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Zechenter, Katarzyna (ed.) Po polsku na Wyspach. Poradnik dla rodziców dzieci dwujęzycznych. A Guide for Parents of Bilingual Children (review)

SEER, 95, 2, APRIL 2017 344 letters is very informative (p. 287). He distinguishes two Slavic languages spoken by the local Tatars, Belarusian and Polish, ostensibly disregarding the Ukrainian vernacular, which is also part of Tatar heritage. The linguistic attribution of such texts is much more complex than explained by Tarėlka, however, and warrants, in particular, consideration of Paul Suter’s works which are conspicuously lacking in Tarėlka’s references. The final essay, by Alla Kozhinova, is an account of the early cryptographic systems of the East Slavs viewed in the context of language contact (pp. 291– 305). It essentially gives a very brief synopsis of the contributions made by her predecessors, primarily in the nineteenth to early twentieth centuries, and reiterates well-known points in explaining the origin of such systems and their raison d’être. The editors of this volume can be congratulated for bringing our attention to script and the issues relating to this linguistic and sociocultural phenomenon. Despite the volume’s scope, the lack of discussion of Bosnian alhamijado literature and the use of Arabic by the South Slavs in this collection is disappointing. Although rather haphazardly organized, all the studies are well referenced and edited, but there is inconsistency in spelling throughout: e.g. Belorussian (p. 1), Belarusian (p. 95) and Byelorussian (back cover), Russian vostochno-slavianskii (p. 302) instead of vstochnoslavianskii, Ukrainian bachvins’kyi instead of bachvans’kyi (p. 190). Nevertheless, the volume makes a significant contribution to the scholarship of Slavic alphabets in contact. Pace University, New York Andrii Danylenko Zechenter, Katarzyna (ed.). Po polsku na Wyspach. Poradnik dla rodziców dzieci dwujęzycznych. A Guide for Parents of Bilingual Children. PUNO, London, 2015. 168 pp. Illustrations. Notes. Practical information. Price unknown. The aim of this volume is to promote bilingualism among Polish parents who raise their children in the United Kingdom. The book discusses various ways in which parents, teachers and educators can facilitate and enhance the acquisition of two (or more) languages among children growing up in a bi- or multilingual environment. It raises awareness of the benefits of bilingualism and argues for the recognition of its cultural, social and economic value. The book consists of six Polish-language chapters by Katarzyna Zechenter, Edyta Nowosielska, Halina Stochnioł and Beata Howe, and two Englishlanguage contributions by Anne White and Wayne Holland and ManMohan S. Sodhi. The volume opens with Zechenter’s chapter on migration and integration. It briefly outlines the history of Polish migration into the REVIEWS 345 UK in order to offer a broader context for the discussion of Polish-English bilingualism. The following chapter by Nowosielska examines the advantages of bilingualism and provides practical advice on raising bilingual children. It discusses three basic bilingual family models found in the UK (two Polish parents; a Polish parent and a British parent; a Polish parent and a parent of another [non-British] nationality) and describes strategies and techniques that canbeusedbyparentsraisingbi-andmultilingualchildren.Stochnioł’schapter focuses on the role played by parents and guardians in bilingual upbringing, paying particular attention to the ways in which children’s motivation to learn a second/third language can be enhanced by their families and the environment in which they grow up. In chapter four, Howe writes about the institutions that provide Polish-language instruction in the UK. While she briefly discusses the place of language education within the British school system, the main focus of the chapter is on Polish Saturday schools, where children attend regular Polish language classes and learn about Polish literature, history, culture and geography. Chapter five, written by Zechenter, is addressed mainly to parents whose children do not receive any formal instruction in Polish. It presents a wide variety of language games and vocabulary-building activities aimed at children of different age groups. Zechenter shows how such activities can be easily facilitated by parents and family members, and how they can help children develop language fluency and increase their confidence. The two English-language chapters are aimed at non-Polish parents. In chapter six, White discusses specific challenges of raising Polish-English children in the UK, and suggest ways in which non-Polish parents can participate in their children’s Polish...

Court's deference dooms student's suit

Case name: Williams v. Pace University, No. 15‐cv‐1424 (S.D. N.Y. 06/16/16).

Don’t be cruel (anymore): a look at the animal cruelty regimes of the united states and brazil with a call for a new animal welfare agency

In the United States and around the world, animals exploited for human use suffer cruel and needless harm. The group bearing the brunt of this exploitation—agricultural animals—is routinely exempted from the largely ineffective and rarely enforced animal welfare and anti-cruelty regulations that exist today. This Article offers a comparative analysis of the agricultural animal welfare regimes of two countries with globally significant presence in the agriculture industry: the United States and Brazil. Even though the two countries approach agricultural animal welfare differently, they arrive at the same outcome: institutionalized indifference to animal suffering. To remedy the current regulatory structure, this Article proposes the creation of an independent federal agency—The Animal Welfare Agency (“AWA”)—to regulate the safety and welfare of all animals, including those used in agriculture. The AWA could significantly reduce systemic animal cruelty in both the United States and Brazil and repre© 2016, David N. Cassuto & Cayleigh Eckhardt. All rights reserved. * Professor of Law, Pace Law School, Director of Brazil-American Institute for Law & Environment (BAILE), Visiting Professor of Law, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil (UFBA), Class of 1946 Distinguished Visiting Professor of Environmental Studies, Williams College. J.D., University of California Berkeley, PhD, Indiana University, B.A., Wesleyan University. The author is much indebted to Rafael Wolff for his expertise and for his generosity with it. In addition, Drew Levinson provided invaluable and excellent research assistance. ** Research Assistant to Professor David Cassuto and 2015 graduate of Pace University School of Law. I would like to thank Professor David Cassuto for his guidance and support over the past three years and for always pushing me to ask the tough questions and think creatively to find the answers. I would also like to thank Rafael Wolff, Federal Judge in Brazil and S.J.D. Candidate at Pace University School of Law, for being a constant resource and providing invaluable expertise and knowledge of Brazilian law. 2 Environmental Affairs [Vol. 43:1 sent an important step toward inserting morality and ethics into our relationships

The Hearing Aid ‘Effect’ as a Function of Race and Gender

The Hearing Aid ‘Effect’ as a Function of Race and Gender

Offord, Derek; Ryazanova-Clarke, Lara; Rjéoutski, Vladislav and Argent, Gesine (eds) French and Russian in Imperial Russia. Volume 1: Language Use Among the Russian Elite Offord, Derek; Ryazanova-Clarke, Lara; Rjéoutski, Vladislav and Argent, Gesine (eds) French and Russian in Imperial Russia. Volume 2: Language Attitudes and Identity (review)

REVIEWS 511 ~ xto spodivaitcja (K) ‘that put their trust [in him]’ (p. 178), spasennje (M) ~ spasennja (K) ‘salvation’ (p. 178), peščera (M) ~ pečera (K) ‘cave’ (p. 185), čystyj (M) ~ ščyryj (K) ‘righteous’ (p. 185), čudesa (M) ~ dyva (K) ‘wondrous works’ (p. 186); some long-naturalized (regional) Polonisms are also changed with ‘more’ vernacular forms of the type kotryj (M) ~ jakyj (K) ‘which’ (p. 180) and papir (M) ~ bomaha (K) ‘[the volume of the] book’ (p. 183); one can also add here a northern Ukrainian form typical of the previous literary tradition — pljundrovaty (M) next to modern pljundruvaty (K) ‘to plunder’ (p. 188). No doubt, the translation of Moračevs’kyj is a true trove of data reflecting the vagaries of the formation of new standard Ukrainian, including its high style. Yet this process would have appeared more nuanced had the authors of the introduction placed the creation of the Ukrainian Psalter in the wider context of similar translations made not only before Moračevs’kyj but also after him. In this regard, one should mention Pantelejmon Kuliš whose first paraphrases of Psalms 1 and 13 appeared in 1868, and Oleksandr Navroc’kyj and Volodymyr Aleksandrov who paraphrased the Psalter, under the influence of Kuliš, in the 1880s. Needless to say, publication of their works in the future would complement the edition of the pioneering translation made by Moračevs’kyj in 1865 and prepared for publication by Hnatenko 150 years later. Department of Modern Languages and Cultures Andrii Danylenko Pace University Offord, Derek; Ryazanova-Clarke, Lara; Rjéoutski, Vladislav and Argent, Gesine (eds). French and Russian in Imperial Russia. Volume 1: Language Use Among the Russian Elite. Russian Language and Society. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2015. xviii + 270 pp. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliographies. Index. £75.00. Offord, Derek; Ryazanova-Clarke, Lara; Rjéoutski, Vladislav and Argent, Gesine (eds). French and Russian in Imperial Russia. Volume 2: Language Attitudes and Identity. Russian Language and Society. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2015. xviii + 266 pp. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliographies. Index. £75.00. In January 1868, suffering from a periodic inflammation of the eye, P. A. Valuev, soon to be deposed as Alexander II’s Minister of Internal Affairs, was obliged to dictate his diary to his wife. Whereas he habitually recorded his thoughts in Russian, she preferred to write in French. Depressed by developments in St Petersburg and pessimistic about the state of Russian morals, the aloof Europeanized statesman was prompted to reflect, not for the first time, that it was ‘not natural’ that French should have become ‘more or less’ the SEER, 94, 3, july 2016 512 most influential language in Russian society: ‘Le chinois nous conviendrait beaucoup mieux.’ What motivated individual language choices in imperial Russia? And what can such choices tell us about the formation, consolidation and fragmentation of personal, social and national identities? Though isolated attempts have been made to answer such questions in the past, the subject has never been tackled in the concerted way represented by these two selfstanding but complementary volumes. Remarkably, the effort has finally been made neither in Russia nor in France, but in Britain, where a conference on ‘Enlightened Russian’, organized by Lara Ryazanova-Clarke at the University of Edinburgh in 2012, provided one of the sources for these books. The other was the Arts and Humanities Research Council project on ‘The History of the French Language in Russia’, led by Derek Offord at the University of Bristol with the collaboration of the remaining two editors. Though he generously acknowledges the extent to which this was a collective enterprise, Offord was clearly its guiding mind. Not the least of his contributions has been to translate more than a third of the twenty-four essays that comprise these two richly rewarding volumes. Written by an international cast of authors, ranging from doctoral candidates to senior scholars, the essays probe an impressively wide variety of published and unpublished materials. Beginning with a general consideration of the use of French and Russian in Catherine II’s Russia (Derek Offord, Gesine Argent and Vladislav Rjéoutski), the first volume goes on to discuss the empress’s letters to Grimm (Georges Dulac), language use by the Stroganovs...

Robert W. Rieber (1932-2015).

Presents the obituary of Robert W. Rieber (1932-2015). Robert W. Rieber, the son of immigrants from the former Austro- Hungarian Empire was born March 24, 1932. He earned a bachelor's degree at Pennsylvania State University and a master's degree in speech pathology at Temple University. He moved to New York City, New York, in 1957, working as a speech pathologist at New York University. In 1960, he accepted an academic position at Pace University, subsequently moving to the John Jay College of Criminal Justice at City University of New York. He held appointments at Columbia University and, following his retirement from John Jay, at Fordham University. Bob founded and edited several journals, including The Journal of Communication Disorders, The Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless, and The Journal of Psycholinguistics Research. While on leave from Pace, he completed his doctorate at the University of London with a dissertation on the relationship between language and psychopathology. Rieber died at his summer home in Maine on April 9, 2015. He was 83.

The effectiveness of sleep education programs in improving sleep hygiene knowledge, sleep behavior practices and/or sleep quality of college students: a systematic review protocol

The effectiveness of sleep education programs in improving sleep hygiene knowledge, sleep behavior practices and/or sleep quality of college students: a systematic review protocol

The Association Between Exhaled Nitric Oxide in Exhaled Breath Condensate and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

The Association Between Exhaled Nitric Oxide in Exhaled Breath Condensate and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease by Colin Mitchell MBA Marketing, Pace University 2003 BA Biology, University of Delaware, 1992 Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy

The effectiveness of structured multidisciplinary rounding in acute care units on length of hospital stay and satisfaction of patients and staff: a systematic review protocol

The effectiveness of structured multidisciplinary rounding in acute care units on length of hospital stay and satisfaction of patients and staff: a systematic review protocol

Serum sample stability in ligand-binding assays: challenges in assessments of long-term, bench-top and multiple freeze-thaw.

Chris Macaraeg has been a lead scientist for method development, validation, and study support intended for regulated pre-clinical/clinical studies within the Pharmacokinetics and Drug Metabolism department at Amgen Inc, Thousand Oaks, CA. He joined Amgen in 2006. His expertise also includes automation and method transfer to CROs. Chris received his BS degree in Physiological Science and Neuroscience from the University of California, Los Angeles, CA and MS in Forensic Science from Pace University, New York, NY. Stability of therapeutic proteins in biological matrix is an important parameter to evaluate in bioanalytical support of regulated nonclinical or clinical studies. Despite industry guidance publications, many questions still arise as to how these practices are implemented to establish therapeutic protein stability in bioanalytical method validations. This article presents findings from long-term, bench-top and freeze-thaw stability assessments for three therapeutic monoclonal antibodies using either ELISA or electrochemiluminescent technology. Studies illustrate the principles and challenges in stability tests which represent scenarios that samples will likely encounter during sample analysis. Thoughtful consideration of each study requirements and a fit-for-purpose approach is essential in successful establishment of the sample stability parameters in method validation.

Tchougounnikov, Serguei and Trautmann-Waller, C�line (eds). Ptr Bogatyrv et les débuts du Cercle de Prague (review)

SEER, 93, 2, APRIL 2015 340 of the major players in the cultural life in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, is conspicuously lacking. Save for sporadic reference to the status of Ruthenian, Dini neglects the presence of Ruthenian authors in the cultural Baltic landschaft, such as De bello Ostrogiano ad Piantcos cum nisoviis libri quattuor a Simone Pecalidis Artium Baccalaureo conscripti (1600) or the polemical treaties by Xristofor Filalet (1597–99) and other Ruthenian writers. All these works would widen the author’s perspective on the beginnings of the Baltic linguistic ideas in Litvorosija, a term used in a charter issued by the Patriarch of Constantinople to Jagailo in 1397. Dini mentions en passant the works of Nur al-Din Muhammad Aufi (1228) and Ibn Battūta (1332) (p. 464), but would have benefited from consulting al-Idrīsī’s Kitāb Rujār (Liber Rogerii, ca 1153) and works by Georg Jacob (1887), Ephraim Kupfer and Tadeusz Lewicki (1956), who explored attestations of the Balts in the writings of Muslim and Jewish geographers. Despite its size, the volume is meticulously edited, although some references are not included in the bibliography, e.g. Georg., VII (p. 573), and has no indices (a deplorable absence that is surprsingly repeated in the shorter Englishlanguage version, Prelude to Baltic Linguistics, published by Rodopi in 2014). Despite these shortcomings, the Italian-language redactio longa under review will serve as the major source of information on early Baltic linguistics for many years to come. Pace University, New York Andrii Danylenko Tchougounnikov, Serguei and Trautmann-Waller, Céline (eds). Pëtr Bogatyrëv et les débuts du Cercle de Prague. Recherchés ethnographique et théatrales. Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, 2012. 275 pp. Notes. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. €26.00 (paperback). This book consists of papers from a conference on the Russian ethnographer Petr Grigor´evich Bogatyrev (1893–1971) held at the New Sorbonne University in 2009, accompanied by a selection of Bogatyrev’s articles. Bogatyrev was educatedatMoscowUniversity,wherehewasafoundingmemberoftheMoscow Linguistic Circle, but he spent much of the interwar period in Czechoslovakia (1922–38), before returning to the USSR. After a period of persecution, Bogatyrev resumed academic positions in Moscow in the late 1950s, and was influential in the development of Soviet folkloristics and structuralism in the 1960s and 1970s. Bogatyrev’s interwar writings are considered to represent the peak of his intellectual career. In them, Bogatyrev combined his training in ethnographic fieldwork and the ethos of early Russian formalism with new REVIEWS 341 developments in structuralist linguistics. The articles in the book focus on this period, and are divided into three categories: linguistic theory, ethnography and theatre studies. The book’s most original contribution is its effort to more thoroughly analyse the relationship between Bogatyrev’s ethnographic method and linguistic theory in the early twentieth century. The difficulty of this task is foregrounded in contributions of Céline Trautmann-Waller and Serguei Tchougounnikov, the two editors of the volume. As Trautmann-Waller illustrates in a useful list format, during this period Bogatyrev regularly published in twenty-seven journals in five primary languages. His writings moreover combined key concepts adapted from Russian, German, Czech, French and English scholarship in ethnography, folkloristics, literary and theatre studies, linguistics and anthropology. Tchougounnikov provides a wide-ranging survey of the linguistic theory which informed Bogatyrev’s concept of the ‘ethnographic fact’. He calls attention in particular to the critique of the German Neogrammarian school, and the influence of Italian Neolinguistics and French linguistic cartography. A highlight is Ekaterina Velmezova’s essay, which clarifies the concept of ‘synchrony’ — a key term for Bogatyrev adapted from Ferdinand de Saussure. She illustrates that this could mean either a short segment of diachronic time or panchrony, and that Bogatyrev wavered between the two interpretations in his writings. The collection includes papers by leading specialists on Bogatyrev — Svetlana Sorokina and Klaas-Hinrich Ehlers. Their excellent contributions draw on extensivearchivalresearchandprovidenewinsightsintoBogatyrev’sintellectual biography. Ehlers’s introductory essay focuses on Bogatyrev’s institutional affiliations during his Czechoslovak period. It is an excerpt from a longer article published in Petr G. Bogatyrev. Funktional-strukturale Ethnographie in Europa (Heidelberg, 2011), which is worth reading in full. Sorokina provides details regarding Bogatyrev...

Book Reviews

Robert Moffitt of Johns Hopkins University reviews “Secrets of Economics Editors”, by Michael Szenberg and Lall Ramrattan. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: “Twenty-four papers, some originally published in the American Economist, present reflections on the practices and experiences of past and present editors of economics journals. Papers focus on economic theory and finance; the history of economics; microeconomics and industrial organization; microeconomics; the methodology of economics; managerial economics; money and banking; urban economics; the economics of public choice; the economics of sports; economic development; the economics of education; general economics; and the journal editorial cycle and practices. Szenberg is Distinguished Professor of Economics in the Lubin School of Business at Pace University. Ramrattan is Instructor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley.”

Evening Commencement

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsRoger SalernoRoger Salerno, PhD, is a psychoanalytically trained sociologist who teaches at Pace University in New York, where he specializes in social theory and gender. His has written five books and numerous articles and is working on a book of stories about young boys who lived on the streets of Chicago in the 1920s. Address correspondence to Roger Salerno via e-mail: rsalerno@pace.edu

Global Summit on Student Affairs: Africa joins the global conversations

* Dr Lisa Bardill Moscaritolo is General Secretary for the International Association of Student Affairs and Services (IASAS) and Associate Vice-President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students at Pace University, Pleasantville Campus, New York, USA. ** Dr Birgit Schreiber is IASAS Chair for the Africa Region and Director: Centre for Student Support Services at the University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa. Email: bschreiber@uwc.ac.za. Close to a hundred selected international delegates from student affairs divisions at universities and colleges met in Rome at the 2nd Global Summit for Student Affairs on employability, soft skills and leadership development. The first summit organised by the International Association for Student Affairs and Services (IASAS) and the US Association for Student Affairs Professionals in Higher Education (NASPA) was held in Washington DC in 2012. The 2nd Global Summit in Rome in 2014 was hosted by the European University College Association (EUCA, www.euca.eu) in collaboration with both IASAS and NASPA.

Universities as Intermediaries: Impact Investing and Social Entrepreneurship

Metropolitan universities are well poised in communities to be intermediaries among various actors involved in social innovation. Pace University established one of the first institutes on social e...

Are Electronic Health Records Good for Health Care?

Are Electronic Health Records Good for Health Care?

Erratum to: Corporate social responsibility reporting platforms: enabling transparency for accountability

The citation numbers for references from 44 to 84 should be corrected by adding one to the number of each of the citations from 44 to 84. The citation number will then correspond to the correct reference in the Reference section. That is, citation number 44 in the text refers to reference number 45, citation number 45 in the text refers to reference number 46, and so on, for all citations 44 and above. For example, the fourth sentence in the last paragraph of section 1.1 should read as follows: Two meta-analyses have found consistent positive relationships between CSR and financial performance [45, 57], whereas others have had neutral results, finding that firms engaging in CSR will earn the same rate of profit as those that do not [50]. Thus, the first citation in the above sentence is a reference to Margolis JD, Elfenbein HA, Walsh JP (2007) Does it pay to be good? A meta-analysis and redirection of research on the relationship between corporate social and financial performance. In: Proceed Acad of Manage, Philadelphia, PA. Pace University, New York, NY. The one exception to this is the other two citations to number [44], which are also in the last paragraph of section 1.1. These two [44]s refer to reference listed as [44], which is the following: Margolis JD, Walsh JP (2003) Misery loves company: rethinking social initiatives by business. Admin Sci Quart 48:268–305.

University Presses in the Digital Age: How Pace University Press and Other University Presses Can Survive and Thrive

The age of information has made university presses more important than ever before. The Internet has placed knowledge at our fingertips, but limited budgets and reluctance to embrace digital technologies have left many university publishers struggling to prove their worth rather than gathering and disseminating that knowledge. To demonstrate how a university publishing house can make it in this changing climate, this report will analyze the industry by using a specific publisher as an example, however this analysis can be applied to any small press. Pace University Press, an extremely small press, but one with the potential to survive and grow, can do so by implementing new practices in marketing, distribution, and digital content that will not only bring it into the twenty-first century, but ensure its continued role in the communication of scholars for years to come. These strategies can be beneficial to any university press.

Suicide Prevention with Diverse College Students

Because of a dearth of experience in preventing suicide in diverse student populations, Pace University developed a multicultural suicide prevention kit. This article details the process used to develop the kit. The rationale for approaching suicide prevention in a culturally competent manner is presented, and methods used to gain culture-specific phenomena that impact the mental health of diverse students are discussed. It is hoped this kit will encourage other colleges and universities to enhance their own suicide prevention efforts.

In the Limelight: The Voice Virtuoso

In the Limelight: The Voice Virtuoso