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- The apparent interest today in Nigerian visual culture has necessitated this paper. Therefore, its primary focus shall be on the status of visual data from the burgeoning ephemera as a source of historical knowledge. Using selected visual illustrations in the posters, cartoons and photographs that were at the core of...
- Keyword:
- pas and federalist
- Subject:
- African Studies
- Creator:
- Etiido Effiong Inyang
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 11/13/2018
- Date Created:
- 2013
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- In May 1991 the allied armies of the Eritrean People’s Liberation Front (EPLF) and the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) overthrew the 27-year military regime (Dergue) in Ethiopia. During the succeeding 27 years, the EPRDF-dominated government attracted one of the highest per capita levels of external aid in the...
- Keyword:
- ethiopia
- Subject:
- Ethiopia, Political science, and Africa
- Creator:
- Richard Joseph
- Depositor:
- Chris Diaz
- Owner:
- Richard A Joseph
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/21/2018
- Date Modified:
- 11/23/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Patrick F. Quinn states that Edgar Allan Poe wrote poems at an age “too young to have any knowledge of the world but from his own breast,” and attributes Poe’s decision to leave flaws in his “smaller pieces” intact to “[fondness fostered by] his old age” (Quinn 9). While readers...
- Keyword:
- Egyptian "Book of the Dead", Prose, Edgar Allan Poe, and Poetry
- Creator:
- Lydia E. Wuorinen
- Owner:
- Lydia Elizabeth Wuorinen
- Date Uploaded:
- 12/02/2018
- Date Modified:
- 12/03/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- In this essay, I will focus on the fifth theme of the Collaborative Learning Initiative: Reclaiming Security. Attempts to reclaim security in many African countries, tragically, often lead to greater insecurity as rulers respond by heightening repression. Some even close down access to social media and global communications thereby harming...
- Keyword:
- africa and national security
- Creator:
- Richard Joseph
- Depositor:
- Chris Diaz
- Owner:
- Richard A Joseph
- Date Uploaded:
- 12/16/2018
- Date Modified:
- 12/17/2018
- Date Created:
- 2018
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- The European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) was the first step in the process of European integration. Its founders had lofty aspirations that integration in the coal and steel would spill into a larger endeavor, and early scholarly analyses suggested that coal and steel integration was spurring more fundamental political...
- Keyword:
- buffet, steel, and European coal
- Creator:
- Karen Alter and David Steinberg
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/01/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/01/2019
- Date Created:
- 2007
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Alternate Identifier:
- 07-001
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- From peacekeeping to telecommunication standards, the number, level of detail, and subject matter of international agreements have grown exponentially in recent decades. What are the consequences of the sheer complexity of international governance today? This symposium suggests a new framework to understand this proliferation of international accords: "international regime complexity."...
- Keyword:
- Buffett and International
- Creator:
- Christina Davis, Alexander Betts, Stephanie Hofmann, Laurence Hefner, Daniel Drezner, Emilie Hafner-Burton, Karen Alter,, and Judith Kelley
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/01/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/01/2019
- Date Created:
- 2007
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Alternate Identifier:
- 07-003
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- Description:
- Most scholars think of courts as a single category of adjudicative bodies or triadic dispute adjudication. But courts play a variety of roles in the domestic political system. Increasingly, the roles and tasks delegated to International Courts (ICs) mimic in form and content the roles and tasks delegated to courts...
- Keyword:
- Buffett and International Courts
- Creator:
- Karen Alter
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/01/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/01/2019
- Date Created:
- 2007
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Alternate Identifier:
- 07-004
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- Description:
- The object of this working paper is to present a new explanation for the behavior of rebel groups in relation to host communities. This study, which represents the main argument and ideas of my forthcoming dissertation, accounts for the change in rebel group behavior, from coercive to contractarian and vice...
- Keyword:
- Buffett
- Creator:
- Claire Metelits
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/01/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/01/2019
- Date Created:
- 2007
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Alternate Identifier:
- 07-002
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- This essay examines the relationship between religion and the state as articulated in the thought of the founding father of the Republic of Senegal: Leopold Sedar Senghor (Senegal's first President) and Mamadou Dia (Senegal's first Prime Minister). Although Senghor was Catholic and Dia a Muslim, they shared a vision of...
- Keyword:
- Buffett, Modernity, and Religion
- Creator:
- Souleymane Bachir Diagne
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/01/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/01/2019
- Date Created:
- 2009
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Alternate Identifier:
- 09-008
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- Description:
- This essay explores how the evolving relationship between religion and the state is affecting the educational system in Senegal. In 2002, the state enacted reforms that introduced the religious education into the state school system and also allowed all children enrolled in the daara (Senegalese Qur'anic schools) to be considered...
- Keyword:
- Buffett, Religious Education, and Secularism
- Creator:
- Penda Mbow
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/01/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/01/2019
- Date Created:
- 2009
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Alternate Identifier:
- 09-007
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- Description:
- This essay provides an introduction to eight papers on the theme of Islam and the Public Sphere in Africa that resulted from two conferences organized by the Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA) in 2007. The author argues that these papers challenge the dichotomous thinking that...
- Keyword:
- Buffett, Islam, and Public Sphere
- Creator:
- M. Sani Umar
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/01/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/01/2019
- Date Created:
- 2009
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Alternate Identifier:
- 09-009
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- Description:
- Delegation to ICs has increased rapidly since 1990, leading to a proliferation of international courts with a fundamentally different design. There are now 20 active ICs, plus eight more ICs that exist mostly on paper. "New style" international courts have compulsory jurisdiction, and often they have access for non-state actors...
- Keyword:
- international courts and buffett
- Creator:
- Karen Alter
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/01/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/01/2019
- Date Created:
- 2009
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Alternate Identifier:
- 09-001
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- Description:
- This essay explores Nigerian women's negotiation of public and private spheres through the meanings of hibjab (Islamic head covering for women) has taken in different contexts, both liberating and limiting women. In the 1970s with the new oil economy, increasing migration to cities and the expansion of education for women,...
- Keyword:
- hibjab and buffett
- Creator:
- Hauwa Mahdi
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/01/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/01/2019
- Date Created:
- 2009
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Alternate Identifier:
- 09-003
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- Description:
- This essay analyzes the historical struggle of the Muslim community to have a voice in Kenyan politics and the Islamic topics that have surfaced during electoral periods. A minority group in Kenya, Muslims have faced political marginalization more on the basis of race and ethnicity than religion. The pre-independence period...
- Keyword:
- muslims and buffett
- Creator:
- Hassan Ndzovu
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/01/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/01/2019
- Date Created:
- 2009
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Alternate Identifier:
- 09-001
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- Description:
- This essay discusses the role of the ulama (Islamic scholars) in the 2007 Nigerian elections. Based on interviews and the political activities and statements of the twelve members of the ulama, most of whom are from Kano, the author observes four areas of consensus among these scholars: 1) The compatiblity...
- Keyword:
- islam and buffett
- Creator:
- Haruna Wakili
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/01/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/01/2019
- Date Created:
- 2009
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Alternate Identifier:
- 09-004
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- Description:
- The growing religious identity throughout the world is challenging conventional social science wisdom, according to which modernization leads to the marginalization of religion in the public sphere. This discussion suggests different and alternative models for being both Muslim and modern. The focus is the family law reform within the context...
- Keyword:
- New Moroccan Family Code and Buffett
- Creator:
- Fatima Harrak
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/01/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/01/2019
- Date Created:
- 2009
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Alternate Identifier:
- 09-002
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- Description:
- Among the linkages identified between human rights law and environmental protection, the problem of anthropogenic climate change has emerged as a central concern. Some of the early focus on climate change as itself a human rights violation has given way to a more complete and forward-looking approach that considers how...
- Keyword:
- climate change and buffett
- Creator:
- Human Rights and Climate Change
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/02/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/02/2019
- Date Created:
- 2009
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Alternate Identifier:
- 09-002
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- Description:
- This essay asks whether the existence of a viable public sphere hinges upon the banishment of religion to the private realm. While some scholars have suggested that the encounter between "public" Islam and the democratization inevitably produces political collapse (as in the case of Algeria), the author contends that the...
- Keyword:
- islam and buffett
- Creator:
- Alexander Thurston
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/02/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/02/2019
- Date Created:
- 2009
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Alternate Identifier:
- 09-005
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- Description:
- This paper discusses the recent (2007) declaration of the Caucasus Emirate by Islamist guerilla fighters waging jihad against Russia in several republics of the Northern Caucasus (Russian Federation). It analyzes the practical reasons and ideological agendas behind the creation of this new polity that remains largely virtual with the website...
- Keyword:
- virtuality, reality, and buffett
- Creator:
- Alexander Knysh
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/02/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/02/2019
- Date Created:
- 2009
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Alternate Identifier:
- 09-001
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- Description:
- This paper examines secularism in Senegal from a legal viewpoint and traces the history of the deliberate manner in which the Senegalese constitution was constructed to ensure the secular orientation of the state. The author emphasizes that Senegalese secularism is not anti-religious, but rather emphasizes mutual tolerance among diverse religious...
- Keyword:
- senegal, local realities, and buffett
- Creator:
- Abdoulaye Dièye
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/02/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/02/2019
- Date Created:
- 2009
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- President Barack Obama is escalating an ambitious, U.S.-directed covert war, relying on Special Forces and high-tech strikes in Yemen, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and other countries to track down and eliminate Al Qaeda leaders and militants around the world. Meanwhile, administration officials in Washington are attempting to create a legal framework for...
- Keyword:
- legal dimensions, shadow warriors, and buffett
- Creator:
- Tara McKelvey
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/02/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/02/2019
- Date Created:
- 2010
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Alternate Identifier:
- 10-007
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- Description:
- The proponants of international courts (ICs) expect that creating formal legal institutions will help to increase respect for international law. International relations scholars question such claims, since ICs have no tools to compel state compliance. Such views are premised on the notion that states have unique preferences that ICs must...
- Keyword:
- buffett
- Creator:
- Karen Alter
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/02/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/02/2019
- Date Created:
- 2010
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Alternate Identifier:
- 10-003
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- Description:
- Traditional accounts in both the international law and international relations literature largely assume that great powers like the United States enter into international legal communities in order to resolve global cooperative programs or to advance objective state interests. Contrary to these accounts, this article suggests that an incumbent regime (or...
- Keyword:
- international law, buffett, and domestic
- Creator:
- Jide Nzelibe
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/02/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/02/2019
- Date Created:
- 2010
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Alternate Identifier:
- 10-002
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- Description:
- Canada's aboriginal peoples are one of the constituencies most affected by the oil sands boom that has swept across northeastern Alberta in western Canada since the mid-1990s. This paper considers the reaction of these First Nations to exploiting the oil sands. It argues that the conventional view of the First...
- Keyword:
- sands, buffett, and aboriginal
- Creator:
- Ian Urquhart
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/02/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/02/2019
- Date Created:
- 2010
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Alternate Identifier:
- 10-005
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- Description:
- The International Criminal Court is considemring adding "aggression" to the crimes for which individuals can be prosecuted by the Court. Michael Glennon's recent article on the subject criticizes this effort from many angles, but a close consideration of his objections shows that each of them misses its target. I use...
- Keyword:
- response, crime of aggression, and buffett
- Creator:
- Ian Hurd
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/02/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/02/2019
- Date Created:
- 2010
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Alternate Identifier:
- 10-001
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- Description:
- Paper prepared for the conference on "Canadian-United States Energy Issues after Copenhagen: Oil Sands and Energy Interdepenence"
- Keyword:
- gas, energy, buffett, and oil
- Creator:
- Hendrik Spruyt
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/02/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/02/2019
- Date Created:
- 2010
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Alternate Identifier:
- 10-003
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- Description:
- This paper opens the analysis of treaties in the security field to sociological and hermeneutic analyses of international lawmaking practices. In a legal world where tensions exist between legal regimes, it claims that the interpretive quality of past treaties determines which legal rules survive and which ones disappear when new...
- Keyword:
- nuclear world order and buffett
- Creator:
- Gregoire Mallard
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/02/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/02/2019
- Date Created:
- 2010
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- This article offers a new interpretation of The Gift written by Marcel Mauss. It provides a contextual interpretation of the formation of Mauss' thinking about the international relations in the question of German reparations paid to the Allies. The article starts by showing the intellectual origins of the concept of...
- Keyword:
- Marcel mauss, Debt, and buffett
- Creator:
- Gregoire Mallard
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/02/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/02/2019
- Date Created:
- 2010
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- This article examines how powerful policy actors defend themselves against opponents' strategies of conflict expansion through a case study of the Alberta oil sands subsystem. In response to changes in the key issues surrounding the oil sands subsystem, the provincial government along with industry have pursued a strategy of engaging...
- Keyword:
- conflict expansion, playing defence, and buffett
- Creator:
- Jeffrey Phillips and George Holberg
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/02/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/02/2019
- Date Created:
- 2010
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Alternate Identifier:
- 10-002
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- Description:
- The past decade has witnessed exponential growth in study abroad participation. During these same years the promise that studying abroad will make students into Global Citizens has been a nearly ubiquitous feature in the promotion of the experience. Yet, Global Citizenship remains a highly contested concept that is rarely defined,...
- Keyword:
- university, global citizenship, and buffett
- Creator:
- Berhard Streitwieser
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/02/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/02/2019
- Date Created:
- 2010
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Alternate Identifier:
- 10-001
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- Description:
- The surge in "unconventional" oil projects such as Alberta's Tar Sands in the last decade signals a shift in global production from relatively accessible conventional reserves to "frontier" oil. This paper examines one aspect of the oil/environment tension – the environmental regulatory system surrounding the tar sands – by adopting...
- Keyword:
- environment and buffett
- Creator:
- Angela Carter
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/02/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/02/2019
- Date Created:
- 10-004
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- This paper provides an overview of key governance issues of relevance to the upstream oil and gas industry in Canada. The focus is on implications of Canada's constitutional organization as a federation. Regulatory structures and provisions are described, as are revenue-sharing arrangements. Challenges for macro-economic management and for the environmental...
- Keyword:
- gas, buffett, and oil
- Creator:
- Andrew Plourde
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/02/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/02/2019
- Date Created:
- 2010
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Alternate Identifier:
- 10-001
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- Description:
- Are the lending programs of the International Monetary Fund bad for democracy? The conventional wisdom is that the implementation of IMF conditional lending programs triggers cycles of austerity, social protest, and government repression that result in democratic backsliding. We present evidence which suggests that the conventional wisdom is wrong. We...
- Keyword:
- IMF and buffett
- Creator:
- Geoffrey P.R. Wallace and Stephen C. Nelson
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 2011
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Alternate Identifier:
- 11-004
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- Description:
- This paper explores the importance of the Low Countries to Habsburg Spain in the sixteenth century and the outbreak of the Dutch Revolt. It examines the upper tiers of the Low Country nobility, the grands seigneurs and the gentileshommes, and the tensions over religious practice and political rights that developed...
- Keyword:
- Dutch Revolt, beggary, and buffett
- Creator:
- Peter Arnade
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 2011
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Alternate Identifier:
- 11-001
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- Description:
- Seven to ten percent of the world's 43.3 million forcibly displaced persons are believed to be people with disabilities. This report examines the health-related needs of displaced persons with disabilities and how these needs can be better addressed in the context of displacement camps. It uses two methodological stages: first,...
- Keyword:
- Diminished Opportunities and buffett
- Creator:
- Mansha Mirza
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/03/2019
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- Europe created the model of embedded international courts (IC), where domestic judges work with international judges to interpret and apply international legal rules that are also part of national legal orders. This model has now diffused around the world. This article documents the spread of European-style ICs: there are now...
- Keyword:
- european, global spread, and buffett
- Creator:
- Karen J. Alter
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 2011
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Alternate Identifier:
- 11-003
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- Description:
- This article explains the rapid proliveration in international courts first in the post WWII and then the post Cold War era. It examines the larger international judicial complex, showing how developments in one region and domain affect developments in similar and distant regimes. Situating individual developments into their larger context,...
- Keyword:
- evolving and buffett
- Creator:
- Karen J. Alter
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 2011
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Alternate Identifier:
- 11-002
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- Description:
- During the Second Lebanon War of 2006, Israel's government applied a capital- and firepower-intensive military doctrine poorly suited for its ambitious, and publicly declared, goals. The paper explains this apparently non-strategic behavior with a theory of democratic militarism, arguing that a capitalized military doctrine results in a condition of moral...
- Keyword:
- isreali, lebannon, normal democracy, and buffett
- Creator:
- Jonathan D. Caverley
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 2011
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Alternate Identifier:
- 11-001
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- Description:
- This article examines the successes and challenges of using the open-source mapping software Ushahidi for tracking instances of violence (riots, looting, sexual assault etc.) in the Democratic Republic of Congo. While mapping software has the power to aggregate data on displaced populations, the article discusses the challenges of verification and...
- Keyword:
- ushahidi and buffett
- Creator:
- Galya Ruffer
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/03/2019
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- This article presents preliminary, selected findings from a larger study of students experiences in international education. The paper focus on those findings that are related to student understand ing of citizenship identity during the mobility experience. Specifically, it draws on interviews and surveys collected in Germany from 387 students participating...
- Keyword:
- erasmus and buffett
- Creator:
- Bernhard Streitwieser
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 2011
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Alternate Identifier:
- 11-001
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- Description:
- This article examines the ramifications of international law on political refugees. The Cessation Clause, or Article 35 of the 1951 Refugee Convention of the United Nations, guarantees the right of refugees to return home under the assumption that return is the primary objective of refugees. Yet, Harrell-Bond argues in this...
- Keyword:
- buffett and cessation
- Creator:
- Barbara Harrell-Bond
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 2011
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Alternate Identifier:
- 11-001
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- Description:
- This paper examines the current state of Turkish-U.S. relations. While many have noted a chill in the relationship between the two countries, Finn suggests that recent tension has a longer historical background. Rather than a recent development, Finn suggests that Turkish-U.S. relations have seen periods of tension before over the...
- Keyword:
- double helix and buffett
- Creator:
- Ambassador Robert P. Finn
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 2011
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Alternate Identifier:
- 11-006
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- Description:
- This paper traces the relationship between the development of Ahmedabad’s sewerage system and the caste structure, examining how sanitation technology threatened caste politics, as well as how the caste system modified the way sewers were used and maintained. It looks at how sewers came to be understood as markers of...
- Keyword:
- status, sweerage, and india
- Creator:
- Stephanie Tam
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 2012
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Alternate Identifier:
- 12-002
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- Description:
- The central thesis of the paper is that authoritarian cases have systematically been excluded from welfare state theories despite the existing empirical research on authoritarian welfare provisions. This theoretical gap has limited the instruments available for comparative welfare state research. As a result, such research has attended to the democratic...
- Keyword:
- marginalized, authoritarian, and buffett
- Creator:
- Natalia Forrat
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 2012
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Alternate Identifier:
- 12-005
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- Description:
- This paper explores the link between the public policy and the survival strategies of a hybrid political regime. Using the case of higher education in Russia, I show how the Russian state elites use the policy tools widespread in Western democracies to achieve domestic political goals. Introduction of quasi-market mechanisms...
- Keyword:
- global trends, buffett, and reforms
- Creator:
- Natalia Forrat
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 2012
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Alternate Identifier:
- 12-001
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- Description:
- In order to understand the role of international courts (ICs) in the international legal system, this chapter examines 25 permanent international courts by analyzing four roles that states have delegated to courts: enforcement, administrative review, constitutional review, and dispute settlement. The chapter finds that ICs can become not only agents...
- Keyword:
- international courts and buffett
- Creator:
- Karen J. Alter
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 2012
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Alternate Identifier:
- 12-002
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- Description:
- To analyze institutional dynamics, it is first necessary to determine when change has occurred, when not, and the nature and magnitude of change. If social institutions are defined in terms of rules, then a change of rules forms the core of institutional change. A number of complications arise from the...
- Keyword:
- institutional dynamics, change, and buffett
- Creator:
- Bruce Carruthers
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 2012
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Alternate Identifier:
- 12-004
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- Description:
- In this paper, I present two distinct approaches to migrant entrepreneurship. I conducted an ethnography of two Ghanaian migrant businesses, one of which draws on the Ghanaian community, and the other which distances itself from it. I show that our current understanding of social capital romanticises the notion of community,...
- Keyword:
- conceptions and buffett
- Creator:
- Kofi Takyi Asante
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 2013
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Alternate Identifier:
- 13-002
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- Description:
- This is the introductory chapter of my forthcoming book with the same title. The three primary objectives of this book are to reveal the paradigm shift of the contemporary international judiciary, conceptualize how new–style international courts (ICs) contribute to international politics, and normalize our understanding foremost as courts, and second...
- Keyword:
- law, courts, buffett, and new terrain
- Creator:
- Karen J. Alter
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 2013
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Alternate Identifier:
- 13-001
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- Description:
- This Handbook provides resources that help explain and contextualize the intersecting crises that destabilized Mali in 2012-2013. These crises included a rebellion by Tuareg separatists, a coup by junior officers, and violence carried out by Muslim militants. In addition to an overview of the crisis, the Handbook contains historical timelines,...
- Keyword:
- mali, crisis, and buffett
- Creator:
- Alexander Thurston and Andrew Lebovich
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 2013
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Alternate Identifier:
- 13-001
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- Description:
- In this paper, Morgan and Orloff survey the contemporary study of states in the social sciences. They begin by tracing the history of scholarship on the state. The authors identify six main clusters of research on states that emerged through the effort to “bring the state back into” history and...
- Keyword:
- state, hands, and buffett
- Creator:
- Ann Shola Orloff and Kimberly J. Morgan
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 2014
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Alternate Identifier:
- 14-001
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- Description:
- This paper examines the relationship between a party'’'s descriptive representation of women and its ideological proximity to female and male voters. I find that male and female voters are both objectively closer to parties with more females in their delegations. However, males are more likely to subjectively assess parties with...
- Keyword:
- political, women, and buffett
- Creator:
- Georgia Kernell
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 2014
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Alternate Identifier:
- 12-001
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- Description:
- In order to make informed policy recommendations, development research faces two broad challenges: first, to identify and estimate the effects of interventions where they have occurred, and second to build and test theories about the effects that a related intervention would be hypothesized to exert in a different context. I...
- Keyword:
- policy-oriented, casual inferences, buffett, and development research
- Creator:
- Andre Nickow
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Modified:
- 01/03/2019
- Date Created:
- 2015
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Alternate Identifier:
- 15-001
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- Description:
- This working paper focuses on the themes, authors, and changing modes of production of 152 booklets published (or purchased) in Nigeria relating to marriage. The author obtained them from bookshops mainly in Ibadan and Lagos, from church bookstores in Ado-Ekiti and Kabba, but also from motor parks in Lokoja, Kaduna,...
- Keyword:
- pas
- Subject:
- pas
- Creator:
- Elisha P. Renne
- Contributor:
- LaRay Denzer
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/05/2019
- Date Modified:
- 02/05/2019
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- This paper examines conflictual relationships among British members of the Gold Coast administration. It adds to the literature that problematizes earlier notions of colonialism by highlighting tensions and contradictions inherent in colonial governance structures. This paper argues that at its inception, the Gold Coast colonial administration had deep cracks as...
- Keyword:
- pas
- Creator:
- Kofi Takyi Asante
- Contributor:
- LaRay Denzer
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 02/05/2019
- Date Modified:
- 02/05/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- In 1936 Modibo Keita, a twenty-year-old student at the distinguished Ecole William Ponty in Gorée, Senegal, wrote his “mémoire de fin d'étude” on Soninke childhood. The original manuscript is held in the archives of French West Africa in Dakar, part of the collection of “cahiers de William Ponty.” This paper... and En 1936 Modibo Keita, un étudiant de vingt ans à l'école distingué William Ponty à Gorée, au Sénégal, a écrit son mémoire de fin d'étude sur l’enfance sarakollé. Le manuscrit original se trouve dans les archives de l'Afrique occidentale française à Dakar, où il fait partie de la collection de...
- Keyword:
- Modibo Keita, Soninke, Bambara, 1930s, Cahiers William Ponty, French colonial education, Malian childhood, French West Africa, Malinke, ethnography, Mali, Mande childhood, Ecole William Ponty, ethnicity, and auto-ethnography
- Creator:
- Marcia Tiede
- Owner:
- Marcia Tiede
- Publisher:
- Mande Studies Association = Association des Etudes Mandé
- Language:
- English and French
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/07/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/27/2019
- Date Created:
- 2014-09-30
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- Presentation slides from Open Repositories, 2018. Jekyll is an open source publishing system that relies on plain text files to produce websites. Because it was created as a simple blogging platform, Jekyll can be extended to support the journal publishing needs of any library with a scholarly communication or digital...
- Keyword:
- static website generators, institutional repositories, and jekyll
- Subject:
- Digital libraries
- Creator:
- Chris Diaz
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/11/2018
- Date Modified:
- 03/07/2019
- Date Created:
- 2018-06-07
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- In this talk and related activities, I hope to inspire others to take up one of the greatest challenges of our era: narrowing the governance gap which is at the root of many of Africa’s development and security dilemmas. In view of the emergence of many fragile and failed states,...
- Keyword:
- collaborative learning initiative
- Creator:
- Richard Joseph
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 05/28/2019
- Date Modified:
- 05/29/2019
- Date Created:
- 2019-05-28
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Keyword:
- Social Determinants of Health and Ophthalmology
- Creator:
- Dustin French
- Owner:
- Andrew Wang
- Date Uploaded:
- 01/09/2020
- Date Modified:
- 01/09/2020
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Alternate Identifier:
- DOI 10.1007/s40123-019-00220-1
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- Description:
- Within the world of art music, composers have employed a variety of techniques to infuse popular music elements into their writing. This document is an examination of specific instances of this trend in twenty-first century wind ensemble repertoire. The study is limited to twenty-first century wind ensemble works by living...
- Keyword:
- Jonathan Newman, 21st Century, Band, Alex Shapiro, Twenty-First Century, Popular Music, Tight Squeeze, Seeds of Glass, Single, and Benjamin Taylor
- Subject:
- Taylor, Benjamin Dean, 1983-, Shapiro, Alex, 1962-, Newman, Jonathan, and Band music
- Creator:
- Chris Kaatz
- Owner:
- Christopher Thomas Kaatz
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 06/25/2020
- Date Modified:
- 06/26/2020
- Date Created:
- 2020-06-15
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- Banquet lecture for the 37th annual conference of the Sudans Studies Association in conjunction with the 70th anniversary of the Program of African Studies at Northwestern University, May 12, 2018
- Keyword:
- program of african studies
- Creator:
- Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban
- Contributor:
- LaRay Denzer
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 10/29/2020
- Date Modified:
- 10/29/2020
- Date Created:
- 2019
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Alternate Identifier:
- Working Paper Number 27
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- Description:
- PAS Working Paper No. 8** (2000) Vols. 1- 2, Vol. 3
- Keyword:
- pas
- Subject:
- African Studies
- Creator:
- David W. Bade
- Owner:
- Scholarly Digital Publishing
- Date Uploaded:
- 11/12/2018
- Date Modified:
- 02/12/2021
- Date Created:
- 2000
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Virtual reality (VR) have attracted growing attention within the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry in recent years. Integration of BIM and VR technology can develop workflow efficiency through enhanced common understanding and prepare students in architecture and engineering programs to become leaders of the...
- Keyword:
- building information modeling, performance assessment, AEC education, and virtual reality
- Creator:
- Joseph C. Huang, Sepehr Alizadehsalehi, and Ahmad Hadavi
- Owner:
- Ahmad Hadavi
- Publisher:
- MDPI
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/12/2021
- Date Modified:
- 04/12/2021
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Alternate Identifier:
- DOI: 10.3390/app11073225
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- Description:
- Why did political independence not lead to economic autonomy and sustained development which were confidently predicted by many development economists and nationalists in the 1950s and 1960s. Africa will not make sustainable progress in building democratic systems and fostering economic development until the continent acquires coherent, legitimate, and effective states....
- Keyword:
- africa, economic autonomy, and governance
- Creator:
- Joseph, Richard
- Depositor:
- Chris Diaz
- Owner:
- Richard A Joseph
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/12/2021
- Date Modified:
- 07/12/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Keyword:
- Louis Imogen Guiney
- Creator:
- Kim, Daniel
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/19/2021
- Date Modified:
- 07/19/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Keyword:
- Priscilla Jane Thompson
- Creator:
- McCoy, Sara Jane
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/19/2021
- Date Modified:
- 07/19/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Keyword:
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Creator:
- Stein, Sarah
- Owner:
- Chris Diaz
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/19/2021
- Date Modified:
- 07/27/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- A review of the literature demonstrates that being anonymous by wearing a mask has been hypothesized to create many psychological effects, but mainly deindividuation. Numerous distinct explanations have been suggested as to why that effect has come about. Using an ethnographical approach and open-ended interviews, this study investigates through two...
- Keyword:
- COVID-19, Social Psychology , Deindividuation, and Mask
- Creator:
- Hazem Albassam
- Owner:
- Hazem A Albassam
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/13/2021
- Date Modified:
- 08/13/2021
- Date Created:
- 2021-5-15
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- In 2011, after just eighteen days, from January 25 to February 11, the Egyptian public overthrew the 30-year-long dictatorship of Hosni Mubarak. A decade afterward, we sought to have Egyptians reflect on the collective memory of those days. What fueled the revolution? Was it successful? Did it lose its way?...
- Keyword:
- Egyptian Revolution and Arab Spring
- Creator:
- Hazem A Albassam
- Owner:
- Hazem A Albassam
- Date Uploaded:
- 08/13/2021
- Date Modified:
- 08/13/2021
- Date Created:
- 2020-12-20
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- On February 22, 2022, I gave a talk hosted by the African Studies Program of Georgetown University. Two days later, Russian battalions were sent across Ukraine’s borders by President Vladimir Putin. In real time, viewers around the world have seen immense distress unleashed on innocent citizens. In Africa, distress has...
- Keyword:
- africa and governance
- Creator:
- Joseph, Richard
- Depositor:
- Chris Diaz
- Owner:
- Richard A Joseph
- Date Uploaded:
- 04/19/2022
- Date Modified:
- 04/19/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
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- Description:
- Cite this article: Shen, J., McFarland, A.G., Blaustein, R.A. et al. An improved workflow for accurate and robust healthcare environmental surveillance using metagenomics. Microbiome 10, 206 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-022-01412-x and Background: Effective surveillance of microbial communities in the healthcare environment is increasingly important in infection prevention. Metagenomics-based techniques are promising due to their untargeted nature but are currently challenged by several limitations: (1) they are not powerful enough to extract valid signals out of the background noise for low-biomass samples,...
- Keyword:
- Quantification, Quantitative metagenomics, Low biomass, Viability, Machine learning, Environmental surveillance, Sequencing depth prediction, and Infection prevention
- Subject:
- Metagenomics, Quantitative research, Nosocomial infections--Prevention, Machine learning, and Environmental monitoring
- Creator:
- K. Allison Perry-Dow, Jiaxian Shen, Vincent B. Young, Ryan A. Blaustein, Mary K. Hayden, Alexander G. McFarland, Anahid A. Moghadam, Laura J. Rose, and Erica M. Hartmann
- Contributor:
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (funding agency)
- Owner:
- Jiaxian SHEN
- Publisher:
- Microbiome
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 12/19/2022
- Date Modified:
- 12/19/2022
- Date Created:
- 2022-12-02
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper
- Alternate Identifier:
- DOI 10.1186/s40168-022-01412-x, PMCID PMC9716758, and PMID 36457108
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- Description:
- The aviation industry is set to see another significant leap in new technology, namely electric aircraft. As of the time of this research, both 9-seat and 19-seat aircraft would be ready to be launched by air service providers under the Essential Air Service (EAS) program. While electric aircraft manufacturers are...
- Keyword:
- Electric aircraft, SCASD, aviation batteries, and EAS
- Subject:
- Essential Air Service (Program : U.S.)
- Creator:
- Smith, Kenneth, Li, Dongyang , Lu, Chien-tsung, and Guzek, Joshua
- Owner:
- Dongyang Li
- Publisher:
- Journal of Multidisciplinary Engineering Science and Technology (JMEST)
- Language:
- English
- Date Uploaded:
- 07/13/2023
- Date Modified:
- 07/21/2023
- Date Created:
- 2022-03-06
- Resource Type:
- Research Paper