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National Security Law, James D. Carlson, Geoffrey M. Goodale, Michael Grant, Michael J. Lowell, Robert Iii Mchugh, Jonathan Michael Meyer, Guy C. Quinlan, Sergio L. Suarez

The International Lawyer

No abstract provided.

International Environmental Law, Sara Vinson, Kristen Hite, Stephanie Altman, Keith Benes, Derek Campbell, Joseph W. Dellapenna, David M. Gravallese, Richard A. Horsch, Erika Lennon, David Hunter, Erica Lyman, Joshua Meltzer, Thomas Parker Redick, Justin Smith

The International Lawyer

No abstract provided.

Choice Of Forum In Contracts With Saudi Arabian Counterparties: An Analysis Of The Difc Common Law Courts From A Saudi Arabian Perspective, Amgad Husein, Jonathan Burns

The International Lawyer

No abstract provided.

International Arbitration, Steven Smith, Charles Kotuby, James Egerton-Vernon, Benjamin Jones, Martin King, Paul Hines, Kelsey Israel-Trummel

The International Lawyer

No abstract provided.

The Fate Of International Human Rights Norms In The Realm Of Bilateral Investment Treaties (Bits): Has Humanity Become A Collateral Damage, Henok Gabisa

The International Lawyer

No abstract provided.

Talking Foreign Policy: A Roundtable On Piracy, Michael P. Scharf

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.

Foreign Assistance At Home: Increasing Usaid Accountability Through Victim Participation Rights In The Foreign Assistance Act, Shefali Saxena

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.

Quantitative Assessments Of Municipal Waste Management Systems: Using Different Indicators To Compare And Rank Programs In New York State, Krista L. Greene, David J. Tonjes

Technology & Society Faculty Publications

The primary objective of waste management technologies and policies in theUnited Statesis to reduce the harmful environmental impacts of waste, particularly those relating to energy consumption and climate change. Performance indicators are frequently used to evaluate the environmental quality of municipal waste systems, as well as to compare and rank programs relative to each other in terms of environmental performance. However, there currently is no consensus on the best indicator for performing these environmental evaluations. The purpose of this study is to examine the common performance indicators used to assess the environmental benefits of municipal waste systems to determine if …

South Dakota Evidence: Comments On A Giant Step, Chris Hutton

South Dakota Law Review

No abstract provided.

Building Capacity For The Scholarship Of Teaching And Learning (Sotl) Using International Collaborative Writing Groups, Elizabeth Marquis, Mick Healey, Michelle Vine

International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning

Objective: To understand participants’ perceptions of the impact of an innovative International Collaborative Writing Group (ICWG) initiative on their individual and collective SoTL capacity.

Methods: A mixed method research design included participant surveys (phases 1 and 3), and focus groups and interviews (phase 2). Data from all three phases of research have been triangulated in order to facilitate an in-depth understanding of participants' experiences.

Findings: Findings reveal four key themes: mentoring and leadership, the creation of community, diversity of perspectives, and experiential learning and professional skill development.

Discussion and Implications: Through the opportunities presented in relation …

2014 January, Office Of Communications & Marketing, Morehead State University.

Morehead State Press Release Archive, 1961 to the Present

Press releases for January of 2014.

2014 Web Features, Office Of Communications & Marketing, Morehead State University.

Morehead State Press Release Archive, 1961 to the Present

Web features for 2014.

Ascension, Megan Hopkins, Jeremy Wilburn, Sandra Bennett

Research & Economic Development

editor: Mary Beth Spence director: Megan Hopkins designer:

Megan Hopkins, Sherry Woods photographer: Jeremy Wilburn

Osgoode Syllabus Of Courses And Seminars: 2014 - 2015, Office Of Student Services

Syllabi

No abstract provided.

Selectedworks Instructional Handout, Ashley D. Lowery

University Libraries: Instructional Resources (Archived)

No abstract provided.

Review Of Reflecting On The Future Of Academic And Public Libraries By Peter Hernon And Joseph R. Matthews, W. Bede Mitchell

University Libraries: Faculty Publications

Review Excerpt: A book about trends and issues shaping the evolution of American libraries by Peter Hernon and Joseph Matthews is almost self-recommending. The authors have many years of teaching, research, and service to the profession under their belts and are recognized as significant and influential leaders. Reflecting on the Future of Academic and Public Libraries offers guidance to library leaders on how to anticipate and manage change. Hernon and Matthews fear that librarians who are reactive and deal only incrementally with today’s profound challenges will preside over the withering of libraries into little used warehouses of legacy collections. The …

Baker Hughes: Greasing The Wheels In Kazakhstan (Fcpa Violations And Implementation Of A Corporate Ethics And Anti-Corruption Compliance Program, Mark Holtzblatt, Norbert Tschakert

Business Faculty Publications

This case discusses the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) violations of Texas-based Baker Hughes, in connection with its oil service operations in Kazakhstan. You will assume the position of a newly assigned audit committee member who is trying to understand Baker Hughes’ FCPA violations related to its Kazakhstan operations. Your investigation will involve the examination of the SEC court complaint, press releases, government and company publications and 10-K annual reports. Baker Hughes’ FCPA experiences illustrate the corruption risks and difficulties that multinational corporations encounter in conducting international business. The subsequent creation of a new Baker Hughes Code of Conduct, FCPA …

Theoretical Properties Of The Weighted Feller-Pareto Distributions, Oluseyi Odubote, Broderick O. Oluyede

Mathematical Sciences: Faculty Publications

In this paper, for the first time, a new six-parameter class of distributions called weighted Feller-Pareto (WFP) and related family of distributions is proposed. This new class of distributions contains several other Pareto-type distributions such as length-biased (LB) Pareto, weighted Pareto (WP I, II, III, and IV), and Pareto (P I, II, III, and IV) distributions as special cases. The pdf, cdf, hazard and reverse hazard functions, monotonicity properties, moments, entropy measures including Renyi, Shannon and s-entropies are derived.

Women In Science 2014, Clark Science Center's Summer Research Fellows Program

SURF Abstracts (Women in Science)

Women in Science 2014 summarizes research done by Smith College’s Summer Research Fellowship (SURF) Program participants. Ever since its 1967 start, SURF has been a cornerstone of Smith’s science education. In 2014, 150 students participated in SURF (141 hosted on campus and nearby eld sites), supervised by 61 faculty mentor-advisors drawn from the Clark Science Center and connected to its eighteen science, mathematics, and engineering departments and programs and associated centers and units. At summer’s end, SURF participants were asked to summarize their research experiences for this publication.

Aho! All My Relations: Native Identity And Its Relationship To Psychological Well-Being, Jamie Ramsey

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This is the first known study to examine the relationship between Native identity and psychological well-being, which is defined by Ryff in positivePsychology as existential strengths. It is also the first known study to investigate the relationship between Native identity and blood quantum through quantitative measures. Overall, 199 Natives from two American Indian Centers, three Indiana powwows, and online from Facebook participated by completing the Ryff's Scales of Psychological Well-being, Phinney's Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure, and demographic information. The main hypothesis was to explore whether any of the psychological well-being subscales (positive relations, autonomy, mastery of environment, self-acceptance, personal growth, …

Mentors' Perceptions Of A University-School Partnership Through A Student African American Mentoring Initiative, Amanda Gilman

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The participants in this study were 10 African American male college mentors at Indiana State University who participated in the Indiana State University Student African American Male Mentor Program, one school counselor, and two members of the Student African American Brotherhood administration. The study examined potential benefits to mentors, such as an enhanced feeling of connection and motivation, alleviation of feelings of alienation or isolation, counteracting of negative peer impact, and increased attachment to the university. All participants took part in semi-structured interviews and three mentors took part in a focus group. Grounded theory was used to analyze the data …

Faculty Motivation & Intent To Teach Online, Michael S. Casdorph

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations

The unified theory of user acceptance of technology, Motivation Orientation Scale – Faculty Version, and Individual Innovativeness Scale were used to predict faculty intent to teach online, to better understand what motivates faculty to teach online, and the relationship between faculty innovativeness and their intent to teach online. A sample of 348 self-selected full-time faculty at a large, public, comprehensive research university with integrated academic health center in the Southeast United States responded to an online survey. Results demonstrated that slightly more faculty than not reported a behavioral intent to teach online. Multiple regression analysis indicated that performance expectancy, effort …

Practical Strategies That Work With Challenging Behavior!, Karen H. Barineau Mrs., Carli Ferris Harrell

Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference

This session will focus on the concept of “learning for all”. Each child, regardless of ability or disability, deserves to be an active participant in the learning process. Positive Behavior Support (PBS) is a process of systemic and individualized strategies for achieving important social and learning outcomes while preventing problem behavior with all students. The focus of this presentation is on understanding why a child engages in problem behavior and establishing a behavior support plan. This session will address problem behaviors that range from aggression, tantrums, property destruction, and social skills deficits within the school setting.

Educators must be creative …

Dealing With The Need Of Greek Ports Expansion : A Public-Private Partnership Opportunity?, Dimitrios Dalaklis, Petros Siousiouras, Antonios Maniatis

Conference Papers

Greece, located at the eastern portion of the Mediterranean Sea (Med) and a country with an enormous number of islands, is a shipping superpower. The Med is amongst the world’s busiest waterways. It provides access to the Black Sea and quite often it is characterized as the most important element of the transport chain between Asia and Europe. The Greek Prime-Minister himself has openly declared his strategic vision to transform the country into a major hub for Europe's commerce; numbers of port-visits in the country under discussion are extremely high and expectations are that with the upcoming recovery of the …

2013-14 Georgia Southern University Basketball Roster, Georgia Southern University

Men's Basketball Records

• 2013-14 Men's Basketball Roster

Activity Of Plant Essential Oils And Extracts Against Pathogenic Fungi, Venkatasai Chaitanya Surapuram

Theses

Despite the recent advances in antifungal development, fungi remain a highly destructive threat to human health and compromise food viability. Though chemical fungicides today provide the primary means of postharvest pathogenic fungal control, their continuous use is faced with two major complications - increasing concern regarding their bioaccumulation in the human system and increasing resistance among the pathogen populations. There is a need for alternative strategies for fungal control. Recently, the use of natural product plant extracts and essential oils for postharvest cure and protection is an increasing trend. In this study, antifungal properties of various Costa Rican, Australian, and …

Software Component Metadata For Selecting And Verifying Model Compositions In Semi-Automated Forces Systems, Konstantinos Prapiadis

Theses

Research into a framework or methodology able to facilitate the integration or composition of existing software components into a new software system has a long history, both in software engineering in general and in modeling and simulation in particular. The potential benefits from the reuse of previously developed software components are well-known; they include reduction in both the cost and the time needed to develop a new system. In this thesis a methodology for the implementation of new simulation software systems using previously developed software components is developed and tested. The methodology is focused on semi-automated forces systems, an important …

Multi-Core Object-Oriented Real-Time Pipeline Framework, Troy S. Wolz

Theses

Many real-time systems with requirements of low-latency and determinism are incapable of being implemented in software because software-based approaches using standard Operating Systems (OS) introduce unacceptable and unpredictable latencies. Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are often used in place of software at the expense of ease of programmability and time of development because they provide constant run time. This thesis presents the MORPF framework which combines a highly parallelized software framework with a specialized OS to allow for determinism on the order of tens of microseconds in software. With MORPF, highly deterministic software can be written that is more flexible, …

A Binary Instrumentation Tool Suite For Capturing And Compressing Traces For Multithreaded Software, Albert R. Myers

Theses

Program execution traces are widely used in program debugging, workload characterization, performance analysis, and trace-driven architecture simulation. A number of research efforts have been dedicated to tracing in single-threaded software. Multi-cores that integrate a number of processor cores on a single chip and execute multithreaded software have become the standard in embedded, desktop, and server computer systems. In this research we develop and evaluate a suite of software tools for capturing and compressing traces for multithreaded software called mTrace, which we believe is the first set available. mTrace incorporates the following tools: (i) mcfTrace that captures and compresses control-flow traces, …

Gender In Shakespeare's Macbeth : Performances And Performativities, Christa Reaves

Theses

Critics and audiences alike have been guilty of reducing Lady Macbeth and Macbeth to the most basic form of their characters--evil. Because of their non-normative, complex gender roles, they are often misunderstood. Through the application of gender theory and performance theory, the anxieties within Macbeth surrounding and concerning gender can be explained as an issue of performance. With the understanding that gender is performative, I argue that the key to portraying the humanity within these characters is through performance of the text. In examining various stage and screen performances of Macbeth, I demonstrate that portraying these characters as realistic and …