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Wto Accession: What's In It For Russia?, Abdur Chowdhury

Economics Faculty Research and Publications

Prospects for Russia’s membership in the WTO now look better than any point since accession negotiations began almost a decade ago. Good progress with economic and legal reforms within Russia has left the country’s economy better prepared for membership. Nevertheless, the economy still suffers from various weaknesses including, but not limited to, pervasive subsidies for different sectors, lack of liberalization and foreign participation especially in the service sector, inefficiency in custom administration, lack of enforcement of intellectual property rights, etc. For all their sensitivity, the negotiations on the import tariff levels and access to the service sectors are the least …

The Relationship Between Religious Affiliation, Region, Race, And Attitudes Toward Globalization, Marc Von Der Ruhr, Joseph P. Daniels

Economics Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Case Commentaries

Transactions: The Tennessee Journal of Business Law

No abstract provided.

The Role Of Colleges And Universities In Neighborhood Real Estate Development: Based On The Experience Of Five Institutions, Jill Norton, Ziona Austrian

All Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs Publications

This report discusses the role of colleges and universities in the economic development of neighborhoods and cities through direct investments in real estate. It explores various approaches to neighborhood economic development and looks at how educational institutions can partner with public agencies and neighborhood-based organizations to meet the objectives of both the institution and the community in which it resides.

Business Owner Liability And Concealed Weapons Legislation: A Call For Legislative Guidance For Pennsylvania Business Owners, A. Nicole Hartley

Penn State Law Review (2003 - Present)

No abstract provided.

All The [Athletes] Are Equal, But Some Are More Equal Than Others: An Objective Evaluation Of Title Ix's Past, Present, And Recommendations For Its Future, J. Brad Reich

Penn State Law Review (2003 - Present)

No abstract provided.

The Constitutional Contributions Of John Dickinson, Robert G. Natelson

Penn State Law Review (2003 - Present)

No abstract provided.

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

Penn State Law Review (2003 - Present)

No abstract provided.

Images Of Older Persons In Hong Kong Popular Films, Nga Man Wong

Lingnan Theses

Film watching is a popular leisure activity in modern society. Films, as a medium, provide powerful tools to deliver social messages and to create images of particular social groups. The cinematic images portrayed by films toward a particular social group may consequently shape our social perceptions and expectations of that social group. The ways that cinematic images portray older persons are, therefore, a potentially major source for detecting social values and views about them.

As some cinematic images tend to reflect social attitudes and behaviours, the present research aimed at investigating how popular films portray the images of older persons. …

Proposal For A Model State Watershed Management Act, J.B. Ruhl, C.L. Lant, Steven E. Kraft, Leslie A. Duram, Tim Loftus

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

During the Montana Constitutional Convention of 1889, John Wesley Powell, envisioning a landscape of watershed commonwealths, proposed that Montana adopt watersheds as the boundaries of its counties. The idea did not catch on. Over time, the power of local governments to regulate land use has grown immensely, but the misfit between their political boundaries and environmental policy problem sheds has persisted. As our understanding of ecosystem dynamics improves, however, natural resources management policy is gravitating, once again, to the watershed as an appropriate unit of governance. Many federal and state natural resource management initiatives have come on line in the …

Rhetorically Reasonable Police Practices: Viewing The Supreme Court's Multiple Discourse Paths, Kathryn R. Urbonya

Faculty Publications

This Article analyzes the United States Supreme Court's numerous and shifting rhetorical discourse paths for declaring whether particular governmental practices constituted unreasonable searches or seizures under the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution. It examines how the Court has manipulated classic discourse paths arising from text, history, precedent and structure. It reveals that among and within each of these categories, the Court has created conflicting approaches. The Article argues that the Court's construction of Fourth Amendment reasonableness has depended upon which discourse paths it has selected as well as how it has characterized the values embedded within the discourse …

Surviving The Shipwreck: A Proposal To Revive The Failing Division Defense, Amanda L. Wait

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.

Envisioning A Global Legal Culture, Charles H. Koch Jr.

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Editor's Note, Drew, Joseph Drew

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

Commercialism In Public Schools: A Study Of The Perceptions Of Teachers And Administrators On Accepting Corporate Advertising, Gerard Jude Kowal

Student Work

The purpose of this study was to examine the perceptions of teachers and administrators regarding the acceptability or unacceptability of corporate advertising in their schools, particularly about the acceptability or unacceptability of commercial advertising outside the school building, inside the school building, and inside the classroom.

Using Polvika's Model To Create A Service-Learning Partnership, Gwendolyn F. Foss, Maria M. Bonaiuto, Z. Sue Johnson, Dee M. Moreland

Partnerships/Community

Collaboration can maximize limited resources of universities, school systems, and public health departments by offering learning from experience. Polvika's theoretical model and principles from Community-Campus Partnerships for Health guided development of a service-learning partnership among a university, a county health department, and an alternative school in a large public school district. Of three commonly identified patterns of service-learning, this partnership demonstrated the pattern that equally emphasizes service to a community or agency, and mutual learning by all participants. All organizations in the partnership share a common goal to optimize the health of children in schools, and to provide quality learning …

Letter To Graduates And Friends, W. Taylor Reveley Iii

1998–2008: W. Taylor Reveley, III

No abstract provided.

Il-7 Enhances Peripheral T Cell Reconstitution After Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation., Onder Alpdogan, Stephanie J Muriglan, Jeffrey M Eng, Lucy M Willis, Andrew S Greenberg, Barry J Kappel, Marcel R M Van Den Brink

Department of Medical Oncology Faculty Papers

We used clinically relevant murine allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (BMT) models to study the mechanisms by which IL-7 administration can improve posttransplant peripheral T cell reconstitution. After transplant we could distinguish two populations of mature donor T cells: (a) alloreactive T cells with decreased expression of CD127 (IL-7 receptor alpha chain) and (b) nonalloreactive T cells, which express CD127 and undergo homeostatic proliferation. IL-7 administration increased the homeostatic proliferation of nonalloreactive T cells, but had no effect on alloreactive T cells and the development of graft-versus-host disease. Allogeneic transplant of purified hematopoietic stem cells and adoptive transfer of thymocytes into …

Risk, Discounting, And The Present Value Of Future Earnings, Brian Brush

Economics Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Recent Books, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Books received by the Law Review.

The Logic Of Reciprocity: Trust, Collective Action, And Law, Dan M. Kahan

Michigan Law Review

The Logic of Collective Action has for decades supplied the logic of public-policy analysis. In this pioneering application of public choice theory, Mancur Olson elegantly punctured the premise - shared by a variety of political theories - that individuals can be expected to act consistently with the interest of the groups to which they belong. Absent externally imposed incentives, wealth-maximizing individuals, he argued, will rarely find it in their interest to contribute to goods that benefit the group as a whole, but rather will "free ride" on the contributions that other group members make. As a result, too few individuals …

Class Schedule - Fall 2003, Office Of Registrar

Semester Schedules and Information

No abstract provided.

World Religions And The Vegetarian Diet, Jo Ann Davidson

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

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 …

American & British Insurers And Courts As Aiders And Abettors Of Commercial Terrorism., Will Rice

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

Abstract Forthcoming.

Following The Law, Not The Crowd: The Constitutionality Of Nontraditional High School Athletic Seasons, Courtney E. Schafer

Duke Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Statement, Fall 2003, Office Of Alumni Relations. Morehead State University

Morehead State Alumni Association Publications

Statement Magazine of Morehead State University from Fall of 2003.

Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis With Probabilistic Risk Assessment For The Management Of Contaminated Ground Water, I. Khadam, Jagath J. Kaluarachchi

Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications

Traditionally, environmental decision analysis in subsurface contamination scenarios is performed using cost–benefit analysis. In this paper, we discuss some of the limitations associated with cost–benefit analysis, especially its definition of risk, its definition of cost of risk, and its poor ability to communicate risk-related information. This paper presents an integrated approach for management of contaminated ground water resources using health risk assessment and economic analysis through a multi-criteria decision analysis framework. The methodology introduces several important concepts and definitions in decision analysis related to subsurface contamination. These are the trade-off between population risk and individual risk, the trade-off between the …

Ursinus Magazine, Fall 2003, Wendy Greenberg, Fran Shaughnessy, Nancy White Opalack, Dan Reimold, Georgia Hurff, Tanya Habjouqa

Ursinus Magazine, 1995–Present

The Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art calendar • Taking Our Place Campaign takes off • New faculty at Ursinus • Construction begins on performing arts center • New trustees welcomed • Student report: Class visits Cuba, family is reunited • Groundwork for Summer Fellows in Peru • Alumni forum • Reports from Career Services • The first year and the Common Intellectual Experience • The Ursinus Harvard connection • Wrestlers from Japan find hospitality at Ursinus • Six inducted into the Ursinus Hall of Fame for Athletes • Women's soccer • Women's field hockey • Men's football • …