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Water Quality Relationships To Concentrations Of Pfiesteria-Like Organisms In Virginia Estuaries For 1998, Everett P. Weber, Harold G. Marshall

Virginia Journal of Science

A series of statistical analyses were performed to identify the relationship between abundance of dinoflagellates grouped as Pfiesteria-like organisms and a set of 25 water quality variables from May through October of 1998 at 41 estuarine locations. Although regions were identified in relation to seasonal density of cells present, there were no strong relationships to specific water quality variables. Factors that may have influenced these results included: a) several species were included in the group analyzed and this composite did not respond as a unit to changing environmental conditions; b) cell concentrations were low and there were a large …

Session Law 99-385, Florida Senate & House Of Representatives

Staff Analyses & Legislative Documents

No abstract provided.

Rights Discourse And Neonatal Euthanasia, Carl Schneider

Book Chapters

At the heart of our difficulty in approaching neonatal euthanasia lie the intractable questions it raises: What is human life? When is death preferable to life? What do parents owe their children? What does society owe the suffering? Those moral questions could hardly be more perplexing, yet they are further complicated when they must be resolved not informally and case by case, but through generally applicable social rules. This is so for numerous reasons. For instance, the wide range of deeply held opinions about neonatal euthanasia makes rules hard to formulate, and the wide range of factual situations in which …

The Association Of Fluid Intake With Total Natural-Cause Mortality, Coronary Heart Disease And Fatal Stroke, Jacqueline Chung Lun Chan

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

Hypohydration may be more widespread than realized since it does not always arouse a sense of thirst. When thirst is felt, it is often ignored, or satisfied before euhydration is achieved. There is growing evidence indicating that hypohydration contributes to acute and chronic illnesses, and to rheological factors associated with coronary heart disease (CHD) and stroke. Therefore the relationship of fluid intake with risk of total natural-cause mortality, CHD and stroke death was examined using data on 34,192 white, non-Hispanic participants in the Adventist Health Study.

Among the 27,342 reporting no CHD, stroke or diabetes at baseline, during six years …

Lights And Shadows - 1999, University Of North Alabama

Lights and Shadows

Art and Literature Magazine

Body Weight And Mortality Among Adults Who Never Smoked, Pramil N. Singh

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

Most prospective studies identify an increased mortality risk for adults of high body mass index (> 27 kg/m²) that is commonly attributed to the effects of excess body fat, and also identify an increased mortality risk for adults of low body mass index (< 21 kg/m²), an association that, if causal among healthy adults, is without adequate pathophysiologic support.

In this dissertation, I have conducted three studies that continue the investigation of adiposity in relation to mortality among never-smoking adults of the California Seventh-day Adventist population. Among never-smoking adults of the Adventist Mortality Study (1960-1985), the relation between …

Regulation Of Stability Of Marketed Pharmaceuticals, Brahmaiah Kommanaboyina

Open Access Master's Theses

The United States Pharmacopeia I National Formulary (USP/NF) sets the standards and maintains monographs for the evaluation of various dosage forms, especially during the storage and distribution channels. This document is compiled with the critical review of the stability testing of pharmaceutical products. In particular, it considers the progress toward globalization and harmonization, attention being directed to monitoring stability in the distribution channels. It is also focussed on the implications of Mean Kinetic Tempearature (MKT) concept and the effect of temperature spikes on MKT values, thus effecting the stability of drug products. The assignment of conformance period to the tablets …

The Effect Of Demographics And Plan Characteristics On The Cost Of Pharmaceuticals In A Private Third-Party Prescription Program, Soyal R. Momin

Open Access Master's Theses

Objective: Using prescription claims data, the objectives of this study were: (1) to compare the proportion of variation in cost of pharmaceuticals that could be explained by available demographic variables and plan characteristics within various therapeutic categories; (2) to examine the relationships among plan characteristics and cost of pharmaceuticals; and (3) to evaluate whether utilization differed among various demographic variables and plan characteristics after controlling for appropriate covariates.

Design: Retrospective, cross-sectional study. Data

Collection: Data for this study were obtained from 1996 prescription claims information for the commercial population administered by a Rhode Island-based pharmacy benefit management …

Health Care Access For Children With Disabilities, Linda C. Fentiman

Pace Law Review

No abstract provided.

Proposal For Senior Offender Law, Peter M. Leavitt

Pace Law Review

No abstract provided.

Residential Perception Of Tourism In Towns Neighboring Cancun, Mexico, Alison Macrae

Open Access Master's Theses

This thesis examines local perception of tourism in two towns neighboring Cancun, Mexico. In response to the economic success of Cancun, tourism development in other nearby towns is growing at a rapid pace. In order to mitigate unwanted impacts and guide tourism development in smaller towns, it is necessary to identify residential attitudes toward local tourism as well as the type of tourism displayed in Cancun. The two towns chosen for this study are experiencing different stages of tourism development, and are also differentially located with respect to Cancun. This thesis tests three hypotheses: a) the two towns will demonstrate …

Foreword, E. Joshua Rosenkranz

NYLS Law Review

No abstract provided.

Brennan's Approach To Reading And Interpreting The Constitution, Jeffrey Rosen, Burt Neuborne, Roger Pilon, Michael Mcconnell, Stephen Reinhardt

NYLS Law Review

No abstract provided.

Contemporary Challenges In The Criminal Justice System, Carol Steiker, Randall Kennedy, Kim Taylor-Thompson, Harvey Silverglate

NYLS Law Review

No abstract provided.

Contemporary Challenges Facing The First Amendment's Religion Clauses, Todd Rakoff, Steven Green, Martha Minow, Lawrence Sager

NYLS Law Review

No abstract provided.

Contemporary Challenges In Race Relations, Charles Ogletree, Christopher Edley, Norma Cantu, Pamela S. Karlan

NYLS Law Review

No abstract provided.

Will The Brennan Legacy Endure?, Richard Fallon, Akhil Reed Amar, Robert Nagel, Mark Tushnet

NYLS Law Review

No abstract provided.

Contemporary Challenges To Privacy Rights, Nan Hunter, Nadine Strossen, Jed Rubenfeld

NYLS Law Review

No abstract provided.

From Morality To Equality: Judicial Regulation Of Business Ethics In New York, 1920-1980, William E. Nelson

NYLS Law Review

No abstract provided.

Postmodern Argumentation: Deconstructing The Presidential Age Limitation, Michael B.W. Sinclair

NYLS Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Future Of Death Futures: Why Viatical Settlements Must Be Classified As Securities, Miriam R. Albert

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

Viatical settlements are a form of asset-backed security where a terminally-ill policyholder, known as a viator, sells the right to receive the proceeds of his or her life insurance policy to an investor. During his or her lifetime, the policyholder is paid an estimation of the present value of the death benefits under the policy. Viatical settlements are legal and serve a benevolent purpose. However, beyond the altruism of providing funds to the terminally ill, and the legalities of simply selling the right to receive life insurance proceeds to someone other than the insured, viatical settlements pose other legal and …

Not-For-Profit Organizations Industry Developments - 1999; Audit Risk Alerts, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants

Industry Guides (AAGs), Risk Alerts, and Checklists

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The Efficient Norm For Corporate Law: A Neotraditional Interpretation Of Fiduciary Duty, Thomas A. Smith

Michigan Law Review

To economically oriented corporate law professors, distinguishing between directors' fiduciary duty to shareholders and a duty to the corporation1 itself smacks of reification - treating the fictional corporate entity as if it were a real thing. Now the orthodox view among corporate law scholars is that the corporate fiduciary duty is a norm that requires firm managers to "maximize shareholder value." Giving the corporation itself any serious role in the analysis of fiduciary duty, the thinking goes, obscures scientific insight with bad legal metaphysics. Some recent scholarship and legislation, such as constituency statutes, have challenged this "shareholder primacy" view. Contestants …

Practice Makes Perfect: Reasonable Accommodation Of Law Students With Disabilities In Clinical Placements, Sande L. Buhai

San Diego Law Review

Clinical legal education provides exceptional benefits to law students.' It is one of the best ways that law students can begin to: (1) identify which type of law they wish to practice, (2) make connections in the legal field to foster future employment opportunities, (3) develop mentoring relationships, (4) learn many important skills, and (5) learn professional responsibility and competence. These benefits directly translate into increased opportunities for successful employment upon graduation.

Duet: Prostitution, Racism And Feminist Discourse, Vednita Carter, Evelina Giobbe

UC Law SF Journal on Gender and Justice

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Designing An Analytic Deliberative Process For Environmental Health Policy Making In The U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex, Seth Tuler, Thomas Webler

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Using a National Research Council Report as a centerpiece, Drs. Tuler and Webler evaluate the effectiveness of a conceptual approach to risk policy-making.

Musical Works Performance And The Internet: A Discordance Of Old And New Copyright Rules, Stephanie Haun

Richmond Journal of Law & Technology

I feel strongly that the great fundamentals should be discussed more in all public meetings, and also in meetings of schools and colleges. Not only the students[,] but also the faculty should get down to more thinking and action about the great problems[,] which concern all countries and all peoples in the world today, and not let the politicians do it all and have the whole say. I have often been told that it is not the function of music (or a concert) to concern itself with matters like these. But I do not[,] by any means agree. I think …

The Changing Landscape Of America's Societal Sector, Denise Harb

Honors Theses

This paper will outline the changes in the nonprofit sector since 1945 and will attempt to show that these changes are the result of various shifts in the contextual environment in which the sector has developed. This review of the history of the nonprofit sector will trace the influence of such factors as World War two and the controversy which surrounded foundations mainly until the 1960s. Other contextual factors include more academic transformations such as the influence of Keynesian economic theory and the 1960's research on the roles of mediating structures in American democracy.

A Comparative Case Study On Why Women Run For Public Office : Hillary Rodham Clinton & Elizabeth Hanford Dole, Ashley Elizabeth Lorenz

Honors Theses

As our political history evolves, slowly but surely more and more women are running for public office. What are the things that propel women to run for local, state, or federal leadership positions? Are there certain factors that are contingent upon their embarkment into the political arena? The answers to these questions all contribute to the "creation," if you will, of a political woman. In order to better understand these factors and their effects, I will examine case studies of two women, Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Dole, through the lenses of four such factors including the timing as it relates …

Public Education In Richmond : A Look At Current And Historical Data With Student Perspectives, Ben Wallerstein

Honors Theses

The objective of this project is therefore three-fold, (1) to analyze the current as well as historical patterns of racial distribution and educational outcomes in the Richmond metropolitan area, (2) to provide current students with this data,and (3) to create an opportunity for dialogue on the data across school, racial and economic boundaries. This project takes an important first step in developing the type of interaction and leadership that will be essential for the success of future regional cooperation in Richmond. At the very least, this report should serve as a base-point to inform future discussions on issues of race, …