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Comparison Of Disturbance Impacts To And Spatial Distribution Of Biological Soil Crusts In The Little San Bernardino Mountains Of Joshua Tree National Park, California, Nicole Pietrasiak, Jeffrey R. Johansen, Tasha Ladoux, Robert C. Graham Dec 2011

Comparison Of Disturbance Impacts To And Spatial Distribution Of Biological Soil Crusts In The Little San Bernardino Mountains Of Joshua Tree National Park, California, Nicole Pietrasiak, Jeffrey R. Johansen, Tasha Ladoux, Robert C. Graham

Biology

Biological soil crust ecology in the hot Mojave Desert is poorly understood with regard to crust distribution and abundance, as well as the impacts of trampling disturbance on crust development. Our objective was to study biological soil crusts in 2 areas of differing disturbance pressures in the high desert region of Joshua Tree National Park, California, with respect to visible crust cover and frequency, chlorophyll a, and soil stability. Impacts on biological soil crusts from 2 disturbance regimes, historic grazing and recent high knot traffic, were compared using a disturbance indicator. In addition, we measured a suite of abiotic and …

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Nebraskamath Years 2-3 Report Dec 2011

Nebraskamath Years 2-3 Report

NebraskaMATH Materials

This Report to Nebraska after Year 3 highlights the progress of the NebraskaMATH grant’s three main initiatives, Primarily Math, Nebraska Algebra and New Teacher Network, as well as the Nebraska Math & Science Summer Institutes (NMSSI), NebraskaNOYCE and the online Nebraska Math & Science Network.

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2011-2012 Dean's Showcase No. 2, Jo Brand, Roman Yearian, Cassidy Moore, Jesse Yukimura, Noemi Rivera, Fabian Alvarez, Fabiola Porras, Greg Stead, Raul Rodriguez, Aneliya Novikova, Anastasiya Timofeeva Dec 2011

2011-2012 Dean's Showcase No. 2, Jo Brand, Roman Yearian, Cassidy Moore, Jesse Yukimura, Noemi Rivera, Fabian Alvarez, Fabiola Porras, Greg Stead, Raul Rodriguez, Aneliya Novikova, Anastasiya Timofeeva

Dean's Showcase

No abstract provided.

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Proceedings Editors Dec 2011

Proceedings Editors

NASIG Newsletter

No abstract provided.

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Family Affairs Newsletter 2011-12-01, Zack Paakkonen Dec 2011

Family Affairs Newsletter 2011-12-01, Zack Paakkonen

Family Affairs newsletter (2004-2016)

FAMILY AFFAIRS was a free, twice-a-month, social activities newsletter for the GLBTQI (gay/lesbian/bisexual/trans/queer/intersex) community, sent out around the 1st and 15th of each month. It covered the State of Maine only. The list was begun and maintained for many years by Jean Vermette in Bangor, and later operated by Zack Paakkonen of Portland. Over the years it evolved from a social activities newsletter into a business directory, classified ad service, and community bulletin board.

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Circuit Court Interpretations Of Garcetti V. Ceballos And The Development Of Public Employee Speech, Thomas Keenan Dec 2011

Circuit Court Interpretations Of Garcetti V. Ceballos And The Development Of Public Employee Speech, Thomas Keenan

Notre Dame Law Review

The article presents an analysis on the advancement of public employee speech and interpretations of the U.S. Supreme Court on Garcetti v. Ceballos. It discusses the similarities and error that exists among the federal circuit courts. It overviews the factors shared by circuits different to certain courts. It reflects on the First Amendment jurisprudence related to public employee speech. It also put forwards the defenses and criticisms of Garcetti.

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Judging Judges: Why Strict Scrutiny Resolves The Circuit Split Over Judicial Speech Restrictions, Ashna Zaheer Dec 2011

Judging Judges: Why Strict Scrutiny Resolves The Circuit Split Over Judicial Speech Restrictions, Ashna Zaheer

Notre Dame Law Review

The article presents information on the appropriate level of scrutiny that is required in reviewing the validity of constitutionality of restraints. It overviews the First Amendment jurisprudence with strict scrutiny and balancing test. It also explains the U.S. Supreme Court case Republican Party of Minnesota v. White. It suggests state to provide same protections to judicial candidates as that of other elected officials.

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Acer Enews 12 December 2011, Acer Dec 2011

Acer Enews 12 December 2011, Acer

ACER eNews Archive 2001-2013

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Building A Better Mousetrap: Enhanced Dollar Cost Averaging, Lee Dunham, Geoffrey C. Friesen Dec 2011

Building A Better Mousetrap: Enhanced Dollar Cost Averaging, Lee Dunham, Geoffrey C. Friesen

Department of Finance: Faculty Publications

This paper presents a simple, intuitive investment strategy that improves upon the popular dollarcost- averaging (DCA) approach. The investment strategy, which we call enhanced dollar-costaveraging (EDCA), is a simple, rule-based strategy that retains most of the attributes of traditional DCA that are appealing to most investors but yet adjusts to new information, which traditional DCA does not. Simulation results show that the EDCA strategy reliably outperforms the DCA strategy in terms of higher dollar-weighted returns about 90% of the time and nearly always delivers greater terminal wealth for reasonable values of the risk premium. EDCA is most effective when applied …

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The Pacifican December 1, 2011, University Of The Pacific Dec 2011

The Pacifican December 1, 2011, University Of The Pacific

All Issues - Student Newspaper, The Pacifican, Pacific Weekly

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The Pace Eportfolio As Educational Passport: Enhancing Students' Interdisciplinary, Co-Curricular And Experiential Learning, Linda Anstendig, Beth Gordon Klingner Dec 2011

The Pace Eportfolio As Educational Passport: Enhancing Students' Interdisciplinary, Co-Curricular And Experiential Learning, Linda Anstendig, Beth Gordon Klingner

Cornerstone 3 Reports : Interdisciplinary Informatics

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Invasive Species Management And Buffer Outreach On Goss Farm, Rye, Nh, Rockingham County Conservation District Dec 2011

Invasive Species Management And Buffer Outreach On Goss Farm, Rye, Nh, Rockingham County Conservation District

PREP Reports & Publications

The Goss Farm was permanently protected in November of 2010 with assistance from the USDA, Natural Resources Conservation Service Farm and Ranch Lands Protection Program (FRPP) and is located directly adjacent to the Awcomin Salt Marsh, in Rye, New Hampshire. The Town of Rye Conservation Commission owns the land, and the RCCD holds the conservation easement on the property. The Piscataqua Region Estuaries Partnership (PREP) provided $9,930 in funding assistance to support the Rockingham County Conservation District in its partnership capacity with the Rye Conservation Commission and other natural resource agencies to complete outreach, to plan and complete integrated pest …

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The Alien Terrorist Removal Court And Other National Security Measures You May Have Never Heard Of: The Need For Comprehensive National Security Reform, Emily C. Kendall Dec 2011

The Alien Terrorist Removal Court And Other National Security Measures You May Have Never Heard Of: The Need For Comprehensive National Security Reform, Emily C. Kendall

Texas Wesleyan Law Review

In light of the decade that has passed since 2001, cooler heads have prevailed. Advancements in technology and information-seeking have paved the way to prune unnecessary laws that are archaic, redundant, in many instances contradictory, and which merely frustrate the real policy behind these laws: safeguarding the U.S. and its citizens. To assist in this pruning, this Article presents a comprehensive plan for national security reform, specifically involving immigration, with an emphasis on the agency tasked with its implementation-the Department of Homeland Security. In light of this goal, Section II provides a brief background into the U.S.'s current approach to …

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Severance V. Your Texas Public Beach, Ellis Pickett Dec 2011

Severance V. Your Texas Public Beach, Ellis Pickett

Texas Wesleyan Law Review

Coastlines, like riverbanks, are dynamic. They continually move, usually imperceptibly, but in storm events they can move a great distance. This movement affects both private and public property rights. The State owns "submerged lands," wherever they happen to be at the time.' In legal documents in Texas, terms such as "along the river" and "with the meanders of the river" describe property boundaries. The difference between Gulf of Mexico and riverfront property is gulf beaches are open to the public, whereas the sand along rivers is private property. There is no Open Beaches Act for rivers. Owners of beachfront property …

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Open For Business: The Ada Beyond An Employer’S Front Door, Scott C. Thompson Dec 2011

Open For Business: The Ada Beyond An Employer’S Front Door, Scott C. Thompson

Texas Wesleyan Law Review

Although heralded as an emancipation proclamation for people with disabilities, the Americans with Disabilities Act ("ADA") has done little over the course of its twenty-year history to increase the number or quality of employment opportunities available to individuals with a disability. Title I of the ADA requires employers to make reasonable accommodations for qualified employees with a disability so long as the accommodations do not impose an undue hardship on the employer. In applying Title [ of the ADA, courts consistently drew a bright line at the employer's threshold and refused to compel employers to make any accommodations unrelated to …

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Clean Air Act Mayhem: Epa’S Tailoring Rule Stitches Greenhouse Gas Emissions Into The Wrong Regulatory Fitting, Teal Jordan White Dec 2011

Clean Air Act Mayhem: Epa’S Tailoring Rule Stitches Greenhouse Gas Emissions Into The Wrong Regulatory Fitting, Teal Jordan White

Texas Wesleyan Law Review

Regardless of whether you believe that human activities cause or contribute to global warming, regulatory action seeking to mitigate the future consequences of climate change will impact the lives of every American. On January 2, 2011, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") regulation of greenhouse gas emissions from stationary sources took effect. The EPA rule implementing this regulation is the conclusion, for the time being, of a sequence of recent judicial and administrative activities comparable to a regulatory domino effect. The Supreme Court started the cascade of regulation in Massachusetts v. EPA, in which the Court held that the EPA has …

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Honest Services Update: Directors’ Liability Concerns After Skilling And Black, Lori A. Mcmillan Dec 2011

Honest Services Update: Directors’ Liability Concerns After Skilling And Black, Lori A. Mcmillan

Texas Wesleyan Law Review

This Article will set out the current law in the honest services area after a quick historical review for context. Then, civil standards and penalties for breach of a corporate officer or director's fiduciary obligations will be outlined to give a more complete picture of what hazards officers and directors face when discharging their duties in a manner less than sufficient.

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A True Threat To First Amendment Rights: United States V. Turner And The True Threats Doctrine, Casey Brown Dec 2011

A True Threat To First Amendment Rights: United States V. Turner And The True Threats Doctrine, Casey Brown

Texas Wesleyan Law Review

The Supreme Court has carved out several exceptions to what qualifies as protected speech under the First Amendment, including true threats and incitement. The majority rule in the circuit courts is that speech qualifies as a true threat if the speech would be interpreted by an objectively reasonable person as an intent to commit serious harm or injury. Most courts apply a true threats analysis to cases involving a charge under 18 U.S.C. § 115(a)(1)(B). Furthermore, most courts do not require that the speaker actually intend to carry out the threat in order to be convicted. Although courts have generally …

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Back Where You Belong: Individuals, Corporations, And The Third Circuit’S Redefinition Of Personal Privacy Under Foia, Emily A. Schneider Dec 2011

Back Where You Belong: Individuals, Corporations, And The Third Circuit’S Redefinition Of Personal Privacy Under Foia, Emily A. Schneider

Texas Wesleyan Law Review

The Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA" or "the Act") serves an important purpose in informing the citizenry of its government's actions. Congress created it as a disclosure statute, the Supreme Court has decided FOJA in favor of disclosure, and the D. C. Circuit has kept that goal of disclosure by refusing to broaden its exemptions. Despite this history of consistent treatment, the Third Circuit attempted to change the game with its holding in AT&T v. FCC. The Third Circuit held that corporations may have personal privacy under FOIA Exemption 7(C). This paper will argue that this holding contradicted three FOIA …

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Highly Porous Silica Network Prepared From Sodium Metasilicate, R E. Essien, O A. Olaniyi, L A. Adams, R O. Shaibu Dec 2011

Highly Porous Silica Network Prepared From Sodium Metasilicate, R E. Essien, O A. Olaniyi, L A. Adams, R O. Shaibu

Journal of Metals, Materials and Minerals

Porous silica network was prepared from sodium metasilicate (Na2SiO3) at room temperature (27C) using hydrochloric acid (HCl) as catalyst through the sol-gel method. The gel was dried at 120C for 1 day and calcined at 800C for 3 hours and the material obtained characterized using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR). The results showed the formation of amorphous silica particles of average sizes 598 nm with ordered porous network of pore sizes ranging from 0.18-0.91 ?m. This synthetic route uses sodium metasilicate as commercial precursor without pore forming templates which could be useful …

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Vol. 3 No. 1, Fall 2011; Table Of Contents & Masthead, Northern Illinois University Law Review Online Supplement, Northern Illinois University Law Review Online Supplement Dec 2011

Vol. 3 No. 1, Fall 2011; Table Of Contents & Masthead, Northern Illinois University Law Review Online Supplement, Northern Illinois University Law Review Online Supplement

Northern Illinois Law Review Supplement

No abstract provided.

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Taking Hope To China : An Example Of Late-Qing Translation = 將Hope引介到中國 : 晚清翻譯一例, Denise Gimpel Dec 2011

Taking Hope To China : An Example Of Late-Qing Translation = 將Hope引介到中國 : 晚清翻譯一例, Denise Gimpel

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

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論周瘦鵑"影戲小說" : 早期歐美電影的翻譯與文學文化新景觀，1914-1922 = On Zhou Shoujuan's "Movie Story" : The Translation Of Early Euro-American Films And New Literary And Cultural Landscape, 1914-1922, Jianhua Chen Dec 2011

論周瘦鵑"影戲小說" : 早期歐美電影的翻譯與文學文化新景觀，1914-1922 = On Zhou Shoujuan's "Movie Story" : The Translation Of Early Euro-American Films And New Literary And Cultural Landscape, 1914-1922, Jianhua Chen

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

No abstract provided.

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Structural Determinants Of Homicide: The Big Three, Maria Tcherni Dec 2011

Structural Determinants Of Homicide: The Big Three, Maria Tcherni

Criminal Justice Faculty Publications

Building upon and expanding the previous research into structural determinants of homicide, particularly the work of Land, McCall and Cohen (1990), the current paper uses county-level data to disentangle three major influences on homicide rates: poverty, racial composition, and the disruption of family structure. Theoretical foundations of these influences are laid out, and the effects of the three factors on homicide rates are tested at two time periods as far removed from one another as possible: 1950-1960 and 1995-2005. All major variables typically used in homicide research are included as controls. The results of analyses show that the effects of …

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Commonwealth Times 2011-12-01 Dec 2011

Commonwealth Times 2011-12-01

Commonwealth Times, 1969-

No abstract provided.

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In Defense Of Community: Athenian Legal Rhetoric And Its Modern Legacy In American Foreign Policy, Bradley Aron Cooper Dec 2011

In Defense Of Community: Athenian Legal Rhetoric And Its Modern Legacy In American Foreign Policy, Bradley Aron Cooper

Texas Wesleyan Law Review

This Article will examine how the rhetoric of the legal speechwriters reflected idealized views on participatory democracy and the rule of law. Next, this Article will attempt to show that these same views also supported a strong Athenian tradition of opposing tyranny, and that this, in turn, led to the inclusion of anti-tyrannical rhetoric in some of the legal speeches. Finally, this Article will address the lasting legacy of this anti-tyrannical rhetoric by giving evidence of its modern usage in the rhetoric of American foreign policy and by proposing reasons for its enduring presence.

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Legislating By Proxy: Did President Obama Amend The Texas Labor Code When He Signed The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act?, Charles Hill Dec 2011

Legislating By Proxy: Did President Obama Amend The Texas Labor Code When He Signed The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act?, Charles Hill

Texas Wesleyan Law Review

Does the Texas Labor Code permit Congress to amend Texas law by proxy? Specifically, does the Texas Commission on Human Rights Act automatically incorporate Title VII amendments? This is the question posed to Texas courts and federal courts interpreting the limitations period for filing employment discrimination claims with the Texas Workforce Commission. Despite almost two decades of court precedent interpreting Texas's equal employment opportunity law, the answer is anything but clear. With the passage of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, Texas courts must decide whether the law automatically incorporates the federal act or not. Given Title VII's deference to …

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College Senate Minutes December 1, 2011, Bronx Community College Senate Dec 2011

College Senate Minutes December 1, 2011, Bronx Community College Senate

BCC Governance Archives

Minutes for the meeting of the College Senate on December 1, 2011.

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President's Notebook, Fall 2011, James Evans Dec 2011

President's Notebook, Fall 2011, James Evans

James Evans

University updates and personal thoughts from Lindenwood University President, James Evans.

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Tearless Logic Model, Ashlee D. Lien, Justin Greenleaf Ph.D., Michael K. Lemke, Sharon M. Hakim, Nathan P. Swink, Rosemary Wright, Greg Meissen Dec 2011

Tearless Logic Model, Ashlee D. Lien, Justin Greenleaf Ph.D., Michael K. Lemke, Sharon M. Hakim, Nathan P. Swink, Rosemary Wright, Greg Meissen

Leadership Faculty Publications

Even among people who know and have seen the value of logic models, the term can “strike fear into the hearts” of experienced community psychologists and veteran non-profit staff and board members alike. Add the phrase “outcome-based planning” and you are likely to energize those you are working with to run as fast as possible for the door. Such technical terms may confuse and intimidate community members and grassroots partners who are the foundation of the practice of community psychology. At the same time, organizations can benefit from time spent on outcome-based planning, especially in developing a well-conceived logic model.

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