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Designing Bespoke Transitional Justice: A Pluralist Process Approach, Jaya Ramji-Nogales

Michigan Journal of International Law

Although many scholars agree that contemporary transitional justice mechanisms are flawed, a comprehensive and unified alternative approach to accountability for mass violence has yet to be propounded. Like many international lawyers, transitional justice theorists have focused their assessment efforts on the successes and failures of established institutions. This Article argues that before we can measure whether transitional justice is working, we must begin with a theory of what it is trying to achieve. Once we have a coherent theory, we must use it ex ante, to design effective transitional justice mechanisms, not just to assess their effectiveness ex post. Drawing …

Gender Difference In Age At Onset Of Schizophrenia: A Cross Sectional Study From Pakistan, Imama Naqvi, Muhammad Murtaza, Muhammad Ressam Nazir, Haider Ali Naqvi

Department of Psychiatry

OBJECTIVE: To validate the effect of gender on age at onset of schizophrenia in a developing country

METHODS: Medical records of 252 patients diagnosed with schizophrenia according to DSM-IV criteria at a tertiary care hospital in Karachi, Pakistan between 2002 and 2008 were reviewed using a structured questionnaire. Age at onset was defined as age at onset of psychotic symptoms, age at first contact with a health care provider and age at first hospitalization. Socio-demographic variables were reported using descriptive statistics and all measures of age at onset were compared across gender using t-test.

RESULTS: There were 119 women and …

Emotional Faces Capture Spatial Attention In 5-Year-Old Children, Kit K. Elam, Joshua M. Carlson, Lisabeth Dilalla, Karen S. Reinke

Journal Articles

No abstract provided.

Gardner-Webb, The Magazine 2010, Fall (Volume 44 No. 3), Noel T. Manning Ii

Gardner-Webb, The Magazine

Gardner-Webb, The Magazine, previously titled The Webb Magazine, focuses on alumni news and campus events from Gardner-Webb College; now Gardner-Webb University. This issue begins with applauding Jennifer Pharr Davis' efforts to hike the whole of the Appalachian Trail on her own and then it leads in to an article featuring director Gary Wheeler's visit to the Gardner-Webb campus. Following are articles concerning graduates at commencement, the new Tucker Student Center building, and athletics. The magazine concludes with an article about author/GWU professor Sheri Adams, GW student Jackie Seter, and GWU alumni Clayton King.

Akhuwat Issue No. 79, Aga Khan University

AKHUWAT Newsletters

• Patient Centered Care
• AKU-ISMC
• Dashboard of Clinical and Managerial Indicators
• Face to Face with Dr. Robert Armstrong Dean
• Medical College East Africa
• AKU-IED
• Happenings
• Construction
• Proud to Announce
• Appreciation Evening
• About Our Greatest Assets

Contemporary Children’S Literature Recommendations For Working With Preadolescent Children Of Divorce, P. S. Mcmillen, Dale-Elizabeth Pehrsson

Library Faculty Research

Bibliotherapy, defined most basically, is helping with books (Hynes & Hynes-Berry, 1994). Derived from the Greek words meaning book and therapy, bibliotherapy goals fall usefully into two categories. Clinical bibliotherapy, using books to facilitate specified therapeutic goals with those experiencing significant emotional or behavioral problems, involves trained health and mental health professionals such as psychologists, counselors, psychiatric nurses, or social workers. Developmental bibliotherapy, using books to address situational, transitional, and normal developmental issues, can be implemented by others, like educators or librarians, who work in helping roles. Books provide solace, reassurance, and even escape; they also provide new ideas for …

Print Review, Print Industry Center

RIT Digital Archives

The Print Review is produced quarterly exclusively for Affiliates of the Printing Industry Center at RIT.

Epstein's Razor, David G. Owen

Faculty Publications

Richard Epstein, over a long and distinguished career, has offered inspired insights into how a legal system should be framed to serve the goals of those it governs. In that pursuit, he has relentlessly applied a sharp logic - call it Epstein's Razor - to shave away the detritus of complexity and confusion that surround perplexing problems, leaving standing only truths unscathed by competition among ideas. Over decades of diverse writings on law and political theory, highlighted by his elegant Simple Rules for a Complex World, Professor Epstein offers a vision of law constructed on the view that simplicity in …

School Discipline In New Haven: Law, Norms, And Beating The Game, Christopher Suarez

The Journal of Law and Education

No abstract provided.

Primary & Secondary Education - Commentary

The Journal of Law and Education

No abstract provided.

Empowerment, Innovation, And Service: Law School Programs Provide Access To Justice And Instill A Commitment To Serve, Lisa V. Martin, Dale Margolin, Steve Berenson, Karen Pearlman, Maryann Zavez

Faculty Publications

Law schools around the country seek to fill the legal needs of their communities in ways that are both innovative and mutually beneficial to clients and students. This article describes five pro bono and clinical programs, at the University of Richmond School of Law, The Earle Mack School of Law at Drexel University, Catholic University Columbus School of Law, the Thomas Jefferson School of Law, and Vermont Law School, where law students, under the supervision of law professors or community professionals, provide assistance or legal representation to underserved and often marginalized populations needing help with family law problems, including parents …

Mapping The Literature Of Health Education: 2006–2008, Amber T. Burtis, Mary K. Taylor

Articles

Objectives:

The study updates Schloman's 1997 study, “Mapping the Literature of Health Education.” The authors identify an updated list of core health education journals and determine the coverage of these journals by electronic indexes.

Methods:

Citations from four source journals for the years 2006 to 2008 were analyzed using the established methodology of the “Mapping the Literature of Allied Health Project.” The cited journals were divided into three zones of productivity by using Bradford's Law of Scattering.

Results:

There were 19,907 citations in 602 source articles. Journal articles were the most commonly cited format type. Of the 1,896 journal titles …

Class Notes, University Of Michigan Law School

Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)

Two former classmates prepare for a Supreme Court battle; alumnus and visiting professor Noah Hall, '98, does his part ot defend the Great Lakes from asian carp; Michigan Law grads form a dynamic duo on Capitol Hill; new deputy mayor for NYC is no stranger ro economic challenges; Genser honored with humanitarian award; Sereno, LL.M. '93, named to Supreme Court of Philippines; John B. Schwemm's major gift makes an impact; Ron Garber trades in his briefcase for a coach's whistle.

Crimes On The Gulf, David M. Uhlmann

Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)

President Obama has called the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico "the worst environmental disaster America has ever faced." Pundits have debated the long-term ecological impact, the effect on jobs, the potential for psychological and physical consequences. The numbers are staggering: more than a dozen lives lost during and after the explosion, about five million barrels of oil spilled, some 1,500 oiled birds found dead, a payout of more than $4 billion by BP-with a lot more to come.

In light of the news story that has captured headlines since BP's well exploded on April 20, we asked …

The Gulf Spill Context: Peak Oil, Risky Oil, And Energy Strategy, Edward R. Parson

Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes)

President Obama has called the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico "the worst environmental disaster America has ever faced." Pundits have debated the long-term ecological impact, the effect on jobs, the potential for psychological and physical consequences. The numbers are staggering: more than a dozen lives lost during and after the explosion, about five million barrels of oil spilled, some 1,500 oiled birds found dead, a payout of more than $4 billion by BP-with a lot more to come.

In light of the news story that has captured headlines since BP's well exploded on April 20, we asked …

The Breaking Point: Examining The Potential Liability Of Maple Baseball Bat Manufacturers For Injuries Caused By Broken Maple Baseball Bats, Matthew A. Westover

Penn State Law Review (2003 - Present)

No abstract provided.

On The Road Again Consumptives Traveling For Health In The American West, 1840-1925, Jeanne Abrams

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

From the mid-nineteenth century through the first decades of the twentieth century, hundreds of thousands of health seekers, on the advice of their physicians, family members, or popular advertisements, took to the road to "chase the cure" for tuberculosis, the most dreaded disease of the era. Indeed, tuberculosis, also commonly known as consumption or "the White Plague," held the dubious distinction of being the leading cause of death in nineteenth century America. In the first years of the twentieth century 150,000 Americans died of it yearly, and more than ten times that number were afflicted with the disease.¹ Whether …

The Barrier Within: Relational Aggression Among Women, Barbara L. Brock

Journal of Women in Educational Leadership

"There has been a lot of rhetoric on women mentoring other women. However, the so-called solidarity of women does not exist. Some women are engaged in competition and sabotage."—A high school principal

Relational aggression among women is alive and well among women in educational leadership. Women who assume leadership positions are sometimes targeted for acts of sabotage perpetrated by female peers and subordinates (Brock, 2008). A review of the literature supports the notion that relational aggression among women is commonplace in other career fields as well (Barash, S. 2006; Briles, 2003; Chesler, 2001; Funke, 2000; Heim & Murphy, 2001; Mooney, …

Journal Of Women In Educational Leadership, October 2010, Volume 8, Number 4 -- Editorial Matter

Journal of Women in Educational Leadership

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Lessons Of Mastery Learning, Thomas R. Guskey

Educational, School, and Counseling Psychology Faculty Publications

The core elements of mastery learning provide the foundation for other innovative models, including Response to Intervention.

Clayton State News And Notes

Georgia Library Quarterly

Recent library news from Clayton State University.

Capturing Long-Tailed Black Swan Risk In East Asian Currencies, S. Andrews, K.T Kwek, C.W. Cho

Research Publications (2006 to 2010)

The Global Financial Crisis of 2008 and the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997/1998 are two events that share a common characteristic. Both can be seen as a network crisis, though one is global and the other is regional. The world or region is currently highly inter-connected and inter-dependent through trade, finance and telecommunication networks that transfer information and property rights that shape behaviour across networks. This can be illustrated through behaviour in highly complex and deep financial markets, such as behaviour in currency markets arising from contagion and inter-action between market forces that create unexpected risks. This paper introduces a …

How Do In-Store Environmental Cues Influence Malaysian Shoppers? A Study Of Hypermarket Customers In Malaysia, Y.G. Wee, K.Z. Ahmad

Research Publications (2006 to 2010)

The importance of retail store design and merchandising policies rests in the ability of the physical retail environment to alter shopping reactions and behaviour. Specifically, this research paper examines relationship between physical hypermarket environments, Malaysian shoppers’ emotions and their subsequent shopping behaviour besides considering the role of self regulation as moderator of relationships between consumers’ shopping emotions and their post shopping evaluations. Overall, the findings of this study refute the general postulation that shopping emotions directly influence resource expenditure and shopping values. Results also contradict with previous research which indicates that action oriented shoppers are less responsive to environmental stimuli …

Kesedaran Kanak-Kanak Di Malaysia Terhadap Keselamatan Diri, S.H. Abu Bakar, N. Omar

Research Publications (2006 to 2010)

Kanak-kanak merupakan kelompok yang signifikan dalam populasi Malaysia. Kepesatan pembangunan ekonomi dan sosial secara tidak langsung telah menyumbang kepada peningkatan kadar jenayah. Kanak-kanak pula merupakan golongan yang berisiko tinggi menjadi sasaran jenayah. Mereka dldera (secara fizikal, mental dan seksual), dianiaya, diculik, dibunuh dan diperdagangkan. Penderaan dan serangan seksual serta sumbang mahram menjadi penyumbang terbesar keganasan terhadap kanak-kanak selepas pengabaian dan penderaan fizikal. Pelbagai usaha telah pun dilakukan oleh organisasi kerajaan mahupun swasta bagi melindungi kanak-kanak daripada sebarang bentuk keganasan. Perunding kanak-kanak, pekerja sosial yang bekerja dengan kanak-kanak, pegawai kebajikan kanak-kanak, para pendidik, pakar perubatan dan peguam percaya bahawa pemahaman kanak-kanak …

Conference Program: Second Annual Interdisciplinary Conference On Human Trafficking

Annual Interdisciplinary Conference on Human Trafficking: 2nd (2010)

Sessions and speakers

A Market Analysis Of Human Trafficking Systems, Dwayne Ball, Julie Pennington, Ronald Hampton, Anh Nguyen

Annual Interdisciplinary Conference on Human Trafficking: 2nd (2010)

IF YOU UNDERSTAND A MARKETING SYSTEM, YOU CAN UNDERSTAND HOW TO DISRUPT IT.
HUMAN TRAFFICKING AS A MARKETING SYSTEM

Environments in which it operates

Boundaries
physical
in terms of its inputs and outputs

Nodes at which the “product” is
recruited
transported
transformed
exploited
disposed of

Roles of various players
Exchanges
Profit allocations
Structures; governance
Ownership flows
Dynamic mutability
Outcomes to all involved and society as a whole

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A Revised Approach To Reducing Labor Abuses And Human Trafficking, Thomas Reuland

Annual Interdisciplinary Conference on Human Trafficking: 2nd (2010)

In this paper, I challenge current efforts to combat human trafficking. Trafficking is a problem that the law has difficulty preventing, in part, because of market forces. Moreover, the structure of many corporations responds to these market forces, implicates these enterprises in human trafficking, and encourages members of a company to remain complacent in the face of human rights abuses. As corporations strive to increase profit margins on each product they make, they demand low-cost labor and commodify the human beings who satisfy that demand. Meanwhile, branding provides a powerful tool that corporations use to prevent the consumer from recognizing …

Enforcing The Tipplea Act To Curb Emerging Trends In Human Trafficking: A Study Of The Baby Trade In South East Nigeria, Ijeoma Okoronkwo, Anigbogu Maduka

Annual Interdisciplinary Conference on Human Trafficking: 2nd (2010)

•The area of this study is the south east zone of Nigeria, comprising of five states –Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo states. Abiastate is bounded by Akwaibomstate , Rivers and Cross river state in the South South zone, Imo and Ebonyistate in the south east zone
•Imo is integrated and bounded all the south eastern states, Enugu is bounded by Benue state in the north central zone, Ebonyistate is bounded by cross river state, within 80 km to the boundary of Cameroun
•Population of this study is made up 200 pregnant teenager victims of human trafficking rescued by NAPTIP …

A Longitudinal Study Of Student–Teacher Relationship Quality, Difficult Temperament, And Risky Behavior From Childhood To Early Adolescence, Kathleen Moritz Rudasill, Thomas G. Reio Jr., Natalie Stipanovic, Jennifer E. Taylor

Department of Educational Psychology: Faculty Publications

Abstract This study examines the mediating role of student–teacher relationship quality (conflict and closeness) in grades 4, 5, and 6 on the relation between background characteristics, difficult temperament at age 4½ and risky behavior in 6th grade. The longitudinal sample of participants (N = 1156) was from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development. Structural equation modeling was used to estimate paths from (a) background characteristics to student–teacher relationship quality and risky behavior, (b) temperament to student–teacher relationship quality and risky behavior, and (c) student–teacher relationship quality to risky behavior. Findings indicate that students’ family income, gender, …

The Misnomer Of Mdgs? When Goals Are Rights, Erin Mooney

Human Rights & Human Welfare

That much more must be done to meet the Millennium Development Goals is evident. The proposals put forth by Douste-Blazy and the new pledges announced at the recent UN MDG Summit are steps in the right direction. More fundamentally, what is required is to recognize that the MDGs are not merely “goals” to aim for, hitting or missing as the case may be. Rather, they are about realizing rights which governments, individually and collectively, have pre-existing legal obligations to uphold and ensure.