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L’Arbitrage International: Du Contrat Dyadique Au Système Normatif, Alec Stone Sweet, Florian Grisel Dec 2008

L’Arbitrage International: Du Contrat Dyadique Au Système Normatif, Alec Stone Sweet, Florian Grisel

Alec Stone Sweet

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Native People And Systemic Bias In The Public Education System, John R. Fisher, Bayo Oludaja Dec 2008

Native People And Systemic Bias In The Public Education System, John R. Fisher, Bayo Oludaja

Dr. John R. Fisher

Although systemic bias may not be racism, it is a form of prejudice. Systemic bias exists throughout society in the practices and attitudes that people face on a daily basis. Very often educational programs are set up to accommodate special needs, but, although well meaning, they incorporate this form of bias. Systemic bias inhibits student progress and often presupposes the need for cultural change. This paper reports a study of Canadian Native people and their experience with the public school system. Interviews were held with 19 students, 24 parents and community members, and nine faculty/administrators to assess how systemic bias …

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The Aesthetics Of Human Rights, Sharon Sliwinski Dec 2008

The Aesthetics Of Human Rights, Sharon Sliwinski

Sharon Sliwinski

This essay situates the 1755 Lisbon earthquake as an alternate origin point for human rights discourse. As one of the most destructive earthquakes in recorded history, the event had a broad effect on both scientific and philosophical thought. The quake also represents one of the first modern mass media events in which subjects throughout Europe became spectators to a distant catastrophe. Both visual and verbal representations of the event circulated throughout Europe with incredible efficiency and helped inaugurate a secular notion of human suffering as well as thoughts about its prevention. The story of the quake shows that the notion …

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On The Psychology Of Creativity, Joachim Funke Dec 2008

On The Psychology Of Creativity, Joachim Funke

Joachim Funke

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Introduction: On The Spatiality Of Creativity, Peter Meusburger, Joachim Funke, Edgar Wunder Dec 2008

Introduction: On The Spatiality Of Creativity, Peter Meusburger, Joachim Funke, Edgar Wunder

Joachim Funke

The concept of creativity used to be seen entirely as an entity depending on the faculties of individuals. Research on creativity in psychology, philosophy, and art criticism focused on the attributes of geniuses, gifted persons, creative artists and scientists, and creative performance and problem-solving. Eventually, researchers acknowledged that the creative scientist or artist does not work in a social, cultural, and economic vacuum. l t was accepted that creative individuals are inspired or impeded by societal and organizational structures and that they depend on evaluators, audiences, and research infrastructure. lt was recognized that such people may meet with incomprehension, competition, …

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The Status And Evolution Of Laws And Policies Regulating Privately Owned Tigers In The United States, Philip J. Nyhus, Michael Ambrogi, Caitlin Dufraine, Alan Shoemaker, Ronald L. Tilson Dec 2008

The Status And Evolution Of Laws And Policies Regulating Privately Owned Tigers In The United States, Philip J. Nyhus, Michael Ambrogi, Caitlin Dufraine, Alan Shoemaker, Ronald L. Tilson

Philip J. Nyhus

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Paternalism In Policy: Prospects And Limitations Of An Economic Analysis, Péter Cserne Dec 2008

Paternalism In Policy: Prospects And Limitations Of An Economic Analysis, Péter Cserne

Péter Cserne

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A Közteherviselés (70/I. §) [The Constitutional Duty To Contribute To Public Expenditures. Hungary 1989-2009], Péter Cserne Dec 2008

A Közteherviselés (70/I. §) [The Constitutional Duty To Contribute To Public Expenditures. Hungary 1989-2009], Péter Cserne

Péter Cserne

This is a chapter in the 2 volume commentary on the (pre-2012) Hungarian constitution, edited by Andras Jakab. It provides a legal doctrinal analysis of the constitutional power to tax, as regulated in Art 70/I of the Constitution of the Republic of Hungary (the duty to contribute to public expenditures) and interpreted by the Hungarian Constitutional Court.

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Presupposing The Acculturated Subject: Analyzing Identity In Practice, Shiera S. El-Malik Dec 2008

Presupposing The Acculturated Subject: Analyzing Identity In Practice, Shiera S. El-Malik

Shiera S el-Malik

No abstract provided.

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Sense Of Place In The Daily Newspaper, Carrie Buchanan Dec 2008

Sense Of Place In The Daily Newspaper, Carrie Buchanan

Carrie Buchanan

The daily newspaper in North America has long been a locally based medium, which offers an opportunity to media geographers to explore concepts of place and locality, and how they have changed over time. This article explores how newspapers create a sense of place about the locality they serve. It reviews some of the major geographic theories of place and the local, as well as the work of communications scholars on how newspapers construct reality in their pages. It applies these ideas to the notion that newspapers construct a sense of place, using both the form and the content of …

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Et Ego In Academia, Kirby Farrell Prof Dec 2008

Et Ego In Academia, Kirby Farrell Prof

kirby farrell

Denial of humankind's creaturely limits is characteristic of much literary criticism. Shakespeare consistently dramatizes the limits of language, seeking to evoke wonder or a tragic sense of madness and chaos through an overplus of meanings in paradox, irony, and wordplay that cannot be processed sequentially by imagination.

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Librarian-Teacher Partnerships For Inquiry Learning: Measures Of Effectiveness For A Practice-Based Model Of Professional Development, Joyce Yukawa, V. H. Harada Dec 2008

Librarian-Teacher Partnerships For Inquiry Learning: Measures Of Effectiveness For A Practice-Based Model Of Professional Development, Joyce Yukawa, V. H. Harada

Joyce Yukawa

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Labor And Employment Law: Tools For Prevention, Investigation And Discipline Of Staff Sexual Misconduct In Custodial Settings, Susan D. Carle Dec 2008

Labor And Employment Law: Tools For Prevention, Investigation And Discipline Of Staff Sexual Misconduct In Custodial Settings, Susan D. Carle

Susan D. Carle

To address concerns related to preventing staff sexual misconduct in custodial situations, the National Institute of Corrections (NIC) designed a project to provide training and technical assistance to prevent sexual violence in custodial situations. One component of the project, through a cooperative agreement between the American University Washington College of Law (WCL) and NIC, was to address staff involvement in sexual abuse of persons in custodial settings. The result was the preparation, by the NIC/WCL, of this report addressing human resources concerns related to preventing staff sexual misconduct in custodial situations. The paper discusses some of the employment and labor …

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Overview Of The Helping Process, Pa Der Vang Dec 2008

Overview Of The Helping Process, Pa Der Vang

Pa Der Vang, PhD, MSW, LICSW

No abstract provided.

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Landscape Perception, Karen M. Morin Dec 2008

Landscape Perception, Karen M. Morin

Karen M. Morin

No abstract provided.

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Bolhas Racionais No Indice Bovespa, Mauricio Nunes, Sergio Da Silva Dec 2008

Bolhas Racionais No Indice Bovespa, Mauricio Nunes, Sergio Da Silva

Sergio Da Silva

We checked for the presence of rational bubbles in the São Paulo Stock Exchange index using both linear and nonlinear cointegration. We detected the presence of explosive and periodically collapsing bubbles, but we could not track intrinsic bubbles.

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Ranking The Stocks Listed On Bovespa According To Their Relative Efficiency, Ricardo Giglio, Sergio Da Silva Dec 2008

Ranking The Stocks Listed On Bovespa According To Their Relative Efficiency, Ricardo Giglio, Sergio Da Silva

Sergio Da Silva

A methodology based on the algorithmic complexity theory has been applied to assess the relative efficiency of the stocks listed on Bovespa. We provide eight alternative listings of the top ten stocks according to their efficiency rates.

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Going Parochial In The Assessment Of The Brazilian Economics Research Output, Sergio Da Silva Dec 2008

Going Parochial In The Assessment Of The Brazilian Economics Research Output, Sergio Da Silva

Sergio Da Silva

I evaluate the just launched official criterion for assessing the economics research output in Brazil, called “Qualis”. I compare it with the simple journal impact factors released by RePEc. Four biases are identified: (1) left-wing journals have been favored, (2) mainstream British journals have been downgraded, (3) cross disciplinary research output has been neglected, and (4) domestic journals have been favored.

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Estrategias Partidistas, Preferencias Ciudadanas Y Anuncios Televisivos: Un Análisis De La Campaña Electoral Mexicana De 2006, Flavia Freidenberg, Luis González Dec 2008

Estrategias Partidistas, Preferencias Ciudadanas Y Anuncios Televisivos: Un Análisis De La Campaña Electoral Mexicana De 2006, Flavia Freidenberg, Luis González

Flavia Freidenberg

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Https://Www.Myfitnesspharm.Com/The-Dietary-Lab-Keto/, Duniyag Ejhuk Dec 2008

Https://Www.Myfitnesspharm.Com/The-Dietary-Lab-Keto/, Duniyag Ejhuk

Duniyag Ejhuk


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A Just Zionism (Book Review) (In Hebrew), Reuven (Ruvi) Ziegler Dec 2008

A Just Zionism (Book Review) (In Hebrew), Reuven (Ruvi) Ziegler

Dr. Reuven (Ruvi) Ziegler

A book review of Tel Aviv University Professor Chaim Gans' book ‘A Just Zionism: On the Morality of the Jewish State’ (OUP 2008)

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Al-Qaeda’S Virtual Crisis, Akil N. Awan, Mina Al-Lami Dec 2008

Al-Qaeda’S Virtual Crisis, Akil N. Awan, Mina Al-Lami

Dr Akil N Awan

The fight Al-Qa’ida has waged against the West has been fought on a virtual as well as physical battlefield. Recently, many jihadist strongholds and hiding places on the web have been shut down. This article charts the growth and the current crisis of Al-Qa’ida’s ‘media jihad’.

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The Health Effects Of Parental Problem Drinking On Adult Children, Michael T. French, Ana I. Balsa, Jenny F. Homer Dec 2008

The Health Effects Of Parental Problem Drinking On Adult Children, Michael T. French, Ana I. Balsa, Jenny F. Homer

Michael T. French

BACKGROUND: Much of the research on adult children of alcoholics has focused on the transmission of drinking patterns from parents to their children and the development of alcohol-related problems. Less is known about how exposure to parental problem drinking affects children as they progress into adulthood in terms of other mental health outcomes. This is crucial information, in part because the average age of onset for depression and other mental health disorders is during late adolescence or young adulthood. AIMS: The objective of this study was to rigorously assess the long-term impacts of parental problem drinking on adult children's mental …

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Strategic Considerations In The Emergence Of Private Action Rights, Reza Rajabiun Dec 2008

Strategic Considerations In The Emergence Of Private Action Rights, Reza Rajabiun

Reza Rajabiun

The design of mechanisms for the enforcement of rules regarding anticompetitive practices has been the subject of considerable controversy in both developed and developing countries. Public competition authorities have advantages in terms of scale economies and coordination of competing policy objectives. Private rights of action enhance the capacity of legal regimes to generate information and deter collusive agreements and exclusionary practices. Private enforcement also increases the transaction costs of regulatory capture. Given these differences, mixed regimes are likely to be superior to purely public or private arrangements. However, most national jurisdictions grant exclusive authority to public agencies and prosecutors. This …

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Invigorating The Role Of The In-House Legal Advisor Towards Ethical Culture And Governance In Client-Business Organizations: From 21st Century Failures To True Calling, Ben G. Pender Ii Dec 2008

Invigorating The Role Of The In-House Legal Advisor Towards Ethical Culture And Governance In Client-Business Organizations: From 21st Century Failures To True Calling, Ben G. Pender Ii

Ben G Pender II

Invigorating the Role of the In-House Legal Advisor Towards Ethical Culture and Governance in Client-Business Organizations From 21st Century Failures to True Calling Ben G. Pender II J.D., University of St. Thomas School of Law, 2009 M.A. Sociology, Organizational Effectiveness, Clark Atlanta University, 1996. B.S., Sociology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1988. All Rights Reserved. © 2009. Summary This Article examines the need to invigorate the role of the in-house legal advisor from ‘mere legal technician’ to simultaneous legal advisory gatekeeper and ethical steward. This article asserts that the often-acquiescent in-house legal advisor as mere legal technician is partially …

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Grossman's Health Threshold And Retirement, Titus Galama, Arie Kapteyn, Raquel Fonseca, Pierre-Carl Michaud Dec 2008

Grossman's Health Threshold And Retirement, Titus Galama, Arie Kapteyn, Raquel Fonseca, Pierre-Carl Michaud

Titus Galama

We formulate a stylized structural model of health, wealth accumulation and retirement decisions building on the human capital framework of health provided by Grossman. We explicitly assume a functional form of the utility function and carefully account for initial conditions, which allow us to derive analytic solutions for the time paths of consumption, health, health investment, savings and retirement. We argue that the Grossman literature has been unnecessarily restrictive in assuming that health is always at Grossman’s “optimal” health level. Exploring the properties of corner solutions we find that advances in population health (health capital) can explain the paradox that …

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Forensic Analysis Of The Sony Playstation Portable, Scott Conrad, Carlos Rodriguez, Chris Marberry, Philip Craiger Dec 2008

Forensic Analysis Of The Sony Playstation Portable, Scott Conrad, Carlos Rodriguez, Chris Marberry, Philip Craiger

J. Philip Craiger, Ph.D.

The Sony PlayStation Portable (PSP) is a popular portable gaming device with features such as wireless Internet access and image, music and movie playback. As with most systems built around a processor and storage, the PSP can be used for purposes other than it was originally intended – legal as well as illegal. This paper discusses the features of the PSP browser and suggests best practices for extracting digital evidence.

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Analyzing The Impact Of A Virtual Machine On A Host Machine, Greg Dorn, Chris Marberry, Scott Conrad, Philip Craiger Dec 2008

Analyzing The Impact Of A Virtual Machine On A Host Machine, Greg Dorn, Chris Marberry, Scott Conrad, Philip Craiger

J. Philip Craiger, Ph.D.

As virtualization becomes more prevalent in the enterprise and in personal computing, there is a great need to understand the technology as well as its ramifications for recovering digital evidence. This paper focuses on trace evidence related to the installation and execution of virtual machines (VMs) on a host machine. It provides useful information regarding the types and locations of files installed by VM applications, the processes created by running VMs and the structure and identity of VMs, ancillary files and associated artifacts

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Competition Law And The Economy In The Russian Federation, 1990-2006, Reza Rajabiun Dec 2008

Competition Law And The Economy In The Russian Federation, 1990-2006, Reza Rajabiun

Reza Rajabiun

Most developing and transition countries adopted statutes prohibiting anticompetitive agreements and abusive practices during the 1980's and 1990's. The effectiveness of these laws is nevertheless widely debated. This paper contributes to the literature by conducting an event study of the adoption of Russian competition laws in the early years of transition, the subsequent economic developments and the legislative reform process of 2002-2006. An examination of the substantive prohibitions and enforcement data reveals that Russian competition laws relied on complex standards and imposed weak constraints on anticompetitive practices. The more recent shift to simpler and more predictable per se prohibitions against …

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Competition Law As Development Policy: Evidence From Poland, Reza Rajabiun Dec 2008

Competition Law As Development Policy: Evidence From Poland, Reza Rajabiun

Reza Rajabiun

The relationship between the design of competition laws and economic outcomes remains the subject of considerable controversy in both law and economics. Recent cross-national studies suggest that effective legal constraints against anticompetitive practices can enhance prospects for economic development by increasing the number of market participants and the quality of broader political and economic institutions. This paper explores the linkages between regulatory constraints against anticompetitive practices and the efficiency of market mechanisms by focusing on the experience in Poland between the collapse of central planning and regulatory harmonization pursuant to European Union accession. The analysis suggests that per se prohibitions …

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