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Full Issue, Bulletin Of The Texas Ornithological Society

Bulletin of the Texas Ornithological Society

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Full Issue, Bulletin Of The Texas Ornithological Society

Bulletin of the Texas Ornithological Society

No abstract provided.

Full Issue, Bulletin Of The Texas Ornithological Society

Bulletin of the Texas Ornithological Society

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Full Issue, Bulletin Of The Texas Ornithological Society

Bulletin of the Texas Ornithological Society

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The Volcanic Field Of The Middle Atlas Causse: Highlights And Heritage Appropriation, Sara Mountaj, Toufik Remmal, Kawtar Lakroud, Pierre Boivin, Iz-Eddine El Hassani El Amrani, Fouad El Kamel, Samira Makhoukhi, Halima Jounaid, Fouad Amraoui, Mohamed Soufi

The Geographical Bulletin

The Middle Atlas Causse is a vast natural park that includes a large part of the volcanic province of the Middle Atlas between Azrou and Timahdite that is characterized by large effusions of basaltic rocks among which emerge well preserved monogenic volcanic edifices. Taking advantage of its impressive and significant presence in the landscape, our priority will be to enhance this natural element to make it a powerful lever for tourism and territorial development. We propose an action for the development and heritage appropriation of this geosite, as part of a project that brings together the natural and human assets …

Sin In Business: The Contributions Of Perversion, Defilement, And Idolatry, Jason M. Stansbury

Journal of Religion and Business Ethics

Far from being a parochial concern with the ritual observances of the faithful, sin is the fundamental problem of life for all people. It encompasses all of the violations of the peace that a person has or should have with God, themselves, others, and even the natural environment. These violations occur as people pervert parts of God’s good creation away from their created purposes and toward unworthy ones, disrupting the interdependent order of creation and defiling themselves and their objects in the process. It moreover is self-reinforcing, gaining a power over people that makes future sins more difficult to resist, …

Volume 60-1 Complete Issue, Casey D. Allen

The Geographical Bulletin

Volume 60-1 Complete Issue

Locational Analysis Of Seasonal Migration Of Nomadic Pastoralists In A Part Of Northern Nigeria, Nathaniel Olugbade Adeoye

The Geographical Bulletin

There seems to be paradigm shift in the direction of seasonal migration among the nomadic pastoralists in southern Nigeria owing to recent social events and hostility confronting them in their communities. This study examined the new directions of seasonal migration among nomadic pastoralists, the migration pattern, distances covered during migration, period of return to the home area, factors responsible for the migration pattern, and the challenges encountered in the new area. The study relied mainly on primary data, which emanated from a survey questionnaire. The resultant data were used to elicit information on the relevant variables of the study. One …

Geographic Distribution Of Public Health Hospitals In Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Ahmed Alhomaidhi

The Geographical Bulletin

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia City of Riyadh faces many challenges and problems in distributing public health services. The Ministry of Health (MOH) operates eight hospitals within the city, delivering a variety of basic, specialty, and emergency services. Population growth and urbanization has led to an imbalance in facility locations and service delivery for the city, which fails to adhere to the MOH’s recommendations. In this paper, nearest neighbor analysis, service area, and range analysis, as well as a spatial model are used to determine the distribution of hospitals, areas of under-coverage, and potential locations for new hospitals. This methodology …

Sjsu Erfa Board Minutes, May 6, 2024, San Jose State University, Emeritus And Retired Faculty Association

SJSU ERFA Minutes

SJSU ERFA Executive Board Minutes

May 6, 2024

Identifying School-Wide Inequities: Action Research Conducted Using An Equity Audit To Inform Annual School Planning For A Pre-K–8 School, Janine Casella

Theses and Dissertations

This action research study aims to identify and address equity gaps within a PK-8 New Jersey school by leading a professional learning community (PLC). The study will use action research methods to conduct an educational equity audit, which will inform the annual school plan and create a leadership action plan to stimulate organizational change. Traditionally, teachers at the research site have used Data-Driven Decision Making (DDDM) cycles, but this study will integrate Critical Data-Driven Decision Making (CDDDM) cycles, including an equity audit analyzed in PLCs. The audit will identify patterns of inequity and identify strategies to address them. The study …

Commonwealth Times 2024-09-18

Commonwealth Times, 1969-

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Empowering Women In Pakistan's Agriculture: Rethinking Sharecropping, Education, And Rural Dynamics, Sahibzada Muhammad Hamza, Nasim Shah Shirazi

Journal of King Abdulaziz University: Islamic Economics

This study examines the impact of sharecropping agricultural structures on women'sempowerment in Pakistan, utilizing data from the Pakistan Social and Living Standard Survey (PSLM)across three-time cohorts: 2010-2011, 2014-2015, and 2019-2020. Employing a comprehensiveempirical model and the Heckman two-step approach to address potential sample selection bias, weanalyze a sample of 315,835 respondents. Contrary to initial expectations, our findings reveal thatparticipation in sharecropping does not have a statistically significant impact on women's empowerment,as measured by female employment. However, the study identifies several other crucial determinants ofempowerment. Education consistently demonstrates a positive and significant relationship withempowerment, reinforcing its vital role in enhancing women's …

Vasil Bajraktari V. Attorney General United States Of America

2024 Decisions

Agency

Exploring The Relationship Between Covid-19 Transmission And Population Mobility Over Time, Tanmoy Bhowmik, Naveen Eluru

Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

This study explores the dynamic relationship between COVID-19 transmission and transportation mobility, with an emphasis on understanding the time-varying bidirectional interplay across the different phases of the pandemic. To gain insight into this relationship, we analyzed county-level data on transmission and mobility patterns from the United States over a 74-week period using a comprehensive list of factors including: temporal factors, socio-demographics, health indicators, health care infrastructure attributes, and spatial factors. For our analysis, we proposed a simultaneous econometric model system that explicitly accounts for the bidirectional relationship between COVID-19 transmission and mobility patterns while also accounting for the influence of …

Arid, Mosaic Environments During The Plio-Pleistocene Transition And Early Hominin Dispersals In Northern Africa, Ivan Ramirez-Pedraza, Carlos Tornero, Hassan Aouraghe, Florent Rivals, Robert Patalano, Hamid Haddoumi, Antonio Rodriguez-Hidalgo, Steffen Mischka, Jan Van Der Made, Pedro Pinero, Hugues-Alexandre Blaine, Patrick Roberts, Deepak Kumar Jha, Jordi Augusti, Christian Sanchez-Bandera, Abdelkhalek Lemjidi, Alfonso Benito-Calvo, Elena Moreno-Ribas, Aicha Oujaa, Hicham Mhamdi, Mohammed Souhir, Al Madhi Aissa, M. Jema Chacon, Robert Sala-Ramos

Biological and Biomedical Sciences Department Faculty Journal Articles

©The Author(s) 2024.

Lucy Dunne V. Elton Corp

2024 Decisions

USDC for the District of Delaware

Fan Works And The Elusive Border Between Derivative And Transformative Uses, Aaron Schwabach

Faculty Scholarship

When Professor Schwabach began writing about fanfic and other fan works over a decade ago it was a niche topic, mostly of interest to fellow fans. It has since generated dozens of articles and a small but steadily increasing amount of litigation. In addition to several previous articles on the topic, Professor Schwabach has contributed a book (Fan Fiction and Copyright) and some book chapters to this ongoing discourse.

When this subject was new each article had to begin with a lengthy explanation of what fanfic is, why fictional characters are or are not protected by copyright, how parody and …

One Court, One State, One Year: What We Don't Know About Criminal Defendants' Testimony And Why It Matters, Emily Hughes, Kori Khan

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

Jury trials are supposed to encourage public trust in the criminal legal system while protecting fundamental fairness for the defendant. But how can the public help ensure the fairness of criminal trials when it has no meaningful way to understand the reality of what happens every day in criminal courtrooms across the country? This Article presents findings from an original pilot study—believed to be the first and largest such study—that collected and analyzed court documents and transcripts from seventy-five state criminal trials from one court in one state in one year. It posits that the public’s understanding of the significance …

Prosecuting Politicians, Shai Dothan

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

The laws of many countries grant politicians special protection from prosecution before national courts. The content of such laws is usually regulated by a compromise between two conflicting goals: On the one hand, the principle that everyone is equal before the law should be upheld. On the other hand, because politicians cannot fully dedicate themselves to their office when they are subject to legal proceedings, they should be protected more than regular citizens. What many seem to take for granted is that a trial of a senior politician, such as a prime minister or a president, does bad things to …

Fan Works And The Elusive Border Between Derivative And Transformative Uses: A Fanfic Law Retrospective And An Optimistic Look Forward, Aaron Schwabach

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

The scholarly discourse on fanfic and other fan works emerged over a decade ago as a niche topic mostly of interest to fans. It has since generated dozens of articles and a small but steadily increasing amount of litigation. When the subject was new, each article had to begin with an explanation of what fan works are, why fictional characters are or are not protected by copyright, and how parody and fair use are related. This Article seeks to place a capstone on the author’s work during that early era of fanfic scholarship and to move the discourse forward by …

The Legal Realists On Political Economy, Dan Priel

Articles & Book Chapters

Alongside the well-known jurisprudential ideas associated with legal realism, some scholars have highlighted the realists’ political-economic ideas. Best known among them has been Morton Horwitz, who has argued that the realists launched an “attack on the legitimacy of the market.” Other scholars challenged this view and argued that there was no significant connection between legal realism and political economic ideas. I offer a corrective to both views. I first consider the work of five legal realists (Karl Llewellyn, Adolf Berle, William O. Douglas, Jerome Frank, and Thurman Arnold) and show that all held views that were well within the political-economic …

Trial By Ambush: The Prosecution Of Indians In Federal Court, Samuel Winder

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

This Article addresses the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure’s unjust impact in the prosecution of Indians in federal court. As the rules of engagement used by federal prosecutors and defense attorneys in federal court when prosecuting Indians under the Major Crimes Act and the General Crimes Act, the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure differ from those of Civil Procedure with regard to discovery procedures. Specifically, the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure are unjust because they do not allow defense attorneys to conduct pretrial interviews or depositions of prospective witnesses whose evidence the United States will introduce at trial or use …

Current Developments In Tax Malpractice: Basics And Beyond, Jacob L. Todres

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

It was always assumed that “tax malpractice” referred to a situation in which an error occurred with respect to some tax provision or in a tax-related administrative or legal proceeding. However, several recent cases have expanded this thinking, introducing the possibility that tax malpractice may also occur where damages include an increase in taxes—irrespective of whether there was an error that directly involved tax law. Beginning with a discussion of the evolving definition of that term as seen in the New York cases of Serino v. Lipper and Bloostein v. Morrison Cohen LLP and whether these cases may have returned …

Exploring The Influence Of Psychiatric Discourse On Belongingness: A Critical Discourse Analysis, Michelle Goodwin

Counseling and Psychology Dissertations

This dissertation critically examines the role of psychiatric discourse in shaping the sense of belonging among individuals labeled as mentally ill. Using Critical Discourse Analysis and drawing on Foucault’s theories of power and knowledge alongside Patricia Hill Collins' matrix of domination, this study explores how psychiatric discourse—rooted in supremacy ideologies—perpetuates social exclusion and internalized oppression. Through qualitative interviews, the research highlights how fear, judgment, and narratives of individual responsibility embedded in psychiatric frameworks erode self-worth and agency, fostering internalized blame and social disconnection. Participants described feeling viewed as burdens and powerless, with these dynamics reinforcing exclusionary identities. The findings advocate …

Synaptotagmin-9 In Mouse Retina, Chris S. Mesnard, Cassandra L. Hays, Lou E. Townsend, Cody L. Barta, Channabasavaiah B. Gurumurthy, Wallace B. Whoreson

Neuroscience Faculty Publications

Synaptotagmin-9 (Syt9) is a Ca2+ sensor mediating fast synaptic release expressed in various parts of the brain. The presence and role of Syt9 in retina is unknown. We found evidence for Syt9 expression throughout the retina and created mice to conditionally eliminate Syt9 in a cre-dependent manner. We crossed Syt9fl/fl mice with Rho-iCre, HRGP-Cre, and CMV-Cre mice to generate mice in which Syt9 was eliminated from rods (rodSyt9CKO), cones (coneSyt9CKO), or whole animals (CMVSyt9). CMVSyt9 mice showed an increase in scotopic electroretinogram (ERG) b-waves evoked by bright flashes with no change in a-waves. Cone-driven photopic ERG b-waves were not significantly …

National Constitution Day - The American Presidency And The Constitution: Horizons Of Executive Power, Jay Steinmetz

Times Talk Archive & ADP Projects

Times Talk

National Constitution Day

The American Presidency and the Constitution: Horizons of Executive Power

Dr. Jay Steinmetz - FHSU Department of Political Science

September 18, 2024

Hālal Investment Sensitivity To Cash Flow And The Effects Of Capital Market Imperfections, Mohamed Abouelseoud

Journal of King Abdulaziz University: Islamic Economics

This paper examines the relationship between hālal investment sensitivity and cash flow,as well as the impact of capital market imperfections on investment sensitivity in ṣukūk -dependentcompanies versus conventional enterprises in six countries: Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates,Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, and Malaysia. The research is based on panel data from 240 non-financiallylisted conventional and Islamic enterprises from 2018 to 2022. The study incorporates both analyticaland econometric approaches. Stationarity, co-integration, and multivariate Granger-Causality testsare carried out using the estimated equations. The study finds that there are considerable distinctionsbetween ṣukūk -dependent firms and traditional enterprises. At the 5% significance level, bothgroups' investment …

Positron Emission Tomography (Pet) In Presurgical Planning Of Anterior Temporal Lobectomy: A Systematic Review Of Efficacy And Limitations, Eric M. Teichner, Robert C Subtirelu, Shiv Patil, Chitra Parikh, Arjun Ashok, Sahithi Talasila, Victoria Anderson, Talha Khan, Yvonne Su, Thomas Werner, Abass Alavi, Mona-Elisabeth Revheim

SKMC Student Presentations and Publications

INTRODUCTION: Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), a debilitating neurological disorder, necessitates refined diagnostic and treatment strategies. This comprehensive review appraises the potential of positron emission tomography (PET) in enhancing the presurgical planning of Anterior Temporal Lobectomy (ATL) for patients afflicted with TLE.

METHODS: A comprehensive literature search was conducted using the PubMed, SCOPUS, and ScienceDirect databases from 1985 to 2022, following the PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) guidelines for studies investigating PET and ATL. This review studied a range of radiotracers, including FDG, H

RESULTS: A total of 52 studies were included in the final analysis. Our …

An Insider's Perspective To Mentoring Novice Math And Science Teachers In A University Mentoring Program: A Self-Study, Krishna R. Millsapp

Dissertations

Novice teachers benefit from individualized and cohort mentoring to help them successfully navigate student teaching and the first years of independent teaching. However, schools are experiencing a rise in attrition rates post-pandemic, especially in math and science. Mentoring, goal setting, and community-building are deemed important for retaining novices and providing them with individualized support as they navigate instructional challenges and professional responsibilities. This self-study investigates the experiences of a mentor while leading a new Professional Development & Mentoring Program for math and science novices. Educative mentoring and Hegarty’s Reflective framework helped guide the reflections of the mentor as mentoring strategies …