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Glitter And Glints On Water, David K. Lynch, David S. P. Dearborn, James A. Lock

Physics Faculty Publications

We present new observations of glitter and glints using short and long time exposure photographs and high frame rate videos. Using the sun and moon as light sources to illuminate the ocean and laboratory water basins, we found that (1) most glitter takes place on capillary waves rather than on gravity waves, (2) certain aspects of glitter morphology depend on the presence or absence of thin clouds between the light source and the water, and (3) bent glitter paths are caused by asymmetric wave slope distributions We present computer simulations that are able to reproduce the observations and make predictions …

Marketplace Of Memory: What The Brain Fitness Technology Industry Says About Us And How We Can Do Better, Peter J. Whitehouse

Faculty Scholarship

In the therapeutic void created by over 20 failed Alzheimer's disease drugs during the past decade, a new marketplace of "brain fitness" technology products has emerged. Ranging from video games and computer software to mobile phone apps and hand-held devices, these commercial products promise to maintain and enhance the memory, concentration, visual and spatial skills, verbal recall, and executive functions of individual users. It is instructive to view these products as sociocultural objects deeply imbued with the values and ideologies of our age; consequently, this article offers a critique of the brain fitness technology marketplace while identifying limitations in the …

Twitter And Facebook For User Collection Requests, Joan Petit

Library Faculty and Staff Publications and Presentations

Libraries are offering more services through social media Web sites like Twitter and Facebook, and this presence online is encouraging more conversation between libraries and patrons, including collection development requests. A review of popular Twitter and Facebook library profiles reveals the most successful accounts to be those where the library actively engages its users online. Through these media, libraries can have direct, immediate conversations with patrons that result in patron-initiated material requests.

The "Illegal" Tax, Francine J. Lipman

Connecticut Public Interest Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Courts Resisting Courts: Lessons From The Inter-American Court’S Struggle To Enforce Human Rights, Alexandra Huneeus

Cornell International Law Journal

Courts Resisting Courts explores a critical tension in international law: the relationship between international and national courts. Leading theorists assume that autonomous national courts heighten compliance with international human rights regimes. This article challenges this orthodoxy. It focuses on the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, an international court unique in that it orders far-reaching, innovative remedies that invoke action not only by the State's executive, but also the legislature and local courts. Original data reveals that national courts, more than any other branch of government, shirk the Court's rulings. This article turns this insight into a prescription for gaining greater …

The Innocence Quarterly [Fall 2011], Northern California Innocence Project

Northern California Innocence Project Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Squaring The Cultural Circle: Dialectical Approaches To Reading Cultural Memory, Solibakke Ivan Karl

Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics - All Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Gold & Blue, Fall 2011, St. Mary's University- San Antonio, Texas

Gold & Blue

This is the Fall 2011 edition of Gold & Blue which is St. Mary's University's official school publication.

Bryant 360, October 2011, Bryant University, Office Of Admissions

Bryant 360

No abstract provided.

Loma Linda University Dentistry - Volume 22, Number 2, Loma Linda University School Of Dentistry, Michael Meharry, Sean Lee, Yiming Li

Articulator (Dentistry)

Contents:

8 | What Creates Success?
14 | Spring Mend
18 | Alumni Student Convention
30 | Student Research Success
35 | Commencement 55
38 | Quest for Whiter Teeth
61 | Ellis Jones: Cartoonist Emritus

"Abortion Will Deprive You Of Happiness!"Soviet Reproductive Politics In The Post-Stalin Era, Amy E. Randall

History

This article examines Soviet reproductive politics after the Communist regime legalized abortion in 1955. The regime's new abortion policy did not result in an end to the condemnation of abortion in official discourse. The government instead launched an extensive campaign against abortion. Why did authorities bother legalizing the procedure if they still disapproved of it so strongly? Using archival sources, public health materials, and medical as well as popular journals to investigate the antiabortion campaign, this article argues that the Soviet government sought to regulate gender and sexuality through medical intervention and health "education" rather than prohibition and force in …

Toxic Effects And Bioaccumulation Of Nano-, Micron- And Ionic-Ag In The Polychaete, Nereis Diversicolor, Yi Cong, Gary T. Banta, Henriette Selck, Deborah Berhanu, Eugenia Valsami-Jones, Valery E. Forbes

Valery Forbes Publications

There is increasing concern about the toxicities and potential risks, both still poorly understood, of silver nanoparticles for the aquatic environment after their eventual release via wastewater discharges. In this study, the toxicities of sediment associated nano (<100 >nm)-, micron (2–3.5 μm)- and ionic (AgNO3)-Ag on the sediment-dwelling polychaete, Nereis diversicolor, were compared after 10 days of sediment exposure, using survival, DNA damage (comet assay) and bioaccumulation as endpoints. The nominal concentrations used in all exposure scenarios were 0, 1, 5, 10, 25, and 50 μg Ag/g dry weight (dw) sediment. Our results showed that Ag was able to cause …

Iron Insufficiency Compromises Motor Neurons And Their Mitochondrial Function In Irp2-Null Mice, Suh Young Jeong, Daniel R. Crooks, Hayden Wilson-Ollivierre, Manik C. Ghosh, Rachid Sougrat, Jaekwon Lee, Sharon Cooperman, James B. Mitchell, Carole Beaumont, Tracey A. Rouault

Department of Biochemistry: Faculty Publications

Genetic ablation of Iron Regulatory Protein 2 (Irp2, Ireb2), which post-transcriptionally regulates iron metabolism genes, causes a gait disorder in mice that progresses to hind-limb paralysis. Here we have demonstrated that misregulation of iron metabolism from loss of Irp2 causes lower motor neuronal degeneration with significant spinal cord axonopathy. Mitochondria in the lumbar spinal cord showed significantly decreased Complex I and II activities, and abnormal morphology. Lower motor neurons appeared to be the most adversely affected neurons, and we show that functional iron starvation due to misregulation of iron import and storage proteins, including transferrin receptor 1 …

A Right To Legal Aid: The Aba Model Access Act In International Perspective, James Maxeiner

All Faculty Scholarship

For over two centuries America has failed to fulfill its revolutionary ideals of bringing equal justice to all. In August 2010 the American Bar Association moved to bring the nation closer to its ideals when it proposed the ABA Model Access Act. The Act would do what the Supreme Court of the United States has refused to do: it would recognize that legal aid in civil litigation is a matter of right and not of charity. The Act is a framework law and leaves many details to be filled in by enacting bodies and by the institutions eventually charged with …

Providing Environmental Whistleblowers With Twenty-First Century Protections, Richard Condit

Labor & Employment Law Forum

This article examines the strengths and weaknesses of the employee protection provisions contained in the major federal environmental statutes and makes recommendations for needed improvements. With these improvements, the United States can realize the benefits that well-protected employees can contribute to public health and environmental protection.

The Criminalization Of Whistleblowing, Jesselyn Radack, Kathleen Mcclellan

Labor & Employment Law Forum

No abstract provided.

Employee Rights And The Food Safety Modernization Act: Luncheon Keynote, Hon. Paul Igasaki

Labor & Employment Law Forum

This Article is an annotated transcript of a panel that occurred on February 11, 2011 at the American University Washington College of Law. The podcast of the event can be found on the American University website at http://media.wcl.american.edu/mediasite/SilverlightPlayer/ Default.aspx?peid=136d32f0-d0a8-4bd1-9630-da0f48041e3b. The event was co-sponsored by the Washington College of Law and The Government Accountability Project.

A Distance-Delivered Teacher Education Program For Rural Culturally And Linguistically Diverse Teacher Candidates, Gayla Lohfink, Amanda Morales, Gail Shroyer, Sally Yahnke, Cecilia Hernandez

Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education: Faculty Publications

This article describes a collaborative, distance-delivered, teacher preparation program for rural, culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) teacher candidates. Multiple institutions partnered with one university in order to diversify the teaching force in the region and meet the needs of CLD students living there. In describing the program's design and implementation phases, a focus on cultural responsiveness to the candidates ' needs, their rural settings, and high populations of Latino/a students in the rural areas in which they were trained is presented. Assessment of each implementation phase guided program practice for the participants ' training as effective teachers. Relevant discussion indicates …

2012 Benefits Enrollment Newsletter - Retiree Edition, Finance And Administration Division - Human Resources

RIT Digital Archives

No abstract provided.

Global Ky (Fall 2011), University Of Kentucky International Center

Global Kentucky

No abstract provided.

Wrangling The Collections, Kathy Edwards

Presentations

No abstract provided.

Does Access To Justice Improve Compliance With Human Rights Norms - An Empirical Study, Samuel P. Baumgartner

Cornell International Law Journal

No abstract provided.

A Conflict Of Interests: Privacy, Truth, And Compulsory Dna Testing For Argentina’S Children Of The Disappeared, Elizabeth B. Ludwin King

Cornell International Law Journal

From 1976 to 1983, Argentina was ruled by a military dictatorship that disappeared an estimated 30,000 suspected subversives, including parents of young children and pregnant women. Their children, either disappeared along with their parents or born in clandestine detention centers, were then taken from their parents and adopted, often by couples who were sympathetic with the government and knew of the children's origins. This Article addresses Argentina's newest effort to identify these now-adult children: compulsory DNA testing in cases where the raising parents are suspected of having knowingly adopted their children illegally. It argues that, although the mandatory testing permissibly …

Unmanned, Unprecedented, And Unresolved: The Status Of American Drone Strikes In Pakistan Under International Law, Andrew C. Orr

Cornell International Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Nebraska Transcript (University Of Nebraska College Of Law), Volume 44, Number 2, Fall 2011

Nebraska Transcript

Dean’s Message 2
Faculty Update Profile: Marty Gardner 4
Whistleblowing Dilemma 6
Faculty Notes 10
Mediation Turns Twenty 16
Medill Creator of New Book Series 19
Willborn Chair of LSAC 20
Beard Returns to Midwest 23
Moberly Appointed to New Role 25
Sheppard Brings Patent Law Back 26
Around the College Feature: Justice Clarence Thomas 28
Admissions Report 31
Presidential Management Fellows Program 33
LL.M. Report 36
Leiter Spends Semester At Harvard 38
2011 Commencement 42
ACLU President Delivers Lane Lecture 46
Judge Bennett & Implicit Bias 47
College Hosts ABA Regional Conference 48
“Futurama” Producer Visits College 49
Feature: …

A Silent Storm: Hepatitis C In Pakistan, Noureen Jiwani, Raisa B. Gul

School of Nursing & Midwifery

No abstract provided.

'You're Lying To Jesus!': Humor And Play In A Discussion About Homelessness, L. David Ritchie

Communication Faculty Publications and Presentations

This study applies recent theories about humor to a sample of talk among a group of young adults about the issues and problems associated with homelessness. In this conversation, participants demonstrate a pattern of joking and language play that expresses a complex and ambivalent set of attitudes and feelings toward homelessness and toward the homeless as both outcasts and refugees from conventional society. Humor is used both to express complex responses to homelessness and as a tool for managing the tone and direction of the conversation. The results demonstrate how the identification of patterns of joking and wordplay can provide …

Wireless: The Common Medium Of Conversation, Reed Hundt

Media Law and Policy

Page 95-116

Technology, Business, & Policy Implications As The Communications Ecosystem Moves From Pots To Pans, Alan Pearce, Barry Goodstadt, Manoj Agarwal

Media Law and Policy

Page 47-94

In Memoriam: Larry Darby, Joseph P. Fuhr Jr

Media Law and Policy

No abstract provided.