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Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes December 11, 2014, University Of Rhode Island Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes

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State V. Cabrera Appellant's Reply Brief Dckt. 41510

Not Reported

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State V. Komen Appellant's Brief Dckt. 41916

Not Reported

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Structure-Based Drug Design And Synthesis Of Anti-Infective And Anticancer Agents, Narendran Gummudipundi Dayanandan

Doctoral Dissertations

Resistance to antibiotics is on the rise at an alarming pace. The problem is exacerbated by the lack of new class of therapeutic agents and targets. Modes of resistance include alteration of drug target, modification of ligand, and reduction of the intracellular concentration of drug. Dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) is a validated drug target for the treatment of infectious diseases and cancer. The binding of ligands to DHFR inhibits the downstream folate pathway that is vital for purine and thymidylate synthesis. Trimethoprim (TMP), a clinically used antifolate exhibits resistance in both gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria. In this thesis, methods have been …

"If You Have No Men, You Have No War!”: A Critical Overview Of Edgar Selwyn's Men Must Fight (1933), Ryan R. Copping

Cinesthesia

ABSTRACT: Edgar Selwyn’s Men Must Fight (1933) is an obscure yet culturally relevant science fiction drama. An atypical film from its era, the movie has an unusual subject for a Classical Hollywood film- gender socialization. The film didactically argues that wars are inevitable because men are inherently violent, and that, conversely, world peace world occur if women were in power, a possibility that appears to be regrettably impossible. It is also remarkably prescient in predicting that World War II would begin in 1940, only one year off from the German invasion of Poland. This paper combines a close content analysis …

On The Indispensable Premises Of The Indispensability Argument, Andrea Sereni, Marco Panza

MPP Published Research

We identify four different minimal versions of the indispensability argument, falling under four different varieties: an epistemic argument for semantic realism, an epistemic argument for platonism and a non-epistemic version of both. We argue that most current formulations of the argument can be reconstructed by building upon the suggested minimal versions. Part of our discussion relies on a clarification of the notion of (in)dispensability as relational in character. We then present some substantive consequences of our inquiry for the philosophical significance of the indispensability argument, the most relevant of which being that both naturalism and confirmational holism can be dispensed …

Calls For Accountability On 25th Anniversary Of El Salvador’S Jesuit Massacre, Benjamin Witte-Lebhar

NotiCen

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Guatemalan Government Mired In Financial Problems, Louisa Reynolds

NotiCen

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A Privileged Pedagogy For Privileged Students? A Preliminary Mixed-Methods Analysis Comparing First-Generation And Non-First-Generation College Students On Post-Evaluations Of Service-Learning Courses, Stephanie A. Wilsey, Jessica Friedrichs, Chrys Gabrich, Ting-Ting Chung

PRISM: A Journal of Regional Engagement

Service-learning is frequently described as a high-impact teaching activity that benefits students in numerous ways. However, fewer studies explore how underserved students respond to service-learning courses, and fewer still look specifically at first-generation college students. First generation college students face numerous documented obstacles to persisting and achieving in college, and a need exists for more systematic study of whether service-learning pedagogy supports or challenges first generation students as they face and overcome those obstacles. This study compared 260 undergraduate students, approximately half of whom were first-generation college students, and their self-reported gains in three student learning outcomes: academic enhancement, personal …

United States V. Patane: The Beginning Of The End Of Miranda, Bryce Chauncey Loveland

Touro Law Review

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What's A Lower Court To Do? Limiting Lawrence V. Texas And The Right To Sexual Autonomy, John Tuskey

Touro Law Review

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Qualified Immunity In The Fourth Amendment: A Practical Application Of 1983 As It Applies To Fourth Amendment Excessive Force Cases, Karen Blum

Touro Law Review

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Qualified Immunity: 1983 Litigation In The Public Employment Context, Erwin Chemerinsky

Touro Law Review

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Bridges Beyond The Kala Pani: Transgressing Boundaries In Mootoo And Espinet, Johanna Garvey

Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal

“Bridges Beyond the Kala Pani: Transgressing Boundaries in Mootoo and Espinet”

Abstract: Until recently, the kala pani or “dark waters” navigated by Indian subjects indentured and shipped to locations in the Caribbean remained largely unexplored. In the past decade, the fiction of authors such as Ramabai Espinet and Shani Mootoo, as well as scholarship by Brinda Mehta, Shalini Puri, M. Jacqui Alexander, and others, has begun to excavate Indo-Caribbean experience as well as to chart paths from places such as Trinidad to locations in the North, especially Canada. In considering issues of citizenship and belonging, texts by Espinet and Mootoo …

Towards “That Republic In Which Complexions Do Not Matter”: Derek Walcott’S Drums And Colours Fifty Years On, Harold N. Mcdermott

Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal

Derek Walcott’s three hour pageant, Drums and Colours, commissioned to celebrate the inauguration of the West Indian Federation was first performed at the West Indian Festival, April 25 – May 1, 1958. Some feel that the nationalist and didactic thrust of this early drama blunted it value as art. It is, however, the opinion of this paper that this play provides one of the earliest conceptual maps for Walcott’s orchestration of key thematic occupations such as the quarrel with history, racial and cultural syncretism and the evolution of a distinctive West Indian theatre style. Fifty years after the breakup of …

The Pleasures Of Excerpts: George Lamming, New World Quarterly, And The Novel, Kathleen Deguzman

Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal

This essay examines an understudied moment in George Lamming’s career: his guest editorship of New World Quarterly’s Barbados independence issue in 1966. With a reputation for writing difficult, dense fiction, Lamming has faced criticism from both fellow authors and literary scholars for the incompatibility of esoteric literature with working-class Caribbean readers. But in the Barbados independence issue of New World Quarterly, Lamming includes excerpts from two of his novels, In the Castle of My Skin and Of Age and Innocence. I examine these excerpts, as well as the special Barbados issue more generally, alongside Lamming’s fiction to …

Ko Ko Gyi [Myanmar, Activist], Ko Ko Gyi

Digital Narratives of Asia

Myanmar democracy activist Ko Ko Gyi spent a total of 17 years in prison for his political beliefs. First detained for his involvement in student protests in 1989, he was eventually released in 2012, along with 600 others, when the military-led government began implementing reforms. Mr Ko Ko Gyi now champions democracy and human rights issues as General Secretary of the 88 Generation Peace and Open Society. He was also a member of the government's Rakhine Investigation Commission to investigate the sectarian violence in Rakhine state. He speaks to DNA about the darkest days of his time in the infamous …

We Are...Marshall, December 10, 2014, Office Of Marshall University Communications

We Are ... Marshall: the Newsletter for Marshall University 1999-2023

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2014 December 10 -- Agenda And Attachments

Agendas and Minutes

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Jany, Roman, Gallegos-Ruiz, Long, Leh, Kohout Flc 14, Carmen Jany, Alexandru V. Roman, Thomas Long, Maria Gallegos-Ruiz, Amy Leh, Michal Kohout

Faculty Learning Communities

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Race And Punishment: Demographic Disparities And Patterns In The Blue Earth County Court System, Aaron Guerdet, Alyssa Haugly, Kelsey Mischke

Public Sociology Publications and Projects

This study examines potential race and gender disparities in sentencing decisions in Blue Earth County, MN courts. Using qualitative field observations and a grounded theory approach, authors observed and analyzed court proceedings. In total, three researchers conducted seven weeks of observations; the final sample consisted of 95 observed court sessions, 50 of them being closed court cases. Results show little discrepancy in gender and charges and sentencing rates. Though there are racial discrepancies in charges that suggest discriminatory policing decisions, the data shows that minority members are being sentenced at a similar rate compared to white defendants. In all cases …

Senate Meeting, December 10, 2014, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Minutes

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In Re: James C. Platts

2014 Decisions

USDC for the Western District of Pennsylvania

In Re: Microbilt Corporation

2014 Decisions

USDC for the District of New Jersey

Usa V. Todd Summers

2014 Decisions

USDC for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Usa V. Deborah Peate

2014 Decisions

USDC for the District of New Jersey

Shaukat Ali V. Jersey City Parking Authority

2014 Decisions

USDC for the District of New Jersey

In Re: James C. Platts

2014 Decisions

USDC for the Western District of Pennsylvania

George Buford, Iii V. Warden Lewisburg Usp

2014 Decisions

USDC for the Middle District of Pennsylvania

Raid Elfadly V. Commissioner Social Security

2014 Decisions

USDC for the District of New Jersey