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A Jewish Asylum in Greco-Roman Egypt

Rigsby, Kent J.
Feeding patterns in mantled howling monkeys

Glander, KE (Garland Press, )
Human Migration and Resource use in Sulawesi Fishing Communities

Kramer, Randall; Simanjuntak, S.

The relationship between human population changes and the use of coastal resources in several communities in North Sulawesi, Indonesia is examined using a combination of demographic and econometric analysis. The study area ...
Religions, African, in the Americas

Matory, JL (Simon and Schuster, 2013-05-09)
Children’s Rights in Modern Islamic and International Law: Changes in Muslim Moral Imaginaries

Moosa, Ebrahim (Cambridge University Press, 2012-10)

This essay explores the overlaps and discontinuities in Islamic law and international conventions on the rights of the child. It also explores perspectives in contemporary Muslim moral imaginaries centered on the child.
The Power of Policy Defaults: A Behavioral Economics View of Public School Assignment Policies & Educational Equity

Mahesh, Pavithra (2012-06-17)

The school assignment process plays a central role in shaping a student’s educational experience, which subsequently influences his or her future opportunities. Thus, school assignment policies have an impact on social ...
R&D Costs and Returns to New Drug Develoopment: A Review of the Evidence

DiMasi, Joseph A.; Grabowski, Henry G. (OUP USA, 2012-05-31)
Mergers, Accquisitions, and Alliances

Grabowski, Henry G. (OUP USA, 2012-05-31)
St. Thomas Aquinas on Disability & Profound Cognitive Impairment

Romero, Miguel J. (2012-05-07)

St Thomas Aquinas on Disability and Profound Cogntive Imapirment (Abstract) This dissertation raises a question regarding the relationship between the condition of the body, moral virtue, and human flourishing. Our ...
The Complexity of Self-Ownership in Libertarian Ideology: The Corporate Self

Mizrahi, Isaac (2012-04-24)

Libertarianism is often considered a more logically consistent and predictable political stance concerning the role and rights of government. The libertarian movement prides itself on consistently adhering to an ideological ...
Relax and Explode: How Financial Deregulation and Loose Monetary Policy Contributed to the 2003-2007 LBO Boom

Froehlich, Ben (2012-04-24)

This paper first details the general academic theory behind leveraged buyouts and then explores the financial deregulation effort undertaken by Congress and the Federal Reserve Board throughout the 1980s and 1990s. The ...
Examination of Time-Variant Asset Correlations Using High- Frequency Data

Lei, Mingwei (2012-04-18)

Drawing motivation from the 2007-2009 global financial crises, this paper looks to further examine the potential time-variant nature of asset correlations. Specifically, high frequency price data and its accompanying ...
Lighting Fires in Creative Minds: Teaching Creative Writing in Special Collections

Pavelich, David (Association of College & Research Libraries, 2012-04)
Muslim Ethics and Biotechnology

Moosa, Ebrahim E.I. (2012-03)

This essay surveys how Muslim perspectives and practices in biotechnology is justified within discrete norms and values of Muslim ethics. At the same time it also points out some of the challenges in trying to balance ...
Letter of RPW to VS, September 1977

Strandberg, Victor (2012-02-06)

This letter from Robert Penn Warren is addressed to Victor Strandberg and is a response to Strandberg's book The Poetic Vision of Robert Penn Warren.
A Man with No Religion

Strandberg, Victor (2012-02-06)
Economic Interdependence and International Conflict: The Implications of Membership in International Economic, Financial, and Monetary Organizations and Multilateral Preferential Trade Agreements

Antov, Milen (2012-01-30)

This paper analyzes the relationship between economic interdependence and international conflict in the post-Cold War period since 1990 through a pooled analysis of time-series cross-sectional data on militarized interstate ...
Intimacy: A Useful Category of Transnational Analysis

Wilson, Ara (Columbia University Press, 2012-01-01)
United States Patent: Apparatus and Methods Using Highly Optically Dispersive Media

Boyd, Robert W.; Gauthier, Daniel J.; Shi, Zhimin (United States Patent and Trademark Office, 2011-08-02)

According to the invention, a highly optically dispersive medium is one in which the absolute value of the group index of refraction of the medium is equal to or greater than four. An optical spectroscopic parameter ...
Another World History Is Possible: Reflections on the Translocal, Transnational, and Global

French, John D. (Oxford University Press, USA, 2011-03-16)