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Theory In Practice: Code Drafting In Eritrea, Richard A. Rosen

North Carolina Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.

Property Law: 2001 Survey Of Florida Law, Ronald B. Brown, Joseph M. Grohman

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

State Mental Hospital Continuity Of Care Study: Addendum To Year One Report, Timothy Boaz, Keith Vossberg

Mental Health Law & Policy Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Father Doesn't Always Know Best: Rejecting Paternalistic Expansion Of The "Direct Threat" Defense To Claims Under The Americans With Disabilities Act, Adam B. Kaplan

Dickinson Law Review (1908-2003)

No abstract provided.

The Feres Bar: The Right Ruling For The Wrong Reason, Kelly L. Dill

Campbell Law Review

No abstract provided.

Too Many Probabilities: Statistical Evidence Of Tort Causation, David W. Barnes

Law and Contemporary Problems

Medical scientific testimony is often expressed in terms of two different probabilities: 1. The increased probability of harm if a person is exposed, for example, to a toxin. 2. The observed relationship is an artifact of the experimental method. This article demonstrates that neither probability, taken alone or together, measures whether the "preponderance of the evidence" test is met.

Uis Commission On Volcanic Caves Newsletter, No. 32, October 2001, Jan Paul G. Van Der Pas

Union Internationale de Spéléologie (UIS) Commission on Volcanic Caves

Contents: Icelandic Speleological Society announcement -- Primera Expedicion Argentino-Britanica -- Letter from Halliday -- Letter from Halliday -- Re: Meeting in October -- Re: Meeting in October -- Information received -- Letter received from Hungary -- List of emails

The Republican Constitution Of 1963: The Supreme Court And Federalism In Nigeria, Akin Alao

University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review

No abstract provided.

Student Article: Sierra Leone's "Conflict Diamonds": The Legacy Of Imperial Mining Laws And Policy, Ian Martinez

University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review

No abstract provided.

New Trends In African Human Rights Law: Prospects Of An African Court Of Human Rights, Yemi Akinseye-George

University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review

No abstract provided.

Bipolar Cells Contribute To Nonlinear Spatial Summation In The Brisk-Transient (Y) Ganglion Cell In Mammalian Retina, Jonathan B. Demb, Kareem Zaghloul, Loren Haarsma, Peter Sterling

University Faculty Publications and Creative Works

The receptive field of the Y-ganglion cell comprises two excitatory mechanisms: one integrates linearly over a narrow field, and the other integrates nonlinearly over a wide field. The linear mechanism has been attributed to input from bipolar cells, and the nonlinear mechanism has been attributed to input from a class of amacrine cells whose nonlinear "subunits" extend across the linear receptive field and beyond. However, the central component of the nonlinear mechanism could in theory be driven by bipolar input if that input were rectified. Recording intracellularly from the Y-cell in guinea pig retina, we blocked the peripheral component of …

Leading Economic Indicators: October 2001, Alan Gin

USD Burnham-Moores Index of Leading Economic Indicators

No abstract provided.

The Lantern Vol. 69, No. 1, Fall 2001, Drew Petersen, Amy Scarantino, Susannah Fisher, Sarah Napolitan, Maura Strauman, Whitney Daniels, Leah Miller, Melanie Scriptunas, Jennifer Walton, Alison Shaffer, Ali Bierly, Jennifer Brink, Katie Lambert, Harry Michel, Padcha Tuntha-Obas, Amanda Ripley, Chris Tereshko, Laura Phillips, Flynn Corson, Genevieve Romeo, Phil Malachowski, Kathryn Chapman, John Ramsey, Michael Pomante, Olatokunbo Laniya, Raquel Pidal, Shaina Schmeltzle

The Lantern Literary Magazines, 1933 to Present

• Frets
• Burn
• The Amish-Man
• City Children
• Coasting West
• Futile
• Oxymoron
• Fleeting Reflection
• Pink Geraniums
• Moving
• Running: Arcola
• Expectations
• One Time Deal
• We Slept
• Faraway Field
• My Own Giselle
• My Father's Will
• Meet Me in Montana
• Pride is a Lawn Mower
• Gloss
• 2% Low Fat
• Bits of Tuesday
• This is not a Pipe
• What Ifs
• Reconnection
• A Bell Called Emily
• The Elevator

2001 October 1 - Faculty Senate Agenda And Minutes, Faculty Senate, East Tennessee State University

Faculty Senate Agendas and Minutes

No abstract provided.

The Forum: Fall 2001, Stephanie Rollefson, Rosy Esberg, Kelly Jane Swenseth, Cheri Olafson, Jason Signalness, Casey Maureen Gordon, Erin Mccleary, Poppy Fowler, Beth Eslinger, Katie Zejdlik, Christopher Pieske

UND Publications

Fall 2001 journal of the Honors Program at the University of North Dakota. The issue includes stories, poems, essays and art by undergraduate students.

How Do Forecasts Respond To Changes In Monetary Policy?, Laurence Ball, Dean D. Croushore

Economics Faculty Publications

Just as changes in atmospheric conditions affect weather forecasts, changes in monetary policy affect economic forecasts. When monetary policy shifts, forecasters change their predictions about growth and inflation. But does the economy change to the same extent that forecasts do? In this article, Laurence Ball and Dean Croushore examine forecasts from the Survey of Professional Forecasters to determine if forecasts and the economy respond in tandem or if there are significant differences.

The Fine Structure Of The Kasparov Groups I: Continuity Of The Kk-Pairing, Claude Schochet

Mathematics Faculty Research Publications

In this paper it is demonstrated that the Kasparov pairing is continuous with respect to the natural topology on the Kasparov groups, so that a KK-equivalence is an isomorphism of topological groups. In addition, we demonstrate that the groups have a natural pseudopolonais structure, and we prove that various KK-structural maps are continuous.

Introduction, Ambassador Richard Bogosian

University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review

No abstract provided.

A Comment On Language And Norms In Complex Business Contracting, Claire A. Hill

Chicago-Kent Law Review

Complex contracts, such as those governing loans and acquisitions, create a state of the world-parties entering into a contract thereby become bound. The contract expressly summons up legal consequences for every promise it contains. But the relationship between the promises and the law's force is attenuated. Very often contract provisions set the stage rather than provide the script: accommodation seems more the rule than the exception. Indeed, for most contracting parties, the law's specter is one of many reasons to do what they promised to do, and often, not the most important reason. Parties also feel constrained by reputational and …

Why Contracts Are Written In "Legalese", Claire A. Hill

Chicago-Kent Law Review

Contracts have been reviled since before the Marx Brothers' infamous "there ain't no Sanity Clause" sketch as being replete with duplicative, cumbersome, inartful, and sometimes imprecise language. My Article seeks to understand why practice apparently hasn't made perfect—why the contract production process hasn't been honed to a point that contracts are as clear, and only as long, as would seem to be optimal. I argue that the contracting production process combines rational, and what some would consider irrational, elements to create a serviceable, but arguably second-best, product. But I also argue that what counts as second-best in this and other …

Roundtable Discussion: Theory's Contributions To Corporate Law And Practice, Chicago-Kent Law Review

Chicago-Kent Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Venture Capital Investment Bust: Did Agency Costs Play A Role? Was It Something Lawyers Helped Structure?, Joseph Bankman, Marcus Cole

Chicago-Kent Law Review

This Article examines the question of why venture capital firms would continue to raise technology funds, and then invest those funds, when they were certain that the business markets for such investments were overvalued preceding the "crash" of April 2000. We interviewed a number of venture capitalists, lawyers, entrepreneurs, and other industry observers in search of an explanation. The explanations offered by key decision makers for the observed investment behavior can be categorized as of three types of theories: agency cost theories, herd behavior and other cognitive bias theories, and non-agency cost theories. Agency cost theories suggest that the activity …

The Texas Caver, Volume 46, No. 1-4, January-October 2001, Jim Kennedy

The Texas Caver

Contents: Two More Years in the Devil's Pit (Caverns of Sonora) by George Veni - Millers Cave, Llano County by Peter Sprouse - Government Canyon Update, 2000 by Marvin Miller - Deep Pits of Texas by George Veni - James R. Reddell receives 2001 NSS Science Award by George Veni and William R. Elliott - Thanksgiving 2000 CRF Trip to Carlsbad Caverns by Rae Nadler-Olenick - A Summary of What Texans Did at the 2001 NSS Convention by George Veni - Gorman Cave Walking Tour at Colorado Bend State Park by Link and Lane Hullar - Grieta de Ia Perdici6n, …

Skunk River Review Fall 2001, Vol 13, Bethany Murphy, Barb Loftus, Melissa Papiani, Betty Landers, Jadney Gitzen, Trisha Brockett, Cory Mcvey, Gena Wilson, Luiza Fritz, Shannon Westbrook, Diana Egan, Alexa Woldruff, Larry Cheely, Russell Lundquist, Yun Liu, Keri Michel, Bethany Eising, Lori Chicchelly, Teresa Erickson, Macay Wiesemann, Joe Zaun, Evie Tiffany, Julie Spencer, Heather Wright, Matthew C. Tonelli Sr., Diane Launspach, Robert O'Callahan, Krissy Kriegel, Adam Sitzmann

Skunk River Review

No abstract provided.

Energetics And Cooperativity In Three-Center Hydrogen Bonding Interactions. I. Diacetamide-X Dimers .X=Hcn, Ch3Oh., Ruben D. Parra, Makoto Furukawa, Bing Gong, Xiao Cheng Zeng

Xiao Cheng Zeng Publications

High level ab initio calculations are carried out on diacetamide–X (DA–X) dimers, X=HCN, CH₃OH. The dimers are used as model systems to investigate the energetics and cooperative phenomomena in intermolecular three-center hydrogen-bond (H-bond) interactions relative to two-center H-bond interactions. The trans–trans conformer of diacetamide is chosen as a suitable model for intermolecular three-center H bonding where one H atom is interacting with two acceptor atoms. The proton–acceptor atoms are rigidly held in the same molecule. For both model systems, it is found that the calculated interaction energy per H bond is appreciably smaller in the three-center than in …

The Voice, Fall 2001: Volume 47, Issue 1, Dordt College

The Voice Archive

Students Return to Home on Campus; Now More Than Ever; Prayer for Freshman Commissioning Service; Enrollment Remains Steady; Dordt Senior Offers Art Class to Local Children; Graduate Education Program Grows; Artists Visit; Appeals Court; Website Gets Redesign; Art Majors Get Hands-On Experience with Art Center; Dordt Athletes Show High Graduation Rate; Six Distinguished Scholars Named; Big Fish Uncovered; Boon Interns With Grassley; Dordt Students Dominate Poetry Contest Again; Faculty Work to Keep up in Their Profession; Bajema Gives and Gains From Summer Consulting Trip to the Dominican Republic; New Books Out This Summer Include Dordt Faculty Authors; Two New Schaap …

Of Theory And Practice, Tamar Frankel

Chicago-Kent Law Review

Much has been written about theory and practice in the law, and the tension between practitioners and theorists. Judges do not cite theoretical articles often; they rarely "apply" theories to particular cases. These arguments are not revisited. Instead the Article explores the working and interaction of theory and practice, practitioners and theorists. This Article starts with a story about solving a legal issue using our intellectual tools—theory, practice, and their progenies: experience and "gut." Next the Article elaborates on the nature of theory, practice, experience and gut. The third part of the Article discusses theories that are helpful to practitioners …

The Written Contract As Safe Harbor For Dishonest Conduct, Lawrence M. Solan

Chicago-Kent Law Review

The parol evidence rule excludes extrinsic evidence of prior or contemporaneous understandings of an agreement when the parties have signed a document that purports to encompass their entire understanding. In theory, this rule is designed to add certainty to business transactions and to inhibit the introduction of unreliable evidence into the litigation system. But in practice, if we eliminate the introduction of precontractual representations and understandings from the dispute resolution process, we create a safe harbor for unethical business practices in the early stages of contract formation. Using insights from linguistics and psychology, the Article argues that this problem is …

Implications Of Shareholder Diversification On Corporate Law And Organization: The Case Of The Business Judgment Rule, Peter V. Letsou

Chicago-Kent Law Review

The business judgment rule has been a centerpiece of corporate law for almost two centuries. But over the last several decades, courts and commentators have struggled to find a rationale for the business judgment rule that, at once, reconciles the judicial deference granted to corporate managers with the more demanding standards applied to other professionals, such as doctors and lawyers. This Article attempts to end this struggle by offering a fuller account of the relationship between the preferences of diversified shareholders, on the one hand, and liability rules, on the other. Based on this account, this Article contends that the …

The Review - Fall 2001

Jefferson Review

IN THIS ISSUE

1 - Message From The Dean

2 - A Special Welcome for Alumni Babies

2 - A Very Special Offer for Our Alumni

3 - Farewell to Joann Ludwig

4 - The Admissions-Alumni Partnership

5 - JAVA is Brewing at Jefferson!

6 - What A Year!

8 - Alumni Update

10 - Alumni News Form

11 - Visiting Scholar 2001: A Nurse Alumna Sets the Agenda

12 - Michael Hartman Elected New CHP Alumni President

13 - Commencement 2001