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Profile, Fall 2007, Columbia College Chicago

Profile

Interactive Arts and Media Department Newsletter. 16 pages. Includes student, faculty, and alumni profiles, book and game reviews, calendar of events.

Profile: Annual Honor Roll Of Donors, University Relations

Profile (1996-)

This issue of Profile features a variety of partnerships that have been crafted by imaginative and dedicated individuals to ensure that the University of Minnesota, Morris is able to accomplish its mission and is well positioned for the future. The partnerships you will read about here are truly inspiring and speak to the strong belief that many UMM friends, faculty, and staff members have in the future of this institution.

--From Chancellor Johnson's Message

Southwest Missouri Water Quality Improvement Project (Wqip) James River Basin Water Quality Gap Analysis, Mec Water Resources, Inc., Ozarks Envrionmental Water Resources Institute

OEWRI Technical Reports

Rapid growth and expansion in southwest Missouri are threatening the water resources this region’s population, agriculture, and tourism industry so heavily depend upon. In response to this threat, several watershed groups in southwest Missouri collaborated to secure federal funding for water protection efforts in this region. As a result of this effort, the Environmental Resources Coalition (ERC) received a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) grant to develop and manage the Southwest Missouri Water Quality Improvement Project (WQIP), a multi-year, multi-stakeholder effort to address water quality issues in this region. WQIP has initially been tasked with assembling, evaluating, and interpreting existing …

Lanthorn, Vol. 42, No. 12, October 1, 2007, Grand Valley State University

Volume 42, July 12, 2007 - June 12, 2008

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

Vol. 83, No. 1 | Fall 2007, Bridgewater College

Bridgewater Magazine

Rescue! : In the heart of darkness, a BC alum helped save five lives

The Opinion – Volume 21, No. 2, October 2007, William Mitchell College Of Law

The Opinion

Selected Table of Contents

• College Names Vice Dean Eric Janus as New Interim President and Dean / Johansen, Kate
• The 35W Bridge Collapse: Asking the Right Questions / Crandall, Jake
• Mitchell Students Attend American Bar Associaton's 2007 Annual Convention / Kringle, Britt; Wolf, Hanna
• Profiles in the Profession: Bankruptcy / Gruenhagen, Stephanie
• The Death of Free Speech? / Denis, Vanessa
• Iranian Women Outnumbering Men in Local Universities / Barouti, Nazanin

Editorial Board

Crandall, Allison; Johansen, Kate

Democracy, Capitalism, And Income Inequality: Seeking Causal Directions, Ross E. Burkhart

Political Science Faculty Publications and Presentations

Recent research shows that lower levels of income inequality cause higher levels of democracy, and vice versa in a simultaneous relationship. A critical factor missing from these studies is a direct exogenous measure of capitalism in models explaining variation in income inequality and democracy. This study examines 50 countries over the years 1978-1993 and finds in a pooled two stage least squares modeling exercise that the Fraser Institute measure of capitalism appears to have a positive linear impact on POLITYIV measures of democracy and a negative linear impact on income inequality (more capitalism, more inequality). There appears to be no …

The Spirit And Teaching, William Thompson-Uberuaga

Spiritan Horizons

No abstract provided.

Documentary Records Of The Prevention Of Schistosomiasis In China, Ka Wai Fan

Journal of East Asian Libraries

No abstract provided.

Fall 2007, Seattle University

Seattle University Magazine

No abstract provided.

A Nifty Tool For Studying Program And System Behaviors: Nifty Tools, Pete Sanderson, Kenneth Vollmar

Mathematics Faculty Scholarship

MARS is an integrated development environment (IDE) and simulator for MIPS assembly language programming. New features enable MARS to be a useful tool for discovery and experimentation even in courses that do not involve assembly language programming.

Dialogue, 2007, Columbia College Chicago

Dialogue

Third issue of the Theater department publication Dialogue. Articles include: "Talking About AIDS"; "Mirage"; Manhattan"; "Mister Mister and the AABB"; "Seth and Dex"; "Constant Comment"; "This One Time…"; "Beep"; "Fairy Tale"; "Was Going to Dance". 24 pages.

Mortgage Law In China: Comparing Theory And Practice, Gregory M. Stein

Scholarly Works

The first Chinese law focusing specifically on property rights became effective on October 1, 2007, which means that China's breakneck real estate development before that date occurred in a nation with no published law of real estate. Thus those who have been buying, selling, and lending against Chinese real estate have been operating in a world of significant legal uncertainty. Even with the new code, property law as it is practiced is likely to diverge significantly from the published rules.

This Article examines Chinese mortgage law as it actually operates in the field, focusing on both legal and business issues. …

Inculturation And The Spiritan Charism, Elochukwu E. Uzukwu C.S.Sp.

Spiritan Horizons

No abstract provided.

Wku Scholar, Editors

WKU Scholar

No abstract provided.

Opus: Fall 2007, Hope College

Opus: 2000-2009

An issue of Opus from fall 2007.

Mexico's Implementation Of The Biodiversity Convention And The Catagena Protocol In The Gmo Era: Challenges In Principles, Policies, And Practices, Juan Antonio Herrera

PhD Dissertations

Recent developments in genetic modification and the use of Living Modified Organisms (LMOs) in agriculture have ignited a debate over the potential effects of these organisms on biological diversity. This controversy materializes in the clash between the international environmental and trade regimes. Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs), such as the 1992 Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) focus on the preservation of biological diversity and, in the case of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (Cartagena Protocol), the safe transfer of LMOs. These Agreements encourage States to base national decisions to allow LMO imports on environmental and risk assessments using the precautionary principle. …

Asg Student Social And Emotional Health Report, Michael. E. Bernard, Andrew Stephanou, Daniel Urbach

Wellbeing

This report presents the results of sophisticated Rasch measurement analysis and multi-level modelling to validate and support the use of the ACER Social and Emotional Wellbeing (SEWB) student and teacher surveys for reporting on the social and emotional well-being of students from the early years of schooling through to senior secondary school levels. It describes the social and emotional well-being of over 10,000 students attending 81 schools across Australia. Among the more important findings of this research are the characteristics of students with low levels of social and emotional well-being compared with students with higher levels of social and emotional …

Fall 2007, Valparaiso University

The Lighter, 1958-Last Year

No abstract provided.

Lao Tzu And Francis Libermann On Living The Mystery, Binh The Quach C.S.Sp.

Spiritan Horizons

No abstract provided.

Guns And Gay Sex: Some Notes On Firearms, The Second Amendment, And 'Reasonable Regulation', Glenn Harlan Reynolds

Scholarly Works

In light of the Supreme Court's grant of certiorari in Heller v. District of Columbia, this Essay contains some thoughts inspired by Adam Winkler's "Scrutinizing the Second Amendment," 105 Mich. L. Rev. 683 (2007). Winkler argues, correctly, that judicial acceptance of an individual-rights interpretation of the Second Amendment would not end all firearms regulation. However, Winkler's understanding of what constitutes "reasonable regulation" is excessively broad. In "Guns and Gay Sex," I look at two overlapping lines of Tennessee cases on the right to arms and the right to privacy and conclude that even a "reasonable regulation" model of the right …

The Collective Right Of Indigenous Peoples To Self-Determination In Accordance With The United Nations Declaration On The Rights Of Indigenous Peoples, Lena-Katharina Skandera

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples was adopted by the General Assembly on 13 September 2007, after more than twenty years of negotiations between states, indigenous representatives, lawyers, and academics. Although the resulting document is controversial and complex in its treatment of several important issues, its ambiguous characterization of the collective legal right of indigenous peoples to self-determination has been chosen as the focus of this work because it is the primary right from which all other rights, and problems, are derived. The work commences with a critique of the position held by certain states that the categorization …

The Texas-Size Struggle To Implement Atkins V. Virginia, Sarah Gail Tuthill

Texas Wesleyan Law Review

This Comment will analyze the persisting area of divide that is responsible for delaying the Texas Legislature's implementation of Atkins. First, it will look at how the differing procedural approaches represent the larger political issues in the pro- and anti-death penalty debate surrounding the Texas Legislature's original pre-Atkins attempts to implement a ban on the execution of mentally retarded offenders. Additionally, it will provide a high-level overview of bills introduced since Atkins was decided, focusing on the most contentious issues that persisted from those attempts. It will also review how the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has answered some of …

Maternal Disturbance In Activated Sphingolipid Metabolism Causes Pregnancy Loss In Mice, Kiyomi Mizugishi, Cuiling Li, Ana Olivera, Jacek Bielawski, Alicja Bielawska, Chu-Xia Deng, Richard L. Proia

MUSC Faculty Journal Articles

Uterine decidualization, a process that occurs in response to embryo implantation, is critical for embryonic survival and thus is a key event for successful pregnancy. Here we show that the sphingolipid metabolic pathway is highly activated in the deciduum during pregnancy and disturbance of the pathway by disruption of sphingosine kinase (Sphk) genes causes defective decidualization with severely compromised uterine blood vessels, leading to early pregnancy loss. Sphk-deficient female mice (Sphk1–/–Sphk2+/–) exhibited both an enormous accumulation of dihydrosphingosine and sphingosine and a reduction in phosphatidylethanolamine levels in pregnant uteri. These mice also revealed increased cell death in decidual cells, decreased …

A Critical Assessment Of The Impact Of World Heritage Site Designation In Sub-Saharan Africa, Lauren Blacik

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

Archaeological associations and development agencies alike are celebrating the recent effort by the World Heritage Committee to inscribe as many African sites as fast as it can onto its List recognizing the heritage with the highest universal value to our collective human history. While it seems an obvious move of equality, in reality, this flurry of inscription is doing untold damage to African sites. Issues of local involvement in site management have not been resolved or streamlined, so site designation exposes communities to degradation of their traditions and values. Likewise, traditional management practices have not been institutionalized, often stripping sites …

News From The Flock, Vol. 2007 Issue 7, Sperry-Galligar Audubon Society

Sperry-Galligar Audubon Society Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Requests Of Brown By Lc Classification: October 2007, Ruth E.. Souto

HELIN Monthly Loan Statistics

Requests of Brown from other HELIN libraries - October 2007.

Book Review On Lance Larsen's In All Their Animal Brilliance, Chris Straubhaar

Inscape

No abstract provided.

Gardy Loo 2007 Fall

Gardy Loo, 2000-09

No abstract provided.

“Creatures Of Mimic And Imitation”: The Liberty Tree, Black Elections, And The Politicization Of African Ceremonial Space In Revolutionary Newport, Rhode Island, Edward E. Andrews

History & Classics Faculty Publications

The article explains how African slaves changed the colonial space of 18th century Newport, Rhode Island by transporting and preserving cultural and political concepts and codes. African slaves who came directly to Newport frequently came from the Gold Coast and consisted of Mandingo, Mende, Ibo, Ashanti and Fante peoples. Although the city's black population came from various regions and groups, its Africans could draw on a common cultural vocabulary that gave trees a sacred, and even cosmic, importance.