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United They Fall: Why the International Community Should Not Promote Military Integration after Civil War
No full textThe single strongest predictor of civil war is a nation having had one in the past, and preventing the recurrence of civil war has thus become the critical problem for both scholarship and policy. The conventional wisdom urges the creation of capable, legitimate, and inclusive postwar states to reduce the risk of relapse into civil war, and international peacebuilders have often encouraged the formation of a new national army including members of the war’s opposing sides. However, military integration has received little theoretical or empirical attention. Filling that gap, we argue that both the theoretical logics and the empirical record identifying military integration as a significant contributor to durable post-civil war peace are weak. Our analysis of eleven cases finds little evidence that military integration played a substantial causal role in preventing the return to civil war and little support for the likely causal mechanisms. Military integration does not usually send a costly signal of the parties’ commitment to peace, provide communal security, employ many possible spoilers, or act as a powerful symbol of a unified nation. We conclude that it is both unwise and unethical for the international community to press military integration on reluctant local forces.Based in part on a larger collective project: Roy Licklider (Ed.). (2014). New Armies from Old: Merging Competing Military Forces after Civil Wars. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press; see http://press.georgetown.edu/book/georgetown/new-armies-old
Roller Spacing in the Float Glass Process
No full textCase Studies in Mathematical Modelling, Bradley R, Gibson R D and Cross M (editors), Pentech Press,1981, (sole author
Caspase Inhibition Restores Collagen I α1 and Fibronectin Release in Cigarette Smoke Extract-Exposed Human Lung Fibroblasts
Get PDFChronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a progressive lung disease characterized by obstructed airflow, airway remodeling, and inflammation, with cigarette smoke (CS) exposure being the main risk factor. While CS extract (CSE) has been shown to activate caspases in various cell types, the role of caspases in human lung fibroblasts (hLFs), in COPD remains poorly understood. Recent studies have linked caspases to extracellular matrix (ECM) remodeling in skin and kidney fibrosis. Caspase activation can be triggered by oxidative stress, with active caspase-3 executing the pore-forming protein gasdermin E (GSDME) in the cleaved N-terminal form GSDME-NT. We investigated whether CSE activates caspases and GSDME in hLFs, and their role in ECM remodeling. MRC-5 lung fibroblasts were treated with CSE with or without the antioxidant N-acetyl cysteine (NAC), and the caspase-8 inhibitor z-IETD-fmk. We measured the effects on caspase-1-8-3/7 activation, GSDME cleavage, ECM remodeling (procollagen Iα1, COLIα1, and fibronectin, FN), and mitochondrial superoxide (mSOX) generation. Key findings were validated in patient-derived hLFs (phLFs). Our results showed that CSE induced caspase-1-8-3/7 activation, mSOX generation, and decreased COLIα1 and FN levels in MRC-5. CSE caused caspase-8-dependent activation of caspase-3, leading to the GSDME cleavage. Treatment with NAC inhibited mSOX and caspase activation. Inhibition of caspase-8 and mSOX restored FN and COLIα1 levels. In phLFs, we confirmed caspase-1 and -8 activation, mSOX increase, COLIα1/FN decrease, and the effects of NAC. Our findings highlight the role of the axis caspase-8-3/7-GSDME and mSOX in regulating ECM protein, suggesting that these pathways may contribute to remodeling in COPD.</p
How Camouflage Works: the Dazzling Past and Future of Natural and Military Camouflage [poster, 2017]
No full textAlt Text: Poster with foreground image of a woman holding a parasol wearing black and white striped clothing. Additional images of a brown moth and a ship painted in black and white stripes. A blue text block with white and yellow letters below the images.
Transcription: A richly illustrated talk by author, designer and UNI professor. Roy R. Behrens. 2:00 pm Sunday, May 21, 2017. How Camouflage Works. The Dazzling Past and Future of Natural and Military Camouflage. Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center. 900 Larsen Park Road. Sioux City, IA. Exit 149 off I-29. Admission and programs are free. Program content is suitable for all ages. http://www.siouxcitylcic.com/.
Description: A poster announcing a presentation on camouflage, both natural and military, given by Roy R Behrens in Sioux City in May 2017.https://scholarworks.uni.edu/behrens_posters/1160/thumbnail.jp
Frank Lloyd Wright and Mason City [poster 08, 2017]
No full textAlt Text: Poster with a headshot of Frank Lloyd Wright in the background with an gray netting design on the right side of the head and shoulders. Tan image of four rows of beads in a half circle. Text in white letters.
Transcription: Frank Lloyd Wright. Mason City and Book Design. A 60-minute slide talk by Prof. Roy R. Behrens author of Frank Lloyd Wright and Mason City: Architectural Heart of the Prairie. Mason City Public Library. 6:00 pm, Tuesday, April 11, 2017. In the Mason City Room. Free and Open to the Public. National Library Week.
Description: Poster announcing a presentation by Roy R. Behrens on Frank Lloyd Wright, Mason City and book design on April 11, 2017.https://scholarworks.uni.edu/behrens_posters/1145/thumbnail.jp
Letter from Geo. [George] H. Hand, Chief Engineer, Rancho San Pedro to Mr. R. [Roy] N. Sato, Counsellor, August 9, 1924
No full textAcknowledges letter from Roy N. Sato, Mitsugi Okano's attorney, dated August 7, 1924, regarding Okano's land lease. Notifies Sato of his availability and offers directions to his office
Letter from Roy N. Sato, Counsellor to Mr. George H. Hand, Chief Engineer, Rancho San Pedro, August 7, 1924
No full textRequests a meeting (includes Mr. R. Sunada) with Hand to discuss [Stanley] Mitsugi Okano's land lease in Perry, California
Correspondence regarding Horace Kephart collection
No full textThis 1973 correspondence, from Congressman Roy A. Taylor to Doug Reed, concerns the Horace Kephart collection. Horace Kephart (1862-1931) was a noted naturalist, woodsman, journalist, and author and promoter of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.Congress of tf)e SJm'teb Matzz
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APR 13 1973
Mr. Doug Reed
Public Relations & Development
Western Carolina University
Cullowhee,
North Carolina 28723
Dear Doug:
Pursuant to your telephone conversation with Luther
earlier today I am very pleased to enclose a letter
I received today from Mr. Hadley agreeing to my
recommendation that the Horace Kepart books and
journals be preserved at Western Carolina University.
We will assume that Mr. Ellis will be contacting
the University to work out the transfer arrangements.
If it develops that we can be of assistance in this
regard, just let us know.
Sincerely,
Roy A. /Taylor
Member'of Congres
Mobility and the Return to Education: Testing a Roy Model with Multiple Markets
Get PDFSelf-selected migration presents one potential explanation for why observed returns to a college education in local labor markets vary widely even though U.S. workers are highly mobile. To assess the impact of self-selection on estimated returns, this paper first develops a Roy model of mobility and earnings where workers choose in which of the 50 states (plus the District of Columbia) to live and work. Available estimation methods are either infeasible for a selection model with so many alternatives or place potentially severe restrictions on earnings and the selection process. This paper develops an alternative econometric methodology which combines Lee's (1983) parametric maximum order statistic approach to reduce the dimensionality of the error terms with more recent work on semiparametric estimation of selection models (e.g., Ahn and Powell, 1993). The resulting semiparametric correction is easy to implement and can be adapted to a variety of other polychotomous choice problems. The empirical work, which uses 1990 U.S. Census data, confirms the role of comparative advantage in mobility decisions. The results suggest that self-selection of higher educated individuals to states with higher returns to education generally leads to upward biases in OLS estimates of the returns to education in state-specific labor markets. While the estimated returns to a college education are significantly biased, correcting for the bias does not narrow the range of returns across states. Consistent with the finding that the corrected return to a college education differs across the U.S., the relative state-to-state migration flows of college- versus high school-educated individuals respond strongly to differences in the return to education and amenities across states.Selection Bias, Polychotomous Choice, Roy Model, Return to Education, Migration
The campaign for democratic socialism 1960-1964.
No full textPhDIn early 1960 it seemed likely that the official Labour
Party defence policy would be defeated by a unilateralist
resolution at the Scarborough Conference. In response to
this possibility the Campaign for Democratic Socialism,
or CDS, was established.
The CDS projected the image of a grass-roots movement
inspired by Gaitskell's "fight and fight again" speech.
But it was run by a Campaign Committee which included
leading members of the Party like Tony Crosland, Roy
Jenkins and Patrick Gordon Walker, as well as less well
known members like Bill Rodgers, Dick Taverne, Philip
Williams, Brian Walden, Denis Howell and David Marquand.
This highly talented group launched an elaborate and
successful lobbying, publicity and briefing operation
which was influential in overturning the unilateralist
vote at the Blackpool Conference of 1961. After Blackpool
the Campaign helped many of its leading members find
seats in the House of Commons while continuing to put the
"revisionist" case through its newspaper Campaign.
The importance of the CDS in the history of the Labour
Party is, primarily, as the first internal pressure group
organised by the right of the Party. It was also the
first internal Party group to use such sophisticated
lobbying techniques. Moreover, the subsequent careers of
the leading members of the Campaign influenced the
development of the Labour Party. The CDS was an important
formative political action for many of them. Finally many
of the CDS supporters set-up or joined the SDP when it
was launched
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