J. Field

Faculty Book Gallery

Altruistically Inclined? examines the implications of recent research in the natural sciences for two important social scientific approaches to individual behavior: the economic/rational choice approach and the sociological/anthropological. It considers jointly two controversial and related ideas: the operation of group selection within early human evolutionary processes and the likelihood of modularity—domain-specific adaptations in our cognitive mechanisms and behavioral predispositions.

Experimental research shows that people will often cooperate in one-shot prisoner's dilemma (PD) games and reject positive offers in ultimatum games, contradicting commonly accepted notions of rationality. Upon first appearance, predispositions to behave in this fashion could not have been favored …

Research Notes

Ethnobotanical Leaflets

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Linkage And Association Analysis Of Angiotensin I-Converting Enzyme (Ace)-Gene Polymorphisms With Ace Concentration And Blood Pressure, Xiaofeng Zhu, Nourdine Bouzekri, Lorraine Southam, Richard S. Cooper, Adebowale Adeyemo, Colin A. Mckenzie, Amy Luke, Guangjie Chen, Robert C. Elston, Ryk Ward

Faculty Publications

Considerable effort has been expended to determine whether the gene for angiotensin I-converting enzyme (ACE) confers susceptibility to cardiovascular disease. In this study, we genotyped 13 polymorphisms in the ACE gene in 1,343 Nigerians from 332 families. To localize the genetic effect, we first performed linkage and association analysis of all the markers with ACE concentration. In multipoint variance-component analysis, this region was strongly linked to ACE concentration (maximum LOD score 7.5). Likewise, most of the polymorphisms in the ACE gene were significantly associated with ACE (P < .0013). The two most highly associated polymorphisms, ACE4 and ACE8, accounted for 6% and 19% of the variance in ACE, respectively. A two-locus additive model with an additive x additive interaction of these polymorphisms explained most of the ACE variation associated with this region. We next analyzed the relationship between these two polymorphisms (ACE4 and ACE8) and blood pressure (BP). Although no evidence of linkage was detected, significant association was found for both systolic and diastolic BP when a two-locus additive model developed for ACE concentration was used. Further analyses demonstrated that an epistasis model provided the best fit to the BP variation. In conclusion, we found that the two polymorphisms explaining the greatest variation in ACE concentration are significantly associated with BP, through interaction, in this African population sample. Our study also demonstrates that greater statistical power can be anticipated with association analysis versus linkage, when markers in strong linkage disequilibrium with a trait locus have been identified. Furthermore, alllelic interaction may play an important role in the dissection of complex traits such as BP.

Lsu General Catalog 2001-2002, Louisiana State University And Agricultural And Mechanical College

LSU General Catalog

The LSU General Catalog describes all undergraduate and graduate departments and programs with degree requirements and courses offered for each one. The General Catalog includes information on registration and financial aid as well as academic services offered to all students.

Greeks, Indians, And The Scotticsh Presbyterian Dissident Arguments For Vegetarianism In Enlightenment Scotland, David Allen

1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era

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Problems With Richard Posner's The Problematics Of Moral And Legal Theory, Ryan Fortson

William Mitchell Law Review

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Maintaining Social Justice Hopes Within Academic Realities: A Freirean Approach To Critical Race/Latcrit Pedagogy, Daniel G. Solorzano, Tara J. Yosso

Denver Law Review

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Aga Khan University Progress Report 2000-2001, Aga Khan University

The Aga Khan University Reports Archives

• Foreword
• Aga Khan University
• University Focus
• University in the Community
• Research and Development Highlights
• Seminar and Conference Highlights
• Major University Partners and Supporters
• New Facilities
• Financial Information
• University Overview
• University Governance and Board of Trustees

Breaking On Through To The Other Side: Understanding Continental European Corporate Governance, Ángel Oquendo

Faculty Articles and Papers

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Clean Air In Indian Country: Regulation And Environmental Justice, Sandra D. Benischek

Villanova Environmental Law Journal (1991 - )

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General Guide- 2001, Admissions Staff

Student Handbooks

Student guide

Viewbook- 2001, Admissions Staff

Student Handbooks

Student guide