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A New Upper Bound For The Ramsey Number R(5,5), Brendan Mckay, Stanislaw Radziszowski

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We show that, in any colouring of the edges of K_53 with two colours, there exists a monochromatic K_5, and hence R(5,5) <= 53. This is accomplished in three stages: a full enumeration of edges in (4,5)-good graphs, and a proof of the nonexistence of (5,5)-good graphs on 53 vertices. Only the first stage required extensive help from the computer.

Increasing The Number Of Minority Elementary Students Found Eligible For Placement In A Gifted Program By Enhancing The Quality Of Screening Instruments And Inservice Training Provided To School Staff, Gale E. Kofsky

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

This practicum aimed to increase the number of minority elementary students in prekindergarten through Grade 5 found eligible for placement in a gifted program by enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of screening instruments and by providing inservice training. The second goal was to increase the understanding of gifted characteristics and their relationship to eligibility by school staff.

Four hands-on inservice training sessions were utilized to familiarize teachers, counselors, and administrators in each of the targeted schools with a preselected group of norm referenced screening instruments and characteristics common to gifted minority and limited English proficient children. The practicum also developed …

Using Portfolios For More Authentic Assessment Of Writing Ability, Richard J. Marchesani

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

This practicum sought to improve student writing and student attitude towards writing through a performance-based assessment which featured peer and teacher conferencing, holistic grading and publication of material written by students. The practicum involved seventh and eighth grades and five teachers who instituted all aspects of the writing process from prewriting to evaluation.

The writer organized a twelve-week writing program which encompassed all four types of writing; provided folders for all students; outlined procedures for peer and teacher conferencing; conducted summative evaluations among teachers; enacted a letter-writing project among students; arranged for the collection and sealing of student folders for …

Expanding The Risk Assessment Skills And Intervention Options Of Child Protection Caseworkers Investigating Abuse/Neglect Of Childrenaseworkers Investigating Abuse/Neglect Of Children, Patricia A. Verstraete

Abraham S. Fischler College of Education ETD Archive

This practicum was designed to enhance the skills of child protection workers who investigate child abuse that occurs in families where there is a chronically mentally ill caretaker. This project focused on three types of social casework skills, risk assessment, intervention strategies, and community networking.

Skill building was accomplished through three processes. Caseworkers were invited to a forum where current research data and literature that addressed risk issues were presented. Workers were encouraged to discuss and analyze this information as it related to current caseloads. The process used to enhance intervention strategies induced staffing CMI cases and reviewing a Intervention …

Country/Region Reports -- United States Of America, Linda A. Malone

Faculty Publications

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Constitutional Scepticism, Robin West

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

Interpretive constitutional debate over the last few decades has centered on two apparently linked questions: whether the Constitution can be given a determinate meaning, and whether the institution of judicial review can be justified within the basic assumptions of liberalism. Two groups of scholars have generated answers to these questions. The "constitutional faithful" argue that meaning can indeed be determinately affixed to constitutional clauses, by reference to the plain meaning of the document, the original intent of the drafters, evolving political and moral norms of the community, or the best political or moral philosophical theory available and that, because of …

Reconstructing Liberty, Robin West

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

It is commonly and rightly understood in this country that our constitutional system ensures, or seeks to ensure, that individuals are accorded the greatest degree of personal, political, social, and economic liberty possible, consistent with a like amount of liberty given to others, the duty and right of the community to establish the conditions for a moral and secure collective life, and the responsibility of the state to provide for the common defense of the community against outside aggression. Our distinctive cultural and constitutional commitment to individual liberty places very real restraints on what our elected representatives can do, even …

Poly Speak(S), Cindy A. Linse

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Soil Monitoring In Western Montana, Daniel M. Miles

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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The Political Ecology Of Takeovers: Thoughts On Harmonizing The European Corporate Governance Environment, Ronald J. Gilson

Faculty Scholarship

Economic policy debate in the United States during the 1980s focused on the dynamics of bidder and target tactics in hostile takeovers. Confronted with the largest transactions in business history, financial economists took advantage of developments in econometric techniques to conduct virtually real time studies of the impact on firm value of each new bidder tactic and target defense. For courts and lawyers, hostile takeovers subjected standard features of corporate law to the equivalent of a stress x-ray, revealing previously undetected doctrinal cracks. Congress held seemingly endless hearings on the subject, although managing to enact only relatively innocuous tax penalties …

Summer Past Love| Four Chapters From A Novel-In-Progress, Marlene Nesary

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Trails And Aboriginal Land Use In The Northern Bighorn Mountains, Wyoming, Steve Platt

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Water Quality Benefits Of The Missoula Phosphate Ban In The Clark Fork River, Perry Berlind

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Junior's Girl And Other Short Stories, Kathleen Kirwan

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Judicial Deference To Executive Precedent, Thomas W. Merrill

Faculty Scholarship

In 1984, the Supreme Court adopted a new framework for determining when courts should defer to interpretations of statutes by administrative agencies. Previous decisions had looked to multiple contextual factors in answering this question. Chevron U.S., Inc. v. National Resources Defense Council, Inc. appeared to reject this approach and require that federal courts defer to any reasonable interpretation by an agency charged with administration of a statute, provided Congress has not clearly specified a contrary answer. The Court justified this new general rule of deference by positing that Congress has implicitly delegated interpretative authority to all agencies charged with enforcing …

Four Stories, Maria Healey

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Hydrogeologic Investigation Of The Former Burlington Northern Fueling Site, Missoula, Montana, A. Campbell Stringer

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Symptom, The Sequel And The Victim Of Art, Cindy A. Linse

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Changing Environment Of The Canadian Retail Trade Sector, Mark Elwin Derbyshire

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Comparative Study Of Equity Accounting In The United States And The United Kingdom From A Generally Accepted Accounting Practices Viewpoint, James Paul Luther

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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1391 Midway Parkway| New And Selected Stories, Kipp Brian Wessel

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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The Jurisprudence Of Non-Proliferation: Taking International Law Seriously, David A. Koplow

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

This essay is about the power of the international law of nonproliferation- its mounting power in the world today and its properly augmented power in an enlightened future. The article focuses on three primary areas in which international law may play a greater role than is commonly appreciated in affecting the behavior of potential proliferators, their suppliers, and their resolute opponents. The three topics-areas in which the essay pleads for law to be taken even more seriously, and by a wider audience of governments and the international public-are: (a) treaties (especially the provisions of those treaties that commit the parties …

Problems With The International Definition Of A Refugee And A Possible Solution, Toby D.J. Mendel

Dalhousie Journal of Legal Studies

The Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees' definition of a refugee is no longer viable. It was originally designed to deal with the limited refugee situation that existed forty years ago. Both the passage of time and the internationalization of refugee problems have weakened the effect of the definition to the point where a majority of de facto refugees do not even come within its ambit. Many of those who should be covered by the definition are not afforded protection under the national schemes designed in accordance with the Convention's provisions. The UNHCR tries to deal with refugee situations …

Anatomy Of A Trade Dispute: The Question Of Softwood Lumber, Peter Piliounis

Dalhousie Journal of Legal Studies

It has been called "the longest and messiest trade war Canada and the United States have ever had." Without a doubt, the issue of softwood lumber pricing has long been a major irritant in Canada-United States trade relations. On three separate occasions, the United States has launched a countervailing duty investigation into Canadian timber pricing practices. Softwood lumber plays a key role in the economies of several Canadian provinces and American states. The stakes are not only high for softwood lumber products, but any decision made on softwood lumber could also have an enormous impact on other forest products and …

When Is A Corporate Executive "Substantially Unfit To Serve"?, Jayne W. Barnard

Faculty Publications

The recently enacted Securities Enforcement Remedies and Penny Stock Reform Act of 1990 provides that, in an SEC enforcement action, a federal court may enjoin or "disbar" the defendant from serving in the future as an officer or director of a public company. A court may enter such an order if it finds that the defendant is "substantially unfit" to serve as a corporate executive; the Act, however, does not define "substantial unfitness." In this Article Professor Jayne Barnard provides a framework for defining this term and identifying the defendants to which the Remedies Act should apply. Professor Barnard begins …

Divided Justice: A Commentary On The Nomination And Confirmation Of Justice Thomas, Michael J. Gerhardt

Faculty Publications

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Legal Education And The Theatre Of The Absurd: "Can't Anybody Play This Here Game?", Paul A. Lebel

Faculty Publications

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Philip L. Barlow, Mormons And The Bible: The Place Of The Latter-Day Saints In American Religion, Marvin Folsom

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

Review of Mormons and the Bible: The Place of Latter-day Saints in American Religion (1991), by Philip L. Barlow.

Review Essay: John Taylor And Wendy Childs, Eds., Politics And Crisis In Fourteenth-Century England, Kenneth G. Madison

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John Taylor and Wendy Childs, eds., Politics and Crisis in Fourteenth-Century England, Alan Sutton, 1990, xvi, 157 pp., index, $30.00.

Review Essay: M. Beresford And J. G. Hurst, Eds., Deserted Medieval Villages, R. Bruce Hitchner

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M. Beresford and J. G. Hurst, eds., Deserted Medieval Villages, Alan Sutton, 1989, 340 pp., ill., maps, $48.00.