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October 1, 1999, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

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The Self: Death By Technology, Kenneth J. Gergen

Psychology Faculty Works

Kenneth Gergen asks whether in the midst of a techno-cultural revolution the traditional conceptions of self and community continue to secure a morally viable society. Gergen examines the erosion of both individualism and communalism (and their associated institutions) by the accumulating “technologies of sociation,” the host of relatively low-cost technologies that dramatically expand and intensify social connection. He considers the effects of these technologies on the experience of a private self and argues that cumulatively they undermine the presumption of the individual as the locus of moral agency.

Montanan, Fall 1999, University Of Montana--Missoula

Montanan Magazine, 1969-2024

This is the magazine of the University of Montana with news about the University for UM alumni as well as current faculty, students, staff, and administrators. This is volume 17, number 1.

Insights- Fall 1999, University Relations Staff

Insights

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Sacred Heart University Magazine, Fall 1999, Sacred Heart University

Sacred Heart University Magazine

Highlights: Founded as a commuter college, SHU now meets the needs of students in a wider spectrum --Division I means stepping up academically --East Hall opens --Commencement '99 --Incoming is the final class of the millennium --Physical Therapy receives accreditation and graduates its first class --Special report to Alumni --Faculty Focus on Dr. Shannon Brightman and Dr. John Roney --Community Service Awards --At Luxembourg new director is Dr. Thomas Queisser --New Stamford Campus --Alumni Profile on Douglas L. Kennedy '78, '82 MBA.

Focus, 1999, Fall, Andrews University

Focus

FOCUS (ISSN 1077-9345) is published quarterly, free of charge, for alumni and friends of Andrews University, an institution owned and operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

Cognition And Cost-Benefit Analysis, Cass R. Sunstein

Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper Series

No abstract provided.

Beyond The Formalism Debate: Expert Reasoning, Fuzzy Logic, And Complex Statutes, Edward S. Adams, Daniel A. Farber

Vanderbilt Law Review

Formalists and antiformalists continue to debate the utility of using legislative history and current social values to interpret statutes. Lost in the debate, however, is a clear model of how judges actually make decisions. Rather than focusing on complex problems presented by actual judicial decisions, formalists and antiformalists concentrate on stylized examples of simple statutes.

In this Article, Professors Adams and Farber construct a more functional model of judicial decisionmaking by focusing on complex problems. They use cognitive psychological research on expert reasoning and techniques from an emerging area in the field of artificial intelligence, fuzzy logic, to construct their …

Focal Point, Volume 13 Number 01, Portland State University. Regional Research Institute

Research and Training Center - Focal Point

This issue of Focal Point examines the ways in which families with employed caregivers and children with emotional and behavioral disorders manage to meet the demands of employment and family responsibilities. Finding a fit between the demands of work and family life is a struggle for every employed mother and father. For parents whose children have emotional, behavioral, or mental disorders, meeting this challenge can prove extremely stressful, particularly since supportive services are notably lacking. Although Fernandez has estimated that 10% of all employed parents have at least one child with a disability living in their homes, there has been …

David O'Connor, God And Inscrutable Evil: In Defense Of Theism And Atheism, Michael Bergmann

Faith and Philosophy: Journal of the Society of Christian Philosophers

No abstract provided.

Incarnation: A Buddhist View, José Cabezón

Faith and Philosophy: Journal of the Society of Christian Philosophers

No abstract provided.

Arthur F. Holmes, Fact, Value, And God, Patricia Sayre

Faith and Philosophy: Journal of the Society of Christian Philosophers

No abstract provided.

Between Monster And Machine: Rethinking The Judicial Function, Lee Anne Fennell

South Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

Pythia-Ii: A Knowledge Discovery In Databases System For Managing Performance Data And Recommending Scientific Software, Elias N. Houstis, Ann C. Catlin, John R. Rice, Vassilis S. Verykios, Naren Ramakrishnan

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

Female Genital Mutilation: Marked By Tradition, Isabel Coello

Cardozo Journal of International and Comparative Law

The article examines the pervasive issue of female genital mutilation (FGM), a practice deeply rooted in cultural and religious traditions, which perpetuates gender-based violence and discrimination. It highlights the failure of many governments to effectively implement international human rights treaties to eradicate FGM, despite its severe physical and psychological consequences. The analysis focuses on legal challenges, recent court cases in Spain and France, and the growing recognition of FGM as grounds for political asylum, emphasizing the need for stronger international and domestic policies to protect women's rights.

Ethj Vol-37 No-2

East Texas Historical Journal

No abstract provided.

Living On The Edge Of The Neutral Zone: Varieties Of Identity In Nacogdoches, Texas, 1773-1810, Patrick J. Walsh

East Texas Historical Journal

No abstract provided.

The Economic Development Of The Dixie Frontier: Henderson County, Texas 1850-1860, Kenneth Howell

East Texas Historical Journal

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A Defense Of Analogical Reasoning In Law, Emily Sherwin

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

This Article defends the practice of reasoning by analogy on the basis of its epistemic and institutional advantages. The advantages identified for analogical reasoning include that it produces a wealth of data for decisonmaking; it represents the collaborative effort of a number of judges over time; it tends to correct biases that might lead judges to discount the force of prior decisions; and it exerts a conservative force in law, holding the development of law to a gradual pace. Notably, these advantages do not depend on the rational force of analogical reasoning. Rather, the author contends that, as open-ended reasoning …

Introduction To Comparative Politics Syllabus, Steven Alan Samson

Faculty Publications and Presentations

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The Effects Of Task Demand And Knowledge Of Results On Operator Engagement And Vigilance Performance Moderation With A Biocybernetic System, Jamie Lynn Loverde

Psychology Theses & Dissertations

The present study examined whether a biocybernetic system could moderate performance in a vigilance task. The system manipulated critical signal (CS) amplitude based on cybernetic feedback contingencies. Under negative feedback, CS amplitude increased when the index fell below a predetermined level and decreased when the index rose above that level The opposite occurred under positive feedback. The system was expected to initiate more amplitude changes under negative feedback to regulate engagement. Performance feedback (Knowledge of Results; KR) was also provided and was expected to improve performance by motivating participants to pay closer attention to the task.

Forty participants performed a …

The Cross-Border Insolvency Concordat And Customary International Law: Is It Ripe Yet?, David H. Culmer

Connecticut Journal of International Law

The importance of flexibility in international insolvencies is clearly demonstrated by the United States Bankruptcy Code. Section 304, governing cases ancillary to a foreign proceeding, provides that the court may, among specific forms of relief available to a foreign representative, "order other appropriate relief.' 2 This provision has been interpreted quite liberally, affording bankruptcy courts freedom to "broadly mold appropriate relief in near blank check fashion."3 While flexibility may not demand fair, predictable, and efficient results, it should at least allow for such results. Though probably true for most insolvency proceedings, either in reorganization or liquidation, this is perhaps nowhere …

The Effects Of Volunteering On The Volunteer, John Wilson, Marc Musick

Law and Contemporary Problems

Wilson and Musick review some of the research on the supposed benefits of volunteering and describe briefly some of the results of their own work in this area. There is little doubt that there are individual benefits to be derived from doing volunteer work that reach far beyond the volunteer act itself and may linger long after the volunteer role is relinquished.

Comment: Volunteering And Community Service, Steven Rathgeb Smith

Law and Contemporary Problems

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Citizen Soldiers: The North Carolina Volunteers And The War On Poverty, Robert R. Korstad, James L. Leloudis

Law and Contemporary Problems

During the summers of 1964 and 1965, more than 300 college students fanned out across the state of North Carolina in a bold campaign to defeat poverty and, as they saw it, to uplift the poor. Korstad and Leloudis trace the history of the North Carolina Fund's Volunteers program, provide an analysis of the contribution that those students made to fighting poverty in the state, and evaluate the impact of that experience on the lives of the Volunteers themselves.

Atheology And Buddhalogy In Dharmakirti's(First I Should Have A Slash Over It) Pramanavarttika (Second And Fourth As Should Have Lines Over Them), Roger R. Jackson

Faith and Philosophy: Journal of the Society of Christian Philosophers

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Pierre Coste And Catherine Labouré: The Conflict Of Historical Criticism And Popular Devotion, Stafford Poole C.M.

Vincentian Studies

Pierre Coste’s analysis of Catherine Labouré and her visions serves as a case study in “the tension that can exist between the demands of a dispassionate historical criticism and those of popular devotion.” He did not believe in the visions and tried to prevent Catherine’s beatification. Publication of his research would not have been permitted, so he held one view publicly and another privately. Stafford Poole’s study uses two versions of Coste’s treatise, giving the publications and testimonies of the visions in chronological order and following each with Coste’s criticism. Among other things, he was troubled by the fact that …

Ursinus Magazine, Summer / Fall 1999, Wendy Greenberg, Steven Hood, Tom Epler, Susan Stonitsch

Ursinus Magazine, 1995–Present

The Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art calendar • Ursinus in the news • Field House ground breaking September 17 • Pfahler Hall open house October 16 • Presenting the Class of 2003 • Laptops provided • Letters to the editor • Faculty news • Alumni Weekend and Commencement '99 • Transforming the campus: A museum's first decade • Furnishing knowledge: Endowed chairs • Politics as usual? A political scientist's journey to China • Shillingford is new holder of Snell Chair at Ursinus College • Bears win Centennial baseball title, go to playoffs • Women's lacrosse breaks record • …

The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 41 No. 1, Michelle Scalise Sugiyama, Thorunn Ruga Mccoy, David Garrison, Mark Mossman, Judith Musser, William Casement, Diane Averill, Baloian Baloian, K. H. Barron, Alan Britt, Mary Crow, Lois Marie Harrod, Fleda Brown Jackson, Kathleen Lynch, Hillary Lyon, Robin Michel, Andrea Moorhead, Pattiann Rogers, Sam Taylor, Paul W. Zagorski, Midwest Quarterly Editors

The Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought

As MICHELLE SCALISE SUGIYAMA shows, author Sandra Cisneros uses women's shoes and feet as potent symbols and actual examples of male manipulation of female sexuality and freedom. An Affiliate of the Institute for Cognitive and Decision Sciences at the University of Oregon and of the Center for Evolutionary Psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Sugiyama approaches the universal behavior of storytelling from a cognitive and anthropological perspective. Her work can be found in The Hemingway Review, Human Nature, Mosaic, and Skeptic, and she is completing a book-length study developing an alternative to Freudian literary analysis and its derivatives …

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

Osgoode Hall Law Journal

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 …