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The Case Against Affirmative Action, Terry Eastland

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Illusory Distinction Between Equality Of Opportunity And Equality Of Result, David A. Strauss

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Employee As Investor: The Case For Universal Application Of The Federal Securities Laws To Employee Stock Ownership Plans, Sean S. Hogle

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Cowl - Vol Lnvii - N.2 - Oct 1,1992

The Cowl

The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Volume LNVII - Number 2 - October 1, 1992. 24 pages.

Central Florida Future, Vol. 25 No. 12, October 1, 1992

Central Florida Future

Test requirements increase (with graphic); Galahad, UCFs horse at games, replaced by Cortesano; Opinion: The jury is out on Chiles' 'Blueprint 2000' plan; Features: 'King of the Beach' crowned in Daytona; Sports: Lightning strikes Philly in the Orlando arena.

Numerical Wave Propagation In An Advection Equation With A Nonlinear Source Term, D. F. Griffiths, A. M. Stuart, Helen C. Yee

United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration: Publications

The Cauchy and initial boundary value problems are studied for a linear advection equation with a nonlinear source term. The source term is chosen to have two equilibrium states, one unstable and the other stable as solutions of the underlying characteristic equation. The true solutions exhibit traveling waves which propagate from one equilibrium to another. The speed of propagation is dependent on the rate of decay of the initial data at infinity, A class of monotone explicit finite-difference schemes are proposed and analyzed; the schemes are upwind in space for the advection term with some freedom of choice for the …

Structural Characterization Of Fucoidan And Its Role In The Hemizona Assay, Manish S. Patankar

Chemistry & Biochemistry Theses & Dissertations

Fucoidan is a polysaccharide commonly found in brown algae. It is a sulfated polymer of the monosaccharide L-fucose. Fucoidan is thought to function in water retention by algae. Commercially available fucoidan is extracted from a brown algae called Eurus vesiculosus.

This polysaccharide has immense potential as a biologically active agent: (i) it exhibits anticoagulant action, (ii) it has also been reported to block retroviral replication and (iii) it is capable of blocking sperm-egg binding in sea urchin, mouse and rabbit. Recently, fucoidan has also been shown to block the interaction of human sperm and egg in the hemizona assay …

An Evaluation Of The Performance Of Retired Military Personnel Who Begin Teaching As A Second Career, Wendell Edgar Parker

Theses and Dissertations in Urban Services - Urban Education

With the increasing shortage of quality teachers, alternative certification programs have become a major source of attracting professionals from other fields and training them for the teaching profession. As a possible source of quality teachers, military retirees represent a large pool of prospective candidates. Despite their experience, and because of their alternative teacher training, the quality of their classroom performance is often questioned by both teacher unions and teacher training institutions.

This study focuses on military retirees who have been trained via an alternative certification and begun second careers as public school teachers. Specifically, this study determines the level of …

A Phenomenology Of Textuality, Alessandro Tomasi

Institute for the Humanities Theses

This thesis introduces a new meaning of the word "textuality" based on its etymology, as a "woven thing. I reject the notion of isolatable entities that we call "words" and argue that language presents itself, in our experience, as "textual." In this sense, "textuality" is not limited to written texts, but it applies to every linguistic media: thinking, writing, and speaking.

I attempt a distinction between "textuality" and "contextuality" which allows me to isolate this phenomenon, "textuality," and to proceed with a phenomenological description of its features and structures. Among these, I describe to some length what I call "diesis," …

Evidence For The Sensory Receptor(S) Of The Mounting Sex Pheromone In Two Species Of Ixodid Ticks, Dermacentor Variabilis (Say) And Dermacentor Andersoni Stiles, James Stephen Phillips

Biological Sciences Theses & Dissertations

The foreleg claw sensilla were determined to be the receptors of the female contact sex pheromone, MSP (mounting sex pheromone), in D. variabilis, D. andersoni and A. americanum male ticks. In all three tick species, the claw sensilla consists of six anteriorly-directed setae arranged in three symmetrical pairs, two each on the opposite sides of the apotele of the claw and one on the ventral side. Behavioral bioassays and morphological study of these setae revealed that only the dorsal and middle (= lateral) pairs of claw sensilla are mechanogustatory, while the ventral pair are strictly mechanoreceptors. The dorsal and …

Interferences Of N-Chloroorganic Compounds In Free Chlorine Determination, Sushma H. Gandhi

Chemistry & Biochemistry Theses & Dissertations

Various N-chlorinated organic compounds give positive responses to the analytical methods used to determine free chlorine. The present work quantifies interferences due to N-chloroisoleucine, N-chloropiperidine and N-chloro-2-methylbutyraldiminein the free chlorine determination by amperometry. These N-chloroorganic compounds were also studied for the recovery in response by the indicator electrode in amperometric titrimetry. The total chlorine content of the chloroaldimines derived from the chlorination of the amino acids, alanine, glutamic acid, glycine, isoleucine, leucine, phenylalanine, serine, valine, and those of dipeptides, alanylvaline and glycylleucine, was determined by amperometry and DPD-FAS titrimetry. The two methods were compared and evaluated with respect to recovery …

Elastic Buckling Of Stiffened Composite Curved Panels, Navin R. R. Jaunky

Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Theses & Dissertations

Continuous filament grid-stiffened structure is a stiffening concept that combines structural efficiency and damage tolerance. However, buckle resistant design of such structures using finite elements methods is expensive and time consuming. An analytical model of a general grid stiffened structure is developed using a smeared theory with a first order shear deformation theory to account for transverse shear flexibilities. The solution for buckling of a simply supported panel subjected to combined loading is developed using energy method and a Rayleigh-Ritz technique. The smeared theory results are compared with finite element results. The results smeared theory compare well with the finite …

Fluid Inclusion Studies Of The Morefield Pegmatite Amelia County, Virginia, John Richard Smerekanicz

OES Theses and Dissertations

The Morefield Pegmatite is a planar, nearly vertical body situated in Grenville age gneisses and schists in the southeast Piedmont of Virginia. It consists of a mineralogically simple albite-quartz outer zone and a texturally and mineralogically complex inner zone of microcline-topaz-quartz, with trace amounts of rare-element minerals. Fluid inclusions in samples of quartz, topaz, beryl, spessartite and albite that span the length, width and depth of both zones can be classified by chemical composition into two main groups: H₂O-rich solutions and CO₂- H₂O -rich fluids. The H₂O -rich inclusions consist of H …

Choice Reaction Time As A Function Of Set Size And Signal Frequency, Barbara M. Herzing

Psychology Theses & Dissertations

This research was conducted in two experiments. The first experiment assessed whether set size for the negative and positive sets affected reaction time during a visual scanning task. The effects of signal frequency on these relationships were assessed in the second experiment. It was hypothesized that as set size increased, reaction time would increase. In addition, as signal frequency increased, it was hypothesized that reaction time would decrease. In the first experiment, 12 groups of 10 subjects each were tested varying the number of stimuli for the positive and negative sets. The second experiment tested 18 groups by varying the …

Plankton Transport Patterns And Residence Times Around A Tall Seamount: Simulation Results, Dorlisa Louise Hommel

OES Theses and Dissertations

A semi-spectral primitive equation circulation model was used to simulate flow over an isolated gaussian seamount. Model configuration was such that a Taylor Cap was generated in the flow over the seamount. Arrays of 100 drifters were released in the simulated flow fields at several depths (50, 100, 200, and 400 m) both upstream and over the seamount. For several experiments vertical behaviors were imposed on the drifters to simulate zooplankton migration patterns. The drifter simulations extended for three months. Drifter transport patterns were determined by the initial release position of the drifter relative to the Taylor Cap as well …

Investment Policy And The Environment: The Role For European Community Law, Maurice Sheridan

Connecticut Journal of International Law

The past three years have witnessed an extraordinary degree of change in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. The extent and pace of change have made it increasingly difficult to predict with any real assurance just which of the structures, institutions, laws or personnel, among other things, that are in place today will still be in place twelve months hence. Such uncertainty has meant that planning within these countries, and planning by those outside of but who wish to operate within, has either been executed in a perilously vacant lot, -or else has had to rely on rules and …

Connecticut Compendium Of International And Comparative Legal Scholarship

Connecticut Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.

Privatization In The Ussr And Commonwealth, Olimpiad S. Ioffe

Connecticut Journal of International Law

Coming to power in 1985, Gorbachev almost immediately announced that the Soviet economy was in an extremely deplorable state, and that it would collapse, unless urgent measures would be applied. He thought that it was necessary to connect the so-called socialist economic system, deprived of any economic stimuli, with other economic phenomena, containing these stimuli, in order to overcome dangerous stagnation and achieve at least certain progress. The idea entailed various steps: mitigating the centralized planning and unfolding the local initiative on the level of the lowest economic entities; private efforts to develop state enterprises in the form of leasing …

Staffing National Health Care Reform: A Role For Advanced Practice Nurses, Linda H. Aiken, William M. Sage

Faculty Scholarship

Expanding access and coverage while containing costs can only be accomplished by getting more health care value for our money. Two facts about our current system make this seem possible. First, the currently uninsured are not costless. Providing stop-gap health care to those who lack health insurance is extremely expensive -- people without formal coverage cannot afford preventive services, delay treatment of illness and face substantial barriers to reaching appropriate providers. When they receive care, it is often degrading, usually complicated and costly, and more than occasionally too late. The cost of this "uncompensated" care is borne by all of …

Mandatory Prelicensure Legal Internship: An Idea Whose Time Has Come Again, Stephen R. Alton

Faculty Scholarship

This Article explores the wisdom of imposing an internship requirement on aspiring lawyers as a prerequisite for licensure. It is my position that such a requirement can be beneficial to the new attorney, to the profession, and to the public and should thus be mandated for all those who seek admission to the practice of law. This Article begins by briefly examining the history in the United States of law-office, apprenticeship as a means of legal education. I then proceed to an examination of modern internship requirements in England and Canada. There follows a discussion of some of the more …

Foreword, James D. Cox

Law and Contemporary Problems

No abstract provided.

Automation Of Securities Markets And The European Community’S Proposed Investment Services Directive, Norman S. Poser

Law and Contemporary Problems

One aspect of the EC's proposed Investment Services Directive (ISD) is examined: the potential impact of the ISD on the automation of the European securities markets.

A Comparative Analysis Of Takeover Regulation In The European Community, David J. Berger

Law and Contemporary Problems

An attempt is made to disperse some of the regulatory haze created by the various philosophies of corporate governance within the EC. Understanding the different systems of takeover regulation within the European countries Before attempting an acquisition can provide a company with more than just important technical knowledge about the requirements of an acquisition.

Looks Can Be Deceiving—A Comparison Of Initial Public Offering Procedures Under Japanese And U.S. Securities Laws, Alan L. Beller, Tsunemasa Terai, Richard M. Levine

Law and Contemporary Problems

In order to examine the divergent administration of statutes that are by their terms similar, the initial public offering procedures that a non-sovereign domestic issuer follows in the US and Japan are described.

Commodity Exchanges And The Privatization Of The Agricultural Sector In The Commonwealth Of Independent States—Needed Steps In Creating A Market Economy, Alexander Belozertsev, Jerry W. Markham

Law and Contemporary Problems

Pre-revolutionary commodities exchanges in Russia and their extinguishment by the Bolsheviks are examined, and the role thereafter by Soviet central planners in the distribution, import and export of agricultural commodities is described. It is argued that the privatization process in the CIS must include incentives for the development of an exchange system for agricultural goods.

Games Without Frontiers: Trends In The International Response To Insider Trading, Harvey L. Pitt, David B. Hardison

Law and Contemporary Problems

A study examines, from the perspective of two practitioners, current trends in the global regulation of insider trading.

Defining Illegal Insider Trading—Lessons From The European Community Directive On Insider Trading, Thomas Lee Hazen

Law and Contemporary Problems

The EC made a bold move towards defining precisely what conduct constitutes improper trading on nonpublic information with its Insider Trading Directive. The differences between the EC and US laws on insider trading are examined.

Schoenbaum Revisited: Limiting The Scope Of Antifraud Protection In An Internationalized Securities Marketplace, Donald C. Langevoort

Law and Contemporary Problems

In 1968, the Second Circuit decided "Schoenbaum vs Firstbrook," a doctrinally significant case for two reasons. The initial panel decision found, among other things, that the allegedly fraudulent mismanagement of a foreign company had sufficient effects in the US to trigger the assertion of US subject matter jurisdiction. It is argued that as a result of the forces creating an internationalized securities marketplace, the prevailing extraterritoriality doctrine has become both useless and problematic.

Insider Trading In A Globalizing Market: Who Should Regulate What?, Merritt B. Fox

Law and Contemporary Problems

As the market for securities becomes increasingly global, the question of whose rules should apply to any particular transaction will arise with increasing frequency. The issue is examined.

Cross-Border Investment, Conflict Of Laws, And The Privatization Of Securities Law, Robert W. Hillman

Law and Contemporary Problems

The rapid acceleration of transnational investing is occurring in an environment in which emerging markets, and foreign interest in these markets, are exploding. The issues involved with cross-border investment, conflict of laws and the privatization of securities law are examined.