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Why Fantasy Matters Too Much, Jack Zipes

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article "Why Fantasy Matters Too Much" Jack Zipes proposes that fantasy in contemporary culture functions as a celebrity and money-making machine. Fantasy mobilizes and instrumentalizes the fantastic to form and celebrates spectacles as illusions of social relations based on power. Thus, spectacles violate and drain our imagination by glorifying social relations of power made spectacular and involve the magic of fetishism. Generally, the results bring about delusion and acclamation of particular sets of social relations that are commodified, sold, and consumed. We acclaim commodities that we do not know and products not of our own making we consume …

Who Owns Your Body? A Study In Literature And Law, Lori Andrews

Chicago-Kent Law Review

No abstract provided.

Upstream Without A Paddle: Gene Patenting And The Protection Of The "Infostructure", Seth Shulman

Chicago-Kent Law Review

The U.S. patent system, designed to protect rights to specific, marketable gadgets, has increasingly over the past few decades granted patents on comparatively abstract and amorphous ideas that stretch the system beyond recognition. Overly broad patents, and patents too far "upstream" from the marketplace, I argue, undermine the patent regime, hamper innovation, and prove exceedingly difficult to adjudicate. Using a series of conceptual and historical analogies, I attempt to assess the patenting of genes and other broad, "upstream" patents from a public policy context, emphasizing, as many are coming to realize, that things work best in the knowledge-based economy when …

Indigenous Peoples And Gene Disputes, Debra Harry

Chicago-Kent Law Review

Wary from decades exploitation in the name of science, Indigenous peoples typically approach externally-generated research with caution, and for good reason. Indigenous peoples have been on the receiving end of research carried out in insensitive, and sometimes, harmful ways. Research has historically been a top-down, outside-in process, with Indigenous peoples serving merely as research subjects, with little opportunity for meaningful participation or benefit from the outcomes of the research. Over the past two decades, with the advent of the Human Genome Project and other genetic research projects, there has been a corresponding increase in genetic research projects that put Indigenous …

You Don't Own Me: Recommendations To Protect Human Contributors Of Biological Material After Washington University V. Catalona, Laura B. Rowe

Chicago-Kent Law Review

As research using human biological materials has rapidly developed, so too has the debate over the ownership of these highly valuable materials. Most recently, the Eighth Circuit in Washington University v. Catalona held that research participants do not retain any ownership interest in the biological materials they contribute to research. This note argues that the misguided Catalona decision, in combination with unclear, outdated, and inadequate federal research regulations, has left human contributors of biological material largely unprotected and vulnerable to the goals of researchers, institutions, and biotechnology firms. Accordingly, this note proposes critical amendments to the federal research regulations that …

Comparative Analysis Of Forecasting Techniques With Intermittent Demand, John Deforest

Industrial Engineering Undergraduate Honors Theses

The world and life are filled with uncertainty. Statistics, and more specifically, forecasting techniques allow us to quantify uncertainty and make decisions based on that information. Many find forecasting advantageous in areas such as predicting consumer demand, stock prices, terrorist attacks, epidemiology, etc. This thesis will focus on forecasting intermittent demand, which is the study of analyzing sporadic demand. One application includes an airplane manufacturer’s sporadic or intermittent demand for spare parts in their distribution center. Since spare parts are not needed on any regular schedule, it is thought of as intermittent. Knowing the projected quantity for a given time …

Editorial, Kathryn Russell, Colleen Kattau

Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies

No abstract provided.

Unsupervised Indexing Of Medline Articles Through Graph-Based Ranking, Jorge R. Herskovic

Dissertations and Theses (Open Access)

The biomedical literature is extensively catalogued and indexed in MEDLINE. MEDLINE indexing is done by trained human indexers, who identify the most important concepts in each article, and is expensive and inconsistent. Automating the indexing task is difficult: the National Library of Medicine produces the Medical Text Indexer (MTI), which suggests potential indexing terms to the indexers. MTI’s output is not good enough to work unattended. In my thesis, I propose a different way to approach the indexing task called MEDRank. MEDRank creates graphs representing the concepts in biomedical articles and their relationships within the text, and applies graph-based ranking …

Immunological Studies On Rheumatoid Arthritis Treated With Homeopathic Drugs: Results Of The Pilot Study, Prakash Rao, M Prasanna

Indian Journal of Research in Homoeopathy

Introduction & Objective: Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), a systemic disease, is characterized by a chronic inflammatory reaction in the synovium of joints. The inflammation is mediated by inflammatory cytokines. The objective of the study was to evaluate efficacy of homeopathic drugs and changes in the cytokine profile of rheumatoid arthritis patients treated with homeopathic drugs. Materials and Methods: A total of 35 rheumatoid arthritis patients and 10 healthy controls completed this pilot study. The patients were treated with Rhus tox. (8), Pulsatilla (8) and Medorrhinum (9) according to totality of symptoms. The control group (10) received placebo. The patients were evaluated …

State V. Livas Respondent's Brief Dckt. 35301

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

No abstract provided.

State V. Allen Clerk's Record V. 1 Dckt. 35557

Idaho Supreme Court Records & Briefs, All

No abstract provided.

Review Of: Friends Of The Unrighteous Mammon: Northern Christians And Market Capitalism, 1815-1860, Joseph A. Conforti

American and New England Studies [Discontinued]

The article reviews the book "Friends of the Unrighteous Mammon: Northern Christians and Market Capitalism, 1815-1860," by Stewart Davenport.

De La Fiction Criminelle En Afrique. Relecture Des Films D’Ousmane Sembène, Alexie Tcheuyap

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

For institutional, ideological and even sociological reasons, the detective genre had difficulty rising to prominence within literatures and especially within the field of African cinema. If one observes today its shy emergence in the works of some West African film directors and within popular Nigerian video films, it is nonetheless possible, thanks to a finer scrutiny of theories developed on the subject, to realize that some films by Ousmane Sembène contain aesthetic strategies that allow for a fresh assessment of the works of a director whose films were often reduced to their ideological aspects. This second reading also unravels the …

Project Npv, Positive Externalities, Social Cost-Benefit Analysis-The Kansas City Light Rail Project, Sudhakar Raju

Journal of Public Transportation

The Heartland Light Rail project represents Kansas City’s biggest infrastructural investment in decades. The ballot initiative for the light rail project was voted down three times until it was finally approved in November 2006. Using best estimates of construction costs, operating expenses and federal funding, I estimate the net present value (NPV) of the project to be negative $343 million. From a standard NPV perspective the Kansas City light rail transit (LRT) system is unlikely to break even. However, if the negative externalities of auto travel and the positive externalities associated with light rail are properly accounted for in a …

Dynamic Stock Market Interactions Between The Canadian, Mexican, And The United States Markets: The Nafta Experience, Giorgio Canarella, Stephen M. Miller, Stephen K. Pollard

Economics Working Papers

This paper explores the dynamic linkages that portray different facets of the joint probability distribution of stock market returns in NAFTA (i.e., Canada, Mexico, and the US). Our examination of interactions of the NAFTA stock markets considers three issues. First, we examine the long-run relationship between the three markets, using cointegration techniques. Second, we evaluate the dynamic relationships between the three markets, using impulse-response analysis. Finally, we explore the volatility transmission process between the three markets, using a variety of multivariate GARCH models. Our results also exhibit significant volatility transmission between the second moments of the NAFTA stock markets, albeit …

The Social Contract And Authorship: Allocating Entitlements In The Copyright System. , Alina Ng

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

No abstract provided.

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.

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 …

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

Communications on Stochastic Analysis

No abstract provided.

Why Confederates Fought: Family And Nation In Civil War Virginia, Aaron Sheehan-Dean

Civil War Book Review

Interview with Aaron Sheehan-Dean

Interviewed by Christopher Childers

Putting The Civil War In Context, Christopher Childers

Civil War Book Review

Putting the Civil War in Context

Reading The Man: A Portrait Of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters, Caroline E. Janney

Civil War Book Review

Another Look at Robert E. Lee

The Missouri Compromise And Its Aftermath: Slavery And The Meaning Of America, Kevin R.C. Gutzman

Civil War Book Review

Slavery and the Coming of the Civil War: The Missouri Controversy

A Scalawag In Georgia: Richard Whiteley And The Politics Of Reconstruction, James M. Russell

Civil War Book Review

Reconstruction in Georgia

Wade Hampton Iii, James O. Farmer Jr.

Civil War Book Review

The Life of Wade Hampton

Identification Of Two Genes, Sll0804 And Slr1306, As Putative Components Of The Co2-Concentrating Mechanism In The Cyanobacterium Synechocystis Sp. Strain Pcc 6803, Shulu Zhang, Kevin W. Spann, Laurie K. Frankel, James V. Moroney, Terry M. Bricker

Faculty Publications

Insertional transposon mutations in the sll0804 and slr1306 genes were found to lead to a loss of optimal photoautotrophy in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803 grown under ambient CO2 concentrations (350 ppm). Mutants containing these insertions (4BA2 and 3ZA12, respectively) could grow photoheterotrophically on glucose or photoautotrophically at elevated CO2 concentrations (50,000 ppm). Both of these mutants exhibited an impaired affinity for inorganic carbon. Consequently, the Sll0804 and Slr1306 proteins appear to be putative components of the carbon-concentrating mechanism in Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803. Copyright © 2008, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

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.

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 …

“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.