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Montana Business Quarterly, Summer 2000, University Of Montana--Missoula. Bureau Of Business And Economic Research

Montana Business Quarterly, 1949-2021

This is an academic publication produced by the Bureau of Business and Economic Research (BBER) at the University of Montana’s College of Business. This is volume 38, number 2.

Southeastern Law Librarian Summer 2000, Seaall

Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Litigating Nightmares: Repressed Memories Of Childhood Sexual Abuse, Laura Johnson

South Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

Perceived Image Contrast And Observer Preference, Anthony Calabria

Theses

A large-scale investigation into the perception of contrast in color images was performed. Experiments were performed to determine the influence of image lightness, chroma, and sharpness transforms on perceived image contrast and observer preference. The influence of lightness, chroma, and sharpness manipulations was investigated separately by independent soft-copy, paired-comparison tests of contrast perception and image preference. The perception of contrast between images of different transforms and different subject matter was also investigated as was the perception of image contrast relative to the most preferred image manipulation. In all, five experiments of contrast perception and four experiments of image preference were …

Long-Term Prevention Of Renal Insufficiency, Excess Matrix Gene Expression, And Glomerular Mesangial Matrix Expansion By Treatment With Monoclonal Antitransforming Growth Factor-Ss Antibody In Db/Db Diabetic Mice , Fuad N. Ziyadeh, Brenda B. Hoffman, Dong Cheol Han, M. Carmen Iglesias-De La Cruz, Soon Won Hong, Motohide Isono, Sheldon Chen, Tracy A. Mcgowan, Kumar Sharma

Department of Medicine Faculty Papers

Emerging evidence suggests that transforming growth factor-(TGF-β) is an important mediator of diabetic nephropathy. We showed previously that short-term treatment with a neutralizing monoclonal anti-TGF-antibody (αT) in streptozotocin-diabetic mice prevents early changes of renal hypertrophy and increased matrix mRNA. To establish that overactivity of the renal TGF-system mediates the functional and structural changes of the more advanced stages of nephropathy, we tested whether chronic administration of αT prevents renal insufficiency and glomerulosclerosis in the db/db mouse, model of type 2 diabetes that develops overt nephropathy. Diabetic db/db mice and nondiabetic db/m littermates were treated intraperitoneally with α or control IgG, …

The Politics Of Music And Film: The Validity Of A Local Government's Cultural Embargo On Cuba, Angela T. Puentes

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

No abstract provided.

Where To Decide The "Best Interests" Of Elian Gonzalez: The Law Of Abduction And International Custody Disputes, Marcia M. Reisman

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

No abstract provided.

Louisiana Agriculture Summer, 2000, Lsu Agcenter

Louisiana Agriculture

No abstract provided.

Lawrence Today, Volume 80, Number 4, Summer 2000, Lawrence University

Alumni Magazines

No abstract provided.

The New Fabrica, Alan L. Gillen

Faculty Publications and Presentations

Two thousand years after the writing of Psalm 139, Andreas Vesalius (Figure 1) began to unlock the mysteries of the human body. When Vesalius was born in Brussels in 1514, no one could have foreseen that anatomy would be changed forever. During Vesalius’ time, the teachings of the Greek physician Claudius Galen (130-201 A. D.) were the ultimate authority on anatomy. Because Galen had dissected very few (if any) human cadavers, his anatomical descriptions were limited to animal dissections. Galen’s works contained many errors because his conclusions regarding human body functions were based on data obtained from nonhuman animals. Vesalius …

Change As A Scholarly Act: Higher Education Research Transfer To Practice, Judith Ramaley

Higher Education

Achieving transformational change is a scholarly challenge best dealt with by practicing public scholarship, which is modeled by the leader and encouraged in other members of the campus community. Like all good scholarly work, good decision making by campus leadership begins with a base of scholarly knowledge generated and validated by higher education researchers.

“Gay Rights” For “Gay Whites”?: Race, Sexual Identity, And Equal Protection Discourse, Darren Lenard Hutchinson

UF Law Faculty Publications

While the resolution of the problem of gay and lesbian inequality will ultimately turn on a host of social, legal, political, and ideological variables, this Article argues that the success or failure of efforts to achieve legal equality for gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgendered individuals will depend in large part on how scholars and activists in this field address questions of racial identity and racial subjugation. Commonly, these scholars and activists currently discuss race by use of analogies between “racial discrimination” and “sexual orientation discrimination,” or between “people of color” and “gays and lesbians.” On one level, the “comparative approach” …

Nativism, Terrorism, And Human Rights—The Global Wrongs Of Reno V. American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, Berta E. Hernández-Truyol

UF Law Faculty Publications

The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee decision (American-Arab or AADC) is the most recent U.S. Supreme Court pronouncement regarding the intersection of immigration regulations and fundamental constitutional rights enjoyed by foreign subjects present within the United States. In American-Arab, the U.S. government commenced deportation proceedings against two legal permanent residents and six temporary visa holders on the basis of an ideological bias: the plaintiffs were alleged to be members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (Popular Front or PFLP) — a charge all the plaintiffs denied. The Supreme Court's ruling endorsing the legality of the government's …

Literature And The Arts As Antisubordination Praxis: Latcrit Theory And Cultural Production: The Confessions Of An Accidental Crit, Pedro A. Malavet

UF Law Faculty Publications

I attend LatCrit conferences to be educated on what I regard as the most exciting legal scholarship being produced today. Therefore, I naturally jumped at the opportunity to help organize the Fourth Annual LatCrit Conference and to chair one of its Plenary Panels. I have penned this Essay for the purpose not only of joining Critical Race Theory ("CRT") discourse, but also to create a recorded history of LatCrit travels.

In Part I of this Essay, I will describe the process that led the Planning Committee to include the Literature and Arts as Antisubordination Praxis: LatCrit Theory and Cultural Production …

Redefining Rehearing: Previewing Appellate Decisions Online, J. Thomas Sullivan

The Journal of Appellate Practice and Process

Issuing preliminary opinions for public comment is similar to rehearings. The difference is that parties outside of the litigation are able to add commentary. Judges would then reevaluate the preliminary opinion, consider the submitted comments, and then issue a final opinion. Online access to judicial decisions could make this practice more efficient and effective than rehearings.

Cd-Rom Briefs: Are We There Yet?, Marilyn Devin

The Journal of Appellate Practice and Process

Three years after the first CD-ROM brief was accepted, there is debate on acceptance as a regular practice. Issues include what the legal profession and the courts have done about adopting CD-ROM briefs, what obstacles are being encountered, and how those obstacles are being dealt with. Both views are examined along with the circumstances in which a CD-ROM brief is likely to be accepted favorably by a court.

Thawing Out The Cold Record: Some Thoughts On How Videotaped Records May Affect Traditional Standards Of Deference On Direct And Collateral Review, Robert C. Owen, Melissa Mather

The Journal of Appellate Practice and Process

Appellate courts are unable to “smell the smoke of battle” from a trial. For this reason, a trial court’s decision is owed deference when examining an appeal. Video technology makes this reason for deference less relevant.

New Technologies And Appellate Practice, Philip A. Talmadge

The Journal of Appellate Practice and Process

Technology can help enhance appellate practices. In particular, technology can improve appellate courts’: (1) electronic filing and argument of appellate cases; (2) digital maintenance of the record; (3) briefs; (4) dissemination of opinions; and (5) record storage.

Technological Developments In Legal Research, Lynn Foster, Bruce Kennedy

The Journal of Appellate Practice and Process

Technology has created new types of legal research and means of access to the law. Specific to appellate practice, technology has changed how decisions are published and the nature of legal research. Technology has even created a debate on who owns the different forms of case law.

Legal Research And The World Of Thinkable Thoughts, Robert C. Berring

The Journal of Appellate Practice and Process

It is difficult to properly describe technology’s impact on legal information. The impact created a generational gap between those who learned their research skills before the change and current students. The habits of the new generation of legal researchers point toward a change in the way that we can think about the law.

The Effect Of Courtroom Technologies On And In Appellate Proceedings And Courtrooms, Fredric I. Lederer

The Journal of Appellate Practice and Process

The information presented to courts has traditionally been written and oral. Many courts are adopting technology into the courtroom. Changing the record from text to multi-media is the most sweeping of these changes.

Constitutional Law And Criminal Procedure—Media Ride-Alongs Into The Home: Can They Survive A Head-On Collision Between First And Fourth Amendment Rights? Wilson V. Layne, 526 U.S. 603 (1999), Deleith Duke Gossett

University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review

No abstract provided.

An Overview Of Recreation And Parks Professional Preparation Programs In Higher Education, Jennifer Y. Mak

Management Faculty Research

The purpose of this paper is to give an overview of recreation and parks professional preparation programs in higher education. This paper will (a) help to understand the framework of recreation and parks professional preparation programs, (b) discuss the factors which influence the professional preparation outcomes, and (c) help to identify future research needs. The discussion is based on the framework for studying professional preparation programs by Stack, et al. (1986). The key element of the framework for studying recreation and parks professional preparation programs is the recreation and parks professional preparation environment which was the product of external, internal …

Offensive Protection: The Potential Application Of Intellectual Property Law To Scripted Sports Plays, Proloy K. Das

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.

The Failure Of The Integrated Enterprise Test: Why Courts Need To Find New Answers To The Multiple-Employer Puzzle In Federal Discrimination Cases, Mark Crandley

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.

The Economics Of Sports Facilities And Their Communities, John Siegfried, Andrew Zimbalist

Economics: Faculty Publications

Since the 1950s, taxpayers have been the primary investors in stadia built for the use of privately-owned professional sports teams. Team owners have argued that sports facilities boost local economic activity; however, economic reasoning and empirical evidence suggest the opposite. Public support for stadia is also driven by demand for community image, and owners of sports teams supply a scarce input into image enhancement--participation in the major league--for which they have been able to extract monopoly rents from dispersed taxpayers. We suggest reforms to dissipate the monopoly sports leagues exercise when negotiating with host communities for their teams.

Barbara Reed: Visionary Storyteller And Dramatist, Jane M. Gangi

Education Faculty Publications

Barbara Reed, now in her eighties, is an individual who, for over fifty years, has been a leader in both children's drama and storytelling (for children and adults). It is because of her tenacious love of the performing arts that they flourish—albeit in some places more than others-for us today. Because of her, the imaginative lives of children and adults continues cyclically, each generation passing onto the next the rich experiences to be found in drama and storytelling.

American Society Of Parasitologists Newsletter, V. 22, No. 2, [Summer 2000], Scott Lyell Gardner

American Society of Parasitologists: Newsletter

An issue of the American Society of Parasitologists' quarterly newsletter, also called the Journal of Parasitology Newsletter.

Digest Of The Philadelphia College Of Osteopathic Medicine (Summer 2000), Philadelphia College Of Osteopathic Medicine

Digest

The Summer 2000 issue of the Digest of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine includes the following articles:

• Opening Remarks
• PCOM Updates
• Clinical Education
• Board Profile
• Alumni Board Profile
• Convention Highlights
• Class Notes
• In Memoriam
• Coming Events

Complexity, Age, And Building Preference, Thomas R. Herzog, Ronda L. Shier

Peer Reviewed Articles

The authors explore the role of complexity in the relation between building age and preference. Age was assessed as a categorical (via stimulus selection) and a continuous (via ratings of 64 color slides of urban buildings) variable. In either case, the authors replicated earlier research in showing that modern buildings were preferred over older buildings when building maintenance was not controlled, but when it was controlled, the relation reversed, and the older buildings were better liked. However, when a composite-rating measure of complexity was introduced, a somewhat different pattern emerged. Complexity interacted with rated age. The nature of the interaction …