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Beyond Words: An Empirical Study Of Context In Contract Creation, Deborah A. Schmedemann Oct 2003

Beyond Words: An Empirical Study Of Context In Contract Creation, Deborah A. Schmedemann

South Carolina Law Review

No abstract provided.


A Retrospective On Lucas V. South Carolina Coastal Council: Public Policy Implications For The 21st Century, Dana Beach, Kim Diana Connolly Oct 2003

A Retrospective On Lucas V. South Carolina Coastal Council: Public Policy Implications For The 21st Century, Dana Beach, Kim Diana Connolly

Southeastern Environmental Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Credible Criminal Enforcement, Matthew J. Baker, Thomas J. Miceli Oct 2003

Credible Criminal Enforcement, Matthew J. Baker, Thomas J. Miceli

Economics Working Papers

Economic models of crime and punishment implicitly assume that the government can credibly commit to the fines, sentences, and apprehension rates it has chosen. We study the government's problem when credibility is an issue. We find that several of the standard predictions of the economic model of crime and punishment are robust to commitment, but that credibility may in some cases result in lower apprehension rates, and hence a higher crime rate, compared to the static version of the model.


Molecular Characterization Of Brucella Abortus Chromosome Ii Recombination, Georgios Tsoktouridis, Christian A. Merz, Simon P. Manning, Renée Giovagnoli-Kurtz, Leanne E. Williams, Cesar V. Mujer, Sue Hagius, Philip Elzer, Rajendra J. Redkar, Guy Patra, Vito G. Delvecchio Oct 2003

Molecular Characterization Of Brucella Abortus Chromosome Ii Recombination, Georgios Tsoktouridis, Christian A. Merz, Simon P. Manning, Renée Giovagnoli-Kurtz, Leanne E. Williams, Cesar V. Mujer, Sue Hagius, Philip Elzer, Rajendra J. Redkar, Guy Patra, Vito G. Delvecchio

Faculty Publications

Large-scale genomic rearrangements including inversions, deletions, and duplications are significant in bacterial evolution. The recently completed Brucella melitensis 16M and Brucella suis 1330 genomes have facilitated the investigation of such events in the Brucella spp. Suppressive subtractive hybridization (SSH) was employed in identifying genomic differences between B. melitensis 16M and Brucella abortus 2308. Analysis of 45 SSH clones revealed several deletions on chromosomes of B. abortus and B. melitensis that encoded proteins of various metabolic pathways. A 640-kb inversion on chromosome II of B. abortus has been reported previously (S. Michaux Charachon, G. Bourg, E. Jumas Bilak, P. Guigue Talet, …


How Safe Do Individuals Feel In Clayton County?, Scott M. Clemens Oct 2003

How Safe Do Individuals Feel In Clayton County?, Scott M. Clemens

Theses and Dissertations

To determine if individuals feel safe in their communities, a self- administered questionnaire was distributed to six hundred residents of Clayton County, Georgia. In addition to overall safety, the survey sought to measure how being a victim of a burglary or rape and the level of income impacts the individuals' feeling of safety. The survey also sought to measure how safe those same individuals believed the community was for their children and how likely a terrorist attack was in the county. Non- probability sampling, specifically the accidental sample, was used for conducting the research. The results of the survey show …


The Enhancement Bias In Consumer Decisions To Adopt And Utilize Product Innovations, Shenghui Zhao, Robert J. Meyer, Jin K. Han Oct 2003

The Enhancement Bias In Consumer Decisions To Adopt And Utilize Product Innovations, Shenghui Zhao, Robert J. Meyer, Jin K. Han

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

The ability of consumers to anticipate the value they will draw from new product generations that expand the capabilities of incumbent goods is explored. Drawing on previous research in affective forecasting, the work explores a hypothesis that consumers will frequently overestimate the benefits they envision drawing from new added product features and underestimate the learning costs required to realize those benefits. This hypothesis is tested using a computer simulation in which subjects are trained to play a Pacman-like arcade game where icons are moved over a screen by different forms of tactile controls. Respondents are then given the option to …


The Invention Of Inflation-Indexed Bonds In Early America, Robert J. Shiller Oct 2003

The Invention Of Inflation-Indexed Bonds In Early America, Robert J. Shiller

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

The world’s first known inflation-indexed bonds were issued by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 1780 during the Revolutionary War. These bonds were invented to deal with severe wartime inflation and with angry discontent among soldiers in the U.S. Army with the decline in purchasing power of their pay. Although the bonds were successful, the concept of indexed bonds was abandoned after the immediate extreme inflationary environment passed, and largely forgotten until the twentieth century. In 1780, the bonds were viewed as at best only an irregular expedient, since there was no formulated economic theory to justify indexation.


Sometimes Promising Is Not So Promising: The Breakdown Of The Family Resemblance Test, Cori R. Haper Oct 2003

Sometimes Promising Is Not So Promising: The Breakdown Of The Family Resemblance Test, Cori R. Haper

University of Dayton Law Review

No abstract provided.


Unlv Magazine, Barbara Cloud, Jennifer Vaughan Oct 2003

Unlv Magazine, Barbara Cloud, Jennifer Vaughan

UNLV Magazine

No abstract provided.


Corrosion And Mass Transport Processes In Carbon Steel Miniature Waste Packages, James Cizdziel, Kaveh Zarrabi, Susan Lestrange, Amy J. Smiecinski Oct 2003

Corrosion And Mass Transport Processes In Carbon Steel Miniature Waste Packages, James Cizdziel, Kaveh Zarrabi, Susan Lestrange, Amy J. Smiecinski

Publications (YM)

In this study, we have systematically investigated corrosion and mass transport processes in carbon steel miniature waste packages (MWP) in dynamic systems (water in, water out) under varying chemical conditions. The MWP were fabricated to have similar configuration to the DOE Spent Nuclear Fuel (SNF) waste package and that individual components to be in scale with each other compare to the SNF waste package. Two MWP configurations were studied: a "bathtub" model and a "flow-through" model. By slowly dripping 4 different solutions (groundwater obtained from well water J-13 located near Yucca Mountain, and J-13 water adjusted to low-pH, high-salinity, and …


How Much Information Is Enough: Securities Market Information And The Quest For A More Efficient Market, Richard C. Strasser Oct 2003

How Much Information Is Enough: Securities Market Information And The Quest For A More Efficient Market, Richard C. Strasser

Transactions: The Tennessee Journal of Business Law

No abstract provided.


The Interface Between The Bankruptcy Code And A Disgorgement Judgment Held By The Securities And Exchange Commission, Kasey T. Ingram Oct 2003

The Interface Between The Bankruptcy Code And A Disgorgement Judgment Held By The Securities And Exchange Commission, Kasey T. Ingram

Transactions: The Tennessee Journal of Business Law

No abstract provided.


General Causation At A Crossroads In Toxic Tort Cases, Alani Golanski Oct 2003

General Causation At A Crossroads In Toxic Tort Cases, Alani Golanski

Penn State Law Review (2003 - Present)

No abstract provided.


Damages For Increased Risk Of Future Injury: Can Illinois Courts See Into The Future? Dillon V. Evanston Hospital, 771 N.E.2d 357 (Ill. 2002), J Brian Manion Oct 2003

Damages For Increased Risk Of Future Injury: Can Illinois Courts See Into The Future? Dillon V. Evanston Hospital, 771 N.E.2d 357 (Ill. 2002), J Brian Manion

Southern Illinois University Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Louisiana Agriculture Fall, 2003, Lsu Agcenter Oct 2003

Louisiana Agriculture Fall, 2003, Lsu Agcenter

Louisiana Agriculture

No abstract provided.


Action Based Approach To The Dynamics Of Extended Bodies In General Relativity, Jeeva Anandan, Naresh Dadhich, Parampreet Singh Oct 2003

Action Based Approach To The Dynamics Of Extended Bodies In General Relativity, Jeeva Anandan, Naresh Dadhich, Parampreet Singh

Faculty Publications

We present, for the first time, an action principle that gives the equations of motion of an extended body possessing multipole moments in an external gravitational field, in the weak field limit. From the action, the experimentally observable quantum phase shifts in the wavefunction of an extended object due to the coupling of its multipole moments with the gravitational field are obtained. Also, since the theory may be quantized using the action, the present approach is useful in the interface between general relativity and quantum mechanics.


The Effect Of Density-Dependent Catastrophes On Population Persistence Time, Chris Wilcox, Bret Elderd Oct 2003

The Effect Of Density-Dependent Catastrophes On Population Persistence Time, Chris Wilcox, Bret Elderd

Faculty Publications

1. There has been increasing recognition that catastrophes are an important factor in modelling threatened populations. However, density dependence has generally been omitted from models of threatened populations on the assumption that this omission yields conservative predictions. We explore the significance of including density-dependent catastrophes in models of threatened populations. 2. Using an analytical model, we show that density-dependent catastrophes have a significant effect on population persistence, decreasing mean persistence time at large population sizes and causing a relative increase at intermediate sizes. 3. We illustrate our results with empirical data from a disease outbreak in crabeater seals Lobodon carcinophagus …


The Nonexistence Of Regularization Operators, Ricardo Estrada Oct 2003

The Nonexistence Of Regularization Operators, Ricardo Estrada

Faculty Publications

We show that there are no continuous regularization procedures for the extension of distributions. We also show that there are no continuous projection operators from the spaces of distributions onto subspaces of distributions with support on a given closed set. © 2003 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.


Pc Security In A Networked World, Joseph B. Miller Oct 2003

Pc Security In A Networked World, Joseph B. Miller

Information Science Faculty Publications

Over the last decade, the personal computer has been transformed from an isolated word processor and number cruncher into a communications device. The emergence of the Web, the expansion of broadband connectivity, and new versions of the Windows operating system have made it possible to share information and files around the world with the click of a mouse. So, the good news is that it is now easier than ever to connect to any other host on the Internet to share information or to set up your own Internet based information services. However, this is also the bad news because …


Ke Alaka'i, Vol. 67, No. 05 (2003-10-01), Brigham Young University Hawaii Oct 2003

Ke Alaka'i, Vol. 67, No. 05 (2003-10-01), Brigham Young University Hawaii

Ke Alaka'i

No abstract provided.


Un Glossario Bernense, Scott Gwara Oct 2003

Un Glossario Bernense, Scott Gwara

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Student Experiences With Service-Learning In Sport Management, Gregg Bennett Oct 2003

Student Experiences With Service-Learning In Sport Management, Gregg Bennett

Higher Education

Many professors utilize academically-based service-learning in their classes to provide students with an experiential experience. In fact, service-learning has increased in popularity in higher education due mainly to the many perceived benefits of the method. Service-learning is being written about extensively by several authors (Gray, Ondaatje, Fricker, & Geschwind, 2000; Hilosky, Moore, & Reynolds, 2000; Jackowski & Gullion, 1998; Mattson & Shea, 1997; Sutton, 1989; Zlotkowski, 1995), as educators grapple with how to implement this effective means of learning into the curriculum.


The Symbols Of Governance: Thurman Arnold And Post-Realist Legal Theory, Mark Fenster Oct 2003

The Symbols Of Governance: Thurman Arnold And Post-Realist Legal Theory, Mark Fenster

UF Law Faculty Publications

This article is an effort to provide both the intellectual context of Thurman Arnold's work and, through his work, a better sense of where and how the study of law turned after realism. The article is in five parts. Part I describes Arnold's relationship with legal realism, looking at the earliest part of his academic career when, as a mainstream realist, he performed empirical studies of local and state court systems. Part II is Arnold's proposed field of "Political Dynamics," an interdisciplinary approach to the symbols of law, politics, and economics. Part III considers Arnold's authorial voice in Symbols and …


Representing Death-Sentence Appellants, Charles B. Blackmar Oct 2003

Representing Death-Sentence Appellants, Charles B. Blackmar

The Journal of Appellate Practice and Process

No abstract provided.


The Revised Aba Guidelines And The Duties Of Lawyers And Judges In Capital Post-Conviction Proceedings, Eric M. Freedman Oct 2003

The Revised Aba Guidelines And The Duties Of Lawyers And Judges In Capital Post-Conviction Proceedings, Eric M. Freedman

The Journal of Appellate Practice and Process

No abstract provided.


The Oral Judgment Practice In The Canadian Appellate Courts, J. E. Côté Oct 2003

The Oral Judgment Practice In The Canadian Appellate Courts, J. E. Côté

The Journal of Appellate Practice and Process

No abstract provided.


No-Citation Rules Under Siege: A Battlefield Report And Analysis, Stephen R. Barnett Oct 2003

No-Citation Rules Under Siege: A Battlefield Report And Analysis, Stephen R. Barnett

The Journal of Appellate Practice and Process

No abstract provided.


Intelligence Testing And Atkins: Considerations For Appellate Courts And Appellate Lawyers, Lajuana Davis Oct 2003

Intelligence Testing And Atkins: Considerations For Appellate Courts And Appellate Lawyers, Lajuana Davis

The Journal of Appellate Practice and Process

No abstract provided.


Fundamentals Of Preparing A United States Supreme Court Amicus Brief, Dan Schweitzer Oct 2003

Fundamentals Of Preparing A United States Supreme Court Amicus Brief, Dan Schweitzer

The Journal of Appellate Practice and Process

No abstract provided.


Effective Performance Guarantees For Capital State Post-Conviction Counsel: Cutting The Gordian Knot, Andrew Hammel Oct 2003

Effective Performance Guarantees For Capital State Post-Conviction Counsel: Cutting The Gordian Knot, Andrew Hammel

The Journal of Appellate Practice and Process

No abstract provided.