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Intro -- BANGLADESH CONDITIONS, ISSUES AND U.S. RELATIONS -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 BANGLADESH: POLITICAL AND STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENTS AND U.S. INTERESTS -- SUMMARY -- OVERVIEW: BANGLADESH -- BANGLADESH-U.S. RELATIONS -- HUMAN RIGHTS -- WOMEN IN BANGLADESH -- THE BANGLADESH MILITARY -- ISLAMIST EXTREMISM -- BANGLADESH IN A REGIONAL CONTEXT -- ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE -- Chapter 2 BANGLADESH APPAREL FACTORY COLLAPSE: BACKGROUND IN BRIEF -- SUMMARY -- BACKGROUND AND OVERVIEW -- U.S. AND INTERNATIONAL RESPONSES TO THE BANGLADESH TRAGEDY -- ISSUES FOR CONGRESS -- Chapter 3 BANGLADESH 2012 HUMANRIGHTS REPORT* -- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY -- SECTION 1. RESPECT FOR THE INTEGRITY OF THE PERSON, INCLUDING FREEDOM FROM -- SECTION 2. RESPECT FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES, INCLUDING -- SECTION 3. RESPECT FOR POLITICAL RIGHTS: THE RIGHT OF CITIZENS TO CHANGE THEIR GOVERNMENT -- SECTION 4. CORRUPTION AND LACK OF TRANSPARENCY IN GOVERNMENT -- SECTION 5. GOVERNMENTAL ATTITUDERE GARDING INTERNATIONAL AND NONGOVERNMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF ALLEGED VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS -- SECTION 6. DISCRIMINATION, SOCIETAL ABUSES, AND TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS -- SECTION 7. WORKER RIGHTS -- Chapter 4 BANGLADESH 2012 INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM REPORT -- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY -- SECTION I. RELIGIOUS DEMOGRAPHY -- SECTION II. STATUS OF GOVERNMENT RESPECT FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM -- SECTION III. STATUS OF SOCIETAL RESPECT FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM -- SECTION IV. U.S. GOVERNMENT POLICY -- Chapter 5 2013 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT: BANGLADESH -- OPENNESS TO, AND RESTRICTIONS UPON, FOREIGN INVESTMENT -- CONVERSION AND TRANSFER POLICIES -- EXPROPRIATION AND COMPENSATION -- DISPUTE SETTLEMENT -- PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS/INCENTIVES -- RIGHT TO PRIVATE OWNERSHIP AND ESTABLISHMENT -- PROTECTION OF PROPERTY RIGHTS.

Many Extension leadership development programs have been evaluated for effectiveness. Little literature exists focusing on the evaluation of leadership development programs involving elected and appointed local officials. This article describes an annual program involving elected and appointed local officials and shares quantitative and qualitative evaluation data collected over the past 10 years. Findings indicate participants have increased their understanding of key local government leadership dimensions. Increased levels of confidence, broadened perspectives, and an increased sense of empathy were common themes present in the qualitative analysis.

Approximately 66,000 LGBT workers in South Carolina are vulnerable to employment discrimination absent state legal protections. Four localities in South Carolina prohibit public sector employment discrimination against LGBT people. Only 18% of the state's labor force works in those localities, and only a small proportion of those workers are employed by their local governments. Currently none of South Carolina's LGBT-inclusive local ordinances prohibit discrimination in private employment. Findings from the South Carolina report are consistent with national data. A 2013 Pew Research Center survey found that 21 percent of LGBT respondents had been treated unfairly by an employer in hiring, pay, or promotions. In 2010, 78 percent of respondents to the largest national survey of transgender people to date reported having experienced harassment or mistreatment at work, and 47 percent reported having been discriminated against in hiring, promotion, or job retention because of their gender identity.

There is a wide variance in the magnitude of physiological adaptations after resistance or endurance training. The incidence of "non" or "poor" responders to training has been reported to represent as high as 40% of the project's sample. However, the incidence of poor responders to training can be ameliorated with manipulation of either the training frequency, intensity, type and duration. Additionally, global non-response to cardio-respiratory fitness training is eliminated when evaluating several health measures beyond just the target variables as at least one or more measure improves. More research is required to determine if altering resistance training variables results in a more favourable response in individuals with an initial poor response to resistance training. Moreover, we recommend abandoning the term "poor" responders, as ultimately the magnitude of change in cardiorespiratory fitness in response to endurance training is similar in "poor" and "high" responders if the training frequency is subsequently increased. Therefore, we propose "stubborn" responders as a more appropriate term. Future research should focus on developing viable physiological and lifestyle screening tests that identify likely stubborn responders to conventional exercise training guidelines before the individual engages with training. Exerkines, DNA damage, metabolomic responses in blood, saliva and breath, gene sequence, gene expression and epigenetics are candidate biomarkers that warrant investigation into their relationship with trainability. Crucially, viable biomarker screening tests should show good construct validity to distinguish between different exercise loads, and possess excellent sensitivity and reliability. Furthermore "red flag" tests of likely poor responders to training should be practical to assess in clinical settings and be affordable and non-invasive. Early identification of stubborn responders would enable optimization of training programs from the onset of training to maintain exercise motivation and optimize the impact on training adaptations and health.

Bias in the Law addresses racial bias across the full roster of criminal justice actors--from legislators to community members to police officers, from prosecutors and criminal defense attorneys to judges and jurors. The result is a key entry into understanding bias in the law, how such bias impacts outcomes, and what can be done.