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The Anytime Anyplace Degree In Information Resources And Library Science, Marianne Buehler

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The innovative distance education program at the School of Information Resources and Library Science is a model for higher education and the information industry for instructing information specialists and librarians on how to move information from place-to-place and from person-to-person. Geographically dispersed students directly experience electronic learning and communication via the Internet. Looking ahead to the future, this electronic wave of disseminating knowledge is increasingly more in demand and requires skills and expertise to successfully serve a clientele. This distance education program may be the only way a graduate student interested in information resources and library science can complete a …

Beta Induced Sparsity Algorithm, Ernest Fokoue

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We propose a novel technique that exploits some interesting properties of the Beta distribution to derive a sparse solution to the traditional general linear regression under the Gaussian noise assumption. Our proposed technique provides a theoretically, conceptually and computationally better alternative to both the LASSO and the relevance vector machine in the sense that it is centered around an objective function that is convex and easy to interpret. We demonstrate the strength of our proposed technique through examples, and we also provide a theoretical proof of the merits of our method.

Typical Friedreich’S Ataxia Without Gaa Expansions And Gaa Epansions Wthout Typical Friedreich’S Ataxia, Dominick Mccabe, Fergus Ryan, D. Moore, Shirley Mcquaid, M. King, A. Kelly, K. Daly, David Barton, R. Murphy

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We clinically assessed and performed polymerase chain reaction analysis for the GAA trinucleotide repeat expansion in 103 patients from 73 families in Ireland, with a prior clinical diagnosis of Friedreich’s ataxia (FA) or an unclassified progressive ataxic syndrome. The patients were classified as “typical” or “atypical” FA according to Harding’s mandatory clinical diagnostic criteria. All patients underwent blood glucose analysis, and electrocardiography and echocardiography was performed in 99 and 101 patients, respectively. Mutation screening for expanded CAG trinucleotide repeats, associated with spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA) 1, 2, 3 and 6 was performed in 86 patients overall, including all GAA negative patients. …

Limitation Of Liability, Craig Allen

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From the list of "problems" with the Limitation Act in the U.S. that are within the federal courts' power to resolve, I have elected to discuss three. Necessarily, the coverage of each problem will be brief. After a short summary of the Limitation Act's principal features, the essay examines the recurring confusion over the relevance of unseaworthiness in limitation actions. Second, it highlights the need to update the courts' choice of law doctrine for limitation issues. Finally, it turns to an issue that is only beginning to emerge, and one which the federal courts may yet save from idiosyncratic precedents …

Electronic Records And Signatures Under The Federal E-Sign Legislation And The Ueta, Robert A. Wittie, Jane K. Winn

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Federal legislation establishing legal parity between electronic records and signatures and their paper and ink counterparts was signed into law June 30, 2000, and became effective, at least for most purposes, on October 1. The Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act (E-SIGN or the Act) effectively sweeps away a myriad of anachronistic and inconsistent state and federal requirements for paper and ink documents and signatures. In so doing, E-SIGN eliminates many of the legal uncertainties that have surrounded the use of electronic media in commerce and should enable businesses and consumers alike to more fully realize the cost …

Making Xml Pay: Revising Existing Electronic Payments Law To Accommodate Innovation, Jane K. Winn

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Many businesses today are rushing to embrace "e-Business" technologies in a mad scramble to remain competitive. Only a few years ago, simply using email instead of faxes or phone calls, converting a purchasing system to EDI technology, or building a corporate Web site might have seemed like important advances in the use of new information technologies.

Businesses are now moving beyond such "electronic commerce" technologies and trying to integrate their disparate information systems and business processes into a comprehensive new "e-Business" structure. At the heart of this new model for business organization is the idea that information and resources should …

The Myth Of The Win-Win: Misdiagnosis In The Business Of Reassembling Nature, William H. Rodgers, Jr.

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This Article starts with a closer than customary look at the most serious obstacle to the ambitious campaign of environmental restoration that is the focus of this Symposium. That obstacle is the human brain.

The Article contends that human cognitive processes are marvelous designers of serviceable self-deceptions. In the war on nature that we witnessed in the twentieth century the most functional of these is the firm belief in a non-zero sum world. This is the conviction that gains from economic development could be enjoyed without sacrifice of the natural world.

This is a convenient, powerful, and serviceable myth although …

Thickness Variation Of Self-Processing Acrylamide-Based Photopolymer And Reflection Holography, F. O'Neill, Justin Lawrence, J. Sheridan

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There are many types of holographic recording material. The acrylamide-based recording material examined here has one significant advantage: it is self-processing. This simplifies the recording process and enables holographic interferometry to be carried out without the need for complex realignment procedures. However, the effect that the polymerization process has on the grating thickness must be examined. This question is fundamental to the material's use in holographic optical elements, as thickness variations affect the replay conditions of the produced elements. This paper presents a study of this thickness variation and reports for the first time the production of reflection holographic gratings …

Production Of A Signal By Irradiated Cells Which Leads To A Response In Unirradiated Cells Characteristic Of Initiation Of Apoptosis, Fiona Lyng, C. Seymour, C. Mothersill

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This study investigated the ability of medium from irradiated cells to induce early events in the apoptotic cascade, such as mobilization of intracellular calcium, loss of mitochondrial membrane potential and increase in reactive oxygen species, in cells which were never exposed to radiation. Medium from irradiated human keratinocytes was harvested and transferred to unirradiated keratinocytes. Endpoints characteristic of the initiation of apoptosis were monitored for a period of 24 h following medium transfer. Clonogenic survival was also measured. Rapid calcium fluxes (within 30 s), loss of mitochondrial membrane potential, increases in reactive oxygen species (from 6 h after medium transfer), …

Developing Marketing Competence And Managing In Networks: A Strategic Approach, Aidan O'Driscoll, David Carson, Audrey Gilmore

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Two important domains of scholarly investigation over the last decade, competency development and networks, share important common ground. These domains are also comprehended gainfully in terms of their wider strategic underpinning. This paper first contends that competence is considered best in terms of the particular strategy–structure–shared values constellation of a firm. This enables competence, including marketing competence, to be understood in terms of competency deepening (within the conventional marketing function), broadening (marketing activity which must be shared and co-managed with other parts of the firm), and of partnering (essentially, the ability to manage alliances, networks and relationships between the firm …

A Scene Similarity Metric For Matching Configurations Of Image Objects, James Carswell

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This paper proposes a novel solution to querying image databases by matching raster features to imagery completely in the raster/spatial domain using the shape of single features together with their spatial relations as the matching primitives. The core feature-based matching module combines a revised least-squares matching algorithm, to accomplish the matching process on binary images, with a unique implementation of a feature library that organizes and links query objects with their images in the database, thus enabling fast and efficient real-time retrieval of relevant imagery. The purpose is to extend this previous work of ours, which matches on the shape …

Media Education In Ireland: An Overview, Brian O'Neill

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Images Of Justice, Lela P. Love

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Motive Restrictions On Court Access: A First Amendment Challenge, Carol Rice Andrews

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Enhancing The Spectrum: Media Power, Democracy, And The Marketplace Of Ideas, Ronald J. Krotoszynski Jr., A. Richard M. Blaiklock

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In their article Professor Krotoszynski and Mr Blaiklock assess diversity and broadcast media regulation in contemporary America First the authors consider the Federal Communications Commissions regulatory attempts to promote diversity in television and radio broadcasting The authors discuss the Commissions difficulties in defining and characterizing diversity and further note some of the inconsistencies inherent in the Commissions dual emphasis on competition and diversity in broadcast programming also mentioning the threat to democratic values posed by unduly concentrated media ownership Next the authors chronicle the burgeoning judicial hostility to raceconscious governmental policies and practices They discuss the related shift from intermediate …

A Dangerous Supplement? Longshot Claims And Private Securities Litigation, Charles M. Yablon

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Information Intervention: Bosnia, The Dayton Accords, And The Seizure Of Broadcasting Transmitters, Monroe E. Price

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The article examines the international community's use of media intervention in Bosnia following the Dayton Peace Accords, highlighting the establishment of mechanisms to regulate and influence media to prevent ethnic conflict. It explores the legal justifications and challenges surrounding such interventions, emphasizing the role of the Office of the High Representative (OHR) and the OSCE in promoting a pluralistic media environment. The analysis underscores the tension between international intervention and national sovereignty, raising important questions about the legal framework governing such actions.

The Enlightenment Case For Vouchers, John O. Mcginnis

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Copyright At The Supreme Court: A Jurisprudence Of Deference, Marci A. Hamilton

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Amatory Jurisprudence And The Querelle Des Lois, Peter Goodrich

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It is my view, and here, no doubt, I am pre-empting my conclusion, that what literary and feminist historicism recognizes as the querelle des femmes, the debate as to the status and political role of women, is in fact underpinned and motivated by a much less explicit, yet nonetheless portentous, querelle des lois. The querelle des femmes, in other words, was always a polemic as to the legal status of women, as to their definition and role in theology and jurisprudence, canon and civil law. More than that, however, what the recovery of amatory jurisprudence can help to show is …

Law's Expression: The Promise And Perils Of Judicial Opinion Writing In Canadian Constitutional Law, Paul Horwitz

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This article argues that there is a link between ones theory of constitutional law and ones judgments about style in judicial opinion writing It identifies several special functions of the constitutional opinion including the democratic function of responding to the countermajoritarian difficulty through an act of public justification and the intergenerational function of provoking a temporally extended dialogue about constitutional values Drawing on these functions it argues for an opinion writing style dubbed opentextured minimalism which seeks to resolve cases narrowly articulate fundamental values and principles and spark longterm debates about the underlying values supporting each decision The article then …

Rethinking The Penalty Phase, Kyron Huigens

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This article argues that the chaos of the US Supreme Court’s death penalty jurisprudence can be sorted with the use of a single point of clarification. That jurisprudence uses the term “culpability” – and similar terms, such as desert, responsibility, and blameworthiness – without regard to a critical ambiguity. We use “culpability” to refer to fault in wrongdoing, as reflected in “culpability elements” such as purpose or recklessness. We also use culpability to refer to eligibility for punishment, which is at issue in the defenses of insanity or minority. Death sentencing is structured around aggravating and mitigating factors, but aggravation …

Where Is My Body? Stanley Fish's Long Goodbye To Law 2001 Survey Of Books Relating To The Law: Foundations Of Equality, Richard Delgado

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United States -- Tax Treatment For "Foreign Sales Corporations" Wto Doc. Wt/Ds108/Ab/R, Stanley I. Langbein

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En/Gendering Equality: Seeking Relief Under Title Vii Against Employment Discrimination Based On Sexual Orientation, Anthony E. Varona, Jeffrey M. Monks

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Global Markets, Racial Spaces And The Role Of Critical Race Theory In The Struggle For Community Control Of Investments: An Institutional Class Analysis, Elizabeth M. Iglesias

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Institutionalizing Economic Justice: A Latcrit Perspective On The Imperatives Of Linking The Reconstruction Of "Community" To The Transformation Of Legal Structures That Institutionalize The Depoliticization And Fragmentation Of Labor/Community Solidarity, Elizabeth M. Iglesias

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Expanding Directions, Exploding Parameters: Culture And Nation In Latcrit Coalitional Imagination, Elizabeth M. Iglesias, Francisco Valdes

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Reflections On The Fcc's Recent Approach To Structural Regulation Of The Electronic Mass Media, Lili Levi

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Reporting The Official Truth: The Revival Of The Fcc's News Distortion Policy, Lili Levi

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