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The Limits Of Racial Domination: Plebeian Society In Colonial Mexico City, 1660-1720 , By R. Douglas Cope, Michael C. Scardaville

Faculty Publications

A review of The Limits of Racial Domination: Plebeian Society in Colonial Mexico City, 1660-1720, by R. Douglas Cope

Genetic And Phylogenetic Divergence Of Feline Immunodeficiency Virus In The Puma (Puma Concolor), Margaret A. Carpenter, Eric W. Brown, Melanie Culver, Warren E. Johnson, Jill Pecon-Slattery, Dulce Brousset, Stephen J. O'Brien

Biology Faculty Articles

Feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) is a lentivirus which causes an AIDS-like disease in domestic cats (Felis catus). A number of other felid species, including the puma (Puma concolor), carry a virus closely related to domestic cat FIV. Serological testing revealed the presence of antibodies to FIV in 22% of 434 samples from throughout the geographic range of the puma. FIV-Pco pol gene sequences isolated from pumas revealed extensive sequence diversity, greater than has been documented in the domestic cat. The puma sequences formed two highly divergent groups, analogous to the clades which have been defined for …

Edison Communicator Volume Two; Number Three, Edison Community College

Edison Communicator

Edison Communicator: A Publication for the Faculty, Staff and Friends of Edison Community College.

Curtailing The Economic Distortions Of The Mortgage Interest Deduction, William T. Mathias

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

Many Americans consider the mortgage interest deduction a necessary fixture of the American tax system. In this Article, Mathias examines the economic underpinnings of the deduction and finds that it cannot be justified on purely economic grounds. He then evaluates the major policy arguments for the mortgage interest deduction and concludes that it is inefficient, inequitable, and too costly in its present form to be justified on policy grounds. Finally, the author advocates for the elimination or substantial reduction in the size and scope of the mortgage interest deduction.

The Three-Judge District Court In Voting Rights Litigation, Michael E. Solimine

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

In recent Terms the Supreme Court has heard numerous appeals from the decisions of three-judge district courts in controversial Voting Rights Act cases as well as in challenges to congressional districts designed allegedly to facilitate the election of members of minority groups. Although the cases themselves have been followed closely, the institution of the three-judge district court itself has received relatively little attention, even though Congress passed legislation in 1976 that restricted the three-judge court's jurisdiction to reapportionment and certain Voting Rights Act cases. In this Article, Professor Solimine argues that numerous problems attend the formation and operation of such …

Front Matter, Journal Of Law Reform

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

Front matter for Volume 30, Issue 1 of the University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform.

Democratizing Hmo Regulation To Enforce The "Rule Of Rescue", Kent G. Rutter

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

Despite heightened public concern about HMOs, misguided regulatory measures have not guaranteed HMO patients access to the treatment options many consider vital. This Note recommends four changes to the current regulatory system that would preserve HMOs' ability to control health care costs while allowing patients and doctors, rather than lawmakers or HMO administrators, to set health care priorities.

The Contract With America: The Crystallization Of The Gop's Racial Agenda, Edward J. Rymsza

City University of New York Law Review

No abstract provided.

Front Matter

City University of New York Law Review

No abstract provided.

A Critique Of The Second Circuit's Analysis Of New York And New Jersey Joint Venture Law In Arditi V. Dubitzky And Sagamore Corp. V. Diamond West Energy Corp., Robert Steinbuch

City University of New York Law Review

When one party is encumbered with a liability, it will often look for another party to assume some of the costs. One method of forcing costs to be shared by another is to have a joint venturer contribute. Not surprisingly, when a liability arises, the liable party will be liberal in its interpretation of who among its relationships is a joint venturer, while a potential contributor will be conservative in its interpretation. Thus, it is important to identify analytical tools to determine if a joint venture exists. The first section of this article discusses the core legal elements of a …

Canvassing "Point Outs" And Police Suggestion: A Comment On People V. Dixon, Geoffrey T. Raicht

City University of New York Law Review

No abstract provided.

A Review Of Haig's Commercial Litigation In New York State Courts, Walter M. Schackman

City University of New York Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Politics Of Postmodern Jurisprudence, Stephen M. Feldman

Michigan Law Review

What is the politics of postmodern jurisprudence? Forms of postmodern interpretivism, including philosophical hermeneutics and deconstruction, assert that we are always and already interpreting. This assertion has provoked numerous scholarly attacks, many of which invoke standard modernist hobgoblins such as textual indeterminacy, solipsism, ethical relativism, and nihilism. From the modernist standpoint, postmodern jurisprudence thus is either conservative or apolitical because it lacks the firm foundations necessary for knowledge and critique. In this article, I argue that these modernist attacks not only are mistaken but that they also obscure the potentially radical political ramifications of postmodern interpretivism. My discussion focuses on …

Congressional Ethics And Constitutent Advocacy In An Age Of Mistrust, Ronald M. Levin

Michigan Law Review

Like lawyer-bashing, Congress-bashing seems never to go out of style. As every newspaper reader knows, and as public opinion surveys confinn, the public's regard for the legislative branch has been discouragingly low for years. One of the incidents that has done most to fuel this mood is the Keating Five affair. The Senate Ethics Committee's decision in the Keating case, which has been called "the ultimate metaphor for political corruption," provides a fitting prologue for this article's theme: the ethical dimensions of intervention by members of Congress into administrative agency proceedings.

Table Of Contents, Depaul College Of Law

DePaul Journal of Health Care Law

No abstract provided.

Touro Transcript Vol.2 No. 1, Touro College Flatbush Women's Division

Yearbooks and Newsletters

"A Publication of the Touro College Flatbush Women's Division"

Touro College Libraries Newsletter Vol. 3 No. 1, Touro College Libraries

Yearbooks and Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Alma Matters Volume I Number Iv, Touro College School Of Liberal Arts And Sciences

Yearbooks and Newsletters

"A Publication of the Touro College School of Liberal Arts and Sciences Alumni Association."

Esq. Wires Fall 1996, Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center Alumni Association

Yearbooks and Newsletters

Published quarterly by the Office of Development and Public Affairs of Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center for alumni/alumnae and friends.

Calling Off The Lynch Mob: The Corporate Director's Fiduciary Disclosure Duty, Lawrence A. Hamermesh

Vanderbilt Law Review

Two parallel bodies of American law establish the obligations of corporate directors to disclose information about the corporation to its existing stockholders: (1) the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and (2) state common law, including doctrines such as fraud and negligent misrepresentation. Although these state common law doctrines have been applied to transactions in corporate securities, their significance has been largely eclipsed by comprehensive federal regulation.

Of growing importance, however, is a state law duty that courts have created and imposed upon directors based upon their fiduciary relation to the corporation and its stockholders. In the last twenty years, this …

The Case For Applying The Eighth Amendment To Corporations, Elizabeth S. Warren

Vanderbilt Law Review

ABC Corporation employs fifty drivers and transports various products across state lines. An employee of ABC corporation secretly carries small amounts of illegal drugs in the trailers of the trucks he drives and does so without detection for five years. After law enforcement authorities discover the drug trafficking, the United States files an in rem action under 21 U.S.C. section 881(a)(4), seeking forfeiture of every truck that the guilty driver drove over the past five years and every trailer in which the guilty driver carried drugs. This forfeiture could result in ABC Corporation's losing a third of its trucks and …

Impact Of Groundwater Contamination In East Multnomah County On The Interlachen Community, Scott A. Wells, Shuguang Li, Marvin Beeson, Michael L. Cummings, Richard Pratt, Robert Leslie Annear, Karann Brandt

Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

The Friends of Blue and Fairview Lake through the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Technical Assistance Grant (TAG) program contracted with Portland State University faculty and staff to provide an independent review of the groundwater contamination problem at the Boeing-Cascade site in East Multnomah County. An independent consultant, Karann Brandt, of PRC Environmental Management, Inc., was also assisting the panel with the review.

The region of groundwater contamination is a 2.5 square mile region bounded by NE Halsey Blvd. to the Columbia River and NE 178th to NE 223rd (see Figure 1). The groundwater contamination is primarily of volatile organic compounds …

The Spousal Defense--A Ploy To Escape Payment Or Simple Application Of The Equal Credit Opportunity Act?, Andrea M. Farley

Vanderbilt Law Review

A defaulting spouse may find a powerful and effective defense to a creditor's entry of judgment in the Equal Credit Opportunity Act ("ECOA" or "the Act") and the accompanying federal regulation ("Regulation B"). The defense arises when a married applicant enters a financial institution seeking a loan, and even though the applicant is unquestionably creditworthy, the creditor requires that the applicant's spouse co-sign the loan as a guaranteeing spouse. The financial institution has just violated the ECOA by discriminating against the applicant on account of the applicant's marital status. If the original applicant later defaults on the loan, the creditor …

Attachment Of Toxoplasma Gondii To Host Cells Is Host Cell Cycle Dependent., Jane Grimwood, Jose R. Mineo, Lloyd H. Kasper

Dartmouth Scholarship

The initial attachment of Toxoplasma tachyzoites to target host cells is an important event in the life cycle of the parasite and hence critical in the pathogenesis of this infection. The efficiency of Toxoplasma attachment to synchronized populations of Chinese hamster ovary cells and bovine kidney cells was investigated by using a glutaraldehyde-fixed host cell assay system. For both cell lines, parasite attachment increased as the synchronized host cells proceeded from the G1 phase to the mid-S phase and then decreased as the cells entered the G2-M boundary. Postulating that these differences in attachment reflect the upregulation of a specific …

Book Review Of, Friedrich Nietzsche, On The Genealogy Of Morality, R. Kevin Hill

Philosophy Faculty Publications and Presentations

Reviews the book "On the Genealogy of Morality" by Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by Carol Diethe and edited by Keith Ansell-Pearson

Transit Time Internet Access: Prototype And Progress, Janet Vorvick

Center for Urban Studies Publications and Reports

Transit Time Internet Access Version (TTIA1) is a prototype messaging program which delivers real-time bus schedule information to users of the Internet. Using the World Wide Web and the well developed hypertext markup language (html), TTIA1 allows a bus user to request and receive schedule deviation information about a specific bus at a specific timepoint. TTIA1 is part of a project whose goal is to evaluate the effect on riders behavior and riders level of satisfaction of actual arrival time information.

Opposing Motor Activities Are Required For The Organization Of The Mammalian Mitotic Spindle Pole, Tirso Gaglio, Alejandro Saredi, James B. Bingham, M Josh Hasbani, Steven R. Grill, Trina A. Schroer, Duane A. Compton

Dartmouth Scholarship

We use both in vitro and in vivo approaches to examine the roles of Eg5 (kinesin-related protein), cytoplasmic dynein, and dynactin in the organization of the microtubules and the localization of NuMA (Nu-clear protein that associates with the Mitotic Apparatus) at the polar ends of the mammalian mitotic spindle. Perturbation of the function of Eg5 through either immunodepletion from a cell free system for assembly of mitotic asters or antibody microinjection into cultured cells leads to organized astral microtubule arrays with expanded polar regions in which the minus ends of the microtubules emanate from a ring-like structure that contains NuMA. …

File-Access Characteristics Of Parallel Scientific Workloads, Nils Nieuwejaar, David Kotz, Apratim Purakayastha, Carla Schlatter Ellis, Michael L. Best

Dartmouth Scholarship

Phenomenal improvements in the computational performance of multiprocessors have not been matched by comparable gains in I/O system performance. This imbalance has resulted in I/O becoming a significant bottleneck for many scientific applications. One key to overcoming this bottleneck is improving the performance of multiprocessor file systems. \par The design of a high-performance multiprocessor file system requires a comprehensive understanding of the expected workload. Unfortunately, until recently, no general workload studies of multiprocessor file systems have been conducted. The goal of the CHARISMA project was to remedy this problem by characterizing the behavior of several production workloads, on different machines, …

Special Issue- Coverage For Benign Or Premalignant Skin Lesion Removal, Blue Cross And Blue Shield Of Florida, Inc.

Florida Blue Archives Printed Materials

Special Issue about Coverage for Benign or Premalignant Skin Lesion Removal.

Book Reviews

New Mexico Historical Review

No abstract provided.