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Jml Optical At The Crossroads: Exploring Growth And Exit Strategies Of A Family Business, Richard Demartino

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The JML Optical case and related assignments are designed to promote a discussion exploring the potential impact of entrepreneurial motivation and exit strategies on firm growth and strategic change. The case recounts the founding, rapid early growth, and overall success of JML Optics, a company competing in the high potential, rapidly changing optics photonics industry. It also defines the emerging strategic challenges associated with the optics industry, mostly notably aggressive low cost Asian competition. The case places students in the position of JML founder and owner, Joe Lubozzo, who must decide both the company's future strategic direction and this own …

Microstructural Analysis Of Varistors Prepared From Nanosize Zno, Suresh Pillai, Declan Mccormack, John Kelly, Ramesh Raghavendra

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Microwave Induced Preparation Of A-Axis Oriented Double-Ended Needle-Shaped Zno Microparticles, Suresh Pillai, John Kelly, Graeme Watson, Deirdre Ledwith

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Microwave irradiation of solutions of Zn(NO₃)₂ and urea provides a straightforward route to a-axis oriented crystals of needle-like morphology.

Low-Temperature Crystallization Of Sol–Gel Processed Pb0.5ba0.5tio3: Powders And Oriented Thin Films, Suresh Pillai, Stacey Boland, Sossina Haile

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A novel sol– gel process suitable for depositing thin-film lead
barium titanate has been developed. X-ray diffraction analysis
showed perovskite phase crystallization to occur at a temperature
as low as 400°C with single-phase Pb0.5Ba0.5TiO3 (PBT)
resulting at a temperature as low as 500°C. Small concentrations
of barium carbonate were evident by X-ray diffraction at
400°C, and indications of minor, carbonate-containing phases
were evident by FTIR at 600°C. Deposition of the sol by spin
coating on single-crystal and thin-film MgO on silicon resulted
in highly oriented PBT films after calcination at 600°C. Mixed
(100)/(001) films were obtained on single-crystal MgO,
whereas …

Why Am I Enrolled In The Imaging And Photographic Technology Program?, Andrew Davidhazy

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A brief overview of RIT's Imaging and Photographic Technology program/department where I am a faculty member and why a student might choose this as a program of study.

Remarks On Case-Management Criminal Mediation, Maureen Laflin

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Professionalism's Second Wave: A Sampling Of Issues Arising Within Legal Education, Donald L. Burnett Jr.

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University Of Idaho College Of Law's 8th Annual Northwest Institute For Dispute Resolution, May 17-21, 2004, Maureen Laflin

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Case-Management Criminal Mediation Offers Promise But Requires Caution, Maureen Laflin

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Tradition Versus Technology: Careers Fairs In The 21st Century, Christiane Brennan, Margaret Daly, Eileen Fitzpatrick, Edward Sweeney

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The traditional methods of graduate recruitment do not adequately meet the needs of the changing profile of students and graduates. As industry becomes internationalized, the needs of employers are also changing. Graduate recruitment is in response to short term needs and varying levels of experience are required. A case study method was used in Technological University Dublin to evaluate effectiveness of a virtual careers fair in providing greater access to job opportunities for students and graduates. Access by employers to potential employees was also measured. Findings showed that while access improved, other issues requiring attention emerged.

Entrepreneurial Open Source Software Hackers: Mysql And Its Dual Licensing, Robert W. Gomulkiewicz

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Hackers often quibble about commercializing software, yet most willreadily sell their programming services. Richard Stallman, the father of free software, has always recognized that hackers have a right to make money. Aside from selling programming services, however, Stallman's disciples seem to frown upon commercializing software. Other hackers, labeling themselves "open source" developers, have warmed to the possibility that free software may be profitable.

This article describes one of the most promising business models for hackers, called "dual licensing." In this model, hackers offer the same code under two different licenses: a commercial license and an open source license. Licensees who …

Brennan Center For Justice Symposium Introduction: Diversity, Impartiality, And Representation On The Bench, Kele Williams

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Pari Passu And A Distressed Sovereign's Rational Choices, William Wilson Bratton

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Few Gatekeepers, Many Views: Will The New Rules Compromise The Representation Of Marginalized Voices?, Madeleine M. Plasencia

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Just Recently, Back When, Patrick O. Gudridge

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Agora: The United States Constitution And International Law Editors' Introduction, Lori Fisler Damrosh, Bernard H. Oxman

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Anomalies, Warts And All: Four Score Of Liberty, Privacy And Equality, Francisco Valdes

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Lawrence was decided exactly eighty years after the first liberty-privacy case, and in the midst of a fierce kulturkampf striving to roll back civil rights generally. In this Article, Professor Valdes situates Lawrence in the context formed both by these four score of liberty-privacy jurisprudence that precede it as well as by the politics of backlash that envelop it today. After canvassing the landmark rulings from Meyer in 1923 to Lawrence in 2003, in the process acknowledging both their emancipatory strengths and their traditionalist instrumentalism, Professor Valdes concludes that Lawrence is a long overdue recognition of the prior precedents and …

Keynote Address: Recalling Race, Gender And Sexuality: Outcrit Reflections On Legal Education, Social Identities And The "Rule Of Law" - A Call Toward Collective Insurrections, Francisco Valdes

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Lord Of The Liens: Towards Greater Efficiency In Secured Syndicated Lending, William H. Widen

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Valuing Life: A Plea For Disaggregation, Cass R. Sunstein

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Each government agency uses a uniform figure to measure the value of a statistical life (VSL). This is a serious mistake. The very theory that underlies current practice calls for far more individuation of the relevant values. According to that theory, VSL should vary across risks. More controversially, VSL should vary across individuals-even or especially if the result would be to produce a lower number for some people than for others. One practical implication is that a higher value should be given to programs that reduce cancer risks. Another is that government should use a higher VSL for programs that …

Constitutive Commitments And Roosevelt's Second Bill Of Rights: A Dialogue, Cass R. Sunstein, Randy E. Barnett

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Ideological Voting On Federal Courts Of Appeals: A Preliminary Investigation, Cass R. Sunstein, Lisa Michelle Ellman, David Schkade

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Liberty After Lawrence, Cass R. Sunstein

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Lives, Life-Years, And Willingness To Pay, Cass R. Sunstein

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In protecting safety, health, and the environment, government has increasingly relied on cost-benefit analysis. In undertaking cost-benefit analysis, the government has monetized risks of death through the idea of the value of a statistical life (VSL), currently assessed at about $6.1 million. But the government should rely instead on the value of a statistical life-year (VSLY), in a way that would likely result in lower benefits calculations for elderly people, and higher benefits calculations for children. The hard question involves not whether to undertake this shift, but how to monetize life-years, and here willingness to pay (WTP) is generally the …

Market Efficiency And Rationality: The Peculiar Case Of Baseball 2004 Survey Of Books Relating To The Law, Cass R. Sunstein, Richard H. Thaler

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National Security, Liberty, And The D.C. Circuit Recent Decisions Of The United States Court Of Appeals For The District Of Columbia Circuit, Cass R. Sunstein

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The Right To Marry, Cass R. Sunstein

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The Supreme Court has said that there is a constitutional "right to marry"; but what can this possibly mean? People do not have a right to marry their dog, their aunt, June 29, a rose petal, or a sunny day. This essay attempts to make some progress in understanding both the content and the scope of the right to marry. With respect to content, it concludes that people have no more and no less than this: a right of access to whatever expressive and material benefits the state now provides for the institution of marriage. It follows that the right …

Litigant Sensitivity In First Amendment Law, Adam M. Samaha

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Properties Of Marriage, Carolyn J. Frantz, Hanoch Dagan

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In this Article, Professors Frantz and Dagan articulate and examine one ideal for the institution of marriage-marriage as an egalitarian liberal community. Under this vision, a commitment to marital community, where spouses share with each other without reference to individual desert, is combined with a concern for non-subordination and the protection of individual autonomy through, primarily, free exit. Professors Frantz and Dagan argue that, contrary to the common assumption that these goals are incompatible, they can be accommodated to a remarkable degree. They then trace the implications of this vision of marriage for marital property law, and use it to …

Mcconnell V. Federal Election Commission: A Deadly Dose Of Double Deference, Richard A. Epstein

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