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Privilege And Punishment: Press Governance In China, Perry Keller

Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Mathematics From China To Virginia By Way Of Singapore, H. Kim, C. Wu, A. Xue, J. Boyd

Journal of Mathematics and Science: Collaborative Explorations

Our article follows from an interesting concurrence of mathematical and educational lines. At least the concurrence seems so to us and we hope that those who read on will agree. The lines or streams are a joint minimester program at St. Catherine’s and St. Christopher‘s Schools, an interest in problem solving, and a Singapore connection. We shall describe the lines first and then describe the mathematics that we found at their intersection.

Prosecutors, Prejudices And Justice: Observations On Presuming Innocence In Popular Culture And Law, Christine Corcos

Journal Articles

No abstract provided.

Sibling Recurrence Risk Ratio Analysis Of The Metabolic Syndrome And Its Components Over Time., Wei J. Chen, Pi Hua Liu, Yen Yi Ho, Kuo Liong Chien, Min Tzu Lo, Wei Liang Shih, Yu Chun Yen, Wen Chung Lee

Faculty Publications

The purpose of this study was to estimate both cross-sectional sibling recurrence risk ratio (lambdas) and lifetime lambdas for the metabolic syndrome and its individual components over time among sibships in the prospectively followed-up cohorts provided by the Genetic Analysis Workshop 13. Five measures included in the operational criteria of the metabolic syndrome by the Adult Treatment Panel III were examined. A method for estimating sibling recurrence risk with correction for complete ascertainment was used to estimate the numerator, and the prevalence in the whole cohort was used as the denominator of lambdas. Considerable variability in the lambdas was found …

Remarks On Jonathan I. Charney, Jeffrey Schoenblum

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

I have been asked to speak for 10 to 15 minutes about a very dear friend and colleague of 25 years, Jon Charney, specifically about his contribution to Vanderbilt Law School. It is difficult to encapsulate any professor's contribution over the course of 30 years in mere minutes. This is especially difficult in Jon Charney's case, because in my opinion, Jon made an extraordinary, extensive, and enduring contribution that has earned him a place in the pantheon, among the giants in the history of this Law School.

This might seem an odd assertion to those who were acquainted with Jon. …

Let's Make A Deal. Liability For "Use Of A Firearm" When Trading Drugs For Guns Under 18 U.S.C. § 924(C), Wendy E. Biddle

Valparaiso University Law Review

No abstract provided.

Reflections [Complete Issue : Third Quarter 2003], Sigma Theta Tau International, Barbara A. Trent, Pamela Klauer Triolo, F. Duke Haddad, Mary B. Maxwell, Janice Wisner, Darlene Sredl, Gloria R. Smith, Joanne K. Olson, May L. Wykle, Debbie Joseph

Sigma Past Publishing - Reflections Magazine

Publishing History: Print issues of Reflections magazine were published from 1975 to 1999 and its successor, Reflections on Nursing Leadership (RNL) began publication in 2000. RNL migrated to an online format, http://www.reflectionsonnursingleadership.org, in 2006 and continues today.

RNL is a member benefit of the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI). The historical print issues have been made openly available.

Publishing Frequency: Quarterly until its transition to online. It’s now updated virtually every day.

Format: Print, 1975 - 2005; Online, 2006 - present

Feature Articles in this Issue:

Leadership Myths

Bridging the Gap

Inspirational Linda

Journey into …

Determiner Typology And Universals Evidenced From Three Indo-European Languages, Ira Glenn Bottoms

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

Building Ecological Literacy Through Ornithology-Based Fieldtrips: Experiences From An Educational Program In Patagonia, Kimberly L. Olson

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

Community Supervision Of Sex Offenders - Integrating Probation And Clinical Treatment, Mike Jenuwine, Ronald Simmons, Edward Swies

Journal Articles

The common reaction to the criminal acts committed by sex offenders includes disgust, anger, and a feeling of increased vulnerability. Not surprisingly, many people feel that convicted sex offenders should be locked up indefinitely, castrated, or put to death. In reality, however, nearly 60 per- cent of convicted sex offenders live in our communities under conditional supervision. The inherent problem with releasing convict- ed sex offenders into the community is the likelihood that they will repeat their crimes. To address this problem, intensive treatment programs for sex offenders have been developed to be used in combination with traditional measures such …

Legal And Policy Responses To The Disappearing "Teacher Exception," Or Copyright Ownership In The 21st Century University*, Elizabeth Townsend

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology

No abstract provided.

Right To Write - Free Expression Rights Of Pennsylvania's Creative Students After Columbine, Barbara Brunner

Faculty Scholarship

This comment analyzes the current state of students' free speech rights in the context of creative writing assignments and examines potential First Amendment applications to the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA), a statewide, mandatory, standards-based exam administered to Pennsylvania public school students. The PSSA, which currently contains a writing assessment for students in sixth, ninth, and eleventh grades requiring students to write essays in response to prompts, is scored anonymously by private entities under contract with the Pennsylvania Department of Education. Those private subcontractors have "red-flagging" procedures in place to identify essays containing imagery or themes that indicate imminent …

A Cultural Tour Of The Legal Landscape: Reflections On Cardinal George's Law And Culture, Charles E. Rice

Journal Articles

When a ruling of the supreme court meets with Congressional disfavor there are several remedies available to Congress. If the decision is not on a constitutional level, a later statutory enactment will suffice to reverse or modify the ruling. If, however, the Court's decision is an interpretation of a constitutional mandate, such as the requirement of the fourteenth amendment that legislative districts be apportioned according to population, then a statute could not reverse the decision because the statute itself would be subject to that constitutional mandate as defined by the Court.

The obvious method of reversing a Supreme Court interpretation …

Teaching A Multiagent Systems Class With Game Days: Designs And Lessons Learned, Leen-Kiat Soh

School of Computing: Technical Reports

In the Fall semester of 2002, I introduced and taught a class in Multiagent Systems. The class was aimed for seniors (with special permission) and graduate students in Computer Science, covering some breadth and depth of issues in multiagent systems. One of the requirements was participation in four Game Days. On each Game Day, student teams competed against each other in games related to issues such as auction, task allocation, coalition formation, and negotiation. This article documents my designs of and lessons learned from these Game Days. The Game Days were very successful. Through role-playing, the students were motivated and …

A Daily Soil Temperature Dataset And Soil Temperature Climatology Of The Contiguous United States, Q. Steven Hu, Yongjun Zheng

Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences: Faculty Publications

Although affected by atmospheric circulations, variations in soil temperature result primarily from the radiation and sensible and latent heat exchanges at the surface and heat transfer in the soils of different thermal properties. Thus, soil temperature and its variation at various depths are unique parameters that are useful in understanding both the surface energy processes and regional environmental and climatic conditions. Yet, despite the importance, long-term quality data of soil temperatures are not available for the United States. The goal of this study is to fill this data gap and to develop a soil temperature dataset from the historical data …

Indirect Symbolic Correlation Approach To Unsegmented Text Recognition, George Nagy, Sharad C. Seth, Y. Lin, Shashank K. Mehta

School of Computing: Conference and Workshop Papers

The new non-parametric approach to unsegmented text recognition builds two bipartite graphs that result from the feature-level and lexical comparisons of the same word against a reference string which need not include the query word. The lexical graph preserves the relative order of edges in the feature graph corresponding to correctly recognized features. This observation leads to a subgraph-matching formulation of the recognition problem. An initial implementation proves the robustness of the approach for up-to 20% noise introduced in the feature-level graph.

Behavioral Management And Task Performance In Organizations: Conceptual Background, Meta-Analysis, And Test Of Alternative Models, Alexander D. Stajkovic, Fred Luthans

Department of Management: Faculty Publications

In this study, we provide the conceptual background, meta-analyze available behavioral management studies (N = 72) in organizational settings, and examine whether combined reinforcement effects on task performance are additive (sum of individual effects), redundant (combined effects are less than the additive effects), or synergistic (combined effects are greater than the sum of the individual effects). We found a significant overall average effect size of (d.) = .47 (16% improvement in performance; 63% probability of success), and a significant within-group heterogeneity of effect sizes. To account for this variation, we conducted a theory-driven moderator analysis, which indicated that money, feedback, …

Nebraska Birds In Recorded History, Fritz L. Knopf

United States Geological Survey: Staff Publications

The critical image of historical perspective is lacking in much of conservation biology's dialogue on protecting biotic diversity. Some biologists offer that the vision for bird conservation on the Central Grasslands of North America is to secure at least fragments of the avian assemblage that coexisted with Native Americans when Europeans first arrived. Nowhere, however, has anyone really tried to re-create such a historical image in any biological arena, until now.

Phylogenetic Analysis Of The Metastrongyloidea (Nematoda: Strongylida) Inferred From Ribosomal Rna Gene Sequences, Ramon A. Carreno, Steven A. Nadler

Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology: Faculty Publications

Phylogenetic relationships among nematodes of the strongylid superfamily Metastrongyloidea were analyzed using partial sequences from the large-subunit ribosomal RNA (LSU rRNA) and small-subunit ribosomal RNA (SSU rRNA) genes. Regions of nuclear ribosomal DNA (rDNA) were amplified by polymerase chain reaction, directly sequenced, aligned, and phylogenies inferred using maximum parsimony. Phylogenetic hypotheses inferred from the SSU rRNA gene supported the monophyly of representative taxa from each of the 7 currently accepted metastrongyloid families. Metastrongyloid taxa formed the sister group to representative trichostrongyloid sequences based on SSU data. Sequences from either the SSU or LSU RNA regions alone provided poor resolution for …

The Stable Core And Dynamic Periphery In Top Management Teams, Michael A. Roberto

Marketing Department Faculty Journal Articles

This study explores how top management teams make strategic decisions. The findings indicate that the top management team performs a variety of monitoring and control functions within most firms, but that a single team with stable composition does not make strategic choices in most organizations. Instead, different groups, with members from multiple organizational levels, form to make various strategic decisions. A stable subset of the top team forms the core of each of these multiple decision‐making bodies. The findings offer a possible explanation for inconsistent findings in the top management team literature, and suggest several new directions for future senior …

Saudi Medical Journal - A College By Itself!, Basim A. Yaqub, Saleh M. Al-Deeb

Saudi Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

Teaching Energy Balance Using Round Numbers: A Quantitative Approach To The Greenhouse Effect And Global Warming, Brian S. Blais

Science and Technology Department Faculty Journal Articles

The idea of energy balance used to explain the greenhouse effect and global warming is often confusing for students, primarily because the standard quantitative analysis uses many constants and units. A "round" unit method is presented, which maintains the quantitative aspects of the standard analysis, but is much more intuitive for students.

Characterization Of Escherichia Coli O157:H7 From Downer And Healthy Dairy Cattle In The Upper Midwest Region Of The United States, C. M. Byrne, I. Erol, J. E. Call, C. W. Kaspar, D. R. Buege, C. J. Hiemke, P. J. Fedorka-Cray, Andrew K. Benson, F. M. Wallace, J. B. Luchansky

Department of Food Science and Technology: Faculty Publications

While cattle in general have been identified as a reservoir of Escherichia coli O157:H7, there are limited data regarding the prevalence and clonality of this pathogen in downer dairy cattle and the potential impact to human health that may occur following consumption of meat derived from downer dairy cattle. In the present study, conducted at two slaughter facilities in Wisconsin between May and October of 2001, we established a higher prevalence of E. coli O157:H7 in fecal and/or tissue samples obtained aseptically from intact colons of downer dairy cattle (10 of 203, 4.9%) than in those from healthy dairy cattle …

Comparison Of Implicit And Explicit Learning Processes In A Probabilistic Task, Thomas D. Green, John H. Flowers

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

This experiment compared the performance with explicit (rule-application and rule-discovery) and implicit (nonrule-instructed) learning approaches on the performance of a probabilistic video game task requiring fine motor control. The task required visual tracking of a small ball of light and “catching” it by means of joystick manipulation. A general pattern of improvement with practice occurred for all conditions. All conditions showed use of predictive relations among stimulus events. However, task performance of the rule-application and rule-discovery conditions were inferior to the nonrule-instructed implicit condition, particularly during the early phases of rule acquisition and application. This pattern strongly suggests substantial performance …

Geographic Variation In Song Of The Bright-Rumped Attila (Tyrannidae: Attila Spadiceus): Implications For Species Status, Daniel Leger, D. James Mountjoy

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

Bright-rumped Attilas (Attila spadiceus) have two song forms, one sung primarily at dawn, the other primarily during the rest of the day. Both songs consist of a main phrase and an optional terminal phrase. Our recordings of dawn and day songs in Costa Rica were very similar to those made elsewhere in Central America. However, Central American dawn songs were significantly different than dawn songs from South America, both in terms of quantitative features (temporal and frequency variables) and qualitative characteristics (note shape). Day songs from Central and South America were similar. Song differences suggest that the Bright-rumped …

Why Theories Of Law Have Little Or Nothing To Do With Judicial Restraint, Philip E. Soper

Articles

The question I explore here, stated in its broadest form, is this: What is the connection between theory and practice between academic claims about how judges should decide cases and the actual behavior of judges as revealed in the opinions they write? More particularly, do theories about the nature of law have any implications for the question whether a judge should adopt an "activist" or a "restrained" approach to deciding cases? As you might infer from my title, I defend here what I call "the skeptical thesis" in answer to both the general and particular questions. Judges pay little or …

Behavioral Economics And The Sec, Stephen J. Choi, Adam C. Pritchard

Articles

Not all investors are rational. Quite apart from the obvious examples of credulity in the face of the latest Ponzi scheme, there is no shortage of evidence that many investors' decisions are influenced by systematic biases that impair their abilities to maximize their investment returns. For example, investors will often hold onto poorly performing stocks longer than warranted, hoping to recoup their losses. Other investors will engage in speculative trading, dissipating their returns by paying larger commissions than more passive investors. And we are not just talking about widows and orphans here. There is evidence that supposedly sophisticated institutional investors-mutual …

Proposed Patent Local Rules For Adoption By Texas' Federal District Courts, Alfonso Garcia Chan

Computer Law Review and Technology Journal

This paper proposes a set of local rules to govern patent cases litigated in Texas' U.S. District Courts. The Proposed Patent Local Rules combine the patent rules implemented by U.S. District Judge T. John Ward of the Eastern District of Texas and the most-recent version of the Patent Local Rules of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The Proposed Patent Local Rules also incorporate comments from the Litigation Committee of the State Bar of Texas Intellectual Property Law Section. The Rules build upon the successes of existing rules in these other courts and can provide trial …

Should Patent Protection Be Considered For Computer Software-Related Innovations?, Elosie Gratton

Computer Law Review and Technology Journal

The twentieth century witnessed the development of more significant scientific and technological advances than any other period in history. In today's society computer-related technologies, including software, are at the forefront of change. But at the beginning of the computer age the computer industry overlooked software in favor of more-valuable computer hardware.

The question of software patentability arose during the 1960's and the early 1970's, when the prevailing view of computer suppliers was that software should not be protected by copyright or patent. The industry believed that a system allowing the free exchange and availability of computer programs might stimulate the …

Stories Of Mothers Of Medically Vulnerable Infants, Sarah E. Davis

Master's Projects

As with any new baby, a medically vulnerable infant must be incorporated into the life of the family. The work of this transition is principally the work of the mother as primary caretaker. The mother considers what it will mean to have this infant in the family, how he will fit in, and what things will change. The mother wonders about how his personality will unfold and what his future will bring. She thinks about her role as a mother and how to best meet her child's special needs. With a medically vulnerable infant, a mother also has to consider …