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Mistaken Assumptions And Misunderstandings Of Contracting Parties In Louisiana Law And In The Restatement (Second) Of Contracts, George L. Bilbe

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.

Time For A Change: A Call To Reform Louisiana's Intertemporal Conflicts Law (Law Of Retroactivity Of Laws), J.-R. Trahan

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.

Justification Of Justice: Intuitionism, Bobby Jindal

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.

Erisa Preemption, Hmos, And Denial Of Benefit Claims, Dawn Lauren Morris

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.

Research View, May/June 1999

Research View

Contents of this issue include:

Nature's Classroom: The Montana Natural History Center

Slug Slime: Students produce 'Field Notes' for KUFM radio

Real Clients, Real Problems: Law students get a trial by fire in clinical program

Montana Campus Compact: Higher education's pledge to community service

Lifelong lessons: Survey shows impacts of volunteerism

Covering Government: The journalism school's Community News Service

Main Hall To Main Street, May 1999, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of University Relations

Main Hall to Main Street, 2005-2010

This is volume 5, number 5 of Main Hall to Main Street.

Stress, Stress Utilization, And Creativity, Lisa M. Kobe

Student Work

This study investigated the effects of stress on creative problem solving. It was predicted that individuals in a stressful condition would perform worse on creative problem solving tasks than individuals in a relaxed condition and worse than individuals in a stressful condition where they successfully coped with the incident. It was also predicted that when in a stressful experience, individuals who are able to acknowledge and to advantageously use the information obtained from a stressful situation (high stress utilization) would perform better on creative problem solving tasks than individuals who are not able to acknowledge and use this information (low …

The Physician/Patient Interaction: Patient Satisfaction, Communication Apprehension, And Health Locus Of Control, Darian Allicia Galyon

Student Work

The purpose of this investigation was to discover the nature of the relationships between a patient’s communication apprehension with physicians and health locus of control and his/her satisfaction with the physician/patient interaction. No significant relationship was found between communication apprehension and a patient’s health locus of control. However, a positive correlation was found between communication apprehension and overall patient satisfaction and patient satisfaction with information. Possible explanations exist for this unexpected result within the uncertainty literature, and by considering that individuals with high communication apprehension may still communicate well despite their anxiety. Statistical analysis also showed that communication apprehension predicts …

"A Comparison Of The Use Of Exercise As A Leisure Activity For Anorexic And Bulimic Teenage Girls To A Control Group", Sarah Beth Mccracken

Student Work

The purpose of this study was to determine if the leisure activities of anorexic and bulimic teenage girls differ from those of a control group, and to determine the difference between the two groups in their commitment to exercise. Two surveys, the State Technical Institute’s Leisure Assessment Process (STILAP) and the Commitment to Exercise Scale, were distributed to anorexic and bulimic teenage girls in an Omaha, Nebraska, treatment facility. The surveys were also given to a control group made up of teenage girls in two Omaha area high schools. Six girls participated in the anorexic and bulimic group and 18 …

Sex-Role In Heterosexual And Gay Males, David L. Slinkard

Theses

Sex-role traits of masculinity, femininity, and androgyny were analyzed to study the differences between heterosexual and homosexual males. The Bern Sex-Role Inventory was used to assess each group's sex-role traits. Demographic information was gathered to determine if the homogeneity of the two groups differed on age, ethnicity, education and sexual orientation. Sex-role traits were compared within the groups using independent samples two-tailed t test. The two groups were similar in distribution except for a difference on femininity. There was no significant difference between the groups on masculinity. Homosexual males were significantly different on femininity. Chi-square results for androgyny, masculinity, femininity …

The Constitutional Right Of Poor People To Appeal Without Payment Of Fees: Convergence Of Due Process And Equal Protection In M.L.B. V. S.L.J, Lloyd C. Anderson

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

In this Article, Professor Lloyd Anderson examines the recent decision M.L.B. v. S.L.J., in which the United States Supreme Court held that due process and equal protection converge to require that states cannot require indigent parents who seek to appeal decisions terminating their parental rights to pay court costs they cannot afford. Noting that this decision expands the constitutional right of cost-free appeal from criminal to civil cases for the first time, Professor Anderson discusses the characteristics a civil case should have in order to qualify for such a right. Professor Anderson proposes a number of other civil cases, …

Keeping Clean Waters Clean: Making The Clean Water Act's Antidegradation Policy Work, John A. Chilson

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

This Note stresses the importance of making the Clean Water Act's antidegradation policy work in order to avoid a system of national waters of equally mediocre quality. The Nation's highest quality and most important waters are not receiving appropriate protection under the Act because the antidegradation policy contains vague definitions, the states fail to review water quality standards every three years and to entertain citizens' petitions, and the Environmental Protection Agency has not taken an active role in ensuring compliance with federal standards. This Note examines the schemes of the Great Lakes States and Florida and hypothesizes that similar provisions …

Activation Of Caspases And P53 By Bovine Herpesvirus 1 Infection Results In Programmed Cell Death And Efficient Virus Release, Laxminarayana R. Devireddy, Clinton J. Jones

School of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences: Faculty Publications

Programmed cell death (PCD), or apoptosis, is initiated in response to various stimuli, including virus infection. Bovine herpesvirus 1 (BHV-1) induces PCD in peripheral blood mononuclear cells at the G₀/G₁ phase of the cell cycle (E. Hanon, S. Hoornaert, F. Dequiedt, A. Vanderplasschen, J. Lyaku, L. Willems, and P.-P. Pastoret, Virology 232:351–358, 1997). However, penetration of virus particles is not required for PCD (E. Hanon, G. Meyer, A. Vanderplasschen, C. Dessy-Doize, E. Thiry, and P. P. Pastoret, J. Virol. 72:7638–7641, 1998). The mechanism by which BHV-1 induces PCD in peripheral blood mononuclear cells is not understood, nor …

Evaluation And Management Of Sinusitis In General Practice, N S. Ali

Community Health Sciences

No abstract provided.

Collaboration In Formation, J. Ignacio Fernández Mendoza C.M.

Vincentiana

No abstract provided.

New Means Of Communication, John Freund C.M.

Vincentiana

No abstract provided.

A Case Study Of The Effectiveness Of Play Therapy With Inner-City Latino/A School Age Children Using A Single System Design, Anaisabel Marmolejo

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Cross-Cultural Visual Communication, Chia-Wen Tsao

Theses

Explores how visual elements, such as ancient symbols and characters, have been used in visual communication across both Chinese and Western cultures. Analyzes existing cross-cultural packaging design examples. Compares packaging from a USA-based food company with a Taiwan-based food company in order to explore whether or not the design decisions communicate with ethnic audiences who are not familiar with these food products.

The Impact Of Graphic Design On The Target Audience: Designing An Effective Social Marketing Campaign, Cynthia Childs

Theses

The goal of this thesis is to determine how to best design visual communications within the context of a social marketing campaign in order to most effectively reach the target audience. This study uses the promotion of breast feeding as content for a social marketing campaign.

Erisa Preemption Of Medical Malpractice Claims In Managed Care: Asserting A New Statutory Interpretation, Karla S. Bartholomew

Vanderbilt Law Review

If Congress wants the American citizens to have access to adequate health care, then Congress must accept its responsibility to define the scope of ERISA preemption and to enact legislation that will ensure every patient has access to that care.' Congress enacted the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 ("ERISA) to protect employee interests and ensure a uniform body of law for pension and benefit plans. The statute's expansive preemption clause and preclusion of extra-contractual damages have since been used to immunize Managed Care Organizations ("MCOs") from liability for patients injuries resulting from medical malpractice. Because plaintiffs with preempted …

Erisa Preemption Of Medical Malpractice Claims In Managed Care: Asserting A New Statutory Interpretation, Karla S. Bartholonew

Vanderbilt Law Review

Congress enacted the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 ("ERISA) to protect employee interests and ensure a uniform body of law for pension and benefit plans. The statute's expansive preemption clause and preclusion of extra-contractual damages have since been used to immunize Managed Care Organizations ("MCOs") from liability for patients injuries resulting from medical malpractice. Because plaintiffs with preempted claims may receive only the remedies provided for under ERISA-the right or benefit due under the plan-many injured patients have been left with no meaningful remedy.

"[N]ot a model of legislative drafting,"" the statute's broad preemption clause provides that state …

State Regulatory Jurisdiction And The Internet: Letting The Dormant Commerce Clause Lie, James E. Gaylord

Vanderbilt Law Review

Cyberspace seems to pose a dual threat to "Our Federalism." Only one aspect of this threat, however, has captured the scholarly imagination. Commentators have devoted a great deal of attention to the problems of horizontal federalism raised by the new technology. Cyberspace, they point out, is a profoundly integrative social and economic force. As a result, local legislation touching on cyberspace is likely to produce effects beyond local borders. State laws like a recently deceased Georgia statute that arguably would have prohibited all Internet users from "falsely identifying" themselves on- lines convince observers that the information superhighway is a dangerous …

The Difference Frenzy And Matching Buckshot With Buckshot, Gary R. Brown, Mary Wack

Office of Academic Innovation Publications

A critical review of "The Difference Frenzy," a review of research on the effectiveness of distance learning in higher education from the Institute for Higher Education Policy.

Dance As Medicine, Eileen D'Esterno

Theses

The purpose of this thesis project has been to express in a sculptural dimension the joy and healing qualities of movement. Movement is our primal language. The very first thing we do upon leaving the womb is to move, to reach for our mother. Movement allows us to express our feelings regardless of the ability to make sound. Infants and toddlers explore the three dimensional world as they reach out to touch, to feel, to experience textures and shapes. They gain confidence as physical beings through ever increasing skills and mobility of the body.

Attachment Ligands Of Viable Toxoplasma Gondii Induce Soluble Immunosuppressive Factors In Human Monocytes, Jacqueline Y. Channon, Edward I. Suh, Rosanne M. Seguin, Lloyd H. Kasper

Dartmouth Scholarship

Previous studies have demonstrated that surface antigen proteins, in particular SAG-1, of Toxoplasma gondii are important to this parasite as attachment ligands for the host cell. An in vitro assay was developed to test whether these ligands and other secretory proteins are involved in the immune response of human cells to toxoplasma. Human monocytes were infected with tachyzoites in the presence of antiparasite antibodies, and their effect on mitogen-induced lymphoproliferation was examined. The presence of antibody to either parasite-excreted proteins (MIC-1 and MIC-2) or surface proteins (SAG-1 and SAG-2) during infection neutralized the marked decrease seen in mitogen-induced lymphoproliferation in …

Image Fusion Using Autoassociative-Heteroassociative Neural Networks, Claudia V. Kropas-Hughes

Theses and Dissertations

Images are easily recognized, classified, and segmented; in short, analyzed by humans. The human brain/nervous system; the biological computer, performs rapid and accurate image processing. In the current research the concepts of the biological neural system provide the impetus for developing a computational means of fusing image data. Accomplishing this automatic image processing requires features be extracted from each image data set, and the information content fused. Biologically inspired computational models are examined for extracting features by transformations such as Fourier, Gabor, and wavelets, and for processing and fusing the information from multiple images through evaluation of autoassociative neural networks …

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: Adventurous theater from around the globe comes to Portland each summer through PIP Fest; a long-forgotten burial ground in New York City is providing new clues into 18th-century slavery; dependable, dedicated and loud, Vern Schultz is always there for the Vikings; former governor Barbara Roberts is on faculty sharing what she knows best—leading in times of change; broken homes, collapsed tunnels, washed-out roads, and eroded beaches—PSU geologists say this is just the beginning; and more.

Faculty Senate Monthly Packet May 1999, Portland State University Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Monthly Packets

The May 1999 Monthly packet includes the May agenda and appendices and the Faculty Senate minutes and attachments from the meeting held April 1999.

Provoking Introspection: A Reply To Galanter & Palay, Hull, Kelly, Lesnick, Mclaughlin, Pepper, And Traynor, Patrick J. Schiltz

Vanderbilt Law Review

I have benefitted enormously from reading the Responses, and I am grateful to all of the commentators for entering into this conversation with me. There is much in each of the seven Responses to which I would like to reply-sometimes to agree, sometimes to disagree, sometimes to elaborate, sometimes just to express puzzlement. Unfortunately, though, my time and space are extremely limited. Given those limitations, I will first reply generally to Marc Galanter and Thomas Palay, Michael Kelly, Howard Lesnick, Stephen Pepper, and Michael Traynor, all of whom seem to be at least somewhat sympathetic to the underlying theme of …

วิวัฒนาการคอมพิวเตอร์ และการประยุกต์ใช้ในการพยาบาล, ยุพิน อังสุโรจน์

Journal of Nursing Research, Innovation, and Health

No abstract provided.