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Political Science Discipline Assessment Report 2004/2005, Political Science Discipline

Assessment of Student Learning Reports

No abstract provided.

Flarr Pages: Volume 1, Pages 1-43, Foreign Language Association Of The Red River

FLARR Pages

During Spring and Fall conferences of FLARR, since the Fall of 1994 (the organization holds joint meetings with MCTLC in the Spring), 159 presentations were were delivered. Of those talks, about one quarter were submitted to FLARR Pages and appear now in Volume #1. The journal articles are a sampling of the issues and concerns of the past decade. They represent, as do all the presentations (see Appendix A), the innovative ways in which faculty have responded to current demands and challenges of teaching, research, service, programming, and many other areas of professional life, both in the public schools and …

Crow's Nest, April 1, 2005, Crow's Nest Staff

Crow's Nest

The April 1, 2005, issue of the Crow's Nest.

Chancellor Cantor's White Paper On Scholarship In Action, Nancy Cantor

Chancellor's Collection

As we think about where we want Syracuse University to be five to 10 years from now, we should continue to focus-and extend upon-our many strengths, such as Maxwell and Newhouse. We will promote our reputation-nationally and internationally-as a university where excellence is connected to ideas, problems, and professions in the world-a place where excellence is tested in the marketplace.

Aggregation Bias And The Repeat Sales Price Index, Anthony Pennington-Cross

Finance Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Periodicals Price Survey 2005: Choosing Sides, Lee Van Orsdel, Kathleen Born

Scholarly Papers and Articles

No abstract provided.

Unmaking Goliath: Community Control In The Face Of Global Capital, By J Defilippis [Book Review], David J. Reiss

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Sac Outreach Bulletin 2005, The South Asia Center

Newsletters from the South Asia Center

"Do Shabd" from our new director.

International Water Law: The Contributions Of Western United States Water Law To The United States Water Law To The United Nations Convention On The Law Of The Non-Navigable Uses Of International Watercourses, Carolin Spiegel

Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law

No abstract provided.

From Opposing Sides : The Duality Of Citizens' And Their Government's Views On Town Squares, Zachary Powell

Honors Theses

The purpose of my paper is to explore how the State's and the people's views concerning town squares come together. I will focus mainly on the duality between these two views: one the one hand, the State uses these spaces to display its power and for physical security. On the other side, the populace sees these spaces as theirs, as central to their community as citizens. Furthermore, they see it as a place to confront their government. Where else would be better than the place where the government seems to take on physical form?

I will explore this duality in …

Core Principles For Effective Banking Supervision: An Enforceable International Financial Standard?, Duncan E. Alford

Faculty Publications

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision serves as an international forum to discuss international bank supervision issues. Because of the gravity and frequency of banking crises since the demise of the Bretton Woods System in the early 1970s, international financial standards have emerged as a method to minimize these crises. In 1998, the Basel Committee issued a comprehensive standard on bank super vision that built upon its work over the previous two and a half decades. In this Article, the author analyzes this comprehensive standard the Core Principles for Effective Banking Supervision-and assesses its implementation in the European Union, the …

Reading In The Future: Literacy And The Time Of The Internet, David R. Cole

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

David R. Cole's Reading in the Future: Literacy and the Time of the Internet locates the literacies of the internet -- itself read as the end game of western technology or the Machina Mundi, the Great Chain of the World that has a centre that is everywhere and a circumference that is nowhere -- in a contradictory space. But Cole also self-consciously locates his own writing at a moment in time when the initial technological hype of the internet is subsiding in the face of the boredom of informational overload and the internet is emerging as both an unlimited …

The African World And The Japanese Spirit: Cultural Dynamics In The Writings Of Wole Soyinka Dn Watsuji Tetsurô, David Gordon

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

Saginaw Chippewa Tribal Relations And The Social Production Of Space In Isabella County, Michigan, Bryan Thomas Swanson

Masters Theses

This thesis focuses on how the historical and cultural geography of the Saginaw Chippewa tribe of Mount Pleasant, Michigan and specifically on through their Soaring Eagle Casino reshaped the physical and cultural landscape of Isabella County. For this research I utilized documentary/archival evidence such as local histories, newspapers, plat maps and I also conducted field surveys. The research findings indicated that through the Soaring Eagle Casino the Saginaw Chippewa tribe has changed Isabella County, as well as their own social standing. Since 1993 the tribe has used casino revenues to purchase 1185 acres of land to add to the Isabella …

Implied Professional Obligation Of Confidentiality Sufficient To Overcome Public Use Defense To A Claim Of Patent Infringement? Bernhardt V. Collezione--The Federal Circuit Court Of Appeals' Surprising Recent Announcement On The Public Use Bar, Nancy S. Paik

Chicago-Kent Journal of Intellectual Property

No abstract provided.

Brown Meets Green: The Political Fecology Of Poopreport.Com, Marisol Cortez

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

In engaging with the culture of filth, Marisol Cortez's Brown Meets Green: The Political Fecology of PoopReport.com questions contemporary cultural criticism's emphasis on shit's textual ambivalence. In order to avoid relapsing into either the Bakhtinian celebration of the grotesque or the too narrowly conceived Kristevan category of the abject, Cortez argues, and to find a way out of this theoretical dualism, one must rethink the very categories of filth and waste through an ecocritical reading of the scatological -- the meeting of brown and green -- performed at the confluence of ecology, cultural studies, and Marxist political economy. This perspective …

Maintaining The Home Court Advantage: Forum Shopping And The Small Business Client, Trippe S. Fried

Transactions: The Tennessee Journal of Business Law

No abstract provided.

Regional Geographic Influence On Two Khmer Polities, Chad Raymond

Faculty and Staff - Articles & Papers

This paper examines the effects of Cambodian geography in two Khmer polities: Funan, an empire that occupied the southeastern portions of modern-day Cambodia and Vietnam during the early centuries A.D., and Democratic Kampuchea, a Cambodian state that existed from April 17, 1975, until the Vietnamese invasion of December 25, 1978. In the construction of a national identity, a community must possess a tradition of a territory that the community regards as its ancestral home. The tradition of a territory provides a chronological anchor for the supposed authentic and pristine origins of the nation. As demonstrated by myth, propaganda, and policies, …

2005 Friends Of The University Of Montana Herbarium Newsletter, Peter Lesica, David Dyer

Newsletters of the Friends of the University of Montana Herbarium

MONTU Awarded National Science Foundation Grant / Peter Lesica and Elizabeth Crone -- 2005 Friends of the UM Herbarium Annual Meeting -- Activities -- Notes from the Board / Scott Mincemoyer -- MONTU People: David V. Clark / Peter Lesica -- MONT News Briefs -- Other Online Atlas Projects / Drake Barton -- The Culture Corner -- Erica Curry - Herbarium Student Employee / Dave Dyer -- Joseph Edward Kirkwood: Early Day MONTU Collector / James Habeck

Effectiveness Of Wavelet Transform, Fractals, Lacunarity And Spatial Indices In Content-Based Image Retrieval, Sivagurunathan Chinniah

Masters Theses

The thesis demonstrates the feasibility of applying wavelet transforms, fractals, and spatial indices in content-based image retrieval (CBIR) of remotely sensed imagery. It consists of three major parts: the design and development of thick-client CBIR software, population of two samples of SPOT™ and Landsat 7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) image databases with metadata describing their visual properties, and, exploration of the effectiveness of region quadtree query and retrieval by content using various combinations of indices. 272 SPOT™ and 507 Landsat 7 ETM+ 512 x 512 pixel panchromatic images of Atlanta, Georgia were subsetted from two scenes. Moran's I index …

Crossing The Himalayas: Exculpatory Clauses In Global Transport - Norfolk Southern Railway Co. V. James N. Kirby, Pty Ltd., Joseph C. Sweeney

Journal of Maritime Law and Commerce

No abstract provided.

The Rx For Electronic Medical Records: A Research Proposal, Edward W. Wright

Student Scholarship

Rising US healthcare costs are a growing societal concern. President Bush has called for a voluntary initiative by health care providers to adopt electronic health record technology (EMR) in an effort to save an estimated $140B annually. Despite the anticipated benefits, less than ten percent of US physicians have adopted EMR. This paper proposes research to discover the main influences on the IT technology adoption decision by physicians. Mediating variables from previous studies of IT adoption by small and healthcare businesses are melded with those of economic rational choice theory to provide a plausible conceptual model to explain what is …

Executive Style Not Gender: Moving Toward A Clearer View Of The Consequences Of Executive Transition In The Nonprofit Sector, Jane A. Van Buren

Student Scholarship

The primary purpose of this research is to clarify the operational characteristics in nonprofit organizations and to propose a framework for organizational success. This study aims to conceptualize and disentangle gender, board power and executive style effects and examine the relationship between board power and executive style under the possible scenarios of executive transition. We explore and refine the dimensions of board power and executive style and discuss the usefulness of viewing an organization's orientation as a multidimensional construct. We suggest an alternative model to outcomes of financial performance which includes the interaction of internal and external executive style, and …

Library Perspectives, Issue 32, Spring 2005, Friends Of The Oberlin College Libraries

Library Perspectives Newsletter

This issue includes items about Virginia Proctor Powell Florence '19, ARTstor, the Zabludow synagogue project, and much more.

Up In Smoke: Using Cooperative U.S. Forest Fire Management Policies As A Model For Implementing An Effective Forest Fire Prevention Program In The Russian Far East, Jim Wilkson

Washington International Law Journal

The Russian Far East's ("RFE") most abundant natural resource is its vast, relatively unbroken tracts of boreal forest. Wildfires are the largest cause of deforestation in the RFE. Rampant fires in the RFE threaten biodiversity and wildlife habitat, destroy timber reserves, and create pollution and greenhouse gases. Experts estimate that between eighty to ninety percent of these fires are human-caused. However, Russian forestry laws fail to provide the type of legal framework necessary to adequately address these preventable fires. Forest management legislation mandating more comprehensive and cooperative fire prevention could prevent disastrous forest fires in the RFE. U.S. fire management …

Focus, 2005, Spring, Andrews University

Focus

FOCUS (ISSN 1077-9345) is published quarterly, free of charge, for alumni and friends of Andrews University, an institution owned and operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

Postcolonial Melodrama : The Satanic Verses, The Mimic Men, The Namesake, Jason Przybylski

Honors Theses

The goal of this project is to explain the appropriateness of the genre of melodrama for understanding postcolonial literature. Throughout this paper I examine how reading postcolonial fiction as melodrama may help us both to understand postcolonial issues in new ways and, at the same time, to grasp how postcolonial literature changes and enhances the notion of melodrama.

From Clerk To Professional: New Mexico's Superintendency And The Superintendents Of Public Instruction, 1891–1916, A. Kenneth Stern, Dan D. Chávez

New Mexico Historical Review

No abstract provided.

Colonial Law And The Tungabhadra Disputes: Lifting The Veil Over The Agreement Of 1892, Radha D'Souza

Natural Resources Journal

No abstract provided.

Herbert Johnson: A Legal Historian's Work And Times, Tony A. Freyer

South Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.