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0713: Marceline White Platania Collection, 1929-1976, Marshall University Special Collections

Guides to Manuscript Collections

This collection consists of one scrapbook of clippings and photos and one folder of ephemera. The scrapbook includes extensive clippings and a limited number of photos of the 1937 flood in Huntington, West Virginia. Ephemera includes a copy of “The Belle of Barcelona: A Musical Comedy in Three Acts”, a 1929 program for said comedy at Huntington High School, and a ticket, pamphlet, clipping, and envelope about the 1976 American Freedom Train in Huntington.

0714: First Regiment West Virginia Volunteer Infantry Muster Roll, 1898-1899, Marshall University Special Collections

Guides to Manuscript Collections

This collection consists of one muster-out roll for the First Regiment West Virginia Volunteer Infantry, Company K, by Captain Albert L. Haston, Co L, 1st Regiment of West Virginia volunteers from May 14, 1898-Feb 4, 1899.

0708: Clinton J. Teubert Scrapbooks, 1904-1958, Marshall University Special Collections

Guides to Manuscript Collections

This collection is composed of three scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings about various events in Huntington, concert programs, photographs (mostly unidentified and of family), such ephemera as ticket stubs, postcards, and greeting cards, and monthly reports of his work at the post office. Topics covered in the clippings and ephemera include trains, Huntington history, images of women, and local news and obituaries. Most significant about the collection is the unique assortment and number of items present, capturing a snapshot of life in early to mid-twentieth century Huntington, West Virginia and America.

0712: Creed Neff Papers, 1908-1915, Marshall University Special Collections

Guides to Manuscript Collections

This collection consists of five photographs and one manuscript. The photographs depict school children and members of the Guyandotte Methodist Episcopal Church around 1908-1915 while the manuscript consists of a copy of a handwritten manuscript, author unknown, about life in Guyandotte.

To view materials from this collection that are digitized and available online, search the Creed Neff papers, 1908-1915 here.

0710: Rawson Paige Birdwell, Sr. Scrapbook, 1926-1950, Marshall University Special Collections

Guides to Manuscript Collections

This collection consists of one scrapbook, containing clippings of images from magazines and newspapers of trains and photographs of trains, with photographs being in the significant minority. A note near the front of the scrapbook says it was created by Rawson and Paige Birdwell for the period 1926-1950.

0716: Andrew Chafin Interview, 1972, Marshall University Special Collections

Guides to Manuscript Collections

This collection consists of a 31 page transcript of an oral history recorded in 1977 about the Hatfield and McCoy feud as experienced by Andrew Chafin, great-nephew of Anderson “Devil Anse” Hatfield.

Changing The Quality Of Conflict Interaction: The Principles And Practice Of Transformative Mediation, Robert A. Baruch Bush, Sally Ganong Pope

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

Many practitioners now identify themselves as transformative mediators, who practice from the transformative perspective in some or all of their work. This article explains the unique character of transformative mediation by offering answers to three basic questions: Why is transformative mediation being sought and used by parties in conflict? What is the basic nature of the mediation process, especially the mediator's role, according to this model? How does a mediator work with the parties in transformative mediation? Answering these three questions why, what and how-will provide the reader a good overview of the transformative model in theory and practice. We …

How Does The Community Feel About Problem-Solving Courts?, Michele Bertran, Mary Barr, Charles Grodin, Monroe H. Freedman, Jacqueline Nolan-Haley

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

When I was a young man, I was doing a lot of civil rights, civil liberties, and indigent criminal defense work, and I believed in the constitutionalized adversarial system. I believed in the constitutional rights of the Fifth Amendment and the Sixth Amendment, due process of law, the right to the effective assistance of counsel, the right to trial including an advocate who was going to be your champion against a hostile world.

I believed in the standard of proof beyond a reasonable doubt. I believed in the right to confront witnesses against you, the privilege against self-incrimination, equal protection …

Popular Sovereignty And The Electoral College, John O. Mcginnis

Articles

No abstract provided.

Washington, Patton, Schwarzkopf And Ashcroft?, Michael Herz

Articles

No abstract provided.

Fair Is Fair, Or Is It? Library Services To Distance Learners, Anne Marie Casey, Sheri Sochrin, Stephanie Fazenbaker Race

Publications

Librarians from the Florida Distance Learning Reference and Referral Center, a statewide reference service, Central Michigan University, a public university, and Springfield College, a private college, discuss the issues surrounding the provision of library services to distance learners. The panel shares the challenges and success of serving a distant clientele within their different institutional settings.

Library Services For Off-Campus Business Professionals, Anne Marie Casey

Publications

Central Michigan University has been offering degree programs to business professionals off-campus since 1971 through the College of Extended Learning. In 1976, Off-Campus Library Services was formed to provide library services exclusively for students enrolled in off-campus courses. This article describes the off-campus administration degree programs and the reference, instruction, and document delivery services that Off-Campus Library Services provides to these students.

Collection Development For Distance Learning, Anne Marie Casey

Publications

The ACRL Guidelines for Distance Learning Library Services (ACRL 2000) define distance learning library services as, “… those … in support of college, university, or other post-secondary courses and programs offered away from a main campus, or in the absence of a traditional campus, and regardless of where credit is given. These courses may be taught in traditional or non-traditional formats or media, may or may not require physical facilities, and may or may not involve live interaction of teachers and students. The phrase is inclusive of courses in all post-secondary programs designated as extension, extended, off-campus, extended campus, distance, …

Investigation Into The Control Of An Upper-Limb Myoelectric Prosthesis, Steven Michael Roberts

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses

This thesis presents research that extends current knowledge in the area of upper-limb prosthesis design and control. A study of myoelectric signals (MES)'s using both NHS and other equipment has resulted in identification of the signal source and transmission/detection issues. A globally comprehensive and up to date survey of myoelectric research has revealed new and long-term research paths. This thesis challenges the old model in interpreting the MES signals by providing and collecting evidence to suggest a new approach to future investigation. The historical description of a stochastic, non-deterministic MES has been shown by this research to be incomplete. An …

Digital Watermarking For Compact Discs And Their Effect On The Error Correction System, Kay Rydyger

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses

A new technique, based on current compact disc technology, to image the transparent surface of a compact disc, or additionally the reflective information layer, has been designed, implemented and evaluated. This technique (image capture technique) has been tested and successfully applied to the detection of mechanically introduced compact disc watermarks and biometrical information with a resolution of 1.6um x l4um. Software has been written which, when used with the image capture technique, recognises a compact disc based on its error distribution. The software detects digital watermarks which cause either laser signal distortions or decoding error events. Watermarks serve as secure …

Evaluation Of Lntelligent Medical Systems, Julian Bernard Tilbury

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses

This thesis presents novel, robust, analytic and algorithmic methods for calculating Bayesian posterior intervals of receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves and confusion matrices used for the evaluation of intelligent medical systems tested with small amounts of data. Intelligent medical systems are potentially important in encapsulating rare and valuable medical expertise and making it more widely available. The evaluation of intelligent medical systems must make sure that such systems are safe and cost effective. To ensure systems are safe and perform at expert level they must be tested against human experts. Human experts are rare and busy which often severely restricts …

A Generic Network And System Management Framework, Martin Hans Knahl

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses

Networks and distributed systems have formed the basis of an ongoing communications revolution that has led to the genesis of a wide variety of services. The constantly increasing size and complexity of these systems does not come without problems. In some organisations, the deployment of Information Technology has reached a state where the benefits from downsizing and rightsizing by adding new services are undermined by the effort required to keep the system running. Management of networks and distributed systems in general has a straightforward goal: to provide a productive environment in which work can be performed effectively. The work required …

Linking Performance Requirements With Process Improvement Actions For Business Process Re-Design, Cita Lorraine Wood

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses

This thesis presents research that extends current knowledge in the area of business process re-design, with a specific focus on the 'Make Product' process within manufacturing organisations. Current business process re-design approaches offer only limited guidance on the specific changes that can be made to a process when re-designing it to achieve the desired performance improvements and often overlook any strategically derived performance requirements when re-designing the process. Case experience suggests that practitioners do not consider the performance requirements of their business processes when re-designing them and that the actions they take to achieve performance improvements are not selected with …

Precision Control Of A Sensorless Brushless Direct Current Motor System, Matthew John Knight

School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Theses

Sensorless control strategies were first suggested well over a decade ago with the aim of reducing the size, weight and unit cost of electrically actuated servo systems. The resulting algorithms have been successfully applied to the induction and synchronous motor families in applications where control of armature speeds above approximately one hundred revolutions per minute is desired. However, sensorless position control remains problematic. This thesis provides an in depth investigation into sensorless motor control strategies for high precision motion control applications. Specifically, methods of achieving control of position and very low speed thresholds are investigated. The developed grey box identification …

After/Word(S): 'Violations Of Human Dignity' And Postmodern International Law, Barbara Stark

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

"Never again!" was the crie de coeur of the world leaders after World War II. "Never again" would they tolerate death camps, mass graves, or other crimes against humanity. Several genocides later, however, the phrase has become ironic. Innumerable international as well as national laws have been enacted, but they have failed to stop the carnage. This was the subject of a recent symposium in the American Journal of International Law, which assembled some of the leading minds in international law to analyze the problem from seven different perspectives. Postmodern International Law (PIL) was not among them.

As this Article …

Compelling Lessons In The First Amendment: Michael Kent Curtis, Free Speech, "The People's Darling Privilege": Struggles For Freedom Of Expression In American History, Wilson R. Huhn

Akron Law Faculty Publications

Book review.

Use And Limits Of Syllogistic Reasoning In Briefing Cases, Wilson R. Huhn

Akron Law Faculty Publications

During the nineteenth century, law was equated with science, and legal reasoning was thought to be a species of deductive logic. Consistent with this notion, judicial opinions have traditionally been summarized in the form of syllogisms, that is, as arguments of deductive logic. More specifically, judicial opinions have been described as chains of syllogisms, reasoning from base premises to ultimate conclusions. The principal thrust of this article is to demonstrate that in hard cases, judicial reasoning proceeds not by way of deduction, but by evaluation and balancing.

Accordingly, Part II of this article compares law with science. Historically, law was …

Teaching The Amistad, Brant T. Lee

Akron Law Faculty Publications

In 1841, a Cuban slave ship called the Amistad was captured and taken into custody near Long Island. The forty-five Black people on board were alleged to be slaves, who had mutinied, murdered the captain, killed or expelled the crew and taken over the ship. Two Cubans found on the ship claimed to be their owners. There were salvage claims by the officers who captured the ship and its passengers and miscellaneous other claims by parties claiming a property interest in the ship or its cargo. The United States government intervened on behalf of the Queen of Spain in support …

Random Vs. Suspicion-Based Drug Testing In The Public Schools -- A Surprising Civil Liberties Dilemma, Martin H. Belsky

Akron Law Faculty Publications

The Tecumseh School District had a policy that all students who wished to participate in extracurricular activities that involved some sort of competition had to agree to drug testing before the competition and then randomly thereafter. ... Those selected for accusatory drug testing might be perceived to be wearing a "badge of shame" and be subject to the arbitrary whim of an administrator. ... Vernonia involved a rule requiring drug testing as a condition for participation in extracurricular competitive sports. ... In Earls, the Tecumseh School District adopted a "Student Activities Drug Testing Policy" that required all students who wished …

The Environmental Implications Of The Discovery And Delivery Of New Energy Resources In The Canada/U.S. Context, James E. Hickey Jr.

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Fact Sheet, Yale Office Of Institutional Research

Fact Sheets

No abstract provided.

Deterring Retributivism: The Injustice Of 'Just' Punishment, Russell Christopher

Articles, Chapters in Books and Other Contributions to Scholarly Works

No abstract provided.

Part 3: The Regional Distribution Of Income, Regional Studies Institute, Old Dominion University

State of the Region Reports: Hampton Roads

We find that income is distributed more equally in Hampton Roads than in many other metropolitan areas and more equally than in the nation as a whole.

Part 4: Religious Life In Hampton Roads, Regional Studies Institute, Old Dominion University

State of the Region Reports: Hampton Roads

Religion occupies a significant role in the region. Religious affiliations and activities are changing more rapidly than many might believe.

Part 6: The Taxes We Pay In Hampton Roads: Where We Are And Recommendations For Change, Regional Studies Institute, Old Dominion University

State of the Region Reports: Hampton Roads

Regions differ in terms of which taxes they pay locally, regionally or at the state level. Hampton Roads is a low-tax region in a national context, but is less competitive within the southeastern United States