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Cellar Roots, 2001-02, Emu's Literary And Visual Arts Multimedia Magazine, Eastern Michigan University

Cellar Roots

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Doing The Business Of Faith: The Capitalistic Dhammakaya Movement And The Spiritually-Thirsty Thai Middle Class, Rungrawee Chalermsripinyorat

Manusya, Journal of Humanities

Dhammakaya, an active, affluent and expanding Buddhist religious movement, became a focus of public attention and media scrutiny in the quarter of 1998 due to its controversial practice of dogged solicitation for donations to build a grand Maha Dhammakaya Jedi structure worth nearly one billion US$, in the face of severe economic recession. Some Buddhist monks and scholars, both orthodox and radical, attacked the movement as a distortion and commercialization of Buddhism. If the Dhammakaya movement offers a novel religious package as alleged by some critics, it is worth examining why this consumer product has gained an upsurge of popularity …

Cyclotron Frequency Coupled Enhancement Of Kerr Rotation In Low Refractive Index-Dielectric/Magneto-Optic Bilayer Thin-Film Structures, A. De, A. Puri

Physics Faculty Publications

We investigate the enhancement of magneto-optic polar Kerr rotation over a broad range of optical frequencies. The Drude model for the dielectric tensor is considered. Resonance-like peaks in the Kerr rotation and ellipticity caused in the vicinity of a plasma edge is extended throughout the visible spectrum by deriving an expression for the cyclotron frequency such that Re(ϵ_xx)∼1 at any given incident photon energy and plasma frequency of the material. The Kerr rotation obtained by use of this expression was studied for the case of InSb and further enhancement of Kerr rotation was achieved in the …

Letter From The Editor, Dan Royer

Grand Valley Review

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What Difference Does Age Make?, Stephanie Hall-Sturgis

Language Arts Journal of Michigan

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Echoes Of The Lost Cause : Civil War Reverberations In Mississippi From 1865 To 2001, Sally Leigh Mcwhite

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Scholars of the Lost Cause have tended to end their examinations of the Confederate commemorative movement before the 1920s. Citing a variety of indicators that range from veterans' mortality rates to national reconciliation, these historians have assumed that the Lost Cause became increasingly irrelevant in southern society. Yet, veterans organizations and their auxiliaries put a great deal of energy into constructing an historical interpretation that would vindicate their actions to future generations. This dissertation therefore extends the examination of the Lost Cause movement throughout the twentieth century. Limiting the geographical scope of the research to a state study of Mississippi …

Effect Of Water Content On Clay Porosity : A Microscopic Experimental Study / By Arunkumar Selvam, Arunkumar Selvam

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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Electronic Cooling Of A Generic Transmitter, Anil L. Jeswani

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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Enrichment Techniques To Improve Process Yield Of Methanogenic Conversion Of Acetate, Aarti V. Gidh

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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Toward One Europe : An Analysis Of Individual Level Support For European Integration, Erik Jan Volker Gobel

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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The Role Of The Cover As A Marketing Tool In Single-Copy Sales, Emily Main

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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The Aba-Nba Merger, 1966-1976, John Richard Duke

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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A Lighting Design Process For Cabaret, Michael G. Knight

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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The Effectiveness Of Sound Field Frequency-Modulated Amplification On Early Reading Skills In Elementary School Classrooms, Lindsay Marr Mcmillan

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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Alcohol, Expectancies, And Perceived Sexual Arousal : An Analysis Of Variables Related To Date Rape, Ted Bennett

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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Are Judges Really More Principled Than Voters?, Roderick M. Hills Jr.

Faculty Articles

Eisgruber and Dworkin have substituted the life tenure and unchanging salary of Article III judges for the real property of the landed gentry, but, mutatis mutandi, the logic of their argument is the same as the old Tory case for the House of Lords. Article III courts are "forums of principle," because the Constitution guarantees that they enjoy "social prestige and a comfortable salary" regardless of their decisions. Thus, judges, like the landed gentry, do not stand to gain or lose any material benefit from their exercise of power: They can deliberate freely about the meaning of moral principle "on …

(E)Racing The Fourth Amendment, Devon W. Carbado

Faculty Articles

It's been almost two years since I pledged allegiance to the United States of America - that is to say, became an American citizen. Before that, I was a permanent resident of America and a citizen of the United Kingdom. Yet, I became a black American long before I acquired American citizenship. Unlike citizenship, black racial naturalization was always available to me, even as I tried to make myself unavailable for that particular Americanization process. Given the negative images of black Americans on 1970s British television and the intra-racial tensions between blacks in the U.K. and blacks in America, I …

Latin American Baseball Players And The Process Of Acculturation In The United States, Juan M. Garcia

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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Application Of Fvm-Based Cche2d Model To River Restoration With Riparian Vegetation, Nobuyuki Chiba

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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Pressure Variation And Resin Flow In Injection Pultrusion, Sameer S. Rahatekar

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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Analysis And Limitations Of Microstrip Directional Couplers, Ashwini Anand Almad

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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Igbo As An Endangered Language, Chukwuma Azuonye

Africana Studies Faculty Publication Series

At first sight, the question "Is Igbo an endangered language," would appear to be grossly misplaced, since the survival of the language seems to be well guaranteed by its status both as one of the three main languages of Nigeria and one of the major languages of literature, education, and commerce in Africa. Furthermore, with its well over 25 million native speakers who live in one of the most densely populated areas of the world with an exceptionally high fertility rate and a traditional world view and culture that promote the raising of large families, it would appear that there …

Press Reports Of Animal Hoarding, Arnold Arluke, Randy Frost, Gail Steketee, Gary Patronek, Carter Luke, Edward Messner, Jane Nathanson, Michelle Papazian

Psychology: Faculty Publications

This article explores how the press reports nonhuman animal hoarding and hoarders. It discusses how 100 articles from 1995 to the present were content analyzed. Analysis revealed five emotional themes that include drama, revulsion, sympathy, indignation, and humor. While these themes draw readers' attention and make disparate facts behind cases understandable by packaging them in familiar formats, they also present an inconsistent picture of animal hoarding that can confuse readers about the nature and significance of this behavior as well as animal abuse, more generally.

The Political Personality Of U.S. President George W. Bush, Aubrey Immelman

Psychology Faculty Publications

This paper presents the results of an indirect assessment of the personality of U.S. president George W. Bush, conducted 1998–2000 from the conceptual perspective of personologist Theodore Millon.

Psychodiagnostically relevant data regarding Bush was extracted from biographical sources and media reports and synthesized into a personality profile using the Millon Inventory of Diagnostic Criteria (MIDC), which yields 34 normal and maladaptive personality classifications congruent with Axis II of DSM–IV.

The personality profile yielded by the MIDC was analyzed in accordance with interpretive guidelines provided in the MIDC and Millon Index of Personality Styles manuals. Bush was found to be …

Annual Report 2001, Banco Central De La República Argentina (Bcra)/ Central Bank Of Argentina

Documents

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Un Programa De Instrucción Y Capacitación Para Misioneros Voluntarios De La Unión Mexicana Del Norte, Jose M. Espinosa

Doctor of Ministry Projects

The term “lay person” is usually applied to church members to distinguish them from the “clergy.” The New Testament uses the tenn laos, from which “lay” is derived, to refer to all of God’s people and not only to those who are not clergy. Therefore, lay people are the church and not only a part of the church. The function that the New Testament assigns to the laos or people of God is to preach the gospel in order to make disciples, as Christ commanded. According to the New Testament, “disciple” is one who preaches and practices the teachings of …

Increased Production Of Pro-Inflammatory Cytokines And Enhanced T Cell Responses After Activation Of Human Dendritic Cells With Il-1 And Cd40 Ligand, Amy Wesa, Anne Galy

Wayne State University Associated BioMed Central Scholarship

Abstract

Background

Various microbial, inflammatory and immune signals regulate the activation of dendritic cells (DC), determining their ability to interact with naïve T cells and to produce cytokines that direct T cell development. In particular, CD40L and IL-1 cooperatively activate DC to secrete high levels of IL-12. The immuno-stimulatory capacity of such DC is otherwise not well-defined prompting further characterization of the effects of IL-1 and family members on DC activation in comparison with other pro-inflammatory stimuli.

Results

Human DC co-activated in vitro by CD40L and IL-1β expressed numerous cytokine genes including IL-12β, IL-23 p19, IL-1β, IL-1α, IL-1Ra, IL-10, IL-6, …

Mouse Ribonuclease Iii. Cdna Structure, Expression Analysis, And Chromosomal Location, Kristine R. Fortin, Rhonda H. Nicholson, Allen W. Nicholson

Wayne State University Associated BioMed Central Scholarship

Abstract

Background

Members of the ribonuclease III superfamily of double-stranded(ds)-RNA-specific endoribonucleases participate in diverse RNA maturation and decay pathways in eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells. A human RNase III orthologue has been implicated in ribosomal RNA maturation. To better understand the structure and mechanism of mammalian RNase III and its involvement in RNA metabolism we determined the cDNA structure, chromosomal location, and expression patterns of mouse RNase III.

Results

The predicted mouse RNase III polypeptide contains 1373 amino acids (~160 kDa). The polypeptide exhibits a single C-terminal dsRNA-binding motif (dsRBM), tandem catalytic domains, a proline-rich region (PRR) and an RS domain. …

Search For Intracranial Aneurysm Susceptibility Gene(S) Using Finnish Families, Jane M. Olson, Sompong Vongpunsawad, Helena Kuivaniemi, Antti Ronkainen, Juha Hernesniemi, Markku Ryynã¤Nen, Lee-Lian Kim, Gerard Tromp

Wayne State University Associated BioMed Central Scholarship

Abstract

Background

Cerebrovascular disease is the third leading cause of death in the United States, and about one-fourth of cerebrovascular deaths are attributed to ruptured intracranial aneurysms (IA). Epidemiological evidence suggests that IAs cluster in families, and are therefore probably genetic. Identification of individuals at risk for developing IAs by genetic tests will allow concentration of diagnostic imaging on high-risk individuals. We used model-free linkage analysis based on allele sharing with a two-stage design for a genome-wide scan to identify chromosomal regions that may harbor IA loci.

Methods

We previously estimated sibling relative risk in the Finnish population at between …

Stories Of Re-Reading: Inviting Students To Reflect On Their Emotional Responses To Fiction, Brenda Daly

The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning

Although most literature courses teach students to focus on textual analysis, this essay argues that students should be given opportunities for exploring their emotional responses to the text.