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Sustainable Public Transportation In Large Cities: Demand Estimation, Tadeas Umlauf

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

Public transportation helps to decrease the negative externalities caused by people's mobility. In many countries, the total number of vehicles and traffic has risen many times in the last decades but there is limited space to improve infrastructure in the cities. Large cities all over the world have a lot of issues with congestion, traffic noise, emission of greenhouse gases, and accidents. According to many international examples, sustainable public transportation in combination with synergistic projects (park & ride, kiss & ride, bike & ride) can help to overcome these issues. Therefore new transit modes and routes have been implemented in …

The Postcolonial Problem For Global Gay Rights, Stewart Chang

Scholarly Works

As the United States and Europe have progressed to the issue of same-sex marriage, countries that are still working through antecedent issues, such as the decriminalization of anti-sodomy laws, are regarded by international gay rights advocates as lagging behind the times. This often leads to pressures from the Western-dominated international community for reform. Through this Article, Professor Stewart Chang contributes to the ongoing scholarly debate between international human rights activists who desire to advance gay rights by utilizing the same rights-based models that prevail in the United States and Europe and critics of this approach who deem the universal imposition …

A Material World: Using Trademark Law To Override Copyright's First Sale Rule For Imported Copies, Mary Lafrance

Scholarly Works

When the Supreme Court held that the first sale rule of copyright law permits the unauthorized importation and domestic sale of lawfully made copies of copyrighted works, regardless of where those copies were made, copyright owners lost much of their ability to engage in territorial price discrimination. Publishers, film and record producers, and software and videogame makers could no longer use copyright law to prevent the importation and domestic resale of gray market copies, and therefore could no longer protect their domestic distributors against competition from cheaper imported copies.

However, many of these copyright owners can take advantage of a …

Evolving Media: An Analysis Of Social Media And The Digital Identity, Alexa Robinson

Harriet L Wilkes Honors College Theses 2010 - 2019

Media are constantly evolving and these changes have significantly altered our ways of thinking and our identities. In this thesis I discuss digital media – more specifically the Internet and social media – and their impact on the formation of identity. I undertake this examination by turning to previous changes in media technologies and how they have impacted identity formation. I use salient examples in the form of media personae to illustrate how identity formation is viewed and changes over time. I intend to demonstrate that the advancements made through social media and the Internet have resulted in the formation …

Adventist Concepts Of Discipleship And Nonconformity, Denis Fortin

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Comparison Of Phenotypic Value Changes In Pure Lines Of Bombyx Mori (Lepidoptera: Bombycidae) During Consecutive Generations Following Initial Selection On Cocoon Weight, Alireza Seidavi, Marian R. Goldsmith

Biological Sciences Faculty Publications

The experiments reported here were conducted to investigate the effect of selection on three quantitative traits, namely cocoon weight, cocoon shell weight, and cocoon shell percentage, during four generations by rearing six pure breeds of domesticated silkworm, Bombyx mori L. (Lepidoptera: Bombycidae) of Chinese and Japanese origin compared with random unselected groups as controls. All stages of rearing and data recording were performed over four rearing periods, with generations 1–3 during successive spring seasons and generation 4 during the autumn season in year 3. Each pure line contained two groups of selected and random (control) groups. Comparisons included the effect …

Backlog 2014, Lipscomb University

Backlogs and Other Yearbooks

The 2014 Backlog yearbook of Lipscomb University.

Getting It Straight: A First Amendment Analysis Of California's Ban On Sexual Orientation Change Efforts And Its Potential Effects On Abortion Regulations, Elizabeth Bookwalter

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

No abstract provided.

"When Elephants Are In Must": Peggy Shaw, Acts Of Trans/Fer, And The Present Future Of Queer Desire, Jaclyn Pryor

English Faculty Scholarship

Performed three months after performance artist Peggy Shaw nearly died from a stroke, the 2011 production of Must in Amherst was infused with the exigencies of the present: Shaw “must” perform Mustin order to pass her butch legacy onto the next generation of queer and trans folk in the audience.

Athenaeum Series Events, 2006-2014, D'Amour Library

Athenaeum Series

No abstract provided.

Rosenberg Institute For East Asian Studies At Suffolk University Annual Report For 2013-2014, Rosenberg Institute

Rosenberg Institute Annual Reports

These reports summarize the activities of the Rosenberg Institute during the academic year, including information related to public programming, visiting scholars, cooperation with the Asian Studies program at Suffolk College of Arts & Sciences, promotion of Suffolk's Asia-related activities, community outreach, and funding. Most reports also contain photographs of scholars, staff, and events.

Fouling The First Amendment: Why Colleges Can't, And Shouldn't, Control Student Athletes' Speech On Social Media, Frank D. Lomonte

Journal of Business & Technology Law

No abstract provided.

Uri Undergraduate And Graduate Course Catalog 2014-2015, University Of Rhode Island

URI Course Catalogs Archive

This is a downloadable PDF version of the University of Rhode Island course catalog.

Spiritan Magazine Vol. 38 No. 1

Spiritan Magazine

No abstract provided.

Invisible Starlit, Lindsey Grandt

Honors Capstones

For my honors capstone project, I created an artistic piece called “Invisible Starlit.” “Invisible Starlit” is a one-woman show about my childhood years as I struggled with being bullied and unnoticed. This script is non-fiction and gives readers a first-hand look at the effects of bullying and metaphoric invisibility through my eyes as it happened to me with a comedic twist for relief. What started out as just a short, personal paper for one of my theatre classes turned out to be an entire play after I found myself continuing to write more about my personal experiences with bullying and …

2014 Spring Commencement, Georgia Southern University

Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

Keren, Shelly Bradon

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The intent of this thesis is to recognize the everyday victories of a child living with physical disabilities. This complicated subject matter has forced the exploration of a variety of media to successfully communicate the story; drawing, painting, china painting, altered books and sculpture have all become part of the process. At the age of 8 months the subject, Keren Hernandez, was diagnosed with Bilateral Closed- lip Schizencephaly, a rare disorder that inhibits development. Since the diagnosis seven years ago her family has struggled to overcome these challenges, committing to avail themselves to every resource possible. I began painting and …

City Of Superb Democracy: The Emergence Of Brooklyn's Cultural Identity During Cinema's Silent Era, 1893-1928., David Morton

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study discusses how motion picture spectatorship practices in Brooklyn developed separately from that of any other urban center in the United States between 1893 and 1928. Often overshadowed by Manhattan's glamorous cultural districts, Brooklyn's cultural arbiters adopted the motion picture as a means of asserting a sense of independence from the other New York boroughs. This argument is reinforced by focusing on the motion picture's ascendancy as one of the first forms of mass entertainment to be disseminated throughout New York City in congruence with the Borough of Brooklyn's rapid urbanization. In many significant areas Brooklyn's relationship with the …

Commencement Program (December 2014), Csusb

CSUSB Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

January 2014, Lori Gywn, Shannon Hawkins

Office of Sponsored Programs

No abstract provided.

2014 Commencement Program, Seattle University

Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.

Ursinus Magazine, Winter 2014, Wendy Greenberg, Kathryn Campbell, Ellen Labrecque, Jennifer Meininger Wolfe, Bobby Fong, Briana Mullan, Meredith Goldsmith, Joshua C. Walsh, Greg Fraser, Erica Lamberg, Erika Compton, Mark D. Ellison

Ursinus Magazine, 1995–Present

Letter from the President • A formal step toward sustainable living • More than books: Myrin Library moves to modernize • One program changing many lives • Centennial Conference champs! • Healing on horseback • Fighting hunger one meal at a time • Small, destructive and hungry • Wonderful Town • Nurturing an entrepreneurial mindset • Strokes of greatness • Annenberg Public Policy Center names Dr. Lynne Edwards Distinguished Research Fellow • Fostering engagement with art • Eye on the arts • Sweet harmony: A young songwriter pursues his passion • The art of writing • The Last Word • …

Linguistic Socialization In The Refugee Assimilation Process: Transmitting Cultural Capital For Self-Sufficiency, Stephanie O'Connor

Undergraduate Student Research Awards

No abstract provided.

21 Scaa Agenda - October 30th, 2014, Abdool Aziz

Legislative Branch Publications

No abstract provided.

The Effect Of A Preanaesthesia Clinic Consultation On Adult Patient Anxiety In Aga Khan University Hospital; A Cohort Study, Anthony Kamau

Master of Medicine in Anaesthesiology

Background: Preoperative anxiety is a common perioperative complication, according to studies done it is seen in approximately 11-80% of adults undergoing surgery. Various pharmacological and non pharmacological techniques have been used to reduce preop anxiety. One of the goals of the preanaesthesia clinic is to allay anxiety. Literature shows that a preanaesthesia clinic evaluation reduces anxiety however b current studies done on anxiety and the preanaesthesia clinic have not quantified this reduction. Objective: To determine the reduction in anxiety in patients evaluated in the clinic versus those evaluated in the ward. Study Design: A cohort and before – after study …

The Replicator And The First Amendment, Kyle Langvardt

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

As 3D printing technology improves, the theoretical endpoint comes into view: a machine that, like the “replicators” of Star Trek, can produce anything the user asks for out of thin air from a digital blueprint. Real-life technology may never reach that endpoint, but our progress toward it has accelerated sharply over the past few years—sharply enough, indeed, for legal scholars to weigh in on the phenomenon’s disruptive potential in areas ranging from intellectual property to gun rights. This Article is concerned with the First Amendment status of the digital blueprints. As of August 2014, it is the first law review …

Forgotten And Elusive Partners: Academic Libraries And Higher Education In Prison, Rebecca Sorgert

Saint Louis University Public Law Review

No abstract provided.

In God's Image And Likeness 2 Enoch, Noah, And The Tower Of Babel, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, David J. Larsen

Interpreter Foundation Books

As I neared completion of the first volume of In God’s Image and Likeness in 2009, I had a chance to discuss the project with my former mission president, Virgil J. Parker. Grateful for the lasting influence President and Sister Parker have had on my life and still being in awe of the great store of practical and spiritual knowledge they have accumulated over decades of learning and service, I was thrilled when Virgil told me that the Moses was his favorite book of scripture. When I asked him what part he liked best, he spoke without hesitation, “The story …

Harding University Spring Sing Program 2014

Spring Sing

Program for the 2014 Spring Sing Performance at Harding University

Theme: It's time to be new

Hosts & Hostesses: Dustyn Stokes, Blake Hunter, Jonathan Andrew, Lindsey Sloan, Austin Collum

Unplanned Coauthorship, Shyamkrishna Balganesh

Faculty Scholarship

Unplanned coauthorship refers to the process by which contributors to a creative work are treated by copyright law as coauthors of the work based entirely on their observable behavior during its creation. The process entails a court imputing the status of coauthors to the parties ex post, usually during a claim for copyright infringement. For years now, courts and scholars have struggled to identify a coherent rationale for unplanned coauthorship and situate it within copyright’s set of goals and objectives. This Article offers a novel framework for understanding the rules of unplanned coauthorship using insights from theories of shared intentionality. …