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March 9, 2009, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

Chapter 2- Student Life, Pp. 49-92

Legend and Lore: Jefferson Medical College

No abstract provided.

Readings For International Women’S Day

China Beat Blog: Archive 2008-2012

In honor of International Women’s Day, China Beat posts two reading lists, one of contemporary (recent and by no means exhaustive) visions of Chinese women and another of historical visions of Chinese women.

Contemporary:

1) Xinhua reports on the increasing services for victims of domestic violence in China, following new regulations on police response to domestic violence calls implemented today:

Yu Xiuli, a victim of domestic violence, can turn to police for help if her husband continues to beat her thanks to a regulation which came into effect on Sunday.

The 40-year-old woman in eastern Shandong Province has been bearing …

Remote Sensing And Geographic Information Systems In Developing Countries: Case Of The United Arab Emirates (Uae), M. M. Yagoub, Bernard Engel

Journal of Terrestrial Observation

No abstract provided.

Daily Eastern News: March 05, 2009, Eastern Illinois University

March

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Television Reporters Communicate Clearly, But Not Always In English, Diether Haenicke

WMU President Diether Haenicke

This column was first published Nov. 2, 2005 and reprinted Mar. 4, 2009 in the Kalamazoo Gazette mlive.com/kalamazoo

Lip-Reading Aids Word Recognition Most In Moderate Noise: A Bayesian Explanation Using High-Dimensional Feature Space, Wei Ji Ma, Xiang Zhou, Lars A. Ross, John J. Foxe, Lucas C. Parra

Publications and Research

Watching a speaker's facial movements can dramatically enhance our ability to comprehend words, especially in noisy environments. From a general doctrine of combining information from different sensory modalities (the principle of inverse effectiveness), one would expect that the visual signals would be most effective at the highest levels of auditory noise. In contrast, we find, in accord with a recent paper, that visual information improves performance more at intermediate levels of auditory noise than at the highest levels, and we show that a novel visual stimulus containing only temporal information does the same. We present a Bayesian model of optimal …

“I Stand For Sovereignty”: Reading Portia In Shakespeare’S The Merchant Of Venice, Deborah Van Pelt

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Portia serves as a complex and often underestimated character in William Shakespeare's controversial comedy The Merchant of Venice. Using the critical methodologies of New Historicism and feminism, this thesis explores Portia's representation of Elizabeth Tudor, Queen of England from 1558 to 1603. Striking similarities exist between character and Queen, including physical description, suitors, marriage issues, and rhetoric. In addition, the tripartite marriage at the play's conclusion among Portia, Bassanio, and Antonio represents the relationship Elizabeth Tudor formed between her merchant class and her aristocracy. Shylock serves as a representation of a generic or perhaps Catholic threat to England during …

Francisco Rodriguez, Jr. Oral History Interview, Francisco A. Rodriguez

Otis R. Anthony African Americans in Florida Oral History Project

Civil rights attorney Francisco Rodriguez, Jr., discusses education and African Americans, mentioning his involvement with the NAACP's school desegregation lawsuits. He also comments on the Afro-Cuban community in Tampa.

Increased Teaching Load For Temporary Faculty 3-3-2009, Ciffton Price, Tina Whittle

Faculty Senate: Index

No abstract provided.

Increased Teaching Load For Temporary Faculty, Cliffton Price, Tina Whittle

Faculty Senate: Index

No abstract provided.

Iall 2007 Conference Report: The 26th Annual Course On International Law Librarianship, Julienne E. Grant

International Journal of Legal Information

No abstract provided.

03/02/2009 Obituary Records, Hawaii Obituaries

Obituaries

List of Obituaries for individuals who passed away on 03/02/2009. Scroll down to see the names and obituary description.

Faculty Senate Monthly Packet March 2009, Portland State University Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Monthly Packets

Faculty Senate minutes from meeting held March 2, 2009. This item contains the agenda, minutes, and attachments for the Faculty Senate meeting on this date. Some issues accompanied by reports from officers of administration and faculty committees.

Faculty Senate Meeting Agenda And Minutes, March 2, 2009

Faculty Senate Minutes and Agendas

Agenda and minutes from the Wright State University Faculty Senate Meeting held on, March 2, 2009.

Transparency Ratings For Spanish–English Cognate Words, José A. Montelongo, Anita C. Hernández, Roberta J. Herter

Library Scholarship

Cognates are words that are orthographically, semantically, and syntactically similar in two languages. There are over 20,000 Spanish-English cognates in the Spanish and English languages. Empirical research has shown that cognates facilitate vocabulary acquisition and reading comprehension for language learners when compared to noncognate words. In this study, transparency ratings for over two thousand nouns and adjectives drawn from the Juilland and Chang-Rodríguez’ Spanish Word Frequency Dictionary were collected. The purpose for collecting the ratings was to provide researchers with calibrated materials to study the effects of cognate words on learning.

Indigenizing Intellectual Property Law: Customary Law, Legal Pluralism, And The Protection Of Indigenous Peoples’ Rights, Identity, And Resources, Danielle M. Conway

Texas Wesleyan Law Review

When this article promotes its theme of indigenizing intellectual property law, it means to apply legal pluralism to justify employment of Indigenous law as a primary source of law to begin the development of a sui generis legal system to bring to the fore essential protections for Indigenous knowledge, tangible and intangible cultural materials and artifacts, secret and sacred information and know-how, cultural expressions, and the biogenetic resources justly owned and possessed by Indigenous Peoples. By urging adoption of the indigenizing paradigm, this article implies that the current and most widely used and recognized laws governing intellectual property are, in …

Prescribed Reading: March 2009, Centracare Clinic

Prescribed Reading

• Welcome to our new providers
• Women’s Health 101 - Take a day for yourself!
• CentraCare Clinic - St. Joseph to move to new facility, open house planned for May 21
• System wide diabetes collaborative begins
• Four CentraCare providers become certified tobacco treatment specialists for QUITPLAN
• Women & Children, Mid-Minnesota clinics join cultural understanding project
• Clinic now offers electronic prescriptions
• Congratulations to . .
• Condolences to …
• Recognition for years of service
• Mantoux testing policy change
• March of Dimes March for Babies is April 25
• Feed Our Families
• St. Cloud Arthritis Walk 2009
• Central Minnesota Heart Walk
• Drive-thru colon cancer screening …

Requests Of Brown By Lc Classification: March 2009, Ruth E.. Souto

HELIN Monthly Loan Statistics

Requests of Brown from other HELIN libraries - March 2009

The Cresset (Vol. Lxxii, No. 4, Easter), Valparaiso University

The Cresset (archived issues)

No abstract provided.

Article Iii As A Constitutional Compromise: Modern Textualism And State Sovereign Immunity, Steven Menashi

Notre Dame Law Review

This Article challenges the scholarly consensus that a textualist reading of the Constitution cannot support a broad constitutional principle of state sovereign immunity. In doing so, it develops a fuller account of textualist constitutional interpretation, recognizing that the original public meaning of a text may be informed by commonly held philosophical presuppositions or background political principles. Legislative compromise, moreover, pervaded the whole constitutional design, whether it took the form of precisely worded provisions that enact particular policies or imprecisely worded provisions that invoke abstract political principles. The ratification of Article III contained just such a legislative compromise over abstract principles …

Protecting The Traditional Knowledge And Cultural Expressions Of Russia’S “Numerically-Small” Indigenous Peoples: What Has Been Done, What Remains To Be Done, Michael Newcity

Texas Wesleyan Law Review

The fundamental question is how much interest exists in Russia to extend legal protection to traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions. There has been virtually no public, scholarly discussion of this issue in Russia. As far as my research reveals, this article is the first scholarly analysis in Russian or English of the protection of traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions under Russian law. At a technical governmental level, there is some interest in these issues. Specialists from the government of the Russian Federation participate in the work of WIPO's Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge …

The Cultural And Intellectual Property Interests Of The Indigenous Peoples Of Turkey And Iraq, Hannibal Travis

Texas Wesleyan Law Review

My contribution to this symposium will begin in Part I with an overview of the international law of indigenous peoples' intellectual prop- erty interests. Part II will turn to a description of how, over the past millennium and a half, the indigenous peoples of Turkey and Iraq have lost more than two-thirds of their peak populations, most of their cultural and religious sites, and thousands of priceless artifacts and specimens of visual art. Part III will summarize the results of the recent U.S. and EU inquiries into the current deplorable state of the indigenous peoples of Turkey and Iraq. Part …

Creative Commons: A License To Share, Knowledge@Smu

Knowledge@SMU

In mid-2008, the Creative Commons licensing system was launched in Singapore. Warren Chik, law professor at the Singapore Management University, is a member of the Creative Commons Singapore team that has worked to adapt the licenses both linguistically and legally to Singapore’s jurisdiction. As Chik points out, these licenses reflect significant social, technological changes that have been unfolding in recent years. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Oral Argument And Impression Management: Harnessing The Power Of Nonverbal Persuasion For A Judicial Audience, Michael J. Higdon

Scholarly Works

In essence, my article utilizes social science research on the topic of nonverbal communication in order to advance our understanding of what makes for effective oral advocacy. Currently, there are no articles that 1) give a comprehensive summary of the relevant social science research within the area of nonverbal persuasion and 2) apply that research specifically to the area of oral argument. My article attempts to fill both of these needs.

As you will see in the article, nonverbal communication goes well beyond simple hand gestures, but also encompasses how a person speaks, how a person dresses, a person's facial …

Stochastic Volatility Models And Financial Risk Measures: Towards New Justifications, Hung T. Nguyen, Vladik Kreinovich, Songsak Sriboonchitta

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

We provide theoretical justifications for the empirical successes of (1) the asymmetric heteroskedasticity models of stochastic volatility in mathematical finance and (2) Wang's distorted probability risk measures in actuarial and investment sciences, using a unified framework of symmetry groups.

The Importance Of Being Neural-Symbolic - A Wilde Position, Pascal Hitzler, Kai-Uwe Kuhnberger

Computer Science and Engineering Faculty Publications

We argue that Neural-Symbolic Integration is a topic of central importance for the advancement of Artificial General Intelligence.

Judicial Approbation In Building The Civilization Of Arbitration, Thomas E. Carbonneau

Dickinson Law Review (1908-2003)

No abstract provided.

The Problem Of Canonical Ambiguity In Ali V. Federal Bureau Of Prisons, Roderick M. Hills Jr.

Tulsa Law Review

No abstract provided.

Indigenous Informants Or Samoan Savants? German Translations Of Samoan Texts In Die Samoa-Inseln, Mary Elisabeth Cox

Pacific Studies

Most studies of Samoan culture and language published since 1900 rely on Augustin Krämer’s seminal ethnography Die Samoa-Inseln. It is unusual for a scholarly work to become so accepted and beloved by an indigenous people, but Samoans hand down copies of Die Samoa-Inseln from generation to generation. They particularly prize the extensive Samoan language texts that appear side by side with their German translations. However, an analysis of Krämer’s personal diaries reveals that his grasp of the Samoan language was at best rudimentary. I suggest that the German translation instead reflect the efforts of highly sophisticated Samoan informants who …