Who Speaks for the State?: Religious Speakers on Government Platforms and the Role of Disclaiming Endorsement

The recent Supreme Court decision in Santa Fe Independent School District v. Doe prohibits prayer at school-sponsored events. In this Article the author analyzes the development of Supreme Court jurisprudence in the area of religion in public schools. Noting the tension between the Establishment and Free Speech Clauses, the author proposes the use of disclaimers to allow student expression at school events to avoid violating the Establishment Clause

POLITICAL LEADERSHIP AND VOTING BEHAVIOUR IN NORTH EASTERN REGION OF KENYA

Today, voters tend to evaluate party leaders based on a group of categories that incudes integrity, reliability, and competence. Such evaluation criterion is hardly considered irrational. This study aimed at establishing the effect of political leadership on voting behaviour in the north eastern part of Kenya. It used descriptive research design. The target population was 159 political leaders and 354, 061 registered voters. The sample size was made of 81 political leaders and 322 registered voters. Qualitative data was analysed by use of content analysis while quantitative data was analysed by use of Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 21. The study established that leaders personality traits influence voting behaviour in North Eastern Kenya most followed by past performance, leadership style and leadership capacity. The study also found out that authoritarian leaders employ coercive tactics to enforce the rule and manipulate people in decision- making while transformational leaders demonstrate human understanding and guide others in creating and embracing a vision. Finally, social dominance, communication cues, political ideology, and competence were found to be a major influence on voting behaviour in North Eastern Kenya. The study recommends that political leaders should be made to avoid authoritarian leadership. Instead, they should employ servant leadership, charismatic leadership and transformational leadership. Leaders should ensure stakeholders involvement in decision-making, project implementation and avoid voter manipulations

Synthesis and physicochemical properties of spherical catalysts based on TiO2-SiO2/MxOy, where M - Co, Cr

Catalysts TiO2-SiO2 composition in the form of hollow spheres modified cobalt and chromium was obtained. Spatial structure of spherical samples after heat treatment was study by method of 3D microtomography. Status cations of transition elements and titanium was characterized by UV-Vis DRS. The catalysts were tested in the oxidation reaction of heptane

Pola pemukiman daerah pedesaan daerah Kalimantan Tengah

Buku ini berisi tentang pola pemukiman daerah pedesaan daerah Kalimantan Tengah yang meliputi tantangan lingkungan dan hasil tindakan penduduk

Studies of sorghum leaf blight incited by Excerohilum turcicum (Pass) Leo. & Suggs

Results of laboratory and greenhouse experiments carried out at ICRISAT Center to study: a) pathogenicity tests and inoculation methods of the fungus Excerohilum turcicum on sorghum, b) effects of temperature and media on growth and sporulation production of E. turcicum, c) infection process of the fungus on leaf blight resistant sorghum cultivar IS 8283 and leaf blight susceptible cultivar Framida, d) susceptibility to leaf blight of sorghum at different growth stages, e) pathogenicity of isolates of the fungus from maize and sorghum collected from different localities on maize and sorghum genotypes were discusse

Spectroscopy of vibrational modes in metal nanoshells

We study the spectrum of vibrational modes in metal nanoparticles with a dielectric core. Vibrational modes are excited by the rapid heating of the particle lattice that takes place after laser excitation, and can be monitored by means of pump-probe spectroscopy as coherent oscillations of transient optical spectra. In nanoshells, the presence of two metal surfaces results in a substantially different energy spectrum of acoustic vibrations than for solid particles. We calculated the energy spectrum as well as the damping of nanoshell vibrational modes. The oscillator strength of fundamental breathing mode is larger than that in solid nanoparticles. At the same time, in very thin nanoshells, the fundamental mode is overdamped due to instantaneous energy transfer to the surrounding medium