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Global Economy, Lean Budgets, And Public Needs, Matthias Herdegen Jan 2000

Global Economy, Lean Budgets, And Public Needs, Matthias Herdegen

SMU Law Review

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Privacy And Celebrity: An Essay On The Nationalization Of Intimacy, Robert F. Nagel Jan 2000

Privacy And Celebrity: An Essay On The Nationalization Of Intimacy, Robert F. Nagel

University of Richmond Law Review

I start from the rather obvious proposition that in recent years the American public has placed a high value on the right of privacy. This general commitment to privacy was what kept Robert Bork, despite his qualifications, off the Supreme Court, and more recently it was what kept William Clinton, despite his behavior, in the White House. Bork's nomination was a threat to the constitutional right to use contraceptives and to choose abortion, while the impeachment charges against Clinton were a threat to the moral distinction between public political life and private sexual behavior. The power that the idea of …

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Nuremberg In America: Litigating The Holocaust In United States Courts, Michael J. Bazyler Jan 2000

Nuremberg In America: Litigating The Holocaust In United States Courts, Michael J. Bazyler

University of Richmond Law Review

The phrase "opening the floodgates of litigation" connotes a pejorative meaning in American legal argument. Most often, it is used by courts as a reason not to allow a certain case to proceed for fear that it would overburden both courts and society with a new class of lawsuits.

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Vcu's My Library: Librarians Love It. . . . Users? Well, Maybe, Jimmy Ghaphery, Dan Ream Jan 2000

Vcu's My Library: Librarians Love It. . . . Users? Well, Maybe, Jimmy Ghaphery, Dan Ream

VCU Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications

Virginia Commonwealth University's My Library project (circa 1998-1999) has chosen "ease of use" as its primary design criteria. The development of this tool using Perl scripting is described, and reports derived from usage logs are analyzed here. My Library tends to appeal a great deal to a small number of users as a personal tool. Librarians have found it popular as a class teaching tool, with pages designed for specific classes in library instruction receiving the heaviest use.

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Adult Learning Theory And Reference Services: Consonances And Potentials, Jimmy Ghaphery Jan 2000

Adult Learning Theory And Reference Services: Consonances And Potentials, Jimmy Ghaphery

VCU Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications

There is long history of exchange between librarians and adult educators. This history not only points to previous successes but also highlights a tension of defining an appropriate focus within libraries for the provision of adult education. The similarities between contemporary adult education thought and reference services can provide some interesting possibilities in looking toward the future of reference in a digital age, both in terms of service and professional development.

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Reducing Cognitive Overheads In A Web Warehouse Using Reverse-Osmosis, Sanjay Kumar Madria, Wee Keong Ng, Ee-Peng Lim, Sourav S. Bhowmick Jan 2000

Reducing Cognitive Overheads In A Web Warehouse Using Reverse-Osmosis, Sanjay Kumar Madria, Wee Keong Ng, Ee-Peng Lim, Sourav S. Bhowmick

Computer Science Faculty Research & Creative Works

This paper provides a quantitative analysis of reducing cognitive overheads in a Web warehouse using an important class of operation called reverse osmosis. The analysis is used to examine two different cognitive overheads of locating relevant nodes or information and display time of a Web table. A reverse-osmosis operation enables us to eliminate in relevant information from a collection of Web documents stored in the form of a Web table. We call such an operation reverse-osmosis because it is analogous to the reverse osmosis process in the field of water purification. We discuss a formal algorithm of the reverse-osmosis operation

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Enantiomeric High-Performance Liquid Chromatographic Separation Of Β- Substituted Tryptophan Analogues, G. Török, A. Péter, E. Vékes, J. Sápi, M. Laronze, J. Y. Laronze, Daniel W. Armstrong Jan 2000

Enantiomeric High-Performance Liquid Chromatographic Separation Of Β- Substituted Tryptophan Analogues, G. Török, A. Péter, E. Vékes, J. Sápi, M. Laronze, J. Y. Laronze, Daniel W. Armstrong

Chemistry Faculty Research & Creative Works

The high-performance liquid chromatographic enantioresolution of β- substituted tryptophan analogues by direct and indirect methods is reported. The direct separation was carried out on chiral crown ether-bonded, on the macrocyclic antibiotic teicoplanin-bonded or on different derivatized β- cyclodextrin-bonded phases. The indirect resolution was achieved by applying pre-column derivatization with the chiral reagents 1-fluoro-2,4- dinitrophenyl-5-L-alanine amide (FDAA) and 2,3,4,6-tetra-O-acetyl-β-D- glucopyranosyl isothiocyanate (GITC). In the separation of all four isomers of the analytes, the indirect methods seemed to be more efficient than the direct methods. In most cases, the FDAA derivatives of the stereoisomers could be separated with better selectivity in methanol-containing …

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Border Detection On Digitized Skin Tumor Images, Z. Zhang, William V. Stoecker, Randy Hays Moss Jan 2000

Border Detection On Digitized Skin Tumor Images, Z. Zhang, William V. Stoecker, Randy Hays Moss

Chemistry Faculty Research & Creative Works

A radial search technique is presented for detecting skin tumor borders in clinical dermatology images. First, it includes two rounds of radial search based on the same tumor center. The first-round search is independent, and the second-round search is knowledge-based tracking. Then a rescan with a new center is used to solve the blind-spot problem. The algorithm is tested on model images with excellent performance, and on 300 real clinical images with a satisfactory result

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A Study About The "Cultural Orientation" In Chinese Avant-Garde Art., Jianxiong Mao Jan 2000

A Study About The "Cultural Orientation" In Chinese Avant-Garde Art., Jianxiong Mao

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Chinese avant-garde art until 1989 was an historical product of that special era. It “appropriated” Western contemporary art and endowed it with its own historical and cultural connotation. The juxtaposition of the elite appealing and the deconstructively post-modern scepticism constituted Chinese avant-gardian discourse at that time. The “Opening” political-economic context of the society virtually encouraged and now has digested the forms and concepts of Modernism which are calmly accepted today as one episode of art history, an enlightened experiment. To use the labels of Western contemporary social, cultural and artistic movements to describe Chinese Xiandai art will cause confusion, for …

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Books And Letters Vol. 14, No. 2, University Libraries, Anne Marie Candido, Michael J. Dabrishus, Juana R. Young, Ethel C. Simpson, Donald W. Batson, Casay Crocker, Larry Obsitnik Jan 2000

Books And Letters Vol. 14, No. 2, University Libraries, Anne Marie Candido, Michael J. Dabrishus, Juana R. Young, Ethel C. Simpson, Donald W. Batson, Casay Crocker, Larry Obsitnik

Books and Letters

Carolyn Henderson Allen: New Dean of Libraries; Memories on Film: Larry Obsitnik Photo Archives; Student Assistants Keep the Library Humming; Personnel Notes; A Note of Thanks!

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Geographic Literacy Among Lds Returned Missionaries, Paul Cook Stahmann Jan 2000

Geographic Literacy Among Lds Returned Missionaries, Paul Cook Stahmann

Theses and Dissertations

The majority of male Ricks College students, while serving as missionaries for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, spend two years living in geographically unfamiliar environments. This thesis compares the geographic literacy of those Ricks College males who have served LDS Church missions with those who have not. A test of geographic literacy was administered to 306 male Ricks College students. Returned missionaries demonstrated significantly higher knowledge of general cultural and physical geography than pre-missionanes. In contrast, returned missionaries demonstrated no greater ability to identify global places such as countries and cities. As expected, the returned missionaries possessed …

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Tribal Law As Indigenous Social Reality And Separate Consciousness [Re]Incorporating Customs And Traditions Into Tribal Law, Christine Zuni Cruz Jan 2000

Tribal Law As Indigenous Social Reality And Separate Consciousness [Re]Incorporating Customs And Traditions Into Tribal Law, Christine Zuni Cruz

Tribal Law Journal

Tribal Law as Indigenous Social Reality and Separate Consciousness-[Re]Incorporating Customs and Traditions into Tribal Law by Christine Zuni Cruz explores the reflection of traditional legal concepts and values in enacted laws of indigenous nations. The premise of this article is that "an indigenous nation's sovereignty is strengthened if its law is based upon its own internalized values and norms." Zuni-Cruz's article questions the impact of enacted western laws on indigenous communities' people and culture.

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A Competitive Analysis On The Metal Packaging Coatings Industry In Malaysia, Mee Lin Yang Jan 2000

A Competitive Analysis On The Metal Packaging Coatings Industry In Malaysia, Mee Lin Yang

Student Works (2000-2009)

Numerous studies had been carried out in the past, on various industries in Malaysia, but none could be found with regards to the metal packaging coatings industry. The market environment and size of the industry have remained broadly unknown. Statistical reports by the statistic department often include the output of this industry under the paints and varnish production category. This research was an attempt to study and consolidate as much information as possible, pertaining to the market environment and market size of the metal packaging coatings industry in Malaysia. In order to achieve this, a market survey was conducted by …

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Afghanistan's Economic Potentials And Malaysian Entrepreneurs' Perceptions, Abdul Sattar Murad Jan 2000

Afghanistan's Economic Potentials And Malaysian Entrepreneurs' Perceptions, Abdul Sattar Murad

Student Works (2000-2009)

Afghanistan is a country that has started its economic development after the World War II, one of the very early beginners in launching its economic development programs; it is one of the least developed countries in Asia. This study reviews the economic potentials of Afghanistan including mineral, water, land resources and perception of Malaysian Investors. These two aspects of the study highlight the causes of low economic development and factors responsible for it. This study attempts to examine four logically linked questions, i.e. (i) what are the trade potentials of Afghanistan? (ii) What are the mineral potentials of Afghanistan? What …

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A Discourse Analysis Of Electronic Mail Message In A Local Business Community, Yong Kiang Ng Jan 2000

A Discourse Analysis Of Electronic Mail Message In A Local Business Community, Yong Kiang Ng

Student Works (2000-2009)

Communication by electronic mail has become a dominant mode of communication both within and between organisations in the last few years, many of which have developed their own in-house electronic systems. More and more of our students will enter the workforce to find that their job involves using the electronic mail system for communication; therefore we need insights into the nature of this mode of communication, and ascertain ways in which we can assist our students in acquiring "its particular characteristics, in the same way we teach spoken English, writing and the use of telephones" (Murray, 1988: 4). ln light …

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Behaviour Of Trading And Non-Trading Stock Returns In The Malaysian Stock Market, Lay Khong Tan Jan 2000

Behaviour Of Trading And Non-Trading Stock Returns In The Malaysian Stock Market, Lay Khong Tan

Student Works (2000-2009)

This study examines the stock returns and volatilities of trading and non­trading day for seven KLSE indices from January 3, 1994 to November 26, 1999. Six return series are computed. They are the overnight, open to close, morning, afternoon, close to close and open to open series. There is consistently positive overnight return throughout Monday to Friday. The weekend effect or Monday effect is significantly positive. The returns of the morning, open to close, close to close series are negative particularly on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. Except for Monday, other weekdays have positive afternoon return. Mean and variance return are …

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Reinvigorating Chapter 11: The Case For Reinstating The Stock-For-Debt Exception In Bankruptcy, Michelle A. Cecil Jan 2000

Reinvigorating Chapter 11: The Case For Reinstating The Stock-For-Debt Exception In Bankruptcy, Michelle A. Cecil

Faculty Publications

This Article suggests that such a proposal will harmonize the bankruptcy policy of rehabilitating financially distressed corporations with the tax policy of ensuring that true economic income is subject to federal income taxation.27 Parts II and III of this Article will trace the common law evolution of the stock-for-debt exception and its statutory codification in 1980, with particular emphasis on the stated policy justifications for the exception. Part IV will then examine the history of the repeal of the stock-for-debt exception, demonstrating that the repeal was the result of hasty political maneuvering rather than reasoned legislative decision-making. In Part V, …

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Silencing John Doe: Defamation And Discourse In Cyberspace, Lyrissa Lidsky Jan 2000

Silencing John Doe: Defamation And Discourse In Cyberspace, Lyrissa Lidsky

Faculty Publications

John Doe has become a popular defamation defendant as corporations and their officers bring defamation suits for statements made about them in Internet discussion fora. These new suits are not even arguably about recovering money damages but instead are brought for symbolic reasons — some worthy, some not so worthy. If the only consequence of these suits were that Internet users were held accountable for their speech, the suits would be an unalloyed good. However, these suits threaten to suppress legitimate criticism along with intentional and reckless falsehoods, and existing First Amendment law doctrines are not responsive to the threat …

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Two Degrees Of Speech Protection: Free Speech Through The Prism Of Agricultural Disparagement Laws, Howard M. Wasserman Jan 2000

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 …

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Mutations In The Protein Kinase A R1Α Regulatory Subunit Cause Familial Cardiac Myxomas And Carney Complex, Mairead Casy, Carl J. Vaughan, Jie He, Cathy J. Hatcher, Jordan M. Winter, Stanislawa Weremowicz, Kate Montgomery, Raju Kucherlapati, Cynthia C. Morton, Craig T. Bassoni Jan 2000

Mutations In The Protein Kinase A R1Α Regulatory Subunit Cause Familial Cardiac Myxomas And Carney Complex, Mairead Casy, Carl J. Vaughan, Jie He, Cathy J. Hatcher, Jordan M. Winter, Stanislawa Weremowicz, Kate Montgomery, Raju Kucherlapati, Cynthia C. Morton, Craig T. Bassoni

PCOM Scholarly Works

Cardiac myxomas are benign mesenchymal tumors that can present as components of the human autosomal dominant disorder Carney complex. Syndromic cardiac myxomas are associated with spotty pigmentation of the skin and endocrinopathy. Our linkage analysis mapped a Carney complex gene defect to chromosome 17q24. We now demonstrate that the PRKAR1α gene encoding the R1α regulatory subunit of cAMP-dependent protein kinase A (PKA) maps to this chromosome 17q24 locus. Furthermore, we show that PRKAR1α frameshift mutations in three unrelated families result in haploinsufficiency of R1α and cause Carney complex. We did not detect any truncated R1α protein encoded by mutant PRKAR1α. …

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A Generation Spent Studying The U.S. Courts Of Appeals: A Chronology, Thomas E. Baker Jan 2000

A Generation Spent Studying The U.S. Courts Of Appeals: A Chronology, Thomas E. Baker

Faculty Publications

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Oculina Coral Banks Of Florida: Conservation And Management Of A Deep-Water Reserve., John K. Reed Jan 2000

Oculina Coral Banks Of Florida: Conservation And Management Of A Deep-Water Reserve., John K. Reed

Faculty Scholarship

In 1975, during photographic surveys of the continental shelf using the johnson-Sea-Link Research Submersible, scientists from Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution discovered high relief pinnacles at depths of 70-100 m that were living coral reefs composed entirely of the ivory tree coral Oculina varicosa. Various research ensued including studies on coral growth rates, community structure of associated invertebrates and fishes, effects of upwelling, bioerosion, sediments, geology, and taxonomic studies of fish, decapods, mollusks, echinoderms, sipunculids, pycnogonids, and amphipods. During the 1970s these deep-water reefs were teeming with large populations of grouper, snapper, and amberjack. Fishing pressure from both commercial and recreational …

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Standing At The Edge Of A New Millennium: Ending A Decade Of Erosion Of The Citizen Suit Provision Of The Clean Water Act, Emily A. Berger Jan 2000

Standing At The Edge Of A New Millennium: Ending A Decade Of Erosion Of The Citizen Suit Provision Of The Clean Water Act, Emily A. Berger

Maryland Law Review

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The Maryland Survey: 1998-1999 Jan 2000

The Maryland Survey: 1998-1999

Maryland Law Review

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Adverse Drug Reactions: Harnessing Experiential Data To Promote Patient Welfare, Barbara A. Noah Jan 2000

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 …

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Table Of Contents Jan 2000

Table Of Contents

Maryland Law Review

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A Market-Based Solution To The Judicial Clerkship Selection Process, Edward S. Adams Jan 2000

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

Maryland Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Student Versus University: The University's Implied Obligations Of Good Faith And Fair Dealing, Hazel Glenn Beh Jan 2000

Student Versus University: The University's Implied Obligations Of Good Faith And Fair Dealing, Hazel Glenn Beh

Maryland Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Arrests Without Prosecution And The Fourth Amendment , Surell Brad Jan 2000

Arrests Without Prosecution And The Fourth Amendment , Surell Brad

Maryland Law Review

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National Endowment For The Arts V. Finley: Sinking Deeper Into The Abyss Of The Supreme Court's Unintelligible Modern Unconstitutional Conditions Doctrine, Harold B. Walther Jan 2000

National Endowment For The Arts V. Finley: Sinking Deeper Into The Abyss Of The Supreme Court's Unintelligible Modern Unconstitutional Conditions Doctrine, Harold B. Walther

Maryland Law Review

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