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Developing Western Cranston's Proposed Village Center And Public Consensus Through A Visual Preference Survey, Thomas J. Kravitz

Open Access Master's Theses

The goal of this research project sought to evaluate resident's opinions concerning a variety of different developments, with each development representing specific elements of a proposed village center development in Western Cranston. The project utilized a technique developed by Anton Nelessen called Visual Preference Survey. VPS is a tool planners may use to present a vision of a plan to the public. It's meant to be used in the very preliminary stages of the public planning process, because this is when public participation is most important. In the context of this report, the idea is to garner public support by …

The Watershed Trail: Melville To The Glen, A Greenway Master Plan For The Town Of Portsmouth, Deidra J. Storti

Open Access Master's Theses

The Greenway Master Plan is a guide for developing a multi-user trail in the town of Portsmouth, Rhode Island. This report provides a comprehensive approach to implementing a trail from Melville to The Glen, called The Watershed Trail. While it focuses on integrating important aspects of the natural and human environment for one segment of trail, the report could be used to direct the community in developing an island-wide system of various types of publicly accessible trails. The goal of developing the trail is multi-purposed. First, islanders have expressed a desire to develop off-road pathways that link their homes, shopping, …

Hydric Soil Patterns In Riparian Corridors Of The Glaciated Northeast: Groundtruthing The Soil Geographic Data Base (Ssurgo), Adam E. Rosenblatt

Open Access Master's Theses

Riparian zones are lands that occur along stream boundaries. These zones vary widely in their potential to protect stream and estuarine waters from groundwater nitrate contamination. Past research has found that riparian sites with hydric soils (i.e., soils associated with wetlands) possess high groundwater nitrate removal potential, while nonhydric soils appear to have minimal removal rates. Although the presence of hydric riparian corridors is a critical clue to watershed functions, they often occur as narrow bands that are challenging to map. The potential for identifying these high value riparian zones through existing spatial data bases coupled with geographic information systems …

84th Annual Meeting, 2000. Secretary's Report And Financial Statement, Academy Editors

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

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Large Pleistocene Box Turtle From Southwest Arkansas, Leo Carson Davis, John G. Scoggins, J. Alan Holman

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

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Vision 2000

Vision

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Complaints, Anita Bernstein

Faculty Scholarship

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Some Brief Thoughts (Mostly Negative) About "Bad Samaritan" Laws, Joshua Dressler

Santa Clara Law Review

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Of Rescue And Report: Should Tort Law Impose A Duty To Help Endangered Persons Or Abused Children?, Marc A. Franklin, Matthew Ploeger

Santa Clara Law Review

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Keeping Confidence With Former Employees: California Courts Apply The Inevitable Disclosure Doctrine To California Trade Secret Law, Benjamin A. Emmert

Santa Clara Law Review

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Managing The Burdens Imposed On Motions For Summary Judgement In California: The 1992 And 1993 Amendments To Ccp 437c, Thomas Kallay

Santa Clara Law Review

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Gross Presumptions: Determining Group Eligibility For Federal Procurement Preferences, George R. La Noue, John C. Sullivan

Santa Clara Law Review

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The Trigger Of Coverage For Cancer: When Does Genetic Mutation Become "Bodily Injury, Sickness, Or Disease"?, Donald T. Ramsey

Santa Clara Law Review

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Prosecuting Cyber-Pedophiles: How Can Intent Be Shown In A Virtual World In Light Of The Fantasy Defense?, Donald S. Yamagami

Santa Clara Law Review

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Book Review [Law's Order: What Economics Has To Do With Law And Why It Matters], Santa Clara Law Review

Santa Clara Law Review

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A Content Analysis Of Newspaper Columns Written In 1994 By Syndicated Humorist Columnists Erma Bombeck And Art Buchwald, Carol Patricia Wight

Theses, Dissertations and Capstones

This study uses content analysis to reveal aspects of the content in newspaper columns written by Erma Bombeck compared with column content written by Art Buchwald. The purpose of this study was to reveal content characteristics that may be perceived as having propelled the columnist Erma Bambeck into the status of one of the top syndicated humorist columnists, based on the uses and gratifications and media dependency theories. Art Buchwald was chosen for a comparative analysis because of his status as one of the top syndicated humorist columnists.

Content analysis was used to reveal answers to these questions about the …

Fashioning A Coherent Demand Rule For Derivative Litigation In California, Jeffrey S. Facter

Santa Clara Law Review

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The Empirical Shortcomings Of First Amendment Jurisprudence: A Historical Perspective On The Power Of Hate Speech, Alexander Tsesis

Santa Clara Law Review

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En Banc Review, Horror Pleni, And The Resolution Of Patent Law Conflicts, William C. Rooklidge, Matthew F. Weil

Santa Clara Law Review

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Black Faces, Brown Faces.. .Why Are We Different Than White Faces? An Analytical Comparison Of The Rate Of Certification Of Minority &Non-Minority Juvenile Offenders, Keisha L. David

The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice

Abstract Forthcoming

A "Last Hug" Before Execution: The Case In Favor Of Contact Visitation For Death Row Inmates In Texas, Ryan Byrd

The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice

Abstract Forthcoming

Scaling Back The Ada: How The Sutton V. United Airlines Decision Affects Employees With Bipolar Disorder., Kevin Wiley Jr.

The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice

The Sutton v. United Airlines decision went too far in the Supreme Court’s effort to scale back the protections of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).  Congress should review the Sutton decision and amend the ADA to consider disabilities as they exist without regard to mitigating measures based on the severity of the illness. To seek protection under the ADA, one must have a discernable disability, and one’s impairment must be diagnosed and disclosed to the employer. Disability, however, was not specifically defined in the ADA, and no agency or regulation has specifically defined disability for the courts to utilize …

A Problem Of Process In Wto Jurisprudence: Identifying Disputed Issues In Panels And Consultations, Glenn R. Butterton

Articles

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Analysis Of Paramagnetic Point Defects In Potassium Dihydrogen Phosphate And Potassium Titanyl Phosphate Crystals., Nelson Yovanny Garces

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

A series of paramagnetic defects have been characterized in KH2 PO4 (KDP) and KTiOPO4 (KTP) using optical absorption, electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR), and electron-nuclear double resonance (ENDOR) techniques. In KDP, one hole-like center and five electronlike centers were investigated. Spin-Hamiltonian parameters were obtained for the holelike center and two electronlike centers. The hole center consists of a hole trapped on an oxygen ion adjacent to a silicon impurity substituting for a phosphorus ion. The electron centers are oxygen vacancies with one trapped electron, i.e., they are (PO3)2− molecular units. Both the hole center and the electron centers can be formed …

Speech Acts As A Focus Of Variation Studies: Aae Vs. Eae., Brian Jose

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Recent research in linguistics, and specifically within the field of applied linguistics, has been concerned with the different ways that speech acts are realized in different languages. This is so that language learners can learn to adequately conform to those norms in the target language. However, much of this research has assumed that all speakers of the relevant languages, such as American English, for example, are homogeneous, that they all perform the given speech acts in the same ways. I argue that this is an erroneous assumption: just as there is phonological variation, for example, between dialects of a language, …

The Effects On Student's Personality Preferences From Participation In Odyssey Of The Mind., Scott A. Warner

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

The problem for the research was to determine what effects participation in the OM program had on the development of personality preferences in elementary school children. The purposes of the research were to: (1) provide research data to teachers that justifies the use of teaching strategies to meet the needs of students toward the development of their personality preferences, and (2) provide research data toward further investigation of inventive personality characteristics and the programs that encourage their growth and development. The subjects for the study were selected from students in grades 3 to 5 at two elementary schools within the …

The Japanese Banking Crisis Of The 1990s: Sources And Lessons, Akihiro Kanaya, David Woo

Documents

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The On Line Determination Of Mercury In Process Streams Using Atomic Spectrometry, Noel Kumar Brahma

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Theses

On-line systems for monitoring mercury in liquid and gaseous production and waste streams have been developed, utilising atomic fluorescence spectrometry (AFS) as the basis for detection. Instrumentation has been designed for unattended continuous operation. Laboratory chemistries for the vapour generation of mercury, normally performed off-line in batch mode, have been adapted and optimised for continuous, flow-injection analysis for varying sample types and chemical forms of mercury. The system has typical analysis cycle of 7 minutes, a limit of detection of 10 pg ml ˉ¹ a linear range up to 100 µg ml ˉ¹ and has been applied in industrial environments …

Sub-Surface Migration Of An Oil Pollutant Into Aquifers, Louise Ann Macdonald

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Theses

The risk to groundwater quality following a sub-surface spillage of immiscible pollutants such as oil, petroleum and other organic chemicals is an increasingly potent threat, through escalating industrial application of such pollutants. This study significantly enhances the understanding of the flow of immiscible pollutants within soil, through field scale investigations to define the spatial variability and extent of a contaminated area and the development of a comprehensive framework for the analysis of oil pollutant migration. This study represents a first attempt by researchers to analyse oil pollutant migration on a wide range of scales, from pore- to field-level. The research …

Complexation And Particle-Water Interactions Of Nickel In Estuaries, Manuela Martino

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Theses

The speciation and particle-water interactions of Ni were investigated in three estuaries with contrasting pollution levels, hydrodynamics and geochemical characteristics. Samples of water and sediments were collected seasonally from the Tamar, Tweed and Mersey Estuaries. The chemical speciation of dissolved Ni was determined by adsorptive cathodic stripping voltammetry (ACSV), and the sorptive behaviour of Ni was studied under simulated estuarine conditions using " Ni coupled to liquid scintillation counting. A relatively high particle reactivity was observed only in the Tamar Estuary, where ACSV-non labile Ni was removed in the low salinity region, followed by addition of ACSV-labile Ni in the …