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Northern Lacandon Maya Medicinal Plant Use In The Communities Of Lacanja Chan Sayab And Nahá Chiapas, Mexico, Ryan A. Kashanipour, R. Jon Mcgee Jan 2004

Northern Lacandon Maya Medicinal Plant Use In The Communities Of Lacanja Chan Sayab And Nahá Chiapas, Mexico, Ryan A. Kashanipour, R. Jon Mcgee

Journal of Ecological Anthropology

The Lacandon Maya are rainforest farmers who inhabit the tropical jungles of southern Mexico and Guatemala. They number approximately 700 individuals and practice a traditional system of agriculture that incorporates introduced plants and the native flora of their environment. In this essay, we discuss a largely neglected aspect of Lacandon ethnomedicine. Our results include 47 medicinal plants used by the several Northern Lacandon living in the communities of Naha’ and Lacanja Chan Sayab. The plants are cultivated in three zones (house gardens, milpas, and secondary milpas) and wild plants are collected from the jungle. This method of healing exists amid …

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The Hot And The Cold: Ills Of Humans And Maize In Native Mexico, Cameron Adams Jan 2004

The Hot And The Cold: Ills Of Humans And Maize In Native Mexico, Cameron Adams

Journal of Ecological Anthropology

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Response Tier Development Document Barton Springs Salamander Catastrophic Spill Plan, Martha Turner, Lisa O'Donnell Jan 2004

Response Tier Development Document Barton Springs Salamander Catastrophic Spill Plan, Martha Turner, Lisa O'Donnell

KIP Data Sets and Technical Reports

The Barton Springs Salamander Catastrophic Spill Plan describes when and how endangered salamanders would be protected or rescued should a catastrophic spill occur in the Barton Spring watershed. The best response to any particular spill depends on a variety of factors, thus an effective spill response plan requires a method to determine thresholds that will elicit each tier of salamander rescue efforts. This plan focuses primarily on developing response tiers for gasoline, since it is considered to be the most common problematic spilled material with high toxicity and the potential for very large spills., The method developed for gasoline is …

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Back Matter (Pdf), Journal Of Raptor Research Jan 2004

Back Matter (Pdf), Journal Of Raptor Research

Journal of Raptor Research

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Corporate Tax Avoidance, David A. Weisbach Jan 2004

Corporate Tax Avoidance, David A. Weisbach

Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper Series

This essay analyzes the problem of corporate tax avoidance. It shows how the marginal efficiency cost of funds and optimal elasticity of taxable income measures can be used to analyze the problem and determine the proper scope of allowable tax planning. It then analyzes the optimal form of tax laws addressing shelters, such as whether the law should use more detailed rules or broad standards.

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The Reception Area, Suzanne Diamond Jan 2004

The Reception Area, Suzanne Diamond

Short Story

No abstract provided.

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University Of San Diego Men's Basketball Media Guide 2003-2004 West Coast Conference, University Of San Diego Athletics Department Jan 2004

University Of San Diego Men's Basketball Media Guide 2003-2004 West Coast Conference, University Of San Diego Athletics Department

Basketball (Men)

56 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 21.5 x 28 cm

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Ethical Issues In Human Subjects Research, Martha Jones, Sarah Fowler-Dixon Jan 2004

Ethical Issues In Human Subjects Research, Martha Jones, Sarah Fowler-Dixon

Human Research Protection Program (HRPP) Education

No abstract provided.

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2004 Annual Report, Children's Advocacy Institute, University Of San Diego School Of Law Jan 2004

2004 Annual Report, Children's Advocacy Institute, University Of San Diego School Of Law

CAI Annual Reports

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Impacts Of Greenhouse Gas And Particulate Emissions From Woodfuel Production And End-Use In Sub-Saharan Africa, Robert Bailis, David Pennise, Majid Ezzati, Daniel M. Kammen, Evans Kituyi Jan 2004

Impacts Of Greenhouse Gas And Particulate Emissions From Woodfuel Production And End-Use In Sub-Saharan Africa, Robert Bailis, David Pennise, Majid Ezzati, Daniel M. Kammen, Evans Kituyi

East Africa Institute

Household energy in sub-Saharan Africa is largely derived from woodfuels burned in simple stoves with poor combustion characteristics. These devices emit products of incomplete combustion [PICs] that both damage human health and negatively impact the atmospheric radiation budget. We use empirical studies and published emission factors to estimate the pollution associated with production, distribution and end-use of common household fuels and assess the impacts of these emissions on public health and the global environment. We find that each meal cooked with charcoal has 2-10 times the global warming effect of cooking the same meal with firewood and 5-16 times the …

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Maximum Tolerable Dose Of Cyclophosphamide And Azathioprine In Pakistani Patients With Primary Renal Disease, S S. Ali, M A. Rabbani, S S M Moinuddin, Salim S. Virani, F Farooque, A Salam, A Ahmad Jan 2004

Maximum Tolerable Dose Of Cyclophosphamide And Azathioprine In Pakistani Patients With Primary Renal Disease, S S. Ali, M A. Rabbani, S S M Moinuddin, Salim S. Virani, F Farooque, A Salam, A Ahmad

Section of Nephrology

Objective: The immunosuppressive regimens, at present, mainly rely on western guidelines that were derived from studies conducted in western populations. No such study exists for South Asian population, which is home to almost two billion people different in both genetics and environment from west. Locally derived thresholds for side effects markedly different from western figures may warrant re-adjustment of current local immunosuppressive regimens that are at present based largely on western guidelines. In order to define optimum dose for Cyclophosphamide (CYC) and Azathioprine (AZA) based immunosuppressive therapy, we conducted this study to find out maximum tolerable doses of azathioprine (AZA) …

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Smu Research, Volume 11, Office Of Public Affairs Jan 2004

Smu Research, Volume 11, Office Of Public Affairs

SMU Research Magazine

No abstract provided.

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Discovery: The Student Journal Of Dale Bumpers College Of Agricultural, Food And Life Sciences - Volume 5 2004, Several Authors Jan 2004

Discovery: The Student Journal Of Dale Bumpers College Of Agricultural, Food And Life Sciences - Volume 5 2004, Several Authors

Discovery, The Student Journal of Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences

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From Death Notification Through The Funeral: Bereaved Parents’ Experiences And Their Advice To Professionals, Linda Janzen, Susan Cadell, Anne Westhues Jan 2004

From Death Notification Through The Funeral: Bereaved Parents’ Experiences And Their Advice To Professionals, Linda Janzen, Susan Cadell, Anne Westhues

Lyle S. Hallman Social Work Faculty Publications

Parents who experience the sudden death of a child will interact with many professionals in the period immediately following the death notification through to the funeral. The way these professionals respond to the parents during this critical period may be perceived as helpful, and thus support them in beginning the process of managing the trauma and starting a healthy grieving process. It may also be perceived as unhelpful, though, and contribute to more prolonged and complicated grieving. This article identifies the interventions that a sample of 20 parents who had experienced the sudden death of a child found helpful with …

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Skepticism And Freedom: The Intellectual Foundations Of Our Constitutional Order, Richard A. Epstein Jan 2004

Skepticism And Freedom: The Intellectual Foundations Of Our Constitutional Order, Richard A. Epstein

Faculty Articles

It is my great pleasure to have been invited by the Templeton Foundation to give this lecture dedicated to the articulation of the sound principles of constitutional law. Understanding the role of constitutional theory has become one of the most contentious problems of our times, as partisans on both sides of the political aisle seek to gain the rhetorical advantage in short-term political disputes by hurling epithets-which often relate to the question of judicial restraint- against the judicial nominees and judicial philosophy of the other side. I have no personal or political stake in the outcome of these disputes. But …

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The Perils Of Posnerian Pragmatism, Richard A. Epstein Jan 2004

The Perils Of Posnerian Pragmatism, Richard A. Epstein

Faculty Articles

Book review of Law, Pragmatism, and Democracy, Richard A. Posner. Harvard, 2003.

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Innovation In Boilerplate Contracts: An Empirical Examination Of Sovereign Bonds, Stephen J. Choi, G. Mitu Gulati Jan 2004

Innovation In Boilerplate Contracts: An Empirical Examination Of Sovereign Bonds, Stephen J. Choi, G. Mitu Gulati

Faculty Articles

Network externalities may lead contracting parties to stay wiht a "standardized" term despite preferences for another term. Using a dataset of sovereign bond offerings from 1995 to early 2004, we test the importance of standardization for the modification provisions relating to payment terms. We provide evidence that (1) standardization may lead parties to adopt provisions not necessarily out of preference and (2) standards, nonetheless, may change. The process of change, however, is not necessarily quick or straightforward. In the sovereign bond context, change came by way of an "interpretive shock." Contracts with modification provisions requiring the unanimous consent of bondholders …

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What Does The Public Get? Experimental Use And The Patent Bargain, Katherine J. Strandburg Jan 2004

What Does The Public Get? Experimental Use And The Patent Bargain, Katherine J. Strandburg

Faculty Articles

This article deals with the increasing tension between the tradition of protecting commercially valuable inventions through patenting and the need for a robust public domain of freely available technical information as a springboard for further research. The "experimental use exemption," permitting some unauthorized research uses of patented inventions, might be used to relieve some of this tension. However, the scope of the research exemption has been shrunk so far by recent Federal Circuit opinions that even basic university research is not excused from infringement liability. This article returns to the first principles of patent law - the incentives to invent …

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Trips—Round Ii: Should Users Strike Back?, Rochelle C. Dreyfuss Jan 2004

Trips—Round Ii: Should Users Strike Back?, Rochelle C. Dreyfuss

Faculty Articles

The TRIPS Agreement, the instrument of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) governing intellectual property protection at the international level, is structured to directly protect the rights of intellectual property holders. It does little, however, to explicitly safeguard the interests of those who seek to use protected works. User interests are largely left to domestic practice through provisions like the famous "three-part" tests, which permit members to create limited derogations from protection, but only so long as they do not unreasonably conflict with normal exploitation of the protected work or unreasonably prejudice the right holder (taking into account, …

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In Defense Of The "Old" Public Health: The Legal Framework For The Regulation Of Public Health, Richard A. Epstein Jan 2004

In Defense Of The "Old" Public Health: The Legal Framework For The Regulation Of Public Health, Richard A. Epstein

Faculty Articles

The traditional forms of public health law were directed largely toward communicable diseases and other externalities, such as pollution, with negative health impacts. The more modern view treats any health issue as one of public health so long as it affects large numbers of individuals, and this definition includes such matters as obesity and diabetes. This paper examines the historical and constitutional evolution of the public health principle as it moved from the narrower to the broader conception. It then argues that the narrower principle better defines the appropriate scope of coercive government intervention than the broader definition, which could …

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The Luke Effect And Federal Taxation: A Commentary On Mcmahon's The Matthew Effect And Federal Taxation, Deborah H. Schenk Jan 2004

The Luke Effect And Federal Taxation: A Commentary On Mcmahon's The Matthew Effect And Federal Taxation, Deborah H. Schenk

Faculty Articles

Professor Martin J. McMahon, Jr.'s Article demonstrates that the rich are getting richer and the poor poorer in the United States, that something must be done to deal with increasing income inequality, and that income tax rates should be more progressive. Increasing tax rates on the super-rich as he suggests, however, will not eliminate these problems by itself. There is no way to decrease income inequality without increasing rate progressivity on a wider range of taxpayers. To do so would be politically problematic, and it therefore seems unlikely that these problems can be solved through the federal tax system.

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Law Is The Answer? Do We Know That For Sure?: Questioning The Efficacy Of Legal Interventions For Battered Women, Leigh Goodmark Jan 2004

Law Is The Answer? Do We Know That For Sure?: Questioning The Efficacy Of Legal Interventions For Battered Women, Leigh Goodmark

Saint Louis University Public Law Review

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The Predicament Of The Immigrant Victim/Defendant: “Vawa Diversion” And Other Considerations In Support Of Battered Women, Zelda B. Harris Jan 2004

The Predicament Of The Immigrant Victim/Defendant: “Vawa Diversion” And Other Considerations In Support Of Battered Women, Zelda B. Harris

Saint Louis University Public Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Spotlight: Response To Violence Against Women At The University Of Missouri At Columbia, Mary Beck Jan 2004

Spotlight: Response To Violence Against Women At The University Of Missouri At Columbia, Mary Beck

Saint Louis University Public Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Deconstructing Teresa O’Brien: A Role Play For Domestic Violence Clinics, Leigh Goodmark, Catherine F. Klein Jan 2004

Deconstructing Teresa O’Brien: A Role Play For Domestic Violence Clinics, Leigh Goodmark, Catherine F. Klein

Saint Louis University Public Law Review

No abstract provided.

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True To Character: Honoring The Intellectual Foundations Of The Character Evidence Rule In Domestic Violence Prosecutions, Andrew King-Ries Jan 2004

True To Character: Honoring The Intellectual Foundations Of The Character Evidence Rule In Domestic Violence Prosecutions, Andrew King-Ries

Saint Louis University Public Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Norfolk & Western Railway Company V. Ayers: Asbestosis-Inflicted Plaintiffs And Fear Of Cancer Claims, Katie Nester Jan 2004

Norfolk & Western Railway Company V. Ayers: Asbestosis-Inflicted Plaintiffs And Fear Of Cancer Claims, Katie Nester

Saint Louis University Public Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Pay Up Or Zip Up: Giving Up The Right To Procreate As A Condition Of Probation, Kelly R. Skaff Jan 2004

Pay Up Or Zip Up: Giving Up The Right To Procreate As A Condition Of Probation, Kelly R. Skaff

Saint Louis University Public Law Review

No abstract provided.

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The Nation’S Medical Quandary Concerning Hospital And Physician Liens: Who Should Pick Up The Check?, Michael J. Adrian Jan 2004

The Nation’S Medical Quandary Concerning Hospital And Physician Liens: Who Should Pick Up The Check?, Michael J. Adrian

Saint Louis University Public Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Foreword, Michael A. Karr Jan 2004

Foreword, Michael A. Karr

Saint Louis University Public Law Review

No abstract provided.

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