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An Endless Array Of Options; How The Internet Is Revolutionizing The Ways We Meet And Mate, Maria Montesano Jan 2012

An Endless Array Of Options; How The Internet Is Revolutionizing The Ways We Meet And Mate, Maria Montesano

Dissertations and Theses

Marriage rates are at a record low in the United States and there are currently more single people searching for partners than there have ever been at any point in our history. The Internet has revolutionized many aspects of our lives and it is increasingly playing a role in the formation of relationships. Much the way one looks for work online; shops for clothes, stays in contact with friends, or gathers information - one may now search online for a suitable romantic partner. Using a qualitative approach, this study seeks to explore the experiences of online dating site users through …

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Photojournalism As Photonationalism, Jeremy Kreusch Jan 2012

Photojournalism As Photonationalism, Jeremy Kreusch

LSU Master's Theses

The public saw the wars in Iraq (2003 – 2012) and Afghanistan (2001 – present) through the lens of reverence and sentimentality toward the soldier. This was manifest not simply in the catchy “support our troops” rhetoric, but in the one-sided depiction of the experience of battle by the photojournalists who worked for the major news organizations in the Western world. From the emotionally bloated to the nationalistic, the photographs taken by “embedded” photojournalists, whether the result of heavy-handed censorship or merely political influence, presented a consistent image: the soldier as a selfless victim of his or her own heroism. …

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Sovereignty And The Promotion Of Peace In Non-International Armed Conflict, Anna Spain Jan 2012

Sovereignty And The Promotion Of Peace In Non-International Armed Conflict, Anna Spain

Publications

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Variations Of The Apparent Angular Size Of The Sun Across The Entire Solar System: Implications For Planetary Opposition Surges, Estelle Déau Jan 2012

Variations Of The Apparent Angular Size Of The Sun Across The Entire Solar System: Implications For Planetary Opposition Surges, Estelle Déau

United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration: Publications

We test several convolution and deconvolution models on phase curves at small phase angles (0.0011° < α < 1.51°) that have the highest phase angle sampling to date.These curves were provided by cameras on board several NASA missions (Clementine/UVVIS, Galileo/SSI and Cassini/ISS) when the Sun had different apparent angular radii (α☼ = 0.266°, 0.051°, 0.028°). For the smallest phase angles, the brightness of the objects (Moon, Europa and the Saturn’s rings) exhibits a strong round-off below the angular size of the Sun. The brightness continues to increase below α☼ before finally flattening at 0.4α☼. These behaviors are consistent with the convolution models tested. A simple deconvolution model is also used and agrees with laboratory measurements at extremely small phase angles that do not show any flattening [Psarev V, Ovcharenko A, Shkuratov YG, …

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Hacking For Lulzi: Employing Expert Hackers To Combat Cyber Terrorism, Swathi Padmanabhan Jan 2012

Hacking For Lulzi: Employing Expert Hackers To Combat Cyber Terrorism, Swathi Padmanabhan

Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law

Because hacking collectives Anonymous and LulzSec have routinely breached supposedly secure computer networks--including Visa, MasterCard, and the Central Intelligence Agency--the threat of cyber terrorism has become more prominent. Many US industries and companies depend on online communication and information storage. If terrorists compromise these capabilities, they could cripple the US economy and perhaps even cause widespread fatalities. Members of Anonymous and LulzSec lack the necessary intent to be prosecuted as cyber terrorists because they hack not to cause fear, but rather to create laughter. Their method of posting all necessary instructions and information regarding intended targets on online message boards …

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Profesjonalna Rekrutacja I Selekcja Na Potrzeby Współczesnej Organizacji, Jerzy Bogdanienko Jan 2012

Profesjonalna Rekrutacja I Selekcja Na Potrzeby Współczesnej Organizacji, Jerzy Bogdanienko

Monografie/Monographs

Rekrutacja jest jednym z zasadniczych elementów zarządzania zasobami ludzkimi w przedsiębiorstwie, jest procesem, podczas którego poszukuje się, dobiera i wybiera kandydatów na poszczególne stanowiska pracy - istniejące oraz takie, które zamierza się utworzyć. Stanowić może fundament osiągania bieżącego i przyszłego sukcesu przez organizację, dzięki rozbudowie jej kapitału intelektualnego, w wyniku przyciągania odpowiednich ludzi wyróżniających się najlepszymi cechami niezbędnymi do realizacji nowych zadań. Jest to jednocześnie zadaniem niezwykle trudnym i ryzykownym. Dlatego w niniejszej monografii Autorzy zdecydowali się przedstawić wybrane aspekty tego procesu, których uwzględnienie ułatwi uniknięcie niektórych pułapek i pozwoli usprawnić działalność w tym obszarze.

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From Cape Town To Kabul: Rethinking Strategies For Pursuing Women's Human Rights (2012), Penelope Andrews Jan 2012

From Cape Town To Kabul: Rethinking Strategies For Pursuing Women's Human Rights (2012), Penelope Andrews

Books

Using her experience of living under apartheid and witnessing its downfall and the subsequent creation of new governments in South Africa, the author examines and compares gender inequality in societies undergoing political and economic transformation. By applying this process of legal transformation as a paradigm, the author applies this model to Afghanistan. These two societies serve as counterpoints through which the book engages, in a nuanced and novel way, with the many broader issues that flow from the attempts in newly democratic societies to give effect to the promise of gender equality. Developing the idea of 'conditional interdependence', the book …

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Assassination Or Targeted Killings After 9/11, John Yoo Jan 2012

Assassination Or Targeted Killings After 9/11, John Yoo

NYLS Law Review

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Education, Citizenship, Political Participation: Defining Variables For Post-Conflict Reconstruction In Bosnia-Herzegovina, Sonia Roubini Jan 2012

Education, Citizenship, Political Participation: Defining Variables For Post-Conflict Reconstruction In Bosnia-Herzegovina, Sonia Roubini

Honors Papers

This paper examines the flawed reconstruction process undergone by Bosnia-Herzegovina after the Bosnian War. This paper posits that particular variables (education, citizenship, and political participation) were overlooked in this process - variables that could have led to a better outcome for Bosnia-Herzegovina.

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Book Review, When International Law Works: Realistic Idealism After 9/11 And The Global Recession , Deborah Schander Jan 2012

Book Review, When International Law Works: Realistic Idealism After 9/11 And The Global Recession , Deborah Schander

Faculty Publications By Year

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The Growth Of Social Media Norms And The Governments' Attempts At Regulation, Alexandra Paslawsky Jan 2012

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

Fordham International Law Journal

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Eric Stein (1913-2011), Daniel Halberstam, Steven Ratner, Mathias Reimann Jan 2012

Eric Stein (1913-2011), Daniel Halberstam, Steven Ratner, Mathias Reimann

Articles

On July 28,2011, Eric Stein, pillar of international law, pioneer of the legal study of European integration, and master of comparative law, passed away in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He was ninety-eight years old. He joined this Journal's Board of Editors in 1963, serving as a regular member until 1978, and thereafter as an honorary editor. Stein was the last of that great generation of European-educated jurists who fled Nazism and became leading figures in comparative and international law in the United States.

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A Systematic Approach For Real-Time Operator Functional State Assessment, Guangfan Zhang, Wei Wang, Aaron Pepe, Roger Xu, Tom Schnell, Nick Anderson, Dean Heitkamp, Jiang Li, Feng Li, Frederick Mckenzie Jan 2012

A Systematic Approach For Real-Time Operator Functional State Assessment, Guangfan Zhang, Wei Wang, Aaron Pepe, Roger Xu, Tom Schnell, Nick Anderson, Dean Heitkamp, Jiang Li, Feng Li, Frederick Mckenzie

Electrical & Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

A task overload condition often leads to high stress for an operator, causing performance degradation and possibly disastrous consequences. Just as dangerous, with automated flight systems, an operator may experience a task underload condition (during the en-route flight phase, for example), becoming easily bored and finding it difficult to maintain sustained attention. When an unexpected event occurs, either internal or external to the automated system, the disengaged operator may neglect, misunderstand, or respond slowly/inappropriately to the situation. In this paper, we discuss an approach for Operator Functional State (OFS) monitoring in a typical aviation environment. A systematic ground truth finding …

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Cyber Security Without Cyber War, Mary Ellen O'Connell Jan 2012

Cyber Security Without Cyber War, Mary Ellen O'Connell

Journal Articles

Which government agency should have primary responsibility for the Internet? The USA seems to have decided this question in favour of the military—the US military today has the largest concentration of expertise and legal authority with respect to cyberspace. Those in the legal community who support this development are divided as to the appropriate legal rules to guide the military in its oversight of the Internet. Specialists on the international law on the use of force argue that with analogy and interpretation, current international law can be applied in a way that allows great freedom without sending the message that …

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What Is Aggression?: Comparing The Jus Ad Bellum And The Icc Statute, Mary Ellen O'Connell, Mirakmal Niyazmatov Jan 2012

What Is Aggression?: Comparing The Jus Ad Bellum And The Icc Statute, Mary Ellen O'Connell, Mirakmal Niyazmatov

Journal Articles

Under the international law on resort to force, the jus ad bellum, any serious violation of the United Nations Charter prohibition on the use of force amounts to aggression. Despite a close connection for over a century between the prohibition on aggression by states and the crime of aggression for which individuals may be held accountable, delegates to the 2010 International Criminal Court Review Conference in Kampala, Uganda felt compelled to bifurcate the two prohibitions and reach a compromise. Today, the ICC Statute contains a detailed provision on the crime of aggression, but with a byzantine procedure for entry into …

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Review Of Eu Foreign Policy And The Europeanization Of Neutral States: Comparing Irish And Austrian Foreign Policy., Günter Bischof Jan 2012

Review Of Eu Foreign Policy And The Europeanization Of Neutral States: Comparing Irish And Austrian Foreign Policy., Günter Bischof

History Faculty Publications

Review of EU Foreign Policy and the Europeanization of Neutral States: Comparing Irish and Austrian Foreign Policy by Nicole Alecu de Flers.

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When To Overthrow Your Government: The Right To Resist In The World's Constitutions, Tom Ginsburg, Daniel Lansberg-Rodriguez, Mila Versteeg Jan 2012

When To Overthrow Your Government: The Right To Resist In The World's Constitutions, Tom Ginsburg, Daniel Lansberg-Rodriguez, Mila Versteeg

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

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