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Property Outlaws, Rebel Mythologies, And Social Bandits, Greg Lastowka

Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy

No abstract provided.

Trespassory Art, Randall Bezanson, Andrew Finkelman

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

The history of art is replete with examples of artists who have broken from existing conventions and genres, redefining the meaning of art and its function in society. Our interest is in emerging forms of art that trespass-occupy space, place, and time as part of their aesthetic identity. These new forms of art, which we call trespassory art, are creatures of a movement that seeks to appropriate cultural norms and cultural signals, reinterpreting them to create new meaning. Marcel DuChamp produced such a result when, in the early twentieth century, he took a urinal, signed it, titled it Fountain, and …

Torture, Impunity, And The Need For Independent Prosecutorial Oversight Of The Executive Branch, Fran Quigley

Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy

No abstract provided.

There Be No Shelter Here: Anti-Immigrant Housing Ordinances And Comprehensive Reform, Daniel Edwardo Guzman

Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy

No abstract provided.

Ipod Touch For Literacy, Rafael Chamberlain

Education Masters

This study examined the benefits of using an iPod Touch with literacy learners. Research was conducted in the households of four early elementary students as they used an iPod Touch for recreational and literacy activities. Data was collected through interviews, preand post-testing, and video analysis of student interaction with the iPod Touch. The findings showed the students were capable of independently using the iPod Touch and were engaged when using it. In order to access the educational potential of the iPod Touch, educators must understand that the it is a tool which requires carefully and conscientiously software selection based on …

Ntid Focus Winter 2010, Ntid Marketing And Communications

National Technical Institute for the Deaf Papers

No abstract provided.

Donald Sutherland: The Politics And Erotics Of Submission, Jean Walton

English and Creative Writing Faculty Publications

When Donald Sutherland burst onto the American film scene with his portrayal of Hawkeye in the unexpected Robert Altman hit M*A* S*H (1970), the popular press couldn't seem to agree on how best to characterize this new "un-Hollywood" star, fixing by turns on his Canadian background, his political activism, or his "funny peculiar" sense of humor (Dorothy Manners, "Sutherland - 'Actors Should Be Involved in Pertinent Causes,'" L.A. Examiner Sunday, 12 July 1970, n.p.; Douglas Marshall, "The Funniest Film Actor Canada Has Ever Produced," Maclean's, 1 September 1970, 42). After the release a few months later of Kelly's Heroes (1970), …

University Magazine Winter 2010, University News Service, Office Of Alumni Relations

University Publications

This is the official magazine for RIT Alumni. Issued thrice a year in spring, fall and winter. Printing began in 1999.

Ereview, Print Industry Center

RIT Digital Archives

No abstract provided.

Fred Fejes' Gay Rights And Moral Panic: The Origins Of America's Debate On Homosexuality (Book Review), Michael Boucai

Book Reviews

No abstract provided.

News From Hope College, Volume 42.3: December, 2010, Hope College

News from Hope College

No abstract provided.

Comparison And Consolidation Of Models Of Personal Epistemologies, Linda Urman, Gene L. Roth

Journal of STEM Teacher Education

Assumptions that students and instructors have about their personal epistemologies have important effects on their expectations and performance in career and technical classrooms and laboratories. Personal epistemologies of career and technical education students influence their behaviors in classes and their interactions with instructors. The conceptual analysis of this research was based on three major theoretical frameworks of personal epistemology: qualitative developmental stages, quantitative belief systems, and practitioner epistemological resources. Seven models of personal epistemologies were compared, and a consolidated conceptual framework is presented to career and technical educators. This new conceptual matrix is intended to provide a roadmap for better …

Protecting The Heart Of The First Amendment, Defending Citizens United, Floyd Abrams

First Amendment Law Review

No abstract provided.

Direct Care Workers Perceptions And Practices Related To Quality Of Life In Long Term Care, Karen M. Kinyon

Dissertations

The focus of this case study was to discover how DCWs define success in their practice and what institutional and individual factors contribute to their successful practices. It describes how DCWs perceive quality of life for NH residents and how their practices reflect quality of life indicators. The conceptual model for which this research is based on was developed around the concepts that individual and institutional factors contribute to the successful practices of direct care workers; and, how these DCWs perceive quality of life influences how they practice to promote quality of life for nursing home residents. Using a case …

The Role Of The Hemopexin Domain Of Matrix Metalloproteinases In Cell Migration, Antoine Hugues-Olivier Dufour

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

The biological functions of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) extend beyond extracellular matrix degradation. Non-proteolytic activities of MMPs are just beginning to become understood. The role of proMMPs in cell migration was herein evaluated using transfected COS-1 cells with various proMMP cDNAs employed in a Transwell chamber migration assay. Latent MMP-2 and MMP-9 enhanced cell migration to a greater extent than latent MMP-1,. 3,. 11 and. 28. To examine if proteolytic activity is required for MMP-enhanced cell migration, three experimental approaches including a fluorogenic substrate degradation assay, transfection of cells with catalytically inactive mutant of MMP cDNAs, and addition of MMP inhibitors …

Fair Use Challenges In Academic And Research Libraries, Peter Jaszi

Copyright, Fair Use & Open Access

Academic and research libraries are key players in the generation and propagation of knowledge in the U.S., and their interpretation of the balancing features of copyright is critical to the quality of research, teaching, and learning they support. Approaches and methods for research, teaching, and learning are changing rapidly with opportunities presented by digitization and Internet communication. Academic and research librarians need and use the balancing features of copyright—including exemptions listed in Sections 108 and 110 of the Copyright Act, as well as fair use (codified in Section 107)—in order to accomplish the routine tasks of their profession. This report …

Mundos Subterráneos, No. 21, December 2010, José G. Palacios-Vargas

KIP Articles

Contents: Las Cuevas Biogénicas. Morfogénesis De Dos Formas Inversas Del Relieve En La Plataforma Insular De Cuba -- La Aplicación Del Índice De Perturbación Cárstica En La Valoración Del Impacto Antropogénico De La Gruta De Atoyac (Veracruz, México) -- Perspectivas Carso-espeleológicas Que Ofrece Costa Rica -- Las Exploraciones Espeleológicas En La Zona De Cerro Brujo, Ocozocoautla, Chiapas, México -- Colémbolos Cavernícolas Y De Otros Ambientes Subterráneos De Quintana Roo, México -- Dos Nuevas Cavidades De Iztacxochitla, Puebla, México -- “espeleo Rescate México” 10 Años México, Urion -- Topografía De La Cueva “mediceos”, Iztacxochitla, Puebla -- Topografía De La Cueva El …

Sbe Turismo E Paisagens Cársticas, Volume 3, No. 2, December 2010, Heros Augusto Santos Lobo

KIP Articles

Contents: O geoturismo como instrumento em prol da divulgação, valorização e conservação do patrimônio natural abiótico - uma reflexão teórica -- Considerações sobre os efeitos do turismo no ecossistema da Mina do Chico Rei (Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais): implicações para o manejo em sistemas naturais -- A contribuição da prática do espeleismo no bem-estar corporal -- Potencial geoturístico das quedas d'água de Indianópolis/MG -- Sumário de títulos -- Índice de autores -- Quadro de avaliadores -- Gestão editorial

The Future Of Editing: A Textual Analysis Of Three Wikipedia Articles, Lara Tellis

All Theses

This thesis is a case study analyzing the revisions made to three Wikipedia articles, 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,' '2009 Northwestern Wildcats football team,' and 'Murder of Annie Le,' in September, 2009. After tracking and coding the revisions made to each of these three articles using categories developed by Sam Dragga and Gwendolyn Gong and Lester Faigley and Stephen Witte, I describe the types of changes made to Wikipedia articles, the differences in changes made to articles at different levels on Wikipedia's quality scale, and the features that make online editing distinct from print editing.

Businesses Invited To Team Up With Unh Information Systems Students, Lori Wright

Media Relations

No abstract provided.

The Utah Statesman, December 1, 2010, Utah State University

The Utah Statesman

Weekly student newspaper of Utah State University in Logan.

New Energy Geopolitics?: China, Renewable Energy, And The "Greentech Race", Joel B. Eisen

Chicago-Kent Law Review

Commentators believe that programs in China promoting development of new renewable energy capacity have produced astonishing achievements in a short period of time. Evoking the "space race" between the United States and the U.S.S.R. after the launch of the Sputnik satellite in 1957, observers contend that the United States and China are in a "greentech race" to secure international leadership in the development and deployment of renewable energy. As U.S. Energy Secretary Chu has put it, many believe this is a modern "Sputnik moment." This Article finds that China's programs and initiatives are indeed leading to considerable success, but, using …

The Art Of Subsidizing Fuel-Free Electricity Under The European Economic Area Agreement As Illustrated By Norway's Reversion Instrument, Peter Ørebech

Chicago-Kent Law Review

The purpose of this article is to scrutinize legal barriers to state aid instruments in transforming fuel-based electricity into renewable energy, the subsidy prerequisites by which the national state may champion fuel free power production. Subsidy is illustrated by the 2004 Official Norwegian Report's (NOU) disapproval of the Norwegian Reversion Institute (NRI), as a result of a waiver clause to the benefit of municipal power plants. A licensing period of sixty years is final. Relicensing is not possible; only private leasing may occur.

As outlined, my basic criticism is that the NOU confuses interstate distortion of competition as it is …

Green Diesel: Finding A Place For Algae Oil, Fred Bosselman

Chicago-Kent Law Review

The prospect of obtaining domestically-produced biodiesel from algae has attracted wide investor interest. Although many analysts predict that economic production is five to ten years away, the production process involves such a wide range of environmental and land use issues that it is not premature to begin thinking about the kinds of places in which "green biodiesel" could be efficiently made in the United States. Our land use and environmental laws were all drafted by people who never imagined the possibility that huge volumes of algae would be an important energy resource; nor could they have known that the location …

Innovation And Tradition In Lisan Wang’S Piano Suite Other Hill, Rongjie Xu

Glenn Korff School of Music: Dissertations, Theses, Student Creative Work, and Performances

Lisan Wang is one of the most celebrated musical figures in China. His five-movement piano suite Other Hill (1980) is the composer’s response to the “New Wave”, a compositional trend generated in China after the 1977 Cultural Revolution. Gaining fame as a piano composition for showing the application of multiculturalism and syncretism to music, Other Hill is regarded as a prime example of cross-cultural piano composition in China. Wang challenges Chinese traditional piano composition with different artistic media—philosophy, calligraphy, poems, and various folk elements in Other Hill. This document proposes an interdisciplinary study of Lisan Wang’s musical fusion of …

Using An Audience Response System (Ars) A.K.A. “Clicker” To Do Attention Research, Roger A. Kendrick

Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education: Theses and Other Student Research

This study makes an effort to examine whether a student’s attention or engagement is increased by possession of an Audience Response System (ARS, or clicker). This experiment tested a difference in performance. This study makes an effort to examine whether a student’s attention or engagement is increased by possession of an Audience Response System (ARS, or clicker). This experiment tested a difference in performance between students who possessed an ARS and those who did not. The experiment was conducted at a small state college in the Midwest where small class size is typical. Approximately half the students in each tested …

Transparency Soup: The Acta Negotiating Process And "Black Box" Lawmaking, David S. Levine

Joint PIJIP/TLS Research Paper Series

The negotiations of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) have been marred by a level of attempted secrecy heretofore unseen in international intellectual property lawmaking. Simultaneously, the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) has been used in several significant national contexts to prevent the disclosure of data and information in ways that call into question its efficacy as an effective regulation of governmental knowledge. This paper seeks to tie together these two recent developments in order to (a) prevent future international intellectual property law negotiations from being unduly secret and (b) encourage Congress to consider reforming FOIA in light of current public …

Shall Selective, Above-Cost Price Cutting In The Newspaper Market Be Qualified As Anticompetitive Exclusion? Case Comment To The Judgement Of The Supreme Court Of 19 August 2009 - Marquard Media Polska (Ref. No. Iii Sk 5/09), Konrad Kohutek

Yearbook of Antitrust and Regulatory Studies

No abstract provided.

December, 2010 / January, 2011 Vol. 1 No. 5, Near Westside Initiative

Near Westside Initiative News/Noticias

No abstract provided.

Overall Properties Of Piezoelectric Particulate Composites: Homogenization Estimates And Finite-Element Simulations, Sumantu Iyer

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

This work presents a) an analytic model based on homogenizationestimates to obtain explicit solutions for the effective properties ofparticulate piezoelectric composites and b) a three-dimensionalfinite-element model to compare finite-element results and study thebehaviour of porous piezoelectric composites with four differentgeometric configurations. The analytic model extends the Suquet[29] estimates method to the piezoelectric domain where acomplete set of electromechanical constants are obtained for threepiezoelectric ceramics belonging to different symmetry classes.Specific results are generated for the cases of a square arrangementof cylindrical pores, where the alignment of the pores is in thedirection of poling of the matrix phase and a cubic arrangement …