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Gender And The Sharing Economy, Naomi Schoenbaum Jan 2016

Gender And The Sharing Economy, Naomi Schoenbaum

Fordham Urban Law Journal

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Association Of Blood Lead Levels In Children 0–72 Months With Living In Mid-Appalachia: A Semiecologic Study, R Constance Wiener Jan 2016

Association Of Blood Lead Levels In Children 0–72 Months With Living In Mid-Appalachia: A Semiecologic Study, R Constance Wiener

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

Introduction: Lead exposure in children remains a significant public health issue, although many advances have been made. The Mid-Appalachia area (Kentucky, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia) is 89-91% rural with a population density of 16-21 people/km2 (41-54 people/mi2). Mid-Appalachia has significant health disparities including concerns for the consequences of greater lead exposure to children due to mining and industrial footprints, and existing older housing. The purpose of this study is to compare the reported blood lead levels of screened children, aged 0-72 months in Mid-Appalachia, to the children in the USA in general.
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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

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Jrnl 105x.80: Global Current Events - Honors, Henriette B. Lowisch Jan 2016

Jrnl 105x.80: Global Current Events - Honors, Henriette B. Lowisch

University of Montana Course Syllabi

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Quality Of Life And Athletic Participation Assessment In Children And Adolescents With Congenital Heart Disease, Kayla Stuckey Jan 2016

Quality Of Life And Athletic Participation Assessment In Children And Adolescents With Congenital Heart Disease, Kayla Stuckey

Honors Program Theses

Just under 1% of infants are born with a heart defect [congenital heart disease (CHD)], and as a result of treatment and early diagnosis, 85% of these children survive into adulthood. Few studies have investigated the quality of life, global happiness, and athletic participation in pediatric populations, especially with respect to those who have CHD. In 2010, the number of people aged 0-18 years who had CHD was estimated to be between 1,905,000 and 2,102,000, and there are varying qualities of life that these children experience based on disease severity. In addition to patients who are born with CHD, children …

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Terrorist Experts’ Perceptions Of How The Internet Has Shaped International Terrorism, Samuel F. Wilson Ii, Teresa M. Lao Ph.D., Ernesto Escobedo Dr. Jan 2016

Terrorist Experts’ Perceptions Of How The Internet Has Shaped International Terrorism, Samuel F. Wilson Ii, Teresa M. Lao Ph.D., Ernesto Escobedo Dr.

Walden Faculty and Staff Publications

The use of the Internet by terrorists has greatly contributed to international terrorism. The Internet is a main strategic communication asset for terrorists who use online message boards and chat rooms to share information, coordinate attacks, spread propaganda, raise money, and recruit. The Internet gives terrorists a medium to legitimize, propagate, and intimidate citizens to their cause. Their strategies are based on careful analysis of human communications; thus, messages are adapted and carefully delivered to appeal to people who may need something to believe in. This study bridged the gap in knowledge by exploring, understanding, and explaining the perceptions of …

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Treating The New European Disease Of Consumer Debt In A Post-Communist State: The Groundbreaking New Russian Personal Insolvency Law, 41 Brook. J. Int'l L. 655 (2016), Jason J. Kilborn Jan 2016

Treating The New European Disease Of Consumer Debt In A Post-Communist State: The Groundbreaking New Russian Personal Insolvency Law, 41 Brook. J. Int'l L. 655 (2016), Jason J. Kilborn

UIC Law Open Access Faculty Scholarship

This article examines the tumultuous transition from restrictive Communism to the debt-fueled consumer economy of modern Russia. In particular, it surveys Russia’s legal response to severe debt distress, situating it in the context of nearly one thousand years of historical development. Effective 1 October 2015, Russia finally joined most of its European neighbors in adopting a personal bankruptcy law, with characteristics that reflect both evolving international best practices and a series of lessons not learned. This article offers the first detailed exposition in English of the two steps forward represented by this new law, as well as an evaluation of …

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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

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Zarahemla Revisited: Neville’S Newest Novel, Matthew Roper, Paul Fields, Larry Bassist Jan 2016

Zarahemla Revisited: Neville’S Newest Novel, Matthew Roper, Paul Fields, Larry Bassist

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

This article is the third in a series of three articles responding to the recent assertion by Jonathan Neville that Benjamin Winchester was the anonymous author of three unsigned editorials published in Nauvoo in 1842 in the Times and Seasons. The topic of the unsigned editorials was the possible relationship of archeological discoveries in Central America to places described in the Book of Mormon narrative. The first article shows that, contrary to Neville’s claims, Winchester was not a proponent of a Mesoamerican setting for the Book of Mormon, but rather a hemispheric one. Since this was a view commonly held …

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Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dream Map: Part 2 Of 2, Jeff Lindsay Jan 2016

Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dream Map: Part 2 Of 2, Jeff Lindsay

Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

The Arabian Peninsula has provided a significant body of evidence related to the plausibility of Nephi’s account of the ancient journey made by Lehi’s family across Arabia. Relatively few critics have seriously considered the evidence, generally nitpicking at details and insisting that the evidences are insignificant. Recently more meaningful responses have been offered by well educated writers showing familiarity with the Arabian evidences and the Book of Mormon. They argue that Nephi’s account is not historical and any apparent evidence in its favor can be attributed to weak LDS apologetics coupled with Joseph’s use of modern sources such as a …

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Front Matter Jan 2016

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Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship

Revelation comes in various forms, some of them spectacular and some of them extremely subtle. The scriptures and the history of the Restoration offer numerous examples across the entire spectrum. Whatever its form, however, divine revelation remains divine revelation, and it is the avowed mission of the Interpreter Foundation to thoughtfully ponder such revelation, to try to explicate its meaning, and to illustrate its richness. In turn, such examination can itself provide an opportunity for personal revelation—both for the examiners and, we hope, for those who read or hear the results of their work.

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Simple Landscape Irrigation Demand Estimation: Slide Rules, Roger Kjelgren Jan 2016

Simple Landscape Irrigation Demand Estimation: Slide Rules, Roger Kjelgren

Plants, Soils, and Climate Faculty Publications

Irrigated urban landscapes must increasingly maintain economic and ecosystem value with less water in response to drought amplified and shifted by climate change. Efficient landscape water management requires estimating water amount demanded by plants that can be replaced by irrigation to meet minimum performance expectations. The extant approach to estimating landscape water demand is conceptually muddled and often regionally inappropriate. Simplified Landscape Irrigation Demand Estimation (SLIDE) Rules distills scientifically credible assumptions about urban landscape biological and physical complexity into guidelines for estimating water demand that are conceptually accessible and operationally useful. SLIDE Rules are: 1) oasis urban reference evapotranspiration (ETo) …

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Corruption And Inequality: Narratives And Implications In Nigeria And South Africa, Kira Albiez Jan 2016

Corruption And Inequality: Narratives And Implications In Nigeria And South Africa, Kira Albiez

Theses & ETDs

This thesis examines the role of corruption and inequality on development in Nigerian and South Africa. I evaluate several prevailing approaches to these issues and incorporate more critical, contemporary, and localized research. Most past work on corruption and inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa is incomplete because it often fails to incorporate many of the more complicated social and cultural components within this relationship. While this thesis does not come to a firm conclusion, it does highlight the importance of challenging dominant narratives that can be biased and conceptually limited.

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Paradoxes In Practice: Western Ideologies Of African Wilderness In Books And On Land, Mary Koehnk Jan 2016

Paradoxes In Practice: Western Ideologies Of African Wilderness In Books And On Land, Mary Koehnk

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The 1950s marked the beginning of the British colonial effort to preserve natural landscapes of East Africa for their material and aesthetic value. In order for these landscapes to be deemed as valuable, a very specific ideology of an African wilderness was constructed. This ideology was solidified in part by the growing popularity of literature emphasizing the value of wilderness in the wake of an increasingly developing world. Using romanticized imagery of lands devoid of any human influence, this vision was exported to the Serengeti Plains of East Africa. Colonial preservationists shaped the protection of landscapes strictly according to this …

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Visual Hybridity: Brazilian Beetles And Histories Of Representation, Laura Costa Jan 2016

Visual Hybridity: Brazilian Beetles And Histories Of Representation, Laura Costa

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Under the guise of scientific exploration, enthusiasm surrounding 17th century insect collecting worked to reinforce the powers of European colonial imperialism. By considering the implications of the commercial consumption of indigenous items, including beetles, flowers, chocolate and sugar, I have taken a closer look at Dutch Golden Age still life painting, which acted as an extension of global trade. I have considered these phenomena utilizing the theories of anthropophagy and hybridity. The theory from Oswald Andrade’s Manifesto Antropofago acknowledges the colonial history of Brazil by consuming hegemonic European ideas and transforming them to create a uniquely postcolonial Brazilian cultural identity. …

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A Critical Ethnography Of Difference, Boundaries Of Belonging, And Race In New Orleans Second Line Parades, Adriana Noemi Diaz Jan 2016

A Critical Ethnography Of Difference, Boundaries Of Belonging, And Race In New Orleans Second Line Parades, Adriana Noemi Diaz

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This thesis uses the frameworks of “doing difference” (West and Fenstermaker 1995) and “boundary work” (Lamont 2002) to examine how people construct categories of belonging in Second Line communities in New Orleans, Louisiana. While I use the concept of “doing difference” in this thesis to refer to the enactment and accomplishment of existing categories of difference, I use “boundary work” to refer to the performative acts through which individuals constitute categories of difference. Second Line is a public participatory parade local to New Orleans that stems from colonial gatherings in Congo Square. There are two main forms of Second Line …

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Images Of Beetles In Early Modern Europe: From Christlike To Collectible, Laura Costa Jan 2016

Images Of Beetles In Early Modern Europe: From Christlike To Collectible, Laura Costa

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The ways in which beetles are depicted in the visual culture of Early Modern Europe can illuminate the cultural significance of insects and the way image making shaped conceptions of the natural world. Beetles have a long history of involvement in early European folklore and traditions; they were present not only in myths but also used medicinally. Beginning with the emergence of widespread insect collecting in the late sixteenth century, a shift in representation of insects from religious and allegorical symbols to collectible items is present in Dutch painting. This change also aligns with Dutch colonization and the beginning of …

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Baianidade: A Case Study On The Impact Of Afro-Brazilian Ethnic Tourism On Regional Identity And Development In Bahia, Madeleine Yount Jan 2016

Baianidade: A Case Study On The Impact Of Afro-Brazilian Ethnic Tourism On Regional Identity And Development In Bahia, Madeleine Yount

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Afro-Brazilian identity and its role in Brazilian national identity have been negotiated and renegotiated since the Portuguese first began to enslave African peoples in 1550. Yet in the most economically marginalized region in Brazil, Afro-Brazilian culture is exalted as a major influence on regional identity and, in some ways, development. One of the ways in which Afro-Brazilian identity in the Northeast shapes regional identity and development is through the ethnic tourism industry. The examination of ethnic tourism policies within this marginalized state can point to how Brazil is consolidating Afro-Brazilian identity in their burgeoning democratic nation. Nowhere is state-sponsored Afro-Brazilian …

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An Assessment Of The Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, Ilan Edward Bubb Jan 2016

An Assessment Of The Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, Ilan Edward Bubb

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This thesis assesses the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary in both its political and ecological context. Throughout the past centuries Marine Protected Areas have been used to regulate and manage marine resources and their consumptive uses. Over this time coral reefs have been heavily impacted by human activities. More recently, since the 1950’s, scientists and the public have noticed the degrading quality of the ocean environments and have since utilized MPAs to manage and conserve coral reefs and the fish that live in them. In the United States the National Marine Sanctuaries Act has created thousands of square nautical miles …

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Entomophagy Today: A Cross Country Analysis On The Promotion Of Insects In Food And Feed, Cayle Judge Jan 2016

Entomophagy Today: A Cross Country Analysis On The Promotion Of Insects In Food And Feed, Cayle Judge

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With the estimation that the world’s population will reach 9 billion by 2050, the FAO has endeavored since 2013 to ensure food security by promoting insects as a sustainable alternative protein source to traditional livestock. However, a lack of information and studies regarding the subject of human entomophagy has left many ambiguities on whether insects will be a successful in practice as well as theory. This study will address three central questions to understand the success of human entomophagy in practice and promotion. First, does eating insects make sense sustainably, nutritionally, and for food security? Second, how and why is …

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Creating Accesible Maps: A Pilot For The Automatable Geospatial Analysis Of Brownfield Data, Ian Patrick Mcnair Jan 2016

Creating Accesible Maps: A Pilot For The Automatable Geospatial Analysis Of Brownfield Data, Ian Patrick Mcnair

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A Geographic Information System (GIS) is used to develop a pilot analysis for the automatable development of distance based brownfield analysis. The pilot was the Phoenix Commercial Park in Alachua County, with a seven mile radius around the brownfield. United States census data were used per census block to provide racial statistics and yearly mean income. Distance based analysis was employed to compare the census blocks based on how much they appeared to be “exposed” to the brownfield and their socioeconomic characteristics. No statistically significant relationships between the demographic characteristics and distance from brownfield. Given that these findings conflict with …

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#Humanrights: A Study Of Social Media’S Utilization As A Tool For Progress And Revolution, Aamna Dhillon Jan 2016

#Humanrights: A Study Of Social Media’S Utilization As A Tool For Progress And Revolution, Aamna Dhillon

Theses & ETDs

The digital age opened the doors for unprecedented innovation in the world of Information and Communication Technologies. With the advent of social media, people from across the globe could communicate at a speed and reach unparalleled by older forms of communication. This study explores the use of social media to mobilize, organize, and sustain movements for human rights and good governance. By exploring the use of social media in Tunisia’s 2011 Revolution, Ukraine’s Euromaidan protests, and Mexico’s protests surrounding the Ayotzinapa kidnapping, this study demonstrates social media’s capacity as a tool for progress and revolution. At the same time, social …

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