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Experimental Models Of Mycobacterial Replication And Killing In Macrophages, Pairote Laochumroonvorapong

Student Theses and Dissertations

This thesis investigates how human mononuclear phagocytes regulate the growth of mycobacteria. Previous studies carried out in our laboratory suggested that cell turnover [apoptosis and necrosis] within a granuloma may contribute to the control of mycobacterial infection. The experiments described here demonstrated that both apoptosis [Fas-mediated] and necrosis [perforin-induced] of infected human monocytes do not affect the survival of intracellular mycobacteria in an in vitro infection model. To determine the role of apoptosis and necrosis on mycobacterial infection in vivo, perforin gene-disrupted mice and Fas receptor-defective mice were experimentally infected with mycobacteria. The loss of either intact Fas pathway or …

The Review - Winter 1997/1998

Jefferson Review

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• How to: Managing Dementia at Home - 6
• Biotechnology Opens With New Degree - 7
• Taking it to the Streets: CHP Community Service - 10
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• Alumni Notes - 14
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State Environmental Standard-Setting: Is There A "Race" And Is It "To The Bottom"?, Kirsten H. Engel

UC Law Journal

Federal intervention in environmental standard-setting is often justified as necessary to prevent states from engaging in a welfare-reducing "race-to-the-bottom" spurred by interstate competition for industry. Traditionally, scholars base the "race-to-the-bottom" assumption upon game theoretic models such as the classic Prisoner's Dilemma. Applying a neoclassical economic approach, however, some legal scholars have recently argued that interstate competition is conducive to efficiency and thus that there is no "race-to-the-bottom." In this Article, Professor Engel points out that these arguments have little empirical basis and provides, for the first time in the legal literature, an empirical framework for determining which of the existing …

Metropolitan Growth And The Local Role In Surface Water Resource Protection In The Lake Erie Basin, Wendy A. Kellogg

All Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs Publications

Local governments can play an important role in protecting surface water resources through their compliance with federal and state regulations and through their own land use planning and management practices. Despite 30 years of water quality initiatives in the Lake Erie basin, nonpoint source runoff from urban and urbanizing lands remains a problem. Loss of riparian corridor integrity is increasing as urban areas in the Lake Erie basin experience areal growth. The use and management of land, predominantly a local responsibility, directly affects surface water resources. The role that local governments play in protecting surface water resources was studied in …

A National Product Liability Statute Of Repose - Let's Not, Stephen J. Werber

Law Faculty Articles and Essays

Despite the failure of the 104th Congress to override President Clinton's veto and enact the Common Sense Product Liability Legal Reform Act, there is little doubt that such an Act will be passed by the 105th Congress. Uniform national laws concerning product liability are necessary, can be enacted consistent with Congressional authority, and should be enacted at the earliest possible time. A balanced Act, recognizing the need to protect injured consumers while providing necessary protection to product manufacturers and distributors, can be drafted. Such an Act could include provisions that abolish the consumer expectancy test for design defect litigation, reject …

1997 Vol.5 No.1, Cleveland-Marshall College Of Law

Law Notes

No abstract provided.

Table Of Contents, Journal Of Law And Health

Journal of Law and Health

No abstract provided.

Accomodating Vulnerabilities To Environmental Tobacco Smoke: A Prism For Understanding The Ada, Wendy E. Parmet, Mark A. Gottlieb, Richard A. Daynard

Journal of Law and Health

This Article explores the use of the ADA to challenge smoking policies and the fears and questions that such a use raises. We argue that a careful appreciation of the ADA's application to ETS-related claims should temper the worries of both those who see such claims as trivializing the ADA and those who worry that such claims may impose enormous burdens on American businesses. Rather, we suggest that the ADA in this instance, as in others, provides a limited but critical vehicle for ensuring that individuals with disabilities may fully participate in public life. We suggest further that the issues …

The Faces Of Despair In Ins Raids, Elvia R. Arriola

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

No abstract provided.

Reflections On Environmental Rights As Third Generation Solidarity Rights, Ileana M. Porras

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

No abstract provided.

Pain Relief For The Dying: The Unwelcome Intervention Of The Criminal Law, Phebe Saunders Haugen

Faculty Scholarship

This Article addresses physician-assisted suicide and the medical treatment of pain and suffering. Part II discusses various medical misconceptions about the treatment of pain and how modern medicine fails to fulfill this aspect of its palliative care role. Part III reviews how the law currently circumscribes the patient and doctor's ability to make medical decisions when the patient is terminally ill. As will be shown, the law is clearer and more respectful of good medical practice than most medical practitioners currently believe. Moreover, this section will also establish that, while several competing philosophical positions surrounding physician-assisted suicide exist, these same …

The Cultural Defense And The Problem Of Cultural Preemption: A Framework For Analysis, Nancy S. Kim

New Mexico Law Review

No abstract provided.

Protections For Erisa Self-Insured Employee Welfare Benefit Plan Participants: New Possibilities For State Action In The Event Of Plan Failure, Mark A. Edwards

Faculty Scholarship

Employees who receive health benefits through ERISA self-insured plans need protection when self-insured plans fail. Because of the breadth of ERISA preemption, states have been unable to assess ERISA self-insured plans for contribution to state insurance guaranty funds, and thus have been unable to include those employees in the protection of those funds. Further, attempts at federal reform to protect these employees have failed to garner support. However, under the recent Travelers, United Wire, and Safeco decisions, it may be possible for states to assess ERISA self-insured funds and their participants through a combination of hospital use surcharges and taxes …

What Now For The Texas Colonias, Joann Matthiesen

New Mexico Law Review

No abstract provided.

Massive Resistance - The Rhetoric And The Reality, Judith A. Hagley

New Mexico Law Review

No abstract provided.

United States V. Mcdougald: The Anathema To 18 U.S.C § 1956 And National Efforts Against Money Laundering, Mathew Paulose Jr.

Fordham International Law Journal

This Comment argues that the Sixth Circuit should overrule McDougald. Part I discusses the purpose, process, and problems of the crime generally known as money laundering. Part I also discusses national efforts against money laundering, and in particular, the United States' efforts through Section 1956 of the Money Laundering Control Act. Part I concludes by discussing the Salinas-Citibank Affair and the probable prosecution of Citibank for money laundering violations. Part II reviews the Sixth Circuit's line of cases leading up to and including the McDougald decision. Part II also contrasts McDougald by reviewing the decisions of the United States …

Closing Remarks, John Salter

Fordham International Law Journal

This closing remark conatins the text of John Salter's speech closing the conference organized by the Human Rights Institute to commemorate the Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration of the International Bar Association.

Paving The Way For Bulgaria's Accession To The European Union, Stanimir Alexandrov, Latchezar Petkov

Fordham International Law Journal

This Essay is about Bulgaria's accession to the European Union. Bulgaria seeks closer ties with, and ultimately full membership in the European Union. Economic relations between Bulgaria and the European Union have developed positively. Bulgaria presented its application for membership in 1995. Full membership is a priority for Bulgaria. Bulgaria's accession to the European Union is a matter of time.

The Adequacy Standard Under Directive 95/46/Ec: Does U.S. Data Protection Meet This Standard?, Patrick J. Murray

Fordham International Law Journal

This Comment addresses how the US protection of personal data will fare when judged against the adequacy standard of the Directive. Part I explains what data protection is and traces the development of data protection law in Europe and the United States. It then analyzes the current approaches to data protection in both the Community and the United States. Part II discusses different approaches to assessing adequacy. It proposes that the Article 29 Working Party presents the only clear explanation of how to assess when a third country ensures adequate protection of personal data. Part II then describes the Working …

Media, Multimedia, And European Community Antitrust Law, John Temple Lang

Fordham International Law Journal

This Article discusses the main European Community (“EC”) antitrust law issues that have arisen in the media industries or which are especially relevant to media. Part I discusses general principles and directives that influence multimedia law. Part II examines the relevant markets which relate to multimedia. Part III reviews evidence of dominance within multimedia. Part IV discusses the impact multimedia has had upon broadcasting sports events within the European Union (“EU”). Part IV also considers film catalogues and performing rights societies. Part V explores mergers within the media sector. Part VI discusses conditional access systems. Finally, the Article concludes that …

Patients' Rights To Access Their Medical Records: An Argument For Uniform Recognition Of A Right Of Access In The United States And Australia, Hayley Rosenman

Fordham International Law Journal

This Note addresses the issue of a patient's right to access her own medical records in the United States and Australia. Part I discusses the background of a right of patient access to medical records through case law in the United States. Part I gives a historical perspective on US and Australian legislation regarding access to medical records. Part II reviews commentary both for and against access in the United States and in Australia. Part II focuses on legal arguments from the recent decision concerning patient access to medical records by the Australian courts in Breen v. Williams. Further, …

Creating Data Protection Legislation In The United States: An Examination Of Current Legislation In The European Union, Spain, And The United States, Jennifer M. Myers

Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.

Attaining Systems For Sustainability Through Environmental Law, Nicholas A. Robinson

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

Five years have passed since the historic Earth Summit. Although significant progress has been made since Rio, much remains to be done. Poverty and environment degradation continue to affect the lives of millions of people in many parts of the world. Global warming, the loss of biological diversity, the spread of deserts, deforestation, the crisis in many of our cities remind us every day of the challenges which confront us. The unsustainable patterns of consumption and production continue to be the major cause of environmental degradation worldwide. This is therefore not an occasion for complacency or mindless celebration. It is, …

Mergers And Acquisitions: A Primer For Successful Employee Transition, Jan Dunlap

Theses

This thesis will focus on the 'human side' of mergers and acquisitions. It will show the impact on employees and ways in which management can ease these employees through the transition.

Research has shown that there are many more failures than successes, when it comes to mergers and acquisitions. Even with all the failures that exist, mergers and acquisitions are more prevalent than they have been in the past. Everyday the newspapers, news casts and radio stations mention a merger that is in the works.

If mergers and acquisitions are going to continue, and research shows that they will, then …

Business Ethics...A Contradiction In Terms?, Kimberly Rose Crawford

Theses

Business ethics occupies a unique position in the field of ethics. It consists of uneasy applications of some very general ethical principles (ie: duty or utility) to rather specific and often unique situations and crises. Unlike the professions of medicine and law, business ethics is concerned with an area of hum.an enterprise whose practitioners do not, for the most part, enjoy professional status and whose motives, to put it mildly, are often thought (and said) to be less than noble. Breed is often cited as the sole purpose of business, and much of the history of business ethics, accordingly, is …

Patient-Focused Care: The Restructuring Of Healthcare, William E. Brown

Theses

This thesis will focus on the study of restructuring or redesigning the current healthcare delivery system. with a primary emphasis on the concept of patient-focused care. Patient-focused care is defined as the redesign of patient care so that hospital resources and personnel are organized around patients. rather than around various specialized departments.

An overview of the healthcare delivery system prior to 1980 pointed out that healthcare expenses were increasing at far too rapid a rate. The number of Americans without healthcare benefits was climbing and medical record management was out of control. Hospital information systems were obsolete and professional territorialism …

Do You Know What You Selected? Customer Awareness In Choosing A Health Care Provider: Cost? Coverage? Service?, Bonnie Lin

Whittier Scholars Program

In this research paper the author attempts to analyze three different Health Care providers, specifically the ones that are offered to faculty at Whittier College (PPO, HMO, and Kaiser), based on different important aspects which include cost, coverage, and service (which is broken down into nine dimensions). In this work, the author analyzes a survey given to Whittier faculty concerning their Health Care provider and uses it to compare the plans to one another in order to find greatest customer satisfaction. The survey that the author created for the purposes of this paper is also included in the back for …

If It's Not Black And White Anymore, Why Does Darkness Cast A Longer Discriminatory Shadow Than Lightness - An Investigation And Analysis Of The Color Hierarchy, Leonard M. Baynes

Denver Law Review

No abstract provided.

Organizational Structures For Community Engagement, Sharon Singleton, Deborah Hirsch, Cathy Burack

New England Resource Center for Higher Education Publications

In a time of public scrutiny of higher education, there is good reason - both for the survival of the campus and the survival of the community around it -- for institutions to promote outreach. Yet even within those institutions with formal structures -- mission statements, faculty handbooks, and presidential leadership that support community service -- the practical considerations -- work assignments, evaluation mechanisms and institutional rewards -- present real challenges. Service-enclaves are structures that exist or are developed within institutions that allow faculty and staff to work collectively as they serve their communities. While individual service work is no …

Using Citizen Suits To Protect Biodiversity, William Snape

Scholarly Articles in Law Reviews & Journals

INTRODUCTION: Over the past several decades, environmental advocates have expended enormous effort attempting to pass laws that protect air, water, land and species.' But even the best written laws will not be effective unless they are implemented. At the federal level, most modern environmental statutes include enforcement mechanisms that allow for the active involvement of the public. The most common of these are provisions authorizing citizen suits and public comments on proposed agency actions. The rationale for this public involvement is simply that federal agencies sometimes do not enforce or obey the laws they are charged to uphold. For instance, …