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Inside Unf Vol. 8 No. 9, University Of North Florida

30th Anniversary Printed Materials

The monthly publication for faculty and staff of the University of North Florida. This edition includes the following articles:

UNF Prepares for 30th Anniversary

Coke and UNF Form Partnership

Awards & Honors

Faculty & Staff

Campus Focus

Osprey Images

Compass Bank Endowed Scholarships in International Business

30th Anniversary Events

A Moment of Remembrance

Sponsored Research Announces Grants

Briefs

Faculty/Staff Fund Drive Launches Next Month

The University Of North Florida Journal Fall 2002, University Of North Florida

30th Anniversary Printed Materials

The UNF Journal is published three times a year by the University of North Florida Division of Institutional Advancement to communicate UNF's mission and its accomplishments to alumni and friends of the university.

Who's Talking? Disentangling Government And Private Speech, Leslie Gielow Jacobs

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

Several different constitutional rules apply to government actions that influence the content of speech. The government has far more discretion to determine speech content when the government itself is the speaker than when it regulates private speakers. Specifically, in the former circumstance, the government can discriminate according to viewpoint, whereas in the latter circumstance it cannot. While the application of the rules may be obvious when either the government or private entities speak alone, increasingly, through various different types of interactions, government and private groups or individuals are speaking together. This circumstance complicates the crucial constitutional determination, which is: who's …

One For A, Two For B, And Four Hundred For C: The Widening Gap In Pay Between Executives And Rank And File Employees, Susan J. Stabile

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

This Article, focuses on executive pay in relation to that of rank and file workers. It examines the standard justifications for the vast and increasing pay gap between executives (particularly CEOs) and rank and file workers and finds that such arguments do little more than attempt to justify in economic terms a situation that exists for a very different reason. Instead, the author argues, the real reason such a huge and widening gap in pay between executive and rank and file workers exists is market failure in the mechanisms of setting executive pay, aggravated by the shareholder primacy norm, which …

John Salvi Iii's Revenge From The Grave: How The Abatement Doctrine Undercuts The Ability Of Abortion Providers To Stop Clinic Violence, Barry A. Bostrom, Chad Bungard, Richard J. Seron

City University of New York Law Review

No abstract provided.

Variable Bit Rate Video Time-Series And Scene Modeling Using Discrete-Time Statistically Self-Similar Systems, Rajesh Narasimha

Theses

This thesis investigates the application of discrete-time statistically self-similar (DTSS) systems to modeling of variable bit rate (VBR) video traffic data. The work is motivated by the fact that while VBR video has been characterized as self-similar by various researchers, models based on self-similarity considerations have not been previously studied. Given the relationship between self-similarity and long-range dependence the potential for using DTSS model in applications involving modeling of VBR MPEG video traffic data is presented. This thesis initially explores the characteristic properties of the model and then establishes relationships between the discrete-time self-similar model and fractional order transfer function …

Critical Pedagogy As Organizational Praxis: Challenging The Demise Of Civil Society In A Time Of Permanent War, Peter Mclaren, Nathalia E. Jaramillo

Education Faculty Articles and Research

The writers criticize the U.S. invasion of Iraq and the ensuing military and political occupation of the country. They suggest a link between aggressive U.S. military posture and neoliberal globalization and contend that the current situation in Iraq is a metaphor for globalized capitalism across the world. The writers then consider issues surrounding the politics of organization in the search for a socialist alternative to free market capitalism and discuss how critical educators can reinvigorate the civil societarian left at a time when elites are less accountable to civil society than ever before.

An Equality Paradign For Preventing Genetic Discrimination, Anita Silvers, Michael A. Stein

Vanderbilt Law Review

On June 26, 2000, scientists announced at a White House news conference that they had completed mapping the human genome sequence, the human race's genetic blueprint. This pronouncement generated tremendous and well-deserved excitement. Genomics, the study and application of genetic information, promises to be an unparalleled tool for improving public health. Genetic testing can identify asymptomatic individuals who are at risk of becoming ill themselves or bestowing illness on their children. As a result, individuals who test positive can take prophylactic measures to slow or stop disease and can also reduce the births of progeny at high risk of compromised …

Maintaining The Adversarial System: The Practice Of Allowing Jurors To Question Witnesses During Trial, Kristen Debarba

Vanderbilt Law Review

A defendant sits in the witness stand undergoing examination by his attorney. He is accused of armed robbery, among other criminal acts. During the course of the defendant's testimony, a juror blurts out that he has a question. The judge tells the juror to write his question down and advises the juror that he will be able to ask his question upon completion of the attorneys' examinations. When the juror's question is finally asked, the judge indicates to the defendant's attorney that the attorney should address the matter raised by the juror on reexamination. During the reexamination, the attorney turns …

Press One For Warrant: Reinventing The Fourth Amendment's Search Warrant Requirement Through Electronic Procedures, Justin H. Smith

Vanderbilt Law Review

Numerous rulings by the Supreme Court have confirmed the long-held assertion that the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement is a "centerpiece for the law of search and seizure, and that prescreening by neutral and detached magistrates is [at] the heart of citizens' protection against police overreaching." On September 21, 1994, however, these assertions proved inaccurate and painfully hollow for Betty Ingram, a fifty-three-year-old diabetic who awoke to the sound of armed police officers charging through her front door. The officers, who were searching for a suspect involved in a buy- and-bust operation, had neither obtained a search warrant nor knocked and …

Text And Image, David Reed

Theses

The purpose of this thesis is to create images that juxtapose forms of the English language, with both related and non-related imagery, to create the illusion of realistic situations. My images will be expressed through computer-imaging processes, and non-toxic printmaking techniques, and will include the printing procedures and the problems associated with it. I will discuss not only the similarities and differences of artists who have influenced my work, but also my source material. The latter having been derived from observing and recording various uses of the English language, both as humor or social comment, and in the form of …

The Marriage Of The False Claims Act And The Freedom Of Information Act: Parasitic Potential Or Positive Synergy?, James R. Moncus, Iii

Vanderbilt Law Review

The qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act ("FCA" or "the Act") allow private citizens to prosecute fraud on the government's behalf. There are at least three primary justifications for such provisions: (1) the need to provide private incentives to expose fraudulent conduct, (2) the Justice Department's unwillingness to aggressively prosecute fraud, and (3) the limited enforcement resources available to the federal government. The FCA contains a jurisdictional bar that provides that no court shall have jurisdiction over a qui tam FCA action if the information on which the action is based has been publicly disclosed. Ostensibly, this jurisdictional …

The Source Of Hip, Shelly J. Eversley

Publications and Research

This essay situates Norman Mailer's "The White Negro" (1957) and Jack Keroauc's The Subterraneans (1958) in the context of 1950s racial integration and the transformative potential of interracial sex. It argues that both authors' terms, "beat" and "hip," depend on the idea of "the Negro" whose status allows them to imagine a counter culture essential to their midcentury articulations of individual integrity and creative freedom.

An Essay On Environmental Justice: The Past, The Present, And Back To The Future, Eileen Gauna

Natural Resources Journal

No abstract provided.

Federal Election Commission V. Colorado Republican Federal Campaign Committee And Implications For The Future Of Campaign Finance Reform, F. C. Ford Iv

South Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Extent Of Protection Of The Individual's Personality Against Commercial Use: Toward A New Property Right, George P. Smith Ii

South Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.

Prevalence And Characterization Of Non-O157 Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia Coli On Carcasses In Commercial Beef Cattle Processing Plants, Terrance M. Arthur, Genevieve A. Barkocy-Gallagher, Mildred Rivera-Betancourt, Mohammad Koohmaraie

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

Beef carcass sponge samples collected from July to August 1999 at four large processing plants in the United States were surveyed for the presence of non-O157 Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC). Twenty-eight (93%) of 30 single-source lots surveyed included at least one sample containing non-O157 STEC. Of 334 carcasses sampled prior to evisceration, 180 (54%) were found to harbor non-O157 STEC. Non-O157 STEC isolates were also recovered from 27 (8%) of 326 carcasses sampled after the application of antimicrobial interventions. Altogether, 361 non-O157 STEC isolates, comprising 41 different O serogroups, were recovered. O serogroups that previously have been associated with …

Reducing Barriers To Success For Entry Level Health Care Workers, 2002, Community Research Institute-Johnson Center

Research, Reports, and Publications

No abstract provided.

A Human Geographic Issue Management System For Natural Resource Managers In The Willamette Valley, Oregon - Chapter One: Project Background Report, Armando A. Arias

SSGS Faculty Publications and Presentations

No abstract provided.

A Proposed Antitrust Approach To High Technology Competition, Thomas A. Piraino Jr.

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.

Culture For Sale: Marketing Gullah Identity In The South Carolina Sea Islands, Melissa Hargrove

Southern Anthropologist

(Winning Entry 2002 SAS Student Paper Competition: Graduate) Gullah women of the South Carolina Sea Islands have held firmly to the traditional craft of sweetgrass basketry brought by their enslaved African ancestors. Presently their identity is being appropriated by the tourism industry. This commoditization is manifest in tourism literature, brochures, and postcards in ways that invite tourists to witness this "exoticized" cultural heritage. The chosen images serve to enforce a representation of Gullah that is tied to the colonial plantation era. This paper elucidates how the use of Gullah imagery within such exploitative contexts undermines Gullah women's power to define …

Rocking The Washington Monument: Subverting Capitalism: The Punk Rock Subculture Of Washington, D C, Mike Addabbo

Southern Anthropologist

(Winning Entry 2002 SAS Student Paper Competition: Undergraduate) The punk subculture of Washington, D.C., proclaims a strong, anti-commercial, anti-consumerism, and anti-capitalism sentiment. Operating as a separate network of bands and listeners from the major record labels of the U.S., the subculture attempts to challenge the role of profit in musical production. The creation of CDs, T-shirts, and other commodities by the subculture suggests otherwise, but through its independent network of bands, labels, and venues, these commodities circulate at a lower cost than those within its parent culture. In emphasizing artistic credibility over profit, the ideals of the subculture attempt to …

Complete Issue, Journal Editors

Southern Anthropologist

No abstract provided.

Histological Evaluation Of Cryopreserved Ovaries In Autologous Abdominal Transplant To NaïVe, Outbred, Cd1, Mice, Wentia Elissa Ford

Biological Sciences Theses & Dissertations

This study showed that fresh and frozen-thawed mouse ovaries would maintain viable primordial or primary follicles post-autologous transplantation. Furthermore, with appropriate hormonal stimulation, these early-stage follicles were shown to develop into Graafian follicles containing a metaphase II antral ovum. Partially sliced ovaries were transplanted into the abdominal cavity of naive, outbred, CD1, white mice. Hormonal stimulation with pregnant mare serum gonadotropin (PMSG) and human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) one week after the autologous transplantation stimulated variable degrees of follicle and ovum maturation within the ovarian tissue. There were no major morphological differences observed between the four groups, three treatment and one …

Using Simple Educational Methods To Motivate Consumers To Prepare For Emergencies, Cathy Faulcon Bowen, Nakesha Faison

Journal of Extension

The purposes of the study reported here were to determine: a) if simple educational efforts (a workshop and a booklet) would motivate consumers to prepare their homes for an emergency and b) which variables would best explain if consumers took action. Over 50% of respondents reported preparing for an emergency because of the booklet or workshop. Older and more educated consumers were more likely to take action. Commonly reported actions included storing food, water, and emergency supplies. Variables that best predicted if emergency preparedness actions were taken included: attendance at a Y2K workshop, reading the entire booklet, and having at …

Growing U.S. Security Interests In Central Asia, Elizabeth Wishnick Dr.

Books, Monographs & Collaborative Studies

The author assesses U.S. security interests and military activities in Central Asia. She notes that strengthening the Central Asian states against terrorism and assisting their transition to stable and prosperous nations are difficult and fraught with danger. In particular, there is the risk that the U.S. military presence in the region and security assistance to repressive regimes might taint America. If not astutely managed, this strategy could have the opposite of the intended results and generate increased instability, spark anti-Americanism, and antagonize Russia and China. To avoid this, Dr. Wishnick advocates a multilateral strategy that integrates the military, political, and …

Dragon On Terrorism: Assessing China's Tactical Gains And Strategic Losses Post-September 11, Mohan Malik Dr.

Books, Monographs & Collaborative Studies

The U.S. relationship with China and the global war on terrorism are the two most significant strategic challenges faced by the Bush administration. Both are vital and complex; the way the administration manages them will shape American security for many years. While there is a growing literature on both key strategic issues, little analysis has been done on the intersection of the two. This monograph fills the gap as the author assesses how the war on terrorism has affected China. He concludes that the war on terrorism radically altered the Asian strategic environment in ways that negated China's foreign policy …

Frequency Of Helicobacter Pylori Infection In Dyspeptic Patients In Libya, Asim S. Bakka, Anis B. El-Gariani, Fouzi M. Aboughrara, Barik A. Salih

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: Helicobacter pylori infection is a very common infection worldwide particularly in the developing countries. The organism plays an important role in peptic ulcer diseases. The aim of the study was to detect and correlate the prevalence of Helicobacter pylori with such diseases and to evaluate the histopathological grading of gastritis. METHODS: One hundred thirty two patients of 15-83 years of age (average 38) attending the endoscopy unit at the El-Jamahiria Hospital, Binghazi, Libya, mainly complaining from epigastric pain were randomly selected. Three antral biopsies for rapid urease test, direct smear stain and histology together with serum samples were obtained …

Book Review: Bennett Explains Arbitration Fundamentals, Without The Legalese, Amy J. Schmitz

Faculty Publications

At the outset of the book, Steven Bennett expresses "fervent hope that this book will be of use to lawyers, law students and business people interested in learning the fundamentals of arbitration law." The book therefore focuses on fundamental, or basic, arbitration concepts and norms. It does not purport to provide in-depth discussion and analysis of arbitration law, but instead serves as a shelf reference or primer that promises to achieve Bennett's goal.

Smc Fact Book 2002, Saint Mary's College Of California

SMC Fact Book

No abstract provided.