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Antitrust In The International Telecommunications Sector: The United States Challenges Mexico's Telmex Monopoly, Luz Estella Ortiz Nagle

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

No abstract provided.

Extended Visions September-October 2002

Extended Visions Newsletter (ARDC)

No abstract provided.

What Is Living And What Is Dead In Eurocentrism?, Ricardo Duchesne

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

Why Craft Isn't Scary, Steve R. Johnson

Scholarly Publications

In April 2002, the Supreme Court of the United States decided United States v. Craft. The Court held that the federal tax lien attaches to a tax-debtor spouse’s interest in property held in tenancy by the entirety even when the other spouse does not owe tax and state law provides that entireties property and interests cannot be reached by separate creditors of only one spouse.

Craft was correctly decided. The older, contrary view that Craft displaced was fundamentally at odds with federal tax collection analysis as laid out by the Court. In addition, the old view invited tax abuse and …

An Empirical Analysis Of The Effect Of The Need For Closure On Materiality Thresholds Of Auditors, Cynthia M. Daily

Doctoral Dissertations

The purpose of this study is to identify the strengths of a specific motivator for judgment and decision-making, referred to as “need for closure” and determine how the strength of that motivator affects materiality judgments of auditors.

The extent to which auditors seek and process information prior to forming a judgment can have important consequences in the conduct of an audit. In this regard, psychology researchers have identified a personality characteristic—a motive for judgment and decision making—that influences the decision making process. This motive, referred to as the need for closure, pertains to the desire of individuals to clear …

Survival Analysis Of Internet Companies: An Application Of The Hazard Model, Khaled Elkhal

Doctoral Dissertations

The purpose of this study is to develop a model that predicts failure and estimates the time of survival of dotcoms using a number of financial and non-financial factors. This model can be used as a warning tool for stockholders, creditors, and consumers to protect themselves from such failures.

I employ the Cox (1972) Proportional Hazards Model in a cross-sectional and time-varying context using financial data over the 1998–2001 period. Results from a cross-sectional analysis reveal that the coefficient estimates for variables CFTL and NSTA are consistently negative and highly significant. This suggests that higher sales and cash flows lower …

Pattern Recognition For Electric Power System Protection, Yong Sheng

Doctoral Dissertations

The objective of this research is to demonstrate pattern recognition tools such as decision trees (DTs) and neural networks that will improve and automate the design of relay protection functions in electric power systems. Protection functions that will benefit from the research include relay algorithms for high voltage transformer protection (TP) and for high impedance fault (HIF) detection. A methodology, which uses DTs and wavelet analysis to distinguish transformer internal faults from other conditions that are easily mistaken for internal faults, has been developed. Also, a DT based solution is proposed to discriminate HIFs from normal operations that may confuse …

Community, Fall 2002, Office Of Communications And Marketing, Wright State University

Community

Thirty-six page issue of Community which was published periodically from 1996 through 2011. The magazine focused on news and events at Wright State University relating to faculty, staff, alumni, and friends of the university.

Theorizing Behavioral Law And Economics: A Defense Of Evolutionary Analysis And The Law, Neel P. Parekh

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

Behavioral law and economics (BLE) provides a steady stream of empirical evidence that counters the predictions of law and economics. Despite this research and data, however, many theorists argue that BLE ultimately fails because it posits no underlying theory. This Note argues that perspectives from evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology, and the brain sciences can provide the missing motivational theory for BLE's empirical findings. The Note also examines the implications a more consistent and reasoned consideration of evolutionary analysis and the law (EA) has for our legal regime. In theorizing BLE and defending EA, this Note aims to show how evolutionary …

Unofficial Grapevine, October/November 2002, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg.

Unofficial Grapevine

The October/November 2002 issue of the Unofficial Grapevine.

Fair Use And Market Failure: Sony Revisited, Glynn S. Lunney Jr

Faculty Scholarship

With the development and dissemination of digital technology, the importance of private copying and its legal status, whether fair or unfair under copyright law, has only increased. Yet, despite its status as the Court's first and only pronouncement on the issue, Sony has played surprisingly little role in this ongoing debate. Even in cases bearing seemingly close similarity to the home-taping at issue in Sony itself, such as the private, home copying of musical works, courts have refused to follow Sony's fair use outcome. Having been narrowly construed as an exceptional instance of market failure, Sony seldom appears to …

October 1, 2002, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

No abstract provided.

Bluetooth: An Emerging Technology For Wireless Personal Area Networks, Eric S. Hall, Charles D. Knutson, David K. Vawdrey

Faculty Publications

Look under your desk or behind your computer. See that rat’s nest of wires and cables? Almost every cable or wire that tethers us to our devices (or our devices to one another) is unnecessary. Bluetooth wireless technology promises to reduce the cabling chaos that afflicts us all. Bluetooth is a recently developed technology that uses radio frequency (RF) transceivers to provide point-to-multipoint wireless connectivity within a personal space. Bluetooth was designed for both voice and data communication at low per-unit costs while consuming little power. To achieve the cost and power goals, Bluetooth limits connectivity to a sphere of …

Sustainable Development And Postmodern International Law: Greener Globalization?, Barbara Stark

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

The second session of the Global Preparatory Committee for the World Summit on Sustainable Development opened on January 28, 2002, in New York. Three observations emerge from ten days of plenary meetings and “side events,” cacophony and sound bites, visions of a vibrant, pristine world in the dimly lit United Nations (“UN”) basement, dingy with cigarette smoke. First, there was no big picture, no meta-narrative of sustainable development. There is no grand theory, no neat framework to which a coherent set of rules can be applied, and under which subcategories can be organized and responsibilities allocated.

These three observations correspond …

A Partial Legal Victory Against Continuing Discrimination: The New Supreme Court Ruling In Amtrak V. Morgan, Joanna L. Grossman

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

This June, the U.S. Supreme Court decided a technical, but important case interpreting Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The case–National Railroad Passenger Corp. (Amtrak) v. Morgan- was a victory for victims of sexual and other forms of harassment, but a loss for victims of other forms of illegal workplace discrimination. The issue was whether incidents of discrimination that occurred outside the statute of limitations could nevertheless form the basis for a suit pursuant to the “continuing violations” doctrine. The answer from the Court, in a decision authored by Justice Clarence Thomas, was “Yes and no.”

Pharmacy Newsletter : October 2002, Pharmacy Department

Department of Pharmacy Archives

Content:

• Drug Utilization Review

Truth Vs. Justice: Promoting The Rule Of Law In Post-Apartheid South Africa., Cassandra Fox Charles

The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice

Strict adherence to the rule of law provides the strongest protections against gross human rights violations. The aftermath of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, TRC, demonstrates how few protections exist without the rule of law. By exchanging truth for justice, the Commission harmed, and continues to harm, the true victims of apartheid and failed to achieve the national unity and reconciliation promised. Truthful confessions based on voluntary disclosure cannot equalize the overarching systematic disparities required for reconciliation to take root and grow. Instead of amnesty in exchange for voluntary disclosure, South Africa should follow the traditional notions of justice …

America And The World: Human Rights At Home And Abroad., Joe W. (Chip) Pitts Iii

The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice

Multiple provisions in the Bill of Rights appear gutted around the last year. While abroad, Mr. Pitts received an outside perspective on American news which provided him with a new outlook on current events. The United Nations Social Forum brought voices into the United Nations which are not typically heard, such as poor and vulnerable populations not represented elsewhere. Concurrently, the Johannesburg Summit addressed similar issues. However, as of late, the American government suppresses the voices of the American people. The Patriot Act includes provisions which deter dissent, freedom of speech, and assembly. This Act also purported to give the …

Otterbein Towers Fall 2002, Otterbein Towers

Towers Magazine

Otterbein's Library Through The Years, Alumni Profiles: Evelyn Nichols Tryon, Bob Woods, T.J. Gerckens, Commencement 2002, Alumni Weekend 2002, The A Cappella Choir, Somali Children Introduced to America, College News, Classnotes, Milestones, The "O" Club, Philanthropy at Otterbein, Alumni Notes

Flyer News, Vol. 50, No. 8 (Oct. 1, 2002), University Of Dayton

Flyer News

Student-run newspaper of the University of Dayton

Michigan Cyber Court: A Bold Experiment In The Development Of The First Public Virtual Courthouse, Lucille M. Ponte

North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology

No abstract provided.

Federal Circuit And Claim Construction: Resolving The Conflict Between The Claims And The Written Description, Gregory J. Gallagher

North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology

No abstract provided.

Is It "The Will Of The People" Or A Broken Arrow? Collective Preferences, Out-Of-The-Money Options, Bush V. Gore, And Arguments For Quashing Post-Balloting Litigation Absent Specific Allegations Of Fraud, Mark Klock

University of Miami Law Review

No abstract provided.

Hazardous Heuristics, Cass R. Sunstein

Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper Series

New work on heuristics and biases has explored the role of emotions and affect; the idea of “dual processing”; the place of heuristics and biases outside of the laboratory; and the implications of heuristics and biases for policy and law. This review-essay focuses on certain aspects of Heuristics and Biases: The Psychology of Intuitive Judgment, edited by Thomas Gilovich, Dale Griffin, and Daniel Kahneman. An understanding of heuristics and biases casts light on many issues in law, involving jury awards, risk regulation, and political economy in general. Some attention is given to the possibility of “moral heuristics”—rules of thumb, for …

Daily Eastern News: October 01, 2002, Eastern Illinois University

October

No abstract provided.

Southeastern Law Librarian Fall 2002, Seaall

Newsletters

No abstract provided.

Behind Closed Doors: Should States Regulate Homeschooling?, Judith G. Mcmullen

South Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

Drawing The Line: The Civil Courts' Resolution Of Church Property Disputes, The Established Church And All Saints' Episcopal Church, Waccamaw, Sarah M. Montgomery

South Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

Can Equity And Cercla Co-Exist - Blasland V. City Of North Miami, Robert S. Jones Ii

Southeastern Environmental Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Environmental Protection And Pre-Emption Of State Common Law Tort Claims By Fifra: Netland V. Hess, Robert Waltz

Southeastern Environmental Law Journal

No abstract provided.