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Sexual Assault And The Meaning Of Power And Authority For Women With Mental Disabilities, Janine Benedet, Isabel Grant

All Faculty Publications

The sexual assault of persons with mental disabilities (also described as cognitive, intellectual and developmental disabilities) occurs at alarmingly high rates worldwide. These assaults are a form of gender-based violence intersecting with discrimination based on disability. Our research on the treatment of such cases in the Canadian criminal justice system demonstrates the systemic barriers these victims face at the level of both substantive legal doctrine and trial procedure. Relying on feminist legal theory and disability theory, we argue in this paper that abuses of trust and power underlie most sexual assaults of women with mental disabilities. We argue that existing …

Electrochemotherapy: From The Drawing Board Into Medical Practice, Damijan Miklavčič, Barbara Mali, Bor Kos, Richard Heller, Gregor Serša

Bioelectrics Publications

Electrochemotherapy is a local treatment of cancer employing electric pulses to improve transmembrane transfer of cytotoxic drugs. In this paper we discuss electrochemotherapy from the perspective of biomedical engineering and review the steps needed to move such a treatment from initial prototypes into clinical practice. In the paper also basic theory of electrochemotherapy and preclinical studies in vitro and in vivo are briefly reviewed. Following this we present a short review of recent clinical publications and discuss implementation of electrochemotherapy into standard of care for treatment of skin tumors, and use of electrochemotherapy for other targets such as head and …

Dimethylarginine Dimethylaminohydrolase Ii Overexpression Attenuates Lps-Mediated Lung Leak In Acute Lung Injury, Saurabh Aggarwal, Christine M. Gross, Sanjiv Kumar, Christiana Dimitropoulou, Shruti Sharma, Boris A. Gorshkov, Supriya Sridhar, Qing Lu, Natalia V. Bogatcheva, Agnieszka J. Jezierska-Drutel, Rudolf Lucas, John D. Catravas, Stephen M. Black

Bioelectrics Publications

Acute lung injury (ALI) is a severe hypoxemic respiratory insufficiency associated with lung leak, diffuse alveolar damage, inflammation, and loss of lung function. Decreased dimethylaminohydrolase (DDAH) activity and increases in asymmetric dimethylarginine (ADMA), together with exaggerated oxidative/nitrative stress, contributes to the development of ALI in mice exposed to LPS. Whether restoring DDAH function and suppressing ADMA levels can effectively ameliorate vascular hyperpermeability and lung injury in ALI is unknown, and was the focus of this study. In human lung microvascular endothelial cells, DDAH II overexpression prevented the LPS-dependent increase in ADMA, superoxide, peroxynitrite, and protein nitration. DDAH II also attenuated …

The First-Year Seminar: An Innovative Way For Business Law Professors To Integrate Liberal Arts Pedagogy Into Undergraduate Business Education, Porcher L. Taylor Iii, Lewis A. Litteral

School of Professional and Continuing Studies Faculty Publications

We begin with a brief historical perspective of first-year experiences and how, through a 30-year journey, that pedagogical innovation recently and literally flipped upside down my approach to produce student learning. Then we will examine the genesis, development, and teaching of my current FYS Water: Economics, Politics and Policy, and why it has been such a successful course at my university. Next, my coauthor will examine the genesis, development, and teaching of his FYS Morality and the Great Recession of 2008-2009, another successful example of the FYS at our university.

With that as a pedagogical foundation, we offer …

Student Organization Officers 2014-15, Office Of Registrar

Materials from All Student Organizations

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Service For Learning, Service For Life: Depaul's Vincentian Mission In Action

DePaul Magazine

Through the thousands of alumni and students who are putting their education to work in service to others through service learning, volunteerism, and social welfare careers, DePaul University's Vincentian mission is being realized. In addition, the university is creating research partnerships to help service organizations develop effective strategies to combat such stubborn problems as poverty and homelessness.

(E)Racing Trayvon Martin, Cynthia Lee

GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works

In this essay, Cynthia Lee celebrates the 25th anniversary of Critical Race Theory (CRT) by writing about the pitfalls of the ideal of colorblindness. She starts by analyzing Devon Carbado's seminal article on CRT and the Fourth Amendment, (E)Racing the Fourth Amendment. She focuses on Carbado's critique of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's embrace of colorblindness in Florida v. Bostick, the case in which the Supreme Court modified the test for a seizure of the person. Lee uses Carbado's article as a springboard for critiquing the embrace of colorblindness by legal decision-makers involved in George Zimmerman's 2013 murder trial. Zimmerman …

Why Who Does What Matters: Governmental Design, Agency Performance, The Cfpb And Ppaca, William E. Kovacic

GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works

How should the federal government be organized – and who (i.e., which departments, agencies, bureaus, and commissions) should do what? The issue is not new: President James Madison addressedgovernmental organization in his 1812 State of the Union Address, and in the last century, it is the rare President that does not propose to reorganize some part of the federal government. Indeed, on numerous occasions during the past century, virtually every part of the federal government has been repeatedly reorganized and reconfigured. In previous work, we examined the dynamics that influencethe assignment of regulatory duties to an agency, how those dynamics …

Look Up And Around: Musings On Mentors, Role Models, And Professionalism, Steven L. Schooner

GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works

In response to NCMA's request that its Board of Advisors explain how we ended up as leaders in contract management, this article offers a rather simple over-arching suggestion for successful professionals andfuture leaders: look up and around. The article encourages readers to identify mentors, embrace the strengths of their role models, and open themselves up to learn from others, evolve, and grow. The article discusses, among other things, education, networking, professional development (and, of course, writing),and the power of optimism.

Court-Agency Dialogue: Article Iii's Dual Nature And The Boundaries Of Reviewability, Emily Hammond

GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works

Courts reviewing agency actions frequently offer more than a positive analysis of the agencies decisions. They might engage in advice-giving, for example, or emper the remedy as a way of modulating the impact of review. These actions can be used in a dialogic way, to provide normative signals to agencies. Yet because courts must judge agency actions only on the grounds provided by the agency at the time of the agency’s decision — and must ordinarily remand actions that fail to meet substantive standards of review — these normative signals require a delicate touch so as to avoid judicially imposed …

Mercury In Fish In North Mississippi Reservoirs: Statistical Analysis And Risk Assessment, Stacy Wolff

Honors Theses

Mercury (Hg) is a pollutant of particular concern because it is wide-spread, persistent, and poses a serious risk to human health. Once released into the atmosphere, it cycles through the environment by a series of complex biogeochemical processes. Upon deposition to aquatic ecosystems, inorganic mercury can be transformed to methylmercury by microorganisms. Methylmercury is a known human neurotoxin that can bioacculmulate in fish tissue and biomagnify up aquatic food chains. Consumption of contaminated fish is the primary route of human exposure to methylmercury. The Mississippi Department of Health has issued fish consumption advisories for Grenada and Enid Lakes in the …

Denying The Significance Of Race, Cynthia Lee

GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works

In this book chapter, published in TRAYVON MARTIN, RACE, AND AMERICAN JUSTICE: WRITING WRONG (Sense Publishers 2014), Cynthia Lee analyzes the George Zimmerman trial from a critical race perspective. She analyzes why all the major legal decision makers associated with the Trayvon Martin case (judge, prosecution and defense team) were so eager to deny the significance of race. She posits that they either sincerely believed the case had nothing to do with race or thought it improper or strategically disadvantageous to acknowledge that race was relevant. The judge wanted to run a colorblind trial. The defense did not want the …

Table Of Contents, Depaul College Of Law

DePaul Business & Commercial Law Journal

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Reading Elena Poniatowska's Leonora In An Undergraduate Seminar, Aurora Camacho De Schmidt

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Description of an Honors literature seminar focused on a selection of texts by prominent Mexican writer Elena Poniatowska, including critical strategies involved in preparation, work required by students, and Poniatowska’s creative strategies in depicting rebellious women and other socially marginalized figures. A special focus on the biographical novel Leonora (2011) illustrates the pedagogical possibilities of this novel, and students’ analytical responses to the reading.

Ser Chaparrita: Los Textos Testimoniales Como Desafío Al Mundo Académico Y Las Lecciones De Elena Poniatowska, Alicia Partnoy

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This essay combines a tribute to Alaíde Foppa with the examination of Elena Poniatowska’s contributions to a discourse of solidarity around the disappeared Guatemalen poet and other subjects and producers of testimonial texts.

En el marco de una investigación sobre los últimos días de Alaíde Foppa realizada en México con la colaboración de Poniatowska, se examina el aporte de esta última a la construcción de un discurso de la solidaridad como condición central del texto testimonial.

"Para Romper Con Todo": Transgresiones Y Rupturas Del Movimiento Kloaka En Los Poemas Inaugurales De Mariela Dreyfus, Mary Soto Y Dalmacia Ruiz-Rosas, Rocío Ferreira

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A study of the counterculture collective Movimiento Kloaka in Peru in the early 1980s, for its ideological thought and creative production, through the work of Peruvian poets Mariela Dreyfus, Mary Soto and Dalmacia Ruiz-Rosas. Their poems were published in literary-cultural magazines during the movement’s boom, and reveal personal and transgressive voices where violence, sex, desire and the rejection of the bourgeois patriarchal system are present. The poets’ social approach frames crude experiences and realities that allow the authors to question the place assigned to women, while transforming the poetic tradition.

Un estudio de tres poetas peruanas del Movimiento Kloaka de …

To Be An Indigenous Woman Poet In Mexico: An Artistic Act Of Protest, Resistance And Battle, Wendy Call

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A study of contemporary Indigenous-language poetry in Mexico, with a special focus on four female poets from Oaxaca and Chiapas, whose work is reaching international audiences: Irma Pineda (Isthmus Zapotec), Enriqueta Lunez (Tzotzil), Mikeas Sánchez (Zoque) and Celerina Patricia Sánchez Santiago (Mixtec). Assessment of a movement toward greater production and changing attitudes about Indigenous-language poets and their work in Mexico during the past decade, and how their advocacy has led to wider publishing opportunities and broader readership, as well as cultural and linguistic preservation.

Laboring Histories: The "Reconciliation" Of Maternity In The Poetry Of Laurie Ann Guerrero, Larissa M. Mercado-López

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Drawing on Gloria Anzaldúa’s concept of “facultad,” this study of poetry by Laurie Ann Guerrero identifies an emergent “maternal facultad,” a consciousness honed through the bodily and social experiences of mestiza maternity. Guerrero’s poems, “Babies Under the Skin” and “Reconciliation,” reveal how such consciousness is ignited through the mother’s body; her transformed body and subjectivity implicate her in multiple histories and violences of colonization and the medical/birthing industry. This study argues for the need for mothers to continue writing their bodies—to speak the “mess” of the body and of mother-work—creating an epistemically fertile site of knowledge production.

The Poetics Of Silence: (Re)Memory Through Poetry Of The Mexican Diaspora, Lauren Espinoza

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A close reading of poems by Eduardo Corral, Laurie Ann Guerrero and Lorna Dee Cervantes to identify distinct possibilities for silences in the poetry of the Mexican diaspora: adopting, enforcing, and, ultimately, straddling both. Silence is unique to the language of poetry—as relative to a story, a poem is silent because it does not have the words a story does. Poetry, then, functions as (re)memory, a vehicle moving towards creation within the menacing silence of the (re)inscription of the border.

About The Artist: Alec Rudek, Alec Rudek

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Purificados De Łukasz Czarnecki, Carlos López

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Btk Regulated Macrophage Polarization In Response To Lipopolysaccharide, Joan Ní Gabhann, Emily Hams, Siobhán Smith, Claire Wynne, Jennifer C. Byrne, Kiva Brennan, Shaun Spence, Adrien Kissenpfennig

Articles

Bacterial Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is a strong inducer of inflammation and does so by inducing polarization of macrophages to the classic inflammatory M1 population. Given the role of Btk as a critical signal transducer downstream of TLR4, we investigated its role in M1/M2 induction. In Btk deficient (Btk^−\−) mice we observed markedly reduced recruitment of M1 macrophages following intraperitoneal administration of LPS. Ex vivo analysis demonstrated an impaired ability of Btk^−/− macrophages to polarize into M1 macrophages, instead showing enhanced induction of immunosuppressive M2-associated markers in response to M1 polarizing stimuli, a finding accompanied by reduced phosphorylation …

Biologics Price Competition And Innovation Act: Striking A Delicate Balance Between Innovation And Accessibility, Ude Lu

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology

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Sustainable Communities And Wind Energy Project Acceptance In Massachusetts, Mariateresa A. Petrova

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology

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Faculty Masthead, Mjlst Editorial Board

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology

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A Spoonful Of Sugarcane Ethanol: A Green Tax Medicine For The Cellulosic Ethanol Industry, Ke M. Huang

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology

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Organic Farming In France: À La Mode Or A Mode Of Life?, Ellen L. Mallette

Honors Theses

Organic farming, as opposed to conventional or traditional farming that employs the use of chemicals, is a method that was begun in the middle of the twentieth century, shortly after the end of World War II. In many ways it is a return to farming practices that were conducted for centuries until about the late 1800's when pesticides and fertilizers were introduced. The rise of organic farming has been occurring all over the world to varying degrees over the past few decades. The French have always had a strong connection to agriculture, food, and the preservation of tradition, so organic …

Integrated Conservation And Development Projects (Icdps): Characteristics Of Success And Recommendations For Implementation, Emory Smith

Honors Theses

The aim of this study is to investigate integrated conservation and development projects (ICDPs) and to help improve their future implementation by identifying the underlying philosophies that make ICDPs successful. Conserving natural ecosystems in developing regions is important, but it is difficult because local people use those ecosystems for their sustenance and are not capable of forgoing that use unless some other means exists for them to earn a living. Consequently, ICDP emerged in the early 1990's as a means to both conserve natural resources and provide economic development for the local people. This thesis provides an in-depth analysis of …

Effects Of Globalization On The Use Of The Mediterranean Diet In Spain, Jacob J. Mcgee

Honors Theses

Spain is known for its sandy beaches, vibrant nightlife, and incredible foods. The Mediterranean diet of Spain is praised for its health benefits, but recently it appears that the population has begun to turn away from their original diet. Studies have shown that the Spanish have been experiencing a constant culture change due to globalization since the 1950s when the General Francisco Franco allowed the technocrats to have some control over the government. With a new economic policy, new people and their new ideas flooded the country bring with them their cultures. These cultures influenced the Spanish life changing many …

Performance And Stability For Room Temperature Ionic Liquid Membranes For The Dehumidification Of Methane, Dora Frances Sullivan-González

Honors Theses

The biogas production from organic waste—animal, sewage, landfill material— could be a valuable renewable fuel. Before this biogas—predominately bio-methane— can be converted to fuel, it must be dehumidified. Typically membrane-based gas dehumidification uses hydrophilic polymer membrane materials, such as polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) and cellulose acetate (CA). The main problems with polymer dehumidification membranes are methane loss and the susceptibility of polymer materials to plasticization by H2O. Room temperature ionic liquid membranes (RTIL- membranes), according to recent literature, are not plasticized by water and have large water/CH4 selectivities. We built on the initial literature RTIL-dehumidification data by looking at a series of …