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Genocide: What Do We Want It To Be?, Alan A. Ryan Jr. Dec 2005

Genocide: What Do We Want It To Be?, Alan A. Ryan Jr.

New England Journal of Public Policy

The definition of genocide in the Genocide Convention has been universally accepted, in the statutes of the ad hoc international tribunals and the International Criminal Court, but it conceals a host of ambiguities. Sociologists, political scientists, and others have not devised any legally adequate substitute. This article proposes a non-linear definition of genocide, that is, a definition that takes into account the presence or absence of several factors, rather than one that attempts to generalize the crime of genocide. It disregards the motives or objectives of the perpetrator, sheds the secondary phenomena that often accompany genocide (such as dehumanization of …

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The Role Of The Military, General William Nash, Jeffrey W. Taliaferro, Gwyn Prins Dec 2005

The Role Of The Military, General William Nash, Jeffrey W. Taliaferro, Gwyn Prins

New England Journal of Public Policy

Presents comments (from the EPIIC Symposium at Tufts University, February 2004) on the issue concerning the role of the U.S. military on their citizens; Concern on defining victory in the war on terror; Discussion on the relationship between the political objectives of the U.S. grand strategy and how they employ a military instrument; Views on the role of the military force.

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Conflict Resolution, Nation-Building & Constitution-Making., Nicholas Haysom Dec 2005

Conflict Resolution, Nation-Building & Constitution-Making., Nicholas Haysom

New England Journal of Public Policy

Most of the current and intractable armed conflicts in the world today are intra-state conflicts in societies divided along the fault lines of race, religion, ethnicity, language, and region. These conflicts are overwhelmingly animated by identity. Even where such conflicts do not take on a violent form, they serve to prevent the emergence of interest-based politics in multi-cultural societies. The political systems in such nation-states -- and their national constitutions -- are required to address the way in which multiple identities can coexist within an inclusive national polity and alongside a national identity. This challenge faces both new democracies and …

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Peace-Building In An Inseparable World, Jonathan Moore Dec 2005

Peace-Building In An Inseparable World, Jonathan Moore

New England Journal of Public Policy

Our world is increasingly divided between the haves and the have nots, and the gap between these two is growing. Despite this, with all of its riches, the United States remains disconnected. A poor country in the aftermath of war is a microcosm of the world at large. Given the prodigious problems of the failed and failing nations discussed here -- Afghanistan, Cambodia, East Timor, Haiti, Iraq, Kosovo, Mozambique, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, Somalia -- the tendency is to deny the enormity of the task and to treat the problem superficially and peremptorily rather than to attack its root causes. The …

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Peace Through War? United States And Israeli Strategies, Heribert Adam Dec 2005

Peace Through War? United States And Israeli Strategies, Heribert Adam

New England Journal of Public Policy

Can the lessons learned from South Africa's struggle with apartheid be applied to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? Is a two-state solution in the Middle East a realistic way out of the long-standing dilemma? Or is a common state (what Israelis usually refer to as a "bi-national" state), which might be defined by a high security barrier, a feasible solution? The author investigates the implications of Iraq and 9/11 on progress toward a solution.

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Formulas For Partition, Fragmented Maps, Yet No Solution, Mahdi Abdul Hadi Dec 2005

Formulas For Partition, Fragmented Maps, Yet No Solution, Mahdi Abdul Hadi

New England Journal of Public Policy

The author traces the history of the partition formula in Israel and Palestine, beginning with the 1937 British "Peel Commission" through the decades to the June War of 1967 and, almost a decade later, President Jimmy Carter's mention of a "Palestinian homeland." The Reagan Plan followed, and the 1980s witnessed a flood of political formulas that attempted to manage the conflict. In the 1990s, in the light of the post-Cold War era, a "culture of recognition and reconciliation" was introduced and with it, hopeful times. But the more recent efforts to bring the partition formula back, introduced against a background …

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Transitions From Terrorism To Modernity: Linking External And Internal Change Dimensions, Greg Mills Dec 2005

Transitions From Terrorism To Modernity: Linking External And Internal Change Dimensions, Greg Mills

New England Journal of Public Policy

The struggle between Arab nationalism and Islamic radicalism may determine the direction of Middle Eastern politics and society and possibly of world history for decades to come. The war on terror is likely to be more like the Cold War than a hot war, but a successful battle against the war on terrorism will have to involve military means with long-term engagement. The answer may lie in shifting the focus away from attempts to defeat the enemy to a strategy that attempts to neutralize the enemy, which demands nuance and empathy with local conditions.

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Africa And The War On Terror, Eddy Maloka Dec 2005

Africa And The War On Terror, Eddy Maloka

New England Journal of Public Policy

The U.S. war on terror is now in its third year, and the bombings in Afghanistan and Iraq are far from over. Many analysts and policy thing-tanks have reflected on the impact of this war on Africa; some have put emphasis on the economy, development aid, security questions, and others on implications for U.S. foreign policy. The intention of this piece is to introduce new elements to the reflection.

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From Dictatorship And War To Democracy: Alternative Future For The Drc, Claude Kambuya Kabemba Dec 2005

From Dictatorship And War To Democracy: Alternative Future For The Drc, Claude Kambuya Kabemba

New England Journal of Public Policy

With a transitional government in place, peace is now a possibility in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Policy options are being considered to sustain the peace and start the work of building a Congolese state that would not repeat the failings of the past. There is hope that the transitional period will produce democratic elections and subsequently a legitimate government, which would start to shake the view of the DRC as the "heart of darkness." There are two main obstacles to state-building in the DRC: lack of consensus on governance and illegal exploitation of resources. The two are …

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Cst & Morris Up For Carter Award, University Relations Dec 2005

Cst & Morris Up For Carter Award, University Relations

Campus News Archive

The partnership between the Center for Small Towns and the City of Morris is one of five finalists for the prestigious Carter Partnership Award for Campus-Community Collaboration.

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Is There A Curricular Core For The Transnational Lawyer?, Michael Bogdan Dec 2005

Is There A Curricular Core For The Transnational Lawyer?, Michael Bogdan

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.

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Book Review, David Dyzenhaus Dec 2005

Book Review, David Dyzenhaus

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.

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Book Review, Minna J. Kotkin Dec 2005

Book Review, Minna J. Kotkin

Journal of Legal Education

No abstract provided.

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Adaptive Weighing Of Context Models For Lossless Data Compression, Matthew V. Mahoney Dec 2005

Adaptive Weighing Of Context Models For Lossless Data Compression, Matthew V. Mahoney

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Faculty Publications

Until recently the state of the art in lossless data compression was prediction by partial match (PPM). A PPM model estimates the next-symbol probability distribution by combining statistics from the longest matching contiguous contexts in which each symbol value is found. We introduce a context mixing model which improves on PPM by allowing contexts which are arbitrary functions of the history. Each model independently estimates a probability and confidence that the next bit of data will be 0 or 1. Predictions are combined by weighted averaging. After a bit is arithmetic coded, the weights are adjusted along the cost gradient …

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Um Receives Grant To Support Future Conservationists, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of University Relations Dec 2005

Um Receives Grant To Support Future Conservationists, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of University Relations

University of Montana News Releases, 1928, 1956-present

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Much Ado About Nothing: Looking Past The Drama Of The Sarbanes-Oxley Act And Reevaluating The U.S. Delisting Trend Among Non-U.S. Firms, Kalani A. Morse Dec 2005

Much Ado About Nothing: Looking Past The Drama Of The Sarbanes-Oxley Act And Reevaluating The U.S. Delisting Trend Among Non-U.S. Firms, Kalani A. Morse

Brigham Young University International Law & Management Review

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Anti-Monopoly Law In China: A Socialist Market Economy Wrestles With Its Antitrust Regime, Jared A. Berry Dec 2005

Anti-Monopoly Law In China: A Socialist Market Economy Wrestles With Its Antitrust Regime, Jared A. Berry

Brigham Young University International Law & Management Review

No abstract provided.

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Connolly V. Englewood Post No. 322 Vfw Of The United States, Inc. (In Re Phillips) Dec 2005

Connolly V. Englewood Post No. 322 Vfw Of The United States, Inc. (In Re Phillips)

Colorado Supreme Court Records and Briefs Collection

No abstract provided.

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A Hybrid Model For Reducing Ecological Bias, Ruth Salway, Jon Wakefield Dec 2005

A Hybrid Model For Reducing Ecological Bias, Ruth Salway, Jon Wakefield

UW Biostatistics Working Paper Series

A major drawback of epidemiological ecological studies, in which the association between area-level summaries of risk and exposure are used to make inference about individual risk, is the difficulty in characterising within-area variability in exposure and confounder variables. To avoid ecological bias, samples of individual exposure/confounder data within each area are required. Unfortunately these may be difficult or expensive to obtain, particularly if large samples are required. In this paper we propose a new approach suitable for use with small samples. We combine a Bayesian non-parametric Dirichlet process prior with an estimating functions approach, and show that this model gives …

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Frontmatter Dec 2005

Frontmatter

Brigham Young University International Law & Management Review

No abstract provided.

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The New Challenges To The International Patentability Of Biotechnology: Legal Relations Between The Wto Treaty On Trade-Related Aspects Of Intellectual Property Rights And The Convention On Biological Diversity, Jonathan Curci Dec 2005

The New Challenges To The International Patentability Of Biotechnology: Legal Relations Between The Wto Treaty On Trade-Related Aspects Of Intellectual Property Rights And The Convention On Biological Diversity, Jonathan Curci

Brigham Young University International Law & Management Review

No abstract provided.

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Mwp Newsletter: Extended News Items, 2005, University Of Mississippi. Department Of English Dec 2005

Mwp Newsletter: Extended News Items, 2005, University Of Mississippi. Department Of English

MWP News and Newsletters

No abstract provided.

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Snik V. Verizon Wireless Dec 2005

Snik V. Verizon Wireless

2005 Decisions

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

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The Murray Ledger And Times, December 20, 2005, The Murray Ledger And Times Dec 2005

The Murray Ledger And Times, December 20, 2005, The Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

No abstract provided.

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Marc Vs Xml, Peter A. Zuber Dec 2005

Marc Vs Xml, Peter A. Zuber

Faculty Publications

Some of the issues in discussion between MARC and XML deal with the desire to expand the content of the bibliographic record. An often-cited example is the library that wishes to enrich the current electronic record with a table of contents. Although a table of contents inclusion is actually possible with the MARC record, it is certainly not an ideal platform for such content. The MARC record is described as being a "flat" record, meaning it does not have a hierarchal nature. As such, it is a poor candidate for hierarchal structures such as a table of contents. A discussion …

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Mis Students Get Boost Toward Cisa Designation, Elaine Pugh Dec 2005

Mis Students Get Boost Toward Cisa Designation, Elaine Pugh

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - A management information systems curriculum in accountancy at the University of Mississippi has been approved by the Information Systems Audit and Control Association, giving graduates of the program an advantage in the job market.

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National Institute Recognizes Two Accountancy Profs' Research, Elaine Pugh Dec 2005

National Institute Recognizes Two Accountancy Profs' Research, Elaine Pugh

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - Two University of Mississippi School of Accountancy faculty have been honored by the Institute of Management Accountants for their research.

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Communicative Disorders Students, Faculty Help Coast Family Overcome Katrina Aftermath, Deborah Purnell Dec 2005

Communicative Disorders Students, Faculty Help Coast Family Overcome Katrina Aftermath, Deborah Purnell

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - Christmas came a little early for Joe and Susan Cunningham. On Dec. 1, the couple and their six adopted children received a Wal-Mart gift card for more than $750 from their "angels" at the University of Mississippi.

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Reflective And Transflective Liquid Crystal Displays Using A Wire Grid Reflector., Shin-Tson Wu Dec 2005

Reflective And Transflective Liquid Crystal Displays Using A Wire Grid Reflector., Shin-Tson Wu

UCF Patents

A device structure for single cell gap reflective and transflective liquid crystal displays (TF-LCDs). For an entirely reflective LCD, the imbedded wire-grid polarizer (WGP) serves as a polarization-dependent for the ambient light. For a transflective TF-LCD, the WGP only covers the reflective pixels. The disclosure also includes a method of using single cell gap liquid crystal displays (LCDs) without phase retardation films by providing a single cell gap LCD having reflective pixels and transmissive pixels, covering solely the reflective pixels, with at least one of: a wire grid polarizer and a broadband cholesteric reflector (BCR), reflecting ambient light off the …

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Aig Memo From Kevin B. Mcginn To The Credit Risk Committee Regarding Global Securities Lending Cash Policy, Kevin Mcginn Dec 2005

Aig Memo From Kevin B. Mcginn To The Credit Risk Committee Regarding Global Securities Lending Cash Policy, Kevin Mcginn

Documents

No abstract provided.

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