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An Analysis Of Physicians' Reluctance To Follow Terminally Ill Patients' Advance Directives, Norma Poirier

Harold L. Hodgkinson Award for Outstanding Dissertation

This explanatory study examined the reasons why physicians have difficulty respecting the wishes of terminally ill patients who refuse treatment. Consistent with the relevant literature, three alternative explanations were hypothesized in answering the question: fear of litigation, religious beliefs, and medical professional values.

Evidence was gathered from three different sources. Semistructured interviews were carried out with 24 emergency physicians from the Moncton Area in the Canadian province of New Brunswick and submitted to both quantitative and qualitative content analysis. Nineteen cases of terminally ill patients whose wishes not to be treated were not respected were collected and submitted to content …

Stability Of Paleosinks And Karstic Carbonates In The Southern Fire Clay Mining District Of Missouri, Robert Weiser Dillon

Doctoral Dissertations

"The Southern Fire Clay District of Missouri was intensely mined during the late-1800’s to mid-1900’s for its valuable resource of high refractory clays deposited within Pennsylvanian sinkholes “paleosinks”. Mining operations have produced modifications in the Ozark aquifer, which in effect has possibly increased the instability of this paleokarst terrain and the potential of further environmental impacts to the land. Evidence supporting this hypothesis are: (1) A southerly shift in the regional groundwater divide relative to the topographic divide. This possibly is caused by the distribution of leaking clay pits, which suggests that the bedrock permeability or hydraulic conductivity has been …

Facciones​: Fictional Identity And The Face In Borges’S “La Forma De La Espada.’, David Laraway

Faculty Publications

A SCAR, AS HOMER KNEW LONG AGO, is more than a distinguishing mark that permits one to be identified: it is the promise of a story to be told. Upon Odysseus's return to Ithaca, his old nurse Eurykleia, without yet recognizing her master, prepares to bathe his feet. Richmond Lattimore's translation renders the ensuing scene in these words: "Now Odysseus I was sitting close to the fire, but suddenly turned to the dark side; I for presently he thought in his heart that, as she handled him, / she might be aware of his scar, and all his story might …

Agreement Between United University Professions And The State Of New York, 1999 - 2003, United University Professions Association, New York State

Contracts Collection

Contract (Agreement between United University Professions and the State of New York) | Government Document

Some Aspects Of The Adsorption Of A Lennard-Jones Gas On A Rough Surface, Douglas Henderson, Pawel Bryk, Stefan Sokolowski

Faculty Publications

We study the adsorption, including wetting, of a Lennard-Jones gas on a rough surface consisting of rough layer on a smooth substrate with which the gas interacts via a 9-3 potential. The rough layer is two molecular diameters thick and consists of a disordered quenched matrix of hard spheres. As well as interacting with the other matrix spheres by the hard-sphere potential, the matrix molecules interact with the gas molecules by the hard-sphere potential. Hence, on average, the degree to which the gas molecules can approach the substrate depends only on the density of the matrix layer. The density of …

Prescribed Fire Effects On Biological Control Of Leafy Spurge, David P. Fellows, Wesley E. Newton

Leafy Spurge Database

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Adjuvants For Enhancing Herbicide Performance, W.S. Curran, M.D. Mcglamery, R.A. Liebi, D.D. Lingenfelter

Leafy Spurge Database

No abstract provided.

Site Characteristics Of Established Flea Beetle Colonies In Western North Dakota, Don Kirby

1999 Leafy Spurge Symposium Proceedings

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Economic Analysis Of Sheep Grazing Of Leafy Spurge: Preliminary Results, Dean A. Bangsund

1999 Leafy Spurge Symposium Proceedings

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Modeling Nitrogen Release During Devolatilization On The Basis Of Chemical Structure Of Coal, Dominic Genetti, Thomas H. Fletcher

Faculty Publications

A model that predicts the amount and distribution between tar and light gas of nitrogen released during devolatilization has been developed and incorporated into the chemical percolation devolatilization (CPD) model. This work represents the first volatile nitrogen release model developed on the basis of ¹³C NMR measurements of coal structure. This work also represents the first volatile nitrogen release model evaluated by comparing model predictions with chemical structural features of the char (determined by ¹³C NMR spectral analyses). The model is limited to nitrogen release during primary pyrolysis, and assumes that all light-gas nitrogen is HCN. Model predictions …

Characteristics Of A Full Disclosure, Transaction-Based Index Of Commercial Real Estate, David H. Downs, Barrett A. Slade

Faculty Publications

This study addresses the characteristics of a transaction-based index of commercial real estate as reported in a full-disclosure market. Prior research on transaction-based indices has enumerated various shortcomings for commercial real estate markets. This study circumvents many of these problems by using a large data set of commercial property transactions obtained for the Phoenix, Arizona metropolitan statistical area. The empirical analysis demonstrates that investors stand to gain considerable insight by comparing fulldisclosure, transaction-based indices with voluntarydisclosure, appraisal-based indices. The results suggest that full-disclosure indices avoid some of the institutional biases associated with other benchmarks of commercial real estate performance. In …

Health, Health Insurance And The Labor Market, Janet Currie, Brigitte C. Madrian

Faculty Publications

This chapter provides an overview of the literature linking health, health insurance and labor market outcomes such as wages, earnings, employment, hours, occupational choice, job turnover, retirement, and the structure of employment. The ®rst part of the paper focuses on the relationship between health and labor market outcomes. The empirical literature surveyed suggests that poor health reduces the capacity to work and has substantive effects on wages, labor force participation and job choice. The exact magnitudes, however, are sensitive to both the choice of health measures and to identi®cation assumptions. The second part of the paper considers the link between …

John Dewey, Art And Public Life, Mark Mattern

Political Science Faculty Articles and Research

This article explores, criticizes, and extends John Dewey's arguments about art in relation to public life in a democracy. Dewey believed that art is a potent form of communication through which community is developed and political action undertaken. Although correct, Dewey erased conflict, negotiation and contestation From art, and failed to address the crucial role of power in the world of art. Three distinct kinds of political action through art are developed: pragmatic, deliberative, and confrontational.

Witch Doctors And Battleship Stalkers: The Edges Of Exculpation In Entrapment Cases, John F. Preis

Law Faculty Publications

This Note examines the effects of a defendant's claim of lack of "positional disposition" (i.e., the inability to commit the crime unaided) to support an entrapment defense.

The solution to the positional predisposition dispute requires answering two questions. First, on what grounds should criminal ability be considered at all by a court in determining a defendant's predisposition? Second, if ability is probative of predisposition, what degree of inability should be required for exculpation? This Note argues that a defendant's criminal ability is probative of that defendant's predisposition, and further, that a defendant's inability should be exculpatory to the degree that …

Beyond Admissibility: Real Confrontation, Virtual Cross-Examination And The Right To Confront Hearsay, John G. Douglass

Law Faculty Publications

Part I of this Article describes how the Court turned the Confrontation Clause into a rule excluding unreliable hearsay, culminating in the 1980 decision in Ohio v. Roberts, in which the Court set out the "general approach" that dominates confrontation-hearsay analysis today. Part II assesses the application of the Court's exclusionary rule in the two decades since Roberts, a period during which the Confrontation Clause largely has merged with, and disappeared into, the law of evidence, in the process losing its significance as an independent protection for the accused in an adversarial system. Part III argues that the Court's choice …

Interpretation Of The Kentucky Rules Of Evidence--What Happened To The Common Law?, Robert G. Lawson

Kentucky Law Journal

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Choice Of Law In Kentucky, John R. Leathers

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Rethinking The Way Law Is Taught: Can We Improve Lawyer Professionalism By Teaching Hired Guns To Aim Better?, W. William Hodges

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.

The Lawyer's Duty To Disclose Material Facts In Contract Or Settlement Negotiations, Nathan M. Crystal

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Minnesota V. Philip Morris, Inc.: An Important Legal Ethics Message Which Neglects The Public Interest In Product Safety Research, Edward J. Imwinkelried, James R. Mccall

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Rule 26(C)(7) Protective Orders: Just What Are You Hiding Under There, Anyway?, Ross T. Turner

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Strengthening Hate Crime Laws In Kentucky, Jennifer Jolly-Ryan

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Clients Should Have No Interest In Iolta Programs: An Analysis Of The Supreme Court's Decision In Phillips V. Washington Legal Foundation, Emily Hood

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.

A General Rule Of Law Is Needed To Define Public Use In Patent Cases, Katherine E. White

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Monopolistic Land Tenure And Free Trade In Mexico: Resurrecting The Ghost Of Porfirian Economics, Lola Clayton Rainey

American Indian Law Review

No abstract provided.

A Nation In Crisis: The Government Of The Cherokee Nation Struggles To Survive, Denette A. Mouser

American Indian Law Review

No abstract provided.

City Of Boerne V. Flores Wrecks Rfra: Searching For Nuggets Among The Rubble, John Gatliff

American Indian Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Massad Commission Report To The Tribal Council Of The Cherokee Nation, Anthony M. Massad, Robert A. Layden, Daniel G. Gibbens

American Indian Law Review

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Now We Have Forgotten The Old Indian Law: Choctaw Culture And The Evolution Of Corporal Punishment, Steven M. Karr

American Indian Law Review

No abstract provided.

Sovereignty, A State Of Mind: A Thakiwa Citizen's Viewpoint, Dagmar Thorpe

American Indian Law Review

No abstract provided.