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Continuity And Change In Commerce Clause Jurisprudence, Barry Cushman

Journal Articles

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In 1994, Richard Friedman made a very useful contribution to the growing body of scholarship on the development of constitutional doctrine during the New Deal era. Though I differed with Friedman on some points of interpretation, I nevertheless found much in the article to admire. Now, eight years later, Friedman has presented us with a more extended discussion of a particular aspect of that constitutional development, namely, the transformation of Commerce Clause doctrine. Here again I see points of agreement. We agree that it is unlikely that the Court Packing Plan played much of a role in …

Opening Doors In A Closed Society : Mississippi's Open Meetings Law / By Martin Allen Russell, Martin Allen Russell

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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Irrigation Technology Transitions In The Mid-Plains States: Implications For Water Conservation/Water Quality Goals And Institutional Changes, Glenn D. Schaible, Marcel P. Aillery

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

A Parks modified multinomial logit model is used to examine the influence of the agricultural economic environment on irrigation technology transitions in the mid-plains states. Simulation analyses assess expected agricultural water conservation and its implications for water quality/environmental goals and water institutional reform. Under baseline agri-economic assumptions, regional agricultural water use efficiency could improve from 2.3% to 9.8%. Technology-specific elasticities show that crop price effects on irrigation technology transitions are relatively inelastic. Results for the mid-plains states differ from those obtained for the Pacific north-west (an earlier study), implying that differentially endowed resource regions will likely require different resource conservation …

Time-Mortality Relationships For Tribolium Castaneum (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) Life Stages Exposed To Elevated Temperatures, Rizana Mahroof, Bhadriraju Subramanyam, James E. Throne, Anil Menon

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

The use of elevated temperatures (≥40-60°C) or heat treatments for managing insects in food-processing facilities is a viable alternative to space fumigation with methyl bromide. Quantitative data are lacking on the responses of life stages of the red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum (Herbst), an important pest of food-processing facilities worldwide, to elevated temperatures used during heat treatments. We determined time-mortality relationships for eggs, young (neonate) larvae, old larvae, pupae, and adults of T. castaneum, exposed to constant temperatures of 42, 46, 50, 54, 58, and 60°C. Generally, mortality of each stage increased with an increase in temperature and exposure …

Efficacy Of Diatomaceous Earth To Control Internal Infestations Of Rice Weevil And Maize Weevil (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), Frank H. Arthur, James E. Throne

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

Densities of 10, 20, and 30 hard red winter wheat kernels, Triticum aestivum L., were infested with different life stages of the rice weevil, Sitophilus oryzae (L.), mixed with 35 g of wheat treated with 300 ppm of the Protect-It (Mississauga, Ontario, Canada) formulation of diatomaceous earth (DE), and held at 22, 27, and 32°C. A similar test was conducted by exposing densities of 6, 12, and 18 corn kernels infested with different life stages of the maize weevil, Sitophilus zeamais Motschulsky, mixed with 30 g of corn, Zea mays L., treated with 300 ppm of DE. Mortality of adults …

The Admissibility Of Expert Testimony In Washington On Post Traumatic Stress Disorder And Related Trauma Syndromes: Avoiding The Battle Of The Experts By Restoring The Use Of Objective Psychological Testimony In The Courtroom, Dr. Brett C. Trowbridge

Seattle University Law Review

This Article focuses on three types of syndrome evidence-rape trauma syndrome, child abuse syndromes, and battered person syndrome-all of which seem to be closely related to the diagnosis of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Part II provides background regarding the Frye test, explains how mental disorders are defined in the manual clinicians use, DSM-IV-TR, and outlines PTSD and associated syndromes. Parts III, IV, V, and VI address both legal and psychological concerns regarding specific syndromes and identify what types of testimony Washington law allows in each of these three areas. Part VII discusses the concerns regarding the scientific validity of …

The Use Of Web Services In Bioinformatics, Sheng Lu

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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Pageant Of Providence, Jill Arlene Foote-Hutton

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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'Preferences Of The Platonic Age': Male Homosocial Desire In Quida's Novels Of The 1860s, Lorraine Dubuisson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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Building Extraction Using Neuro-Fuzzy Pattern Recognition With Feature Detecting Structures, Patrick M. Jackson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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Through A Glass Darkly : Reflections Of Southern Culture In South Carolina's Domestic Violence Policy, Ellen Barbara Meacham

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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Bifurcation Analysis Of Hiv-1 Dynamics In Vivo, Revanth Babu Mutyala

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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Professionalizing The Blues : The Economic Thrust Of An Indigenous Art Form In Mississippi, 1920-1945, William Preston Lauterbach

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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Analysis Of Thermal Contact Resistance In A Generic Transmitter, Raghavender Kulkarni

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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Vibration And Acoustic Monitoring Of Bearing Faults In Machines With Phase Fluctuations / By Suresh Venugopal, Suresh Venugopal

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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Implementation Of The Asymptotic Boundary Conditions In The Fdtd Method/ By Andrew E. Simon, Andrew E. Simon

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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Victim-Offender Mediation And Violent Crimes: On The Way To Justice, Ilyssa Wellikoff

Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution

This Note will discuss the need for an alternative method within the criminal justice system, such as victimoffender mediation, and will discuss the benefits and implications of extending victim-offender mediation to serious and violent crimes. The first part of this Note will explain the premise and purpose of victim-offender mediation. The Note will detail victim-offender mediation’s roots in restorative justice and the various types of victim-offender mediation programs currently in place. The second part of this Note will address the efficacy of victim-offender mediation programs, highlighting the program’s overall benefits and shortcomings. The Note will then address the criminal judicial …

Reason Over Rhetoric: The Case For Enforcing Predispute Agreements To Arbitrate Employment Discrimination Claims, Craig Hanlon

Cardozo Journal of Conflict Resolution

Part I of this article will briefly outline the relevant federal statutes to provide the necessary foundation for understanding the issue involved in Waffle House . Specifically, this paper will discuss Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (“Title VII”), the Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972 (“EEOC Act”), the Civil Rights Act of 1991 (“1991 Act”), the Federal Arbitration Act (“FAA”), and the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ ADA ”). Part II will examine the development of the relevant case law that set the parameters for the current debate, including the conflicting decisions in three Courts of …

Detection Of Insect Fragments In Wheat Flour By Near-Infrared Spectroscopy, J. Perez-Mendoza, James E. Throne, F. E. Dowell, J. E. Baker

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

Insect fragments in commercial wheat flour are a major concern to the milling industry because consumers expect high quality and wholesome products at the retail level. Thus, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has established a defect action level of 75 insect fragments per 50 g of flour. Millers routinely test their wheat flour to comply with this federal requirement and to deliver sound flour to their consumers. The current standard flotation method for detecting fragments in flour is expensive and labor intensive. Therefore, we examined the possible use of a rapid, near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) method for detecting insect …

Entomological Applications Of Near-Infrared Spectroscopy, James E. Throne, Floyd E. Dowell, Joel Perez-Mendoza, James E. Baker

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

Our recent work on applications of near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) to entomological problems is reviewed. 1. Using an auto-mated NIRS system scanning individual wheat kernels at the rate of 15 per minute we were able to differentiate between uninfested kernels and kernels infested with late-instar larvae of Rhyzoperthadominica, Sitophilus orzyae. or Sitotroga cerealella. The ability to rapidly scan individual kernels indicates potential for automated segregation of infested kernels from bulk grain. 2. The automated MRS system was used to differentiate uninfested wheat kernels,kernels infested with rice weevils, and kernels that contained rice weevils that were parasitised by Anisopteromalus …

Understanding The Effect Of Rye Chromatin In Bread Wheat, A. M. Kumlay, P. Stephen Baenziger, K. S. Gill, D. R. Shelton, Robert A. Graybosch, A. J. Lukaszewski, D. M. Wesenberg

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

Most experiments on 1RS translocations in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) cannot separate the effects of introgressions of rye (Secale cereale L.) chromosome armfromthe absence of corresponding wheat chromosome arms. The objective of this research was to determine the contribution of individual wheat and rye group 1 chromosome arms. Five group 1 ditelosomics, six substitutions, and 16 translocations of 1R in wheat were compared with appropriate controls. All ditelosomics were significantly different from controls for 100-kernel weight (100-KW), flour protein content (FP), Mixograph peak time (MT) and tolerance (MTO), and sodium dodecyl sulfate sedimentation (SDSS) volume. Among the long …

Watershed Vulnerability To Herbicide Transport In Northern Missouri And Southern Iowa Streams, R. N. Lerch, P. E. Blanchard

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

Herbicide contamination of streams has been well documented, but little is currently known about the specific factors affecting watershed vulnerability to herbicide transport. The primary objectives of this study were (1) to document herbicide occurrence and transport from watersheds in the northern Missouri/ southern Iowa region; (2) to quantify watershed vulnerability to herbicide transport and relate vulnerability to soil properties; and (3) to compute the contribution of this region to the herbicide load of the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers. Grab samples were collected under baseflow and runoff conditions at 21 hydrologic monitoring stations between April 15 and July 15 from …

Exploratory Surveys In Australia And Asia For Natural Enemies Of Old World Climbing Fern, Lygodium Microphyllum: Lygodiaceae, John A. Goolsby, Anthony D. Wright, Robert W. Pemberton

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

Lygodium microphyllum, Old World climbing fern, is native to the wet tropics and subtropics of the Old World and an invasive weed in southern Florida. Exploration for natural enemies of this weed was conducted between 1997 and 2002 in Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, New Caledonia, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. Two species of mites and 20 insect species were collected. The eriophyid mite, Floracarus perrepae Knihinicki and Boczek, was the most widely distributed and appeared to cause significant damage to the plant over time. Several unique geographical genotypes of F. perrepae were identified. Other promising candidates for …

Development Of Catholic Moral Doctrine: Probing The Subtext, M. Cathleen Kaveny

Journal Articles

A discussion on the contribution of Judge John T. Noonan’s works on moral doctrine to the study of Catholic moral theology. Professor Kaveny argues that Noonan’s writings have aided the development of Catholic moral doctrine by examining its rich living history and tradition. She notes that Noonan views the subject as a social historian who is interested in how Catholics have interpreted moral theology over time, tracing continuities and changes in their positions, and as a lawyer who is interested in learning how they have tried to find a balance between human dignity and the common good. Professor Kaveny addresses …

The Violence Of Merging: Unica Zürn 'S Writing (On) The Body, Caroline Rupprecht

Publications and Research

This article is about the work of German Surrealist Unica Zürn (1916-1970), known for her autobiographical text about madness, Der Mann im Jasmin: Eindrücke einer Geisteskrankheit (1977). The problem with Zürn's text, as this article demonstrates, is that it becomes nearly impossible to be distinguished from the author's life. Unlike conventional autobiographies, this text raises doubt oyer the sanity of the author who was not only diagnosed with schizophrenia but also made madness the subject of her writing. Zürn's companion, the artist Hans Bellmer, accused her of indulging in madness for the sake of being able to write about it; …

An Investigation On Transversely Prestressed Concrete Bridge Decks, J. A. Ramirez, Jhon Paul Smith

JTRP Technical Reports

This study is concerned with the development of design specifications for the use of transverse post-tensioning in concrete bridge decks. The ultimate goal behind this proposal is to improve the durability of concrete bridge superstructures. Experimental results from previous studies are used to validate the analytical models implemented in the development of the design specifications. It is found that the required distribution of transverse post-tensioning is such that different application levels of prestressing are required in regions containing the interior and exterior (or outermost) diaphragms. It is also concluded that the magnitude of such transverse forces is a function of …

Evolution As Learning Yields Hyperbolic Discounting, James Woods

Economics Faculty Publications and Presentations

Learning is modeled as an infection, which jumps from person to person. The rate of infection mimics individual discount rates and induces savings behavior on its own. It is shown that the apparent discount rate, the combination of the agents’ true discount rate and the infection rate, decreases over time and approaches the agents’ true discount rate. This decrease, known as hyperbolic discounting, is consistent with what is observed in psychology studies, while the limiting case, exponential discounting, is consistent with market level observations. This model closes the gap between individual and market level observations of discounting behavior without explicitly …

Think Aloud Protocols: Teaching Reading Processes To Young Bilingual Students, Magaly Lavadenz

School of Education Faculty Works

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Balancing As Art: Justice White And The Seperation Of Powers, William J. Wagner

Catholic University Law Review

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Domino Effect: The Continued Existence Of Liability For Fraud In Bankruptcy Despite Good-Faith Settlement By The Honestly Unfortunate Settlor, Theresa J. Pulley Radwan

Catholic University Law Review

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