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Southern Nevada Agency Partnership Cultural Site Stewardship Program – Program Expansion And Steward Retention: Quarterly Progress Report, Period Ending December 31, 2011, Margaret N. Rees

Cultural Site Stewardship Program

• Team completes plans for stewardship “refresher courses”
• Annual stewardship recognition event held at Lake Mead
• On December 1, 2012, ICSST was absorbed as a sub-committee into the Southern Nevada Agency Partnership Cultural Committee.

Existentialism By Soren Aabye Kierke Gaard: Indiana In Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade As A Representation Of An “Authentic” Human Being, Chintia Asmiliasari

Paradigma: Jurnal Kajian Budaya

Existentialism of Soren Aabye Kierkegaard is a study focusing on the individual existence as an authentic creature. Existentialism can only be achieved by an individual’s boldness and belief to commit responsibly to a decision he has made. The decision made by each individual should be based on his subjective truth and should not be influenced by the collective truth called the objective truth. The subjective truth will later lead each individual to his way finding an absolute truth, although despair and uncertainty haunt every decision he has made. A totality of believing in making decision and holding the commitment into …

Analysis Of Audience Reception On Youtube Towar D Gender Construction In The Music Video If I Were A Boy By Beyonce Knowles, Ria Avriyanty

Paradigma: Jurnal Kajian Budaya

Youtube is one of the favorite sites to share videos. Moreover,it facilitates the users to give a free and direct comment toward the videos they watch. The research examines the music video entitled If I Were a Boy (2010) by Beyonce Knowles as well as the authentic responses from the viewers in Youtube. I argue that this music video creates a conventional gender construction which perpetuates the patriarchal norms in the society. As an attempt to give a new perspective on the similar kind of research, I do not stop at this point. Applying the concept of encoding-decoding by Stuart …

Literary Geography And Comparative Literature, César Domínguez

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article "Literary Geography and Comparative Literature" César Domínguez analyzes the relevance of political and linguistic frameworks for comparative literary historiography in the context of the European Union. Domínguez's discussion is based on the notion of geoculture whose theorization from Immanuel Wallerstein's perspective presents paradigms of interest to comparative literature. The idea of literary geography is conceived as a unit for analyzing diverse stages of the interliterary process. Thus, within the framework of the current renaissance of Goethe's concept of Weltliteratur, the phenomena of the literatures of (im)migration, exile, and literary diglossia represent challenges for the contextualization and …

Catalan And Galician Literatures In Iberian And European Contexts, Olivia Rodríguez González

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "Catalan and Galician Literatures in Iberian and European Contexts" Olivia Rodríguez González investigates the problematics of canon formation and proposes an approach within which the formation of a multi-system canon is possible. Reflections on the constitution of a European canon that would be the result of a proportional or market-driven combination of national literary canons leads to the conclusion that, with respect to the multicultural Spanish state, what will succeed in getting into the European canon will do so as a consequence of one of two processes. The first depends on what each literary system does to …

Article 27 Of Competition Law And What Lies Beneath, Perdana A. Saputro

Indonesia Law Review

This article discuss about Article 27 of Law No. 5 Year 1999 on the Restriction of Monopoly Practices and Unfair Business Practices (“Competition Law”). One may wonder the rigorousness to the application of Article 27 which arguably could ban any merger which meets market test without conducting any competitive assessment. For this, the law has been presumed that the acquisition or controlling of large market share from merger is per se illegality. Further, the effects of Article 27 would be discussed in this paper. A merger review itself is not an easy task and tends to bring complex issues that …

The New Public Management And Its Application Into The Chilean Maritime Administration, Within The Chile Navy, Dinson Baack Vasquez

World Maritime University Dissertations

The importance of Maritime Administrations in the context of a globalized world has been increasing, as the international maritime community gets more involved in the shipping industry and in those issues concerning regulatory framework. In this scenario, it is necessary to analyze a tool able to provide an efficient and proactive system to meet the requirements of the private sector and also, to generate the conditions for an enhancement of the global economy. Thus, the New Public Management became the main model during the last 30 years, where governments made the necessary changes in order to achieve the purpose of …

Culture Andintellectual Property Development In Indonesia, Agus Sardjono

Indonesia Law Review

The conception of Intellectual Property Right (IPR) is generally misunderstood by among common people. In order to obtain a more comprehensive understanding of IPR, we may as well start with the most dominant point of view, namely that from the perspective of the State and Government.This point of view is dominant because the State and Government are the institutions which havethe authority to make law, to implement law and to interpret the law in the various forms of itsimplementation. A study of IPR can be taken from wider view, as cultural perspectivetake the approach of looking at various events related …

Sustainable Fisheries In Southeast Asia, Melda Kamil Ariadno

Indonesia Law Review

Fisheries activity has increased significantly in number. As a result, we might see high investment in fisheries is due to the high demand for fish and fisheries products. Therefore, marine resources as well as other living resources are at risk in being harmed by excessive fisheries activities, for example: the use of trawl. Indonesia, as a Maritime State, need to impose sustainable fisheries because the principle of utilizing sustainable fisheries resources as adopted in the Law on Fisheries (Law No. 31 Year 2004 as amended by Law No. 45 Year 2009) to control fishery activities.Fishery activities are regulated not only …

Ocular Morbidity Among Children Attending Government And Private Schools Of Kathmandu Valley, Rk Shrestha, Mr Joshi, R Ghising, A Rizyal

School of Health Professions

Introduction: Children from the developing world are more prone to going blind from avoidable and preventable causes. In Nepal, children in private schools are reported to have a higher ocular morbidity than those in government schools, with myopia being the major cause of the morbidity. This study was designed to evaluate ocular morbidity in students from both types of school. Methods: This was a cross-sectional, comparative study among students from government and private schools of Kathmandu. Eye examination was carried out evaluating visual acuity, color vision, refractive status, binocular vision status, and anterior and posterior segment findings. Results: A total …

The Carbon Frame: Lobbying For Renewable Energy In The European Union, Kyle S. Herman

Master's Theses

This paper demonstrates how using the word "carbon" within global warming debates severely impedes lobbyists in favor of building stronger renewable energy policies in the European Union (EU). Within the EU, carbon is widely used to speak about many of the perils of climate change, global warming, energy policy, and contingent subject matters. In political circles, media outlets, and public debates, carbon acts a the pillar for many policies, discussions, and ideas related to fundamental errors of transferring energy from fossil fuels and nuclear sources. At the same time, however, limiting carbon does not necessarily preclude fossil fuels, such as …

Effectiveness Of The Osaka Medical College Brace For The Treatment Of Idiopathic Scoliosis: A 1-Year Outcome Analysis, Cheng-Fang Tsai, Po-Liang Lai, Alice M.K. Wong, Chih-Kuang Chen

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

The Osaka Medical College (OMC) brace is an underarm spinal orthosis for the treatment of scoliosis. It consists of a plastic pelvic section with a pad extended from the lateral bar to correct the convexity of the curve. The plastic cover on the trunk is minimized, and thus perspiration under the plastic contour is reduced. This is favorable for people who are heat intolerant or for those living in a hot and humid climate. In Taiwan, the use of the OMC brace has been increasing because it allows for good ventilation, is light, and has a less-restrictive design, yet its …

Decreasing The Incidence Of Skin Damage Caused By Physical Agents, Mei-Chu Chen, Der-Sheng Han

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Physical therapists play a crucial role in preventing skin damage, the causes of which are usually due to improper machine settings and a failure to adhere to standard operation procedures during treatments involving physical agents. To decrease incidents, this study examines the causes of skin damage, and drafting intervention and evaluation index.This paper analyzed 12 cases of skin damage occurring during physical therapy at the Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation of a regional hospital, between Jan. 2006 and Aug. 2009. The probable causes were failure on the part of the therapist to inform the patient on operation procedures and …

Wrist Schwannoma Mimicking De Quervain's Disease: A Casereport, Pon-An Chen, Chung-Liang Lai, Ming-Miau Tsai, Chuan-Chin Leu, Tyng-Guey Wang

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

For decades, ultrasonography has shown a high degree of accuracy in the evaluation of soft tissue tumors. In this study, we report the condition of a 80-year-old male patient who had been suffering from left thumb pain for 2 years. The patient had initially been diagnosed with de Quervain's disease, but responded poorly to conservative treatment. An ultrasonographic examination unexpectedly identified a well-margined solid tumor with marked vascularity. Suspicion of a neurogenic tumor led to an excision surgery and finally pathology revealed a Schwannoma. Following excision, the symptoms were entirely ameliorated. We concluded that, in the evaluation of persistent chronic …

Cerebral Venous Thrombosis With Cerebral Arterial Infarction During Pregnancy: A Casereport, Shih-I Huang, Tien-Wen Chen, Mao-Hsiung Huang

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT) usually occurs in young adult or middle aged adult women. Although not of high incidence, it is an important cause of brain hemorrhage or infarction in pregnant women. According to previous studies, the most common symptom is headache. However, because of only headache mostly, correct diagnosis is a challenge before progression to stroke. The patient was a 30-year-old female. Except for hyperthyroidism history during last pregnancy, she did not have any special associated past history. She suffered sudden onset of left side weakness; when her term was 32 weeks. Brain magnetic resonance imaging showed right middle …

Petrography And Geochemistry Of Mafic Granulites Of The Ubendian Belt: Contribution To Insights Into The Lower Continental Crust Of The Paleoproterozoic, N. Boniface

Tanzania Journal of Science

Mafic granulites of the Ubendian Belt have geochemical signature, trace and REE patterns, similar to that of the lower continental crustal rocks. A SHRIMP U-Pb single zircon date at 1977±40 Ma indicates that these rocks belong to the Paleoproterozoic Ubendian orogenic cycle, which was followed by the Mesoproterozoic tectonic disturbance that contributed to their exhumation. Orthopyroxene, clinopyroxene, garnet, hornblende, plagioclase and quartz is a frequent mineral assemblage for the mafic granulites of the Ubendian Belt, and garnet frequently form corona between plagioclase and clinopyroxene. Geothermobarometric calculations have revealed the equilibration of these rocks at a temperature range between 650 and …

President Obama And The Changing Cyber Paradigm, Eric Talbot Jensen

Faculty Scholarship

Among the most important issues for American National Security is the national response to the growing threat from cyber activities. This threat is both ubiquitous and potentially catastrophic as recently demonstrated by both the recent decision by the UK to prioritize cyber capabilities over putting in service an air-capable aircraft carrier and the targeted effectiveness of the STUXNET worm. The evolving cyber paradigm will force the United States to reevaluate the way in which it thinks of both national security and the concept of armed conflict. To combat this threat, President Obama must refocus America’s attention, by both reallocating the …

Onshore Ballast Water Treatment Stations : A Harbour Specific Vector Management Proposition, Lawrence A. Kuroshi

World Maritime University Dissertations

The discharge of Harmful Aquatic Organisms and Pathogens (HAOP) found in ships ballast water from one port environment to another can have severe ecological, environmental and economic consequences, especially when they transform into marine pests. This informs the necessity to investigate treatment options that could curtail the transfer of these organisms from a source harbour. An alternative to the conventional Ballast Water Treatment Systems is investigated and proposed in this study- it entails the onshore treatment of host port water before it is loaded as ballast water into ships. The study covered sampling of Port Harcourt Harbour water in Nigeria. …

The Current Picture And The Future Vision Of The Ship Recycling Industry : The Contributions Of Japan To Achieving Sustainable, Safe And Environmentally Sound Recycling Of Ships, Yasuhiro Urano

World Maritime University Dissertations

First of all, as a basis of the discussion in this dissertation, the international regulatory instruments which cover ship recycling industry, namely, the Basel Convention, 1989 and the Hong Kong Convention, 2009, are examined focusing on their essential principles and limitations. Second, the present conditions of the ship recycling industry in the Indian subcontinent are investigated in order to make clear the problems to be addressed. The focus of the investigation is set on ships’ potential hazards, environmental risks of the beaching method, hazardous waste flow, workers’ occupational safety and health, and causes of substandard recycling operations. Furthermore, the key …

Virtual Met Institution : Assessing The Potentials And Challenges Of Applying Multi-User Virtual Environment In Maritime Education And Training, Trong Hieu Pham

World Maritime University Dissertations

The dissertation is a study to assess the potentials and challenges in the use of Multi-User Virtual Environment (MUVE) in Maritime Education and Training (MET) context. Virtual technology is growing at fast pace. The applications of MUVE are being utilized by numerous institutions across many educational professions. However, the area of utilizing MUVE in MET is still very limited. At the time being, it is indicated that there is possibility to take advantages of MUVE to create: (1) an enhance learning environment, (2) collaboration tools to support the distributed knowledge community, and (3) new modes of distance learning. METs are …

Enhancing Service Quality In The Maritime Industry : A Case Study Of Tema Port, Baffour Ofori-Atta Kena

World Maritime University Dissertations

This dissertation is an analysis of service quality in the maritime industry with emphasis on enhancing service quality in Tema Port in Ghana. A general overview of service quality is examined at the beginning of the study. This is further narrowed down to service quality amongst the various service providers in the maritime industry with specific focus on those operating in Tema Port. To gain a holistic understanding of the existing service quality in Tema Port and how it can be enhanced: the study, obtained information from shippers/freight forwarders and leading executives in the maritime industry in Ghana, from operational …

Establishing A New Protection And Indemnity (P&I) Insurance Institution In Turkey, Muhammet Alper Keceli

World Maritime University Dissertations

Insurance draws attention as a sector that is understood much better in terms of its importance especially in recent years globally and in Turkey as well and this sector is developing each day. In direct proportion to the development of insurance, the importance of marine insurance forming a special part of insurance has also come to the surface. Marine insurance, as a field has unique characteristics that can dominant from general insurance principles from certain angles, and stands before us as a dynamic field necessary to be reviewed and handled over and over again with the developments in the world. …

Contact Metamorphism In The Supracrustal Rocks Of The Sukumaland Greenstone Belt In The North West Tanzania, N. Boniface

Tanzania Journal of Science

Biotite-granite intrusions in meta-ironstones at Geita Hills and the Bukoli alkali-granite intrusion in metabasites at Mawemeru area produced heat that baked the respective country rocks through epidote-amphibolite- to amphibolite-facies. Critical and informative mineral assemblages in the metairostones of Geita Hills are garnet-grunerite-epidote-quartz and garnetferrogedrite- biotite-quartz and in the metabasites of Mawemeru is ferrotschermakite-(Naplagioclase)- quartz. Peak temperatures ranging between 438°C and 544°C were calculated from the above mineral assemblages and a pressure not exceeding 3 kbar was inferred to from the composition of magnesium-iron amphiboles (grunerite with XFe ratio of 0.83, i.e. Gru83). Hornfels textures in the metaironstones are suggested by …

A Lacanian Assessment Of Religion, Ryan L. Lambert

Rollins Undergraduate Research Journal

According to contemporary philosopher Daniel Dennett, “religions are among the most powerful natural phenomena on the planet.” Teasing out the broader implications of religion is difficult due to its subjective, experiential nature. However, progress is not impossible, and this paper examines religion through the lens of the 20th century thinker Jacques Lacan. First, a basic overview is given of Lacanian psychoanalytic theory. Next, Lacanian ideology is cross applied to religion and its origin. Religion, according to Lacan, is the byproduct of individuals diagnosable as psychotics. Neurotics are responsible for this delusion’s continuation and present day popularity. If nothing else, such …

Beyond Progressive Education: Why John Andrew Rice Really Opened Black Mountain College, Jennifer M. Ritter

Rollins Undergraduate Research Journal

This article analyses the career and personality of Professor John Andrew Rice. It focuses on the events and influences that shaped his decision to Open Black Mountain College in the midst of the Great Depression. His clash with Rollins College President, Hamilton Holt, is discussed at length. Rice’s role at Black Mountain College is touched upon briefly, as is Black Mountains’ emphasis on the arts and progressive teaching methods.

Modern Man: Popeye As An Indicator Of Movement Toward An Industrialized South In William Faulkner’S Sanctuary, Kristen N. Arnett

Rollins Undergraduate Research Journal

Traditionally, Faulkner’s Sanctuary has been classified as a sordid tale of sexual intrigue, set against a backdrop of death and decay in a post-war Deep South. The novel’s foothold in the Southern Gothic realm of literature has been further cemented by its graphic depictions of rape, prostitution and murder. Though these outrageous plot developments set the stage for much of the action in the story, they do little to explain an important role that is traditionally much overlooked – that of the character Popeye. Faulkner’s Popeye symbolizes the insertion of an unwanted Northern modernity into a world of slow Southern …

Somali Bibliography By Keyword --2012, Elizabeth A. Eames, Mame Nyarko F. Bonsu

Somalis in Maine Bibliography

A bibliography of resources organized by topical keyword and published before 2012.

Ines Lomando V. Usa

2011 Decisions

USDC for the District of New Jersey

In Re: Harold C. Lampe Jr

2011 Decisions

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Usa V. Frank Chappell

2011 Decisions

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania