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Molecular Ecology Of Globally Distributed Sharks, Christine B. Testerman

HCNSO Student Theses and Dissertations

Many sharks have life history characteristics (e.g., slow growth, late age at maturity, low fecundity, and long gestation periods) that make their populations vulnerable to collapse due to overfishing. The porbeagle (Lamna nasus), bull shark (Carcharhinus leucas), great hammerhead (Sphyrna mokarran), and smooth hammerhead (S. zygaena), are all commercially exploited. The population genetic structure of these species was assessed based on globally distributed sample sets using mitochondrial control region (mtCR) sequences and/or nuclear markers. Complex patterns of evolutionary and demographic history were inferred using coalescent and statistical moment-based methods. All four species showed …

Spark: Spring, 2014, Calvin Alumni Association

Spark

Pool sports Venema name inside and out: Sophomore swimmer making his mark

Board approves college's five-year strategic plan

Young alums share post-grad experiences via blog

German prof recognized for innovative teaching: Award acknowledges influential work, writing

Exchanging diverse ideas: January Series once again encourages, challenges, inspires

A change of pace: Interim allows for diverse

Staying in the Moment: Path to national women's volleyball title paved with comebacks by Jeff Febus

Promoting, Partnering, Provoking: The Nagel Institute works to link Christian scholars worldwide by Phil de Haan

Modern Mapmaker: Geography professor trains his expert eye, and GIS mastery, toward solving 'real-world …

Education Clauses In Corporate Charters: How Child Welfare Law Confronted The Industrial Revolution, Jeff Lingwall

The Journal of Law and Education

No abstract provided.

Global Kentucky (Spring 2014), University Of Kentucky International Center

Global Kentucky

No abstract provided.

Big Data, Social Physics, And Spatial Analysis: The Early Years, Trevor J. Barnes, Matthew W. Wilson

Geography Faculty Publications

This paper examines one of the historical antecedents of Big Data, the social physics movement. Its origins are in the scientific revolution of the 17th century in Western Europe. But it is not named as such until the middle of the 19th century, and not formally institutionalized until another hundred years later when it is associated with work by George Zipf and John Stewart. Social physics is marked by the belief that large-scale statistical measurement of social variables reveals underlying relational patterns that can be explained by theories and laws found in natural science, and physics in particular. This larger …

The Futility Of Insurgent Leader Assassination, Arian Sharifi

Ex-Patt Magazine

Questioning the utility of using drones to kill insurgent leaders. Lessons for policy makers.

Unpermitted Urban Agriculture: Transgressive Actions, Changing Norms And The Local Food Movement, Sarah B. Schindler

Faculty Publications

Roberta keeps four chickens in her backyard. Bob snuck onto the vacant lot next door, which the bank foreclosed upon and now owns, and planted a vegetable garden. Vien operates an occasional underground restaurant from his friends’ microbrewery after beer-making operations cease for the day. The common thread tying these actions together is that they are unauthorized; they are being undertaken in violation of existing laws and often norms. In this Article, I explore ideas surrounding the overlap between food policy and land use law, specifically the transgressive1 actions that people living in urban and suburban communities are undertaking to …

Downtown Dexter Historic Survey, Scott Slagor

Historic Preservation Final Projects

No abstract provided.

Daily Eastern News: April 01, 2014, Eastern Illinois University

April

No abstract provided.

Using A Peer-Nominated Team To Drive Change And Improve Trust, Timothy Franz, Paul M. Mastrangelo

Psychology Faculty/Staff Publications

The article discusses the use of a peer-nominated team for driving change and improvement of trust in an organization. Topics include the concerns identified by the leadership of an organization during the survey of employees annually, the case study regarding the utilization of a peer nominated, cross-functional team within a multi-national healthcare company in Canada, and the involvement aspired by the client organization to start the change process.

Southeast Asian Identities: The Case Of Cambodia, J. Randall Groves

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

Robert D. Kaplan, The Revenge Of Geography: What The Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts And The Battle Against Fate, Laina Farhat-Holzman

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

Call For Papers, Comparative Civilizations Review

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

Beyond Backlash: Legal History, Polarization, And Roe V. Wade, Mary Ziegler

Scholarly Publications

On its fortieth anniversary, Roe v. Wade serves as the most prominent example of the damage judicial review can do to the larger society. Scholars from across the ideological spectrum have related how Roe helped to entrench the ideological positions held by those on either side of the abortion issue, precluding any form of productive compromise. This criticism, which the Article calls the “beyond backlash” argument, has profound legal consequences, serving as both a justification for overruling Roe and as a case study of the benefits of varying interpretive methods.

This Article reevaluates the beyond backlash claim through a careful …

Black, White And Rainbow All Over: The Segregation Present Among Cape Town’S Pride Festival, Lucy Stockdale

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

My ISP works to illuminate the racial segregation that is still present within Cape Town’s LGBT community, particularly during the celebration of gay and lesbian rights, known as the Pride festival that takes place annually in the end of February. I do this through discussing the privilege that comes with access to both information about Pride and the location of the events that take place. By looking at Pride as a parade for the white gay man to celebrate the rights he was granted twenty years ago, I work to openly discuss how a history of exclusion has lived on …

Focus On Brazil: Country Images Held By Malaysian Learners Of Brazilian Portuguese, L. Nikitina, F. Furuoka

Research Publications (2011 to 2015)

This study explores images about Brazil held by learners of Brazilian Portuguese in a big public university in Malaysia. It employs a mixed methods approach for this purpose. In the qualitative component of the study, the students’ images about Brazil were explored by analyzing their responses to an open-ended question and grouping the resultant images into categories. In the quantitative strand, favourability of the images about Brazil was assessed using the ratings that each respondent had assigned to his or her images about Brazil. The findings revealed that references to football and sporting events made up the largest share in …

Technology And Literacy In A Synergy: Understanding Children Techno-Literacy For E-Book Design, N. Abdullah, G. Gazelle

Research Publications (2011 to 2015)

Previous studies have demonstrated children high inclination with technology has drifted them apart from reading as well as physically visiting library. Therefore this study is conducted to converge technology and literacy as a synergy towards understanding children techno-literacy particularly with e-book intervention to inform about e-book design that children would want to engage with. This study reports a descriptive study of young children engagement with e-books conducted in preschool classrooms. It focuses on landscaping a methodical framework for observing children engagement with e-books in different formats. Videotaped observation is employed to investigate children interaction and engagement with-books from classroom samples …

Technology And Literacy In A Synergy: Understanding Children Techno-Literacy For E-Book Design, N. Abadullah, G. Ghazal

Research Publications (2011 to 2015)

Previous studies have demonstrated children high inclination with technology has drifted them apart from reading as well as physically visiting library. Therefore this study is conducted to converge technology and literacy as a synergy towards understanding children techno-literacy particularly with e-book intervention to inform about e-book design that children would want to engage with. This study reports a descriptive study of young children engagement with e-books conducted in preschool classrooms. It focuses on landscaping a methodical framework for observing children engagement with e-books in different formats. Videotaped observation is employed to investigate children interaction and engagement with-books from classroom samples …

Great Expectations: Doctoral Student Mothers In Counselor Education, Heather Trepal, Tracy Stinchfield, Maria Haiyasoso

Adultspan Journal

No abstract provided.

The Double Helix Of Supremacy And Commerce Clause Constitutional Restraints Encircling The New Energy Frontier, Steven Ferrey

Suffolk University Law School Faculty Works

This article unwinds the legal double helix to examine the constitutional jurisdictional assault on American energy infrastructure and law. We examine pivotal elements of the Commerce Clause, the Supremacy Clause, and procedural aspects of ongoing challenges on energy and climate change law. We untwist and dissect energy law and regulation, focusing on key cases in the East, the Midwest, and California. In integrating the recent federal court interpretations, the Article I and VI constitutional double helix remains the critical legal restriction arresting the future of U.S. energy policy and infrastructure. Each region's law creates a distinct wedge into energy infrastructure, …

Only In New York: The Geography Of Family Law, Barbara Stark

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

Family law is shaped by innumerable factors including history, culture, politics, religion, economics and ideas. This Article explores the ways in which family law is shaped by geography. In what ways is New York family law unique? How did it get that way?

As a practical matter, it is a given that family law is local. While federal law mandates child support guidelines, state law sets them. While federal law prohibits parental kidnapping, state law determines what constitutes ‘kidnapping’, and what distinguishes it from ‘rescue’. From the prerequisites for entering into marriage through the grounds for divorce and the ‘equitable’ …

Dissecting The Heart Of Organ Allocation Policy: Evaluating The Eastern District Of Pennsylvania's Grant Of Life In Murnaghan V. U.S. Department Of Health And Human Services, Jocelyn Cooper

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

No abstract provided.

Enrollment Report, Spring 2014, Planning, Research, And Policy Analysis

Enrollment Reports (2004-2019)

Enrollment Report for Spring 2014 for Illinois State University

New Naturalists, Francie Latour, Risd Xyz

RISD XYZ Spring/Summer 2014: Natural Instincts

Artists Tavares Strachan 03 GL and Sophia Sobers MFA 13 DM tap into scientific authority in commenting on our evolving relationship with nature.

Risd Xyz Spring/Summer 2014: Natural Instincts | Full Issue, Liisa Silander, Risd Xyz

RISD XYZ Spring/Summer 2014: Natural Instincts

"As ANIMALS, WE'RE ALL PART OF NATURE, sharing DNA with fish, trees, rocks—everything that came to be with the big bang. We’re also dependent on nature for everything: water, oxygen, food, life. And as the animals currently at the top of the food chain, we’re responsible for respecting and caring for it, too...

So what do we do when faced with both the fury and fragility of nature? Do we shrug it off, thinking: “the planet is ruined and we’re screwed,” as Associate Professor Damian White asks (page 52)? Or do we take science seriously and recognize that …

(Wp 2014-02) Trade Volatility And The Gatt/Wto: Does Membership Make A Difference?, Abdur Chowdhury, Xuepeng Liu, Miao Wang, M. C. Sunny Wong

Economics Working Papers

Using bilateral trade data for 210 countries over the period 1948-2003, this paper attempts to shed some light on the relationship between WTO and members’ trade volatilities. We show that the trade among WTO members tends to be more stable than the trade outside the WTO, and there is strong evidence of interdependence of trade volatilities. The results show comovement of trade volatilities across all dyads in general, and much stronger comovement among WTO members than between WTO and non-WTO members. Such strong comovement implies that WTO member countries not only share the benefits of having an interdependent and more …

Law And Governance Of The Great Lakes, Noah D. Hall, Benjamin C. Houston

DePaul Law Review

No abstract provided.

Commencement, 2014, Marshall University

Marshall University Commencement

Program for the One Hundred Seventy-Seventh Commencement of Marshall University.

No Right To Lie, Cheat, Or Steal: Public Good V. Private Order, Madeleine M. Plasencia

University of Miami Law Review

No abstract provided.

Csbs Kudos, April 2014, University Of Northern Iowa. College Of Social And Behavioral Sciences.

CSBS Kudos

Contents:

-- CSBS Faculty & Staff Go "Above & Beyond" for Students
-- Best Wishes...
-- ...and Congratulations!
-- Faculty & Staff Kudos
-- CSBS Shout-out!
-- Student Kudos
-- Collaboration Kudos
-- Alumni Kudos
-- CSBS in Pictures