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Nebraska Blueprint – Fall 2003

Nebraska Blueprint (Student Publication)

Table of Contents:

From the Editor

The Big Room Where They Smash Stuff – A closer look at the Structures Lab

Interactive Innovation – Students and professionals create interactive engineering exhibit

Making Their Way: Women Find Their Place in Engineering

More Than Meets the Eye – Getting to know Dr. Jennifer Brand

What We Wish We Had Known – At the close of their first semester, freshmen look back

Taking Out the Garbage in Style – Computer Engineering students embark on new research

A Conversation with Jeremy Befort – Student reaches out to others

Book Review: Skunk Works: A Personal …

Canadian Cooperative Wildlife Health Centre, Volume 9-2, Fall 2003

Canadian Cooperative Wildlife Health Centre: Newsletters and Publications

Type E Botulism in Fish-Eating Birds on Lake Huron and Lake Erie 1998-2003
Chronic Wasting Disease in free-ranging cervids in western Canada
Esophageal Lesions in Crows
Surplus killing of roseate terns and common terns by a mink
West Nile Virus infection in Québec Raptors : 2003 season
Mortality in Great Black-Backed Gulls near Presqu'ile
Type E Botulism Update
West Nile Virus Update
Adenovirus Encephalitis in a Wild Fox
Newcastle Disease Virus in Double-crested Cormorants in Alberta and Saskatchewan in 2003
West Nile Virus in Sage Grouse
The Research Group for Arctic Parasitology (RGAP), November 2003
Death of a Grizzly Bear …

Mind Your Own Business: The Trouble With Justice In Plato's Republic, John Patrick Coby

Government: Faculty Publications

The Republic’s paradoxical definition of justice—minding one’s own business—comes mainly from Socrates’ examination of the arts. The definition applies well to artisans who specialize in single trades, but poorly to warriors who meddle in everyone’s affairs. Are the warriors then unjust? Rather than conclude that they are, the paper maintains that justice is conditioned by class and that the justice practiced by warriors (self-sacrificing and homogenizing) differs from the justice practiced by workers (self-serving and differentiating). But because the formal definition never changes, despite the awkwardness of fit, the paper further suggests that something is askew with justice, with its …

Norman Joseph William Thrower. Maps And Civilizations: Cartography In Culture And Society, Laurence Grambow Wolf

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

To Catch A Killer: Roadblocks And The Fourth Amendment, Michael T. Morley

Scholarly Publications

No abstract provided.

Patterning Layer -By -Layer Self -Assembled Multilayer By Lithography And Its Applications To Thin Film Devices, Feng Hua

Doctoral Dissertations

Nanoparticles are exciting materials because they exhibit unique electronic, catalytic, and optical properties. As a novel and promising nanobuilding block, it attracts considerable research efforts in its integration into a wide variety of thin film devices.

Nanoparticles were adsorbed onto the substrate with layer-by-layer self-assembly which becomes of great interest due to its suitability in colloid particle assembly. Without extremely high temperatures and sophisticated equipment, molecularly organized films in an exactly pre-designed order can grow on almost all the substrates in nature.

Two approaches generating spatially separated patterns comprised of nanoparticles are demonstrated, as well as two approaches patterning more …

Executing The Laws Or Executing An Agenda: Usurpation Of Statutory And Constitutional Rights By The Department Of Justice, Christopher C. Sabis

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

The Department ofJustice (DOJ) can compel individuals and entities to sacrifice their constitutional or statutory rights. The DOJ can do so through brute political force, settlements and consent decrees, selective statutory enforcement, and prosecutions that coerce future actors not to pursue goals contrary to the policy desires of the executive branch. The current regime provides few constraints on the DOJ's ability to abuse its legal authority to achieve political objectives. This unbridled power jeopardizes the rights of both opposing and third parties.

This Note examines, in a bipartisan manner, the methods the Justice Department employs that deprive opponents or third …

The Origins Of Felony Jury Sentencing In The United States, Nancy J. King

Chicago-Kent Law Review

This Article traces the development of jury sentencing in non-capital felony cases in Virginia and Kentucky, as well as the rejection of jury sentencing in Pennsylvania, in the late eighteenth century. Several of the explanations that modern commentators on jury sentencing have offered for the adoption of jury sentencing are questioned. In Virginia, where party politics may have affected the choice of jury over judge, pockets of judicial sentencing power remained, inconsistent with a strong preference for the democratic judgment of a jury in punishment over the professional decisions of the judiciary. Kentucky's experience suggests that settlement patterns and legal …

The Cross Of Christ: Theological Differences Between Joseph H. Waggoner And Ellen G. White, Denis Fortin

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Book Review Of A Letter That Has Not Been Read: Dreams In The Hebrew Bible, By Shaul Bar, Jiri Moskala

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Book Review Of God Who Creates: Essays In Honor Of W. Sibley Towner, By William P. Brown And S. Dean Mcbride, Jr., Richard M. Davidson

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Enron, Watergate And The Regulation Of The Legal Profession, Arnold Rochvarg

All Faculty Scholarship

The most famous scandal of the twentieth century was the Watergate scandal, which most notably led to the resignation of Richard Nixon as President of the United States. The significance of Watergate, however, extends further than the resignation of Nixon. Because Watergate involved so many lawyers, it had a great impact on the regulation of the legal profession. Although the twenty-first century has just started, the strongest contender for this century's most famous scandal is the Enron scandal. Although the Enron scandal is identified mostly with misconduct by accountants and corporate officials, it too involved lawyers and has impacted on …

Communicator, Fall 2003, Wnec Alumni Association

Alumni Magazines

No abstract provided.

Child Custody In Texas And The Best Interest Standard: In The Best Interest Of Whom., Raymon Zapata

The Scholar: St. Mary's Law Review on Race and Social Justice

Texas courts should not apply the best interest standard established in Holley v. Adams to all child custody disputes because it is not a one-size-fits all approach. In Holley, a parental rights termination case, the Texas Supreme Court listed factors to consider when evaluating the best interest of the child. These factors, however, do not adequately address all the issues in a child custody case. Additionally, specific factors including parent’s wishes, religion, race, or the parents' sexual preference are not considered Holley factors. Another significant problem with relying on Holley is that judges are not required to address each factor …

Avoid Bald Men And People With Green Socks? Other Ways To Improve The Voir Dire Process In Jury Selection, Valerie P. Hans, Alayna Jehle

Chicago-Kent Law Review

During jury selection, many courts adopt a minimal approach to voir dire questioning, asking a small number of close-ended questions to groups of prospective jurors and requiring prospective jurors to volunteer their biases. The Article describes research evidence showing that limited voir dire questioning is often ineffective in detecting juror bias. To improve the effectiveness of voir dire, the authors make four recommendations: (1) increase the use of juror questionnaires; (2) incorporate some open-ended questions; (3) expand the types of questions that are asked; and (4) allow attorneys to participate in voir dire.

This Land Is My Land: The Need For A Feasibility Test In Evaluation Of Takings For Public Necessity, Thomas J. Posey

Chicago-Kent Law Review

Federal and state governments, through the use of eminent domain, may condemn the property of a private landowner and use that property to meet a public necessity. If the landowner challenges the condemnation, the courts generally perform an extremely narrow review of the government's decision to take the land. In order to prevail, the landowner must show either that the taking was in violation of constitutional or statutory provisions, or that some gross impropriety such as fraud or abuse of discretion occurred. However, landowners generally may not base their challenges on the grounds that the proposed project is unfeasible or …

The Role Of A Supreme Court In A Democracy, And The Fight Against Terrorism, Aharon Barak

University of Miami Law Review

No abstract provided.

Rethinking Prosecution History Estoppel, Douglas Gary Lichtman

Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper Series

Under the rule of prosecution history estoppel, patent applicants who amend their claims during the course of patent prosecution assume a significant risk: namely, the risk that a court will later construe the changes as concessions that should be read to limit patent scope. This risk is exacerbated by strong evidentiary presumptions under which courts are to assume, unless the patentee presents sufficient evidence otherwise, that every change triggers estoppel, and that the resulting estoppel forfeits everything except that which the revised language literally describes. The justification for these presumptions is that, implemented in this fashion, prosecution history estoppel makes …

The Voice, Fall 2003: Volume 49, Issue 1, Dordt College

The Voice Archive

Lilly Grant Helps Launch Gen 100: Kingdom, Identity, and Calling; Dordt Is Awarded a $2 Million Lilly Grant; Looking Behind the College Rankings; New Year Brings New Records; Social Work Grads Make Their Mark; Lilly Grant Expands Youth Ministry Program; Graduate Program Draws Students from Across the Country; Perkins Returns to Campus; First Students Earn Nursing Degrees; Farm Safety Camp Held at Ag Stewardship Center; Dordt Lacrosse Team Earns District Sportsmanship Award; Dordt College Ranks High in U. S. News Listings; Ongelooflijk - An Incredible Experience; Princeton Review Gives Dordt College a Nod; The Campus Health Center Is Open …

Advocate 2003-2004 Volume 20 Number 2, Office Of Development And Alumni Affairs, Usd School Of Law

Advocate

No abstract provided.

Documentary Editing, Volume 25, Number 3, Fall 2003

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

No abstract provided.

October 1, 2003 Faculty Senate Minutes, University Of South Carolina

Faculty Senate

No abstract provided.

Creation, Liberation, And Property: Virtues And Values Toward A Theocentric Earth Ethic, W. Wade Berryhill

Law Faculty Publications

Religion continues to play a significant role in shaping our attitudes toward nature.2 Time-honored principles of stewardship of the land demand that we owe a duty to future generations to allow them to inherit a healthy environment. Essential to this obligation is spiritual faith, not the trendy brand of secular humanism espoused by ecodogmatists seeking environmental justice through means unmoored from centuries-old principles of creation. What secular humanism ignores-and what religious traditions the world over have recognizedis the reality that we are a "creative expression of the earth's own evolution."3 Thus, in light of our duty to posterity, mere emphasis …

Meeting The Challenge: Training An Aging Population To Use Computers, Carol Bean

The Southeastern Librarian

Older adults present a special challenge to libraries offering computer training. Many of those seeking training have little, if any, prior experience with the concepts and skills necessary to use computers, yet their ability to learn those concepts and skills is hampered by the aging process. This article summarizes the factors in aging which most affect learning computer skills, and how those factors can be mitigated.

The Southeastern Librarian V. 51, No. 3 (Fall 2003) Complete Issue

The Southeastern Librarian

Complete issue of The Southeastern Librarian, volume 51, no. 3 (Fall 2003).

Guidelines For Submissions To The Southeastern Librarian

The Southeastern Librarian

Guidelines for article submissions to The Southeastern Librarian.

Forming The "Chain Of Chains": Rosalind And The Magic Of Love In As You Like It, Elisa Clements

Inscape

No abstract provided.

Copious Electronic Text On Small Screen Interfaces: A New Method Of Displaying Text On Cell Phones, William Fitzpatrick

Master's Theses - Daytona Beach

A modified form of RSVP (rapid serial visual presentation) was presented to 15 male and 15 female undergraduate and graduate students from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. The participants read 9 short passages electronically presented as 2, 4, or 6 lines of text in rapid sequence on a simulated cell phone display interface, at three speeds. Comprehension of text passages was examined in an attempt to find an ideal method of presenting lengthy text on a small screen interface. The results indicated that as participants were exposed to greater speeds and an increasing number of lines their comprehension of the passages decreased. …

Prospectus, October 1, 2003, Jordan Holmes, Patrick Yeagle, Sarah Ramey, Jesse Woodrum, Peter Gabriel, Adam Luckey, Tara Gray

Prospectus 2003

No abstract provided.

Advancing To Corporate Tax Integration: A Laissez-Faire Approach, Anthony P. Polito

South Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.