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Los Arcos - Fall 2011, University Of Texas-Pan American

UTPA Archives - Los Arcos Magazine

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Utpa Commencement – Fall 2011, University Of Texas-Pan American

Edinburg Archives - Legacy Commencement Programs

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Sociology Of Islam & Muslim Societies, Newsletter No. 7, Tugrul Keskin

Sociology of Islam & Muslim Societies Newsletter

Table of Contents:

• Social and Political Transformations in the Middle East by Umit Kurt and Oguz Alyanak
• The Political Economy of Turkey’s Response to the Arab Spring by Altay Atli
• Footsteps of Revolution in the Land of Queen Sheba by Bezen Balamir Coskun
• Two Sides of the Same Coin; Conflicting Views of Islamism in Pakistan by Jeanette Bailey
• Egypt and the "Arab Spring": Notes on Facts and Challenges by Moises Garduño García
• The Arab Spring and the Turkish Model by Alper Y. Dede
• Will Geopolitics Split Along Sectarian Lines in the Middle East? Witnessing the Rise of a Sectarian Speech …

The Relation Between Children‟S Socio-Economic Status And Their Performance On The Passive Subtest Of The Diagnostic Evaluation Of Language Variation – Norm Referenced, Maggie Faulk Deville

Honors Capstones

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Lsu Research Fall 2011, Louisiana State University And Agricultural And Mechanical College

Research Magazine

LSU Research is published annually by the Office of Research & Economic Development, Louisiana State University.

Between Victim And Agent: A Third-Way Feminist Account Of Trafficking For Sex Work, Shelley Cavalieri

Indiana Law Journal

Feminist legal theorists have devoted enormous attention to conceptualizing the issues of sex work and trafficking for sexual purposes. While these theories vary, they typically fall into one of two camps. The abolitionist perspective, having grown out of dominance feminist theory, perceives sex work as inherently exploitative. In contrast, a second group of theorists adopts a liberal notion of individual choice and draws on the poststructuralist rejection of gender essentialism to envision a theoretical model of sex-worker rights. The legal and public policies that grow from these two models are similarly polarized. Radical feminist abolitionists are often strange bedfellows with …

Human Alu Insertion Polymorphisms In North African Populations, Lotfi Cherni, Sabeh Frigi, Hajer Ennafaa, Nabil Mtiraoui, Touhami Mahjoub, Amel Benammar-Elgaaied

Human Biology Open Access Pre-Prints

Several features make Alu insertions a powerful tool used in population genetic studies: the polymorphic nature of many Alu insertions, the stability of an Alu insertion event and, furthermore, the ancestral state of an Alu insertion is known to be the absence of the Alu element at a particular locus and the presence of an Alu insertion at the site that forward mutational change. This study analyses seven Alu insertion polymorphisms in a sample of 297 individuals from the autochthonous population of Tunisia (Thala, Smar, Zarzis and Bou Salem) and Libya with the aim of studying their genetic structure with …

The Path Between Sebastian's Hospitals: Fostering Reconciliation After A Tragedy, Jonathan R. Cohen

UF Law Faculty Publications

On October 8, 2007, Horst and Luisa Ferrero brought their healthy but short, three-year-old son Sebastian to a university hospital for a “routine” test to determine whether he lacked human growth hormone. Two days later, following a tragic string of errors, Sebastian was pronounced brain dead. Approximately two weeks later, the hospital offered a detailed public apology to the parents for Sebastian’s death. Several months after the apology, the parents began working collaboratively with the hospital to improve patient safety at the hospital and to advocate for a new children’s hospital in their community. This paper is a case study …

A Critical Perspective On The Interplay Between Our Federal Labor And Arbitration Laws, Kenneth T. Lopatka

South Carolina Law Review

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The Genocide Convention And Unprotected Groups: Is The Scope Of Protection Expanding Under Customary International Law?, David Shea Bettwy

Notre Dame Journal of International & Comparative Law

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Delineating Europe's Cultural Regions: Population Structure And Surname Clustering, James Cheshire, Pablo Mateos, Paul A. Longley

Human Biology Open Access Pre-Prints

Surnames (family names) show distinctive geographical patterning and remain an underutilised source of information about population origins, migration and identity. In this paper we investigate the geographical structure of surnames in 16 European countries through the use of the Lasker Distance, consensus clustering and multidimensional scaling. Our analysis is both data rich and computationally intensive, entailing as it does the aggregation, clustering and mapping of 8 million surnames collected from 152 million individuals. The resulting regionalisation demonstrates the utility of an innovative inductive approach to summarising and analysing large population datasets across cultural and geographic space, the outcomes of which …

Beyond Nations: Rethinking The History Of Habsburg Central Europe, Pieter M. Judson

History Faculty Works

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Certifying Medical Interpreters; Need For Public Policy, Bonni Wagner

Professional Projects

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Blanket Statements, Issue 105, Fall 2011

Blanket Statements: News Publication of the American Quilt Study Group

Blanket Statements, Issue 105, Fall 2011

Fourth Biennial Visionmaker Film Festival Report, John C. Lyden

Journal of Religion & Film

This article reviews films that were screened at the Fourth Biennial VisionMaker Film Festival in Lincoln, Nebraska, in September and October of 2011.

The Zero-Sum Game Of Language Accommodations In The Workplace, James Leonard

Cardozo Law Review

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Current Requirements For Tertiary Qualifications In Early Childhood Education : Implications For Policy : Final Report, Glenn Rowley, Julie Kos, Bridie Raban, Marilyn Fleer, Joy Cullen, Alison Elliott

Early Childhood Education

The Office of Early Childhood Education and Child Care (OECECC) within the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) commissioned the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) to map and analyse currently available Early Childhood education and care (ECEC) tertiary courses across Australia. ACER is undertaking this project in partnership with Monash University. This report considers issues raised by the project and sets out four key issues raised by this work, detailing the possible policy implications that could flow from the findings, in addition to potential further research implications.

Negotiating Tensions Across Organizational Boundaries: Communication And Refugee Resettlement Organizations, Sarah Steimel

Department of Communication Studies: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Voluntary non-profit organizations play a critical role in mediating the transition of refugees into their new host communities in the United States. Furthermore, mediation is fundamentally a communicative phenomenon, as social services are provided in through communication between nonprofit workers and clients. Critically, for voluntary mediating organizations to create empowering spaces for refugees, communication is central. In this study, I emphasize the tensional processes inherent to mediating interactions and explore how refugee resettlement organizational staff members and refugee-clients describe and manage the communicative tensions which emerge when they interact with one another.

I conducted eighteen in-depth interviews with fifteen organizational …

“Los Huaynos Me Recuerdan A Mi Tierra”: La Música Radial De Cusco Y La Formación De Identidades Migrantes”, Violet Cavicchi

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

La experiencia migratoria de muchos peruanos de comunidades con identidades andinas marcadas que se mudan a la ciudad de Cusco crea un conflicto identitario que es distinto. Estas personas se enfrentan con nuevas influencias que complican su conceptualización de una identidad propia. Este estudio considera la manera en que un foro especifico de la música radial funciona como un espacio para trabajar estas influencias solapadas y construir un entendimiento de identidad regional en este nuevo contexto. El artículo empieza con un análisis del contexto histórico que establece este fenómeno y que explica la importancia de la radio y su música …

Reconciling Chevron, Mead, And The Review Of Agency Discretion: Source Of Law And The Standards Of Judicial Review, Michael P. Healy

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

Although the Supreme Court's watershed decision in Chevron U.S.A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. has been understood by many as defining the framework for judicial review of agency legal determinations, there have been longstanding questions about the application of the standards for reviewing administrative action. These questions have become more troublesome following the Supreme Court's 2001 decision in United States v. Mead Corp. Mead established that Chevron review only applies when defined requirements are met and held that so-called Skidmore deference applies when Chevron deference does not apply. Surveying the aftermath of Mead and its effect on the …

A Theory Of Brand Ww2, Jonathan M. Bullinger, Andrew J. Salvati

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

Myths about the Second World War, grounded within stores of knowledge, often act as narrative templates to be drawn upon by collective memory. These myths and memories are transformed and commodified in a reductive manner into a brand encompassing simplistic narratives, easily recognized visual signifiers (including logo, colors, and associated symbols), and emotional cues that connect with the audience. This posits a theory that what most individuals today interact with is not a fragment of memory related to World War Two but rather a reductive representation sold as BrandWW2.

Full Issue, New Mexico Historical Review

New Mexico Historical Review

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Common Data Set 2011, Uno Office Of Institutional Effectiveness

Common Data Sets

Common Data Set (2011 - 2012) for the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

The Global Geek: Language Training For It Students’ Study Abroad In Austria And Germany, Gwyneth E. Cliver, Deepak Khazanchi

Information Systems and Quantitative Analysis Faculty Publications

The Modern Language Association’s (MLA) urgent appeal for the restructuring of the undergraduate language curriculum, “Foreign Languages and Higher Education: New Structures for a Changed World,” emphasizes a need for language departments to enrich their upper-division course offerings beyond the traditional literary studies model in order to attract and retain broader interest in language learning among students with diverse academic interests and needs. Citing the National Science Foundation’s 2003 Survey of College Graduates, it stresses that only 6.1% of undergraduates whose primary major is a foreign language later achieve doctorate degrees and concludes that departments should provide upper-division language courses …

Witness And Testimonies: A Diachronic Perspective On The History Of The Bosnian Muslims, Rusmir Mahmutćehajić

International Dialogue

In his essay, “Witness and Testimonies: A Diachronic Perspective on the History of the Bosnian Muslims,” Rusmir Mahmutćehajić explores and deconstructs ideological abuses of some of the most important terms in the Muslim intellectual tradition. The terms ‘witness’ and ‘witnessing’, ‘opener’ and ‘opening’ are of key significance for understanding and reasoning for Muslim sacred tradition. Distorted, narrowed and reductive forms of these terms have been taken by antimuslim ideologists as material within their own constructions. In deconstructing the ideological abuse of these terms, Mahmutćehajić applies new knowledge from his experience in Scriptural Reasoning. Terms from the cultural history of Bosnia …

Bridging Civilizations Through Nothingness: Manchuria As Nishida Kitaro's "Place", Chi-Yu Shih, Chi-Yu; Huang, Chiung-Chiu Huang

Comparative Civilizations Review

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Laina Farhat-Holzman, How Do You Know That? A Guide To Critical Thinking About Global Issues., Dario Fernandez-Morera

Comparative Civilizations Review

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Taylor: A Magazine For Taylor University Alumni, Parents And Friends (Fall 2011), Taylor University

The Taylor Magazine (1963-Present)

The Fall 2011 edition of Taylor Magazine, published by Taylor University in Upland, Indiana.

"Reputations... A Lifetime To Build, Seconds To Destroy": Maximizing The Mutually Protective Value Of Morals Clauses In Talent Agreements, Sarah D. Katz

Cardozo Journal of International and Comparative Law

The note examines the effectiveness of morals clauses in contracts, emphasizing their value lies in the protection they offer to both talent and nontalent parties. However, their efficacy is contingent upon being tailored to the specific industry and parties involved. Generic clauses fail to account for these differences, leading to reduced predictability and, consequently, diminished value.

Nota Bene; Volume Xxvi, Number Ii, Yale University Library

Nota Bene

Nota Bene is published during the academic year to acquaint the Yale community and others with the resources of the Yale Library.