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Towards A Cosmopolitan Vision Of Conflict Of Laws: Redefining Governmental Interests In A Global Era, Paul Schiff Berman

ExpressO

It has now been ten years since the idea of global online communication first entered the popular consciousness. And while the internet has undoubtedly opened up new worlds of interaction and cooperation across borders, this increased transnational activity has also at times inspired parochialism, at least among the legislatures and courts of nation-states around the globe. Thus, we have seen a slew of national laws and court decisions purporting to regulate a wide variety of online activities, from gambling to chat rooms to auction sites, and seeking to enforce territorially based rules regarding trademarks, contractual relations, privacy norms, “indecent” content, …

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 030, Number 01, July 5, 2005, Grand Valley State University

2005-2006, Volume 30

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

Tauser Killed Both Dogs And Other Suburban American Family Folklore, Kristina Whitley Gashler

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis attempts to answer the questions "What purposes do family pets and the narratives we tell about them serve in modern American society?" and "What do these stories tell us about what Americans value and about where we locate our ‘value center’?" In Chapter 1, I discuss how Americans define loyalty in our pets now that our animals generally no longer help us work. I conclude that since the shift from agricultural to suburban settings, animals prove their loyalty individually and in human-like ways, rather than as "good" members of their own species, but at the same time because …

Research On Minority-Girl Education In China: Critique And Recommendations, Jiesu Luo

Theses and Dissertations

Minority-girl education in China is a new field of research. This study seeks to explore into this field through reviewing and analyzing the available studies that have been done. This literature has been collected through searching library holdings, Computer Assisted Research Search, and online searching. The criteria against which the literature is to be reviewed and analyzed are in the form of questions and are divided into six categories of introduction, theoretical framework, method, results, discussion (conclusion/recommendations), and abstract or summary; so that all the aspects of a study can be examined. The research filed of minority-girl education in China …

Origin Of The Eumetazoa: Testing Ecological Predictions Of Molecular Clocks Against The Proterozoic Fossil Record, Kevin J. Peterson, Nicholas J. Butterfield

Dartmouth Scholarship

Molecular clocks have the potential to shed light on the timing of early metazoan divergences, but differing algorithms and calibration points yield conspicuously discordant results. We argue here that competing molecular clock hypotheses should be testable in the fossil record, on the principle that fundamentally new grades of animal organization will have ecosystem-wide impacts. Using a set of seven nuclear-encoded protein sequences, we demonstrate the paraphyly of Porifera and calculate sponge/eumetazoan and cnidarian/bilaterian divergence times by using both distance [minimum evolution (ME)] and maximum likelihood (ML) molecular clocks; ME brackets the appearance of Eumetazoa between 634 and 604 Ma, whereas …

Hotline Press Newspaper- July 5,2005 Vol 22 No 50, Hotline Press Newspaper

Hotline Press Newspaper 2005

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Tgf-Β Maintains Dormancy Of Prostatic Stem Cells In The Proximal Region Of Ducts, Sarah N. Salm, Patricia E. Burger, Sandra Coetzee, Ken Goto, David Moscatelli, E. Lynette Wilson

Publications and Research

We have previously shown that prostatic stem cells are located in the proximal region of mouse prostatic ducts. Here, we show that this region responds differently to transforming growth factor (TGF)-β than the distal ductal region and that under physiological conditions androgens and TGF-β are crucial overall regulators of prostatic tissue homeostasis. This conclusion is supported by the observations showing that high levels of TGF-β signaling are present in the quiescent proximal region of ducts in an androgen-replete animal and that cells in this region overexpress Bcl-2, which protects them from apoptosis. Moreover, androgen ablation reverses the proximal-distal TGF-β signaling …

Late Pleistocene Panthera Leo Spelaea (Goldfuss, 1810) Skeletons From The Czech Republic (Central Europe); Their Pathological Cranial Features And Injuries Resulting From Intraspecific Fights, Conflicts With Hyenas, And Attacks On Cave Bears, Cajus G. Diedrich

KIP Articles

The world’s first mounted "skeletons" of the Late Pleistocene Panthera leo spelaea (Goldfuss, 1810) from the Sloup Cave hyena and cave bear den in the Moravian Karst (Czech Republic, central Europe) are compilations that have used bones from several different individuals. These skeletons are described and compared with the most complete known skeleton in Europe from a single individual, a lioness skeleton from the hyena den site at the Srbsko Chlum-Komín Cave in the Bohemian Karst (Czech Republic). Pathological features such as rib fractures and brain-case damage in these specimens, and also in other skulls from the Zoolithen Cave (Germany) …

July 2, 2005 (Pages 3647-3798), Pennsylvania Legislative Reference Bureau

Volume 35 (2005)

No abstract provided.

Great Lakes Coastal Wetland Fragmentation: Edge Effects On Zooplankton, Macroinvertebrate, And Larval Fish Communities, Keto F. Gyekis

Masters Theses

Wetlands are some of the most diverse and ecologically important habitats in the world. Although wetlands have been plagued by anthropogenic destruction and disturbance, there is a general lack of knowledge regarding how fragmentation affects these systems. During the summer of 2004 and the spring and summer of 2005,1 investigated edge effects associated with anthropogenic fragmentation in 25 fringing marshes of Lakes Michigan and Huron. Environmental data, microcrustacean zooplankton, aquatic macroinvertebrates, and larval fish were collected along transects extending into each marsh from reference (natural) and anthropogenic (artificial) edges. Bulrush stems of Great Lakes fringing marshes attenuated the influx and …

Animal Science Stock Report: Summer 2005, Animal Science Department, California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo

Stock Report

No abstract provided.

Estimating The Impacts Of Differing Price-Risk Management Strategies On The Net Income Of Salinas Valley Lettuce Producers: A Stochastic Simulation Approach, Roland Fumasi, Wayne H. Howard, Jay E. Noel

Agribusiness

While government safety-net programs are used to mitigate the price risk for commodity producers, limited programs exist for specialty crop producers. Specialty crop producers utilize forward contracts to reduce downside price risk. In order to estimate the method of price-risk management, if any, that is preferable to selling at market determined prices, a stochastic simulation model was constructed. The completed simulation model was used to estimate probability distributions for Salinas Valley net income under different pricing scenarios. Probabilities of reaching various net income thresholds were compared. Results indicate that Salinas Valley lettuce producers should maximize profitability by using forward contracts.

Taunton River Stewardship Plan: Taunton River Wild & Scenic River Study, Taunton Wild & Scenic River Study Committee, National Park Service, Northeast Region

Reference Documents

No abstract provided.

The July 2003 Dakota Hailswaths: Creation, Characteristics, And Possible Impacts, Matthew D. Parker, Ian Ratcliffe, Geoffrey M. Henebry

School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications

The authors investigate the meteorology associated with two elongated swaths of crop damage produced by severe hailstorms that crossed North Dakota and South Dakota on 4 July and 20 July 2003. These hailswaths, which were observed in a Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) image time series, each persisted for more than a month and were associated with local temperature increases, presumably owing to the enhanced Bowen ratio over dry, crop-free ground. This paper documents the creation and evolution of the convective storms that produced the hailswaths, and then presents evidence that devegetated hailswaths may impact …

Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter, Summer 2005

Mid-Atlantic Ethics Committee Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Com Outlook Summer 2005, College Of Osteopathic Medicine

COM Outlook

No abstract provided.

Farm Productivity And Market Structure. Evidence From Cotton Reforms In Zambia, Irene Brambilla, Guido G. Porto

Discussion Papers

No abstract provided.

Progress Notes, Lehigh Valley Health Network

Progress Notes

No abstract provided.

Center For Grassland Studies Newsletter, Summer 2005, Volume 11, No. 3

Center for Grassland Studies: Newsletters

Why Do We All Work So Hard on Our Lawns? Blame Habit, Snobbery by Cynthia Crosses

Intensify Extensive Beef Systems? by Terry Klopfenstein, Jeff Folmer, and Galen Erickson

CGS Citizens Advisory Council and Associates Visit Southwestern Nebraska

Audubon’s First Important Bird Areas in Nebraska Announced

XX International Grassland Congress by Walter Schacht, Department of Agronomy, UNL

Visit the Ecological Site Information System by George Peacock, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Central National Technology Support Center, Fort Worth, Texas

Opportunity for Holistic Management Training

Beasts Of Eden, Jennifer Spiegel

Harpur Palate: a Literary Journal

pages 152-165

Institute Of Archaeology & Horn Archaeological Museum Newsletter Volume 26.3, Randall W. Younker, David Merling, Darrell J. Rohl

Institute of Archaeology & the Horn Archaeological Museum Newsletter

Excavations at Tall Jalul, 2005, Randall W. Younker and David Merling

Tsouparopoulou Lecture, Darrell J. Rohl

70% Off Major Archaeological Series: Offer Good Through March 31, 2006

Random Survey

Ballast Quarterly Review, V20n4, Summer 2005, Roy R. Behrens

Ballast Quarterly Review

A journal devoted to wit, the contents of which are intended to be insightful, amusing, or thought provoking.

Environmental Law At Maryland, No. 21, Summer-Fall 2005

Environmental Law at Maryland

No abstract provided.

Tidings, Volume 7, Number 2 - Summer 2005, Nova Southeastern University

Tidings: A publication of Nova Southeastern University Libraries

No abstract provided.

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Robert Kelly Manuscripts

From July 2005 Robert Kelly Archive.

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Robert Kelly Manuscripts

From July 2005 Robert Kelly Archive.

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Robert Kelly Manuscripts

From July 2005 Robert Kelly Archive.

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Robert Kelly Manuscripts

From July 2005 Robert Kelly Archive.

Formative Research For Hygiene Promotion In Kyrgyzstan, Adam Biran, Anara Tabyshalieva, Zumrat Salmorbekova

History Faculty Research

Formative research for hygiene promotion was used to gather data relating to hygiene practices in rural Kyrgyzstan. Some of the hand-washing and faeces disposal practices observed were sub-optimal from a public health perspective. In combination with the poverty, limited medical services and poor water supply infrastructure characteristic of the study area, it is likely that these factors increase the risk of diarrhoeal infections among Kyrgyz children. An association was found between increased rates of hand-washing following latrine use and ownership of a washstand. This offers some empirical support for the idea that promotion of hand-washing technologies can form a useful …

New Database Psychiatry Online, Vol.3 (4) July - August 2005, Houston Academy Of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library

The Insider (2003-2008)

No abstract provided.