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Global Migrations And Imagined Citizenship: Examples From Slavery, Chinese Exclusion, And When Questioning Birthright Citizenship, Ernesto Hernández-Lopez

Texas Wesleyan Law Review

These theoretical approaches motivate this Essay to ask the following about legal citizenship determinations: (a) what is the global movement in persons that leads to the citizenship question?; and (b) what is the imagined community articulated by the legal determination of citizenship? From these questions, a legal inquiry into national identity and citizenship gains historical, global, and cultural perspectives. The next three sections briefly describe the examples of slavery, Dred Scott, and citizenship; Chinese migration to the U.S., Chinese Exclusion measures, and citizenship; and citizenship as seen from a migration experience of U.S.-pull and Mexico-push. For each of the cases …

A Matter Of Conviction: Moral Clashes Over Same-Sex Adoption, Robin Fretwell Wilson

Brigham Young University Journal of Public Law

No abstract provided.

Maine’S Technology Sectors And Clusters: Status And Strategy, Charles Colgan, Marianne Clark, Charles Lawton, James Damicis

Industry Studies

The concept of “clusters” has been a key idea in economic development in Maine and other states for more than a decade. In 2002, the Maine Science & Technology Foundation (MSTF) released a study of the cluster characteristics of the seven technology sectors that were designated as the focus of attention for Maine’s research and development support programs.

This study is a step towards implementing the Brookings Institution’s recommendations for an aggressive effort to build and expand clusters. It updates and expands the 2002 MSTF cluster report and also builds upon the work of Porter and others to identify distinctive …

Secretome Analysis Of Plant-Fungal Symbiotic Relationship Using Yeast Signal Trap, Emily L.B. Jones

Honors Capstone Projects and Theses

No abstract provided.

Shafer Court Connections (2008-03)

Shafer Court Connections, 1994-2010

For alumni of the Academic Campus of Virginia Commonwealth University.

Requests Of Brown By Lc Classification: March 2008, Ruth E.. Souto

HELIN Monthly Loan Statistics

Requests of Brown from other HELIN libraries - March 2008

Experimenting With New Technologies For Technical Survey In Humanitarian Demining, Fernando Termentini, Salvatore Esposito, Marco Balsi

The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction

The Humanitarian Demining Laboratory of Università La Sapienza di Roma, Italy, currently performs research and experimental work for multisensor explosive-remnants-of-war detecting platforms. In this article, the authors report preliminary testing results on a new, active thermal technique discovered through their research.

The Misconception Of Sex In Title Vii: Federal Courts Reevaluate Transsexual Employment Discrimination Claims, Amanda S. Eno

Tulsa Law Review

No abstract provided.

Cultivating Systemic Thinking In The Next Generation Of Business Leaders, J. B. Atwater, Vijay R. Kannan, Alan A. Stephens

Management Faculty Publications

In response to criticism that they do not train students to be effective decision makers, many business schools have attempted to modify their graduate management programs. We suggest that a primary ingredient missing from these attempts is a comprehensive treatment of systemic thinking. While most business functions teach about the systems housed within them, we suggest that few teach their students to think systemically. We propose a 3-part description of systemic thinking and provide results of a survey that investigates the claim that students are not being taught to think systemically.

Discovery, 2008, University Of Dayton

Discovery

Discovery was an annual publication of the University of Dayton Office University Communication for the University of Dayton Research Institute. This collection is not complete.

March 1, 2008 (Pages 1031-1132), Pennsylvania Legislative Reference Bureau

Volume 38 (2008)

No abstract provided.

Traveling The Semantic Web Through Space, Time, And Theme, Amit P. Sheth, Matthew Perry

Kno.e.sis Publications

In this installment of Semantics and Services, we further develop the idea of spatial, temporal, and thematic (STT) processing of semantic Web data and describe the Web infrastructure needed to support it. Starting from Ramesh Jain's vision of the EventWeb as a view of what's possible with a Web that better accommodates all three dimensions of event-related information (thematic, spatial, and temporal), we outline the architecture needed to support it and current research that aims to realize it.

Tarble Arts Center Newsletter Spring 2008, Tarble Arts Center

Tarble Arts Center Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Mycotoxins In Corn Distillers Grains A Concern In Ruminants?, A. Garcia, K. Kalscheur, A. Hippen, D. Schingoethe

SDSU Extension Extra Archives

The main fungi that produce toxins during storage belong to three genera: Aspergillus, Fusarium, and Penicillium. When dealing with cattle diets, it is not easy to correlate the presence of mycotoxins to that of molds. The same types of molds can produce different types of toxins, and different types of molds can produce the same mycotoxin. When addressing mycotoxicosis, the fact that multiple ingredients usually make up a dairy cattle diet can be viewed both positively and negatively. On the one hand, multiple feeds dilute the toxins from any given feed, resulting in a safer diet. On the other hand, …

Obestatin Inhibits Vasopressin Secretion: Evidence For A Physiological Action In The Control Of Fluid Homeostasis, Willis K. Samson, Gina L.C. Yosten, Jaw Kang Chang, Alastair V. Ferguson, Meghan M. White

Biological Sciences Faculty Research & Creative Works

Obestatin, a product of post-translational processing of the ghrelin prohormone, has been reported to act in the brain to inhibit thirst. We extended our initial studies on water drinking by examining the effects of obestatin on hypovolemia-induced water and saline drinking and vasopressin release in male rats. Intracerebroventricular administration of obestatin significantly inhibited water, but not saline (0-3 M NaCl) drinking in response to a hypovolemic challenge. Obestatin also inhibited, in a dose-related fashion, dehydration-induced vasopressin secretion without affecting plasma oxytocin levels. Vasopressin release induced by central angiotensin II administration was attenuated significantly by prior administration of obestatin. Finally, central …

Phospholipase Dα3 Is Involved In The Hyperosmotic Response In Arabidopsis, Xuemin Wang, Yueyun Hong, Xiangqing Pan, Ruth Welti

Biology Department Faculty Works

Rapid activation of phospholipase D (PLD), which hydrolyzes membrane lipids to generate phosphatidic acid (PA), occurs under various hyperosmotic conditions, including salinity and water deficiency. The Arabidopsis thaliana PLD family has 12 members, and the function of PLD activation in hyperosmotic stress responses has remained elusive. Here, we show that knockout (KO) and overexpression (OE) of previously uncharacterized PLDα3 alter plant response to salinity and water deficit. PLDα3 uses multiple phospholipids as substrates with distinguishable preferences, and alterations of PLDα3 result in changes in PA level and membrane lipid composition. PLDα3-KO plants display increased sensitivities to salinity and water deficiency …

Fisheries Research Report No. 170 - Biomass And Commercial Catch Estimates For Abalone Stocks In Areas Proposed As Sanctuary Zones For The Capes Marine Park, A. Hesp, Neil R. Loneragan, Norman G. Hall, H T. Kobryn, A.M. Hart, Frank Fabris, Jeremy Prince

Fisheries Research Reports

This study was undertaken to estimate the biomasses, biologically sustainable catches and current average annual commercial catches of three fished species of abalone, Haliotis roei (Roei), Haliotis laevigata (Greenlip) and Haliotis conicopora (Brownlip) in the proposed sanctuaries of the Capes Marine Park, south-western Australia. The current annual, catch estimates represent the catches that would be foregone by commercial fishers if the sanctuaries are implemented and will be used to evaluate the potential compensation to fishers (not part of this study). The biomass and catch estimates for each species in the proposed sanctuaries were estimated from a combination of scientific survey …

A Strategy For Managing The Recreational Catch Of Demersal Scalefish In The West Coast Bioregion., Department Of Fisheries Western Australia

Fisheries Management Papers

The recreational management proposals that follow have been developed to deliver the required reduction in catches, while still allowing an enjoyable fishing experience for the majority of West Australians. If only a single management tool was used (e.g. a boat limit or closed season) the impact on recreational fishing would be huge. Therefore, the proposed management package has been carefully developed so that each management measure adds to the reduction required, while minimising the social and economic impacts as much as possible.

Fisheries Research Report No. 173 - Evaluation Of The Effectiveness Of Reducing Dolphin Catches With Pingers And Exclusion Grids In The Pilbara Trawl Fishery, Peter Stephenson, S. Wells

Fisheries Research Reports

Final FRDC Report – Project 2004/068

“Savewave” acoustic pingers were trialed on one vessel to determine if they would deter dolphins entering the trawl net. During daylight hours, the pingers were deployed on alternate shots in the configuration recommended by the manufacturer. On the other alternate shots, no pingers were deployed. A video camera in an underwater housing was attached to the headrope facing downstream for 18 trawl shots. On the 14 shots where usable video footage was obtained (11 with pingers deployed and 7 with pingers not deployed) the number of dolphins viewed in the camera frame was counted …

Benchmarks 2008, March 21, The Rockefeller University

BenchMarks 2008

BenchMarks. Friday, March 21, 2008

The community newsletter of The Rockefeller University

BenchMarks is published monthly and is distributed on the campus of The Rockefeller University. It produced by the Office of Communications and Public Affairs

Plantsman, Feb/Mar 2008, New Hampshire Plant Growers' Association

Plantsman

A newsletter of the New Hampshire Plant Growers' Association

Who's Eating Whom? Identification And Quantification Of Deep-Pelagic Prey Fishes In The North Atlantic Ocean, A. Heger, Tracey Sutton

Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Proceedings, Presentations, Speeches, Lectures

Understanding the structure and functioning of marine ecosystems requires accurate knowledge of trophic interactions. Trophic ecology studies generally underestimate prey diversity due to the difficulties imposed by digestion. Further, this degradation leads to uncertainty in the quantification of prey biomass (i.e., energy flow between various ecosystem components). Trophic interactions in the deep sea are poorly known relative to coastal ecosystems due to an incomplete inventory of meso-and bathypelagic species composition. The CoML field project MAR-ECO has increased our knowledge of the faunal structure of the mid-North Atlantic. Deep-pelagic fish specimens from the 2004 MARECO expedition provided a basis for an …

Indirect Effects And Traditional Trophic Cascades: A Test Involving Wolves, Coyotes, And Pronghorn, Kim Murray Berger, Eric M. Gese, Joel Berger

Biological Sciences Faculty Publications

The traditional trophic cascades model is based on consumer - resource interactions at each link in a food chain. However, trophic-level interactions, such as mesocarnivore release resulting from intraguild predation, may also be important mediators of cascades. From September 2001 to August 2004, we used spatial and seasonal heterogeneity in wolf distribution and abundance in the southern Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem to evaluate whether mesopredator release of coyotes ( Canis latrans), resulting from the extirpation of wolves ( Canis lupus), accounts for high rates of coyote predation on pronghorn ( Antilocapra americana) fawns observed in some areas. Results of this ecological …

Bathypelagic Fish Diversity In The Sargasso Sea, Northwestern Atlantic Ocean, Tracey Sutton, Peter Wiebe, Ann Bucklin, Laurence P. Madin

Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Proceedings, Presentations, Speeches, Lectures

Of the various marine habitats, one of the (if not the) most daunting to quantify is the under-sampled bathypelagic zone (> 1000 m depth), which at 60% of the ocean’s volume is the largest habitat on Earth. One project addressing this challenge is the Census of

Marine Zooplankton (CMarZ), whose goal is the assessment of biodiversity of animal plankton throughout the world’s oceans. The 2006 CMarZ cruise in the Western North Atlantic provided an unprecedented opportunity to sample bathypelagic micronekton using a large midwater trawl (10-m2 MOCNESS) outfitted with fine (0.335-mm) mesh netting. This netting allowed non-destructive sampling of the …

The Importance Of Stealth: Recent Findings With The Eye-In-The-Sea Deep-Sea Observatory, Edith A. Widder, E. H. Raymond, Tracey Sutton

Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Proceedings, Presentations, Speeches, Lectures

The Eye-in-the-Sea (EITS) observatory was designed to be acoustically quiet and to use far-red illumination to observe deep-sea animals unobtrusively. The EITS has clearly demonstrated the critical importance of stealth in research ocean observatories. Its use has revealed both animals and behaviors never seen before. Additionally recordings of animal activity under different lighting conditions and in the presence or absence of different sound-producing vehicles (ROVs and submersibles) have revealed to what extent tools for exploration bias observations. Recent recordings made during a 2007 NOAA Ocean Exploration mission to deep waters around the Bahamas provide excellent additional examples of the importance …

Active And Attentive Ladar Scanning For Automatic Target Recognition, M. Mamanakis, R.R. Fullmer, R.T. Pack, Scott E. Budge

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

In this work we examine the dynamic implications of active and attentive scanning for LADAR based automatic target/object recognition and show that a dynamically constrained, scanner based, ATR system's ability to identify objects in real-time is improved through attentive scanning. By actively and attentively scanning only salient regions of an image at the density required for recognition, the amount of time it takes to find a target object in a random scene is reduced. A LADAR scanner's attention is guided by identifying areas-of-interest using a visual saliency algorithm on electro-optical images of a scene to be scanned. Identified areas-of-interest are …

Riding The Wave: Reconciling The Roles Of Disease And Climate Change In Amphibian Declines, Michael W. Sears, Karen R. Lips, Jay Diffendorfer, Joseph R. Mendelson

Publications

Once introduced, diseases may spread quickly through new areas, infecting naive host populations, such as has been documented in Ebola virus in African primates or rabies in North American mammals. What drives the spread of the pathogenic fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), which causes chytridiomycosis, is of particular concern because it has contributed to the global
decline of amphibians. We modeled the spatiotemporal pattern of the loss of upland amphibian populations in Central and South America as a proxy for the arrival of Bd and found that amphibian declines in Central and South America are best explained by Bd spreading through …

Varsity Sport Of The Mind, Liberty University

March/April 2008

No abstract provided.

Ntid Focus Spring 2008, Ntid Marketing And Communications

National Technical Institute for the Deaf Papers

Alan's Update: Imagine That!||Celebrating Innovation and Creativity||Remember, Rediscover, Reconnect||Alumni Return as Recruiters||Profiles in College: Shannon Bean Jason Gallant Daron Ladson Christie Ong||Enhancing the Educational Experience||Innovation in Teacher Preparation||Faculty/Staff Profiles: Stephen Campbell Sharron Webster||Shakespeare on Campus||Advancing the Mission: $1.2 Million Scholarship Encourages Entrepreneurs

(2008) Wellhead Protection Program - Lary Lane, Gilman, And Stadium Wells In The Town Of Exeter, Nh, Wellhead Protection Program

PREP Reports & Publications

A Wellhead Protection Program (WHPP) identifies existing and potential sources of contamination to public water supply wells. The purpose of a WHPP is to prevent contamination of groundwater used for drinking water, recognizing the best way to maintain high quality drinking water is to prevent contaminants from reach drinking water sources. The Federal Safe Drinking Water Act requires states to develop Wellhead Protection Programs. New Hampshire’s Groundwater Protection Act, NH RSA 485-C, provides the basis for protection in New Hampshire. The Town of Exeter, New Hampshire has developed this WHPP for three wells, the Lary Lane well, the Gilman well, …