355 research outputs found
Academic Law Libraries and the Crisis in Legal Education
No full textToday's law schools are threatened by declining enrollments and poor job prospects for graduates. Prominent reformers are exposing dysfunctions within the current system and recommending improvements, but many of these proposals misunderstand academic law libraries and their contributions to student and faculty success. This article examines four possible curricular reforms and suggests ways that law librarians can participate in an comprehensive effort to make legal education more useful
International Trade Law and Information Policy: A Recent History
No full textBy looking at the practices of both the United States Trade Representative and selected international treaty-making bodies, this paper explores the origins of the current conflict over information access in trade diplomacy and identifies what these trends may portend for information access regarding future agreements
Beyond #TheNew10--The Case for a Citizens Currency Advisory Committee
No full textOn April 20, 2016, ten months after promising to place a woman’s portrait on the 20 bill
Managing Disruptive Patron Behavior in Law Libraries: A Grey Paper
No full textNearly all law library staff has encountered or will encounter challenging patron behavior. In this article, the authors develop best practices based on their 2014 online survey of law library staff, follow-up correspondence with several survey respondents, and a review of case law and relevant literature within law librarianship and other fields
Forced Labour, Modern Slavery and the Global Supply Chain — Genevieve LeBaron
No full textGenevieve LeBaron is a Professor and Director, School of Public Policy, at Simon Fraser University\u27s Vancouver campus.Her award-winning research investigates the business of forced labour in global supply chains and the effectiveness of government, industry, and worker-led strategies to combat it. Her latest books are Combatting Modern Slavery: Why Labour Governance is Failing and What We Can Do About It (Polity Press, 2020, Winner of the Academy of Management SIM Division\u27s Best Book Prize) and Fighting Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking: History and Contemporary Policy (Cambridge University Press, 2021, co-edited with David W. Blight and Jessica Pliley). She is the author of over forty academic journal articles and book chapters.LeBaron is Co-Principal Investigator of Re:Structure Lab, a research and policy Lab based across SFU School of Public Policy, Stanford and Yale Universities. Her research has attracted funding from several councils and foundations, including: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC); the UK\u27s Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC); The British Academy; Ford Foundation; Leverhulme Trust; and Humanity United. LeBaron has was elected to the College of the Royal Society of Canada in 2020. Drawing from her research, LeBaron works closely with governments, United Nations agencies, global companies and others to build measures to prevent forced labour directly into their business models and supply chain relationships. She currently serves on the UK Parliament\u27s Modern Slavery and the Supply Chain Advisory Committee. Resources: Meet Genevieve LeBaron, School of Public Policy\u27s New Director: https://www.sfu.ca/mpp/news-events/news/welcome-genevieve-lebaron.htmlGenevieve LeBaron: https://www.genevievelebaron.com/aboutReStructure Lab: https://www.restructurelab.org/Confronting the Business Models of Modern Slavery: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1056492621994904Hybrid (un)freedom in worker hostels in garment supply chains: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/00187267221081296The Unequal Impacts of Covid-19 on Global Garment Supply Chains: http://speri.dept.shef.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/The-Unequal-Impacts-of-Covid-19-on-Global-Garment-Supply-Chains.pd
The anchor baby: discursive constructions of immigrant subjects
No full textPolitical rhetoric delivered through sound bites on cable news networks can be easy to dismiss, because there is relatively little nuance in the coverage of political issues. The anchor baby debate from the midterm elections in 2010 is a perfect example. These discursive strands impact our conceptions of ourselves, our relation to society, and our voting behavior. Media-communicated narratives construct subjectivities. These subjects are then made manifest through policy decisions. To address the implications of the coverage of the anchor baby in the midterm elections in 2010 in the United States, I conducted a critical discourse analysis of news segments from Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC. A consistent picture of the undocumented immigrant parent of the anchor baby became clear. The discourse reinforces the demonized undocumented immigrant subject, and reaffirms the responsibility of the immigrant mother in passing social ills on to the next generation through birth. The discourse also normalizes the dehumanization of undocumented immigrants in the United States. In order to address the existing injustices experienced by undocumented communities, we must critically engage with the media’s role in constructing and normalizing the criminal undocumented immigrant.M.A.Includes bibliographical referencesby Genevieve Cat
La « portée» textuelle de la parenthèse dans 'Tu n’écriras point' d’Alain Satgé
No full textIn Tu n’écriras point by Alain Satgé (2003), syntactic insertion framed by parentheses plays a central role. This article looks at how the author exploits this device at different levels, from the syllable to the text. The novel makes extensive use of parentheses to establish its own poetics, which is linked to the identity of the narrator and the time of memory. Moreover, this use of parentheses allows a vertical, folded reading of chronology, similar to a musical stave
STRUCTURES ELECTRONIQUES DU SYSTEME LI XMO 2 (M = CO, NI) ETUDIEES PAR DIFFUSION COMPTON ET ABSORPTION DES RAYONS X
No full textNOUS PRESENTONS UN TRAVAIL EXPERIMENTAL ET THEORIQUE SUR LA STRUCTURE ELECTRONIQUE DU SYSTEME LI XMO 2 (M = CO, NI), MATERIAU D'INTERCALATION UTILISE COMME CATHODE DANS LES NOUVELLES GENERATIONS DE BATTERIES ION-LITHIUM RECHARGEABLES. EN EFFET, LA STRUCTURE LAMELLAIRE DE CES COMPOSES REND POSSIBLE L'INTERCALATION REVERSIBLE DES IONS LI + DANS LA MATRICE HOTE. NOUS AVONS ENTREPRIS NOTRE ETUDE EN UTILISANT DEUX METHODES EXPERIMENTALES COMPLEMENTAIRES : LA DIFFUSION INELASTIQUE DES RAYONS X, OU SPECTROSCOPIE COMPTON, PERMETTANT D'ATTEINDRE LA DENSITE ELECTRONIQUE DANS L'ESPACE DES IMPULSIONS, ET LA SPECTROSCOPIE D'ABSORPTION DES RAYONS X (XANES), QUI DONNE ACCES A LA STRUCTURE ELECTRONIQUE DES ETATS VIDES. EN OUTRE, NOUS AVONS MENE DES CALCULS AB INITIO DFT-LDA AFIN D'INTERPRETER CES EXPERIENCES : STRUCTURES DE BANDES, CONSTRUCTION DES PROFILS COMPTON, SIMULATION DES SPECTRES XANES. CES METHODES DE CALCUL SONT PLEINEMENT ADAPTEES A L'ETUDE DU SYSTEME LI XMO 2, EN CE SENS QU'ELLES APPORTENT UNE BONNE DESCRIPTION DES PROPRIETES ELECTRONIQUES ET STRUCTURALES, EN PARTICULIER EN CE QUI CONCERNE L'EFFET JAHN-TELLER DANS LINIO 2. NOUS AVONS AINSI PU DISTINGUER, AU SEIN DES PROFILS COMPTON, L'EFFET DU TRANSFERT DE CHARGE DU LITHIUM INTERCALE VERS L'HOTE ET LA DISTORSION DE LA DENSITE ELECTRONIQUE DUE A LA NON-RIGIDITE DES BANDES. CETTE DISTORSION SE DECOMPOSE ELLE-MEME EN PLUSIEURS CONTRIBUTIONS, DONT LES PRINCIPALES PROVIENNENT DE L'EFFET DE L'ALLONGEMENT DES LIAISONS ET DE LA POLARISATION DE LA DENSITE ELECTRONIQUE DE L'HOTE PAR LE LITHIUM. DE NOTRE ANALYSE DES ETATS VIDES PAR SPECTROSCOPIE D'ABSORPTION AU SEUIL K DE L'OXYGENE, NOUS AVONS DEDUIT UNE MESURE DU SPLITTING D'ECHANGE MAGNETIQUE ENTRE LES ETATS E G * DE SPIN DIFFERENT DANS LE SYSTEME LI XNIO 2, DONT L'AMPLITUDE NE VARIE PAS EN FONCTION DU TAUX DE LITHIUM INTERCALE. NOUS AVONS PROUVE PAR AILLEURS, A PARTIR DES SEULES DONNEES EXPERIMENTALES, QUE LES SITES DE NICKEL DE VALENCE DIFFERENTE N'INTERAGISSENT QUE FAIBLEMENT.PARIS-BIUSJ-Thèses (751052125) / SudocCentre Technique Livre Ens. Sup. (774682301) / SudocPARIS-BIUSJ-Physique recherche (751052113) / SudocSudocFranceF
Distortion correction in magnetic resonance imaging using the simulated point spread function
No full textGeometric distortion is a highly prevalent issue for echo-planar imaging (EPI), due to long readout times and field inhomogeneity. Previously, the measured point spread function (PSF) has been shown to be effective in correcting this distortion. In this work, we reconstruct an image quickly and address the distortion with a point spread function that was generated entirely through simulation using the trajectory and measured field map. The distortion correction with this approach is shown to be better than k-space based iterative reconstructions and is robust to high differentials in magnetic field maps when we use an optimal trajectory. In addition, this technique is well-suited to parallel implementation, as the system matrix used is sparse.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2018-05-01The student, Genevieve LaBelle, accepted the attached license on 2016-04-20 at 15:28.The student, Genevieve LaBelle, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2016-04-20 at 15:47.This Thesis was approved for publication on 2016-04-26 at 09:30.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #9385 on 2016-07-07 at 13:50:29Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-07T20:27:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3
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