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Brief For Respondent Iqubal As Amicus Curiae, Dawinder S. Sidhu, Brian E. Robinson

Faculty Scholarship

Whether a conclusory allegation that a cabinet-level officer or other high-ranking official knew of, condoned, or agreed to subject a plaintiff to allegedly unconstitutional acts purportedly committed by subordinate officials is sufficient to state individual-capacity claims against those officials under Bivens.

The Sikh Turban: Post-9/11 Challenges To This Article Of Faith, Dawinder S. Sidhu, Hena Singh Gohil

Faculty Scholarship

This essay examines how the turban has transformed from a sacred piece of attire for Sikhs to a target for discriminatory conduct and an object of marginalization after 9/11. Part I provides an introduction to Sikhism, which originated in 17th century South Asia, and discusses the religious significance of the Sikh turban. Part II examines incidents of discrimination in several contexts involving turbaned Sikhs in America. Part III analyzes the debate surrounding assimilation that has been taking place in the West, which implicates conspicuous articles of faith, including the Sikh turban. The essay also explores the legal remedies available to …

The Role Of Pax7 In The Formation Of The Superior Colliculus And The Vertebrate Visual System, Jennifer A. Thompson

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

This thesis has explored the role of Pax7 in formation and maturation of the mouse superior colliculus, an important brain region associated with topographic visual input and the capacity to evoke appropriate visuomotor responses to environmental stimuli. The research performed was explicitly targeted at understanding the relationship between Pax7 expression and the formation of the topography of the superior colliculus, including neuron specification and differentiation, boundary formation, polarisation and retinocollicular mapping. By employing histochemical, immunohistochemical and immunofluorescent techniques, together with quantification utilising Optimas Digital Image Analysis, this project assessed Pax7 expression in diverse mutant and wildtype mice …

Adapting Information Operations To A Changing World: Future Options For The United States Government, Edwin L. Armistead

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

In 1998, the Department of Defense in the United States released the first of a series of seminal policies on Information Operations (IO). Entitled Joint Publication 3-13, this instruction laid out for the first time, in an unclassified format, how the American military forces could utilise this particular element of power. As a relative newly defined activity, this publication proposed to revolutionise the manner in which warfare, diplomacy, business and a number of other areas are conducted. However, this radical transformation in the United States government with regard to IQ has not occurred over the last decade and a significant …

Hiding Out: Creative Resistance Among Anonymous Workbloggers, Abigail Schoneboom

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Anonymous workbloggers—employees who write online diaries about their work—are often simultaneously productive workers and savage critics of the corporate cultures in which they toil. Writing under an assumed identity, these workers create satirical portraits of their supervisors and colleagues, rail against management gurus and corporate buzzwords, celebrate time-wasting capers, and daydream about quitting. Their irreverent and fictionalized accounts of work, which are shielded from the gaze of co-workers and supervisors, reveal how office workers critically negotiate a labor process that, increasingly, demands their hearts and minds.

This study, which comprises an overview of media and organizational responses to the phenomenon, …

Western Images In African Media: A Semiotic Investigation Of Three Nigerian-Made Films, Terence Ebi Ekiseh

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

This study makes a critical analysis of the portrayal of Western images in African-made films as represented in three selected Nigerian home-made movies. In other words, the study seeks to find out how images of Western European and North American cultures are portrayed in African films. The three films selected for the study are Spirit cf Love, Market Seller, and One Dollar. The films were selected on the basis of their popularity among Nigerian film audiences. They were also selected because they are recent, and are produced by renowned Nigerian filmmakers. The study utilized qualitative method to achieve its objective. …

Review Of The Draughtsman's Contract, Michael Adams

Publications and Research

Review of Peter Greenaway's The Draughtsman's Contract: http://www.media-party.com/discland/2008/07/the-draughtsmans-contract.html

Review Of Pierrot Le Fou, Michael Adams

Publications and Research

Review of Jean-Luc Godard's Pierrot le fou: http://www.media-party.com/discland/2008/07/pierrot-le-fou.html

Study Of Influence Of Process Parameters On The Deformation And Fracture Of 2024 Aluminum Alloy, Vijay B. Mandava

Theses and Dissertations

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Captivity, Citizenship, And Empire : Explorations Of I Am A Soldier Too: The Jessica Lynch Story, Linda M. Baeza

Theses and Dissertations

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Grapholects As A Justification For Grammar Instruction, Loren Nieuwsma

Theses and Dissertations

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The Bin Laden Phenomenon, Robert J. Vandenberg

Theses and Dissertations

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Evaluations And Outcome Expectancies For Victims Of Child Sexual Abuse, Troy W. Ertelt

Theses and Dissertations

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The Relationship Of Outer Ear Characteristics To The Sound Pressure Levels Of Personal Listening Devices, Lisa A. Chandy

Theses and Dissertations

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Design Requirements Of A Sustainable Habitat For Off Grid Operations, Michael Dennis Sisk

Theses and Dissertations

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Persistence In Escherichia Coli And The Role Of Hipb And Hipb Interactions, Sean Thomas Keating

Theses and Dissertations

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The Effects Of Violent Video Gaming On Laboratory Induced Agression Among College Men With And Without Histories Of Exposure To Bullying, Jessica R. Mugge

Theses and Dissertations

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College Students' Attitudes Toward Singlehood, Lisa Peterson

Theses and Dissertations

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Mentoring In Virtual Environments, Jacob Bell

Theses and Dissertations

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An Examination Of The Effects Of Assertiveness On Women's Attributions Of Blame Towards Victims Of Sexual Assualt, Holly M. Rusinko

Theses and Dissertations

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Evaluation Of The Impact Of Pesticide Exposure On The Rat Enteric Nervous System And Pc12 Cells, Sergei V. Kulikov

Theses and Dissertations

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Parental Blame And Responsibility In Cases Of Fatal Child Neglect, Bridget L. Hanson

Theses and Dissertations

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Experimental Evaluation Of The Effect Of Minimum Quantity Lubrication In Turning Aisi-4140 Steel, Kalyan Reddy Endapally

Theses and Dissertations

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Assessing The Impact Of Public Policy On Academic Change : A Case Study Of The North Dakota Higher Education Roundtable, Valerie L. Johnson

Theses and Dissertations

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The Effects Of Activity, Age And Injury On Ciliary Neurotrophic Factor Regulation In The Rat Supraoptic Nucleus, Jason M. Askvig

Theses and Dissertations

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The Relationship Between Body Image And Dietary Supplement Use, Charlene D. Heule

Theses and Dissertations

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Cultural Identity And The Risk For Disordered Eating Symptoms And Body Dissatisfaction, Christine M. Peat

Theses and Dissertations

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Preschool Children And The Media, William J. Thorn

College of Communication Faculty Research and Publications

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Communication And The Knowable Community, Bonnie Brennen

College of Communication Faculty Research and Publications

This essay draws on Raymond Williams's concept of a knowable community in an effort to understand the myriad of connections that exist between individuals and society. Williams, who sees communication and community as synonymous, suggests that a knowable community may ultimately emerge through the process of communication and that in the discovery of connections between individuals and society, an understanding of historically specific patterns may be shown. This essay also discusses an oral history project with journalists who worked for Gannett in the 1960s as an example of an emerging knowable community that questioned traditional notions of community and challenged …

Smoking Cessation: Why Do Smokers Fail?, Joyce M. Wolburg

College of Communication Faculty Research and Publications

Purpose:

The purpose of this article is to probe three explanations for the difficulty that cigarette smokers have in quitting: the addictive nature of the product; the failure to deliver messages with effective quit strategies; and the resistance to enacting smoking bans in bars and restaurants. It aims to argue that the latter two issues result in misplaced marketing.

Design/methodology/approach:

This article examines data from published research, interviews with smokers who have successfully quit, and government statistics to have a clearer picture of the issues.

Findings:

Smokers are exposed to anti‐smoking messages created to discourage youth from starting to smoke, …