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Characteristics Of Prosperity: Building Tourism On A Solid Foundation - Frankenmuth, Michigan, Annette Rummel

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Ip And Atm Integration: A New Paradigm In Multi-Service Internetworking, Remesh Shanmuganathan

Theses

ATM is a widespread technology adopted by many to support advanced data communication, in particular efficient Internet services provision. The expected challenges of multimedia communication together with the increasing massive utilization of IP-based applications urgently require redesign of networking solutions in terms of both new functionalities and enhanced performance. However, the networking context is affected by so many changes, and to some extent chaotic growth, that any approach based on a structured and complex top-down architecture is unlikely to be applicable. Instead, an approach based on finding out the best match between realistic service requirements and the pragmatic, intelligent use …

An Analysis Of Folding Carton Stock For Frozen Fish Sticks, Benjamin L. White

Theses

Waxed solid bleached sulfate paperboard and polyethylene coated paperboard were compared for the purpose of containing frozen fish sticks. The main emphasis focused on the safety of the board in regards to the migration of particles from either the wax or the polyethylene. The results showed that the polyethylene coated "SBS" or the polyethylene coated solid unbleached sulfate are probably the best ways to package frozen fish sticks and fillets.

The Internet, Securities Regulation, And Theory Of Law, Tamar Frankel

Faculty Scholarship

Rarely has a change in the environment affected society as dramatically as the Internet. It has transformed the way we retain, transfer, and exchange information. At minimal cost, the Internet offers us far more information at a faster pace than ever before. It enables us to interact around the globe with more people than at any time in the past. When such dramatic environmental changes occur, drastic changes in the law often follow. 1 The Internet affects the environment in which securities markets operate, and the laws that govern them. 2 The use of the Internet has already begun to …

The Best And The Brightest: Canadian Law School Admissions, Dawna Tong, W. Wesley Pue

All Faculty Publications

This article assesses the admissions policies commonly employed by law faculties in common law Canada. These faculties rely heavily on admissions criteria and policies developed in the United States and, like their American counterparts, typically admit students on the basis of "index scores" produced by combining Law School Admissions Test (LSAT) performance with Undergraduate Grade Point Average (UGPA). The appropriateness of this American model to the Canadian context has never been rigorously assessed. This raises serious questions as to whether Canadian law school admissions policies serve either of their stated goals of finding the "best" students or of advancing social …

Judicial Review Of Initiatives And Referendums In Which Majorities Vote On Minorities’ Citizenship, Sylvia R. Lazos

Scholarly Works

In this Article, Professor Lazos examines initiatives and referendums in which a majority is in a position to vote on the content of a minority's democratic civic standing. Case law fails to set forth a single test for judicial review; consequently, doctrinal and theoretical coherence in this area is nonexistent. Professor Lazos proposes a test that takes into account social dynamics and focuses on the impact of these measures. First, she examines outcomes over the last three decades of approximately eighty such initiatives and referendums, from the anti-integration movement of the sixties to today's ideological and cultural versions, such as …

Constitutional Tales Of Violence: Populists, Outgroups, And The Multicultural Landscape Of The Second Amendment, David C. Williams

Articles by Maurer Faculty

Traditionally, populists have claimed the Second Amendment as their particular cultural property; by contrast, outgroups and elites have found the Amendment somewhat culturally alien. Recently, some outgroup members have argued that their groups ought to embrace the Amendment because the right to keep and bear arms can be a valuable way of resisting populist oppression. This Article explores this changing multicultural landscape of the Second Amendment It recognizes that in particular instances and in the short term, outgroups might need to arm themselves against hate violence. It argues, however, that only a consensus culture on the use of violence will …

Who’S Afraid Of Functional Claims? Reforming The Patent Law’S §112, ¶ 6 Jurisprudence, Mark D. Janis

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.

The International Legal Implications Of "Non-Lethal" Weapons, David P. Fidler

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.

A Mixed Bag For Chicken Little: Analyzing Year 2000 Claims And Insurance Coverage, Jeffrey W. Stempel

Scholarly Works

A visitor from another planet reading the popular and insurance trade press would probably conclude that the world stands on the abyss of a business, tort, and insurance crisis of unprecedented proportion. Media coverage of an impending Year 2000 “crisis” has reached a fevered pitch, with predictions of both a gigantic volume of Year 2000 claims and a correspondingly large amount of insurance coverage litigation. Many predict that the Year 2000 problem (also known as the “Y2K” or “Millennium Bug” problem) will create coverage controversies and costs dwarfing major insurance battles of the late twentieth century such as those concerning …

Glacial Deposits, Vol. 27, 1998-1999, Department Of Geography-Geology

Glacial Deposits

Newsletter of the Department of Geography-Geology

Running From The Law: Should Bounty Hunters Be Considered State Actors And Thus Subject To Constitutional Restraints?, Andrew D. Patrick

Vanderbilt Law Review

The issue of bounty hunter misconduct catapulted into the public spotlight in September, 1997, when a team of commando-like criminals who claimed to be searching for a bail-jumper gunned down a Phoenix couple in their own bedroom. Though the perpetrators' story was later uncovered as a hoax, and though the men would likely have been convicted of second-degree murder regardless of their profession,s their case and others like it aroused impassioned demands for bounty hunter regulation and, more radically, constitutional restraints on the bail bond industry.

Constitutional protections are applicable only against the government and "state actors." Bounty hunters have …

"Chevron," Cooperative Federalism, And Telecommunications Reform, Philip J. Weiser

Vanderbilt Law Review

In this Article, Professor Weiser argues that the advent of cooperative federalism statutes, like the Telecommunications Act of 1996, calls for a new conception of federal court review of state agency decisions. In particular, Professor Weiser suggests that federal statutes that invite state agencies to interpret federal law subject only to federal court review should be interpreted as calling for a deferential standard of review. Such a standard, to be sure, would allow cooperative federalism statutes to mean different things in different states. But as Professor Weiser illustrates with reference to the Telecommunications Act, the very nature of cooperative federalism …

"Or Of The Press", Potter Stewart

UC Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Proving The Obvious: The Antitrust Laws Were Passed To Protect Consumers (Not Just To Increase Efficiency), Robert H. Lande

UC Law Journal

No abstract provided.

"What A Tangled Web We Weave, When First We Practice To Deceive": Frames, Hyperlinks, Metatags, And Unfair Competition On The World Wide Web, Shelby Clark

UC Law Journal

The World Wide Web makes possible a variety of novel activities, and new variations on old ones, with which intellectual-property law has struggled. Technical aspects of the Web known as links, metatags, and frames enable web-page builders to use and display information to which others have a legal claim, and to otherwise gain an advantage at someone else's expense. At the same time, these techniques permit us to connect information in novel, useful ways. Unfair competition law has been relatively underutilized in addressing the conflicts that these techniques generate, but it has much to offer both in resolving particular disputes …

Future Of Telecommunications, The Future Of Telecommunications Regulation, The, Eli M. Noam

UC Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Economic And Political Consequences Of The 1996 Telecommunications Act, Thomas W. Hazlett

UC Law Journal

No abstract provided.

From The Fall Of The Bell System To The Telecommunications Act: Regulation Of Telecommunications Under Judge Greene, Joseph D. Kearney

UC Law Journal

No abstract provided.

The Magnificent Seven: American Telephony's Deregulatory Shootout, Jim Chen

UC Law Journal

No abstract provided.

The Abc's Of Universal Service: Arbitrage, Big Bucks, And Competition, Gregory L. Rosston, Bradley S. Wimmer

UC Law Journal

No abstract provided.

1999 Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes & Supplementary Materials, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate.

Faculty Senate Records

Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes & Supplementary Materials for 1999.

Volatile Corrosion Inhibitors Technology For Protection Of Machined Metal Parts During Storage And Distribution, Alexander Sobkin

Theses

The significant dollar losses that can occur when metallic products are damaged or lost, due to rust and corrosion, force many manufacturers to concentrate efforts on corrosion control and prevention during packaging, shipping and storage. Many people often simply accept corrosion as an inevitable problem. Actually, something can and should be done to prolong the life of many metals exposed to corrosive environments. Many of the standard methods to control corrosion, paint, grease and wax, for example, are messy, time consuming and expensive. These methods also pose a potential threat to the environment unless properly treated and disposed. An alternative …

Mechanical Properties Of Polystyrene And Polypropylene Based Materials After Exposure To Hydrogen Peroxide, John Torres

Theses

This study addresses a specific problem faced by a company in the food industry, although all food companies face similar issues. In an effort to reduce costs, the pursuit to down-gauge packaging materials is constant. In the case of this study, the primary package of a dairy product is being considered for reduction from the current 57 mil thickness to 52 mils. In the past, as the material was down-gauged from 62 mils, a loss in material strength and an increase in damage were observed. Initial research into the issue by line personnel found that the increase in damage was …

A Study Of Replacing Pvc With Pegt Plastic Bottles Due To Recycling Concers For Pvc, Manpreet Soch

Theses

Environmental concerns in European countries caused a US cosmetics company to evaluate plastic materials to replace PVC bottles for fragrances. PVC bottles and PETG bottles were measured and tested for several attributes, including finished dimensions following molding, leak testing, ink adhesion, drop testing, and product compatibility. Testing results indicate that PETG bottles make an acceptable replacement material for PVC bottles for a fragrance package. (Abstract

Public Fora, Neutral Governments, And The Prism Of Property, Calvin R. Massey

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

The Steep Spectrum Quasar Pg1404+ 226 With Asca, Hst And Rosat, Marie-Helene Ulrich, Andrea Comastri, Stefanie Komossa, Phil Crane

Dartmouth Scholarship

We present and discuss our observations of the Narrow Line quasar PG1404+226 (zem = 0.098) with ASCA and HST, and a re-analysis of our earlier observa- tions with ROSAT. The soft X-ray spectrum is very steep and displays an absorption feature (edge or line at ∼ 1.1 keV). We have applied a variety of models to the ASCA and ROSAT spectra without finding a completely satis- factory fit, and the identification of the edge remains un- certain. A satisfactory fit of the ASCA spectrum assuming that the edge is produced by highly ionized iron (using the code absori in XSPEC) …

Killing The Messenger The Use Of Nondisclosure Agreements To Silence Whistleblowers, Jodi L. Short

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

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: More powerful than a locomotive, Dark Horse Comics becomes the third largest comic book publisher in the U.S.; from Back to Beatles, the PSU Chamber Choir is spreading music around the globe; the university honors the life’s work of the late George Hoffman; students are getting into medical school with the help of PSU’s premed program; KPSU 1450 AM—it’s student-run radio at its boldest; an influx in immigration to the United States is changing the face of America; and more.

Advertising Policies Of Medical Journals: Conflicts Of Interest For Journal Editors And Professional Societies, David Orentlicher

Scholarly Works

No abstract provided.