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Historical Ecology With Real Numbers: Past And Present Extent And Biomass Of An Imperiled Estuarine Habitat, Philine S. E. Zu Ermgassen, Mark D. Spalding, Brady Blake, Loren D. Coen, Brett Dumbauld, Kay Mcgraw, William Rodney, Jennifer L. Ruesink, Sean P. Powers, Robert Brumbaugh Jun 2012

Historical Ecology With Real Numbers: Past And Present Extent And Biomass Of An Imperiled Estuarine Habitat, Philine S. E. Zu Ermgassen, Mark D. Spalding, Brady Blake, Loren D. Coen, Brett Dumbauld, Kay Mcgraw, William Rodney, Jennifer L. Ruesink, Sean P. Powers, Robert Brumbaugh

Jackson Estuarine Laboratory

Historic baselines are important in developing our understanding of ecosystems in the face of rapid global change. While a number of studies have sought to determine changes in extent of exploited habitats over historic timescales, few have quantified such changes prior to late twentieth century baselines. Here, we present, to our knowledge, the first ever large-scale quantitative assessment of the extent and biomass of marine habitat-forming species over a 100-year time frame. We examined records of wild native oyster abundance in the United States from a historic, yet already exploited, baseline between 1878 and 1935 (predominantly 1885–1915), and a current …

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Shadow Banking After The Financial Crisis, Federal Reserve System: Federal Reserve Bank Of San Francisco, Daniel K. Tarullo Jun 2012

Shadow Banking After The Financial Crisis, Federal Reserve System: Federal Reserve Bank Of San Francisco, Daniel K. Tarullo

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Shadow Banking After the Financial Crisis Remarks by Daniek K. Tarullo, Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System via Satellite to the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Conference on Challenges in Global Finance

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Early Childhood Special Education In Norway And The United States: A Meta-Synthesis, Julia Brainerd Jun 2012

Early Childhood Special Education In Norway And The United States: A Meta-Synthesis, Julia Brainerd

Special Education Masters Program Theses

This meta-synthesis investigates various aspects of early childhood special education in Norway and the U.S. Both countries strive to provide services for young children with disabilities in inclusive settings. However, the differences in policy, levels of governmental regulation and involvement, local organization of service delivery, and provision of social benefits shape very different realities for children with disabilities, their families, and their service providers in Norway and the U.S. This inquiry of 43 articles addresses such issues as overall quality of services and support available to children with disabilities and their families, qualifications of personnel who work with children with …

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Implementing The Dodd-Frank Act: The Federal Reserve Board's Role, Federal Reserve System: Board Of Governors Jun 2012

Implementing The Dodd-Frank Act: The Federal Reserve Board's Role, Federal Reserve System: Board Of Governors

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Bear Stearns In $275 Million Shareholder Settlement, Jonathan Stempel Jun 2012

Bear Stearns In $275 Million Shareholder Settlement, Jonathan Stempel

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Multilingualism And Multiculturalism: Transatlantic Discourses On Language, Identity, And Immigrant Schooling, Rosemary C. Salomone Jun 2012

Multilingualism And Multiculturalism: Transatlantic Discourses On Language, Identity, And Immigrant Schooling, Rosemary C. Salomone

Notre Dame Law Review

An essay is presented on multiculturalism and the rights of linguistic minority children in education. The impact of communication on the ethnic identity, social cohesion and nation's interest and the need of balance while defining policies by the federal government of the U.S. is discussed. The transatlantic discourse in multilingualism and its impact on the immigrants is also discussed.

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Estimated Impact Of The Federal Reserve's Mortgage-Backed Securities Purchase Program, Johannes C. Stroebel, John B. Taylor Jun 2012

Estimated Impact Of The Federal Reserve's Mortgage-Backed Securities Purchase Program, Johannes C. Stroebel, John B. Taylor

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Examines the quantitative impact of mortgage-backed securities (MBS) purchase program on mortgage interest rate spreads.

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Bringing The Market To Students: School Choice And Vocational Education In The Twenty-First Century, Lia Epperson Jun 2012

Bringing The Market To Students: School Choice And Vocational Education In The Twenty-First Century, Lia Epperson

Notre Dame Law Review

An essay is presented on the need of providing students with material and industrial foundation through higher education. The history of technical and vocational education in public schools, related federal legislation and the current state of education system is discussed. The issues related to college matriculation, employment status in young people and the mismatch between the education and the economic and industrial requirement of the nation is also discussed.

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The Federal Role In School Reform: Obama's Race To The Top, Joseph P. Viteritti Jun 2012

The Federal Role In School Reform: Obama's Race To The Top, Joseph P. Viteritti

Notre Dame Law Review

An essay is presented on a critical review of federal education policy of the U.S. which focuses on improving educational opportunity of economically disadvantages children. The objective and strategies of the educational policy and imposition of accountability on the states with reference to the educational agenda of the U.S. President Barack Obama is discussed. The evaluation of teachers and the Race to the Top initiative is also discussed

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The Economic Situation, 2012 June, Bruce Yandle Jun 2012

The Economic Situation, 2012 June, Bruce Yandle

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Quarterly report on the economic situation of the United States and South Carolina.

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A Comparative Law Analysis Of Private Securities Litigation In The Wake Of Morrison V. National Australia Bank, Grant Swanson Jun 2012

A Comparative Law Analysis Of Private Securities Litigation In The Wake Of Morrison V. National Australia Bank, Grant Swanson

Chicago-Kent Law Review

This article examines the recent Supreme Court decision in Morrison v. National Australia Bank and its broad implications for private securities litigants going forward. Morrison overturned forty years of jurisprudence when it rejected the conduct and effects tests used in some form by every Circuit Court when determining the extraterritorial reach of Section 10(b) of the Securities Act. The Court instead adopted a transactional test requiring that the security be traded in the United States or otherwise domestic, substantially cutting back the reach of Section 10(b). As a result, many securities litigants will be forced to bring claims in the …

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Federal Home Loan Bank Advances And Commercial Bank Portfolio Composition, W. Scott Frame, Diana Hancock, Wayne Passmore Jun 2012

Federal Home Loan Bank Advances And Commercial Bank Portfolio Composition, W. Scott Frame, Diana Hancock, Wayne Passmore

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Federal Reserve Lending To Troubled Banks During The Financial Crisis, 2007-2010, R. Alton Gilbert, Kevin L. Kliesen, Andrew P. Meyer, David C. Wheelock Jun 2012

Federal Reserve Lending To Troubled Banks During The Financial Crisis, 2007-2010, R. Alton Gilbert, Kevin L. Kliesen, Andrew P. Meyer, David C. Wheelock

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Of Speech And Sanctions: Toward A Penalty-Sensitive Approach To The First Amendment, Michael Coenen Jun 2012

Of Speech And Sanctions: Toward A Penalty-Sensitive Approach To The First Amendment, Michael Coenen

Journal Articles

Courts confronting First Amendment claims do not often scrutinize the severity of a speaker’s punishment. Embracing a “penalty-neutral” understanding of the free-speech right, these courts tend to treat an individual’s expression as either protected, in which case the government may not punish it at all, or unprotected, in which case the government may punish it to a very great degree. There is, however, a small but important body of “penalty-sensitive” case law that runs counter to the penalty-neutral norm. Within this case law, the severity of a speaker’s punishment affects the merits of her First Amendment claim, thus giving rise …

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The Seesaw Project: A School Supply Fundraiser For Underprivileged Children And A Case Study On Educational Inequality In India And The United States, Angeli Calinog Jun 2012

The Seesaw Project: A School Supply Fundraiser For Underprivileged Children And A Case Study On Educational Inequality In India And The United States, Angeli Calinog

Social Sciences

My senior project was a process consisting of two parts. The first half was researching education inequality in India compared to the United States. This paper researches the relationship between educational inequality and the importance of sociological and geographical factors. For the second part of my senior project, I used my case study, I wanted to incorporate my experience interning abroad for the non-profit organization “Udayan Care” in India This part researches the steps into creating a non-profit organization and the process of hosting a fundraiser in the community.

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Management Of Hyperglycemia In Type 2 Diabetes: A Patient-Centered Approach: Position Statement Of The American Diabetes Association (Ada) And The European Association For The Study Of Diabetes (Easd)., Silvio E Inzucchi, Richard M Bergenstal, John B Buse, Michaela Diamant, Ele Ferrannini, Michael Nauck, Anne L Peters, Apostolos Tsapas, Richard Wender, David R. Matthews Jun 2012

Management Of Hyperglycemia In Type 2 Diabetes: A Patient-Centered Approach: Position Statement Of The American Diabetes Association (Ada) And The European Association For The Study Of Diabetes (Easd)., Silvio E Inzucchi, Richard M Bergenstal, John B Buse, Michaela Diamant, Ele Ferrannini, Michael Nauck, Anne L Peters, Apostolos Tsapas, Richard Wender, David R. Matthews

Department of Family & Community Medicine Faculty Papers

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Sanctions Dataset Codebook For Arasp (Autocratic Regimes And Sanctions Project), Clara Portela, Christian Von Soest Jun 2012

Sanctions Dataset Codebook For Arasp (Autocratic Regimes And Sanctions Project), Clara Portela, Christian Von Soest

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

This is the codebook containing definitions of terms used in the Sanction Dataset. The dataset is composed of the entire universe of sanctions regimes imposed by the UN, US and EU in the period from 1990 to 2010, including those sanctions regimes that were in place by 1990, targeting a country, its leadership and entities associated with it. Episodes which are still on-going are also recorded.

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Seismic Site Classifications For The St. Louis Urban Area, Jaewon Chung, J. David Rogers Jun 2012

Seismic Site Classifications For The St. Louis Urban Area, Jaewon Chung, J. David Rogers

Geosciences and Geological and Petroleum Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Regional National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP) soil class maps have become important input parameters for seismic site characterization and hazard studies. The broad range of shallow shear-wave velocity (VS30, the average shear-wave velocity in the upper 30 m) measurements in the St. Louis area results in significant uncertainties between the actual spot values and the averaged values used to assign NEHRP soil classes for regional seismic hazard studies. In the preparation of an NEHRP site classification map of the St. Louis urban area, we analyzed 92 shear-wave velocity (VS) measurements, supplemented by 1400+ standard penetration …

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A Geospatial Analysis Of Cdc-Funded Hiv Prevention Programs For African Americans In The United States, G. A. Gilliam, Carol L. Hanchette, Kieran J. Fogarty, Deborah A. Gibbs May 2012

A Geospatial Analysis Of Cdc-Funded Hiv Prevention Programs For African Americans In The United States, G. A. Gilliam, Carol L. Hanchette, Kieran J. Fogarty, Deborah A. Gibbs

Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice

Given the increase in HIV/AIDS infection rates among racial and ethnic minorities, particularly African Americans, this study was undertaken as part of a larger research effort to examine the distribution of HIV prevention services focusing on African American populations within the United States. Data were gathered via a national survey of community-based organizations (CBOs) funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). A geocoded national database was constructed to identify, locate, and map these HIV prevention programs. A total of 1,020 CBOs responded to the survey, yielding a response rate of 70.3%. These CBOs administered a total of …

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How Are Global Biofuels Trends Changing?, Inter-American Dialogue's Latin American Energy Advisor May 2012

How Are Global Biofuels Trends Changing?, Inter-American Dialogue's Latin American Energy Advisor

Latin American Energy Dialogue, White Papers and Reports

At the end of 2011, the United States overtook Brazil as the world's top ethanol exporter— though U.S. imports from Brazil have been growing as a result of domestic regulation in the United States. Countries like Thailand have also increased their ethanol exports to traditional Brazilian markets, such as China, as the South American nation struggles to meet domestic demand. What trends in the global biofuel market, including advanced biofuels and bio-based products, will be seen in the medium- to longterm future? How are Brazil's biofuels production trends and government policies for the sector changing, if at all? What accounts …

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Sec Staff Ends Probe Of Lehman Without Finding Fraud, Joshua Gallu May 2012

Sec Staff Ends Probe Of Lehman Without Finding Fraud, Joshua Gallu

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Interim Evaluation Of The Project P.A.T.H.S.: Findings Based On Different Datasets, Daniel T. L. Shek, Lu Yu May 2012

Interim Evaluation Of The Project P.A.T.H.S.: Findings Based On Different Datasets, Daniel T. L. Shek, Lu Yu

Pediatrics Faculty Publications

Interim evaluation studies were carried out in order to examine the implementation details of the Tier 1 Program of the Project P.A.T.H.S. (Positive Adolescent Training through Holistic Social Programmes) in Hong Kong. Quantitative results of the interim evaluation findings based on eight datasets collected from 2006 to 2009 are reported in this paper. Three hundred and seventy-eight schools were randomly selected to provide information on the implementation details of the program via face-to-face interviews, telephone interviews, and self-completed questionnaires. Results showed that a majority of the workers perceived that the students had positive responses to the program and the program …

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Fear Of Asking: Factors That Inhibit Latinos In Seeking And Obtaining Credit For Small Business, Brenda Hernandez May 2012

Fear Of Asking: Factors That Inhibit Latinos In Seeking And Obtaining Credit For Small Business, Brenda Hernandez

College of Management Honors Theses

Latino owned businesses and any minority business in general are important for the economy of the United States. They generate money that helps the economy grow and work. In the fiscal year of 2010, the Minority Business Development Agency of the United States Department of Commerce created 6,397 new jobs and helped minority owned businesses obtained almost 4 billion in contracts and capital. The numbers are record highs for the MBDA and it shows that minority businesses are growing now more than they were ever before. While the number is growing, the number of minority owned businesses is still small …

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Socioeconomic Factors That Lead To Latino Male Students Leaving School Before Graduating, Joseph C. D'Agostino May 2012

Socioeconomic Factors That Lead To Latino Male Students Leaving School Before Graduating, Joseph C. D'Agostino

Education

Students of color make up a predominant number of learners that leave high school before graduating (National Center for Education Research, 2009). I selected to study Latino males to narrow the scope of my research. The literature I reviewed pointed directly at socioeconomics as one of the primary factors. I feel there are more specific factors involved for many of the individuals impacted. I used a qualitative approach and utilized an anonymous survey and individual interviews to pinpoint some of these factors. The findings from my research further supported that socioeconomics were a leading factor. My data and literature review …

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Grandparents, Great Parents: Negotiating The Role Transition To Custodial Grandparent, Leanne Alaine Burnett May 2012

Grandparents, Great Parents: Negotiating The Role Transition To Custodial Grandparent, Leanne Alaine Burnett

Communication

An ever increasing number of grandparents in the United States are taking on the responsibility for providing primary care for their grandchildren. Focus group interviews conducted in two urban communities in Alaska were the basis of this study examining how grandparents negotiate the role transition as they become custodial grandparents. Role theory was used to inform the analysis of the data. The two major themes which emerged suggested these transitions were effected by role conflict and role timing. The grandparents participating in the study indicated that involvement in peer support groups helped them to more successfully negotiate this difficult role …

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We Need To Talk And The Nation Is Watching: A Textual Analysis Of Drug Interventions, Bailey J. Denhalter May 2012

We Need To Talk And The Nation Is Watching: A Textual Analysis Of Drug Interventions, Bailey J. Denhalter

Communication

Addiction is something that millions of people struggle with. Many are unable to or do not realize that they have a problem. Previously kept as an embarrassing family secret, drug interventions have gone Hollywood. The entertainment industry began publicizing these once private affairs for the nation in the early 2000's; unfortunately, publicity does not ensure a problem will be addressed in the appropriate manner. Drug interventions are typically conducted in secret, away from the prying eyes of neighbors or community members. By a stroke of genius or insanity, the producers at A & E realized the American public's fascination with …

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Putting Taxpayers In A Stronger Position To Continue Recovering Their Investment In Ally Financial, Timothy G. Massad May 2012

Putting Taxpayers In A Stronger Position To Continue Recovering Their Investment In Ally Financial, Timothy G. Massad

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Devil In A Hula Skirt: Comparative Conservation Efforts Between The United States And Australia Using Two Endemic Species As Case Studies, Sarah Catherine Kuchinsky May 2012

Devil In A Hula Skirt: Comparative Conservation Efforts Between The United States And Australia Using Two Endemic Species As Case Studies, Sarah Catherine Kuchinsky

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Collection

There is a biodiversity crisis in our midst. An abundance of technology and innovation in the last 200 years has revamped our world but at the cost of pushing many species to extinction. Since the passing of the Endangered Species Act by Congress in 1973, more than 100 species in the United States have disappeared (Wilson 2006). The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) stats that "19,265 species out of the 59,507 so far assessed as threatened with extinction," (IUCN 2011). Extinction is the result of a combination of factors caused by human environmental disturbance. Disturbances in the …

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The Sexual Orientation And Gender Non-Discrimination Act, Julia Churchill Schoellkopf May 2012

The Sexual Orientation And Gender Non-Discrimination Act, Julia Churchill Schoellkopf

Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer Center

The United States is still not a safe place for members of the LGBT community, demonstrated by the lack of federal laws protecting them and frequent discrimination. Because discrimination against LGBT people is still legal in the work place, they are mistreated and put out of work. To ensure their safety and economic security, LGBT people need the protection that is granted to women, people of color, veterans, the disabled, and many other hard-working Americans. The Sexuality and Gender Non-Discrimination Act must be passed and enforced to give this protection to LGBT members by prohibiting employment discrimination based on sexual …

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Differences In Race And/Or Gender In Attitudes And Beliefs Towards Obesity Among Students At The University Of Southern Mississippi, Erick Brown May 2012

Differences In Race And/Or Gender In Attitudes And Beliefs Towards Obesity Among Students At The University Of Southern Mississippi, Erick Brown

Honors Theses

Overweight and obesity have been described by various experts as critical problems in populations around the world, especially in the United States. These issues are so characterized because they affect numerous facets of life in this society. Researchers in the medical community have repeatedly described the health-related risks associated with obesity rates, asserting that higher risks of debilitating or fatal disease are tied to one’s level of obesity. They also say that obesity rates of populations are related to other disease rates, and many imply or clearly state that obesity is the cause and therefore the problem to be contested. …

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