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The Jew Taboo: Jewish Difference And The Affirmative Action Debate, Deborah Malamud

Faculty Articles

One of the most important questions for a serious debate on affirmative action is why certain minority groups need affirmative action while others have succeeded without it. The question is rarely asked, however, because the comparison that most frequently comes to mind-i.e., blacks and Jews-is seen by many as taboo. Daniel A. Farber and Suzanna Sherry have breached that taboo in recent writings. Professor Malamud's Article draws on work in the Jewish Studies field to respond to Farber and Sherry. It begins by critiquing their claim that Jewish values account for Jewish success. It then explores and embraces alternative explanations-some …

Sex Discrimination And Insurance For Contraception, Sylvia A. Law

Faculty Articles

Unintended pregnancy is a serious problem in the United States. Most private insurance plans do not pay for contraception even though they pay for other prescription drugs and devices. This Article argues that this pattern constitutes sex discrimination and is prohibited by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended by the Pregnancy Discrimination Act. It discusses the reasons this issue has been neglected and suggests ways federal and state officials might remedy this common form of gender discrimination.

Development And Validation Of An African American Adolescent Hope Scale, Debra Jean Agnew Moore

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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Development And Validation Of A High Performance Liquid Chromatographic Method Of Analysis For Artemisinin And Select Analogs Using An Evaporative Light Scattering Detector / By Krishna Kumar Venkatesh, Krishna Kumar Venkatesh

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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The Effects Of Abdominal Strength Exercises And Testing On Posture In School Children, Greta L. Mcdonald, Kristin L. Nederveld

Masters Theses

The purpose of this study was to compare an abdominal strength testing method used in school systems to tests used in the physical therapy profession. Results were associated with lumbar lordosis. The study included 58 female and 5 male subjects between 10-11 years old from two school districts. Kendall’s Upper Abdominal Test, Kendall’s Lower Abdominal Test and The Presidential Physical Fimess Test were performed in random order. Lumbar lordosis was measured before and afrer abdominal testing by recording the curvature of the low back using a flexible ruler. A Chi-square analysis was used to demonstrate the association of abdominal strength …

Women's Studies At Umass Boston: Celebrates 25 Years 1973-1998, Sherry H. Penney, Jean Mcmahon Humez, Women's Studies Program, University Of Massachusetts Boston

Women’s and Gender Studies Faculty Publication Series

What follows is an impressionistic overview of our program's first twenty five years, derived in part from our archives and in part from our collective recollections, and written by the current program director. As with any celebratory institutional history, it makes no claim to objectivity. Our aim is to look back at the main lines of our growth and development, and in so doing to acknowledge many of the individuals who have contributed to the building of the program over time.

We gratefully acknowledge the work of our first archivist, UMass Women's Studies / Sociology graduate dian fitzpatrick who, in …

Review Of Physician-Assisted Suicide Edited By Robert F. Weir, M. Therese Lysaught

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

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Cycle, Margaret G. Kern

School of Art Graduate Exhibitions, Portfolios, and Theses

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1998-1999 Lindenwood University Undergraduate Course Catalog, Lindenwood University

Course Catalogs

Lindenwood University Undergraduate Course Catalog

Characterization Of Petroleum Fog Oil And Vegetable Oil Smokes, Andrew Oliver Larouche

Masters Theses

"Deception and concealment to gain tactical advantage in the battlefield has been an integral part of warfare. Smoke has been a common tool used for signaling, concealment of troop movement and weapon deployment. U.S. Armed Forces have made use of smokes in an organized manner since the 1st world war. Since then various materials such as white phosphorus, zinc chloride, diesel fuel and petroleum oil aerosols have been used to obscure military targets. For the past thirty years fog oil (FO) a medium distillate has been extensively used by the U.S. Armed Forces for generation of obscurant smokes (OS). During …

Labor Market Responses To Rising Health Insurance Costs: Evidence On Hours Worked, David M. Cutler, Brigitte C. Madrian

Faculty Publications

Increases in the cost of providing health insurance must have some effect on labor markets, either in lower wages, changes in the composition of employment, or both. Despite a presumption that most of this effect will be in the fonn of lower wages, we document in this paper a significant effect on work hours as well. Using data from the CPS and the SIPP, we show that rising health insurance costs over the 1980s increased the hours worked of those with health insurance by up to 3 percent. We argue that this occurs because health insurance is a fixed cost, …

Law School Catalog 1998, Wiener-Rogers Law Library, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas -- William S. Boyd School Of Law

Law School Catalogs

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Effects Of Sch-23390 On Dopamine D1 Receptor Occupancy And Locomotion Produced By Intraaccumbens Cocaine Infusion, Laura O'Dell

Departmental Papers (Psych)

No abstract provided.

Placing The Waitangi Tribunal: Attitudes Towards The Claims Settlement Process In New Zealand, Kirsten Matoy Carlson

Law Faculty Research Publications

This article reports the findings of a 1998 survey of the general New Zealand public's attitudes towards race relations and the Treaty of Waitangi. The survey sought to determine whether demographic variables such as age, gender, race, and educational level impact attitudes towards the Treaty of Waitangi and the Treaty Claims Settlement Process. The survey findings indicate some polarisation among New Zealanders according to ethnicity on certain issues, and a general lack of knowledge and/or informed opinions about sovereignty, Treaty, and Tribunal issues.

Business And Legal Strategies For Combating Grey-Market Imports, Lawrence M. Friedman

The International Lawyer

No abstract provided.

Access To Documents And Panel And Appellate Body Sessions: Practice And Suggestions For Greater Transparency, Whitney Debevoise

The International Lawyer

No abstract provided.

Physiological Compromise In Neonates Following Examination For Retinopathy Of Prematurity, Barbara Ann Britton

MUSC Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this master's thesis is to identify the percentage of neonates having ROP examinations who experience physiological compromise following the ROP examination; identify characteristics of those neonates who may be at risk for such compromise, and determine if there is a correlation between physiological compromise and ROP examinations in neonate

The Identification, Characterization, And Functionality Of A Multidrug Transporter Protein In The Liver Of The Killifish, Fundulus Heteroclitus, Walter J. Ellenberg

MUSC Theses and Dissertations

The killifish or mummichog, Fundulus heteroclitus, is an excellent indicator of environmental quality and ecosystems health. It is the most dominant endemic fish species found in the headwater of small estuarine tidal creeks in the southeastern U.S. and one of the most frequently studied animals for toxicological analysis. In the environment, these organisms are exposed to xenobiotic hydrophobic molecules from anthropogenic ( e.g., pesticides and combustion products) and natural ( e.g., decaying plants) sources. Development of physiological adaptations to both natural and anthropogenic stress is important to fish such as the mummichog which must deal with the rigors of an …

Application Of Hierarchical Monte Carlo Simulation To The Estimation Of Human Exposure To Mercury Via Consumption Of King Mackerel (Scomberomorus Cavalla), W. Leonard Balthis

MUSC Theses and Dissertations

Data from mercury poisoning episodes in Japan and Iraq have been used to derive threshold levels for health effects in humans, and the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has established a reference dose (RfD) for methylmercury of 0.30 µg/kg/day. It is desirable, therefore, to predict exposures for various populations, and examine these exposures in relation to the established RfD. Given data on mercury concentrations in fish, and rates of fish consumption among human populations, it is possible to calculate exposure in one of several ways. One of the simplest ways involves the use of average values to compute a …

The Goals Of Environmental Enforcement And The Range Of Enforcement Methods In Israel And In The United States, Marcia R. Gelpe

Faculty Scholarship

The article examines enforcement of the environmental laws of Israel and of the United States. It concentrates on provisions for enforcement of the laws by government authorities--that is, either by administrative authorities or by the courts at the request of an administrative authority. Environmental laws in many jurisdictions may also be enforced by private actions. These private enforcement actions are not addressed specifically in this article, although much of what is said is also applicable to such actions.

1998 Transactions, American Dental Association

ADA Transactions

This item is part of the Transactions of the ADA, a serial publication of the annual activities of the ADA House of Delegates (HOD)/Board of Trustees (BOT). It is from the Transactions section, one of three subtitles that make up the full publication. Generally, the ADA Transactions are published in multiple volumes throughout the year. Pages from the Annual Reports and the Transactions are numbered consecutively (e.g. Annual Reports volume ends pg. 500 and Transactions volume starts at pg. 501). NOTE: All three subtitles are collectively known as the Transactions of the ADA or, alternatively, the ADA Transactions. Transactions refers …

Wcsa Class Of 1958, 40th Reunion, 1998, University Of Minnesota, Morris Office Of Alumni Relations

WCSA Reunion Programs

No abstract provided.

Winchell Posters

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

Abstracts from the Winchell Posters given at the 66^th Annual Meeting for the Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science.

Regeneration - The Road Not Taken, Raymond E. Sicard

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

Regeneration and repair are mutually-exclusive, adaptive responses to injury. The events associated with each process are well characterized. However, cellular and molecular mechanisms for their regulation are only now beginning to be defined. Moreover, full appreciation for factors that predispose to these contrasting pathways is not yet available. This article presents a perspective on regeneration and repair that suggests specific relationships between these modes of responding to injury. Injury provokes a coordinated pattern of response to tissue damage. At the wound site, local events determine whether tissue restoration or replacement occurs. Interplay among parenchymal and stromal cells at the site …

Eating Induced By Perifornical Camp Is Behaviorally Selective And Involves Protein Kinase Activity, Gillard, Arshad Khan, Bara Mouradi, Omkar Nalamwar, B. Stanley

Departmental Papers (Biology)

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Causes Of Mortality Of Post-Fledging Juvenile And Adult Snail Kites In Florida, Roberts E. Bennetts, Malene R. Shannon, Wiley M. Kitchens

Florida Field Naturalist

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Diagnosis And Management Of A Small Epizootic Of Salmonellosis In Passerines, Scott P. Terrell, Marilyn G. Spalding, Donald J. Forrester

Florida Field Naturalist

No abstract provided.

Portland State Magazine, Portland State University. Office Of University Communications

Portland State Magazine

PSU’s alumni magazine, published 2-3 times a year. In this issue: The six galleries on campus display local and national art—they also do great First Thursdays; help your child become a good speller. Plus, take a test to determine your own spelling aptitude; the food industry is finding new ways of doing business with the help of a PSU management program; when a company needs turning around, Renee Fellman is the specialist a history journal of the Pacific Rim is right at home in Cramer Hall; and more.

Faculty Senate Monthly Packet January 1998, Portland State University Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Monthly Packets

The January 1998 Monthly packet includes the January agenda and appendices and the Faculty Senate minutes and attachments from the meeting held December 1997.

Turnaround For Writers - Not Quite, But Close: The Writer's Right To Reacquire Theatrical Literary Material Under The Wga Basic Agreement, Michael R. Fuller

Loyola of Los Angeles Entertainment Law Review

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