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Phoenix, 2012-07-04, Student Life Jul 2012

Phoenix, 2012-07-04, Student Life

Phoenix

The Phoenix is a student newspaper published at Governors State University since August 2002. The newspaper features student reporting, opinions, news, and photos.

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July 4, 2012: How To Be Religious, Bruce Ledewitz Jul 2012

July 4, 2012: How To Be Religious, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “How to be Religious“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.

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Annual Flowers For Utah Gardens, Larry A. Sagers Jul 2012

Annual Flowers For Utah Gardens, Larry A. Sagers

All Archived Publications

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How To Create A Lie Algebra, Ian M. Anderson Jul 2012

How To Create A Lie Algebra, Ian M. Anderson

How to... in 10 minutes or less

We show how to create a Lie algebra in Maple using three of the most common approaches: matrices, vector fields and structure equations. PDF and Maple worksheets can be downloaded from the links below.

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Deafdigest: Mid-Week Edition, July 4, 2012, Barry Strassler Jul 2012

Deafdigest: Mid-Week Edition, July 4, 2012, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Mid-Week 2012

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It Pays To Cheat: Tactical Deception In A Cephalopod Social Signalling System, Culum Brown, Martin P. Garwood, Jane E. Williamson Jul 2012

It Pays To Cheat: Tactical Deception In A Cephalopod Social Signalling System, Culum Brown, Martin P. Garwood, Jane E. Williamson

Communication Skills Collection

Signals in intraspecific communication should be inherently honest; otherwise the system is prone to collapse. Theory predicts, however, that honest signalling systems are susceptible to invasion by cheats, the extent of which is largely mediated by fear of reprisal. Cuttlefish facultatively change their shape and colour, an ability that evolved to avoid predators and capture prey. Here, we show that this ability is tactically employed by male mourning cuttlefish (Sepia plangon) to mislead conspecifics during courtship in a specific social context amenable to cheating 39 per cent of the time, while it was never employed in other social contexts. Males …

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07/04/2012 Obituary Records, Hawaii Obituaries Jul 2012

07/04/2012 Obituary Records, Hawaii Obituaries

Obituaries

List of Obituaries for individuals who passed away on 07/04/2012. Scroll down to see the names and obituary description.

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A Few Remarks On The Draft Assumptions For An Act Amending The Act On Competition And Consumer Protection, Anna Piszcz Jul 2012

A Few Remarks On The Draft Assumptions For An Act Amending The Act On Competition And Consumer Protection, Anna Piszcz

internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (internet Quarterly on Antitrust and Regulation)

The article is concerned with the discussion of some of the issues and suggestions outlined in the draft assumptions for an act amending the Act on competition and consumer protection (ACCP). The draft document was published by the President of the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection (OCCP) for consultation in May 2012. First, the author explains the significance of the Act on freedom of economic activity for drafting amendments to the provisions in ACCP relating to inspections in proceedings before the President of the OCCP. Second, emphasis is laid on some issues related to remedies and so-called no-contest plea. …

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State Aid Or Not? Legal Dilemmas Connected With The Assessment Of Public Financing Of Sea Ports Infrastructure – Far From A Save Harbour, Kamil Ciupak Jul 2012

State Aid Or Not? Legal Dilemmas Connected With The Assessment Of Public Financing Of Sea Ports Infrastructure – Far From A Save Harbour, Kamil Ciupak

internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (internet Quarterly on Antitrust and Regulation)

Transport by sea plays a vital role for the economy of the European Union. Among all the infrastructure elements necessary to conduct transport by sea, the port infrastructure (in the wide meaning of this term) is of the utmost importance. Its development is often financed form public resources, as it is one of the basic duties of a state. However, in practice a borderline between situations, when public financing of port infrastructure constitutes State Aid and those in which not all of the criteria laid down in Art. 107 (1) TFEU are met and thus such financing is a means …

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Hotline Press Newspaper- July 2012 Vol 29 No 6, Hotline Press Newspaper Jul 2012

Hotline Press Newspaper- July 2012 Vol 29 No 6, Hotline Press Newspaper

Hotline Press Newspaper 2012

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The 2-Component Dispersionless Burger's Equation Arising In The Modelling Of Bloodflow, Tony Lyons Jul 2012

The 2-Component Dispersionless Burger's Equation Arising In The Modelling Of Bloodflow, Tony Lyons

Articles

This article investigates the properties of the solutions of the dispersionless two-component Burgers (B2) equation, derived as a model for blood- ow in arteries with elastic walls. The phenomenon of wave breaking is investigated as well as applications of the model to clinical conditions.

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Towards An Optimal Space-And-Query-Time Index For Top-K Document Retrieval, Wing Kai Hon, Rahul Shah, Sharma V. Thankachan Jul 2012

Towards An Optimal Space-And-Query-Time Index For Top-K Document Retrieval, Wing Kai Hon, Rahul Shah, Sharma V. Thankachan

Faculty Publications

Let {d 1,d 2,...d D } be a given set of D string documents of total length n, our task is to index , such that the k most relevant documents for an online query pattern P of length p can be retrieved efficiently. We propose an index of size |CSA| + nlogD(2 + o(1)) bits and O(t s (p) + kloglogn + polyloglogn) query time for the basic relevance metric term-frequency, where |CSA| is the size (in bits) of a compressed full text index of , with O(t s (p)) time for searching a pattern of length p. We …

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Ring The Bells: "Happy 149th Birthday, America!", John M. Rudy Jul 2012

Ring The Bells: "Happy 149th Birthday, America!", John M. Rudy

Interpreting the Civil War: Connecting the Civil War to the American Public

Friend of the blog and stalwart DC area historian Aaron Urbanski posted a pithy update to his Facebook wall on Monday, a status update which has infected my brain over the past couple days. The idea is so infectious, so amazingly simple yet profound that I'm shamelessly stealing it and blowing it up to epic proportions. [excerpt]

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Child Abuse Reporting: Rethinking Child Protection, Susan C. Kim, Lawrence O. Gostin, Thomas B. Cole Jul 2012

Child Abuse Reporting: Rethinking Child Protection, Susan C. Kim, Lawrence O. Gostin, Thomas B. Cole

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

The general public has been bewildered by the magnitude of sex abuse cases and the widespread failure by pillars of the community to notify appropriate authorities. The crime of sexually abusing children is punishable in all jurisdictions and this article examines the duty to report suspected cases by individuals in positions of trust over young people, such as in the church or university sports. The Federal Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA) defines child maltreatment as an act or failure to act on the part of a parent or caregiver that results in death, serious physical or emotional harm, …

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Book Review Of Up From These Hills: Memories Anderson Of A Cherokee Boyhood, By Leonard Carson Lambert, Jr., As Told To Michael Lamber, Joanna M. Anderson Jul 2012

Book Review Of Up From These Hills: Memories Anderson Of A Cherokee Boyhood, By Leonard Carson Lambert, Jr., As Told To Michael Lamber, Joanna M. Anderson

ETSU Faculty Works

Review of Lambert, L. C., Jr. & Lambert, M. (2011). Up from These Hills: Memories of a Cherokee Boyhood. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 197 pages. ISBN 978-0-8032-3536-6.

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Sustainable Tuna Fisheries: Indonesia Perspective, R. Panji Raditya Poernomo Jul 2012

Sustainable Tuna Fisheries: Indonesia Perspective, R. Panji Raditya Poernomo

Indonesian Journal of International Law

World Fisheries encounter serious deficiency problems recently. FAO reported that overfishing cases is increasingly in numbers on international scale. However, there is a dispute as to whether world fish stock is now decreasing or not. Despite such issue is still debatable, fishery management has to be undertaken more seriously and comprehensively. Especially in the case of tuna as its world capture figure is declining in recent years. Therefore, this paper will present the status of tuna fishery in Indonesia, including issues related to tuna fishery. Moreover, this paper will also highlight law, regulations, RFMO’s resolutions and the policy of Indonesia …

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Roles Of The Mutual Legal Assistances And Extradition Agreements In The Assets Recovery In Indonesia, Jamin Ginting Jul 2012

Roles Of The Mutual Legal Assistances And Extradition Agreements In The Assets Recovery In Indonesia, Jamin Ginting

Indonesian Journal of International Law

International agreement is a considerably important prerequisite to effectuate the recovery of assets generated by corruptive practices abroad. Mutual Legal Assistance (MLA) and Extradition is a frequently applied instrument in International law between states as the keystone of understanding for the assets recovery. There are several MLA and Extradition agreements that have been carried out by The Government of Indonesia with the other countries in the framework of asset recovery generated by the Criminal Acts particularly the corruption the corruptions however the MLA’s implementations has not been genuinely optimal, not only in extraditing the perpetrators to be and trialed in …

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Should National Sharia Board Be Restructured To Sustain The Development Of Economic Sharia In Indonesia?, Yeni Salma Barlinti, Yetty Komalasari Dewi Jul 2012

Should National Sharia Board Be Restructured To Sustain The Development Of Economic Sharia In Indonesia?, Yeni Salma Barlinti, Yetty Komalasari Dewi

Indonesian Journal of International Law

The economy of Islamic finance has an important role in improving a nation’s economy and has developed rapidly throughout the world including in Southeast Asia. This paper discusses the role of Board of fatwa (and the fatwa itself) within Indonesia governmental structure in order to enhance the economic activities of sharia. The involvement of sharia scholars are needed in the process of regulating economic policies since only few of Indonesian legislators have good understanding in the law of Islamic finance. At the moment, fatwa issued by sharia scholars in economic activities is not legally binding due to its organization structure …

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Job Hunting: One Experience, Joanna M. Anderson Jul 2012

Job Hunting: One Experience, Joanna M. Anderson

ETSU Faculty Works

Excerpt: National Public Radio’s All Things Considered recently featured a piece by Annie Baxter called “Fear Is The Biggest Hurdle For Some Job Seekers” (February 16, 2012). This feature presented a hurdle that most people probably do not realize exists; namely, that for many long-term job-seekers, the fear of going back to work is quite real and intimidating.

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Volume 49, Number 46: July 04, 2012, University Of North Dakota Jul 2012

Volume 49, Number 46: July 04, 2012, University Of North Dakota

University Letter Archive

No abstract provided.

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Harmonization Of Law In Asean Countries Towards Economic Integration, Erman Rajagukguk Jul 2012

Harmonization Of Law In Asean Countries Towards Economic Integration, Erman Rajagukguk

Indonesian Journal of International Law

Southeast Asia is a region rooted in cultural, ethnic, geographic and developmental diversity but generally viewed as a united block. The integration among ASEAN Countries becomes an avoidable demand in facing economic globalization. ASEAN Economic integration will be formed in ASEAN economic society in 2015. The economic integration among ASEAN countries emerged two problems: first, do the ASEAN countries need harmonization of law which correlates with the economic activities? Secondly, is the harmonization of law possible? This paper explores the need and possibility to increase the integration in the form of law and regulation to harmonize regional law, to allow …

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Asean Competitiveness, Is Indonesia Ready Yet?, Zainuddin Djafar Jul 2012

Asean Competitiveness, Is Indonesia Ready Yet?, Zainuddin Djafar

Indonesian Journal of International Law

What does it mean by ASEAN competitiveness? And, is Indonesia ready for it? These are the questions that have become the main issues to be discussed in this article. Therefore, it is important to note some main key messages introduced by ACI in relation to ASEAN position within its competitiveness and its future prospect, and the dynamic of world economic, such as; ASEAN is facing profound changes in the global economic climate with the rise of China and India and weakened economic prospects in major advanced countries. Besides, this Southeast Asia Regional Organization is also entering a new phase in …

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The Protection Of Domestic Industry Through Safeguards Instrument Gatt/Wto And Its Implementation On Downstream Steel Industry In Indonesia, Eva Johan Jul 2012

The Protection Of Domestic Industry Through Safeguards Instrument Gatt/Wto And Its Implementation On Downstream Steel Industry In Indonesia, Eva Johan

Indonesian Journal of International Law

World Global Crisis causes all trade world find difficulties. There will be increasing particularly import product in a country, including to Indonesian market. This getting worse by the implementation of free trade agreement between ASEAN member and China in the form of ASEAN China Free Trade Agreement (ACFTA). Steel as national strategic industry is a vital industry for developing country like Indonesia, so government should protect it against incursion of import products. Indonesia as member of WTO can use GATT/WTO safeguards instrument to protect domestic downstream steel industry from increasing import of downstream steel product. The protection for domestic industry …

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Treatment Options For Vasomotor Symptoms In Menopause: Focus On Desvenlafaxine., Elena M Umland, Laura Falconieri Jul 2012

Treatment Options For Vasomotor Symptoms In Menopause: Focus On Desvenlafaxine., Elena M Umland, Laura Falconieri

College of Pharmacy Faculty Papers

Vasomotor symptoms (VMS), including hot flashes and night sweats, occur in as many as 68.5% of women as a result of menopause. While the median duration of these symptoms is 4 years, approximately 10% of women continue to experience VMS as many as 12 years after their final menstrual period. As such, VMS have a significant impact on the quality of life and overall physical health of women experiencing VMS, leading to their pursuance of treatment to alleviate these symptoms. Management of VMS includes lifestyle modifications, some herbal and vitamin supplements, hormonal therapies including estrogen and tibolone, and nonhormonal therapies …

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About The Need To Increase The Participation Of The Third Subjects In Anti--Monopoly Proceedings, Rafał Stankiewicz Jul 2012

About The Need To Increase The Participation Of The Third Subjects In Anti--Monopoly Proceedings, Rafał Stankiewicz

internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (internet Quarterly on Antitrust and Regulation)

The presented article is pointing out to the need for the participation of the entities differentfrom the party to the proceedings. Pursuant to the article 88 Antimonopoly Act, the party to the proceedings shall be every person against whom the proceedings concerning the application of competition-restricting practices are instituted. In the Polish Antimonopoly Act is the lack of provisions creating the access the third parties to proceedings. Differently to the solutions existing in the European Union law, competitors and others entrepreneurs possibly harmed by the activity od the undertaking that allegedly violated competition law may not participate in the proceedings.

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The Proposed Changes In The Merger Control Law – A Few Remarks On The Proposal Of The Office Of Competition And Consumer Protection, Szymon Syp Jul 2012

The Proposed Changes In The Merger Control Law – A Few Remarks On The Proposal Of The Office Of Competition And Consumer Protection, Szymon Syp

internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (internet Quarterly on Antitrust and Regulation)

The article deals with the issue of proposed changes in the merger control law in Poland. Due to the fact that the competition authority – the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection (OCCP) has officially launched the main objectives of the changes, the author, by describing the basic proposals of changes, confronts them with the previously formulated changes by officials during the conferences. In addition, the author describes the proposed changes in relation to the previously published by the competition authority the Competition policy in 2011-2013. Finally, taking into account emerging voices of the practice and academia in terms of …

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Consumer Protection Instruments In The Competition And Consumer Protection Act 2007 – The Need For Changes?, Małgorzata Sieradzka Jul 2012

Consumer Protection Instruments In The Competition And Consumer Protection Act 2007 – The Need For Changes?, Małgorzata Sieradzka

internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (internet Quarterly on Antitrust and Regulation)

This paper aims to present in detail those provisions of the Act on competition and consumer protection which require an urgent change and its justification. This will answer the question to what extent and how specifically a revision of the consumer provisions in the Competition and Consumer Protection Act of 2007 should proceed. Especially, since the main objectives of the proposed amendments do not include substantive and procedural changes in the consumer provisions, but only emphasize that changes in other regulations (which also applies to consumer rules) intend to eliminate inconsistencies in interpretation and drafting.

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Competition Law Compliance Programmes – An Effective Mechanism In Creating European Compliance Culture?”, Maciej Gac Jul 2012

Competition Law Compliance Programmes – An Effective Mechanism In Creating European Compliance Culture?”, Maciej Gac

internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (internet Quarterly on Antitrust and Regulation)

The goal of this article is to analyze the impact of compliance programmes on the effectiveness of the European competition law. The article seeks to answer the fundamental question: whether, and if so, under what conditions compliance programmes can contribute to the creation of compliance culture in the European competition law. The article makes a comparative analysis of the European Commission’s proposal, contained in the document titled „Compliance Matters. What companies can do better to respect EU competition rules”, and solutions concerning compliance programmes introduced by French and British competition authorities. The article tries to assess the effectiveness of different …

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Court Of Appeals Of New York - People V. Brown , Madeline Zuckerman Jul 2012

Court Of Appeals Of New York - People V. Brown , Madeline Zuckerman

Touro Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Supreme Court Of New York, Bronx County - People V. Garcia-Cepero , Madeline Zuckerman Jul 2012

Supreme Court Of New York, Bronx County - People V. Garcia-Cepero , Madeline Zuckerman

Touro Law Review

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