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Workshop Report From Web2se: First Workshop On Web 2.0 For Software Engineering, Christoph Treude, Margaret-Anne Storey, Kate Ehrlich, Arie Van Deursen Jan 2010

Workshop Report From Web2se: First Workshop On Web 2.0 For Software Engineering, Christoph Treude, Margaret-Anne Storey, Kate Ehrlich, Arie Van Deursen

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Web 2.0 technologies such as wikis, blogs, tags and feeds have been adopted and adapted by software engineers. With Web2SE, we provide a venue for pertinent work by highlighting current state-of-the-art research, by identifying research areas, and by discussing implications of Web 2.0 on software engineering. This paper reports on the paper presentations and the discussions among participants at Web2SE 2010 as well as on future directions of the Web2SE community.

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Development Of A Liquid Oxygen Facility For Rocket Engine Injector Performance Testing, Henry W. Mulkey Jan 2010

Development Of A Liquid Oxygen Facility For Rocket Engine Injector Performance Testing, Henry W. Mulkey

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This study demonstrated the successful operation of a new liquid oxygen - gaseous methane rocket engine test facility to characterize the performance of a swirl coaxial injector. In support of safe system functional development, an oxygen compatibility and hazards assessment was completed to identify and minimize operational risks. Facility changes were implemented to create a more fault tolerant system. Major upgrades included initiatives to manage the oxygen risk and mitigate specific oxygen ignition mechanisms. Oxygen compatible materials and facility configuration changes were instituted to achieve safer experimentation. The demonstration testing of the cryogenic propellant system employed the swirl coaxial injector …

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Gera Conference Program [2010], Gera Jan 2010

Gera Conference Program [2010], Gera

Georgia Educational Research Association Conference

Conference program for 2010.

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Conversations With A Crime Boss: Doing Asian Criminal Business, Nafis Hanif, Mark Findlay Jan 2010

Conversations With A Crime Boss: Doing Asian Criminal Business, Nafis Hanif, Mark Findlay

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

Media piracy, in Malaysia, is organised through illicit negotiations between a dominant crime syndicate and consumers, street-corner gang leaders, the Malaysian police, custom officers and directors of the Malaysian Film Censorship Board. These key social actors who crossover class, race, religion, gang membership, and bridge porous legitimate and illegitimate commercial and political sectors of society establish a mutually collaborative relationship by negotiating their asymmetrical social capital, according to a conventional cost-benefit analysis. Contextual analyses of these illicit interactions identify criminal enterprise opportunities and plot the interactive progress of enterprise as it unfolds, against models of organisational and functional inter-connection. The …

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Intrasexual Competition And Eating Restriction In Heterosexual And Homosexual Individuals, Norman P. Li, April R. Smith, Vladas Griskevicius, Margaret J. Cason, Angela Bryan Jan 2010

Intrasexual Competition And Eating Restriction In Heterosexual And Homosexual Individuals, Norman P. Li, April R. Smith, Vladas Griskevicius, Margaret J. Cason, Angela Bryan

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

Restrictive eating attitudes and behaviors have been hypothesized to be related to processes of intrasexual competition. According to this perspective, within-sex competition for status serves the adaptive purpose of attracting mates. As such, status competition salience may lead to concerns of mating desirability. For heterosexual women and gay men, such concerns revolve around appearing youthful and, thus, thinner. Following this logic, we examined how exposure to high-status and competitive (but not thin or highly attractive) same-sex individuals would influence body image and eating attitudes in heterosexual and in gay/lesbian individuals. Results indicated that for heterosexuals, intrasexual competition cues led to …

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Managing Female Foreign Domestic Workers In Singapore: Economic Pragmatism, Coercive Legal Regulation, Or Human Rights?, Tan K. B. Eugene Jan 2010

Managing Female Foreign Domestic Workers In Singapore: Economic Pragmatism, Coercive Legal Regulation, Or Human Rights?, Tan K. B. Eugene

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

Singapore's immigration discourse is deeply influenced by its need to “right-size” its population. As a society that has and remains in need of immigration, contemporary immigration and globalization have rigorously challenged the conventional thinking and understanding of citizenship, as well as notions of who belongs and who does not. Nevertheless, international marriages and pervasive in-and out-migration for purposes of employment, study, and family, conspire to make more pronounced the decoupling of citizenship and residence in Singapore. This transnational dimension sits uncomfortably with the policy makers' desire for, and the imperatives of, state sovereignty, control, and jurisdiction.Although one quarter of people …

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Book Review: Out In The Country: Youth, Media, And Queer Visibility In Rural America By Mary Gray, Emily Kazyak Jan 2010

Book Review: Out In The Country: Youth, Media, And Queer Visibility In Rural America By Mary Gray, Emily Kazyak

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

Gray’s book is a provocative analysis of how rural LGBT youth and their allies organize and create queer identities and networks – in “brick and mortar” structures as well as through engagement with new media. Gray does a wonderful job of providing a balance between detailing rich stories from the ethnographic fieldwork and offering academic analyses. Thus, this a suitable book for undergraduate and graduate level courses in LGBT studies, rural education, media, qualitative methods, and social movements. Additionally, this book will no doubt contribute to a rethinking of what it means to be LGBT in the country and how …

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Evidence Of Sustainability Communication In Major League Baseball: A Website Analysis, Dorene Ciletti, John Lanasa, Diane Ramos, Ryan Luchs, Junying Lou Jan 2010

Evidence Of Sustainability Communication In Major League Baseball: A Website Analysis, Dorene Ciletti, John Lanasa, Diane Ramos, Ryan Luchs, Junying Lou

AMTP Proceedings 2010

Based on a review of Major League baseball team websites, this study provides insight into team communication of sustainability principles and practices through an analysis of self-presented sustainability content. Websites for thirty-one (31) teams were examined for content. Elkington’s (1997) triple bottom line dimensions and Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) indicator codes and definitions were constructs for the model and aligned to social, environmental, and economic principles for categories of sustainability practices. Researchers found that while teams are including sustainability information to some extent, the majority highlight social issues on their home pages and subsequent pages; communication about environmental factors varies …

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Automated Marketing: A Narrow Focus On Technology Or An Emerging Business Philosophy?, Edward Kasabov Jan 2010

Automated Marketing: A Narrow Focus On Technology Or An Emerging Business Philosophy?, Edward Kasabov

AMTP Proceedings 2010

As a new area of academic inquiry, Automated Marketing is in its adolescence but has proved to be fast developing and very innovative, mirroring the relatively early stage of the development and application of the technologies that have enabled it. This article widens the understanding of this field of study, which is important both to practice and theory, by drawing attention to two deficiencies: not much has been written on Automated Marketing as such and the little that has been written adopts a narrow technical view while overlooking the significance and impact that it has on marketing, business strategy and …

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Differences In Online Social Media Mavens: The Gender Gap, Tyra Mitchell, Deborah H. Lester, R. Keith Tudor, Dolly D. Loyd Jan 2010

Differences In Online Social Media Mavens: The Gender Gap, Tyra Mitchell, Deborah H. Lester, R. Keith Tudor, Dolly D. Loyd

AMTP Proceedings 2010

Consumer Behavior experts have acknowledged the significant impact market mavens play in the dissemination and acceptance of new products in the market place. The emergence of online social media mavens has only recently been recognized. Based on traditional patterns of behavior and Internet usage it could be assumed the predictable demographics of the social media maven would be male, young, educated and with an above average income. This study investigated these traditional assumptions and discovered unique differences in online social media mavens. In order to determine potential Social Media Mavens, this research looked beyond usage of social media and instead …

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Scene Classification Using Spatial Pyramid Matching And Hierarchical Dirichlet Processes, Haohui Yin Jan 2010

Scene Classification Using Spatial Pyramid Matching And Hierarchical Dirichlet Processes, Haohui Yin

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The goal of scene classification is to automatically assign a scene image to a semantic category (i.e. "building" or "river") based on analyzing the visual contents of this image. This is a challenging problem due to the scene images' variability, ambiguity, and a wide range of illumination or scale conditions that may apply. On the contrary, it is a fundamental problem in computer vision and can be used to guide other processes such as image browsing, contentbased image retrieval and object recognition by providing contextual information. This thesis implemented two scene classification systems: one is based on Spatial Pyramid Matching …

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A Comparison Of The Violence Risk Appraisal Guide, Psychopathy Checklist-Revised, And Child And Adolescent Taxon Scale: Predictive Utility And Cross Cultural Generalizability, Michael Bruce Lister Jan 2010

A Comparison Of The Violence Risk Appraisal Guide, Psychopathy Checklist-Revised, And Child And Adolescent Taxon Scale: Predictive Utility And Cross Cultural Generalizability, Michael Bruce Lister

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The Violence Risk Appraisal Guide (VRAG) is a widely utilized measure for estimating the risk of violent reoffending among forensic populations. However, completing the VRAG can be a lengthy process as it requires entering scores from a second test, the Psychopathy Checklist Revised (PCL-R), which must be administered separately and requires hours to complete. In order to reduce scoring time, the authors of the VRAG have developed a brief checklist, the Child and Adolescent Taxon Scale (CATS), which can be used in place of the PCL-R as a more efficient method of assessing psychopathy (Quinsey et al., 2004). Previous research …

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An Evaluation Of The Effectiveness Of Corporate Communication During Large-Scalebailey College Of Engineering And Technology Changes, Dawna M. Drum Jan 2010

An Evaluation Of The Effectiveness Of Corporate Communication During Large-Scalebailey College Of Engineering And Technology Changes, Dawna M. Drum

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The success rate ofBailey College of Engineering and Technology implementations remains low, despite decades of scholarly research and popular advice. Whether success is defined by spending within the budget, on-time completion, functionality of the final implementation, or satisfaction of the users, few projects are deemed to be complete and resounding successes. One possible reason is inadequate communication during the change process, and many studies have examined aspects of change communication such as media choice, message content, and timing of the messages. What has been missing, however, is an assessment of these items' effectiveness across hierarchical levels within an organization undergoing …

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Cloning And Characterization Of Sas1738, A Hypothetical Exported Protein From Community-Associated Strain Of Staphylococcus Aureus, Kumar Deepak Vijaya Jan 2010

Cloning And Characterization Of Sas1738, A Hypothetical Exported Protein From Community-Associated Strain Of Staphylococcus Aureus, Kumar Deepak Vijaya

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a group of S. aureus strains that has acquired resistance to a class of beta lactam antibiotics and is the major cause of hospital associated infections. Their discovery goes back to 1960 when the first cases were identified. Recently community associated MRSA infections have emerged and are caused by strains that are independent of those from the hospital environment, related only because they carry some of the same antibiotic resistance genes. Community associated infections (CA) are more severe, producing pus filled lesions that are painful and capable of invasion of deep tissues. Virulence factors …

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Comparison Of Pretenured And Tenured Engineering Professors', Monica F. Cox, Alene Harris Jan 2010

Comparison Of Pretenured And Tenured Engineering Professors', Monica F. Cox, Alene Harris

International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning

Analyzing 36,000 strings of instructional data from fifteen faculty teaching twenty-eight courses over five semesters, the authors conducted a research study exploring differences in the pedagogical practices of pretenured and tenured faculty teaching innovative courses designed around the principles of the “How People Learn” (HPL) framework and of pretenured and tenured faculty teaching traditional, lecture-based courses. Consistent with previous research that reports that time is needed for pretenured faculty to become proficient teachers and with research that identifies lecture to be the primary teaching strategy used by engineering faculty, the current study provides additional insight into the types of pedagogical …

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Changing Patterns Xvi: Mortgage Lending To Traditionally Underseved Borrowers & Neighborhoods In Boston, Greater Boston And Massachusetts, 2008, Jim Campen Jan 2010

Changing Patterns Xvi: Mortgage Lending To Traditionally Underseved Borrowers & Neighborhoods In Boston, Greater Boston And Massachusetts, 2008, Jim Campen

Gastón Institute Publications

This is the sixteenth in the annual series of Changing Patterns reports prepared for the Massachusetts Community & Banking Council (MCBC) by the present author. The series is aptly named: mortgage lending since 1990 has indeed been characterized by “changing patterns.” In recent years, the major focus of the series shifted from concern for fair access to credit for traditionally underserved borrowers and neighborhoods to concern for access to fair credit for these same borrowers and neighborhoods. This reflects the extent to which the problem of redlining had become overshadowed by the problem of reverse redlining, whereby areas that …

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Molecular Recognition Of Aromatic Amines By Coumarin Substituted Azacrown Ether, Hiten Mehta, Harjinder Kaur, Shobhana Menon Jan 2010

Molecular Recognition Of Aromatic Amines By Coumarin Substituted Azacrown Ether, Hiten Mehta, Harjinder Kaur, Shobhana Menon

Turkish Journal of Chemistry

New chromogenic azacrown ether N[7-hydroxy-4-methyl-coumarin-8-methylene]-4-azadibenzo-18-crownether (HMCMADCE) was synthesised through the condensation reaction of 4-azadibenzo-18-crown- 6ether, 4-methyl,7-hydroxy coumarin and formaldehyde was used to investigate its behaviour towards the aromatic amines. All the aromatic primary amines gave specific colours in aqueous medium. The functional group recognition behaviour is further extended to study the estimation of the aromatic primary amine in commercial drug samples. The amines can be estimated in the presence of several functional groups like phenolic-OH, secondary and tertiary aromatic amines as well as aliphatic amines.

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Personal Financial Planning Attitudes - A Study, Scott A. Yetmar, D. Murphy Jan 2010

Personal Financial Planning Attitudes - A Study, Scott A. Yetmar, D. Murphy

Business Faculty Publications

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to report on a survey about the personal financial planning attitudes of MBA students in the USA. Design/methodology/approach – The study surveyed 206 MBA students about their attitudes to personal financial planning. Participants were asked about their level of knowledge, whether they had prepared components of a financial plan, where they might seek assistance in such a process and the criteria for selecting a financial planner. In addition, participants were asked to indicate their level of confidence in a financial plan's capacity to help them meet their long-term needs and the likelihood …

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Synthesis Of Some New Biheterocyclic Triazole Derivatives And Evaluation Of Their Antimicrobial Activity, Hakan Bektaş, Ahmet Demi̇rbaş, Nesli̇han Demi̇rbaş, Şengül Alpay Karaoğlu Jan 2010

Synthesis Of Some New Biheterocyclic Triazole Derivatives And Evaluation Of Their Antimicrobial Activity, Hakan Bektaş, Ahmet Demi̇rbaş, Nesli̇han Demi̇rbaş, Şengül Alpay Karaoğlu

Turkish Journal of Chemistry

2-{3-(4-Substitutedbenzyl)-4-[2-(1H-indol-3-yl)ethyl]-5-oxo-4,5- dihydro-1H-1,2,4-triazol-1-yl}-N'-(aryl-methylene)acetohydrazides (5a-g), 4-amino-2-{-(4-substitutedbenzyl)-5-oxo-4,5-dihydro-1H-1,2,4-triazol- 1-yl}-N'-(arylmethylene)acetohydrazides (6a,b), and 4-[2-(1H-indol- 3-yl)ethyl]-5-(4-substitutedbenzyl)-2-{5-(phenylamino)-1,3,4-thiadiazol- 2-yl]methyl}-2,4-dihydro-3H-1,2,4-triazol-3-ones (8a,b) were synthesized starting from 4-alkyl-5-(4-substitutedbenzyl)-2,4-dihydro- 3H-1,2,4-triazol-3-ones (2a-c) by several steps and their structures were well characterized by elemental analyses, IR, ^1H-NMR, ^{13}C-NMR, and mass spectral studies. They were also screened for their microbial activities. The obtained antimicrobial activity results revealed that 12 among the 24 compounds tested displayed variable growth inhibition effects on the tested gram-positive and gram-negative bacterial strains. None of the compounds showed antifungal activity against yeast-like fungi.

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Chelating Agent Free Solid Phase Extraction (Caf-Spe) Method For Separation And/Or Preconcentration Of Iron(Iii) Ions, Özcan Yalçinkaya, Orhan Murat Kalfa, Ali̇ Rehber Türker Jan 2010

Chelating Agent Free Solid Phase Extraction (Caf-Spe) Method For Separation And/Or Preconcentration Of Iron(Iii) Ions, Özcan Yalçinkaya, Orhan Murat Kalfa, Ali̇ Rehber Türker

Turkish Journal of Chemistry

This paper presents a chelating agent free solid phase extraction (CAF-SPE) method for the separation and/or preconcentration of trace iron(III) ions. This method is based on the sorption of Fe(III) ions without using any chelating agent onto Amberlyst 36 resin. A good relative standard deviation (3%), high recovery (>95%), high enrichment factor (100), and low detection limit (0.32 \mu g L^{-1}) were obtained. The adsorption capacity of resin was 117 mg g^{-1} for iron(III). The method was applied for the determination of iron various in water and commercial tea bag samples. The accuracy of the method was confirmed by …

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Simultaneous Determination Of Cu(Ii) And Pd(Ii) As 4-Phenylpiperazinecarbodithioate Complex Using H-Point Standard Addition Method And Derivative Spectrophotometry, Varinder Kaur, Ashok Kumar Malik, Neelam Verma Jan 2010

Simultaneous Determination Of Cu(Ii) And Pd(Ii) As 4-Phenylpiperazinecarbodithioate Complex Using H-Point Standard Addition Method And Derivative Spectrophotometry, Varinder Kaur, Ashok Kumar Malik, Neelam Verma

Turkish Journal of Chemistry

A new, simple, inexpensive, and sensitive method for the simultaneous spectrophotometric determination of Cu(II) and Pd(II) by H-point standard addition method and derivative spectrophotometry is described. 4- Phenylpiperazinecarbodithioate (PPDTC) in an anionic micellar solution of SLS was used as a reagent at pH 4. The experimental parameters, such as pH, type of surfactant, concentration of reagent, and surfactant used, were optimized to minimize the errors. The linear ranges of the method were 0.1-10 and 0.1-11 \mu g mL^{-1} for Cu(II) and Pd(II), respectively. The results of applying H-point standard addition and fourth derivative spectrophotometry showed that Cu(II) and Pd(II) can …

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Direct Reductive Amination Of Carbonyl Compounds Using Sodium Borohydride-Silica Chloride, Heshmatollah Alinezhad, Mahmood Tajbakhsh, Neda Hamidi Jan 2010

Direct Reductive Amination Of Carbonyl Compounds Using Sodium Borohydride-Silica Chloride, Heshmatollah Alinezhad, Mahmood Tajbakhsh, Neda Hamidi

Turkish Journal of Chemistry

A simple and convenient procedure for reductive amination of aldehydes and ketones using sodium borohydride in the presence of silica chloride as an active, inexpensive, recoverable, and recyclable catalyst is described. The reactions were carried out with equimolar amounts of amine and carbonyl compound using silica chloride-sodium borohydride in THF at room temperature.

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Synthesis And Antimicrobial Activities Of 2-(5-Mercapto)-1,3-Oxadiazol-2-Ylmethyl-1,2,4-Triazol-3-One Derivatives, Nesli̇han Demi̇rbaş, Ahmet Demi̇rbaş, Hakan Bektaş, Şengül Alpay Karaoğlu, Deni̇z Şahi̇n Jan 2010

Synthesis And Antimicrobial Activities Of 2-(5-Mercapto)-1,3-Oxadiazol-2-Ylmethyl-1,2,4-Triazol-3-One Derivatives, Nesli̇han Demi̇rbaş, Ahmet Demi̇rbaş, Hakan Bektaş, Şengül Alpay Karaoğlu, Deni̇z Şahi̇n

Turkish Journal of Chemistry

The synthesis of 4-amino-2-[(5-mercapto-1,3,4-oxadiazol-2- yl)methyl]-5-(4-methylphenyl)-2,4-dihydro-3H-1,2,4-triazol-3-one (2) and 4-amino-2-[(4-amino-5-mercapto-4H-1,2,4-triazol-3-yl)methyl]- 5-(4-methylphenyl)-2,4-dihydro-3H-1,2,4-triazol-3-one (5) was performed starting from 2-[4-amino-3-(4-methylphenyl)-5-oxo-4,5- dihydro-1H-1,2,4-triazol-1-yl]acetohydrazide (1). The treatment of 2 and 5 with 4-fluorobenzaldehyde (for 8) or salicylaldehyde (for 6) afforded the corresponding Schiff bases (6 and 8). The condensation of 5 with phenacyl bromide produced 4-amino-5-(4-methylphenyl)-2- [(6-phenyl-7H-[1,2,4]triazolo[3,4-b][1,3,4]thiadiazin-3-yl)methyl]- 2,4-dihydro-3H-1,2,4-triazol-3-one (7). The alkylation of 2 and 8 was carried out by using methyl iodide in basic media. Compounds 3 and 10a,b were prepared by aminoalkylation of 2 and 8 with 4-fluorophenyl piperazine, morpholine, or 4-methyl piperazine in the presence of formaldehyde. The synthesized compounds were screened for their antimicrobial activities …

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Nyar Savannah Program 2010, National Youth-At-Risk Conference, Savannah Jan 2010

Nyar Savannah Program 2010, National Youth-At-Risk Conference, Savannah

National Youth Advocacy & Resilience Conference

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An Investigation Of California Middle-Grades Teachers' Knowledge Of Early Adolescent Development, Melina Johnson Jan 2010

An Investigation Of California Middle-Grades Teachers' Knowledge Of Early Adolescent Development, Melina Johnson

Doctoral Dissertations

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Thumri, Ghazal, And Modernity In Hindustani Music Culture, Peter L. Manuel Jan 2010

Thumri, Ghazal, And Modernity In Hindustani Music Culture, Peter L. Manuel

Publications and Research

If historians of Indian classical music have been obliged to rely primarily upon a finite and often enigmatic set of treatises and iconographic sources, historical studies of semi-classical genres like thumri and ghazal confront even more formidable challenges. Such styles and their predecessors were largely ignored by Sanskrit theoreticians, who tended to be more interested in hoary modal and metrical systems than in contemporary vernacular or regional-language genres sung by courtesans. It is thus inevitable that attempts to reconstruct the development of such genres involve considerable amounts of conjecture, and in some senses raise more questions than they answer. Nevertheless, …

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Book Review Of The Law Of The Land: The Advent Of The Torrens System In Canada, By Greg Taylor (Toronto: Osgoode Society For Canadian Legal History, 2008), Douglas C. Harris Jan 2010

Book Review Of The Law Of The Land: The Advent Of The Torrens System In Canada, By Greg Taylor (Toronto: Osgoode Society For Canadian Legal History, 2008), Douglas C. Harris

All Faculty Publications

Systems for recording interests in land are not the subject of much public interest or concern in Canada. Occasionally a sympathetic victim of egregious fraud receives some media attention, but generally the land system operates quietly in the background. This has not always been so, and Greg Taylor's history of Torrens or title registration in Canada reveals a nineteenth century during which the merits and limitations of the common law, deeds registration, and title registration systems were vigorously and publicly debated. Eventually, title registration based on a model first developed in South Australia would prevail in the provinces and territories …

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Corporate Social Responsibility In China: Window Dressing Or Structural Change?, Li-Wen Lin Jan 2010

Corporate Social Responsibility In China: Window Dressing Or Structural Change?, Li-Wen Lin

All Faculty Publications

In recent years many indigenous corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives have emerged in China. The Chinese CSR initiatives include laws and regulations, governmental instructions and guidelines, non-governmental standards and organizations. The recent growth of the Chinese CSR initiatives deserves an analysis of the CSR development in China, especially given that China’s international image is usually associated with human rights abuses, substandard products, sweatshops, and serious environmental pollution. How sincere and serious are the Chinese CSR measures, simply window dressing or any real structural change? This article overviews major Chinese CSR initiatives and analyzes the Chinese CSR development from the perspectives …

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Forced Marriage As A Harm In Domestic And International Law, Catherine Dauvergne, Jenni Millbank Jan 2010

Forced Marriage As A Harm In Domestic And International Law, Catherine Dauvergne, Jenni Millbank

All Faculty Publications

This article reports on our analysis of 120 refugee cases from Australia, Canada, and Britain where an actual or threatened forced marriage was part of the claim for protection. We found that forced marriage was rarely considered by refugee decision makers to be a harm in and of itself. This finding contributes to understanding how gender and sexuality are analysed within refugee law, because the harm of forced marriage is experienced differently by lesbians, gay men and heterosexual women. We contrast our findings in the refugee case law with domestic initiatives in Europe aimed at protecting nationals from forced marriages …

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Intimate Femicide: A Study Of Sentencing Trends For Men Who Kill Their Intimate Partners, Isabel Grant Jan 2010

Intimate Femicide: A Study Of Sentencing Trends For Men Who Kill Their Intimate Partners, Isabel Grant

All Faculty Publications

This article examines sentencing trends over the past 18 years for men who kill their intimate partners. Using a sample of 252 cases, the article demonstrates that periods of parole ineligibility for second degree murder rose significantly after the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision in Shropshire but have more recently levelled off to a range that is still higher than the pre-Shropshire era. With respect to manslaughter, changing social attitudes and the amendments to the Criminal Code making the spousal nature of the crime an aggravating factor have resulted in increasingly severe sentences for spousal manslaughters. While a large number …

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