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It Takes A Team: A Tribute To The Honorable Walter Herbert Rice, Susan Newhart Elliott

University of Dayton Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Obstacles To A Constitutional Partial Birth Abortion Ban: How State Legislatures Have Failed And The Shortcomings Of President George W. Bush's Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act Of 2003, Betsy West Suver

University of Dayton Law Review

No abstract provided.

Mimicking Marriage: As The Evolution Of The Legal Recognition Of Same-Sex Marriage Progresses, Civil Unions Currently Represent The Best Alternative To Marriage, Erin Stefanec

University of Dayton Law Review

No abstract provided.

Broken Scales: Obesity And Justice In America, Adam Benforado, Jon Hanson, David Yosifon

Faculty Publications

This Article is not so much about the scales we use to measure weight, but the scales we use to infer causation and assign responsibility-including the scales of justice. Ultimately, the problem we face is not obesity itself. Obesity is only a symptom of the problem. When scientists and public health experts point to various environmental agents-whether larger portion sizes, corn subsidies, video games, or urban sprawl-they, too, overlook the deeper source of our troubles. Our real problem is that we have an extremely difficult time seeing and understanding the role of unseen features in our environment and within us …

Research And Development Deliverables Under Government Contracts, Grants, Cooperative Agreements And Cradas: University Roles, Government Responsibilities, And Contractor Rights, Danielle M. Conway

Faculty Scholarly Works

No abstract provided.

Parents' Perceptions Of Life Skills Gained By Youth Participating In The 4-H Beef Project, Chris T. Boleman, Scott R. Cummings, Gary E. Briers

Journal of Extension

Does participating in the 4-H beef project help develop life skills in youth? Randomly selected parents of youth were mailed a survey asking them to determine if 13 life skills were enhanced as a result of their child participating in the 4-H beef project. The rank order for the top five mean scores were: "accepting responsibility," "setting goals," "develop self-discipline," "self motivation," and "knowledge of the livestock industry." A Pearson product moment correlation coefficient also revealed a low-to-moderate positive relationship for life skill development and years of participating in the 4-H beef project.

Love Your Enemies: Life Sciences In The Ecclesial-Based University, M. Therese Lysaught

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Employment Research, Vol. 11, No. 4, October 2004

Employment Research Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Turn The Other Cheek, Or Demand An Eye For An Eye? Religious Persecution In China And An Effective Western Response, Ellen S. Reinstein

Connecticut Journal of International Law

The Western world has watched in amazement over the past decade as the number of religious practitioners has rapidly increased in the People's Republic of China. Although no solid census has been taken, it is estimated that there now are up to 70 million Protestants and 12 million Catholics in the PRC.' Approximately eight million Uighur Muslims live in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region,2 and most of the 2.6 million ethnic Tibetans continue to practice Tibetan Buddhism.3 In addition, many Chinese are now involved in "fringe" religions such as Falun Gong.

This growth and persistence of religion has alarmed Chinese …

Chimes: October 1, 2004, Calvin College

Chimes

Armed robbers assault off-campus students by Nana Yaa Dodi

African Union called to duty by Suzanna Klaucke

Calvin gets hard on AirSoft by Derel Glashower

Students search for alternatives to bookstore by Marissa Vecchio

Dorm mascots: more than just a giant red zebra by Andrew McBurney

Lab Theatre holds auditions by Alex Agard

Finding your way in a prefixed America by Christian Ocier

Finding ourselves through volunteering by Bryan Kibbe

Winkle shows his passion for developing leadership in Calvin's athletes by Peter Daining

The Limits Of International Criminal Law: House Demolitions In An Occupied Territory, Ariel Zemach

Connecticut Journal of International Law

The values of liberty, fairness and democracy underlie Western criminal law systems.' Each of these values challenges the International Criminal Court ("ICC") system, established under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court2 ("Rome Statute" or "Statute"). This article analyzes these challenges and shows that they can be properly addressed only by adopting a moral gravity requirement in determining the scope of international criminal prohibitions.

But how should we apply a requirement of moral gravity in international criminal law? How does such requirement bear on the prohibitions contained in the Rome Statute? This article takes up those questions by focusing …

Bent Leg Of Rams, Clell Bagley

All Current Publications

No abstract provided.

Prospective Teachers’ Ability To Pose Word Problems, Nusrat Fatima Rizvi

Institute for Educational Development, Karachi

The purpose of this study was to assess difference in prospective teachers’ ability to pose word problems for mathematical expressions involving division before and after an instruction intervention. After the initial assessment of participants’ ability to pose word problems for division expressions, the researcher introduced an alternative model i.e. rate or ratio to represent division involving whole numbers. After the intervention it was assessed whether the model helped the prospective teachers develop word problems for division of fractions. The findings revealed that the prospective teachers successfully posed word problems for division of whole numbers based on intuitive model of fair …

The Role Of Opt-Outs And Objectors In Class Action Litigation: Theoretical And Empirical Issues, Theodore Eisenberg, Geoffrey P. Miller

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

The Trojan Women: Emma Hart Willard And The Troy Society For The Advancement Of Female Education In Greece, Angelo Repousis

History Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Sandspur, Vol 111, No 05, October 01, 2004, Rollins College

The Rollins Sandspur

Rollins College student newspaper, written by the students and published at Rollins College. The Sandspur started as a literary journal.

Nietzsche, Nihilism, And The Virtue Of Nature, Steven Michels

Political Science & Global Affairs Faculty Publications

Nietzsche’s view of nature and his attack on the platonic tradition has given him a reputation as a nihilist, a label he himself acknowledged. Yet what does Nietzsche mean by nihilism? and to what extent is he a nihilist? This article explores Nietzsche’s use of the term as it relates to modernity, his own postmodern project, and how it is connected with what Nietzsche calls “virtue.”

The Case Against Dog Breed Discrimination By Homeowners' Insurance Companies, Larry Cunningham

Connecticut Insurance Law Journal

No abstract provided.

A Model Financial Statement Insurance Act, Lawrence A. Cunningham

Connecticut Insurance Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Toxic Mold In Texas: Will Recent Insurance Reforms Clean It Up For Good, Jessica Seger

Connecticut Insurance Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Philosophical Conversations, Vol. 8, No. 1, Fall 2004, Illinois State University, Department Of Philosophy

Philosophical Conversations

An interactive newsletter of the Illinois State University Department of Philosophy

Cultural Topology: An Introduction To Postmodern Mathematics, Brent M. Blackwell

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

[Editors' Introduction]

This essay develops a new way of thinking about the cultural relationships among and within the sciences and the arts through a new understanding of the term postmodernism that at once derives from literary theory and the mathematical discipline of topology. While topology forms the main vertebra of this connective approach in its capacity as the mathematics of connectivity, quantum mechanics and non-Euclidean geometry -- the atlas and axis of this spinal column -- form the context through which this “postmodern” approach will develop. However, in order to position topology as a “postmodern” branch of mathematics, some brief …

From Guts To God: Credulity, Postmodernism, And Contemporary Physics, Michael Hardin

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

[Editors' Introduction]

In an attempt to remove one of the major misunderstandings made by individuals in the humanities about contemporary physics, the issue of incredulity, this essay examines Lyotard's The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge against contemporary and twentieth-century theories and discoveries in physics. One of the best arguments against incredulity is the frequent use of god as metaphor within physics. In Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science, Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont, two physicists, argue that the use of metaphor is one of the characteristics of postmodern science; this essay concludes with a discussion of those elements …

A Privatization Of Politics: Anthony Elliot's Concepts Of The Self (2001), Paula Murphy

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

[First paragraph]

It would be difficult to find a more appropriate image of selfhood in the modern world than that found in Ezra Pound's poem In a Station of the Metro. It is a selfhood which is at once unique and conglomerative, fleetingly visible then tantalizingly out of focus. It is this slippery, indefinable entity that is the subject of Anthony Elliot's book. The title bears witness to the enormous breadth of its subject matter: Concepts of the Self is an attempt to engage with the various contemporary theoretical frameworks through which selfhood is explicated. Elliot's approach is admirably inter-disciplinary, …

Multi-D Cfd Modeling Of Free-Piston Stirling Convertor At Nasa Grc, Scott D. Wilson, Rodger W. Dyson, Roy C. Tew, Mounir B. Ibrahim

Mechanical Engineering Faculty Publications

A high efficiency Stirling Radioisotope Generator (SRG) is being developed for possible use in long duration space science missions. NASA s advanced technology goals for next generation Stirling convertors include increasing the Carnot efficiency and percent of Carnot efficiency. To help achieve these goals, a multidimensional Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) code is being developed to numerically model unsteady fluid flow and heat transfer phenomena of the oscillating working gas inside Stirling convertors. Simulations of the Stirling convertors for the SRG will help characterize the thermodynamic losses resulting from fluid flow and heat transfer between the working gas and solid walls. …

Sagittal Plane Biomechanics Cannot Injure The Acl During Sidestep Cutting, Scott G. Mclean, Xuemei Huang, Anne Su, Antonie J. Van Den Bogert

Mechanical Engineering Faculty Publications

Background. Knee joint sagittal plane forces are a proposed mechanism of anterior cruciate ligament injury during sport movements such as sidestep cutting. Ligament force magnitudes for these movements however, remain unknown. The need to examine injury-causing events suggests elucidation via model-based investigations is possible. Using this approach, the current study determined whether sagittal plane knee loading during sidestep cutting could in isolation injure the anterior cruciate ligament.

Methods. Experiments were performed on subject-specific forward dynamic musculoskeletal models, generated from data obtained from 10 male and 10 female athletes. Models were optimized to simulate subject-specific cutting movements. Random perturbations …

Ashcroft V. Aclu: Should Congress Try, Try, And Try Again, Or Does The International Problem Or Regulating Internet Pornography Require An International Solution, Kate Reder

North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology

No abstract provided.

Obviousness Or Inventive Step As Applied To Nucleic Acid Molecules: A Global Perspective, Amy Nelson

North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology

No abstract provided.

Baffled: Phillips V. Awh Corp. And The Reexamination Of Dictionary Use In Patent Claim Interpretation, Daniel S. Matthews

North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology

No abstract provided.

Cs 405/605: Introduction To Database Management Systems, Soon M. Chung

Computer Science & Engineering Syllabi

Survey of logical and physical aspects of database management systems. Entity Relationship, relational, object-oriented models for databases are presented. Physical implementation methods are discussed.