Conceptualizing and Reconceptualizing the Reporter’s Privilege in the Age of Wikileaks

The examination of the reporter’s privilege in light of WikiLeaks gives rise to several imperative questions. Could WikiLeaks claim a federal reporter’s privilege if the U.S. government were to ask it to disclose the sources of its documents? Does the current federal law on reporter’s privilege adequately address new media, such as WikiLeaks? And if not, how should the law evolve to sufficiently accommodate organizations like WikiLeaks? This Note seeks to answer these questions. First, this Note advocates that WikiLeaks would be able to claim the privilege under current federal law. Second, this Note concludes that the current law on the reporter’s privilege has not sufficiently evolved to account for entities like WikiLeaks. Third, this Note discusses policy proposals to address the current shortcomings and ultimately advocates for a qualified privilege, the scope of which is determined by the source’s expectations, where the reporter presents the source’s expectations in court on behalf of the source

Computer-mediated conferencing

This section addresses issues of Computer-Mediated Conferencing (CMC) as a teaching and learning resource, concentrating upon skills development within that context. The materials are appropriate for different experience levels of learners and provide a range of pathways to the materials and resources as appropriate for any individual learner or learner group

Evaluation of the advance/anticipatory care planning (ACP) facilitators training programme

This report presents an overview of the findings of the three phases of the study and assesses the degree to which the Facilitator Training Programme and Resource Pack have prepared the cohort of facilitators with the knowledge, skills and tools to deliver training initiatives in ACP to address local and regional needs

Insight Report: Contexts of use of Learning Design Support Tools

Prepared by Dr Rachel A Harris, Inspire Research Ltd with input from Seb Schmoller, Association for Learning Technology (ALT) December 2011 for The Learning Design Support Environment Project

The Oil is Sizzling in the Pot’: Sound and Emotion in Uyghur Qur'anic Recitation

How do Muslims in different parts of the world recite and how do they hear the sound of the Qur'an? What are the purposes of their recitation, and what meanings do they associate with it? In this article I analyse one ritual performance of Qur'anic recitation and dhikr conducted by Uyghur village women in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of north-western China, exploring the ritual performance of emotion, emotional responses to the sounded Qur'an, local and global styles and meanings. The women engaged in this ritual draw on the wider tradition of Islamic culture and practice, yet their access to, interpretation of and even the way in which they embody this rich tradition is particular to their time and place, their social class and their gender. I consider the relevance to this context of the literature on Qur'anic recitation and dhikr in other parts of the world, and discuss some of the wider musicological and anthropological approaches to emotion, arguing that emotional responses to the Qur'an are contextually situated social practices, part of a habitus of listening, best explained by a focus on the embodied experience of sound

A Langmuir approach on monolayer interactions to investigate surface active peptides

The Langmuir Blodgett apparatus provides a versatile system for studying the interfacial properties of peptides and peptide-membrane interactions under controlled conditions. Using amphiphilic α-helical peptides to highlight studies undertaken, here we discuss the use of this system to provide information on the surface activity of peptides and describe the insights these studies give into biological functio

Comparing the length of maternal verbal initiations with the length of maternal verbal responses

Includes bibliographical references.The current study examined if the length of maternal verbal initiations and maternal verbal responses were different. Thirty-one 13-month-old infants interacted with their mothers for six minutes while experimenters observed and videotaped from an adjacent room. Mothers were given a standard toy set and asked to play as they typically would. Videos of the mother-infant dyads were transcribed in SALT and mothers’ verbal initiations and verbal responses during the play session were identified. Maternal verbalresponses were further categorized as responses to infant vocalizations, responses to infant verbalizations, maternal imitative responses, and maternal non-imitative responses. Mothers’ verbal initiations were significantly longer than mothers’ verbal responses to infant vocal/verbal behavior. Maternal responses to infant vocalizations were found to be significantly longer than maternal responses to infant verbalizations. In response to infant verbalizations, mothers responded more frequently with imitative responses than nonimitative responses. These conclusions demonstrate that as infants begin using more words to communicate during the second year of life, mothers’ MLU decreases because more of mothers’ utterances are responses to the increasing number of infant words.B.S. (Bachelor of Science

The Changing Uyghur Religious Soundscape

Recent studies in the anthropology of Islam have called for a new understanding of the relationship between global forms of Islam and local priorities, new ideologies and everyday religious experience. This article addresses these concerns in the context of Uyghur society in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China where communities are increasingly engaging with transnational currents of Islamic ideology, and increasingly under pressure from the state that conflates religiosity with anti-state activity and extremist terrorism. The article focuses on Islamic media, in particular at the ways in which rural Uyghur women experience and reproduce globalized forms of Islamic media. It aims to understand how the most marginalized sectors of society are engaging with these changing religious ideologies and practices. The theoretical frame draws on notions of the ‘soundscape’, which explore the ways in which sound, practices of listening and perceptions of sound, may be central to making sense of the world around us

The effects of bag style on muscle activity of the trapezius, erector spinae and latissimus dorsi during walking in female university students

© by The Author(s). This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License. (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)Back pain is common in adolescents which has been associated with carrying a bag. However, there is little research examining the effects of bag style in female adolescents. The aim of the study was to investigate the effects of different bag conditions on muscle activity of the trapezius, erector spinae and latissimus dorsi muscles in female university students during walking. Twelve female university students walked on a treadmill for 5 minutes at 1.1 m/s during five conditions; control, 1 strapped rucksack, 2 strapped rucksack, ipsilateral shoulder strap and contralateral shoulder strap, each containing 10% bodyweight. Electromyography for the trapezius, erector spinae and latissimus dorsi was recorded for the last 30 s of each condition. Two-way ANOVA and paired t-tests were used to identify differences between right and left muscles and between bag conditions. Results showed that muscle activity of the left trapezius was significantly higher than the right trapezius during the 1 strap rucksack condition. For the left trapezius, the 2 strapped rucksack and the control condition had significantly lower muscle activity compared to the 1 strapped rucksack and the ipsilateral shoulder strap. For the left erector spinae muscle, there was significantly greater muscle activity when wearing the contralateral shoulder strap compared to the control. For the right erector spinae, significantly lower muscle activity was observed when wearing the 2 strapped rucksack compared to the ipsilateral shoulder strap and contralateral shoulder strap. There were no significant differences in muscle activity of the latissimus dorsi muscles between any of the bag conditions. These findings suggest that a two strapped rucksack should be used when carrying loads to reduce spinal muscle activity which may, in turn, reduce reports of back pain in female adolescentPeer reviewedFinal Published versio