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Examination Of A Method For Increasing Adjustment To And Compliance With Nasal Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (Cpap) In Persons With Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome., Jack Allen Johnson Jr

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) is a serious medical condition that occurs during sleep and consists of episodes of complete (respiratory pauses) or partial obstruction (hypoventilation) of the upper airway. Approximately 80% of persons diagnosed with OSAS are prescribed nasal Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) treatment, which has proven to be the treatment of choice for OSAS. However, noncompliance with CPAP treatment in OSAS patients is a widely recognized problem, and many persons refuse CPAP as a treatment option or fail to use it reliably. Investigations of CPAP use in OSAS patients have generally found that nightly use averages less …

Parenting Practices As A Moderator Of Exposure To Community Violence., Nicole Francingues Lanclos

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

Numerous studies evidence that urban youth are exposed to epidemic proportions of community violence. Exposure to community violence has been associated with significant levels of distress including aggression, academic difficulties, anxiety, depression, and posttraumatic stress disorder. Although it is clear that children who experience chronic levels of violence exposure are at increased risk for poor developmental outcome, the consequences of exposure are not the same for all children. Parenting factors found to buffer the effects of community violence exposure include family size, parental presence in the home, family support, parenting resources, family cohesion, and strong parental monitoring. It is less …

Show Me The Money: An Analysis Of The Impact Of Voter Recognition On The Campaign Spending Effects Of House And Senate Candidates., Nicholas Chad Long

LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses

The focus of this dissertation is campaign spending in congressional elections. I examine the benefits that candidates receive from campaign expenditures. I think that challengers receive greater benefits from spending than incumbents, but that the extent of these benefits depends on the type of challenger. High-quality challengers are those that have previous experience in an important elective office, while low-quality challengers lack this experience. Because of this experience, high-quality challengers enjoy a higher level of recognition among the electorate than low-quality challengers. I think that the benefits that challengers receive from expenditures are inversely related to the level of recognition …

The Impact And Evolution Of The Massachusetts Comprehensive Permit And Zoning Appeals Act: Thirty Years Of Experience With A State Legislative Effort To Overcome Exclusionary Zoning, Sharon P. Krefetz

Western New England Law Review

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Toward A Notion Of Environmental Bioethics, Robin K. Craig

Western New England Law Review

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Increasing Affordable Housing And Regional Housing Opportunity In New England: Perspectives On The Occasion Of The Thirtieth Anniversary Of The Massachusetts Comprehensive Permit Law: A Selected Bibliography, Bonnie L. Koneski-White

Western New England Law Review

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Constitutional Law—Employees' Fourth Amendment Rights Beyond Their Work Space: The Employment Relationship As A Source Of Privacy Expectations, Michele Morris

Western New England Law Review

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Animal Experimentation And The First Amendment, Thomas G. Kelch

Western New England Law Review

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Rural Low-Income Housing And Massachusetts Chapter 40b: A Perspective From The Zoning Board Of Appeals, Eric J. Gouvin

Western New England Law Review

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When Inclusion Leads To Exclusion: The Uncharted Terrain Of Community Participation In Economic Development, Audrey G. Mcfarlane

Brooklyn Law Review

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Legal Systems, Decisionmaking, And The Science Of Earth's Systems: Procedural Missing Links, Nicholas A. Robinson

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

Decisionmakers disregard scientific findings regarding environmental conditions, despite recommendations of the 1992 "Earth Summit" in Agenda 21 that science should provide a foundation for sustainable development. Although environmental degradation trends continue to exacerbate, decisionmakers address only selected issues. This Article examines an analytic paradigm for evaluating when decisionmakers are ready to address a problem and describes the catalytic role that scientific information can serve in prompting remedial action. Unless systematic procedures require evaluation of environmental scientific findings in the normal course of decisionmaking, science will continue to be ignored. One hallmark of Environmental Law has been to fashion such procedures, …

Drawing The Curtain On Open Government? In Defense Of The Federal Advisory Committee Act, Carolyn Bingham Kello

Brooklyn Law Review

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Facilitating Welfare Rights Class Action Litigation: Putting Damages And Attorney's Fees To Work, Randal S. Jeffrey

Brooklyn Law Review

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Exploitation Of The Elite: A Case For Physician Unionization, Dionne L. Koller

All Faculty Scholarship

Our intuition tells us that physicians are elites, and therefore they cannot be exploited. Relying on this intuition, we adopt policies which attempt to provide a health care system that gives first-quality care, at the lowest prices, delivered through a “free-market” system. As the key gatekeepers to health care, physicians are thus caught in the middle. Top-notch American health care costs money and for-profit MCOs must watch their bottom line. Rationing, therefore, is key. The issue is, assuming we have decided that free-market health care is the solution, how much should physicians have to sacrifice in the name of the …

Resurrecting Incipiency: From Von's Grocery To Consumer Choice, Robert H. Lande

All Faculty Scholarship

The merger incipiency doctrine is virtually ignored in the courts today. This article argues that it should be resurrected, and it also explores the ways that effectuating Congressional intent in the area would reinvigorate merger policy.

The article documents how the legislative history of the antimerger statutes shows that Congress intended mergers to be evaluated under an incipiency approach, and explores the possible meanings of this idea. It then shows that this is a strong basis for reviving significantly stricter or more prophylactic merger enforcement.

The article shows how there are aspects of the doctrine that could be revived without …

Faculty Senate Minutes-2001

Faculty Senate Minutes

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Regulating Human Cloning Within An Environmental Human Rights Framework, Andrea Wang

Colorado Environmental Law Journal

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Stemming The Flow Of Environmental Displacement: Creating A Convention To Protect Persons And Preserve The Environment, Dana Zartner Falstrom

Colorado Environmental Law Journal

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Gm Crops—Savior Or Saboteur? Agricultural Biotechnology In China Today, Leslie Ryan

Colorado Environmental Law Journal

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Crime, Punishment And Penal Policy, Ian O'Donnell

Irish Journal of Applied Social Studies

Academic interest in crime and punishment in Ireland has grown in recent years and a number of important books have appeared (Bacik and O'Connell 1998, Brewer et al 1997, McCullagh 1996, O'Mahony 1993, O'Malley 2000). However any attempt to create a detailed understanding of the criminal justice process is frustrated by a lack of data. Statistical information is often published years in arrears, is of poor quality and is uncritically accepted as accurate and meaningful. The purpose of this paper is to give a snapshot of current understanding of the criminal justice system and to highlight a small number of …

"The University Works Because We Do": Collective Bargaining Rights For Graduate Assistants, Grant M. Hayden

Fordham Law Review

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Democracy-Based Resistance To A Constitutional Right Of Social Citizenship: A Comment On Forbath, Frank I. Michelman

Fordham Law Review

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The Constitution, Civic Virtue, And Civil Society: Social Capital As Substantive Morality, Stephen Macedo

Fordham Law Review

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Limiting The Business Method Patent: A Comparison And Proposed Alignment Of European, Japanese And United States Patent Law, Brian P. Biddinger

Fordham Law Review

"That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition…."

No "Double-Dipping" Allowed: An Analysis Of Waste Management, Inc. V. United Mexican States And The Article 1121 Waiver Requirement For Arbitration Under Chapter 11 Of Nafta, Jacob S. Lee

Fordham Law Review

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A Trust Analysis Of A Gestational Carrier's Right To Abortion, Kevin Yamamoto, Shelby A.D. Moore

Fordham Law Review

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Report Of The Case Management Working Group, Mary Ann Forgey, Hank Orenstein

Fordham Law Review

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Report Of The Race, Class, Ethnicity And Gender Working Group, Dana Hamilton

Fordham Law Review

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Family Court Case Conferencing And Post-Dispositional Tracking: Tools For Achieving Justice For Parents In The Child Welfare System, Sara P. Schechter

Fordham Law Review

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Acs's Interpretation Of The "No Contact Rule" Impedes The Reunification Of Families, Nanette Schorr

Fordham Law Review

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