Armenia and Azerbaijan\u27s Struggle with Occupation in Nagorno-Karabakh

The corrupt occupation of Nagorno-Karabakh and its surrounding areas has resulted in displaced civilians, chaotic military violence, poor judicial law-making, and hostile international relations. Analyzing the international law of occupation’s purposes and its humanitarian requirements illustrates that there is a need for change. Set against the backdrop of Nagorno-Karabakh’s precarious situation, the international community should take this opportunity to reformulate the international law of occupation with sovereignty and humanitarian principles guiding the change. The effort could prevent another such “frozen conflict.

Fine-scale Identification of the Most Likely Source of a Human Plague Infection

We describe an analytic approach to provide fine-scale discrimination among multiple infection source hypotheses. This approach uses mutation-rate data for rapidly evolving multiple locus variable-number tandem repeat loci in probabilistic models to identify the most likely source. We illustrate the utility of this approach using data from a North American human plague investigation

Regional-scale groundwater flow and salt transport models for exploring agro-environmental remediation strategies in an irrigated river valley

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Armenia and Azerbaijan\u27s Struggle with Occupation in Nagorno-Karabakh

The corrupt occupation of Nagorno-Karabakh and its surrounding areas has resulted in displaced civilians, chaotic military violence, poor judicial law-making, and hostile international relations. Analyzing the international law of occupation’s purposes and its humanitarian requirements illustrates that there is a need for change. Set against the backdrop of Nagorno-Karabakh’s precarious situation, the international community should take this opportunity to reformulate the international law of occupation with sovereignty and humanitarian principles guiding the change. The effort could prevent another such “frozen conflict.

From Villain to Superhero: Evolution of the Novel’s Lawyer Stereotype from the Nineteenth through the Twenty-First Century

This thesis analyzes the evolution of the lawyer character from the novels of the early 19th century through those of the modern day. The representation of the lawyer character illustrates the contemporary view of lawyers in society and also provides a framework of the relationship between the lawyer and the common man

Clinical and Radiographic Evaluation of Ulnar-Sided Wrist Pain

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Ulnar-sided wrist pain is a challenging diagnostic workup. A thorough and complete physical examination followed by appropriate radiographic studies can help the clinician diagnose and treat these conditions. RECENT FINDINGS: Recent research has been focused on diagnostic modalities such as arthroscopy and high-resolution MRI. Ulnar-sided wrist pain is a challenging clinical workup that must be approached systematically with the aid of adjunctive diagnostic modalities

The Wish List: Articulating and Responding to New Teachers\u27 Concerns

Although it is possible to cite general trends about the concerns of beginning teachers, each beginner will have specific needs and questions. Clearly, mentoring matters, and mentors are especially helpful when they recognize and attend to the beginners\u27 specific needs. Here, ErinnvBentley describes a Wish List she developed as a novice teacher which she used as a method for clearly and specifically documenting skills she wanted to learn. This list contained both general teaching skills and those particular to her teaching context. Throughout her first years in the classroom she used the Wish List as a personal professional development guide: continually referring to the list, adding new skills or concepts, and systematically looking for mentors for guidance. (Contains 1 figure.

Simulation of Heat Flow in a Synthetic Watershed: Lags and Dampening across Multiple Pathways under a Climate-Forcing Scenario

Although there is widespread agreement that future climates tend toward warming, the response of aquatic ecosystems to that warming is not well understood. This work, a continuation of companion research, explores the role of distinct watershed pathways in lagging and dampening climate-change signals. It subjects a synthetic flow and transport model to a 30-year warming signal based on climate projections, quantifying the heat breakthrough on a monthly time step along connected pathways. The system corresponds to a temperate watershed roughly 27 km on a side and consists of (a) land-surface processes of overland flow, (b) infiltration through an unsaturated zone (UZ) above an unconfined sandy aquifer overlying impermeable bedrock, and (c) groundwater flow along shallow and deep pathlines that converge as discharge to a surface-water network. Numerical simulations show that about 40% of the warming applied to watershed infiltration arrives at the water table and that the UZ stores a large fraction of the upward-trending heat signal. Additionally, once groundwater reaches the surface-water network after traveling through the saturated zone, only about 10% of the original warm-up signal is returned to streams by discharge. However, increases in the simulated streamflow temperatures are of similar magnitude to increases at the water table, due to the addition of heat by storm runoff, which bypasses UZ and groundwater storage and counteracts subsurface dampening. The synthetic modeling method and tentative findings reported here provide a potential workflow for real-world applications of climate-change modeling at the full watershed scale