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Russia Challenges The Obama Administration, Stephen J. Blank Dr. Dec 2008

Russia Challenges The Obama Administration, Stephen J. Blank Dr.

Articles & Editorials

Each month a member of the SSI faculty writes an editorial for our monthly newsletter. This is the Op-Ed for the December 2008 newsletter.


Music Librarian As Development Officer: Raising Funds For Special Collections, Ashlie K. Conway Dec 2008

Music Librarian As Development Officer: Raising Funds For Special Collections, Ashlie K. Conway

Faculty and Staff Publications

Over the past ten years, advances in technology have led to increased productivity and efficiency in nearly every area of librarianship. As a result, many music libraries across the United States are either beginning a special collections program or are turning to these collections for digitization; as special collections often consist of older materials no longer under copyright, they become priorities for digitization, which also affords a critical preservation benefit. As these collections grow, so does the need for funding, which is essential to their proper archival storage and long-term preservation. A review of the literature finds that little research …


Iraqis In Egypt A Statistical Survey In 2008, Philippe Fargues, Saeed El-Masry, Sara Sadek, Azza Shaban Dec 2008

Iraqis In Egypt A Statistical Survey In 2008, Philippe Fargues, Saeed El-Masry, Sara Sadek, Azza Shaban

Faculty Journal Articles

Emigration from Iraq has been occurring since the 1970s. The Iran-Iraq War, Gulf War and the subsequent international sanctions placed on the Iraqi regime have all produced waves of emigration. After US occupation of Iraq, however, and particularly since 2005, the country has witnessed unprecedented levels of out-migration. Since the US led war on Iraq in 2003, massive numbers of Iraqis have been displaced from their homes causing the largest influx of refugees into the region. The situation of Iraqi refugees in Syria, Jordan and Lebanon has received the attention of academics. In comparison, the picture of Iraqis in Egypt …


Workplace Electronic Privacy Protections Abroad: The Whole Wide World Is Watchin, William A. Herbert Dec 2008

Workplace Electronic Privacy Protections Abroad: The Whole Wide World Is Watchin, William A. Herbert

Publications and Research

Legal and public policy ideas and concepts are known to traverse national borders. The rapidity of this multinational exchange of ideas has been substantially enhanced through the technological revolution over the past two decades. How a nation adopts or rejects particular ideas and concepts reflects on its particular history, culture and priorities. The establishment of legal protections for privacy against intrusions by governments, employers, companies and individuals represents a concept that has been adopted in different ways by other nations. This article will focus on how the European Union and certain Western countries have approached the issue of protecting individual …


First Choice, December 2008, Wusf Public Media Dec 2008

First Choice, December 2008, Wusf Public Media

First Choice Monthly Newsletter

The December 2008 issue of WUSF's newsletter "First Choice."


Escherichia Coli Ftna Acts As An Iron Buffer For Re-Assembly Of Iron-Sulfur Clusters In Response To Hydrogen Peroxide Stress, Jacob P. Bitoun, Genfu Wu, Huangen Ding Dec 2008

Escherichia Coli Ftna Acts As An Iron Buffer For Re-Assembly Of Iron-Sulfur Clusters In Response To Hydrogen Peroxide Stress, Jacob P. Bitoun, Genfu Wu, Huangen Ding

Faculty Publications

Iron-sulfur clusters are one of the most ubiquitous redox centers in biology. Ironically, iron-sulfur clusters are highly sensitive to reactive oxygen species. Disruption of iron-sulfur clusters will not only change the activity of proteins that host iron-sulfur clusters, the iron released from the disrupted iron-sulfur clusters will further promote the production of deleterious hydroxyl free radicals via the Fenton reaction. Here, we report that ferritin A (FtnA), a major iron-storage protein in Escherichia coli, is able to scavenge the iron released from the disrupted iron-sulfur clusters and alleviates the production of hydroxyl free radicals. Furthermore, we find that the iron …


Applicability Of Multiplicative Renormalization Method For A Certain Function, Izumi Kubo, Hui-Hsiung Kuo, Suat Namli Dec 2008

Applicability Of Multiplicative Renormalization Method For A Certain Function, Izumi Kubo, Hui-Hsiung Kuo, Suat Namli

Communications on Stochastic Analysis

No abstract provided.


General Equilibrium Asset Pricing Under Regime Switching, Robert J Elliott, Hong Miao, Jin Yu Dec 2008

General Equilibrium Asset Pricing Under Regime Switching, Robert J Elliott, Hong Miao, Jin Yu

Communications on Stochastic Analysis

No abstract provided.


A Class Of Extreme X-Harmonic Functions, John Verzani Dec 2008

A Class Of Extreme X-Harmonic Functions, John Verzani

Communications on Stochastic Analysis

No abstract provided.


Interacting Fock Space Versus Full Fock Module, Luigi Accardi, Michael Skeide Dec 2008

Interacting Fock Space Versus Full Fock Module, Luigi Accardi, Michael Skeide

Communications on Stochastic Analysis

No abstract provided.


Distribution And Propagation Properties Of Superprocesses With General Branching Mechanisms, Zenghu Li, Xiaowen Zhou Dec 2008

Distribution And Propagation Properties Of Superprocesses With General Branching Mechanisms, Zenghu Li, Xiaowen Zhou

Communications on Stochastic Analysis

No abstract provided.


A South Divided: Portraits Of Dissent In The Confederacy, Carl Moneyhon Dec 2008

A South Divided: Portraits Of Dissent In The Confederacy, Carl Moneyhon

Civil War Book Review

Confederate Dissent

Scholars writing about the Confederate experience have recognized at least since Albert Moore's Conscription and Conflict in the Confederacy (1924) and Georgia Tatum's Disloyalty in the Confederacy (1934) that Southerners were anything but unified in their....


Rediscovering Civil War Classics: Lincoln Books That Should Get Reprinted, David Madden Dec 2008

Rediscovering Civil War Classics: Lincoln Books That Should Get Reprinted, David Madden

Civil War Book Review

A good many books on Lincoln are out of print, lost in the Land of Lincoln. A book out of print, especially a very rare one, is a little like a tree prone in the forest that nobody heard fall. Having given reasons in my last column for recommending to publishers that Lincoln Under Enemy Fire


Putting The Civil War In Context, Christopher Childers Dec 2008

Putting The Civil War In Context, Christopher Childers

Civil War Book Review

Putting the Civil War in Context

Context. Students of the Civil Warùand of any branch of history for that matterùalways search for the context in which events happened. Historians have always taken special interest in why the Civil War came, what provoked armed conflict between North a....


A Nation Transformed: How The Civil War Changed America Forever, Clayton E. Jewett Dec 2008

A Nation Transformed: How The Civil War Changed America Forever, Clayton E. Jewett

Civil War Book Review

The Civil War as an Agent of Change

Originally published in 2001, under the title Civil War Firsts: The Legacies of America's Bloodiest Conflict, Gerald S. Henig and Eric Niderost's reprint edition, A Nation Transformed: How the Civil War Changed America Forever, is a compila....


The Age Of Lincoln, J. Matthew Gallman Dec 2008

The Age Of Lincoln, J. Matthew Gallman

Civil War Book Review

A New Synthesis of Nineteenth-Century America

I pick up Orville Vernon Burton's The Age of Lincoln with some combination of admiration and trepidation. After all, quotes on the back cover promise a bold new synthesis (James McPherson), a striking interpretation (Eric Foner), a maj....


Stealing Lincoln's Body, Kenneth Winkle Dec 2008

Stealing Lincoln's Body, Kenneth Winkle

Civil War Book Review

A Bizarre Plot

On the night before the presidential election of 1876, three graverobbers tried to steal the body of Abraham Lincoln from its resting place in the imposing Lincoln Monument in Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield, Illinois. Ill-conceived and doomed to failure, this bizarre plo....


Wade Hampton Iii, James O. Farmer Jr. Dec 2008

Wade Hampton Iii, James O. Farmer Jr.

Civil War Book Review

The Life of Wade Hampton

Born in 1818 and living to see the turn of the twentieth century, Wade Hampton III epitomized the generation of natural leaders who helped define the antebellum southern aristocracy, led it manfully to its denouement at Appomattox, and tried to will its resurrectio....


A Thrilling Narrative: The Memoir Of A Southern Unionist, Kathleen Gorman Dec 2008

A Thrilling Narrative: The Memoir Of A Southern Unionist, Kathleen Gorman

Civil War Book Review

A Southern Unionist's Story

Part of the Civil War in the West series, A Thrilling Narrative: The Memoir of a Southern Unionist presents a unique look at a Unionist in western Louisiana during the last years of the Civil War. Captain Dennis E. Haynes is uncompromising in his ....


War Crimes Against Southern Civilians, Jennifer Gross Dec 2008

War Crimes Against Southern Civilians, Jennifer Gross

Civil War Book Review

The Hatred that War Spawns

Walter Brian Cisco's latest book is a thorough catalog of the violence federal troops wreaked on parts of the southern homefront during the Civil War. Cisco is also the author of States Rights Gist: A South Carolina General of the Civil War, Taking a Stand: P....


The Collegian (2008-12-01), Isis Lopez Dec 2008

The Collegian (2008-12-01), Isis Lopez

UTB/TSC Archives - The Collegian [Newspaper]

Vol. 61, No. 15


A Holistic Scada Security Standard For The Australian Context, Christopher Beggs Dec 2008

A Holistic Scada Security Standard For The Australian Context, Christopher Beggs

Australian Information Warfare and Security Conference

Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems which control Australia’s critical infrastructure are currently demonstrating signs of vulnerabilities as they are being interconnected to corporate networks, essentially exposing them to malicious threats. This paper discusses the vulnerabilities associated with SCADA systems, as well as discussing various SCADA standards and initiatives that have been developed in recent years to mitigate such threats. The paper presents the requirement for a holistic SCADA security standard that is practical and feasible for each SCADA industry sector.


Visualisation Of Critical Infrastructure Failure, W D. Wilde, M J. Warren Dec 2008

Visualisation Of Critical Infrastructure Failure, W D. Wilde, M J. Warren

Australian Information Warfare and Security Conference

The paper explores the complexity of critical infrastructure and critical infrastructure failure (CIF), real life examples are used to discuss the complexity involved. The paper then discusses what Visualisation is and how Visualisation can be applied to a security situation, in particular critical infrastructure. The paper concludes by discussing the future direction of the research.


Media, Government And Manipulation: The Cases Of The Two Gulf Wars, William Hutchinson Dec 2008

Media, Government And Manipulation: The Cases Of The Two Gulf Wars, William Hutchinson

Australian Information Warfare and Security Conference

This paper explores the bias and manipulation of the Western mass media during the Gulf wars of 1991 and 2003. The tactics of compliance and the ethics of the press and journalists are examined. The need for a pluralist press is extolled.


Central Bank Communication And Monetary Policy: The Case Of Central Bank Of Nigeria, Egbuna N. E. Dec 2008

Central Bank Communication And Monetary Policy: The Case Of Central Bank Of Nigeria, Egbuna N. E.

Bullion

The importance of concise communication in monetary policy making cannot be over emphasised . A g o o d communication of policy definitely strengthens the institutional independence of central banks and enhances the effectiveness of monetary policy. However, no one single method could fit all when it comes to designing good communication strategies because central banks face different constraints as they try to fine-tune their messages. With current reforms and financial liberalization, there is added impetus for increased communication between the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), market operators, stakeholders and the public in general. Monetary policy needs to be explained …


Electronic Banking In Nigeria: Problems And Prospects From The Consumer's Perspective, Agbada A.O Dec 2008

Electronic Banking In Nigeria: Problems And Prospects From The Consumer's Perspective, Agbada A.O

Bullion

This paper explores the adoption of electronic banking [e-banking] in Nigeria. It examines the problems and prospects of e-banking in Nigeria from the consumer's perspective. The research findings show that a number of problems ranging from human, operational and technical constraints hinder the maximum utilization of services provided through e-banking channels in Nigeria. However, the results from the study have also revealed that despite these problems, the rate of adoption of e-banking services in Nigeria is phenomenal as banks have recorded outstanding successes in some areas. Nigeria is a consuming nation and based on the experience from other sectors of …


Five Decades Of Agricultural Policies In Nigeria: What Roles Has Statistics Played?, Akinboyo O. I Dec 2008

Five Decades Of Agricultural Policies In Nigeria: What Roles Has Statistics Played?, Akinboyo O. I

Bullion

All over the country and internationally, the publications of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) such as the Annual Report and Statement of Accounts, the Statistical Bulletin, Economic and Financial Review, the Bullion and Nigeria: Major Economic and Banking Indicators and those of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) have become a veritable source of data and reference materials on Nigeria. Without basic i n f o r m a t i o n o n e c o n o m i c developments, it would be very difficult for policy makers to assess economic performances. The f o …


The School Counselor As An Emerging Professional In The Japanese Educational System, Jeannine R. Studer Dec 2008

The School Counselor As An Emerging Professional In The Japanese Educational System, Jeannine R. Studer

International Education

The writer discusses the emergence of school counselors in Japan. She emphasizes that clinical psychologists are fulfilling the emerging school counselor role. She then discusses the emergence of school counselors in the U.S. and outlines disturbing influences in students' lives that concern school counselors in both countries. Finally, she considers whether disputes and issues that affected U.S. school counselors could act as a guide for their Japanese counterparts.


Toward A Global Phd: Forces & Forms In Doctoral Education Worldwide, Jeffery P. Aper Dec 2008

Toward A Global Phd: Forces & Forms In Doctoral Education Worldwide, Jeffery P. Aper

International Education

This is a book review for Meresi Nerad and Mimi Heggelund, eds. (2008) Toward a Global PhD: Forces & Forms in Doctoral Education Worldwide.


“Nobody Told Us About What Happened”: The Current State Of Holocaust Education In Romania, Thomas Misco Dec 2008

“Nobody Told Us About What Happened”: The Current State Of Holocaust Education In Romania, Thomas Misco

International Education

Using data obtained primarily from about 40 government officials and educators and from students and community members, the writer examined Holocaust education in Romania. He presents results on academic freedom, the education ministry's role, teacher training, class time and the macrocurriculum, content, the teacher, and universities and discusses contextual features. He then provides recommendations based on the results.