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A Study Of The Interplay Between Promissory Estoppel And At-Will Employment In Texas, Robert J. Conner

SMU Law Review

No abstract provided.

Corporations, Glenn D. West, Christopher M. Fairman

SMU Law Review

No abstract provided.

Legal Xml And Standards For The Legal Industry, Winchel Iii Vincent

SMU Law Review

No abstract provided.

Computer Languages As Networks And Power Structures: Governing The Development Of Xml, Edward L. Rubin

SMU Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Secret Journal Of Sister Jess: A True Story In Honor Of Oliver W. Hill, Sr., Esq., Jonathan K. Stubbs

Law Faculty Publications

Oliver Hill places his finger squarely on a modem struggle, namely, the idea that human beings can be both one and many. Many humans seem to think that it is impossible to have more than one identity. For example, suppose a black person says ''I am a human being first and my color is secondary." Some people hearing this statement would interpret it as a (foolish) repudiation of one's "racial" identity. To some the statement means that he wants to be a human being rather than a black person. That means he must be bleached of his blackness. Thus, in …

Divining Regulatory Intent: The Place For A "Legislative History" Of Agency Rules, Lars Noah

UC Law Journal

This Article juxtaposes the recent debates about statutory interpretation and the judicial uses of legislative histories with the relative quiescence over methods for interpreting agency regulations. The latter subject merits more attention than it has received given the relatively greater prevalence and practical import of legislative rules issued by administrative agencies as compared with statutory commands from the legislature. Unlike attempts to understand the legislature's original intent, whether by focusing solely on statutory text or considering extrinsic aids found in various pre-enactment explanatory materials, courts routinely defer to agencies' post-promulgation interpretations of the meaning of their regulations. This grants executive …

Republican Mothers, Bastards' Fathers And Good Victims: Discarding Citizens And Equal Protection Through The Failures Of Legal Images, Linda Kelly

UC Law Journal

In Republican Mothers, Bastards' Fathers and Good Victims: Discarding Citizens and Equal Protection Through the Failures of Legal Images, Professor Linda Kelly uncovers the influence of gender images in immigration law. While in many areas of law gender perceptions have been exposed, in immigration law legal images of gender remain unspoken and unchallenged. In the recent decision of Miller v. Albright, the Supreme Court declared that while a woman becomes a parent immediately upon the birth of her child, a man is not legally considered a parent until he assumes post-birth responsibility for his child. Miller challenged a provision of …

From Watergate To Generation Next: Opening Remarks, Rory K. Little

UC Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Comparing The Scope Of The Federal Government's Authority To Prosecute Federal Corruption And State And Local Corruption: Some Surprising Conclusions And A Proposal, Sara Sun Beale

UC Law Journal

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Comparing The Nixon And Clinton Impeachments, Fred H. Altshuler

UC Law Journal

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How High The Crime?, Joseph A. Woods Jr.

UC Law Journal

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I Saw Another Angel Fly, J. Michael Hunter

Faculty Publications

This photo essay provides an overview of the history of the Angel Moroni statues, beginning with the angel atop the Nauvoo Temple and continuing through to designs used on the Salt Lake Temple, the Washington D.C. Chapel, the Los Angeles California Temple, the Washington D.C. Temple, and other temples built through 2000. Angel Moroni statues have come to symbolize for Latter-day Saints the restoration of the gospel in the latter days. For Mormons, the Moroni statues herald the gospel being preached “to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people” (Rev. 14:6). “I Saw Another Angel Fly” discusses …

Solid-State 13c Nmr Characterization Of Matched Tars And Chars From Rapid Coal Devolatilization, Steven T. Perry, Eric M. Hambly, Thomas H. Fletcher, Mark S. Solum, Ronald J. Pugmire

Faculty Publications

Matched tar/char sets were prepared by pyrolysis of a lignite and a bituminous coal in two entrained flow reactors at temperatures between 900 K and 1650 K and heating rates of 10⁴–10⁵ K/s. Detailed chemical structural characterization of these tars and chars was performed using elemental analysis and solid-state ¹³C NMR. This is the first set of detailed solid-state ¹³C nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) data on coal tar samples. The average aromatic cluster sizes of the primary tars from these experiments are quite similar to those of their parent coals, confirming an assumption often made …

Measurement Of Soot And Char In Pulverized Coal Fly Ash, John M. Veranth, Thomas H. Fletcher, David W. Pershing, Adel F. Sarofim

Faculty Publications

The unburned carbon in the fly ash produced by low-NOx pulverized coal combustion has been shown by electron microscopy to be a mixture of porous coal char particles and aggregates of submicron particles, which are thought to be soot. The carbon is bimodally distributed with large soot aggregates mixed with the char in the particles larger than 10 microns and dispersed soot found with the submicron particles. A method for determining the mass of soot and char by liquid-suspension gravity separation was used with both laboratory-scale and power plant fly ash samples. For low-NOx, staged, pilot-scale combustion of bituminous coal …

Black Gaius: A Quest For The Multicultural Origins Of The "Western Legal Tradition", P. G. Monateri

UC Law Journal

This article is divided into two parts. The first is devoted to reconstructing the historical self-consciousness of the Western Legal Tradition, showing the emergence of a model based on the more or less explicit assumptions of Roman, and subsequently Western, legal originalism and supremacy. In the second part, different areas are investigated--contract, theories of government, dispute settlements, and legal culture-to challenge the same existence of a Roman law at the root of modem Western laws. In this way the package of received ideas in legal scholarship about the history and nature of the Western legal culture is revealed to be …

Voices Of Ud, Larry E. Schweikart Ph.D., Barbara Farrelly, Thomas M. Columbus, John Alfred Heitmann

Books, Scrapbooks and Journals

A history of the University of Dayton with chapters on religious life, student life, teaching, research, sports and development. Produced by UD faculty and staff to mark the University's sesquicentennial in 2000. 194 pages.

Editor: Larry Schweikart

Contributing authors: Larry Schweikart, Barbara Farrelly, Tom Columbus and John Heitmann.

Career And Family: A Qualitative Study Of Working Mothers, Barbara Crummer Lincoln Edd

Dissertations

The purpose of this dissertation was to explore the lives of working mothers. The dramatic increase of mothers in the workforce in the past 40 years has led to an increasingly common lifestyle: women filling the roles of mother and professional concurrently. This dissertation used the personal narrative qualitative methodology to examine the lives of working mothers. Ten female graduates of the University of San Diego's Law School (JD), Business School (MBA) and Educational Administration Programs were interviewed by the researcher. These women have been in the workplace for an extended period of time, are currently raising at least one …

A Cross-Case Study Of Teacher Perceptions Of Program Design And Teaching Efficacy: The Seaview Reading Support Program, Susan L. Bowers Smith Edd

Dissertations

Teachers at Seaview Elementary School developed an innovative reading support program delivered by classroom teachers to increase the achievement of children who struggled to read literature in the district's core curriculum. Although studies of the program's impact on student achievement indicated that many of the children who received services in the classroom were able to fluently read grade level materials and improve their scores on standardized tests, issues created by the additional burden of this instruction on some teachers prevented the integration of the program into other grade levels and schools in the Seaview School District and Seaview Elementary School. …

Human Capital And The Clean Financial Break, Nathan W. Andersen, L. John Lesueur

Brigham Young University Prelaw Review

No abstract provided.

The Pursuit Of The Hunt, Interrupted: Changing Literary Image Of Law, William J. Wagner

Scholarly Articles

In the course of reaching its substantive conclusions, this article seeks to shed light on the theoretical and methodological requisites of a valid and fruitful application of literary sources in jurisprudence.

The article begins by explicating the original literary image of the pursuit of the hunt interrupted, within its thematic setting in Aeschylus. It then offers theoretical and methodological postulates for drawing out the fuller meaning for law and legal studies of the image. It explores variations on the same pattern of imagery in subsequent works of Western literature, and offers reflections on how these variations can enrich our understanding …

Alien Nation: Nineteenth-Century Gothic Fictions And English Nationality By Cannon Schmitt (Review), Barry Milligan

English Language and Literatures Faculty Publications

Review of the book Alien Nation: Nineteenth-Century Gothic Fictions and English Nationality by Cannon Schmitt.

Economic Impact Of International Students On The Dayton Local Economy For Academic Year 1997-1998, Willie Kim Kamara

Masters Culminating Experiences (1993-2011)

This study, the Economic Impact of Wright State University International Students on the Dayton Local Economy, examines the financial contributions of international students at both the graduate and undergraduate level to the Dayton area. The study was conducted in the fall of 1998 among 120 students drawn from Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

The study agrees with similar research findings. International students are a source of economic benefits in the regions where they reside. International students at Wright State University received grants and income from Dayton area residents. Consequently, it recommends that universities should take steps to recruit and retain …

The Writing Program Administrator As Researcher: Inquiry In Action And Reflection (Review), Richard Bullock

English Language and Literatures Faculty Publications

Review of the book The Writing Program Administrator as Researcher: Inquiry in Action and Reflection (edited by Shirley K. Rose and Irwin Weiser).

Resident Assistant Training Programs At Member Schools Of The Council Of Christian Colleges And Universities, Richard T. Gwaltney

Browse all Theses and Dissertations

This study examined resident assistant training programs at member schools of the Council of Christian Colleges and Universities. Training content, methods, personnel, timing, duration, budgetary issues and evaluation reports were analyzed in order to gain clearer understanding of what is being done to train RAs at this sampling of institutions. Data were collected electronically by e-mail where respondents were able to access an online survey. The following six research questions were the focus of this study: Research question 1 - What are the institutional demographics of the sample institutions? Research question 2 - How much is being budgeted for training …

Facilitator's Manual: Curriculum To Establish An Intergenerational Oral History Program, Institute For Global Education & Service Learning

Intergenerational

The Institute for Global Education and Service Learning is a non-profit teacher training organization that creates service-learning programs and initiates activity-based education in collaboration with schools and organizations across the country and around the world.

Lingnan University Annual Report : 1999-2000 = 嶺南大學年報 : 1999-2000, Lingnan University

Annual Reports

No abstract provided.

Lingnan University : Calendar 2000-2001, Lingnan University

Lingnan University Calendar

No abstract provided.

Geologic Factors Controlling Patterns Of Small‐Volume Basaltic Volcanism: Application To A Volcanic Hazards Assessment At Yucca Mountain, Nevada, Charles B. Connor, John A. Stamatakos, David A. Ferrill, Brittain E. Hill, Goodluck I. Ofoegbu, Michael Conway, Budhi Sagar, John Trapp

School of Geosciences Faculty and Staff Publications

The proposed high‐level radioactive waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, is located within an active volcanic field. Probabilistic volcanic hazard models for future eruptions through the proposed repository depend heavily on our understanding of the spatial controls on volcano distribution at a variety of scales. On regional scales, Pliocene‐Quaternary volcano clusters are located east of the Bare Mountain fault. Extension has resulted in large‐scale crustal density contrast across the fault, and vents are restricted to low‐density areas of the hanging wall. Finite element modeling indicates that this crustal density contrast can result in transient pressure changes of up to 7 …

Gps Geodetic Constraints On Caribbean-North America Plate Motion, Charles Demets, Pamela E. Jansma, Glen S. Mattioli, Timothy H. Dixon, Fred Farina, Roger Bilham, Eric Calais, Paul Mann

School of Geosciences Faculty and Staff Publications

We describe a model for Caribbean plate motion based on GPS velocities of four sites in the plate interior and two azimuths of the Swan Islands transform fault. The data are well fit by a single angular velocity, with average misfits approximately equal to the 1.5–3.0 mm yr⁻¹ velocity uncertainties. The new model predicts Caribbean-North America motion ∼65% faster than predicted by NUVEL-1A, averaging 18–20±3 mm yr⁻¹ (2σ) at various locations along the plate boundary. The data are best fit by a rotation pole that predicts obliquely convergent motion along the plate boundary east of Cuba, but are …

Neotectonics Of Puerto Rico And The Virgin Islands, Northeastern Caribbean, From Gps Geodesy, Pamela E. Jansma, Glen S. Mattioli, Alberto Lopez, Charles Demets, Timothy H. Dixon, Paul Mann, Eric Calais

School of Geosciences Faculty and Staff Publications

The boundary between the North American and Caribbean plates is characterized primarily by left-lateral motion along predominantly east-west striking faults. Seismicity and marine geophysical survey data are consistent with at least two, and possibly three, microplates in the diffuse boundary zone in the northeastern Caribbean: (1) the Gonave, (2) the Hispaniola, and (3) the Puerto Rico-northern Virgin Islands (PRVI). We discuss results from GPS geodetic measurements acquired since 1994 to test the microplate hypothesis, define PRVI translation and rotation within the boundary zone, and constrain PRVI neotectonics. GPS-derived velocities are analyzed with respect to both North American and Caribbean plate …