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Annual Town Report. Haverhill, New Hampshire. 2006., Haverhill Town Representatives

Haverhill, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

Annual Report. Town Of Center Harbor, New Hampshire For Year Ending December 31, 2006, Center Harbor Town Representatives

Center Harbor, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

Annual Report Of The Officers Of The Town Of Orford, New Hampshire For The Year Ending December 31, 2006., Orford Town Representatives

Orford, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

Annual Report Of The Officers And Committees Of The Town Of Brookline, New Hampshire For The Year Ending December 31, 2006 With Reports Of The School District For Year Ending June 30, 2006., Brookline Town Representatives

Brookline, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

Town Of Sullivan, New Hampshire Annual Report For The Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2006., Sullivan Town Representatives

Sullivan, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

Temple, New Hampshire 2006 Annual Report For The Year Ending December 31, 2006., Temple Town Representatives

Temple, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

Annual Report For The Town Of Bristol, New Hampshire Fiscal Year Ending December 31, 2006., Bristol Town Representatives

Bristol, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

Town Of Brentwood. Annual Town And School District Reports For The Year Ending December 31, 2006., Brentwood Town Representatives

Brentwood, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

Annual Report Of The Town Of Sanbornton, New Hampshire For The Year Ending December 31, 2006., Sanbornton Town Representatives

Sanbornton, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

The Pivotal Role Of The Corporate General Counsel In Promoting Corporate Integrity And Professional Responsibility, Sarah Helene Duggin

Scholarly Articles

Part I of this article begins with an overview of the history of the corporate general counsel position and then outlines formal and informal roles contemporary general counsel play, concluding with a discussion of the importance of a broad vision of the role in fostering corporate integrity and professional ethics. Part II looks at the responsibilities of general counsel in connection withSarbanes-Oxley and the 2003 amendments to the Model Rules of Professional

Conduct.

Part III focuses on two areas that merit careful consideration concerning the role of general counsel in the struggle to promote corporate integrity and professional responsibility. The …

Corporate Social Responsibility, Sonia R. Zafar

Honors Capstones

The purpose of this study is to take a closer look at the debate about corporate social responsibility (CSR) and the emerging importance of such initiatives in the modem business environment. This study sought to answer the question of whether corporate social responsibility is an attainable goal or not? In addition, this study sought to determine whether corporate social responsibility produces tangible benefits for a firm. This study uses examples of businesses such as Wal-Mart, Shell, McDonalds, and British Petroleum to illustrate how implementations of CSR initiatives enhance a company's financial and non-financial metrics. The study also examines reasons why …

Repatriation Of Cultural Objects To Indigenous Peoples: A Comparative Analysis Of U.S. And Canadian Law, Elizabeth M. Koehler

The International Lawyer

No abstract provided.

International Standards For Managing Emerging And Re-Emerging Zoonoses Of Public Health Significance: A Call For Horizontal Collaboration Between Intergovernmental Organizations, Tyson Wanjura

The International Lawyer

No abstract provided.

Islamic Finance In A Global Context: Opportunities And Challenges, Theodore Karasik, Frederic Wehrey, Steven Strom

Chicago Journal of International Law

Despite this scope and imprint on the global economy, Islamic finance remains poorly understood at both the theoretical and practical level. Moreover, despite a number of recent optimistic trends, Islamic finance faces several ideological and structural challenges to full integration in the globalized economy. This Article aims to illuminate these challenges and provide a general overview of contemporary Islamic financial theories and practices. The first section concentrates on the size of the world's Muslim population, the size of Muslim economies, and concepts of Islamic finance itself. The second section examines Muslim beliefs related to contemporary corporate finance. The third section …

Compensation For An Obligation To Sell Currency In The Future (Hedging), Nazih Hammad

Chicago Journal of International Law

This Article establishes a Shari'ah ruling for an important contemporary issue that has been the subject of much inquiry: whether Islamic law permits forward currency contracts (that is, hedging against currency risk). Specifically, this Article addresses what happens when a financial institution offers an obligation to sell or buy a specific currency at a specified time in the future at a pre-determined rate of exchange in return for a specified amount, regardless of whether the buyer decides to proceed with the exchange contract. Is it lawful for the client (a trader, manufacturing company, Islamic bank, government, or other transaction participant) …

Methanex V. United States: The Realignment Of Nafta Chapter 11 With Environmental Regulation, Kara Dougherty

Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business

In July 1999, the Canadian firm Methanex Corporation ("Methanex") notified the United States of its intention to seek approximately $1 billion in damages for the United States's alleged breach of Chapter 11 of the North American Free Trade Agreement ("NAFTA"). NAFTA, a trilateral agreement among the United States, Canada and Mexico (the "Parties"), gives private, foreign investors from each country the right to bring claims against another Party under certain circumstances. Methanex claimed a California measure banning the use of the gasoline additive MTBE discriminated against and expropriated its investments. The case of Methanex v. United States highlights two unintended …

The Equivalence Approach To Securities Regulation, Tzung-Bor Wei

Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business

It is undisputed that the world's financial markets are becoming increasingly international and increasingly integrated. "How should regulators respond?" is a hotly contested issue. Academic literature debates two competing approaches to international securities regulation--"harmonization" and "regulatory competition." Harmonization is the idea that rules and regulations should be standardized across countries as much as possible. Countries may achieve harmonization by ceding lawmaking authority to an international body or agency; alternatively, countries may agree to enact similar rules through their normal, domestic rule-promulgating procedures. In contrast to the harmonization approach stands the regulatory competition approach. Under this model, countries do not coordinate …

Legal Hurdles To Developing Wind Power As An Alternative Energy Source In The United States: Creative And Comparative Solutions, Adam M. Dinnell, Adam J. Russ

Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business

This article discusses how parties have used current domestic environmental laws to curb the development of a more "environmentally-friendly" alternative energy source: wind power. As the ever-increasing demand for oil and petroleum around the world leads to rising costs throughout the nation, investing in new energy sources is considered crucial to sustainable development in the United States. Wind power has the potential to serve as a clean, efficient, and renewable source of energy in the 21st Century. The further development of wind power could create a meaningful alternative energy supply, relaxing geopolitical and economic concerns over this country's strict century-old …

Burden Of Proof And The Prima Facie Case: The Evolving History And Its Applications In The Wto Jurisprudence, Ho Cheol Kim

Richmond Journal of Global Law & Business

No abstract provided.

Tourist Trap: On Being Raised In Award-Winning Sand, Catherine Jane Carson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The literary essays in this collection explore the relationships between mind, body, and environment as the narrator explores Orlando, her beachfront hometown of Sarasota, and other "tourist traps." The traditional and experimental essays here question how residents make popular vacation destinations their own and how much trust one can put in strangers, neighbors, city planners, theme-park designers, and lovers. Dance floors, hybrid bikes, flying elephants, swing sets, and swimming pools fill these pages. Worries spiral like disco lights on dance floors, and cultural forces press down with the constant pressure of pedal strokes. With the embodiment of place comes connection …

Gendered Support Strategies Of The Elderly In The Gwembe Valley, Zambia, Lisa Cliggett

Anthropology Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Balancing The Release Of Public Information During An Animal Disease Outbreak, Melanie Wilt

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.

Simulation: From Initial Diagnosis To Three Days After, Charles Buck P. Adams, Kenneth Baca, Thomas Brisker, Leah C. Dorman

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.

Victims Of Climate Change And Their Standing To Sue: Why The Northern District Of California Got It Right, Joseph M. Stancati

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.

The Challenges Of International Criminal Prosecutions In Africa, Okechukwu Oko

Fordham International Law Journal

This article evaluates the problems and challenges of international criminal prosecutions in Africa.Part I examines the values of criminal prosecution. It examines whether international criminal prosecutions can be used as a vehicle to contribute to "national reconciliation and to the restoration and maintenance of peace." I concede that punishing perpetrators of evil is definitively a viable mechanism for combating impunity. In appropriate cases, the criminal process can be deployed to engineer compliance with the law and to deter would-be perpetrators of evil. I argue, however, that the objectives of using criminal prosecution to reestablish social equilibrium and promote reconciliation, though …

Seeing The Forest For The Treaties: The Evolving Debates On Forest And Forestry Activities Under The Clean Development Mechanism Ten Years After The Kyoto Protocol, Romulo Silveira Da Rocha Sampaio

Fordham International Law Journal

This Article focuses on the evolving debates concerning jointly implemented forest and forestry activities. More specifically, this Article focuses on forest and forestry activities under the Clean Development Mechanism ("CDM"). The 1997 Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ("Kyoto Protocol") effectively created the project-based flexibility mechanisms that would allow for joint implementation of policies and measures under the climate change legal regime. Article 6 envisioned joint implementation (between developed countries and economies in transition), and Article 12 envisioned the CDM (between developed and developing countries). The overall objective of this Article is to identify the …

Modeling And Partitioning The Nucleotide Evolutionary Process For Phylogenetic And Comparative Genomic Inference, Todd Castoe

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The transformation of genomic data into functionally relevant information about the composition of biological systems hinges critically on the field of computational genome biology, at the core of which lies comparative genomics. The aim of comparative genomics is to extract meaningful functional information from the differences and similarities observed across genomes of different organisms. We develop and test a novel framework for applying complex models of nucleotide evolution to solve phylogenetic and comparative genomic problems, and demonstrate that these techniques are crucial for accurate comparative evolutionary inferences. Additionally, we conduct an exploratory study using vertebrate mitochondrial genomes as a model …

N-Acetylaspartate In The Cns: From Neurodiagnostics To Neurobiology, John R. Moffett, Brian Ross, Peethambaran Arun, Chikkathur N. Madhavarao, Aryan M. A. Namboodiri

Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

The brain is unique among organs in many respects, including its mechanisms of lipid synthesis and energy production. The nervous systemspecific metabolite N-acetylaspartate (NAA), which is synthesized from aspartate and acetyl-coenzyme A in neurons, appears to be a key link in these distinct biochemical features of CNS metabolism. During early postnatal central nervous system (CNS) development, the expression of lipogenic enzymes in oligodendrocytes, including the NAA-degrading enzyme aspartoacylase (ASPA), is increased along with increased NAA production in neurons. NAA is transported from neurons to the cytoplasm of oligodendrocytes, where ASPA cleaves the acetate moiety for use in fatty acid …

The Prohibition Against Torture And Cruel, Inhuman, And Degrading Treatment And Punishment: Can The Absolute Be Relativized Under Existing International Law?, Yuval Shany

Catholic University Law Review

No abstract provided.

Environmental Controls On The Landscape-Scale Biogeography Of Stream Bacterial Communities, Noah Fierer, Jennifer L. Morse, Sean T. Berthrong, Emily S. Bernhardt, Robert B. Jackson

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

We determined the biogeographical distributions of stream bacteria and the biogeochemical factors that best explained heterogeneity for 23 locations within the Hubbard Brook watershed, a 3000-ha forested watershed in New Hampshire, USA. Our goal was to assess the factor, or set of factors, responsible for generating the biogeographical patterns exhibited by microorganisms at the landscape scale. We used DNA fingerprinting to characterize bacteria inhabiting fine benthic organic matter (FBOM) because of their important influence on stream nutrient dynamics. Across the watershed, streams of similar pH had similar FBOM bacterial communities. Streamwater pH was the single variable most strongly correlated with …