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An Integrated Web-Based Ill System For Singapore Libraries, Schubert Foo, Ee Peng Lim

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

The paper proposes an integrated Web-based inter-library loan (ILL) system to replace and enhance the existing manual-based ILL system used by Singapore libraries. It describes the system requirements that must be supported in order to make it a viable and acceptable solution to all participating libraries. Subsequently, it presents the client-server Web-based system architecture, database design and Java development platform that are used to implement the system. The new system exhibits a host of advantages over the manual system including the minimising of human resource by eliminating form-filling and other forms of paper work completely, improving the access and speed …

Regulation Of The Turkish Straits: Unclos As An Alternative To The Treaty Of Montreux And The 1994 Maritime Traffic Regulations For The Turkish Straits And Marmara Region, Serge V. Pavlyuk

Fordham International Law Journal

This Note discusses the need for a modern international legal regime that would address navigational and environmental safety in the Turkish Straits in a manner consistent with customary international law of the transit passage through the straits used for international navigation. Part I provides an overview of the recent history of the Turkish Straits and the legal regimes regulating navigation in the Turkish Straits and other straits used for international navigation. Part II explores the positions and arguments of the parties involved in the dispute over the legality of the 1994 Turkish Regulations. Part III proposes that the circumstances surrounding …

Toward Peace In Northern Ireland, George J. Mitchell

Fordham International Law Journal

That is one side of the coin of liberty. When we adjourned for the Christmas holiday the prospects were bleak. It was in mid-February 1998, on the flight from Dublin back to the United States, that I began to devise a plan to establish an early deadline for an end to the talks. He stayed up all night at the White House, telephoning several of the delegates at critical times in the final hours of negotiation. Most importantly for its survival, the agreement was overwhelmingly endorsed by the people of Ireland, North and South, in a free and democratic election. …

To Cherish A Just And Lasting Peace, Gerry Adams

Fordham International Law Journal

In the opening line of the diary that he kept during the first three weeks of his hunger strike, republican prisoner Bobby Sands, who died after fifty-five days on strike, wrote: "I am standing on the threshold of another trembling world." This system has created a unionist one party state that has rejected basic principles of democracy, justice, and equality. Throughout the development of our peace strategy and the talks process, republicans pursued the peace process in the context of our republican analysis of the situation and with a solid strategy to meet all of the difficulties head on. In …

Does The Ec Council Directive No. 95/46/Ec Mandate The Use Of Anonymous Digital Currency?, Julia Alpert Gladstone

Fordham International Law Journal

This Essay focuses on the relationship between the privacy and the retail payment systems on the Internet. Part I of this Essay reviews several payment mechanisms that are in use or that have been introduced for retail commerce on the Internet. The description is not intended to offer a thorough study of the technology, but rather to highlight the data trail that is created under each method. Part II reviews the relevant statutory and self-regulatory mechanisms that have been applied to the Internet to ensure privacy. This leads to a discussion of the European Community's data protection directive, Council Directive …

Documentary Credit Law And Practice In The Global Information Age, Jacqueline D. Lipton

Fordham International Law Journal

Documentary letters of credit have historically been an important and popular method of payment in international trading transactions. In fact, they have been described as the "lifeblood of international commerce." A number of uniform international practices have developed for their use, many of which are codified in international rules such as Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credits. In the global information age, as the nature of international commerce changes, so too must the operation of such payment mechanisms. With the increase in electronic trading, the "documentary" nature of these credits may require some revision. This Essay examines ways in …

Removing Drug Lords And Street Pushers: The Extradition Of Nationals In Colombia And The Dominican Republic, Joshua H. Warmund

Fordham International Law Journal

This Comment explores the interplay between drug trafficking and extradition policy in the U.S.-Latin American-Caribbean region by focusing upon the recent legal shift in Colombia and the Dominican Republic. Part I describes the status of current international extradition law, focusing on modern extradition policy. In particular, this part details the respective extradition treaties of Colombia and the Dominican Republic with the United States. Part I also explores the roles that these two nations assume trafficking drugs into the United States and highlights the corresponding U.S. anti-drug enforcement response. Finally, Part I examines the challenges that drug trafficking and certain anti-drug …

Kurt Mislow Honorary Issue Of Chirality, Daniel W. Armstrong

Chemistry Faculty Research & Creative Works

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Determination Of Aircraft Orientation For A Vision-Based System Using Artificial Neural Networks, Sanjeev Agarwal, Subhasis Chaudhuri

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

An algorithm for real-time estimation of 3-D orientation of an aircraft, given its monocular, binary image from an arbitrary viewing direction is presented. This being an inverse problem, we attempt to provide an approximate but a fast solution using the artificial neural network technique. A set of spatial moments (scale, translation, and planar rotation invariant) is used as features to characterize different views of the aircraft, which corresponds to the feature space representation of the aircraft. A new neural network topology is suggested in order to solve the resulting functional approximation problem for the input (feature vector)-output (viewing direction) relationship. …

Boal In The Classroom: A Technique For Developing A Teen Theatre Project, Vicki Clark

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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In Defense Of Ethical Naturalism, David Roberts

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

A Spatial Analysis Of Childhood Poverty In Montana: Are Food Programs Reaching The Children?, David E. Highness

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

Non-Volatile Dissolved Organic Iodine In Marine Water, Xianhao Cheng

OES Theses and Dissertations

An analytical scheme for the determination of marine DOI has been established. The concentration of DOI is estimated as total iodine (TI) minus total inorganic iodine (TII). The concentration of total iodine is determined as [special characters omitted] after DOI has been oxidized to inorganic iodine quantitatively by intensive UV-irradiation and all the inorganic iodine in the samples had been converted to [special characters omitted] by the addition of NaClO.

Production of DOI in seawater can be via both non-phytoplankton and phytoplankton related processes. In the former, iodide is converted to DOI. In the latter, most likely, iodate is converted …

Skeptical Scrutiny Of Plenary Power: Judicial And Executive Branch Decision Making In Miller V Albright, Cornelia T. Pillard, T. Alexander Aleinikoff

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

In 1996, just a few months after the United States successfully urged the Supreme Court in United States v. Virginia to invalidate as sex-discriminatory the male-only admissions policy at the Virginia Military Institute, the District of Columbia Circuit in Miller v. Albright upheld a federal law that used an express, sex-based distinction. Section 309(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) makes it harder for male U.S. citizens than for female citizens to convey their citizenship to their children if those children were born abroad out of wedlock and the other parent was not a U.S. citizen. Notwithstanding the United …

Rights And Efficiency In American Health Law, Maxwell Gregg Bloche

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

During the 1960s and 1970s, the individual rights revolution that swept through American society remade much of the nation's health law in its image. Sick people acquired the right to be told of the risks and benefits of proposed treatments and then to give thumbs-up or thumbs-down to their doctors' decisions. Successful suits for medical negligence went from rare to commonplace. Elderly and poor Americans achieved statutory rights of access to publicly funded healthcare, and courts burnished these rights with myriad procedural protections. The critically ill and their families won the right to refuse aggressive, life-sustaining treatments. Psychiatric patients acquired …

Intellectual Privacy And Censorship Of The Internet, Julie E. Cohen

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

No abstract provided.

Urban Forest Sustainability| An Application And Critique Of An Urban Forestry Sustainability Model To Missoula, Montana, Daniel A. Rogers

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

Federal Regulation Of Tobacco Products And Products That Treat Tobacco Dependence: Are The Playing Fields Level?, Joseph A. Page

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

Company A is thinking about launching a traditional tobacco product, perhaps a cigarette or a smokeless tobacco confection, with a new ingredient, ingredient level, or ingredient mix that in the past has never been sold. Company B contemplates putting on the market an innovative medication, medical device, or dietary supplement intended to help consumers to free themselves from physical dependence on tobacco products. Company C ponders the possibility of introducing a smoking product whose novelty derives from express or implied marketing claims that the product will decrease or perhaps even eliminate physical dependence on tobacco, or reduce other risks associated …

Sovereignty By Subtraction: The Multilateral Agreement On Investment, Robert Stumberg

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

The proposed Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAl) represents a major step in the evolution of "sovereignty," which includes the power of a nation-state to govern without external controls. A panelist at the 1998 Cornell International Law journal Symposium introduced the MAl as an example of "multilateral sovereignty" to achieve commonly held goals of global economic integration. This perspective posits that the MAl is an exercise in sovereignty by subtraction, aiming to limit governing power rather than promote its joint exercise.

Its critics call the MAl a "slow motion coup d'etat," a "bill of rights for investors," a threat to sovereignty, …

The Stories We Must Tell: Ugandan Children And The Atrocities Of The Lord's Resistance Army, Rosa Brooks

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

This essay is about stories--the stories that we are told and the stories that we, in turn, tell to others. It has become a truism that we have lost our faith in master narratives and that the "real" is composed of many competing narratives, all fragmentary, contradictory, overlapping. In this article, the author discusses the problems this view poses for those of us who see ourselves as advocates and activists rather than solely--or primarily--as scholars, but who nonetheless seek to combine social activism with intellectual rigor and honesty. In particular, she discusses the dilemmas this creates for the human rights …

Lochner In Cyberspace: The New Economic Orthodoxy Of "Rights Management", Julie E. Cohen

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

Part I of this Article describes the economic models now proffered as the basis for defining rights in digital works, and explores their striking resemblance to the system of social ordering described and advanced in the Supreme Court's Lochner-era decisions. The ghost of Lochner is not invoked lightly, nor with intent to belittle. Lochner represented a particular ideal of social ordering, premised on a seamless convergence of the private-law institutions of property and contract to provide a zone of legal insulation for market outcomes. In the physical world, that vision has long been compromised by evidence of market failures …

Copyright And The Jurisprudence Of Self-Help, Julie E. Cohen

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

The proposed draft of Article 2B grants broad rights to enforce electronically contract provisions governing access to and use of digital works. Purveyors of digital works may engage in electronic self-help following breach of contract, and may also elect to foreclose unauthorized uses ex ante, via electronic “regulation of performance.” This Article examines these provisions in light of existing law authorizing self-help repossession of tangible chattels, leading academic justifications for self-help repossession, and federal copyright law and policy. It concludes that the provisions authorize an unprecedented degree of intrusion into private homes and offices, that they lack a sound theoretical …

[Review Of] Mark Perlmutter, Why Lawyers (And The Rest Of Us) Lie & Engage In Other Repugnant Behavior, Sherman L. Cohn

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

This book speaks to the individual lawyer about his or her own practice. It is a self-confession by a leading trial lawyer of his own defalcations: of his own lies, of his own standing by as a more senior member of his law firm deliberately destroyed evidence, of his own giving a convincing argument to a court on a motion when all that he really wanted to do was delay. The stories are intriguing and captivating.

Rediscovering Fuller’S Legal Ethics, David Luban

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

Lon Fuller is the greatest American philosopher to devote serious attention to the ethics of lawyers. Indeed, he is arguably the greatest philosopher since Plato to do so. I don't suggest that Fuller was a philosopher of Plato's magnitude, but it is not preposterous to mention Plato and Fuller in the same breath. Their unique affinity was that both were thinkers whose broader philosophical concerns may plausibly be said to arise from reflections on the craft of law. In Plato's case, the effort to understand forensic argument, and to analyze why opinions about justice might be persuasive without being true, …

Hitler At Lidice| Language, Revenge, And Social Pathology In Warfare, Stephen Donald Carey

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

Throwing Velocity After Training With The Throwing Cord Versus A Throwing Protocol, Mark A. Shropshire

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

Curriculum Guide To The Wetlands Of Teton Valley Idaho For Grades Five Through Eight, Lisa A. Johnson

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

Environmental Education In Hungary: Constraints And Limitations, Christine E. Lenches

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

The Changing Status Of Faculty Women In Public Universities In The Northern Rockies And Deep South 1900-1990, Jill Mccorkle Vahl

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

On-Line Team Project Communication Tool Set, Halvard E. Nystrom, D. R. Risco

Engineering Management and Systems Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Team projects offer a valuable mechanism for effective learning. However, communication within the team, with the instructor and between different teams is a challenging task that can greatly limit the effectiveness of the learning experience. Some of the tools and concepts that are being developed for distance learning applications can be used to enhance team project communication within teams that are geographically separated as well as for in-campus teams. This article documents a set of on-line tools that allow for asynchronous team participation and timely monitoring and feedback by the instructor.