Michigan Academician articles from March 2008

Michigan Academician archives from March 2008

Community design and community health: issues in building a holistic model in Michigan.(Report)
March 22, 2008... ABSTRACT This invesigation lops a conceptual community health model and operationalizes that model by focusing on the physical environment and community health relationship utilizing a data inventory for the state of Michigan. Furthermore,...

Coprolites, cololites, and fish fossils in the Mississippian Michigan Formation, Western Michigan.(Report)
March 22, 2008... ABSTRACT Fossilized vertebrate excrement (coprolites) and digestive-tract contents (cololites) are identified in the Mississippian Michigan Formation, exposed in old gypsum mines in the Grand Rapids area (Kent County). In western Michigan...

Recent activity of the retrotransposable B2 element in hamsters and its use as a phylogenetic marker.(Report)
March 22, 2008... ABSTRACT A recent analysis of DNA sequences of hamsters, in the rodent subfamily Cricetinae (family Cricetidae, superfamily Muroidea), generated a significant phylogenetic restructuring among the genera Tscherkia, Cricetus, Allocricetulus...

The prince, prudence, and property in Giles of Rome.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2008... In the history of medieval political thought no virtue has been more pivotal than prudence. After Thomas Aquinas the defenders of monarchy in France increasingly made prudence the princely virtue par excellence by making it the basis of...

Enlightenment elements in the thought of Hryhorij Skovoroda.(Critical essay)
March 22, 2008... INTRODUCTION The work of Hryhorij Skovoroda (1722-94), the most famous Ukrainian thinker of the eighteenth century, has elicited a large secondary literature in the two centuries since his death. (1) Soviet writers have generally described...

The Qualified Legal Compliance Committee under Sarbanes-Oxley: enlisting independent directors to enhance corporate integrity.
March 22, 2008... INTRODUCTION The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (Sarbanes-Oxley) (1) imposes specific requirements on corporate attorneys that have broad implications on corporate governance and corporate organization. With the adoption of Sarbanes-Oxley,...