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The Death Of Section 504, Ruth Colker

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

This Article argues that the passage of the ADA had an unexpected consequence, namely the narrowing of the rights that were understood to exist under Section 504. Section 504 covered two broad areas of the law: the law of employment for individuals employed by entities receiving federal financial assistance and the law of education for students attending primary, secondary or higher education. The effect on the law of employment, which I will discuss in Part II, has been immediate and dramatic. The effect on the law of education, discussed in Part III, cannot yet be fully documented. Recent decisions, however, …

Reforming Disability Nondiscrimination Laws: A Comparative Perspective, Stanley S. Herr

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

Comparing the law and policies of other countries concerning disability rights to ours can help us understand how we may strengthen those rights and heighten compliance with nondiscrimination laws. Since it took effect in 1992, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) has been a leading example of such comprehensive legislation on behalf of people with disabilities. Along with the United Nations Standard Rules on Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities, the ADA has inspired many countries to develop their own disability nondiscrimination laws and remedial agencies. This process must work in both directions, however, and laws and agencies from …

Image Compression By Wavelet Transform., Panrong Xiao

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Digital images are widely used in computer applications. Uncompressed digital images require considerable storage capacity and transmission bandwidth. Efficient image compression solutions are becoming more critical with the recent growth of data intensive, multimedia-based web applications.

This thesis studies image compression with wavelet transforms. As a necessary background, the basic concepts of graphical image storage and currently used compression algorithms are discussed. The mathematical properties of several types of wavelets, including Haar, Daubechies, and biorthogonal spline wavelets are covered and the Enbedded Zerotree Wavelet (EZW) coding algorithm is introduced. The last part of the thesis analyzes the compression results to …

Introducción, Héctor Brioso Santos

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

No abstract provided.

Sevilla, Puerto Y Puerta De Las Indias: El Motivo De La Indianización Y Su Papel En Las Comedias Sevillanas De Lope De Vega, Manuel Cornejo

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

El objeto de este articulo es analizar la imagen de las Indias de América tal y como están reflejadas parcial e indirectamente en el corpus de unas quince comedias de Lope de Vega cuyo marco es Sevilla. Después de haber evocado la aparente verosimilitud de la topografía y la sociedad sevillanas vinculadas con las Indias, enfocamos las funciones propiamente literarias de su representación. Mostramos cómo la imagen del Nuevo Mundo desempeña un papel en la economía de la acción (función dramatúrgica), en la crítica moral de la codicia suscitada por el comercio hispano-americano (función ideológica) y en la creación de …

Hispanoamérica En El Teatro Del Siglo De Oro: El Nuevo Rey Gallinato Y Ventura Por Desgracia De Andrés De Claramonte, Alfredo Rodríguez López-Vázquez

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

La comedia heroica El nuevo rey Gallinato y ventura por desgracia, de Andrés de Claramonte es una de las primeras obras (representada ya en abril de 1604) en las que se propone la figura del hombre del Nuevo Mundo. Como obra de una época en la que todavía no se había asentado el modelo lopiano clásico esquematizado en el Arte nuevo, aparecen elementos heterogéneos (como la personificación de figuras morales) y escenas y parlamentos resueltos tal vez de forma apresurada; junto a ello, el plan general de la obra y el tratamiento de la trama con un sólido sentido del …

Visión De América: El Teatro De Santos Indianos Aurisecular, Daisy Rípodas Ardanaz

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

En el teatro del Siglo de Oro español abundaron las comedias sobre vidas de santos. El propósito de este artículo es estudiar qué santos fueron elegidos y por qué, en qué grado y de qué modo sus hechos fueron considerados por los autores de esos dramas, los rasgos específicos de esas piezas y la imagen de América que aportaban. La autora analiza El rufián dichoso de Miguel de Cervantes, Vida y muerte del santo fray Luis Bertrán de Gaspar de Aguilar, La batalla de los dos de Francisco de la Torre, Santa Rosa del Perú de Agustín Moreto y Pedro …

Lo Peor De Ambos Mundos: Dos Entremeses Americanos De Luis Quiñones De Benavente Y Vicente Suárez De Deza, Héctor Brioso Santos

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

El autor estudia dos ejemplos poco conocidos de entremeses con elementos americanos, la segunda parte de El martinillo, entremés cantado de Luis Quiñones de Benavente, fechado entre 1634 y 1635, y Los casamientos de Vicente Suárez de Deza y Avila, que se supone escrito antes de 1663. En los dos casos se observa la trívialización cómica del mundo americano, en el primero a través de una alegoría que esconde algunas críticas acerca de la colonización, y en el segundo por medio de un tratamiento ridiculo del personaje del indiano fmgido, interesante invención de los dramaturgos de la comedia nueva. …

La Imagen De Las Indias En El Teatro Breve Del Siglo De Oro, Héctor Urzáiz Tortajada

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

Este artículo pretende aportar nuevos testimonios acerca de la presencia de América en el teatro breve del Siglo de Oro, donde los asuntos relativos al Descubrimiento se tratan desde un punto de vista cómico y satírico. Se analiza, en primer lugar, el caso de Luis Vélez de Guevara, tanto en su faceta puramente entremesil como en su comedia indiana Las palabras a los reyes, donde se encuentra una especie de entremés intercalado. Se analizan, a continuación, otras obras cortas (loas, bailes y mojigangas) en las que hay una presencia notable de asuntos americanos, escritas por dramaturgos como Suárez de …

Andanzas Americanas De Pedro Ordóñez De Ceballos En Dos Comedias Del Siglo De Oro, Miguel Zugasti

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

El catálogo, tantas veces considerado escaso, de comedias "americanas" del Siglo de Oro español se ha ido ampliando sucesivamente en los últimos años. A él deben añadirse las comedias que tratan las andanzas indianas del clérigo Pedro Ordóñez de Ceballos: dos piezas de Alonso Remón y una comedia de fr. Francisco de Guadarrama, con dos continuaciones anónimas sobre cuya autoría se especula hoy. El autor de este artículo traza una semblanza de Ordóñez de Ceballos, inventaría sus obras, establece sus caracteres como modelo dramático a partir de lo que él mismo declara en sus prólogos a esas comedias, localiza estas …

University Reporter - Vol. 06, No. 04 - December 2001, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1996-2009, University Reporter

No abstract provided.

Ezra Pound's Comparative Poetics, Naikan Tao

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his paper, "Ezra Pound's Comparative Poetics," Naikan Tao concentrates on Pound's theories regarding comparison and examines the significance of his comparative studies to the formulation of his poetics, an aspect that has not been sufficiently investigated. On the basis of Pound's work, Tao observes that the conception of comparison Pound shaped through his comparative studies is the internal principle that governs the presentation of details and particulars, the method Pound advocated as a reader-oriented approach to truth and as an efficient, self-reliant means to avoid others' generalization and discursive presentation. Pound's view of comparison as an epistemological norm -- …

The Effects Of Regional Planning On Suburuban Tokyo Metropolitan Areas, Michael Corbett

Master's Projects

In the current economic downturn that Japan is experiencing, there are a number of issues concerning Tokyo suburban areas that face Japanese planners. Among them are the effects of the historical movements of the population into what is now the Tokyo Metropolitan Areah the transfer of power to local governments^; land availability and social problems caused by the changing demographics of an aging Japanese society in those areas. Unfortunately, during the rapid urbanization spurred by necessary development after World War II little thought was given to quality of life issues such as building design or area plans. Instead, emphasis was …

Filtration Of Thought, Chad Holliday

Theses

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Entropy In Pynchon's "Entropy" And Lefebvre's The Production Of Space, Jason Snart

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his paper, "Entropy in Pynchon's 'Entropy' and Lefebvre's The Production of Space," Jason Snart examines Thomas Pynchon's short story "Entropy" for the ways in which it deals with the kinds of disorder(s) associated with entropy as a thermodynamic and informational concept. Those concepts are installed as a framework within which to consider cultural studies work like Henri Lefebfre's thought in his The Production of Space and Ludwig von Bertalanffy's general systems theory and themodynamics: disorder is rendered not as confusion, but rather as a state of potential energy and productivity and Lefebvre's and Bertalanffy's concepts serve to show how …

Effect Of Nasa Light-Emitting Diode Irradiation On Wound Healing, Harry T. Whelan, Robert L. Smits, Ellen V. Buchmann, Noel T. Whelan, Scott G. Turner, David A. Margolis, Vita Cevenini, Helen Stinson, Ron Ignatius, Todd Martin, Joan Cwiklinski, Alan F. Philippi, William R. Graf, Brian D. Hodgson, Lisa Gould, Mary Kane, Gina Chen, James Caviness

School of Dentistry Faculty Research and Publications

Objective: The purpose of this study was to assess the effects of hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) and near-infrared light therapy on wound healing.

Background Data: Light-emitting diodes (LED), originally developed for NASA plant growth experiments in space show promise for delivering light deep into tissues of the body to promote wound healing and human tissue growth. In this paper, we review and present our new data of LED treatment on cells grown in culture, on ischemic and diabetic wounds in rat models, and on acute and chronic wounds in humans.

Materials and Methods: In vitro and in vivo …

Europe In America: Grammatology, Legal Studies, And The Politics Of Transmission, Peter Goodrich

Articles

This Essay begins by analyzing the way American legal theory has failed to adequately address the challenges and insights of grammatology, the philological critique of the language of law initiated with Jacques Derrida's work Of Grammatology. Professor Goodrich traces the form that this failed confrontation took and then outlines how this philological critique ought to inform a study of law. Importantly for Professor Goodrich, the grammatological approach to law provides ways of analyzing not just the written legal text, but also the effects of new media technologies on the law more broadly. The changes in the law brought about by …

The Courtroom Technology Wars Are Here!, Fredric I. Lederer

Popular Media

No abstract provided.

A Framework For Multilingual Information Processing, Steven Edward Atkin

Theses and Dissertations

Recent and (continuing) rapid increases in computing power now enable more of humankind's written communication to be represented as digital data. The most recent and obvious changes in multilingual information processing have been the introduction of larger character sets encompassing more writing systems. Yet the very richness of larger collections of characters has made the interpretation and processing of text more difficult. The many competing motivations (satisfying the needs of linguists, computer scientists, and typographers) for standardizing character sets threaten the purpose of information processing: accurate and facile manipulation of data. Existing character sets are constructed without a consistent strategy …

Development Of Instrumentation For The Investigation Of Surface Regeneration For Candle Filters, Sean Patrick Gregory

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Two methods of improving efficiency of coal based power generation are integrated gasification combined-cycle (IGCC) and pressurized fluidized-bed combustion (PFBC). Both of these options require high-temperature gas stream particle cleanup for optimum efficiency. Candle filters in a pressurized vessel have received the greatest amount of attention in dealing with this topic, but problems still persist and there does not seem to be clear-cut answer to the problem. This research is an investigation of the candle filter cleaning process, a process known as surface regeneration.;The objective of this research program has been to develop the instrumentation necessary to investigate the surface …

Development Of Environmental Health And Safety Database For Small Communities, Ragava S. Nadig

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

The National Environmental Services Center (NESC) is a group of programs, national in scope, that provide a variety of environmental services directly to small community officials, engineers, technicians, regulatory officials, and private citizens.;The primary mission of each of the NESC programs is to protect public health and the environment of America's small and rural communities-those communities of less than 10,000 people. The NESC programs provide information, technical assistance, and training to help small communities deal with their wastewater, drinking water, and solid waste treatment issues.;Thousands of informational materials pass through the organization each year. This material ranges from manufacturing product …

Rates Of Adoption In A University Course Management System, David Russell Feeney

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

This research focuses on diffusion of an education innovation in a large, traditional University. In March 1999, the Blackboard digital course management system was installed for enterprise-wide availability at Temple University, the 39th largest university in the United States. The web-enabled database of Temple Blackboard logs the adoption date, course ID, and course title for every Blackboard course, unobtrusively, twenty-four hours a day. Temple Blackboard serves as 4 digital approximation of the cumulative recorder pioneered by B. F. Skinner, recording more than 2800 course adoptions across 30 months, in real time. Temple Blackboard course records provide unprecedented quantity and quality …

Enzymatic Deinking Of Flexographic Water-Based Inks, Somporn Chaiarrekij

Masters Theses

Introduction

In recent times, environmental concerns have led to the development of water-based flexographic and rotogravure inks. One of the major concerns for water-based inks is their deinkability. Wash deinking of flexographic water-based ink is much more effective than flotation deinking; however, it has two major disadvantages. It consumes large amounts of water and gives a lower yield than flotation due to the loss of fines and fillers in the effluent (1).

Symposium: Boxing At The Crossroads

Seton Hall Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law

No abstract provided.

Next On Floor Exercise, Dominique Dawes©: The Difficulties In Copyrighting Athletic Routines, William J. Fishkin

Seton Hall Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law

No abstract provided.

The 1972 U.S.-Soviet Abm Treaty: Cornerstone Of Stability Or Relic Of The Cold War?, James A. Ewing

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Local Law Of Global Antitrust, Edward T. Swaine

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.

A Comparison Of Intellectual Test Performance Across Native American And European American Children, Austin P. Keith

Theses and Dissertations

Differential scoring across Native American and European .American groups on the Wechsler Intelligence Scales for Children - Third Edition (WISC-IIi) was examined while controlling for Full Scale IQ and age. Comparisons were made across the groups on Verbal IQ and Performance IQ, individual subtests, individual subtest items and two composite index scores. Results indicated no significant scorino differences between the two groups on Performance IQ or, on the Perceptual Organization Index, Significant scoring differences were also not evident on the Coding, Picture Arrangement, Arithmetic, Block Design, Vocabulary-, Object Assembly and Comprehension subtests. Significant scoring differences were found across the groups …

Male Visual Dominance Continues: A Global Study Of Images Of Men And Women In 750 Online Newspapers In 74 Nations., Kelly Blake Price-Rankin

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study examined how women were represented globally in online newspapers. Depiction of men and women in online newspapers was investigated via cropping of photographs. The photograph was examined to determine if emphasis was placed on the face or body of the human image.

The researcher used the Body Index Scale coding instrument. A simple random sample of 1,969 published photographs in 750 global online newspapers was examined.

A major finding was that men dominate the front screens on global online newspaper Web sites. The data concluded men were cropped with an emphasis on the head, emphasizing intellect. Women were …

Stakeholder Beliefs, Satisfaction And Assessments Of School Climate After Implementation Of A Year-Round Calendar., Robin Lee Adams

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Year-Round Schooling (YRS), a calendar or scheduling concept, has become quite common in this country over the past thirty years. Generally schools have adopted YRS scheduling in an effort to: (1) increase efficiency in the operation of the schools and (2) enhance student development and learning.

The University School at East Tennessee State University (ETSU), a public K-12 school located on the ETSU campus, implemented a YRS calendar in the Summer of 1996. Over a period of six years data were collected to assess the effectiveness of YRS at University School. Study participants (students, parents and teachers) were surveyed initially …