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Addressing Economic Violence In Times Of Transition: Toward A Positive-Peace Paradigm For Transitional Justice, Dustin N. Sharp

Fordham International Law Journal

No abstract provided.

When Corruption Is An Emergency: “Good Governance” Coups And Bangladesh, Nick Robinson, Nawreen Sattar

Fordham International Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Rethinking The Regulation Of Private Military And Security Companies Under International Humanitarian Law, Joseph C. Hansen

Fordham International Law Journal

No abstract provided.

International Law In The Gestational Surrogacy Debate, Kristiana Brugger

Fordham International Law Journal

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Barriers To H-1b Visa Sponsorship In The It Consulting Industry: The Economic Incentive To Alter H-1b Policy, Karen Jensen

Fordham International Law Journal

No abstract provided.

The Center Cannot Hold: Assessing The Reach Of China's Labor Protections Of Migrant Workers In Africa, Tonya Rodgers

Fordham International Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Human Rights, The European Union, And The Treaty Route: From Maastricht To Lisbon, Elizabeth F. Defeis

Fordham International Law Journal

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Invisible Cities In Europe, Nicola Fernanda

Fordham International Law Journal

No abstract provided.

The Growth Of Social Media Norms And The Governments' Attempts At Regulation, Alexandra Paslawsky

Fordham International Law Journal

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A Critical Linkage The Role Of German Constitutional Law In The European Economic Crisis And The Future Of The Eurozone, Jared Curzan

Fordham International Law Journal

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A Step In The Wrong Direction- Increasing Restrictions On Foreign Rural Land And Acquisition In Brazil, Jessica Ball

Fordham International Law Journal

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Employment Discrimination Faced By The Immigrant Worker- A Lesson From The United States And South Africa, Sean M. Henegham

Fordham International Law Journal

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Advancing Human Rights And Equality- Assessing The Role Of Commissions In The Uk And Ireland, Colin Harvey, Sarah Spencer

Fordham International Law Journal

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This Land Is My Land- Protecting The Security Of Tenure In Post-Earthquake Haiti, Rebecca Iwerks

Fordham International Law Journal

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Mantle Flow And Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Coupling Beneath The Southwestern Edge Of The North American Craton: Constraints From Shear-Wave Splitting Measurements, Hesham A. Refayee

Doctoral Dissertations

"High-quality broadband seismic data recorded by the USArray and other stations in the southwestern United States provide a unique opportunity to test different models of anisotropy-forming mechanisms in the vicinity of a cratonic edge. Systematic spatial variations of anisotropic characteristics are revealed by 3027 pairs of splitting parameters measured at 547 broadband seismic stations. The western and southern edges of the North American craton show edge-parallel fast directions with larger-than-normal splitting times, and the continental interior is characterized by smaller splitting times spatially consistent fast directions that are mostly parallel to the absolute plate motion direction of North America. Except …

Sustainability In The Plastics Industry: Concerns, Issues, And Strategies, Bonnie Bachman, Shristy Bashyal, Margaret Baumann

Economics Faculty Research & Creative Works

An increased corporate emphasis on sustainability can be seen in such areas as: annual reports with published sustainability goals, sustainability management systems with balanced scorecards and dashboards, websites using increased screen area and space for sustainability communications, internal and external stakeholder opinion gathering, development of sustainable supply chain plans, and marketing strategies focusing on green or sustainable consumers. To address this ever increasing attention to sustainability, a research project to understand sustainability in the plastics industry was initiated with the membership of the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE). This paper focuses on the results of the research (global survey) and …

Trans-Boundary Movement Of Hazardous Waste: Evidence From A New Micro Data In The European Union, Mahelet G. Fikru

Economics Faculty Research & Creative Works

The paper explores a new micro dataset on the export of hazardous waste generated in Europe. A total of 16 745 industrial facilities generated hazardous waste in 2009 out of which 1 272 exported some or all of the waste. A measure of the export intensity of facilities is introduced by using export of hazardous waste as a percentage of total hazardous waste generated. The study finds that 96% of the export stays within Europe and rarely goes to developing countries. The major driving force behind firms' decision to export hazardous waste may be the stringency of general environmental policies …

Agency In The Light Of Article 101 Tfeu. How To Chase A Rabbit Without Actually Catching It ?, Małgorzata Kozak

internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (internet Quarterly on Antitrust and Regulation)

Distribution systems have become more and more complex and tend to use different legal solutions to fulfill the aims of the producer. One of them can be agency. From the perspective of competition law, agency holds a special status, resulting from the fact that an agent is present in two distinct relevant markets. In one market an agent represents the principal in the conclusion of a contract, in the second market it offers its own services as an agent. This specific causes some practical difficulties and is interesting from a theoretical point of view. The erroneous qualification of a distributor …

Bid Rigging Or Action Allowed By Law? The Interplay Between Competition Law And Public Procurement Law, Agata Zawłocka-Turno

internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (internet Quarterly on Antitrust and Regulation)

The Article presents some problematic issues due to the interaction between competition law and public procurement law. The latter which aims at fostering competition within the specific tender may at the same time promote bid rigging among bidders. Therefore, problems analysed in this Article relate to joint bidding and possibility to file separate bids by undertakings belonging to the same capital group (multiple bidding). Moreover, the Article elaborates on the oversight competences as regards bid rigging.

2012 Scholarly Productivity Report, Missouri University Of Science And Technology

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Scholarly Productivity Reports

No abstract provided.

N-Acetyl-L-Cysteine Amide Protects Retinal Pigment Epithelium Against Methamphetamine-Induced Oxidative Stress, Nuran Ercal, Joshua W. Carey, Shakila Tobwala, Xinsheng Zhang, Atrayee Banerjee, Eylem Y. Pinarci, Humeyra Karacal

Chemistry Faculty Research & Creative Works

Methamphetamine (METH), a highly addictive drug used worldwide, induces oxidative stress in various animal organs. Recent animal studies indicate that methamphetamine also induces oxidative stress in the retina, which is an em- bryonic extension of the forebrain. The aim of this study, therefore, was to evaluate the pro- tecttive effects of N-acetylcysteine amide (NACA) against oxidative stress induced by METH in retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) cells. Our stud- ies showed that NACA protected against METH- induced oxidative stress in retinal pigment epithelial cells. Although METH significantly de- creased glutathione (GSH) levels and increased reactive oxygen species (ROS) and malondial- dehyde …

Noncanonical Reactions Of Flavoenzymes, Pablo Sobrado

Chemistry Faculty Research & Creative Works

Enzymes containing flavin cofactors are predominantly involved in redox reactions in numerous cellular processes where the protein environment modulates the chemical reactivity of the flavin to either transfer one or two electrons. Some flavoenzymes catalyze reactions with no net redox change. In these reactions, the protein environment modulates the reactivity of the flavin to perform novel chemistries. Recent mechanistic and structural data supporting novel flavin functionalities in reactions catalyzed by chorismate synthase, type II isopentenyl diphosphate isomerase, UDP-galactopyranose mutase, and alkyl-dihydroxyacetone phosphate synthase are presented in this review. In these enzymes, the flavin plays either a direct role in acid/base …

Book Review: Mcgraw-Hill's Chinese Dictionary & Guide To 20,000 Essential Words, Hong Zhan

Publications

Chinese Dictionary & Guide to 20,000 Essential Words is a concise dictionary specially designed for learners of Chinese as a foreign or a second language. This dictionary distinguishes itself from other Chinese language dictionaries by its unconventional character look-up system, a system that searches for a character by counting the total number of “broken marks” (not linked or unlinked strokes) of each character.

Experimental Investigations Of Pseudospark Discharge And Pseudospark Produced Intense Electron Beams, Jing Hu

Doctoral Dissertations

"This dissertation focuses on the pseudospark discharge, a pulsed discharge discovered for the first time in 1970's. This dissertation is prepared as three journal articles in the style used by Missouri University of Science and Technology. A high voltage pseudospark discharge experiment setup, and discharge and electron beam diagnostic system are constructed and presented in this work. Three journal articles which have been published or are under review are presented in this dissertation on various topics of the pseudospark discharge.

Paper 1 "Experimental investigation of formation time in single-gap pseudospark discharge" is focused on experimental investigations of the time-dependent characteristics …

Analyzing Risk And Catastrophic Accidents: Using Lopa And Human Factors To Improve Safety In Generic Projects, Siddharth B. Damle

Doctoral Dissertations

"Risk assessment and identification in the early stages of any project is critical to the success of that project from time, budget and cost prespective [sic]. Identifying unacceptable risks and making provisions to mitigate those, can reduce the uncertainty in the project and ensure its smooth completion and closure. Various techniques have been developed over time to identify and quantify risks. Inspite of all the available research on risk management tools, accidents continue to happen and projects consistently fail.

The objective of this study is to first, determine the generic risks that can be encountered by a project. A list …

Transmission Scheduling Based On A New Conflict Graph Model For Multicast In Multihop Wireless Networks, Maggie Cheng, Quanmin Ye

Computer Science Faculty Research & Creative Works

In multicast applications, the end-to-end delay from the source to a group member is determined by the multicast tree topology and the waiting time at each relay node. This paper addresses when the multicast tree is given how to schedule wireless nodes for transmission so that network delay is minimized. We first model the conflict relation among wireless transmissions in a conflict graph, and then we compute a transmission schedule based on an Integer Linear Programming (ILP) model. Since solving ILP problem is NP-hard, a heuristic is designed to solve the ILP problem. the resulting schedule is conflict-free, which is …

Preface To Part Iii: Model Based Systems Engineering, Steven Corns

Engineering Management and Systems Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

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Preface To Part Ii Computational Intelligence And Machine Learning, Rosemary D. Paradis, David Enke

Engineering Management and Systems Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

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Meso-Scale Fluidic Devices With Chemical Sensors For Biological Applications, Satya Gowthami Achanta

Doctoral Dissertations

"Molecular oxygen and humidity are some of the major environmental quantities being measured for various industrial and commercial applications. This dissertation focuses on the design, fabrication and characterization of optofluidic biosensor systems for oxygen and humidity quantification using color charge-coupled device (CCD) camera as a photodetector and LED panel as an excitation source. Meso-scale fluidic devices with integrated oxygen and humidity sensors for potential applications to hydrotropic and oxytropic studies of small plant roots have been investigated in this study. Meso-scale sensor platform was fabricated using porphyrine complex as the sensitive dye embedded within Ethyl Cellulose (EC) polymer matrix. Green …

Role Of Alloy Additions On Strengthening In 17-4 Ph Stainless Steel, Arpana S. Murthy

Doctoral Dissertations

"Alloy modifications by addition of niobium (Nb ), vanadium (V), nitrogen (N) and cobalt (Co) to cast 17-4 PH steel were investigated to determine the effect on mechanical properties. Additions of Nb, V, and N increased the yield strength from 1120 MPa to 1310 MPa while decreased the room temperature charpy V notch (CVN) toughness from 20 J to four Joules. The addition of Co to cast 17-4 PH steel enhanced the yield strength and CVN toughness from 1140 MPa to 1290 MPa and from 3.7 J to 5.5 J, respectively. In the base 17-4 PH steel, an increase in …