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Work Analysis In Library Technical Services, Kitti Canepi Jan 2007

Work Analysis In Library Technical Services, Kitti Canepi

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This article summarizes a workflow and task analysis of technical services functions conducted at Southern Illinois University Carbondale’s Morris Library during the 2005-2006 academic year. During the workflow analysis, procedures were identified that could be modified or eliminated and awareness was raised about the role of the various sections. The task analysis documented current practices, revealed differences in the way faculty and civil-service staff members spent their time, and informed changes to staff work assignments.


Modulation Of Radiation Responses By Pre-Exposure To Irradiated Cell Conditioned Medium, Paula Maguire, Carmel Mothersill, B. Mcclean, C. Seymour, Fiona Lyng Jan 2007

Modulation Of Radiation Responses By Pre-Exposure To Irradiated Cell Conditioned Medium, Paula Maguire, Carmel Mothersill, B. Mcclean, C. Seymour, Fiona Lyng

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The aim of this study was to investigate whether exposure of HPV-G cells to irradiated cell conditioned medium (ICCM) could induce an adaptive response if the cells were subsequently challenged with a higher ICCM dose. Clonogenic survival and major steps in the cascade leading to apoptosis, such as calcium influx and loss of mitochondrial membrane potential, were examined to determine whether these events could be modified by giving a priming dose of ICCM before the challenge dose. Clonogenic survival data indicated an ICCMinduced adaptive response in HPV-G cells ‘‘primed’’ with 5 mGy or 0.5 Gy ICCM for 24 h and …


Spline Based Geometry For Printed Monopole Antennas, Matthias John, Max Ammann Jan 2007

Spline Based Geometry For Printed Monopole Antennas, Matthias John, Max Ammann

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A novel Bezier spline-based geometry for printed monopole antennas is presented. Quadratic curves are used to describe the outline of the radiating element. The geometry is optimised by a genetic algorithm. A small number of control points are used to define the geometry, ensuring a small search space for the GA. The resulting antenna has an impedance bandwidth from 1.44 to 14.7 GHz


Bringing Deference Back (But For How Long?), Stephen M. Johnson Jan 2007

Bringing Deference Back (But For How Long?), Stephen M. Johnson

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For most of the past decade, the Supreme Court seemed to be gradually eroding the deference accorded to administrative agencies. In Christensen v. Harris County and United States v. Mead Corp. the Court refused to accord Chevron deference to agencies' interpretations of statutes when the agencies adopted those interpretations through informal procedures. The trend appeared to continue when the Court refused to accord Chevron deference to tobacco regulations adopted by the Food and Drug Administration in FDA v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. or to controlled substance regulations adopted by the Attorney General in Gonzales v. Oregon. In addition, …


Loud Rules, Wendy Gerwick Couture Jan 2007

Loud Rules, Wendy Gerwick Couture

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Small Patch/Slot Antenna With 53% Input Impedance Bandwidth, Xiulong Bao, Max Ammann Jan 2007

Small Patch/Slot Antenna With 53% Input Impedance Bandwidth, Xiulong Bao, Max Ammann

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A small microstrip patch/slot antenna, which achieves a very large bandwidth on a relatively thin substrate (about 0.01lambda0), is presented. The performance is achieved by employing a combination of annular-ring loading on the patch radiator and the use of a crossed-slot for miniaturisation. An additional ring-slot in the ground plane is used to produce the wideband characteristics of the antenna. Simulated and measured results indicate that a 53% fractional impedance bandwidth is achieved with respect to the centre frequency of 1.409 GHz and the size of the antenna is reduced by 50% compared to the conventional circular patch antenna with …


Bell Atlantic V. Twombly: How Motions To Dismiss Become (Disguised) Summary Judgments, Richard A. Epstein Jan 2007

Bell Atlantic V. Twombly: How Motions To Dismiss Become (Disguised) Summary Judgments, Richard A. Epstein

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On The Divergent American Reactions To Terrorism And Climate Change, Cass R. Sunstein Jan 2007

On The Divergent American Reactions To Terrorism And Climate Change, Cass R. Sunstein

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Two of the most important sources of catastrophic risk are terrorism and climate change. The United States has responded aggressively to the risk of terrorism while doing very little about the risk of climate change. For the United States alone, the cost of the Iraq War is in excess of the anticipated cost of the Kyoto Protocol. The divergence presents a puzzle; it also raises more general questions about both risk perception and the public demand for legislation. The best explanation for the divergence emphasizes bounded rationality. Americans believe that aggressive steps to reduce the risk of terrorism promise to …


In Memoriam: Bernard D. Meltzer (1914-2007), Saul Levmore Jan 2007

In Memoriam: Bernard D. Meltzer (1914-2007), Saul Levmore

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Library Faculty Publishing And Intellectual Property Issues: A Survey Of Attitudes And Awareness, Howard Carter, Carolyn A. Snyder, Andrea Imre Jan 2007

Library Faculty Publishing And Intellectual Property Issues: A Survey Of Attitudes And Awareness, Howard Carter, Carolyn A. Snyder, Andrea Imre

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Researchers from Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC) surveyed faculty members from 10 academic research libraries to learn about scholarly publishing activities, attitudes, and policies. Areas of special interest included the effect of publishers’ intellectual property policies and institutional promotion and tenure processes on library faculty publishing decisions. The library faculty members were also asked about their experience in negotiating for additional rights from publishers and their experience in self-archiving their research. The researchers wanted to determine if there were any correlation between a library faculty member’s rank and tenure status and the number of peer-reviewed articles published in refereed journals.


Property Outlaws, Eduardo Peñalver, Sonia Katyal Jan 2007

Property Outlaws, Eduardo Peñalver, Sonia Katyal

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Most people do not hold those who intentionally flout property laws in particularly high regard. The overridingly negative view of the property lawbreaker as a "wrongdoer" comports with the status of property rights within our characteristically individualist, capitalist, political culture. This reflexively dim view of property lawbreakers is also shared, to a large degree, by property theorists, many of whom regard property rights as a relatively fixed constellation of entitlements that collectively produce stability and efficiency through an orderly system of ownership. In this Article, Professors Peihalver and Katyal seek partially to rehabilitate the reviled character of the intentional property …


Introduction To The Italian Edition Of Overdose, Richard A. Epstein Jan 2007

Introduction To The Italian Edition Of Overdose, Richard A. Epstein

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Order With Outlaws?, Lee Anne Fennell Jan 2007

Order With Outlaws?, Lee Anne Fennell

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Federalism: Executive Power In Wartime, Richard A. Epstein, Roger Pilon, Geoffrey R. Stone, John C. Yoo Jan 2007

Federalism: Executive Power In Wartime, Richard A. Epstein, Roger Pilon, Geoffrey R. Stone, John C. Yoo

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Reforming Entrapment Doctrine In United States V. Hollingsworth, Richard H. Mcadams Jan 2007

Reforming Entrapment Doctrine In United States V. Hollingsworth, Richard H. Mcadams

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Posner On Economic Loss In Tort: Evra Corp V. Swiss Bank, Thomas J. Miles Jan 2007

Posner On Economic Loss In Tort: Evra Corp V. Swiss Bank, Thomas J. Miles

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The Credible Executive, Eric A. Posner, Adrian Vermeule Jan 2007

The Credible Executive, Eric A. Posner, Adrian Vermeule

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Legal and constitutional theory has focused chiefly on the risk that voters and legislators will trust an ill-motivated executive. This Article addresses the risk that voters and legislators will fail to trust a well-motivated executive. Absent some credible signal of benign motivations, voters will be unable to distinguish good from bad executives and will thus withhold authority that they would have preferred to grant, making all concerned worse off We suggest several mechanisms with which a well-motivated executive can credibly signal his type, including independent commissions within the executive branch; bipartisanship in appointments to the executive branch, or more broadly …


Sex, Violence, And The First Amendment, Geoffrey R. Stone Jan 2007

Sex, Violence, And The First Amendment, Geoffrey R. Stone

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Tribute To Bernard Meltzer, Saul Levmore Jan 2007

Tribute To Bernard Meltzer, Saul Levmore

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Defanging Irbs: Replacing Coercion With Information, Richard A. Epstein Jan 2007

Defanging Irbs: Replacing Coercion With Information, Richard A. Epstein

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Wealth Without Markets? (Reviewing Yochai Benkler, The Wealth Of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets And Freedom (2006)), Lior Strahilevitz Jan 2007

Wealth Without Markets? (Reviewing Yochai Benkler, The Wealth Of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets And Freedom (2006)), Lior Strahilevitz

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Zoning: Deliberative Democracy At Zero Prices, Richard A. Epstein Jan 2007

Zoning: Deliberative Democracy At Zero Prices, Richard A. Epstein

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Paying Ceos In Bankruptcy: Executive Compensation When Agency Costs Are Low, M. Todd Henderson Jan 2007

Paying Ceos In Bankruptcy: Executive Compensation When Agency Costs Are Low, M. Todd Henderson

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A Theory Of Deception And Then Of Common Law Categories, Saul Levmore Jan 2007

A Theory Of Deception And Then Of Common Law Categories, Saul Levmore

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Judging Deception, Saul Levmore Jan 2007

Judging Deception, Saul Levmore

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Erp Systems Facilitating Xbrl Reporting And Regulatory Compliance, Phillip Kloeden Jan 2007

Erp Systems Facilitating Xbrl Reporting And Regulatory Compliance, Phillip Kloeden

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Today, the global economic environment requires that information is readily available across the supply chain (SC) and value chain and that the information is available in a costeffective manner. The information must be accurate, credible, timely, cost-efficient, reliable, traceable, pertinent, and possess data transparency. The information must be available to members within a particular organization, its vendors and customers, and outside governmental and regulatory agencies. All associated stakeholders and stockholders are entitled to the availability of trustworthy financial information to aid them in decision making, therefore, the controls regarding the data are critical for the compilation of the data. The …


Themes And Symbols In Asl Poetry: Resistance, Affirmation, And Liberation, Karen Christie, Dorothy Wilkins Jan 2007

Themes And Symbols In Asl Poetry: Resistance, Affirmation, And Liberation, Karen Christie, Dorothy Wilkins

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This paper analyzes themes and symbols in a number of works of poetry in American Sign Language. In particular, the expression of themes of resistance to oppressive elements of the dominant (hearing) culture and affirmation of the values of Deaf American culture will be identified and described in various poetic works. For analysis, definitions of resistance and affirmation are borrowed from Durr and Grcevic (1999) and Durr (1999/2000) who applied these concepts to the works of Deaf artists striving to represent the Deaf experience. Our analysis confirms that there exists a thriving tradition of ASL poetic works which can be …


How Do Psychology Researchers Find Studies To Include In Meta-Analyses?, Julie Arendt Jan 2007

How Do Psychology Researchers Find Studies To Include In Meta-Analyses?, Julie Arendt

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Meta-analysis is a technique used in a variety of disciplines to combine and summarize the findings of previous research. One step in the production of a meta-analysis is a thorough literature search for relevant studies. A variety of methods can be used to increase the number of studies that are found. This study examines the extent to which some of these steps were taken in meta-analyses published in American Psychological Association in journals in 2004. Some techniques were applied in almost all of the meta-analyses, and other techniques were applied in few of the meta-analyses. Implications of these results for …


If One Wants A Good Result, One Needs A Good Consult, Pam Hackbart-Dean Jan 2007

If One Wants A Good Result, One Needs A Good Consult, Pam Hackbart-Dean

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Archival consultants can offer expertise in the general institutional evaluation of an archives, archival program planning, and space planning and management, as well as assist in the design and implementation of special projects that involve the use of archival records and manuscripts.


A Cancer On The Republic: The Assault Upon Impartiality Of State Courts And The Challenge To Judicial Selection, Donald L. Burnett Jr. Jan 2007

A Cancer On The Republic: The Assault Upon Impartiality Of State Courts And The Challenge To Judicial Selection, Donald L. Burnett Jr.

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