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Compliant Culture Platforms With Independently Tunable Stiffness And Electrical/Optical Functionality, Nadeem Abdul Dec 2016

Compliant Culture Platforms With Independently Tunable Stiffness And Electrical/Optical Functionality, Nadeem Abdul

Electrical and Computer Engineering ETDs

Interfacing biological cells and solid-state devices is crucial in many applications, ranging from well-established fields, such as electrophisiology, to the newly developed areas of optogenetics and mechanobiology. Most biological cells are anchored to substrates with elastic modulus, E, in the range of ~1 to 100 kPa, the moduli of brain-tissue and osteoid, respectively. On the other hand, bulk semiconductor substrates have ~6 orders of magnitude higher elastic modulus. This large elastic mismatch between devices and cells natural microenvironments is an issue for bio-devices integration, as cells are highly sensitive to mechanical cues. Specifically, cells exert traction forces on their surroundings …

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Engaging With Tradition? How History Shapes Engagement With Local Communities In Universities In England And Ontario, Canada, Emma Sabzalieva Dec 2016

Engaging With Tradition? How History Shapes Engagement With Local Communities In Universities In England And Ontario, Canada, Emma Sabzalieva

Comparative and International Education / Éducation Comparée et Internationale

The impetus for universities to engage – to reach out, share, and exchange knowledge – with the communities around them is not a new phenomenon, but one that has gathered salience and speed in recent years (Watson, 2007; Hall, 2009; Davis, 2016). University engagement takes place in a range of dimensions within the global-national-regional-local spectrum (Benneworth et al, 2009; Goddard, 2009). This comparative study of six public universities in England and Ontario, Canada focuses on engagement with local communities. By analysing both institutional histories and universities’ contemporary strategic plans, the study shows that understanding universities’ foundations offers important insights into …

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Somali Refugee Students In Canadian Schools: Pre-Migration Experiences And Challenges In Refugee Camps, Mohamad Ayoub, George Zhou Dec 2016

Somali Refugee Students In Canadian Schools: Pre-Migration Experiences And Challenges In Refugee Camps, Mohamad Ayoub, George Zhou

Comparative and International Education / Éducation Comparée et Internationale

The purpose of this paper is to shed light on the pre-migration challenges experienced by Somali refugee students in refugee camp before resettling in Canada. The findings were drawn from a qualitative research that was designed to investigate the pre-migration and post-migration experiences of Somali refugee students attending English public schools in a southwestern city in Ontario, Canada. The method of data collection in the study was semi-structured one-on-one interviews. A total of six Somali refugee students were interviewed. The exploration into the participants’ experiences revealed that they faced many pre-migration challenges in refugee camps. Members of the school community, …

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Homosexual Resident Alien Deportable As A Psychopathic Personality Dec 2016

Homosexual Resident Alien Deportable As A Psychopathic Personality

The Catholic Lawyer

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Compensation Of Out-Of-State Attorney Dec 2016

Compensation Of Out-Of-State Attorney

The Catholic Lawyer

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Parental Relation Not A Bar To Recovery In Negligence Actions Dec 2016

Parental Relation Not A Bar To Recovery In Negligence Actions

The Catholic Lawyer

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The Effect And Constitutionality Of Section 250 Of The New York Domestic Relations Law Dec 2016

The Effect And Constitutionality Of Section 250 Of The New York Domestic Relations Law

The Catholic Lawyer

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Family Planning And The Rights Of The Poor, George M. Sirilla, S.J. Dec 2016

Family Planning And The Rights Of The Poor, George M. Sirilla, S.J.

The Catholic Lawyer

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A Statue To St. Thomas More, Joseph T. Tinnelly, C.M. Dec 2016

A Statue To St. Thomas More, Joseph T. Tinnelly, C.M.

The Catholic Lawyer

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Volume 13, Winter 1967, Number 1 Dec 2016

Volume 13, Winter 1967, Number 1

The Catholic Lawyer

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Smart Local Map Displays With Integrated Localized Advertisements And Extended Applications To Users’ Devices, Ryan Shea, Ben Miller Dec 2016

Smart Local Map Displays With Integrated Localized Advertisements And Extended Applications To Users’ Devices, Ryan Shea, Ben Miller

Defensive Publications Series

A technique is provided for providing local advertisements and maps to users. An example display device broadcasts advertisements to users in the vicinity of the device. When a user interacts with an example interactive display device, the image on display changes from an advertisement to an interactive local map. An example interactive display device shows users directions to products, places, or events that have been advertised on the device and allows the user to receive or download the directions and information to the user’s personal device so that the directions or map can be used offline or away from the …

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Cybermedicine: The Benefits And Risks Of Purchasing Drugs Over The Internet, David Mills Dec 2016

Cybermedicine: The Benefits And Risks Of Purchasing Drugs Over The Internet, David Mills

Journal of Technology Law & Policy

In today's rapidly changing world of e-commerce, almost anything can be bought over the Internet and delivered right to your front door. Virtually every day there is news of yet another company selling some type of product online. Included in this barrage of products is prescription medication. Not only is it possible to order prescription medication over the Internet, in some cases it is not necessary to be examined, or even to consult with a physician. To some, this new type of "cybermedicine" is an affront to traditional medicine, as well as potentially dangerous to consumers. In addition, the availability …

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Copyright Statement Dec 2016

Copyright Statement

Journal of Science Education for Students with Disabilities

Publication rights to works is granted to Journal of Science Education for Students with Disabilities, however, full copyright for works published in this journal is retained by the author(s). The author(s) may post their works online in an institutional repository, on their University departmental website, or on their own personal websites

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Review Of "Kings Of The Forest: The Cultural Resilience Of Himalayan Hunter- Gatherers" By Jana Fortier, "Culture And The Environment In The Himalaya" Edited By Arjun Guneratne, "Nature, Culture, And Religion At The Crossroads Of Asia" Edited By Marie Lecomte-Tilouine, Nayna Jhaveri Dec 2016

Review Of "Kings Of The Forest: The Cultural Resilience Of Himalayan Hunter- Gatherers" By Jana Fortier, "Culture And The Environment In The Himalaya" Edited By Arjun Guneratne, "Nature, Culture, And Religion At The Crossroads Of Asia" Edited By Marie Lecomte-Tilouine, Nayna Jhaveri

HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

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Review Of "Demoting Vishnu: Ritual, Politics, And The Unraveling Of Nepal’S Hindu Monarchy" By Anne T. Mocko, Michael Baltutis Dec 2016

Review Of "Demoting Vishnu: Ritual, Politics, And The Unraveling Of Nepal’S Hindu Monarchy" By Anne T. Mocko, Michael Baltutis

HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

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Conference Reports, Divya Gupta, Galen Murton Dec 2016

Conference Reports, Divya Gupta, Galen Murton

HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

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Obituary: David Llewelyn Snellgrove (1920 – 2016), Roger Croston Dec 2016

Obituary: David Llewelyn Snellgrove (1920 – 2016), Roger Croston

HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

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Pathways: A Concept, Field Site And Methodological Approach To Study Remoteness And Connectivity, Martin Saxer Dec 2016

Pathways: A Concept, Field Site And Methodological Approach To Study Remoteness And Connectivity, Martin Saxer

HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

Martin Saxer was a Clarendon scholar at Oxford and received his doctorate in 2010. He conducted extensive fieldwork in Siberia, Tibet and Nepal. He currently leads a 5-year research project under the title ‘Remoteness & Connectivity: Highland Asia in the World’, funded by the European Research Council. Martin also directed two feature length documentary films and runs the visual ethnography blog theotherimage.com.

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Shangri-La: From Utopia To Wasteland?, Bo Li Dec 2016

Shangri-La: From Utopia To Wasteland?, Bo Li

HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

The rapid urbanization movement in China’s uplands and up-streams, home to ethnic groups, are problematic for ecological and cultural reasons. Shangri-La County in southwest China is one such destination that has experienced such environmental and sociocultural challenges. The scale and speed of urbanization that has occurred in Shangri-La has outpaced what local communities can adapt to. As a consequence, a significant regional wetland as well as a culturally important water burial site are in serious distress.

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Chokho Pani: An Interface Between Religion And Environment In Darjeeling, Mahendra P. Lama, Roshan P. Rai Mr. Dec 2016

Chokho Pani: An Interface Between Religion And Environment In Darjeeling, Mahendra P. Lama, Roshan P. Rai Mr.

HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

This case study examines the relationship between everyday religion and resource management in the context of water resources in Darjeeling, India. It uses the notion and practice of chokho pani (pure and/or sacred water) as an interface between popular religious practices and the attempt to conserve water in Darjeeling township. Although the link between religion and environmental resource management is widely recognized, it remains a critical area of inquiry in the Himalaya. The complexity of water's social importance is vividly evident in Darjeeling. The town presents a rapidly urbanizing landscape with a diversity of peoples dependent upon a variety of …

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Water Connection: Everyday Religion And Environments In Kathmandu Valley, Mukta S. Tamang Dec 2016

Water Connection: Everyday Religion And Environments In Kathmandu Valley, Mukta S. Tamang

HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

This case study aims to explore the relationship between ‘everyday religion’ and prospects for urban sustainability in the context of on-going changes -in Kathmandu. It argues that everyday religion plays a role in furnishing the incentive for urban residents to sustainably manage ‘culturalized nature’ in the city. In particular, I examine water, the practices surrounding its use, and how these practices connect various social realms. I suggest that water in Kathmandu valley plays an important role as a connector encompassing life and death, religion and environment, as well as politics and development.

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Beyond Contradiction: Sacred-Profane Waters And The Dialectics Of Everyday Religion, Georgina Drew Dec 2016

Beyond Contradiction: Sacred-Profane Waters And The Dialectics Of Everyday Religion, Georgina Drew

HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

Studies of the relationship between religion and ecology are either highly enthusiastic about the ways that religious belief can motivate sound resource management or skeptical of the connection. Using an everyday religion approach, this text takes a middle ground to show that resources are variously interpreted in daily life and that religious orientations, while potentially supportive of environmentally sound action, are but one source of influence. Drawing from fieldwork, the discussion employs practice theory to look at how water resources in a Himalayan township are understood and the ways that notions of responsibility for sacred and profane waters are changing. …

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Resource Use Decisions: A Framework For Studying Religion And Sustainable Environments, Mark Larrimore Dec 2016

Resource Use Decisions: A Framework For Studying Religion And Sustainable Environments, Mark Larrimore

HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

Analyses of everyday religion and sustainable environments in the Himalaya are not helped much by the blunt instruments of “world religions” approaches to religion and ecology. This article suggests that a better grounded understanding, especially helpful for policy-makers integrating case studies from widely varying regions, might be gained by bypassing debates about the nature of “religion” entirely. Inspired by discussions in the Everyday Religion and Sustainable Environments project, this article proposes a research framework with the deliberately mundane name resource use decisions. Attending to the reasons given, in various settings and to various stakeholders, for decisions regarding the cultivation and …

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Explorations Of A Transforming Himalaya: Everyday Religion, Sustainable Environments, And Urban Himalayan Studies, Georgina Drew, Ashok Gurung Dec 2016

Explorations Of A Transforming Himalaya: Everyday Religion, Sustainable Environments, And Urban Himalayan Studies, Georgina Drew, Ashok Gurung

HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

This text serves as an introduction to a special issue introducing the work of scholars associated with the Everyday Religion and Sustainable Environments in the Himalaya project. Included in the discussion is a set of observations on the key themes that brought the research project together, and which orient the submissions in this issue.

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Gender Bias And Organ Transplantation In Nepal, Sarah Rasmussen, Pragya Paneru, Kalpana Shrestha, Pukar C. Shrestha Dec 2016

Gender Bias And Organ Transplantation In Nepal, Sarah Rasmussen, Pragya Paneru, Kalpana Shrestha, Pukar C. Shrestha

HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

Women in Nepal are less likely to receive proper, high quality medical care than their male relatives. Live-donor kidney transplantation provides a compelling example of such disparities, as 84% of recipients are male, 75% of donors are female and most kidneys are transferred from mother to son and from wife to husband. In the case of transplantation, women are not just denied healthcare, they are also responsible for the health of their male kin. Based on semi-structured ethnographic interviews with transplant patients, organ donors, dialysis patients and relatives, this paper elaborates on the social and economic factors that have created …

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From Ruler To Healer: Changes In Religious Experience In The Western Himalayas, Asaf Sharabi, Hagar Shalev Dec 2016

From Ruler To Healer: Changes In Religious Experience In The Western Himalayas, Asaf Sharabi, Hagar Shalev

HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

Research literature on the Western Himalayas emphasizes the theistic control of local deities. In the framework of this ruling system, described by the concepts of 'Little Kingdom' and 'government by deity', local deities functioned as gods and kings. They practice their royalty through a concrete divinity notion, aided by human mediums. In this article we will indicate the beginning of a conceptual change in the perception of a local deity named Mahāsū. Although Mahāsū is still perceived as a ruler, his role has become largely symbolic. We maintain that this illustrates how local theistic conceptions adapt to changes in the …

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New Languages Of Schooling: Ethnicity, Education And Equality In Nepal, Uma Pradhan Dec 2016

New Languages Of Schooling: Ethnicity, Education And Equality In Nepal, Uma Pradhan

HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

Mother-tongue education has remained a controversial issue in Nepal. Scholars, activists and policy-makers have, on the one hand, favored mother-tongue education from the standpoint of social justice. Against these views, others have identified this as predominantly groupist in its orientation and not helpful in an imagination of a unified national community. Taking this contention as a point of inquiry, this paper aims to explore the contested space of mother-tongue education to understand the ways in which people position themselves within the polarizing debates of ethnicity-based claims on education in Nepal. Drawing from the ethnographic fieldwork in mother-tongue education school, in …

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Gallery Sketchbook, Priyankar Chand Dec 2016

Gallery Sketchbook, Priyankar Chand

HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies

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An Integrative And Interdisciplinary Approach To Shark Conservation: Policy Solutions, Ecosystem Role, And Stakeholder Attitudes, David S. Shiffman Dec 2016

An Integrative And Interdisciplinary Approach To Shark Conservation: Policy Solutions, Ecosystem Role, And Stakeholder Attitudes, David S. Shiffman

Open Access Dissertations

The goal of this interdisciplinary dissertation is to assess how scientific research, public advocacy, and policy change interact in the context of shark conservation.

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Characterizing Egg Quality And Larval Performance From Captive Mahi-Mahi (Coryphaena Hippurus) Spawns Over Time, Steven J. Kloeblen Dec 2016

Characterizing Egg Quality And Larval Performance From Captive Mahi-Mahi (Coryphaena Hippurus) Spawns Over Time, Steven J. Kloeblen

Open Access Theses

Mahi-mahi Coryphaena hippurus, a high performance pelagic species, is a promising species for aquaculture development and has been used as a model species for oil toxicology and physiology studies. This species has one of the fastest growth rates of any marine teleost and a unique reproductive biology due to the species high spawning frequency and energy allocation into spawning events. These characteristics lend the species to being an excellent model for understanding broodstock nutrition for other high energetic pelagic species in captivity. The reproductive performance of wild-caught mahi-mahi was investigated in this study. Egg morphometries and larval survival were tracked …

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