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Review Of Climbing Mount Laurel: The Struggle For Affordable Housing And Social Mobility In An American Suburb. Douglass. Massey, Len Albright, Rebecca Casciano, Elizabeth Derickson, And David N. Kinsey. Reviewed By Aretousa Bloom, Aretousa Bloom Jan 2015

Review Of Climbing Mount Laurel: The Struggle For Affordable Housing And Social Mobility In An American Suburb. Douglass. Massey, Len Albright, Rebecca Casciano, Elizabeth Derickson, And David N. Kinsey. Reviewed By Aretousa Bloom, Aretousa Bloom

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Douglas S. Massey, Len Albright, Rebecca Casciano, Elizabeth Derickson & David N. Kinsey, Climbing Mount Laurel: The Struggle for Affordable Housing and Social Mobility in an American Suburb. Princeton University Press (2013), 288 pages, $35.00 (hardcover).

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Bystander Confronting Of Anti-Black Racism: Effects Of Belonging Affirmation And Confrontation Training, Rayne Bozeman Jan 2015

Bystander Confronting Of Anti-Black Racism: Effects Of Belonging Affirmation And Confrontation Training, Rayne Bozeman

Master's Theses

Confronting has the potential to reduce prejudice, especially when implemented by a non-target group member. Not knowing how to respond and fearing social rejection have been identified as barriers to confronting in previous studies. The current study tests whether providing training to confront prejudice and affirming the need to belong helps individuals overcome these barriers. Participants were randomly assigned to one of three training conditions: prejudice confrontation training (PCT), rude comment training (RCT), or no training control group (NT). Participants were also randomly assigned to one of two belonging conditions: belonging affirmation or control. Participants were then asked to imagine …

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A Comparison Of Secondary Dropout Rates In Rural And Urban Costa Rica, Mary Flynn Doran Jan 2015

A Comparison Of Secondary Dropout Rates In Rural And Urban Costa Rica, Mary Flynn Doran

Master's Theses

This study examined the issue of secondary school abandonment in Costa Rica. It took the national percentage of dropouts as well as the evident problem of regional disparities in terms of high school completion into consideration while it analyzed the opinions of high school aged students in both a rural and urban area. There were four participant groups in total, two in each location. The groups consisted of 5 enrolled and 5 previously enrolled subjects in both areas and each participant was asked open ended questions about their education, future, opinion on high school in general, and attitudes in regards …

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Michael Sam: Upending Nfl Heteronormativity With A Piece Of Cake, Bryan Adamson Jan 2015

Michael Sam: Upending Nfl Heteronormativity With A Piece Of Cake, Bryan Adamson

Faculty Articles

This commentary explores the root of the virulent reactions to openly gay defensive end Michael Sam’s draft by the National Football League’s St. Louis Rams. Applauding his selection, the commentary offers a detailed analysis of the ESPN video that showed Michael Sam receiving the news with his male partner Vito Cammisano, their kisses, and cake smearing celebration. The essay then posits as a central thesis that it was the “cake play” which caused the most discomfit. In doing so, the essay examines Sam’s selection event through a lens of heteronormative constructs and explains how, for fans and the institution alike, …

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Constitutional Theory, Constitutional Culture, Andrew Siegel Jan 2015

Constitutional Theory, Constitutional Culture, Andrew Siegel

Faculty Articles

In evaluating the success of the American constitutional system, constitutional theorists often focus their attention on the broad structures through which constitutional law is made--for example, the existence of multi-member courts a majority of whose members usually must agree on the text of a single opinion or the difference in training and life experiences that judges have in comparison with legislators. The same theorists tend to pay little attention to a related set of institutional arrangements that are more recent in their development--for example, the proliferation of amicus briefs filed by advocacy groups, the substantial increase in the use of …

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Buyer Power And Healthcare Prices, John B. Kirkwood Jan 2015

Buyer Power And Healthcare Prices, John B. Kirkwood

Faculty Articles

One major reason why healthcare costs are much higher in America than in other countries in that our prices are exceptionally high. In this article, I address whether we ought to rely more heavily on buyer power to reduce those prices, as other nations do. I focus on two sectors where greater buyer could easily be exercised: prescription drugs covered by Medicare and hospital and physician services covered by private insurance. I conclude that the biggest buyer of all, the federal government, should be allowed to negotiate Medicare prescription drug prices. That would substantially reduce the prices of many branded …

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Bridging The North-South Divide: International Environmental Law In The Anthropocene, Carmen Gonzalez Jan 2015

Bridging The North-South Divide: International Environmental Law In The Anthropocene, Carmen Gonzalez

Faculty Articles

This article calls for a fundamental reorientation of international environmental law to bridge the North-South divide and respond to the ecological crises of the Anthropocene. Such a reconceptualization of international environmental law must be normatively grounded in respect for nature and in the quest for environmental justice within, as well as between, countries. International environmental law must directly challenge the relentless drive toward economic expansion and unbridled exploitation of people and nature rather than merely attempt to mitigate its excesses. An essential step toward such a reconceptualization is to examine the ways in which international law has historically engaged with …

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The Right To Counsel In Utah: An Assessment Of Trial-Level Indigent Defense Services, The Sixth Amendment Center, The Defender Initiative Jan 2015

The Right To Counsel In Utah: An Assessment Of Trial-Level Indigent Defense Services, The Sixth Amendment Center, The Defender Initiative

Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality

The Right to Counsel in Utah

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An Analysis Of The Economic Costs Of Seeking The Death Penalty In Washington State, Robert C. Boruchowitz, Peter A. Collins, Matthew J. Hickman, Mark A. Larranaga Jan 2015

An Analysis Of The Economic Costs Of Seeking The Death Penalty In Washington State, Robert C. Boruchowitz, Peter A. Collins, Matthew J. Hickman, Mark A. Larranaga

Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality

An Analysis Of The Economic Costs Of Seeking The Death Penalty In Washington State

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Incarcerated Child Birth And “Broader Birth Control”: Autonomy, Regulation, And The State, Deborah Ahrens Jan 2015

Incarcerated Child Birth And “Broader Birth Control”: Autonomy, Regulation, And The State, Deborah Ahrens

Faculty Articles

In recent years, the scholarly literature, the journalistic press, and even pop culture have begun to grapple with the many ways in which prison life works to degrade and dehumanize female prisoners, particularly pregnant women and new mothers. These voices are drawn — quite understandably — to the worst abuses, to practices (such as the shackling of laboring women) that underscore the dichotomy between the brutality of prison life and the allegedly autonomous norms governing pregnancy and parenting in the outside world. This article supplements — and in crucial places challenges — the narrative implicit in those depictions by, first, …

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Tracermarks: A Proposed Information Intervention, Margaret Chon Jan 2015

Tracermarks: A Proposed Information Intervention, Margaret Chon

Faculty Articles

We live in a world of information. But paradoxically, we simultaneously suffer from a scarcity of “smart” information: information that is traceable and therefore reliable, trust-worthy, and ultimately verifiable. Combining the insights of global governance theory with behavioral economics, this Article approaches this challenge from a knowledge governance framework, sets forth various reasons for this unnecessary deficit and proposes an intervention to address it — tracermarks. Envisioned as a hybrid of trademarks and certification marks, tracermarks would encourage various stakeholders to disclose, disseminate and ultimately make decisions about previously hidden qualities of specific goods and services throughout global value networks. …

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The Efficiency Norm, Brooke Coleman Jan 2015

The Efficiency Norm, Brooke Coleman

Faculty Articles

Efficient is not synonymous with inexpensive. Rather, it refers to an optimal tradeoff between cost and function; a system may simultaneously become both less expensive and less efficient, if the cost savings are offset by an even greater loss of productivity. Yet, this Article argues that if we conceive of the rules and doctrines governing civil procedure as a product, the Judiciary, Congress, and federal civil rulemakers have confused cheap with efficient. They have made this version of “efficiency” — what this Article calls the efficiency norm — the dominant norm of the civil litigation system. This Article argues that …

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Introduction, Paul Holland Jan 2015

Introduction, Paul Holland

Seattle Journal for Social Justice

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Girls’ Court: A Gender Responsive Juvenile Court Alternative, Wendy S. Heipt Jan 2015

Girls’ Court: A Gender Responsive Juvenile Court Alternative, Wendy S. Heipt

Seattle Journal for Social Justice

No abstract provided.

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Re-Engaging Youth With The Protective Power Of Education, Daniel T. Satterberg, Violetta A. Stringer, Carla C. Lee Jan 2015

Re-Engaging Youth With The Protective Power Of Education, Daniel T. Satterberg, Violetta A. Stringer, Carla C. Lee

Seattle Journal for Social Justice

No abstract provided.

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Listening From The Bench Fosters Civility And Promotes Justice, Paula Lustbader Jan 2015

Listening From The Bench Fosters Civility And Promotes Justice, Paula Lustbader

Seattle Journal for Social Justice

No abstract provided.

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High Society: Washington State’S Recreational Cannabis Law And Its Effects On Child Custody And Visitation Rights, Dana Petersen Jan 2015

High Society: Washington State’S Recreational Cannabis Law And Its Effects On Child Custody And Visitation Rights, Dana Petersen

Seattle Journal for Social Justice

No abstract provided.

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Vulnerability, Robert W. Spires Jan 2015

Vulnerability, Robert W. Spires

School of Professional and Continuing Studies Faculty Publications

Vulnerability is susceptibility to, or risk of exposure to, hazards and stresses related to social problems, environmental problems, economic problems, or political problems. The word vulnerability is often used in conjunction with poverty and may specifically imply vulnerability to poverty or to poverty-related issues. Individuals, communities, groups, regions, and nations can be vulnerable and poverty increases this vulnerability.

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Presence And Localization Of Pro-And Mature Forms Of Biglycan And Decorin In Human Costal Cartilage Derived From Chest Wall Deformities, Anthony Asmar, A. Werner, R. E. Kelly Jr., A. Fecteau, Michael W. Stacey Jan 2015

Presence And Localization Of Pro-And Mature Forms Of Biglycan And Decorin In Human Costal Cartilage Derived From Chest Wall Deformities, Anthony Asmar, A. Werner, R. E. Kelly Jr., A. Fecteau, Michael W. Stacey

Bioelectrics Publications

Costal cartilage is a type of hyaline cartilage that forms rod-like structures that connect the ribs to the sternum. The most common chest wall deformities, pectus excavatum and pectus carinatum involved efective costal cartilage resulting in sternal displacement. Costal cartilage is not widely studied leaving little insight into possible factors involved in the pathogenesis of these pectus deformities. This study focused on the presence and distribution of two important regulators of collagen fibrillogenesis and organization, biglycan and decorin. Immunohistochemical analysis of transverse cross sections of normal and deformed costal cartilage revealed that biglycan and decorin mainly localized in the territorial …

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Google V. Hood, Fifth Circuit Court Of Appeals Jan 2015

Google V. Hood, Fifth Circuit Court Of Appeals

Historical and Topical Legal Documents

No abstract provided.

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Backpage V. Dart, United States District Court For The Northern District Of Illinois Jan 2015

Backpage V. Dart, United States District Court For The Northern District Of Illinois

Historical and Topical Legal Documents

No abstract provided.

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Wimo Labs V. Ebay, United States District Court For The Central District Of California Jan 2015

Wimo Labs V. Ebay, United States District Court For The Central District Of California

Historical and Topical Legal Documents

No abstract provided.

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Amazon.Com V. Carlucci, United States District Court For The Western District Of Washington Jan 2015

Amazon.Com V. Carlucci, United States District Court For The Western District Of Washington

Historical and Topical Legal Documents

No abstract provided.

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Raney V. Twitter, United States District Court For The Northern District Of Californa Jan 2015

Raney V. Twitter, United States District Court For The Northern District Of Californa

Historical and Topical Legal Documents

No abstract provided.

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Opinion Corp. V Roca Labs, 11th Circuit Court Of Appeals Jan 2015

Opinion Corp. V Roca Labs, 11th Circuit Court Of Appeals

Historical and Topical Legal Documents

No abstract provided.

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Stahulak V Doe, Illinois Circuit Court Jan 2015

Stahulak V Doe, Illinois Circuit Court

Historical and Topical Legal Documents

No abstract provided.

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Learning To Use, Useful For Learning: A Usability Study Of Google Apps For Education, Maury Elizabeth Brown, Daniel L. Hocutt Jan 2015

Learning To Use, Useful For Learning: A Usability Study Of Google Apps For Education, Maury Elizabeth Brown, Daniel L. Hocutt

School of Professional and Continuing Studies Faculty Publications

Using results from an original survey instrument, this study examined student perceptions of how useful Google Apps for Education (GAFE) was in students' learning of core concepts in a first-year college composition course, how difficult or easy it was for students to interact with GAFE, and how students ranked specific affordances of the technology in terms of its usability and usefulness. Students found GAFE relatively easy to use and appreciated its collaborative affordances. The researchers concluded that GAFE is a useful tool to meet learning objectives in the college composition classroom.

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Do Economic Development Efforts Benefit All? Business Attraction And Income Inequality, Xiaobing Shuai Jan 2015

Do Economic Development Efforts Benefit All? Business Attraction And Income Inequality, Xiaobing Shuai

School of Professional and Continuing Studies Faculty Publications

This paper extends the current literature on county-level income distribution in the United States by explicitly exploring the effect of business-attraction efforts by state governments. Using county-level job attraction and retention data from 2000 to 2005 in Virginia to explain the income distribution from 2006 to 2010, while controlling for demographic and socioeconomic conditions of local communities, this study shows that bringing in manufacturing jobs can reduce income inequality at the local level while attracting jobs in professional and business services tends to increase local income inequality. The results indicate that state and local governments’ efforts to attract and retain …

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Employee Wellness Model For Obesity, Barbara Siebold Jan 2015

Employee Wellness Model For Obesity, Barbara Siebold

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Obesity, a condition of having a body mass index (BMI) greater than 30, is a universal epidemic with the greatest prevalence in the United States. The greatest concern with this epidemic health problem is that it presents with many comorbidities and is a risk factor for other chronic diseases. Employee wellness programs (EWP) have been in place for years and incorporate programs on weight management, nutritional education, and smoking cessation to reduce risk factors associated with chronic diseases. These programs utilize the concept of empowerment, often guided by Pender's self-management theory, to encourage employees to take onus for their health …

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Class Schedule - Spring 2015, Office Of Registrar Jan 2015

Class Schedule - Spring 2015, Office Of Registrar

Semester Schedules and Information

No abstract provided.

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