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Examination Of The Iconography Of The Minoan Goddess As A Nature Goddess, Gaelen Schell Curtis Jan 2002

Examination Of The Iconography Of The Minoan Goddess As A Nature Goddess, Gaelen Schell Curtis

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Fate Of Sewage Effluent Nutrients Applied To Coarse-Grained Soils By Sprinkler Irrigation, Molly M. Johnson Jan 2002

Fate Of Sewage Effluent Nutrients Applied To Coarse-Grained Soils By Sprinkler Irrigation, Molly M. Johnson

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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From Westward Space To Western Place| The End Of Illusion And Birth Of Acceptance In The American West, Mary C. Greenfield Jan 2002

From Westward Space To Western Place| The End Of Illusion And Birth Of Acceptance In The American West, Mary C. Greenfield

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Genus, Benjamin Bloch Jan 2002

Genus, Benjamin Bloch

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Theatre In Education| Catalyst For Change, Yi-Hsin Lu Jan 2002

Theatre In Education| Catalyst For Change, Yi-Hsin Lu

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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The Viking Expansion| Climate, Population, Plunder, John C. Sharpe Jan 2002

The Viking Expansion| Climate, Population, Plunder, John C. Sharpe

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Through The Eyes Of The Potato| Northwest Land Grant Universities And Pest Management Research, Richarda Ruffle Jan 2002

Through The Eyes Of The Potato| Northwest Land Grant Universities And Pest Management Research, Richarda Ruffle

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Emptiness Of "The Wild"| Gary Snyder's Eco-Buddhist Deconstruction Of "Self" And "Nature", David J. Kerber Jan 2002

Emptiness Of "The Wild"| Gary Snyder's Eco-Buddhist Deconstruction Of "Self" And "Nature", David J. Kerber

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Arbuscular Mycorrhizae, Glomalin, And Soil Aggregation In Spotted Knapweed Invaded Soils, Emily Rose Lutgen Jan 2002

Arbuscular Mycorrhizae, Glomalin, And Soil Aggregation In Spotted Knapweed Invaded Soils, Emily Rose Lutgen

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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As Long As Water Falls| An Ethnohistorical Study In The Socioeconomic Underdevelopment And Cultural Identity Of The Confederated Salish And Kootenai Tribes| Using The Events Leading Up To And Surrounding The Construction And Future Control Of The Kerr Dam, William F. Arnold Jan 2002

As Long As Water Falls| An Ethnohistorical Study In The Socioeconomic Underdevelopment And Cultural Identity Of The Confederated Salish And Kootenai Tribes| Using The Events Leading Up To And Surrounding The Construction And Future Control Of The Kerr Dam, William F. Arnold

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Feminism And International Law: An Opportunity For Transformation, Rosa Ehrenreich Brooks Jan 2002

Feminism And International Law: An Opportunity For Transformation, Rosa Ehrenreich Brooks

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

In this essay, the author wants to outline briefly both some of the ways in which the assumptions and categories of international law can be damaging to women, and also some of the ways in which creative feminists could use international law to transform both international policy and the domestic political and legal discourse. In the wake of September 11, a robust feminist engagement with international law and policy is more urgent than ever before.

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Celebrating The 200th Anniversary Of The Federal Courts Of The District Of Columbia, Susan Low Bloch Jan 2002

Celebrating The 200th Anniversary Of The Federal Courts Of The District Of Columbia, Susan Low Bloch

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

February 27, 2001 marked the 200th anniversary of the Federal Courts of the District of Columbia, the courts we know today as the United States District Court for the District of Columbia and the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. The history of these courts is interesting, albeit somewhat confusing; their names changed no fewer than six times since their creation. Indeed, from 1863 until 1893, the two courts were joined and called the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. Because of their location in the nation's capital and their unusual dual jurisdiction as both …

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Mirabile Dictu: The Bryn Mawr College Library Newsletter 6 (2002), Bryn Mawr College Library Jan 2002

Mirabile Dictu: The Bryn Mawr College Library Newsletter 6 (2002), Bryn Mawr College Library

Mirabile Dictu: Newsletter of the Bryn Mawr College Libraries

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Constitutional Law Leading Cases: Judicial Elections, Nathan B. Oman Jan 2002

Constitutional Law Leading Cases: Judicial Elections, Nathan B. Oman

Faculty Publications

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A Comparison Of The Use Of Artificial Neural Networks, Fractal Time Series And Fractal Neural Networks In Financial Forecasts, Beverly A. Swisshelm Jan 2002

A Comparison Of The Use Of Artificial Neural Networks, Fractal Time Series And Fractal Neural Networks In Financial Forecasts, Beverly A. Swisshelm

CCAC Theses and Dissertations

Effective prediction of future financial states has been a major quest for groups ranging from national governments to individual investors. The size, diversity and complexity of financial markets make traditional statistical methods ineffective in predicting beyond a very short time frame. Alternative models using artificial neural networks and fractal time series have had better results in long-term predictions, but still do not work in all situations. This dissertation combined features of artificial neural networks and fractal time series to create a fractal neural network. Fractals exhibit repetitive patterns when a unit is broken down into its components. This similarity property …

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The Organizational Psychology Of Hyper-Competition: Corporate Irresponsibility And The Lessons Of Enron, Donald C. Langevoort Jan 2002

The Organizational Psychology Of Hyper-Competition: Corporate Irresponsibility And The Lessons Of Enron, Donald C. Langevoort

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

What I want to do here is first explain my fears and then explore the Enron story from the standpoint of both social psychology and organizational behavior. My sense going in, at least, is that the social forces and selfish norms that emerge fairly naturally in highly competitive settings such as these dominate as behavioral influences over anything but high-powered legal controls. The kind of firm that I want to concentrate on is the "new economy" sort that requires a high rate of creative productivity from a large number of key managers and employees. Thus, I will put to the …

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When Lawyers And Law Firms Invest In Their Corporate Clients’ Stock, Donald C. Langevoort Jan 2002

When Lawyers And Law Firms Invest In Their Corporate Clients’ Stock, Donald C. Langevoort

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

I will state my conclusion at the outset. I am not convinced that lawyers' investments in clients in lieu of fees are problematic enough from a conflicts standpoint that the rules of professional responsibility should treat them as presumptively inconsistent with the lawyer's fiduciary responsibility. Lawyers' investments in their clients do raise interesting and unsettling issues, but these issues are not qualitatively different from issues raised by many other norms or practices within the legal profession that also threaten lawyerly objectivity. Indeed, in contrast to some other practices, these fee arrangements can, in some respects, enhance objectivity, or at least …

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Are Judges Motivated To Create "Good" Securities Fraud Doctrine?, Donald C. Langevoort Jan 2002

Are Judges Motivated To Create "Good" Securities Fraud Doctrine?, Donald C. Langevoort

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

‘How Do Judges Maximize? (The Same Way Everybody Else Does – Boundedly): Rules of Thumb in Securities Fraud Opinions’, by Stephen M. Bainbridge and G. Mitu Gulati, confronts the reader with a theory about judicial behavior in the face of complex, "unexciting" cases such as those involving securities fraud. The story is simple: few judges find any opportunity for personal satisfaction or enhanced reputation here, so they simply try to minimize cognitive effort, off-loading much of the work that has to be done to their clerks. The evidence that Bainbridge and Gulati offer is the creation of some ten or …

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Travaux Preparatoires And United Nations Treaties Or Conventions: Using The Web Wisely, Marylin J. Raisch Jan 2002

Travaux Preparatoires And United Nations Treaties Or Conventions: Using The Web Wisely, Marylin J. Raisch

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

While it is possible to find individual recent documentation relating to the drafting of treaties by searching the Internet via the popular search engines, the results may not always be as comprehensive as the conscientious legal practitioner or scholar might wish. And what of the less well-known multilateral conventions? Alas, it is not only the obscure or bilateral treaties that can be hard to interpret or locate. Travaux for larger conventions may be a challenge as well. An ounce of caution and a larger dose of background knowledge can save the generalist and the specialist librarian, respectively, from the pitfalls …

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Comment On Professor Carrington's Article "The Independence And Democratic Accountability Of The Supreme Court Of Ohio", Roy A. Schotland Jan 2002

Comment On Professor Carrington's Article "The Independence And Democratic Accountability Of The Supreme Court Of Ohio", Roy A. Schotland

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

In my view, whether or not Article III is written as members of a new constitutional convention might write it, there is nothing more fundamental to the way our entire judicial system operates (including in many ways, although indirectly, our state courts) than federal judges being as independent as law can make them. Perhaps I suffer from Burkean skepticism about reform of long-standing institutions, or perhaps I am merely a supporter of the status quo. But I believe that, despite obvious drawbacks in giving anyone life tenure in any job, we gain far more than we lose by making federal …

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Federalism, Law Enforcement, And The Supremacy Clause: The Strange Case Of Ruby Ridge, Seth P. Waxman Jan 2002

Federalism, Law Enforcement, And The Supremacy Clause: The Strange Case Of Ruby Ridge, Seth P. Waxman

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

There is no "federalism clause" in the Constitution, and the case law ranges over a number of different provisions - the Commerce and General Welfare Clauses, and the Eleventh and Fourteenth Amendments, for example. But the two provisions that most directly implicate the doctrine are the Supremacy Clause and the Tenth Amendment. The former states that "[t]his Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof ... shall be the supreme Law of the Land ....”, The latter provides that "[t]he powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by …

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Protecting Plaintiffs' Sexual Pasts: Coping With Preconceptions Through Discretion, Jane H. Aiken Jan 2002

Protecting Plaintiffs' Sexual Pasts: Coping With Preconceptions Through Discretion, Jane H. Aiken

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

Part I of this Article traces the development of the civil application of Rule 412, the so-called “Rape Shield Rule”. Part II analyzes the inconsistencies within the cases decided under the new civil rule and links those inconsistencies to the language of the rule. It identifies the trends within the cases about what constitutes probative value for purposes of the rule and how courts assess prejudice. The Article concludes that rules of evidence designed to remedy bias of fact finders should not be cast as discretionary. Many of the problems that arise in the interpretation of Rule 412 could be …

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Corporate Norms And Contemporary Law Firm Practice, Milton C. Regan Jan 2002

Corporate Norms And Contemporary Law Firm Practice, Milton C. Regan

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

Larry Mitchell's book describes the movement toward share price maximization by corporate managers. More intensive market competition both domestically and abroad has led managers to believe that their corporations have little choice but to focus on short-term profits. This practice leads to greater instability for corporate workers and efforts to externalize other costs on third parties. It also intensifies the erosion of "local" cultural practices that are seen as impediments to profit maximization, whether they are associated with countries abroad, communities in the United States, or within the corporation itself. In this process, the norms of the market gain increasing …

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Preparing Students For Ebp, Pamela Levangie Jan 2002

Preparing Students For Ebp, Pamela Levangie

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Describes one particular approach to teaching evidence-based practice in physical therapy. At Sacred Heart University students begin course work that is foundational to preparing them for evidence-based practice. In the first semester of study, they take a Concepts in Measurement unit. During the second semester, I teach a semester-long Clinical Research course that focuses on understanding concepts of clinical research and on critical review of physical therapy literature. During the third and fourth semesters of study, when they are doing their clinical coursework, the emphasis is on the concepts of validity and reliability of the tools they use. The students …

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The Myths And Truths That Ended The 2000 Tmdl Program, Linda A. Malone Jan 2002

The Myths And Truths That Ended The 2000 Tmdl Program, Linda A. Malone

Faculty Publications

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Zoning, Taking, And Dealing: The Problems And Promise Of Bargaining In Land Use Planning, Erin Ryan Jan 2002

Zoning, Taking, And Dealing: The Problems And Promise Of Bargaining In Land Use Planning, Erin Ryan

Faculty Publications

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Optimal Bankruptcy In A Non-Optimal World, Richard M. Hynes Jan 2002

Optimal Bankruptcy In A Non-Optimal World, Richard M. Hynes

Faculty Publications

Consumer bankruptcy insures individuals against misfortune. Like other forms of insurance, bankruptcy reduces an individual's incentive to guard against misfortune and provides her with an incentive to overstate her need for relief. The "first-best," or optimal, bankruptcy system, like the first-best tax or public assistance system, solves these moral hazards without any loss of efficiency. In bankruptcy, this first-best approach would deny relief to debtors responsible for their own distress and reduce the deserving debtors' obligations to an amount commensurate with their ability to pay. While the Bankruptcy Code tries (in part) to follow this first-best approach, such a utopian …

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Supreme Court Selection As War, Michael J. Gerhardt Jan 2002

Supreme Court Selection As War, Michael J. Gerhardt

Faculty Publications

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Introduction: Globalization Of Administrative And Regulatory Practice, Charles H. Koch Jr. Jan 2002

Introduction: Globalization Of Administrative And Regulatory Practice, Charles H. Koch Jr.

Faculty Publications

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Contract Rights And Civil Rights, Davison M. Douglas Jan 2002

Contract Rights And Civil Rights, Davison M. Douglas

Faculty Publications

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