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The Agency Law Origins Of The Necessary And Proper Clause, Robert G. Natelson

Faculty Law Review Articles

In this article the author suggests that the meaning of the Necessary and Proper Clause has seemed unclear to modern commentators because they have not been looking in the right place. In Part II the author subjects the Necessary and Proper Clause to textual analysis, incorporating in that analysis the eighteenth century definitions of words and shows why textual analysis alone cannot clarify some uncertainties. Part III examines the drafting history of the Clause at the federal constitutional convention, concluding that the primary drafters intended it to incorporate concepts from contemporary agency law, specifically the doctrine of implied incidental agency …

Wglt Program Guide, January-February, 2004, Illinois State University

WGLT Program Guides

This guide details programming for WGLT, a public radio station owned by Illinois State University.

Women's Voice, January/February 2004, Women's, Gender, And Sexuality Studies Program

Women's Voice (1991-2006)

No abstract provided.

Legislators In The Classroom: Why State Legislatures Cannot Decide Higher Education Curricula, Laura A. Jeltema

American University Law Review

No abstract provided.

Adjudicating Beyond The Scope Of Ordinary Business: Why The Inaccessibility Test In Zubulake Unduly Stifles Cost-Shifting During Electronic Discovery, Jessica Lynn Repa

American University Law Review

No abstract provided.

Sharing Sovereignty: Non-State Associations And The Limits Of State Power, Franklin G. Snyder

American University Law Review

No abstract provided.

Usd Magazine Winter 2004 19.2, University Of San Diego

University of San Diego Magazine (1992- )

Features; Campus Almanac; Alumni Almanac; Faculty Almanac; Sports Almanac; Head of the Classes; A Day in the Park; Alumni Gallery/Class Notes; Alumni Regional Events; In Your Own Words; Calendar

Person-Organization Values Congruence And The Work Commitment Of High-School Principals, Jacqueline Mcevoy

Master's Theses

Digitized thesis

Merit Selection: A Better Method To Select South Dakota's Circuit Court Judges, Tim Dallas Tucker, Christina L. Fischer

South Dakota Law Review

No abstract provided.

Waiver Of The Peer Review Privilege: A Survey Of The Law, Daniel M. Mulholland Iii, Phil Zarone

South Dakota Law Review

No abstract provided.

Amendment E: The Constitutional Dimensions Of Unintended Consequences, Neil Fulton

South Dakota Law Review

No abstract provided.

Imsa 2004 Profile, Office Of College And Academic Counseling

IMSA Profile

Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy:

• Founded in 1985 by the Illinois General Assembly, IMSA is a public residential educational program for students talented and interested in mathematics and science. Admission is competitive.
• IMSA serves 640 students in grades 10 thru 12 in an educational laboratory setting.
• As part of the overall academic experience, IMSA requires all students to reside on campus.*
• *Excerpt from the IMSA 2004 Profile

New Fixed Assets Management Process Design For Pontifica Universidad Catolica Madre Y Maestra (Pucmm), Mary Baez

Theses

Currently, PUCMM does not have a reliable management process for its fixed and controlled assets. In addition, PUCMM does not have a system that can provide accurate, fast and updated information about these items. Therefore, there is the need of a new process for managing PUCMM's fixed assets. The purpose of this research is to design a new management process for PUCMM's fixed and controlled assets that will provide reliable, quick and updated information. The methodology for this study is based on a cross-sectional study to assess fixed assets management processes in this and other well-established organizations. It is a …

Institutional Development Of Water Users Associations In Kyrgyzstan, Aida Alymbaeva

Theses

Irrigation is of great importance for the agriculturally-predominant country of Kyrgyzstan, and the adequate operation and maintenance (O&M) of irrigation systems is required to support agricultural productivity in the country. A process of irrigation management transfer from the government to farm-based Water Users Associations (WUAs) has been pursued in the country for about a decade, but the results of institutionalization of WUAs are mixed. This thesis aims to explore the factors enabling the development of WUAs to manage O&M of irrigation infrastructure and ensure equitable and reliable water distribution to farmers. The research results show that WUAs are still too …

Light Dependence Of Selenium Uptake By Phytoplankton And Implications For Predicting Selenium Incorporation Into Food Webs, Stephen B. Baines, Nicholas S. Fisher, Martina A. Doblin, Gregory A. Cutter, Lynda S. Cutter, Brian Cole

OES Faculty Publications

The potentially toxic element selenium is first concentrated from solution to a large but highly variable degree by algae and bacteria before being passed on to consumers. The large loads of abiotic and detrital suspended particles often present in rivers and estuaries may obscure spatial and temporal patterns in Se concentrations at the base of the food web. We used radiotracers to estimate uptake of both selenite (Se(IV)) and C by intact plankton communities at two sites in the Sacramento/San Joaquin River Delta. Our goals were to determine (1) whether C and Se(IV) uptake were coupled, (2) the role of …

Optimization Of Blowing And Suction Control On Naca0012 Airfoil Using Genetic Algorithm With Diversity Control, Liang Huang

University of Kentucky Doctoral Dissertations

Active control of the flow over an airfoil is an area of heightened interest in the aerospace community. Previous research on flow control design processes heavily depended on trial and error and the designers knowledge and intuition. Such an approach cannot always meet the growing demands of higher design quality in less time. Successful application of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to this kind of control problem critically depends on an efficient searching algorithm for design optimization. CFD in conjunction with Genetic Algorithms (GA) potentially offers an efficient and robust optimization method and is a promising solution for current flow control …

Family Environment And Substance Use In Adolescent Males, Emily H. Brechting

University of Kentucky Master's Theses

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between several aspects of family environment and adolescent substance use. Participants included 372 (M = 15.45 years, range = 15-17) adolescent males with and without a paternal history of Substance Use Disorder (SUD). Participants completed measures of family functioning, family communication, parentadolescent communication, living arrangement, temperament, and substance use. Results indicated that family functioning and communication predicted a significant reduction in the number of drugs used, frequency of drug use, and problems associated with drug use beyond the effects of demographic covariates. Additionally, temperament and family history of SUD were …

Normal And Spin Polarized Transport In High-Temperature Superconductor Tunneling Junctions, Mario Vadim Freamat

University of Kentucky Doctoral Dissertations

One of the challenges facing condensed matter physics nowadays is to understand the electronic structure of high temperature superconductors. This dissertation compiles our contribution to the experimental information concerning this subject. Tunneling conductance spectroscopy a technique capable of probing the electronic density of states in hybrid structures was used to study the current and spin transport properties across junctions between metallic counterelectrodes and Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8- (BSCCO) crystals. Since in these structures the transport is mediated by transmission channels depending on superconductive characteristics, the energy resolved density of states is a signature of the mechanism of superconductivity. For instance, one can observe …

Comparative Mapping: Homology Within The Order Perissodactyla Of Four Genes Located On Equus Caballus Chromosome 20, Christine Marie Mains

University of Kentucky Master's Theses

Since changes in chromosome morphology contribute to the knowledge of evolution as well as to chromosome dynamics, this study looks specifically at one chromosome compared in twelve different species of Perissodactyls: Equus caballus (ECA), E. przewalskii (EPR), Equus africanus somaliensis (EAF), E. asinus (EAS), E. hemionus onager (EHO), E. h. kulan (EHK), E. h. kiang (EKI), E. zebra hartmannae (EZH), E. grevyi (EGR), E. burchelli (EBU), Tapirus indicus (TIN), and Rhinoceros unicornis (RUN). While chromosome morphology studies have been done in some of the extant equids, none have followed the evolution of this chromosome, homologous to Equus caballus chromosome 20 …

Mechanisms Of Resistance To Halogenated And Non-Halogenated Ahr Ligands In Chronically Contaminated Killifish Populations, Xabier Arzuaga

University of Kentucky Doctoral Dissertations

Chronically contaminated killifish from Newark Bay (NB) NJ, and New Bedford Harbor (NBH) MA, have developed resistance to halogenated aromatic hydrocarbons that bind to and activate the aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AHR). To study the mechanisms of resistance, adult killifish were exposed to halogenated and non-halogenated AHR ligands and enzymatic and toxicological endpoints were measured in adult and embryonic fish.

The chlorinated and non-chlorinated AHR ligands 3,34,4-tetrachlorobiphenyl (PCB77) and benzo-a-pyrene (B[a]P) induced cytochrome P450 1A (CYP1A) in reference site, but not in NB killifish. Expression of CYP3A (not part of the AHR gene battery) was inducible only in Flax Pond killifish. …

Regulation Of Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations: An Application Of Economic Theory To Firm Decision Making And Applications For Public Policy, Benjamin Gramig

University of Kentucky Master's Theses

The livestock industry in the United States has experienced significant concentration and vertical integration in recent years. This change has resulted in greater observed levels of pollution attributed to concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFO) and society has attempted to use regulation to remedy these problems. Despite regulation at the federal and local level no documented improvement in water quality has been observed to date. This thesis is concerned with the response of profit-maximizing economic agents to the form of environmental regulation adopted at the federal level. A theoretical model of firm profit is proposed and analyzed using comparative statics to …

Ecology, Morphology, And Germination Physiology Of Tree Seeds In A Tropical Semievergreen Forest In The Panama Canal Watershed, With Special Reference To Seed Dormancy Classes Along A Precipitation Gradient, Adriana Elena Sautu

University of Kentucky Master's Theses

The Panama Canal Watershed (PCW) represents a special opportunity for studies related to seed dormancy in the tropics with both applied and basic research objectives. There is a clear need for seed information for nursery planning in restoration projects that involves use of a large number of local species. Moreover, the strong rainfall gradient along the 60 km of continuous lowland forest in the PCW represents an excellent opportunity to understand dormancy and its role as an adaptive trait that evolved in response to environmental factors. This study presents useful seed information for 100 tree species native to the PCW. …

High Standards For All Students? The Kentucky Education Reform Act And Immigrant High School Students, Cynthia Reeves

University of Kentucky Doctoral Dissertations

During the 1990s, standards-based reform became the predominant education reform inthe country. However, neither federal legislation nor state standards-based reform programshave focused much on addressing the needs of special groups. While, the explicit goal ofstandards-based reform was to raise academic achievement of all students, the implicit goal wasto change beliefs about specific groups of students, particularly students who traditionally havebeen perceived as "disadvantaged." This dissertation examines the implementation of standards-based reform policies withpopulations of limited English proficient (LEP) high school students to determine the strength of the Kentucky's policies to include LEP students and the capacity for those policies to …

Breeding For Fusarium Head Blight Resistance In Soft Red Winter Wheat, Virginia Laura Verges

University of Kentucky Master's Theses

Fusarium graminearum, the causative agent of Fusarium head blight, is an economically important pathogen of wheat (Triticum aestivum). Breeding Fusarium head blight (FHB) resistant wheat requires knowledge of the underlying genetic control of FHB resistance. Genetic parameters for FHB resistance and five related traits were estimated in three populations at two locations and in two years. Moderate broad sense heritabilities for FHB severity and Fusarium damaged kernels (FDK) were observed. Incidence of FHB and the toxin deoxynivalenol (DON) accumulation had low to moderate broad sense heritabilities. Correlations between FDK and severity and FDK and DON were moderate to high in …

Line Associative Registers, Krishna Melarkode

University of Kentucky Master's Theses

As technological advances have improved processor speed, main memory speed has lagged behind. Even with advanced RAM technologies, it has not been possible to close the gap in speeds. Ideally, a CPU can deliver good performance when the right data is made available to it at the right time. Caches and Registers solved the problem to an extent. This thesis takes the approach of trying to create a new memory access model that is more efficient and simple instead of using various add on mechanisms to mask high memory latency. The Line Associative Registers have the functionality of a cache, …

An Assessment And Analysis Of Using Dedicated Short-Range Communications (Dsrc) Technology For Incident Detection On Rural Freeways, Joseph D. Crabtree

University of Kentucky Doctoral Dissertations

This report describes an assessment of using dedicated short-range communications(DSRC) technology to perform travel time monitoring and automated incident detectionon a segment of rural freeway. The assessment used the CORSIM traffic simulation toolto simulate traffic and incidents on a segment of rural freeway. Output data from thesimulation was subjected to post-processing to produce the "probe and beacon" data thatwould be produced by a DSRC-based system. An incident detection algorithm wasdeveloped, which used a travel time threshold and a counter. Travel times exceeding thethreshold incremented the counter, while travel times below the threshold decrementedthe counter (unless it was at zero). An …

Challenges In Estimating Size And Conservation Of Black Bear In West-Central Florida, Joshua Hager Brown

University of Kentucky Master's Theses

The Greater Chassahowitkza Ecosystem black bear (Ursus americanus floridanus) population of west-central Florida is likely to be the smallest documented population of the species. It has experienced almost no recruitment since 1997 and exhibits behavior that appears to be a response to human activities. The local diet is dominated by the fruit of saw palmetto and sabal palm, species that exhibit patchy distributions and irregular mast production. These food supplies are often separated by busy highways that have killed 6 bears since 1997, 21% of known individuals. Motion-activated camera surveys suggest that the bear population is declining in this rapidly …

Probabilistic Databases And Their Applications, Wenzhong Zhao

University of Kentucky Doctoral Dissertations

Probabilistic reasoning in databases has been an active area of research during the last twodecades. However, the previously proposed database approaches, including the probabilistic relationalapproach and the probabilistic object approach, are not good fits for storing and managingdiverse probability distributions along with their auxiliary information.The work in this dissertation extends significantly the initial semistructured probabilistic databaseframework proposed by Dekhtyar, Goldsmith and Hawkes in [20]. We extend the formal SemistructuredProbabilistic Object (SPO) data model of [20]. Accordingly, we also extend the SemistructuredProbabilistic Algebra (SP-algebra), the query algebra proposed for the SPO model.Based on the extended framework, we have designed and implemented …

Diagnosis Of Condition Systems, Jeffrey Ashley

University of Kentucky Doctoral Dissertations

In this dissertation, we explore the problem of fault detection and fault diagnosis for systems modeled as condition systems. A condition system is a Petri net based framework of components which interact with each other and the external environment through the use of condition signals. First, a system FAULT is defined as an observed behavior which does not correspond to any expected behavior, where the expected behavior is defined through condition system models. A DETECTION is the determination that the system is not behaving as expected according to the model of the system. A DIAGNOSIS of this fault localizes the …

Sexual Tensions Of Post-Empire, Katherine M. Franke

Faculty Scholarship

In this essay Katherine Franke examines two contemporary cites in which state efforts to eradicate the traces of empire and to resurrect an authentic post-colonial nation have produced sexual subjects that serve as a kind of existential residue and reminder of a demonized colonial past and absence. Looking first at post-colonial Zimbabwe, Franke argues that President Mugabe's aggressively homophobic policies have played a key role in fortifying his leadership as authentically African and post-colonial.

Franke then turns to current efforts by the Mubarak government in Egypt to publically prosecute men for having sex with men. The Mubarak government has used …