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History Of The Foreign Lawyer In Japan, Patrick Duffin

Brigham Young University Prelaw Review

The foreign lawyer in Japan has enjoyed periods of relative freedom to practice law as well as being subject to rigid restrictions limiting the accessibility of the legal market. The focus of this paper will be the significant events in the history of the foreign lawyer in Japan from the first influences of Western law in the late 1800's to the 1986 Special Measures Law Concerning the Handling of Legal Business by Foreign Lawyers.

Two Towns Where There Was Once One: The Aldea In Medieval Aragon, Donald J. Kagay

Quidditas

No medieval era was more significant for the creation of royal, clerical, and urban institutions than the thirteenth century as sovereign and pope alike began to form the political structures of western European society in a way that closed many avenues of power to the trustees of societal authority of an earlier period, the nobility. Baronial resistance to the monarchical 'innovations' of the era would eventually direct the course of such state — building towards a fuller partnership between sovereign and subject. Though the best-known examples of such conflicts between custom and law occurred in England with the royal issuance …

Rousseau And His State: A Review Of The Politics And Rhetoric Of The Second Discourse, Russell Arben Fox

Sigma: Journal of Political and International Studies

No abstract provided.

Japan, Rice And Super 301, Randall Allen

Sigma: Journal of Political and International Studies

No abstract provided.

Full Issue, Vol. 52 No. 4

Great Basin Naturalist

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Botanical Content Of Black-Tailed Jackrabbit Diets On Semidesert Rangeland, Tchouassi Wansi, Rex D. Pieper, Reldon F. Beck, Leigh W. Murray

Great Basin Naturalist

Botanical content of black-tailed jackrabbit diets was determined by microhistological examination of fecal samples collected from six different vegetation types in southern New Mexico on three dates. Grasses comprised the largest component of the jackrabbit diets, with dropseed species (Sporobolus spp.) and black grama (Bouteloua eriopoda) the most abundant grasses in the diets. Leatherweed croton (Croton pottsii) and silverleaf nightshade (Solanum elaeagnifolium) were important forbs on most vegetation types. Diet composition varied in response to season and vegetation type. Grasses were important during the summer growing season, while forbs were selected during their …

Plant Age/Size Distributions In Black Sagebrush (Artemisia Nova): Effects On Community Structure, James A. Young, Debra E. Palmquist

Great Basin Naturalist

The demography of black sagebrush (Artemisia nova Nelson) was investigated in the Buckskin Mountains of western Nevada to determine patterns of stand renewal in sagebrush communities currently free from wildfires. Biomass sampling was conducted to develop growth classes that reflected apparent age of the shrubs. The density of black sagebrush plants was twice that of basin big sagebrush (A. tridentata ssp. tridentata Nutt.) in adjacent communities on contrasting soils (2.2 versus 1.1 plants per m²). Black sagebrush accumulated only 75% as much woody biomass as big sagebrush. Regression equations were developed and tested for predicting total …

Mushroom Consumption (Mycophagy) By North American Cervids, Karen L. Launchbaugh, Philip J. Urness

Great Basin Naturalist

Native mushrooms play an important, though often underestimated, role in deer, elk, and caribou diets in North America. Mushrooms are often noted as an unusual or anomalous food in the diets of cervids; yet they often dominate diets in the late summer and fall in forested areas of western North America and throughout the year in the southeastern U.S. Mushrooms are particularly high in protein (16–19%), phosphorus (average 0.75%), and potassium (average 2%). Also, mushroom production is generally greatest in fall. Therefore, they are a highly nutritious food in late season when other native forages may marginally meet basal nutrient …

Species Of Eimeria From The Thirteen-Lined Ground Squirrel, Spermophilus Tridecemlineatus, From Wyoming, Robert S. Seville, Diane M. Thomas, Russell Pickering, Nancy L. Stanton

Great Basin Naturalist

Five species of the coccidian genus Eimeria (E. beecheyi [prevalence = 17.9%], E. callospermophili-morainensis[28.6%], E. larimerensis [16.1%], and E. bilamellata [3.6%]) were recovered from 56, 13-lined ground squirrels (Spermophilus tridicemlineatus) collected from two sites in eastern Wyoming. Two squirrels from one site were also passing an unidentified polysporocystic coccidian. Infected squirrels were found to harbor from one to three species simultaneously. Previously these same eimerian species were found infecting sympatric populations of Wyoming ground squirrels. (Spermophilus elegans) and white-tailed prairie dogs (Cynomys leucurus) at one of the sites; it is suggested that …

Can Townsend's Ground Squirrels Survive On A Diet Of Exotic Annuals?, Eric Yensen, Dana L. Quinney

Great Basin Naturalist

Southwestern Idaho desert shrub-bunchgrass rangeland is being invaded by fire-prone exotic annuals that permanently dominate the landscape following wildfires. This study was undertaken to describe diets of Townsend's ground squirrels (Spermophilus townsendii idahoensis) at four study sites with varying degrees of exotic annual invasion to determine if the squirrels could utilize high proportions of exotic annuals in their diets. Townsend's ground squirrels were collected in March and May of 1987 and 1988, and stomach contents were analyzed using a microhistological technique. Grasses comprised 37–87% of Townsend's ground squirrel diets at the four sites. Native species, especially Sandberg's bluegrass …

Full Issue, Vol. 52 No. 3

Great Basin Naturalist

No abstract provided.

Plant Adaptation In The Great Basin And Colorado Plateau, Jonathon P. Comstock, James R. Ehleringer

Great Basin Naturalist

Adaptive features of plants of the Great Basin are reviewed. The combination of cold winters and an arid to semiarid precipitation regime results in the distinguishing features of the vegetation in the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau. The primary effects of these climatic features arise from how they structure the hydrologic regime. Water is the most limiting factor to plant growth, and water is most reliably available in the early spring after winter recharge of soil moisture. This factor determines many characteristics of root morphology, growth phenology of roots and shoots, and photosynthetic physiology. Since winters are typically cold enough …

A Qualitative View Of The Educational Experiences Of Black African Students At Brigham Young University, Khumbulani Desmond Mdletshe

Student Works

Black African students first began enrolling at Brigham Young University (BYU) in the mid 1960's. Most were from Nigeria and Ghana, having been sent by their governments to receive a higher education. In the late 1970's, students from other Black African countries began enrolling at BYU. But in the 1980's, government support was not as strong. As one former BYU graduate student from Nigeria put it: "When I first came here in 1980 there were at least 30 Nigerian students. There were so many of them because the government was sponsoring them. Now the numbers have decreased because the government …

Vol. 10, Pi Sigma Alpha Review, Pi Sigma Alpha Review

Sigma: Journal of Political and International Studies

No abstract provided.

The Advantages Of Incumbency, Candidate Image, And The Vote, Jonathan Mott

Sigma: Journal of Political and International Studies

No abstract provided.

Covenant And Compact: Bases For Citizen Obligation, David H. Moore

Sigma: Journal of Political and International Studies

No abstract provided.

National Rifle Association Versus House Of Representatives And Public Opinion: A Case Study In Interest Group Power, Doug Goodman

Sigma: Journal of Political and International Studies

No abstract provided.

The Effectiveness Of Judicial Activism: Desegregation And Racial Attitudes, Steven E. Hugie

Sigma: Journal of Political and International Studies

No abstract provided.

Conventionalism And Contractarianism, Noel B. Reynolds

Faculty Publications

In this paper Noel B. Reynolds’s theory of law as convention is compared to the public choice contractarian theory of James M. Buchanan. While there are numerous similarities, major differences emerge. Only conventionalism can produce legal and political authority and norms to guide the use of that authority in maintaining the rule of law. The concept of constructive unanimity is introduced to overcome the ultimate failure of contractarianism to legitimate the authority of law.

A Family History Of John And Anna Von Gunten, Collin S. Van Gunten

Swiss American Historical Society Review

Greetings to All My Family:

The idea of a family history began this year when I attempted to identify my ancestors who preceded John and Anna von Gunten - an attempt to stretch backward the generations of our family tree. Other families overwhelm me with their pedigrees reaching into the 18th, even the 17th, century. So why shouldn't I trace my roots to a greater depth, hoping that our heritage would be revealed

In early 1989 I contacted a prof esmonal genealogist, asking if she would undertake a search of John's lineage. She declined, saying she did not specialize in …

Full Issue

Swiss American Historical Society Review

No abstract provided.

Meetings And Conferences, Hideyuki Morimoto, William Wong, Mihoko Miki, Ju-Yen Teng, Maureen H. Donovan

Journal of East Asian Libraries

No abstract provided.

The Trials Of Jesus And Jeremiah, Bernard S. Jackson

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

Weber, Spengler, And The Origins, Spirit, And Development Of Capitalism, John Farrenkopf

Comparative Civilizations Review

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Conceptualizations Of Contemporary Global Culture, Frederick Buell

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

Special Reports, Amy Vladeck Heinrich

Journal of East Asian Libraries

The National Coordinating Committee on Japanese Library Resources (NCC) was established in December 1991 in order to coordinate, develop, and locate funding for projects in cooperative Japanese collection development, improved access, education in Japanese librarianship, and other related activities; to gather information and articulate the needs of librarians, scholars, and others in relation to information resources; and to expand the work of advising and collaborating with funding agencies in developing relevant and valuable programs.

Crown-6 And The Future, Jerald S. Bradshaw

BYU Studies

No abstract provided.

Toward A Cross-Cultural Language Of Power: Sun Tzu's The Art Of War And Machiavelli's The Prince As Exemplary Texts, Ronald Glasberg

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

David Ziskind. Labor Laws In The Middle East, Tradition In Transit, Corinne Lathrop Gilb

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

Padmanabh S. Jaini. Gender And Salvation-Jaima Debates On The Spiritual Liberation Of Women, Korsi Dogbe

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.