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Duck Watch: Preface, C. W. Spinks

Trickster's Way

No abstract provided.

Patening The Curve Ball: Business Methods And Industry Norms, Gerard N. Magliocca

BYU Law Review

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Understanding The Lobbying Efforts Of A Church: How Far Is Too Far?, Chase Manderino

BYU Law Review

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Goodwill And Goodwill Write-Downs: Their Effects On Earnings Quality For 2008 And 2009, Don E. Giacomino, Michael D. Akers

Accounting Faculty Research and Publications

This paper examines goodwill on corporate balance sheets. Specifically, the paper measures the extent to which goodwill exists on corporate balance sheets and the degree of goodwill write-downs that have occurred recently. We report on our study and a study by Intangible Business, which show that many firms carry substantial amounts of goodwill on their 2008 balance sheets. Thus, because of the recent downturn in the economy and the markets, the potential for big bath earnings management for 2008 and 2009 exists. In addition, because of reductions in expected returns on pension plan assets, many firms are likely to record …

An Outline Of A Global Political Subject: Reading Evo Morale's Election As A (Post) Colonial Event, Denise Ferreira Da Silva

Seattle Journal for Social Justice

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Representative Democracy In Rural America: Race, Gender, And Class Through A Localism Lens, Jacquelyn Bridgeman, Gracie Lawson-Borders, Margaret Zamudio

Seattle Journal for Social Justice

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Using Socio-Economics And Binary Economics To Serve The Interests Of Poor And Working People: What Critical Scholars Can Do To Help, Robert Ashford

Seattle Journal for Social Justice

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The Market For Failure: An Examination Of Collective Knowledge Theory And What Bond Markets Tell Us About Corporate Bankruptcy Filings, Brandon L. Maslov

DePaul Business & Commercial Law Journal

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Three Strikes And You're (Not Necessarily) Out: How Baseball's Erratic Approach To Conduct Violations Is Not In The Best Interest Of The Game, Matthew A. Foote

DePaul Journal of Sports Law

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Does The Crime Justify The Punishment? An In-Depth Look At The Indiana University Phone Call Scandal, T. J. Clifton

DePaul Journal of Sports Law

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Is Congress' Latest Effort To De-Juice Professional Sports Unconstitutional?, Philip Jacques

DePaul Journal of Sports Law

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Teaching For Democracy, William Ayers

DePaul Journal for Social Justice

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Children's Lives As A Political Battleground: The Plague Of Abstinence Only Education, Katherine Carroll

DePaul Journal for Social Justice

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Composing In A Global-Local Context : Careers, Mobility, Skills., Min-Zhan Lu, Bruce Horner

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

When composition students look to their teachers for vocational guidance, both groups should acknowledge that the contexts of such terms as career, mobility, and skills have radically changed. In particular, the economy now links the global with the local, and capitalism has shifted from the fordist model, dominant through much of the twentieth century, to a newer, “fast” model.

Antimicrobial Evaluation Of Novel Fatty Acid Derivatives And Other Natural Antimicrobials, Patricia Nobmann

Doctoral

The food industry has shown increased interest for novel natural antimicrobials due to consumer demand for foods with fewer synthetic additives, increased safety, quality and shelf-life. Concurrently, the emergence of drug resistant bacteria substantiates the need for newer antimicrobial agents. Alternative strategies include the use of novel antimicrobials, such as fatty acid derivatives, essential oils and bacteriocins, with proven antimicrobial properties against a diverse range of bacteria. This study investigated novel carbohydrate fatty acid (CF A) derivatives for their antibacterial activity against a range of pathogenic and spoilage bacteria. A series of mono-substituted CF A derivatives using lauric and caprylic …

Introduction: Gender And Islam In Asia, Huma Ahmed-Ghosh

Journal of International Women's Studies

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Claiming Their Space: Muslim Women-Led Networks And The Women’S Movement In India, Nida Kirmani

Journal of International Women's Studies

The Shah Bano case of the 1980s was a landmark in the discourse on ‘Muslim women’s rights’ in India. At this time, however, few Muslim women actually participated in the debates, which were dominated by male religious leaders and politicians or by ‘secular’ women’s groups, which had scant Muslim representation. Since the 1980s several Muslim-women led organisations have emerged in urban areas across the country, some of which have formed networks to advocate for Muslim women’s rights. This article looks at the emergence of two networks in particular, the Muslim Women’s Rights Network (MWRN) and the Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan …

Polygamy Talk And The Politics Of Feminism: Contestations Over Masculinity In A New Muslim Indonesia, Sonja Van Wichelen

Journal of International Women's Studies

The political downfall of the Suharto administration in 1998 marked the end of the “New Order,” which was characterized by a 32-year period of authoritarian rule. Opening the way for democracy, it included the unlocking of Indonesian politics for the influence and participation of political Islam, which the New Order discouraged or banned. This shift led to a proliferation of Islamic issues in the public and political sphere. Many of them concerned issues of gender and have triggered profound debates about women’s rights and gender equality. This article examines one of these public concerns over “Islam and gender,” namely polygamy. …

‘Breaking The Silence’: The Religious Muslim Women’S Movement In Turkey, Hilal Ozcetin

Journal of International Women's Studies

This article explores the emergence of the religious Muslim women’s movement in the 1990s in Turkey, and its relation with the broader women’s movement, including the exclusion of religious Muslim women from the women’s movement. My analysis is based on interviews I conducted in April and May 2006 with religious Muslim women who work in non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and participate in joint projects with other women’s NGOs in Istanbul and Ankara, Turkey. I argue that because of a modernist perspective which views both the headscarf and religious Muslim women as ‘backward,’ as opposed to the ‘ideal female citizen’ as secular …

Cedaw And Afghanistan, Cheshmak Farhoumand-Sims

Journal of International Women's Studies

This paper considers the relevance and applicability of CEDAW in Afghanistan and uses personal interviews with key Afghan and international actors to reflect on the context and framework for understanding the challenges and opportunities that exist for the implementation of CEDAW in contemporary Afghanistan. Starting with an introduction to CEDAW, it traces the Convention’s history in Afghanistan leading to its ratification without reservations in 2003 in order to argue that the application of CEDAW in Afghanistan is threatened by conservative forces who perceive it as an element of international efforts to ‘westernize’ Afghanistan and undermine its unique cultural and religious …

Faith-Based Politics, Enlightened Moderation And The Pakistani Women’S Movement, Afiya Shehrbano Zia

Journal of International Women's Studies

Soon after his coup in October 1999, General Pervez Musharraf reassured the Pakistani people that his was not an obscurantist religious agenda. Instead, he referred to the Ata Turk model as his inspiration in his mission to rescue Pakistanis from corrupt democratic governments that had dominated the 1990s. A photo release of him holding two Pekinese dogs in his arms (commonly considered na-paak or unclean by Muslims) and surrounded by his short-haired wife, elderly mother and artist daughter, earned him a seal of approval from progressive upper-classes at home and the international community at large. Unlike the previous dictator, Gen …

The Ready-Made Garments Industry In Bangladesh: A Means To Reducing Gender-Based Social Exclusion Of Women?, Nidhi Khosla

Journal of International Women's Studies

Women in Bangladesh have traditionally been excluded from taking part in social, political and economic activities by means of institutions such as the purdah (veil). However, the rise of the ready-made garments industry in Bangladesh since the 1970s has provided women with opportunities to work outside the home for wages. This change coincided with changes such as a decline in the rural sector, increased emphasis on girls’ education and campaigns to improve women’s health and reduce fertility. As a result of these changes, the social exclusion of women has reduced considerably. This paper analyses existing literature on women’s employment in …

Book Review: Racialized Bodies, Disabling Worlds: Storied Lives Of Immigrant Muslim Women, Ghazala Afzal Orakzai

Journal of International Women's Studies

Review of Racialized Bodies, Disabling Worlds: Storied Lives of Immigrant Muslim Women by Parin Dossa

Working For And With Latino/Latina Immigrant Newcomers In The English Language Arts Classroom, Bernadette Musetti, Spencer Salas, Theresa Perez

Faculty Articles

The article discusses how the English language arts practitioners work with the Latin immigrants who are newcomers in learning English language in middle and high school in the U.S. Accordingly, practitioners provide more instructional time to contextualized learning and literacy on first and second language and advocate them to attain a high level of literacy. Moreover, it states that the literacy development of the newcomers must be anchored in patience, flexibility and conscientiousness.

A Novel Protein Arginine Methyltransferase Interacts With The Rna Induced Silencing Complex Component, Mut70, And Is Required For Rna Interference In Chlamydomonas Reinhardtii, James Becker

School of Biological Sciences: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

RNA interference (RNAi) is an important gene regulatory mechanism. It involves 21-24 nucleotide small RNA molecules that downregulate complementary, or near complementary, mRNA sequences through transcript degradation or translation repression. The non-coding small RNA molecules act through an effector complex known as the RNA induced silencing complex (RISC). The components of RISC are evolutionarily conserved and consist of DICER and AGO proteins as well as several other polypeptides. These include, among others, MUT70, an RNA binding protein that has an RGG rich domain. Protein arginine methyltransferases typically methylate RGG rich regions, affecting protein stability, localization, and/or interactions. Here, we report …

A Pilot Study Evaluating The Safety Of Vaginal Administration Of A Multi-Particulate Pellet Formulation, Guido Lopes Dos Santos Santiago

Population Health, East Africa

Aim: Quantitative evaluation of the effect caused by vaginal administration of gelatin capsules loaded with starch pellets and lyophilized powder, respectively, on vaginal pH and microflora.

Method: Administration of gelatin capsules loaded with fast-disintegrating starch pellets (group P) or lyophilized lactose/skimmed milk (group L) was compared to no intervention (group C) in a 3-way randomized, double-blinded, parallel study with 18 volunteers. Follow-up visits were at day 6 (immediately after administration), day 14 (pill stop), day 22 (after withdrawal bleeding) and day 35 (midcycle). Vaginal pH was measured and swabs were taken for Gram staining and culture to assess the presence …

Youth And Crime: Centennial Reflections On The Children Act 1908, Kate Bradley

SOLON Law, Crime and History (previously SOLON Crimes and Misdemeanours: Deviance and the Law in Historical Perspective)

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Galaxy Zoo Green Peas: Discovery Of A Class Of Compact Extremely Star-Forming Galaxies, Carolin Cardamone, Kevin Schawinski, Marc Sarzi, Steven P. Bamford, Vardha N. Bennert, C. M. Urry, Chris Lintott, William C. Keel, John Parejko, Robert C. Nichol, Daniel Thomas, Dan Andreescu, Phil Murray, M. Jordan Raddick, Anže Slosar, Alex Szalay, Jan Vandenberg

Physics

We investigate a class of rapidly growing emission line galaxies, known as ‘Green Peas’, first noted by volunteers in the Galaxy Zoo project because of their peculiar bright green colour and small size, unresolved in Sloan Digital Sky Survey imaging. Their appearance is due to very strong optical emission lines, namely [O iii]λ5007 Å, with an unusually large equivalent width of up to ∼1000 Å. We discuss a well-defined sample of 251 colour-selected objects, most of which are strongly star forming, although there are some active galactic nuclei interlopers including eight newly discovered narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies. The star-forming Peas …

Achieving Sustainable, Compact Development In The Portland Metropolitan Area: New Tools And Approaches For Developing Centers And Corridors, Gil Kelley, Sheila A. Martin, Elizabeth Mylott

Institute of Metropolitan Studies Publications

This report represents the work of a group of local public, private and institutional experts in real estate development and finance convened by the Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies at Portland State University. This was done at the request of Metro, which wanted outside expert advice on ways to achieve more robust development of centers and corridors in the Portland metropolitan area, an important aspect of implementing the 2040 Growth Concept. Although the expert advisory group (EAG) enthusiastically took on this task, it wanted to first back up a step and deliberate over whether and to what extent center and …

Easterbrook On Copyright, Randal C. Picker

Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper Series

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