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Limerickshaws: The Grand Finale, David Morice

Word Ways

In the last issue of Word Ways, Kickshaws became Limerickshaws, a special edition celebrating the 100^th anniversary of the 1907 British Limerick Craze. The column began with 28 words found using Google. Each of the words referred to limericks, and each began with an L. Similarly the words above refer to limericks, but they begin with letters other than L. Most of them are terms that writers have made up to refer to invented forms.

Prism #24, September 2007, Office Of The Provost

Prism: Western Michigan University's Newsletter for Academic Affairs

No abstract provided.

Blood Relatives: Language, Immigration, And Education Of Ethnic Returnees In Germany And Japan, Debora Hinderliter Ortloff, Christopher J. Frey

School of Educational Foundations, Leadership and Policy Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Created Facts And The Flawed Ontology Of Copyright Law, Justin Hughes

Notre Dame Law Review

It is black letter doctrine that facts are not copyrightable: facts are discovered, not created—so they will always lack the originality needed for copyright protection. As straightforward as this reasoning seems, it is fundamentally flawed. Using the “social facts” theory of philosopher John Searle, this Article explores a variety of “created facts” cases—designation systems, systematic evaluations, and privately written laws—in which original expression from private individuals is adopted by social convention and generates facts in our social reality. In the course of this discussion, the paper places facts in their historical and philosophical context, explores how courts conflate facts with …

Download Full Pdf Issue Of Thomas Jefferson University Mph Public Health Link Newsletter, Vol. 3, Iss. 9, November/December 2007

Public Health Link

This issue includes: Jefferson’s MPH Program Active at the American Public Health Association (APHA) Meeting in Washington, D.C., an article written by Dr. Plumb "Homelessness—Care, Prevention and Public Policy", announcing new thesis presenters, Jefferson MPH Program Director, Dr. Simmons, Elected President of the Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE), announcing the New MPH Program Coordinator, and the First MPH Faculty and Community Advisory Board Dinner.

An Equal Protection Standard For National Origin Classifications: The Context That Matters, Jenny Rivera

Washington Law Review

The Supreme Court has stated, "[c]ontext matters when reviewing race-based governmental action under the Equal Protection Clause."' Judicial review of legislative race-based classifications has been dominated by the context of the United States' history of race-based oppression and consideration of the effects of institutional racism. Racial context has also dominated judicial review of legislative classifications based on national origin. This pattern is seen, for example, in challenges to government affirmative action programs that define Latinos according to national origin subclasses. As a matter of law, these national origin-based classifications, like race-based classifications, are subject to strict scrutiny and can only …

The Pan American (2007-11-01), Sandra Gonzalez

UTPA Archives - The Pan American Newspaper

58th Year, No. 10

Magnet Attractions, Lehigh Valley Health Network

Magnet Attractions

No abstract provided.

November 1, 2007, University Of North Dakota

University Senate Meeting Minutes

Minutes from the November 1, 2007, meeting of the University Senate. 13 pages

Revolutionary Peacemaking: Using A Critical Pedagogy Approach For Peacemaking With "Terrorists", Steven Best, Peter Mclaren, Anthony J. Nocella Ii

Education Faculty Articles and Research

"The current global political atmosphere is steeped in fear of, and intense rhetoric about, political violence and "terrorism." Amidst this turbulent environment, it is clear that scholars and practitioners need to get beyond the manufactured fear and the hysterical rhetoric, peddled by what we call the corporate-state-military-media complex (or simply, the "power complex"), and instead seek a deeper understanding of political groups that defend or deploy the tactics of economic sabotage (property destruction) or armed struggle in order to change repressive and violent social structures (Best and Nocella 2004; Best and Nocella 2006). Such understanding is important to slow down …

The Textual Construction Of Femininity In Women's Fitness Magazines, Tracy Lynn Rundstrom Williams

Linguistics & TESOL Dissertations - Archive

Women in the first decade of the 21st century encounter competing ideologies of traditional femininity and empowered femininity. Language, in particular Discourse Analysis, provides a means for investigating what these ideologies, or discourses, are and how they are perpetuated. One source of language which encodes and perpetuates ideologies of femininity is women's magazines. As pervasive, monthly texts directed specifically at women, women's magazines provide a rich source of contemporary ideologies of femininity. Given the rise of health and fitness magazines over the past 20 years, it appears that one primary focus of contemporary femininity is the body. Previous research has …

Marie Cardinal: New Perspectives (Book Review), Claire Marrone

Languages Faculty Publications

Book review by Claire Marrone.

Webb, Emma, ed. Marie Cardinal: New Perspectives. Bern, Switzerland; New York: Peter Lang, 2006. ISBN 9783039105442

Afghanistan: Regaining Momentum, Ali A. Jalali

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.

Faculty Senate Chronicle For November 1, 2007, Richard Stratton

The University of Akron Faculty Senate Chronicle

Minutes of the regular meeting of The University of Akron Faculty Senate on November 7, 2007.

Aleksov's "Religious Dissent Between The Modern And The National: Nazarenes In Hungary And Serbia 1850-1914" - Book Review, Angéla Ilić

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.

University Reporter - Volume 12, Number 03 - November 2007

1996-2009, University Reporter

This issue of the University Reporter includes articles about the University's master planning process, an anti-homelessness project run by a senior research associate at the McCormack Graduate School of Policy Studies (John McGah), the establishment of a Creative Writing MFA program at the University, the opening of the Spencer House in Roxbury’s Egleston Square (names for UMass Lecturer Marian Spencer, and other news from UMass Boston.

Inter-Ethnic Marriages, The Survival Of Women, And The Logics Of Genocide In Rwanda, Anuradha Chakravarty

Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal

This article focuses on the gendered dimensions of the genocide in Rwanda. It seeks to explain why Tutsi women married to Hutu men appeared to have better chances of survival than Tutsi women married to Tutsi men or even Hutu women married to Tutsi men. Based on data from a field site in southwest Rwanda, the findings and insights offered here draw on the gendered, racial, and operational dynamics of the genocide as it unfolded between April and July 1994.

Africom's Dilemma: The "Global War On Terrorism" "Capacity Building," Humanitarianism, And The Future Of U.S. Security Policy In Africa, Robert G. Berschinski Mr.

Books, Monographs & Collaborative Studies

Africa is a continent of growing economic, social, political, and geostrategic importance. The establishment of a new Combatant Command for Africa–AFRICOM–marks an important milestone in the evolution of relations between the United States and the governments of Africa. Through AFRICOM, the U.S. Department of Defense will consolidate the efforts of three existing command headquarters as it seeks a more stable environment for political and economic growth in Africa. In line with this goal, AFRICOM is pioneering a bold new method of military engagement focused on war prevention, interagency cooperation, and development rather than on traditional war fighting. The author contends …

Factors Influencing Cancer Screening Practices Of Underserved Women, Kelly Ackerson, Kimberlee A. Gretebeck

College of Nursing Faculty Research and Publications

Purpose: This integrated review was conducted to evaluate the factors that inhibit or promote decisions by African American and Hispanic women to obtain cervical cancer screening.

Data sources: Research articles were identified using MEDLINE, PubMed, and Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health literature, published between 1999 and 2005.

Conclusions: Cervical cancer screening practices of African American and Hispanic women were influenced by extrinsic motivators including lack of insurance, no usual source of health care, acculturation, and socioeconomic factors. Intrinsic motivators were related to beliefs and perceptions of vulnerability, such as ignoring cervical cancer screening when no symptoms were present; …

The Origins Of Shared Intuitions Of Justice, Owen D. Jones, Paul H. Robinson, Robert Kurzban

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

Contrary to the common wisdom among criminal law scholars, empirical evidence reveals that people's intuitions of justice are often specific, nuanced, and widely shared. Indeed, with regard to the core harms and evils to which criminal law addresses itself-physical aggression, takings without consent, and deception in transactions-the shared intuitions are stunningly consistent across cultures as well as demographics. It is puzzling that judgments of moral blameworthiness, which seem so complex and subjective, reflect such a remarkable consensus. What could explain this striking result?

The authors theorize that one explanation may be an evolved predisposition toward these shared intuitions of justice, …

Exclusion Confusion? A Defense Of The Federal Circuit's Specific Exclusion Jurisprudence, Peter Curtis Magic

Michigan Law Review

Specific exclusion has become a controversial limitation on the doctrine of equivalents, which is itself an essential and controversial area of patent law. The doctrine of equivalents allows a patentee to successfully claim infringement against devices that are outside of the literal reach of the language used by the patentee in her patent to describe what she claims as her invention. The Supreme Court has prescribed some of the outer limits of the doctrine of equivalents and articulated the underlying policy concerns that inform its analysis-noting that courts should balance protection of the patentee's intellectual property with the public's reasonable …

Conspiracy To Commit Poetry: Empathetic Lawyering At Guantanamo Bay, Marc Falkoff

Seattle Journal for Social Justice

No abstract provided.

In Defence Of Gender Neutrality Within Rape, Philip N.S. Rumney

Seattle Journal for Social Justice

No abstract provided.

Citing The Elite: The Burden Of Authorial Anxiety, Shane Tintle

Duke Law Journal

Academic legal writing is known for extensive citation. Generally, scholars who study citation practices are increasingly likely to link citation with authors' attempts to manage their impression. This Note offers an explanation of why authors of law review articles use citation as a means of managing impression. It combines a historical analysis that shows why excessive citation became conventional with a literary analysis that shows why excessive citation was unique in its ability to aid academics in substantively contributing to the bench and bar. It further shows how, because of the historic and literary significance of citation, a norm compelling …

Tensions Between Evangelical Protestants In The Former Soviet Union And America Since 1989 - A Reflective Commentary, Walter Sawatsky

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.

Living On The Edge, Paul Crego

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.

The Relationship Between University Nursing Student Classroom Engagement Activities And Academic Performance, Helen Reyes

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

Academia is struggling to meet an increasing nursing shortage with limited resources; therefore, student success is paramount in any university nursing program. Research data suggests one major reason for increased attrition rates is course failure. Research also reveals that college students often feel disengaged in the classroom. The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between classroom engagement activities and the academic performance of professional nursing students. Is there a relationship between nursing student classroom engagement activities and academic performance? The Classroom Survey of Student Engagement (CLASSE) was administered to 317 university nursing students enrolled in seven different …

Statutory Interpretation As A Parasitic Endeavor, Stephen F. Ross

San Diego Law Review

The principal theme of this essay is that statutory interpretation is a project that requires advocates and judges to utilize the insights of three discrete disciplines apart from law: communications and linguistics to understand the way that legislative drafters use words to communicate to others, either in text or in extratextual legislative material; political science to describe the way that legislators behave in enacting statutes; and political theory to provide a normative guide for courts interpreting statutes in a constitutional democracy. Judges, lawyers, and academics would find the process of interpretation more coherent if they transparently acknowledged when and how …

Experimenting Vireo-374: Bag-Of-Visual-Words And Visual-Based Ontology For Semantic Video Indexing And Search, Chong-Wah Ngo, Yu-Gang Jiang, Xiaoyong Wei, Feng Wang, Wanlei Zhao, Hung-Khoon Tan, Xiao Wu

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

In this paper, we present our approaches and results of high-level feature extraction and automatic video search in TRECVID-2007.

Created Facts And The Flawed Ontology Of Copyright Law, Justin Hughes

Articles

It is black letter doctrine that facts are not copyrightable: facts are discovered, not created—so they will always lack the originality needed for copyright protection. As straightforward as this reasoning seems, it is fundamentally flawed. Using the “social facts” theory of philosopher John Searle, this Article explores a variety of “created facts” cases—designation systems, systematic evaluations, and privately written laws—in which original expression from private individuals is adopted by social convention and generates facts in our social reality. In the course of this discussion, the paper places facts in their historical and philosophical context, explores how courts conflate facts with …