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A Comparison Of Avian Abundance And Species Richness In Palustrine Emergent Wetlands In Southwest Florida, Matthew P. Miller Jan 2013

A Comparison Of Avian Abundance And Species Richness In Palustrine Emergent Wetlands In Southwest Florida, Matthew P. Miller

USF St. Petersburg campus Master's Theses (Graduate)

Wetlands are commonly thought of as transition areas between dry, upland habitats and deepwater habitats and can be the hydrologic gradient between a dry landscape and a lake or river, or they be can isolated from a flowing or deepwater system and completely surrounded by a dry landscape (Tiner 2001). Wetlands provide a valuable suite of services including providing foraging, nesting and denning habitat for birds, amphibians and other wildlife (Environmental Law Institute 2008; Stolt, et al. 2001). In southwest Florida, population growth has put enormous pressure on wetland landscapes. Wetland regulations in the state of Florida make clear that …

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The Big Watermelon: A Cultural History Of Florida's Brooksville Ridge, Douglas E. Ponticos Jan 2013

The Big Watermelon: A Cultural History Of Florida's Brooksville Ridge, Douglas E. Ponticos

USF St. Petersburg campus Master's Theses (Graduate)

The Brooksville Ridge has long been the dominant cultural landscape of westcentral Florida. Though rarely used as a cultural designation today, the region’s landscapes continue to unify a people. More than simply an environmental or geologic region, the Brooksville Ridge was born in a period of colonialism and exuberant extraction for distant markets. Before the Ridge, west-central Florida landscapes, such as Amasura and Withlacoochee, were defined predominantly by local and regional needs. This thesis uses a number of primary and secondary documents to trace the changing cultural landscapes of west-central Florida, from pre-Columbian and Seminole landscapes to the rise of …

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Children's Values And Attitudes About The Wild Vicuña (Vicugna Vicugna) In Andean Argentina, Ana Celeste Wawrzyk, Bibiana Vilá Jan 2013

Children's Values And Attitudes About The Wild Vicuña (Vicugna Vicugna) In Andean Argentina, Ana Celeste Wawrzyk, Bibiana Vilá

Journal of Ecological Anthropology

Vicuñas (Vicugna vicugna) are South American camelids whose valuable fleece led to their overexploitation and near extinction in the 1960s. Since then, conservation measures enabled the wild population to rebound, and vicuñas are now viewed as strategic resources for the development of Andean communities. Perceptions of wild vicuñas are changing owed to a transition from strict conservation to managed harvest of fleece from live-shorn animals. Understanding the values and attitudes of human populations toward wildlife is important in the frameworks for developing conservation and sustainable management plans. Attitudes of children are an overlooked area of focus in this field. We …

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Shocks And Bribri Agriculture Past And Present, Paula Posas Jan 2013

Shocks And Bribri Agriculture Past And Present, Paula Posas

Journal of Ecological Anthropology

The Bribri have a multifaceted agricultural system relatively high in agrobiodiversity in one of the most biodiverse regions on earth, the forests of Southern Costa Rica. Their agriculture and resource use patterns appear to have evolved over many centuries, informed by traditional ecological knowledge and cultural beliefs about the natural world. Tracing the history of Bribri agriculture from the oldest available documents from the first European contact offers evidence of centuries of crop cultivation, while review of the past century’s records shows socio-economic and natural shocks as key drivers of agricultural change rather than population growth or market pressures. Bribri …

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Environmental Problems And The Grand Old Theory Of 'Human Nature', Helen Kopnina Jan 2013

Environmental Problems And The Grand Old Theory Of 'Human Nature', Helen Kopnina

Journal of Ecological Anthropology

While the notion of ‘human nature’ has been devaluated from the status of ‘grand theory’ to a marginal anthropological debate, I argue that it deserves to be resurrected in order to comprehend some of the explanatory gaps inherent in other theories. Industrialization signifies a turning point in human history, which in combination with certain ‘universal’ human traits led to recent environmental problems. Such universals include, but are not limited to, the propensity for technological innovation, the desire to elevate one’s status, and preoccupation with social justice.

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Remapping Bolivia: Resources, Territory, And Indigeneity In A Plurinational State, Maryann Cairns Jan 2013

Remapping Bolivia: Resources, Territory, And Indigeneity In A Plurinational State, Maryann Cairns

Journal of Ecological Anthropology

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Tough Times, But Citrus Is At Its Prime [1932-1941], James Anthony Schnur Jan 2013

Tough Times, But Citrus Is At Its Prime [1932-1941], James Anthony Schnur

USF St. Petersburg Campus Faculty Publications

Remarks delivered by Schnur at the fourth program of the "Pinellas by the Decades" centennial lecture series, Pinellas Room, Heritage Village, on 8 January 2012. The Pinellas County Communications Office videotaped the program and the actual lecture varies slightly from this printed document due to time constraints. The program, including questions, was approximately 55 minutes in length.

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The Tarpon Springs Public Library : A Cultural Treasure For Nearly A Century, James Anthony Schnur Jan 2013

The Tarpon Springs Public Library : A Cultural Treasure For Nearly A Century, James Anthony Schnur

USF St. Petersburg Campus Faculty Publications

Remarks from a presentation Schnur delivered to the annual meeting of the Friends of the Tarpon Springs Public Library at the Cypress Run Golf Club in November 2013. A revised version of the PowerPoint presentation, one offered in a centennial celebration at the Tarpon Springs Public Library on 27 January 2016, is also included.

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2013 Program, Belmont University Jan 2013

2013 Program, Belmont University

Humanities Symposium Programs

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Acute Elevation In Estradiol Influences The Salience Of Cocaine Cues, Samara Morris Bobzean Jan 2013

Acute Elevation In Estradiol Influences The Salience Of Cocaine Cues, Samara Morris Bobzean

Psychology Theses - Archive

Previous research demonstrates that women and female rodents are more responsive to environmental stimuli associated with drug reward than males. A growing body of literature supports a role for estradiol as one of the mechanisms underlying sex differences in the behavioral response to drugs of abuse. However, little is known about the influence of acute elevations in levels of estradiol on cocaine conditioned behaviors. Thus, the purpose of the present study was to investigate the influence of an acute increase in systemic estradiol levels on the expression of cocaine-induced conditioned place preference (CPP). Experimentally naïve, adult female Long Evans rats …

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Impacts Of Anthropogenic Disturbances And Drought On Breeding Bird Abundance And Diversity In The Rolling Plains Ecoregion Of Texas, Natalie Ellen Hubbard Jan 2013

Impacts Of Anthropogenic Disturbances And Drought On Breeding Bird Abundance And Diversity In The Rolling Plains Ecoregion Of Texas, Natalie Ellen Hubbard

Biology Dissertations - Archive

Bird species, especially grassland species have undergone widespread decline in arid grasslands due to anthropogenic disturbance such as different land use including cattle grazing and agriculture and addition of physical structures such as buildings, roads and fences which can negatively impact both animals and native vegetation. The objective of this research was to determine the impacts of anthropogenic disturbance (i.e., presence of oil pump jacks and cattle grazing) and drought on breeding bird community dynamics in the Rolling Plains Ecoregion of Texas. The study involved four sites encompassing different land uses including a natural-non-cattle grazed, cattle-grazed, oil field pump jacks …

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Nematodes With Three Genders: Models For The Evolution Of Mating Systems, Parasitism And Aging, Jyotiska Chaudhuri Jan 2013

Nematodes With Three Genders: Models For The Evolution Of Mating Systems, Parasitism And Aging, Jyotiska Chaudhuri

Biology Dissertations - Archive

All living organisms reproduce and age. These are the two basic facets of life, but in many aspects poorly understood. The majority of the species are male/female. The proportion of genders in population can vary significantly among animals and plants, but the mechanisms and evolutionary reasons for such variation are poorly understood. In some species of nematode (roundworm) parasites, for example, only female progeny is generated after a cross between a male and female. To understand how gender-ratio distortion happens and how it evolved, we are using a non-parasitic nematode that can be cultured in the laboratory, but that is …

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Saponins As Agents Preventing Infection Caused By Waterborne Pathogens, Alisa Moric Johnson Jan 2013

Saponins As Agents Preventing Infection Caused By Waterborne Pathogens, Alisa Moric Johnson

Biology Dissertations - Archive

Waterborne diseases are the leading cause of deaths globally, estimated to result in more than 3.4 million deaths and approximately 4 billion cases of diarrhea annually according to the World Health Organization (WHO). The United Nations estimates that 4000 children die each day as a result of water-related disease caused by enteric pathogens of bacterial and viral origin that reside in water sources contaminated by raw sewage. Natural compounds from plants have been the source of a number of antimicrobials drugs. Saponins are a diverse group of glycosides that are widely distributed within the plant kingdom and have an equally …

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We Will Remember Turtle Mound: Uncovering The Past And Saving The Future Of Florida’S First People, Suzie Caffery, Diahn Escue Jan 2013

We Will Remember Turtle Mound: Uncovering The Past And Saving The Future Of Florida’S First People, Suzie Caffery, Diahn Escue

CEELAB Children's Books

This book is geared toward fourth graders. It tells the story of the Timucuan people and Turtle Mound, one of the largest coastal shell middens on the east coast. After describing the past, it tells about recent losses of artifacts due to climate change and “living shoreline” efforts to preserve and protect the midden into the future. Tons of fish bones, oyster shells, pieces of broken pottery, and other discarded materials were piled into large mounds, frequently called shell middens, many hundreds of years ago. On the east coast of Central Florida, along the shorelines of Mosquito Lagoon, many mounds …

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Structural Characterizations Of Phosphorylatable Residues In Transmembrane Proteins From Arabidopsis Thaliana, Bin Xue, Vladimir N. Uversky Jan 2013

Structural Characterizations Of Phosphorylatable Residues In Transmembrane Proteins From Arabidopsis Thaliana, Bin Xue, Vladimir N. Uversky

Molecular Medicine Faculty Publications

Phosphorylation is a common post-translational modification that plays important roles in a wide range of biochemical and cellular processes. Many enzymes and receptors can be switched “on” or “off” by conformational changes induced by phosphorylation. The phosphorylation process is mediated by a family of enzymes called kinase. Currently, more than 1,000 different kinases have been identified in Arabidopsis thaliana proteome. Kinases interact with each other and with many regulatory proteins forming phosphorylation networks. These phosphorylation networks modulate the signaling processes and control the functions of cells. Normally, kinases phosphorylate serines, threonines, and tyrosines. However, in many proteins, not all of …

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The Alphabet Of Intrinsic Disorder: Ii. Various Roles Of Glutamic Acid In Ordered And Intrinsically Disordered Proteins, Vladimir N. Uversky Jan 2013

The Alphabet Of Intrinsic Disorder: Ii. Various Roles Of Glutamic Acid In Ordered And Intrinsically Disordered Proteins, Vladimir N. Uversky

Molecular Medicine Faculty Publications

The ability of a protein to fold into unique functional state or to stay intrinsically disordered is encoded in its amino acid sequence. Both ordered and intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) are natural polypeptides that use the same arsenal of 20 proteinogenic amino acid residues as their major building blocks. The exceptional structural plasticity of IDPs, their capability to exist as heterogeneous structural ensembles and their wide array of important disorder-based biological functions that complements functional repertoire of ordered proteins are all rooted within the peculiar differential usage of these building blocks by ordered proteins and IDPs. In fact, some residues …

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Looking At Microbial Metabolism By High-Resolution (2)H-Nmr Spectroscopy, Victor P. Kutyshenko, Peter M. Beskaravayny, Maxim V. Molchanov, Svetlana I. Paskevich, Dmitry A. Prokhorov, Vladimir N. Uversky Jan 2013

Looking At Microbial Metabolism By High-Resolution (2)H-Nmr Spectroscopy, Victor P. Kutyshenko, Peter M. Beskaravayny, Maxim V. Molchanov, Svetlana I. Paskevich, Dmitry A. Prokhorov, Vladimir N. Uversky

Molecular Medicine Faculty Publications

We analyzed the applicability of high-resolution (2)H-HMR spectroscopy for the analysis of microbe metabolism in samples of mitochondrion isolated from rat liver and from aqueous extracts of homogenates of rat liver and other organs and tissues in the presence of high D2O contents. Such analysis is possible due to the fast microbe adaptation to life in the heavy water. It is also shown that some enzymatic processes typical for the intact cells are preserved in the homogenized tissue preparations. The microbial and cellular metabolic processes can be differentiated via the strategic use of cell poisons and antibiotics.

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Biophysical Characterization Of Α-Synuclein And Rotenone Interaction, Blanca A. Silva, Olöf Einarsdóttir, Anthony L. Fink, Vladimir N. Uversky Jan 2013

Biophysical Characterization Of Α-Synuclein And Rotenone Interaction, Blanca A. Silva, Olöf Einarsdóttir, Anthony L. Fink, Vladimir N. Uversky

Molecular Medicine Faculty Publications

Previous studies revealed that pesticides interact with α-synuclein and accelerate the rate of fibrillation. These results are consistent with the prevailing hypothesis that the direct interaction of α-synuclein with pesticides is one of many suspected factors leading to α-synuclein fibrillation and ultimately to Parkinson's disease. In this study, the biophysical properties and fibrillation kinetics of α-synuclein in the presence of rotenone were investigated and, more specifically, the effects of rotenone on the early-stage misfolded forms of α-synuclein were considered. The thioflavine T (ThT) fluorescence assay studies provide evidence that early-phase misfolded α-synuclein forms are affected by rotenone and that the …

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The Alphabet Of Intrinsic Disorder: I. Act Like A Pro: On The Abundance And Roles Of Proline Residues In Intrinsically Disordered Proteins, Francois-Xavier Theillet, Lajos Kalmar, Peter Tompa, Kyou-Hoon Han, Philipp Selenko, A. Keith Dunker, Gary W. Daughdrill, Vladimir N. Uversky Jan 2013

The Alphabet Of Intrinsic Disorder: I. Act Like A Pro: On The Abundance And Roles Of Proline Residues In Intrinsically Disordered Proteins, Francois-Xavier Theillet, Lajos Kalmar, Peter Tompa, Kyou-Hoon Han, Philipp Selenko, A. Keith Dunker, Gary W. Daughdrill, Vladimir N. Uversky

Molecular Medicine Faculty Publications

A significant fraction of every proteome is occupied by biologically active proteins that do not form unique three-dimensional structures. These intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) and IDP regions (IDPRs) have essential biological functions and are characterized by extensive structural plasticity. Such structural and functional behavior is encoded in the amino acid sequences of IDPs/IDPRs, which are enriched in disorder-promoting residues and depleted in order-promoting residues. In fact, amino acid residues can be arranged according to their disorder-promoting tendency to form an alphabet of intrinsic disorder that defines the structural complexity and diversity of IDPs/IDPRs. This review is the first in a …

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Intersexes And Mixed Races: Visuality, Narrative, And "Bastard" Identity In Early Twentieth-Century Germany', Kevin S. Amidon Ph.D. Jan 2013

Intersexes And Mixed Races: Visuality, Narrative, And "Bastard" Identity In Early Twentieth-Century Germany', Kevin S. Amidon Ph.D.

Modern Languages Faculty Publications

Intersexes and Mixed Races: Visuality, Narrative, and "Bastard" Identity in Early Twentieth-Century Germany'

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Environmental Monitoring Report, January Through December 2013, Tennessee. Department Of Environment And Conservation Jan 2013

Environmental Monitoring Report, January Through December 2013, Tennessee. Department Of Environment And Conservation

Environmental Monitoring Reports

The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, Division of Remediation, Department of Energy Oversight Office (the Office) is providing a report of the office’s independent environmental monitoring for the 2013 calendar year. Individual reports completed by office personnel make up the report. General areas of interest determine the substance of the reports: Air Quality, Biological, Drinking Water, Groundwater, Radiological, and Surface Water.

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Combating Violence Against Women Through C4d: The “Use Your Voice” Campaign And Its Implications On Audience-Citizens In Papua New Guinea, Vipul Khosla, Akina Mikami, Lauren B. Frank, Isabel Popal, Klara Debeljak, Amelia Shaw Jan 2013

Combating Violence Against Women Through C4d: The “Use Your Voice” Campaign And Its Implications On Audience-Citizens In Papua New Guinea, Vipul Khosla, Akina Mikami, Lauren B. Frank, Isabel Popal, Klara Debeljak, Amelia Shaw

Communication Faculty Publications and Presentations

Violence against women (VAW) is universally identified as a barrier to legal, social, political, and economic equality for women, violating their rights and fundamental freedoms. This article brings together existing literature and empirical research on addressing such violence in Papua New Guinea (PNG), providing results that can inform future work in this area. The literature review examines the causes of violence against women and the role that communication for development (C4D) can play in addressing these issues. The Use Your Voice campaign was implemented in PNG in late 2011 in an effort to promote speaking out against violence and displace …

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Big Ideas: Annual Report 2012, Population Council Jan 2013

Big Ideas: Annual Report 2012, Population Council

Annual Reports

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Critical Research Needs For Successful Food Systems Adaptation To Climate Change, Michelle Miller, Molly Anderson, Charles A. Francis, Chad Kruger, Carol Barford, Jacob Park, Brent H. Mccown Jan 2013

Critical Research Needs For Successful Food Systems Adaptation To Climate Change, Michelle Miller, Molly Anderson, Charles A. Francis, Chad Kruger, Carol Barford, Jacob Park, Brent H. Mccown

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Faculty Publications

There is a growing sense of the fragility of agricultural production in the Global North and South and of increasing risks to food security, as scientific observations confirm significant changes in the Gulf Stream, polar ice, atmospheric CO2, methane release, and other measures of climate change. This sense is heightened as each of us experiences extreme weather, such as the increasing frequency of droughts, floods, unseasonal temperatures, and erratic seasonality. The central research challenge before us is how global, national, regional, and local food systems may adapt to accelerating climate change stresses and uncertainties to ensure the availability, …

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Variations In The Biological Functions Of Hiv-1 Clade C Envelope In A Shiv-Infected Rhesus Macaque During Disease Progression, For Yue Tso, Levon Abrahamyan, Shiu-Lok Hu, Ruth M. Ruprecht, Charles Wood Jan 2013

Variations In The Biological Functions Of Hiv-1 Clade C Envelope In A Shiv-Infected Rhesus Macaque During Disease Progression, For Yue Tso, Levon Abrahamyan, Shiu-Lok Hu, Ruth M. Ruprecht, Charles Wood

Nebraska Center for Virology: Faculty Publications

A better understanding of how the biological functions of the HIV-1 envelope (Env) changes during disease progression may aid the design of an efficacious anti-HIV-1 vaccine. Although studies from patient had provided some insights on this issue, the differences in the study cohorts and methodology had make it difficult to reach a consensus of the variations in the HIV-1 Env functions during disease progression. To this end, an animal model that can be infected under controlled environment and reflect the disease course of HIV-1 infection in human will be beneficial. Such an animal model was previously demonstrated by the infection …

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Low-Abundance Resistant Mutations In Hiv-1 Subtype C Antiretroviral Therapy-Naïve Individuals As Revealed By Pyrosequencing, Sandra Gonzalez, Damien C. Tully, Clement Gondwe, Charles Wood Jan 2013

Low-Abundance Resistant Mutations In Hiv-1 Subtype C Antiretroviral Therapy-Naïve Individuals As Revealed By Pyrosequencing, Sandra Gonzalez, Damien C. Tully, Clement Gondwe, Charles Wood

Nebraska Center for Virology: Faculty Publications

Given the recent scale-up of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in sub-Saharan Africa, we sought to determine how often and at what levels do drug-resistant mutant variants exist in ART-naïve HIV subtype C infected individuals. Samples from 10 ART-naïve Zambian individuals were subjected to ultra-deep pyrosequencing (UDPS) to characterize the frequency of low-abundance drug resistance mutations in the pol gene. Low-abundance clinically relevant variants were detected for nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs), non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTIs) and protease inhibitors (PIs) in eight of the ten subjects. Intermediate to high-level resistance was predicted for the majority of NRTIs. Mutations conferring resistance to …

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Clade C Hiv-1 Isolates Circulating In Southern Africa Exhibit A Greater Frequency Of Dicysteine Motif-Containing Tat Variants Than Those In Southeast Asia And Cause Increased Neurovirulence, Vasudev R. Rao, Ujjwal Neogi, Joshua S, Talboom, Ligia Padilla, Mustafizur Rahman, Cari Fritz-French, Sandra Gonzalez-Ramirez, Anjali Verma, Charles Wood, Ruth M. Ruprecht, Udaykumar Ranga, Tasnim Azim, Vinayaka R. Prasad Jan 2013

Clade C Hiv-1 Isolates Circulating In Southern Africa Exhibit A Greater Frequency Of Dicysteine Motif-Containing Tat Variants Than Those In Southeast Asia And Cause Increased Neurovirulence, Vasudev R. Rao, Ujjwal Neogi, Joshua S, Talboom, Ligia Padilla, Mustafizur Rahman, Cari Fritz-French, Sandra Gonzalez-Ramirez, Anjali Verma, Charles Wood, Ruth M. Ruprecht, Udaykumar Ranga, Tasnim Azim, Vinayaka R. Prasad

Nebraska Center for Virology: Faculty Publications

Background: HIV-1 Clade C (Subtype C; HIV-1C) is responsible for greater than 50% of infections worldwide. Unlike clade B HIV-1 (Subtype B; HIV-1B), which is known to cause HIV associated dementia (HAD) in approximately 15% to 30% of the infected individuals, HIV-1C has been linked with lower prevalence of HAD (0 to 6%) in India and Ethiopia. However, recent studies report a higher prevalence of HAD in South Africa, Zambia and Botswana, where HIV-1C infections predominate. Therefore, we examined whether Southern African HIV-1C is genetically distinct and investigated its neurovirulence. HIV-1 Tat protein is a viral determinant of neurocognitive dysfunction. …

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Review Of Between Feminism And Islam: Human Rights And Sharia Law In Morocco By Zakia Salime, Dana M. Olwan Jan 2013

Review Of Between Feminism And Islam: Human Rights And Sharia Law In Morocco By Zakia Salime, Dana M. Olwan

Societies Without Borders

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Freedom With Chinese Characteristics, Keith Kerr Jan 2013

Freedom With Chinese Characteristics, Keith Kerr

Societies Without Borders

The following “note from the field” is based off of first-hand observations and experiences had while living and working as an affiliated professor at a Chinese university. Noting the well-known political restrictions existing in China, the piece argues that against dominant Western narratives depicting a lack of freedom within China, there ostensibly appear spaces offering levels of emotional and interactional freedoms greater than what one can experience in the West. This argument is framed within the thought of Western intellectuals such as David Riesman, Erich Fromm, C. Wright Mills and Stjepan Mestrovic, and is advanced by considering the vast historical …

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Review Of Fair Trade From The Ground Up. New Markets For Social Justice By April Linton, Silvia Giagnoni Jan 2013

Review Of Fair Trade From The Ground Up. New Markets For Social Justice By April Linton, Silvia Giagnoni

Societies Without Borders

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