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Wal-Mart Bank In Mexico: Money To The Masses And The Home-Host Hole, Anna Gelpern
Wal-Mart Bank In Mexico: Money To The Masses And The Home-Host Hole, Anna Gelpern
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
In November 2006 Wal-Mart's Mexican subsidiary received approval to open a bank. The application faced little opposition in Mexico, unlike the company's failed effort to start a bank in the United States. This was partly because in Mexico, Wal-Mart's entry was generally regarded as increasing competition in a historically concentrated banking sector. With over three-quarters of all Mexicans unbanked, the authorities also looked to Wal-Mart to reach the underserved. Along with the promise, Wal-Mart's entry presents a transnational regulatory dilemma with implications beyond Wal-Mart and Mexico. Because it is Wal-Mart's only banking venture, the new institution will have its Mexican …
Online Reinforcement Learning Neural Network Controller Design For Nanomanipulation, Qinmin Yang, Jagannathan Sarangapani
Online Reinforcement Learning Neural Network Controller Design For Nanomanipulation, Qinmin Yang, Jagannathan Sarangapani
Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works
In this paper, a novel reinforcement learning neural network (NN)-based controller, referred to adaptive critic controller, is proposed for affine nonlinear discrete-time systems with applications to nanomanipulation. In the online NN reinforcement learning method, one NN is designated as the critic NN, which approximates the long-term cost function by assuming that the states of the nonlinear systems is available for measurement. An action NN is employed to derive an optimal control signal to track a desired system trajectory while minimizing the cost function. Online updating weight tuning schemes for these two NNs are also derived. By using the Lyapunov approach, …
The Multiple Meanings Of Domestic Violence: A Constructivist Inquiry, Monica Rene' Leisey
The Multiple Meanings Of Domestic Violence: A Constructivist Inquiry, Monica Rene' Leisey
Theses and Dissertations
Spurred by the work of the Battered Women's Movement, domestic violence has been responded to since it emerged as a problem in the 1970s. At first the response was providing places for victims to stay and recover from the violence while also providing opportunities for consciousness raising and empowerment work. As domestic violence became a more recognized problem, policies were created and enacted to end the problem. Through the 1980s and 1990s, changes in federal policies in regards to domestic violence were incorporated. The criminal justice system began incorporating such policies as mandatory arrest and no-drop prosecution policies as well …
Renewing Manchester: A Supportive Life Skills Center For Manchester's Most Underprivileged Residents, Jennifer Lynne Hamilton
Renewing Manchester: A Supportive Life Skills Center For Manchester's Most Underprivileged Residents, Jennifer Lynne Hamilton
Theses and Dissertations
In America today, many people have fallen into sub-standard housing situations. Domestic violence, drug abuse, and lack of educational and employment opportunities are a few of the myriad reasons for this. On average the number of homeless people in the greater Richmond area is 5,200 individuals.1 These are people specifically in need of a re-integration into society.This thesis examines the role that the built environment can play in this process, by providing a sustainable, affordable and flexible site for a program that encourages people to rise above their current state by "recycling" them into better more productive citizens. The intent …
The Art Of Collaboration In The Classroom: Team Teaching Performance, Julie K. Phillips
The Art Of Collaboration In The Classroom: Team Teaching Performance, Julie K. Phillips
Theses and Dissertations
The Art of Collaboration in the Classroom: Team Teaching Performance is a co-written masters thesis which records our research in the field of team teaching as it relates to theatre education at the university level. It is our intent that this text be used as a tool for helping universities and teachers decide if a collaborative teaching model is right for their courses. A portion of the text is research-based, examining the scholarly writings which have preceded our work. In Chapter 1, we compiled a set of definitions, in the hopes of codifying the language used within this document as …
Seeing It Straight, Heather Harvey
Seeing It Straight, Heather Harvey
Theses and Dissertations
This Master of Fine Arts thesis is divided into four main sections:FAITH and DISBELIEF: In which I reckon with the implications of faith versus rationality as a secular nontheistic artist. IDEAS: The central locus of my work is a place of indeterminacy between what is known/familiar and what is just one step outside of that. This has nothing to do with mysticism, science fiction, or anything else unmoored from established fact. Section also touches on the particular vantage of a female artist with working class roots.THE WORK: Selection of work made during graduate school, and the the guiding thoughts behind …
Breadfruit Fantasies, Matthew Steven Spahr
Breadfruit Fantasies, Matthew Steven Spahr
Theses and Dissertations
Breadfuit is a strange thing. It's a starchy potato-like sustenance not particularly noteworthy by most accounts. But it's history is amazing, an epic journey. Relocated from the Samoan island of Upalu to Oahu, Hawaii in the 12th Century as well as transplanted from Tahiti, as an economical food source for slaves in the West Indies in 1780 the lowly breadfruit has been held in the hands of Fletcher Christian, Captain Bligh, James Cook, King Kamehameha and innumerous other nameless individuals including Matt Spahr. This fruit contains the weight of colonialism, capitalism, exploration and tropical fantasy under its skin. The collision …
Editor's Introduction America’S First Feral Hog War, Michael R. Conover
Editor's Introduction America’S First Feral Hog War, Michael R. Conover
Human–Wildlife Interactions
No abstract provided.
Charter Dialogue Revisited: Or "Much Ado About Metaphors", Peter W. Hogg, Allison A. Bushell Thornton, Wade K. Wright
Charter Dialogue Revisited: Or "Much Ado About Metaphors", Peter W. Hogg, Allison A. Bushell Thornton, Wade K. Wright
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
This article is a sequel to the 1997 article "The Charter Dialogue Between Courts and Legislatures (Or Perhaps The Charter of Rights Isn't Such A Bad Thing After All)." In the present article, the authors review various academic critiques of their "dialogue" theory, which postulates that Charter decisions striking down laws are not the last word, but rather the beginning of a "dialogue," because legislative bodies are generally able to (and generally do) enact sequel legislation that accomplishes the main objective of the unconstitutional law. The authors also examine the Supreme Court of Canada's dicta on the "dialogue" phenomenon, and …
Book Notes: Are Judges Political?: An Empirical Analysis Of The Federal Judiciary, By Cass R. Sunstein, David Schkade, Lisa M. Ellman And Andreas Sawicki, Dean Ardron
Osgoode Hall Law Journal
No abstract provided.
How Does "Equal Liberty" Fare In Relation To Other Approaches To The Religion Clauses?, Kent Greenawalt
How Does "Equal Liberty" Fare In Relation To Other Approaches To The Religion Clauses?, Kent Greenawalt
Faculty Scholarship
As one of four contributors to an issue celebrating Christopher Eisgruber and Lawrence Sager's Religious Freedom and the Constitution, I have chosen to write an Essay that differs from an ordinary review. I compare the authors' approach with two other recent formulations of what should be central for the jurisprudence of the Religion Clauses. Since I have recently published my own treatment of the Free Exercise Clause, and a second volume on the Establishment Clause is in the pipeline toward publication, I do not here present my own positive views (though I provide references for interested readers). Those views …
Bible Software, Michael Bain
Bible Software, Michael Bain
The Christian Librarian
This article is a statement of unbridled praise for the present state of software available for Bible studies, particularly in the use of the Biblical text in its original languages and alphabets. After giving examples of various products related to Bible study, the article turns to descriptions and comparisons of three programs, Gramcord, Logos, and BibleWorks.
The Beginnings Of A Small Ethiopian, Organizational Leadership Library Collaborative, Evelyn Shimazu Yee
The Beginnings Of A Small Ethiopian, Organizational Leadership Library Collaborative, Evelyn Shimazu Yee
The Christian Librarian
An Azusa Pacific University Reference Librarian describes the logistical, cultural, and spiritual aspects of a library building journey to Ethiopia which brought the means for a successful implementation of a new small academic library to hundreds of university students in the African country. Discusses the positive impact of the Christian global community on the university’s global distributed learning programs, the academic program in Ethiopia included well-attended Organizational Leadership courses through the university’s Operation Impact Program supported by the new library.
Resource Reviews, Phyllis Fox
William Tyndale As An Evangelical Theologian, Donald Dean Smeeton Ph.D.
William Tyndale As An Evangelical Theologian, Donald Dean Smeeton Ph.D.
The Christian Librarian
William Tyndale is rightly remembered as a sixteenth century Bible translator, but he was also a significant contributor to the formation of the English language and, more importantly, he was a theologian. This article highlights Tyndale’s contribution in each of these three areas and shows that his theology is compatible with ACL’s Statement of Faith. His theology motivated and guided his work as a translator and as a polemical and exegetical theologian.
Resource Reviews, Phyllis Fox
Resource Reviews, Phyllis Fox
Performance Prediction Based Resource Selection In Grid Environments, Peggy Lindner, Edgar Gabriel, Michael M. Resch
Performance Prediction Based Resource Selection In Grid Environments, Peggy Lindner, Edgar Gabriel, Michael M. Resch
Engineering Management and Systems Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works
Deploying Grid technologies by distributing an application over several machines has been widely used for scientific simulations, which have large requirements for computational resources. The Grid Configuration Manager (GCM) is a tool developed to ease the management of scientific applications in distributed environments and to hide some of the complexities of Grids from the end-user. In this paper we present an extension to the Grid Configuration Manager in order to incorporate a performance-based resource brokering mechanism. Given a pool of machines and a trace file containing information about the runtime characteristics of the according application, GCM is able to select …
The Council Of Europe Addresses Cia Rendition And Detention Program, Monica Hakimi
The Council Of Europe Addresses Cia Rendition And Detention Program, Monica Hakimi
Faculty Scholarship
In November 2005, the U.S. media reported that the Central Intelligence Agency was operating secret detention facilities in a handful of foreign countries, including two in eastern Europe, and that detainees were often transferred between those facilities and states known to engage in torture. The news that terrorism suspects may have been denied their human rights in member states of the Council of Europe caused concern within the Council and triggered several responses. Within days of the media reports, the Council's Parliamentary Assembly appointed a rapporteur to investigate the extent to which member states were participating in the CIA program. …
2007 Spring - Veterans Upward Bound Newsletter, Veterans Upward Bound, East Tennessee State University
2007 Spring - Veterans Upward Bound Newsletter, Veterans Upward Bound, East Tennessee State University
Veterans Upward Bound Newsletters
No abstract provided.
China's Courts: Restricted Reform, Benjamin L. Liebman
China's Courts: Restricted Reform, Benjamin L. Liebman
Faculty Scholarship
Recent developments in China’s courts reflect a paradox largely avoided in literature on the subject: Can China’s courts play an effective role in a non-democratic governmental system? Changes to courts’ formal authority have been limited, courts still struggle to address basic impediments to serving as fair adjudicators of disputes, and courts continue to be subject to Communist Party oversight. Courts have also confronted new challenges, in particular pressure from media reports and popular protests. At the same time, however, the Party-state has permitted, and at times encouraged, both significant ground-up development of the courts and expanded use of the courts …
Relationship Between Problem Behaviors, Function, And Adaptive Skills In Individuals With Intellectual Disabilities, Noha Farrah Minshawi
Relationship Between Problem Behaviors, Function, And Adaptive Skills In Individuals With Intellectual Disabilities, Noha Farrah Minshawi
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
The problem behaviors of self-injury, aggression, and stereotypies are among the most troubling and difficult to treat behaviors in individuals with intellectual disability (ID). One factor that has been implicated in the etiology and maintenance of problem behaviors in individuals with ID is adaptive skills deficits. However, the nature of the relationship between problem behaviors and adaptive skills deficits is not well understood. This relationship was assessed in two experiments. In Experiment 1, the researcher found an inverse, curvilinear relationship between problem behaviors (as identified by the Behavior Problems Inventory; BPI), and adaptive skills (as measured by the Vineland Adaptive …
International Human Rights: An Overview: Annual Vanderbilt Address To The New Jersey Alumni Of Harvard Law School, Hon. James R. Zazzali
International Human Rights: An Overview: Annual Vanderbilt Address To The New Jersey Alumni Of Harvard Law School, Hon. James R. Zazzali
Seton Hall Law Review
No abstract provided.
English-Only Policies In The Workplace: Disparate Impact Compared To The Eeoc Guidelines, Melissa Meitus
English-Only Policies In The Workplace: Disparate Impact Compared To The Eeoc Guidelines, Melissa Meitus
Denver Law Review
No abstract provided.
Review Of Napoleon And The British, Donald J. Herzog
Review Of Napoleon And The British, Donald J. Herzog
Reviews
Was he fascinating or repulsive? The bold courier of republican liberty under law or the scabrous carrier of lethal Jacobin corruption? Heaven-sent deliverer or providential scourge? Even his name was up for grabs: was it Bonaparte or Buonaparte? One need only dip into contemporary sources to realize that the British were obsessed with Napoleon. Stuart Semmel has done a first-rate job combing through those sources and using them to illuminate political culture. (Semmel does not offer the primary quotations I will use here. I offer them for fun, or to pile on with glee, and not at all to reproach …
The Viability Of Guantanamo Bay Detainees' Alien Tort Statute Claims Seeking Damages For Violations Of The International Law Against Arbitrary Detention, Irena Nikolic
Seton Hall Law Review
No abstract provided.
Beyond Borders: Cafta's Role In Shaping Labor Standards In Free Trade Agreements, Lyndsay D. Speece
Beyond Borders: Cafta's Role In Shaping Labor Standards In Free Trade Agreements, Lyndsay D. Speece
Seton Hall Law Review
No abstract provided.
Legal Commitments And Religious Commitments, Jospeh Vining
Legal Commitments And Religious Commitments, Jospeh Vining
Articles
In his elegant and accessible new book, Law's Quandary, Steven Smith groups our various senses of what is real for us into ontological families: the mundane; the scientific, including mathematics; and the religious. These supply "lumberyards," as it were, for thought and discussion about the world and action in it. Law itself is not one of them. Those involved in law, as citizens or professionals practicing law or speaking for or about law, are presented in the book as looking out from law to the ontological resources available in the lumberyards he describes.
Disordered Eating Behaviors Among Collegiate Athletes, Stephanie Milbradt Marchand
Disordered Eating Behaviors Among Collegiate Athletes, Stephanie Milbradt Marchand
Open Access Dissertations
The purpose of this study was to examine the rates of disordered eating behaviors among collegiate athletes at a Division I university and to evaluate environmental factors that influence these behaviors. The study also examined whether athletes with more disordered eating behaviors assess and respond to environmental factors differently than athletes with fewer disordered eating behaviors. The student-athletes completed an Athlete's Questionnaire; the Body Dissatisfaction, Drive for Thinness, and Bulimia subscales of the Eating Disorder Inventory-2; and the Eating Attitude Test-26. Coaches and athletic trainers completed either a Coach's or Athletic Trainer's Questionnaire. Focus groups with athletes, coaches, and athletic …
Latino Clients' Perspectives On Mental Health Services Provided At A Local Community Health Center, Natalie K. Bellman
Latino Clients' Perspectives On Mental Health Services Provided At A Local Community Health Center, Natalie K. Bellman
Open Access Dissertations
The aim of this study was to investigate the perspectives of Latino clients at a community health center regarding various aspects of the mental health services they were receiving. The sharing of the perspectives of these individuals allows their collective voice to be heard in order to provide justification for the necessary systemic changes to occur so that they can have access to the mental health services that best meet their needs. A qualitative, phenomenological research design utilizing an interview guide was used to allow the researcher the opportunity to hear first-hand from individuals about their own perspectives, and allow …