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Actions Speak Louder: Women In Caribbean Documentaries Of Everyday Life, Ian Craig

Journal of International Women's Studies

Introduction:

This paper focuses particularly on two recent documentaries of everyday life featuring Haitian women, Claudette Coulanges’s Chercher la vie and Rigoberto López’s Puerto Príncipe mío. The contribution of these works to the existing corpus of documentaries on Haiti is assessed. Gender differences in patterns of discourse and activity are analysed in order to clarify the social situation of women in contemporary Port-au-Prince. The films corroborate other cited evidence that women are the backbone of Haitian daily life, sustaining activity in market places, the factory floor and the home. However, their discourse and activities suggest that their constant struggle …

Cc 73 And The Birth Of The Modern Louisiana Two-Party System, Wayne Parent, Jeremy Mhire

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.

Limits On Borrowing And Donations In The Louisiana Constitution Of 1975, Lee Hargrave

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.

Review Of Health Care And The Ethics Of Encounter: A Jewish Discussion Of Social Justice, By Laurie Zoloth, M. Therese Lysaught

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Who Are The Complaint-Prone Officers?: An Examination Of The Relationship Between Police Officers' Attributes, Arrest Activity, Assignment, And Citizens' Complaints About Excessive Force, Steven G. Brandl, Meghan S. Stroshine, James Frank

Social and Cultural Sciences Faculty Research and Publications

This article identifies the characteristics of police officers (officers’ background attributes, arrest activity, and assignment) who most frequently receive complaints from citizens regarding the use of excessive force. The data for the study were obtained from a large mid-western municipal police department. The results show that arrest activity, officer age, and officer gender are most strongly related to the receipt of citizen’s complaints about excessive force and differentiate high-complaint officers from low-complaint officers. Implications of the findings are discussed.

Of Artifical Intelligence And Legal Reasoning, Cass R. Sunstein

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

Can computers, or artificial intelligence, reason by analogy? This essay urges that they cannot, because they are unable to engage in the crucial task of identifying the normative principle that links or separates cases. Current claims, about the ability of artificial intelligence to reason analogically, rest on an inadequate picture of what legal reasoning actually is. For the most part, artificial intelligence now operates as a kind of advanced version of LEXIS, offering research assistance rather than analogical reasoning. But this is a claim about current technology, not about inevitable limitations of artificial intelligence; things might change in the future.

Toward Reclaiming An Authentic Biblical-Christian View Of The Body, Susan F. Mathews

The Linacre Quarterly

No abstract provided.

The Utility Of Embryonic Stem Cells, Gary R. Wright

The Linacre Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Human Gene Transfer: Some Theological Contributions To The Ethical Debate, James J. Walter

The Linacre Quarterly

No abstract provided.

The Stem Cell Dilemma - An Overview, Peter J. Riga

The Linacre Quarterly

No abstract provided.

On Synthetic Life, Michael P. Orsi

The Linacre Quarterly

No abstract provided.

A New Vision Of Affirmative Action And Faculty-Admininistrator Cooperation: Transforming Debates And Teaching About African-Americans, Race And The Law In Predominantly White Institutions, Akiba J. Covitz

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 6th Annual National Conference (2001)

This session will present a new model of affirmative action as well as a model for how our campus conversations about affirmative action and the benefits of diversity can and should be connected to teaching undergraduate courses. The presenter will share his experiences as a professor partnering with administrators to bring debate about the (evident) merits of affirmative action into the curriculum of our institutions.

A Case Study: Contemporary Forms Of Bias And "Prejudice" And How It Negatively Impacts Scholars Of Color Within The Academy, Elizabeth J. Achieng Siwo-Okundi B.A.

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 6th Annual National Conference (2001)

The session presents a Case Study to identify contemporary forms of bias that scholars of color inevitably experience from the classroom discourse to the tenure process. While “academic freedom” and the notion of “ diversity” are apparent politically correct ideals in theory, the reality is different on the average for scholars of color.

Engaging In Difficult Dialogues Beyond Color: Where Do You Draw The Line Between Race, Gender And Authority In The Classroom?, Safoura A. Boukari

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 6th Annual National Conference (2001)

Grounding the discussion in Check Anta Diop’s Cradle theory, this paper invites us for a critical thinking and questioning of the very existence, the relevance of the color concept itself alongside the negative and detrimental impacts color has on, especially, Black women in academia. Historical, anthropological, scientific findings and theorists of the “Monogenesis” like, Asa G. Hilliard III (Free Your Mind: Return to the Source) traced the human origin back to a single human being, a woman, more than 10.000 years ago. In reference to the current trend, skin color could be defined as nothing, but the result of an …

The Good 5 Cent Cigar (10/31/2001), University Of Rhode Island

The Good 5 Cent Cigar (Student Newspaper Archives)

This is a digitized, downloadable version of the University of Rhode Island school newspaper.

General Electric Co V. Deutz Ag

2001 Decisions

USDC for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Banks V. Horn

2001 Decisions

USDC for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Vipassana Meditation: A Naturalistic, Preliminary Observation In Muscat, Ala’Aldin Al-Hussaini, Atsu Ss Dorvlo, Sajjeev X. Chavan, Dhananjay, Jitu Dave, Vimal Purecha, Samia Al-Rahbi, Samir Al-Adawi

Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal

Objectives: To assess the effects of Vipassana meditation on the physical and psychological health in a multi-ethnic population in the city of Muscat. Method: The subjects were participants of a Vipassana meditation course taught in a ten-day residential retreat. Self-assessments of health-related parameters and physical and psychological symptomatology were collected from them before and immediately after the course. A control group was tested for a similar time interval. Results: Immediately after their 10-day training, the Vipassana participants assessed themselves significantly higher compared to their levels prior to the course, suggesting that the 10 days’ practice had significantly improved their physical …

Neuropharmacology Of Dopamine Receptors : Implications In Neuropsychiatric Diseases, Frank I. Tarazi

Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal

There has been an extraordinary recent accumulation of information concerning the neurobiology and neuropharmacology of dopamine (DA) receptors in the mammalian central nervous system. Many new DA molecular entities have been cloned, their gene, peptide sequences and structures have been identified, their anatomical distributions in the mammalian brain described, and their pharmacology characterized. Progress has been made toward developing selective ligands and drug-candidates for different DA receptors. The new discoveries have greatly stimulated preclinical and clinical studies to explore the neuropharmacology of DA receptors and their implications in the neuropathophysiology of different neuropsychiatric diseases including schizophrenia, Parkinson’s disease and attention- …

Catalyst, New College Of Florida

Student Publications

Eight page issue of the student produced newspaper.

Volume 93 Issue 10, Southwestern Oklahoma State University

The Southwestern - Archive

No abstract provided.

The Chronicle, Bethany Forster, Luke Jennett, Vicki Minor, Misty Rhodes, Matt Tonelli, Gena Wilson, Adam Winn, Alonzo Fox, Abbey Sprague, Zach Reed, Jan Laville

Campus Chronicle

No abstract provided.

Evidence-Based Medicine : An Overview, Kamlesh Bhargava, Roman Jaeschke

Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal

Evidence-based Medicine (EBM) has been proposed as the most significant intellectual advance in the process of clinical decision-making in the past decade. With more than 25,000 medical journals publishing 4 million articles a year, doctors are unable to cope with the information overload. The principles and practice of EBM show the way to bridge the gap between research and practice. Reactions evoked in the medical profession towards this new discipline have been in extremes, from outright rejection to enthusiastic acceptance. The goal of this paper is to familiarise the readers with the ideas and concepts associated with the phrase Evidence-based …

Foreign Bodies In The Upper Aero-Digestive Tract, Murty Psn, Vijendra S. Ingle, Ramakrishna Shah, Fahim A., Varghese Philip

Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal

Foreign bodies in the upper aero-digestive tract pose major challenges to the otolaryngologist in both diagnosis and management. Aspirated and ingested foreign bodies are often emergencies, leading to inadequate study and poorly prepared, improper attempts at removal. The authors share their experience in managing upper aero-digestive tract foreign bodies in Omani population at a district hospital, present a statistical review of 58 cases, and highlight certain critical scenarios as well as cultural variations specific to the region.

Developing, Assessing And Getting The Most Out Of White Advocates, Allies And Advisors: Identifying Your Changing Needs And Responses Over A Career, Kent Wagner

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 6th Annual National Conference (2001)

This workshop focuses on experiences successful students, faculty and staff of color have with white advisors, advocates and allies. Topics such as assessing ally motivation and commitment will be addressed. The goal is to compile a picture of changing retention needs as they are impacted by key, white personnel.

Prospectus, October 31, 2001, Blane Mcclellan, Danish Nagda, Zelema M. Harris, Dawood Nagda, Adam Soebbing

Prospectus 2001

No abstract provided.

Seismicity In The Vicinity Of Yucca Mountain, Nevada, For The Period October 1, 1999 To September 30, 2000, David H. Von Seggern, Ken Smith, James N. Brune, Richard Quittmeyer, Amy J. Smiecinski

Publications (YM)

Starting on October 1, 1995, the monitoring of seismicity within the southern Great Basin near Yucca Mountain was performed with a new digital network. This network features three-component recording with 24-bit A/D conversion in the field. Continuous data are collected at 20 sps, and event triggered windows are collected at 100 sps. A seismic bulletin of events is made by automatically associating triggers among stations, classifying the local earthquake events, and locating the earthquakes and computing their magnitudes with conventional methods. This report covers the operational and seismic results of the fifth full year (FYOO) of the improved, digitally based, …

The Spinnaker Vol. 25, No. 11, University Of North Florida

Spinnaker

Student newspaper for the UNF community

Beyond Comfort Zones Of Whiteness: Strategies For Inclusion Of People Of Color In The Social Milieu Of Predominantly White Institutions, C. S'Thembile West Ph.D.

Different Perspectives on Majority Rules: 6th Annual National Conference (2001)

This session seeks to promote the recognition and acknowledgement of the humanity of people of color and discusses the development of faculty initiatives to enhance the retention of people of color in predominantly white institutions as it highlights the challenges of white skin privilege.

Spartan Daily, October 31, 2001, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 117, Issue 44