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Ackerman's Higher Lawmaking In Comparative Constitutional Perspective: Constitutional Moments As Constitutional Failures?, Sujit Choudhry, Bernadette Mount

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Bruce Ackerman speaks in two voices. He is one of the most prominent students of comparative constitutionalism. But Ackerman is far better known for his imaginative theory of American constitutional development, set out in We the People. Ackerman observes that notwithstanding a remarkable continuity in governing constitutions, American constitutional history can be sharply divided into distinct regimes. His contribution is his account of the process whereby the transitions between these different constitutional regimes have taken place: through a process of “higher lawmaking” which fails to comply with the written legal rules governing constitutional amendment in Article V.

Although Ackerman is …

2006-2007, Collin College

Course Catalogs

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

Serials Unit Annual Report 2005-2006, Andree J. Rathemacher

Serials Unit Reports

Annual report of the Serials Unit of the University of Rhode Island Library for the year 2005-2006. Covers personnel, technology, work flow, subscription changes, and future plans.

Eng 4775-001: Studies In Literary Criticism: The Sociology Of Culture, Jad Smith

Fall 2006

No abstract provided.

Shedding Light Upon The Shadows: An Examination Of The Use Of Voice As Resistance And Reclamation Of The Black Woman From Enslavement To Freedom., Courtney Erin Brooks

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

My research examines the enslaved black woman's reclamation of self through the use of voice and resistance from enslavement into freedom. I argue that the enslaved black woman's voice was one that grew stronger and louder, in an effort to have her story heard, through her attempts of reclamation of self and transition from slave to a free woman. I begin with an introduction to the purpose of my research. Chapter one describes my approach to my research. Chapter two describes the conditions of slavery for black women. Chapter three describes enslaved black women's mechanisms of resistance. Chapter four examinations …

Parenting, Home Environment, And Child Obesity: A Survey Of Parents And Children Attending A Pediatric Clinic., Amit Ravindra Bodhani

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Data were collected from 60 parents of children 5-11 years of age to describe the parental and family factors and explore the associations of these factors with children's Body Mass Index (BMI) percentiles. Mother's made up 81.7% of the sample. Whites/Caucasians comprised 88.3% of the sample. Males comprised 51.6% of the child participants while females comprised 48.3%. Among the child participants, 38.3% had BMI equal to or greater than the 95th percentile, and 6.7% had BMI 85th to less than 95th percentile. Concerns about child weight (r_s = 0.582), pressure to eat (r_s = -0.433), and monitoring (r …

The Effectiveness Of Principal Training And Formal Principal Mentoring Programs., Robert B. Dodson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to determine principals' perceptions of how effective mentoring programs and university-based principal preparation programs are in developing the skills necessary to carry out the 13 critical success factors identified by the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB). A review of the literature addressed what it means to be an effective principal and what an effective mentoring program should look like.

The quantitative study was conducted using a survey developed from the SREB's 13 critical success factors that have been developed to determine what makes a successful, effective principal. Each factor was developed into a question …

American Reeducation Of German Pows, 1943-1946., Pamela Croley

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The United States held almost 500,000 enemy combatants within her borders during World War II. Out of those 500,000 men, 380,000 were from Nazi Germany. Nazi POWs were confined to camps built near small rural towns in almost every state. It was not something that was well known to the American public. Even less known was the American Military's effort, through reeducation, to introduce Hitler's soldiers to a new political ideology-democracy. This thesis will explore how the reeducation program was formed; examine the people, both German and American, who participated in it, and make a determination on whether or not …

Folk Medical Beliefs And Practices Concerning Women's Health And The Female Body In Southern Appalachia., Emily Lucinda Dale

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study explores folk medical beliefs and practices regarding women's health issues and the female body, specifically menstruation, pregnancy, abortion and menopause, in the Southern Appalachian region. This research reveals what information was given to young girls, by whom was it given, and the effect this had on their self-image and on how they communicated about their bodies as they matured. Other key elements include the social restrictions surrounding menstruation and the ways these beliefs were communicated to young girls. In addition, this project presents information on the treatment of symptoms such as cramps, bloating, headaches, excessive bleeding, lack of …

African American Public School Principals In East Tennessee: Motivation For Leadership., Joe L. Canada

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to explore and document the factors that motivated African American public school administrators in a selected school system in East Tennessee to become school leaders. The study highlighted barriers and challenges, support mechanisms, and perceptions of training. If minority educators are to be actively recruited and retained, there must be an understanding of the factors that motivate them to progressively seek administrative leadership positions.

The African American public school administrators' experiences were collected through 17 one-on-one personal interviews. The interviews were audio-taped, transcribed, coded, and used to answer the 4 research questions.

The primary …

Perceived Job Satisfaction Factors Impacting The Retention Of Middle School Teachers In Northwest North Carolina., Karen Ward Farthing

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The body of research related to teacher retention continues to grow but is limited concerning middle school teachers. The focus of this study was to examine the factors of job satisfaction for middle school teachers. A portion of the study compares teacher responses with Herzberg, Mausner, and Snyderman's 1959 study of motivation. Additional components of the study provide middle school teachers' feedback on their dispositions and recommendations to administrators and others for attracting and retaining quality middle school teachers.

This qualitative study includes a review of related literature and includes a historical perspective of job satisfaction and a discussion of …

An Examination Of The Prison Environment: An Analysis Of Inmate Concerns Across Eight Environmental Dimensions., Andrew Ryan Bradford

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study was undertaken to better understand inmate concerns of the prison environment across 8 dimensions. The 8 dimensions examined in this study were activity, emotional feedback, freedom, privacy, safety, social, structure, and support. To determine the importance of these dimensions among inmates, secondary data were used in an attempt to replicate and validate the findings from Wright's (1985) study which used a prison environment inventory instrument to assess inmate concerns. The secondary data consisted of an inmate sample of 1,054 taken from 30 prisons of minimum, medium, maximum and close security across the states of Tennessee, Kentucky, and Ohio. …

Sandspur, Vol 113, No 01, August 14, 2006, 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.

Squire Brown: The Cold War Aerospace Technology History Project (Interview 2), Christina Douglass, Squire L. Brown

Cold War Aerospace Technology Oral Histories (MS-431)

Christina Douglass interviewed Squire Brown on August 14, 2006 for the Cold War Aerospace Technologies History Project. In the interview Dr. Brown discusses his role in the development of military technology during the Cold War. This is the second of two interviews with Dr. Brown.

Sort: A Self-Organizing Trust Model For Peer-To-Peer Systems, Ahmet Burak Can, Bharat Bhargava

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

Newsroom, Georgia Southern University

Newsroom (2006-2023)

• Instructors of online courses can benefit from new class
• Cultural Book Club Discussions to begin at Georgia Southern University

Commencement Convocation Program, Usf, August 12, 2006, University Of South Florida

USF Graduation and Convocation Programs

King O'Neal Scholar - Chantal Korkis; Outstanding Senior - Dwayne Peterson; President's Fellow Medallion - Richard "Dick" Beard

Sex, Trust, And Corporate Boards, Joan M. Heminway

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This essay collects and interprets social science research on sex and trust and uses this work to shed new light on the emerging case for gender diversity on corporate boards. Specifically, the essay describes research findings that indicate (1) that men and women trust and are trustworthy on different bases and (2) the existence of a bias against women in corporate leadership positions. Based on this research and current legal scholarship on corporate governance, the essay asserts that gender diversity on corporate boards may be desirable but difficult to attain. The essay also calls for more targeted research on the …

Summer 2006 Commencements - The University Of Texas Of The Permian Basin, The University Of Texas Permian Basin

UTPB Commencement Programs

Summer 2006 Commencements - August 11-12, 2006

Low Income Status By Population Groups, 1961-2001, Roderic Beaujot, Jianye Liu, Don Kerr

PSC Discussion Papers Series

Abstract not available

Why Don’T More Public Schools Teach Sex Education? A Constitutional Explanation And Critique, Jesse R. Merriam

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This Article questions why so many public schools do not teach any form of sex education. The answer proposed in this Article is that the U.S. Constitution is a part of the problem. This claim is based on the following two premises: (1) the U.S. Constitution certainly does not require public schools to teach sex education; and (2) the U.S. Constitution arguably requires public schools that teach sex education to exempt those students whose religious beliefs are substantially burdened by sex education.

To illustrate how these two premises might weigh in a school district’s decision not to teach sex education, …

Interview With Janet Corbett, Warm Springs Forest Products, 2006 (Audio), Janet Corbett

All Sustainability History Project Oral Histories

Interview of Janet Corbett by Margie Crawford at Warm Springs, Oregon on August 10th, 2006.

The interview index is available for download.

Religion And Family Relational Health: An Overview And Conceptual Model, Loren Marks

Faculty Publications

This paper presents a review of research addressing religion and family relational health. Strengths of the extant data include the correlation of three dimensions of religious experience (religious practices, religious beliefs, and religious community) with certain aspects of mother–child, father–child, and marital relationships and specific connections between the three dimensions of religious experience and family relationships are identified. Key weaknesses in the research at present include a paucity of research examining the hows, whys, and processes involved behind identified religion–family correlations and a lack of data on non-nuclear families, families of color, interfaith families, and non-Christian religions including Judaism and …

Rclus, A New Program For Clustering Associated Species: A Demonstration Using A Mojave Desert Plant Community Dataset, Stewart C. Sanderson, Jeffrey E. Ott, E. Durant Mcarthur, Kimball T. Harper

Western North American Naturalist

This paper presents a new clustering program named RCLUS that was developed for species (R-mode) analysis of plant community data. RCLUS identifies clusters of co-occurring species that meet a user-specified cutoff level of positive association with each other. The "strict affinity" clustering algorithm in RCLUS builds clusters of species whose pairwise associations all exceed the cutoff level, whereas the "coalition" clustering algorithm only requires that the mean pairwise association of the cluster exceeds the cutoff level. Both algorithms allow species to belong to multiple clusters, thus accommodating both generalist and specialist species. Using a 60-plot dataset of perennial plants occurring …

Unh Faculty Experts Available To Discuss Five-Year Anniversary Of Sept. 11, Lori Wright

Media Relations

No abstract provided.

Guilty Pleasures: Narrative Craft And Mass Appeal In The Newgate Calendar, Aimee Rust

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

The Newgate Calendar, one of the earliest true crime documents, has rarely been studied. This paper aims to demonstrate that these texts illuminate various aspects of the culture that both produced and consumed the narratives the Calendar contains. In particular, I have focused on two different categories of crimes against the body. The Calendar's early volumes, which were published while state-sponsored punishment was still a public spectacle, offer several accounts that deal with the confinement and torture of living victims. Later volumes do not include torture narratives. Instead, anxiety over the treatment of dead bodies caused an increased interest in …

A Review Of Energy And Environmental Policy For Offshore Liquefied Natural Gas (Lng) Terminals, William D. Whitmore

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

The Maritime Transportation Security Act of 2002 amended the Deepwater Port Act of 1974 allowing energy industries to construct offshore liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals. The industry friendly amendments weakened environmental regulations resulting in quick approval of several terminals that utilize environmentally damaging open-loop regasification systems. The objectives of this case study are to determine what influences national energy security and energy industries have in offshore LNG policy development and what energy policy tactics are utilized by the George W. Bush administration. Senate testimony, industry publications, federal legislation, and permit case studies reveal the prominence of concerns for national energy …

Our Sovereign Body: Narrating The Fiction Of Sovereign Immunity In The Supreme Court: Part I-A English Stories, Marc L. Roark

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This is part I-A of a Book I am working towards on the narratives and fictions of sovereign immunity. The goal in this part is to look before the American republic and towards the background in which American Sovereignty came to be shaped by -- the feudal notion of the sovereign; the Lockean response, and the Blackstonean doctrine. The first part looks at the legal fictions surrounding the kingship, their sources and their effects. The Second part looks to the specific ways of treating the sovereign in law, namely viewing King as Property owner or patriarch, Trustee, and Constitution.

Iwu Student Honored For Work In Governor's Environmental Corps, Leslie Boelter

News and Events (Discontinued Series)

No abstract provided.

Fall Festival Welcomes Class Of 2010 To Illinois Wesleyan, Ann Aubry

News and Events (Discontinued Series)

No abstract provided.