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This Is My Front Yard!” Claims And Informal Property Rights On Sidewalks, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Renia Ehrenfeucht Dec 2013

This Is My Front Yard!” Claims And Informal Property Rights On Sidewalks, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Renia Ehrenfeucht

Renia Ehrenfeucht

No abstract provided.


The Wages Of Enmity In Us-Iran Relations, Huss Banai Dec 2013

The Wages Of Enmity In Us-Iran Relations, Huss Banai

Huss Banai

No abstract provided.


Arguing With God: An Honest Conversation, Barry Fike Dec 2013

Arguing With God: An Honest Conversation, Barry Fike

Barry D. Fike

For the Jew, “I beg to differ” has been an enduring tactic of achieving and affirming identity. The Jew had addressed the same caveat to God—not in self-contradiction, but in dialectic aiming at attainment of fuller realization of who he is, as Jew and as human being. In asking about God, we examine our own selves: whether we are sensitive to the grandeur and supremacy of what we ask about, whether we are wholeheartedly concerned with what we ask about. Unless we are involved, we fail to sense the issue.


Review Of Us Cultural Diplomacy And Archaeology Soft Power, Hard Heritage, Ignacio Rodríguez Temiño Dec 2013

Review Of Us Cultural Diplomacy And Archaeology Soft Power, Hard Heritage, Ignacio Rodríguez Temiño

Morag M. Kersel

No abstract provided.


African Emerging Equity Markets Re-Examined: Testing The Weak Form Efficiency Theory, Anthony Orji Dec 2013

African Emerging Equity Markets Re-Examined: Testing The Weak Form Efficiency Theory, Anthony Orji

ANTHONY ORJI

Abstract This paper examines the weak form of market efficiency of five major stock markets; four African equity markets and one developed market. The weekly market index returns of the EGX 30, NSE 20, NSE All Share Index, FTSE-JSE All Share Index and the S&P 500 Index were analysed for the period 1998–2008. To determine if the stylized fact of stock returns in African markets violate the random walk hypothesis, numerous econometric and statistical techniques are employed. These methods include the autocorrelation test, the unit test, linear and non-linear models. The results indicate that the African markets do not behave …


Keeping It Real: Recognizing Facial Expressions In Real Compared To Schematic Faces., Emily Prazak, E Burgund Dec 2013

Keeping It Real: Recognizing Facial Expressions In Real Compared To Schematic Faces., Emily Prazak, E Burgund

E. Darcy Burgund

No abstract provided.


The Lure Of The Artefact? The Effects Of Acquiring Eastern Mediterranean Material Culture, Morag Kersel Dec 2013

The Lure Of The Artefact? The Effects Of Acquiring Eastern Mediterranean Material Culture, Morag Kersel

Morag M. Kersel

No abstract provided.


Rethinking Competition In Tiger: Lessons For Federal Funding And Public Administration, Kate Lowe Dec 2013

Rethinking Competition In Tiger: Lessons For Federal Funding And Public Administration, Kate Lowe

Kate Lowe, PhD

No abstract provided.


The Future Of Us-Iran Relations, Huss Banai Dec 2013

The Future Of Us-Iran Relations, Huss Banai

Huss Banai

No abstract provided.


Globalizing Havana: World Heritage And Urban Development In Late Socialist Cuba (In Process), Matthew Hill Dec 2013

Globalizing Havana: World Heritage And Urban Development In Late Socialist Cuba (In Process), Matthew Hill

Matthew J. Hill

No abstract provided.


Governing Urban Economies: Innovation And Inclusion In Canadian City-Regions, Neil Bradford, Allison Bramwell Dec 2013

Governing Urban Economies: Innovation And Inclusion In Canadian City-Regions, Neil Bradford, Allison Bramwell

Neil Bradford

No abstract provided.


Rtop's Second Pillar: The Responsibility To Assist In Theory And Practice In Solomon Islands, Charles Hawksley, Nichole Georgeou Dec 2013

Rtop's Second Pillar: The Responsibility To Assist In Theory And Practice In Solomon Islands, Charles Hawksley, Nichole Georgeou

Nichole Georgeou

This paper explores the implementation of a regional capacity-building program in Solomon Islands, a state that experienced significant violence and political tension between 1998 and 2003. The July 2003 intervention of the Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI) is a useful and relevant case study for understanding the operationalization of Pillar II of RtoP, which the authors have termed the “Responsibility to Assist” (RtoA). While RAMSI has not consciously adopted RtoP language in its operations, the rationale for the intervention included humanitarian as well as wider regional security concerns. The mission’s emphasis on developing the state’s capacities in policing …


Saving Lives With Stem Cell Transplants, Damien Sheehan-Connor, Ted Bergstrom, Rodney Garratt Dec 2013

Saving Lives With Stem Cell Transplants, Damien Sheehan-Connor, Ted Bergstrom, Rodney Garratt

Ted C Bergstrom

For patients with certain diseases, blood stem cell transplants can be life-saving. But a transplant is likely to be successful only if the immune systems of the donor and recipient are a close genetic match. Human immune systems are extremely diverse and a patient's chances of finding a matching donor would be small without the ability to search a very large number of possible donors. For this reason, most advanced nations maintain large registries of potential donors who have offered to donate stem cells if they happen to be the best available match for a patient needing a transplant. In …


Commute Behavior Of And Accessibility For Low-Income Workers In Post-Katrina New Orleans, Kate Lowe Dec 2013

Commute Behavior Of And Accessibility For Low-Income Workers In Post-Katrina New Orleans, Kate Lowe

Kate Lowe, PhD

No abstract provided.


Psychological Determinants Of Emotional Eating: The Role Of Attachment, Psychopathological Symptom Distress, Love Attitudes, And Perceived Hunger., Peta Stapleton, Eleanor Mackay Dec 2013

Psychological Determinants Of Emotional Eating: The Role Of Attachment, Psychopathological Symptom Distress, Love Attitudes, And Perceived Hunger., Peta Stapleton, Eleanor Mackay

Peta B. Stapleton

The present study aimed to investigate the psychological determinants of emotional eating in a national and international sample of healthy weight, overweight and obese adults (N = 226). Specifically, attachment styles, psychopathological symptom distress and love attitudes were explored for their ability to predict emotional eating. Findings supported the suggestion symptom distress may particularly predispose individuals to engaging in emotionally motivated overeating, with a large effect size observed. Preoccupied attachment was also a significant predictor of emotion eating, even after controlling for state-based inferences. However, there were no significant contributions of secure, fearful-avoidant, or dismissive-avoidant attachment style in the prediction …


Ballot Box Planning: Implementation Of Rail Ballot Measures, Kate Lowe, Rolf Pendall, Juliet Gainsborough, Mai Nguyen Dec 2013

Ballot Box Planning: Implementation Of Rail Ballot Measures, Kate Lowe, Rolf Pendall, Juliet Gainsborough, Mai Nguyen

Kate Lowe, PhD

Metropolitan areas in the United States frequently finance new rail lines with local option taxes, and, as a result, rail plans and associated taxes often come before voters as ballot measures. Existing research finds that rail ballot measures are more likely to pass when taxes are linked to specific projects and planning has broad stakeholder involvement. Such studies, however, have not examined to what extent agencies implement voter-approved projects. This research fills this gap and finds the interrelated variables of ballot measure provisions, campaign supporters and strategies, and planned rail projects contribute to varied progress toward implementation in Denver, Houston, …


Jus Post Bellum: Justice In The Aftermath Of War, Robert Williams Dec 2013

Jus Post Bellum: Justice In The Aftermath Of War, Robert Williams

Robert E. Williams Jr.

No abstract provided.


Witness Response Manipulation Through Strategic "Non-Leading" Questions (Or The Art Of Getting The Desired Answer By Asking The Right Question), Sydney Beckman Dec 2013

Witness Response Manipulation Through Strategic "Non-Leading" Questions (Or The Art Of Getting The Desired Answer By Asking The Right Question), Sydney Beckman

Sydney A. Beckman

No abstract provided.


The Ups And Downs Of Knowledge Infrastructures In Science: Implications For Data Management, Christine Borgman, Peter Darch, Ashley Sands, Jillian Wallis, Sharon Traweek Dec 2013

The Ups And Downs Of Knowledge Infrastructures In Science: Implications For Data Management, Christine Borgman, Peter Darch, Ashley Sands, Jillian Wallis, Sharon Traweek

Peter Darch

The promise of technology-enabled, data-intensive scholarship is predicated upon access to knowledge infrastructures that are not yet in place. Scientific data management requires expertise in the scientific domain and in organizing and retrieving complex research objects. The Knowledge Infrastructures project compares data management activities of four large, distributed, multidisciplinary scientific endeavors as they ramp their activities up or down; two are big science and two are small science. Research questions address digital library solutions, knowledge infrastructure concerns, issues specific to individual domains, and common problems across domains. Findings are based on interviews (n=113 to date), ethnography, and other analyses of …


Comparing Critical Capitalist Commodity Chains In The Early Twenty-First Century: Opportunities For And Constraints On Labor And Political Movements, Elizabeth Sowers, Paul Ciccantell, David Smith Dec 2013

Comparing Critical Capitalist Commodity Chains In The Early Twenty-First Century: Opportunities For And Constraints On Labor And Political Movements, Elizabeth Sowers, Paul Ciccantell, David Smith

Paul Ciccantell

There have been a number of critical historical opportunities for labor to exert power by interrupting long distance flows of commodities at the extraction, processing, and transport stages. This vulnerability has been used by workers in these industries to gain higher wages and better working conditions and to achieve political goals in national and international arenas. In this paper, we compare two commodity chains that are critical components of the global economy. The first, which we describe as transport, is a broad category involving a range of manufactured goods, whose delivery to customers around the world was fundamentally changed in …


A Theory Of Blame, Bertram Malle, Steve Guglielmo, Andrew Monroe Dec 2013

A Theory Of Blame, Bertram Malle, Steve Guglielmo, Andrew Monroe

Steve Guglielmo

http://www.macalester.edu/~sgugliel/pubs/MalleGuglielmoMonroe_theory_of_blame.pdf


Sound And The City: Noise In Restaurant Critics’ Reviews, John Lang Dec 2013

Sound And The City: Noise In Restaurant Critics’ Reviews, John Lang

John T. Lang

Are expert aesthetic judgments of restaurants shaped by sound and music? Although sound is an important design element of a built space devoted to consumerism like a restaurant, it is a typically overlooked aesthetic structure. This project analyzes how widely read and influential food writing help the general public define the acceptable repertoire of music and sound in restaurants. I draw on a sample of major restaurant reviews that appear in the LexisNexis archives of the San Francisco Chronicle and The New York Times from January 1, 1998, until December 31, 2010. Specifically, I examine 1208 reviews written by thirteen …


The Impressions Of Emergency Services Students In A Homeland Security Course: The Benefits Of Reflective Thinking And Journaling, Eric Russell, John Fisher Dec 2013

The Impressions Of Emergency Services Students In A Homeland Security Course: The Benefits Of Reflective Thinking And Journaling, Eric Russell, John Fisher

Dr. John R. Fisher

This case study explored the impressions a homeland security course had on the emergency service student. The setting for the study was a state-sponsored university in the western United States. The 17 participants were declared, undergraduate emergency services majors that underwent a 7.5-week distance learning homeland security course. Grounded theory was used to analyze and develop themes from student reflections from the class. The findings of the study suggested that the most important impressions students took from the class were about global awareness, an understanding of the vulnerabilities of terrorism to the nation and the importance of a homeland security …


Improving Energy Benchmarking With Self-Reported Data, David Hsu Dec 2013

Improving Energy Benchmarking With Self-Reported Data, David Hsu

David Hsu

Energy benchmarking for buildings has become increasingly important in government policy and industry practice for energy efficiency. The questions of how energy benchmarking is currently conducted, and how it might be improved using rapidly growing quantities of self-reported data, are examined. A case study of commercial office buildings in New York City demonstrates how the rapid growth in self-reported data presents both new opportunities and challenges for energy benchmarking for buildings. A critique is presented for the scoring methodology and data sources for Energy Star, one of the largest and most successful benchmarking certification schemes. Findings from recent studies are …


Stopping The Stalker: Victim Responses To Stalking. An Examination Of Victim Responses To Determine Factors Affecting The Intensity And Duration Of Stalking, Terry Goldsworthy, Matthew Raj Dec 2013

Stopping The Stalker: Victim Responses To Stalking. An Examination Of Victim Responses To Determine Factors Affecting The Intensity And Duration Of Stalking, Terry Goldsworthy, Matthew Raj

Matthew Raj

It is estimated that 19 per cent of women in Australia will be stalked at some stage in their life.1 Victims of stalking are exposed to threatening behaviours over prolonged periods of time and their experiences have been described by them as “emotional or psychological rape”, “psychological terrorism”, and “rape without sex”. Research has shown that the more victimisation a person experiences, the more he or she resorts to a variety of attempts to manage the stalking behaviour. Many methods have attracted criticism, specifically the use of civil injunctions to reduce the risk of violence and continued stalking. However, there …


Reportinfluence Of Emotional States On Inhibitory Gating: Animal Models To Clinical Neurophysiology, Howard Cromwell Dec 2013

Reportinfluence Of Emotional States On Inhibitory Gating: Animal Models To Clinical Neurophysiology, Howard Cromwell

Howard Casey Cromwell

tIntegrating research efforts using a cross-domain approach could redefine traditional constructs used inbehavioral and clinical neuroscience by demonstrating that behavior and mental processes arise not fromfunctional isolation but from integration. Our research group has been examining the interface betweencognitive and emotional processes by studying inhibitory gating. Inhibitory gating can be measured viachanges in behavior or neural signal processing. Sensorimotor gating of the startle response is a well-usedmeasure. To study how emotion and cognition interact during startle modulation in the animal model,we examined ultrasonic vocalization (USV) emissions during acoustic startle and prepulse inhibition. Wefound high rates of USV emission during the …


Evolution Of American Urban Society, 8th Edition, Howard Chudacoff, Judith Smith, Peter Baldwin Dec 2013

Evolution Of American Urban Society, 8th Edition, Howard Chudacoff, Judith Smith, Peter Baldwin

Judith E. Smith

The Evolution of American Urban History blends historical perspectives on society, economics, politics, and policy, while focusing on the ways in which diverse peoples have inhabited and interacted in cities. It tackles ethnic and racial minority issues, offers multiple perspectives on women, and highlights urbanization's constantly shifting nature.


Ground Penetrating Radar Investigations At Marj Rabba, A Chalcolithic Site In Lower Galilee, Israel, Thomas Urban, Yorke Rowan, Morag Kersel Dec 2013

Ground Penetrating Radar Investigations At Marj Rabba, A Chalcolithic Site In Lower Galilee, Israel, Thomas Urban, Yorke Rowan, Morag Kersel

Morag M. Kersel

No abstract provided.


Social Innovation, Monica Nandan Dec 2013

Social Innovation, Monica Nandan

Monica Nandan

No abstract provided.


Global Health Inequities: A Sociological Perspective, Fernando De Maio Dec 2013

Global Health Inequities: A Sociological Perspective, Fernando De Maio

Fernando De Maio

No abstract provided.