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Population Trends In Furbearers In Nebraska, L. M. Landholt, Hugh H. Genoways

Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences and Affiliated Societies

Population trends are documented from 1941 to 1997 for the 12 species of furbearing mammals harvested in Nebraska. Populations of red fox (Vulpes vulpes), raccoon (Procyon lotor), beaver (Castor canadensis), coyote (Canis lupus), and bobcat (Lynx rufus) have increased during this period. Populations of muskrat (Ondatra zibethicus), mink (Mustela vison), eastern spotted skunk (Spilogale putorius), long-tailed weasel (Mustela frenata), and striped skunk (Mephitis mephitis) have decreased. Populations of mink, eastern spotted skunk, longtailed weasel, and striped skunk may have decreased …

Two Degrees Of Speech Protection: Free Speech Through The Prism Of Agricultural Disparagement Laws, Howard M. Wasserman

Faculty Publications

In the wake of a 1989 national television broadcast reporting the alleged cancer risk of a chemical applied to apples on trees, many states passed agricultural product disparagement (APD) statutes. These statutes grant civil causes of action to the growers and sellers of perishable food products, against anyone who speaks negatively or disparagingly, without basis in scientific evidence, about the product's safety. In this Article, Howard M Wasserman explores the interplay between the APD statutes and the First Amendment. First, Mr. Wasserman discusses the three categories of restrictions on the freedom of speech, focusing primarily on private civil tort actions …

Black Penis And The Demoralization Of The Western World| Sexual Relationships Between Black Men And White Women In The Works Of Chester Himes And Dany Laferriere, Kristen Fink

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Following Mateo, Tom Molanphy

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Mrs. Love| [Short Stories], Keith Dunlap

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Myth Of The West| A Collection, Matthew Skinner

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Our Way Of Living| Poetry In Verse And Prose, Thomas Riggs

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Tigersprung, Kenneth White

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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As Close As I Could Get Without Spooking It: Essays On Sports, Steven Rinella

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Gendered Communication Among Second Generation Danish Americans In The "Blair Church:" A Study In Progress, John Mark Nielsen

The Bridge

I am not nor do I pretend to be an expert on gendered communication or feminist criticism. I have, however, used Carol Gilligan's In A Different Voice and Deborah Tannen's You Just Don't Understand in classes with good results.1 While students differ in their responses, these works are accessible to many and have inspired good discussion about how gender may affect decision-making and impact the way messages are sent and received. Additionally, I have found writings by Peggy McIntosh, Carol Smith-Rosenberg, and Barbara Welter helpful in exploring and thinking about the writings of American women writers of the pre-Civil War …

Transfer Of A \Beta-Glucuronidase Reporter Gene To Sugarbeet (Beta Vulgaris L.) Via Microprojectile Bombardment, Sertaç Önde, Melahat Bi̇rsi̇n, Mustafa Yildiz, Cengi̇z Sancak, Murat Özgen

Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry

For the transfer of a \beta -Glucuronidase (GUS) reporter gene to sugarbeet (Beta vulgaris L.) callus and leaf explants by microprojectile bombardment, various rupture disk pressures and sample plate distances were tested. By coating the pBI221.23 DNA construct over the gold particles, bombardments were carried out by the DuPont PDS-1000/He system and the results clearly indicated the superiority of leaf explants over the callus structures as targets. The sample plate distances affected the distribution pattern of the particles and the cells expressing the GUS reporter gene were noted to be aggregated in short distances whereas longer distance shots yielded better …

Sustainable Use Of Deep-Sea Organisms Collected For Biomedical Research., John K. Reed, Shirley A. Pomponi

Faculty Scholarship

The oceans continue to provide new opportunities for the discovery of marine-derived medicines and the deep sea is relatively untapped. The Division of Biomedical Marine Research (DBMR) at Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution (HBOI) has conducted expeditions worldwide to collect a unique set of marine microorganisms and invertebrates, such as sponges and gorgonians, using the Johnson-Sea-Link submersibles to depths of 914 m. Discodermolide, a bioactive compound derived from the deep water sponges Discodermia spp., was discovered by HBOI and licensed for development as an anticancer drug. Other HBOI compounds in preclinical trials includetopsentins with potent anti-inflammatory activity and lasonolides with antitumor …

Francis Bacon Takes On The Ghouls: The "First Principles" Of Religious Freedom, Richard W. Garnett

Journal Articles

John Witte, Jr.
Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment:
Essential Rights and Liberties
Westview Press 2000

From the Review

This is a great time for students of the First Amendment's Religion Clauses and of what Professor John Witte calls the American "experiment" with religious freedom. We've been blessed these past few years with an in-print seminar - an upper-division offering, team-taught by faculty heavyweights - on this experiment, its products and prospects, and the values that have shaped it. Our teachers and texts have included, to name just a few, Professor Steven Smith's Foreordained Failure: The Constitutional Quest for a …

Brown’S Promise, Blaine’S Legacy, Richard W. Garnett

Journal Articles

If nothing else, this Review Essay, like Professor Viteritti's book, should be timely. As I write, the United States Supreme Court in Mitchell v. Helms has just decided that publicly funded computers and other educational materials may be loaned to private and religious schools. The decision is widely viewed as signaling, if not determining, the constitutional fate of school-choice experiments like those in Cleveland and Milwaukee. As it happened, just one week before Mitchell, the Sixth Circuit heard oral arguments in Simmons-Harris v. Zelman (the Ohio voucher case) as hundreds of voucher supporters chanted "freedom, freedom!" across the street from …

Nuclear Weapons, Lethal Injection, And American Catholics: Faith Confronting American Civil Religion, Thomas L. Shaffer

Journal Articles

But, still, honor is important among us. "He was an honorable man" is still a moving thing to say, at a (man's) funeral. The notion, and the liturgy that invokes the notion, show us believers that civil religion has a hold on us, and that we need a place where we can sit down together and think things out.2 6 This argument of mine needs to get beneath simple contrasts between biblical faith and civil religion. We believers need to reason together, plopped down as we are in the middle of the present. We believers include naval officers and lawyers …

Law And Theology: Reflections On What It Means To Be Human From A Franciscan Perspective, John J. Coughlin

Journal Articles

When I was first asked in March of 2000 to speak at this conference on the topic of "law and theology," many thoughts crossed my mind. I could address: the role of religion in American political life, euthanasia, medieval canon law and theology, the death penalty, the Jewish origins of the Pauline perspective on law, the ethics of DNA experimentation, Muslim theology and law, the relation between Marxist political theory and Christian eschatology, or several other "light" issues. Upon second thought, perhaps a more straight-forward approach would be beneficial. I might review the plan of salvation history, and then as …

A Comparison Of The Administrative Law Of The Catholic Church And The United States, John J. Coughlin

Journal Articles

Some years ago, an international symposium of jurists described administrative law as encompassing "the entire range of action by government with respect to the citizen or by the citizen with respect to the government, except for those matters dealt with by the criminal law, and those left to private civil litigation where the government's only participation is in furnishing an impartial tribunal with the power of enforcement."

The broad parameters of the concept of administrative law attest to its importance in any legal system. Indeed, for at least the past fifty years, comparative legal scholars have focused on diverse national …

Adverse Drug Reactions: Harnessing Experiential Data To Promote Patient Welfare, Barbara A. Noah

Faculty Scholarship

Part I of this Article evaluates the pre-approval and post-approval regulatory framework governing prescription drugs, and the FDA's spontaneous reporting system for adverse events, as it contrasts that system with the regulatory mechanisms used to monitor risks associated with other products. Part II summarizes the recent series of prescription drug marketing withdrawals prompted by reports of unexpected adverse reactions. Finally, Part III offers some possible solutions designed to improve the efficiency of postapproval surveillance so that fewer patients will suffer the consequences of unexpected adverse drug reactions and interactions. This Article concludes that the existing regulatory system requires fundamental reprioritization …

Fantasy, Trauma, And Gothic Daughters: Frankenstein As Therapy, Diane Hoeveler

English Faculty Research and Publications

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Three Issues For The City In The 21st Century, Richard Briffault

Faculty Scholarship

The title for this year’s program of the Section on Urban, State and Local Government Law of the Association of American Law Schools is The City in the 21st Century. These three articles provide a stimulating introduction to three issues that are likely to be central to the study of the city in the twenty-first century-as they were in the twentieth century and in the nineteenth century: the interplay of local and regional forces in land development, the battles among interest groups to control city hall, and the role of local government in promoting local economic development. These issues are …

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Vincentian Studies

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Saint Vincent And Islam, Yves Danjou C.M., Joyce Howard D.C.

Vincentian Studies

Vincent de Paul took a great interest in Islamic countries; indeed, the Congregation’s first foreign mission was to Constantinople in the Ottoman Empire. He was especially concerned with missions to North African countries and continued them despite considerable obstacles. While conversions of Muslims were desirable, they were to be made discreetly, and the confreres’ main priorities were to minister spiritually and corporally to Christian slaves. If Muslims were to be converted, he believed that they would be won over by deeds and love rather than by force or arguments. Yves Danjou explains how Vincent respected Muslims, especially considering the era. …

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Samuel Goodrich, And The Transformation Of The Juvenile Literature Market, Sarah Wadsworth

English Faculty Research and Publications

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A Market-Based Solution To The Judicial Clerkship Selection Process, Edward S. Adams

Maryland Law Review

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The Roman Law Roots Of Copyright, Russ Ver Steeg

Maryland Law Review

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Proprietary Rights And Why Initial Allocations Matter, Clarisa Long

Faculty Scholarship

Initial allocations of proprietary rights matter because who starts out holding the rights helps determine who ends up holding the rights. In patent law, proprietary rights are granted to those who are first to invent. But entities who win the race to patent an invention are not necessarily the final, or best, or most efficient users of the technology. If proprietary rights, particularly patents on basic research results, could be traded efficiently so that downstream innovators could obtain them from initial rights holders easily, then initial allocations of proprietary rights would not matter so much. Transferring proprietary rights is costly, …

Benign Neglect Reconsidered, Richard L. Marcus

Faculty Scholarship

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A Theory Of Legal Presumptions, Antonio E. Bernardo, Eric L. Talley, Ivo Welch

Faculty Scholarship

This article analyzes how legal presumptions can mediate between costly litigation and ex ante incentives. We augment a moral hazard model with a redistributional litigation game in which a presumption parameterizes how a court 'weighs' evidence offered by the opposing sides. Strong prodefendant presumptions foreclose lawsuits altogether, but also engender shirking. Strong proplaintiff presumptions have the opposite effects. Moderate presumptions give rise to equilibria in which both shirking and suit occur probabilisitically. The socially optimal presumption trades off agency costs against litigation costs, and could be either strong or moderate, depending on the social importance of effort, the costs of …

Gang Loitering, The Court, And Some Realism About Police Patrol, Debra A. Livingston

Faculty Scholarship

When the Supreme Court voted to review the decision of the Illinois Supreme Court holding Chicago's "gang loitering" ordinance invalid on federal constitutional grounds, it seemed plausible that City of Chicago v Morales would be the occasion for a major statement from the Court on a set of complex issues – issues including not only the nature of the police officer's authority to maintain order in public places, but also the relative roles of politics and judicial decision making in delineating both the limits on this authority and the latitude left to police to employ discretion in its exercise. After …

Armstrong Academics Winter/Spring 2000, Armstrong Atlantic State University

Armstrong State University Collections: Armstrong Academics (Archived)

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