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The Attitudes And Perceptions Of The Local People Towards The Durgun Hydropower Plant, Francis H. Clougherty

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

Humans have been using the kinetic energy generated by waters movement in the hydrologic cycle for thousands of years. Since the late 19^th century people have harnessed this energy source and utilized it as a means of generating electricity. The use of hydropower in many different ways can be found in countries all over the world, including the United States, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Spain, Turkey, India, China and, of course Mongolia. However, in some developed countries including the United States and Sweden there is a growing movement of hydropower stations and dam …

The Pillar: Newsletter Of The St. Mary's University School Of Law Center For Legal And Social Justice, St. Mary's University School Of Law

The Pillar

No abstract provided.

Lawnotes, The St. Mary's University School Of Law Newsletter, St. Mary's University School Of Law

Law Notes

No abstract provided.

Abandoning Women To Their Rights: What Happens When Feminist Jurisprudence Ignores Birthing Rights, Rebecca A. Spence

Student Articles and Papers

The goals of the Article are twofold. First, this Article will demonstrate that while birthing rights issues have been familiar areas of concern for feminist scholarship on women's rights to privacy and equality, neglecting to integrate this work into the law school classroom fails to promote effective legal advocacy for pregnant women. The violation of women's rights during childbirth is a more common problem than reported legal opinions indicate, and few lawyers are prepared to protect clients prospectively or to vindicate women's rights post-childbirth.

Learning Disabilities And Self-Esteem, Renee I. Pandy

All Capstone Projects

Social acceptance is pivotal in a child's life but it is harder to obtain if one has a learning disability (LD). Individuals with learning disabilities experience being ostracized, ridiculed and labeled as dumb, subnormal and slow learners by their peers. ''Leaming disabilities" is a term that's used to describe different types of learning problems. A learning disability is not a disease. Children with learning disabilities are often stigmatized and associated with failure, which lowers their self-esteem. Academic problems a child with a learning disability may experience can be a constant source of frustration, especially in the areas of reading, math, …

In Memoriam: Professor Emeritus Richard O. Kummert, Kellye Y. Testy, William R. Andersen, C. Kent Carlson, Robert W. Gomulkiewicz, Roland L. Hjorth

Washington Law Review

The Washington Law Review dedicates its October 2012 issue to Professor Richard O. Kummert who passed away last April at the age of seventy-nine. Professor Kummert served as the faculty advisor to the Washington Law Review for over four decades. The success of this publication owes, in many ways, to Professor Kummert's steadfast guidance. The following memorial remarks come from his former students, colleagues, and friends. Many, but not all, of these remarks have been graciously adapted from speeches given at Professor Kummert's memorial service, which was held at the University of Washington School of Law on April 29, 2012.

Executive Privilege Under Washington's Separation Of Powers Doctrine, Lee Marchisio

Washington Law Review

Since United States v. Nixon, the U.S. Supreme Court has recognized a qualified executive privilege grounded in federal separation of powers. The privilege allows the President to withhold executive branch communications when disclosure would undermine presidential decisionmaking while executing core constitutional duties. Several states have followed the Supreme Court’s lead and adopted an analogous gubernatorial privilege under state constitutional separation of powers. Focusing on Washington State’s well-developed separation of powers doctrine and strong populist history, this Comment argues that the Washington State Supreme Court should recognize a qualified gubernatorial privilege that also respects the state’s long history of citizen …

Advocacy Project: Alliance For Background Checks In Youth Sports, Mariah Gayler, Laura Purdom, Debra Rogers, Alicia Sebastian

Advocacy and Lobbying

The Alliance for Background Checks in Youth Sports is a coalition of individuals, organizations, government agencies, and community businesses who advocate on the behalf of our communities’ youth and sports programs.

ABC Youth Sports asked California State Legislature to join the ranks of other states in their efforts to protect our children, and our community sports programs. We called for a state-wide policy-- Safe at School, Safe on the Field --requiring all California youth sports league chapters to operate with the same background check requirements held by California public school sports programs.

Our campaign was based on Pat Libby’s, The …

The Promise Of Trailing-Edge Sentencing Guidelines To Resolve The Conflict Between Uniformity And Judicial Discretion, Mark Osler

North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology

No abstract provided.

Greenwash Gold 2012: Mobilizing A Grassroots Movement, Brittany Dickey

Collection of Engaged Learning

Green wash Gold 2012 is a campaign that aimed to shine light on the destruction and devastation 3 sponsors of the Olympics-- BP, Dow and Rio Tinto --caused while pretending to be good corporate sponsors. These companies used the Olympics to "greenwash"1 their corporations.

The three organizations that joined together to start this campaign are The Bhopal Medical Appeal, London Mining Network, and UK Tar Sands Network.

I am interested in how Greenwash Gold 2012, a small grass roots campaign, used the 2012 Olympic Games in London to raise international awareness about issues surrounding the Olympics.

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1 Greenwashing is …

Campus Chronicle, Nevin Cornwell

Campus Chronicle

No abstract provided.

The Concept And Perception Of Peace Education In Gilgit Baltistan Pakistan: A Comparative Case Study, Abida Begum

Professional Development Centre, Gilgit

In the geographically remote culture and context of Gilgit Baltistan Pakistan, this study explores the perceptions and practices of peace education by two secondary school head teachers (one in a relatively urban area and another in a rural area), as well as three additional teachers from each school. A qualitative, interview-based research approach is employed. The concept of peace education is related by the interviewed teachers to the inculcation and development of positive thinking and positive attitude among students. This positivity is seen as instrumental for the holistic development of the children, and ultimately, for the cultivation of a peaceful …

Coe Acclaim, Fall 2012, Issue 5, University Of Northern Iowa. College Of Education.

COE Acclaim

Inside This Issue:
--Memorial Honors All Educators
--Colleagues Attend Global Conference
--Students Celebrate Our Liberties
--Educational Leadership Hosts Visiting Scholars: Ibrahim Hakan Karats, Theophile Muhayimana
--Stone Recognized for Teaching Excellence
--Watson, Herring Travel to D.C.
--Dancers Perform at Oktoberfest
--Faculty Acclamations: Awards/Service, Presentations, Publications, Grants/Contracts Completed

Csbs Kudos, Fall 2012, University Of Northern Iowa. College Of Social And Behavioral Sciences.

CSBS Kudos

Contents:

-- New Year, New Faces
-- New CSBS Faculty
-- Meet Our New Constituent Development Officer
-- Domestic Violence Awareness Month
-- Around CSBS
-- Faculty & Staff Kudos
-- 2012 Summer Fellowship Recipients
-- Award-winning Faculty
-- Around the World with Social Work
-- Student Kudos
-- Alumni Kudos
-- 2012 Family Weekend a Success!

Montana People And Jobs: The Tourism Connection, Norma P. Nickerson

Institute for Tourism and Recreation Research Publications

The purpose of this report was to further understand employment in the Montana tourism industry based on a random sample phone interview of the general population of Montana’s workforce. The workforce sample surveyed was 2,340, and 400 were in a tourism-related business in 2011. Seventeen percent of Montana’s workforce was employed in a tourism related job in 2011, equating to nearly 81,000 jobs of the total Montana workforce of over 476,000.

Marketing And Public Policy: Transformative Research In Developing Markets, Clifford J. Shultz, Rohit Deshpande, Bettina Cornwell, Ahmet Ekici

School of Business: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Developing markets are a challenge for researchers who study them and for governments, business leaders, and citizens who strive to improve the quality of life in them. The limitations of the dominant development paradigm coupled with the need to focus on consumers provide tremendous opportunities to engage in truly transformative research. Toward this outcome, several interactive forces must be understood and addressed during research design, management, and implementation. The purpose of this essay is to provide a synthesis—that is, a framework in the form of a conceptual model—with practical applications to transformative research in developing markets and, ultimately, with the …

Retention Of Key Talent And The Role Of Rewards, K. Dow Scott, Thomas Mcmullen, Mark Royal

School of Business: Faculty Publications and Other Works

No abstract provided.

The Search, The Jackson Laboratory

Search Magazine

No abstract provided.

Computational Modeling Of Protein Dynamics With Gromacs And Java, Miaoer Yu

Master's Projects

GROMACS is a widely used package in molecular dynamics simulations of biological molecules such as proteins, and nucleic acids, etc. However, it requires many steps to run such simulations from the terminal window. This could be a challenge for those with minimum amount of computer skills. Although GROMACS provides some tools to perform the standard analysis such as density calculation, atomic fluctuation calculation, it does not have tools to give us information on the specific areas such as rigidity that could predict the property of the molecules. In this project, I have developed a user friendly program to carry out …

Javascript Game Engine For Mobile Using Html5, Nakul Vishwas Natu

Master's Projects

The goal of this project was to develop an HTML5-based mobile JavaScript game engine. Developers can use this game engine to create platform independent mobile games. It provides support for sprite animation, physics, event handling, orientation handling, collision detection and entity management. HTML5 local storage was used to achieve game persistence. The games created using this game engine can be stored on the home screen of the device as a data URL. When the user launches the data URL, the game opens up in a browser and the entire process is similar to launching a native application. HTML5 has many …

Semantic Discovery Through Text Processing, Bieu Binh Do

Master's Projects

As the world embraces the digital era, unprecedented volumes of information are generated and consumed daily. It becomes difficult to comb through mountains of documents to locate search topics. With inherent ambiguity in human languages, conventional methods using straight text pattern match cannot resolve words having multiple meanings and often misinterpret user intent. There is a need to develop a system able to identify the target topic and return quality relevant links, ending the tedium of rummaging through piles of unrelated links that may get lost in the rubble. An example search of the words “sound investment” helps to illustrate …

A Database-Driven Website Of Β-Thalassemia Mutations, Vanessa Gaeke

Master's Projects

β-thalassemia is a genetic disease caused by mutations of the hemoglobin gene β (HBB). Over two hundred β-thalassemia mutations are known to date. While the pathological consequence of each β-thalassemia mutation has been well documented, the effect of a mutation at the molecular level of its DNA sequence is usually not illustrated for beginners. This paper describes the cause of β-thalassemia and a database-driven website containing mutant HBB sequences altered by β-thalassemia mutations. β-thalassemia mutations and their relevant data are first collected from the HbVar Database of Pennsylvania State University and loaded into a PostgreSQL database. Wild type HBB sequences …

Community Emergency Response Teams In Santa Clara County: Analysis Of Participation, Judy A. Glickman

Master's Projects

No abstract provided.

Montana Business Quarterly, Fall 2012, University Of Montana--Missoula. Bureau Of Business And Economic Research

Montana Business Quarterly, 1949-2021

This is an academic publication produced by the Bureau of Business and Economic Research (BBER) at the University of Montana’s College of Business. This is volume 50, number 3.

Focus On Boise State University, Kathleen Tuck (Editor)

FOCUS on Boise State

No abstract provided.

Role Of International Medical Graduates In Kentucky Medicine: Implications For Workforce Planning And Medical Education, Amanda L. Faulkner, Emery A. Wilson, Elmer T. Whitler, Linda M. Asher

Center of Excellence in Rural Health Faculty Publications

An argument for International Medical Graduates (IMGs) as part of a state’s physician workforce is that they “fill the gap” created by the shortage of United States Medical Graduates (USMGs) required to meet the demand for physician services, especially primary care physicians in rural areas.

The purpose of this study is to examine the overall impact of IMGs on Kentucky’s physician workforce and determine whether they overcome the shortage of USMGs. Information from the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure (KBML) was used to examine the distribution and practice patterns of IMGs and USMGs. IMGs are similar to USMGs in terms …

Envisioning An Oral Healthcare Workforce For The Future, David A. Nash

Oral Health Science Faculty Publications

Health is critical to human well-being. Oral health is an integral component of health. One is not healthy without oral health. As health is essential to human flourishing, it is important that an oral healthcare delivery system and workforce be developed and deployed which can help ensure all citizens have the potential to access oral health care. As such access does not generally exist today, it is imperative to advance the realization of this goal and to develop a vision of an oral healthcare workforce to functionally support access. Public funding of basic oral health care is an important element …

Sarbanes-Oxley's Whistleblower Provisions: Ten Years Later, Richard Moberly

South Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

Perspectives - Steve Marcussen And Jonathan Sklar Of Cushman & Wakefield, James Hagy

Rooftops Project

Steve Marcussen and Jonathan Sklar of Cushman & Wakefield’s Los Angeles office share thoughts on how not-for-profit organizations can be more effective with their real estate assets and in implementing projects with outside real estate brokerage advisors.

Profile - Fernbank Museum Of Natural History, James Hagy

Rooftops Project

Any natural history or science museum would be proud to haev the diversity of collections and programmatic resources found at Fernbank Museum of Natural History in Atlanta, Georgia. But few if any can law claim, as Fernbank does, to having “grown out of a forest.” Professor James Hagy, Director of The Rooftops Project, talks wiht Aneli Nugteren, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Fernbank Museum, about its unique campus, mission, and facilities.