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Volume 43, Number 1: August 26, 2005, University Of North Dakota

University Letter Archive

No abstract provided.

Studies Differ On Effects Of Fumigation, Ladb Staff

NotiSur

No abstract provided.

Washington University Record, August 26, 2005

Washington University Record

No abstract provided.

The Cord Weekly (September 28, 2005)

The Cord

No abstract provided.

The Statesman, V. 49, I. 01, Stony Brook University

Stony Brook Statesman-Sucolian

v. 49, i. 01

Microfinance In Neoliberal Times: The Experience Of An Egyptian Ngo, Sarah A. Tobin

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Development non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are under immense pressure to adhere to the programs and methods put forth by external donors, particularly if the NGOs rely on the funding to sustain their own organizations. Those external donors that represent neoliberal ideologies and enforce neoliberal practices, particularly in the area of microfinance, maintain a power that most recipient NGOs cannot evade. This becomes a difficult position for the NGOs to navigate as they try to accomplish good work in their communities. This research project is a study into the experience of one NGO, the Egyptian Development Organization (EDO), as it implemented microfinance …

Prospectus, August 24, 2005, Jon Volkman, Sarah Ramey, E. Clarkson, Aaron Geiger, Joseph Rosenbaum, Larry V. Gilbert, Nicole Simmons

Prospectus 2005

No abstract provided.

Life V. Death: Or Why The Death Penalty Should Marginally Deter, Charles N. W. Keckler

George Mason University School of Law Working Papers Series

Econometric measures of the effect of capital punishment have increasingly provided evidence that it deters homicides. However, most researchers on both sides of the death penalty debate continue to rely on rather simple assumptions about criminal behavior. I attempt to provide a more nuanced and predictive rational choice model of the incentives and disincentives to kill, with the aim of assessing to what extent the statistical findings of deterrence are in line with theoretical expectations. In particular, I examine whether it is plausible to suppose there is a marginal increase in deterrence created by increasing the penalty from life imprisonment …

Domestic Interiors Of Two Viennese Jewish Elites Probate Court In Vienna, 1730s, David Horowitz

Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History

The probate inventories of mid-eighteenth-century Viennese Court Jews provide a rare opportunity to reflect upon the role of material consumption in the processes of acculturation and class formation among Central European Jewish elites during the decades preceding the Haskalah (Jewish Enlightenment). Probate inventories are lists of assets and possessions drawn up by government officials in the process of settling the estate of the deceased. These inventories require cautious interpretation by the historian, but potentially yield precious rewards since they afford a glimpse into the individual’s complex material world.

This presentation is for the following text(s):

• Domestic Interiors of Two Viennese …

Arctic System On Trajectory To New State, Jonathan T. Overpeck, Matthew Sturm, Jennifer A. Francis, Donald K. Perovich, Mark C. Serreze, Ronald Benner, Eddy C. Carmack, F. Stuart Chapin Iii, S. Craig Gerlach, Lawrence C. Hamilton, Larry D. Hinzman, Marika Holland, Henry P. Huntington, Jeffrey R. Key, Andrea H. Lloyd, Glen M. Mcdonald, Joe Mcfadden, David Noone, Terry D. Prowse, Peter Schlosser

Sociology

The Arctic system is moving toward a new state that falls outside the envelope of glacial-interglacial fluctuations that prevailed during recent Earth history. This future Arctic is likely to have dramatically less permanent ice than exists at present. At the present rate of change, a summer ice-free Arctic Ocean within a century is a real possibility, a state not witnessed for at least a million years. The change appears to be driven largely by feedback-enhanced global climate warming, and there seem to be few, if any processes or feedbacks within the Arctic system that are capable of altering the trajectory …

Volume 42, Number 44: August 19, 2005, University Of North Dakota

University Letter Archive

No abstract provided.

Chasing The Track, Tony Nicholas

Theses

This thesis explores the search for a creative process that satisfies my urge to combine photography with imagery and objects from personal and mass media sources, revealing the artist's hand in the work. This work also explores the use of a subject as a means to finding a working process and its importance in that discovery.

Auto racing motivated me to study photography, thus the use of automobile culture, with an emphasis on the subculture of auto racing is a key element in this work. Juxtaposing unrelated materials and imagery was a new experience. As I worked, the evolving imagery …

Council On Academic Affairs Minutes, Aug 18, 2005, Eastern Kentucky University

Council on Academic Affairs

No abstract provided.

The Spinnaker Vol. 29 No. 2, University Of North Florida

Spinnaker

Student newspaper for the UNF community

Grace: A Contrastive Analysis Of A Biblical Semantic Field, Mary K. Bolin

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

Master's Thesis, University of Idaho, 1999. This thesis is a contrastive analysis of a semantic field, a group of words with related but not identical meanings that all describe or pertain to one domain or semantic area. The semantic field grace is compared in English, German, Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. The source of the data is selected books from the Bible, both the Old Testament (OT) and the New Testament (NT). The English words include grace, mercy, kindness, favor, compassion, and pity, as well as lovingkindness, goodness, and thanks. Data was compiled by beginning with the words grace and mercy …

Imagining Ityoppia: Ethiopian Diaspora And Rastafarianism, Esther Sellassie Antohin

Anthropology

On a very general level, this thesis explores why Ethiopians and Rastafarians - who share Ityoppi, as a general point of reference - have historically been at odds. More specifically, however, I am interested in whether the rather recent emergence of Ethiopian communities in the United States - which share experiences of diaspora and processes of "imagining from afar" with Rastafarians - has resulted in a change of Ethiopian Americans' attitude toward adherents to Rastafarianism. The main aim of this study is to give an accurate account of the Ethiopian perspective of Rastafari, which has not been articulated till the …

Congressional Staff Update August 17, 2005, Public Lands Institute

Presentations (PLI)

The Public Lands Institute is dedicated to strengthening the national fabric that is essential for the protection, conservation, and management of public lands.

In collaboration with federal, state, and non-profit partners, the institute is creating new knowledge, advancing technology, improving education, and engaging the public to enhance public lands stewardship.

Sandspur, Vol 112, No 01, August 16, 2005, Rollins College

The Rollins Sandspur

Rollins College student newspaper, written by the students and published at Rollins College. The Sandspur started as a literary journal.

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 030, Number 04, August 15, 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.

Ccu Newsletter, August 15, 2005, Coastal Carolina University

Coastal Carolina University Newsletter

A newsletter for faculty, staff and friends of Coastal Carolina University. Volume 15, Number 13

2005-2006, Collin College

Course Catalogs

Contains information on courses and class descriptions as well as campus resources at Collin College.

Eng 3009-001-004: Myth And Culture, Ashley Tellis

Fall 2005

No abstract provided.

The Geography Of Climate Change Litigation: Implications For Transnational Regulatory Governance, Hari Osofsky

ExpressO

ABSTRACT: This article aims to forward the dialogue about transnational corporate regulation by mapping the power dynamics that infuse litigation over energy production’s externalities and their implications for sovereign regulatory authority. The piece’s core argument is that appropriately constraining the externalities of energy production demands a nuanced, spatial understanding of the relationship among governmental regulatory entities, corporations, and the other actors that influence them. Part II begins by considering the multi-layered regulatory dilemmas posed by the transnational energy production process, the uncertain status of corporations under international law, and the law and economics debate over appropriate and effective environmental regulation …

Commencement Convocation Program, Tampa Campus, August 13, 2005, University Of South Florida

USF Graduation and Convocation Programs

Outstanding Senior - Leslie Ann North; Honorary Doctorate of Science - Dr. Mario Molina; King O'Neal Scholars - Jennifer Lynn Davis, Nadia Richelle Deeb, and Rosalie Lavinia Freedman

Volume 42, Number 43: August 12, 2005, University Of North Dakota

University Letter Archive

No abstract provided.

Navigating Cultures And Epistemologies In Science And Technology Education, Kathleen Theresa Kurzk

Dissertations

This investigation focuses on the nexus of science and culture in the lives of marginalized youth in the United States and South Africa. The epistemologies and contextual realities of cross-cultural learner cohorts and their understandings of scientific phenomena are examined. The researcher was a participant observer within the context of the Science, Technology & Culture: Empowering Learners (STC) program, an after-school and school-based collaboration focused upon integrating science, technology and culture. Electronic communication provided a vehicle for dialogue between youth in St. Louis, Missouri, USA and a South African Township. Study findings include documentation of the marginalizing effects of poverty …

Sall, Gilda, Bronx African American History Project

Oral Histories

Gilda Sall, originally from Harlem, moved to the Soundview section of the Bronx with her mother at the age of six. Unhappy with the education that her daughter was receiving in Harlem, Sall’s mother moved to the city’s northernmost borough, which many still considered to be almost suburban at the time. Sall tells of her first impressions of the Bronx as clean, different from the city from where she came, and overall a beautiful community in which to live.

After attending P.S. 77 and M.S. 123, Sall participated in the College Bound program at Monroe High School, a special subsection …

How A Museum Exhibit Functions As A Literacy Event For Viewers, B. A. Chauvin

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to investigate museum learning by describing the experiences of selected museum visitors who viewed a specified exhibit. The research question is: How does a museum exhibit function as a literacy event for viewers? The responses to interview questions described what viewing was like for two subjects. The paradigm for this research is New Literacy Studies (NLS). NLS considers the cultural issues surrounding literacy experiences. NLS assumes that language arts reflect cultural differences and literacy involves the process of constructing meaning (Barton, Hamilton, & Ivanic, 2000; Gee, 2000; Street, 1995). This model of literacy considers …

Interpretive Signs Designed To Trigger Naturalist Intelligence At Two American Zoos, Martha Bryant

Graduate Student Dissertations, Theses, Capstones, and Portfolios

An investigation of interpretive graphics was conducted in 2005 at two mid-sized AZA-accredited zoos, Lowry Park Zoo, Tampa, Florida and Knoxville Zoo, Knoxville, Tennessee. The Lowry Park Zoo study investigated signs at a red-tailed hawk and sandhill crane exhibit. Combination signs and wordless signs were more effective helping visitors see animals, increasing holding time, and number of engagements than treatments of no signs, or signs with words only. A second study, at Knoxde Zoo, tested combination and wordless signs in a children's zoo, investigating 31 signs at a 3.5-acre exhibit. Comparisons of visitors seeing the animals/using interactive exhibit elements, holding …

Illinois State University Salaries Fy2006, Illinois State University

Illinois State University Salaries

Includes two sections: civil service and continuing academic employee salaries.