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Campus Assembly Minutes 12/01/2009, Campus Assembly

Campus Assembly

No abstract provided.

Volume 29, Number 4, December 2009 Olac Newsletter, Amy K. Weiss, Nathan Putnam, Barbara Vaughan, Jan Mayo, Douglas King, Jay Weitz

OLAC Newsletters

Digitized December 2009 issue of the OLAC Newsletter.

Seeds Of Truth: The Importance Of C. S. Lewis's Interactions With Child Readers In The Chronicles Of Narnia, Joseph Thouvenel

Seminary Masters Theses

This paper explores the ways in which C.S. Lewis's interactions with child readers in The Chronicles of Narnia provide important insight for communicating theological and spiritual truths to children. Through a brief examination of Lewis's own childhood as well as a concise analysis of his writings to and about children, important insights regarding the place of imagination and wonder within The Chronicles of Narnia will be revealed. This paper also inspects the seven books that comprise The Chronicles of Narnia, paying specific attention to Lewis's use of first- and second-person narrative within this series as a means of demonstrating his …

Business Associations, Paul A. Quirós, Lynn S. Scott, William S. Smoak Jr.

Mercer Law Review

This Article surveys noteworthy cases in the areas of corporate, limited liability company, partnership, agency, and joint venture law decided between June 1, 2008 and May 31, 2009 by the Georgia Supreme Court, the Georgia Court of Appeals, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, and the United States district courts located in Georgia. In addition, this Article provides an overview of important enactments during the 2009 Session of the Georgia General Assembly to the Official Code of Georgia Annotated (O.C.G.A.) with respect to banking, finance, commerce, corporation, partnership, and business associations statutes.

Sbe Turismo E Paisagens Cársticas, Volume 2, No. 2, December 2009, Heros Augusto Santos Lobo

KIP Articles

Contents: Editorial -- Sugestão de Inventário e SIG Turísticos Para o Município de Mambaí-GO -- Zoneamento Ambiental Espeleológico (ZAE): Aproximação Teórica e Delimitação Metodológica -- Investigação do Potencial Para o Espeleoturismo na Região da Serra do Iuiu – BA -- Dados do Volume 2

New Education Dean Named

News Releases

No abstract provided.

Session Initiation Protocol Server Implementation For Linksys Routers, Matthew Duder

Computer Science and Software Engineering

Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is a signaling protocol used for network-based media interaction. SIP Servers are required to process and forward requests and responses between end clients. Once connection setup is complete, the end clients utilize some other protocol (such as Real-Time Transport Protocol) to complete their task.

Such a server may be implemented and installed on routers. Unlike the SIP protocol, however, router development currently remains without standards. For this project, Linux-based residential-grade routers had their kernels replaced with an open source version. This allowed for installation of open-source development, such as a SIP server implementation.

This project led …

Fourth Amendment Federalism And The Silencing Of The American Poor, Andrew E. Taslitz

Chicago-Kent Law Review

In Virginia v. Moore, police officers searched Moore incident to an arrest for a minor traffic infraction for which Virginia statutory law in fact prohibited arrest. The officers found cocaine on Moore's person, arresting him for that crime too. The United States Supreme Court ultimately found that the arrest for the traffic infraction and the subsequent search were valid under the federal Constitution's Fourth Amendment. Central to the Court's reasoning was its insistence that the state statute was irrelevant. Any contrary conclusion, explained the Court, would wrongly make the Fourth Amendment's meaning vary from place to place. Professor Taslitz …

Stacking In Criminal Procedure Adjudication;Symposium On Criminal Procedure: Judicial Proceedings, Luke M. Milligan

Chicago-Kent Law Review

The institutionalist branch of "Law and Courts" studies how judges incorporate institutional constraints into their decision-making processes. Congressional constraints on judicial review, as the literature currently stands, fall into one of two general classes: overrides and Court-curbing measures. This taxonomy, however, is incomplete. Neither overrides nor curbing measures are needed to explain the not uncommon situation where a policy-oriented Justice deviates from a preferred vote based on the belief that such a vote will prompt Congress to alter an "insulated base rule" in a way that disrupts the Justice's larger policy agenda. An "insulated base rule" is a Congressional policy …

Don't Bet On It: Casino's Contractual Duty To Stop Compulsive Gamblers From Gambling, Irina Slavina

Chicago-Kent Law Review

To address the problem of compulsive gambling, most states with commercial casinos have enacted statewide self-exclusion programs—a mechanism by which patrons petition to be physically removed from a casino if they are discovered on the premises. The casinos in the remaining states voluntarily instituted facility-based programs to assist problem gamblers in fighting their addiction.

But besides having any intended effect, these programs provided gamblers with a new ground for lawsuits—breach of contract. This note argues that neither states nor individual casinos should be liable to self-excluded patrons for breach of contract, even if they enter a casino and lose money …

Table Of Cases

Mercer Law Review

No abstract provided.

China's Labor Enforcement Crisis: International Intervention And Corporate Social Responsibility., Dana C. Nicholas

The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice

Abstract Forthcoming.

Towards Reasoning Pragmatics, Pascal Hitzler

Computer Science and Engineering Faculty Publications

The realization of Semantic Web reasoning is central to substantiating the Semantic Web vision. However, current mainstream research on this topic faces serious challenges, which force us to question established lines of research and to rethink the underlying approaches.

Removal Of Biofilm Through Controlled Cavitation, Mathew Chackalackal Mathew

Master's Theses - Daytona Beach

Human kind is poised to take the next "giant step" in space exploration, the manned mission to Mars, among other things. But before any plans for such long term habitation on an alien planet, there has to be consideration towards prevention and removal of bacterial contamination. Bacterial contamination or rather degradation of materials was considered of negligible importance. Bacterial degradation can be serious for long-term manned space mission, more so because there is no way to obtain quick replacements. For such conditions, a new innovative way of bacterial removal has been proposed wherein the bacteria is removed with no damage …

The Presence Of The Absent, Verónica Peña-Martínez

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

This thesis, The Presence of the Absent, is an autobiographical recounting of the production of my major works from 2006 through 2009. This period was marked by my separation from family and from my native country, Spain — and by my father's suicide. Since I left Spain, I have compensated for the physical absence of my loved ones through the creation of works that, through confining my body, function as thresholds between the (me) here and the (they) there. These works comprise a series of installations and performance pieces. Among my more important influences are the works of the visual …

Dance Usm! Program [2009], University Of Southern Maine Department Of Theatre

Programs 2009-2010 Season

Directed by Maria Tzianabos

2009 Vol. 58 No. 3, Cleveland-Marshall College Of Law

2000s

No abstract provided.

Number 13, 2009, Palara Editors

PALARA: Publication of the Afro-Latin/American Research Association

Complete Issue

Exploring The Efficiency And Effectiveness Of Teacher Selection Tools: The Effects On The Total Group With A Focus On The Gender Sub-Groups, Sharon Lynn Ellerbrook

Dissertations

As schools struggle to meet federal testing requirements, the importance of having highly effective teachers in every classroom has never been greater, and, given the downward trend in the economy, there are more teaching applicants than ever. School districts would benefit from a streamlined process to interview and select only the most effective and highly-qualified teachers. The researcher’s purpose was to determine the efficiency and effectiveness of a unique and specific teacher selection process which included three Ventures for Excellence screening tools and one innovative instrument designed for this study, the performance rating scale. A collaborative correlational study involving three …

Exploring The Efficiency And Effectiveness Of Teacher Selection Tools: The Effects On The Total Group With A Focus On Elementary And Secondary Sub-Groups, Gregory Matthew Cicotte

Dissertations

As schools struggle to meet federal testing requirements, the importance of having highly effective teachers in every classroom has never been greater, and, given the current downward trend in the economy, there are more teaching applicants than ever. School districts would benefit from a streamlined process to interview and select only the most highly-qualified teachers. The researcher’s purpose in this study was to determine the efficiency and effectiveness of a unique and specific teacher selection process which included three Ventures for Excellence screening tools and one innovative instrument designed for this study, the performance rating scale. A collaborative correlational study …

Nappy Roots, Split Ends, And New Growth: An Autobiographical Narrative Inquiry Into The Experiences Of A Black Female Educator, No Lye, Michel Linee Mitchell

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

Using autobiographical narrative inquiry, I explore the ways that race, gender, class, culture, and place shape who I was and how I became who I am as a Black woman educator. Family members, colleagues, community members, and students are the main characters in my stories. Building on the works of Collins (2000), Cross (1991), Gay (2000), He (2003), hooks (2000), and Tatum (1997), I use Black women hair metaphors such as nappy roots, split ends, new growth, and no lye to comb through the phases of my life. For the purpose of protecting the characters and myself in my stories, …

Prism Vol. 1, No. 1, Center For Complex Operations

PRISM (Full PDF Issues)

Welcome to PRISM, a national security journal tailored to serve policymakers, scholars, and practitioners working to enhance U.S. Government competency in complex operations. PRISM explores the analysis, planning, and implementation of community-wide approaches to the three Ds—Defense, Diplomacy, and Development—and provides a forum for U.S. Government agencies, academic institutions, foreign governments, allied militaries, nongovernmental organizations, and other participants in the complex operations arena. PRISM is chartered to study, promote, and reinforce emerging thought and best practices as civilian capacity increases in stability, reconstruction, security, counterinsurgency, and irregular warfare operations. PRISM complements Joint Force Quarterly, chartered by General Colin …

Mechanisms Mediated By Cxcl12 Signaling Through Cxcr4 And Cxcr7 In Breast Cancer., Lasharon Denise Mosley

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Interactions between chemokines and their receptors are involved in organ- specific homing and propagation of metastatic breast cancer (BrCa) cells. BrCa cells express higher levels of CXCR4 and CXCR7 mRNA and cell surface protein, than normal human mammary epithelial cells (HMECs). CXCR4 is ubiquitously expressed by a multitude of cancerous and normal cell types; while CXCR7 is differentially expressed by T helper lymphocytes, cancer cells, and normal epithelium. Importantly, recent studies show CXCR7 is highly expressed by activated endothelial cells (i.e., neovasculature), fetal liver cells, and many tumors, but not by non-transformed (or normal) human tissues. Unlike other chemokine receptors, …

Determinants Of Alumni Membership In A Dues-Based Alumni Association., Melissa Dawn Newman 1979-

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Public higher education institutions are presently faced with a perfect storm of financial crises. State appropriations are on the decline, endowments have been substantially reduced as a result of the declining stock market, generally poor economic conditions across the board, and recent, historically high tuition increases make additional tuition hikes an unattractive option for a non-tax based revenue source. As a result of the economic climate within public higher education finance, institutions must increasingly rely on alternative revenue sources, which are largely made up of alumni support. According to Taylor and Massey (1996), "Alumni are a unique, select, and continuing …

Effects On Digital Image Quality When Photographing Through A Transparent Material Used To Hold Or Flatten An Original Object, Paul E. Howell

Masters Theses

An increasing number of libraries and archives are initiating projects where new and updated technologies make it practical to digitize materials containing color and fine detail. Many of the imaging systems and methods used for this process require that some type of glass or plastic be placed over the original to hold it flat and in the correct position during image capture. The physical properties of a material placed between an original object and the capture system or camera, during digitization, could possibly affect the accuracy of image color and quality being reproduced by the system. This investigation provides an …

Building Pathfinders With Screen Capture Tools, Patrick Griffis

Library Faculty Research

This article outlines freely available screen capturing tools, covering their benefits and drawbacks as well as their potential applications. In discussing these tools, the author illustrates how they can be used to build pathfinding tutorials for users and how these tutorials can be shared with users. The author notes that the availability of these screen capturing tools at no cost, coupled with their ease of use, provides ample opportunity for low-stakes experimentation from library staff in building dynamic pathfinders to promote the discovery of library resources.

The Daily Gamecock, Tuesday, December 1, 2009, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

December

No abstract provided.

Emotional Branding: Obama’S Bottom-Up Campaign, Genevieve Ann Munoz

Communication Studies

No abstract provided.

Sustained Release Of Multiple Growth Factors From Injectable Polymeric System As A Novel Therapeutic Approach Towards Angiogenesis, Qinghua Sun, Eduardo A. Silva, Aixia Wang, James C. Fritton, David J. Mooney, Mitchell B. Schaffler, Paul M. Grossman, Sanjay Rajagopalan

Publications and Research

Purpose The aim was to investigate that a bio-degradable alginate and poly lactide-co-glycolide (PLG) system capable of delivering growth factors sequentially would be superior to single growth factor delivery in promoting neovascularization and improving perfusion. Methods Three groups of apoE null mice underwent unilateral hindlimb ischemia surgery and received ischemic limb intramuscular injections of alginate (Blank), alginate containing VEGF165 (VEGF), or alginate containing VEGF165 combined with PLG microspheres containing PDGF-BB (VEGF/PDGF). Vascularity in the ischemic hindlimb was assessed by morphologic and immunohistochemical end-points, while changes in blood flow were assessed by Laser Doppler Perfusion Index. Muscle VEGF and PDGF content …

Supreme Court Section 1983 Decisions - October 2008 Term, Martin A. Schwartz

Tulsa Law Review

No abstract provided.