1,257 research outputs found

    Enforcing Against Terrorism by State and Non-State Actors

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    Moderator: Horace B. Robertson, Professor Emeritus, Duke University School of Law Presenters: Malvina Halberstam, Professor of Law, Yeshiva University, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Neil C. Livingstone, President, Institute on Terrorism and Subnational Conflict Discussants: W. Michael Reisman, Wesley N. Hohfeld Professor of Jurisprudence, Yale Law School Yonah Alexander, Research Professor of Law, George Washington Universit

    Facing the Future: the Changing Shape of Academic Skills Support at Bournemouth University

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    This paper explores the potential impact of changes to higher education in England on student expectations, engagement, lifestyles and diversity, and outlines implications for the development of digital literacy within academic skills support at Bournemouth University (BU). We will investigate how tackling resource constraints with organisational change can also enable efficient, centralised provision of support materials that utilise networks to overcome the risk of fragmented support for digital literacy. We will also look at how changing delivery modes for support can accommodate changing student lifestyles whilst tackling a weakness of centralised support for digital literacy: that it can become detached from the student’s subject-focused academic practice. Finally we will explore how involving students in developing support can help us to face changes to student expectations and engagement whilst ensuring that materials are authentic and speak to learners in their own voice

    Report to Governor Neil Goldschmidt of Judge John C. Warden's corrections investigation

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    "In accordance with Executive Order No. EO-89-12, on September 6, 1989 ..."--Page 1.Title from PDF title page (viewed on December 20, 2017).This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Includes bibliographical references (page ).Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English

    Jere Nash Interview with Neil McMillen (Part 1 of 2)

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    Interview conducted by author Jere Nash with University of Southern Mississippi history professor Neil R. McMillen in the process of writing Mississippi Politics: The Struggle for Power, 1976-2006. Topics dicussed include race and politics in Mississippi; southern historians including Dewey Grantham, C. Vann Woodward, Numan V. Bartley, John Boles; segregation in Mississippi and resistance to change; genesis of McMillin\u27s book Dark Journey; fifteenth Freedom Summer reunion at Millsaps and Tougaloo; John Ditmer; contributing to A History of Mississippi edited by Richard Aubrey McLemore and reaction by the public and University of Southern Mississippi officials; hiring of African American faculty at USM; M.M. Roberts; and William D. McCain

    Maximizing Research Impact Through Institutional and National Open-Access Self-Archiving Mandates

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    No research institution can afford all the journals its researchers may need, so all articles are losing research impact (usage and citations). Articles made “Open Access,” (OA) by self-archiving them on the web are cited twice as much, but only 15% of articles are being spontaneously self-archived. The only institutions approaching 100% self-archiving are those that mandate it. Surveys show that 95% of authors will comply with a self-archiving mandate; the actual expe-rience of institutions with mandates has confirmed this. What institutions and funders need to mandate is that (1) immediately upon acceptance for publication, (2) the author’s final draft must be (3) deposited into the Institutional Repository. Only the depositing needs to be mandated; set-ting access privileges to the full-text as either OA or Restricted Access (RA) can be left up to the author. For articles published in the 93% of journals that have already endorsed self-archiving, access can be set as OA immediately; for the remaining 7%, authors can email the eprint in re-sponse to individual email requests automatically forwarded by the Repository

    Millisecond accuracy video display using OpenGL under Linux

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    To measure people’s reaction times to the nearest millisecond, it is necessary to know exactly when a stimulus is displayed. This article describes how to display stimuli with millisecond accuracy on a normal CRT monitor, using a PC running Linux. A simple C program is presented to illustrate how this may be done within X Windows using the OpenGL rendering system. A test of this system is reported that demonstrates that stimuli may be consistently displayed with millisecond accuracy. An algorithm is presented that allows the exact time of stimulus presentation to be deduced, even if there are relatively large errors in measuring the display time

    Federal compensation to Idaho for public domain federal lands, 1988-99

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    Bulletin no. 832 Moscow, Idaho :University of Idaho, College of Agriculture, Cooperative Extension System, 2001-09-01. Author(s): Guaderrama, Marisa C.; Meyer, Neil L

    Dissimilarity is used as evidence of category membership in multidimensional perceptual categorization: a test of the similarity-dissimilarity generalized context model

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    In exemplar models of categorization, the similarity between an exemplar and category members constitutes evidence that the exemplar belongs to the category. We test the possibility that the dissimilarity to members of competing categories also contributes to this evidence. Data were collected from two 2-dimensional perceptual categorization experiments, one with lines varying in orientation and length and the other with coloured patches varying in saturation and brightness. Model fits of the similarity-dissimilarity generalized context model were used to compare a model where only similarity was used with a model where both similarity and dissimilarity were used. For the majority of participants the similarity-dissimilarity model provided both a significantly better fit and better generalization, suggesting that people do also use dissimilarity as evidence

    Genome-wide association study of genetic determinants of LDL-c response to atorvastatin therapy: importnace of Lp(a)

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    We carried out a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of LDL-c response to statin using data from participants in the Collaborative Atorvastatin Diabetes Study (CARDS; n = 1,156), the Anglo-Scandinavian Cardiac Outcomes Trial (ASCOT; n = 895), and the observational phase of ASCOT (n = 651), all of whom were prescribed atorvastatin 10 mg. Following genome-wide imputation, we combined data from the three studies in a meta-analysis. We found associations of LDL-c response to atorvastatin that reached genome-wide significance at rs10455872 (P = 6.13 x 10(-9)) within the LPA gene and at two single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) within the APOE region (rs445925; P = 2.22 x 10(-16) and rs4420638; P = 1.01 x 10(-11)) that are proxies for the epsilon 2 and epsilon 4 variants, respectively, in APOE. The novel association with the LPA SNP was replicated in the PROspective Study of Pravastatin in the Elderly at Risk (PROSPER) trial (P = 0.009). Using CARDS data, we further showed that atorvastatin therapy did not alter lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)] and that Lp(a) levels accounted for all of the associations of SNPs in the LPA gene and the apparent LDL-c response levels. However, statin therapy had a similar effect in reducing cardiovascular disease (CVD) in patients in the top quartile for serum Lp(a) levels (HR = 0.60) compared with those in the lower three quartiles (HR = 0.66; P = 0.8 for interaction). The data emphasize that high Lp(a) levels affect the measurement of LDL-c and the clinical estimation of LDL-c response.jlr Therefore, an apparently lower LDL-c response to statin therapy may indicate a need for measurement of Lp(a). However, statin therapy seems beneficial even in those with high Lp(a).-Deshmukh, H. A., H. M. Colhoun, T. Johnson, P. M. McKeigue, D. J. Betteridge, P. N. Durrington, J. H. Fuller, S. Livingstone, V. Charlton-Menys, A. Neil, N. Poulter, P. Sever, D. C. Shields, A. V. Stanton, A. Chatterjee, C. Hyde, R. A. Calle, D. A. DeMicco, S. Trompet, I. Postmus, I. Ford, J. W. Jukema, M. Caulfield, and G. A. Hitman on behalf of the CARDS, ASCOT, and PROSPER investigators. Genome-wide association study of genetic determinants of LDL-c response to atorvastatin therapy: importance of Lp(a). J. Lipid Res. 2012. 53: 1000-1011

    Montana Residents Are Guests Of E. L. Colbourns

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    Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Visiting in the city for a few weeks are Dr. and Mrs. Neil C. Livingstone, Helena, Mont., and their children, Neil III, 6; Bill, 8 months; and Deborah, 3. They are guests of Mrs. Livingstone's parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Colbourn, 5212 N Walker.
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