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The Threat Or Use Of Nuclear Weapons: Discernable Legal Policies Of The Judges Of The International Court Of Justice, Kazuomi Ouchi

Connecticut Journal of International Law

By a letter dated 19 December 1994, the Secretary-General of the United Nations officially communicated to the Registrar of the International Court of Justice the decision taken by the General Assembly of the United Nations to submit the question of the legality of the threat or use of nuclear weapons to the Court for an advisory opinion. The General Assembly noting, inter alia, that Article 96, paragraph 1, of the United Nations Charter empowers the General Assembly to request the Court to give an advisory opinion on any legal question, decided to request the Court to urgently render its advisory …

Persistent Organic Pollutants: Regime Formation And Norm Selection, Christina S. Chen

Connecticut Journal of International Law

Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) are hazardous and potentially life-threatening toxic chemicals. The international community recently agreed to create an international legally binding instrument to control POPs.' Although myriad questions confront the creation of a new regime, this Comment will focus on the types of norms and control strategies that should be devised in order to establish an effective POPs regime. In order to analyze the issue of norm crafting, Part I of this Comment outlines the background of the POPs problem and the current efforts of the United Nations to establish consensus on the need for a POPs regime. Part …

Law, Venture Capital, And Entrepreneurism In Japan: A Microeconomic Perspective On The Impact Of Law On The Generation And Financing Of Venture Businesses, Eric C. Sibbitt

Connecticut Journal of International Law

Part one of this article attempts to demonstrate through a microeconomic framework how the legal, economic, and cultural forces underlying the Japanese financial system impact the funding of venture businesses in Japan. In a venture finance market, the microeconomic decisions of entrepreneurs and venture investors determine how much capital is ultimately supplied to finance venture businesses. Investors, the suppliers of capital to a venture market, seek to ensure the highest possible payback on investment by maximizing expected returns. Rational entrepreneurs, on the demand side of the market for venture capital, seek the use of investor capital to pursue income-generating opportunities …

Building An International Criminal Court For The 21st Century, Bryan F. Macpherson

Connecticut Journal of International Law

This article proposes significant, yet realistic, enhancements to the proposed court's jurisdictional scheme that could vastly increase its usefulness without undermining valid national interests. The proposed court could exercise jurisdiction over certain serious international crimes provided that the affected states have filed declarations accepting the court's jurisdiction over the crime. The proposal assumes that states would file declarations prospectively accepting the court's jurisdiction. In theory, this would set up an international criminal justice system that would operate without requiring any further state consent. However, states also wish to reserve the right to try international criminals in their own courts. The …

Partial Entrenchment Of A Bill Of Rights: The Canadian Model Offers A Viable Solution To The United Kingdom's Bill Of Rights Debate, Vincent P. Pace

Connecticut Journal of International Law

For three decades the United Kingdom has debated whether or not to adopt a bill of fights.' The United Kingdom does not have a constitution that codifies fundamental rights and entrenches these rights from government encroachment. Instead, precedent, customs, conventions, and Acts of Parliament collectively safeguard basic rights.3 Parliament, by simple majority approval, maintains the power to modify or repeal rights guaranteed by any of these sources. The judiciary cannot protect fundamental fights from executive or legislative encroachment because judges in the United Kingdom do not possess the power of judicial 4 review.

This debate has generated considerable controversy because …

Front Matter, Csr Editors

Clinical Sociology Review

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About The Authors, Csr Editors

Clinical Sociology Review

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Mixing Apples And Oranges: Sociological Issues In The Process Of An Academic Manager, John G. Bruhn

Clinical Sociology Review

This paper describes and analyzes key sociological issues that arise during the merger of a campus with a college within a large university. The issues arising in this case study are analyzed within the framework of a model for reframing organizations. The skills that a clinical sociologist can bring to a merger situation to help minimize delay and failure are discussed

From Research To Policy: Roles For Sociologists, Mildred A. Morton

Clinical Sociology Review

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Liberalism And The Problem Of Knowledge, A New Rhetoric Or Modern Democracy, Steve Kroll-Smith

Clinical Sociology Review

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Citizen Science: A Study Of People, Expertise And Sustainable Development, Michael R. Edelstein

Clinical Sociology Review

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Back Matter, Csr Editors

Clinical Sociology Review

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The New Language Of Qualitative Method, Susan Brown Eve

Clinical Sociology Review

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Full Issue: Volume 16, Csr Editors

Clinical Sociology Review

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Amicus Brief: Commonwealth V. Nixon, James G. Dwyer

Briefs

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Modelling The Prevalence Of Down Syndrome With Applications Of Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods, Isabelle Cella Bray

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses

This thesis was motivated by applications in the epidemiology of Down syndrome and prenatal screening for Down syndrome. Methodological problems arising in these applications include under-ascertainment of cases in livebirth studies, double-sampled data with missing observations and coarsening of data. These issues are considered from a classical perspective using maximum likelihood and from a Bayesian viewpoint employing Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) techniques. Livebirth prevalence studies published in the literature used a variety of data collection methods and many are of uncertain completeness. In two of the nine studies an estimate of the level of under-reporting is available. We present …

Fluid Inertia And End Effects In Rheometer Flows, Jason Hughes

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses

This thesis is concerned with the characterisation of the flow behaviour of inelastic and viscoelastic fluids in steady shear and oscillatory shear flows on commercially available rheometers. The first part of this thesis is concerned with a linear viscoelastic theory to describe the oscillatory shear flow behaviour of fluids on a Weissenberg rheogoniometer. A fluid inertia perturbation analysis is used to produce analytical formulae for correcting complex viscosity data for first and second order fluid inertia effects. In order to validate the perturbation theory we perform a simulation of the oscillatory shear flow behaviour of Newtonian and single element Maxwell …

Employability Skills In The Undergraduate Business Curriculum And Job Market Preparedness : Perceptions Of Faculty And Final-Year Students In Five Tertiary Institutions, Patrick Antonio Williams

Dissertations

Problem

For several decades educators, researchers, and employers have expressed concern about the quality of business graduates that are entering the workplace as entry-level professionals. The major concern of these stakeholders is that many students who are leaving tertiary institutions lack the necessary employability skills needed for career success. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate if undergraduate schools of business are adequately preparing their students for the workplace through the incorporation of employability skills throughout the curriculum. To achieve this purpose, the study measured the perceptions of both final-year undergraduate business students and their professors to determine …

Key Administrative Decisions In The History Of The Seventh-Day Adventist Education In Bermuda, Leslie C. Holder

Dissertations

Problem. In 1993, during the celebration of fifty years of continuous Christian education in Bermuda, it became strikingly evident that the Seventh-day Adventist Church had no single literary, historical compilation of SDA education in the country. This research can help to fill this information void.

Method. Seven key administrative decisions have been identified as being of paramount importance in influencing the manner in which SDA education has developed in Bermuda: (1) the initial decision to found an SDA school, (2) the relocation of the school to the Sandringham property, (3) the expansion from eight grades to twelve, (4) the choices …

The Development Of A Master Plan Of Curriculum And Instruction For A Charter School In The State Of Michigan, Thomas Gerald Kea

Dissertations

Problem. Our country stands in need of academic imperatives that will provide direction for our public school system. Highly accountable charter schools are being propagated to model quality education. The country is presently challenged to produce competent educational programs that contribute to this pioneer effort.

Purpose. The purpose of this study was to develop a master plan of curriculum and instruction for a charter school in the state of Michigan by studying select schools and other documents.

Method. This was a qualitative study that sought to determine the culture of select charter, public, private, and home schools. Ten principles, drawn …

Quit-Claiming The Doctrine Of Discovery: A Treaty-Based Reappraisal, David E. Wilkins

Jepson School of Leadership Studies articles, book chapters and other publications

The discovery doctrine is one of the baseline legal concepts that has worked to seriously disadvantage the land rights of indigenous nations in the United States because it asserts, as one of its definitions, that the "discovering" European nations and their successor states, gained legal title to Indian lands in North America. The author argues, using comparative colonial and early American treaty, legislative, and other historical data, that this definition is a legal fiction. In historical reality, discovery was merely an exclusive and preemptive right that vested in the discovering state the right of first purchase.

Ammon In The Hebrew Bible: A Textual Analysis And Archaeological Context Of Selected References To The Ammonites Of Transjordan, James Roger Fisher

Dissertations

The study of the Transjordanian Iron-Age (ca. 1200-550 BC) state of Ammon is important to students of the Bible because of the numerous references to the Ammonites (bene 'ammon) included in the historical and prophetic sections of the Hebrew canon. The book of Genesis traces the ancestry of the "Sons of Ammon" to an eponymous ancestor named Ben Ammi--son/grandson of Abraham's nephew Lot (Gen 39:17).

Chapter 1 points out how Ammon--though often ignored or slighted in studies up to the mid-20th century--increasingly receives scholarly attention. It also shows a need for applying the results of archaeological research to facilitate a …

Experience With Isolators In The Uk: The First 10 Years, Gj Sewell

School of Health Professions

No abstract provided.

Technological Change And Women’S Participation In Crop Production In Bangladesh, S Rahman, Jk Routray

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

There is a dearth of information on the employment effects of modern agricultural tech nology on rural women in Bangladesh. The present study1 looks at women's participation in crop production activities, examines their influence in the diffusion of modern technol ogy and their participation in the hired labor market. Data for this study comes from two intensive surveys conducted in the crop years 1989 and 1996 in three agro-ecological regions of Bangladesh. Findings suggest that the prevailing claim-that women are involved only in post- harvest processing of crops-underestimates their contribution to agricultural production. Women's share of total labor is 10-18 …

Analysis Of University Personnel's Perception Of Institutional Factors Impacting Student Persistence/Retention, Jose Melendez

Dissertations

Problem

Universities are assessing which institutional efforts are most directly impacting student attrition. This study identified important institutional factors impacting student attrition/retention using university personnel. It also measured personnel perception of how satisfactorily addressed were institutional factors impacting student persistence.

Methods

A quantitative survey methodology was used, and a survey instrument was developed and validated in the study. Tinto’s 1987 model of Student Departure and the Melendez model o f Transaction Satisfaction toward Student Persistence were used to guide the development of the instalment. The Melendez model was formulated as a rival hypothesis and an alternative tool for the study …

Relationships Among Expectations Of Reentry Problems Of International Students Living In On-Campus Apartments And Off-Campus Housing At Andrews University And Selected Student Characteristics, José R. Bourget-Tactuk

Dissertations

Problem. Andrews University has maintained a large international student population throughout the years, but no previous study exists that examines expectations of reentry problems among international students. Consequently, neither has there been data collected on important demographic variables influencing the sojourn experience of this group, nor does there exist information about relationships among demographic variables and specific reentry areas that shape the students' expectations about the return home.

Method. The Expectations of Problems Upon Return to the Home Country Among International Students at Andrews University survey instrument was developed. Descriptive statistics were used to discover demographic characteristics and frequency of …

Volunteers As Tutors And Trainers Of Tutors : A Qualitative Study, Mark B. Thogmartin

Dissertations

Problem. The Seventh-day Adventist church/North American Division initiated a Tutoring and Mentoring project in response to President Clinton’s America Reads literacy campaign. This study documents the efforts of the church and the first cohort of trainees as they sought to establish tutoring projects in their home locales.

Method. The author of this study was involved as a co-trainer and a participant-observer during the initial 1-week training session held at the North American Division Headquarters. This training was intended to equip the participants to become tutors of children and trainers of tutors in a primary-level tutoring project. During the …

Business Subsidies And The Dormant Commerce Clause, Dan T. Coenen

Scholarly Works

In this Article, I seek to respond to the Court's overture with a treatment of of subsidies under the dormant Commerce Clause that moves progressively from the general to the specific. Part I examines key Supreme Court cases to show that the basic question of whether state business subsidies are constitutional remains open and important. Part II then turns to how that question should be resolved, focusing on whether subsidies are fairly distinguishable from ostensibly equivalent, and concededly unlawful, discriminatory tax relief. The thrust of Part II is that both precedent and policy support the traditional, pre-West Lynn Creamer" view …

Hospital Marketing And The Internet: Revisited, C. David Shepherd, Daniel Fell

Faculty Articles

In 1995 a study was conducted to explore the use of the Internet in hospital marketing. Use of the Internet has exploded since that study was published. This manuscript replicates the 1995 study and extends it by investigating several managerial and operational issues concerning the use of the Internet in hospital marketing.

The Newly Found "Compassion" For Sexually Violent Predators: Civil Commitment And The Right To Treatment In The Wake Of Kansas V. Hendricks, Elizabeth Weeks

Scholarly Works

In light of heart-wrenching stories of sexual abuse and public demands for safety, the Kansas v. Hendricks case presented the Supreme Court with compelling facts on which to uphold the Kansas commitment strategy. After all, the statute prevented the release of a man whose history of sex crimes, incarceration, and institutionalization spanned nearly two decades, and who admitted he still had sexual desires for children but could not control his urges. Faced with that evidence, the Court would have been hard-pressed to strike down the Kansas statute by finding that such a predator received inadequate treatment for his disorder, or …