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0794: The Bon Ton Bullets In The Service, 1943-1945, Marshall University Special Collections Jan 2012

0794: The Bon Ton Bullets In The Service, 1943-1945, Marshall University Special Collections

Guides to Manuscript Collections

This collection consists copies of nineteen editions of a Huntington, West Virginia area newsletter titled, “The Bon Ton Bullets in the Service” published between 1943 and 1945. The newsletter describes activities of area service members during World War II, and published excerpts from letters sent from servicemen, news from home, addresses, and miscellanea. Also included is an index of individuals mentioned in many of the newsletters.


Shifting Losses: The Impact Of Fannie's And Freddie's Conservatorships On Commercial Banks Articles, Essays, And Transcripts, Julie Andersen Hill Jan 2012

Shifting Losses: The Impact Of Fannie's And Freddie's Conservatorships On Commercial Banks Articles, Essays, And Transcripts, Julie Andersen Hill

Essays, Reviews, and Shorter Works

No abstract provided.


Act Iii Of The Ministerial Exception Colloquy Essay, Paul Horwitz Jan 2012

Act Iii Of The Ministerial Exception Colloquy Essay, Paul Horwitz

Essays, Reviews, and Shorter Works

The Supreme Court's recent decision in Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. EEOC marks a resounding victory for the principle of church self-governance and the autonomy of religious institutions. But it is just the beginning of the story, not the end. Hosanna-Tabor properly recognizes that a significant measure of church autonomy is a key element part of the American church-state settlement, and may signal a broader recognition of the important role played by nonstate institutions in our social infrastructure. But it does not tell us how churches should behave under such a regime of autonomy, or how those inside …


Empty Protection And Meaningless Review—The Need To Reform California's Stagnant Capital Clemency System, Brittney Cunningham Jan 2012

Empty Protection And Meaningless Review—The Need To Reform California's Stagnant Capital Clemency System, Brittney Cunningham

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

This Note examines California’s stagnant capital clemency system and its ability to properly function as a fail safe against miscarriages of justice. Finding that the state’s clemency system lacks transparency, appears arbitrary, and is strained by political pressure, this Note argues that California’s system of wide discretion fails to provide a meaningful review of clemency petitions. To restore clemency’s failsafe function, this Note urges California to create a clemency board and provide procedural guidelines for the board to follow when addressing petitions. This Note asserts that by enacting these reforms, California will invigorate its stagnant clemency system and ensure that …


Ashcroft V. Al-Kidd: Troubling Developments In Post-9/11 Fourth Amendment Jurisprudence, David Doeling Jan 2012

Ashcroft V. Al-Kidd: Troubling Developments In Post-9/11 Fourth Amendment Jurisprudence, David Doeling

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

In March 2003, FBI agents pretextually arrested Abdullah al-Kidd under the federal material witness statute. As a result, al-Kidd brought a Bivens action in federal district court against U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft. The court denied Ashcroft’s assertions of absolute and qualified immunity, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed. In Aschroft v. al-Kidd the U.S. Supreme Court correctly held that qualified immunity protected Ashcroft against al-Kidd’s lawsuit. But the Court’s unnecessary conclusion that Ashcroft did not violate the Fourth Amendment is troubling. Not only did the Court expand the “objectively reasonable” test that is typically …


Confronting Forensics: Bullcoming V. New Mexico And The Sixth Amendment, Megan Weisgerber Jan 2012

Confronting Forensics: Bullcoming V. New Mexico And The Sixth Amendment, Megan Weisgerber

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

The U.S. Supreme Court’s 2004 Crawford v. Washington decision drastically altered the long-standing Confrontation Clause jurisprudence, refocusing the constitutional inquiry on the testimonial nature of a witness’s statement but leaving for another day any effort to spell out a comprehensive definition of the term “testimonial.” Thus began the current line of Confrontation Clause cases, each of which sought to clarify the Sixth Amendment’s confrontation protections but arguably clouded any clarity that the case before it brought. In 2009, the Court decided Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts, in which it held that a forensic laboratory report prepared for a criminal trial is …


Game Over For Regulating Violent Video Games? The Effect Of Brown V. Entertainment Merchants Ass’N On First Amendment Jurisprudence, Garrett Mathew-James Mott Jan 2012

Game Over For Regulating Violent Video Games? The Effect Of Brown V. Entertainment Merchants Ass’N On First Amendment Jurisprudence, Garrett Mathew-James Mott

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

As early as 1976, video games started to incorporate aspects of violence, such as striking enemies with a vehicle or using explosives to destroy a structure. Still, initially, courts were reluctant to assign the same constitutional protections to video games that they had granted to other protected media like motion pictures and written and musical works. But as technology progressed, courts, too, matured, becoming more open to the notion that video games should be a form of protected expression. Yet, some courts lost sight of the First Amendment’s vision and reconsidered their earlier decisions in which they upheld the constitutionality …


Developing, Implementing And Assessing Large-Scale Redesign Effort At A Research University: Tales From The Impact Initiative At Purdue University, Chantal Levesque-Bristol, David Nelson, Gabriela Weaver, Loran Carleton Parker Jan 2012

Developing, Implementing And Assessing Large-Scale Redesign Effort At A Research University: Tales From The Impact Initiative At Purdue University, Chantal Levesque-Bristol, David Nelson, Gabriela Weaver, Loran Carleton Parker

IMPACT Presentations

Presentation given at the Assessment Institute, IUPUI. Summarizes goals, methods, and assessment of Instruction Matters Purdue Academic Course Transformation. (IMPACT). Discusses challenges of faculty development and classroom redesign. Presents results of assessment surveys of student perceptions and learning and retention.


Identitas Tionghoa Muslim Indonesia Pasca-Orde Baru: Melampaui Batas-Batas Kategori Peranakan Dan Totok, Afthonul Afif Jan 2012

Identitas Tionghoa Muslim Indonesia Pasca-Orde Baru: Melampaui Batas-Batas Kategori Peranakan Dan Totok, Afthonul Afif

Antropologi Indonesia

The dramatic change in some important aspects of this country after the collapse of New Order Regime, primarily in the political aspect, provided larger opportunity to Indonesian Chinese in constructing their real identity, included to the Indonesian Chinese Muslim. In one hand, Indonesian Chinese Muslim tended to re-strengthen their cultural identity shown by articulating some features of their ethnic identity, and they show more the involvement in developing discourse of national building and the life of majority group by using their Islamic identity in the other hand. At this point, they then could not be categorized as ‘peranakan’ and ‘totok’, …


Kebersamaan Di Ruang Publik Pada Pawai Perayaan Gotong Toa Pe Kong Berbasis Masyarakat Majemuk Di Slawi Pasca Orde Baru 2010, Zeffry Alkatiri, Fabianus H. Koesoemadinata Jan 2012

Kebersamaan Di Ruang Publik Pada Pawai Perayaan Gotong Toa Pe Kong Berbasis Masyarakat Majemuk Di Slawi Pasca Orde Baru 2010, Zeffry Alkatiri, Fabianus H. Koesoemadinata

Antropologi Indonesia

This article observes collective action of Toa Pe Kong celebration in the public space during Post-New Order era in Slawi, Central Java. This celebration involves local people from different religions and cultures. Why this celebration can be done after New Order? What aspect functions as collective bond among Slawi plural society? Using historical and cultural sources, this study analyses function and meaning of the ritual in relation to the collective aspect of Toa Pe Kong celebration.


Kekuasaan Politik Dan Adat Para Mosalaki Di Desa Nggela Dan Tenda, Kabupaten Ende, Flores, J. Emmed M. Prioharyono Jan 2012

Kekuasaan Politik Dan Adat Para Mosalaki Di Desa Nggela Dan Tenda, Kabupaten Ende, Flores, J. Emmed M. Prioharyono

Antropologi Indonesia

This article discusses the relevance of applying the concepts of source of origin and system of precedence, that provide legitimacy for the Mosalaki of Lio in their construction and production as well as reproduction of power in everyday life, especially in their traditional political system. The data analyzed in this article is the result of fieldwork undertaken in the villages of Nggela and Tenda, District of Wolojita, the Regency of Ende Lio, Flores, with qualitative methods, specifically through the techniques of in-depth interviews and participant observation. The Mosalakis, as a matter of a fact, dominate the traditional political system as …


Pengelolaan Sumber Daya Laut Kawasan Terumbu Karang Takabonerate Dan Paradigma Komunalisme Lingkungan Masyarakat Bajo Masa Lalu, Munsi Lampe Jan 2012

Pengelolaan Sumber Daya Laut Kawasan Terumbu Karang Takabonerate Dan Paradigma Komunalisme Lingkungan Masyarakat Bajo Masa Lalu, Munsi Lampe

Antropologi Indonesia

This article aims to analyze the complexity of interactions between Bajo fishermen communities and their sea environment in the form of coral reef resource management in Takabonerate in the past time by application of the paradigm of communalism in human ecology. The question proposed is how to construct the complexity of the interaction between Bajo fishermen communities and their sea environment in the context of belief systems, and socio-economic and political institutions in the early time of their arrival in Takabonerate archipelago up to the of 1940s. The article’s material are taken from field research reports in which the data/information …


Gondang Di Komunitas Parmalim Batak Toba: Teks, Konteks Dan Aspek Performatif, Irwansyah Harahap Jan 2012

Gondang Di Komunitas Parmalim Batak Toba: Teks, Konteks Dan Aspek Performatif, Irwansyah Harahap

Antropologi Indonesia

This writing is about Gondang music which exists among the Toba Batak Parmalim community of Hutatinggi in the district area of Toba Samosir, North Sumatra province of Indonesia. Content of discussion includes an historical background of the people and knowledge and expressions of Gondang music among Toba Batak people in general and Parmalim community in particular. The performance aspects of Parmalim gondangs, including music ensembles, repertoires and ritual musical practices, will also be discussed as part of discussion.


Reproduksi Stereotip Dan Resistensi Orang Katobengke Dalam Struktur Masyarakat Buton, Tasrifin Tahara Jan 2012

Reproduksi Stereotip Dan Resistensi Orang Katobengke Dalam Struktur Masyarakat Buton, Tasrifin Tahara

Antropologi Indonesia

Buton manuscripts indicated that Buton Kingdom appeared in 14th Century. In the periods of the 17 th, 18th, and 19th centuries, Buton Kingdom initiated to be the free kingdom. In the begining of 20th , dutch colonial goverment incorporated that the Buton kingdom and placed it under their rule. The principles were laid down based on the social cultural in eceonomic development. Relation to be governed especially are in the field of education, health, and economy. In 1960, Buton kingdom was dissolved following the death of Sultan Laode Muhammad Falihi as the last sultan. During the kingdom era, Buton social …


Becoming Indonesians: The Bā ʿAlawī In The Interstices Of The Nation, Ismail Fajrie Alatas Jan 2012

Becoming Indonesians: The Bā ʿAlawī In The Interstices Of The Nation, Ismail Fajrie Alatas

Antropologi Indonesia

This paper examines the Bāʿ Alawī—a group of Ḥaḍramī diaspora acknowledged as the descendants of Prophet Muḥammad—in post-colonial Indonesia. In particular, it observes the Bā ʿAlawī scholars' creative adaptation and manipulation of their Sufi path, ṭartqa 'alawiyya y in their attempt to secure their place within the wider imagination of Indonesian nationhood while protecting their distinctive genealogical eminence. In the twentieth century the t̠arīqa, which had long functioned to secure their identity, differentiate them from others and nurture their diasporic consciousness, proved incompatible with the assimilationist discourse of the nation. Further challenges came from Islamic reformism, preaching egalitarianism increasingly defined …


Politik Etnisitas Dalam Pemekaran Daerah, Firkawin Zuska Jan 2012

Politik Etnisitas Dalam Pemekaran Daerah, Firkawin Zuska

Antropologi Indonesia

This paper deals with the regional partition which do not always take place due to the considerations as commonly stated in official explanations, and also it does not like the outcome of the scientific analysis on the interests of local elites in efforts to devide regions for seizing local power in the new regions. In addition, this paper also shows that ethnic politics is often interwined with the region partitions. The local elite politically quite often to put forward ethnicity and identity loyalties as a political resources for demanding the regional division. Ethnic identity and the usage of collective ethnic …


Puisi Lisan Masyarakat Banda Eli Ketahanan Budaya Di Maluku Setelah Perang Pala, Timo Kaartinen Jan 2012

Puisi Lisan Masyarakat Banda Eli Ketahanan Budaya Di Maluku Setelah Perang Pala, Timo Kaartinen

Antropologi Indonesia

This article asks the question how Banda displaced from the Banda Islands due to colonization of Banda by the VOC in 1621, maintain their existence as a sustainable cultural group. Banda communities play an important role in maritime commerce in the eastern part of Indonesia at the beginning of the colonial period. They survive as one cultural group in two villages on the islands of Kei. The traditional songs of the two villages center on the sea voyage. The argument is that Banda people are mobilized by oral traditions that reveal the kinship ties of Banda people with their partners …


Accounting Majors' Perceptions Of Future Career Skills: An Exploratory Analysis, Abbie Parham, Thomas G. Noland, Julia Ann Kelly Jan 2012

Accounting Majors' Perceptions Of Future Career Skills: An Exploratory Analysis, Abbie Parham, Thomas G. Noland, Julia Ann Kelly

Accountancy: Faculty Publications

Business education is often criticized for its failure to develop lifelong skills. This study examines the opinions of 205 students to determine what skills they deem to be important for their future careers. The study then compares the opinions of accounting students against other business disciplines. The results of the study are mixed for the accounting profession. Many of the skills accounting majors ranked as important for their future were not surprising. However, there was some indication that accounting majors may be suffering from a silo effect and are not able to fully grasp how skills learned in other university …


Equal Or Not? An Exploration Of Eighth-Grade Students' Experience Of Algebra, Janice L. Reyes Jan 2012

Equal Or Not? An Exploration Of Eighth-Grade Students' Experience Of Algebra, Janice L. Reyes

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

Over the past two decades, a considerable amount of algebra instruction nationwide has shifted from high school to middle school. In Georgia, all eighth-grade students have been required to take a course that is equivalent to about 80 percent of a traditional Algebra 1 course. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore how a selected group of eighth-grade students in a suburban Georgia middle school experience algebra within the eighth grade mathematics curriculum. A qualitative research design was used to investigate students’ perceptions of algebra, the strategies employed by teachers to teach algebra, students’ difficulties with algebra, and …


Alumni Email Usage Jan 2012

Alumni Email Usage

University Advancement Policies

Email addresses are collected to promote timely, cost effective communication with our alumni. Special consideration must be given to frequency and content of emails sent to alumni. Too many emails will prompt the alum to opt-out of the service and render this form of communication useless


Presidential Strategy: Analyzing The National Security Stategies Of The United States, Aaron Dilday Jan 2012

Presidential Strategy: Analyzing The National Security Stategies Of The United States, Aaron Dilday

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

The Second World War forced American politicians to reevaluate the nation's security preparedness. This resulted in the National Security Act of 1947, which, among many things, created the National Security Council and an ad hoc system for American strategy-making. The Cold War revealed many of the deficiencies in this strategy-making system. The Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986 sought to reform the nation's defense establishment to meet the evolving needs of the Cold War; part of this included revision of strategic development. Section 603 of Goldwater-Nichols required the president to annually submit to Congress a national security strategy …


Floristic Lichen Records From Kemaliye District (Erzincan) And Van Province, Yalçin Karagöz, Ali̇ Aslan Jan 2012

Floristic Lichen Records From Kemaliye District (Erzincan) And Van Province, Yalçin Karagöz, Ali̇ Aslan

Turkish Journal of Botany

Numerous lichen specimens from 32 locations in Kemaliye District of Erzincan Province and 4 locations in Van Province were examined. In total 144 lichens, including 5 varieties, 2 subspecies and 4 forms, in 47 genera were identified. Acarospora lavicola J.Steiner, Adelolecia kolaensis (Nyl.) Hertel & Rambold, and Arthonia apotheciorum (A. Massal.) Almq. were found to be new for Turkey. All identified taxa, excluding the ones mentioned above, are new for Kemaliye and 101 taxa are new for Erzincan Province.


Growth And Photochemical Responses Of Three Crop Species Treated With Textile Azo Dyes, Nuran Çi̇çek, Banu Efeoğlu, Deni̇z Tanyolaç, Yasemi̇n Ekmekçi̇, Reto Jörg Strasser Jan 2012

Growth And Photochemical Responses Of Three Crop Species Treated With Textile Azo Dyes, Nuran Çi̇çek, Banu Efeoğlu, Deni̇z Tanyolaç, Yasemi̇n Ekmekçi̇, Reto Jörg Strasser

Turkish Journal of Botany

The present study was conducted to investigate the impact of textile dye on the early seedling stage of 3 crops: barley, maize, and wheat. Seeds were imbibed in different concentrations of textile dye for 12 h and were then grown in a controlled growth room for 8 days with a related dye solution. Some growth and polyphasic chlorophyll fluorescence parameters were measured and analysed to appraise the effect of textile dye on the 3 crops. Although different crop species showed differences in response to different concentrations, textile dye generally affected almost all radicle growth parameters more adversely than coleoptile growth …


Three New Records For Turkey: Allium Giganteum (Liliaceae), Grammosciadium Scabridum, And Ferulago Angulata Subsp. Carduchorum (Apiaceae), Lütfi̇ Behçet, İdri̇s Kaval, Mustafa Rüstemoğlu Jan 2012

Three New Records For Turkey: Allium Giganteum (Liliaceae), Grammosciadium Scabridum, And Ferulago Angulata Subsp. Carduchorum (Apiaceae), Lütfi̇ Behçet, İdri̇s Kaval, Mustafa Rüstemoğlu

Turkish Journal of Botany

Allium giganteum Regel (Liliaceae), Grammosciadium scabridum Boiss., and Ferulago angulata (Schlecht.) Boiss. subsp. carduchorum (Boiss. & Hausskn.) D.F.Chamb. (Apiaceae) are reported as new records for the Turkish flora. They have been identified using the collected specimens and Flora Iranica. The taxa's diagnostic characters, habitats, photos, and a distribution map of the new records in Turkey are given.


Comparative Studies Of Six Populations Of Isoetes Panchganiensis From India, Brij Bhan Yadav, Sarvesh Kumar Singh, Manju Srivastava, Gopal Krishan Srivastava Jan 2012

Comparative Studies Of Six Populations Of Isoetes Panchganiensis From India, Brij Bhan Yadav, Sarvesh Kumar Singh, Manju Srivastava, Gopal Krishan Srivastava

Turkish Journal of Botany

Six populations of Isoetes panchganiensis G.K.Srivast., D.D.Pant & P.K.Shukla growing in different environmental conditions of the Western Ghats have been studied to determine the range of variation within the species. The present investigation does not show any variation in habitat (aquatic), rhizomorph (trilobed), velum (fenestra), and presence or absence of peripheral strands; however, there is a subtle variation in the length of plants, number of leaves, size of megasporangia, and size and ornamentation of the megaspores. The basic organisation of the megaspores of all the populations is almost same, but the finer details of the ornamentation of the megaspores exhibit …


Larynx-Sparing Techniques Using Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy For Oropharyngeal Cancer., Voichita Bar-Ad, Haibo Lin, Wei-Ting Hwang, Curtiland Deville, Pinaki R Dutta, Zelig Tochner, Stefan Both Jan 2012

Larynx-Sparing Techniques Using Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy For Oropharyngeal Cancer., Voichita Bar-Ad, Haibo Lin, Wei-Ting Hwang, Curtiland Deville, Pinaki R Dutta, Zelig Tochner, Stefan Both

Department of Radiation Oncology Faculty Papers

The purpose of the current study was to explore whether the laryngeal dose can be reduced by using 2 intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) techniques: whole-neck field IMRT technique (WF-IMRT) vs. junctioned IMRT (J-IMRT). The effect on planning target volumes (PTVs) coverage and laryngeal sparing was evaluated. WF-IMRT technique consisted of a single IMRT plan, including the primary tumor and the superior and inferior neck to the level of the clavicular heads. The larynx was defined as an organ at risk extending superiorly to cover the arytenoid cartilages and inferiorly to include the cricoid cartilage. The J-IMRT technique consisted of an …


Gene Expression Signatures Modulated By Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Activation And Their Relationship To Cetuximab Resistance In Head And Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma., Elana J Fertig, Qing Ren, Haixia Cheng, Hiromitsu Hatakeyama, Adam Dicker Md, Phd, Ulrich Rodeck, Michael Considine, Michael F Ochs, Christine H Chung Jan 2012

Gene Expression Signatures Modulated By Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Activation And Their Relationship To Cetuximab Resistance In Head And Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma., Elana J Fertig, Qing Ren, Haixia Cheng, Hiromitsu Hatakeyama, Adam Dicker Md, Phd, Ulrich Rodeck, Michael Considine, Michael F Ochs, Christine H Chung

Department of Radiation Oncology Faculty Papers

BACKGROUND: Aberrant activation of signaling pathways downstream of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) has been hypothesized to be one of the mechanisms of cetuximab (a monoclonal antibody against EGFR) resistance in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC). To infer relevant and specific pathway activation downstream of EGFR from gene expression in HNSCC, we generated gene expression signatures using immortalized keratinocytes (HaCaT) subjected to ligand stimulation and transfected with EGFR, RELA/p65, or HRASVal12D.

RESULTS: The gene expression patterns that distinguished the HaCaT variants and conditions were inferred using the Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) matrix factorization algorithm Coordinated Gene Activity …


The Global Impact And Implementation Of Human Rights Norms: Introduction, Linda Carter Jan 2012

The Global Impact And Implementation Of Human Rights Norms: Introduction, Linda Carter

McGeorge School of Law Scholarly Articles

No abstract provided.


Medical Marijuana: A Study Of Unintended Consequences, Gerald Caplan Jan 2012

Medical Marijuana: A Study Of Unintended Consequences, Gerald Caplan

McGeorge School of Law Scholarly Articles

No abstract provided.


Even Moe Dalitz Would Blush: Why The District Attorney Has No Business Collecting Unpaid Casino Markers, Francis J. Mootz Iii Jan 2012

Even Moe Dalitz Would Blush: Why The District Attorney Has No Business Collecting Unpaid Casino Markers, Francis J. Mootz Iii

McGeorge School of Law Scholarly Articles

No abstract provided.