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2002-2003 Faculty Senate Annual Report, University Of South Carolina

Faculty Senate

The primary file includes the 2002-2003 Committee on Academic Responsibility Annual Report. Additional annual reports are attached.

A Decade Of Daubert, David G. Owen

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Escape From New York: Analyzing The State's Relative Interests In Proscribing The Withdrawal Of Life Support And Physician-Assisted Suicide, Colin Miller

Faculty Publications

This Note argues that states cannot consistently prohibit physician assisted suicide for terminally ill patients while they continue to allow the withdrawal of life support for even non-terminal patients. All of the state interests identified by the Supreme Court in rejecting a right to assisted suicide are implicated to a higher degree by withdrawal of life support. The primary reason for this difference is that withdrawal of life support often involves incompetent patients and surrogate decision making while assisted suicide by definition requires a competent patient choosing to hasten her death.

State Court And Lower Federal Court Decisions - Primary And Secondary Education Recent Developments In The Law

The Journal of Law and Education

No abstract provided.

Examining Alternative Dispute Resolution In The International Business Domain, Reyburn W. Lominack Iii

South Carolina Journal of International Law and Business

No abstract provided.

Table Of Contents

Journal of the South Carolina Academy of Science

No abstract provided.

Raising (And Control), William D. Davies, Stanley William Dubinsky

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Experimental Economic Approaches To International Marketing Research, Nancy R. Buchan

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Searching Large Collections Of Recorded Speech: A Preliminary Study, Jinmook Kim, Douglas W. Oard, Dagobert Soergel

Faculty Publications

This paper reports on an exploratory study of the criteria searchers use when judging the relevance of recorded speech from radio programs and the attributes of a recording on which those judgments are based. Five volunteers each performed three searches using two systems (NPR Online and SpeechBot) for three questions and judged the relevance of the results. Data were collected through observation and screen capture, think aloud, and interviews; coded; and analyzed by looking for patterns. Criteria used as a basis for selection were found to be similar to those observed in relevance studies with printed materials, but the attributes …

Being And Acting Rational, Michael N. Huhns

Faculty Publications

Rationality alone is insufficient to specify agent design. Using economic theory, we can program agents to behave in ways that maximize their utility while responding to environmental changes. However, economic models for agents, although general in principle, are typically limited in practice because the value functions that are tractable essentially reduce an agent to acting selfishly. Building a stable social system from a collection of agents motivated by self-serving interests is difficult. Finally, understanding rationality and knowledge requires interdisciplinary results from artificial intelligence, distributed.

December 11, 2002 Faculty Senate Minutes, University Of South Carolina

Faculty Senate

No abstract provided.

November 6, 2002 Faculty Senate Minutes, University Of South Carolina

Faculty Senate

No abstract provided.

Activity Patterns And Correlates Among Youth: Differences By Weight Status, Wendell C. Taylor, James F. Sallis, Marsha Dowda, Patty S. Freedson, Karen Eason, Russell R. Pate

Faculty Publications

The purposes of the study were to assess differences in physical activity levels and correlates of physical activity among overweight (‡ 85th percentile of body mass index for their sex and age) and non-overweight (< 85th percentile) youth. The sample included 509 seventh through twelfth graders. Activity was measured by a 7-day, 46-item activity checklist. Overweight girls were more sedentary than non-overweight girls (p<.03), and non-overweight girls engaged in more vigorous physical activity than overweight girls (p<.03). For boys, there were no significant differences in activity. The regression analyses for vigorous activity yielded the largest total R²'s (R²=.049 for overweight and R²=.27 for non-overweight.) The significant factor for overweight youth was greater athletic coordination (p<.01). For non-overweight youth, the significant factors were greater family support (p<.05), greater peer support (p<.001), fewer barriers (p<.03), and greater athletic coordination (p<.01). Correlates of physical activity vary by weight status of young people.

October 2, 2002 Faculty Senate Minutes, University Of South Carolina

Faculty Senate

No abstract provided.

Another Try At Taking Legislation In South Carolina: An Analysis Of South Carolina Senate Bill 528 And The Fight For Property Rights, Courtney P. Stevens

South Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

September 4, 2002 Faculty Senate Minutes, University Of South Carolina

Faculty Senate

No abstract provided.

Tort Liability For The Sale Of Non-Defective Products: An Anaylsis And Critque Of The Concept Of Negligent Marketing, Richard C. Ausness

South Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

Renegade Conduct And Punitive Damages In Tort, M. Stuart Madden

South Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

"I'M Not Lying About That One": Manhood, Lbj, And The Politics Of Speaking Southern, Kent B. Germany

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Swift Neighbors And Persistent Strangers: A Cross-Cultural Investigation Of Trust And Reciprocity In Social Exchange, Nancy R. Buchan, Rachel T.A. Croson, Robin M. Dawes

Faculty Publications

In four countries, levels of trust and reciprocity in direct-reciprocal exchange are compared with those in network-generalized exchanges among experimentally manipulated groups’ members (neighbors) or random experimental participants (strangers). Results show that cooperation decreases as social distance increases; and, that identical network-generalized exchanges generate different amounts of trusting behavior due solely to manipulated social identity between the actors.

This study demonstrates the interaction of culture and social identity on the propensity to trust and reciprocate and also reveals differing relationships between trust and reciprocation in each of the four countries, bringing into question the theoretical relationship between these cooperative behaviors.

June 26, 2002 Faculty Senate Minutes, University Of South Carolina

Faculty Senate

No abstract provided.

Child Care Centers And Children With Special Needs: Rights Under The Americans With Disabilities Act And Section 504 Of The Rehabilitation Act, Tracy Elizabeth Shipley

The Journal of Law and Education

No abstract provided.

Supreme Court Recent Developments In The Law

The Journal of Law and Education

No abstract provided.

May 2, 2002 Faculty Senate Minutes, University Of South Carolina

Faculty Senate

No abstract provided.

Book Review: Immanuel Kant - Kritik Der Reinen Vernunft, Eds. Georg Mohr, Marcus Willaschek, Konstantin Pollok

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

April 3, 2002 Faculty Senate Minutes, University Of South Carolina

Faculty Senate

No abstract provided.

A Decision Without A Solution: Ferguson V. City Of Charleston, Jill E. Rhodes

South Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

March 6, 2002 Faculty Senate Minutes, University Of South Carolina

Faculty Senate

No abstract provided.

February 20, 2002 Faculty Senate Minutes, University Of South Carolina

Faculty Senate

No abstract provided.

February 13, 2002 Faculty Senate Minutes, University Of South Carolina

Faculty Senate

No abstract provided.