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White Violence, Hegemony, And Slave Rebellion In Dallas, Texas, Before The Civil War, Michael Phillips

East Texas Historical Journal

No abstract provided.

Laureate Of Texas: The Poetry Of Karle Wilson Baker, Sarah R. Jackson

East Texas Historical Journal

No abstract provided.

Book Reviews

East Texas Historical Journal

No abstract provided.

Water Resources Review - Fall 1999 Vol 12 No 2, Annis Water Resources Institute

AWRI Reviews

No abstract provided.

A Phenomenological Inquiry Into The Nature Of The Sacred, Ana Maria Janssen

Institute for the Humanities Theses

There is good reason to believe that sacred experience is available to all humans. Yet the question of the sacred is frequently reduced to a debate between believers of various religions. As the focus of contention narrows, the ubiquity of sacred experience is neglected. Keeping this in mind, this analysis of the sacred confines itself strictly to the phenomenon of the sacred as a human experience, without confirming or denying the existence of a god or the veracity of any system of belief. Heidegger's Phenomenology is a useful model for such an analysis precisely because it lays aside conjecture about …

The Effects Of Task Demand And Knowledge Of Results On Operator Engagement And Vigilance Performance Moderation With A Biocybernetic System, Jamie Lynn Loverde

Psychology Theses & Dissertations

The present study examined whether a biocybernetic system could moderate performance in a vigilance task. The system manipulated critical signal (CS) amplitude based on cybernetic feedback contingencies. Under negative feedback, CS amplitude increased when the index fell below a predetermined level and decreased when the index rose above that level The opposite occurred under positive feedback. The system was expected to initiate more amplitude changes under negative feedback to regulate engagement. Performance feedback (Knowledge of Results; KR) was also provided and was expected to improve performance by motivating participants to pay closer attention to the task.

Forty participants performed a …

Political Corruption: Free-Flowing Opportunism, Claire Moore Dickerson

Connecticut Journal of International Law

From the first reading, I have been captivated by Robert Wade's descriptions of corruption in southern India, and in particular by his description of the relationship between the government engineers in charge of water distribution and the farmers.' I was struck by how familiar that dance between the engineers and the farmers felt. Wade writes of government engineers who rake off substantial bribes from the farmers they serve. Sometimes the farmers pay the engineers to gain assurance that the water to which they have a right will be forthcoming; sometimes the farmers pay the engineers to gain water to which …

The Cross-Border Insolvency Concordat And Customary International Law: Is It Ripe Yet?, David H. Culmer

Connecticut Journal of International Law

The importance of flexibility in international insolvencies is clearly demonstrated by the United States Bankruptcy Code. Section 304, governing cases ancillary to a foreign proceeding, provides that the court may, among specific forms of relief available to a foreign representative, "order other appropriate relief.' 2 This provision has been interpreted quite liberally, affording bankruptcy courts freedom to "broadly mold appropriate relief in near blank check fashion."3 While flexibility may not demand fair, predictable, and efficient results, it should at least allow for such results. Though probably true for most insolvency proceedings, either in reorganization or liquidation, this is perhaps nowhere …

Um Celebrates Diversity With Week Of Dialogue, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of University Relations

University of Montana News Releases, 1928, 1956-present

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Protecting Digital Works: Copyright Or Contract, Glynn Lunney

Faculty Scholarship

Since at least 1586, proponents of copyright have pointed to the tremendous ease with which competitors can copy works of authorship as the central justification for copyright protection. Because such works can be easily copied, a competitor could, in the absence of copyright, copy a work, and thereby avoid a large part of the original author's expense. This copying would allow competitors to undercut the original author's price for the work, and would deprive the original author of a fair wage for the labor and creativity she invested in the work. Faced with the threat of such competition, many would-be …

Community Service Programs In High Schools, Sally A. Raskoff, Richard A. Sundeen

Law and Contemporary Problems

Raskoff and Sundeen examine youth socialization and civic participation through community service among high school students, with special focus on California. The look at high school community service programs --their practices, their collaborative relations with community organizations for which the students volunteer, and the perspectives of students regarding their participation in these school-sponsored programs.

The Constitutionality Of Mandatory Public School Community Service Programs, Rodney A. Smolla

Law and Contemporary Problems

Constitutional challenges to community service programs may be divided into two generic types--those raised by students or parents who object to the requirement of community service, and those raised by students, parents, organizations, or agencies who object to the selection criteria used to include or exclude organizations or agencies eligible to participate in community service programs.

Making The Most Of Volunteers, Jean Baldwin Grossman, Kathryn Furano

Law and Contemporary Problems

Grossman and Furano discuss the elements that experience has shown need to be in place to allow volunteers to be most effective. Drawing from research on mentoring and youth service over the past twenty years, they explore effective volunteer practices, illustrating them with evaluation data and practical examples.

Property Rights Solutions For The Global Commons: Bottom-Up Or Top-Down?, Terry L. Anderson, J. Bishop Grewell

Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum

No abstract provided.

Vol 44 #2, Heidi Nickisch Duggan

MPLA Newsletter

No abstract provided.

The Trust Offshore, Antony G.D. Duckworth

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

I was not present at the birth of the offshore financial centers or of their trust business, but I am told that the mother was taxation. Perhaps that is an oversimplification, but I do not doubt that taxation was the major influence. The typical settlor was a taxpayer from one of the major common law countries, and his primary motive for going offshore was tax avoidance. But there were also a few settlors from other places, some motivated by estate planning considerations (the trust allowing them to make property arrangements which could not be made at home), some by fear …

Understanding Hearts—Elizabeth Seton And Louise De Marillac, Betty Ann Mcneil D.C.

Vincentian Studies

The similarities in the lives, spirituality, and mission of Elizabeth Seton and Louise de Marillac are examined. Both lost their mothers early in life, and both were wives, mothers, and widows. They had nursed terminally ill husbands and were single parents before they founded their communities. These life experiences had a significant impact on their service. Similar experiences led to their personal conversion. Elizabeth’s knowledge of Louise and the influence of the Rules and vows of the Daughters of Charity on the Sisters of Charity are described. The mission of both communities and the virtues that the foundresses instilled in …

Pierre Coste And Catherine Labouré: The Conflict Of Historical Criticism And Popular Devotion, Stafford Poole C.M.

Vincentian Studies

Pierre Coste’s analysis of Catherine Labouré and her visions serves as a case study in “the tension that can exist between the demands of a dispassionate historical criticism and those of popular devotion.” He did not believe in the visions and tried to prevent Catherine’s beatification. Publication of his research would not have been permitted, so he held one view publicly and another privately. Stafford Poole’s study uses two versions of Coste’s treatise, giving the publications and testimonies of the visions in chronological order and following each with Coste’s criticism. Among other things, he was troubled by the fact that …

Vincent In Translation, Marie Poole D.C.

Vincentian Studies

The Vincent Translation Project began in 1973 with the goal of producing “a modern American English edition of the extant works” of Vincent de Paul. Marie Poole explains the way the project is conducted, its challenges, and its contributions to scholarship. It is particularly through Vincent’s correspondence that we understand who he was as a person. Poole describes his time and his personality, especially as the latter was impacted by his Gascon heritage. She also specifies his relevance for many types of people today.

Ursinus Magazine, Summer / Fall 1999, Wendy Greenberg, Steven Hood, Tom Epler, Susan Stonitsch

Ursinus Magazine, 1995–Present

The Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art calendar • Ursinus in the news • Field House ground breaking September 17 • Pfahler Hall open house October 16 • Presenting the Class of 2003 • Laptops provided • Letters to the editor • Faculty news • Alumni Weekend and Commencement '99 • Transforming the campus: A museum's first decade • Furnishing knowledge: Endowed chairs • Politics as usual? A political scientist's journey to China • Shillingford is new holder of Snell Chair at Ursinus College • Bears win Centennial baseball title, go to playoffs • Women's lacrosse breaks record • …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 41 No. 1, Michelle Scalise Sugiyama, Thorunn Ruga Mccoy, David Garrison, Mark Mossman, Judith Musser, William Casement, Diane Averill, Baloian Baloian, K. H. Barron, Alan Britt, Mary Crow, Lois Marie Harrod, Fleda Brown Jackson, Kathleen Lynch, Hillary Lyon, Robin Michel, Andrea Moorhead, Pattiann Rogers, Sam Taylor, Paul W. Zagorski, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

As MICHELLE SCALISE SUGIYAMA shows, author Sandra Cisneros uses women's shoes and feet as potent symbols and actual examples of male manipulation of female sexuality and freedom. An Affiliate of the Institute for Cognitive and Decision Sciences at the University of Oregon and of the Center for Evolutionary Psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Sugiyama approaches the universal behavior of storytelling from a cognitive and anthropological perspective. Her work can be found in The Hemingway Review, Human Nature, Mosaic, and Skeptic, and she is completing a book-length study developing an alternative to Freudian literary analysis and its derivatives …

Aboriginal Forestry: Community Management As Opportunity And Imperative, Deborah Curran, Michael M'Gonigle

Osgoode Hall Law Journal

In recognition that forests are one of their greatest resources, Aboriginal peoples are considering how altered tenure arrangements might uphold traditional values, including ecological integrity, while providing economic and employment opportunities. However, the federal and provincial forest management structures have historically precluded First Nations from helping to define, and participate in, the forest industry. The authors explore the legal and regulatory basis of forest management in Canada, and assess how it facilitates or impedes Aboriginal management of traditional areas. This is done through a legislative and policy analysis, and through the use of case studies from across Canada. The authors …

A Game-Theoretic Formulation Of Multi-Agent Resource Allocation, Jonathan Bredin, Rajiv T. Maheswaran, Cagri Imer, Tamer Basar, David Kotz, Daniela Rus

Computer Science Technical Reports

This paper considers resource allocation in a network with mobile agents competing for computational priority. We formulate this problem as a multi-agent game with the players being agents purchasing service from a common server. We show that there exists a computable Nash equilibrium when agents have perfect information into the future. We simulate a network of hosts and agents using our strategy to show that our resource-allocation mechanism effectively prioritizes agents according to their endowments.

Using Warnings To Extend The Boundaries Of Consumer Sovereignty, W. Kip Viscusi

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

We make decisions every day for which we may not have full information. Not all such decisions lead to negative consequences, however. For example, scientists still know very little about why aspirin has its beneficial effects. However, the lack of our knowledge does not necessarily imply that our decisions are in error or that our freedom to make these decisions should be constrained. Almost invariably, we must make decisions with uncertain implications when we fail to have complete information, whether it be with respect to today's weather forecast or the chemical composition of the foods we eat, but this does …

The Unfulfilled Promise Of Promissory Estoppel In The Employment Setting, Robert A. Hillman

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

Although the theory of promissory estoppel enforces promises that induce reasonable detrimental reliance, this article reveals the theory's colossal failure in the non-union employment setting. This conclusion is based on an examination of all of the reported decisions in the United States that discussed promissory estoppel over a two-year period in the mid 1990's. During this period, employees won only 4.23 percent of employment promissory estoppel cases decided on the merits. At first blush, this is very surprising because employers, through their communications, seek to create the expectation of a stable, secure work environment and employees, because of their lack …

Classic Maya Religion: Beliefs And Practices Of An Ancient American People, Stephen D. Houston

BYU Studies

Though difficult to decipher, Maya religion permeated a complex ancient world with an overriding sense of the sacral nature of all things and reveals much about how those people lived and why they vanished.

Shaping The Stones: Lorenzo Snow's Letters To Priesthood Leaders Of The London Conference, November 1842, Andrew H. Hedges, Jay G. Burrup

BYU Studies

On the afternoon of Sunday, July 23, 1837, in Preston's Vauxhall Chapel, Heber C. Kimball preached the first Latter-day Saint sermon to be delivered in England. Heber presided over England's first baptisms one week later, after which he and his six companions parted company to cover more territory. People flocked to hear the missionaries' message, and by the time Elder Kimball left England nine months later, over fifteen hundred people had been baptized in and around Preston. A more fertile land for missionary work could hardly be imagined.

National Coordinating Committee On Japanese Library Resources Multi-Volume Set Project 1998-1999 Final Report, Frederic Kotas

Journal of East Asian Libraries

No abstract provided.

Full Issue

Swiss American Historical Society Review

No abstract provided.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: The East Asian Library Collection At The University Of Kansas, Vickie Fu Doll

Journal of East Asian Libraries

No abstract provided.