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Patient Behaviors And Beliefs : Are Standardized Patients Different?, Colleen Shannon Lewy

Dissertations and Theses

Standardized patients (SP's) are lay people who are trained to evaluate and train clinical skills for medical personnel. It was hypothesized that since SP's have had practice and experience interacting with medical personnel that they would exhibit higher levels of patient interaction with their own health care providers. Surveys were sent to SP's affiliated with two medical schools in the Northwest as well as a control group from a local university. Surveys consisted of the Thompson Decisional Involvement scale, the Ende Autonomy Preference Index, the Krantz Health Opinion Survey: Information Seeking subscale, a Satisfaction Criteria scale, and an Expectations survey. …

Needs Assessment : The Need For Cultural Knowledge In Assisting Mexican-American Women In Keeping Their Children, Sylvia J. Garcia

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Patients' Rights In Managed Care - Exit, Voice, And Choice, George J. Annas

Faculty Scholarship

The ability of consumers to complain effectively about services and products is a key ingredient of the market. In Exit, Voice, and Loyalty, economist Albert O. Hirschman argues that the ability to take one's business elsewhere may not be enough to empower consumers in markets where all providers act similarly. Instead of simply going elsewhere, consumers need to have an effective way to voice their complaints, in order to give providers an incentive to be more responsive to consumers' interests. Marc Rodwin has suggested that the Hirschman analysis may be particularly relevant to members of managed-care organizations and ``individuals with …

Reefer Madness: The Federal Response To California's Medical-Marijuana Law, George J. Annas

Faculty Scholarship

Marijuana is unique among illegal drugs in its political symbolism, its safety, and its wide use. More than 65 million Americans have tried marijuana, the use of which is not associated with increased mortality. Since the federal government first tried to tax it out of existence in 1937, at least partly in response to the 1936 film Reefer Madness, marijuana has remained at the center of controversy. Now physicians are becoming more actively involved. Most recently, the federal drug policy against any use of marijuana has been challenged by California's attempt to legalize its use by certain patients on the …

Reconceptualizing Chevron And Discretion: A Comment On Levin And Rubin, Gary S. Lawson

Faculty Scholarship

Professors Ronald Levin and Edward Rubin want to change the way we think about important administrative law concepts. Ronald Levin's paper, The Anatomy of Chevron: Step Two Reconsidered,1 argues that Chevron's currently ill-defined second step ought to be reconceptualized as an application of arbitrary or capricious review. Edward Rubin's paper, Discretion and Its Discontents,3 is part of his ongoing project to reconceptualize the way we think-and, more importantly, the way we talk-about the modern administrative state. Professor Rubin suggests that the oft-used word "discretion" does not usefully describe the bureaucratic operation of the modern managerial state and that it profitably …

Rethinking Remedies At The Intersection Of Intellectual Property And Contract: Toward A Unified Body Of Law, Maureen A. O'Rourke

Faculty Scholarship

As society continues to move "on-line"' and technology advances in fields such as biotechnology, a paradigm shift is occurring. Investors are focusing less on asset valuations based on the physical goods owned by a particular firm and more on the value of intangibles-the information and know-how possessed by the firm and embodied in its intellectual property rights. Firms and even entire industries have grown up with the primarily paper assets of patents and copyrights.

Property And The First Amendment, Mark W. Cordes

Faculty Articles, Papers, and Other Scholarship

This article will examine the relationship of property interests to First Amendment exercise, and in particular the Supreme Court’s treatment of the ways property interests might interact with First Amendment rights. Although where appropriate it will emphasize the increased attention to property interests in recent years, the article’s primary intent is to more broadly examine the types of property-speech relationships that have arisen and how the Court has viewed property values in those various contexts. Beyond that, it will attempt to discern the more basic values reflected in the Court’s analysis and, to a limited degree, critique the Court’s treatment …

Return Of The Fourth Horseman: Emerging Infectious Diseases And International Law, David P. Fidler

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.

Gateway Widens Doorway To Imposing Unfair Binding Arbitration On Consumers, Jean R. Sternlight

Scholarly Works

Hill v. Gateway, is but the most extreme example of a series of court decisions that allow large companies to impose potentially unfair binding arbitration agreements on unwitting consumers. The outcome in Gateway, however, is questionable on federal statutory, common law, and constitutional grounds.

Evidence In A Different Voice: Some Thoughts On Professor Jonakait's Critique Of A Feminist Approach, Aviva A. Orenstein

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.

"My God!": A Feminist Critique Of The Excited Utterance Exception To The Hearsay Rule, Aviva A. Orenstein

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.

Good Catholics Should Be Rawlsian Liberals, Leslie C. Griffin

Scholarly Works

No abstract provided.

Expert Opinion Pleading: Any Merit To Special Certificates Of Merit?, Jeffrey A. Parness, Amy Leonetti

Faculty Articles, Papers, and Other Scholarship

Civil litigation reform to reduce frivolous civil lawsuits was a hot topic in the most recent Presidential debates. It has stirred much recent interest and action in state and federal legislatures. Some new developments involve special pleading norms. Lawmakers will likely debate and implement new special pleading requirements in coming years, often involving certificates of merit. Such certificates are now required for most or some professional malpractice claims in several states. Illinois adopted a certificate of merit standard for product liability actions, while certificates of merit for certain childhood sexual abuse claims are necessary in both California and Louisiana. As …

Glacial Deposits, Vol. 25, 1996-1997, Department Of Geography-Geology

Glacial Deposits

Newsletter of the Department of Geography-Geology

Bringing Avalon Hills Baptist Church Through The Two Hundred Barrier, David D. Reike

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The purpose of this dissertation is to identify as specifically as possible the elements which consistently contribute to the growth of the small church through the two hundred barrier, and then to incorporate these elements into a dependable strategy for such growth. The work includes a thorough review of relevant church growth literature, a review of Fuller Institute's "How to Break The Two Hundred Barrier Seminar," and it includes the results of a survey of fifty pastors who have led their congregations to regular worship attendances of over two hundred in recent years.

Verification Of The End-Effect Weibull Model Of Tensile Failure, Matthew T. Sagendorf

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

No abstract provided.

In Search Of The Perfect Accounting Software, Mykal Maus

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

No abstract provided.

The Persecution Of The Romany Under Hitler And Their Inclusion In The Term Holocaust, Sarah M. Hatcher

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

No abstract provided.

Personality Factors In The Formation Of Stimulus Equivalence Classes, Kristen M. Pomeroy

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

No abstract provided.

Issues And Concerns In Conducting Clinical Nursing Research In Rural Hospitals, Joni M. Peterson

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

No abstract provided.

On A Quest For Reason: A New Look At Surreptitious Search Warrants, Paul V. Konovalov

UC Law Journal

Surreptitious search warrants, which authorize investigating agents to enter one's property and observe the interior without seizing any evidence or providing notice to the owner or occupant of the searched property, have recently been the subject of increased attention by the courts. During the last decade, both the Ninth Circuit and the Second Circuit have upheld as constitutional the use of surreptitious search warrants where agents have provided post-search notice to the targets of the search. The two Circuits have fundamentally disagreed, however, about the underlying legal justification for the notice requirement. In particular, the Ninth Circuit has explained that …

Identifying The Role Of Social Norms In Mediation: A Multiple Model Approach, Ellen A. Waldman

UC Law Journal

Mediation plays an ever-increasing role in a variety of dispute contexts. Once primarily limited to labor or neighborhood conflicts, the mediation process is currently being used to resolve environmental, personal injury, securities, and bioethics disputes. This movement into new areas has sparked modifications and innovations in traditional mediation practice. In this Article, Professor Waldman argues that changes in mediation practice require a revamping of mediation theory. She argues that mediation encompasses three separate, but related, procedural models that can be distinguished by their divergent treatment of social norms. She terms these models "norm-generating," "norm-educating," and "normadvocating."

In the norm-generating model, …

Plain Meaning, The Tax Code, And Doctrinal Incoherence, Mary L. Heen

UC Law Journal

This Article examines the Supreme Court's interpretive approach in recent tax cases. Although the Supreme Court increasingly has applied a "plain meaning" approach in statutory construction cases, the Court does not consistently follow any one approach to statutory interpretation. Professor Heen argues that the Court's inconsistency leads to doctrinal incoherence, as illustrated by three recent tax decisions in which the Court used different interpretive approaches in construing the same statutory provision. Even if the plain meaning approach were more consistently applied as a decision-making procedure in tax cases, misinterpretations of the tax code would result from the inherent limitations of …

To Hire Or Not To Hire: What Silicon Valley Companies Should Know About Hiring Competitors' Employees, Hanna Bui-Eve

UC Law Journal

The Silicon Valley is one of the most important moneygenerating regions of America. Its phenomenal success is the result of a unique regional network-based industrial system which operates as a kind of meta-organization. Engineers move frequently between firms and projects, taking the knowledge, skills, and experience acquired at previous jobs and using them as building blocks in their new jobs. California courts have contributed to Silicon Valley's success by allowing workers easy mobility among jobs and by restricting employers' attempts to restrain employees from relocating. As a result, most employers have come to accept a high turnover rate as a …

Unlocking The Closet Door: Protecting Children From Involuntary Civil Commitment Because Of Their Sexual Orientation, Miye A. Goishi

UC Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Jeffrey Dahmer And The Cosynthesis Of Categories, Peter Kwan

UC Law Journal

No abstract provided.

The Meaning Of Romer V. Evans, Matthew Coles

UC Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Intellectual Property Rights In Data?, J. H. Reichman, Pamela Samuelson

Vanderbilt Law Review

The international intellectual property system founded on the Paris and Berne Conventions in the late nineteenth century has been dominated by the patent and copyright paradigms, which articulate the legal protection of technological inventions and of literary and artistic works, respectively. Although this patent-copyright dichotomy was never as strictly observed abroad as in the United States, it nonetheless charted a relatively clear theoretical line of demarcation between legal incentives to create and the public interest in free competition. Any publicly disclosed technologies or information products that failed to meet the eligibility requirements of the domestic patent and copyright laws became …

1997 Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes & Supplementary Materials, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate.

Faculty Senate Records

Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes & Supplementary Materials for 1997.

A Comparison Of Personality Characteristics Of Male And Female Engineering Students, Erin Beth Williams

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to investigate differences between personality characteristics of female and male freshmen, engineering students. A secondary purpose was to ascertain whether personality characteristics of freshmen, engineering students were different from those of general collegiate students of the same sex. The Millon Index of Personality Styles (MIPS) was administered to a sample of 72 female and 86 male freshmen, engineering students at a private midwestern engineering institution. The MIPS college normative sample of 1,600 college students was used as a comparison group. A total of 24 personality characteristics were assessed in the domains of motivation aims, …