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Beyond Rights: Legal Process And Ethnic Conflicts, Elana A. Baylis Jan 2004

Beyond Rights: Legal Process And Ethnic Conflicts, Elana A. Baylis

Michigan Journal of International Law

Unresolved ethnic conflicts threaten the stability and the very existence of multi-ethnic states. Ethnically divided states have struggled to build structural safeguards against such disputes into their political and legal systems, but these safeguards have not been able to prevent all conflict. Accordingly, multi-ethnic states facing persistent ethnic conflicts need to develop effective dispute resolution systems for resolving those conflicts. This presents an important question: what kinds of processes and institutions might enable ethnic groups to resolve their conflicts with each other and the state? This Article explores that question, reviewing the interdisciplinary literature on ethnic conflicts, the legal literature …

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Child Sexual Abuse In Tanzania And Kenya, Kevin Lalor Jan 2004

Child Sexual Abuse In Tanzania And Kenya, Kevin Lalor

Articles

Objective. Most research on child abuse in Tanzania and Kenya is unpublished in the international literature. The purpose of this paper is to examine the various commentaries and reports extant, towards an overview of the nature and frequency of child sexual abuse in Tanzania and Kenya. Methods. Contacts were made with academics, government departments, NGOs and UN agencies. This was followed by a field trip in the summer of 2001 where all available reports were examined and a wide range of interviews conducted. Results. Little empirical data exist on child sexual abuse in Tanzania. It is widely perceived that it …

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Reaching Beyond Borders Through Service Learning, Terri Carney Jan 2004

Reaching Beyond Borders Through Service Learning, Terri Carney

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

When university Spanish programs integrate a service learning pedagogy into their curriculum, they establish mutually beneficial relationships with the local Latino population. Indeed, all participants benefit: College Spanish students deepen their learning experience, Latino students in public school ESL programs receive individualized tutoring, and the college professor emerges from academic isolation to do the work of a public intellectual.

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The Right To Self-Determination And Its Enforcement, Johan D. Van Der Vyver Jan 2004

The Right To Self-Determination And Its Enforcement, Johan D. Van Der Vyver

ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law

The right to self-determination of peoples, alongside the equality of nations, large and small, has been recognized as a basic norm of international law.

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Multiculturalism And The Future Of Tribal Sovereignty, Scott C. Idleman Jan 2004

Multiculturalism And The Future Of Tribal Sovereignty, Scott C. Idleman

Faculty Publications

American Indian tribes would appear to be natural constituents and beneficiaries of the multiculturalism movement. Their members are generally conceptualized as racial or ethnic minorities; they have endured social and legal oppression and continue to encounter structural and even intentional discrimination; and, not least importantly, they possess genuinely different cultures and consequently add diverse perspectives to society. Despite this apparent fit, this Article questions the extent to which tribes and tribal members actually should align themselves with multicultural proponents and initiatives. The basis for this inquiry is that, unlike other societal subgroups, each recognized tribe is a distinct geopolitical entity …

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Updates From The International Criminal Courts, Malissa Khumprakob, Tejal Jesrani, Mario Cava Jan 2004

Updates From The International Criminal Courts, Malissa Khumprakob, Tejal Jesrani, Mario Cava

Human Rights Brief

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Learning Strategies - Education / Curriculum Jan 2004

Learning Strategies - Education / Curriculum

Natural Resources and Environmental Issues

Marilyn Bischoff: A Step-by-Step Approach to Basic Financial Management. Christine Corl: Website Rearing--It Takes a Whole Village! Phyllis Dennee: Food Safety Protocol for Extension Nutrition Assistants. Laurel L. Kubin: Make Financial Education Fun and Effective through Activities Geared to Multiple Intelligences. Barbara A. Middleton: The Chamber of Secrets--Opened Again! Robbie Ortega: A New Interactive Curriculum Teaching Agricultural Tractor and Machinery Safety. Judith A. Rice: Civil Air Patrol Educational Initiatives. Catrinel E. Stanciu: A Multi-State Web-Based Designed Certification Program for Nutrition Educators. Mitzi Stumpf: Purposeful Inclusion: North Carolina's New Differently Abled Curriculum Program Update. Dena Wise: Facilitating Adult Learning.

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International Multicultural Projects - Diversity / Culture Jan 2004

International Multicultural Projects - Diversity / Culture

Natural Resources and Environmental Issues

Julie Adamcin: The Challenges of Character in International Exchange Programs. Christy Hicks: The Lao Teacher Development Project. Ruth Jackson: Extension Programs Across the Nation. Pamala V. Morris: Growing the Garden of Diversity. Ginny Powell: Exceeding Expectations through Global Citizenship. Marilyn Rabe: Somali Refugees in America. Ann C. Schauber: Working with Diversity in Communities. Theresa Wimann: Diversity--Who Belongs Here?

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Building Intercontinental Learning Bridges In Natural Resources Education For Diverse Cultures, Victor D. Phillips Jan 2004

Building Intercontinental Learning Bridges In Natural Resources Education For Diverse Cultures, Victor D. Phillips

Natural Resources and Environmental Issues

Natural resources education for a culturally diverse audience is central to the mission of the Global Environmental Management Education Center (GEM) in the College of Natural Resources at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. GEM’s purpose is to pioneer and apply practical learning methods and technology to solve natural resource problems by linking faculty, students and citizens worldwide. Building on mutual interests and joint collaboration, GEM and its international partners exchange ideas, personnel, and curricula, develop models for community involvement in sustainable development, and conduct applied research and outreach education in a variety of natural resource-based fields of endeavor. This paper …

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Proceedings Of The Fifth Biennial Conference On University Education In Natural Resources, March 14-17, 2004, Flagstaff Az, Thomas E. Kolb Jan 2004

Proceedings Of The Fifth Biennial Conference On University Education In Natural Resources, March 14-17, 2004, Flagstaff Az, Thomas E. Kolb

Natural Resources and Environmental Issues

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“My Reputación Precedes Me”: La Malinche And Palimpsests Of Sacrifice, Scapegoating, And Mestizaje In Xicoténcatl And Los Mártires Del Anáhuac, Lisa Nevárez Jan 2004

“My Reputación Precedes Me”: La Malinche And Palimpsests Of Sacrifice, Scapegoating, And Mestizaje In Xicoténcatl And Los Mártires Del Anáhuac, Lisa Nevárez

Decimonónica

The treachery of a woman, the violence of conquest, and the birth of the mestizo—these form the beginnings of Mexico’s history. Octavio Paz vocalizes the grito unique to Mexico, ¡Viva México, hijos de la Chingada!, and in so doing takes his place among the individuals salivating to blame La Malinche, also known as Marina or Malintzín, for her betrayal of her people by giving birth to Hernán Cortés’ child, the “first” mestizo and the ancestor of the modern Mexican.1 Examining the novels Xicoténcatl (1826), published anonymously, and Los mártires del Anáhuac (1870), by Eligio Ancona, facilitates a glimpse …

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Full Issue, Number 19, Summer 2004, The Congregational And Synodical Mission Unit, The Evangelical Lutheran Church In America Jan 2004

Full Issue, Number 19, Summer 2004, The Congregational And Synodical Mission Unit, The Evangelical Lutheran Church In America

Intersections

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Academic Vocation: What The Lutheran University Has To Offer, Wendy Mccredie Jan 2004

Academic Vocation: What The Lutheran University Has To Offer, Wendy Mccredie

Intersections

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Dual Citizenship In Athens And Jerusalem: Ricoeur's Hermeneutics And The Promise Of Lutheran Higher Education, Mark C. Mattes Jan 2004

Dual Citizenship In Athens And Jerusalem: Ricoeur's Hermeneutics And The Promise Of Lutheran Higher Education, Mark C. Mattes

Intersections

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Reconstructability Analysis With Fourier Transforms, Martin Zwick Jan 2004

Reconstructability Analysis With Fourier Transforms, Martin Zwick

Complex Systems Faculty Publications and Presentations

Fourier methods used in two‐ and three‐dimensional image reconstruction can be used also in reconstructability analysis (RA). These methods maximize a variance‐type measure instead of information‐theoretic uncertainty, but the two measures are roughly collinear and the Fourier approach yields results close to that of standard RA. The Fourier method, however, does not require iterative calculations for models with loops. Moreover, the error in Fourier RA models can be assessed without actually generating the full probability distributions of the models; calculations scale with the size of the data rather than the state space. State‐based modeling using the Fourier approach is also …

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Near Eastern Sources For The Palace Of Alkinoos, Erwin F. Cook Jan 2004

Near Eastern Sources For The Palace Of Alkinoos, Erwin F. Cook

Classical Studies Faculty Research

The last quarter century of archaeological discoveries have significantly enriched and nuanced our understanding of interactions between the Greek world and the Levant during the Greek Archaic period (conventionally defined as 776-479 B.C.E.). They have also allowed us to construct an increasingly detailed model explaining the diffusion of knowledge from Mesopotamia to Greece at this time. In addition, advances in our understanding of oral cultures, and the role of oral narrative traditions within them have cast valuable new light on the ways in which the Homeric epics appropriate, adapt, and preserve cultural knowledge. The palace of Alkinoos, described in Book …

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Young Learners Of Modern Foreign Languages And Their Transition To The Secondary Phase: A Lost Opportunity?, Allison Bolster, Christine Balandier-Brown, Pauline Rea-Dickins Jan 2004

Young Learners Of Modern Foreign Languages And Their Transition To The Secondary Phase: A Lost Opportunity?, Allison Bolster, Christine Balandier-Brown, Pauline Rea-Dickins

Institute for Educational Development, East Africa

Following publication of the National Languages Strategy on 18 December 2002 the teaching of foreign languages (FL) in the primary school is again high on the agenda in England as in other parts of Europe. Research has shown in the past (Burstall et al., 1974) that an early start in FL does not necessarily result in any long-term advantage in terms of proficiency. However, the above study also draws other conclusions, less widely reported, which remain significant. These include insufficient liaison between primary and secondary schools, lack of continuity in foreign language learning across phases, inadequate training of teachers, …

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Hortaliza: A Youth "Nutrition" Garden In Southwest Detroit, Kameshwari Pothukuchi Jan 2004

Hortaliza: A Youth "Nutrition" Garden In Southwest Detroit, Kameshwari Pothukuchi

Urban Studies and Planning Faculty Research Publications

This paper documents a youth garden that was developed in 2000 through a university-community partnership in a low-income, predominantly Latino neighborhood in southwest Detroit. It involved four community-based organizations and several residents -- youth among them -- from the neighborhood, in garden planning, set-up, and management. Kids grew vegetables of different kinds to take home and ate healthy snacks at the garden. They learned about the importance of vegetables and fruits to healthy diets, the nutritional value of particular vegetables, and how to grow vegetables. At the end of the season, we documented increased interest among kids in eating fruits …

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Bahasa Melayu Stemmer / Subbu Valliappan, Valliappan Subbu Jan 2004

Bahasa Melayu Stemmer / Subbu Valliappan, Valliappan Subbu

Student Works (2000-2009)

This report introduces the project, titled Bahasa Melayu Stemmer, and provides a detailed description of system.There are a total of four chapters in this report, and all the chapters are dedicated entirely to the stemmer project. Each of the chapter presents an explanation of the system in a different perspective as to enhance one's understanding of this stemmer.The main idea of this project is to build stemmer that can stem any given words, and to develop a standard stemming algorithm in Malay Language. The language Malay is particularly chosen because there is a lack pf complete stemmers that exist for …

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The "Friendly But Cautious" Reception Of International Law In The Jurisprudence Of The South African Constitutional Court: Some Critical Remarks, Erika De Wet Jan 2004

The "Friendly But Cautious" Reception Of International Law In The Jurisprudence Of The South African Constitutional Court: Some Critical Remarks, Erika De Wet

Fordham International Law Journal

As the title indicates, the purpose of this Article is to reflect on the manner in which the South African Constitutional Court has dealt with the application of international law during its first decade. It attempts to add a critical note to the overwhelmingly positive attention the Court has thus far received internationally. There is no doubt that the inspiration that the Court has thus far drawn from international (human rights) law is impressive, and in many ways exemplary. Nonetheless, there is still room for improvement, as the subsequent analysis reveals. In analyzing the Court's methodology, this article does not …

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The Law Of Words: Standing, Environment, And Other Contested Terms, David N. Cassuto Jan 2004

The Law Of Words: Standing, Environment, And Other Contested Terms, David N. Cassuto

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

Friends of the Earth, Inc. v. Laidlaw Environmental Services (TOC), Inc., 528 U.S. 167 (2000), exposes fundamental incoherencies within environmental standing doctrine, even while it ostensibly makes standing easier to prove for plaintiffs in environmental citizen suits. According to Laidlaw, an environmental plaintiff needs only to show personal injury to satisfy Article III's standing requirement; she need not show that the alleged statutory violation actually harms the environment. This Article argues that Laidlaw's distinction between injury to the plaintiff and harm to the environment is nonsensical. Both the majority and dissent in Laidlaw incorrectly assume that there exists an objective …

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International Child Abduction To Non-Hague Convention Countries: The Need For An International Family Court, Ericka A. Schnitzer-Reese Jan 2004

International Child Abduction To Non-Hague Convention Countries: The Need For An International Family Court, Ericka A. Schnitzer-Reese

Northwestern Journal of Human Rights

No abstract provided.

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Whose Music Is It Anyway? How We Came To View Musical Expression As A Form Of Property, Michael W. Carroll Jan 2004

Whose Music Is It Anyway? How We Came To View Musical Expression As A Form Of Property, Michael W. Carroll

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

Many participants in the music industry consider unauthorized transmissions of music files over the Internet to be theft of their property. Many Internet users who exchange music files reject this characterization. Prompted by the dispute over unauthorized music distribution, this Article explores how those who create and distribute music first came to look upon music as their property and when in Western history the law first supported this view. By analyzing the economic and legal structures governing music making in Western Europe from the classical period in Greece through the Renaissance, the Article shows that the law first granted some …

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Adaptive Intelligent User Interfaces With Emotion Recognition, Fatma Nasoz Jan 2004

Adaptive Intelligent User Interfaces With Emotion Recognition, Fatma Nasoz

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The focus of this dissertation is on creating Adaptive Intelligent User Interfaces to facilitate enhanced natural communication during the Human-Computer Interaction by recognizing users' affective states (i.e., emotions experienced by the users) and responding to those emotions by adapting to the current situation via an affective user model created for each user. Controlled experiments were designed and conducted in a laboratory environment and in a Virtual Reality environment to collect physiological data signals from participants experiencing specific emotions. Algorithms (k-Nearest Neighbor [KNN], Discriminant Function Analysis [DFA], Marquardt-Backpropagation [MBP], and Resilient Backpropagation [RBP]) were implemented to analyze the collected data signals …

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Speech And Strife, Robert L. Tsai Jan 2004

Speech And Strife, Robert L. Tsai

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

The essay strives for a better understanding of the myths, symbols, categories of power, and images deployed by the Supreme Court to signal how we ought to think about its authority. Taking examples from free speech jurisprudence, the essay proceeds in three steps. First, Tsai argues that the First Amendment constitutes a deep source of cultural authority for the Court. As a result, linguistic and doctrinal innovation in the free speech area have been at least as bold and imaginative as that in areas like the Commerce Clause. Second, in turning to cognitive theory, he distinguishes between formal legal argumentation …

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Establishing A Stable Democratic Constitutional Structure In Iraq: Some Basic Considerations, Paul Williams Jan 2004

Establishing A Stable Democratic Constitutional Structure In Iraq: Some Basic Considerations, Paul Williams

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

As the situation in Iraq continues to stabilize, the people of Iraq will turn to the task of reconstituting an Iraqi state. One of the first steps in this process will be to design, agree upon, and implement a new constitutional structure. While drafting a new constitution is a difficult and contentious process for any country, the challenges are substantially magnified for Iraq given its complex mosaic of ethnic and religious identities, the history of repression under Saddam Hussein, the necessary presence of American forces, and Iraq’s complex relations with its neighboring states. The overriding tension faced by the drafters …

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Communication Strategies In Japanese Language Interactions Among Malay Students At The University Of Malaya / Suzana Ismail., Suzana Ismail Jan 2004

Communication Strategies In Japanese Language Interactions Among Malay Students At The University Of Malaya / Suzana Ismail., Suzana Ismail

Student Works (2000-2009)

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A Systemic Functional Perspective Of Lexical Cohesion In English Newspaper Commentaries In Malaysia / Kalaivani Supramaniam., Kalaivani Supramaniam Jan 2004

A Systemic Functional Perspective Of Lexical Cohesion In English Newspaper Commentaries In Malaysia / Kalaivani Supramaniam., Kalaivani Supramaniam

Student Works (2000-2009)

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Kajian Penukaran Kod Di Kalangan Guru Pelatih Iban : Satu Kajian Kes / Mamat Anak Unggat., Mamat Unggat Jan 2004

Kajian Penukaran Kod Di Kalangan Guru Pelatih Iban : Satu Kajian Kes / Mamat Anak Unggat., Mamat Unggat

Student Works (2000-2009)

No abstract provided.

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Communicative Strategies Used By Bilingual College Students / Norizah Binti Mohd Said., Norizah Mohd Said Jan 2004

Communicative Strategies Used By Bilingual College Students / Norizah Binti Mohd Said., Norizah Mohd Said

Student Works (2000-2009)

No abstract provided.

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