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Population. Environment. And Development: The Changing Paradigm Of The 1990s, Sharmini Abbasi

LLM Theses and Essays

Among the vast web of challenges before us in the wake of the new millennium population growth is one of the most worrying aspects of human existence. The consequences of the world's rapid population growth on human well-being and on the environment have been the subject of intense controversy for many years and got even more accentuated as the 1990s progress. However, the framework of international environmental law and agreement has for long failed to consider adequately the clear linkages between rapid population growth and environmental degradation. Thus, the study attempts to discuss and analyze competing for international perspectives, theories, …

Bulletin 1999-2000, Seattle University School Of Law

Viewbooks

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An Anthropological Approach To Modern Forfeiture Law: The Symbolic Function Of Legal Actions Against Objects, Paul Schiff Berman

GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works

In 1996, the Supreme Court issued two opinions, Bennis v. Michigan and United States v. Ursery, emphasizing the constitutionality of civil forfeiture schemes under both the Due Process and Double Jeopardy Clauses of the Fifth Amendment. These decisions, and civil forfeiture schemes generally, have faced strong criticism from scholars and civil libertarians. Among the arguments advanced against civil forfeiture has been one based on its origins. The so-called "legal fiction" underlying forfeiture is that the government is acting against the property itself, rather than against the owner. Commentators have traced this fiction to the Middle Ages. Under the law of …

A Modest Proposal To Enhance Civil/Military Integration: Rethinking The Renegotiation Regime As A Regulatory Mechanism To Decriminalize Cost, Pricing, And Profit Policy, William E. Kovacic, Steven L. Schooner

GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works

Neither Congress, the procuring agencies, the media, nor the public will condone government contractors reaping what are perceived as excessive profits. Accordingly, the procurement process employs an unduly complex, burdensome, risk-laden, and ineffective mechanism that erects significant barriers to civil/military integration. This paper (presented at the 1999 Defense Systems Management College (DSMC) Acquisition Research Symposium) examines certain policy implications associated with the Truth In Negotiations Act (TINA), the existing audit regime, and the use of criminal and civil anti-fraud measures to scrutinize deviations from these complex cost, pricing, and profit policies and controls. It re-visits the long-extinct Renegotiation Act and …

Grazing Reflection Of Gaussian Beams, Lee W. Casperson

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

The reflectivities of most surfaces are higher for grazing or near-90-deg angles of incidence than for more perpendicular or near-zero-deg angles. Grazing-incidence configurations are especially important in the development of lasers and optical systems that operate in the far-ultraviolet and soft-x-ray regions of the spectrum, where transparent or highly reflecting media are almost unknown. Analytical solutions of the paraxial wave equation are obtained for the grazing reflection and complex interference effects that take place when a Gaussian beam interacts at shallow angles with a reflecting surface.

Application-Centered Internet Analysis, Tim Wu

Faculty Scholarship

There is a now-standard debate about law and the Internet. One side asserts that the Internet is so new and different that it calls for new legal approaches, even its own sovereign law. The other side argues that, although it is a new technology, the Internet nonetheless presents familiar legal problems. It is a battle of analogies: One side refers to Cyberspace as a place, while the other essentially equates the Internet and the telephone.

In my view, these two positions are both wrong and right: wrong in their characterization of the Internet as a whole, yet potentially right about …

School-Based Juvenile Boot Camps: Evaluating Specialized Treatment And Rehabilitation (Star), Chad R. Trulson, Ruth Triplett

Sociology & Criminal Justice Faculty Publications

Implemented in Montgomery County, Texas, STAR deviates from traditional boot camps in a variety of ways. The program is closely coupled with school jurisdictions, the juvenile court, and correctional authorities. In addition, the program is non-residential and serves status, misdemeanor, and felony juvenile offenders and mandates parental participation. STAR was initiated to address several goals: enable individuals to remain in school while reducing their disruptive behavior, use school expulsion as a last resort, improve the academic performance of participants, coordinate a joint effort between juvenile authorities and school jurisdictions, instill a sense of pride and discipline in participants, and reduce …

Camp-Induced Phosphorylation And Inhibition Of Na + /H + Exchanger 3 (Nhe3) Are Dependent On The Presence But Not The Phosphorylation Of Nhe Regulatory Factor, Mirza Zizak, Georg Lamprecht, Deborah Steplock, Nadeem Tariq, Shirish Shenolikar, Mark Donowitz, C. H. Chris Yun, Edward J. Weinman

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Technology, Professional Practice, And Ethics: Survey Findings And Implications, Mark R. Mcminn, Trey Buchanan, Brent M. Ellens, Molly K. Ryan

Faculty Publications - Doctor of Psychology (PsyD) Program

If a psychologist loses treatment records because of a computer failure, is it an ethical violation? The widespread growth of technology has outpaced the development of ethical standards for questions such as this, resulting in areas of uncertainty for psychologists. Four hundred twenty psychologists in independent practice rated the ethicality and their frequency of using 40 technologies. Technologies pertaining to the support functions of a psychologist's office are commonly used, but those technologies directly affecting clinical services are rarely used. More than half of the 40 items received equivocal ratings on ethicality, suggesting psychologists need guidelines and training for the …

Libraries Face Internet Filter Question, Pat Newcombe

Faculty Scholarship

The Author describes how libraries electronically bar access to objectionable Internet sites and the legal trouble encountered with this policy by free-speech advocates. The ALA, the American Civil Liberties Union, and other free-speech advocates have strongly resisted having libraries play the role of lnternet censor. But parents and patrons who use the libraries on a regular basis have pressured libraries in a growing number of communities to devise some kind of barrier to viewing sexually explicit material from the Internet on library PCs.

Egging On Lesbian Maternity: The Legal Implications Of Tri-Gametic In Vitro Fertilization , Kyle C. Velte

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

No abstract provided.

Iowa Journal Of Communication, Volume 31, Number 2, Fall 1999 [Download Entire Issue]

Iowa Journal of Communication

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To Strike Or Not To Strike (Review Of Julius Getman, The Betrayal Of Local 14: Paperworkers, Politics, And Permanent Replacements), James J. Brudney

Faculty Scholarship

This is a book review of Julius Getman, The Betrayal of Local 14: Paperworkers, Politics, and Permanent Replacements (1998)

Need Help Asap!! A Call For The Development Of Online Research Guidelines And Protocols, G. Jon Hall, Douglas J. Frederick

Iowa Journal of Communication

The use of electronic forums for research has recently been recognized and encouraged. Research via Usenet saves time, is convenient, and is accessible 24 hours per day. Moreover, electronic forums may serve as a potential research site for virtually any topic in any discipline. However, research methodology has failed to keep pace with technological advancement. Application of traditional research methods to electronic forums often are inappropriate and injurious to member-participants. The development of research methodology by trial and error is irresponsible. This study, an outgrowth of an actual case study, seeks to call attention to the need for protocols and …

Ethics And The Internet Studies, Steve Jones

Iowa Journal of Communication

Insufficient attention has been paid to the practical as well as methodological dimensions of the ethics of online research. Though discussion of research methods for the study of online social phenomena has recently come to the fore, questions concerning the development and implementation of ethical guidelines, the conditions of research, and basic definitions of objects and subjects of study have yet to be fully engaged. This essay maps out some of the terrain of that engagement. It asks questions about the consequences of research, and notes that the Internet is not only technology but a practice that must be situated …

Electronic Eavesdropping: A Professional Mailing List As A Setting For Ethnographic Research, Katherine M. Clegg

Iowa Journal of Communication

This paper outlines the issues faced when integrating "virtual participant observation" on an occupational mailing list, into an ethnographic study of changes to British family practice. Online interaction is becoming increasingly important to our daily lives, yet social research has tended to focus on "creative" or "imaginative" interaction on the Internet, in neglect of what could be seen as "the mundane." Incorporating the new social setting of an occupational mailing list into the ethnographic study (and the novel data emerging from it into the analysis) has presented several challenges. Ethical issues such as whether the Internet is a private or …

Index By Author, Paul Siddens Iii

Iowa Journal of Communication

No abstract provided.

The Virtual Pet Ate My Homework, Mark D. Jones

Iowa Journal of Communication

The Virtual Pet Are My Homework contains an examination of the social and psychological relationships developed by early-adolescent and pre-adolescent children around the miniature electronic devices known as tomagotchis, or virtual pets. Two sets of children, one older and one younger, were interviewed in focus group settings. The interview protocol made use of prior research on social-psychological relationships with television and computers, and employed the results of these studies as sensitizing concepts. Though the number of subjects interviewed was small, it was observed that the children cognitively differentiated between the devices and the pets represented on the device screen. …

Successful Faculty Development And Evaluation: The Complete Teaching Portfolio By John P. Murray, Vicki Gregory

School of Information Faculty Publications

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Intent, Purpose And Motivation In Constitutional Litigation, Leon Friedman

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

I will discuss the wonderful interrelation between intent, purpose and motivation. I have always loved analyzing the difference between these three concepts in the criminal procedure area. These words are used interchangeably in three different areas of the law and the words mean something different depending upon what area you are talking about.

Let me briefly get the criminal part of it out of the way. We use intent in the criminal law because at that point the key consideration is whether one volitionally wanted to do that which one was accused of doing. Intent in the criminal area is …

The Age Of Autonomy: Legal Reconceptualizations Of Childhood, Janet L. Dolgin

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

This Article aims to explain the peculiarity involved in the law's redefining children in two contexts in which such redefinitions seem least felicitous. Toward this effort, Part II, following this introductory section, outlines the developing preference within society and within the law for individualism within American families, especially insofar as adults are concerned. Part III considers the depth of social ambivalence about that preference with regard to understandings of children and childhood. Part IV details and compares concrete legal responses to children in dysfunctional families and to children within the juvenile justice system. Part V focuses on the implications of …

Phosphorylation Of Tau During Neuronal Apoptosis., Penny Kay Davis

All ETDs from UAB

No abstract provided.

Factors Influencing Adherence To The Childhood Immunization Schedule., Leanne C. Busby

All ETDs from UAB

No abstract provided.

Determinants Of The Evacuation Of Health Care Facilities., Kathlyn Joanne Mcglown

All ETDs from UAB

No abstract provided.

Predictors Of Exercise Activity Among Rural Thai Older Adults., Taweeluk Vannarit

All ETDs from UAB

No abstract provided.

Five Public School Principals' Perceptions Of Student -To -Student Sexual Harassment., Jeanine Clements Bell

All ETDs from UAB

No abstract provided.

The Phase-Variable Restriction-Modification Systems Of Mycoplasma Pulmonis., Ramakrishnan Sitaraman

All ETDs from UAB

No abstract provided.

Lying To Protect Privacy, Anita L. Allen

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

No abstract provided.

O.K. Corral Ii: Policy Issues In Municipal Suits Against Gun Manufacturers, Frank J. Vandall

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

No abstract provided.

Do The Adult Crime, Do The Adult Time: Due Process And Cruel And Unusual Implications For A 13-Year-Old Sex Offender Sentenced To Life Imprisonment In State V. Green, Paul G. Morrissey

Villanova Law Review (1956 - )

No abstract provided.