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Civil Justice Delay And Empirical Data: A Response To Professor Heise, Carl W. Tobias

Law Faculty Publications

One decade ago, Congress undertook an ambitious, controversial effort to reduce expense and delay in the federal civil justice system. The Civil Justice Reform Act ("CJRA") of 1990 instituted unprecedented nationwide experimentation by requiring that all ninety-four federal district courts scrutinize their civil and criminal dockets and then promulgate and apply numerous procedures which district judges believed would save cost and time in civil litigation. Congress also prescribed rigorous assessment of the six principles, guidelines, and techniques of litigation management and expense and delay reduction that federal districts in fact adopted and enforced. Lawmakers provided for an expert, independent evaluator …

Note, Space-Age Medicine, Stone-Age Government: How Medicare Reimbursement Of Telemedicine Services Is Depriving The Elderly Of Quality Medical Treatment, Kristen Jakobsen Osenga

Law Faculty Publications

We have the technology. What is needed is government financial commitment, so argues Kristen Jakobsen in the following discussion of "telemedicine." The term refers to the delivery of health care services by means of modern telecommunications technology. According to Ms. Jakobsen, the telephone, the fax machine, the Internet, and interactive audio-visual transmissions hold the key to making medical care more accessible and less expensive. Potential beneficiaries include vast populations of elderly in rural areas, who tend to be remote from upscale health care facilities and in need of the wherewithal to reach them. Standing in the way, in Ms. Jakobsen's …

A Realistic Consensus Approach To The Insurance Law Doctrine Of Reasonable Expectations, Peter N. Swisher

Law Faculty Publications

This article's fundamental premise is that, over the past three decades, despite all the debate and confusion surrounding the underlying theory and practice of the insurance law doctrine of reasonable expectations, a modem consensus approach has finally emerged within the academic community and the courts and among insurance law practitioners involving a realistic and viable application of the doctrine to the needs of contemporaryground" synthesis of traditional, objective, and contractually based reasonable expectations principles grafted onto elements of the more modem Keeton formulation of the doctrine. Moreover, this realistic consensus approach to the doctrine of reasonable expectations is both theoretically …

Origins And Development Of The Massey Cancer Center, Walter Lawrence Jr.

VCU University History Books

A history of the Massey Cancer Center at Virginia Commonwealth University written by Director Emeritus, Walter Lawrence, Jr., M.D. The volume includes photographs and a timeline. Lawrence's signature appears on the title page.

Front Matter (Pdf), North American Bird Bander

North American Bird Bander

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Front Matter (Pdf), North American Bird Bander

North American Bird Bander

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Front Matter (Pdf), North American Bird Bander

North American Bird Bander

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Front Matter (Pdf), North American Bird Bander

North American Bird Bander

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Similarities And Differences In European Conceptions Of Human Resource Management: Toward A Polycentric Study, Timothy Adrian Robert Clark, Derek Pugh

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Increasingly managers need to distinguish between those oftheir activities and practices that can be successfully transferred acrossnational boundaries and those that will require modification in view ofdivergences between national settings. This can be determined by initiallyidentifying those features of managing organizations that remain similar acrossnational boundaries and those that are different, and then ascertaining thestrength of the forces for convergence or divergence. This article describes anexploratory attempt to conduct a polycentric (in the terms described below)research study of conceptions of human resource management in seven Europeancountries. It examines whether there is a single, shared conception of HRM thattranscends national boundaries, …

Vantage Point - Show Notes - 2000, David Unumb

Vantage Point Documents

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A Study Of High School Counselors Value Of Scans/Noicc Work Competencies Among Three Groups Of Students: At-Risk, Work-Bound And College-Bound, Alice Mitchell Rose

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to investigate the value high school counselors assign to the fourteen national work competencies identified by the Secretary’s Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (Author, 1991) and the National Career Development Guidelines (National Occupational Information Coordinating Committee, [NOICC] 1989) among different groups of students: at-risk, work-bound, and college bound. Rising national concern about economic competitiveness in the global marketplace has dictated the need to provide all students with the skills necessary to enter the workforce.

Two research questions were explored in this quantitative study. The data were acquired via a questionnaire adapted from a similar …

Human Agency And The Process Of Social Change In The Religious Structure Of A Traditional Society, Jonathan Mermis-Cava

Cal Poly Humboldt theses and projects

This thesis is an examination of human agency within the process of social change as it has been displayed by the members of a traditional society. It is based on participant observation data that was collected between 1995-97 when the author served as a Peace Corps Volunteer living amongst a tribe of maroons, known as Saramakans, deep in the rainforest of South America. Exploring the assumption that changes in traditional societies have been forced upon them, this thesis examines the transformations that have occurred in the religious structure of the Saramakan tribe. From a social constructionist theoretical viewpoint, data suggests …

The Message Is From God, Frederick A. Niedner Jr.

Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers

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I never settled on an opening line for this presentation, so I'll simply tell you that it's a humbling thing to stand here today charged with giving the keynote address for a gathering of the Institute for Liturgical Studies. I have attended this conference for many years-not for as long as many of you, but in twenty-six years at Valparaiso University I recall only one institute I missed completely. That means I've heard at least a hundred institute talks from this podium, and the excellence of the speakers here has consistently enriched and encouraged, sometimes entertained, and often awed …

The Internet As A Source Of Informal Social Control: Social Support In Pedophile Online Culture, Teelynn T. Mauney

Cal Poly Humboldt theses and projects

This thesis is an examination of pedophile use of the World Wide Web as a source of social support. I conduct a content analysis of pedophile Web sites that advocate sexual contact between men and boys. The themes on these sites are examined and compared to the themes found in stage one of my research program, which analyzed four of the eleven sites in the pedophile Web site sampling frame. This monograph draws on Mirkin’s (1999) theoretical framework that states that pedophiles are in stage one of a battle to legitimize their sexual orientation. This study finds that pedophile sites …

The Wacky World Of Collision And Comprehensive Coverages: Intentional Injury And Illegal Activity Exclusions, Johnny Parker

Nebraska Law Review

The objective of this article is to develop an appropriate analytical basis for evaluating the illegal activity exclusion in the context of automobile comprehensive coverage. Because the illegal activity exclusion has not been the subject of any reported decision in the context of comprehensive coverage, this article attempts to achieve its goal by examining intentional injury and prohibitive use exclusions in the context of automobile liability and collision coverages, respectively. The purpose of this examination is to ascertain whether the analytical tools employed in the liability and collision coverages arenas are appropriate in the context of the primary thesis. Part …

Nebraska Practice Materials—A Selective Annotated Bibliography, Beth Smith

Nebraska Law Review

I. Reference Works ... A. Research Guides ... B. Directories of Agencies ... C. Directories of Attorneys ... D. Listings of Civil Jury Verdicts

II. Periodicals

III. Newspapers

IV. Primary Sources ... A. Legislative Materials ... 1. Statutory Compilations ... 2. Session Laws ... 3. Bills ... 4. Other Legislative Materials ... B. Judicial Materials ... 1. Court Reports ... 2. Bankruptcy Decisions ... 3. Digests ... 4. Citators ... 5. Court Rules ... 6. Jury Instructions ... 7. Nebraska Workers' Compensation Court ... 8. Other Judicial Materials ... C. Administrative Materials ... 1. Rules and Regulations ... 2. Attorney …

A Call For A Modified Standard: The Supreme Court Struggles To Define When Private Organizations Can Discriminate In Contravention Of State Antidiscrimination Laws In Boy Scouts Of America V. Dale, 120 S. Ct. 2446 (2000), Sean B. Druyon

Nebraska Law Review

Since the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the federal government has played a significant role in reducing invidious discrimination against individuals on the basis of race, religion, color, and national origin. In the wake of even broader state laws against discrimination lie many private organizations treading to stay afloat in what has become a tumultuous sea of clashing constitutional rights. These private organizations justify discriminatory membership policies on the grounds they engage in expressive association protected by the First Amendment, while individuals denied membership to these organizations claim equal protection of the law under the Fourteenth Amendment and under state …

Foreword, John M. Gerrard

Nebraska Law Review

A foreword by the Honorable John M. Gerrard to the articles resulting from the Nebraska Education Law Symposium at the University of Nebraska College of Law and a tribute to Professor John M. Gradwohl.

Faithful To The Constitution: The Roadblock For Nebraska's Schools, Richard E. Shugrue

Nebraska Law Review

For six decades, American schools have been the major battleground in the controversy surrounding the doctrine of separation of church and state.There are huge problems and tensions among the warring parties in religion-school cases, and resort to state constitutional law will not make them disappear. The determined federal judiciary chooses to snub history, tradition, and settled state law to inject its version of civic religion back into the schools. Courts ought to undertake careful examination of the history, language, and experience before embracing a one-size-fits-all rule. For more than a century, states such as Nebraska have fought the battle over …

Notes, George Lopez On Boxing In Roberts City, Circa 2000s, George Lopez

Roberts City Collection - Records

Handwritten notes from George Lopez on boxing in Roberts City.

Draft, George Lopez's Draft For Boxing Chapter, Circa 2000s, George Lopez

Roberts City Collection - Records

Handwritten draft for boxing chapter of George Lopez's book.

Multi-Sensor 3d Image Fusion And Interactive Search, W. D. Ross, A. M. Waxman, W. W. Streilein, M. Aguilar, J. Verly, F. Liu, M. I. Braun, P. Harmon, S. Rak

Research, Publications & Creative Work

We describe a system under development for the 3D fusion of multi-sensor surface surveillance imagery, including electro-optical (EO), IR, SAR, multispectral and hyperspectral sources. Our approach is founded on biologically-inspired image processing algorithms. We have developed an image processing architecture enabling the unified interactive visualization of fused multi-sensor site data which utilizes a color image fusion algorithm based on retinal and cortical processing of color. We have also developed interactive Web-based tools for training neural network search agents that are capable of automatically scanning site data for the fused multi-sensor signatures of targets and/or surface features of interest. Each search …

Reading The World Of University : What Counts?, Pamela Green, Gloria Latham

Australian Journal of Teacher Education

This paper will address the issues encountered by first year students in reading and reshaping the culture of university. The interim findings of a six year study will be dismantled in order to uncover what counts in the experience of first year university and the ramifications for educational practice and discourse. Feedback from staff continues to indicate that there is growing disparity between their expectations of first year students and student performance in areas such as independent learning, research skills, academic reading and writing, as well as the use of new technologies. There also seems to be a gap between …

The Integrated Expressive Arts And Humanities : Coping With Curriculum Change, Linley Campbell

Australian Journal of Teacher Education

The concept of curriculum integration in education has recently received increased attention. This has been largely due to the introduction of Learning Area Profiles, Statements and Outcomes, and most recently the Curriculum Framework. 'Integration, breadth and balance' is one of the seven key principles underlying The Curriculum Framework for Western Australian Schools. (Curriculum Council of Western Australia, 1998). Collectively, these documents emphasise the integration of knowledge, skills and values in the eight key learning areas of the curriculum. Such a holistic view of the curriculum is considered to be fundamental to sound educational practice.

The Exclusion Of Y2k Related Losses From Aviation Insurance Policies - Practicalities, Politics, And Legalities, Tony Pyne

Journal of Air Law and Commerce

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Walter Raleigh Petteway: Twice A Judge, Twice A Second Fiddler (1891-1964), Morison Buck

Morison Buck Biographies of Hillsborough County Judges

A biography of Judge Walter Petteway who served as judge of the Criminal Court of Record of Hillsborough County and a candidate for Governor.

Carl Clinton Durrance (1918-2002): No-Nonsense Judge With Uncommon Good Sense, Morison Buck

Morison Buck Biographies of Hillsborough County Judges

A biography of Judge Carl Durrance who served on Hillsborough County's Criminal Court of Record and took a case on women on juries to the U.S. Supreme Court (Hoyt v. Florida).

Ben Krentzman (1914-1998): Gentle In Spirit, Resolute In Robe, Morison Buck

Morison Buck Biographies of Hillsborough County Judges

A biography of Judge Ben Krentzman who served on the U.S. District Court's Florida Middle District as a judge and Chief Justice.

Benjamin C. Sidwell: Confident, Capable, Quick-Witted Individualist (1918-2000), Morison Buck

Morison Buck Biographies of Hillsborough County Judges

A biography of Judge Ben Sidwell who served on Florida's Thirteenth Circuit in the Probate, Guardianship & Trust Division as well as the Juvenile Division.

Contemporary Worship As A Tool For Deepening Baby Boomers' Spiritual Well-Being, Randy H. Rowlan

ATS Dissertations

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