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Evaluation Of The Effectiveness Of A Sexual Assault Curriculum At The University Of Northern Iowa, Faith Hope Sonksen

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The purpose of this study was to assess university students' attitudes toward rape and rape mythology and to measure any impact on these attitudes following exposure to a rape/sexual assault awareness curriculum unit. It was hypothesized that students attending the rape/sexual assault unit would demonstrate a statistically significant difference in their rape/sexual assault awareness attitudes and beliefs after taking a sexual assault program, and there would be a statistically significant difference according to gender.

The study sample consisted of 46 (28 male, 18 female) physical education major students enrolled in sections of 420:016, Self-Defense Class at UNI. The mean age …

Load Optimization On The Wingate Anaerobic Test With College-Aged Females, Corey Steven Crane

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The purpose of the study was to determine which resistance loads would elicit maximal values of peak power output (PP), mean power output (MP) and fatigue index (FI) of college-age females. A second purpose was to examine the predictability of certain anthropometric and performance variables on the optimal load used for the Wingate Anaerobic Test. Twenty-one female volunteers, aged 20-27 years, performed a 10-second maximal cranking test, an area of muscle mass assessment of the thigh as well as three 30-second Wingate Anaerobic Power Tests (WAT) using loads of 75, 90 and 105 g/kg. The variables PP (W and W …

Pre-Inoculation Effect Of Sic In Production Of Thin Wall Ductile Iron Castings, Nikolay Y. Laukhin

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Pre-inoculation effect of SiC additions and its effect on castability, microstructure, and magnesium recovery in thin wall ductile iron plates have been studied. Experimental results were compared with alternative FeSi75 furnace pre-inoculation additions.

The first series of experiments aimed to set the baseline of iron quality, when using FeSi75 pre-inoculant

In the second series of experiment, different methods of introduction of Sic into liquid iron were studied. It was established that Sic added into the stream during the tapping into the flow-through chamber or added directly into the flow-through chamber produced lower Si recovery. The most effective method of introduction …

Typology And Critique Of Title Ix Sexual Harassment Law After Gebser And Davis, William A. Kaplin

Scholarly Articles

Sexual harassment is not a new phenomenon. It has long been with us in harassment problem in colleges and universities, focusing particularly on the harassment of students by their teachers or by their peers. Special attention will be given to whether and how students may hold colleges and universities liable in court for money damages for a failure to protect them from harassment. Then, using such private causes of action by students as the centerpiece, this article will develop a typology of Title IX sexual harassment claims and of the variable contexts in which they may arise. Following the typology, …

Intervention Selection For Students With Asperger's Disorder, Tracy Lynn Gappa

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The diagnosis of Asperger's Disorder (AsD) is a relatively recent possibility. Although first described in 1944, AsD was not recognized until its inclusion in the Fourth Edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders in 1994. Due to the newness of the disorder and because of a lack of a consensual definition, there is considerable confusion among researchers in this field. For those children with characteristics of AsD, the confusion has resulted in misdiagnosis and, more importantly, inappropriate interventions. Individuals with AsD have deficits in several areas that impair their ability to function normally in the educational environment, …

Planning For The Future: Using Child Support Trusts To Prepare Both Father And Child For Life After Professional Sports, Thomas C. Quinlen

Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law

The issue of professional athletes siring children out of wedlock was first thrust into the national conscience in an article in Sports Illustrated in May 1998. The SI piece was followed by several newspaper articles in various cities around the country, but like most hot news topics, it was quickly forgotten as the nation moved on to more pressing issues. This Note aims to revisit this issue with an eye towards practical and legal resolution of this pervasive problem, suggesting ways that lawyers and agents can establish child support trusts to represent their clients' interests and provide the best result …

Guarantying A Hit (Or Miss): Understanding The Completion Guaranty Business In Hollywood, James W. Coupe

Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law

Titanic was. So was Waterworld. Heck, even The Adventures of Baron Munchausen was. Blockbusters? No. Oscar winners? Wrong again. Yet these three films do share one unfortunate characteristic-- each of these pictures was over budget, drastically in some cases. Although caused by different forces and cured by different individuals, each film eventually forced someone to pay a great deal of money unexpectedly. Like many unforeseen expenses, these too can be insured against. Enter stage right, a completion guaranty company.

Any and all film productions financed by non-producer third parties should have a completion guaranty. In the most fundamental terms, a …

Don't Sell Out, Sell Bonds: The Pullman Group's Securitization Of The Music Industry, Hewson Chen

Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law

Securitization is the selling of debt to investors. In general, securitization converts future income streams like credit card receivables or auto loan payments to present in-pocket cash. Notably, this transformation from future income to current wealth gives the issuer of the security immediate access to cash at less cost than other financing methods such as bank loans. In the 1970s, this technique was applied to the housing industry, and since then, securitization has evolved into greater varieties of income streams, including medical insurance, typhoon insurance, and unused airline tickets. The application of securitization in the entertainment industry, however, remains largely …

The Wrong Tool For The Right Job: Are Commercial Websites Places Of Public Accommodation Under The Americans With Disabilities Act Of 1990?, Patrick Maroney

Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law

The text of the ADA does not support such an extension. The interpretative canons of "noscitur a sociis" and "ejusdem generis" dictate that "places of public accommodation" refer exclusively to physical facilities. The canons also sufficiently resolve any possible statutory ambiguities, thereby foreclosing the opportunity for contrary agency interpretations. Although the intentionally broad purpose and design of the ADA make the statute an attractive avenue for advocates of online expansion, that same purpose and design limit the ADA to physical facilities. This note addresses the issues in two parts. First, it presents the arguments just listed. Second, it recognizes the …

Concerts: Rated Or Raided? First Amendment Implications Of Concert-Rating, Deborah Cazan

Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law

This Note examines the constitutionality as well as practicality of two different concert-rating statutes. San Antonio ordinance 61,850, the first attempt at concert-rating, has never been challenged constitutionally. This Note asserts that if the ordinance were challenged, the Court would find it constitutionally valid on its face, despite the possibility of unconstitutional applications. However, some unconstitutional consequences remain. The second statute examined is one recently proposed by Senator Shugars in the Michigan state legislature. Like the San Antonio ordinance, this Note concludes that Senate Bill 239 would also withstand a constitutional challenge.

This Note examines the history and structure of …

Muslim Women's Rights In The Global Village: Challenges And Opportunities, Azizah Y. Al-Hibri

Law Faculty Publications

In this age of information technology that shrank our world into a global village, it is fair to ask how this recent development has impacted Muslim women's rights across the world. Having just traveled through nine Muslim countries, ranging from Pakistan and Bangladesh to the Gulf States, Egypt, Syria, and Lebanon, I would answer that it is leading, slowly but surely, to reassessment and change.' Attempts to accelerate the pace of this change, however, without full understanding of its complex topology, and the deep-rooted commitment by most Muslim women to spiritual and cultural authenticity, could halt or even reverse this …

Identification Of Potential Molecular Biomarkers Of Cadmium Induced Stress In C̲Hironomus Tentans ̲, David Hunter Dyer

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The objective of this research was to identify potential molecular biomarkers by looking for differences in the mRNA expression patterns between cadmium exposed and non-exposed freshwater aquatic invertebrate larvae. In the future, genes that indicate sublethal damage to a population at risk could be used to monitor the degradation or regeneration of an ecosystem. For this study, laboratory reared Chironomus tentans were placed in a sublethal concentration of cadmium treated water and the genes turned on in response to the cadmium were isolated from a cDNA subtract library. Six genes were identified and two potential biomarkers of environmental stress, ferritin …

Generations: Borges And His Progeny, David Laraway

Faculty Publications

"Jovenes, imatad a Borges!" Legend has it that these were the parting words of novelist Witold Gombrowicz as he set sail for his native Poland after spending the duration of World War II in Argentina (King xi). Gombrowicz perceived---correctly, as it turns out-that subsequent generations of writers would need to reconcile themselves to Borges before they could find their own voices. To be sure, Borges was not always engaged willingly by his immediate successors, and anecdotes about the suspicions with which he was regarded by the so-called Boom writers are as ubiquitous as the traces of his presence in their …

There Is A Method(Ology) To This Madness: A Review And Analysis Of Feedback In The Clinical Process, Victor M. Goode

Oklahoma Law Review

No abstract provided.

Census 2000: Why The Majority In Department Of Commerce V. United States House Of Representatives Was Correct In Rejecting Statistical Sampling, Angela D. Kelley

Oklahoma Law Review

No abstract provided.

Modern Liability Rules And Policies Regarding College Student Alcohol Injuries: Reducing High-Risk Alcohol Use Through Norms Of Shared Responsibility And Environmental Management, Peter F. Lake, Joel C. Epstein

Oklahoma Law Review

No abstract provided.

Sorting Out Voices On Women’S Rights In Morocco, Sumi Colligan

Journal of International Women's Studies

From the Article:

In this chapter, I intend to expand on the theme of developing “our listening capacity, to be sure that we hear everything” in an attempt to avoid perpetuating the stereotype of the passive, victimized Third World woman whose only hope of liberation is through the consciousness raising and activist efforts of Western feminists. Much of the current writing on human rights and women’s rights in North Africa and the Middle East suggests that world-wide endorsement of such principles and platforms is most likely to be successful if the people to whom they apply feel a sense of …

Physical Evidence For John Coote’S Eighteenth-Century Periodical Proprietorships: The Examples Of Coote’S Royal Magazine (1759-71) And Smollett’S British Magazine (1760-67), Barbara L. Fitzpatrick

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Psychoanalysis And "The Discipline Of Love", Nancy Easterlin

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Co-Parenting Through Separation And Divorce: Children First

FS Series – Family Science/HDFS

No abstract provided.

Working It Out: Learning To Negotiate With Your Teenager, Donnarae Jacobson, Marilyn Lesmeister

FS Series – Family Science/HDFS

No abstract provided.

An Extension Of Zermelo's Model For Ranking By Paired Comparisons, Christopher P. Grant, Gregory R. Conner

Faculty Publications

In 1929, Zermelo proposed a probabilistic model for ranking by paired comparisons and showed that this model produces a unique ranking of the objects under consideration when the outcome matrix is irreducible. When the matrix is reducible, the model may yield only a partial ordering of the objects. In this paper, we analyse a natural extension of Zermelo's model resulting from a singular perturbation. We show that this extension produces a ranking for arbitrary (nonnegative) outcome matrices and retains several of the desirable properties of the original model. In addition, we discuss computational techniques and provide examples of their use.

Improved Resolution Backscatter Measurements With The Seawinds Pencil-Beam Scatterometer, David G. Long, Michael W. Spencer, Chialin T. Wu

Faculty Publications

The SeaWinds scatterometer was launched on the NASA QuikSCAT spacecraft in June 1999 and is planned for the Japanese ADEOS-II mission in 2000. In addition to generating a global Ku-band backscatter data set useful for a variety of climate studies, these flights will provide ocean-surface wind estimates for use in operational weather forecasting. SeaWinds employs a compact "pencil-beam" design rather than the "fan-beam" approach previously used with SASS on Seasat, NSCAT on ADEOS-I, and the AMI scatterometer on ERS-1, 2. As originally envisioned and reported, the resolution of the SeaWinds backscatter measurements were to be antenna-beamwidth limited. In order to …

Making Family Decisions In Farming And Ranching, Sean Brotherson

FS Series – Family Science/HDFS

No abstract provided.

A Critical Evaluation Of The Development And Implementation Of Forest Preservation Services, Ryan K. Mckain

Connecticut Journal of International Law

For many years, nations have struggled with loss of the Earth's natural resources. Once thought inexhaustible, animal life, plant life and minerals were exploited as fast as possible. Often viewed as a "race-to- ,,2 the-bottom, nations compete with each other to extract as much of a valuable resource as possible from the planet before the resource vanishes. The prevailing view has not been "use it or lose it" but rather "use it until it's lost." Now our vast resources are being visibly depleted - we can see the bottom of what was historically thought to be a bottomless pit. Recently, …

The White Rose: Judges And Justice In The Third Reich, Matthew Lippman

Connecticut Journal of International Law

In recent years there has been an increased interest in the Holocaust.' One concern has been to explain the willingness of ordinary Germans2 and highly educated medical professionals' to conform to the draconian dictates of the Third Reich.4 This scholarly effort largely has ignored the complicity of lawyers and judges in the Nazi's depredations.5 The lack of academic concern may be based on the belief that the Reich was a "lawless" regime in which legal professionals performed a limited role. Most studies accordingly have centered on the extra-judicial and summary exterminations carried out by the Nazi government. 6 However, the …

Coming To America: International Students Face A Labyrinth Of Income Tax Issues, Ernest R. Larkins

Connecticut Journal of International Law

In coming to America, international students provide many benefits to the U.S. educational system. They boost lagging enrollments and bring cultural diversity to American classrooms. When they return to their home countries, international students often take with them a greater appreciation for American culture, traditions, and values. Many times, they act as goodwill ambassadors for the United States. The United States issued 427,000 nonimmigrant visas to academic and vocational students in 1996, an increase of 66 percent over similar visas issued in 1985.' In descending order, Japan, Korea, China, and India accounted for the largest numbers of international students visiting …

Cellular Release Of And Response To Atp As Key Determinants Of The Set-Point Of Signal Transduction Pathways, Rennolds S. Ostrom, Caroline Gregorian, Paul A. Insel

Pharmacy Faculty Articles and Research

The determinants of “basal” activity of signaling pathways regulating cellular responses are poorly defined. One possibility is that cells release factors to establish the set-point of such pathways. Here we show that treatment of Madin-Darby canine kidney cells with the nucleotidase apyrase decreases basal arachidonic acid release and cAMP production 30–40% and that inhibitors of P2Y receptor action also affect basal and forskolin-stimulated cAMP accumulation. Changing medium prominently increases extracellular levels of ATP in Madin-Darby canine kidney, COS-7, and HEK-293 cells. Mechanical stimulation of ATP release likely occurs in virtually every experimental protocol with cultured cells, implicating such release and …

Biological Control Of Leafy Spurge: A Comprehensive, Easy-To-Read Manual On How To Use Biological Control As An Effective Leafy Spurge Management Tool

Leafy Spurge Database

No abstract provided.

Impediments To Controlling Leafy Spurge In The Northern Great Plains, Randall S. Sell, Dean Bangsund, F. Larry Leistritz

Leafy Spurge Database

No abstract provided.