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Nato, Cyber Defense, And International Law, David P. Fidler, Richard Pregent, Alex Vandurme

Journal of International and Comparative Law

No abstract provided.

The Ticker, March 14, 2016

The Ticker

The Ticker is the student newspaper of Baruch College. It has been published continuously since 1932, when the Baruch College campus was the School of Business and Civic Administration of the City College of New York.

The Literal Reconstruction Of Vmi: Reunion, Restitution, Remembrance, Kaylyn L. Sawyer

The Gettysburg Compiler: On the Front Lines of History

This is the second in a three-part series on the legacy of the Civil War at the Virginia Military Institute. You can also check out part one to read about VMI’s struggle for survival in the years immediately after the war. Stay tuned for the conclusion of the series. [excerpt]

Spring 2016: President’S Message/The View In The Crystal Ball, Thomasl Kunkel

St. Norbert College Magazine 2013-2018

President Thomas Kunkel offers his reflection on the spring semester.

Ultrasonic Data Steganography, Alexander Orosz Edwards

KSU Journey Honors College Capstones and Theses

What started off as a question on the possibly of data transmission via sound above the level of human hearing evolved into a project exploring the possibility of ultrasonic data infiltration and exfiltration in an information security context. It is well known that sound can be used to transmit data as this can be seen in many old technologies, most notably and simply DTMF tones for phone networks. But what if the sound used to transmit signals was in in the ultrasonic range? It would go generally unnoticed to anyone not looking for it with tools such as a spectrum …

Summer 2016 | History Menu Includes Nine Online Courses, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

All Forum Articles

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Is Scholarship Advancing?: An Analysis Of Fifteen Years Of Framing Research, Joseph Zachary Provencher

Dissertations and Theses

In 2011, Porismita Borah published "Conceptual Issues in Framing Theory: A Systematic Examination of a Decade’s Literature" to shed light on the status of framing research, and attempt to answer several scholars' criticisms of framing research practices (Carragee and Roefs 2004, D'Angelo, 2002, Entman, 1993). Borah argues that framing research has several areas of necessary improvement, and her prescription is for future research to be able to examine specific framing issues or effects, but also be able to connect with broader understandings of framing.

The following content analysis of framing research, conducted between the year 2000 and 2013, seeks to …

Book Reviews, Kathe C. Homer, Marie Ann Olson, Lanell Reeder, Leora Giles, Carol V. Oaks, Rob L. Morss, James S. Jacobs, Helen Hoopes, Carri Lynn Oviatt, Lawrence Master, Vicky M. Turner, Jan Staheli, Thomas K. Hinckley, Sheri Orth, Janet Low, Melanie Hansen

Children's Book and Media Review

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Book Reviews, Vicky M. Turner, S. Celine Sharp, Jill Farnsworth, Catherine Bowles, Judy Morris, Cheryl Acton, Janet Low, Valerie Holladay, Helen Hoopes, Elizabeth Wahlquist, Christy Smith, Thomas Kent Hinckley, Lillian Heil, Janet Francis, Melanie Dodge, Rebecca Thomas, Allen Jensen, James S. Jacobs, Eunice Broadhead

Children's Book and Media Review

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Book Reviews, Gabi Kupitz, Catherine Bowles, Janet Low, Lillian H. Heil, Janet Francis, Jan Staheli, Jean Marshall, Helen Hoopes, Valerie Holladay, Elizabeth Wahlquist, Jean Marshall, Carol V. Oaks, Thomas K. Hinckley, Kathe Homer

Children's Book and Media Review

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Book Reviews, Blaine Hall, Lillian Heil, James Jacobs, Eric Fisher, Thom Hinckley, Janet Francis, Tim Wadham, Afton Miner, Elizabeth Wahlquist

Children's Book and Media Review

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Full Issue, Children's Book Review

Children's Book and Media Review

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Full Issue, Children's Book Review

Children's Book and Media Review

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Full Issue, Children's Book Review

Children's Book and Media Review

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The Hopeful Elimination Of Nuclear Weapons, Shailesh Patel

2016 Honors Council of the Illinois Region Papers

Nuclear weapons is not a topic that is often talked about, or even crosses the mind of the "common Joe" on a regular basis, however, it should be a pressing concern for everyone living in the world. Created in a century that saw two world wars, multiple genocides, and downright human indecency, nuclear weapons represent all the negatives of the 20th century. This presentation covers the costs and risks of keeping them, and suggests how society would benefit from the funds being spent elsewhere. The information for this project was derived from credible sources such as The Brookings Institute, CNN …

Custom's Method And Process: Lessons From Humanitarian Law, Monica Hakimi

Book Chapters

A central question in the literature on customary international law (CIL) goes to method: what is the proper method for "finding" CIL - that is, for determining that particular norms qualify as ClL? The traditional method is to identify a widespread state practice, plus evidence that states believe that the practice reflects the law (opinio juris). That method has long been criticized as incoherent, unworkable, and out of touch with modern sensibilities. Thus, much of the CIL literature addresses its perceived problems. The principal goals of this literature are to help resolve whether norms that are claimed to be CIL …

Targeted Killings By Drones: A Domestic And International Legal Framework, Catherine Lotrionte

Journal of International and Comparative Law

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Drones And Transnational Armed Conflicts, Michael W. Lewis

Journal of International and Comparative Law

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9 March 1916, Part I: Newton Baker Sworn In As Secretary Of War, Keith J. Muchowski

Publications and Research

This invited blog post explores the appointment of Newton D. Baker to the post of Secretary of War during the Woodrow Wilson Administration.

National Security And U.S. Immigration Policy, Edward Alden

Journal of International and Comparative Law

No abstract provided.

Limiting Political Contributions After Mccutcheon, Citizens United, And Speechnow, Albert W. Alschuler

Florida Law Review

There was something unreal about the opinions in McCutcheon v. FEC. These opinions examined a series of strategies for circumventing the limits on contributions to candidates imposed by federal election law, but they failed to notice that the limits were no longer breathing. The D.C. Circuit’s decision in SpeechNow.org v. FEC had created a far easier way to evade the limits than any of those the Supreme Court discussed. SpeechNow held all limits on contributions to super PACs unconstitutional.

This Article argues that the D.C. Circuit erred; Citizens United v. FEC did not require unleashing super PAC contributions. The …

The New Way Of War: Is There A Duty To Use Drones?, Oren Gross

Florida Law Review

Part I of this Article briefly describes the newest battlespace occupants. Robotic systems have been taking active part in combat. They now inhabit the air, the land, and the sea. They carry out missions ranging from surveillance and bomb disposal to “destroy and disable.” Part II examines the relevant principles of LOAC. It argues that drones are not, per se, unlawful under LOAC. Rather, the critical question is the same for drones as for other types of weapons, i.e., whether the specific use of the weapon complies with LOAC. In this context, the weapon must be deployed in accordance with …

Sexual Exploitation In The Rhetoric Of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lisa Shawn Hogan

ConLawNOW

In this essay, Lisa Hogan explores Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s attacks on marriage, including her critique of the institution of marriage and her support of liberal divorce laws. It reveals that Stanton’s most controversial writings addressed woman’s sexuality in a broader context, including discussions of sexual exploitation and infanticide.

College Voice Vol. 99 No. 9, Connecticut College

2015-2016

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Dietary Plant Lectins Appear To Be Transported From The Gut To Gain Access To And Alter Dopaminergic Neurons Of Caenorhabditis Elegans, A Potential Etiology Of Parkinson’S Disease, Jolene Zheng, Mingming Wang, Wenqian Wei, Jeffrey N. Keller, Binita Adhikari, Jason F. King, Michael L. King, Nan Peng, Roger A. Laine

Faculty Publications

© Copyright © 2016 Zheng, Wang, Wei, Keller, Adhikari, King, King, Peng and Laine. Lectins from dietary plants have been shown to enhance drug absorption in the gastrointestinal tract of rats, be transported trans-synaptically as shown by tracing of axonal and dendritic paths, and enhance gene delivery. Other carbohydrate-binding protein toxins are known to traverse the gut intact in dogs. Post-feeding rhodamine- or TRITC-tagged dietary lectins, the lectins were tracked from gut to dopaminergic neurons (DAergic-N) in transgenic Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) [egIs1(Pdat-1:GFP)] where the mutant has the green fluorescent protein (GFP) gene fused to a dopamine transport protein gene …

The New Hampshire, Vol. 105 [106], No. 35 (Mar. 7, 2016), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire. This volume was printed as 105, but it is the 106th volume in the series.

Session D-4: From Guernica To Nuremberg: Teaching Human Rights Themes In Mid-20th-Century History, Peter Carroll, Eric Smith

Professional Learning Day

A critical turning point in modern warfare—aviation, civilian casualties, and population displacement during the Spanish Civil War and World War II—led to the Nuremberg Tribunals and UN Declaration of Human Rights, foreshadowing contemporary debates about bombing, drones, refugees/immigration, and interventionist foreign policies. This session will span World History and US History, drawing from free archival primary sources (graphic and textual) that reveal changing perceptions of warfare.

Session B-3: Operation Paperclip And The Rise Of Weapons Of Mass Destruction, Diane Haleas, Matthew Miller

Professional Learning Day

On November 26, 1944 Dutch-American particle physicist Samual Goudsmit and his fellow members of the secret Operation Alsos carefully scoured the private papers of Nazi scientists, uncovering startling information on the extent of Nazi biological weapons experiments. Operation Alsos would give rise to Operation Paperclip – the U.S. government’s effort to bring over 1,600 German and Nazi scientists, doctors, engineers, and technologists to the United States. Also recruited were Nazi war criminals whose scientific prowess seemed to override the U.S. government’s moral qualms. The period from November, 1944 – May, 1945 changed the world as the U.S. government began to …

Session B-1: Messing With The “Rise Of The West”, John Horton

Professional Learning Day

This session will present strategies and lesson plans for World History teachers who want their students to learn how to interrogate the idea that modern European hegemony began in 1492. Was the Renaissance the Renaissance? Does modernity or early modernity have origins in Song China, Abbasid Baghdad, and Mongolian Asia? Does the era of western hegemony begin with the Opium Wars and the repression of the Sepoy Rebellion? We will examine these and other questions in a session that will question some of the basic assumptions about we teach world or global history courses.

Session A-2: She Fought For The Fatherland: Gender, War And Memory In The Soviet Union Subject: History, Kitty Lam

Professional Learning Day

John Keegan once wrote, “Warfare is…the one human activity…from which women have always and everywhere stood apart. Women…do not fight…and they never in any military sense, fight men” (John Keegan, A History of Warfare, 76). Yet in the Second World War, an estimated 120,000 Soviet women served in combat roles. This presentation uses photographs of women in combat and images of Soviet war monuments and to help students reconsider wartime division of gender roles. It also prompts students to examine how women’s contributions to war were commemorated in a country that supposedly championed gender equality.