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Parental Rights And The Ugly Duckling, Margaret F. Brinig, F. H. Buckley

Journal Articles

Hans Christian Andersen's "The Ugly Duckling" is best remembered for its moral, "To be born in a duck's nest, in a farmyard, is of no consequence to a bird, if it is hatched from a swan's egg." Having read and thought about this story many times, we should like to suggest another, less heart-warming, interpretation. The story of the Ugly Duckling, that most resilient of cygnets, masks the tragedy of children who suffer abuse. Its message, that personal spirit will triumph when a child grows up, misrepresents the experience of many victimized children. If we wait for the child to …

Comparison Of Imaging Geometries For Diffuse Optical Tomography Of Tissue, Brian W. Pogue, Troy O. Mcbride, Ulf L. Osterberg, Keith D. Paulsen

Dartmouth Scholarship

Images produced in six different geometries with diffuse optical tomography simulations of tissue have been compared using a finite element-based algorithm with iterative refinement provided by the NewtonRaphson approach. The source-detector arrangements studied include (i) fan-beam tomography, (ii) full reflectance and transmittance tomography, as well as (iii) sub-surface imaging, where each of these three were examined in a circular and a flat slab geometry. The algorithm can provide quantitatively accurate results for all of the tomographic geometries investigated under certain circumstances. For example, quantitatively accurate results occur with sub-surface imaging only when the object to be imaged is fully contained …

Selected Comparative Literature And Comparative Humanities Journals, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

CLCWeb Library

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Annual Reports Of Clcweb: Comparative Literature And Culture 1999-, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

CLCWeb Library

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How I Used Portfolios And Videotape To Improve Student Performance And Lived To Tell About It, Marilyn Brooks

Language Arts Journal of Michigan

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New Systems Require New Strategies: Helping Our Students Become Better Online Readers, Patrice Heinzman

Language Arts Journal of Michigan

No abstract provided.

Just A Click Away: The Double-Edged Sword Using The Internet In Research, Geoff Wickersham

Language Arts Journal of Michigan

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Blowing The Top Off The Credit Account, James Kuiper

Language Arts Journal of Michigan

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Communication Adaptation In French Nuclear Industry, James N. Mallory

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

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Genetic Analysis Of Bipa/Yihk, Paul L. Pfennig

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

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Detection Of Multiple Drugs In Human Hair From Seven Drug Classes Using One Digestion/Extraction Protocol, Sarah Kristine Slanger

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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The Meaning Of Religious Belief, Practice, And Community For Latter-Day Saint Fathers Of Children With Special Needs, Loren Dean Marks

Theses and Dissertations

While the tragedy of American fatherlessness has evoked a growing body of research, religious beliefs, practices, and communities have not been a significant part of the scholarly discussion. This article discusses possible reasons for this and reviews the religion and family literature with a focus on fathers. Qualitative interviews were conducted with 19 Latter-day Saint (LDS) fathers of children with special needs and analyzed to examine the meaning of religious experience for these fathers and their families. Analysis indicated three dimensions of religious experience: spiritual belief, religious practice, and faith community. The spiritual belief in an eternal perspective, including the …

The Influence Of Religiosity In The Construction Of Meaning From Advertising Messages Intended To Promote Lifestyle Values, Lillian Billing

Theses and Dissertations

Religiosity has largely been ignored by consumer research as a factor in the negotiation of meaning from magazine advertisements containing lifestyle messages. A meaning based study was undertaken to seek to identify its presence and emergence within a religious audience. A qualitative methodology employing in-depth, phenomenological interviewing was designed. Six members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, three men and three women, were invited to give their interpretations, thoughts, and feelings towards four magazine advertisements. A second in-depth phenomenological interview was conducted with each participant to provide individual lifeworld contexts. Analysis employed a previously tested conceptual construct, …

New Floristic Records For Nebraska-5, Steven B. Rolfsmeier, Robert F. Steinauer, David M. Sutherland

Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences and Affiliated Societies

Recent field and herbarium studies have revealed the presence of 57 species, two varieties, and three hybrids of vascular plants and one moss not previously published with verification from Nebraska. Twenty-eight taxonomic entities are considered likely native in Nebraska, including: xAchnella caduca, Arabis divaricarpa, Aster ascendens, Atriplex suckleyi, Callitriche heterophylla, Campylium stellatum, Carex hirtifolia, Carex lasiocarpa var. americana, Chenopodium cycloides, C. pallescens, Dioscorea quaternata, Draba brachycarpa, Eleocharis wolfii, Elatine brachysperma, Elodea bifoliata, xElyhordeum iowense, xElyhordeum montanense, Eragrostis secundiflorus ssp. oxylepis, Erigeron lonchophyllus, Houstonia pusilla, Maianthemum canadense, Mirabilis exaltata, Myosotis verna, Pedicularis crenulata, Plantago rhodosperma, Potentilla simplex, Scutellaria parvula var. parvula …

Framers’ Intent And Military Power: Has Supreme Court Deference To The Military Gone Too Far?, Kalyani Robbins

Faculty Publications

The first ten amendments to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1791 and known as the Bill of Rights, create the core of what people today consider their most basic freedoms. Without these rights, and consistent judicial adherence to them, most Americans would not feel secure. There are two major sources of danger to these basic rights: internal and external. Internally, we must protect ourselves from our own infringement of these rights through the firm restrictions that the Constitution places on the government in its treatment of the people. Externally, we must protect our system of maintaining these freedoms from …

In Vitro Micropropagation Of Sainfoin ( Onobrychis Viciifolia Scop.), Cengi̇z Sancak

Turkish Journal of Botany

A method for in vitro micropropagation of sainfoin was developed. Following optimization of the growth regulator combinations in the media, large numbers of shoots were propagated from a single embryonic axis within 8 weeks on Murashige and Skoog (MS) media supplemented with combination of different 6-benzylaminopurine (BAP), indole-butyric acid (IBA) and ?-naphthaleneacetic acid (NAA) concentrations. The highest number of shoot multiplication was obtained on the media containing 2 mg/l BAP and either 0.05 or 0.1 mg/l IBA, and on the media supplemented with 2 mg/l BAP and either 0.05, 0.1 or 0.5 mg/l NAA, or 8 mg/l BAP and 0.05 …

Marine Natural Products., Shirley A. Pomponi, Amy E. Wright, John K. Reed, Peter J. Mccarthy

Faculty Scholarship

The marine environment has proven to be a rich source of both biological and chemical diversity and has, therefore, become the focus of a major research effort in natural products drug discovery.

George Anthony Kelly, Gerard V. Bradley

Journal Articles

President's Page

Bradely tells about the life's work of Monsignor George A. Kelly, a founder of the Fellowship.

The Constitutional Dilemma Of Litigation Under The Independent Counsel System, William K. Kelley

Journal Articles

The independent counsel system as established by the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 has put different components of the executive branch, such as the President and Department of Justice in the position of litigating against a special counsel. Litigation is not only a bad idea, it also gives rise to a serious constitutional dilemma. It either violates Article III because there is insufficient adversity to support litigation between the parties. Or it violates Article II, by preventing the President and his subordinates from controlling central functions of the executive branch, and places the independent counsel, an inferior officer, in …

Covenant And Contract, Steven Nock, Margaret F. Brinig

Journal Articles

In this article we ask, "What distinguishes a covenant from a mere contract, and what role does this distinction play for natural law?" Both of us have thought substantially about covenant over the past several years. The concept of covenant comes to us originally from religious sources, so we have paid explicit attention to what the Bible and organized religion have to say about covenant. We have also drawn from our own disciplines of law, economics, and sociology as they explain or draw from the initial concepts.

Covenant is a concept that takes us beyond contract. Indeed, the idea that …

Sovereign Debt Restructuring: A Bankruptcy Reorganization Approach, Steven L. Schwarcz

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Web Regulation Battles Heat Up, Pat Newcombe

Faculty Scholarship

This Article discusses the implications for publishers, libraries, and the public regarding a ruling issued in June by a judge who ruled that a federal agency's attempt to regulate publishers of online newsletters and software was unconstitutional. That same month in Texas, Governor George W. Bush signed legislation that overturned a ban on self-help legal software in the state. In both cases, the forces in favor of deregulation and freedom of speech on the Internet prevailed against those in favor of government regulation and licensing. Federal regulators were told they could not force publishers and software producers--in this case, of …

The Community College Coach: Leadership Practices And Athlete Satisfaction, Jodi P. Coffman Edd

Dissertations

Community college coaches and athletes completed the Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI), to assess the leadership practices of coaches of various sports. Soccer coaches and their athletes were also surveyed to assess the impact of the congruence of leadership practices ratings upon athlete satisfaction. Two samples were taken from Spring and Fall, 1998 sports: (a) 225 full-time head coaches of team sports in which there was a male and female equivalent in California's community colleges, and (b) 280 men's and women's soccer athletes. The descriptive statistics conducted indicated that there were more similarities than differences between the male and female coaches, …

In Defense Of The Imprecise Definition Of Commercial Speech, Nat Stern

Maryland Law Review

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Democracy And Inclusion: Reconceptualizing The Role Of The Judge In A Pluralist Polity, Sylvia R. Lazos Vargas

Maryland Law Review

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Magnificent Failure Revisited: Modern Maryland Constitutional Law From 1967 To 1998, Dan Friedman

Maryland Law Review

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When Does A Work Infringe The Derivative Works Right Of A Copyright Owner?, Amy B. Cohen

Faculty Scholarship

Consider the following fact situation: A, an artist, designs art work and registers the copyright in that art work. A then licenses P to publish note cards using the art work. The note cards are published by P and distributed to retail card stores. T purchases several hundred cards and then takes each card, glues it carefully to a ceramic tile, and sells the tiles for a profit as "tile art" that purchasers can use to decorate walls, counters, even floors. If A now sues T for copyright infringement, how should the court rule? Has T infringed A's copyright?

In …

Annual Report 1998 Bank Of Latvia, Latvijas Banka/Central Bank Of Latvia

Documents

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Chakravarti V Advertiser Newspapers: Lessons For Journalists, Rhonda Breit

Graduate School of Media and Communications

The lower courts are now interpreting the High Court's judgement in Chakravarti v Advertiser Newspaper Ltd, which was handed down in May 1998. As the lower courts grapple with the decision, journalists must still produce reports of complex legal matters. Unfortunately for Australian journalists, the Chakravarti decision has done little to clarify the uncertainty surrounding defamation law. In fact, the decision can be criticised for increasing that uncertainty. This article examines the effect of the Chakravarti case on journalism by analysing the text of the various judgements and: extracting the legal principles which bind journalist; identifying areas where the persuasive …

Assessing Marital Closeness Of Christian Married Couples Through Communication Instruction In The Local Church, Nina Lagreeta Davis Conner

ATS Dissertations

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