Despite seemingly discriminatory practices at the border directed towards US citizens, no formal academic work has been conducted on the subject. This study is the first of its kind, which examines the phenomenon of the denying and banning of US citizens from the external Israeli border crossings. It draws upon the cases of 110 US citizens who have been banned or denied from the external Israeli border crossings from 1987-2015. This study finds that denial is often associated with Palestinian Americans, Arab Americans, Muslim Americans, Black Americans and Americans who personally identify as activists or are considered by border officials to be so. It argues that Israel’s actions at their border crossings have become increasingly standardized over time through practices of “stealth authoritarianism” that create the veneer of due process in the execution of a denial or ban and lead to difficulties pursuing redress. Finally, this study puts forth how this practice fits within the broader context of Israeli policies regarding the subjugation of Palestinians living in the occupied Palestinian territories and Israel proper as well as individuals suspected of being activists working towards Palestinian liberation. Ultimately, this study hopes to lay a multi-disciplinary groundwork for understanding the implications of the denial and banning of US citizens at the external Israeli border crossings for those who wish to pursue the topic in the future.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Dong wu da xue, 1991. / Cover title. Reproduced from typescript. Includes bibliographical references (p. 423-433).

L’étude proposée ici sur la famille de Heu est composée de trois parties. La première est une reconstitution de la famille de Heu, génération après génération, depuis leurs arrivé à Metz (vers 1230) jusqu’au XVIe siècle, soit sur près de trois siècles. La seconde partie aborde le volet économique de la thèse. Elle reconstitue le patrimoine foncier des Heu. Elle met en évidence les mécanismes qui sous-tendent la constitution de ce patrimoine. Les chapitres qui composent cette partie montrent comment le système de l’engagère permet le transfert des biens fonciers détenus par une petite noblesse acculée par les difficultés vers les financiers messins. Enfin, la troisième partie du mémoire porte sur l’implication des Heu dans la société messine. Plus particulièrement, cette section tend à montrer de façon concrète et argumentée comment une famille « étrangère » parvient en l’espace de deux générations à devenir une des plus importantes familles messines et à prendre rang au sein du patriciat urbain. Cette thèse met en évidence les grands traits de l’histoire des Heu : cette famille d’hommes nouveaux est devenue dans la première moitié du XVIe siècle les plus riches propriétaires fonciers de Metz ; leur fortune se maintient jusqu’au XVIe siècle ; enfin, ils accèdent par mariages au milieu du patriciat noble. En revanche, ils ne semblent pas qu’ils aient joué un rôle de premier plan parmi les dirigeants de la cité jusqu’au XVIe siècle. Ils se sont peu intéressés à la vie ecclésiastique, sauf dans la première moitié du XVIe siècle, où la famille opère un renversement complet dans sa participation à la vie publique et religieuse / The study proposed on the family of Heu consists of three parts. The first one is a reconstruction of the family of Heu generation after generation since their arrived in Metz until XVIth century, is on about three centuries. The second part reconstitutes not only the land heritage of Heu but it also brings to light the mechanisms which underlie the constitution of these heritages. The chapters which compose this economic part, show how the system of the “engagère” allows the transfer of the real estates held/detained by a minor nobility forced by the difficulties towards the financiers of Metz. Finally, the third part of the report concerns the implication of Heu in the society. More particularly, this section aims at showing in a concrete and argued way how a family “foreigner” reaches, within two generations, to become some of the most important families of Metz and to take a rank among the urban patriciat. This thesis brings to light the big features of the history of Heu: a family of new men becomes in the first half of the XVIth century the richest property owners of Metz, a fortune which remains until XVIth century; they reach by marriages in the middle of the noble patriciat. But they do not seem to play a leading role among the leaders of the city until XVIth century and are little interested in the ecclesiastical life safe in the first half of the XVIth century when the family operates a complete reversal in its participation in the public and religious life

A growing number of states and cities in the United States have enacted smoke-free policies in public areas and, to improve the health outcomes of employees and patrons, have extended the policies to indoor tourism and hospitality venues including casinos, bars, and restaurants. However, the introduction of smoke-free policies in casinos has lowered gaming revenues by up to 20% in some jurisdictions (Eadington, 2011; Pakko, 2005; Thalheimer & Ali, 2008). Smoke-free policies have the potential to reduce the participation rate of gamblers either because smoking gamblers choose not to gamble if they cannot smoke, or because they choose to migrate to an alternative gambling opportunity which allows smoking. Since the goal of implementing smoke-free policies is to improve the health outcomes of employees and customers, some states' or locales' exemption from the bans may be temporary (Goodman, Agnew, McCaffrey, Paul, & Clancy, 2007). As a result of these changing external influences, it may be necessary to develop effective marketing strategies for continued growth in the casino industry. This study aimed to enhance insight into this phenomenon that results from external market influences by focusing on gamblers' behavioral changes with respect to their decisions to visit casinos when smoking bans are implemented. This dissertation proposed and tested a gambling-specific behavior model to examine the antecedents of individual changes in gambling patronage. The model was tested by using Path Analysis on data that were collected through an online survey of gamblers who visited gaming facilities in Deadwood, South Dakota. The results indicated that both the psychological reactance trait and the attitude importance of the freedom to smoke influence gambling behavioral changes after a smoking ban went into effect. Individual attitudes towards secondhand smoking also explained changes in casino patronage. No moderator effect was found in the path analysis. Supplementary analyses for other hospitality sectors were also conducted and the results also showed psychological reactance trait, the attitude importance of the freedom to smoke, and the attitude towards secondhand smoking explain changes in restaurant and bar patronage, and video lottery terminal participation. Discussion on the results of hypotheses testing and implications are presented followed by future research directions. / Tourism and Sport

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Master of Agribusiness / Department of Agricultural Economics / Christine Wilson / Over the last decade, the United States horse industry has seen a decline in all segments of the industry. Both people and organizations within and outside the industry have debated the cause of this decline, with the 2007 horse slaughter ban being at the center of this debate. The purpose of the report is to analyze a specific segment of the industry to determine what has led to this decline over the last decade. To do this, we will look specifically at the total number of thoroughbreds sold over a thirty-year history, and using regression analysis, determine if a controversial bill that banned the slaughter of horses in the United States for the purpose of meat was the cause of this decline or if other key variables that played a key role. These additional variables will include hay prices, corn prices, oat price, gas prices, and a macro economic indicator variable. The regression results show that the horse slaughter ban did in fact have an impact on the decline of the total number of thoroughbreds sold within this specific segment of the industry. Also, both hay and the unemployment rate had an effect on the decline of the total number of thoroughbreds sold, while gas prices appear to have had an unexpected positive effect, which is contrary to common thought. This thesis shed a new light on the decline of the horse industry within the United States and the effect the ban has had on the thoroughbred industry.

楊利成. / 手稿本, 複本據手稿本影印. / Thesis (M.A.)--香港中文大學硏究院中國語文學部. / Shou gao ben, fu ben ju shou gao ben ying yin. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 447-481). / Yang Licheng. / Thesis (M.A.)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue yan jiu yuan Zhongguo yu wen xue bu. / Chapter 第一章 --- 從漢賦論班固之辭賦觀 --- p.1 / Chapter 第一節 --- 漢賦之文麗用寡 --- p.2 / Chapter 第二節 --- 班固之導楊諷諭 --- p.16 / Chapter 第二章 --- 兩都賦之寫作年代 --- p.27 / Chapter 第一節 --- 辨鄭鶴聲年譜之誤 --- p.27 / Chapter 第二節 --- 辨文選李善註之誤 --- p.34 / Chapter 第三節 --- 兩都賦寫作年代試測 --- p.43 / Chapter 第三章 --- 兩都賦之寫作動機　 --- p.57 / Chapter 第一節 --- 班固之家世　 --- p.57 / Chapter 第二節 --- 班固之思想　 --- p.77 / Chapter 第三節 --- 兩都賦之要旨 --- p.92 / Chapter 第四章 --- 兩都賦中長安洛陽建都之爭辯　 --- p.105 / Chapter 第一節 --- 論長安洛陽之形勢　　 --- p.105 / Chapter 第二節 --- 論在德不在險 --- p.124 / Chapter 第三節 --- 兩都賦之建都理論 --- p.138 / Chapter 第五章 --- 兩都賦中兩漢政理之比較 --- p.148 / Chapter 第一節 --- 西漢君主之奢侈踰制 --- p.150 / Chapter 第二節 --- 東漢君主之崇儉守禮　 --- p.186 / Chapter 第三節 --- 兩都賦對兩漢政理之美刺 --- p.198 / Chapter 第六章 --- 兩都賦中兩漢風俗之比較　 --- p.217 / Chapter 第一節 --- 兩漢貴戚豪富奢僭與游俠亂法 --- p.219 / Chapter 第二節 --- 東漢尚儉之風與禮樂之化　　 --- p.268 / Chapter 第三節 --- 兩都賦對兩漢風俗之美刺 --- p.284 / Chapter 第七章 --- 兩都賦之文辭技巧分析　　 --- p.299 / Chapter 第一節 --- 布局謀篇 --- p.300 / Chapter 第二節 --- 遺詞造句　 --- p.334 / Chapter 第八章 --- 兩都賦在賦學與考古之回響 --- p.356 / Chapter 第一節 --- 論夸飾與徵實 --- p.356 / Chapter 第二節 --- 述文獻與考古 --- p.373 / Chapter 第九章 --- 兩都賦與京都賦之關係 --- p.409 / Chapter 第一節 --- 京都賦之盛行 --- p.409 / Chapter 第二節 --- 京都賦之作意 --- p.416 / Chapter 第三節 --- 京都賦與類書方志之關係　 --- p.423 / 附錄： / 《參攷書目》 --- p.447

王培亮. / 參考文獻 : leaves 207-213. / 論文(碩士) - 香港中文大學. / Wang Peiliang. / Lun wen (shuo shi)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue. / Chapter 第一章 --- 引言 --- p.6 / Chapter 第二章 --- 行政區域─郡國與縣 --- p.12 / Chapter 第三章 --- 人口分佈與文化地理 --- p.28 / Chapter 第四章 --- 水文地理 --- p.69 / Chapter 第五章 --- 生產事業─農業、屯田、物產 --- p.83 / Chapter 第六章 --- 自然災害 --- p.131 / Chapter 第七章 --- 交通和都市 --- p.161 / Chapter 第八章 --- 張騫出使與西域開拓 --- p.187 / 結論 --- p.204 / 參考文獻 --- p.207

"Body area networks (BAN) is a technology gaining widespread attention for application in medical examination, monitoring and emergency therapy. The basic concept of BAN is monitoring a set of sensors on or inside the human body which enable transfer of vital parameters between the patient´s location and the physician in charge. As body area network has certain characteristics, which impose new demands on performance evaluation of systems for wireless access and localization for medical sensors. However, real-time performance evaluation and localization in wireless body area networks is extremely challenging due to the unfeasibility of experimenting with actual devices inside the human body. Thus, we see a need for a real-time hardware platform, and this thesis addressed this need. In this thesis, we introduced a unique hardware platform for performance evaluation of body area wireless access and in-body localization. This hardware platform utilizes a wideband multipath channel simulator, the Elektrobit PROPSimâ„¢ C8, and a typical medical implantable device, the Zarlink ZL70101 Advanced Development Kit. For simulation of BAN channels, we adopt the channel model defined for the Medical Implant Communication Service (MICS) band. Packet Reception Rate (PRR) is analyzed as the criteria to evaluate the performance of wireless access. Several body area propagation scenarios simulated using this hardware platform are validated, compared and analyzed. We show that among three modulations, two forms of 2FSK and 4FSK. The one with lowest raw data rate achieves best PRR, in other word, best wireless access performance. We also show that the channel model inside the human body predicts better wireless access performance than through the human body. For in-body localization, we focus on a Received Signal Strength (RSS) based localization algorithm. An improved maximum likelihood algorithm is introduced and applied. A number of points along the propagation path in the small intestine are studied and compared. Localization error is analyzed for different sensor positions. We also compared our error result with the Cramèr- Rao lower bound (CRLB), shows that our localization algorithm has acceptable performance. We evaluate multiple medical sensors as device under test with our hardware platform, yielding satisfactory localization performance."