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"Real Reforms To Enhance, Not Curtail, Social Security", Max Skidmore, George Mcgovern Dec 2006

"Real Reforms To Enhance, Not Curtail, Social Security", Max Skidmore, George Mcgovern

Max J. Skidmore

No abstract provided.

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In Our Own Backyard: Methamphetamine Manufacturing, Trafficking And Abuse In Rural America, Kenneth Tunnell, Joseph Donnermeyer Dec 2006

In Our Own Backyard: Methamphetamine Manufacturing, Trafficking And Abuse In Rural America, Kenneth Tunnell, Joseph Donnermeyer

Kenneth Tunnell

The abuse of methamphetamine ( or meth) is dramatically evident in the "before and after" faces of meth arrestees. Yet these pictures provide only a glimpse of the larger personal, environmental, and community fallout from methamphetamine use and production, an issue that barely existed 15 years ago in rural America, but has since grown into a large more serious problem.

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Scientific Content Creation And Dissemination: Opportunities For African Universities In Electronic Publishing, Elisha Chiware Dec 2006

Scientific Content Creation And Dissemination: Opportunities For African Universities In Electronic Publishing, Elisha Chiware

Elisha Chiware

Africa has made some strides in accessing the Internet over the last decade or so and it has managed to upload considerable information on to the Internet in the areas of business, information technology, connectivity and politics. But there is a missing link in scientific and technological information content creation and dissemination. Several proposals have been made to narrow the gap between developed countries and Africa in terms of uploading information on to the Internet. Besides the growing public information and the presence of commercial web, content generated from African universities is expanding. Internet connectivity in Africa and most of …

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The Extracellular Chaperone Clusterin Potently Inhibits Human Lysozyme Amyloid Formation By Interacting With Prefibrillar Species, Mark Wilson, Justin Yerbury, Stephen Poon, Christopher Dobson, C V Robinson, Elise Stewart, Janet Kumita, Mireille Dumoulin, Gemma Caddy, Christine Hagan Dec 2006

The Extracellular Chaperone Clusterin Potently Inhibits Human Lysozyme Amyloid Formation By Interacting With Prefibrillar Species, Mark Wilson, Justin Yerbury, Stephen Poon, Christopher Dobson, C V Robinson, Elise Stewart, Janet Kumita, Mireille Dumoulin, Gemma Caddy, Christine Hagan

Mark R Wilson

We have studied the effects of the extracellular molecular chaperone, clusterin, on the in vitro aggregation of mutational variants of human lysozyme, including one associated with familial amyloid disease. The aggregation of the amyloidogenic variant I56T is inhibited significantly at clusterin-to-lysozyme ratios as low as 1:80 (i.e. one clusterin molecule per 80 lysozyme molecules). Experiments indicate that under the conditions where inhibition of aggregation occurs, clusterin does not bind detectably to the native or fibrillar states, or to the monomeric transient intermediate known to be a key species in the aggregation reaction. Rather, it seems to interact with oligomeric species …

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Meet Your Librarian – Again, And Again And Again!, Aimee Dechambeau Dec 2006

Meet Your Librarian – Again, And Again And Again!, Aimee Dechambeau

Aimee deChambeau

A brief case study highlighting ways in which the library became an integral part of a journalism program based on shared interests in information and news literacy.

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'Know What I’M Saying?’: Getting To The Root Of Interracial Gang Violence, Richard Mora Dec 2006

'Know What I’M Saying?’: Getting To The Root Of Interracial Gang Violence, Richard Mora

Richard Mora

No abstract provided.

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Across The Qualitative/Quantitative Divide? Reflections From Two Research Fields, Daniel Edwards, Martin Forsey Dec 2006

Across The Qualitative/Quantitative Divide? Reflections From Two Research Fields, Daniel Edwards, Martin Forsey

Dr Daniel Edwards

No abstract provided.

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Democratization In The Balkans: Prescription For A Badly Scarred Body Politic, Richard Farkas Dec 2006

Democratization In The Balkans: Prescription For A Badly Scarred Body Politic, Richard Farkas

Richard P Farkas

No abstract provided.

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Service-Learning Paradigms : Intercommunity, Interdisciplinary And International, Kenneth Colburn, Rona Newmark Dec 2006

Service-Learning Paradigms : Intercommunity, Interdisciplinary And International, Kenneth Colburn, Rona Newmark

Kenneth D. Colburn

Note: full-text not available due to publisher restrictions. Link takes you to an external site where you can purchase the book or borrow it from a local library.

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Assessing Treatment Integrity In Behavioral Consultation, Lee Wilkinson Dec 2006

Assessing Treatment Integrity In Behavioral Consultation, Lee Wilkinson

Lee A Wilkinson, PhD

The trend in school psychology services is a shift from an emphasis on an assessment-based paradigm to one of consultation problem-solving and behavioral intervention. A critical component of consultation-derived interventions and behavior change is treatment integrity. Treatment integrity (or fidelity) refers to the extent to which an intervention is implemented as intended (or planned). Although its importance has been acknowledged in the literature, this construct has largely been neglected in consultation research and practice. This article describes practical approaches for assessing and monitoring the integrity of treatments implemented during the problem-solving process. A treatment-monitoring interview (TMI) is proposed as an …

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People With Early Stage Alzheimer's Disease As Mentors: Developing A Truly Collaborative Research Process, Phyllis Harris Dec 2006

People With Early Stage Alzheimer's Disease As Mentors: Developing A Truly Collaborative Research Process, Phyllis Harris

Phyllis Braudy Harris

Mentoring can take many shapes and forms. However, rarely in the research arena is the participant of a study ever considered as being a mentor, a person capable of providing advice and guidance, and certainly not a participant who has a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Because of the progressive debilitating nature of the condition and the resulting stigmatization and marginalization of the person, someone with AD is not often thought of in the role of a mentor. Yet, this article focuses on such a mentoring relationship, which developed by happenstance, in the process of doing research on and with …

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Toward A Relevant Agenda For A Responsive Public Administration, Thomas Bryer Dec 2006

Toward A Relevant Agenda For A Responsive Public Administration, Thomas Bryer

Thomas A Bryer

The relevance of the concept "bureaucratic responsiveness" has been questioned in recent years. One reason for the questioned relevance is the apparent environmental changes that are occurring in public administration. Globalization and devolution have infiltrated the halls of bureaucracies. Public agencies are being asked to collaborate with actors in other sectors of society, including, and especially, citizens and citizen associations. In addition to these environmental changes, administrators are being confronted with potentially competing ethical obligations that make decisions regarding responsiveness challenging. This article uses these evolving environments and competing ethical obligations to formulate a set of six variants of bureaucratic …

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Saving Disney: Finding A Voice For (Counter) Publics Through The Internet, Sarah Feldner, Rebecca Meisenbach Dec 2006

Saving Disney: Finding A Voice For (Counter) Publics Through The Internet, Sarah Feldner, Rebecca Meisenbach

Sarah Feldner

No abstract provided.

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Counting The Dead: The Politics And Culture Of Human Rights Activism In Colombia, Winifred Tate Dec 2006

Counting The Dead: The Politics And Culture Of Human Rights Activism In Colombia, Winifred Tate

Winifred L. Tate

At a time when a global consensus on human rights standards seems to be emerging, this rich study steps back to explore how the idea of human rights is actually employed by activists and human rights professionals. Winifred Tate, an anthropologist and activist with extensive experience in Colombia, finds that radically different ideas about human rights have shaped three groups of human rights professionals working there--nongovernmental activists, state representatives, and military officers. Drawing from the life stories of high-profile activists, pioneering interviews with military officials, and research at the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva, Counting the Dead underscores …

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Chiapas Civil Society Organizations: Cultural Resistance And Economic Alternatives Through Fair Trade Cooperatives And International Networks, Marco Tavanti Dec 2006

Chiapas Civil Society Organizations: Cultural Resistance And Economic Alternatives Through Fair Trade Cooperatives And International Networks, Marco Tavanti

Marco Tavanti

Since the 1994 rebellion organized by the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN), Chiapas, Mexico has been well known for indigenous resistance against imposed neoliberal policies and promotion of indigenous rights and cultures. Less known is the critical role that Chiapas-based civil society organizations (CSOs) have within the neozapatista resistance movement and in the creation of sustainable economic alternatives. This paper focuses on the multicultural collaborative dialogues of the civil society Las Abejas (The Bees), the fair trade and organic coffee cooperative Maya Vinic and the women artisan cooperative Kinal Antzetik with European- and United States- based non-profit organizations, universities, …

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Labor Supply And Weight, Darius Lakdawalla, Tomas Philipson Dec 2006

Labor Supply And Weight, Darius Lakdawalla, Tomas Philipson

Darius N. Lakdawalla

We use panel data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to investigate on-the-job exercise and weight. For male workers, job-related exercise has causal effects on weight, but for female workers, the effects seem primarily selective. A man who spends 18 years in the most physical fitness-demanding occupation is about 25 pounds (14 percent) lighter than his peer in the least demanding occupation. These effects are strongest for the heaviest quartile of men. Conversely, a male worker spending 18 years in the most strength-demanding occupation is about 28 pounds (15 percent) heavier than his counterpart in the least demanding job.

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Repetition Priming Endurance In Picture Naming And Translation: Contributions Of Component Processes, Wendy Francis, Silvia Sáenz Dec 2006

Repetition Priming Endurance In Picture Naming And Translation: Contributions Of Component Processes, Wendy Francis, Silvia Sáenz

Wendy S. Francis

No abstract provided.

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We Have All Been Here Before, John Pauly Dec 2006

We Have All Been Here Before, John Pauly

Dr. John J. Pauly

No abstract provided.

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Conflicting Social Motives In Negotiating Groups, Laurie Weingart, Jeanne Brett, Mara Olekalns, Philip Smith Dec 2006

Conflicting Social Motives In Negotiating Groups, Laurie Weingart, Jeanne Brett, Mara Olekalns, Philip Smith

Mara Olekalns

Negotiators’ social motives (cooperative versus individualistic) influence their strategic behaviors. This study used multi-level modeling and analyses of strategy sequences to test hypotheses regarding how negotiators’ social motives and the composition of the group influence group members’ negotiation strategies. Four-person groups negotiating a 5 issue mixed-motive decision making task were videotaped, transcribed, and coded. Group composition included two homogeneous conditions (all cooperators and all individualists) and three heterogeneous conditions (3 cooperators/1 individualist; 2 cooperators/2 individualists; 1 cooperator/3 individualists). Results showed that cooperative negotiators adjusted their use of integrative and distributive strategies in response to the social motive composition of the …

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Perceptions Of Campus-Level Advocacy And Influence Strategies Among Senior Administrators In College And University Libraries, Janice Simmons-Welburn, Beth Mcneil, William Welburn Dec 2006

Perceptions Of Campus-Level Advocacy And Influence Strategies Among Senior Administrators In College And University Libraries, Janice Simmons-Welburn, Beth Mcneil, William Welburn

Janice Welburn

No abstract provided.

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Moose Crossing: Portland To Portland On The Theodore Roosevelt International Highway, Max Skidmore Dec 2006

Moose Crossing: Portland To Portland On The Theodore Roosevelt International Highway, Max Skidmore

Max J. Skidmore

A history of the northernmost transcontinental road in the US in the1920s and 1930s, including a discussion of the development of ground transportation in the early 20th century, and an account of a modern journey over the old route, a distance of more than 4000 miles; a discussion of Theodore Roosevelt and a brief biography is included.

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Why The Rwandan Genocide Seemed Like A Drive-By Shooting: The Crisis Of Race, Culture, And Policy In The African Diaspora, Seneca Vaught Dec 2006

Why The Rwandan Genocide Seemed Like A Drive-By Shooting: The Crisis Of Race, Culture, And Policy In The African Diaspora, Seneca Vaught

Seneca Vaught

From the American perspective, the Rwandan genocide developed amidst a cultural and racial crisis of the 1990s. The American attitude towards the crisis in Kigali provides a complex historical case study on how race and culture have profound and often-ignored policy implications. Specifically, the lack of American intervention in Rwanda reveals the complexity race and policy in American history and the shared fates of Africans throughout the world. Taken as a whole, the domestic cultural background of the early 1990s, including the rise of gangsta rap, rioting, and the dilemma of "black-on-black crime," collectively influenced American policy towards Africa at …

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Blaming Bush: A Functional Analysis Of Political Cartoons, Stephanie Kelley-Romano, V Westgate Dec 2006

Blaming Bush: A Functional Analysis Of Political Cartoons, Stephanie Kelley-Romano, V Westgate

Stephanie Kelley-Romano

No abstract provided.

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Under Cover Of Science: American Legal-Economic Theory And The Quest For Objectivity, James Hackney Jr. Dec 2006

Under Cover Of Science: American Legal-Economic Theory And The Quest For Objectivity, James Hackney Jr.

James R. Hackney Jr.

No abstract provided.

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Metalinguistic Function Of Quotative Markers In Japanese, Satoko Suzuki Dec 2006

Metalinguistic Function Of Quotative Markers In Japanese, Satoko Suzuki

Satoko Suzuki

No abstract provided.

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Canada And The Clash Of Media Civilizations: Ethical Implications From A Survey Of Journalists, Conrad Winn, Christopher Finlay, Tamara Gottlieb Dec 2006

Canada And The Clash Of Media Civilizations: Ethical Implications From A Survey Of Journalists, Conrad Winn, Christopher Finlay, Tamara Gottlieb

Christopher Finlay

No abstract provided.

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Girl, Woman, Lover, Mother: Towards A New Understanding Of Child Prostitution Among Young Devadasi Sex Workers In Rural Karnataka, India, Treena Orchard Dec 2006

Girl, Woman, Lover, Mother: Towards A New Understanding Of Child Prostitution Among Young Devadasi Sex Workers In Rural Karnataka, India, Treena Orchard

Dr. Treena Orchard

The emotive issue of child prostitution is at the heart of international debates over ‘trafficking’ in women and girls, the “new slave trade”, and how these phenomena are linked with globalization, sex tourism, and expanding transnational economies. However, young sex workers, particularly those in the ‘third world’, are often represented through tropes of victimization, poverty, and “backwards” cultural traditions, constructions that rarely capture the complexity of the girls’ experiences and the role that prostitution plays in their lives. Based on ethnographic fieldwork with girls and young women who are part of the Devadasi (servant/slave of the God) system of sex …

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Collaborative Design Of Citizen Engagement In City And County Comprehensive Planning: A Simulation, Thomas Bryer Dec 2006

Collaborative Design Of Citizen Engagement In City And County Comprehensive Planning: A Simulation, Thomas Bryer

Thomas A Bryer

The Secretary of the Florida Department of Community Affairs has called a special meeting. Invited are an elected official, two public managers, a citizen activist, a business representative, and a facilitator. The Secretary's charge to them is to create an alternative proposal for engaging citizens in comprehensive planning. The purpose of this simulation is to allow students to experience a collaborative problem solving process, as well as to explore the challenges of public managers collaborating with the public. In addition, the simulation can be used to teach facilitation skills.

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La Governance Nell'azienda Comune Di Milano Dall'xi Al Xiii Secolo, Paola Saracino Dec 2006

La Governance Nell'azienda Comune Di Milano Dall'xi Al Xiii Secolo, Paola Saracino

Paola Saracino

L’idea di una ricerca a carattere storico sulla Governance nell’azienda Comune di Milano tra il secolo XI e XIII nasce dalla piena condivisione del pensiero di De Roover circa l’ oggetto di indagine della storia della ragioneria; lo storico infatti afferma che la storia della ragioneria, oltre ad indagare le origini dei conti, deve anche occuparsi della struttura e amministrazione delle aziende del passato al fine di analizzarne la direzione o governo, la gestione, il controllo e la programmazione. La presente ricerca storica assume come quadro teorico di riferimento alcuni assiomi che vengono delineati riprendendo anche alcuni cenni dottrinali. Il …

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Patriotic Motherhood And The Iraq War, Ana Garner, Karen Slattery Dec 2006

Patriotic Motherhood And The Iraq War, Ana Garner, Karen Slattery

Ana Garner

No abstract provided.

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