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Mindfulness For Musicians: Bringing Sport Psychology And Mindfulness-Based Therapies To The Practice Room And The Concert Stage, Lauretta M. Werner Jan 2019

Mindfulness For Musicians: Bringing Sport Psychology And Mindfulness-Based Therapies To The Practice Room And The Concert Stage, Lauretta M. Werner

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Due to the profession’s competitive nature, time-consuming demands, and frequent evaluations, many musicians experience debilitating music performance anxiety, hypercritical thoughts, and/or avoidance of specific performance situations. To cope with these experiences, musicians can cultivate mindfulness. Mindfulness is purposefully and non-judgmentally paying attention to the present moment, developing awareness of emotions, thoughts, and physical sensations, and acknowledging the reality of one’s experience. “Mindfulness for Musicians: Bringing sport psychology and mindfulness-based therapies to the practice room and the concert stage” discusses how cultivating mindfulness helps musicians cope with intense emotions, such as panic or fear, and explores how cultivating mindfulness helps musicians …

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“A Dark Archway Of Rusticated Stone”: Depictions Of Moral Obligation In Greene’S The Human Factor And Waugh’S Brideshead Revisited, Thomas J. Carter Jan 2019

“A Dark Archway Of Rusticated Stone”: Depictions Of Moral Obligation In Greene’S The Human Factor And Waugh’S Brideshead Revisited, Thomas J. Carter

EWU Masters Thesis Collection

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Turnover Of Outdoor Adventure Education Field Staff, Justin M. Hall Jan 2019

Turnover Of Outdoor Adventure Education Field Staff, Justin M. Hall

EWU Masters Thesis Collection

Outdoor adventure education (OAE) organizations continually struggle with field staff turnover. Little research exists of this unique worker population and their unconventional living and working conditions warrant further exploration of the variables that best drive this phenomenon. The purpose of this study was to explore the strength and direction of the relationships between turnover predictor variables and intent to turnover (IT) of OAE field staff. Per the suggestion of organizational behavior and OAE literature, and conversations with OAE practitioners, five independent predictor variables were chosen; (a) tenure; (b) career development opportunities; (c) sense of community; (d) compensation satisfaction; and (e) …

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Raising Arizona: A Visual Rhetorical Analysis Of Kyrsten Sinema's And Martha Mcsally's 2018 Campaign Announcement Videos, Audrey L. Oswald Jan 2019

Raising Arizona: A Visual Rhetorical Analysis Of Kyrsten Sinema's And Martha Mcsally's 2018 Campaign Announcement Videos, Audrey L. Oswald

EWU Masters Thesis Collection

This study examines the visual and verbal components of Kyrsten Sinema’s and Martha McSally’s campaign video announcements as both candidates competed for the 2018 Arizona Senate. The primary research objective was to understand how the audience demographics and the rhetorical situation faced by each candidate affected the choice of visual components for the persuasion of potential voters. The study concludes that the visual messages were chosen primarily to appeal to each candidate’s supporting viewers. Sinema’s message, however, was more intersectional in that it appealed to a larger body of potential voters across party lines. The candidates appeal to voters using …

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Detecting And Mapping Real-Time Influenza-Like Illness Using Twitter Stream Data, Elisha D. Brunette Jan 2019

Detecting And Mapping Real-Time Influenza-Like Illness Using Twitter Stream Data, Elisha D. Brunette

EWU Masters Thesis Collection

Influenza has been identified by the World Health Organization as a global issue that could be more effectively served through an accelerated and widely-accessible public health surveillance tracking process. The ability to map and predict influenza outbreaks in a real-time heat map would be invaluable to health care systems to prepare for influenza outbreaks. In this study, the Twitter stream data is filtered to identify potential influenza-like illness (ILI) cases. Then the tracking of real-time influenza cases is further explored and analyzed through various machine-learning models. Among seven learning models developed to identify ILI tweets, the ELMo deep neural network …

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Ethofumesate 4sc Applied Postemergence In Sugarbeet, Alexa Lynn Lystad Jan 2019

Ethofumesate 4sc Applied Postemergence In Sugarbeet, Alexa Lynn Lystad

Plant Sciences

Experiments evaluated sugarbeet tolerance, herbicide efficacy on common lambsquarters (Chenopodium album L.), redroot pigweed (Amaranthus retroflexus L.) and waterhemp (Amaranthus tuberculatus (moq.) J.D. Sauer), and rotational crop safety to ethofumesate (2-Ethoxy-2,3-dihydro-3,3-dimethyl-5-benzofuranol methanesulfonate) in 2017, 2018, and 2019. Ethofumesate applied at 2.24 or 4.48 kg ha-1 at the sugarbeet two-true leaf stage reduced sugarbeet stature and recoverable sucrose in field experiments. Ethofumesate at 1.12 kg ha-1 plus glyphosate at 1.26 kg ha-1 applied preemergence (PRE) or early postemergence (EPOST) to 1.3-cm weeds provided broad spectrum control with the least sugarbeet stature reduction in field and greenhouse experiments. Corn (Zea mays L.), …

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Cornus Mas L. Cultivar Selection Based On Hardiness And Propagation, Meredith Swanson Jan 2019

Cornus Mas L. Cultivar Selection Based On Hardiness And Propagation, Meredith Swanson

Plant Sciences

Cornus mas (Cornelian cherry) is a deciduous shrub/small tree native to southeastern Europe and western Asia. It is unique among the Cornaceae (dogwood) family in that the fruit is used for human consumption and is highly nutritious and contains high amounts of antioxidants and anthocyanins. While this plant has many desirable fruiting and ornamental characteristics, it has seen limited use in North America. Several of these desirable characteristics are low disease and pest incidence, fruit qualities, and early yet long-lasting flowers. With limited use in North America, hardiness speculations are based on only a few individual plants. In this document, …

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Evaluation Of Management Tools For Stripe Rust In Hard Red Spring Wheat And Assessment Of Virulence Phenotypes And Aggressiveness In Puccinia Striiformis Isolates, Bryn Anndi Evin Jan 2019

Evaluation Of Management Tools For Stripe Rust In Hard Red Spring Wheat And Assessment Of Virulence Phenotypes And Aggressiveness In Puccinia Striiformis Isolates, Bryn Anndi Evin

Plant Sciences

Stripe rust, caused by Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici (Pst), is an economically important foliar disease of wheat (Triticum aestivum). In the last decade, losses from stripe rust in North Dakota (ND) have increased, peaking at 5% in 2015. Three research studies were conducted to address questions on the pathogen, varietal resistance, and integrated management. The objective of the first study was to (i) identify virulent phenotypes of Pst isolates collected from ND from 2015 to 2017 and assign races, and (ii) determine the effect of temperature on in vitro urediniospore germination, latency, and lesion spread. Across the three years, …

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Transfer Of Fusarium Head Blight Resistance To Hard Red Winter Wheat, Hongbin Tao Jan 2019

Transfer Of Fusarium Head Blight Resistance To Hard Red Winter Wheat, Hongbin Tao

Plant Sciences

Fusarium head blight (FHB; caused by Fusarium graminearum Schwabe) is a serious disease of hard red winter wheat (HRWW) in North Dakota. Current varieties are lacking in resistance. Many resistance quantitative trait loci (QTL) were discovered in spring wheat that can be employed in HRWW. The North Dakota State University breeding program aims to acquire and pyramid useful FHB resistance QTL into its breeding population. Therefore, hybrid populations derived from CM82036 (Fhb1 and Qfhs.ifa-5A), PI277012 (Qfhb.rwg-5A.1 and Qfhb.rwg-5A.2), Frontana (Qfhs.ifa-3A), and TA5660 (Fhb6) were tested for type II resistance to: derive new FHB resistant HRWW lines with pyramided QTL (Fhb1+) …

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Influence Of Tomato (Solanum Lycopersicum L.) Seedling Grafting On Plant Growth, Fruit Yield And Quality, And Disease Tolerance, Suman Parajuli Jan 2019

Influence Of Tomato (Solanum Lycopersicum L.) Seedling Grafting On Plant Growth, Fruit Yield And Quality, And Disease Tolerance, Suman Parajuli

Plant Sciences

Influence of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) seedling grafting on the plant growth, fruit yield and quality, and disease tolerance were investigated using 3 cultivars (Big Beef, Celebrity, Cannonball) as scions and two Solanum species (B-blocking, Maxifort) as a rootstock in a randomized complete block design with three replications. The grafted plants were statistically higher in values for stem diameter, leaf chlorophyll, and fruit carotenoid contents. Similarly, the scion/rootstock combination ‘Big Beef/Maxifort’ and ‘Big Beef/B-blocking’ had prolonged days to maturity and gives a higher yield than the non-grafted ‘Big Beef’. Grafting seedling on ‘Maxifort’ and ‘B-blocking’ rootstocks improves the fruit quality …

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Optimal Seeding Rates For New Hard Red Spring Wheat Cultivars In Diverse Environments, Jordan D. Stanley Jan 2019

Optimal Seeding Rates For New Hard Red Spring Wheat Cultivars In Diverse Environments, Jordan D. Stanley

Plant Sciences

Seeding rate in hard red spring wheat (HRSW) (Triticum aestivum L.) production impacts input cost and grain yield. Predicting the optimal seeding rate (OSR) for HRSW cultivars can aid growers and eliminate the need for costly seeding rate research. Research was conducted to determine the OSR of newer HRSW cultivars (released in 2013 or later) in diverse environments. Nine cultivars with diverse genetic and phenotypic characteristics were evaluated at four seeding rates in 11 environments throughout the northern Great Plains region in 2017-2018. Results from ANOVA indicated environment and cultivar were more important than seeding rate in determining grain yield. …

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Landscaping For Season Long Color, Jaydee Gunnell, Sheriden M. Hansen, Linden Greenhalgh, Holly Christley Jan 2019

Landscaping For Season Long Color, Jaydee Gunnell, Sheriden M. Hansen, Linden Greenhalgh, Holly Christley

All Current Publications

This fact sheet describes plants that can give landscapes color all season long with blooms in spring, summer, fall and winter interests. It includes a listing of trees, shrubs, perennials, vines, ground covers, bulbs, and ornamental grasses.

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A Guide To Municipal Water Conservation Pricing In Utah, Eric C. Edwards, Sara A. Sutherland Jan 2019

A Guide To Municipal Water Conservation Pricing In Utah, Eric C. Edwards, Sara A. Sutherland

All Current Publications

This fact sheet provides information on the use of price to encourage water conservation in Utah.

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Leadership Keys: Unlocking Doors To Success, Cindy Nelson Jan 2019

Leadership Keys: Unlocking Doors To Success, Cindy Nelson

All Current Publications

This leadership curriculum is designed to teach leadership skills to adolescents using the leadership keys theme and fun, hands-on activities. The five lessons are intended to be used in a series, but lessons and activities may be successfully used individually.

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Protein Provision In Critically Ill Adults Requiring Enteral Nutrition: Are Guidelines Being Met?, Avril Collinson, Alexandra Mitchell, Stephen Taylor, Claire Downer, Rowan Clemente, Kaylee Allan, Frances Greer Jan 2019

Protein Provision In Critically Ill Adults Requiring Enteral Nutrition: Are Guidelines Being Met?, Avril Collinson, Alexandra Mitchell, Stephen Taylor, Claire Downer, Rowan Clemente, Kaylee Allan, Frances Greer

School of Health Professions

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Determining The Impact Of A Bowel Management Protocol On Patients And Clinicians’ Compliance In Cardiac Intensive Care: A Mixed-Methods Approach, Dawn Warren, Bridie Kent Jan 2019

Determining The Impact Of A Bowel Management Protocol On Patients And Clinicians’ Compliance In Cardiac Intensive Care: A Mixed-Methods Approach, Dawn Warren, Bridie Kent

School of Nursing and Midwifery

No abstract provided.

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Multicomponent Hospital-Led Interventions To Reduce Hospital Stay For Older Adults Following Elective Surgery: A Systematic Review, M Nunns, L Shaw, S Briscoe, Coon J Thompson, A Hemsley, Js Mcgrath, Cj Lovegrove, D Thomas, R Anderson Jan 2019

Multicomponent Hospital-Led Interventions To Reduce Hospital Stay For Older Adults Following Elective Surgery: A Systematic Review, M Nunns, L Shaw, S Briscoe, Coon J Thompson, A Hemsley, Js Mcgrath, Cj Lovegrove, D Thomas, R Anderson

School of Health Professions

BackgroundElective older adult inpatient admissions are increasingly common. Older adults are at an elevated risk of adverse events in hospital, potentially increasing with lengthier hospital stay. Hospital-led organisational strategies may optimise hospital stay for elective older adult inpatients.ObjectivesTo evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of hospital-led multicomponent interventions to reduce hospital stay for older adults undergoing elective hospital admissions.Data sourcesSeven bibliographic databases (MEDLINE, MEDLINE In-Process & Other Non-Indexed Citations, EMBASE, Health Management Information Consortium, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature and Allied and Complementary Medicine Database) were searched from inception to date of …

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Scale-Invariance For Radial Frequency Patterns In Peripheral Vision, A Zolubak, G Schmidtmann, Lg Suarez Jan 2019

Scale-Invariance For Radial Frequency Patterns In Peripheral Vision, A Zolubak, G Schmidtmann, Lg Suarez

School of Health Professions

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Pp13 The Nhs Pathways (Nhsp) Medical Call Triage System And New ‘Nature Of Call’ Telephone Screening Tool, Employed Prior To Nhsp, Can Accurately Identify High Acuity Patients: Analysis Of Sensitivity And Specificity Using Routine Ambulance Service Data, J Green, S Ewings, R Wortham, B Walsh Jan 2019

Pp13 The Nhs Pathways (Nhsp) Medical Call Triage System And New ‘Nature Of Call’ Telephone Screening Tool, Employed Prior To Nhsp, Can Accurately Identify High Acuity Patients: Analysis Of Sensitivity And Specificity Using Routine Ambulance Service Data, J Green, S Ewings, R Wortham, B Walsh

School of Health Professions

BackgroundThe NHS Pathways (NHSP) medical call triage system is employed by UK ambulance services. One function is to identify a broad category of ‘high-acuity calls’, distinguishing them from those that do not require an emergency response. A new pre-triage screening tool, Nature of Call (NoC), designed to augment NHSP could be employed as a rapid initial sieve of broad acuity.ObjectivesTo identify the accuracy of NHSP (and NoC) in recognising patients who require an emergency ambulance response (and therefore those who may not).MethodsDiagnostic accuracy. The sample is a retrospective cohort of consecutive calls, over a 4 month period, to a UK …

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The Macaque Anterior Cingulate Cortex Translates Counterfactual Choice Value Into Actual Behavioral Change, Elsa F. Fouragnan, Bolton K.H. Chau, Davide Folloni, Nils Kolling, Lennart Verhagen, Miriam Klein-Flügge, Lev Tankelevitch, Georgios K. Papageorgiou, Jean Francois Aubry, Jerome Sallet, Matthew F.S. Rushworth Jan 2019

The Macaque Anterior Cingulate Cortex Translates Counterfactual Choice Value Into Actual Behavioral Change, Elsa F. Fouragnan, Bolton K.H. Chau, Davide Folloni, Nils Kolling, Lennart Verhagen, Miriam Klein-Flügge, Lev Tankelevitch, Georgios K. Papageorgiou, Jean Francois Aubry, Jerome Sallet, Matthew F.S. Rushworth

School of Psychology

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Natural Environments And Craving: The Mediating Role Of Negative Affect, Leanne Martin, Sabine Pahl, Mathew P. White, Jon May Jan 2019

Natural Environments And Craving: The Mediating Role Of Negative Affect, Leanne Martin, Sabine Pahl, Mathew P. White, Jon May

School of Psychology

No abstract provided.

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Neural Correlates Of Weighted Reward Prediction Error During Reinforcement Learning Classify Response To Cognitive Behavioral Therapy In Depression, Filippo Queirazza, Elsa Fouragnan, J. Douglas Steele, Jonathan Cavanagh, Marios G. Philiastides Jan 2019

Neural Correlates Of Weighted Reward Prediction Error During Reinforcement Learning Classify Response To Cognitive Behavioral Therapy In Depression, Filippo Queirazza, Elsa Fouragnan, J. Douglas Steele, Jonathan Cavanagh, Marios G. Philiastides

School of Psychology

While cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is an effective treatment for major depressive disorder, only up to 45% of depressed patients will respond to it. At present, there is no clinically viable neuroimaging predictor of CBT response. Notably, the lack of a mechanistic understanding of treatment response has hindered identification of predictive biomarkers. To obtain mechanistically meaningful fMRI predictors of CBT response, we capitalize on pretreatment neural activity encoding a weighted reward prediction error (RPE), which is implicated in the acquisition and processing of feedback information during probabilistic learning. Using a conventional mass-univariate fMRI analysis, we demonstrate that, at the group …

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An Investigation Of Reliability Of The Sunderland Tracheosophageal Voice Perceptual Scale., Margaret M. Coffey, Neil Tolley, David Howard, Mary Hickson Jan 2019

An Investigation Of Reliability Of The Sunderland Tracheosophageal Voice Perceptual Scale., Margaret M. Coffey, Neil Tolley, David Howard, Mary Hickson

School of Health Professions

BACKGROUND: The Sunderland Tracheosophageal Voice Perceptual scale (SToPS) is the only perceptual rating scale designed specifically for tracheosophageal voice [Hurren et al.: Clin Otolaryngol. 2009 Dec; 34(6): 533-8]. OBJECTIVE: To investigate the inter rater reliability of the SToPS when analyzing alaryngeal voice. METHODS: Prospective evaluation of inter rater reliability of the SToPS based on audio recordings of 230 voice samples from 41 laryngectomy patients rated by 3 experts. Interval data were analyzed using intraclass correlation coefficients (ICC) while categorical data were analyzed using Kappa. RESULTS: ICC of above 0.6 was observed between raters for each prosthesis on a majority of …

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Caregiver Outcomes Of The Reach-Hf Multicentre Randomized Controlled Trial Of Home-Based Rehabilitation For Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction, Jennifer Wingham, Julia Frost, Nicky Britten, Colin Greaves, Charles Abraham, Fiona C. Warren, Kate Jolly, Jackie Miles, Kevin Paul, Patrick J. Doherty, Sally Singh, Russell Davies, Miriam Noonan, Hasnain Dalal, Rod S. Taylor Jan 2019

Caregiver Outcomes Of The Reach-Hf Multicentre Randomized Controlled Trial Of Home-Based Rehabilitation For Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction, Jennifer Wingham, Julia Frost, Nicky Britten, Colin Greaves, Charles Abraham, Fiona C. Warren, Kate Jolly, Jackie Miles, Kevin Paul, Patrick J. Doherty, Sally Singh, Russell Davies, Miriam Noonan, Hasnain Dalal, Rod S. Taylor

School of Health Professions

Background Caregivers frequently provide support to people living with long-term conditions. However, there is paucity of evidence of interventions that support caregivers in their role. Rehabilitation EnAblement in Chronic Heart Failure (REACH-HF) is a novel home-based, health-professional-facilitated, self-management programme for patients with heart failure (HF) and their caregivers. Methods Based on the random allocation of individual adult patients with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) and left ventricular ejection fraction <45% within the past five years, the caregiver of patients was allocated to receive the REACH-HF intervention over 12 weeks (REACH-HF group) or not (control group). Caregiver outcomes were generic health-related quality of life (EQ-5D-5L), Family Caregiver Quality of Life Scale questionnaire (FamQol), Caregiver Burden Questionnaire HF (CBQ-HF), Caregiver Contribution to Self-care of HF Index questionnaire (CC-SCHFI) and Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS). Outcomes were compared between groups at 4, 6 and 12 months follow-up. Twenty caregivers receiving REACH-HF were purposively selected for qualitative interviews at 4 and 12 months. Results Compared with controls (44 caregivers), the REACH-HF group (53 caregivers) had a higher mean CC-SCHFI confidence score at 12 months (57.5 vs 62.8, adjusted mean difference: 9.3, 95% confidence interval: 1.8–16.8, p = 0.016). No significant between group differences were seen in other caregiver outcomes. Qualitative interviews showed that most caregivers who received the REACH-HF intervention made positive changes to how they supported the HF patient they were caring for, and perceived that they had increased their confidence in the caregiver role over time. Conclusion Provision of the REACH-HF intervention for caregivers of HF patients improved their confidence of self-management and was perceived for some to be helpful in supporting their caregiver role.

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Whiteness As Innocence, David Simson Jan 2019

Whiteness As Innocence, David Simson

Articles & Chapters

Current antidiscrimination law is exceedingly hostile to the project of race-conscious remediation—the conscious use of race to mitigate America’s persistent racial hierarchy. This Article argues that this broad hostility can be traced in significant part to what I call “Whiteness as Innocence” ideology. This ideology is a system of legal reasoning by which the formal principle of equality is filled with the substantive principle of white racial dominance via invocations of white innocence. That is, under this ideology, ideas about white innocence influence legal decisions on who is “alike” and “unalike” and what constitutes “alike” and “unalike” treatment in race-conscious …

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A Tj Approach To Mental Disability Rights Research: On Sexual Autonomy And Sexual Offending, Michael L. Perlin, Heather Ellis Cucolo, Alison Lynch Jan 2019

A Tj Approach To Mental Disability Rights Research: On Sexual Autonomy And Sexual Offending, Michael L. Perlin, Heather Ellis Cucolo, Alison Lynch

Articles & Chapters

We believe it is impossible to understand the development and the power of therapeutic jurisprudence (TJ) without acknowledging that its roots in mental disability law have continued to expand and flourish over the decades, and that there is no other substantive area of the law in which every aspect – substantive and procedural, civil and criminal, statutory and constitutional. domestic and international – has been weighed and evaluated using a TJ lens. In this chapter, we consider how those roots have shaped the last three decades of research and the implications of what has developed. We look carefully at two …

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We Carry Each Other, Heidi K. Brown Jan 2019

We Carry Each Other, Heidi K. Brown

Articles & Chapters

No abstract provided.

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Helping David Fight Goliath: Preserving The Wto In The Trump Era, Michael Goodyear Jan 2019

Helping David Fight Goliath: Preserving The Wto In The Trump Era, Michael Goodyear

Articles & Chapters

The Trump presidency and other reactionary conservative governments present an immensely powerful danger to the World Trade Organization (WTO). The WTO is largely built on Members’ willingness to comply with its rules, and the current Dispute Settlement Understanding (DSU) is too weak to deter an avowed enemy of the WTO, such as President Trump. This poor enforcement system particularly hurts developing countries, which lack the power under the DSU to effectively deter economic giants like the United States.

The recent Doha Round was supposed to create a more effective enforcement mechanism under the DSU, but it fell apart before any …

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Inconspicuous Impacts: Widespread Marine Invader Causes Subtle But Significant Changes In Native Macroalgal Assemblages, G Epstein, A Foggo, Da Smale Jan 2019

Inconspicuous Impacts: Widespread Marine Invader Causes Subtle But Significant Changes In Native Macroalgal Assemblages, G Epstein, A Foggo, Da Smale

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

No abstract provided.

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The Processing Of Compound Radial Frequency Patterns, Gunnar Schmidtmann, Frederick A.A. Kingdom, Gunter Loffler Jan 2019

The Processing Of Compound Radial Frequency Patterns, Gunnar Schmidtmann, Frederick A.A. Kingdom, Gunter Loffler

School of Health Professions

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