Human Rights Violations After 9/11 and the Role of Constitutional Constraints

human rights, terrorism, 9/11, checks and balances, constitutions, constitutional courts

Three Essays on Behavioral and Applied Game Theory.

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Efecto de las fracciones soluble en insoluble de la fibra de la pulpa de manzana sobre la digestibilidadi ileal y fecal en conejos

El objetivo del presente trabajo fue estudiar el efecto de la fibra soluble e insoluble de pulpa de manzana sobre la digestibilidad ileal y fecal en conejos. Se formularon cuatro piensos con niveles similares de fibra insoluble (FND 32,4%) y proteína (18,6%, ambos sobre MS). El nivel de fibra soluble fue bajo en el pienso control (4,6%, su fibra procedió de cascarilla de avena y paja) y aumentó en los piensos con pulpa de manzana depectinizada (7,1%), pulpa de manzana (9,3%) y pectinas de manzana (10,5%). Se determinó la digestibilidad fecal en 23 gazapos/pienso entre los 55 y los 59 d de edad, y se sacrificaron 23 gazapos/pienso a los 60 d de edad para proteger la digesta ileal y determinar la digestibilidad ileal

University Student Equity Initiatives: An Examination of the Efficacy of Programs and Practices to Inform Best Practice

This thesis identifies “Indicators of Success” for university student equity programs funded through the Higher Education Participation and Partnerships Program (HEPPP). This research focussed on practitioner perspectives of evaluation and reporting practices for equity programs which seek to widen participation in higher education by disadvantaged groups within the community. This research has produced an “Indicators of Success” framework and good practice model, at a time of heightened discussion about the evaluation of HEPPP funded programs

Pragmatic dramaturgy: the creative management of limits in performance-making processes.

This thesis proposes the lens of pragmatic dramaturgy as a way of understanding the complex interactions between process and performance that define theatre practice, and investigates the ways in which performance making practice is shaped by encounters with a range of limits that impact the creative process

Multilingualism, Language Trouble, and Linguistic Infelicity in Early Modern English Writing, 1550-1642

Early modern intercultural exchange is characterized by the need to find a common language. Depictions of that exchange for an English audience tend to translate that improvised, ad hoc work in ways that downplay the uncertainty and promote the image of the triumphant English traveler or translator. Evidence of these extemporaneous exchanges nonetheless remains visible in early modern writing. In “Multilingualism, Language Trouble, and Linguistic Infelicity in Early Modern English Writing, 1550-1642,” I argue that these linguistic workarounds are linked to writers’ imaginings of their role in international exchange and the formation of an English proto-national identity. This dissertation looks at how “language trouble,” my term for how the possibility of perfect communication goes awry, is depicted in a variety of genres. Chapter 1, “Language as Travail: Language Trouble in Depictions of Early Modern Emissaries,” focuses on emissaries (unofficial ambassadors who cast themselves as advocates for England’s political interests abroad) and the ways their accounts erase the possibility of failure in multilingual communication. By comparing letters, published first-person accounts, and staged depictions of historical events, I examine how the complications of documented situations were packaged for an English public’s consumption. I argue that fictional accounts (such as If You Know Not Me, You Know Nobody and The Travels of the Three English Brothers) present a fantasy of perfect communication in which English Protestant interests triumph; published narratives and private communication, instead, work to diminish the possibility of miscommunication. Chapter 2, “Language as Workaround: Multilingualism in Travel Narratives,” examines prose narratives of “merchant venturers”: traders, captains, sailors, and others who participated in transnational mercantile economies. This chapter takes up one genre of text written by many different types of authors to illustrate the variety of potential failures in linguistic workarounds, both those experienced and those avoided, with which early modern venturers were preoccupied. No one narrative emerges as the genre’s standard, indicating how situational and contingent these workarounds were. Chapter 3, “Language as Labor: Learning, Language Manuals, and Multilingual Discourse,” turns to multilingual dictionaries and language manuals to more fully address questions of imperfection and sufficiency that previous chapters raise. Early modern dictionary compositors were distinctly aware of the impossibility of creating the perfect dictionary, and developed discourses emphasizing sufficiency to assuage the readers that their product would provide a good enough framework for the level of learning at which it was advertised. Finally, Chapter 4, “Language as Performance: The Pleasures of Failure and the Role of Understanders on the English Stage,” looks at the ways in which linguistic infelicity depicted on the early modern stage indicates social or national boundary-crossing. Plays such as Jonson’s Volpone, Shakespeare’s Love’s Labours Lost, and Middleton’s A Chaste Maid in Cheapside show how the humor to which that linguistic infelicity regularly gave rise demonstrates the limits of social mobility. By examining linguistic infelicity by genre as well as by subject, I argue that there is no one framework by which to examine early modern language trouble: multilingual communication is heterogenous, messy, and resistant to easy categorization.PHDEnglish Language & LiteratureUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/149974/1/eshearer_1.pd

Have euro area and EU economic governance worked? Just the facts

We test whether two key elements of the EU and euro area economic governance framework, the Stability and Growth Pact and the Lisbon Strategy, have had any impact on macroeconomic outcomes. We test this proposition using a difference-in-difference approach on a panel of over 30 countries, some of which are non-EU (control group). Hence, the impact of the EU economic governance pillars is evaluated based on both the performance before and after their application as well as against the control group. We find strong and robust evidence that neither the Stability and Growth Pact nor the Lisbon Strategy have had a significant beneficial impact on fiscal and economic performance outcomes. We conclude that a profound reform of these pillars is needed to make them work in the next decade. JEL Classification: E62, E63, H63, O43euro area, European Union, governance, institutions, Lisbon Strategy, Stability and Growth Pact