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Medical Use Of Marijuana: A Look At Federal & State Responses To California's Compassionate Use Act, Allison L. Bergstrom

DePaul Journal of Health Care Law

No abstract provided.

Case Briefs, Depaul College Of Law

DePaul Journal of Health Care Law

No abstract provided.

Fairness In Music Licensing Act Of 1997: Will It End The Confusion Surrounding The Homestyle Exemption Of The Copyright Act, Matthew Clark

DePaul Journal of Art, Technology & Intellectual Property Law

No abstract provided.

The Price Of International Free Speech: Nations Deal With Defamation On The Internet, Samuel Fifer, Michael Sachs

DePaul Journal of Art, Technology & Intellectual Property Law

No abstract provided.

Epilogue, Kristen Ullom, Lisa M. Barr, T. Sean Hall

DePaul Journal of Art, Technology & Intellectual Property Law

No abstract provided.

The Problem With Money Now, Terms Later: Procd, Inc. V. Zeidenberg And The Enforceability Of Shrinkwrap Software Licenses, Christopher L. Pitet

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

No abstract provided.

Information Outlook, November 1997, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 1997

Volume 1, Issue 11

Self-Conception Of The Egyptian National Character In Connection With Development, Magda Mahmoud Tawfik El Guindy El Guindy

Archived Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Women's Voice, November 1997, Women's, Gender, And Sexuality Studies Program

Women's Voice (1991-2006)

No abstract provided.

1997 November, Office Of Communications & Marketing, Morehead State University.

Morehead State Press Release Archive, 1961 to the Present

Morehead State University press releases for November of 1997.

An Educational Exhibit Of Two Graphic Designers: William Golden / Will Burtin, Linda Blake

Theses

The Retrospective Exhibit, a thesis project, documented the professional graphic design work of two pioneers in the industry. Will Burtin and William Golden. William Golden was Art Director of CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System) Television and creator of the CBS 'eye'. Will Burtin was an exhibition designer, a graphic designer and a lecturer. The thesis project was an educational display that reflected the historical graphic design accomplishments of both men. Numerous trade ads from Golden's work at CBS highlighted his expansive corporate identification program. Golden created a multimedia promotion unlike any prior to its development. Television was a new medium that …

Values, Affect And Risk Perception, Kurt Neuwirth, Sharon Dunwoody, Robert J. Griffin

College of Communication Faculty Research and Publications

Three pilot studies provided data exploring the roles of values, threats to these selfsame values and emotions in the perception of risk. Results indicate that judgements about risk are associated with a wide variety of values and perceived threats to values. The findings also revealed that the negative emotions such as sadness, worry, anger, disgust, helplessness and uncertainty were significantly related to risk perception. The authors' discussion advances the view that the range of topics considered appropriate to risk communication can be extended to the area of public opinion and rhetorical studies.

Are Law Firm Partners Islands Unto Themselves? An Empirical Study Of Law Firm Peer Review And Culture, Susan Saab Fortney

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

This article examines how attitude and law firm culture affect peer review and principal accountability by using empirical data obtained from a survey of Texas law firms. Part I briefly describes the research design and the general profiles of respondents of the survey. Part II discusses the peer review measures used by the firms surveyed for this article. Part III analyzes attitudes about peer review. Part IV focuses on the obstacles to peer review. Part V considers the connection between firm culture and the implementation of peer review measures. Finally, the conclusion explains how firm managers can reshape attitudes to …

An Experimental Procedure For Characterizing Interconnects To The Dc Power Bus On A Multilayer Printed Circuit Board, Hao Shi, James L. Drewniak, Todd H. Hubing, Thomas Van Doren, Fei Sha

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

The effectiveness of dc power-bus decoupling is impacted by the inductance associated with interconnect vias in printed circuit boards (PCB's). Adequate characterization of these interconnects is necessary to facilitate modeling and simulation, and to assess the effectiveness of added decoupling. In this study, a measurement procedure is presented for determining the series inductance and resistance of an interconnect with a network analyzer. The validity and limitations of the procedure are discussed. Experimental results of interconnect parameters on an 8 × 10 in ten-layer test-board corroborate those measured with a precision impedance analyzer. The measured interconnect values are used to simulate …

Modeling Of Surface Hairline-Crack Detection In Metals Under Coatings Using An Open-Ended Rectangular Waveguide, Christian J. Huber, Habibollah Abiri, Stoyan I. Ganchev, R. Zoughi

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

A surface-breaking hairline crack or a narrow slot in a metallic specimen when scanned by an open-ended rectangular waveguide probe influences the reflection-coefficient properties of the incident dominant mode. Subsequent recording of a change in the standing-wave pattern while scanning such a surface results in what is known as the crack characteristic signal. Since microwave signals penetrate inside dielectric materials, this methodology is capable of detecting cracks under dielectric coatings of various electrical thicknesses as well. To electromagnetically model the interaction of an open-ended rectangular waveguide with a surface-breaking hairline crack under a dielectric coating, the dielectric-coating layer is modeled …

Quantifying Emi Resulting From Finite-Impedance Reference Planes, David M. Hockanson, James L. Drewniak, Todd H. Hubing, Thomas Van Doren, Fei Sha, Cheung-Wei Lam, Lawrence Rubin

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Parasitic inductance in printed circuit board (PCB) geometries can detrimentally impact the electromagnetic interference(EMI) performance and signal integrity of high-speed digital designs. This paper identifies and quantifies the parameters that affect the inductance of some typical PCB geometries. Closed-form expressions are provided for estimating the inductances of simple trace and ground plane configurations.

No More Excuses: Refusing To Condone Mere Carelessness Or Negligence Under The "Excusable Neglect" Standard In Federal Rule Of Civil Procedure 60(B)(1), Bree W. Weathersbee

Vanderbilt Law Review

Rule 60(b)' is an attempt to codify the equitable, common law practice of reforming judgments under special circumstances. The rule, inter alia, authorizes a court to relieve a party from a default judgment for "excusable neglect." This standard, however, is not defined in the rules, and courts have struggled with its meaning. Some circuits define the term liberally and often grant requests to vacate default judgments. Others adopt a strict interpretation and consistently refuse to vacate default judgments resulting from mere carelessness or negligence. Recently, in Pioneer Investment Services Co. v. Brunswick Associates Ltd. Partnership, the Supreme Court clarified the …

Task Scheduling In Networks, Cynthia Phillips, Clifford Stein, Joel Wein

Dartmouth Scholarship

Scheduling a set of tasks on a set of machines so as to yield an efficient schedule is a basic problem in computer science and operations research. Most of the research on this problem incorporates the potentially unrealistic assumption that communication between the different machines is instantaneous. In this paper we remove this assumption and study the problem of network scheduling, where each job originates at some node of a network, and in order to be processed at another node must take the time to travel through the network to that node.

Our main contribution is to give approximation algorithms …

Montana Communities Explore Tourism Potential: Powder River, Laurel, And Hill Counties, Paul L. Grant, Norma P. Nickerson, Rita J. Black

Institute for Tourism and Recreation Research Publications

As part of the Community Tourism Assessment Process (CTAP) of 1997, the residents of Powder River County, Laurel, and Hill County were surveyed to determine their opinions toward tourism development in their respective communities. The results were compared to a sample of statewide respondents.

The Origin, Development, And Regulation Of Norms, Richard H. Mcadams

Michigan Law Review

For decades, sociologists have employed the concept of social norms to explain how society shapes individual behavior. In recent years, economists and rational choice theorists in philosophy and political science have started to use individual behavior to explain the origin and function of norms. For many in this group, the focus of study is the interaction of law and norms, of formal and informal rules. Exemplified by Robert Ellickson's Order Without Law, this literature uses norms to develop more robust explanations of behavior and to predict more accurately the effect of legal rules. Norms turn out to matter in legal …

The Murray Ledger And Times, November 1, 1997, The Murray Ledger And Times

The Murray Ledger & Times

No abstract provided.

Harnessing User Communities For Website Location And Evaluation, Tim Beal, Mimi Recker

Instructional Technology and Learning Sciences Faculty Publications

The AsiaWeb Project is looking at the problem of accessing quality and relevant information on the Web. It is the product of collaboration between two disciplinary standpoints. Dr Mimi Recker is approaching the problem from a generic, systems viewpoint, seeing the information domain as a case study and Dr Tim Beal has an interest in the computer access and manipulation of information on Japan, and Asia generally. We are taking business information on Asia as the general subject and within this Japan is a priority area. However, it is considered that the techniques developed could be applied to any subject …

Quarterly Meeting, Wku Board Of Regents

Board of Regents Documents

Quarterly meeting of the WKU Board of Regents. Swearing in of president Gary Ransdell. Discussion of Board of Regents' bylaws; disposition of meeting minutes; Executive Committee report; Finance Committee report; Facilities Oversight Committee report; personnel changes; president's report; University Boulevard crosswalk; and resolutions of appreciation for Fred Mudge, Raymond Preston, faculty receiving grants, Gary Cox and Barbara Burch.

Fractionally Sampled Decorrelating Detectors For Time-Varying Rayleigh Fading Cdma Channels, Huaping Liu

Dissertations

In this dissertation, we propose novel decorrelating multiuser detectors in DSCDMA time-varying frequency-nonselective and frequency-selective fading channels and analyze their performance. We address the common shortcomings of existing multiuser detectors in a mobile environment, such as detector complexity and the error floor. An analytical approach is employed almost exclusively and Monte Carlo simulation is used to confirm the theoretical results. Practical channel models, such as Jakes' and Markovian, are adopted in the numerical examples.

The proposed detectors are of the decorrelating type and utilize fractional sampling to simultaneously achieve two goals: (1) the novel realization of a decorrelator with lower …

Analysis Of Safe Separation Distances From Natural Gas Transmission Pipelines, James Stephen Haklar

Dissertations

Accidental rupture of natural gas transmission pipelines with subsequent ignition of the escaping gas can result in the loss of life and property. In the United States, current means of protecting both the pipeline and the public include the establishment of class locations, in which specific pipeline design, construction and operation requirements must be attained. In addition, distances at which the pipelines can be safely set back from the community, called safe separation distances, have been developed in some European countries (e.g., Great Britain, the Netherlands) through use of risk assessment principles. However, to date there has been no simple, …

Volume 33 - Issue 8 - Friday, October 31, 1997, Rose Thorn Staff

The Rose Thorn Archive

The Rose Thorn, Rose-Hulman's independent student newspaper.

Spartan Daily, October 31, 1997, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 109, Issue 45

10/31/1997 - Eiu Highlights.Pdf, University Marketing And Communications

1997

No abstract provided.

The Courier, Volume 31, Issue 5, October 31, 1997, The Courier, College Of Dupage

The Courier

Stories:

Blackout Knocks Out Classes

Biology Professor Wins “Teacher Of The Year” Award

COD Partners With German School For Office Technology Program

New Quarterly Brings New Changes

COD Teachers Honored During “Day Of The Dead”

Students Take Safe Sex Seriously

Campus Art Directory

Greeley Opens Lecture Series

Artist Robert Barnes Speaks At Arts Center

People:

Harold Cohen

Francisca Zarate

Juan Torres

Joe Hake

Maria Damianova

Andrew Greeley

Robert Barnes

Robyn Coffin

Jeanette Lawdensky

10/31/1997 - Alumna Gift To Benefit Eiu Tarble Arts Center, University Marketing And Communications

1997

No abstract provided.