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Changing Prison Management Strategies In Response To Voi/Tis Legislation, Susan Turner, Laura J. Hickman, Judith Greene, Terry Fain

Criminology and Criminal Justice Faculty Publications and Presentations

This legislation was designed to increase the capacity of State correctional systems to confine serious and violent offenders for longer periods of time and to assure the public that these offenders would serve a substantial portion of their sentences. The VOI/TIS incentive grants provide States with funds to build or expand bed capacity in correctional facilities, temporary or permanent correctional facilities, and local jail capacity. This study examined adaptations in prison management made by State correctional agencies in response to VOI/TIS. Specifically, the study addressed the changes in management, safety and training procedures, the type and extent of programming (education, …

A Right Without Remedy: State Employees After Seminole Tribe And Alden, Heather Lueke

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

Over the past decade, courts have wrestled with state employees 'private legal remedy for a violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act. As a result of the decisions in Seminole Tribe v. Florida and Alden v. Maine, state employees lost their right to sue for such violations. This note examines the dilemma faced by employees who find themselves without a path of recourse against state employers. It concludes that both Seminole Tribe and Alden should be overturned because the decisions leave state employees with no realistic remedy

Knowledge Management In The Healthcare Sector, Srinivas Krishna

IIMB Management Review

The healthcare sector across the globe is under going a cultural transformation, as the traditional passive and respectful patient opulation is replaced by an assertive and sceptical group of ‘customers’. As the educated and informed consumer moves through the healthcare system and begins to use more services, s/he is demanding information and choice, engaging in self-care and selfmanagement of diseases, and asserting a voice in making healthcare decisions with providers. The proliferation of clinical data, outcomes management, provider information and pricing transparency will allow consumers to be responsible for their own destinies in a historically anti-consumer healthcare system. In fact, …

An Efficient Real-World Food Delivery System : The Dabbawallas Of Mumbai, Ashok Kumar, Stephen T Margulis, Jaideep Motwani

IIMB Management Review

The “Dabbawalla” or tiffin carrier system that operates in Mumbai (formerly Bombay) is unique and incredible in the complexity and enormity of its task, simplicity of its operation, and surprisingly low error rates for a system of its size. It is a daily service in which thousands of men carry and deliver over 200,000 lunches every day, within  three hour block of time, across the city’s 70-kilometre stretch, with each lunch box (known as tiffin or dabba) changing hands at least four times. Yet, for all its complexity and size, it is run and managed by a group of largely …

Anthropogenic Signals Recorded In An Ice Core From Eclipse Icefield, Yukon Territory, Canada, Kaplan Yalcin, Cameron P. Wake

Earth Sciences

Trends in the annual flux of sulfate and nitrate in a new ice core collected at an elevation of 3017 m on Eclipse Icefield, 45 km northeast of Mt. Logan were examined to determine the effect of anthropogenic activity on precipitation chemistry in the remote northwest North America mid-troposphere. The annual flux of both sulfate and nitrate at Eclipse began increasing in the 1940s, demonstrating, for the first time, the anthropogenic sulfate and nitrate pollution of the northwest North American Arctic in an ice core from this region. Comparison of the Eclipse record with regional emission estimates for total sulfur …

Intercom, Volume 37, No. 6, November-December 2001, Scott Dankof

Intercom

Contents: Iowa Grotto Meeting Minutes -- Editors Comment -- Wonder Cave -- Goose Pit -- Big Ass -- Jackson County Five -- 100 At Last -- One Less Lead -- The Winnishiek Con -- Landmark Falls: The Discovery -- Landmark Falls: Twelve Years After and Lowell Burkhead Dome -- Rescue at Skunk Cave -- Dear Most Competent Caver -- Lost Pine And Pocket Cave Maps -- Goose Pit and Hunts Cave Map

The Texas Caver, December 2001, Mike Moore

The Texas Caver

Contents: Texas Caving Events -- Knee Deep in Guano, Editorial by Mike Moore -- Forty Years Ago in Texas Caving -- Paxal Ita Te, by Terri Whitfield and Peter Sprouse -- Dandridge Spring Cave and Map, by Jean Krejca -- Sonora Restoration 2001, by George Veni -- About the Sonora Cover Photos, by Carl Kunath -- Bustamante 2001, by Orion Knox --Bustamante Fabrica de Mescal Tour, by Terry Plemons --Indian Depredation in Texas, by Jerry Atkinson -- Light Reading, by Bill Mixon -- Real Caving with LAG, by Lee Ann Dean -- Cueva del Tizar & Resumidero Borollon Trip Report …

Social, Religious, And Personal Contributors To Prejudice, Robert Lundblad

Faculty Publications - Doctor of Psychology (PsyD) Program

Prejudicial beliefs and behaviors have been viewed from numerous perspectives. Four factors, religious attitudes, pride of in-group membership, traditional beliefs, and certain personality types, have individually been shown to be associated with prejudice. Some researchers have looked at a few of these factors together, but none have looked at all four together to examine potential relationships and their individual contribution to prejudicial thinking. This research is designed to investigate attitudes toward out-groups, sources of prejudice, and religious outlook. Four measures of religious attitudes, the Quest scale of the Religious Life Inventory (RLI), the Intrinsic and Extrinsic scales from the Religious …

Institutional Constraints And Policy Choice: An Exploration Of Local Governance, By J.C. Clingermayer And R.C. Feiock, David R. Elkins

Political Science Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Improvement To The International Bathymetric Chart Of The Arctic Ocean (Ibcao): Updating The Data Base And The Grid Model, Martin Jakobsson, Norman Cherkis

Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping

The project to develop the IBCAO grid model was initiated in 1997 with the objective of providing to the Arctic research community an improved portrayal of the seabed north of 64-deg N, in a form suitable for digital manipulation and visualization. The model was constructed from a compilation of all single-beam and multibeam echo soundings that were available for the polar region, complemented where appropriate by newly released contour information. The grid features a cell size of 2.5 x 2.5 km on a polar stereographic projection; it is constructed on the WGS 84 datum, with true scale at 75-deg N. …

Spectral Modeling Of A Six-Color Inkjet Printer, Lawrence Taplin

Theses

After customizing an Epson Stylus Photo 1200 by adding a continuous-feed ink system and a cyan, magenta, yellow, black, orange and green ink set, a series of research tasks were carried out to build a full spectral model of the printers output. First, various forward printer models were tested using the fifteen two color combinations of the printer. Yule- Nielsen-spectral-Neugebauer (YNSN) was selected as the forward model and its accuracy tested throughout the colorant space. It was found to be highly accurate, performing as well as a more complex local, cellular version. Next, the performance of nonlinear optimization-routine algorithms were …

Perspectives Of Teacher Leaders In An Educational Reform Environment: Finding Meaning In Their Involvement, Ginny Birky

Faculty Publications - College of Education

The purpose of this qualitative research study was to describe the experiences of secondary teachers who were actively involved in positions of teacher leadership in their schools and to discover the meaning that leadership activities had for them in their work. The informal teacher leaders performed their leadership functions in an environment of educational reform and change, voluntarily, and on their own time.

The study was framed and described by data gathered primarily through a series of in-depth interviewing, based on a structure for phenomenological interviewing by Seidman. The individual interviews were audio taped and transcribed in full text. Other …

No More Secrets: Private Information Made Public In A Society Of Networks, Elizabeth Romero-Coca

McNair Scholars Research Journal

No abstract provided.

The Effects Of Hate Crime Legislation On The Incidence Of Hate-Based Acts Over A Nine-Year Span, Shatremeyia Porter

McNair Scholars Research Journal

No abstract provided.

Seeking Access: Issues Of Well Elderly Women Associated With Healthcare, Badia Abdullah

McNair Scholars Research Journal

No abstract provided.

Survey Of Equine Infectious Anemia Viral Strains In The State Of Texas, Jennifer Williams

McNair Scholars Research Journal

No abstract provided.

Full Issue, The Mcnair Team

McNair Scholars Research Journal

No abstract provided.

A Time Series Analysis Of The Effect Of Welfare Benefits On Earnings, Michael Anthony Lewis

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Policy analysts Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward have put forth a bargaining power model of earnings. More specifically, they have argued that the higher workers' bargaining power, the higher their earnings and the higher the level of welfare benefits, the higher workers' bargaining power. Thus, based on Piven and Cloward's model, one would predict a positive relationship between welfare benefit levels and earnings. Using time series data I test Piven and Cloward's model and find support for it. The policy implications of my findings are discussed.

Taking Subrogation Seriously: The Blue Cross-Blue Shield Tobacco Litigation Reconsidered, Mark C. Weber

Brooklyn Law Review

No abstract provided.

An "Effective Death Penalty"? Aedpa And Error Detection In Capital Cases, James S. Liebman

Brooklyn Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Prison Litigation Reform Act: The New Face Of Court Stripping, John Boston

Brooklyn Law Review

No abstract provided.

The 1996 Immigration Legislation And The Assault On The Courts, Lee Gelernt

Brooklyn Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Future Of Computing Software In The Reverse Engineering War: Excessive Protection V. Innovation, Barbara J. Vining

Brooklyn Law Review

No abstract provided.

When Two Worlds Collide: Examining The Second Circuit's Reasoning In Admitting Evidence Of Civil Settlements In Criminal Trials, Todd W. Blanche

Brooklyn Law Review

No abstract provided.

The L, Vol. 3, No. 2, December 2001, New York Law School

Student Newspapers

No abstract provided.

The Questioning Of Lower Federal Court Nominees At Senate Confirmation Hearings, William Ross

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

No abstract provided.

Religious Land Use And Institutionalized Persons Act Of 2000: The Land Use Provisions Are Both Unconstitutional And Unnecessary, Ada-Marie Walsh

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

The Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 was Congress 'response to the Supreme Court's striking down of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act in City of Boerne v. Flores. In promulgating the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, Congress, inter alia, sought to protect the free exercise of religion from excessive governmental meddling while remedying discrimination suffered by religious individuals and groups in the area of land use. In dealing solely with land use provisions of the RLUIPA, the author argues that the Religious Land Use and lnstitutionalized Person Act is unconstitutional because it violates the Establishment …

Que Ondee Sola - December 2001, Michael Rodriguez-Muniz

Que Ondee Sola

Student publication founded in 1972, articles include: international Day's History of Censorship and Unprofessionalism, Puerto Ricans on the Move, World AIDS Day 2001, HIV in the United States, 20 Years of AIDS, The Work of a Peer Educator, Vieques Update, Interview with Juan Gonzales, A Process of Making NEIU a Better University,

A Glimpse Into Childhood: Review Of Susan Paul, The Memoir Of James Jackson, The Attentive And Obedient Scholar, Who Died In Boston, October 31, 1833, Aged Six Years And Eleven Months, Ed. Lois Brown., Constance B. Schulz

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

Sources by or about the lives of young children are not widely or easily available; sources offering a glimpse into the life a young African American child are particularly scarce. For that reason alone, Lois Brown's rediscovery of this long-neglected Memoir and Harvard University Press's decision to publish it in a serious scholarly edition (in paper as well as cloth) is an important contribution to the literature. Brown describes the Memoir, originally published in Boston in 1835 by the white antislavery activist bookseller and printer James Loring, as a combination of "two distinctive nineteenth- century literary forms, the didactic spiritual …

A Troublesome Letter Signed "Yrs Ch. Darwin", Frederick H. Burkhardt

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

In 1985 when the editors of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin were assembling letters for volume 2 (1837-1843), the letter to be described below came to their attention. The editors decided to omit it from the edition because, despite the "Ch. Darwin" signature, it was not considered an authentic Darwin letter. Some scholars have questioned this decision, among them Professor Phillip R. Sloan, who thinks that it may be a Darwin letter, or that at least it should be included as a letter of uncertain authorship. Accordingly, the editors have decided to review the decision and to consider whether any …