Glorious Burdens: Teaching Obama's History and the Long Civil Rights Movement

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Slate, Nico

2011-01-01

As a young child, Barack Obama learned about the civil rights movement from his mother. Obama's mother strove to instill in her multiracial son pride in being more than just literally African American. There is much to learn from Obama's history, understood both as the story of his life and as what Obama himself has said about his past and the…

Is Montessori Ready for the Obama Generation?

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Powell, Mark

2009-01-01

When Barack Obama announced his run for the presidency, he seemed an unlikely candidate. Against all odds, he was able to defeat an apparently overwhelming opposition by relating to the electorate in a more horizontal, collaborative manner. What Obama did differently was to empower the new, digitally active, younger political class by involving…

Skandaal USAs : Obamat kujutati islamiterroristina / Aadu Hiietamm

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Hiietamm, Aadu, 1954-

2008-01-01

The New Yorkeri esiküljel ilmus karikatuur, kus USA demokraatide presidendikandidaati Barack Obamat ja tema abikaasat Michelle'i kujutati islamiterroristidena, karikaturisti väitel joonistas ta selle Obama laimajate naeruvääristamiseks

Global Zero and Deterrence Credibility : A Critical Analysis of Obama`s Nuclear Policy and Extended Nuclear Deterrence Credibility on the Korean Peninsula

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Ganss, Mathias

2012-01-01

This thesis is a qualitative case study analysis of the whether the nuclear policies of President Obama has weakened the U.S. extended nuclear deterrence credibility on the Korean Peninsula. To answer this, the thesis employs two strategies: First, two variables are discussed; a nuclear capabilities-variable; and a nuclear policy-variable. The purpose is to assess the impact the New START treaty has on U.S. nuclear capabilities, and to assess the implications of Obama`s nuclear policy, expres...

Obama states obligation to act on climate change

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Showstack, Randy

2012-11-01

Obama states obligation to act on climate change Noting increased global temperatures, Arctic ice melt, and severe weather events, President Barack Obama said that climate change is real and called for a conversation across the country to determine what can be done about it.

Häkkerid levitasid libauudist Obama surmast / Heiki Suurkask

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Suurkask, Heiki, 1972-

2011-01-01

Häkkerid asetasid 4. juulil USA telekanalile Fox News kuuluvale Twitteri-leheküljele välksõnumi, et USA president Barack Obama olevat surnud. 2. mail Osama bin Ladeni tapmisest teatades oskas telekanal ekraanil edastada trükiveaga teadet "Obama bin Laden on surnud"

The Obama Administration

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Ashbee, Edward

2012-01-01

Barack Obama's election as US president gave rise to hopes of radical reform. Indeed, comparisons were drawn with 1932 and there were references to ‘realignment’. Many on the left were quickly disappointed by the limited character of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the abandonment of ...

Grybauskaite rejects Obama's invitation / Rokas M. Tracevskis

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Tracevskis, Rokas M.

2010-01-01

8. aprillil kirjutavad Ameerika Ühendriikide president Barack Obama ja Venemaa president Dmitri Medvedev Prahas uuele strateegilise tuumarelvastuse piiramise leppele alla. Samaks päevaks on Barack Obama Prahasse kutsunud Eesti, Läti, Leedu ja Rumeenia presidendid ning Poola, Tšehhi, Bulgaaria, Horvaatia, Ungari, Slovakkia ja Sloveenia peaministrid. Leedu president Dalia Grybauske loobus kutsest. Tema asemel sõidab kohtumisele peaminister Andrius Kubilius

Pivot to the Pacific? The Obama Administration’s Rebalancing Toward Asia

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2012-03-28

office/2011/11/17/remarks- president-obama-australian-parliament. President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Gillard of Australia, “Remarks by...President Obama and Prime Minister Gillard of Australia in Joint Press Conference,” November 16, 2011, at http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011...11/16/remarks-president-obama-and-prime- minister- gillard -australia-joint-press. U.S. Department of Defense, Sustaining U.S. Global Leadership

Diplomatic Mission: President Obama's Path to Performance Pay

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Smarick, Andy

2011-01-01

In his first major education speech as a presidential candidate, Senator Barack Obama affirmed his support of teachers unions. Less than two years later, in his first major education address as president, delivered to the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce in March 2009, Obama explicitly backed paying teachers for performance, a reform the unions…

Obamad kui Kennedyte taastulek 21. sajandil / Barbi Pilvre

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Pilvre, Barbi, 1963-

2008-01-01

USA demokraatide presidendikandidaadile Barack Obamale ja tema abikaasale Michelle'ile on loodud kennedylik imago, selle imago taga on demokraat Ted Sorensen, kes aitas kunagi võimule tulla John F. Kennedyl. Ka Kennedyd ise on üles astunud B. Obama toetajana

Obama kavatseb samal ajal kulutada ja kokku hoida / Heiki Suurkask

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Suurkask, Heiki, 1972-

2008-01-01

USA tulevase presidendi Barack Obama meeskond koostab abipaketti, et luua 2010. aastaks juurde 3,5 mln. töökohta, selleks kuluks 500 mld. dollarit. Hiiglaslikust eelarvedefitsiidist. B. Obama majandusmeeskonnast

Obama võidud on tekitamas doominoefekti / Kaivo Kopli

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Kopli, Kaivo

2008-01-01

USA eelvalimistel on Barack Obama olnud Hillary Clintonist edukam juba kaheksas osariigis järjest, Clinton on välja vahetanud oma kampaania juhi ja asejuhi. Mõningatel hinnangutel otsustavad võitja lõpuks nn. superdelegaadid, kes pole seotud eelvalimiste ega lubadusega üht või teist kandidaati toetada. Diagrammid, kaardid: McCain ja Obama edukad. Lisa: Delegaatide arv on kõigi puhul segane

Barack Obama : Ameerika väärib paremat / Aadu Hiietamm

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Hiietamm, Aadu, 1954-

2008-01-01

Ameerika Ühendriikide presidendivalimiste demokraatide kandidaat Barack Obama kritiseeris parteikongressil president George W. Bushi ja vabariiklaste presidendikandidaati John McCaini. Vt. samas: Bush on meid auku ajanud; Obama ei taha külma sõda

Barack Obama a Blízký východ

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Černý, Ondřej

2011-01-01

The thesis named Barack Obama and Middle East analyzes American foreign policy to-wards the countries of the Middle East region - Iraq, Iran and Israel. After two con-secutive terms of George W. Bush, new policies of the Obama administration are de-fined with the Middle East still in its centre. This paper answers three basic questions: What is Obama's desirable Middle East policy? In what aspects it is different from the steps of his predecessor? To what extent are the pre-election promises ...

Obama ja terroristid / Gwynne Dyer

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Dyer, Gwynne

2009-01-01

Barack Obama USA presidendiks saamise järel on autori arvates oluliselt suurenenud oht, et terroristid võivad peagi ette võtta ulatusliku rünnaku Ameerika vastu, tekitamaks hirmutunnet USA avalikkuses

Obama, where Art Thou? Hoping for Change in U.S. Education Policy

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Au, Wayne

2009-01-01

In this essay, Wayne Au carefully considers the educational stance of Barack Obama by exploring the president's speeches and his personnel and policy choices. Au considers the election of Obama as a moment of possibility for change in American education, but also questions whether Obama's hopeful message about education will be fully realized,…

US Foreign Policy under President Barack Obama and the ...

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Five years ago, in November 2008, Barack Hussein Obama was elected the 44th US president. Senator Obama's campaign message had been 'change', 'change we need', and 'change we should believe in'. In this post-Cold War era, the US is the only remaining superpower and the American president the world's most ...

Barack Obama, the Exodus Tradition, and the Joshua Generation

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Murphy, John M.

2011-01-01

This essay explores Barack Obama's invocation of the Exodus during his 2008 presidential campaign. It argues Obama's turn to Exodus, his rare embodiment of Joshua, and his renewal of the American covenant nicely addressed major rhetorical problems that he faced. Of equal importance, his campaign oratory opens an important line of inquiry into the…

Start-Up Rhetoric in Eight Speeches of Barack Obama

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O'Connell, Daniel C.; Kowal, Sabine; Sabin, Edward J.; Lamia, John F.; Dannevik, Margaret

2010-01-01

Our purpose in the following was to investigate the start-up rhetoric employed by U.S. President Barack Obama in his speeches. The initial 5 min from eight of his speeches from May to September of 2009 were selected for their variety of setting, audience, theme, and purpose. It was generally hypothesized that Barack Obama, widely recognized for…

USA politoloogid : Obama võit oleks ka Eesti oma / Laura Vetik

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Vetik, Laura

2008-01-01

USA politoloogide sõnul oleks pingestunud Venemaa ja USA suhete taustal Eestile kasulikum, kui 56. USA presidendivalimised võidaks demokraat Barack Obama. Erinevate politoloogide hinnanguid. Vt. samas: Obama ja McCain loovad kabinette

What's Cooking in America's Schoolyard Gardens?

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Salter, Cathy

2010-01-01

This article discusses what's cooking in America's schoolyard gardens. From First Lady Michelle Obama's world-famous Kitchen Garden, to Alice Waters' groundbreaking Edible Schoolyard in Berkeley, California, to a nationally recognized elementary school learning garden in the small Midwestern town of Ashland, Missouri, school children are planting…

77 FR 26649 - National Physical Fitness and Sports Month, 2012

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2012-05-04

... development, builds lean muscle, and plays an essential role in maintaining a healthy weight. Coupled with... realizing this vision. With First Lady Michelle Obama's Let's Move! initiative and the President's Council... they need to maintain a healthy lifestyle. We are striving to ensure children have access to nutritious...

The Obama health care plan: what it means for mental health care of older adults.

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Sorrell, Jeanne M

2009-01-01

Health care was an important issue for both the Obama and McCain election campaigns. Now that Barack Obama is poised to serve as the 44th President of the United States, many health care providers are focused on what Obama's administration will mean for new health care initiatives. This article focuses specifically on aspects of the Obama and Biden health care plan that affects mental health care for older adults.

Kan Obama speechen? Yes he can! (Brabants Dagblad 7 nov. 2008)

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Bas Jongenelen

2008-01-01

Snel nadat duidelijk werd dat Barack Obama de Amerikaanse presidentsverkiezingen gewonnen had, hield hij in Chicago zijn overwinningstoespraak. Was dit de historische toespraak waar Amerika op zat te wachten? Hoe goed was de speech eigenlijk? Ik zal hier een korte analyse presenteren van Obama's

76 FR 2955 - Office of the Chief of Protocol; Gifts to Federal Employees from Foreign Government Sources...

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2011-01-18

... embarrassment to culture of Morocco. Kingdom of Morocco. donor and U.S. Rec'd--8/04/2009. Est. Government. Value.... Government. Tales of Wit and Wisdom''; book entitled ``The Puffin Treasury of Modern Indian Stories''; book..., Government. $500.00. Disposition-- Malaysia. Archives Foreign. First Lady Michelle Obama 18 karat yellow gold...

African Identity, Self and Other, in Obama's "Dreams from My Father"

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Heikal, Azza Ahmed; Aziz, Heba Mohamed Abdel

2016-01-01

This paper is a close examination of postcolonial and postmodern 20th century discourse with reference to Obama's "Dreams from My Father" (1995). Barack Hussein Obama (1961-present) has a colonial experience and double cultural background which formulate his views of racial discrimination, make him accept racial differences and dream of…

Viiteid Barack Obama valitsusstiilile võib leida tema valimiskampaaniast / Liisa Past

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Past, Liisa

2008-01-01

Autor on seisukohal, et nii Barack Obama võit kui ka John McCaini leppimine oma kaotusega olid selged juba paar nädalat enne valimisi. Kirjeldades J. McCaini kampaania lõppu, märgib autor, et B. Obama võidule aitas kaasa terav majanduskitsikus ja selgem kampaaniadistsipliin. Lisad

Knowledge Is Power: Teaching Children about Type II Diabetes

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Feild-Berner, Natalie; Balgopal, Meena

2011-01-01

World Diabetes Day (November 14) offers a wonderful opportunity to educate elementary children about the power they have to control their health. First lady Michelle Obama has urged Americans to educate themselves about childhood obesity, which is often associated with the onset of type II diabetes (Rabin 2010). The authors developed activities to…

Positive emotions and the social broadening effects of Barack Obama.

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Ong, Anthony D; Burrow, Anthony L; Fuller-Rowell, Thomas E

2012-10-01

Past experiments have demonstrated that the cognitive broadening produced by positive emotions may extend to social contexts. Building on this evidence, we hypothesized that positive emotions triggered by thinking about Barack Obama may broaden and expand people's sense of self to include others. Results from an expressive-writing study demonstrated that African American college students prompted to write about Obama immediately prior to and after the 2008 presidential election used more plural self-references, fewer other-references, and more social references. Mediation analyses revealed that writing about Obama increased positive emotions, which in turn increased the likelihood that people thought in terms of more-inclusive superordinate categories (we and us rather than they and them). Implications of these findings for the role of positive emotions in perspective-taking and intergroup relations are considered.

Universities Look to Obama to Expand Their Role in Development Abroad

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McMurtrie, Beth

2009-01-01

As the Obama administration takes office, educators involved in development work abroad look to the future with hope. Although the economic downturn may constrain the new president's ability to make financial commitments abroad, Barack Obama has said he wants to double the amount of foreign assistance provided by the United States to fight poverty…

Obama reassured Kubilius about U.S. security guarantees / Rokas M. Tracevskis

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Tracevskis, Rokas M.

2010-01-01

Ameerika Ühendriikide president Barack Obama ja Venemaa riigipea kohtusid 8. aprillil Prahas ning allkirjastasid uue tuumarelvastuse piiramise leppe. Barack Obama oli Prahasse lõunale kutsunud Eesti, Läti, Leedu ja Rumeenia presidendid ning Poola, Tšehhi, Bulgaaria, Horvaatia, Ungari, Slovakkia ja Sloveenia peaministrid. Leedu president Dalia Grybauskaite loobus kutsest, teda asendas peaminister Andrius Kubilius

Michelle Bachelet’s Government: The Paradoxes of a Chilean President El Gobierno de Michelle Bachelet: Las paradojas de la presidencia en Chile

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Gregory Weeks

2012-01-01

Full Text Available The purpose of this article is to explain the contradictions in Michelle Bachelet’s presidency by focusing on the paradoxical nature of presidential power, the limits on the executive in the Chilean constitution, and how those limits affected President Bachelet’s government. At the outset of her presidency, she faced the problem of wanting to promote inclusive policies while simultaneously experiencing political pressure to maintain elite consensus. Due to institutional and political constraints, Bachelet’s rhetoric of inclusion could not be realized, and she eventually decided to opt for the more traditional elite consensus approach. In our view, the emphasis on achieving elite consensus produced contradictory results. It sustained Bachelet’s personal image as a national leader, but limited her ability to get effective legislation passed. Indeed, the Concertación itself was blamed for inaction rather than the president as an individual.El propósito de este artículo es analizar las contradicciones que se dieron durante la Presidencia de Michelle Bachelet. El artículo se enfoca en la naturaleza paradojal del poder presidencial, los límites que la constitución Chilena impone sobre el poder ejecutivo, y presenta un análisis de cómo esos límites afectaron al gobierno de la presidenta Bachelet. La Presidenta se vio, desde un principio, en la necesidad de escoger entre promover políticas de inclusión o mantener el consenso entre las elites. Dadas las limitaciones institucionales y políticas, la retórica de inclusión no se transformó en una realidad y ella escogió una política tradicional de consenso que favoreció a las elites. Desde nuestro punto de vista, el énfasis en lograr un consenso que favorecía a las elites produjo resultados contradictorios ya que, por un lado, sostuvo la imagen personal de Bachelet como líder nacional, pero, por el otro, limitó su capacidad para obtener la aprobación de legislación que

The Call to Service

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Gray, B. Allison

2009-01-01

On January 19, 2009, the day before his historic inauguration, President Obama and his wife, Michelle, commemorated Martin Luther King Day by volunteering for various community service projects around the Washington, DC, area. A record number of Americans also participated in the King Day of Service, joining in over 13,000 projects, more than…

Obama's 2012 Plan Shelters Education

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Klein, Alyson

2011-01-01

The author reports on the federal budget proposal for fiscal year 2012 in which President Barack Obama singled out education as an area crucial to the country's economic future. He called for bolstering programs he deems critical to his vision for a renewed Elementary and Secondary Education Act and proposed new ones in research, early-childhood…

Obama Plays Cheerleader for STEM

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Robelen, Erik W.

2010-01-01

Amid a struggling economy, a raft of foreign-policy headaches, and the tail end of a heated campaign season, President Barack Obama carved out time in his schedule last month to watch students in the State Dining Room demonstrate a solar-powered model car, a water-purification system, and a soccer-playing robot. The science fair was the fifth…

Obamas opgør med Bush låser ham i dronekrig

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Ulrich, Philip Christian

2013-01-01

En helt central del af Obamas valgkamp i 2008 var et opgør med dele af Bush administrationens krig mod terror. Obama er dog blevet fanget i en kontroversiel dronepolitik på grund af hans manglende succes med de indenrigspolitiske aspekter af opgøret...

Üks täht on langenud: aasta Obama võidust / Kaivo Kopli

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Kopli, Kaivo

2009-01-01

Autor analüüsib USA presidendi Barack Obama populaarsuse langust ning märgib, et ootused, millega kuulati B. Obama võidukõnet, on asendunud rahutuks muutunud suhtumisega tema ametis hakkama saamisesse. Lisa: 6 murtud lubadust

ToO Galactic Nova -- Michelle ``Quick Response''

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Helton, L. Andrew; Woodward, Chick; Evans, Nye; Geballe, Tom; Spitzer Nova Team

2006-08-01

Stars are the engines of energy production and chemical evolution in our Universe, depositing radiative and mechanical energy into their environments and enriching the ambient ISM with elements synthesized in their interiors and dust grains condensed in their atmospheres. Classical novae (CN) contribute to this cycle of chemical enrichment through explosive nucleosynthesis and the violent ejection of material dredged from the white dwarf progenitor and mixed with the accreted surface layers. We propose to obtain mid-IR spectra of a new galactic CN in outburst to investigate aspects of the CN phenomenon including the in situ formation and mineralogy of nova dust and the elemental abundances resulting from thermonuclear runaway. Synoptic, high S/N Michelle spectra permit: 1) determination of the grain size distribution and mineral composition of nova dust; 2) estimation of chemical abundances of nova ejecta from coronal and other emission line spectroscopy; and 3) measurement of the density and masses of the ejecta. This Gemini `Target of Opportunity' initiative (trigger K=5- 8 mag, assuming adequate PWFS guide stars exist) complements our extensive Spitzer, Chandra, Swift, XMM-Newton CN DDT/ToO programs.

Review: Miller, Michelle Ann (2009, Rebellion and Reform in Indonesia – Jakarta’s Security and Autonomy Policies in Aceh

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Antje Missbach

2009-01-01

Full Text Available Review of the monograph: Miller, Michelle Ann, Rebellion and Reform in Indonesia – Jakarta’s Security and Autonomy Policies in Aceh, London/ New York: Routledge, 2009, ISBN 13: 978-0-415-45467-4, 240 pages.

The End of Race as We Know It

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Early, Gerald L.

2008-01-01

In this article, the author shares his thoughts when he saw the controversial "New Yorker" cover of July 21, 2008 showing the Democratic presidential nominee, Barack Obama, as a Muslim jihadist and his wife, Michelle, as a gun-toting, Afro-wearing black militant. The cover told the story of a rite of African-American passage that occurred at a…

Presidendipaar külastas New Yorgi Eesti Kooli / Kärt Ulman ; fotod: Riina Sõrra

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Ulman, Kärt

2010-01-01

President Toomas Hendrik Ilves ja proua Evelin Ilves külastasid 25. septembril 2010 New Yorgi Eesti Kooli. Õhtusel vastuvõtul kohalikele eestlastele tutvustas president programmi "Talendid koju". Proua Evelin Ilvesel oli võimalus USA presidendi abikaasa Michelle Obama kutsel külastada mahefarmi Stone Barnsis. Töövisiit Ameerika Ühendriikidesse 20.-27.09.2010

Obamas Fortsatte Krig mod Terror

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Ulrich, Philip Christian

2013-01-01

Kronikken argumenterer for at den type overvågningsskandaler som er fulgt i kølvandet på Edward Snowdens afsløringer blot er et symptom på den nye fase af krigen mod terror som Obama administrationen har ønsket at føre USA ind i. Den nye fase vil være præget af mere efterretningsvirksomhed snarere...

Teaching Black History after Obama

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Sotiropoulos, Karen

2017-01-01

This article is a reflection on the teaching of black history after the Obama presidency and at the dawn of the Trump era. It is both an analysis of the state of the academic field and a primer on how to integrate the past few decades of scholarship in black history broadly across standard K-12 curriculum. It demonstrates the importance of…

Schmittian Politics in the Age of Drones: An Analysis of Obama's War on Terror

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Fairhead, Edward

2016-01-01

This thesis evaluates the Obama administration's use of drone strikes in the 'war on terror' in relation to what Carl Schmitt called the 'concept of the political'. After arguing that the Schmittian distinction between friend and enemy underlined Bush's war on terror, as did many scholars, I interrogate whether this is still true for Obama's war on terror. Obama's rhetorical legitimising strategy creates the appearance of difference to Bush, and is also far less overtly Schmittian; focusing i...

Os doze trabalhos de Obama

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Henrique Rattner

2010-02-01

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A alegoria com o semideus da mitologia latina, filho de Júpiter e de Alcmena, dotado de poderes sobre humanos e chamado a executar doze tarefas impossíveis para um mortal comum não parece um exagero ao analisar os desafios políticos e econômicos enfrentados pelo atual presidente dos Estados Unidos, Barack Obama. Eleito por maioria expressiva de votos da população profundamente decepcionada pelo governo Bush e passados 300 dias desde sua posse, é possível fazer um primeiro balanço de seu governo. Obama herdou o país no meio da pior recessão das últimas décadas e deve enfrentar graves problemas na política interna e externa, sem falar da tremenda responsabilidade de recuperar o prestígio e o respeito pelo país que continua sendo a maior potência econômica e militar do mundo.

Obama rahustab murelikku Ida-Euroopat / Jürgen Tamme

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Tamme, Jürgen

2014-01-01

USA president Barack Obama puudutas kohtumistel Brüsselis, lisaks olukorrale Krimmis, Euroopa energiajulgeoleku ja Euroopa riikide kaitsekulutuste teemadele, ka NATO kohaloleku suurendamist Ida- ja Kesk-Euroopas

Euroopa ja USA: liidus tulevikuks / Barack Obama

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Obama, Barack, 1961-

2010-01-01

Ameerika Ühendriikide president kirjutab 19.-20. novembril Lissabonis toimuvast NATO tippkohtumisest, USA ja Euroopa vastastikusest vajalikkusest ning NATO-sisesest koostööst. Barack Obama leiab, et NATO ja Venemaa võiksid taaskäivitada oma suhted

Obama and US policy towards Africa

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Olsen, Gorm Rye

2017-01-01

When Barack Obama came into office in January 2009, there were high expectations that he would change the policy towards Africa. It has not happened. Critics maintain that the current policy is not only a continuation of the policy of George W. Bush but has also become increasingly ‘militarized...

Not Stopping at First: Racial Literacy and the Teaching of Barack Obama

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Smith, William L.

2014-01-01

In this article the author speaks to the teaching of Barack Obama in U.S. schools. Drawing from scholarly literature on the heroification of American historical figures in public memory, the author argues that focusing on Obama's firstness as an African American may lead students to have incomplete and misleading understandings of what the…

Obama skal ikke nyde noget af Syrien

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Ulrich, Philip Christian

2013-01-01

Mange har i lang tid undret sig over at konflikten i Syrien har kunnet få lov at stå på i så lang tid, uden at USA har vist lederskab og grebet ind. Det er jo den rolle vi er vant til at se USA i. Men Obama skal ikke nyde noget af at engagere sig i Syrien. Det har USA ikke råd til......Mange har i lang tid undret sig over at konflikten i Syrien har kunnet få lov at stå på i så lang tid, uden at USA har vist lederskab og grebet ind. Det er jo den rolle vi er vant til at se USA i. Men Obama skal ikke nyde noget af at engagere sig i Syrien. Det har USA ikke råd til...

Obama kriisitiimi juhib tugev kolmik / Sirje Rank

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Rank, Sirje, 1966-

2008-01-01

USA presidendiks valitud Barack Obama kuulutab ametlikult välja oma meeskonna liikmed. Tulevane rahandusminister Timothy Geithner ning Valge Maja koordinatsiooni nõukogu tulevane juht Lawrence Summers seisavad vastamisi finantskriisi ületamise ning finantssüsteemi stabiliseerimise ülesandega

Obama sai rahupreemia liiga vara / Kaivo Kopli

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Kopli, Kaivo

2009-01-01

Norra Nobeli komitee meelest väärib USA president Barack Obama rahupreemiat selle eest, et ta on andnud maailmale "parema tuleviku lootuse" oma tööga rahu nimel ja üleskutsetega vähendada tuumarelvastust kogu maailmas

Obama: me keeldume elamast hirmus / Neeme Raud

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Raud, Neeme, 1969-

2011-01-01

USA president Barack Obama ja välisminister Hillary Clinton rõhutasid 11. septembri terrorirünnaku aastapäeval, et Ameerika Ühendriigid ei tohi oma valvsust kaotada, sest terrorioht ei kao kuhugi. New Yorgis toimunud mälestustseremooniast

The Obama - Xi Accord: A Need for Further Action

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Tribett, W. R.; Hope, A. P.; Canty, T. P.; Salawitch, R. J.

2015-12-01

Presidents Barrack Obama of the United States and Jinping Xi of China recently announced a bilateral framework to reduce the total carbon emissions of their respective countries. The U.S. agreed to reduce annual carbon emissions such that by 2025, emissions would be 27% below 2005 levels. China agreed to achieve peak carbon emissions around 2030 coupled with a best effort to peak early. Here we analyze the implications of the Obama-Xi accord for total global carbon emissions (GCE) out to year 2060, using projections of population, economic growth, and carbon intensity for the rest of the world as well as various assumptions regarding how emissions from the U.S. and China will evolve after the timeframe of the Obama-Xi accord. Our GCE projections will be compared to those of the four Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) emission scenarios used in the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5). The Obama-Xi accord is shown to be a meaningful first step: if followed, the actual GCE will likely fall below RCP 8.5 between now and 2060. The U.S., China, and rest of the world presently emit 4.5, 2.0, and 1.1 tonne of carbon per person per year (tpy), respectively. We show that if the world's nations adopt a strategy of "Contraction and Convergence", such that per capita emission for each country reaches 1.0 tpy by 2060, actual GCE will approach that of RCP 4.5 by year 2060. Such action may be needed to reduce the risk of the most dire global warming forecasts within IPCC AR5.

Obama: La comunicación del cambio

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Alfredo Dávalos López

2008-12-01

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McCainiga hakkab rinda pistma Obama / Hendrik Vosman

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Vosman, Hendrik

2008-01-01

USA demokraatide presidendikandidaat Hillary Clinton ei söandanud oma allajäämist Barack Obamale tunnistada. Lisa: Obama ja McCaini seisukohad. Vt. samas: Hillary Clinton võib saada asepresidendi kandidaadiks

The effects of name and religious priming on ratings of a well-known political figure, President Barack Obama.

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Williams, Gary A; Guichard, AnaMarie C; An, JungHa

2017-01-01

Priming with race-typed names and religious concepts have been shown to activate stereotypes and increase prejudice towards out-groups. We examined the effects of name and religious word priming on views of a specific and well-known person, President Barack Obama. We predicted that politically conservative participants primed with President Obama's middle name (Hussein) would rate him more negatively and be more likely to view him as a Muslim than those not shown his middle name. We also examined whether conservatives primed with concrete religious words would rate President Obama more negatively and be more likely to view him as Muslim than those primed with other word types. Furthermore, we predicted that those who mis-identify President Obama as Muslim would rate him more negatively than would those who view him as Christian. The results provided mixed support for these hypotheses. Conservatives primed with President Obama's middle name rated him significantly more negatively than did those in the control condition. This effect was not found for politically liberal or moderate participants. Name priming did not significantly affect views of President Obama's religious affiliation. Although not statistically significant, conservatives primed with abstract religious words tended to rate President Obama more negatively than did those primed with other word types. Religious word priming significantly influenced views of President Obama's religious affiliation; interestingly, participants primed with abstract religious words were more likely to think President Obama is Muslim than were those primed with religious agent or non-religious words. As predicted, participants who thought president Obama was Muslim rated him significantly more negatively than did those who thought he was Christian. Overall, our results provide some evidence that ethnic name and religious word priming can significantly influence opinions, even with a well-known and specific person.

Obama Pressing Boost for Pre-K

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Klein, Alyson

2013-01-01

President Barack Obama used his first State of the Union address since winning re-election to put education at the center of his broader strategy to bolster the nation's economic prospects. He is proposing to dramatically expand preschool access for low- and middle-income children and to create a new competitive program aimed at helping high…

Interests and Values in Obama's foreign Policy: Leading from Behind?

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MARIA HELENA DE CASTRO SANTOS

2015-12-01

Full Text Available Abstract This study will exam the relative importance of values and interests in Obama's foreign policy, focusing on crucial cases: the military actions related to Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Non-Syria, Al-Qaeda and ISIL. We will argue that his "leading from behind" strategy is not very distant from the foreign and defense strategies of his post-Cold War predecessors, by which democracy is seen as an assurance to security. According to Obama's strategy, Americans will only provide support for the building of democracy in the target countries, while this task should be performed by the locals themselves. Americans will provide military training to the new governments as well so they can be responsible for their own security, including preventing regrouping of terrorists in their soil. If Obama opposes the imposing of democracy by the use of force, empirical data shows that his administration is "not prepared to accept" any option that threats US security or American liberal-democratic values, bringing in this way values and interests very close to each other.

Obama suunab kahuritule teadmata kadunud Osamale / Heiki Suurkask

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2009-01-01

Autori sõnul on USA tähelepanu hajumine võimaldanud al-Qaidal peituda ja neid varjaval Talibanil uuesti tugevneda. Esimene muutus, mille Barack Obama USA presidendina tegi, oli katse islamimaailma terroristidest eemale meelitada

Right Brain/Left Brain President Barack Obama's Uncommon Leadership Ability and How We Can Each Develop It

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2010-01-01

Right Brain/Left Brain President: Barack Obama's Uncommon Leadership Ability and How We Can Each Develop It is an inspirational guide to leadership as it should be practiced, conveyed through an up-close look at the man who sets the new leadership bar. Author Mary Lou D'costerd uses her Right Brain/Left Brain Leadership Model to frame Barack Obama's leadership skill sets. Her book shows that Obama's unique brand of leadership is the result of his extraordinary ability to leverage full-brain potential in the ways he thinks, decides, and acts. ||Right Brain/Left Brain President examines Obama's

Presidents and health reform: from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Barack Obama.

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Morone, James A

2010-06-01

The health care reforms that President Barack Obama signed into law in March 2010 were seventy-five years in the making. Since Franklin D. Roosevelt, U.S. presidents have struggled to enact national health care reform; most failed. This article explores the highly charged political landscape in which Obama maneuvered and the skills he brought to bear. It contrasts his accomplishments with the experiences of his Oval Office predecessors. Going forward, implementation poses formidable challenges for Democrats, Republicans, and the political process itself.

Beyond Political Rhetoric and Discourse: What Type of Educational, Socio-Economic, and Political Change Should Educators Expect of President Barack Obama?

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Orelus, Pierre W.

2009-01-01

This article critically analyzes Obama's singular political victory. The author begins by laying out current racial, socio-economic, educational and political challenges that await President-elect Obama. He goes on to analyze Obama's political discourse and then questions whether or not Obama would be able to meet these challenges. The author…

Obama administration's National Drought Resilience Partnership to help

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RESEARCH COASTS CAREERS National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States Department of Administration today announced an interagency National Drought Resilience Partnership to help communities better across the nation, and the Obama Administration took every possible measure to help," said

Obama Emphasizes Science and Innovation in State of the Union Address

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Tretkoff, Ernie

2011-02-01

U.S. president Barack Obama emphasized innovation and competitiveness in his State of the Union address on 25 January. He also raised science and technology early in the hour-long speech, noting that nations like China and India are focusing on math and science education and investing in research and technology. To be competitive with those countries, “we need to out-innovate, out-educate, and out-build the rest of the world,” Obama said. “The first step in winning the future is encouraging American innovation.”

Results of President Obama's Race to the Top

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Howell, William G.

2015-01-01

Caught between extraordinary public expectations and relatively modest constitutional authority, U.S. presidents historically have fashioned all sorts of mechanisms--executive orders, proclamations, memoranda--by which to move their objectives forward. William Howell asserts that under President Barack Obama's administration, presidential…

From biodefence to biosecurity: the Obama administration's strategy for countering biological threats.

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Koblentz, Gregory D

2012-01-01

The Seventh Review Conference of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC), the first international treaty to outlaw an entire class of weapons, was held in Geneva in December 2011. On 7 December, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton became the highest-ranking US government official to address a BWC meeting. Secretary Clinton told the assembled delegation that ‘we view the risk of bioweapons attack as both a serious national security challenge and a foreign policy priority’. At the same time, she warned that a large-scale disease outbreak ‘could cripple an already fragile global economy’. Secretary Clinton's speech reflected a new understanding that the range of biological threats to international security has expanded from state-sponsored biological warfare programmes to include biological terrorism, dual-use research and naturally occurring infectious diseases such as pandemics. Recognizing these changes, President Barack Obama released a new national strategy for countering biological threats in 2009. This strategy represents a shift in thinking away from the George W. Bush administration's focus on biodefence, which emphasized preparing for and responding to biological weapon attacks, to the concept of biosecurity, which includes measures to prevent, prepare for and respond to naturally occurring and man-made biological threats. The Obama administration's biosecurity strategy seeks to reduce the global risk of naturally occurring and deliberate disease outbreaks through prevention, international cooperation, and maximizing synergies between health and security. The biosecurity strategy is closely aligned with the Obama administration's broader approach to foreign policy, which emphasizes the pragmatic use of smart power, multilateralism and engagement to further the national interest. This article describes the Obama administration's biosecurity strategy; highlights elements of continuity and change from the policies of the Bush administration; discusses

Obama and the Middle East, Round Two

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Dan Tschirgi

2013-10-01

Full Text Available Tras años de inercia diplomática, el aparentemente interminable "proceso de paz" Palestino-Israelí recibió un nuevo empujón por parte de la Administración Obama en el verano del 2013. A pesar del deseo expresado por Washington durante el primer mandato de Obama de girar la política exterior de los EEUU hacia Asia, el proceso de paz reavivado, junto con la crisis Siria, Irán y la "primavera árabe" se han conjurado para que los EEUU mantengan su interés en las tradicionales preocupaciones ligadas al Medio Oriente. En contraste con periodos anteriores empero, la opinión pública estadounidense hoy en día puede estar dispuesta a apoyar a un presidente que persiga lograr el objetivo de un acuerdo de paz basado en una solución en dos estados desafiando directamente la política exterior de Israel de promover la construcción de asentamientos en las tierras árabes ocupadas.

The Obama Era: A Post-Racial Society?

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Lum, Lydia

2009-01-01

With Barack Obama ensconced as the nation's first Black president, plenty of voices in the national conversation are trumpeting America as a post-racial society--that race matters much less than it used to, that the boundaries of race have been overcome, that racism is no longer a big problem. In this article, longtime scholars whose life's work…

Putting Barack Obama's Candidacy in Historical Perspective

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Rogers, Ibram

2008-01-01

Senator Barack Obama's historic candidacy for president of the United States has generated an intense and thoughtful national discussion within Black America. His campaign has brought several issues to the fore. Recently, the author spoke with five of the most preeminent Black scholars in the nation to search out some of their thoughts on five key…

Obama's 2013 Education Budget and Blueprint: A Costly Expansion of Federal Control. Backgrounder, No. 2677

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Burke, Lindsey M.; Sheffield, Rachel

2012-01-01

President Obama's FY 2013 budget request includes another major spending increase for the Department of Education--2.5 percent more than last year--to nearly $70 billion. American taxpayers are calling for spending restraint in Washington, yet President Obama's proposals would exacerbate the existing bureaucratic maze of federal programs and…

USA valimiste võitja võib selguda varakult - kui Obama võtab Indiana / Kaivo Kopli

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Kopli, Kaivo

2008-01-01

USA presidendivalimistel suletakse valimisjaoskonnad esimesena Indianas. Demokraatide kampaania konsultandi Doug Schoeni hinnangul viitab isegi tasavägine tulemus Indianas ilmselt Barack Obama suurele üleriigilisele võidule. Reutersi vaatlejate hinnanguid. Vt. samas: Kas populaarsusküsitlused ikka ennustavad valimistulemuse õigesti? Kaart, tabelid, graafikud: Barack Obama läheb võitma

A Pragmatic Study of Barak Obama's Political Propaganda

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Al-Ameedi, Riyadh Tariq Kadhim; Khudhier, Zina Abdul Hussein

2015-01-01

This study investigates, pragmatically, the language of five electoral political propaganda texts delivered by Barak Obama. It attempts to achieve the following aims: (1) identifying the speech acts used in political propaganda, (2) showing how politicians utilize Grice's maxims and the politeness principle in issuing their propaganda, (3)…

Weltanschauung und Politik in den heutigen USA. Barack Obama und der „neue Kulturkampf“ um die Führung der anglo-amerikanischen Weltmacht

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2010-01-01

The relationship between Worldviews and Politics in the USA today. Barack Obama and the “new cultural battle” for political supremacy in the US English Summary: This article provides an analysis of the current relationship between Politics, Culture and Worldviews in the USA under Barack Obama. The present “great Obama divide” of US domestic politics consists in the division between institutional and contextual (cultural and worldview) politics. Obama has induced their current opposition w...

Obama Pushes Pre-K, Competitive Grants in Budget

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Klein, Alyson

2013-01-01

President Barack Obama's latest budget proposal envisions a sweeping, multi-billion-dollar expansion of prekindergarten programs and doubles down on the administration's strategy of using competitive grants to drive big change in states and districts--all as school districts try to cope with the largest cuts to federal education spending in recent…

Waivering as Governance: Federalism during the Obama Administration

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Saultz, Andrew; McEachin, Andrew; Fusarelli, Lance D.

2016-01-01

This article analyzes how the Obama administration used executive power to grant waivers from federal education policies and assesses whether they used this power differently than previous administrations and in other sectors (e.g., health or welfare). The executive use of waivers to shape state policy is not a new trend. However, we find that…

Standing in the shadows of Niebuhr : U.S. president Barack Obama and Reinhold Niebuhr’s Christian realism

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Kamminga, M.R.

2011-01-01

U.S. president Barack Obama has called renowned Christian moral and political theologian Reinhold Niebuhr a major intellectual influence. Although Obama’s acknowledgement has been widely noted and discussed, a more systematic analysis and evaluation of the extent to which Obama has actually taken

Statement on President Obama winning 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, 9 October 2009, Vienna, Austria

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ElBaradei, M.

2009-01-01

Full text: I am absolutely delighted to learn that President Barack Obama has been awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. I cannot think of anyone today more deserving of this honour. In less than a year in office, he has transformed the way we look at ourselves and the world we live in and rekindled hope for a world at peace with itself. President Obama has provided outstanding leadership on moving towards a world free of nuclear weapons. He has shown an unshakeable commitment to diplomacy, mutual respect and dialogue as the best means of resolving conflicts. He has reached out across divides and made clear that he sees the world as one human family, regardless of religion, race or ethnicity. President Obama has brought a new vision of a world based on human decency, fairness and freedom which is an inspiration to us all. (IAEA)

European vector of foreign policy of the Barack Obama administration

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M. Yu. Lymar

2014-07-01

Full Text Available The article researches the basic principles and conceptual approaches to shaping the foreign policy of the   Barack Obama. It is noted that: the foreign policy of the United States should strengthen U.S. global leadership; the special role in determining the directions of U.S. foreign policy is given to the principle of «smart power»; it is important to cooperate with international organizations; the dialogue with Europe should be based on the axis of NATO­EU. This study examines the main areas of cooperation with the European Union, including: overcoming the global crisis and reforming the international financial system; settling the situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan; ensuring energy security; finding the ways to prevent new climate changes; defusing the situation which is related to the deployment of U.S. strategic plans in Eastern Europe. It is analyzed the beginning of Obama administration activity on inetnational area, discussed its achievements and shortcomings. The article marks that the USA focuses its attention more on the «Asian vector» and it causes some concern of the European Community. Attention is drawn to the main priorities of «National Security Strategy 2010». The author concludes that despite the absence of significant changes in U.S.­European relations during the first term of Barack Obama as the president, the current era of transatlantic relations has witnessed a process of constant functional cooperation with varying success.

Obama Announces Science Education Goal at White House Science Fair

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Showstack, Randy

2012-02-01

With student participants in the second annual White House Science Fair as a backdrop, President Barack Obama announced on 7 February programs to help prepare new math and science teachers and to meet a new goal of having 1 million more U.S. college graduates in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) over the next decade than there would be at the current graduation rate. That goal is outlined in a report entitled “Engage to excel,” by the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), released the same day. Obama also announced several other initiatives, including a $22 million private-sector investment, led by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, to invest in STEM teacher training. After he toured the science fair projects, Obama said the science fair students “inspire” him. “What impresses me so much is not just how smart you are, but it's the fact that you recognize you've got a responsibility to use your talents in service of something bigger than yourselves,” he said. What these young people are doing is “going to make a bigger difference in the life of our country over the long term than just about anything,” adding, “We've got to emphasize how important this is and recognize these incredible young people who are doing that that I couldn't even imagine thinking about at fifth grade or eighth grade or in high school.”

A política comercial dos Estados Unidos no primeiro governo Obama: heranças, estratégias e desafios

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Filipe Almeida do Prado Mendonça

2013-10-01

Full Text Available Este artigo tem por objetivo sistematizar alguns dos principais pontos da agenda comercial dos Estados Unidos durante os quatro primeiros anos da gestão Obama. Identifica-se uma postura “mais discreta” do presidente Obama se comparado com governos anterior em questões de política comercial, o que não significa uma postura “pouco ativa”.  This article aims to systematize some of the main aspects of the US trade agenda during the first four years of Obama administration. It identifies a "more discreet" attitude of the President Obama on trade policy compared to previous governments. However, this posture does not mean that the US government has been inactive.

The climate protection policy of the USA under president Obama; Die Klimaschutzpolitik der USA unter Praesident Obama

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2009-01-15

Barack Obama's slogan 'Are you ready for a Change?' may become the motto fo the future climate protection policy of the USA. While the USA is slowly beginning to play a more active role in this area, there are many political and institutional obstacles to overcome before the USA can become one of the big global players here. The authors analyse the status quo of the US climate protection policy in an attempt to indicate national and international perspectives of climate protection. (orig.)

Obama vu de ma banlieue.

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Olga Stanislawska

2008-12-01

Full Text Available Une petite brocante est organisée tous les jeudis sur une place proche de la Basilique de Saint-Denis. On y vend des livres, des bibelots, des bijoux fantaisies et des masques africains. L’un des vendeurs a visiblement décidé de bénéficier de l’effet Obama. J’ai pris la photo de ma fenêtre, située au dessus de ce marché. J’ai adoré ce stand, mais ce n’est qu’une fois sur l’écran de mon ordinateur que j’ai vu les petites images Banania... ! Si j’avais su, je serais ...

The Interpersonal Metafunction Analysis of Barack Obama's Victory Speech

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Ye, Ruijuan

2010-01-01

This paper carries on a tentative interpersonal metafunction analysis of Barack Obama's victory speech from the interpersonal metafunction, which aims to help readers understand and evaluate the speech regarding its suitability, thus to provide some guidance for readers to make better speeches. This study has promising implications for speeches as…

Making a Difference? Evaluating the Impact of President Barack Obama

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James Goldgeier

2010-01-01

Full Text Available Barack Obama prometió durante su campaña electoral poner fin a la guerra en Irak y al mismo tiempo poner a disposición los recursos necesarios para combatir a los Talibán en Afganistán. En marzo, anunció una estrategia para Afganistán y Pakistán centrada en la derrota de Al Qaeda. En agosto, definía la guerra en Afganistán claramente como "una guerra de necesidad". Pero tras recibir del General Stanley McChristal la evaluación de las tropas necesarias para cumplir con la nueva estrategia, Obama empezó una extensa revisión para determinar si se seguía el curso correcto. En West Point en diciembre, el presidente declaró que se enviarían 30.000 nuevas tropas americanas al conflicto, pero prometió acometer la retirada pasados 18 meses.

Obama jääb eestlastele võõraks / Jaanus Betlem

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2010-01-01

Barack Obama näol on enamiku eestlaste jaoks tegemist järjekordse meediastaariga. Ta on nagu filminäitleja, kelle naeratus ehib seltskonnaajakirjade kaasi, kuid tegelik elu jääb lugejate eest varjatuks

President Barack Obama addresses the 146th annual meeting of the National Academy of Sciences.

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2009-06-16

On April 27, 2009, President Barack Obama addressed members of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) gathered at its 146th annual meeting in Washington, D.C. In his speech, the president shared his plans to give science and technology a central role in the nation's future and an immediate place in America's economic renewal. He outlined steps he is taking to increase research spending, achieve energy independence, and improve science education. Included was what Mr. Obama cited as the largest commitment to scientific research in American history-devoting more than 3% of our gross domestic product to research and development. "Next, we are restoring science to its rightful place," Mr. Obama told a packed NAS auditorium audience. "Under my administration, the days of science taking a backseat to ideology are over." He appealed to scientists' sense of personal responsibility to reach and educate young Americans: "I want to challenge you to use your love and knowledge of science to spark a sense of wonder and excitement in a new generation." President Obama was welcomed to the National Academy of Sciences by President Ralph J. Cicerone and John P. Holdren, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology and Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. The following is a transcript of that speech.

The economic value of groundwater in Obama

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Burnett, Kimberly; Wada, Christopher; Endo, Aiko; Taniguchi, Makoto

2015-01-01

Study region: Obama City has a population of 33,000 and is located in the central Wakasa district, in southwest Fukui Prefecture, Japan. Obama’s groundwater resources are supported by the Kitagawa (38 km2) and Miniamigawa (17 km2) river basins. Groundwater is used aboveground year round for commercial and domestic purposes and during winter months to melt snow. Submarine groundwater discharge along the coast supports a nearshore fishery in the region. Study focus: Results from a choice-bas...

Beyond Post-Racial Narratives: Barack Obama and the (Re)shaping of Racial Memory in US Schools and Society

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Smith, William L.; Brown, Anthony L.

2014-01-01

Drawing from the work of "cultural memory" and "racial formation theory" (Omi and Winant 1994) we explore the ascension of Barack Obama as an illustration of how "race" is understood and remembered. This article focuses on the public media discourse of the 2012 Obama re-election to illustrate how the narrative morphed…

"Politics 2.0": a campanha online de Barack Obama em 2008

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2009-10-01

Full Text Available O artigo examina o estágio mais recente do padrão das campanhas políticas on-line em eleições presidenciais do ponto de vista dos recursos e instrumentos empregados como parte das operações de comunicação política em redes digitais. Como as eleições americanas de 2008, em geral, e a campanha on-line de Barack Obama, em particular, representam a face mais recente e, até o momento, mais exitosa desse tipo de operação política, os recursos e instrumentos empregados na campanha de Obama serão tomados como um estudo de caso. Trata-se, portanto, de uma prospecção sobre uma experiência de emprego de recursos digitais e on-line em campanhas políticas com o objetivo de reconhecer o patamar a que foram levadas as campanhas on-line e de estabelecer generalizações sobre tendências e possibilidades desse tipo de campanha política. Concluímos que, embora o uso dos recursos de comunicação digital não seja a causa do sucesso da campanha de Obama ou mesmo da mobilização gerada e da popularidade que teve entre o eleitorado jovem, eles certamente fazem parte do ambiente social e político que determinou esses fenômenos.

Obama alustab külaskäiku Venemaale keerulisel ajal / Liisi Poll

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2009-01-01

USA president Barack Obama alustab 6. juulil oma Moskva visiiti, mille käigus on tal kavas lisaks Kremli juhtidele kohtuda ka opositioonitegelaste ning Nõukogude Liidu viimase juhi Mihhali Gorbatšoviga

The NHS could learn from inspiring leaders like Barack Obama.

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Coghill, Yvonne

2017-02-01

I remember November 2008 like it was yesterday. I was the lead for the NHS Leadership Academy's national Breaking Through programme for black and minority ethnic staff, and recall being at our annual conference bursting with pride at the news that Barack Obama had been elected president of the United States.

La base electoral de Obama, redes sociales virtuales y reales: los casos de generation engage y moms for Obama The electoral support of Obama, real and social virtual networks: the case of ‘Generation Engage’ and ‘Moms for Obama’

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Full Text Available ResumenDespués de un año de la victoria electoral de Barack Obama, el actual presidente de los Estados Unidos mantiene unas cotas de popularidad muy elevadas, máxime si tenemos en cuenta la actual coyuntura de crisis que afecta de manera frontal a los Estados Unidos. El presente artículo, a partir del estudio de un estado concreto: Carolina del Norte, explica cuáles son las bases sobre las que se sustenta dicho apoyo, bases que tienen que ver con un trabajo realizado desde las elecciones primarias del Partido Demócrata y que se sustentan en un adecuado uso de las redes sociales, tanto virtuales como reales. Para demostrar esta hipótesis, se muestran los resultados de un vasto trabajo de campo realizado, fundamentalmente con dos redes que han centrado sus esfuerzos en afianzar el voto joven y el voto femenino: ‘Generation Engage’ y ‘Mom for Obama’.AbstractAfter one year of the election victory of Barack Obama, the current president of the United Status, has a very high level of popularity, especially bearing in mind the current crisis that affects the United States. This article, from the study of a particular state: North Carolina, explains the keys of support, keys that are related to work done since the primaries and the Democratic Party behind in an appropriate use of social networks, both virtual and real. To prove this hypothesis, we show the results of an extensive field work carried out mainly with two networks that have focused their efforts on strengthening the youth vote and women voters: Generation Engage and 'Moms for Obama.

Rezension von: Andrea Büchler, Michelle Cottier: Legal Gender Studies. Rechtliche Geschlechterstudien. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag 2012.

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Ulrike Lembke

2014-07-01

Full Text Available Die vorliegende Sammlung ist eine Pionierinnenarbeit. Zwar gibt es für den deutschsprachigen Raum einige Einführungen in die Legal Gender Studies resp. rechtlichen Geschlechterstudien, die sich teilweise auch auf dieselben Autor*innen oder Konzepte beziehen, doch fehlte es bisher an einer gemeinsamen Quellengrundlage. Andrea Büchler und Michelle Cottier haben ein in Qualität wie Quantität beeindruckendes Werk vorgelegt, durch welches der Stand rechtlicher Geschlechterstudien im deutschsprachigen Raum dokumentiert, notwendige rechtswissenschaftliche Beiträge zu den Geschlechterstudien geleistet und ein geschlechtertheoretisch inspirierter Zugang zu einer reflektierten und kommunikationsfähigen Rechtswissenschaft eröffnet werden.

From Cosmopolitanism to Planetary Conviviality: Suneeta Peres da Costa and Michelle de Kretser

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Alejandra Moreno Álvarez

2017-01-01

Full Text Available Veronica Brady, vigorous supporter of Aboriginal causes and deeply concerned with social-injustice issues, underlined that Anglo-Australians were to be excommunicated from the land until they would come to terms with it and its first peoples (in Jones 1997. Nearly twenty years after this statement was postulated, it is my purpose in this paper to look at the land from an Anglo-Australian and non-Indigenous Australian perspective in order to assess if Australian contemporary society has moved beyond what Brady considered a “super ego status” and reconciled to the presence not only of its Indigenous, but also its non-Indigenous others. To do so I will exemplify novels which are part of and influenced by the matrix of relations and social forces in which non-indigenous Australian writers are situated on, including Suneeta Peres da Costa’s Homework (1999 and Michelle de Kretser’s Questions of Travel (2013.

Weltanschauung und Politik in den heutigen USA. Barack Obama und der „neue Kulturkampf“ um die Führung der anglo-amerikanischen Weltmacht

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Roland Benedikter

2010-06-01

Full Text Available The relationship between Worldviews and Politics in the USA today. Barack Obama and the “new cultural battle” for political supremacy in the US English Summary: This article provides an analysis of the current relationship between Politics, Culture and Worldviews in the USA under Barack Obama. The present “great Obama divide” of US domestic politics consists in the division between institutional and contextual (cultural and worldview politics. Obama has induced their current opposition when he ran for the US Presidency by profiling himself as a “cultural” candidate “against the system”. One result is that by becoming part of the system after being elected, Obama has lost some of his initial “revolutionary” appeal; a second effect is that the opposition is now trying to turn the tables by mobilizing the contextual political sphere against Obama’s control of the institutional power. In fact, the Republicans, rather than concentrating on traditional ways of regaining power focus on launching a new “worldview” battle against Obama in the hope to use the pre-political sphere to eventually regain the institutional political majority. The overall result is a general climate of “worldview mobilization” in the USA, and an increased influence of cultural and worldview philosophies onto the institutionalized mechanisms of politics. Pre-political movements like the conservative “inverting the myth – inverting the paradigm” movement or the “tea party” movement are the expression of attempts towards a new “cultural battle” for “the soul of the USA,” which has to be understood in its basic mechanisms, if the “Obama constellation” shall be understood. This article sketches some core elements of Obama’s worldview that are in play in this game, and it argues that many actions of Obama on the field of foreign politics are (and will be to a noticeable extent co-oriented toward influencing the domestic �

Envisioning Workforce Training Differently: The Obama "Free" Community College Initiative

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Holland, Brian

2015-01-01

Education, particularly at the post-secondary level, does not come cheaply in the USA, with the increase in annual tuition costs far outpacing the inflation rate during the same time period. A core tenet of US President Obama's domestic policy agenda is the belief that increased educational attainment can potentially lead to better economic…

Unity and Duality in Barack Obama's "A More Perfect Union"

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Terrill, Robert E.

2009-01-01

Faced with a racialized political crisis that threatened to derail his campaign to become the first African American president of the United States, Barack Obama delivered a speech on race titled "A More Perfect Union." He begins by portraying himself as an embodiment of double consciousness, but then invites his audience to share his…

NWHSS Implement Family Member Assessment Component in the Millennium Cohort Study

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2013-11-25

and family functioning.  spouse reports of marital  satisfaction and family  functioning?    Is there a relationship  between the  gender  of the...military families • Request for endorsement made to Michelle Obama and pending response  Updated website: • Enhanced diversity of images...published literature (2)  Token cash pre-incentives are more effective than material (e.g. gift coupons) incentives.  Synergy can be created

Weltanschauung und Politik in den heutigen USA. Barack Obama und der „neue Kulturkampf“ um die Führung der anglo-amerikanischen Weltmacht

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Roland Benedikter

2010-06-01

Full Text Available This article provides an analysis of the current relationship between Politics, Culture and Worldviews in the USA under Barack Obama. The present "great Obama divide" of US domestic politics consists in the division between institutional and contextual (cultural and worldview politics. Obama has induced their current opposition when he ran for the US Presidency by profiling himself as a "cultural" candidate "against the system". One result is that by becoming part of the system after being elected, Obama has lost some of his initial "revolutionary" appeal; a second effect is that the opposition is now trying to turn the tables by mobilizing the contextual political sphere against Obama’s control of the institutional power. In fact, the Republicans, rather than concentrating on traditional ways of regaining power focus on launching a new "worldview" battle against Obama in the hope to use the pre-political sphere to eventually regain the institutional political majority. The overall result is a general climate of "worldview mobilization" in the USA, and an increased influence of cultural and worldview philosophies onto the institutionalized mechanisms of politics. Pre-political movements like the conservative "inverting the myth - inverting the paradigm" movement or the "tea party" movement are the expression of attempts towards a new "cultural battle" for "the soul of the USA," which has to be understood in its basic mechanisms, if the "Obama constellation" shall be understood. This article sketches some core elements of Obama’s worldview that are in play in this game, and it argues that many actions of Obama on the field of foreign politics are (and will be to a noticeable extent co-oriented toward influencing the domestic "worldview battle."

The Relationship between Racial Identity and Perceived Significance of the Election of President Barack Obama among African American Mothers.

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Franco, Marisa; Smith-Bynum, Mia

2016-01-01

African American women's racial identity is a major determinant for how they interpret the world around them, yet there is little research examining how specific aspects of racial identity are linked with attitudes about an event that has been highly significant for African-Americans: the election of President Barack Obama. The current study examined the relationship between African American mothers' racial identity and their perceived significance of the election of President Barack Obama as an indicator of reduced systemic and actual racism for African Americans, using a sample of 110 African American mothers residing in a Northeastern metropolitan area. Results revealed that racial centrality and assimilation positively predicted perceived significance of President Obama's election for diminishing racism. Implications and future directions are discussed.

Tests of a 3D Self Magnetic Field Solver in the Finite Element Gun Code MICHELLE

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Nelson, Eric M

2005-01-01

We have recently implemented a prototype 3d self magnetic field solver in the finite-element gun code MICHELLE. The new solver computes the magnetic vector potential on unstructured grids. The solver employs edge basis functions in the curl-curl formulation of the finite-element method. A novel current accumulation algorithm takes advantage of the unstructured grid particle tracker to produce a compatible source vector, for which the singular matrix equation is easily solved by the conjugate gradient method. We will present some test cases demonstrating the capabilities of the prototype 3d self magnetic field solver. One test case is self magnetic field in a square drift tube. Another is a relativistic axisymmetric beam freely expanding in a round pipe.

“Siempre se vuelve”: Análisis del discurso del acto de proclamación como candidata presidencial de Michelle Bachelet

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Claudio Santos Herrera Toledo

2014-11-01

Full Text Available El presente artículo analiza el discurso realizado por Michelle Bachelet en el Centro Cívico y Artístico de la comuna de El Bosque en Santiago, para presentar su decisión de ser candidata presidencial para las elecciones del año 2013 en Chile. El objetivo de la investigación busca comprender las posiciones de enunciación y las tonalidades discursivas que utiliza la candidata en dicha proclamación, tomando en cuenta la modalidad de liderazgo político femenino que ejerce su figura. Desde el punto de vista metodológico, la herramienta utilizada es el análisis del discurso, considerando conceptos desarrollados por la tradición francesa, desde donde se rescatan los aportes de los trabajos de Foucault (posiciones de enunciación (Foucault, 1970 y de la escuela rusa, a través de los argumentos desarrollados por Bajtin (tonalidades discursivas (Voloshinov, 1997. Los resultados exhibieron que, en el discurso de Michelle Bachelet, predomina una posición de sujeto (líder y tres tonalidades discursivas (familiar, experta y heroica. Las conclusiones apuntan a generar la conexión entre la posición de enunciación hallada y las tonalidades discursivas identificadas a través del análisis del discurso.

Obama hirmutamistaktika võib mõjuda tagasilöögina / Kaivo Kopli

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Kopli, Kaivo

2009-01-01

USA president Barack Obama kasutas majanduse päästeplaani läbisurumisel sõnu "kriis", "katastroof" ja "häving". Vaatlejate hinnangul võib sellisel taktikal olla ka tagasilöök - hirmunud inimesed ei hakka raha kulutama ja retsessioon pikeneb

ObamaNet: Photo-realistic lip-sync from text

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Kumar, Rithesh; Sotelo, Jose; Kumar, Kundan; de Brebisson, Alexandre; Bengio, Yoshua

2017-01-01

We present ObamaNet, the first architecture that generates both audio and synchronized photo-realistic lip-sync videos from any new text. Contrary to other published lip-sync approaches, ours is only composed of fully trainable neural modules and does not rely on any traditional computer graphics methods. More precisely, we use three main modules: a text-to-speech network based on Char2Wav, a time-delayed LSTM to generate mouth-keypoints synced to the audio, and a network based on Pix2Pix to ...

Barack Obama Blindness (BOB): Absence of Visual Awareness to a Single Object.

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Persuh, Marjan; Melara, Robert D

2016-01-01

In two experiments, we evaluated whether a perceiver's prior expectations could alone obliterate his or her awareness of a salient visual stimulus. To establish expectancy, observers first made a demanding visual discrimination on each of three baseline trials. Then, on a fourth, critical trial, a single, salient and highly visible object appeared in full view at the center of the visual field and in the absence of any competing visual input. Surprisingly, fully half of the participants were unaware of the solitary object in front of their eyes. Dramatically, observers were blind even when the only stimulus on display was the face of U.S. President Barack Obama. We term this novel, counterintuitive phenomenon, Barack Obama Blindness (BOB). Employing a method that rules out putative memory effects by probing awareness immediately after presentation of the critical stimulus, we demonstrate that the BOB effect is a true failure of conscious vision.

FCJ-165 Obama Trolling: Memes, Salutes and an Agonistic Politics in the 2012 Presidential Election

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Benjamin Burroughs

2013-12-01

Full Text Available During the 2012 presidential campaign an explosion of photo-shopped images circulated that depicted President Obama as unpatriotic. The ‘crotch salute’, ‘left-hand salute’, and ‘Veterans Day non-salute’ serve as case studies for understanding the role of trolling in the public sphere and Internet politics in an era of social networks and circulation. This paper tracks the cultural practices and logics of ‘sharing’ political memes and conceptualises memes as part of an agonistic public sphere and media ecology. Obama trolling is facilitated through the techno-cultural affordances of memes, which can only become public because of their mimetic form and sterilised partial anonymity. The paper seeks to conceptualise trolling as a broader cultural practice, which can be considered political. Normative assumptions about these memes would portray this trafficking as destructive to deliberative democracy but when understood as a generative cultural practice, trolling becomes central to articulating political emotions in social networks. Photo-shopped Obama salutes, in addition to Big Bird, binder, and bayonet memes, express not only political identities but also larger cultural values within networked popular culture.

An Open Letter to President Barack Obama from C. Frederick Risinger

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Risinger, C. Frederick

2010-01-01

This article presents an open letter to President Barack Obama written by the author to express his concerns about the increasing emphasis on mathematics and science education along with the continued emphasis on reading/language arts while a fourth major curriculum area--social studies--is being marginalized by lack of funding and reduced…

Kes on Eesti Obama? Lihtne küsimus / Raimo Ülavere

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Ülavere, Raimo, 1970-

2009-01-01

USA president Barack Obama on oma esimese 11 töönädalaga "rääkinud" üles inimeste usu tulevikku. Autor arutleb, kas mõni Eesti ühiskonna liidritest, sealhulgas president, oleks selleks võimeline. Autor näeb lahendust pigem kodanikualgatuses ning soovitab osaleda "Minu Eesti" mõttetalgutel

An Interview with Barack Obama: "The Most Important Skill Is Knowledge"

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Hebel, Sara

2007-01-01

Barack Obama agreed to answer a series of questions submitted via e-mail to his campaign. This article presents excerpts of "The Chronicle"'s exchange with the senator and candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, in which he discussed his policy suggestions for student aid and college access; the appropriate role of the federal…

Change or Continuity in US-Latin American Policy: the Obama Record

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Stephen J. Randall

2013-11-01

Full Text Available The article explores the ambitions, challenges, successes and perceived failures and disappointments of the policies pursued by the Democratic administrations of President Barack Obama, with particular focus on Honduras, Mexico and Colombia. The article notes the eloquent and optimistic rhetoric of Obama, in his first presidential campaign and in the early days of his first administration, commitments to significant change in U.S. policy toward Latin America. In contrast the record of the first five years of his administrations have witnessed the continuation of policies which are difficult to distinguish from those of his predecessor. The article also notes the general decline in U.S. influence in the region. There has been insignificant change in Cuban policy, save for a liberalization of family travel to Cuba. His administration implemented the controversial Free Trade Agreement with Colombia which his own party leaders had long opposed. He has maintained the funding levels of the equally controversial Plan Colombia which began under Bill Clinton, and he has continued to adhere to a largely Republican agenda on border security with Mexico.

Barack Obama Blindness (BOB: Absence of visual awareness to a single object

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Marjan ePersuh

2016-03-01

Full Text Available In two experiments we evaluated whether a perceiver’s prior expectations could alone obliterate his or her awareness of a salient visual stimulus. To establish expectancy, observers first made a demanding visual discrimination on each of three baseline trials. Then, on a fourth, critical trial, a single, salient and highly visible object appeared in full view at the center of the visual field and in the absence of any competing visual input. Surprisingly, fully half of the participants were unaware of the solitary object in front of their eyes. Dramatically, observers were blind even when the only stimulus on display was the face of U.S. President Barack Obama. We term this novel, counterintuitive phenomenon, Barack Obama Blindness (BOB. Employing a method that rules out putative memory effects by probing awareness immediately after presentation of the critical stimulus, we demonstrate that the BOB effect is a true failure of conscious vision.

U. S. Central Asian policy under president Barack Obama

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Laumulin, Murat

2010-01-01

There can be no doubt that during the eighteen months it has been in power, the Obama Administration has in due course defined the main vectors and priorities of U.S. foreign policy, determined the country's key geopolitical interests, drawn up and adopted a National Security Strategy, and compiled a Nuclear Policy Review. The following factors are having an impact on U.S. policy in the post-Soviet expanse, which includes Central Asia (CA): relations with Russia, the PRC, the Islamic Republic...

Non-proliferation and nuclear disarmament: speech of the president Obama at Prague

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Hautecouverture, B.

2009-01-01

Introduced by the Prague speech of april 7 2009, the Obama President program towards the non proliferation and the nuclear disarmament was pointed out by its optimism ambition and determination. But a more detailed lecture shows concurrent positions. The author analyzes the political aspects of the President speech. (A.L.B.)

Nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament: the President Obama's Prague speech; Non-proliferation et desarmement nucleaires: discours de Prague du president Obama

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Hautecouverture, B. [Centre d' Etudes de Securite Internationale et de Maitrise des Armements (CESIM), 75 - Paris (France)

2010-07-15

The author comments the content and the consequences of President Obama's speech on the future of nuclear weapons in the 21. century. After a recall of the political context, the author shows how this declaration sounded with a real new tone, defined a new direction and introduced a new method, but may reach its objectives only on a long term. Then, he comments how these objectives are challenged by the present context and events, and outlines how the US Nuclear Posture Review will be important

The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Policy of the Obama Administration

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Baek, Jin Hyun; Hwang, Ji Hwan

2009-12-01

The objective of this study is to analyze and foresee trends of international nuclear non-proliferation regimes focused on the nuclear non-proliferation policy of the Obama administration, and suggest national policy directions which promote utilization and development of nuclear energy in Korea. For the effective and efficient implementation of the national nuclear use and development program in current international nuclear environment, many efforts should be made: to actively and positively participate in the international nuclear non-proliferation regime; to strengthen nuclear diplomacy in a more systematic manner; and to strengthen the international nuclear cooperation

From Compassionate Conservatism to Obamacare: Funding for the Ryan White Program During the Obama Administration.

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Hatcher, William; Pund, Britten; Khatiashvili, Giorgi

2016-11-01

To examine President Obama's fiscal commitment to the Ryan White Program (formerly Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resource Emergency Act), which provides funding for economically disadvantaged people and families affected by HIV. We analyzed budgetary request and congressional appropriation data from 2009 to 2016. The data are available from the Health Resources and Services Administration and the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Increased coverage for people living with HIV/AIDS provided by the Affordable Care Act most likely led the Obama administration to request small increases and at times decreases in funding for the Ryan White Program. Congress passed either small increases or decreases in appropriations for the Ryan White Program. Decreases or small increases in the Ryan White Program funding risk progress made in treating HIV among economically disadvantaged patients.

Barack Obama: apoios recebidos na campanha presidencial na visão do New York Times

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Maria Inez Mateus Dota

2010-01-01

Este estudio tiene por objetivo discutir como son presentados y contextualizados los apoyos dados a Barack Obama, manifiestos en el diario The New York Times, en el periodo de la campaña presidencial del 2008.

Barack Obama: apoios recebidos na campanha presidencial na visão do New York Times

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Maria Inez Mateus Dota

2010-12-01

Full Text Available Este estudio tiene por objetivo discutir como son presentados y contextualizados los apoyos dados a Barack Obama, manifiestos en el diario The New York Times, en el periodo de la campaña presidencial del 2008.

Responsive partisanship: public support for the clinton and obama health care plans.

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Kriner, Douglas L; Reeves, Andrew

2014-08-01

We examine the contours of support for the Clinton and Obama health care plans during the 1990s and 2000s based on our own compilation of 120,000 individual-level survey responses from throughout the debates. Despite the rise of the Tea Party, and the racialization of health care politics, opinion dynamics are remarkably similar in both periods. Party ID is the single most powerful predictor of support for reform and the president's handling of it. Contrary to prominent claims, after controlling for partisanship, demographic characteristics are at best weak predictors of support for reform. We also show that Clinton and Obama did not "lose" blacks, seniors, or wealthy voters over the course of the debate. The small and often nonexistent relationship between these characteristics and support for the plan are constant over time. Instead, the modest fluctuations in support for reform appear to follow the ebb and flow of elite rhetoric. Both mean levels of support and its volatility over time covary with elite partisan discourse. These findings suggest that presidents courting public opinion should seek consensus among their own party's elites before appealing to other narrower interests. Copyright © 2014 by Duke University Press.

Nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament: the President Obama's Prague speech

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Hautecouverture, B.

2010-01-01

The author comments the content and the consequences of President Obama's speech on the future of nuclear weapons in the 21. century. After a recall of the political context, the author shows how this declaration sounded with a real new tone, defined a new direction and introduced a new method, but may reach its objectives only on a long term. Then, he comments how these objectives are challenged by the present context and events, and outlines how the US Nuclear Posture Review will be important

The power of rhetoric and the rhetoric of power: Exploring a tension within the Obama presidency

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Rob Kroes

2012-03-01

Full Text Available When Barack Obama acceded to the Presidency of the United States he held out the promise of a new beginning. As a master of political rhetoric he had spoken of a new start following the dismal years of the Bush administration. He would take America back to its inspirational creed of freedom and democracy. He augured a break with policies infringing on civil liberties and government under the law. Once in office, though, the power of rhetoric that had carried him into the White House ran into the hard reality of political rule under conditions of ongoing wars in far-away countries and the threat of terrorism, lurking at home and abroad. This chapter will explore how well President Obama managed to preserve democratic freedoms at home while fighting terrorism.

Failure to Launch: Obama's New Teen Initiative Can Be Fixed, and Here's How

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Smith, William; Wagoner, James

2009-01-01

President Barack Obama has proposed an end to abstinence-only-until-marriage funding as Americans have known it for the better part of the last decade. This marks a significant change in direction, one that finally brings science and evidence back into government policy. His leadership on this new direction will be essential in the coming…

Participatory and social media to engage youth: from the Obama campaign to public health practice.

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Goodman, Jordi; Wennerstrom, Ashley; Springgate, Benjamin F

2011-01-01

Barack Obama's successful campaign for the presidency has been widely attributed to the use of social networking sites, mobile devices, and interactive websites to engage previously hard-to-reach populations in political activity. Campaign communication strategies may be applicable for youth health promotion efforts, particularly for the highly stigmatized issue of mental health. In this article, we examine elements of the 2008 Obama presidential campaign's use of social media technologies and content designed to foster effective political participation among youth. We outline how the same social media technologies may be applied to public health efforts focused on reaching and providing services to the 20% of young people who have a diagnosable mental disorder. We discuss the strengths and limitations of the application of these media to date, and raise questions about the future use of these media for engaging hard-to-reach populations in addressing stigmatized public health issues.

Summary and Analysis of President Obama's Education Budget Request, Fiscal Year 2012: Issue Brief

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2011-01-01

President Barack Obama submitted his third budget request to Congress on February 14th, 2011. The detailed budget request includes proposed funding levels for federal programs and agencies in aggregate for the upcoming 10 fiscal years, and specific fiscal year 2012 funding levels for individual programs subject to appropriations. Congress will use…

NCI Scientists Awarded National Medal of Technology and Innovation by President Obama | Poster

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Two NCI scientists received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the nation’s highest honor for technological achievement. The award was announced by President Obama in October. The honorees, John Schiller, Ph.D., Laboratory of Cellular Oncology (LCO), Center for Cancer Research, NCI, and Douglas Lowy, M.D., also from LCO and NCI deputy director, received their medals at a White House ceremony on Nov. 20.

Has the Dream Been Fulfilled? Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. & President Barack Hussein Obama

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Robinson, Nichelle Boyd; Moore, Virginia J.; Williams-Black, Thea H.

2015-01-01

Equality for all was the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and he knowingly laid the foundation for and inspired the first African-American President of the United States of America, Barack Hussein Obama, who also had the dream of "Change" for America. These men exhibited how working together can make dreams become reality. For the…

Knowing Obama: How High School Students of Color Learn about the 44th President

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Smith, William

2016-01-01

Drawing from a theory of racial literacy and literature on the post-racial phenomenon after the 2008 election, this case study examines how high school students of color have learned about Barack Obama as a racial and political figure. Findings suggest that schools can be unfriendly spaces for learning about these topics, with history and social…

Gobierno de Barack Obama: una explicación desde el institucionalismo

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Javier Garay

2010-11-01

Full Text Available Este artículo trata de explicar, desde el institucionalismo, los problemas domésticos que ha tenido el gobierno de Barack Obama en los Estados Unidos. Se parte del hecho que este gobierno ha tenido una buena imagen en el ámbito internacional, pero ha tenido dificultades para generar consensos en el ámbito doméstico. Para esto, en el artículo se afirma que este gobierno demócrata se aleja de los valores, cultura y sociedad estadounidenses.

On the eve of Copenhagen: Obama and the environment

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Pereon, Y.M.

2009-01-01

The author proposes a rather detailed overview of the United States posture with respect to climate change challenges on the eve of the Copenhagen conference. First, he shows how the public opinion in the United States is ambivalent and changing. Then, he outlines that the arrival of President Obama resulted in an important change for the United States environmental policy: a new team was set up and the environment protection became a priority. The author then reports the Congressional process for this policy, first through the House of Representatives, and then the Senate. He highlights the differences between agendas of firms and of environment protection organisations, and between that of the Copenhagen conference and that of the US government

Mapping the Obama administration's response to the Arab Spring

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Maria do Céu de Pinho Ferreira Pinto

2012-12-01

Full Text Available When the Arab Spring broke out, the United States was in a quandary over how to handle the crisis in its attempt to balance its moral obligations and ideals without undercutting its strategic interests and those of its close allies. Flaws in US diplomatic approach have contributed to one of the most serious foreign policy crisis for a US administration to date with consequential upheaval and erosion of the US-built balance of power. The reactions and policy responses of the Obama administration highlight the difficulties in grasping with the new reality in the Middle East and in enunciating a policy platform that could combine American interests and values.

From “Strategic Partnership” to “Model Partnership”: AKP, Turkish-US Relation and the Prospects under Obama

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Ahmet K. Han

2010-05-01

Full Text Available Este artículo analiza las relaciones Turquía-EEUU desde una perspectiva estratégica. Destaca primero, los elementos de continuidad en la política exterior de los EEUU bajo los presidentes Clinton, Bush hijo y Obama. A continuación considera el "cambio" en la política exterior turca bajo el AKP desde el 2002. Ve la guerra de Irak como un punto de inflexión en el fin de la asociación estratégica, mientras que los desarrollos ulteriores representarían la vía hacia la formación de lo que Obama denominaría como una "Asociación Modelo". Se sostiene que los factores más determinantes de la relación proceden por parte de los EEUU de una preocupación por asuntos de seguridad, mientras que para el AKP, sirven a su política de "equilibrio múltiple". El artículo cuestiona el contenido de la "Asociación Modelo", así como los riesgos a que se enfrentan la sostenibilidad y el contexto de las relaciones Turquía-EEUU, que han sido tradicionalmente una pieza básica de la política exterior turca, en medio de los debates domésticos de Turquía, las dinámicas regionales y los desafíos a la Administración Obama.

Energy provision under Obama administration

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Gale, J. [IEA Greenhouse Gas R & D Programme, Cheltenham (United Kingdom)

2009-03-15

The new bill before the Senate, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, allows for an additional amount for 'Fossil Energy Research and Development' of $4.6 billion, to be available until 30 September 2010 and that $2 billion of that is available for one or more near zero emissions power plant(s). Two further provisions allow for an additional $1 billion for the Department's Clean Coal Power Initiative Round III and a further $1.5 billion for a competitive solicitations for projects that demonstrate carbon capture from industrial sources. Awards for such projects may include plant efficiency improvements for integration with carbon capture technology. The press seems to be divided whether this money will help revive the FutureGen project. The financial commitment should help the G8 achieve its objective of seeing 20 CCS demonstration projects around the world by 2020. An economic stimulus package proposed by the incoming Barack Obama administration include $150 billion to be spent over 10 years to spur next generation biofuels, plug in hybrid vehicles, a new digital electrical grid and new low emission coal plants. The proposal is intended to create jobs and address critical infrastructure in the US.

When journalists say what a candidate doesn't: race, nation and the 2008 Obama presidential campaign

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Sheets, P.; Rowling, C.M.

2015-01-01

Research indicates that U.S. news coverage of non-White political candidates tends to be race-focused and often prompts White voters to bring racial considerations to the polls. Indeed, racial considerations likely cost Barack Obama a significant percentage of White voters in the 2008 presidential

Mapping the Obama administration's response to the Arab Spring A evolução da resposta da Administração Obama à Primavera Árabe

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Maria do Céu de Pinho Ferreira Pinto

2012-12-01

Full Text Available When the Arab Spring broke out, the United States was in a quandary over how to handle the crisis in its attempt to balance its moral obligations and ideals without undercutting its strategic interests and those of its close allies. Flaws in US diplomatic approach have contributed to one of the most serious foreign policy crisis for a US administration to date with consequential upheaval and erosion of the US-built balance of power. The reactions and policy responses of the Obama administration highlight the difficulties in grasping with the new reality in the Middle East and in enunciating a policy platform that could combine American interests and values.Quando a Primavera Árabe eclodiu, os Estados Unidos ficaram num dilema sobre como lidar com a crise tentando equilibrar as suas obrigações morais e os ideais sem fragilizar os seus interesses estratégicos e aqueles dos seus aliados mais próximos. A indecisão e as contradições na abordagem diplomática dos EUA contribuíram para avolumar uma das mais graves crises de política externa dos EUA, pondo em perigo a balança de poder que os EUA criaram na região. A reação e a resposta política da administração Obama põe em destaque a dificuldade de Washington em lidar com a nova realidade no Oriente Médio e em enunciar uma plataforma política que possa conciliar os interesses e os valores americanos.

Citizen Diplomacy-New US Public Diplomacy Strategy in the Middle East under the Obama Administration

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YU Zhaohui

2015-01-01

In the information and digital era,the international situation is becoming increasingly complicated.The construction of international relations and national image depends more on people-to-people diplomacy.During the Obama Administration,the Administration recognized the central role of public diplomacy as a tool and an essential element of the 21st century statecraft.US public diplomacy and public affairs faces the five strategic tasks:to pro-actively shape global narratives,expand and strengthen people-to-peoplerelationships,counter violent extremism and better inform policy-making as well as redeploy resources in strategic alignment with shifting priorities.It presents new features under the guidance of the perfect mechanism,such as using digital methods and social media as the core to communicate,adjusting information transmission and message control,emphasizing the inter-departmental coordination,attaching great importance to the youth and women's groups and optimizing the evaluation mechanism.This article summarizes and analyzes the striking features of public diplomacy under Obama's administration,focusing on citizen diplomacy operations in the Middle East,thus putting forth a worthy reference for the further study of China's public diplomacy.

The Obama Doctrine - U.S. Strategic Retrenchment and its Consequences

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Micha Woźniak

2015-12-01

Full Text Available In this article the author writes about the features of a strategy of retrenchment and how it can be applied to the analysis of the foreign policy of the United States during the presidency of Barack Obama. Many of the decisions made by the United States in the international arena resulted from a desire to limit involvement in world affairs, to reduce military spending, and to persuade allies to take a greater responsibility for their own security. Such a policy was motivated by strengthening the weakened position of the USA, but it also contributed to the growth of chaos in the world.

The Evolution of Missile Defense Plan from Bush to Obama. Implications for the National Security of Romania

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Ruxandra-Laura BOSILCA

2012-06-01

Full Text Available In 2011 Romania officially became part of the Obama administration’s missile defense system in Europe which has significantly changed the strategic military relations both in Europe and worldwide. The Bush approach has been revised and progress in several sections has been achieved, both strategically and technically. For Romania, the participation in the missile defence plan, ensures more solid security guarantees, especially in an unpredictable and risk-prone international environment where the U.S. reconsiders its presence in Europe under the pressure of the economic crisis and of a relative decline in power; it has also become a more visible actor – alongside Bulgaria – which were initially excluded by the Bush missile defence plan. This paper’s purpose is to review the main evolutions of the missile defense plan from the Bush to the Obama administration and to outline its implications on the national security of Romania.

Re-Seeing Race in a Post-Obama Age: Asian American Studies, Comparative Ethnic Studies, and Intersectional Pedagogies

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Schlund-Vials, Cathy J.

2011-01-01

Focused on comparative ethnic studies and intersectionality, the author commences with a discussion about Barack Obama's historic inauguration and the Asian American literature classroom. This essay argues that courses, programs, and departments focused on ethnicity, race, gender, class, and sexuality remain important precisely because they…

Key Questions on the Obama Administration's 2013 Education Budget Request: Federal Education Budget Project. Issue Brief

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New America Foundation, 2012

2012-01-01

President Barack Obama submitted his third budget request to Congress on February 13th, 2012. The budget request includes proposed funding levels for all federal programs and agencies in aggregate for the upcoming 10 fiscal years, and specific fiscal year 2013 funding levels for programs subject to the annual appropriations process. It is…

Barack Obama and His-Story : Paradox of Hybridity and Masculinity in His Autoandrography

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瀬名波, 栄潤

2008-01-01

This essay, a revision of an oral presentation at NASSS, examines Barack Hussein Obama's 1995 autobiography Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance from literary perspectives as the text introduces not only a postmodern bildungsroman hero of hybridity but the author's paradoxical obsession to paternal heritage. As a result, his autoandrography, a life writing of a man about himself and by himself, represents a familiar story of a man who is trapped by the myth of masculinity. T...

Assessing the Debt: George W. Bush's Legacy and the Future of Public Education under Barack Obama

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Means, Alex; Taylor, Kendall

2010-01-01

This article utilizes Gloria Ladson-Billings' notion of educational debt in order to explore the historical, economic, and cultural politics of education reform under George W. Bush and Barack Obama. It tracks the No Child Left Behind Act across a number of fields in order to claim that Bush's expansion of the educational debt should be understood…

A Semantic-Cognitive Analysis of the Concept of Ukraine in the Speeches of B. Obama (2014

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Anatoliy Oleksiyovych Khudoliy

2016-12-01

Full Text Available A Semantic-Cognitive Analysis of the Concept of Ukraine in the Speeches of B. Obama (2014 This article presents a semantic-cognitive analysis of the concept of Ukraine, verbally represented in the speeches of the American President, Barack Obama. The peculiarities of the President’s worldview are highlighted. The objective of the article is as follows. Firstly, it aims to demonstrate that the concept of Ukraine is verbally represented in the speeches of Obama. This means that Ukraine as a country, moving towards democracy despite the war with Russia, is an object of focus for American leaders. Secondly, the article suggests that there is a connection between the concept described, its pragmatic orientation and its cognitive processes. Thirdly, it describes the semantic peculiarities of the concept of Ukraine in the political speeches of the American leader, which are due to the role Ukraine plays in the local and regional context. Our research is based on the content-analysis of political speeches delivered by American President. The functional, communicative and pragmatic orientation of the speeches is highlighted. In line with the approaches of cognitive scholars, the article concludes that the concept of Ukraine is a complex semantic-cognitive structure that consists of core, transition zone and periphery. During the research for this article, fifteen speeches made by Obama in 2014 were analysed. This research presupposes the application of content analysis. It is relevant in the analysis of international relations with respect to the notions used by President Obama in his speeches delivered during 2014 in the relations between: the USA - Ukraine, Ukraine - Russia, the USA - Russia, and Europe - Ukraine.   Semantyczno-kognitywna analiza konceptu „Ukraina” w przemówieniach B. Obamy (2014 Artykuł przedstawia semantyczno-kognitywną analizę konceptu „Ukraina”, werbalnie zaprezentowanego w przemówieniach amerykańskiego prezydenta

Attitudes toward blacks in the Obama era changing distributions and impacts on job approval and electoral choice, 2008-2012

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Pasek, Josh; Stark, Tobias; Krosnick, Jon A.; Tompson, Trevor; Payne, B. Keith

2014-01-01

Much published research indicates that voting behavior in the 2008 presidential election and evaluations of Barack Obama were importantly influenced by anti-Black sentiment. Various psychological theories made opposing predictions as to whether exposure to the first Black president during his first

Continuing Inequity through Neoliberalism: The Conveyance of White Dominance in the Educational Policy Speeches of President Barack Obama

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Hairston, Thomas W.

2013-01-01

The purpose of this critical discourse analysis is to examine how the political speeches and statements of President Barack Obama knowingly or unknowingly continue practices and policies of White privilege within educational policy and practice by constructing education in a neoliberal frame. With presidents having the ability to communicate…

Outbreak or Epidemic? How Obama's Language Choice Transformed the Ebola Outbreak Into an Epidemic.

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Gesser-Edelsburg, Anat; Shir-Raz, Yaffa; Bar-Lev, Oshrat Sassoni; James, James J; Green, Manfred S

2016-08-01

Our aim was to examine in what terms leading newspapers' online sites described the current Ebola crisis. We employed a quantitative content analysis of terms attributed to Ebola. We found and analyzed 582 articles published between March 23 and September 30, 2014, on the online websites of 3 newspapers: The New York Times, Daily Mail, and Ynet. Our theoretical framework drew from the fields of health communication and emerging infectious disease communication, including such concepts as framing media literacy, risk signatures, and mental models. We found that outbreak and epidemic were used interchangeably in the articles. From September 16, 2014, onward, epidemic predominated, corresponding to when President Barack Obama explicitly referred to Ebola as an epidemic. Prior to Obama's speech, 86.8% of the articles (323) used the term outbreak and only 8.6% (32) used the term epidemic. Subsequently, both terms were used almost the same amount: 53.8% of the articles (113) used the term outbreak and 53.3% (112) used the term epidemic. Effective communication is crucial during public health emergencies such as Ebola, because language framing affects the decision-making process of social judgments and actions. The choice of one term (outbreak) over another (epidemic) can create different conceptualizations of the disease, thereby influencing the risk signature. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2016;10:669-673).

Retorika Barack Hussein Obama Dan Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono Dalam Menanggapi Isu Isis Di Dunia

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2015-07-01

Full Text Available This research discuss about the rhetoric performed by Barack Hussein Obama as President of the United States and Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono as President of the Republic of Indonesia in delivering feedback over the ISIS issue that circulating around the world. ISIS is an organization who commit acts of terrorism in the name of Islam. The United States is known as ‘anti-Islam’ country’s, while Indonesia has the largest Muslim population in the world. Therefore, author used Roland Barthes semiotic to reveal differences in this two figures seen from their rhetoric of verbal and non-verbal language. Thus, we can reveal how this two figures performed their rhetoric over the ISIS issue that conveyed to the international community. Penelitian ini membahas mengenai retorika yang dilakukan oleh Barack Hussein Obama selaku Presiden Amerika Serikat dan Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono selaku Presiden Republik Indonesia dalam memberikan tanggapan mengenai isu ISIS yang beredar di dunia. ISIS merupakan sebuah organisasi yang melakukan tindakan terorisme dengan mengatasnamakan Islam. Amerika Serikat merupakan negara yang dikenal sebagai negara ‘anti Islam’, sedangkan Indonesia merupakan negara dengan penduduk muslim terbanyak di dunia. Oleh karena itu, penulis menggunakan semiotik Roland Barthes untuk mengungkapkan perbedaan retorika kedua tokoh dilihat dari bahasa verbal dan non verbalnya. Dengan demikian, dapat terlihat seperti apa retorika yang dilakukan oleh kedua tokoh yang ingin disampaikan kepada masyarakat internasional terkait isu ISIS.

Prediction of Audience Response from Spoken Sequences, Speech Pauses and Co-speech Gestures in Humorous Discourse by Barack Obama

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Navarretta, Costanza

2017-01-01

president mocks himself, his collaborators, political adversary and the press corps making the audience react with cheers, laughter and/or applause. The results of the prediction experiment demonstrate that information about spoken sequences, pauses and co-speech gestures by Obama can be used to predict...

Violencia política en el sur de Chile : la Alianza Territorial Mapuche Pü Löf Xawün y el Estado chileno en el gobierno de Michelle Bachelet.

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Donoso Jiménez, Javiera

2011-01-01

Con el advenimiento Michelle Bachelet al Palacio de La Moneda, segundo gobierno socialista postdictadura, se creyó que la democracia chilena había llegado a su consolidación democrática. Sin embargo, esta nueva democracia no contempló ni implicó necesariamente la disminución de la violencia política estatal sobre la sociedad civil tanto en el ámbito estructural, como simbólico y represivo. Lo anterior se comprueba al observar la evolución del conflicto entre el Estado chileno y el pueblo M...

Segurança nacional e liberdades civis nos Estados Unidos: Obama e a opção pela segurança

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Cláudio Júnior Damin

2013-10-01

Full Text Available O artigo analisa, à luz da experiência histórica dos EUA, as recentes denúncias de vigilância do Estado em relação aos indivíduos no governo de Barack Obama. Aborda-se a tensão entre segurança nacional e liberdades civis e como o democrata faz uma opção pela segurança, repetindo o padrão de presidentes anteriores.   The article examines, in the light of the historical experience of the U.S., recent reportsof state surveillance in relation to individuals in the government of Barack Obama. Addresses the tension between national security and civil liberties and how the Democrat did an option for safety, repeating the pattern of previous presidents.

Participatory and Social Media to Engage Youth: From the Obama Campaign to Public Health Practice

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Goodman, Jordi; Wennerstrom, Ashley; Springgate, Benjamin F.

2011-01-01

Barack Obama’s successful campaign for the presidency has been widely attributed to the use of social networking sites, mobile devices, and interactive websites to engage previously hard-to-reach populations in political activity. Campaign communication strategies may be applicable for youth health promotion efforts, particularly for the highly stigmatized issue of mental health. In this article, we examine elements of the 2008 Obama presidential campaign’s use of social media technologies an...

Obama and the "Arab Spring": Desire, Hope and the Manufacture of Disappointment. Implications for a Transformative Pedagogy

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Roberts, Lorna; Schostak, John

2012-01-01

For a period, in the run up to the election (2007-2008) and the months after the election, the name "Obama" signified hope for millions, not just in America but across the world. As the hope turned to disappointment, the financial crisis deepened and the Arab Spring renewed a call for a "humanity" that could transcend the differences of nations…

Fake News and Indifference to Truth : Dissecting Tweets and State of the Union Addresses by Presidents Obama and Trump

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D.E. Allen (David); M.J. McAleer (Michael); D. McHardy Reid (David)

2018-01-01

textabstractState of the Union Addresses (SOUA) by two recent US Presidents, President Obama (2016) and President Trump (2018), and a series of recent of tweets by President Trump, are analysed by means of the data mining technique, sentiment analysis. The intention is to explore the contents and

Potential Beneficiaries of the Obama Administration’s Executive Action Programs Deeply Embedded in US Society

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Donald Kerwin; Robert Warren

2016-01-01

The Obama administration has developed two broad programs to defer immigration enforcement actions against undocumented persons living in the United States: (1) Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA); and (2) Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). The DACA program, which began in August 2012, was expanded on November 20, 2014. DAPA and the DACA expansion (hereinafter referred to as “DACA-plus”) are currently under review by the US Supreme Court ...

The Decline in For-Profit Higher Education during the Obama Administration and Its Prospects in the Trump Presidency

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Castagnera, James Ottavio

2017-01-01

The fortunes of the for-profit higher education industry rise and fall with the political tides in the United States. During the 8 years of the George W Bush Administration (Republican), the for-profit sector of US higher education prospered. The following two terms of the Obama Administration (Democrat) resulted in the loss of all the ground…

Social Class and Party Identification During the Clinton, Bush, and Obama Presidencies

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Stephen L. Morgan

2017-08-01

Full Text Available Through an analysis of the 1994 through 2016 General Social Surveys, this article demonstrates that a substantial proportion of eligible voters within the working class turned away from solid identification with either the Democratic Party or the Republican Party during the Obama presidency. Even before the 2016 election cycle commenced, conditions were uncharacteristically propitious for a Republican candidate who could appeal to prospective voters in the working class, especially those who had not voted in recent presidential elections but could be mobilized to vote. These findings support the contested position that variation in party identification is a genuine leading indicator of electoral outcomes and perhaps also, in this case, of party realignment.

Obama, McCain e as “Não-Questões”: o Doméstico e o Internacional

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Cristina Soreanu Pecequilo

2008-07-01

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“Planting these plants is special because they have been shared with us by the White House”

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Kjær, Katrine Meldgaard

2017-01-01

This article presents a critical reading of American Grown, a cookbook/how-to gardening book published by Michelle Obama in 2012. The article argues that while American Grown may at first glance seem like a coffee table-style book about the 2010 planting of the White House kitchen garden, it should...... in fact be read as a piece of public health communication and a gastrogovernmental text born out of social panic over the contemporary obesity epidemic. Using insights from cultural food studies and critical obesity studies, the article presents the concept of gastrogovernmentality as an analytical tool...... to argue that the kitchen garden in American Grown acts as a public-personal space of social regulation, where certain types of social identities and behaviors are promoted as the “solution” to the obesity epidemic....

Fathers of the Nation: Barack Obama Addresses Nelson Mandela

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Elisa Bordin

2014-11-01

Full Text Available This essay analyzes Barack Obama’s Nelson Mandela Memorial speech together with other seminal texts of Obama’s political and personal creed, such as his book Dreams from My Father (1995 and his speech “A More Perfect Union” (2008. This reading becomes helpful to understand Mandela’s transnational power, which Obama uses to comment on the United States by comparing Madiba to other American “fathers of the nation.” Thus, he uproots Mandela’s from a specifically South African legacy, expands his figure, and addresses him as a transnational father of his own nation, whose power, influence, and example transcend South African borders. As a consequence of this enlargement and transnational validation of Mandela’s figure, the speech delivered at the Memorial becomes an occasion to tackle American past and future, while the memory of Madiba and his driving example in Obama’s life serve to reinforce previous positions conveyed in other discourses by the American President, such as the “A More Perfect Union” speech delivered in Philadelphia in 2008.

Warren, McCain, and Obama Needed Fuzzy Sets at Presidential Forum

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Ashu M. G. Solo

2012-01-01

Full Text Available During a presidential forum in the 2008 US presidential campaign, the moderator, Pastor Rick Warren, wanted Senator John McCain and then-Senator Barack Obama to define rich with a specific number. Warren wanted to know at what specific income level a person goes from being not rich to rich. The problem with this question is that there is no specific income at which a person makes the leap from being not rich to being rich. This is because rich is a fuzzy set, not a crisp set, with different incomes having different degrees of membership in the rich fuzzy set. Fuzzy logic is needed to properly ask and answer Warren's question about quantitatively defining rich. An imprecise natural language word like rich should be considered to have qualitative definitions, crisp quantitative definitions, and fuzzy quantitative definitions.

Spin masters how the media ignored the real news and helped reelect Barack Obama

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Freddoso, David

2013-01-01

The biggest story of the election was how the media ignored the biggest story of the election.Amid all the breathless coverage of a non-existent War on Women, there was little or no coverage of Obama's war on the economy?how, for instance, part-time work is replacing full-time work; how low-wage jobs are replacing high-wage ones; how for Americans between the ages of 25 and 54 there are fewer jobs today than there were when the recession officially ended in 2009, and fewer, in fact, than at any time since mid-1997.The downsizing of the American economy wasn't the only stor

President-elect Obama and nuclear disarmament between elimination and restraint

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Walker, W.

2009-01-01

In the now famous articles of January 2007 and 2008 in the Wall Street Journal, the 'Gang of Four' former US statesmen called on governments to rid the world of nuclear weapons. Their intervention has been followed in the United States by a flurry of conferences and publications on nuclear disarmament, with esteemed organizations such as the Federation of American Scientists, Stanford and Princeton Universities, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Stimson Center and the Arms Control Association entering the fray. The force of their ideas became evident when presidential candidates from both the Democratic and Republican Parties felt obliged to issue statements lending at least some support to the Gang of Four and its aspirations. The calls on the next administration to lead the way towards a 'world free of nuclear weapons' mark the emergence of a significant political movement in the United States. Achieving such a world is not just the fancy of groups of idealists that have marginal influence in US politics. Nor is the attention that nuclear disarmament is now receiving primarily a response to longstanding international pressures on the US and other nuclear weapon states to engage with the issue. It is coming from within - from the judgements of an increasingly influential elite on where US and international interests now lie. Although this elite has its critics, it is currently in the ascendant. The pursuit of nuclear disarmament by the US government has been given a blessing of sorts in President-elect Obama's statement that: 'As long as nuclear weapons exist, we will retain a strong deterrent. But we'll make the goal of eliminating all nuclear weapons a central element in our nuclear policy'. There is obvious caution in these words. They imply that the US is unlikely to take radical, unilateral steps to disarm, and that any embrace of nuclear disarmament will have to be collective. They also seem designed to appeal to a broad range of opinion

Barack Obama – the new charismatic political actor - a discourse analysis

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Ada-Maria Țîrlea

2016-09-01

Full Text Available The American president, Barack Obama, is considered to be one of the most charismatic figures of the 21st century. His speeches are the best asset through which he emphasizes this quality. Although, he hasn’t always been considered to be a successful politician, he made his entrance on the political arena in 2004, when he delivered one of his best speeches. The aim of this paper is to reveal the most important elements of a political discourse that can contribute to creating a good image of a political actor. Using the critical discourse analysis method, we are trying to see if there is a connection between a good, coherent discourse strategy and the charisma of the American leader. The sample will include his 2004 speech, delivered at the Democrats’ Convention, the speech that put him in the eyes of the media as a future American leader.

Mitos y símbolos en la campaña de Barack Obama

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AracelI Soní-Soto

2011-01-01

Full Text Available El uso de las redes sociales en Internet desempeñó un papel fundamental en el triunfo electoral de Barack Obama en las últimas elecciones norteamericanas. El análisis de este fenómeno proporciona la pauta para visualizar su incidencia en la transformación cultural y política de la sociedad en la medida que propició una amplia participación ciudadana, coherente con los ideales democráticos. Sin embargo, el éxito de la contienda no se puede atribuir exclusivamente al uso de los medios, sino a la confluencia entre estos y la significación de los mensajes, cuyo arraigo se encuentra en los mitos de origen y en sus representaciones simbólicas.

President Obama visiidi eduka kommunikatsiooni tagas põhjalik ettevalmistus / Mariann Sudakov, Tiina Ansip, Ainar Ruussaar ...[jt.] ; intervjueerinud Kertu Kärk

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2014-01-01

Eestit 3. septembril 2014 külastanud USA president Barack Obama visiidi kommunikatsioonist ja planeerimisest räägivad välisministeeriumi pressiosakonna nimel pressispetsialist Mariann Sudakov, valitsuse kommunikatsioonibüroo esindaja, valitsuse meedianõunik valitsuskommunikatsiooni direktori ülesannetes Tiina Ansip, ERR-i juhatuse liige ja ajakirjanik Ainar Ruussaar, Vabariigi Presidendi avalike suhete nõunik Toomas Sildam ning USA saatkonna pressi- ja kultuuriatašee Bradley Hurst

The evil that men do-an open letter to President Obama

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Robbins RA

2016-05-01

Full Text Available No abstract available. Article truncated after 150 words. "The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones". William Shakespeare. Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene 2. Dear President Obama: Late in a second term, a President's attention often turns to framing their legacy. I suspect you are no exception and have given this considerable thought. You might wish to be remembered for the Affordable Care Act, even called Obamacare, which brought the US closer to universal healthcare coverage. However, I recall the end of President Clinton's second term a short 16 years ago. During that administration the Federal coffers were full; an unprecedented business boom occurred; and foreign entanglements that might have led to war were avoided. However, most of us do not remember those positives, but recall a White House intern and a certain blue dress. As pointed out by Shakespeare over 400 years ago powerful men are remembered not so ...

Changing foreign policy: the Obama Administration’s decision to oust Mubarak

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Maria do Céu Pinto Arena

2017-11-01

Full Text Available Abstract This paper analyses the decision of the Obama administration to redirect its foreign policy towards Egypt in the wake of the Arab Spring. It attempts to highlight the issue of how governments deal with decision-making at times of crisis, and under which circumstances they take critical decisions that lead to major shifts in their foreign policy track record. It focuses on the process that led to a reassessment of US (United States foreign policy, shifting from decades of support to the autocratic regime of Hosni Mubarak, towards backing his ouster. Specifically, the paper attempts to assess to what extent the decision to withdraw US support from a longstanding state-leader and ally in the Middle East can be seen as a foreign policy change (FPC. A relevant research question this paper pursues is: how can the withdrawal of US support to a regime considered as an ally be considered, in itself, as a radical FPC?

Los Estados Unidos de Obama: entre el idealismo y el regreso al containment sin enemigo global

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Ricardo García Duarte

2009-11-01

Full Text Available El ascenso de Obama al poder representaba, sin duda, un cambio radical en relación con la política internacional desplegada por el presidente George W. Bush y su doctrina sobre la guerra preventiva. En una perspectiva de más largo plazo podría, además, significar un giro hacia el idealismo después de un largo período de predominio del realismo, muy intensamente desarrollado durante la guerra fría, mediante la doctrina del containment. La prevalencia de la diplomacia y la restitución del

President-elect Obama and nuclear disarmament between elimination and restraint

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Walker, W.

2009-07-01

In the now famous articles of January 2007 and 2008 in the Wall Street Journal, the 'Gang of Four' former US statesmen called on governments to rid the world of nuclear weapons. Their intervention has been followed in the United States by a flurry of conferences and publications on nuclear disarmament, with esteemed organizations such as the Federation of American Scientists, Stanford and Princeton Universities, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Stimson Center and the Arms Control Association entering the fray. The force of their ideas became evident when presidential candidates from both the Democratic and Republican Parties felt obliged to issue statements lending at least some support to the Gang of Four and its aspirations. The calls on the next administration to lead the way towards a 'world free of nuclear weapons' mark the emergence of a significant political movement in the United States. Achieving such a world is not just the fancy of groups of idealists that have marginal influence in US politics. Nor is the attention that nuclear disarmament is now receiving primarily a response to longstanding international pressures on the US and other nuclear weapon states to engage with the issue. It is coming from within - from the judgements of an increasingly influential elite on where US and international interests now lie. Although this elite has its critics, it is currently in the ascendant. The pursuit of nuclear disarmament by the US government has been given a blessing of sorts in President-elect Obama's statement that: 'As long as nuclear weapons exist, we will retain a strong deterrent. But we'll make the goal of eliminating all nuclear weapons a central element in our nuclear policy'. There is obvious caution in these words. They imply that the US is unlikely to take radical, unilateral steps to disarm, and that any embrace of nuclear disarmament will have to be collective. They also seem designed

A positive psychology to cope with radicalisation and terrorism? A case study of the speech by Barack Obama at Cairo

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Manuel Moyano

2016-12-01

Full Text Available Since the September 11 terrorist attacks, coping with radicalisation and jihadist terrorism has been at the forefront of the domestic and foreign policy agendas in Western societies. During this time, the influence that political leaders can exert in their interaction with institutions, citizens, and terrorist organizations has been demonstrated. We present a case study of the speech by Barak Obama on June 4, 2009 at the University of Cairo (“A New Beginning”. Its content and internal structure is analysed using the classification of virtues and strengths defined by Peterson and Seligman (2004 as a theoretical and conceptual reference within the framework of positive psychology. This speech marked a turning point in the relationship between the USA and the Arab-Muslim world and could be considered to be a genuine exercise in positive communication. Its implications are yet to be determined, because it continues to exert an influence on the Obama administration’s domestic and foreign policy. In a globalized and networking world in which risks and adversities require innovative responses, more than ever we suggest that social communication capable of promoting virtues and strengths associated with optimism, hope, confidence, strength, or vitality is needed more than ever.

Behavior of Machine Learning Algorithms in Adversarial Environments

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2010-11-23

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Barack Obama, John Lewis, and the Legacy of the Civil Rights Struggle

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Glenn T. Eskew

2012-01-01

Full Text Available The watershed election in 2008 of Barack Obama as the first President of the United States to have African ancestry resulted from the life work of such civil rights activists as U.S. Congressman John Lewis. Born on a sharecropper’s farm in 1940, the African American Lewis grew up in segregated Alabama. As a college student in Nashville, he joined the sit-in protests and volunteered for the original Freedom Ride in 1961. He was elected chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, becoming the youngest speaker at the March on Washington in 1963. The radical shift to Black ultimately forced Lewis out of SNCC. Consequently Lewis capitalized on the Voting Rights Act of 1965, turned his attentions to voter registration campaigns, and continued working within the system. In 1986 he won election to the U.S. House of Representatives to represent Atlanta’s Fifth Congressional District, a seat he continues to hold today.

"Let's Move" campaign: applying the extended parallel process model.

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Batchelder, Alicia; Matusitz, Jonathan

2014-01-01

This article examines Michelle Obama's health campaign, "Let's Move," through the lens of the extended parallel process model (EPPM). "Let's Move" aims to reduce the childhood obesity epidemic in the United States. Developed by Kim Witte, EPPM rests on the premise that people's attitudes can be changed when fear is exploited as a factor of persuasion. Fear appeals work best (a) when a person feels a concern about the issue or situation, and (b) when he or she believes to have the capability of dealing with that issue or situation. Overall, the analysis found that "Let's Move" is based on past health campaigns that have been successful. An important element of the campaign is the use of fear appeals (as it is postulated by EPPM). For example, part of the campaign's strategies is to explain the severity of the diseases associated with obesity. By looking at the steps of EPPM, readers can also understand the strengths and weaknesses of "Let's Move."

México-Estados Unidos: problemas y retos en seguridad fronteriza en la Administración Obama

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José María Ramos García

2012-01-01

Full Text Available En este artículo se examinarán los principales problemas y retos en materia de seguridad fronteriza entre México y Estados Unidos, en la Administración del presidente Barack Obama, así como la coyuntura de inseguridad en las fronteras con México y su dilación, también se cuestionará la legitimidad gubernamental local, institucional. La premisa central es que las relaciones entre los dos países se han caracterizado por tensiones y conflictos, que reflejan la falta de impulso de procesos de gestión y planeación estratégica orientados a fortalecer la seguridad y la calidad de vida de las comunidades fronterizas mexicanas.

Normalization of US-Cuban Relations: Obama Doctrine and International Security in the Western Hemisphere

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Piotr Łaciński

2015-12-01

Full Text Available Strained relations between the US and Cuba after the victory of the Cuban revolution were a permanent element of the destabilization of international security in the Western Hemisphere. During the Cold War, this destabilization was a function of the East-West confrontation. Since the end of Cold War the importance of Cuba as a Western Hemisphere entity hostile to the United States has diminished radically. Definite steps to normalize relations with Cuba have been taken only in 2014. The media named the change of policies of the US towards Cuba (and Iran as the Obama Doctrine. This article will try to prove that the continuation of the confron-tational and hostile US-Cuban relations after the collapse of the Eastern bloc was an exceptional and "unnatural" phenomenon from the perspective of realistic school of international relations, both for Washington and Havana.

¿Una estrategia coherente para una región en cambio? La política exterior de la administración Obama y la Primavera Árabe

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Juan Tovar

2014-10-01

Full Text Available La política exterior de la Administración Obama se vio claramente marcada por los procesos de cambios producidos en el Próximo Oriente como consecuencia de la denominada Primavera Árabe. A la discusión previa existente sobre la existencia o no de una doctrina Obama se ha añadido el debate sobre cual puede ser su estrategia hacia una región que se ha convertido en el principal campo de batalla de los grupos ideológicos de la política exterior estadounidense: realistas, neoconservadores y liberales intervencionistas. La necesidad de equilibrar los intereses estratégicos y de seguridad estadounidenses con la promoción de valores como la democracia y los derechos humanos parece haber dado paso a un regreso a una estrategia realista, de intervención limitada, fundamentada en intereses estratégicos clave y en soluciones diferenciadas para diferentes contextos. La situación actual en escenarios como Siria o Irak, con todo, marcan importantes incertidumbres que deberán ser afrontadas a corto plazo.

Woods, Michelle. Kafka translated. How translators have shaped our reading of Kafka. London, New Delhi, New York, Sydney: Bloomsbury, 2014, 283 p

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Susana Kampff Lages

2017-09-01

Full Text Available A resenha procura apresentar os principais aspectos do livro da professora Michelle Woods a respeito da tradução e recepção da obra kafkiana em língua inglesa. Em seu primeiro e mais extenso capítulo, a autora analisa quatro traduções que considera exemplares, focalizando as primeiras tradutoras de Kafka, Milena Jesenská e Willa Muir, e a perspectiva de dois tradutores contemporâneos. Em suas análises dá destaque para aspectos de gênero e questões ligadas a transnacionalidade e culturas minoritárias dentro do espectro cultural de língua inglesa. Nos capítulos subsequentes, comenta a presença de questões de tradução no interior da própria obra kafkiana, algumas adaptações fílmicas de sua obra (as de Wells, Haneke, Soderbergh, Fellini e uma produção escocesa, menos conhecida, de Capaldi e realiza, no capítulo final, uma interpretação da última narrativa kafkiana, destacando a preocupação de Kafka com aspectos sonoros e musicais como parte de seu questionamento permanente da comunicação humana, de seus limites e de seu precário mas central instrumento, a linguagem verbal e sua manifestação nas diferentes línguas e culturas.

Os acordes de Yes we can do vídeo da campanha presidencial de Barak Obama The Yes we can chords

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Philip Tagg

2010-12-01

Full Text Available Estudo sobre o loop de quatro acordes ║: Sol Maior - Si Maior - Mi Menor - Dó Maior :║ na canção Yes we can [Sim, nós podemos] do vídeo de Will.i.am (ADAMS, 2008 lançado durante a campanha presidencial de Barack Obama nos Estados Unidos. A partir da identificação de IOCMs (Materiais Interobjetivos de Comparação e PMFCs (Campos Paramusicais Conotativos da análise musemática (TAGG, 2009, compara-se Yes we can com materiais harmônicos, melódicos, rítmicos, de instrumentação e de letras de canções populares da tradição afro-britânico-americana, levando-se também em consideração as atitudes de relevantes compositores e intérpretes populares social e politicamente engajados.Study of the four-chord loop ║: G - B - Em - C :║ in the song Yes We Can from the video by Will.i.am (ADAMS, 2008 released during the 2008 US presidential campaign of Barack Obama. Departing from IOCM and PMFC identification of the musematic analysis (TAGG, 2009, Yes We Can is compared to harmony, melody, rhythm, instrumentation and lyrics found in iconic popular songs of the Afro-Bristish-American tradition, also taking into consideration the attitudes of relevant composers and performers engaged in social and political issues.

Sea Change: US Climate Policy Prospects under the Obama Administration

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Roman, Mikael [Stockholm Environment Institute, Stockholm (Sweden); Carson, Marcus [Dept. of Sociology, Stockholm Univ., Stockholm (Sweden)

2009-03-15

This report has been produced for the Swedish Government's Sustainability Commission in preparation for the Swedish EU Presidency during the second half of 2009, and consequent Swedish leadership of the EU delegation in the COP-15 negotiations in Copenhagen. The central task of the report is to provide an overview of the key factors that will condition the near-term development of United States climate policy, with a view to the eventual likelihood of the US signing and ratifying a new global agreement in the upcoming negotiations on climate change. While we take note of the importance of factors external to US politics, such as potential developments in bilateral discussions with China and other major greenhouse gas emitters, our analysis focuses primarily on factors that influence US domestic policy dynamics. To accomplish that task, the subsequent pages address three main questions. First, what are the stated goals and contours of the Obama Administration's policies regarding climate change? Second, what are the opportunities and obstacles connected with realizing this agenda - from negotiating and deciding, then effectively implementing it - and via which pathways of action are we likely to see important initiatives being moved? Finally, what are the implications for the negotiations in Copenhagen and beyond? We conclude by identifying a number of important considerations that should be taken into account in preparations for the Swedish EU Presidency and the climate negotiations in Copenhagen

Sea Change: US Climate Policy Prospects under the Obama Administration

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Roman, Mikael (Stockholm Environment Institute, Stockholm (Sweden)); Carson, Marcus (Dept. of Sociology, Stockholm Univ., Stockholm (Sweden)). e-mail: mikael.roman@sei.se

2009-03-15

This report has been produced for the Swedish Government's Sustainability Commission in preparation for the Swedish EU Presidency during the second half of 2009, and consequent Swedish leadership of the EU delegation in the COP-15 negotiations in Copenhagen. The central task of the report is to provide an overview of the key factors that will condition the near-term development of United States climate policy, with a view to the eventual likelihood of the US signing and ratifying a new global agreement in the upcoming negotiations on climate change. While we take note of the importance of factors external to US politics, such as potential developments in bilateral discussions with China and other major greenhouse gas emitters, our analysis focuses primarily on factors that influence US domestic policy dynamics. To accomplish that task, the subsequent pages address three main questions. First, what are the stated goals and contours of the Obama Administration's policies regarding climate change? Second, what are the opportunities and obstacles connected with realizing this agenda - from negotiating and deciding, then effectively implementing it - and via which pathways of action are we likely to see important initiatives being moved? Finally, what are the implications for the negotiations in Copenhagen and beyond? We conclude by identifying a number of important considerations that should be taken into account in preparations for the Swedish EU Presidency and the climate negotiations in Copenhagen

Energy and climate policies of the USA during the two Barack Obama's terms

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Meritet, Sophie; Monjon, Stephanie

2016-02-01

As Barack Obama, from its first presidential campaign to its second term, supported the development of low carbon energies, the protection of climate and of the environment, the development of renewable energies, but also the development of non conventional fossil resources (during his second term), the authors first propose an analysis of the situation of the USA in terms of energy and of greenhouse gas emissions. They highlight the good situation of energy: USA are the first world producer, natural gas is being developed, coal is still present, and electric power is a centre of attention. The evolution of greenhouse gas emissions is discussed for the electricity sector and for the transport sector. In the next part, the authors discuss the content of the different policies implemented during both terms. These policies can be characterized by a strong support to renewable energies at the federal as well as state level, contrasted choices among states in terms of climate policy, federal initiatives for climate (reduction of CO_2 emissions in electric power plants, reduction of methane emissions, reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in other sectors), and actions on the international scene

Destination memory and deception: when I lie to Barack Obama about the moon.

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Haj, Mohamad El; Saloppé, Xavier; Nandrino, Jean Louis

2018-05-01

This study investigates whether deceivers demonstrate high memory of the person to whom lies have been told (i.e., high destination memory). Participants were asked to tell true information (e.g., the heart is a vital organ) and false information (e.g., the moon is bigger than the sun) to pictures of famous people (e.g., Barack Obama) and, in a subsequent recognition test, they had to remember to whom each type of information had previously been told. Participants were also assessed on a deception scale to divide them into two populations (i.e., those with high vs. those with low deception). Participants with high tendency to deceive demonstrated similar destination memory for both false and true information, whereas those with low deception demonstrated higher destination memory for lies than for true information. Individuals with a high tendency to deceive seem to keep track of the destination of both true information and lies to be consistent in their future social interactions, and thus to avoid discovery of their deception. However, the inconsistency between deceiving and the moral standard of individuals with a low tendency to deceive may result in high destination memory in these individuals.

Yes we can?: A política externa de Obama para a América Latina: da decepção à autonomização da região Yes we can?: Obama's foreign policy towards Latin America: from disappointment to the autonomization of the region

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Sandra Colombo

2012-06-01

Full Text Available Este artigo busca investigar, descrever e refletir sobre o estado atual da política externa dos Estados Unidos para a América Latina, por meio de uma análise descritiva dos itens da agenda e do conteúdo da política externa, considerando a sua implementação em dois níveis de projeção: regional e bilateral (com base nos casos da Venezuela, do Brasil e da Argentina. Os objetivos específicos são entender: primeiro, as razões e a natureza da decepção regional em relação à política hemisférica da administração Obama; e, segundo, como se manifesta e como se reforça o distanciamento político estratégico entre os Estados Unidos e os três países selecionados, em função de fatores como a inércia na política externa, a ausência de uma nova e ativa estratégia diplomática e a autonomia crescente da região.This article seeks to investigate, describe and reflect on the current state of United States foreign policy towards Latin America, through a descriptive analysis of agenda items in two levels: regional and bilateral (based on the cases of Venezuela, Brazil and Argentina. Specifically we seek to account for the reasons and nature of regional disappointment regarding President Barack Obama's hemispheric policy. Second, the article analyzes how the strategic political rift between the United States and the three selected countries manifests itself, in the context of factors such as foreign policy inertia, the absence of an active new diplomatic engagement, and the growing autonomy of the region.

Adorno, Obama, and Empire: Reflections on the U.S. Presidential Election and the Next President

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Lukas Kaelin

2008-12-01

Full Text Available As tempting as it might be, politics is a difficult field for philosophers.Well known are Plato’s and Heidegger’s attempt to influence the political developments of their time, which went badly wrong. Much safer is it to provide an interpretation of current political events, which is the aim of this paper. The paper attempts to philosophically assess the recent U.S. presidential race and to look at some aspects of the underlying beliefs of Barack Obama that aided him in his campaign. The philosophical framework used in order to interpret the political events are mainly from the Critical Theory of Theodor W. Adorno and the neo-Marxist approach of Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri. Further observations will concentrate on the logic and attraction of the electoral process and the dialectical logic of Sarah Palin’s statements. The first part will discuss the form of U.S. electoral politics, especially the perpetual campaign, whereas the second part will put the policiesof the next U.S. president into a philosophical context.

Using group consciousness theories to understand political activism: case studies of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Ingo Hasselbach.

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Duncan, Lauren E

2010-12-01

I describe and integrate several theories of group consciousness and collective action, along with 3 case studies of political activists. I have 2 goals: (1) to use the theories to help us understand something puzzling about each life and (2) to use the cases to complicate and expand the theories. Barack Obama's case raises the question of how someone with a politicized Black identity evolved into a politician working for all oppressed people and complicates racial identity development theory. Hillary Clinton's case raises the question of how a middle-class White girl raised in a conservative family became a prominent Democratic Party politician and complicates group consciousness theories by demonstrating the importance of generation and personality. Ingo Hasselbach's (a former German neo-Nazi leader) case illustrates relative deprivation theory and raises the question of whether theories developed to explain subordinate group consciousness can be applied to movements of dominant group consciousness. © 2010 The Author. Journal of Personality © 2010, Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Dissuasão, redução de armas nucleares e defesas antimísseis nos governos Bush e Obama

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Diego Santos Vieira de Jesus

2013-12-01

Full Text Available O objetivo é analisar as perspectivas das administrações de George W. Bush e Barack Obama com relação à dissuasão, à redução de armas nucleares e às defesas antimísseis. Sustenta-se que ambas as administrações reafirmaram o papel fundamental das armas nucleares para a dissuasão, comprometeram-se com a redução de armas nucleares acompanhada de iniciativas para modernização e reconheceram a importância de defesas antimísseis na proteção dos EUA e de aliados. Tais perspectivas estão relacionadas à necessidade contínua de ampliar a flexibilidade para lidar com ameaças contemporâneas e à manutenção de opções diversificadas para o enfrentamento desses desafios.

From David Walker to President Obama: Tropes of the Founding Fathers in African American Discourses of Democracy, or The Legacy of Ishmael

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Elizabeth J. West

2012-01-01

Full Text Available More than a century after the Emancipation Proclamation, in a society that still others blackness, we continue to hold to the mythical humanizing power of literacy. In our own time this has been poignantly evinced in the public reception of the current President of the United States, Barack Obama. He has been internationally hailed for his written and oral eloquence, and many Americans expected that Obama’s evident intellectual prowess would reverse prevailing stereotypes of black inferiority. Obama’s rhetorical success is rooted in the longstanding literary practice of invoking the mythical founding fathers to validate text and subject. In this regard, David Walker’s Appeal (1829 represents the emergence of a long tradition of black voices invoking America’s most sacred patriarchs and their rhetoric of Americanness.

Michelle L. Reed | NREL

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troubleshooting High-throughput procedures In-house and external client training Method development High-pressure Pretreatment of Corn Stover Enables Facile Lignin Extraction," ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng. (2017) " ;Reductive Catalytic Fractionation of Corn Stover Lignin," ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng. (2016) "

1989, un caso de historia inmediata 20 años después. Hacia una reconstrucción del cuádruple efecto perverso producido por Jaruzelski, Gorbachov, Kohl y Obama

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Carlos Ortiz de Landázuri

2011-04-01

Full Text Available Se analizan cuatro interpretaciones actuales de la caída del muro de Berlín en 1989, en las que se reflexiona sobre el doble uso que Francis Fukuyama y Erik J. Hobsbawm hicieron de esta fecha de corte, según la concibieran como el fin de la historia en sentido liberal o el término de un siglo corto donde tuvo lugar la autodisolución del comunismo. Pero simultáneamente también se reconstruye el cuádruple efecto perverso que incluso hoy día siguen teniendo las distintas estrategias seguidas entonces por Jaruzelski, Gorbachov, Kohl y Obama para tratar de encauzar el conflicto generado por los sucesos de 1989.Palabras clave: fin de la historia, siglo corto, efecto perverso, comunismo, liberalismo.___________________________Abstract: They analyse four current interpretations of the fall of the wall of Berlin in 1989, in which it considers the double use that Francis Fukuyama and Erik J. Hobsbawm did of this date of cut, as they conceived it like the end of the history in liberal sense or the term of a short century where took place the dissolution of the communism. But simultaneously also it reconstructs the four perverse effect that even today day follow having the distinct strategies entered then by Jaruzelski, Gorbachov, Kohl and Obama to treat to pipe the conflict generated by the events of 1989.Keywords: end of history, short century, perverse effect, communism, liberalism.

Strategii de reducere a deficitelor şi datoriei publice a Statelor Unite ale Americii adoptate de Administraţia Obama

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Rodica Velciu

2011-10-01

Full Text Available At the beginning of the second decade of the 21st century, the sovereign debts of one of the largest economies of the world were “blown up” because of the ageing population and the costs determined by the financial crisis. According to an analysis by Standard & Poor’s rating agency, if governments maintain current fiscal policies, for 49 states representing 2/3 of the world population, the average debt as percentage of GDP will reach 245% by 2050. "The pressure of increasing expenses will determine profound changes in the economical perspectives of these countries. The erosion will start in 2015, when the quota of many states with high rating will start being under pressure", declare the Agency’s analysis. In mid April 2011, Barack Obama announced the elaboration of an ambitious plan for the reduction of the federal budget deficit, in total amount of USD 4,000 billion, over a period of 12 years. Democrat and Republican leaders of the Congress reached an agreement in respect to the raise of the debt limits, after months of intense closed-doors negotiations and only two days before the due date set by the Ministry of Finance. In order to avoid payment default, democrats and republicans reached an agreement to increase the leveraging to USD 14,300 billion, by USD 2,100 billion. Moreover, this agreement establishes a reduction of governmental expenses for the next 10 years with up to USD 3,000 billion and enough loans in order to avoid another increase in the leveraging limits in 2013. In turn, FED announced they will maintain stimulating policies for another two years, although in June the economic stimulation program should have ended. The monetary policy interest rate is at the lowest level in the history of the Central Bank, between 0% and 0.25% since 2008. At the beginning of September, President Barack Obama presented a new plan of economic revival and labor market support for a period of six years, rounded at USD 447 billion, in the

Communication dated 2 April 2009 received from the Permanent Missions of the Russian Federation and the United States of America regarding a joint statement by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and U.S. President Barack Obama

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2009-01-01

The Secretariat has received a communication dated 2 April 2009 from the Permanent Missions of the Russian Federation and the United States of America, transmitting to the attention of all Member States of the IAEA a joint statement by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and U.S. President Barack Obama issued on 1 April 2009. As requested in that communication, the attached statement is herewith circulated for the information of all Member States

Remembering President Barack Obama's inauguration and the landing of US Airways Flight 1549: A comparison of the predictors of autobiographical and event memory

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Koppel, Jonathan Mark; Brown, Adam D.; Stone, Charles B.

2013-01-01

regressions we found that the psychological variables of recalled emotional intensity and personal importance/centrality predicted AM consistency and event memory accuracy for the inauguration. Conversely, the rehearsal variables of covert rehearsal and media attention predicted, respectively, AM consistency......We examined and compared the predictors of autobiographical memory (AM) consistency and event memory accuracy across two publicly documented yet disparate public events: the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States on January 20th 2009, and the emergency landing of US...... Airways Flight 1549, off the coast of Manhattan, on January 15th 2009. We tracked autobiographical and event memories for both events, with assessments taking place within 2½ weeks of both events (Survey 1), and again between 3½ and 4 months after both events (Survey 2). In a series of stepwise...

A Comparative Analysis of the Influence of China and the United States in the Southeast Asia Region under the Obama Administration

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Wu Xue

2015-12-01

Full Text Available With China’s rapid rise and the implementation of the Obama Administration’s ”Return to the Asia Pacific” strategy, both China and the United States have significantly changed their relations with Southeast Asia in recent years. Also, the influence of China and the United States in this region has changed too. Both China and the United States have strengthened relations with the Southeast Asia region in terms of political, economic, military, cultural and other aspects, and their influence has also risen in varying degrees. In comparison, China has a greater impact on the economy of Southeast Asia, while the US has more influence on its military and security. China vigorously implements the neighborhood diplomacy featuring amity, sincerity, mutual benefit and inclusiveness. The United States actively promotes the Asia-Pacific rebalancing strategy. The Southeast Asian countries continue to choose the balance of power strategy, relying on China regarding the economy, relying on the United States regarding the security. This has resulted in the continuous game between China and the United States in the Southeast Asian region.

A snapshot of students’ blogging profiles in Taiwan: From the viewpoint of knowledge sharing

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Stephen J.H. Yang

2012-03-01

Full Text Available In this era of Web 2.0, many young people are keeping blogs sharing their ideas, their feelings or their hobbies as a way of showing themselves. Taiwan, as a leading area of information technology, is not an exception. To explore the characteristics of blogging profiles of student bloggers in Taiwan, this study conducted a content analysis on a popular blog website. 157 student bloggers of three educational levels were recruited as participants. The results showed that there were both significant gender and educational level differences in knowledge sharing levels among participants, while blogroll links, posting categories, and blogging purposes also showed some interesting facts. These findings provide some insights of students’ blogging and may give educators or sociologists some implications.

Neoliberalism, Governmentality, Ethnography

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Dean, Mitchell

2015-01-01

A letter to the editor is presented in response to the article "Neoliberalism, Governmentality, Ethnography," by Michelle Brady in the previous issue.......A letter to the editor is presented in response to the article "Neoliberalism, Governmentality, Ethnography," by Michelle Brady in the previous issue....

Obama cares about visuo-spatial attention: perception of political figures moves attention and determines gaze direction.

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Mills, Mark; Smith, Kevin B; Hibbing, John R; Dodd, Michael D

2015-02-01

Processing an abstract concept such as political ideology by itself is difficult but becomes easier when a background situation contextualizes it. Political ideology within American politics, for example, is commonly processed using space metaphorically, i.e., the political "left" and "right" (referring to Democrat and Republican views, respectively), presumably to provide a common metric to which abstract features of ideology can be grounded and understood. Commonplace use of space as metaphor raises the question of whether an inherently non-spatial stimulus (e.g., picture of the political "left" leader, Barack Obama) can trigger a spatially-specific response (e.g., attentional bias toward "left" regions of the visual field). Accordingly, pictures of well-known Democrats and Republicans were presented as central cues in peripheral target detection (Experiment 1) and saccadic free-choice (Experiment 2) tasks to determine whether perception of stimuli lacking a direct association with physical space nonetheless induce attentional and oculomotor biases in the direction compatible with the ideological category of the cue (i.e., Democrat/left and Republican/right). In Experiment 1, target detection following presentation of a Democrat (Republican) was facilitated for targets appearing to the left (right). In Experiment 2, participants were more likely to look left (right) following presentation of a Democrat (Republican). Thus, activating an internal representation of political ideology induced a shift of attention and biased choice of gaze direction in a spatially-specific manner. These findings demonstrate that the link between conceptual processing and spatial attention can be totally arbitrary, with no reference to physical or symbolic spatial information. Published by Elsevier B.V.

La continuidad del discurso neoconservador frente a la política exterior de la administración Obama

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Manuel Iglesias

2015-05-01

Full Text Available A lo largo del pasado sexenio, la doctrina neoconservadora se ha convertido en la voz más beligerante contra la política exterior de la Administración Obama. Este artículo se propone analizar el contenido de la crítica neoconservadora, una crítica radical, pues no se limita a un disenso menor en torno a determinadas áreas temáticas o regionales de la política exterior estadounidense, sino que se presenta como un rechazo frontal tanto a sus fundamentos teóricos como a su implementación práctica. De este modo, se verá que el neoconservadurismo continúa firmemente apegado a sus principios, con un discurso que mantiene como eje su particular concepción del excepcionalismo americano. El neoconservadurismo sigue defendiendo la validez de sus ideas centrales y se reivindica como la mejor doctrina de política exterior posible para los EE.UU., la única adecuada para evitar su declive internacional y mantener el "orden mundial americano" en las próximas décadas. Ello nos permitirá observar cómo, pese a su actual falta de influencia política, el mismo sigue gozando de una vitalidad que contradice las recurrentes afirmaciones sobre su desaparición.

77 FR 35104 - Notice of Request To Release Airport Property at Merrill Field Airport, Anchorage, AK

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2012-06-12

... delivered to: Michelle Colby, Real Estate Services Manager, DOWL HKM, 4041 B Street, Anchorage, AK 99503...- 271-3665, email [email protected] or Michelle Colby, Real Estate Services Manager, DOWL HKM, 4041... Section 6.13 of the State of Alaska Right of Way Manual. This purchase offer was predicated on DOT&PF's...

Evading the Endgame in an Insurgency Undertaking: The Case of the Lord’s Resistance Army and Beyond

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2015-06-01

the argument, see Michelle Hale Williams, “Grappling with Ethnic Difference in Multicultural Societies,” in The Multicultural Dilemma: Migration...Michelle Hale. “Grappling with Ethnic Difference in Multicultural Societies.” In The Multicultural Dilemma: Migration, Ethnic Politics, and State...Center Ft. Belvoir, Virginia 2. Dudley Knox Library Naval Postgraduate School Monterey, California

RE-ENFORCING RADICALISATION WITH BAD PR? THE NIGERIAN ARMY'S HANDLING OF BOKO HARAM

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Yan St-Pierre

2015-09-01

Full Text Available The organisation formerly known as Jamā'at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da'wah wa'l-Jihād' and currently known as Wilāyat Gharb Ifrīqīyyah, better known as Boko Haram, rose to international prominence in April 2014, when it kidnapped over 250 school girls from the Nigerian village of Chibok. Although the organisation is active since 2002 and began its violent insurgency in 2009, the mass kidnapping of the “Chibok Girls” attracted worldwide attention to the conflict, in large part due to the #BringBackOurGirls campaign, which was actively supported by U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama. The attention however also focused on the Nigerian government and raised questions about its fight against Boko Haram, why the kidnapping occurred, what could be done to save the girls and how the terrorists could be defeated. This focus put pressure on Goodluck Jonathan's presidency and the Nigerian army to react to the kidnappings and produce results, turning the Boko Haram insurgency into a full fledged propaganda war. While there have been many military and political changes in the eighteen months since, it could be argued that the propaganda war has turned into the main front, thereby raising numerous questions about its impact on the battlefield.

Bloggers’ Community Characteristics and Influence within Greek Political Blogosphere

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Dimitrios Vagianos

2012-04-01

Full Text Available This paper investigates the properties of central or core political blogs. They can be located as clusters of blogs whose members have many incoming links. Other blogs form clouds around them in the sense that they link the core blogs. A case study records Greek political blogs and their incoming links reported through their blogrolls. The adjacency matrix from the blogs’ social network is analyzed and clusters are located. Three of them, those with the larger numbers of incoming links, may be considered to be central. Next, four measures of influence are used to test the influence of the central blogs. The findings suggest that there are many kinds of central blogs, influential and non-influential, and high influence does not always involve high hyperlinking.

O primeiro ano de governo de Barack Obama: tempestades à toda volta

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Eva Paulino Bueno

2010-02-01

Full Text Available O primeiro ano de Barak Obama à frente do governo americano foi um ano de grandes dificuldades, não só para ele, mas também para o seu partido democrata. Não só para os democratas, mas também para o povo americano. Não só para o povo americano, mas também para o povo iraquiano, e o povo do Afeganistão. E, por extensão, para todas as pessoas do mundo que ouviram seu discurso de aceitação do cargo, no dia 20 de janeiro de 2009. Os únicos que não sofreram, pelo que pude averiguar ouvindo rádio, lendo jornais e assistindo as notícias, foram os comentaristas republicanos, especialmente os ligados à tropa da cadeia de televisão Fox. Para eles, foi um ano de exultação.  Só não foi melhor porque o país não sofreu um ataque terrorista de

Remembering President Barack Obama's inauguration and the landing of US Airways Flight 1549: a comparison of the predictors of autobiographical and event memory.

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Koppel, Jonathan; Brown, Adam D; Stone, Charles B; Coman, Alin; Hirst, William

2013-01-01

We examined and compared the predictors of autobiographical memory (AM) consistency and event memory accuracy across two publicly documented yet disparate public events: the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States on January 20th 2009, and the emergency landing of US Airways Flight 1549, off the coast of Manhattan, on January 15th 2009. We tracked autobiographical and event memories for both events, with assessments taking place within 2½ weeks of both events (Survey 1), and again between 3½ and 4 months after both events (Survey 2). In a series of stepwise regressions we found that the psychological variables of recalled emotional intensity and personal importance/centrality predicted AM consistency and event memory accuracy for the inauguration. Conversely, the rehearsal variables of covert rehearsal and media attention predicted, respectively, AM consistency and event memory accuracy for the plane landing. We conclude from these findings that different factors may underlie autobiographical and event memory for personally and culturally significant events (e.g., the inauguration), relative to noteworthy, yet less culturally significant, events (e.g., the plane landing).

The Total Army

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http://thediplomat.com/2015/04/chinas-growing-cyberwar-capabilities/ (accessed April 25, 2016); Nicolas Giacometti, “China’s Nuclear Modernization and...link between the operational and tactical levels of war.48 47. Michelle Tan , “US Army Generals Criticize Outdated Deployment Model: ‘We’ve Gotten...unveils-its-big-8-initiatives/81882852/ (accessed March 16, 2016). 58. Michelle Tan , “US Army Generals Criticize Outdated Deployment Model: ‘We’ve

Invoking “The Family” to Legitimize Gender- and Sexuality-Based Public Policies in the United States: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the 2012 Democratic and Republican National Party Conventions

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Andrew Pilecki

2015-01-01

Full Text Available Women and sexual minorities in the United States continue to experience subordinate status, and the policy gains they have made in areas such as reproductive rights and marriage equality continue to be challenged in political discourse. We conducted a critical discourse analysis of texts from the 2012 Democratic and Republican national conventions in order to examine the extent to which ideological representations of the family were employed to legitimize public policy positions related to gender (e.g., abortion and sexuality (e.g., same-sex marriage. We analyzed two forms of text (official party platform document, transcripts of speeches with distinct intended audiences (i.e., party members, general audience. Findings revealed that an ideological representation of the traditional family ideal—featuring a heterosexual couple, their children, and asymmetric gender relations—was present within speeches given by both parties, particularly by the spouses of the presidential candidates (Michelle Obama and Ann Romney. Although this ideological representation was subsequently used within the Republican Party platform to legitimize positions against same-sex marriage and abortion, the Democratic Party platform challenged this representation of the family to instead advocate for policy positions in favor of same-sex marriage and women’s reproductive rights. We discuss this ambivalence within Democratic texts in light of the different audiences that party convention texts seek. Implications for gender- and sexuality-based policies are discussed, as well as the importance of examining political discourse across diverse forms and settings.

Super Bitches and Action Babes

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Schubart, Rikke

An analysis of the female hero in popular film genres such as actionfilms, war films, wip-films, rape-revenge dramas, science fiction from 1970-2006. Mostly American films but with chapters on Michelle Yeoh and Meiko Kaji.......An analysis of the female hero in popular film genres such as actionfilms, war films, wip-films, rape-revenge dramas, science fiction from 1970-2006. Mostly American films but with chapters on Michelle Yeoh and Meiko Kaji....

Finite-Element 2D and 3D PIC Modeling of RF Devices with Applications to Multipacting

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De Ford, John F; Petillo, John

2005-01-01

Multipacting currently limits the performance of many high power radio-frequency (RF) devices, particularly couplers and windows. Models have helped researchers understand and mitigate this problem in 2D structures, but useful multipacting models for complicated 3D structures are still a challenge. A combination of three recent technologies that have been developed in the Analyst and MICHELLE codes begin to address this challenge: high-order adaptive finite-element RF field calculations, advanced particle tracking on unstructured grids, and comprehensive secondary emission models. Analyst employs high-order adaptive finite-element methods to accurately compute driven RF fields and eigenmodes in complex geometries, particularly near edges, corners, and curved surfaces. To perform a multipacting analysis, we use the mesh and fields from Analyst in a modified version of the self-consistent, finite-element gun code MICHELLE. MICHELLE has both a fast, accurate, and reliable particle tracker for unstructured grids ...

President of Chile at CERN

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2007-01-01

The President of Chile, Michelle Bachelet, in the ATLAS cavern with, from left to right, Peter Jenni, ATLAS Spokesman, Vivian Heyl, CONICYT President, and Robert Aymar, CERN Director-General. Robert Aymar, CERN Director-General, and Vivian Heyl, CONICYT President, signing a cooperation agreement between CERN and Chile’s Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (CONICYT).The President of Chile, Michelle Bachelet, paid a visit to CERN during her three-day tour of Switzerland. The charismatic Michelle Bachelet and her large delegation were greeted by the CERN Director-General and then taken to see the ATLAS experiment and the LHC. She also took time to meet the Chilean community working at CERN, comprising several physicists in the Theory Group and the ATLAS experiment. The meeting was followed by the signing of a cooperation agreement between CERN and Chile’s Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científi...

Charter Schools Indicators: A Report from the Center on Educational Governance University of Southern California. CSI-USC 2009

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2009-01-01

On February 24, 2009, President Obama outlined his fiscal plan for the 2010 budget to a joint session of Congress. Stressing the importance of backing education, Obama vowed to "expand our commitment to charter schools" and "invest in innovation." Obama's plan for more effective charters includes increasing federal aid and…

Train Like an Astronaut Educational Outreach

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Garcia, Yamil L.; Lloyd, Charles; Reeves, Katherine M.; Abadie, Laurie J.

2012-01-01

In an effort to reduce the incidence of childhood obesity, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), capitalizing on the theme of human spaceflight developed two educational outreach programs for children ages 8-12. To motivate young "fit explorers," the Train Like an Astronaut National (TLA) program and the Mission X: Train Like an Astronaut International Fitness Challenge (MX) were created. Based on the astronauts' physical training, these programs consist of activities developed by educators and experts in the areas of space life sciences and fitness. These Activities address components of physical fitness. The educational content hopes to promote students to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields. At the national level, in partnership with First Lady Michelle Obama's Let?s Move! Initiative, the TLA program consists of 10 physical and 2 educational activities. The program encourages families, schools, and communities to work collaboratively in order to reinforce in children and their families the importance of healthy lifestyle habits In contrast, the MX challenge is a cooperative outreach program involving numerous space agencies and other international partner institutions. During the six-week period, teams of students from around the world are challenged to improve their physical fitness and collectively accumulate points by completing 18 core activities. During the 2011 pilot year, a t otal of 137 teams and more than 4,000 students from 12 countries participated in the event. MX will be implemented within 24 countries during the 2012 challenge. It is projected that 7,000 children will "train like an astronaut".

Technology is Here to Stay in (Online Higher Education

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Jennifer A. Herzog

2015-02-01

Full Text Available Review of: Minds Online; Michelle D. Miller; (2014. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA. 279 pages.A review of the new book "Minds Online" by Michelle D. Miller, a cognitive psychologist, in which she analyzes the history of attention, memory, and thinking research and how new studies can enhance technology-driven education.  A low-tech approach makes this book very readable to faculty and administrators thinking of diving into the online teacing format, yet its up to date research and practical examples are a rich resource for even veteran distance learning educators.

Tra storia e mito. Politiche e usi politici di Abraham Lincoln

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Marco Sioli

2010-03-01

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Barack Obama's election brought to the forefront one of the key figures of the nineteenth century, Abraham Lincoln, considered to be a founder of the nation by the new American President. Like Lincoln, Obama put the accent on unity and national goodwill. Like Lincoln, Obama nourished the roots that connected to the common man. The deep desire for change in American politics that Obama espouses also occurred during Lincoln's presidency.

This essay dwells on Lincoln's words that are impressive in many respects, especially in the way they are able to communicate the passion of political involvement, as well as are impressive the images which represent the Great Emancipator in the different period of American history. Words and images reinterpreted Lincoln's myth in a contemporary mood, showing the how Lincoln became a continuously changing icon, down to the current presidency of Barack Obama.

Tra storia e mito. Politiche e usi politici di Abraham Lincoln

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Marco Sioli

2010-03-01

Full Text Available Barack Obama's election brought to the forefront one of the key figures of the nineteenth century, Abraham Lincoln, considered to be a founder of the nation by the new American President. Like Lincoln, Obama put the accent on unity and national goodwill. Like Lincoln, Obama nourished the roots that connected to the common man. The deep desire for change in American politics that Obama espouses also occurred during Lincoln's presidency. This essay dwells on Lincoln's words that are impressive in many respects, especially in the way they are able to communicate the passion of political involvement, as well as are impressive the images which represent the Great Emancipator in the different period of American history. Words and images reinterpreted Lincoln's myth in a contemporary mood, showing the how Lincoln became a continuously changing icon, down to the current presidency of Barack Obama.

A Holistic Strategy Examining How Armed Drone Strikes Interact with Other Elements of National Power

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2017-06-01

organizations.7 Journalist Jeffery Goldberg characterized the Obama presidency as an irony because Obama “relentlessly questioned the efficacy of force, but he...7 Jeffery Goldberg , “The Obama Doctrine,” The Atlantic, April 2016, http://www.theatlantic.com...in Yemen contain variations . From 2009–2013, the CIA conducted drone operations in Yemen.163 The U.S. government does not release official records

實徵研究／以K-核心分析探索部落格社群之變遷／盧能彬、黃士瑋、李珮琪

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盧能彬、黃士瑋、李珮琪 Neng-Pin Lu, Shih-Wei Huang, Pei-Chi Li

2010-04-01

Full Text Available In recent years, the blogosphere has been dramatically blooming and becoming more and more indispensable in our digital lives. Nowadays, there have been many published researches that used network analysis to investigate the communities in the blogos-phere; however, the analysis of Taiwan blo-gosphere is still unavailable. Therefore, in this research, we investigated the social network of Taiwan blogosphere via k-core analysis. Based on the rank lists maintained by the Taiwan website “Blog Look” (look.urs. tw, we took the top 100 blogs, on 26 October 2008 and 6 September 2009 respectively, as two clusters of our research sample. First, we analyzed the basic statistical characteristics of the two sample clusters, and compared the differences between them. Then, we collected all the blogrolls of the top 100 blogs on 1 November 2008 and 11 September 2009, respectively. Then, we sifted and figured out the network topology from all the blogrolls within our sampled blogs. Upon the blogroll network topology, we applied k-core analysis to explore the changes in the blogosphere. Via the analysis, we found two major com-munities of blogs: picture article and information technology. And, we found that the community of picture article was rapidly expanding upwards while the community of information technology was a little shrinking downwards. Finally, compared to the blo-gosphere around the world, we found that the community of information technology fits the trend around the world, but the community of picture article is a special development of Taiwan blogosphere. 近年來部落格空間成長快速，在人們的數位生活中愈來愈不可或缺。為了瞭解部落格空間的社群互動，目前已有許多相關網絡分析的研究成果發表，不過關於臺灣地區部落格空間的網絡分析卻仍�

Towards a Fiscally Constrained Pacific Posture

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2012-03-21

joint press conference with Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard , President Obama emphasized U.S. intent in the Asia Pacific region when he... gillard -australia-joint-press (accessed February 5, 2012). 5 Laura MacInnis and Caren Bohan, “Obama seeks to hitch U.S. economy to Asian growth,” Reuters...November 16, 2011. http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/11/16/remarks-president-obama-and-prime- minister- gillard -australia-joint-press

Case studies in nanny state name-calling: what can we learn?

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Magnusson, R S

2015-08-01

The 'nanny state' has become a popular metaphor in debates about public health regulation. It fulfils a particular role in that debate: to caution government against taking action. This paper presents case studies of nanny state criticisms, using them to identify a series of contextual features that may assist in better understanding, evaluating and where appropriate, resisting the rhetorical force of nanny state criticisms. The case studies presented include Rush Limbaugh's reactions to Michelle Obama's efforts to encourage American food companies to market healthier food to children; Christopher Hitchens' critique of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's public health policies; and the reaction of neoliberal think tanks to Australia's plain tobacco packaging legislation. These case studies do not provide a basis for making generalisations about the practice of 'nanny state name-calling'. Nor do they preclude debate about the appropriate limits of government action. However, in appropriate cases they may assist policy-makers and public health advocates to contest the framing of public health interventions as unwarranted incursions into the private lives of individuals. One important lesson from these case studies is that the principal concern of nanny state critics is not loss of freedom as such, but the role of the state. The nanny state critique is ultimately a call for the state to be agnostic about the health of citizens, allowing market forces to dominate. Although the nanny state critique is not new, it is a significant challenge to government efforts to address lifestyle-influenced risk factors for non-communicable diseases, including tobacco use, harmful use of alcohol, and unhealthy diet. Copyright © 2015 The Author. Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.

3 CFR 8383 - Proclamation 8383 of May 20, 2009. Emergency Medical Services Week, 2009

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... week. NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim... Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-fourth.BARACK OBAMA ...

3 CFR 8356 - Proclamation 8356 of April 1, 2009. National Donate Life Month, 2009

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... dedicated to the principles of government under law. NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the... Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-third.BARACK OBAMA ...

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2010-01-01

... its service. NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by virtue of... Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-fourth.BARACK OBAMA ...

USA valik : kas uus peatükk või retro? / Neeme Raud

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2008-01-01

USA presidendikandidaatide demokraat Barack Obama ja vabariiklase John McCaini debattidel pakutud erinevatest kurssidest. President George W. Bushi kriitikast tõenäolise demokraatide kandidaadi B. Obama seisukohtade suhtes. Lisa: Välispoliitilised seisukohad

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3 CFR 8381 - Proclamation 8381 of May 15, 2009. National Safe Boating Week, 2009

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2010-01-01

..., BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim May 16 through May 22, 2009..., and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-third.BARACK OBAMA ...

U.S.-China Relations: Policy Issues

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2011-01-12

global issues on which the Obama Administration has sought to work with China are the international financial crisis, climate change, and nuclear non-proliferation. In remarks in July 2009, President Obama declared that partnership between the United States and China was a prerequisite for progress on many of the most pressing global challenges. Continuing major bilateral issues in the relationship include trade and...into the Obama Administration, U.S. officials point to some successes in their efforts to work with China on global issues , including

We’re All YA Now: A Review of Graphic Novels for Children and Young Adults

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Lee Skallerup Bessette

2018-01-01

Full Text Available 'Graphic Novels for Children and Young Adults: A Collection of Critical Essays', edited by Michelle Ann Abate and Gwen Athene Tarbox, University Press of Mississippi, 352 pages, 2017, ISBN 978-1-4968-1167-7   This article is a review of 'Graphic Novels for Children and Young Adults: A Collection of Critical Essays', edited by Michelle Ann Abate and Gwen Athene Tarbox (University Press of Mississippi, 2017. Filling a significant gap in current scholarly research in comic studies, the collection will appeal to a wide range of scholars and educators. The review argues that reading this collection is less of a chore and more of a joyful journey of discovery.

3 CFR 8418 - Proclamation 8418 of September 16, 2009. Constitution Day and Citizenship Day, Constitution Week...

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2010-01-01

... as “Constitution Week.” NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America... beacon of hope for Americans and those who seek new lives in the United States. Every day, we welcome new....BARACK OBAMA ...

Pikk mees ja lühike mees kohtuvad Kremlis / Enn Soosaar

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Soosaar, Enn, 1937-2010

2009-01-01

USA presidendi Barack Obama eelseisvast kohtumisest Venemaa presidendi Dmitri Medvedeviga. Juttu on ka 15. juunil 2009 Washingtonis toimunud USA presidendi B. Obama ja Eesti presidendi Toomas Hendrik Ilvese plaanivälisest kohtumisest, viidates artiklile: Summertime blues. The Economist, 18. juuni 2009

Contemporary America

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Duncan, Russell; Goddard, Joseph

Fokuserer på den første administration af Barack Obama og på amerikanske institutioner og folk i USA.......Fokuserer på den første administration af Barack Obama og på amerikanske institutioner og folk i USA....

Varjatud vrakid / Andri Ksenofontov

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Ksenofontov, Andri, 1962-

2007-01-01

Michelle Athertoni näitus "Missing the Boat II" Tallinna Linnagaleriis kuni 12. VIII. Kunstniku nurjunud katsetest kujutada 2002. a. uppunud transpordilaeva "Tricolor" ja selle ülestõstmist, "Tricolori" uppumise kajastamisest

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2010-01-01

... families. NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the... States of America the two hundred and thirty-third.BARACK OBAMA ... spouses work to maintain careers and a sense of community while moving to new duty stations around the...

Obama’s Dual Discourse on American Exceptionalism

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Hrnjaz Miloš

2015-08-01

Full Text Available This paper analyses the highly contested concept of American exceptionalism, as described in the speeches of Barak Obama. The authors of the paper use discourse analysis to show that Obama is using the idea of American exceptionalism on two levels: US foreign policy and the US stance towards international law. Our conclusion is that Obama uses an implicit dual discourse in both these fields. Obama favours active US foreign policy, based on soft power instruments and multilateralism. He insists that American exceptionalism does not mean that the US can exempt itself from the norms of international law, however, he does not think the US should always have a very active foreign policy. He makes room for unilateral acting and the use of hard power instruments in foreign policy. He allows for the use of force even if is not in accordance with the norms of international law, when US national interests are threatened.

Potential Beneficiaries of the Obama Administration’s Executive Action Programs Deeply Embedded in US Society

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Donald Kerwin

2016-03-01

Full Text Available The Obama administration has developed two broad programs to defer immigration enforcement actions against undocumented persons living in the United States: (1 Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA; and (2 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA. The DACA program, which began in August 2012, was expanded on November 20, 2014. DAPA and the DACA expansion (hereinafter referred to as “DACA-plus” are currently under review by the US Supreme Court and subject to an active injunction.This paper offers a statistical portrait of the intended direct beneficiaries of DAPA, DACA, and DACA-plus. It finds that potential DAPA, DACA, and DACA-plus recipients are deeply embedded in US society, with high employment rates, extensive US family ties, long tenure, and substantial rates of English-language proficiency. The paper also notes various groups that would benefit indirectly from the full implementation of DAPA and DACA or, conversely, would suffer from the removal of potential beneficiaries of these programs. For example, all those who would rely on the retirement programs of the US government will benefit from the high employment rates and relative youth of the DACA population, while many US citizens who rely on the income of a DAPA-eligible parent would fall into poverty or extreme poverty should that parent be removed from the United States.This paper offers an analysis of potential DAPA and DACA beneficiaries. In an earlier study, the authors made the case for immigration reform based on long-term trends related to the US undocumented population, including potential DAPA and DACA beneficiaries (Warren and Kerwin 2015. By contrast, this paper details the degree to which these populations have become embedded in US society. It also compares persons eligible for the original DACA program with those eligible for DACA-plus.As stated, the great majority of potential DAPA and DACA recipients enjoy strong family

3 CFR 8469 - Proclamation 8469 of December 31, 2009. 40th Anniversary of the National Environmental Policy Act...

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2010-01-01

... enjoy the beauty and utility of a clean, healthy planet. NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of... of America the two hundred and thirty-fourth.BARACK OBAMA Title 3—The President Executive Orders... in a new era of environmental awareness and citizen participation in government. NEPA elevated the...

The Dragon and the Eagle

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Duncan, Russell

Fokuserer på komparative og kontrasterende forståelser af kinesisk-amerikanske forbindelser i det 21. århundrede under Xi Jinping og Barack Obama.......Fokuserer på komparative og kontrasterende forståelser af kinesisk-amerikanske forbindelser i det 21. århundrede under Xi Jinping og Barack Obama....

Getting personal? The impact of social media on preferential voting

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Spierings, C.H.B.M.; Jacobs, K.T.E.

2014-01-01

Ever since the successful presidential campaign of Barack Obama in 2008, attention has been drawn to the political impact of social media. However, it remains to be seen whether the successful Obama campaign is the exception or the rule. Our research focuses specifically on the impact of social

Talentide kooshoidmine / Jena McGregor

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McGregor, Jena

2008-01-01

Töötajate eest hoolitsemisest, nende moraali tõstmisest ning heade töötajate hoidmisest ettevõttes majandusliku languse tingimustes. Lisa: Tegevuskava. Vt. samas: Michelle Conlin. Kuidas rasketel aegadel särada

75 FR 21628 - Change in Bank Control Notices; Acquisition of Shares of Bank or Bank Holding Companies

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2010-04-26

.... Lubert; W. Kirk Wycoff; and James J. Lynch, all of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to acquire voting shares..., individually and as a member of a group comprised of Elisa Schwarzbaum, West Orange, New Jersey; Michelle...

Defense.gov Special Report: 2016 Fiscal Budget

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Department of Defense Submit Search DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE: FY 2016 Budget Proposal Army Reserve Chief Calls for Budget Flexibility The chief of the Army Reserve understands that the U.S. deficit is a threat to effectively. Story Obama Says He Won't Accept Budget That Shortchanges Readiness President Barack Obama

Glemmer USA Afghanistan nu?

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Jakobsen, Peter Viggo

2015-01-01

Hvis Obamas efterfølger kan skrue den rigtige strategiske fortælling sammen så vil USA ikke forlade Afghanistan med udgangen af 2016.......Hvis Obamas efterfølger kan skrue den rigtige strategiske fortælling sammen så vil USA ikke forlade Afghanistan med udgangen af 2016....

Revue de Médecine et de Pharmacie - Vol 2, No 2 (2012)

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Syndrome thoracique aigu chez le drépanocytaire adulte: expérience de l'Hôpital Central de Yaoundé · EMAIL FULL TEXT EMAIL FULL TEXT DOWNLOAD FULL TEXT DOWNLOAD FULL TEXT. AG Etoundi-Mballa, M Azabji-Kenfack, A Chiabi, JM Obama-Nyaga, MT Obama-Abena, 177-184 ...

Policy of George W. Bush administration and Barak Obama first administration towards the Russian Federation and other states of the CIS (2001-2012: a comparative analysis

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F. D. Solovey

2017-01-01

Full Text Available The article is devoted to the analysis of policies of the two latest American presidents George W. Bush (2001-2008 and Barack Obama (his fi rst administration, 2009-2012 towards Russian Federation and its neighbors – states of the CIS. The author in detail considers main milestones of this policy, its aims, ways, methods and results. The author highlights and analyzes main reasons of degradation of bilateral relations during George W. Bush presidency and considers positive results of “Reset” policy of fi rst Barack Obama’s administration, at the same time noting their limitation and maintenance of disagreements in a few important problems. Policy of the USA towards Russia and other states of the CIS is considered in broader context of fundamental attitudes in foreign policy of neoconservative Republican George W. Bush’ administration and Democratic Barack Obama’s administration. The author makes the main conclusion that as a whole policy of the Democrats towards the Russian Federation and its neighbors was more reasonable, fl exible and effective and let the United States because of softening of rhetoric and a few small compromises return relations with Russia to constructive cooperation and get from this country assistance in all key areas. But by the end of the fi rst Barack Obama’s term a few negative trends became obvious, and these trends developed during the second term of Obama’s presidency. Post-Soviet area has remained potential “battlefi eld” in relations between the two countries, and later this fact has led to the crisis in Crimea and Ukraine, which continues nowadays.

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

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... Everyone's level of tolerance is different. In 1999, soccer star Michelle Akers, who has CFS, played most ... Though there is no scientific evidence that poor nutrition plays a role in CFS, eating well may ...

Chemists boldly go

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Francl, Michelle; Donnay, Michael

2017-01-01

Michael Donnay and Michelle Francl want chemists to share the stories behind the work they do, and not be afraid to identify the heroines and heroes -- and their epic adventures -- that paved the way.

Contemporary America

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Duncan, Russell; Goddard, Joseph

This edition analyzes and synthesizes the first administration of Barack Obama and the liberal international and multilateral cosmopolitan approaches to both domestic and foreign policy developments.......This edition analyzes and synthesizes the first administration of Barack Obama and the liberal international and multilateral cosmopolitan approaches to both domestic and foreign policy developments....

A Strategy for American Innovation: Driving towards Sustainable Growth and Quality Jobs

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Executive Office of the President, 2009

2009-01-01

Since taking office, President Obama has taken historic steps to lay the foundation for the innovation economy of the future. The Obama Innovation Strategy builds on well over $100 billion of Recovery Act funds that support innovation, additional support for education, infrastructure and others in the Recovery Act and the President's Budget, and…

77 FR 64314 - Advisory Committee on Earthquake Hazards Reduction Meeting

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2012-10-19

... Act of 2004 (Pub. L. 108-360). The Committee is composed of 12 members appointed by the Director of... number to Michelle Harman. Non-U.S. citizens must also submit their country of citizenship, title, and...

The Need for Career and Technical Education (CTE) Partnerships

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Pawlowski, Brett

2012-01-01

There is an interesting contrast to be found between President Barack Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan: Whereas Obama regularly refers to the current economic situation as the "Great Recession," Duncan instead labels it as "The New Normal." Only one of these can be correct--and the implications for educators are profound. The author…

USC/School Performance Dashboard 2011. A Report from the Center on Educational Governance/University of Southern California

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Center on Educational Governance, 2011

2011-01-01

In his 2011 State of the Union address, President Barack Obama declared that charter schools are a way to out-innovate and out-educate our competitors worldwide. The President believes that investment in education must be accompanied by reform, including the expansion of high-quality charter schools. President Obama has challenged states to lift…

"Shovel-Ready" Data: The Stimulus Package and State Longitudinal Data Systems

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Ewell, Peter T.

2009-01-01

The American Reinvestment and Recovery Act, commonly referred to simply as "the stimulus package," is poised to pump over $100 billion into U.S. public education in the next few years. This allocation reflects the Obama administration's new commitment to education as a public good, which is embodied in President Obama's ambitious goal of…

20. VI avatakse EKA galeriis rahvusvaheline fotonäitus "Fragile Distance"

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2003-01-01

Kuraatorid David Bate, Eve Kiiler. Osalevad Londonis elavad ja töötavad fotograafid Denny Robson, Adam Green, Michelle Atherton (Inglismaa), Eva Riegler (Austria), Andreas Hablutzel (Šveits), Angeliki Douveri, Stella Baraklianou (Kreeka), Simona Dell'Agli (Itaalia)

Review 08--A Year in

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2008

2008-01-01

Barack Obama's monumental presidential campaign took the nation by storm, a history-making and future-defining feat sure to keep academicians busy for many years to come. How America addresses race as a result of Obama's sweeping victory remains to be seen, but his election came in the same year New York state installed its first Black governor,…

What's so Bad about Being "Professorial"?

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Vaidhyanathan, Siva

2008-01-01

CNN commentator Bill Bennett's invocation of "professorial" was the latest among a string of comments about Barack Obama, who used to teach constitutional law at the University of Chicago. On September 13, the "New York Times" columnist Thomas L. Friedman wrote, "Obama may be a bit professorial, but at least he is trying to unite the country to…

The New Leader of the Free World

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Williamson, Kevin D.

2012-01-01

On January 20, 2009, Dr. Manmohan Singh, the prime minister of India, became the leader of the free world. The free world's attention was focused elsewhere: Senator Barack Obama, who on that day became President Barack Obama, quietly abdicated the role now taken up by Dr. Singh, having run an election campaign premised upon the ever-present but…

"To big to fail"-doktrinen står for fald?

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Grosen, Anders

2010-01-01

Hvis præsident Barack Obama får sin vilje, skal den klassiske "too big to fail"-bankdoktrin afløses af en "small enough to fail"-doktrin. Det fremgår af præsidentens planer om at opdele storbankerne i mindre enheder og forbyde bankernes handelsaktiviteter for egen regning. Hvis Barack Obama får...

Move Over Mr. Warhol, You're History!

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Hinshaw, Craig

2010-01-01

Shepard Fairey's famous poster of Barack Obama with the word "HOPE" surely contributed to Obama's public persona. In this article, the author presents a lesson inspired by the contemporary relevance of the poster. In this lesson, students will learn that photographs can be altered to create a work of art and that art can be used to create a…

Research Concerns, Cautions and Considerations on Black Males in a "Post-Racial" Society

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Howard, Tyrone C.; Flennaugh, Terry

2011-01-01

Black males continue to be one of the most academically marginalized groups of students in US schools, and undoubtedly the role of race and racism has largely influenced these experiences. The paradox of the underperformance of Black males has been the election of President Obama in 2008. The Obama election has led some to question whether or not…

76 FR 8712 - Advisory Committee on Earthquake Hazards Reduction Meeting

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2011-02-15

... Section 103 of the NEHRP Reauthorization Act of 2004 (Pub. L. 108-360). The Committee is composed of 15... submit your full name, e-mail address, and phone number to Michelle Harman. Non-U.S. citizens must also...

75 FR 8042 - Advisory Committee on Earthquake Hazards Reduction Meeting

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2010-02-23

... Section 103 of the NEHRP Reauthorization Act of 2004 (Pub. L. 108-360). The Committee is composed of 15... name, time of arrival, e-mail address, and phone number to Michelle Harman. Non-U.S. citizens must also...

76 FR 44948 - Status Report of Water Service, Repayment, and Other Water-Related Contract Actions

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2011-07-27

... DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Bureau of Reclamation Status Report of Water Service, Repayment, and Other Water- Related Contract Actions AGENCY: Bureau of Reclamation, Interior. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY... SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Michelle Kelly, Water and Environmental...

The Air Force and Grand Strategy

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2013-05-01

once needed 1,000 workers can now do the same work with 100.2 2 Barak H. Obama, President of the United...Press, 2001. Strassler, Robert. The Landmark Thucydides. Revised Ed. New York, NY: New York Free Press, 2008. Rosen , Stephen. Winning the Next...Force and Strategic Deterrence: 1951-1960. USAF Historical Division Liaison Office, 1967. Speeches Obama, Barak . President of the United

"A campaign won as a public issue will stay won": using cartoons and comics to fight national health care reform, 1940s and beyond.

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Knoblauch, Heidi Katherine

2014-02-01

On March 23, 2010, President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) into law. As it went through Congress, the legislation faced forceful resistance. Individuals and organizations opposing the ACA circulated propaganda that varied from photographs of fresh graves or coffins with the caption "Result of ObamaCare" to portrayals of President Obama as the Joker from the Batman movies, captioned with the single word "socialism." The arguments embedded in these images have striking parallels to cartoons circulated by physicians to their patients in earlier fights against national health care. Examining cartoons used in the formative health care reform debates of the 1940s provides a means for tracing the lineage of emotional arguments employed against health care reform.

Browse Title Index

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Items 151 - 200 of 3286 ... Vol 25, No 1 (2016), An appeal for large scale production of ... Dziedzom Komi de Souza, Irene Offei Owusu, Joseph Otchere, Michelle ... treatment of cutaneous larva migrans in an adult Ghanaian male: a case report ...

Saaremaal valmib terasmehe häll / Aivo Vahemets

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Vahemets, Aivo

2005-01-01

Eesti ettevõttes Michelle OÜ kaubamärgi all Inox Disain Lab toodetakse roostevabast terasest konstruktsiooniga voodeid. Ettevõtet juhib Jaak Kangro. Voodinäidised on Tallinnas Pärnu mnt. 22 ateljees või interneti koduleheküljel www.inox.ee

A Head Start on Concussion Recovery | NIH MedlinePlus the Magazine

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... and Concussions Follow us A Head Start on Concussion Recovery Life lessons after three pediatric concussions "It would have been easier if he had ... Michelle Marchionni says about her son Sam's first concussion. In the fall of 2012, 8-year-old ...

75 FR 8355 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Announcement of Board Approval Under Delegated...

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2010-02-24

...: Federal Reserve Board Clearance Officer--Michelle Shore--Division of Research and Statistics, Board of... delinquency and nonaccrual status of trading securities is not particularly meaningful given that these... proposed disclosure requirements regarding the delinquency and nonaccrual status of trading securities. The...

75 FR 42774 - Status Report of Water Service, Repayment, and Other Water-Related Contract Actions

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2010-07-22

... DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Bureau of Reclamation Status Report of Water Service, Repayment, and Other Water- Related Contract Actions AGENCY: Bureau of Reclamation, Interior. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY... region in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Michelle Kelly, Water...

76 FR 73674 - Status Report of Water Service, Repayment, and Other Water-Related Contract Actions

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2011-11-29

... DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Bureau of Reclamation Status Report of Water Service, Repayment, and Other Water- Related Contract Actions AGENCY: Bureau of Reclamation, Interior. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY... INFORMATION CONTACT: Michelle Kelly, Water and Environmental Resources Division, Bureau of Reclamation, P.O...

Majanduskriis, vabadussammas, Barack Obama...

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2008-01-01

Ettevõtja Indrek Neivelt, TLÜ rektor Rein Raud, filmitegija Andres Maimik, peaminister Andrus Ansip, ajakirja Vikerkaar peatoimetaja Märt Väljataga, filmitegija Ilmar Raag avaldavad arvamust, millega läheb 2008. aasta ajalukku

Executive Orders-Barack Obama

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National Archives and Records Administration — Executive orders are official documents, numbered consecutively, through which the President of the United States manages the operations of the Federal Government....

George Sand et la République (entretien avec Michelle Perrot

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Jean-Claude Vimont

2012-06-01

Full Text Available TRAMES : Vous présentez les figures passées de l’engagement politique, dans un numéro spécial de Vingtième siècle (n° 60, sous le titre « La cause du peuple » , éphémère journal de George Sand en avril 1848 et organe maoïste de la Gauche Prolétarienne après mai 1968. Est-ce pour fixer un point de départ, les années 1840, à la généalogie des engagements d’écrivains, d’intellectuels auprès d’un peuple qui est en passe de devenir prolétariat industriel, classe ouvrière ? Y a-t-il une filiation ...

Socialization into science: An ethnographic study in a field research station

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Calovini, Theresa Ann

While the place of language in building the tasks and activities of the science classroom has received attention in the education literature, how students do the work of affiliation building through language remains poorly understood. This dissertation is based on ethnographic research in an apprenticeship learning situation at a biological field research station. I carried out this research with five undergraduates apprentices. I focus on how the language used in this apprenticeship situation positioned the apprentices with science. Issues of access and diversity in science education have motivated this research but this point can be missed because the five apprentices were all fairly successful in university science. They had all secured their job for the summer as paid research assistants. Yet, even with these successful students, science had a complicated place in their lives. I draw on Gee's (1999) notion of Discourse to understand this complexity. I focus on four Discourses--- Science, Knowing about the Animals, Senior Projects and RAships, and Relationships ---which were important in the apprentices' learning about and socialization with science. I try to understand the inter-workings of these four Discourses through a detailed analysis of three conversations involving one of the participants, Michelle. Michelle's use of narrative emerged as a linguistic resource which she used to explore dilemmas she experienced in the tensions between these four Discourses. Michelle was in many ways an ideal apprentice. She did her job well and she sought and received expert advice on her Senior project. Nonetheless, Michelle faced obstacles in her pursuit of a career in science and these obstacles related to language use and her use of narrative. I show how her use of narrative either facilitated or impeded her learning, depending on the context of the interaction. My analysis of Discourse points to important issues in language use by both students and teachers, with

Deterrence and disarmament

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Gärtner, Heinz

2012-01-01

In his April 2009 speech in Prague US President Barack Obama spoke of a world free of nuclear weapons. Obama stated that the United States would maintain nuclear deterrence during the disarmament process. This paper discusses the limitations and deficiencies of the traditional mutual nuclear deterrence and assesses why progress in nuclear disarmament since the end of the Cold War has fallen short of expectations.

How green will the US become?

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Kolstad, Elisabeth H.

2009-07-01

Energy efficiency was one of the top priorities when President Barack Obama launched a new energy policy that aims to reduce the US' dependency on oil. If Obama reaches his goal, the country will cut its oil demand by four million barrels a day. The US petrol consumption is currently 20,7 million barrels a day according to the Energy Information Administration. (Author)

Continued Drift, but without the Acrimony

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Nielsen, Kristian L.

2013-01-01

If the measure of Barack Obama's success in mending US–European relations is whether the tone has improved, his presidency has been a great success. If the measure of success, however, is halting the drifting apart of policy preferences, the picture looks a lot less rosy. This article argues....... The Obama administration realises that, and by this more limited measure, it has succeeded brilliantly....

76 FR 3636 - Ocean Transportation Intermediary License Applicants

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2011-01-20

..., Vice President, Application Type: New NVO & OFF License. CDS Global Logistics, Inc. (NVO & OFF), 1001... & Logistics LLC (NVO & OFF), Hoboken Business Center, 50 Harrison Street, Suite 204B, Hoboken, NJ 07030, Officers: Michelle L. Hasenauer, Manager (Qualifying Individual), Harbans S. Shrinkant, Manager...

Actualités en matière antique: pour Emmanuèle Baumgartner

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Carlos Pérez Varela

2007-04-01

Full Text Available À propos de l’œuvre de Laurence Harf-Lancner, Laurence Mathey-Maille et Michelle Szkilnik (2006: Conter de Troie et d'Alexandre: pour Emmanuèle Baumgartner (Paris, Editions Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, 308 pp., 12 pl., ISBN 2878543599.

Basics of SCI Rehabilitation

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Full Text Available ... PhD Sigmund Hough, PhD Laura Tuck, PsyD Terrie Price, PhD Heather Taylor, PhD Michelle Meade, PhD Jonathon ... the most important thing for families to know right away? play_arrow What are the main concerns ...

Spinal Cord Injury 101

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Full Text Available ... PhD Sigmund Hough, PhD Laura Tuck, PsyD Terrie Price, PhD Heather Taylor, PhD Michelle Meade, PhD Jonathon ... arrow Why are high-dose steroids often used right after an injury? play_arrow What is meant ...

75 FR 82066 - Status Report of Water Service, Repayment, and Other Water-Related Contract Actions

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2010-12-29

... DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Bureau of Reclamation Status Report of Water Service, Repayment, and Other Water- Related Contract Actions AGENCY: Bureau of Reclamation, Interior. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY... CONTACT: Michelle Kelly, Water and Environmental Services Division, Bureau of Reclamation, P.O. Box 25007...

76 FR 60527 - Status Report of Water Service, Repayment, and Other Water-Related Contract Actions

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2011-09-29

... DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Bureau of Reclamation Status Report of Water Service, Repayment, and Other Water- Related Contract Actions AGENCY: Bureau of Reclamation, Interior. ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY... CONTACT: Michelle Kelly, Water and Environmental Resources Division, Bureau of Reclamation, P.O. Box 25007...

Participatory democracy and Hillary Clinton’s marginalized fandom

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Abigail De Kosnik

2008-09-01

Full Text Available After the drawn-out, heated contest for the Democratic Party presidential nomination and Senator Obama's victory over Senator Clinton, a segment of Clinton's supporters are threatening to leave the party rather than fall in line behind the nominee. This essay argues that the battle between Clinton's and Obama's followers is best understood as a war between fan bases, with Obama enthusiasts constituting as the dominant fandom and Clinton voters occupying the position of marginalized fandom. Marginalized fandoms tend to blame the opposing fan base, intermediaries, and The Powers That Be for their fan campaigns' losses, and Clinton's fans are adhering to this pattern. However, the Clinton marginalized fandom's complaints can be regarded as valuable critiques that, if noted rather than dismissed, could greatly strengthen participatory democracy in the United States.

“A Campaign Won as a Public Issue Will Stay Won”: Using Cartoons and Comics to Fight National Health Care Reform, 1940s and Beyond

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Knoblauch, Heidi Katherine

2014-01-01

On March 23, 2010, President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) into law. As it went through Congress, the legislation faced forceful resistance. Individuals and organizations opposing the ACA circulated propaganda that varied from photographs of fresh graves or coffins with the caption “Result of ObamaCare” to portrayals of President Obama as the Joker from the Batman movies, captioned with the single word “socialism.” The arguments embedded in these images have striking parallels to cartoons circulated by physicians to their patients in earlier fights against national health care. Examining cartoons used in the formative health care reform debates of the 1940s provides a means for tracing the lineage of emotional arguments employed against health care reform. PMID:24328659

New advances in cystic fibrosis - implications for developing countries

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New advances in cystic fibrosis - implications for developing countries. Heather J Zar, Eric Bateman, Michelle Ramsay. Abstract. No Abstract. Full Text: EMAIL FREE FULL TEXT EMAIL FREE FULL TEXT · DOWNLOAD FULL TEXT DOWNLOAD FULL TEXT. Article Metrics. Metrics Loading ... Metrics powered by PLOS ALM.

Nigerian Medical Journal - Vol 54, No 4 (2013)

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High‑risk of obstructive sleep apnea and excessive daytime sleepiness among commercial intra‑city drivers in Lagos metropolis · EMAIL FULL TEXT EMAIL FULL TEXT · DOWNLOAD FULL TEXT DOWNLOAD FULL TEXT. Obianuju B Ozoh, Njideka U Okubadejo, Maxwell O Akanbi, Michelle G Dania.

Developing Information Technology for Vocational Education in Contiguous Destitute Areas Significance, Problems, and Countermeasures: The Case of the Wuling Mountain Area

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Wang, Jie; Xu, Fenghua

2014-01-01

Using the Wuling Mountain area as a case study, the authors discuss the significance as well as five problems of developing information technology for vocational education in contiguous destitute areas. Recommendations are provided at the end of the article. [Translated by Michelle LeSourd.

75 FR 63484 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comment Request

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2010-10-15

... collect information at the time of the scan is to assist the provider in decision making for patient... future clinical decision making. Form Number: CMS-10152 (OMB : 0938- 0968); Frequency: Annually; Affected..., 2010. Michelle Shortt, Director, Regulations Development Group, Office of Strategic Operations and...

Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy. Second Edition. Theories of Psychotherapy Series

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Craske, Michelle G.

2017-01-01

In this revised edition of "Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy," Michelle G. Craske discusses the history, theory, and practice of this commonly practiced therapy. Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) originated in the science and theory of classical and instrumental conditioning when cognitive principles were adopted following dissatisfaction…

An exploration of student perceptions of the risks and protective ...

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Violence, Injury and Peace Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council. Michelle ..... aggressive, and abusive behaviours towards their spouses and children (Bower, 2014; ..... recidivism is high. ... cognitive skills training. ... The treatment was able to reduce re-offending by a significant 8%, saving the innocence.

78 FR 50069 - National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences; Notice of Meetings

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2013-08-16

... attendance limited to space available. Individuals who plan to attend and need special assistance, such as... applications and the discussions could disclose confidential trade secrets or commercial property such as...-8064, [email protected] . Dated: August 8, 2013. Michelle Trout, Program Analyst, Office of Federal...

75 FR 60759 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

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2010-10-01

... Drug Program Monthly and Quarterly Drug Reporting Format; Use: In order for payment to be made under...: Private Sector: Business or other for-profits; Number of Respondents: 580; Total Annual Responses: 9,280..., 2010. Michelle Shortt, Director, Regulations Development Group, Office of Strategic Operations and...

Contemporary America

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Duncan, Russell; Goddard, Joseph

Details the continuities and changes in American society, politics, economics, and culture in domestic and global relations during the 2nd administration of George W. Bush and the first year of the Obama administration.......Details the continuities and changes in American society, politics, economics, and culture in domestic and global relations during the 2nd administration of George W. Bush and the first year of the Obama administration....

Strategic Studies Quarterly (SSQ). Volume 11, Number 1. Spring 2017

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2017-04-01

9. Jeffrey Goldberg , “The Obama Doctrine,” The Atlantic, April 2016, http://www.theatlantic .com/magazine/archive/2016/04/the-obama-doctrine/471525...he could not derive the actual historical variations in the types, intensities, durations, and outcomes of what he dubbed “real” warfare simply by...poorly understood the implications of their preemption-dependent war plans and alliance commitments. Regardless of the variations in detail among the

Kas asjalood muutuvad? / Christine Ockrent

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Ockrent, Christine

2007-01-01

Saksamaa kantsler Angela Merkel ja Tšiili presidendi Michelle Bachelet on oma tegevusega lükanud ümber kahtlused, mis neid saatsid riigijuhi ametisse asumisel. Presidendiametisse pürgivad Segolene Royal ja Hillary Clinton kasutavad mõlemad argumenti: nad on oma meesoponentidest erinevad, sest nad on emad

Music Genre as Method

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Timothy Laurie

2014-01-01

A review of Jennifer C. Lena, Banding Together: How Communities Create Genres in Popular Music (Princeton University Press, 2012), Michelle Phillipov, Death Metal and Music Criticism: Analysis at the Limits(Lexington Books, 2012) and Graham St John, Global Tribe: Technology, Spirituality and Psytrance (Equinox Publishing, 2012). 

Voice/Data Integration in the PBX (Private Branch Exchange).

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1985-01-01

NUMBER 7. AUTHOR(a) 6. CONTRACT OR GRANT NUMBER(a) Michelle A. Bull * . PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME AND ADDRESS 10. PROGRAM ELEMENT. PROJECT...37 capability to emulate other data environments such as IBM’s System Network Architechture (SNA) environ- met26 Access outside the PNX system is

FY2017 Defense Spending Under an Interim Continuing Resolution (CR): In Brief

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2016-09-16

Appropriations Issues, September 2016, Bloomberg BNA, at http://src.bna.com/h5x. 35 For more information on the 2015 OPM data breach see CRS...Insight IN10327, OPM Data Breach : Personnel Security Background Investigation Data, by Michelle D. Christensen. 36 FY2017 Continuing Resolution (CR

Health SA Gesondheid - Vol 9, No 3 (2004)

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The prevalence of side-effects: ciprofloxacin 500 mg single dose prophylaxis against Neisseria meningitidis outbreak in Potchefstroom during July 2003: research · EMAIL FREE FULL TEXT EMAIL FREE FULL TEXT DOWNLOAD FULL TEXT DOWNLOAD FULL TEXT. Michelle Viljoen, Martie S Lubbe, Rina Meyer, 42-54 ...

77 FR 55027 - Setting and Adjusting Patent Fees

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2012-09-06

... model for operations will facilitate USPTO's long-term operational and financial planning and enable the... submitted by postal mail addressed to: Mail Stop--Office of the Chief Financial Officer, Director of the... included in the comments. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Michelle Picard, Office of the Chief Financial...

The hunt for FOXP5 a genomic mystery novel

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Kaufman, Wallace

2016-01-01

Genetics professor Michelle Murphy loses her husband under mysterious circumstances and without warning, while their brilliant eight year old daughter Avalon, adopted in Kazakhstan, stubbornly believes she is a mutant. As if this were not enough she soon finds herself thrown into the middle of a quickly thickening plot, where the legacy of Genghis Khan meets the hunt for FOXP5, a genetic transcription factor that could herald the dawn of new human species. Initially caught helplessly between well-meaning fellow scientists, the government and more sinister agents, Michelle, with the help of a host of unlikely heroes, eventually takes control and finds the courage to confront the decision of whether to save human lives or humanity. The scientific and technical aspects underlying the plot - in particular aspects of FOX proteins, genetic mutations, viruses and cancer as well as the relation between intelligence and cortical complexity - are introduced and discussed by the authors in an extensive non-technical a...

Google Science Fair winner visits CERN

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Katarina Anthony

2012-01-01

Google Science Fair Grand Prize winner Brittany Michelle Wenger today wrapped up a day-and-a-half's visit of the CERN site. Her winning project uses an artificial neural network to diagnose breast cancer – a non-invasive technique with significant potential for use in hospitals.   Brittany Michelle Wenger at CERN's SM18 Hall. Besides winning a $50,000 scholarship from Google and work experience opportunities with some of the contest hosts, Brittany was offered a personal tour of CERN. “This visit has just been incredible,” she says. “I got to speak with [CERN's Director for Accelerators and Technology] Steve Myers about some of the medical applications and technologies coming out of the LHC experiments and how they can be used to treat cancer. We talked about proton therapy and hadron therapy, which could really change the way patients are treated, improving success rates and making treatment not such an excruciating process. That ...

A New Authorization for Use of Military Force Against the Islamic State: Issues and Current Proposals

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2017-02-21

Obama in his August 2014 notifications to Congress of deployments and airstrikes in Iraq indicated his powers as Commander in Chief and Chief Executive...as well as the Khorasan Group of Al Qaeda in Syria. After these notifications, however, President Obama indicated on November 5, 2014, that he...Chairman Robert Menendez. Prior to the committee’s markup of the proposal on December 11, the committee held a hearing on December 9 with Secretary of

Prezidentské volby v USA: předvolební kampaň Baracka Obamy

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Hronová, Lada

2011-01-01

Barack Obama's theme of candidature for President of United States of America, campaigning and then succesfuly won presidential election have became milestone in american history, when the afroamerican president has been elected for the first time. When candidate in primaries with Democratic Party or in final fase of presidental election against his republican competitor John McCain Barack Obama became well admired by american and also world public. Unmistakably important role had common unpo...

Contemporary United States

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Duncan, Russell; Goddard, Joseph

Focuses on the last years of the Obama administration and the first year of the Trump administration in domestic and foreign policy. Particularly highlights the populist anger that sustains Trump and the resistance movement by liberals.......Focuses on the last years of the Obama administration and the first year of the Trump administration in domestic and foreign policy. Particularly highlights the populist anger that sustains Trump and the resistance movement by liberals....

Army-Navy Integration and the Pivot to the West: A New Joint Concept

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2014-05-22

rest on several principles focused on maintaining a “broad portfolio of military capabilities, offering versatility across the range of missions.”13...DC: Government Printing Office, 2010), 1; Mark E. Manyin et al., Pivot to the Pacific? The Obama Administration’s “ Rebalancing ” toward Asia...Lawrence, Michael F. Martin, Ronald O’Rourke, and Bruce Vaughn. Pivot to the Pacific? The Obama Administration’s “ Rebalancing ” toward Asia. Washington DC

Madame B.: l’analyse cinématographique d’un roman

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Bal, M.

2012-01-01

Film analysis of a novel This article investigates how the creative act can become an analytical method. Film making requires another kind of reading. The Madame B. project, in which Mieke Bal and Michelle Williams Gamaker have created a series of video installation pieces based on Madame Bovary,

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Results 81 - 90 of 1299 ... As a learning specialist for the RCMP, Michelle Savard was tasked with completing ... Forging a brighter future for Haiti through higher education ... Building Bridges: Linking political leaders and policy experts in Africa ... How development research helps the global population adapt to climate change.

77 FR 76057 - Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD); Notice of...

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2012-12-26

... the public as indicated below, with attendance limited to space available. A portion of this meeting... attendance at the open session of Council, additional seating will be available in the meeting overflow rooms...: December 18, 2012. Michelle Trout, Program Analyst, Office of Federal Advisory Committee Policy. [FR Doc...

78 FR 27408 - Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD); Notice of...

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2013-05-10

... the public as indicated below, with attendance limited to space available. A portion of this meeting... attendance at the open session of Council, additional seating will be available in the meeting overflow rooms...). Dated: May 3, 2013. Michelle Trout, Program Analyst, Office of Federal Advisory Committee Policy. [FR...

78 FR 51234 - Sunshine Act Meetings

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2013-08-20

...: Commissioners' Conference Room, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland. STATUS: Public and Closed. Week of... (Closed--Ex. 2 and 6). Tuesday, August 27, 2013 9:00 a.m. Briefing on NRC's Construction Activities (Public Meeting); (Contact: Michelle Hayes, 301-415-8375). This meeting will be webcast live at the Web...

78 FR 52990 - Sunshine Act Meetings Notice

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2013-08-27

...: Commissioners' Conference Room, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland. STATUS: Public and Closed. Week of August 26, 2013 Monday August 26, 2013 2:00 p.m. Discussion of Management and Personnel Issues (Closed... Meeting) (Contact: Michelle Hayes, 301-415-8375). This meeting will be webcast live at the Web address...

78 FR 56238 - National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine; Notice of Closed Meeting

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2013-09-12

... Complementary and Alternative Medicine; Notice of Closed Meeting Pursuant to section 10(d) of the Federal... Complementary and Alternative Medicine, National Institutes of Health, HHS) Dated: September 6, 2013. Michelle... Alternative Medicine Special Emphasis Panel; ZAT1 PK28: PAR 10-163 R34 Clinical trial planning grants and...

78 FR 21381 - National Center for Complementary & Alternative Medicine; Notice of Closed Meeting

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2013-04-10

... Complementary & Alternative Medicine; Notice of Closed Meeting Pursuant to section 10(d) of the Federal Advisory... Complementary and Alternative Medicine Special Emphasis Education Panel. Date: June 21, 2013. Time: 8:00 a.m. to... Complementary and Alternative Medicine, National Institutes of Health, HHS) Dated: April 4, 2013. Michelle Trout...

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (83rd, Phoenix, Arizona, August 9-12, 2000). Miscellaneous, Part III.

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Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.

The Miscellaneous, part III section of the proceedings contains the following 11 papers: "The Relationship between Health and Fitness Magazine Reading and Eating-Disordered Weight-Loss Methods among High School Girls" (Steven R. Thomsen, Michelle M. Weber, and Lora Beth Brown); "A Practical Exercise for Teaching Ethical Decision…

The Risks We Are Willing to Take: Youth Civic Development in "Postwar" Guatemala

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Bellino, Michelle J.

2015-01-01

In this article, Michelle J. Bellino explores contrasting approaches to civic education in two rural schools serving indigenous Maya youth in post-civil war Guatemala. Through comparative ethnography, she examines how youth civic pathways intersect with legacies of authoritarianism while young people shape their identity as members of historically…

The Navy Supply Corps Newsletter. Contracting Innovations: Navy Electronic Commerce Online Navy Afloat Purchase Card Program. Volume 62, No. 3.

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1998-06-01

Mike Lyden John Lantelme Andy Mackel Jesus Malgapo Carol Marcinek Greg Martin Michelle McAtee Molly McClellan Jerry McEnerney Laurie McKee...Paul McNeill Walt Melton Rich Mendez Mike Metts Jon Miller Ron Mosley Jim Naber Craig Nostrant NAVSUP USSNORMANDY(CG60) DDRE NORFOLK NPGS

Strategic Landpower and a Resurgent Russia: An Operational Approach to Deterrence

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2016-05-01

Nicholas Burns, Dan Byman, James Jay Carafano, Phillip Carter, Wendy Chamberlin, Michael Cher- toff, Frank Cilluffo, James Clad, Richard Clarke...U.S. Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, PA, April 8, 2015. 112 46. Ibid. 47. Michelle Tan , “Army looks to rotating and reserve forc- es for Europe

Team Software Process (TSP) Coach Mentoring Program Guidebook

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2009-08-01

Hodgins, Michelle Jurkouich, Delwyn Kel- logg, Juan Lopez, Andy Oughton, Rafael Salazar, and Jim Van Buren. vi | CMU/SEI-2009-SR-009 1...listed below in bold font ) are areas that should be of particular interest for potential SEI-Certified TSP Coaches and Mentor Coaches, as these are

76 FR 58277 - Performance Review Board Members

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2011-09-20

.... Cantrell, Patrick H. Conway, Kathleen M. Crosby, John Czajkowski, Cheryl R. Dammons, Michelle S. Davis..., William B. Schultz, Neil Shapiro, Jeremy B. Sharp, George H. Sheldon, Steven D. Silverman, Rebecca T... E. Tyler Jr., Stephen J. Veneruso, Karen V. Walker Bryce, Luis A. Wilmot, Holly J. Wong, Robert K...

Mudança e Possibilidade: sobre o resultado das eleições nos Estados Unidos

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2008-11-01

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THE GLOBAL ZERO MOVEMENT: A ROAD TO NOWHERE

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2016-02-08

persistence.”1 The underlying foundations of the Global Zero movement date back to the 1980s under the Reagan era as noted on the Global Zero website...and his colleagues.7 Presidential Candidate, Barack Obama Supports Global Zero One of those leaders was then Presidential candidate, Barack Obama...movement. In their eyes, this could be chalked up as one of the first major “wins” for the Global Zero movement. 6 As the motivations for Iran

Framing Obama’s Re-election. A Comparative Analysis of German, French and Romanian Media Coverage

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Delia Cristina Balaban

2016-04-01

Full Text Available The US presidential election is not only a politically relevant issue but also a media relevant issue in every part of the world. Therefore, the present paper aims to analyze the way print media from Germany, France and Romania comparatively covered the re-election moment of Barack Obama. The research intends to analyze to what degree there are differences between the ways in which print media from the abovementioned countries represented the re-election moment of Barack Obama from the point of view of the framing theory and of the political affiliation of the analyzed newspaper. Moreover, the paper aims to present the way the image of Barack Obama is represented within the pictures used in the media. We expect to find relevant differences both between the analyzed newspapers within a country and between the general perspectives of the selected countries.

Barack Obama’s pauses and gestures in humorous speeches

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Navarretta, Costanza

2017-01-01

The main aim of this paper is to investigate speech pauses and gestures as means to engage the audience and present the humorous message in an effective way. The data consist of two speeches by the USA president Barack Obama at the 2011 and 2016 Annual White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner...... produced significantly more hand gestures in 2016 than in 2011. An analysis of the hand gestures produced by Barack Obama in two political speeches held at the United Nations in 2011 and 2016 confirms that the president produced significantly less communicative co-speech hand gestures during his speeches...... and they emphasise the speech segment which they follow or precede. We also found a highly significant correlation between Obama’s speech pauses and audience response. Obama produces numerous head movements, facial expressions and hand gestures and their functions are related to both discourse content and structure...

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2011-10-25

...: Michelle Shaughnessy, Assistant Regional Director, Ecological Services, Southwest Regional Office, P.O. Box... biological and ecological research. The culmination of these efforts showed F. johnstonii to be much more... and that the transition to a more arid climate is already under way. Only 1 of 19 models has a trend...

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2011-03-03

... and reduce competitiveness. In order to do so, the United States has established a High-Level... relevant product or product sector); (b) an Internet link to or a copy of the measure in English and... separate files. Dated: February 28, 2011. Michelle O'Neill, Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for...

Critical Bifocality and Circuits of Privilege: Expanding Critical Ethnographic Theory and Design

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Weis, Lois; Fine, Michelle

2012-01-01

In this article, Lois Weis and Michelle Fine introduce critical bifocality as a way to render visible the relations between groups to structures of power, to social policies, to history, and to large sociopolitical formations. In this collaboration, the authors draw upon ethnographic examples highlighting the macro-level structural dynamics…

Just Research in Contentious Times: Widening the Methodological Imagination

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Fine, Michelle

2017-01-01

In this intensely powerful and personal new text, Michelle Fine widens the methodological imagination for students, educators, scholars, and researchers interested in crafting research with communities. Fine shares her struggles over the course of 30 years to translate research into policy and practice that can enhance the human condition and…

The SDF-1-CXCR4 Axis Functions Through p38-MAPK Signaling to Drive Breast Cancer Progression and Metastasis

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2009-09-01

2002). Rubin JB, Kung AL, Klein RS, Chan JA, Sun Y, Schmidt K, Kieran MW, Luster AD, Segal RA.A small-molecule antagonist of CXCR4 inhibits... Melanie H. Howell, Michelle Lacey, Betty Y. Shih, Carol Carter-Wientjes, Thomas E. Cleveland, John A. McLachlan, Thomas E. Wiese, Barbara S. Beckman

Trust-Guided Behavior Adaptation Using Case-Based Reasoning

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2015-08-01

Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 53(5):517–527, 2011. [Jian et al., 2000] Jiun-Yin Jian, Ann M. Bisantz, and Colin G. Drury . Foundations for an...2014] Michelle S. Carlson, Munjal Desai, Jill L. Drury , Hyangshim Kwak, and Holly A. Yanco. Identifying factors that influence trust in automated cars

High-Performing Primary Care Teams: Creating The Air Force Medical Home Advantage

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2015-02-17

Donald Berwick, Thomas Nolan and John Whittington , “The Triple Aim: Care, Health, and Cost,” Health Affairs, 27, no. 3 (2008), 760. 8. Baker...Nolan, and John Whittington . "The Triple Aim: Care, Health and Cost." Health Affairs 27, no. 3 (2008): 759-769. Bleser, William K, Michelle Miller

Team Software Process (TSP) Coach Mentoring Program Guidebook Version 1.1

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2010-06-01

Hodgins, Michelle Jurkouich, Delwyn Kellogg, Juan Lopez, Andy Oughton, Rafael Salazar, and Jim Van Buren. vi | CMU/SEI-2010-SR-016 vii | CMU/SEI...which it was deemed that TSP coaches must be competent; Sections C through G (listed below in bold font ) are areas that should be of particular

Smart Kids--Enhancing Science Learning with Pupil-Pupil Coaching

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Dunne, Mick

2011-01-01

This article presents an interview between the author and two teachers, Ruth Birtles and Michelle Proctor, who are involved in "Smart Kids", an AstraZeneca Science Teaching Trust (AZSTT) funded project for 2009-10 coordinated by the Centre for Science Education, Sheffield Hallam University. In this interview, Proctor and Birtles discuss…

Comments from physicsworld.com

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2009-02-01

US President Barack Obama's decision to include several scientists in his cabinet-including two physicists, John Holdren and Steven Chu, who will serve as science advisor and energy secretary, respectively - is discussed in this month's news section (see pp8-9). Two articles posted on physicsworld.com when the announcements were first made ("Nobel laureate goes to Washington?" 11 December 2008 and "Obama nominates physicist as science advisor" 22 December 2008) sparked a number of comments, both sceptical and supportive, from readers.

The LHC on Google

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2009-01-01

Where in the world could the LHC outdo Barack Obama in the popularity stakes? On Google, of course! The famous search engine has just published its Top Ten "most popular" and "fastest rising" searches for 2008 in each of 34 countries. Surprise, surprise, the term "Large Hadron Collider" was the 6th fastest rising topic in the United Kingdom and the 10th fastest in New Zealand. In the UK, "Large Hadron Collider" even beat "Obama" into 7th place!

Identity Use and Misuse of Public Persona on Twitter

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Köse, Dicle Berfin; Veijalainen, Jari; Semenov, Alexander

2016-01-01

Social media sites have appeared during the last 10 years and their use has exploded all over the world. Twitter is a microblogging service that has currently 320 million user profiles and over 100 million daily active users. Many celebrities and leading politicians have a verified profile on Twitter, including Justin Bieber, president Obama, and the Pope. In this paper we investigate the '‘hundreds of Putins and Obamas phenomenon’ on Twitter. We collected two data sets in 2015 co...

Planning for regime change and its aftermath

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2017-06-09

same ends and the same means, even though there may be minor variations and in infinite diversity of combinations – these things are susceptible to...U.S., U.K. France, Soviet Union, and others. 5 See Jeffrey Goldberg , “The Obama Doctrine,” The Atlantic, 2016 for an excellent treatment on both the...37, no. 4 (Spring 2013): 199–214. Goldberg , Jeffrey. “The Obama Doctrine.” The Atlantic, 2016. 119 Mehler, Andreas. “Why Security Forces Do Not

Pleasure/Desire, Sexularism and Sexuality Education

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Rasmussen, Mary Louise

2012-01-01

Pleasure and desire have been important components of researchers' vision for sexuality education for over 20 years, a trend inspired by Michelle Fine's seminal paper, "Sexuality, Schooling, and Adolescent Females: The Missing Discourse of Desire." This essay considers how discourses related to pleasure and desire have been taken up in the USA and…

Cyberspace and Real-World Behavioral Relationships: Towards the Applications of Interest Search Queries to Identify Individuals At-Risk for Suicide

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2012-06-14

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2012-03-16

... Salamunovich], 890 L Street, Arcata, CA 95521; permit 16608 to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) [Responsible Party: Michelle Banonis], 2800 Cottage Way, Room W-1727 Sacramento, CA 95825; and permit 16531 to... Capitol Mall, Suite 5-100, Sacramento, CA 95814; Phone (916) 930-3600; Fax (916) 930-3629. FOR FURTHER...

The Use and Misuse of Pleasure in Sex Education Curricula

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Lamb, Sharon; Lustig, Kara; Graling, Kelly

2013-01-01

Since Michelle Fine's writing on the missing discourse of desire in sex education, there has been considerable prompting among sexuality educators and feminist scholars to incorporate talk of pleasure into sex education curricula. While the calls for inclusion continue, few have actually examined the curricula for a pleasure discourse or…

Studies in Teaching: 2017 Research Digest. Action Research Projects Presented at Annual Research Forum (Winston-Salem, North Carolina, June 29, 2017)

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McCoy, Leah P., Ed.

2017-01-01

This document presents the proceedings of the 22nd Annual Research Forum held June 29, 2017, at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Included are the following 12 action research papers: (1) Using Captioned Video to Teach Listening Comprehension in a Spanish Classroom (Michelle Allen); (2) Multimodal Instruction: How Film…

Vender Obama testbølgen?

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Mehlsen, Camilla

2009-01-01

Amerikanske lærere, skoleledere og uddannelsesforskere drømmer om et bedre og mere lige uddannelsessystem og er begejstrede for, at deres nye præsident vil reformere den udskældte lov No Child Left Behind, der gennem syv år har fået testkulturen til at eskalere i USA. Men drømmer de forgæves? Lek...

Nuclear mid-infrared properties of nearby low-luminosity AGN

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Asmus, D; Duschl, W J; Hönig, S F; Gandhi, P; Smette, A

2012-01-01

We present ground-based high-spatial resolution mid-infrared (MIR) observations of 20 nearby low-luminosity AGN (LLAGN) with VLT/VISIR and the preliminary analysis of a new sample of 10 low-luminosity Seyferts observed with Gemini/Michelle. LLAGN are of great interest because these objects are the most common among active galaxies, especially in the nearby universe. Studying them in great detail makes it possible to investigate the AGN evolution over cosmic timescale. Indeed, many LLAGN likely represent the final stage of an AGN's lifetime. We show that even at low luminosities and accretion rates nuclear unresolved MIR emission is present in most objects. Compared to lower spatial resolution Spitzer/IRS spectra, the high-resolution MIR photometry exhibits significantly lower fluxes and different PAH emission feature properties in many cases. By using scaled Spitzer/IRS spectra of typical starburst galaxies, we show that the star formation contribution to the 12 μm emission is minor in the central parsecs of most LLAGN. Therefore, the observed MIR emission in the VISIR and Michelle data is most likely emitted by the AGN itself, which, for higher luminosity AGN, is interpreted as thermal emission from a dusty torus. Furthermore, the 12 /amemission of the LLAGN is strongly correlated with the absorption corrected 2-10 keV luminosity and the MIR- X-ray correlation found previously for AGN is extended to a range from 10 40 to 10 45 erg/s. This correlation is independent of the object type, and in particular the low-luminosity Seyferts observed with Michelle fall exactly on the power-law fit valid for brighter AGN. In addition, no dependency of the MIR-X-ray ratio on the accretion rate is found. These results are consistent with the unification model being applicable even in the probed low-luminosity regime.

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Craddock, Michelle. Vol 32, No 3 (2009) - Articles Reflexivity and the Grothendieck property for positive tensor products of Banach lattices-II Abstract. ISSN: 1727-933X. AJOL African Journals Online. HOW TO USE AJOL... for Researchers · for Librarians · for Authors · FAQ's · More about AJOL · AJOL's Partners · Terms and ...

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2013-08-13

...' Conference Room, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland. STATUS: Public and Closed. Week of August 12...--Tentative Monday August 26, 2013 2:00 p.m. Discussion of Management and Personnel Issues (Closed--Ex. 2 and...) (Contact: Michelle Hayes, 301-415-8375) This meeting will be webcast live at the Web address--www.nrc.gov 3...

Presentación. Género, cuerpo y sexualidad. Cultura y ¿Naturaleza?

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AIBR. Consejo de Redacción

2006-01-01

Full Text Available En 1974, se recogió en un libro editado por Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo y Louise Lamphere, las ponencias sobre género que habían sido presentadas en una mesa sobre “mujeres, hombres, cultura y sociedad” en el Congreso de la American Anthropological Association de 1972, celebrado en Toronto. De ellas, las tres primeras tuvieron una gran resonancia por su intento de explicar el universal de la dominación masculina. Michelle Rosaldo (1974 planteaba un modelo estructural que aunaba aspectos de la psicología, la organización social y cultural relacionándolos con la oposición entre lo público y lo privado. Sherry Ortner (1974, con una orientación influenciada por el estructuralismo de Lévi-Strauss, estudiaba los paralelismos entre las dicotomías hombre / mujer y naturaleza / cultura; mientras Nancy Chodorow (1974 se centraba en las relaciones y estructura familiar desde una perspectiva más psicológica con influencia de los planteamientos freudianos.

How the Fringe is Becoming Mainstream

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Krause Hansen, Hans

2017-01-01

These are indeed interesting times! as one of my good colleagues recently exclaimed over a cup of coffee. Disinformation and conspiracy theories all over the place. Obama now accused of being the founding father of ISIS. Can you believe it? Politics is definitely going berserk.......These are indeed interesting times! as one of my good colleagues recently exclaimed over a cup of coffee. Disinformation and conspiracy theories all over the place. Obama now accused of being the founding father of ISIS. Can you believe it? Politics is definitely going berserk....

Corporate scramble for Africa?

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Haakonsson, Stine; Gammelgaard, Johanna; Just, Sine N.

2017-01-01

On May 18, 2012 leaders of the G8 and three African countries jointly launched the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition (NA). The collaboration was announced by the US president at the time, Barack Obama, who declared that “…food security is a moral imperative, but it’s also an economic imperative. History teaches us that one of the most effective ways to pull people and entire nations out of poverty is to invest in their agriculture” (Obama, 2012). NA aims to do just that: enhance Fo...

Better resilience to disasters and improved livelihoods on South ...

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29 avr. 2016 ... MSSRF Saving Lives Panel. MSSRF. Michelle Hibler. Research supported by IDRC and the former Canadian International Development Agency ... Solar dryers are improving livelihoods in Bhutan. Des séchoirs à fruits et à légumes fonctionnant à l'énergie solaire aident les résidents de villages reculés du ...

Kandinsky, Kant, and a Modern Mandala

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Berry, Kenneth

2008-01-01

Michelle Roberts has written of the "joy of the human imagination, without which we would be unable to understand one another, and would thus wither and perish." This is the baseline for the author's discursive analysis of imagination and beauty in art as it relates to the work of Kant and Kandinsky. While both accepted the forward movement of…

Accelerating Matlab performance 1001 tips to speed up Matlab programs

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Altman, Yair M

2014-01-01

… a very interesting new book on MATLAB® performance … covering basic tools and an appropriate range of specific programming techniques. The book seems to take a whole-system approach … helping readers understand the big picture of how to get better performance.-Michelle Hirsch, Ph.D., Head of MATLAB® Product Management, The MathWorks Inc..

Innovative Tools to Assess Systems Thinking Ability

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2017-12-01

addition to the six cognitive ability constructs, there are two motivational attributes that are highly relevant to systems thinking performance...roles of the habenular complex, the reward system , and the cingulate motor area revealed by functional magnetic resonance imaging. Journal of...Technical Report 1362 Innovative Tools to Assess Systems Thinking Ability Cory Adis Michelle Wisecarver Chelsey Raber Personnel

Revalidation of the Selection Instrument for Flight Training

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2017-07-01

flight training . ( Technical Report No. 1195). Arlington, VA: U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences. Department of...Research Report 2002 Revalidation of the Selection Instrument for Flight Training Victor Ingurgio U.S. Army Research...MICHELLE SAMS, Ph.D. Director Research accomplished for the Department of the Army. Technical Review by Dr. William Bickley

Defensive Operations in a Decisive Action Training Environment

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2017-07-01

Operations in a Decisive Action Training Environment Christopher L. Vowels W. Anthony Scroggins U.S. Army Research Institute Captain Kyle T...Daniels Master Sergeant Paul M. Volino Joint Readiness Training Center July 2017 Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited...for distribution: MICHELLE SAMS Director Technical review by Dr. William R. Bickley, U.S. Army Research

2010 CERT Research Report

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2011-09-01

extensive and expensive rework before implementation. Analysis of catastrophe helps us to see how complex, multi-system, multi-organizational...Cyber Security Science of Cyber Security, published by JASON , an independent scientific advisory group that provides consulting services to the U.S...Ed Desautels Lisa Gardner Alexa Huth Mindi McDowell Amanda Parente Pennie Walters Contributing Team Members Michelle Fried Lisa Marino Design David

Active Shooters: Is Law Enforcement Ready for a Mumbai Style Attack?

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2013-09-01

Postgraduate School and for their support while I was away from work. To Dr. Sean Malinowski , thank you for your friendship and encouragement. To Dr...shooter attacks. Lieutenant Michelle Richards is responsible for LAPD’s tactical training. Captain Sean Malinowski provided information as the in...supporting roles such as detective functions, narcotics investigations, vice investigations, etc. (S. Malinowski , personal communication, July 11

EL AUTORITARISMO PROCESAL (Y LAS PRUEBAS DOCUMENTALES

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Franco Cipriani

2007-01-01

Full Text Available En este trabajo el autor se hace cargo de las críticas recibidas de parte del profesor Michelle Taruffo en relación a los poderes probatorios de los jueces y la asociación de ellos con el autoritarismo procesal. Especialmente se ocupa de subrayar cuáles han sido los verdaderos postulados que él ha realizado en esta materia, preocupándose de advertir sobre aquéllos puntos que no le pueden ser atribuidos. En esta revista se han publicado dos trabajos del profesor Taruffo, los que el lector puede revisar en los volúmenes I y II del año 2006In this paperwork the author becomes responsible for the criticisms received from Professor Michelle Taruffo regarding the probatory powers of the judges and their association with the prosecuting authoritarianism. He specially takes care of underlying which have been the true postulates he has done on this subject, being concerned of noticing about those matters that may not be conferred to him. In this magazine, two works of professor Taruffo have been published, which can be checked in volumes I and II of year 2006

Muutunud, kuid lootuseta / Edward McBride

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2011-01-01

USA presidendivalimiste kampaaniast. President Barack Obama võimalusest saada tagasivalituks, vabariiklaste kandidaatidest Rick Perryst ja Mitt Romneyst. Demokraatide tervishoiureformist ja tervishoiuseadusest

Programmatic Environmental Assessment Addressing the Development, Use, and Maintenance of Military Training Areas at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico

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2016-09-30

and training. The structures include a large hangar, three steel structures, and one Quonset hut- style structure. A records review indicates these...composition. Soils are the unconsolidated materials overlying bedrock or other parent material. Soils typically are described in terms of their complex...Years of Experience: 21 Michelle Bare 377 MSG/CEIE – NEPA Contract Support General Studies Years of Experience: 26 Sharon Newman Gulf South

Wireless Communications in Reverberant Environments

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2015-01-01

Dedications For Mom, Dad , Michelle, Tyler, and Emily. iii Acknowledgments Moshe once told us that we would learn more from our lab mates than we would...in reverberant environments, such as industrial facilities, naval vessels, aircraft, and spacecraft, has proven challenging, because rich ...environments are characterized by rich electromagnetic scattering which is a result of the low absorption of electromagnetic radiation by the surfaces

Crash Lethality Model

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2012-06-06

of Death from Burn Injuries, New England Journal of Medicine. Massachusetts, Feb 1998. 11. Crull, Michelle. Tatom, John. Conway, Robert . SPIDER 2... Raymer , Daniel P. Aircraft Design: A Conceptual Approach. Washington DC: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc., 1992. ISBN 0-930403...Patuxent River, MD 20670 NAVAIRSYSCOM (AIR-5.1G - Roberts ), Bldg. 8010 (1) 47320 Priests Point Loop, St. Inigoes, MD 20684-4017 NAVAIRSYSCOM (UASTD

Improving Healthcare Transition Planning and Health Related Independence for Youth with ASD and their Families

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2016-10-01

Autism and Developmental Disorders; Journal of Adolescent Research; Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics; and Autism: The...skills and desires for financial independence of youth with ASD” Submitted to Journal of Consumer Affairs. 6/30/2016  Cheak-Zamora, NC, Michelle...14.3 Bachelor’s Degree 9.5 Young adult’s chronic condition(s) Asthma 14.3 Behavior or conduct disorder 14.3 Attention

Optical Spectroscopy of Hybrid Semiconductor Quantum Dots and Metal Nanoparticles

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2014-11-07

August 11 - 15, 2013, Cancun, Mexico . 21. Anderson Hayes, Quinton Rice, Maria Veronica Rigo, Mahmoud Abdel-Fattah, Sainath Babu, Michelle Claville...Raman Scattering,” XXII International Materials Research Congress, August 11 - 15, 2013, Cancun, Mexico . 22. M. Namkung and Jaetae Seo, “Surface...Dr. Yoshitake Masuda (Ed.), ISBN: 978-953- 307-199-2 (2011). 67 American Diabetes Association, “Executive summary: standards of medical care in

Previewing the 2010 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference

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Pomper, Miles A.

2010-01-01

Despite groundbreaking disarmament pledges and substantial effort, the Obama administration's hopes for a successful Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference may not be fully realised. Many developing countries are in no mood to grant new non-proliferation concessions, such as tightened rules on access to sensitive nuclear technologies, tougher inspection rules, or limits on withdrawing from the treaty. The non-nuclear weapon states (NNWS) remain angered by the failure to move forward on many disarmament commitments pledged at the 1995 and 2000 Conferences. Moreover, progress on disarmament measures under Obama has been slower than hoped, as he faces considerable scepticism in Washington about his strategy. (author)

Insights into the Ukrainian Crisis

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Costel Daniel Arfire

2014-05-01

Full Text Available Political crises are increasingly frequent and devastating not only for the population of a state, but also for the international diplomacy. Such an example is the ongoing Ukrainian crisis. Starting from S. Fink‘s life cycle of a crisis and T.W. Coombs‘s crisis response strategies, I will analyse the evolution of the Ukrainian crisis and the crisis response strategies of three major international actors: Vladimir Putin, Barack Obama and Angela Merkel. The findings of my study will prove that the denial strategy prevails in Putin‘s statement, whereas Obama uses the diminish strategy and Merkel focuses on the bolstering strategy.

Before and After: The 2008 Election and the Second “Solid South”

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James B. Cobb

2012-01-01

Full Text Available When the general election campaign began in the fall of 2008, few expected Barack Obama to make much of a showing in the overwhelmingly republican South. Yet as the first African American to head a major party ticket, Obama did strikingly well in a region not particularly known for its recent sympathies for white Democrats, much less black ones. The South’s somewhat surprising role in the 2008 presidential election can best be appreciated in the context of a regional political tradition which, since the end of Reconstruction, has been marked less by true two-party competition than sustained periods of domination by each.

The Arab Awakening and US counterterrorism in the Greater Middle East: A missed opportunity

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Eugenio Lilli

2015-05-01

Full Text Available 'In 2011, the Arab Awakening offered an opportunity to the Obama administration to advance the US interest to counter terrorism in the Greater Middle East without compromising its commitment to the promotion of democracy. As of early 2015, however, with the exception of still-hopeful Tunisia, democracy has not made any significant progress in Middle Eastern countries. Additionally, old and new regional extremist groups have become increasingly active. How did the Obama administration miss the opportunity offered by the Arab Awakening? What actions could the United States take to reverse current unfavorable trends and advance US policies of counterterrorism and democratization in the region?'''

O mundo diante do “Dia O”

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José Flávio Sombra Saraiva

2009-01-01

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Fast Reacting Nano Composite Energetic Materials: Synthesis and Combustion Characterization

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2015-08-24

nanoenergetic composites finding extensive use in ordnance and industrial applications, because of its high heat of combustion (~32 kJ/g) (S. H. Fischer ...2011. Farley, Cory. "Reactions of Aluminum with Halogen Containing Oxides." Dissertation. Lubbock, TX, May 2013. Gesner, Jeff , Michelle Pantoya, and...characteristics of novel hybrid nanoenergetic formulations." Combustion and Flame 158 (2011): 964- 978. S. H. Fischer , M. C. Grubelich. "Theoretical

Project Air Force Annual Report 2007

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2007-01-01

China has developed options that would make it a formidable adversary, particularly in a conflict over Taiwan , which the United States remains...he focused on China’s relationship with Taiwan . Since then, he has worked with other RAND analysts, such as David Orletsky, Evan Medeiros, Keith Crane...Hamilton, engineers Jeff Hagen and David Vaughan, Air Force Fellow Michelle Grace, behavioral scientist Larry Hanser, and information scientist Herb Shukiar

Implementation of an Integrated Orthopedic Curriculum to Increase Clinical and Procedural Competency amongst Pediatric Residents

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2017-04-05

to Increase Clinical and Procedural Competency Amongst Pediatric Residents presented at/published to APPD Conference, Anaheim, CA, 5-8 April 2017 in...Increase Clinical and Procedural Competency amongst Pediatric Residents 7. FUNDING RECEIVED FOR THIS STUDY? 0 YES l8] t-’O FUNDING SOURCE 8. DO YOU NEED...and Procedural Competency amongst Pediatric Residents Sarah Nelin MD, Taneishia Jones, MD, Jason Beachler MD, Michelle Lawson MD, Bryan Lawson, MD

The Potential Neurotoxic Effects of Low-Dose Sarin Exposure in a Guinea Pig Model

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2002-01-01

1 THE POTENTIAL NEUROTOXIC EFFECTS OF LOW-DOSE SARIN EXPOSURE IN A GUINEA PIG MODEL Melinda R. Roberson, PhD, Michelle B. Schmidt...Proving Ground, MD 21010 USA ABSTRACT This study is assessing the effects in guinea pigs of repeated low-dose exposure to the nerve...COVERED - 4. TITLE AND SUBTITLE The Potential Neurotoxic Effects Of Low-Dose Sarin Exposure In A Guinea Pig Model 5a. CONTRACT NUMBER 5b

Gordon Research Conference in Organometallic Chemistry, held August 16-20, 1982 Andover, New Hampshire.

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1983-03-01

A. Gentile, Gerald B. Ansell , Michelle A. Modrik ad "S-usan Zentz, Exxon Research and Engineering Co., "Bimetallic Titanium/Molybdenum Complexes...Fluxional M. Moskovits molecules with Multiple Bonding" University of Toronto "Clusters in Catalysis" Basic Steps as Revealed R. Adam by Triosmium...Andover, N.H. August 16-20, 1982 REGISTRATION LIST Adams , Richard D. Farm 1 Bleeke, John John Yale University Washington University 225 Prospect St

U.S. Army Medical Command Injury Summary, Active Duty Personnel, 2014

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Michelle Canham-Chervak 5d. PROJECT NUMBER 5e. TASK NUMBER 5f. WORK UNIT NUMBER 7. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES) Army...Public Health Center (Provisional), Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland 21010-5403 8. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION REPORT NUMBER S.0023116-16 9. SPONSORING... softball bases (Pollack et al., 2005) • Mouthguards for football, basketball (Knapik et al., 2007) • Protective eyewear (Cass, 2012; Goldstein and Wee

Unassailable Advantage: The British Use of Principles of Joint Operations from 1758-1762

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victory at First Battle of Cape Finisterre in 1747. Nicholas A.M. Rodger highlights Anson’s circumvention of standing policy during the Seven Years War to...history. An important point because at the time there was no doctrine on joint service planning. 16 Nicholas A.M. Rodger, The Command of the Ocean...General 136 JP 3-0, Joint Operations, A-2. 137 Michelle Tan , “Army unveils new plan to

The dance of those left behind. Chilean high school students and the possibility of disagreement

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Irene Depetris Chauvin

2014-06-01

Full Text Available The article examines the high school students’ protest against the neoliberal conception of education during the first period of President Michelle Bachelet government. Specifically, I analyze how the new generation of young Chileans critically uses and produces pop culture — photoblogs, posters, and stencils — in order to express disagreement with the mercantilist approach to education and the very concept of neoliberal freedom and equality.

School nursing in a contemporary society: what are the roles and responsibilities?

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Krause-Parello, Cheryl A; Samms, Kimika

2011-01-01

The foundation studies cited in this manuscript was funded by the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) Healthcare. This study was funded by Kean University's Release Time for Research (RTR) Award and the manuscript developed through Kean University's Center for Nursing Research, The principal investigator wishes to thank the school nurses who participated in this research as well research assistants Kimika Samms (second author) and Michelle Proudfoot (graduate assistant).

Applying linguistic methods to understanding smoking-related conversations on Twitter.

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Sanders-Jackson, Ashley; Brown, Cati G; Prochaska, Judith J

2015-03-01

Social media, such as Twitter, have become major channels of communication and commentary on popular culture, including conversations on our nation's leading addiction: tobacco. The current study examined Twitter conversations following two tobacco-related events in the media: (1) President Obama's doctor announcing that he had quit smoking and (2) the release of a photograph of Miley Cyrus (a former Disney child star) smoking a cigarette. With a focus on high-profile individuals whose actions can draw public attention, we aimed to characterise tobacco-related conversations as an example of tobacco-related public discourse and to present a novel methodology for studying social media. Tweets were collected 11-13 November 2011 (President Obama) and 1-3 August 2011 (Miley Cyrus) and analysed for relative frequency of terms, a novel application of a linguistic methodology. The President Obama data set (N=2749 tweets) had conversations about him quitting tobacco as well as a preponderance of information on political activity, links to websites, racialised terms and mention of marijuana. Websites and terms about Obama's smoke-free status were most central to the conversation. In the Miley Cyrus data (N=4746 tweets), terms that occurred with the greatest relative frequency were positive, emotional and supportive of quitting (eg, love, and please), with words such as 'love' most central to the conversation. People are talking about tobacco-related issues on Twitter, and semantic network analysis can be used to characterise on-line conversations. Future interventions may be able to harness social media and major current events to raise awareness of smoking-related issues. Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://group.bmj.com/group/rights-licensing/permissions.

Ballistic Missile Defense: New Plans, Old Challenges

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Elizabeth Zolotukhina

2010-01-01

Full Text Available On September 17, 2009—the 70th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939 that marked the beginning of World War II—the Obama Administration announced its intention to shelve plans for the U.S. Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD that had been developed under former President George W. Bush. Pointing to a new intelligence assessment, President Obama argued that his predecessor's plan to deploy an X-band radar station outside of Prague, Czech Republic, and 10 two-stage interceptor missiles in Poland would not adequately protect America and its European allies from the Iranian threat and reiterated his opposition to utilizing unproven technology in any European BMD architecture.

Brasil – Estados Unidos: grandes expectativas, pequenos atritos

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Virgílio Caixeta Arraes

2016-12-01

Full Text Available O princípio da administração de Barack Obama, do Partido Democrata, gerou expectativa positiva na América Latina, região desdenhada pelo antecessor, George Bush, do Partido Republicano. Valorizar o continente seria prestigiar o Brasil. Todavia, o relacionamento não foi o esperado, embora sem grandes decepções também. The beginning of Barack Obama´s term produced positive expectations on Latin America, a continent which was ignored by his predecessor, George Bush. To give attention to Latin America implies giving prestige to Brazil.  Nonetheless the real relationship could not meet the expectations, although without causing great deceptions.

Black Orpheus, Barack Obama’s Governmentality

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Donald Pease

2011-09-01

Full Text Available This essay constitutes a preliminary effort to explain the state fantasy with which Barack Obama hegemonized an alternative to the biopolitical settlement normalizing George W. Bush’s Global War on Terror (Pease 2009. In what follows, I intend to argue that Obama has not utterly displaced Bush’s Homeland State of Exception but that Obama’s governmentality presupposes it as the structuring logic through which he transformed the US state’s relationship with domestic and planetary peoples. I will be interested in particular in the role that Obama’s complex negotiation with the congeries of racial fantasies that he found condensed in the figure and the film Black Orpheus played in Barack Obama’s governmentality.

Estados Unidos, poder cibernético e a “guerra cibernética: Do Worm Stuxnet ao Malware Flame/Skywiper – e além

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Bernardo Wahl Gonçalves de Araújo Jorge

2012-06-01

Full Text Available Inserido no contexto de um tema emergente nas relações internacionais, os conflitos cibernéticos, este artigo objetiva mostrar como os Estados Unidos, nos governos Bush (filho e Barack Obama, têm usado o poder cibernético, mais especificamente a “guerra cibernética” e a espionagem cibernética, para alcançar alguns objetivos de sua política externa. Inserted in the context of an emerging theme in international relations, cyber conflicts, this article aims to show how the United States, in the Bush (son and Barack Obama governments, have used the cyberpower, specifically "cyberwar" and cyber espionage, to achieve some goals of its foreign policy.

Bias in the Flesh: Skin Complexion and Stereotype Consistency in Political Campaigns.

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Messing, Solomon; Jabon, Maria; Plaut, Ethan

2016-01-01

There is strong evidence linking skin complexion to negative stereotypes and adverse real-world outcomes. We extend these findings to political ad campaigns, in which skin complexion can be easily manipulated in ways that are difficult to detect. Devising a method to measure how dark a candidate appears in an image, this paper examines how complexion varied with ad content during the 2008 presidential election campaign (study 1). Findings show that darker images were more frequent in negative ads-especially those linking Obama to crime-which aired more frequently as Election Day approached. We then conduct an experiment to document how these darker images can activate stereotypes, and show that a subtle darkness manipulation is sufficient to activate the most negative stereotypes about Blacks-even when the candidate is a famous counter-stereotypical exemplar-Barack Obama (study 2). Further evidence of an evaluative penalty for darker skin comes from an observational study measuring affective responses to depictions of Obama with varying skin complexion, presented via the Affect Misattribution Procedure in the 2008 American National Election Study (study 3). This study demonstrates that darker images are used in a way that complements ad content, and shows that doing so can negatively affect how individuals evaluate candidates and think about politics.

Bias in the Flesh

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Messing, Solomon; Jabon, Maria; Plaut, Ethan

2016-01-01

There is strong evidence linking skin complexion to negative stereotypes and adverse real-world outcomes. We extend these findings to political ad campaigns, in which skin complexion can be easily manipulated in ways that are difficult to detect. Devising a method to measure how dark a candidate appears in an image, this paper examines how complexion varied with ad content during the 2008 presidential election campaign (study 1). Findings show that darker images were more frequent in negative ads—especially those linking Obama to crime—which aired more frequently as Election Day approached. We then conduct an experiment to document how these darker images can activate stereotypes, and show that a subtle darkness manipulation is sufficient to activate the most negative stereotypes about Blacks—even when the candidate is a famous counter-stereotypical exemplar—Barack Obama (study 2). Further evidence of an evaluative penalty for darker skin comes from an observational study measuring affective responses to depictions of Obama with varying skin complexion, presented via the Affect Misattribution Procedure in the 2008 American National Election Study (study 3). This study demonstrates that darker images are used in a way that complements ad content, and shows that doing so can negatively affect how individuals evaluate candidates and think about politics. PMID:27257306

Nestle pärast tülli läinud linn / Michelle Conlin

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Conlin, Michelle

2008-01-01

Ameerikas Põhja-Californias asuva väikelinna McCloudi elanikud on vastu Nestle Watters North America plaanile rajada sinna USA suurim allikaveevillimistehase tootmiskompleks. Linnarahvas on jagunenud kahte leeri - ühed pooldavad uusi töökohti andva tehase rajamist, teised kardavad halba mõju keskkonnale ning linnale. Vt. samas: Kas meid tuleks pudelist võõrutada?

Measuring What Matters Workshop Report

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2015-01-14

Measuring What Matters Workshop Report Katie Stewart Julia Allen Michelle Valdez Lisa Young January 2015 TECHNICAL NOTE CMU/SEI-2015-TN...the approach using a simple objective: teaching a child to properly brush his/her teeth. Next, we demonstrate the approach using a cybersecurity...Ensure you child’s teeth are healthy. G1: Ensure your child has everything needed to brush his/her teeth. G2: Ensure your child is brushing his

Assessing the prevalence of autoimmune, endocrine, gynecologic, and psychiatric comorbidities in an ethnically diverse cohort of female fibromyalgia patients: does the time from hysterectomy provide a clue?

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Brooks, Larry; Hadi, Joseph; Amber, Kyle T; Weiner, Michelle; La Riche, Christopher L; Ference, Tamar

2015-01-01

Larry Brooks,1 Joseph Hadi,2 Kyle T Amber,1 Michelle Weiner,3 Christopher L La Riche,4 Tamar Ference1 1Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, 2Anesco Interventional Pain Institute, Margate, 3Miami Pain and Diagnostics, Miami, 4Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, Florida International University Wertheim College of Medicine, University Park, FL, USABackground: This retrospective chart review investigated differences in the preva...

Understanding the Electronic Structure of the a-B5C:Hx-to-Metal Interface

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2016-06-01

band lineup arguments, it was concluded that Cu should form a reasonable ohmic contact, but that Ni or Pd may be better suited as a hole injection...ohmic,’ which does not necessarily imply good band lineup or accumulation layer formation (typical markers of injecting/ohmic contacts), but rather a...for Identification of SNM in Unknown Shielding Configurations.’ HDTRA1-10-1-0092 Final Report 71 (4) Michelle M. Paquette – Promotion from

KSC kicks off African-American History Month

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2000-01-01

Clothed in her traditional African garb, Michelle Amos, mistress of ceremonies, welcomes the audience on Feb. 3 at the kick-off of African-American History Month. The theme for this year's observation is 'Heritage and Horizons: The African-American Legacy and the Challenges of the 21st Century.' February is designated each year as a time to celebrate the achievements and contributions of African Americans to Kennedy Space Center, NASA and the nation.

Endoglin: a critical mediator of cardiovascular health

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Kapur, Navin K; Morine, Kevin J; Letarte, Michelle

2013-01-01

Navin K Kapur,1 Kevin J Morine,1 Michelle Letarte2,31Molecular Cardiology Research Institute, Tufts Medical Center, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; 2Molecular Structure and Function Program, Hospital for Sick Children, 3The Heart and Stroke Foundation Richard Lewar Centre of Excellence, and the Department of Immunology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaAbstract: Endoglin (CD105) is a type III auxiliary receptor for the transforming growth factor ...

Military Training Lands Historic Context: Small Arms Ranges

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2010-03-01

Citation of trade names does not constitute an official endorsement or approval of the use of such commercial products. All product names and...National Archives in Col- lege Park, Maryland; Pat Lacey, ERDC-CERL Librarian ; Michelle Michael at Fort Bragg, NC; John Doss at Fort Bragg, NC; Laurie...and style of a property. It results from conscious decisions made during the original conception and planning of a property (or its sig- nificant

Monitoring and evaluation of sustained clinical performance and tuberculosis management in the South African mining industry

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2004-03-01

Full Text Available Advisory Committee Project Summary : SIM 02-08-02 Project Title: MONITORING AND EVALUATION OF SUSTAINED CLINICAL PERFORMANCE AND TUBERCULOSIS MANAGEMENT IN THE SA MINING INDUSTRY (22 pages) Author(s): Dr Jill Murray Dr Michelle Wong...-orientated data analyses. It was then possible to quantify the high proportion of pulmonary tuberculosis in miners that appeared to be undiagnosed during life (˜ 60%). SIMRAC Health 611 clearly demonstrated that significant problems exist with regard...

"Obamacare" vor dem Supreme Court / Guy Beaucamp

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2016-01-01

USA tervishoiureformi ajaloost, 2010. a. ravikindlustusreformist ja USA ülemkohtu otsusest jätta jõusse oluline osa president Barack Obama tervishoiureformist (PPACA), hinnang kohtuotsusele ja võrdlused Saksamaaga

Eesti tervishoid on tõesti hea. Aitäh, USA! / Scott Abel

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2010-01-01

Ameeriklane Scott Abel kirjutab, et president Barack Obama tervishoiureform mõjutab arstiabi ka Eestis. Vastukaja artiklile: Turay, Abdul. Kindla individualismi traditsioon // Postimees (2010) 30. märts, lk. 12

Lowering Barriers to Achieving Multiple Environmental Goals in the Chesapeake Bay

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In recognition of past unsuccessful restoration strategies for the Chesapeake Bay, President Obama signed Executive Order (EO) 13508 “Strategy for Protecting and Restoring the Chesapeake Bay Watershed” in 2009.

A guerra como instrumento do poder presidencial nos EUA: o caso da intervenção na Líbia

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2012-08-01

Full Text Available Analisa-se a decisão da participação dos EUA na intervenção militar na Líbia em 2011. O objetivo central é posicionar a decisão de Barack Obama de utilizar as forças armadas como um exercício dos poderes de guerra do presidente enquanto comandante-em-chefe e como executor de deliberações de órgãos multilaterais internacionais.   We analyze the decision of U.S. participation in military intervention in Libya (2011. The main objective is to position Barack Obama's decision to use the military as an exercise of war powers of the president as commander in chief and as a doer of the deliberations of international multilateral agencies.

Hillary Clinton sai kolmes osariigis valusalt lüüa / Heiki Suurkask

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2008-01-01

USA presidendi eelvalimistel võitis Barack Obama oma pearivaali Hillary Clintonit nii Louisianas, Nebraskas kui Washingtonis ja sisuliselt viigistas üleriigilise parteidelegaatide arvestuse. Vt. samas: Huckabee ei anna ikka veel alla

78 FR 54735 - National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month, 2013

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2013-09-06

... on Pathways to Wellness'' encourages all Americans to walk alongside family, friends, and neighbors... moving along the life-saving path to recovery. NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United...

Passive Reactive Berm to Provide Low Maintenance Lead Containment at Active Small Arms Firing Ranges: Field Demonstration

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2012-08-01

Containment at Active Small Arms Firing Ranges Field Demonstration E nv ir on m en ta l L ab or at or y Michelle Wynter, Steven L. Larson, W.A...efficiency of 37 to 100 percent can be achieved through the process of hydroxyapatite dissolution and hydroxypyromorphite [Pb10(PO4)6(OH)2...al. 2006; Tardy et al. 2003; USEPA 2001a). Application of soluble or solid phase phosphate (such as hydroxyapatite , HAP) amendments have been shown

RNAi as a Routine Route Toward Breast Cancer Therapy

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2014-05-01

Pipeline and Troubleshooting Juan Manuel Rosa-Rosa1, Francisco Javier Gracia-Aznárez1, Emily Hodges2, Guillermo Pita3, Michelle Rooks2, Zhenyu Xuan4...Ki67 and DAPI fluorescent staining, cells were fixed in ice-cold methanol and permeablized with 0.15% triton X-100. E-Cadherin antibody (Santa Cruz ...1:100 dilution), Vimentin antibody (Santa Cruz , 1:200 dilution), MCM7 antibody (Cell signaling, 1:100 dilution), p21 antibody (Cell Signaling, 1:400

Factors that influence exercise activity among women post hip fracture participating in the Exercise Plus Program

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Barbara Resnick; Denise Orwig; Christopher D′Adamo; Janet Yu-Yahiro; William Hawkes; et al

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Barbara Resnick1, Denise Orwig2, Christopher D’Adamo2, Janet Yu-Yahiro3, William Hawkes2, Michelle Shardell2, Justine Golden2, Sheryl Zimmerman4, Jay Magaziner21University of Maryland School of Nursing, 655 West Lombard Street, Baltimore, MD,21201, USA; 2University of Maryland School of Medicine, Howard Hall, Redwood Street, Baltimore MD 21201, USA; 3Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Union Memorial Hospital, Baltimore, USA; 4University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, 301 Pittsboro St., ...

The African Research Cloud - A Friendly Entry Point to Research Computing

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Walt, Anelda Van der; Pretorius, Boeta

2016-01-01

The slides were presented at the first African Research Cloud Workshop in Pretoria, South Africa on 27 - 28 October 2016 [1].The slides formed part of an introduction for a session about using cloud infrastructure, and specifically the African Research Cloud, for training purposes.The session was co-facilitated with Dr Bradley Frank and Dr Michelle Cluver.[1] "African Research Cloud Workshop." The Institute for Data Intensive Astronomy (IDIA). IDIA, n.d. Web. 3 Nov. 2016.  

The U.S. Department of Defenses Earned Value ManagementAnalyst Workforce

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2016-01-01

Military Departments or the Combat- ant Commands” ( Higgins and Ramsey, 2009, p. 2). 2 The Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) offers its workforce its...LeBlanc, Michelle Trigg, and Jonathan Higgins . The data call would not have been fielded without their expertise and support. Finally, we acknowledge...the BFM workforce. As indicated in Figure 3.1, EVM 101 (Fundamentals of EVM) is required for level I certification and EVM 201 ( Intermediate EVM) is

Effects of the Huguenot Diaspora on the American Revolution

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2016-06-10

Garland McGee, Mr. Harry DuBose, Mr. Edward Thomas, Ms. Lindie Newman , Mr. Mike Cantine, Ms. Carolyn Goff, Ms. Michelle Miller, and Dr. Marion Paris...to serve this young gentleman, and act a Part towards him which I am sure would be exceedingly agreeable to my Parents , who always expressed the...117 By far the most entertaining connection is that of the eccentric Peter Billière, veteran of the British Army, and self- styled “Christian Patriot

Overmoded W-Band Traveling Wave Tube Amplifier

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2014-11-24

perpendicular to the focusing electrode surface . The equipotentials direct the beam to a confined spot at the center of the anode. The angle of the focusing...The equipotential lines and particle trajectories as calculated by Michelle.124 5-9 The electric field in the electron gun for operation at 31 kV...electrons easily emit from the surface . Figure 2-3(a) shows the generic set-up. In this instance, the cathode releases electrons that accelerate over the gap

A Call to Service for America’s Youth

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2011-03-24

the most common disqualifiers for military service.2 On another occasion, while on a visit to Fort Jackson, South Carolina, First Lady Michelle... Dutch settlers employed similar policy supported by law in their colonies in New York, at the time known as New Amsterdam.16 The colonial policy was...Fitzpatrick, Vol. 26, p. 289. 2 Sheryl Gay Stolberg, ―Childhood Obesity Battle Is Taken Up by First Lady ,‖ New York Times, February 9, 2010. 3

Tugevad naised on tagasi / Naomi Wolf ; tõlk. Liisa Past

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Wolf, Naomi

2008-01-01

Autor arutleb, miks valis Barack Obama riigisekretäriks Hillary Clintoni. Autor nimetab H. Clintoni üheks vaieldamatuks saavutuseks tema maailmas tehtud rännakuid, kus ta on keskendunud naistele olulistele teemadele

Observatorio de Política Internacional III. EUROPA, ASIA y AFRICA - Israel. Autonomía Palestina ¿Un estado fallido?

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Neira Fernández, Enrique

2009-01-01

Obama, el nuevo presidente de Estados Unidos ha dicho que dentro de sus prioridades internacionales figura el tener algún progreso alrededor del problema Israel - Palestina. Estos son buenos augurios. 1-3

President Ilves kohtus Ameerika Ühendriikide presidendi Barack Obamaga

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2009-01-01

President Toomas Hendrik Ilves kohtus 15. juunil 2009 Washingtonis USA presidendi Barack Obama ja tema julgeolekunõuniku James Jonesiga. Vabariigi President töövisiidil Ameerika Ühendriikides 9.-16.06.2009

R and D ekes out an increase in FY 2015 budget request

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Kramer, David

2014-05-01

With spending caps in place, President Obama proposes an off-budget fund to support additional R and D. NASA would ground a flying observatory, and DOE would sharply curtail its nonproliferation programs.

BP erioperatsioon naftalekke peatamiseks nurjus / Jürgen Tamme

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Tamme, Jürgen

2010-01-01

Naftakompanii BP katse peatada Mehhiko lahe naftaleke ebaõnnestus, nüüd püütakse reostust peatada uue toru paigaldamise abil. USA president Barack Obama avaldas taas rahulolematust naftakompaniiga. Kaart

Scientific Integrity Policy Creation and Implementation.

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Koizumi, K.

2017-12-01

Ensuring the integrity of science was a priority for the Obama Administration. In March 2009, President Obama issued a Presidential Memorandum that recognized the need for the public to be able to trust the science and scientific process informing public policy decisions. In 2010, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) issued a Memorandum providing guidelines for Federal departments and agencies to follow in developing scientific integrity policies. This Memorandum describes minimum standards for: (1) strengthening the foundations of scientific integrity in government, including by shielding scientific data and analysis from inappropriate political influence; (2) improving public communication about science and technology by promoting openness and transparency; (3) enhancing the ability of Federal Advisory Committees to provide independent scientific advice; and (4) supporting the professional development of government scientists and engineers. The Memorandum called upon the heads of departments and agencies to develop scientific integrity policies that meet these requirements. At the end of the Obama Administration, 24 Federal departments and agencies had developed and implemented scientific integrity policies consistent with the OSTP guidelines. This year, there are significant questions as to the Trump Administration's commitment to these scientific integrity policies and interest in the Congress in codifying these policies in law. The session will provide an update on the status of agency scientific integrity policies and legislation.

Obama: towards an energy green new deal?

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2009-09-01

After the announcement of the very ambitious 'New Energy for America' plan, the author comments what could change, and what may not change in the U.S. energy policy. He recalls that most of the previous American presidents stressed a necessary energy independence which, in fact, has never been reached. He indicates that energy consumption per capita is particularly high in this country as well as greenhouse gas emissions which has been increasing during the last decades. The author highlights the heterogeneous situations which can be observed among the different states in terms of sources of energy and of electricity import. This heterogeneity renders rather difficult to reach a consensus on issues like carbon dioxide market. Then, the author discusses the influence of climate change on public awareness. In the second part of the article, the author discusses the relationship between energy consumption and economic growth in an historical perspective. He notices that some efforts in energy saving may finally result in an increase of energy consumption, that which questions the American way of life

Estonia President, Obama Discuss Cybersecurity / Eric Chabrow

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Chabrow, Eric

2009-01-01

President Toomas Hendrik Ilves kohtus 15. juunil 2009 Washingtonis USA presidendi Barack Obamaga. Riigipead arutasid küberkaitse küsimusi. Eesti president avaldas Ühendriikidele tänu abi eest küberkaitsekeskuse loomisel Tallinnasse. Vabariigi President töövisiidil Ameerika Ühendriikides 9.-16.06.2009

Vanadium research recharged

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Luntz, Stephen

2011-01-01

US President Barack Obama has described Maria Skyllas-Kazacos’ research as “one of the coolest things I’ve ever said out loud”. Vanadium redox batteries could be electricity’s ultimate storage mechanism.

Barack Obama’s infrastructure policies for the United States

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Auger, J.F.

2008-01-01

The new president of the United States, Barack Obama, has set his policies on infrastructures. To carry them out, he will resort mostly to economics incentives and, to a lesser extent, regulatory constraints.

Kohtumine, mida Kreml igatseb / Heiki Suurkask

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Suurkask, Heiki, 1972-

2009-01-01

Eelseisvast USA presidendi Barack Obama ja Venemaa presidendi Dmitri Medvedevi kohtumisest Londonis G20 tippkohtumise eel, kus tõenäoliselt arutatakse võimalusi kahe suurriigi omavaheliste suhete parandamiseks ning majanduskriisi ületamiseks

Sõltumatud kodanikud otsustavad superriigi juhi saatuse / Christopher Kukk ; interv. Priit Pullerits

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Kukk, Christopher

2008-01-01

Eesti päritolu Lääne-Connecticuti politoloogiaprofessor vastab küsimustele, mis puudutavad USA presidendivalimisi ja presidendikandidaatide Barack Obama ja John McCaini võimalusi. Vt. samas: Kes on Christopher Kukk?

Wat er geworden is van de Amerikaanse droom: democratie in de Nieuwe Wereld na Bush [Review of: M. Keller America's three regimes: a new political history; P. Bobbitt Terror and consent: the wars for the twenty-first century; S.S. Wolin Democracy incorporated: managed democracy and the specter of inverted totalitarianism; S. Wilentz The age of Reagan: a history, 1974-2008

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de Beus, J.

2009-01-01

Over de hele wereld verwacht men dat de komst van Obama zal zorgen voor een ommekeer binnen de Amerikaanse politiek. Wat schrijven de deskundigen van eigen bodem over de toekomst van hun grillige democratie?

Strategic sustainability performance plan

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2010-06-01

In October 2009, President Obama signed Executive Order (EO) 13514 that sets sustainability : goals for Federal agencies and focuses on making improvements in environmental, energy and : economic performance. The Executive Order requires Federal agen...

Déjà vu: supermän draakoni hammaste vahel / Neeme Raud

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Raud, Neeme, 1969-

2009-01-01

Autor analüüsib USA prsidendi Barack Obama visiiti Hiinasse ning kohtumist presidendi Hu Jintaoga, mis sarnanes suuresti president John F. Kennedy esimese kohtumisega NSV Liidu liidri Nikita Hruštšoviga

Meeting Complex Challenges Through National Security Reform

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Gockel, Kathy

2008-01-01

.... The Obama administration will have no shortage of advice pouring in from myriad sources on how to address the dynamic nature of security given the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the global financial turmoil...

78 FR 28461 - Military Spouse Appreciation Day, 2013

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2013-05-14

... Forces initiative, we have partnered with the private sector to expand hiring for military spouses and..., let us pledge once more to serve them as well as they serve us. NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA...

Development of a Laccase biosensor for determination of phenolic micropollutants in surface waters

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De Souza Gil, E

2014-01-01

Full Text Available stream_source_info Somerset_2014_ABSTRACT.pdf.txt stream_content_type text/plain stream_size 1677 Content-Encoding UTF-8 stream_name Somerset_2014_ABSTRACT.pdf.txt Content-Type text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sensing... Scalize2, Mariangela Fontes Santiago1,Michelle Pereira Quintino1, and Vernon Sydwill Somerset4 1 Faculty of Pharmacy, Federal University of Goiás,Goiânia,Brazil. 2 Faculty of Environmental Engineering, Federal University of Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil. 3...

Spinning droplets: non-first generation East and Southeast Asian Australian poets and the discourse of water

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McFarlane, Rosalind Nicole

2017-01-01

Poetry written by diasporic Asian groups in Australia has been gaining increasing attention, especially with the 2013 release of Contemporary Asian Australian Poets edited by Adam Aitken, Kim Cheng Boey and Michelle Cahill, the first anthology of this kind of work. This thesis aims to be the first instance of sustained critical attention paid to many of the poets included in this anthology, including Adam Aitken, Ivy Alvarez, Lachlan Brown, Lily Chan, Bella Li, Debbie Lim, Miriam Wei Wei Lo, ...

Helping Soldiers Leverage Army Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities in Civilian Jobs

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2017-01-01

soldiers by the end of fiscal year (FY) 2018 to reach a planned end strength of 450,000 ( Tan , 2015). This has increased the number of enlisted...Duration of Unemployment,” Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 49, No. 2, pp. 165–172. Kiefer, Nicholas M., and George R. Neumann (1979). “An...1989). “Estimating a Simultaneous Search Model,” Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 348–369. Tan , Michelle (June 10, 2015). “Army Lays Out

Simpósio de Geoarqueologia: temas abordados e resultados

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Silva, Rosiclér Theodoro da; Tizuka, Michelle Mayumi; López, Carlos E.; Favier-Dubois, Cristian M.; Kashimoto, Emília Mariko; Rubin, Julio Cezar Rubin de; Brochier, Laercio Loiola; Barberi, Maira; Rodet, Maria Jacqueline; Afonso, Marisa Coutinho; Cano, Martha Cecilia; Santos, Nicali Bleyer Ferreira dos; Kipnis, Renato; Tatumi, Sonia Hatsui

2015-01-01

Resumo: o Simpósio de Geoarqueologia da VI TAAS, coordenado por Rosiclér Theodoro da Silva e Michelle Mayumi Tizuka contou com a apresentação de nove trabalhos de pesquisadores do Brasil, Argentina e Colômbia. Este artigo trata de uma síntese dos temas abordados incluídos em: arqueologia e eventos climáticos, arqueologia e regiões costeiras, arqueologia da paisagem, arqueoestratigrafia, geoarqueologia de sistemas fluviais, arqueologia e vulcanismo. Seu objetivo principal é d...

Sur les traces de l'icône Michelle Bachelet à Genève

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Jourdan, Alain

2007-01-01

Chilean President visited CERN on Sunday and meeted her compatriots living in Geneva; she went to the CICR with the Swiss President, Micheline Calmy-Rey and asserted that there was no political prisoner in Chile (1,5 page)

Transportation challenges for the new administration : perspectives of past DOT secretaries

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2009-01-01

On January 29, 2009, the RAND Corporation hosted a panel discussion with three former U.S. secretaries of transportation. This wide-ranging discussion, held the week after President : Barack Obamas inauguration and during the congressional debate ...

Книга смутила политиков США / Хендрик Восман

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Восман, Хендрик

2010-01-01

John Heilemanni ja Mark Halperini raamat "Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime" põhineb rohkem kui 300 intervjuul ja kajastab dramaatilisi ning kõmulisi seiku presidendivalimiste telgitagustest

Uus raamat paljastab USA valimiste räpased telgitagused / Hendrik Vosman

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Vosman, Hendrik

2010-01-01

John Heilemanni ja Mark Halperini raamat "Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime" põhineb rohkem kui 300 intervjuul ja kajastab dramaatilisi ning kõmulisi seiku presidendivalimiste telgitagustest

76 FR 16700 - Reducing Regulatory Burden; Retrospective Review Under E.O. 13563

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2011-03-25

... for information. SUMMARY: In response to President Obama's Executive Order 13563, ``Improving... to determine how its regulations can increase efficiency, transparency, and provide accountability..., including any personal identifiers or contact information. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Robert Cushing...

Africa Development - Vol 38, No 1&2 (2013)

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US Foreign Policy under President Barack Obama and the Promotion of Multilateralism and the Rule of Law · EMAIL FREE FULL TEXT EMAIL FREE FULL TEXT · DOWNLOAD FULL TEXT DOWNLOAD FULL TEXT. AMB Mangu, 171-190 ...

Use of retractors and explainers in charismatic rhetoric: the case of four American presidents

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Iaroslav Kovalchuk

2013-05-01

Full Text Available This study examines the use of retractors and explainers in prepared political speeches of American charismatic presidents. It is based upon the results of psychological analysis of 24 speeches of John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, Barack Obama, and Gerald Ford. The research shows that certain differences may be found in the use of explainers and retractors not along the axis “Charismatic versus Non-Charismatic Presidents”, but with regard to their party affiliation. Rhetoric of Democratic presidents (Kennedy, Obama is characterized by a more explanatory communication style than of Republican ones (Reagan, Ford, which results in respective differences in the use of explainers. As for the retractors, all the four presidents under study tend to use the category moderately, which reveals them as emotionally controlled individuals, able to reconsider their decisions if necessary.

Undermining the ACA through the executive branch and federalism: what the Trump administration's approach to health reform means for older Americans.

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Jones, David K; Gusmano, Michael K; Nadash, Pamela; Miller, Edward Alan

2018-04-12

The ACA has survived multiple existential threats in the legislative and judicial branches, including dozens of congressional attempts at repeal and two major Supreme Court cases. Even as it seems that the ACA is here to stay, what the law accomplishes is far from settled. The Trump administration is using executive powers to weaken the law, in many cases using the same powers that President Obama used to strengthen the effects of the reform. States have responded by seeking flexibility to pursue reforms, such as work requirements, that could not pass Congress and that were not allowed by the Obama administration. There is no indication that the ACA is imploding as President Trump has predicted and seems to desire, although these changes have a real and substantial impact on the lives of many Americans, including the near-elderly in unique ways.

Development of Medical Technology for Contingency Response to Marrow Toxic Agents Held January 1, 2009 Through March 31, 2009

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2009-05-11

incorporating both allele and epitope level matching for HLA-DPB1. Accepted for oral presenation. o Z Shamim , L Ryder, M Haagenson , S Spellman, T Wang, S ...PROJECT NUMBER N/A 5e. TASK NUMBER Project 1, 2, 3, 4 6. AUTHOR( S ) Setterholm, Michelle 5f. WORK UNIT NUMBER N/A 7. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME( S ...N/A 10. SPONSOR/MONITOR’S ACRONYM( S ) ONR 9. SPONSORING/MONITORING AGENCY NAME( S ) AND ADDRESS(ES) Office of Naval Research 875 N. Randolph St

Google Science Fair 2012 : Grand Prize Winner Brittany Wenger

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Maximilien Brice

2012-01-01

17-18 age category AND Grand Prize Winner: Brittany Wenger (USA)—“Global Neural Network Cloud Service for Breast Cancer.” Brittany’s project harnesses the power of the cloud to help doctors accurately diagnose breast cancer. Brittany built an application that compares individual test results to an extensive dataset stored in the cloud, allowing doctors to assess tumors using a minimally-invasive procedure. Brittany Michelle Wenger, and her mother, passed through the CERN Control Centre accompanied by Mike Lamont, CERN Beams Department, Operation Group Leader.

Dr. Francis Collins Is New NIH Director

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... Ph.D., a physician and geneticist, is the new Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. President Barack Obama nominated Dr. Collins, who served as Director of ...

Wanneer sancties tegen Israël?

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Roels, Frank; Scheirlinck, Marie; Pinxten, Hendrik; Abicht, Ludo

2009-01-01

Although on June 4th president Obama called the situation of the Palestinian population "intolerable", the Israeli government has persisted in crimes against humanity. The authors call for a weapons embargo and political, financial and economic sanctions against Israel.

The Future of U.S. Landpower: Special Operations Versatility, Marine Corps Utility

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2013-01-01

forces-to-face- al-shabaab-lra-.html>. 72 Flynn. 73 Owens. 74 Sustaining U.S. Global Leadership, 3. 75 Jackie Calmes, “Obama and Gillard Expand U.S.-Australia Military Ties,” The New York Times, November 16, 2011.

Karzai nõuab USA-lt võitu, ähvardades muidu rahu teha / Heiki Suurkask

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Suurkask, Heiki, 1972-

2008-01-01

Afganistani president Hamid Karzai nõuab USA-lt ajakava selle kohta, millal NATO kavatseb Talibani üle võidu saavutada. Afganistanis visiidil viibinud USA president George W. Bush avaldas toetust Barack Obama kavale keskenduda veelgi enam Afganistanis sõdimisele

3 CFR 8343 - Proclamation 8343 of January 20, 2009. National Day of Renewal and Reconciliation, 2009

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2010-01-01

... land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.” NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by the...

76 FR 11243 - Solicitation of Input From Stakeholders To Inform the National Framework for Electronics Stewardship

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2011-03-01

... Stakeholders To Inform the National Framework for Electronics Stewardship AGENCY: Environmental Protection... inform the national framework for electronics stewardship that is being developed by the Interagency Task Force on Electronics Stewardship. On November 15, 2010, President Obama signed a presidential...

75 FR 41452 - Draft Guidance, “Federal Greenhouse Gas Accounting and Reporting”

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2010-07-16

... COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY Draft Guidance, ``Federal Greenhouse Gas Accounting and Reporting... Greenhouse Gas Accounting and Reporting.'' SUMMARY: On October 5, 2009, President Obama signed Executive Order (E.O.) 13514--Federal Leadership in Environmental, Energy, and Economic Performance (74 FR 52117...

Ex-diplomacy captain slags off the government / Povilas Gylys ; interviewed by Linas Jegelevicius

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Gylys, Povilas

2011-01-01

Leedu endine välisminister ei taha poliitikasse tagasi tulla, räägib Leedu majandusest ja ei ole rahul sellega, et USA presidendi Barack Obama käest kutse saanud Leedu riigipea Dalia Grybauskaite ei sõitnud Praha kohtumisele

77 FR 8809 - United States Travel and Tourism Advisory Board; Teleconference Meeting

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2012-02-15

... DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE International Trade Administration United States Travel and Tourism... Commerce. ACTION: Notice of an open teleconference meeting. SUMMARY: The United States Travel and Tourism... National Travel and Tourism Strategy (Strategy). The Executive Order was issued by President Barack Obama...

В Нью-Йорке поминали жертв 11 сентября / Неэме Рауд

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Рауд, Неэме, 1969-

2011-01-01

USA president Barack Obama ja välisminister Hillary Clinton rõhutasid 11. septembri terrorirünnaku aastapäeval, et Ameerika Ühendriigid ei tohi oma valvsust kaotada, sest terrorioht ei kao kuhugi. New Yorgis toimunud mälestustseremooniast

Doubts cast over success of US antimissile tests

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2010-07-01

Two physicists have expressed reservations about the reliability of an anti-ballistic missile - a key component of the US antimissile armour - and have accused the US's Missile Defence Agency (MDA) of deliberately misleading the Obama administration about its test results.

77 FR 1549 - Generalized System of Preferences (GSP): Notice of the Results of the 2010 GSP Annual Review

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2012-01-10

... OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES TRADE REPRESENTATIVE Generalized System of Preferences (GSP): Notice...-free importation of eligible articles when imported from designated beneficiary developing countries... review and the recommendation of the U.S. Trade Representative, President Obama removed one product...

End of Obamacare.

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Price, Jacqueline

2016-12-07

I write this with the results of the recent US presidential election fresh in my mind. In January 2017, Republican candidate Donald Trump will stand next to outgoing President Barack Obama at the White House and will be inaugurated president.

"Psychometric properties of the PTSD Checklist for Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-Fifth Edition (PCL-5) in veterans": Correction to Bovin et al. (2016).

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2017-06-01

Reports an error in "Psychometric properties of the PTSD Checklist for Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-Fifth Edition (PCL-5) in veterans" by Michelle J. Bovin, Brian P. Marx, Frank W. Weathers, Matthew W. Gallagher, Paola Rodriguez, Paula P. Schnurr and Terence M. Keane ( Psychological Assessment , 2016[Nov], Vol 28[11], 1379-1391). In the article, the departments and affiliations were incorrectly listed for authors Michelle J. Bovin, Brian P. Marx, Matthew W. Gallagher, Paola Rodriguez, Paula P. Schnurr, and Terence M. Keane. The first department and affiliation for authors Michelle J. Bovin, Brian P. Marx, Matthew W. Gallagher, Paola Rodriguez, and Terence M. Keane and should have read "National Center for PTSD at VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, Massachusetts". The first department and affiliation for author Paula P. Schnurr should have read "National Center for PTSD, White River Junction, Vermont." The online version of this article has been corrected. (The following abstract of the original article appeared in record 2015-55809-001.) This study examined the psychometric properties of the posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) Checklist for Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-Fifth Edition (PCL-5; Weathers, Litz, et al., 2013b) in 2 independent samples of veterans receiving care at a Veterans Affairs Medical Center (N = 468). A subsample of these participants (n = 140) was used to define a valid diagnostic cutoff score for the instrument using the Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale for DSM-5 (CAPS-5; Weathers, Blake, et al., 2013) as the reference standard. The PCL-5 test scores demonstrated good internal consistency (α = .96), test-retest reliability (r = .84), and convergent and discriminant validity. Consistent with previous studies (Armour et al., 2015; Liu et al., 2014), confirmatory factor analysis revealed that the data were best explained by a 6-factor anhedonia model and a 7-factor hybrid model. Signal

Ostatni pozytywista

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Michael Burawoy

2016-01-01

Full Text Available The Last Positivist The polemics between Piotr Sztompka and Michael Burawoy was originally published in Contempo­rary Sociology. A Journal of Reviews no 40/4 as Debate on International Sociology. The starting point of discussion between Piotr Sztompka and Michael Burawoy was the publication entitled Facing an Unequal World: Challenges for a Global Sociology (Volume One: Introduction, Latin America and Africa, 316 pp.; Volume Two: Asia, 362 pp.; Volume Three: Europe, and Concluding Reflections, 296 pp., edited by Michael Burawoy, Mau-kuei Chang and Michelle Fei-yu Hsieh (Taipei, Taiwan: Institute of Sociology at Academia Sinica, Council of National Associations of the International Sociological Association & Academia Sinica, 2010.   Ostatni pozytywista Prezentowana niżej polemika pt. Debata o socjologii międzynarodowej ukazała się w „Contemporary Sociology. A Journal of Reviews” 40, nr 4. Punktem wyjścia do dyskusji między Piotrem Sztompką i Michaelem Burawoyem była książka z 2010 roku Facing an Unequal World: Challenges for a Global Sociology (t. 1: Introduction, Latin America and Africa, ss. 316; t. 2: Asia, ss. 362; t. 3: Europe, and Conclu­ding Reflexions, ss. 296, pod redakcją Michaela Burawoya, Mau-kuei Changa i Michelle Fei-yu Hsieh, wydana w Tajpej przez Institute of Sociology at Academia Sinica, Council of National Associations of the International Sociological Association & Academia Sinica.

Kolejna socjologiczna utopia

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Piotr Sztompka

2016-01-01

Full Text Available Another sociological utopia The polemics between Piotr Sztompka and Michael Burawoy was originally published in Contempo­rary Sociology. A Journal of Reviews no 40/4 as Debate on International Sociology. The starting point of discussion between Piotr Sztompka and Michael Burawoy was the publication entitled Facing an Unequal World: Challenges for a Global Sociology (Volume One: Introduction, Latin America and Africa, 316 pp.; Volume Two: Asia, 362 pp.; Volume Three: Europe, and Concluding Reflections, 296 pp., edited by Michael Burawoy, Mau-kuei Chang and Michelle Fei-yu Hsieh (Taipei, Taiwan: Institute of Sociology at Academia Sinica, Council of National Associations of the International Sociological Association & Academia Sinica, 2010.   Kolejna socjologiczna utopia Prezentowana niżej polemika pt. Debata o socjologii międzynarodowej ukazała się w „Contemporary Sociology. A Journal of Reviews” 40, nr 4. Punktem wyjścia do dyskusji między Piotrem Sztompką i Michaelem Burawoyem była książka z 2010 roku Facing an Unequal World: Challenges for a Global Sociology (t. 1: Introduction, Latin America and Africa, ss. 316; t. 2: Asia, ss. 362; t. 3: Europe, and Conclu­ding Reflexions, ss. 296, pod redakcją Michaela Burawoya, Mau-kuei Changa i Michelle Fei-yu Hsieh, wydana w Tajpej przez Institute of Sociology at Academia Sinica, Council of National Associations of the International Sociological Association & Academia Sinica.

77 FR 14507 - Revision to Guidance, “Federal Greenhouse Gas Accounting and Reporting”

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2012-03-12

... accounting procedures. CEQ provides this draft revision of the guidance for public review and comment to... COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY Revision to Guidance, ``Federal Greenhouse Gas Accounting and..., ``Federal Greenhouse Gas Accounting and Reporting''. SUMMARY: On October 5, 2009, President Obama signed...

Putting Veterans to Work

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2012-02-13

council on matters such as education and training, transition, entrepreneurship , and employment. Tasks forces form, make recommendations, and dissolve...second only to the internet.68 Mrs. Obama announced at the Chamber of Commerce event of December 2011 that the International Franchising Association

A Basic Consideration on Urban Structure Analysis for Transportation Planning

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本多, 義明; 加藤, 哲男; 稲葉, 隆夫

1983-01-01

1n this paper,using the method of FACTOR ANALYS1S, urban structure analysis for transportation planning is considered. Study areas are Fukui city, Takefu city and Obama city. From thisanalysis,planning informations are obtained for prior analysis of usual transportation planning.

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would be the first woman candidate, and Barack Obama, who would be the first person of ... giving women the right to vote in 1920, or the black civil rights movement of the 1960's. ... people of India, irrespective of race, gender, or religion.

77 FR 25775 - Small Business Investment Companies-Early Stage SBICs

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2012-05-01

... expand entrepreneurs' access to capital and encourage innovation as part of President Obama's Start-Up... research, and addressing barriers to success for entrepreneurs and small businesses. II. Management... single year could substantially increase program risk. Therefore, SBA reserves the right, when licensing...

Iran: Politics, Human Rights, and U.S. Policy

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2017-02-17

Elections to the Assembly elections are held every 8-10 years (some variation in the term), conducted on a provincial basis. The fourth election for the...National Defense Authorization Act for FY2008 (H.R. 1585) requiring 20 Jeffrey Goldberg , “Obama to

From Frozen Ties to Strategic Engagement: U.S.-Iranian Relationship in 2030

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2015-05-01

proverb .1 NEW ADMINISTRATIONS AND THE POTENTIAL FOR CHANGE When Barack Obama assumed the U.S. presidency in 2009, he emphasized engagement with...Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat. Chinese proverb (apocryphally attributed to Sun Tzu).1 STEERING RELATIONSHIPS WITH KEY

What motivates a conspiracy theory? Birther beliefs, partisanship, liberal-conservative ideology, and anti-Black attitudes

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Pasek, Josh; Stark, Tobias H.|info:eu-repo/dai/nl/335996701; Krosnick, Jon A.; Tompson, Trevor

2015-01-01

Despite the release of his birth certificate, some Americans express continued skepticism over whether Barack Obama was born in the United States. This study examined two possible causes of birther beliefs: that Republicans and conservatives, whose ideological beliefs and policy preferences led to

The United States and Myanmar: From Antagonists to Security Partners?

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Jürgen Haacke

2015-01-01

Full Text Available This article provides an overview both of the considerable makeover that relations between the United States and Myanmar have undergone since Naypyidaw ushered in a programme of wide-ranging reforms, and of the main policy areas in relation to which Washington remains keen to induce further change. The article also aims to explain why, notwithstanding the significant improvement in bilateral relations and the Obama administration’s interest in also pursuing military engagement, progress in this field has remained rather limited. Focusing on the politics of US policymaking on Burma, the article argues that while the Obama administration was able to take the initiative on recalibrating US Burma policy, congressional resistance in particular, amid wider concerns shared by non-governmental organisations, has so far constrained the administration vis-à-vis US–Myanmar military-to-military relations.

Obama’s European policy and the transatlantic relations

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Juan Tovar Ruiz

2013-09-01

Full Text Available The Transatlantic relationship has been one of the most important pillars for stability and security in the international system in the 20th Century. During the first Obama Administration, a new, different debate was opened concerning its relevance. From the divergences over the Iraq War and the scarce expenditures on defense of the European allies, the importance of transatlantic relations has been called into question due to changes in the global balance of power and the rise of emergent powers, the loss of strategic interest by new generations of American leaders and, finally, the economic crisis and the new debate on the decline of Europe. In spite of all that, a more careful analysis of the Obama Administration´s discourse and foreignpolicy leads the author to conclude that this Alliance will maintain its pre-eminence over the mid-term future.

Narrator-in-Chief

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Herron, Mark A.

. The use of narratives of and by presidents in the White House can be seen as an essential part of the ceremonial role of the presidency. This use of narratives in epideictic speech has increased with modern day interests in the domestic life of the president, and the use of visual mass media......The dissertation Narrator-in-Chief: The Narrative Rhetoric of Barack Obama seeks to show how the concept of “narrative” can be used in rhetorical criticism of presidential speeches, particularly when considering the speeches and the biographical text, Dreams from My Father (1995), of Barack Obama...... as a communication platform for the president. While this has been described as a negative development (Stuckey, 1991; Salmon, 2010) this dissertation argues that narrative rhetoric should not be seen only as a negative part of political rhetoric, but also as a possibly vital way to educate the audience on issues...

Comunicación Política en Chile Análisis de las Elecciones Presidenciales 2009-2010

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Vergara Maldonado, Luis Felipe

2014-01-01

Este estudio pretende analizar la elección presidencial vivida en Chile en 2009-2010, como un ejemplo histórico de estrategia en la ejecución del marketing y la comunicación política. Luego de cuatro gobiernos de la coalición concertacionista (centro-izquierda), con 20 años en el poder y con un último gobierno cuya presidenta Michelle Bachelet terminó con una aprobación cercana al 80% , pierden sorprendentemente la elección. Paralelamente el conglomerado opositor (Alianza por Chile) logra ...

Former Intern: Skills Used For a Lifetime | Poster

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Michelle Marcelino developed a strong interest in science as a child. The former Werner H. Kirsten student intern’s father was a physicist and often discussed with his daughters how the world works in terms of science. “I think my father instilled it in me from a very young age,” Marcelino said. “I remember being in elementary school and my father telling us colors are just wavelengths of light perceived by your eye. That’s my dad, explaining that concept in detail to a child.” 

Fieldtrip Lebanon

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Pace, Michelle; Hansen, Bent S. E.; Kjøller Olsen, Brian

2017-01-01

This handbook is the sum of the experiences of 20 social workers and a researcher on a fieldtrip to Lebanon during August 2017. The handbook was created from the participants’ notes, collected and interpreted and put together by Michelle Pace, Bent SE Hansen and Brian Kjøller Olsen. This manual...... offers a platform through which good practices of all those working with young arrivals in host communities can be shared with their counterparts not just across Denmark and Lebanon, but hopefully across other European and MENA host societies....

77 FR 15022 - Presidential Memorandum of February 21, 2012; Driving Innovation and Creating Jobs in Rural...

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2012-03-14

... procurement throughout the Federal Government by adding elements related to acquisition planning, evaluation..., including measuring the annual number of procurements that include direct purchase of biobased products, the... Sustainable Product Procurement On February 21, 2012, President Barack Obama issued a memorandum to the Heads...

3 CFR 8455 - Proclamation 8455 of November 20, 2009. National Farm-City Week, 2009

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2010-01-01

... our valuable natural resources and diverse ecosystems. Their connections with urban and suburban... deliver agricultural goods to feed our country and grow our economy. NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA... the accomplishments of all who dedicate their lives to promoting our Nation’s agricultural abundance...

Browse Title Index

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A Chetoui, H.E. Malki, M Bahous, J Rhissassi, R Sayah, M Laaroussi .... Obama, Jean- Jacques Muyembe Tamfum, Elisabeth Pukuta Simbu, Sheilagh Brigitte Smit, Balcha Masresha, Robert Tyrrell Perry, Mary Margaret Alleman, Katrina Kretsinger, James Goodson ... JJ Gwimile, SA Shekalaghe, GN Kapanda, ER Kisanga.

76 FR 40420 - Pilot Program on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Long-Haul Trucking Provisions

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2011-07-08

..., President Clinton modified the moratorium and the ICC began accepting applications from Mexico-domiciled... risk to the American public. Later that month, President Bush modified the moratorium to permit Mexico... 19, 2010, President Obama and Mexico's President Felipe Calderon Hinojosa issued a joint statement...

Väljavaade 2009. aastaks / George Soros ; tõlkinud Janek Salme

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Soros, George, 1930-

2009-01-01

Hea rahvusvahelise koostöö korral võib maailmamajandus hakata sügavast august välja ronima 2010. aasta lõpus, maailmamajanduse tulevik sõltub suuresti sellest, kas USA president Barack Obama algatab ulatusliku abinõude paketi ning kui edukalt see ellu viiakse

78 FR 78890 - Comparability Determination for Japan: Certain Transaction-Level Requirements

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2013-12-27

.... II. Background On July 21, 2010, President Obama signed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and.... Failure to comply with any relevant laws and regulations, Supervisory Guidelines or Inspection Manuals... thereto''). \\39\\ The Commission retains its examination authority, both during the application process as...

Representing Lithuania's strongest ally / Anne E. Derse ; interviewed by Rokas M. Tracevskis

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Derse, Anne E., 1954-

2011-01-01

USA suursaadik Leedus räägib, et USA kavatseb kontrollida Mihhail Golovatovi juhtumiga tegeleva komisjoni tööd, rõhutab, et president Barack Obama tahab investeerida haridusse ja et USA-Leedu suhetes on julgeolekul tähtis osa. Leedu kogukonnast Ameerika Ühendriikides

75 FR 21146 - Public Input on Reform of the Housing Finance System

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2010-04-22

...Consistent with the Obama Administration's commitment to openness and transparency and the President's Open Government Initiative, the Department of the Treasury (Treasury) and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) seek public input on establishing a more stable and sound housing finance system.

A Comparative Review of a Dozen National Energy Plans. Focus on Renewable and Efficient Energy

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Logan, Jeffrey [National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States); James, Ted L. [National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)

2009-03-01

Dozens of groups have submitted energy, environmental, and economic recovery plans for consideration by the Obama administration and the 111th Congress. This report provides a comparative analysis of 12 national proposals, focusing especially on energy efficiency (EE) and renewable energy (RE) market and policy issues.

Comparative Review of a Dozen National Energy Plans: Focus on Renewable and Efficient Energy

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Logan, J.; James, T. L.

2009-03-01

Dozens of groups have submitted energy, environmental, and economic recovery plans for consideration by the Obama administration and the 111th Congress. This report provides a comparative analysis of 12 national proposals, focusing especially on energy efficiency (EE) and renewable energy (RE) market and policy issues.

Botsende wereldbeelden: Amerika en Europa

NARCIS (Netherlands)

von der Dunk, T.

2009-01-01

Thomas von der Dunk argues that the world views of Americans and Europeans are fundamentally different. Now that Barack Obama has been elected the new President of the United States hopes are high that the transatlantic relations, which have strongly deteriorated during the two Bush Administrations