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Public Health Implications Of Retailer Resale Of Returned Textile Clothing Merchandise, Antonette M. A. Francis-Shearer

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Historically, 18th century anecdotal accounts of the decimation of several tribes of U.S. of the Native American population by trading of infected textile blankets alludes to the role of retail in the transmission of infectious disease. This study explores implications of the modern day retail organization practice of reselling returned clothing textiles from a public health infectious disease perspective. A qualitative multi-case study, utilized responses from 20 open-ended, unstructured interviews of retail employees assigned to the returns process. Additionally, several informal observations of select U.S.based, top-ranked clothing retail organizations, identified by the National Retail Federation were completed. Select federal, state, …

Teaching Homer’S Odyssey Through Charles Darwin’S The Descent Of Man: An Ancient Version Of Evolution, Lois A. Cuddy

New England Classical Journal

This paper argues that Homer’s Odyssey was the world’s introduction to ideas about human evolution popularized by Darwin and that these ideas are recognizable in the individuals and communities that the hero and his son encounter on their journeys. Homer represents the stages of human evolution through the characteristics of various social groups described in the Odyssey , such as the Cyclopses, Lastrygonians, Ithacans, Kikones, and Phaeacians, as well as through the characteristics of noteworthy individuals such as Helen and Penelope. This comparison of different communities and individuals seems to mirror Darwin’s hierarchy of evolution in The Descent of Man. …

Aberration Of Mind: Suicide And Suffering In The Civil War-Era South, Tom Barber

Civil War Book Review

No abstract provided.

The Calculus Of Violence: How Americans Fought The Civil War, Tom Barber

Civil War Book Review

No abstract provided.

A Fierce Glory: Antietam—The Desperate Battle That Saved Lincoln And Doomed Slavery, Mark A. Neels

Civil War Book Review

The bloodiest single day in American military history, the Battle of Antietam was also a pivotal moment in the Civil War that is nonetheless often overshadowed by more infamous battles such as Shiloh, Vicksburg, and Gettysburg. Still, a number of good full-length accounts do exist. Among them are James Murphin’s The Gleam of Bayonets (1965), John Michael Priest’s Antietam: The Soldier’s Battle (1989), Stephen Sears’ Landscape Turned Red (1993), and James McPherson’s Crossroads of Freedom (2002). Besides the staggering numbers of casualties, perhaps what most attracts scholars and Civil War enthusiasts to this particular battle is the fame (or infamy) …

The Calculus Of Violence: How Americans Fought The Civil War, Lorien Foote

Civil War Book Review

Historians walk two tight ropes when they write about the past: one rope divides generalization from particularization and the other divides continuity from change. If a scholar falls off the rope and lands on one side or the other, the result is a book that oversimplifies and distorts the portrait of the past. Historians must find a way to identify broad patterns without losing variations and local nuance; they must explain change over time without losing sight of all that remained the same. It is a difficult balancing act, but when done well, tight-rope walking produces an interpretation of the …

Rapidly Expanding Nuclear Arsenals In Pakistan And India Portend Regional And Global Catastrophe, O.B. Toon, C.G. Bardeen, A. Robock, L. Xia, H. Kristensen, M. Mckinzie, R.J. Peterson, C.S. Harrison, N.S. Lovenduski, R.P. Turco

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Advanced Analysis Of Compounds Of Toxicological Importance By Ice Concentration Linked With Extractive Stirrer (Icecles) Gc-Ms And Rp-Hplc-Esi-Ms-Ms, Joseph K. Dzisam

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Cyanide and nitrosoamines (NAs) are ubiquitous compounds, found in our food and water, either by natural process or through man-made activities. The toxicity of cyanide is exerted by its ability to inhibit metalloenzymes such as cytochrome c oxidase, causing concomitant cascades of biochemical effects such as lactic acidosis, inhibition of ATP production, respiratory seizure, and potential death. Nitrosoamines, on the other hand, undergo biotransformation (metabolic activation in cytochrome P450) in the body to produce unstable intermediates that alkylate DNA, causing mutations, and leading to carcinogenesis. In order to further the advancement of a promising cyanide, cobinamide (Cbi), an LC-MS-MS method …

Prairie Imperialists: The Indian Country Origins Of American Empire, Kate Bjork

Hamline Faculty and Staff Books and Publications

Traces the arc of American expansion by showing how the Army's conquests of what its soldiers called "Indian Country" generated a repertoire of actions and understandings that structured encounters with the racial others of America's new island territories following the War of 1898. Bjork follows the colonial careers of three Army officers from the domestic frontier to overseas posts in Cuba and the Philippines. The men profiled - Hugh Lenox Scott, Robert Lee Bullard, and John J. Pershing - internalized ways of behaving in Indian Country that shaped their approach to later colonial appointments abroad. Scott's ethnographic knowledge and experience …

Ua64/25/4/4 College Of Education & Behavioral Sciences Military Science Student Organizations Rotc, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Records created by and about Reserve Officer Training Corps.

To Lapse Or Not To Lapse: Does The Tennessee Antilapse Statute Further The Testator’S Intent?, Adam C. Blankenship

University of Memphis Law Review

No abstract provided.

Branding “Death” In A High-Tech Boycott: United Farm Workers And The Wrath Of Grapes Campaign, Claudia Zapata

Journal of Latino/Latin American Studies (JOLLAS)

The United Farm Workers (UFW) began as a labor movement centered on California-based Mexican, Chicano, Filipino, and Black workers during the 1960s.1 The UFW’s branding significantly aided the organization’s notoriety and prevalence during the U.S. civil rights movements of the 1960s and 70s.

Visually spare and easy to replicate, the UFW’s black eagle became an unofficial logo for the entirety of the 1960s and 1970s Chicano rights movement (Figure 1). This changed at the beginning of the 1980s as the UFW experienced a diversified constituency, a shift to a more conservative U.S. government, and a reduced number of supporters of …

Us Targeted Killing Post 9/11: Just And Effective Warefare, Joseph Decotiis

Student Works

No abstract provided.

Submarine Cables And Infrastructure Vulnerabilities: Threats From Private And State Actors, Alexander Bennett

Student Works

No abstract provided.

Secrets Of The Deep: Defining Privacy Underwater, Annie Brett

UF Law Faculty Publications

The drones are coming, But not just to your neighborhood skies – to the world’s oceans. From recreational robots designed to autonomously follow divers and record video of them to low-cost, remotely operated submersibles that put ocean exploration in the hands of the general public to sophisticated military submersibles able to autonomously gather intelligence throughout the oceans, the underwater drone market is exploding. But unlike on land, this explosion has not been accompanied by similar discussion of privacy concerns. Instead, the ocean’s rapid shift away from an inaccessible operational sanctuary is one that is happening largely silently. And it is …

The Clear And Present Dangers Of The Clear And Present Danger Test: Schenck And Abrams Revisited, Ronald J. Krotoszynski Jr.

SMU Law Review

No abstract provided.

“Www” Marques The Spot: Privateering As A Solution To Cryptocurrency Theft, Joshua Parisi

SMU Law Review

No abstract provided.

Book Reviews, James L. Baggett, Mary Jo Fairchild, Ian Franklin, Esther-Julia Howell, Pamela Nye, Sarah Quigley, Laura Starratt

Provenance, Journal of the Society of Georgia Archivists

Creating a Local History Archive at Your Public Library. Faye Phillips.

Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala. Kirsten Weld.

The Silence of the Archives. David Thomas, Simon Fowler, and Valerie Johnson.

The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts. Joshua Hammer.

The International Business Archives Handbook: Understanding and Managing the Historical Records of Business. Edited by Alison Turton.

Putting Descriptive Standards to Work. Edited by Kris Kiesling and Christopher J. Prom.

Moving Image and Sound Collections for Archivists. Anthony Cocciolo.

A Neoclassical Realist’S Analysis Of Sino-U.S. Space Policy, Christopher David Fabian

Theses and Dissertations

During the Cold War, the United States focused its collective policy acumen on forming a competitive, actor-specific strategy to gain advantage over the Soviet Union. The fragmentation of the Soviet Union resulted in a multi-polar geopolitical environment lacking a near-peer rival for the United States. Overwhelming soft and hard power advantages allowed American policy makers to peruse a general, non-actor specific strategy to maintain its hegemonic position. However, the meteoric rise of China as a near-peer competitor in East Asia has challenged this paradigm. In order to maintain its competitive advantage, or at the very least ensure the safety of …

Strategies To Reduce Job Dissatisfaction Within 911 Call Centers, Gary Marshall

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

In 2017, more than 6.9 million employees parted ways with their employer because of voluntary employee turnover, layoffs, or terminations. Emergency call center supervisors who fail to implement adequate job satisfaction strategies experience reduced productivity and increased voluntary turnover. The purpose of this multiple case study was to explore the strategies some southern Ontario 911 call center supervisors used to reduce job dissatisfaction. The conceptual framework supporting the study was the competing values framework. The population included 6 supervisors of 911 call centers in the province of Ontario, Canada, who successfully implemented job satisfaction strategies. Data were collected from interviews …

Reality Check: The Need To Repair The Broken System Of Delegating Legislative Power Under The National Emergencies Act, Michael J. Pastrick

Cardozo Law Review de•novo

When the National Emergencies Act was enacted in 1976, Congress could revoke a national emergency declaration by the President by a simple majority vote. Following a major Supreme Court decision in 1983, Congress, to simply retain its own legislative authority, suddenly was required to muster the support of two-thirds of the members of each chamber to override such a declaration. This Article proposes a practical, simple, and sturdy repair to the National Emergencies Act that will limit the potential for executive abuses by requiring Congress to extend, rather than to revoke, a national emergency declaration.

Novel Perspectives Of The Iraq War, Olivia R. Clark

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

My dissertation, "Novel Perspectives of the Iraq War," explores literary representations of the American occupation of Iraq. Responding to Roy Scrantons argument that the prevailing narrative of the traumatized veteran returning home from war with experiential knowledge (what David Buchanan calls combat gnosticism) has overshadowed other important perspectives, this project interrogates the manner in which cultural representations can both sustain and challenge national mythologies. Each of my chapters responds to a specific problem in our cultures popular narratives of war and argues that solutions to extant misperceptions are available via counternarratives. What connects these problems are their prevalence in the …

Temples For Tomorrow: The Journal Fire!! And African American Modernism During The Harlem Renaissance, Ashley Goulder

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

This dissertation explores the one-issue Fire!! created, edited, and published by Wallace Thurman, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Bennett, Aaron Douglas, and Richard Bruce Nugent in 1926 - during the height of the Harlem Renaissance. By giving a close examination of the short stories, plays, poems, editorials, and illustrations included in the journal, I examine the editorial and aesthetic choices of the younger generation of artists and their collective effort to broaden the perspectives and representations of African Americans in art and in culture. By publishing a journal outside of the constraints of the race leaders social science journals …

Mission Of A Meddler: Mixed Matters Of Class, Gender, And Race In Mary Church Terrell's Model Of Elite Black Female Activism, Victoria Jackson Gray

Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive

In The Mission of Meddlers, published in 1905 in The Voice of the Negro, Mary Church Terrell called to action a cadre of change agents who dared to ask prejudiced, cast-ridden bigots by what right they humiliate and harass their fellowmen simply on account of a difference in color, class or races. As the privileged daughter of Robert Reed Church, Sr., hailed as the Souths first black millionaire, Terrell upon completion of college could easily have complied with her fathers wishes to have her reside at his Memphis mansion and enjoy the genteel lifestyle of a Southern belle. She chose …

An Investigation Of Factors Motivating Employee Attitudes And Intentions To Share Knowledge In Homeland Security, Evette Maynard-Noel

CCAC Theses and Dissertations

The terrorist events of September 11, 2001, highlighted the inability of federal employees and officials to collaborate and share actionable knowledge-based information with the right people at the right time. However, much of the literature on knowledge sharing provided insight into knowledge sharing in private sector organizations and foreign public-sector organizations, instead of domestic public sectors or the United States federal government. While the importance of knowledge sharing for homeland security has been documented in the literature, there are no established frameworks that evaluate knowledge sharing motive and intentions in this context. The main goal of this research was to …

The Chronicle Of William Pelhisson: A Microcosm Of Early Thirteenth Century Papal Inquisition, Emily Petillon

Scripps Senior Theses

This study will use Pelhisson’s account of the Toulouse inquisition of 1230-1238 as a case study into the causes of the inquisition, the mindset of the Dominicans who carried it out, and the institutionalization of the inquisition process.

Law, War, And Four Modes Of Conflict, Gregory Brazeal

Faculty Publications

The Internationalists argues that the outlawing of war as an instrument of state policy in the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928 "was among the most transformative events in human history, one that has, ultimately, made our world far more peaceful. " The authors' evidence for this provocative thesis is ultimately unpersuasive. First, changes that they attribute to the Pact began before its creation, as illustrated, for example, by the ban on debt collection wars in the second convention of the Hague Conventions of 1907. Second, their own historical data on wars of conquest suggests that the year 1928 was not a …

Yitz And Ishmael: A Drama In One Very Long Act, Jim Friedberg

Minnesota Journal of International Law, Vols 1-28:1 (1992-2019)

No abstract provided.

A Complex Structure Representation Of The Us Critical Infrastructure Protection Program Based On The Zachman Framework, Bilge Karabacak, Unal Tatar, Polinpapilinho F. Katina, Andy Igonor

All Faculty and Staff Scholarship

Critical infrastructures are vital assets for public safety, economic welfare or national security of countries. The importance of critical infrastructures necessitates state-level coordination of security efforts based on some rigid policies, strategies, and procedures. This hierarchical set of rules is collectively referred to as the critical infrastructure protection program (CIPP). As the pioneer of CIPP, the USA has a very complex program in which partners and stakeholders have multiple and varied interacting roles and responsibilities. The complexity of roles and interactions creates a need to make a representation of these complex structures by using intuitive tools. The Zachman framework is …

The Persecution Of Stones: War Crimes, Law's Autonomy And The Co-Optation Of Cultural Heritage, Timothy W. Waters

Articles by Maurer Faculty

In 1567, a bridge was built over a river in Bosnia-a bridge widely seen as a work of great beauty. In 1993, it was destroyed in a war. What did its destruction mean? Was it a crime-and which one? An assault on culture-and whose? Between 2004 and 2017, a trial held in The Hague sought to answer these questions. The way it did-the assumptions and categories the prosecutors and judges deployed, the choices they made-tells us something important about how law operates and how it appropriates other bodies of knowledge, whether in a now-obscure Balkan conflict or on the battlefields …