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Plan Colombia And Beyond: Pastrana To Santos (2000 To 2012), Jonathan D. Rosen

Open Access Dissertations

This dissertation analyzes the formation, implementation, and evolution of Plan Colombia from 2000 to 2012. This work is an examination of U.S. foreign policy towards Colombia and uses theories and methods from International Relations Theory and Comparative Politics. This project answers the following questions: 1) Why did the U.S. pass Plan Colombia after de-ceritifying the country three years in a row; 2) What was Plan Colombia for Pastrana, and what was Plan Colombia for Clinton; 3) How did the goals of Plan Colombia change after the events of 9/11 and the inauguration of Alvaro Uribe; 4) Has Plan Colombia achieved …

Signs That Climate Change Is Already Spelling Big Trouble For Tiny El Salvador, Benjamin Witte-Lebhar

NotiCen

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Signs That Climate Change Is Already Spelling Big Trouble For Tiny El Salvador, Benjamin Witte-Lebhar

NotiEn: An Analytical Digest About Energy Issues in Latin America

This article discusses how climate change is already having serious effects on El Salvador. Despite the country's relatively small share of global carbon dioxide output, El Salvador is experiencing the compounded effects of climate change--rising sea levels as well as shifting weather patterns that disrupt economic livelihoods, such as farming. In addition, the article discusses how the Funes administration is addressing the changes. These approaches range from implementing school curriculum on climate change to increased spending on infrastructural improvements.

The Parthenon, November 29, 2012, Shane Arrington

The Parthenon

The Parthenon, Marshall University’s student newspaper, is published by students Monday through Friday during the regular semester and weekly Thursday during the summer. The editorial staff is responsible for the news and the editorial content.

The Principal Genetic Determinants For Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma In China Involve The Hla Class I Antigen Recognition Groove, Minzhong Tang, J. A. Lautenberger, Xiaojiang Gao, Efe Sezgin, Sher L. Hendrickson, Jennifer L. Troyer, Victor A. David, Li Guan, Carl Mcintosh, Xiuchan Guo, Yuming Zheng, Jian Liao, Hong Deng, Michael Malasky, Bailey Kessing, Cheryl Winkler, Mary Carrington, Guy De The, Yi Zeng, Stephen J. O'Brien

Biology Faculty Articles

Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is an epithelial malignancy facilitated by Epstein-Barr Virus infection. Here we resolve the major genetic influences for NPC incidence using a genome-wide association study (GWAS), independent cohort replication, and high-resolution molecular HLA class I gene typing including 4,055 study participants from the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and Guangdong province of southern China. We detect and replicate strong association signals involving SNPs, HLA alleles, and amino acid (aa) variants across the major histocompatibility complex-HLA-A, HLA –B, and HLA -C class I genes (P_{HLA-A-aa-site-62}= 7.4×10⁻²⁹; P _{HLA-B-aa-site-116}= 6.5×10⁻¹⁹; P _{HLA-C-aa-site-156} = 6.8×10 …

Lanthorn, Vol. 47, No. 29, November 29, 2012, Grand Valley State University

Volume 47, July 2, 2012 - June 3, 2013

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

The George-Anne, Georgia Southern University

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Women In Prison: Planning The Getaway: Vocational Education In A Southern Women's Correctional Institution, Aimee Michelle Burgdorf

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

The purpose of this research was to examine the vocational programs available to female inmates incarcerated in the only female prison in a southern state, to explore these inmates' thoughts, feelings, and perspectives about the programs available to them, and to determine whether these programs are unintentionally gender-biased or gender-stereotypical. Additionally, data were collected reflecting the vocational education instructors' thoughts, feelings, and perspectives on their programs as well as on the the inmate students enrolled in their programs. Additionally, detailed vocational program descriptions were obtained from the facility. These documents provided information about the kinds of jobs available for each …

Children's Lead Poisoning In The Eastern United States: A Spatial Data Mining Approach, Thaddeus Grace

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

The focus of this thesis is to determine whether an association rule mining appraoch could be used to uncover associations between socioeconomic variables and childhood lead poisoning in the eastern Unied States. The association rule analysis was able to discover three prominent variables that were linked with childhood lead toxicity. Counties with high rates of holder housing, high single female head of householders, and a low proportion of Hispanic residents were found to be associated with higher rates of childhood lead poisoning. Geographic information systems (GIS) was utilized to visually illustrate the spatial distribution of each of the three association …

Darfur: After The Genocide Comes To An End, Then What?, Samuel Totten

Journal of African Conflicts and Peace Studies

Eventually, killing, fighting and rape between the various actors will come to a halt. Black Africans, the Government of Sudan and the international community will still be confronted to 7 main challenges: Arabs are now beginning to settle on land that the black Africans were forced off of by the GOS and Janjaweed; the inexorable desertification of more and more land in Darfur; the ever-increasing lack of adequate water sources in Darfur; the issue of reparations; the plight of females raped during the genocidal period, the status of the original complaints by the black Africans and the issue of bringing …

International Conference On The Great Lakes Region (Ic/Glr): Inception, Process And Achievements, Richard Sezibera

Journal of African Conflicts and Peace Studies

The Nairobi Pact of October 15th, 2006 on Security, Stability and Development in the Great Lakes Region is achieved through long effort and process in the framework of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region. This paper attempts to highlight the conditions of its inception and formulation process. However, in order to go beyond the achievements in policy formulations, the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region requires a great commitment of leaders and peoples of the region as well as the international solidarity.

The Cord (November 28, 2012)

The Cord

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We Are...Marshall, November 28, 2012, Office Of Marshall University Communications

We Are ... Marshall: the Newsletter for Marshall University 1999-2023

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Barnali Dixon's Groundbreaking Research Recognized At National Nih Conference, November 28, 2012, Tom Scherberger

USF St. Petersburg Campus News and Press Releases

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Easterner, Vol. 64, No. 9, November 28, 2012, Associated Students Of Eastern Washington University

Student Newspapers

This issue of the Easterner contains articles about a proposed amnesty policy by the Asssociated Students (ASEWU), the impact of marijuana legalization on campus, construction plans on campus, an upcoming football playoff game agaisnt Wagner, the Children's Center, maps drawn on floors in Isle Hall, gaming on campus, and the men's basketball season.

Arts And Education: An Investigation Into The Impact Of The Arts Academy On High School Students, Nigel Sangster

Theses and Dissertations

The broad topical area of my research study involved an investigation of the impact of the arts academy on the students of Cooper Ruth Performing and Fine Arts Middle-High School (pseudonym), using both quantitative and qualitative approaches. Being a proponent of the arts, one of the premises of my research was to bring about a greater sense of awareness in my school and school district, that the arts were not "frills" in the educational processes of children (Perrin, 1994). Focus was given to various strands of the arts disciplines in my efforts to substantiate the significance of the overarching question …

Volume 50, Number 15: November 28, 2012, University Of North Dakota

University Letter Archive

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The Hook: Stories, Jenny Miranda Lederer

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

The nine pieces of short fiction in this collection feature a group ofcharacters in transition: some caught between the easy magic of youth and the often painful discovery of complexity, others between deliberate stasis and queasy action. Their decisions in these moments will prove pivotal, with ramifications that echo for the remainder of their lives. The settings of these stories range the length of the East Coast from New Hampshire to Florida, often visiting places where the border between the wild and the tame becomes blurred: a campground, a rural farmhouse, a stretch of moonlit beach with the boundless ocean …

The Full Story Of United States V. Smith, America’S Most Important Piracy Case, Joel H. Samuels

Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs (2012 - Present)

This article explores the seminal United States Supreme Court decision of United States v. Smith (1820). Smith, an early piracy case, has influenced developments in both domestic and international law on piracy, universal jurisdiction, and a range of broader themes. This article is the first to explore the context within which the case arose, as well as the circumstances of the case itself. In addition to the details of the case, the story of the men prosecuted for their cruise aboard the vessel known as the Irresistible in the late spring and early summer of 1819 also offers a …

International Order After The Financial Crisis, Harold James

Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs (2012 - Present)

How is international order built, and how is it legitimate, in a world in which political and economic foundations are rapidly shifting? What are the consequences of the rise of major new powers for the structure and the functioning of the international system? Great wars or great financial crises have in the past led to disorientation about the moral foundations of society, domestically and internationally. The paper examines parallels with the Great Depression, and in particular the weakening of multilateralism and of small political units, and the strengthening of large powers with hegemonic claims. The paper then turns to an …

25 Year Club: 31st Annual Gala, Western Michigan University

25 Year Club

25 Year Club: 31st Annual Gala

November 27, 2012

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Musician Bloggers: The Impact Of Niche Bloggers On Business, Charles Craine

College of Journalism and Mass Communications: Theses

Blogs have become a staple for many online users as the world becomes more and more connected. Blogs are websites often maintained by individuals who comment on anything that interests them. They are diaries of sorts from which individuals can broadcast their thoughts and opinions to the world.

Musician blogs are websites where musicians discuss their lives and craft. These blog present the writer’s opinions about their specific instruments, genre, group and many things.

This study analyzes in-depth interviews with 20 musician bloggers to understand their motivations and satisfaction they receive from blogging. This study will analyze seven motivations for …

The George-Anne, Georgia Southern University

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Successful Emergent Literacy Head Start Teachers Of Urban African American Boys Living In Poverty, John Michael Holland

Theses and Dissertations

This integrated methods study used a sequential explanatory design to explore the culturally relevant teaching beliefs of successful emergent literacy Head Start teachers of urban African American boys living in poverty. The study utilized emergent literacy gain scores as a measure of success, a survey of culturally relevant teaching beliefs to describe variation in beliefs within the sample, and two rounds of interviews to explore the context of teacher agency with urban African American boys living in poverty. The four teachers interviewed expressed culturally relevant beliefs integral to their teaching practices. These beliefs were conveyed through descriptions of relationships with …

Mapping Marketing Library Services Related Literature In Lis Open Access Journals, Anna Kaushik

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Open access initiative explores the new way to access scholarly literature free of cost which published in diverse online journals on different subjects. This study aims to identify growth and publication patterns of marketing library and information services related literature published in LIS open access journals by various bibliographic points of view. The results of the study demonstrated that maximum quantity of articles published in marketing library services, most productive year count as 2002 and huge amount of articles focused on library marketing theme. Results further revealed that wide spectrum of articles published in foreign open access LIS journals by …

Network At Work: Tailoring Digital Information, Irma Pasanen-Tuomainen, Talikka Pasanen-Tuomainen, Marja Pasanen-Tuomainen

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Libraries - Planning And Management In A Time Of Change 2, Janice Yeadon, Susan Howard

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Libraries - Planning And Management In A Time Of Change 1, Susan Howard, Janice Yeadon

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Creating Online Communities On The Internet: A Practical Solution For The Global Engineering Community, Richard Hollis

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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Jam Tomorrow, Jam Yesterday, But Never Jam Today: Venturing Through The Looking-Glass Of Scholarly Communication, Arnold Hirshon

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

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