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Widow, Children Of Alum Slain In 9/11 Pentagon Attack To Visit, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

Masako Nagasawa, widow of U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Patrick Jude Murphy - a 1986 graduate of the University of Mississippi who was killed Sept. 11, 2001, in the terrorist attack on the Pentagon - plans to visit the Ole Miss campus Nov. 11.

Economic Globalization And Civil War, Katherine Barbieri, Rafael Reuveny

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Qubit, November 2005

Qubit (Cuban science fiction magazine)

The November 2005 issue of the Qubit.

Bond Strength And Transfer Length Of Pre-Tensioned Bridge Girders Cast With Self-Consolidating Concrete, Amgad F. Morgan Girgis, Christopher Y. Tuan

Civil Engineering Faculty Publications

Self-consolidating concrete (SCC) is becoming increasingly popular in the precast/prestressed concrete industry in the United States. However, there have been concerns regarding the bond strength, transfer length, and development length of prestressing strands and mild steel reinforcement with SCC. Further, there are no design guidelines for using SCC. In this study, a literature survey on the bond strength of SCC was conducted. Moustafa pullout tests were performed to determine the bond strength of 0.6 in. (15.2 mm) pretensioning strands with sec. The transfer lengths of three pretensioned concrete bridge girders were measured using Demec points. Pullout tests were also performed …

Information Asymmetries And The Rights To Exclude, Lior Strahilevitz

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

No abstract provided.

Walter Rodney And Black Power: Jamaican Intelligence And Us Diplomacy, Michael O. West

African Journal of Criminology and Justice Studies

No abstract provided.

Ethnicity And Crime: Criminal Behavior Redefined, Noel Otu, Nancy A. Horton

African Journal of Criminology and Justice Studies

Studies dealing with the definition of crime have primarily been concerned with developing hypotheses and theories of universal crime commission and definition. These theories of human behavior may appear plausible on paper but do not work well with people. All the theories of human behavior contain some truth. However, variables do not function one at a time nor can one theory explain all human behavior. These reasons justify studying human behavior from a social context perspective. This paper examines why one ethnic group can be heard praising a behavior while another ethnic group is doing the opposite. Factually, ethnic definition …

Exploring Police Relations With The Immigrant Minority In The Context Of Racism And Discrimination: A View From Turku, Finland, Stephen Egharevba, Lauri Hannikainen

African Journal of Criminology and Justice Studies

Citizens and immigrant minorities come into contact with the police in various circumstances, either as witnesses, victims of crime, or even as suspects. The present study is an attempt to examine issues concerning racism and discrimination in police/immigrant relations in Finland under this ircumstances, which to our knowledge has not received the academic scholastic investigation it deserves. Furthermore, this is also an attempt to look at police/immigrant everyday interactions to help in understanding this relationship. The research was carried out by means of a questionnaire (the sampled respondents consisting of forty-seven graduating police cadets a day before their graduation from …

Churches And The Consolidation Of Democratic Culture: Difference And Convergence In The Czech Republic And Hungary, Zsolt Enyedi, Joan O'Mahony

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.

University Reporter - Volume 10, Number 03 - November 2005

1996-2009, University Reporter

This issue of the University Reporter includes articles about a UMass-sponsored debate on ethnic media issues related to the at-large Boston City Council race, Nursing faculty studies of motherhood, a talk by South African anti-apartheid leader Ahmed Kathrada, the establishment of the Urban Cultural History Center, and other news from UMass Boston.

Constabulary Forces And Postconflict Transition: The Euro-Atlantic Dimension, David T. Armitage Jr., Anne M. Moisan

Strategic Forums

Since the early 1990s, multinational stabilization efforts in the wake of conflicts or major natural disasters have repeatedly encountered problems in filling the so-called security gap. In places such as Bosnia, Kosovo, Haiti, Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere, outside interveners have faced a compelling need to use specialized capabilities that can fill the gap between the point where military operations—whether for combat, peacekeeping, or counterinsurgency—leave off and community-based policing activities pick up. In particular, ensuring a capacity to manage and defuse civil disturbances and other threats to public order has become a sine qua non for overall mission success.¹

A New Design Methodology For Mixed Level And Mixed Signal Simulation Using Pspice A/D And Vhdl, Sreeram Rajagopalan

Theses

PSpice A/D is a simulation package that is used to analyze and predict the performance of analog and mixed signal circuits. It is very popular especially among Printed Circuit Board (PCB) engineers to verify board level designs. However, PSpice A/D currently lacks the ability to simulate analog components connected to digital circuits that are modeled using Hardware Descriptive Languages (HDLs), such as VHDL and Verilog HDL. Simulation of HDL models in PSpice A/D is necessary to verify mixed signal PCBs where programmable logic devices like Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) and Complex Programmable Logic Devices (CPLDs) are connected to discrete …

Mine Action: Lessons And Challenges, Gichd

Global CWD Repository

Mine Action: Lessons and Challenges represents the views of selected experts as to what some of the key lessons have been, and what challenges remain for the future.

Following an Executive Summary of its main conclusions and findings, this work is laid out in two parts. Part I looks at the core activities — the “pillars” — of mine action: advocacy, victim assistance, mine risk education, demining (survey, marking and clearance of mines and unexploded ordnance) and stockpile destruction. Part II looks at key management issues, specifically, programme coordination and management, information management and capacity development. This work concludes with …

Ipulse: November 2005, Lynn University

Student Newspapers

Issues:

• Special Hurricane Wilma Edition
• November 9, 2005
• November 10, 2005
• November 11, 2005
• November 15, 2005
• November 16, 2005
• November 17, 2005
• November 18, 2005
• November 29, 2005
• November 30, 2005

Nikki Giovanni, Clarence Page And Michael Dyson Headline University Of Dayton's Diversity Lecture Series

News Releases

News release announces that four nationally acclaimed writers and an environmental activist will round out the University of Dayton's 2005-2006 Diversity Lecture Series.

Women Still More Likely Than Men To Donate Organs, But New Study Shows Men Can Be Pressured By Emotional Appeals

News Releases

News release announces that women are more likely than men to say they would donate a kidney to a patient making an electronic plea on the Internet site, MatchingDonors.com, but University of Dayton researchers discovered another crucial gender difference.

Zoned Out! Examining Campus Speech Zones, Carol L. Zeiner

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.

"The Constitutional Infringement Zone": Protest Pens And Demonstration Zones At The 2004 National Political Conventions, Susan Rachel Nanes

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.

One In Mission - A Compassionate Church , Donald W. Sjoberg

Consensus

Historical series, 1. Delivered at the 1st biennial convention, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada, Ottawa, Jl 8 1987.

Picturing Terror: Derrida's Autoimmunity, W. J. T. Mitchell

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.

Remembering Judge Merhige, Michael W. Smith

University of Richmond Law Review

No abstract provided.

Corporate And Business Law, Allen C. Goolsby, Louanna O. Heuhsen

University of Richmond Law Review

No abstract provided.

Côte D’Ivoire Needs A New Conflict Resolution And Peace-Building Strategy, Essoh J. M. C. Essis

Peace and Conflict Studies

The military and political crisis in Cote d’Ivoire is an illustration of the assertion that resistance is a concept embodying a multitude of meanings. The Ivorian parties have framed their civil war as the result of a conflict between several meanings of resistance. The presidential party claims to lead a nationalist resistance against neocolonial forces associated with the French government, as well as a Christian resistance against Islamic terrorism. The armed rebellion and the traditional political opposition contend that their actions are justified by a duty of resistance against ethnic and religious sectarianism, as well as Mr. Gbagbo’s despotic and …

An Introductory Essay: Are We In “The Age Of Resistance” In A Post-9/11 World?, J. P. Linstroth

Peace and Conflict Studies

This introductory article to the Special Issue of Peace and Conflict Studies asks, “are we in the ‘Age of Resistance’ in a post-9/11 world?” It is argued the concept of “resistance” may be framed in a broad theoretical context to include multiple and contested meanings by social and political actors as well as by scholars and through intellectual debate. The article questions recent ideas prevalent in fauxpolitical science studies which promote a clash of civilizations, essentialize histories, support anachronistic Orientalist-approaches, and bolster foreign policy initiatives by removing the human element. The contention is for researchers and theorists to concentrate on …

Learning Lab Project May Lead To Better Social Worker Retention, Improved Child Welfare Efforts, Deborah Purnell

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - In light of recent media attention on the standard of care provided by the nation's child welfare system, the Children's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently sponsored a three-day conference on workforce development and workplace enhancement.

Information Asymmetries And The Rights To Exclude, Lior Strahilevitz

Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper Series

No abstract provided.

The Availability Heuristic, Intuitive Cost-Benefit Analysis, And Climate Change, Cass R. Sunstein

Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper Series

Because risks are on all sides of social situations, it is not possible to be "precautionary" in general. The availability heuristic ensures that some risks stand out as particularly salient, whatever their actual magnitude. Taken together with intuitive cost-benefit balancing, the availability heuristic helps to explain differences across groups, cultures, and even nations in the assessment of precautions to reduce the risks associated with climate change. There are complex links among availability, social processes for the spreading of information, and predispositions. If the United States is to take a stronger stand against climate change, it is likely to be a …

Attention Felons: Evaluating Project Safe Neighborhood In Chicago, Andrew V. Papachristos, Tracey L. Meares, Jeffrey Fagan

Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper Series

This research uses a quasi-experimental design to evaluate the impact of Project Safe Neighborhood (PSN) initiatives on neighborhood level crime rates in Chicago. Four interventions are analyzed: (1) increased federal prosecutions for convicted felons carrying or using guns, (2) the length of sentences associated with federal prosecutions, (3) supply-side firearm policing activities, and (4) social marketing of deterrence and social norms messages through justice-style offender notification meetings. Using an individual growth curve models and propensity scores to adjust for non-random group assignment, our findings suggest that several PSN interventions are associated with greater declines of homicide in the treatment neighborhoods …

Isolation And Characterization Of Hydrocarbon Degrading Bacteria From Environmental Habitats In Western New York State, Katarina Malatova

Theses

Screening of hydrocarbon degrading microorganisms isolated from three habitats in Western New York State by selective enrichment technique, resulted in the collection of 20 distinct species. All strains were cultivated in liquid media with crude oil as a sole carbon and energy source. Bacterial strains capable of degrading hydrocarbons belong to the genera Serratia marcescens, Acinetobacter baumannii and Pseudomonas sp. Carbon dioxide evolution experiments were used as the major indicator of microbial degradation of oil in biometric flasks. The measurements of CO₂ evolution rates have shown to effectively evaluate the biodegradation rates by providing significant data within …

Pushing The Limits Of Hyper-Na Optical Lithography, Yongfa Fan

Theses

The evolution of optical lithography to pattern smaller geometries was witnessed the shrinkage of source wavelength as a way to increase optical resolution. Shrinking of source wavelength into vacuum ultra-violet (VUV) faces a number of technical barriers with respect to imaging materials. Instead of source wavelength shrinking, the optical resolution can also be enhanced by increasing numerical aperture (NA) with immersion techniques. This dissertation is devoted to experimentally studying the imaging behaviors of hyper-NA optics in the context of liquid immersion and solid immersion lithography. In this dissertation, the full-vector interference theory is described for two-beam and multi-beam interference. Polarization …