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A Helping Hand: Addressing New Implications Of The Espionage Act On Freedom Of The Press, Laura Barandes

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.

Pardon Me, But Can You Open That Door?: The Potential Effects Of Pardons On Subsequent Civil Suits By Pardonees Under Malicious Prosecution And Section 1983 - A Disciplined Approach To State Pardon Law, Joseph D. Mueller

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.

The United States And Asean-China Relations: All Quiet On The Southeast Asian Front, Ian Storey Dr.

Books, Monographs & Collaborative Studies

While the overall security situation in Southeast Asia is something of a mixed bag, with grounds for both optimism and pessimism, one of the most encouraging trends in recent years has been the development of ASEAN’s relations with major external powers. Relations between China and ASEAN in particular have demonstrated a marked improvement over the past decade, thanks to a combination of burgeoning economic ties, perceptions of China as a more constructive and responsible player in regional politics, and Beijing’s "charm offensive" toward Southeast Asia. Overall, the development of ASEAN-China relations poses few security challenges to the United States today: …

A March Of Moral Panic?: An Examination Of Reaction To Crime In Ireland In March 2006, Robin Maginn

Dissertations

Moral Panic is a concept that examines disproportionate reaction towards an event or persons. In March of 2006, several events occurred which provoked strong reactions from the media and from politicians. This thesis explores and examines those reactions, and will try to determine if a moral panic could be said to have occurred. This is accomplished through a qualitative reading of the reactions, by identifying themes running through the discourse on crime of the time in question, and by applying indicators of moral panic to the data. The study finds that though the reactions may not necessarily indicate moral panic, …

Judging Genes: Implications Of The Second Generation Of Genetic Tests In The Courtroom, Diane E. Hoffmann, Karen H. Rothenberg

Faculty Scholarship

The use of DNA tests for identification has revolutionized court proceedings in criminal and paternity cases. Now, requests by litigants to admit or compel a second generation of genetic tests – tests to confirm or predict genetic diseases and conditions – threaten to affect judicial decision-making in many more contexts. Unlike DNA tests for identification, these second generation tests may provide highly personal health and behavioral information about individuals and their relatives and will pose new challenges for trial court judges. This article reports on an original empirical study of how judges analyze these requests and uses the study results …

The George-Anne, Georgia Southern University

The George-Anne

• Students Gain 'Homeless' Perspective
• News
• Opinion
• Classifieds, Etc.
• Sports

Student Profile, Fall Semester 2007, University Of Northern Iowa

Institutional Effectiveness & Planning Documents

Contents:

--- Preface
--- Profile Summary
--- Section I: Total Student Enrollment for Fall Semester 2007
--- Section II: New Students Entering UNI Fall Semester 2007
--- Section III: Miscellaneous

The Digital Titanic: The Sinking Of Youtube.Com In The Dmca's Safe Harbor, Trevor Cloak

Vanderbilt Law Review

In today's technologically advanced world, video-sharing Internet sites ("VSIs"), such as Grouper.com, Bolt.com, and YouTube.com, provide free, unfettered access to clips of your favorite television shows and artistic performances, from Animaniacs to ZZ Top. With movie clips viewed over 100 million times each day, YouTube is the behemoth of these sites5-a major accomplishment considering the site entered the video-sharing market in May 2005. Two friends, Steve S. Chen and Chad Hurly, created YouTube after they experienced difficulty posting a video online. Taking advantage of online blogging's popularity, the two distinguished their site by coupling quick and easy video posting with …

Challenges Facing Physiotherapy Education In Africa, Jose Frantz

Internet Journal of Allied Health Sciences and Practice

Health care is changing and the demands put on health professionals are increasing. Physiotherapy education should reflect the health and social priorities of the nation. The World Confederation of Physical Therapy (WCPT) is committed to assisting physiotherapy associations in developing educational standards. Physiotherapy education in Africa however, seems to have a real need for assistance from the WCPT. The aim of this paper is to highlight the challenges facing physiotherapy education in Africa. The Delphi methodology was used to obtain information from key informants involved in the area of physiotherapy education from a variety of African countries. The majority of …

Illinois State Alumni Magazine, Fall 2007, Illinois State University, University Marketing And Communications

State: The Magazine of Illinois State University (1999-present)

Illinois State University alumni magazine

Integrated Marketing Communications Strategy: An Examination Of Harrah’S Entertainment, Inc., Michael Mehling

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

This professional paper is going to examine marketing communications, specifically the Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) strategy. The paper will look at how to develop an IMC strategy, discussing the necessary components. The author will then apply Harrah’s current strategy of their Total Rewards program to the IMC model discussed in the literature review.

The Salt Shaker (Vol. 4, Issue 1), Valparaiso University

SALT Shaker

No abstract provided.

Migration To And Through Yemen: The Case Of Migrant Domestic Workers, Marina De Regt

Faculty Journal Articles

Regarding migration, Yemen is primarily known as a sending country. Large numbers of Yemenis have migrated abroad in different periods of Yemen’s history, and labour migration was one of the main sources of income since the oil boom in the 1970s. Since 1990, however, Yemen has turned into a receiving country. Not only were hundreds of thousands of Yemeni migrants expelled from Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States after Iraq’s invasion in Kuwait in 1990, but the political changes that took place in the Horn of Africa, in particular in Ethiopia and Somalia, in the early 1990s led to the …

Evaluation Of An Adult Education Technology Program, Iwasan D. Kejawa

Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education: Theses and Other Student Research

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the adult education technology program at a chartered alternative adult education center in Florida. The adult education center had a low rate of students passing the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT). This study examined the impact of the use of computer technology in an effort to improve student learning in mathematics, reading, and science. Computers at the institution were used by all students for tutorials to prepare them for the FCAT and to obtain a high school diploma. The research questions for this study were as follows: 1. Is the education technology …

Wigner Distribution Of A Transducer Beam Pattern Within A Multiple Scattering Formalism For Heterogeneous Solids, Goutam Ghoshal, Joseph A. Turner, Richard Weaver

Department of Engineering Mechanics: Faculty Publications

Diffuse ultrasonic backscatter measurements have been especially useful for extracting microstructural information and for detecting flaws in materials. Accurate interpretation of experimental data requires robust scattering models. Quantitative ultrasonic scattering models include components of transducer beam patterns as well as microstructural scattering information. Here, the Wigner distribution is used in conjunction with the stochastic wave equation to model this scattering problem. The Wigner distribution represents a distribution in space and time of spectral energy density as a function of wave vector and frequency. The scattered response is derived within the context of the Wigner distribution of the beam pattern of …

"Whores And Other Feminists" Recovering Deadwood's Unlikely Feminisms, Anne Helen Petersen

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The very first vision of the female form in Deadwood is one of ultimate despair: the woman sits alone in the corner of a room, hysterically weeping, her face swollen and bruised with beating. A man sits across the room, a bullet through the temple, barely alive. He was beating her; she responded with a Derringer shot to the head. Moments later, the woman is on the ground in her pimp's office, his boot square on her neck. She writhes beneath him, nearly strangling to death before whispering through bloodied lips: "I'll be good." Meanwhile, the other prominent female character …

The 'Platinum Route' To Open Access: A Case Study Of E-Jasl: The Electronic Journal Of Academic And Special Librarianship, Paul G. Haschak

E-JASL: Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship (1999-2009, Volumes 1-10)

Abstract

Introduction. In 1999, with no money and no support from any library organization, the author partnered with the International Consortium for Alternative Academic Publication (ICAAP), later renamed the International Consortium for the Advancement of Academic Publication, to found a new electronic journal, The Journal of Southern Academic and Special Librarianship, renamed E-JASL: The Electronic Journal of Academic and Special Librarianship in 2002.

Description. This case study is based on the author’s own experiences founding and developing a professional, independent, permanently archived, peer reviewed, open-access, electronic library journal, employing a scholar-led model of publishing. The author’s partnership …

Emphasizing The User In The Usability Study: Investigating Activity Theory And Website Navigation, Heidi Trost

Theses

The effects of organizational schemes in website design have been studied using measures of speed, number of mouse-clicks, accuracy, and user recollection of website content information. This study investigates self-reported user confidence and satisfaction of websites using two different organizational schemes. Users were randomly assigned to one of the two sites and asked to perform a series of information-retrieval tasks. Time taken to complete the tasks was recorded and participants completed a survey measuring their confidence and satisfaction using a website. No significant differences were found between the two websites in respect to user self-reported confidence and satisfaction. The results …

Awen: Flowing Spirit, Matt Costanza

Theses

None provided.

Open Innovation And Strategy, Henry W. Chesbrough, Melissa M. Appleyard

Business Faculty Publications and Presentations

The article discusses a process of business innovation known as open innovation and its relation to traditional business strategy. The competitive strategy developed by Michael Porter emphasized rivalry, buyer power, and barriers to entry as forces that could enhance a producer's surplus. The authors discuss the impact of the Porterian value chain, the processes of production through to the consumer, on subsequent business practices. However, this theory does not account for external sources of value to a company, such as innovation communities, volunteer contributors and surrounding networks, including social networking web sites, open source software and the Wiki model of …

Variations In Serratia Marcescens Differentiation Using Different Primers., Hassan Mohabatkar, Anahita Hamidi, Reza Mohammadzadegan

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVES: To study primer sequences (1060, 1247, 1254, 1281, 1283, and 1290) for random amplified polymorphic DNA polymerase chain reaction (RAPD-PCR). METHODS: Twenty-four clinical Serratia marcescens (S. marcescens) isolates were obtained over a 6-month period from April 2002 to September 2002 from hospitals in the Fars province of Iran. Six primers were used due to S. marcescens genome properties, and RAPD-PCR was carried out. The results were subjected to unweighted pair-group method analysis using NTSYSpc 2.02. The primers were blasted with the S. marcescens genome, and the primers efficiency was estimated. RESULTS: The results of blast primers with S. marcescens …

Ereview, Print Industry Center

RIT Digital Archives

No abstract provided.

Ereview - Espanol, Print Industry Center

RIT Digital Archives

No abstract provided.

Rit Dividends Fall 2007

RIT Digital Archives

No abstract provided.

The Quaestor Quarterly October 2007, Institute Audit, Compliance & Advisement

RIT Digital Archives

Is a Policy Required for Common Sense?(p. 1)||Word on the Street (p. 2)||My Two Cents (p. 2)||Control of the Quarter (p. 3)||Pop Quiz (p. 4)

2008 Benefits Enrollment Newsletter, Finance And Administration Division - Human Resources

RIT Digital Archives

2008 Open Enrollment News||2008 Health Care Changes||New Eyewear Benefit||Plan Improvements||Life Insurance News||Prescription Drug Update||Other Benefits News

2008 Benefits Enrollment Newsletter, Finance And Administration Division - Human Resources

RIT Digital Archives

2008 Open Enrollment News||2008 Health Care Changes||New Eyewear Benefit||Plan Improvements||Life Insurance News||Prescription Drug Update||Other Benefits News

Reining In The Minister Of Justice: Prosecutorial Oversight And The Superseder Power, Abby L. Dennis

Duke Law Journal

Virtually immune from judicial sanction, professional discipline, and civil liability, prosecutors enjoy limitless, unmonitored, and, for the most part, unreviewable power. This power and insulation from review invite abuse and public mistrust, shaking confidence in the criminal justice system. With the system in need of a means of curbing errant prosecutors and restoring public confidence, this Note explores a neglected mechanism of prosecutorial oversight-the superseder power-and argues for increased use of this oversight mechanism, coupled with explicit guidelines for its use and a public review process.

Black And White And Read All Over: Press Protection After Branzburg, Sean W. Kelly

Duke Law Journal

In 1972, the Supreme Court handed the press an apparent resounding defeat in Branzburg v. Hayes, declaring that the Constitution provided reporters no privilege from testifying about their confidential sources. This Note uses previously unpublished materials from the Justices' personal files to illustrate the behind-the-scenes deliberations as the Court shifted in ideology from the propress posture established by Justice Hugo Black in the Pentagon Papers case to the anti-privilege position established by Justice Byron White one year later in Branzburg. It also examines the curious concurring opinion of Justice Lewis Powell in Branzburg and subsequent efforts to craft a qualified …

Norming "Moderation'' In An "Iconic Target'': Public Policy And The Regulation Of Religious Anxieties In Singapore, Eugene K. B. Tan

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

The proposed research will examine Singapore’s response to terrorism post September 11, in particular the maintenance of a “moderate mainstream” Muslim community as a bulwark against the fraying of harmonious ethnic relations. In light of the global concern—and often paranoia—with diasporic Islam, Islamic religious institutions and civil society have been portrayed in the popular media as hotbeds of radicalism, promoters of hatred, and recruiters for a ‘conflict of civilization’ between the Muslim world and the modern world. Islamist attacks in Madrid and London have since brought increased urgency to the question of how to contain or moderate Islamic radicalism among …