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Insurance Law, J. Price Collins, Lara K. Forde

SMU Law Review

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Health Care Law, Thomas Wm. Mayo

SMU Law Review

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Toxic Torts And Mass Torts, Brent M. Rosenthal

SMU Law Review

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Misclassifying Monetary Restitution, Colleen P. Murphy

SMU Law Review

No abstract provided.

The City Of New York Civil Court Holds That Pre-Authorized Drafts Or Telechecks Are Subject To The Uniform Commercial Code In The Same Manner As Any Other Checks - Interbank Of New York V. Fleet Bank, R.B. Ramsey

SMU Law Review

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Tradition, John B. Attanasio

SMU Law Review

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Tulk V. Moxhay And Texas Environmental Law: Land Use Restrictions Under The Texas Risk Reduction Program, Jeffrey M. Gaba

SMU Law Review

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Home Equity Loans In Texas: Maintaining The Texas Tradition Of Homestead Protection, Julia Patterson Forrester Rogers

SMU Law Review

This Article examines home equity financing in Texas, focusing on how continued protection of the homestead shelters Texas homeowners from problems experienced by some homeowners in other states. In Part I of the Article, I briefly explore the history of homestead protection and home equity loans in Texas, a subject on which Joe McKnight literally wrote the book. In Part II, I discuss the growth of home equity loans in other states, the reasons for their popularity, and the problems that have arisen for homeowners who have been victimized by predatory lenders. Part III examines the constitutional amendment that ultimately …

Environmental Regulation, Tort Law And Environmental Justice: What Could Have Been, Tseming Yang

Faculty Publications

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Merchant Knowledge Levels Of The State Tobacco Law And Local Ordinance And How It Relates To The Ability Of Youth To Purchase Tobacco, Jeanine E. Gangeness

Theses and Dissertations

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Environmental Law—Clean Water Act—The Supreme Court Scales Back The Army Corps Of Engineers' Jurisdiction Over "Navigable Waters" Under The Clean Water Act. Solid Waste Agency V. United States Army Corps Of Engineers, 531 U.S. 159 (2001)., Margaret A. Johnston

University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review

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Correlations Between Reading Achievement And Discipline Problems Among African-American Male Eighth Grade Students In The Little Rock School District, Deborah J. Price

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to add to the body of existing knowledge regarding the relationship between academic achievement and discipline problems found in schools today. The study undertook to determine if there is a correlation between the behavior of African-American male students and their academic achievement. Specifically, it examines their achievement in reading and whether or not these students have experienced serious discipline problems at school. The sample was limited to African-American male students who are in the eighth grade during the 2001-2002 school year. These students must have attended a middle school within the Little Rock School …

Historical Accounts Of The Esveldt Family And Pete Esvelt Presentation, John P. Esvelt Ii, Pete Esvelt

Publications from Special Collections

This document consists of a published history of the Esveldt family with the transcript of a presentation by Pete Esvelt about his family's history digitally appended to the end.

The Esveldt family immigrated to the United States from the Netherlands, eventually settling in northeastern Washington. The work consists largely of the memoir of John P. Esvelt II written in two parts. The first, labelled "Narrative 1", tells the family story from immigration through John's early childhood. "Narrative 2" continues the story through 1963. The history contains details of the family's life on farms in Dartford and Colville, with some details …

The Soul Of Scholarship: The Relationship Between Academic Achievement And Religious Orientation Of College -Bound High School Seniors, Karmen Petersen Williams

Theses and Dissertations

Previous research has suggested a relationship between religiousness and various aspects of physical and mental health; however, an examination of the relationship between religious orientation and academic achievement appears to be an under-explored area of empirical research. The present study investigated the relationship of academic achievement and religious orientation of college-bound high school seniors. The Intrinsic and Extrinsic subscales of Allport's (Allport & Ross, 1967) Religious Orientation Scale and the Quest subscale of Batson's (Batson & Ventis, 1982) Religious Life Inventory were interspersed into a 32-item Likert-style questionnaire. The questionnaire was administered in both large group and small group format …

Exploring Aspects Of Effectiveness Of The Department Chair In Metropolitan Universities, Kathy Cooper Trawick

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to explore the roles and competencies of the effective department chair based on the perceptions of faculty, chairs, and deans at three selected metropolitan universities. A brief look at 54 competencies and tasks taken from eight basic categories were rank-ordered by the participants. Data were obtained via electronic survey and an Internet web site at the researcher's home institution. Results were analyzed using Kendall's W Coefficient of Concordance to determine agreement among the groups in prioritizing the eight basic categories of department chair competencies. Results from the study of 130 total participants indicated there …

Understanding The Conditions That Encourage The Persistence Of Women In Science, Mathematics, And Engineering Career Pathways, Linda C. Kondrick

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to determine which factors encourage the persistence of women in the pursuit of Science, Math, and Engineering (SME) careers. Surveys with 36 parallel pairs of theory and history questions regarding the importance and the aptness of variables identified in the literature were completed by 205 SME career women. The variables covered three educational levels: High School, Undergraduate and Graduate. Results reveal which variables fit the experiences of these women and were also believed by them to be important to women in the pursuit of an SME career goal. False Negatives, women who according to …

Torts—Wrongful Death—The Birth Of Fetal Rights Under Arkansas's Wrongful Death Statute: The Arkansas Supreme Court Recognizes A Fetus As A "Person." Aka V. Jefferson Hospital Ass'n, 344 Ark. 627, 42 S.W.3d 508 (2001)., Raina Weaver

University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review

No abstract provided.

Let The Jury Decide: The Gap Between What Judges And Reasonable People Believe Is Sexually Harassing, Theresa M. Beiner

Law Faculty Scholarship

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Review Of 6000 A Day: Account Of A Catastrophe Foretold, A Film By Philip Brooks, John Stephen Brantley

Faculty & Staff Research & Creative Activity

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Review Of Medicine And The German Jews: A History, John Stephen Brantley

Faculty & Staff Research & Creative Activity

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Review Of Communication Disorders In Multicultural Populations, John Brantley

Faculty & Staff Research & Creative Activity

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Compensation For Victims Of Terror: A Specialized Jurisprudence Of Injury, Marshall S. Shapo

Hofstra Law Review

The legislation and Rules creating the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund (the "Fund") constitute a new entry in the "jurisprudence of injury." The Fund presents challenges that cut across traditional tort and compensation law, economic theory, philosophy, psychology and political science. This article combines analysis of the statute and the Rules with suggestions about their political significance, including brief summaries of heated public discussion about the Fund and a couple of personalized anecdotes, selected for their symbolic power.

Trying to "broker the politics of injury," Congress in establishing the Fund created a "unique form of public choice," with "something for …

Annual Report Of The Registrar 2001/2002, University Of Northern Iowa

Institutional Effectiveness & Planning Documents

Contents:

--- Definitions
--- Annual Report Data
--- Summary of Attendance
--- Attendance by Session
--- Full-time Equivalency Enrollment
--- Degrees Granted
--- Degree Summary
--- Program Certificates
--- Pupils in Price Laboratory School
--- Miscellaneous Enrollment Information
--- Degrees Granted by College, Degree Objective, and Racial/Ethnic Classification

Asha Awards Program, American School Health Association

Selections from the Elena M. Sliepcevich papers

No abstract provided.

Volume 2 Issue 2, Sustainable Development Law & Policy

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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Editor's Note, Dave Newman

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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News Update: Gearing Up For The World Summit On Sustainable Development , Roxanne Sher-Skelton

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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Wiwa V. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., Dave Newman

Sustainable Development Law & Policy

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The Herbicide Paraquat Causes Up-Regulation And Aggregation Of Α-Synuclein In Mice: Paraquat And Α-Synuclein, Amy B. Manning-Bog, Alison L. Mccormack, Jie Li, Vladimir N. Uversky, Anthony L. Fink, Donato A. Di Monte

Molecular Medicine Faculty Publications

α-Synuclein-containing aggregates represent a feature of a variety of neurodegenerative disorders, including Parkinson's disease (PD). However, mechanisms that promote intraneuronal α-synuclein assembly remain poorly understood. Because pesticides, particularly the herbicide paraquat, have been suggested to play a role as PD risk factors, the hypothesis that interactions between α-synuclein and these environmental agents may contribute to aggregate formation was tested in this study. Paraquat markedly accelerated the in vitro rate of α-synuclein fibril formation in a dose-dependent fashion. When mice were exposed to the herbicide, brain levels of α-synuclein were significantly increased. This up-regulation followed a consistent pattern, with higher α-synuclein …

Elucidation Of The Molecular Mechanism During The Early Events In Immunoglobulin Light Chain Amyloid Fibrillation: Evidence For An Off-Pathway Oligomer At Acidic Ph, Pierre O. Souillac, Vladimir N. Uversky, Ian S. Millett, Ritu Khurana, Sebastian Doniach, Anthony L. Fink

Molecular Medicine Faculty Publications

Light chain amyloidosis involves the systemic pathologic deposition of monoclonal light chain variable domains of immunoglobulins as insoluble fibrils. The variable domain LEN was obtained from a patient who had no overt amyloidosis; however, LEN forms fibrils in vitro, under mildly destabilizing conditions. The in vitro kinetics of fibrillation were investigated using a wide variety of probes. The rate of fibril formation was highly dependent on the initial protein concentration. In contrast to most amyloid systems, the kinetics became slower with increasing LEN concentrations. At high protein concentrations a significant lag in time was observed between the conformational changes …