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Regulation And Measurement Of Nitrification In Terrestrial Systems, D. R. Smart, S. C. Hart, K. A. Haubensak, John M. Stark

Biology Faculty Publications

Nitric oxide (NO) is a relatively short-lived trace gas that reacts with oxygen in the troposphere to produce the air pollutant ozone. It also reacts with water vapor to form nitric and nitrous acids, which acidify precipitation and increase N deposition. Models currently used to predict soil NO fluxes are based on the assumption that NO flux is proportional to the gross rate of nitrification or N mineralization; however, this assumption has not been tested because of the difficulty in measuring gross N-cycling rates in situ. We measured soil NO fluxes, gross and net N-cycling rates, and a variety of …

An Examination Of The Development Of Personal Power Among Trainees At Various Stages Of The Counselor Education Process, John Welburn

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The study investigated the effect that participation in counselor training had on the personal power levels of 45 student volunteers representing three levels of counseling training. Group I (Beginning level) consisted of 15 students beginning counselor training, Group II (Practicum level) was comprised of 16 students beginning the practicum experience, and Group III (Graduating level) was consisted of 14 students graduating from the counselor training program. Individual assessment of personal power levels was accomplished utilizing Hagberg's Personal Power Profile, a 72 question instrument designed to measure individual personal power levels. The six stages of personal power that the instrument is …

[Introduction To] Saving Adam Smith: A Tale Of Wealth, Transformation, And Virtue, Jonathan B. Wight

Bookshelf

Every once in a while a great business novel is published. This is one of those novels. Follow an up-and-coming graduate student on a picturesque adventure involving terroristics and love, and learn, or better yet, re-learn, correctly this time, a little economics.

Take Courage: What The Courts Can Do To Improve The Delivery Of Criminal Defense Services, Adele Bernhard

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Habeas Review Of Perfunctory State Court Decisions On The Merits, Scott Dodson

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Justice Denied? The Adjudication Of Extradition Applications, Ann Powers

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

This article was prompted when a well-regarded LL.M. candidate at Pace Law School's Center for Environmental Legal Studies was arrested and subjected to extradition proceedings. Faculty, staff, and students became embroiled in efforts, ultimately successful, to challenge the extradition request. In doing so, they confronted the substantive and procedural barriers faced by an accused in current extradition processes and the significant potential for human rights abuses. Thus, this article, which analyzes current extradition law, updates what has been a slowly developing area of the law and proposes changes to address some of the shortfalls. Part II presents a brief history …

Renewable Energy Sources For Development, Richard L. Ottinger

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

Renewable energy resources hold great promise for meeting the energy and development needs of countries throughout the world. This promise is particularly strong for developing countries where many regions have not yet committed to fossil fuel dominance. Solar photovoltaic and solar thermal technologies are particularly advantageous for serving the two billion people in rural areas without grid electricity. Modern biomass energy is attractive because it uses locally available agricultural wastes. Wind energy and small hydroelectric resources also are mature technologies well suited to developing countries. Such renewable resources are far more economical than traditional energy resources, especially where the costs …

Foreign Inspired Courts As Agencies Of Peace In Troubled Societies A Plea For Realism And For Creativity, Ugo Mattei

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Renegade Conduct And Punitive Damages In Tort, M. Stuart Madden

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Know-It-All Librarians, Beth Posner

Publications and Research

Librarians are depicted as know-it-alls by some, and as know-nothings by others. Similarly, they are seen as both utterly powerless and preternaturally powerful. This essay offers examples of these contradictory images, examines their implications, and proposes a more realistic view of librarians and their relation to knowledge and power.

"The Homosexual" As Problem Patron, Polly Thistlethwaite

Publications and Research

Libraries host a range of human activity, some of which is overtly sexual. What's a librarian to do about public displays of affection? cruising? public sex? First, we read up on the issue. Unfortunately, problem patron library literature is spotted with vivid illustrations of irrational bias against gay men, male-to-female transgender women, and men-cruising-men. It also discounts the private nature of most consensual sex in public places. This article discusses sex and gender biases in library literature, arguing that gender equitable, privacy-respecting practices will better serve librarians administering public space.

The Development And Validity Testing Of The Risk Communicator Style Scale And The Risk Knowledge Index., Jason Steven Wrench

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

This study examined the current lack of quantitative research in the area of risk communication. This study set out to develop and then validate two different scales that could be used for future research in the area of risk communication. The first scale created in this study is the Risk Communicator Style Scale. The scale is based on the technical and democratic models of risk communication described by Fiorino (1989). This study found a conceptual problem with Fiorino's original conceptualization of technical risk communication. Fiorino's original conceptualization of technical communication tried to equate the use of scientific and statistical information …

Part I. Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (Sers): Methodology And Applications To Small Organic Molecules. Part Ii. Luminescence In The Raman Spectra Of Aluminum Oxide., Chen Zuo

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

This dissertation contains two parts. The first part is focused on Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS). A new simple method has been developed to produce SERS-active metal surfaces on aluminum foil. Strong surface enhancements have been observed from cadmium, nickel, gold, iron, copper, and silver surfaces prepared by this method. SERS of aqueous pyridine solutions have been investigated on these different metal surfaces and the differences are explained by the different adsorption behaviors. Strong surface enhancement effects have also been observed using iron/copper and platinum/copper surfaces, which are prepared by two different metals reduced sequentially onto aluminum foil. SERS studies of …

A Theory Of Imperial Law: A Study On U.S. Hegemony And The Latin Resistance, Ugo Mattei

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Litigating Time In America At The Turn Of The Twentieth Century, Jenni Parrish

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Ipm, Integrated Pest Management In North Dakota Agriculture, Janet J. Knodel, Marcia P. Mcmullen

PP Series – Plant Pathology

No abstract provided.

A Guide To Feeding Field Peas To Livestock, Vernon L. Anderson

AS Series – Animal Science

No abstract provided.

Introduction: The Virtues And Vices Of Skeptical Environmentalism, Jonathan H. Adler, Andrew P. Morriss

Faculty Scholarship

Introduction Extract:

The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World by Bjorn Lomborg' is the most talked about environmental book in recent memory. Lomborg's central thesis is relatively straightforward: "Our doomsday conceptions of the environment are not correct." To the contrary, in recent decades humanity's lot has "improved in terms of practically every measurable indicator." Lomborg is not the first author to make this argument,4 but his book is the first to spark such a maelstrom of public attention. Its publication ignited controversy and debate on both sides of the Atlantic. Lomborg himself, an associate professor of statistics …

Property Rights, Pesticides, & (And) Public Health: Explaining The Paradox Of Modern Pesticide Policy, Andrew P. Morriss, Roger E. Meiners

Faculty Scholarship

The lesson of DDT's rise and fall is that property rights play a critical role in checking public policy abuses. Respect for property rights requires public actors to obtain property owners' consent before they take actions (e.g. pesticide spraying) that affect the property owners. When property rights are respected, spillover impacts are minimized. Public policies imposed without consent, even if done with good intentions, may produce bad effects. Those effects may result in the policy being rightly abandoned, but may also spur other policies that produce more bad effects. Only by consistent respect for property rights, by both governments and …

Principles For Water, Andrew P. Morriss, Bruce Yandle, Terry L. Anderson

Faculty Scholarship

Water issues are often contentious. How much water can one individual use? What must the water quality of water returned from use be? How much water must be allocated to uses such as maintaining sufficient instream flows for aquatic species? For the last century, the United States has largely such answered questions through command and control regulatory schemes rather than through markets and common law dispute resolution processes. The choice of regulation by institutions over other mechanisms has meant a reliance on centralized decisionmaking and a rejection of both the market's more decentralized institutions and the common law.

Recently, water …

The Lawyers' Role In Selecting The President: A Complete Legal History Of The 2000 Election, Lynne H. Rambo

Faculty Scholarship

This Article presents the factual and legal history of Bush v. Gore, in the detail that is warranted for a case of this magnitude and complexity. Part One sets forth the legal framework within which the case unfolded, acquainting the reader with the breadth of Florida and federal law that governed the controversy. Part Two reviews what happened--the factual and legal developments from the time Gore requested manual counts in four Florida counties through the Supreme Court's decision ending the statewide recount the Florida Supreme Court had ordered--and focuses on the attorneys' arguments at each stage. Part Three then …

Disputants' Decision Control In Court-Connected Mediation: A Hollow Promise Without Procedural Justice, Nancy A. Welsh

Faculty Scholarship

Professor Deborah Hensler suggests in the lead article of this Symposium issue that the courts' embrace of facilitative, interest-based mediation may have been ill-conceived. She argues that there is insufficient evidence to conclude that litigants are more satisfied with mediation than with adjudicative alternatives such as arbitration and trial. She also urges that there is sufficient evidence to show that litigants prefer processes that vest decision control in third parties. Both of these assertions are subject to challenge,' but this Comment will focus upon the significance of giving decision control to the disputants in consensual processes.

Using available research, this …

Canola Production, Duane Raymond Berglund, Kent Mckay, Janet J. Knodel

A Series – Agronomy/Plant Science

No abstract provided.

The Effect Of Training Infant Joint Visual Attention On Novel Word Learning., Melissa S. Atkins

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Joint visual attention is the ability to follow another person's line of vision. This ability develops toward the end of the human infant's first year, but can be trained as early as 8 months of age. Many studies have correlated infant joint visual attention abilities with language development, but there has been no experimental manipulation to determine whether there is a causal relation between joint visual attention and word learning. In the present study, 41 infants between 7.5 and 8.5 months of age were assigned to either the treatment or control group. The treatment group received a joint attention training …

Feeding Field Peas To Livestock, Blaine Schatz, Vernon L. Anderson, J.W. Schroeder

EB Series – Extension Bulletins

No abstract provided.

Stereotypes, Intolerance, And Policy Supports For Women, Minorities, And Gays: The Diversity Course Impact On Students Pursuing Higher Education In The Sreb States., Christine J. Brehm

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Problematic stereotyping of women, minorities, and gays in the United States may become justification for prejudicial attitudes that lead to political intolerance toward members of these marginalized groups. While images of others and a sense of political tolerance develop through childhood and preadult socialization, education beyond high school can have a significant impact on one's reliance on stereotypes when considering the granting or withholding of basic civil rights from marginalized members of society, and may also affect the position one takes towards policies created to benefit women, minorities, and gays. During the fall semester of 2000, an investigation of these …

Sowing Barren Ground: Constructions Of Motherhood, The Body, And Subjectivity In American Women's Writing, 1928-1948., Virginia Blanton Broaddus

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

This project considers the demands American women confront about their societal roles, particularly cultural discourses that urge women to become biological mothers. These discourses become especially compelling during eras when women transgress ideological boundaries, leaving the constructed domestic space and taking places in the public sphere. I analyze responses to these discourses as they are manifested in literature written between 1928 and 1948 as well as in the late twentieth century. My analysis, informed by cultural studies and feminist theory, depends upon my use of intersubjectivity theory, particularly as articulated by Jessica Benjamin. I discuss the role of the body …

A Helping Hand?: The United States, "Questions Of The Far East," & The Washington Conference, 1921-1922., David R. Buck

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

By examining in detail the conference records as well as a variety of personal collections and writings, this dissertation investigates the U.S. role at the Washington Conference, 1921-22, specifically the forgotten aspects of the “Questions of the Far East.” Historians have traditionally focused on the Five-Power Treaty (limitation of naval armaments) or the Four-Power Treaty (alliance in East Asia). So prominent has been this focus that some scholars have contended that the conference produced a so-called Washington system, which replaced the existing imperialist system and defined East Asian relations throughout the 1920s. Yet, the conference also produced the Nine-Power Treaty …

Why National Missile Defense: A Test Of Three Competing Models., Christopher Lee Campbell

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

This dissertation seeks to answer the question of why the United States is pursuing the deployment of a national missile defense (NMD) system at the present time. The explanation most often given by national security policy makers is that it is being constructed in response to the weapons programs of “rogue states.” States such as North Korea, Iran, and Iraq are seen as actively developing weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and the capability to deliver these weapons to the U.S. mainland. However, the proposal of this system poses problems. First, it has made many U.S. allies fear that its foreign …

Insights Into The Nature Of Retroviral Replication And Infection: Analyses Of Minus-Strand Dna Transfer, Double Infection, And Virion And Rna Dimer Maturation., Que Dang

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Retroviruses are a family of RNA viruses that replicate through DNA intermediates by reverse transcribing their genome. One of the essential steps of reverse transcription is minus-strand DNA transfer, during which nascent DNA switches template usage from the 5′ end to near the 3′ of the viral RNA genome. We have determined that minus-strand DNA transfer is homology driven; a minimum homology length is required to align the newly synthesized DNA with the 3′ RNA template to facilitate an efficient and accurate transfer. In addition to the obligatory template strand transfer events necessary to complete reverse transcription, template switching also …