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Resolving The Dilemma Of Minority Representation, Grant M. Hayden

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

This article proposes that recent work in philosophy on the issue of interpersonal utility comparisons may be used to help resolve a significant problem in minority representation. The creation of majority-minority districts has had the unintended consequence of forcing minority voting rights advocates to choose between increasing the number of minority officeholders and increasing the number of Democrats. This dilemma is, in part, due to the strict application of the one person, one vote standard. But work on the issue of interpersonal utility comparisons tells us that the one person, one vote standard is not the objective standard it purports …

Tradeoffs In Community Properties Through Time In A Desert Rodent Community, Ethan P. White, S.K. Morgan Ernest, K. M. Thibault

Biology Faculty Publications

Resource limitation represents an important constraint on ecological communities, which restricts the total abundance, biomass, and community energy flux a given community can support. However, the exact relationship among these three measures of biological activity remains unclear. Here we use a simple framework that links abundance and biomass with an energetic constraint. Under constant energetic availability, it is expected that changes in abundance and biomass can result from shifts in the distribution of individual masses. We test these predictions using long-term data from a desert rodent community. Total energy use for the community has not changed directionally for 25 years, …

Two-Phase Species-Time Relationships In North American Land Birds, Ethan P. White

Biology Faculty Publications

The species-time relationship (STR) is a macroecological pattern describing the increase in the observed species richness with the length of time censused. Understanding STRs is important for understanding the ecological processes underlying temporal turnover and species richness. However, accurate characterization of the STR has been hampered by the influence of sampling. I analyzed species-time relationships for 521 breeding bird survey communities. I used a model of sampling effects to demonstrate that the increase in richness was not due exclusively to sampling. I estimated the time scale at which ecological processes became dominant over sampling effects using a two-phase model combining …

Spectral Properties Of A Polyharmonic Operator With Limit -Periodic Potential In Dimension Two., Young-Ran Lee

All ETDs from UAB

No abstract provided.

Environmental Epidemiologic Analyses Using A Geographic Information System., Steve M. Dearwent

All ETDs from UAB

No abstract provided.

A Survey To Determine The Prevalence Of Chronic Conditions And Health Care Procedures Performed In Alabama's Public Schools, And The Perceived Educational Needs Of Alabama's Public School Nurses., Kelly Todd King

All ETDs from UAB

No abstract provided.

Estimation And Removal Of Spatiotemporally Structured Noise In Fmri Data., Gregory H. Turner

All ETDs from UAB

No abstract provided.

An Inverse Groundwater Model., Aimin Yan

All ETDs from UAB

No abstract provided.

Facing The Future: A Focus On Mathematical Literacy Among Australian 15-Year-Old Students In Pisa 2003, Sue Thomson, John Cresswell, Lisa De Bortoli

OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) Australia

No abstract provided.

2004-2005 Risd Course Announcement, Risd Registrar's Office, Risd Archives

RISD Course Catalogs / Announcements

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Forecasting The Equity Premium In The Australian Market, David E. Allen, Lurion Demello

Research outputs pre 2011

This paper provides a forecasting methodology for estimating the market risk premium in Australia. We employ an in-sample and out-of-sample forecast estimate using various dividend yield measures. The lagged dividend yield model is used to predict future equity premia on a data series that includes the top 85 percent of the Australian stock market. An important concern in this paper is the accuracy of dividend yield in forecasting the equity premium in the Australian market. We find that the level of predictability in the later part of the series is very weak compared to in-sample prediction during the 70s and …

Punitive Damages: Will The Courts Still Punish The Wrongdoer After State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. V. Campbell, Lindsay J. Efting

South Dakota Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Past, Present And Future Of Anti-Corporate Farming Laws In South Dakota: Purposeful Discrimination Or Permissive Protectionism, Jeffrey M. Banks

South Dakota Law Review

No abstract provided.

Experimental Determination Of The Evolution Of The Bjorken Integral At Low Q², A. Deur, P. Bosted, V. Burkert, G. Cates, J.P. Chen, Seonho Choi, D. Crabb, C.W. De Jager, R. De Vita, G.E. Dodge, R. Fatemi, T.A. Forest, F. Garibaldi, R. Gilman, E. W. Hughes, X. Jiang, W. Korsch, S. E. Kuhn, W. Melnitchouk, Z.-E. Meziani, R. Minehart, A.V. Skabelin, K. Slifer, M. Taiuti, J. Yun

Physics Faculty Publications

We extract the Bjorken integral 𝚪₁^p-n in the range 0.17 < Q² <1.10 GeV² from inclusive scattering of polarized electrons by polarized protons, deuterons, and ³He, for the region in which the integral is dominated by nucleon resonances. These data bridge the domains of the hadronic and partonic descriptions of the nucleon. In combination with earlier measurements at higher Q², we extract the nonsinglet twist-4 matrix element f₂.

Measurement Of The Electric Form Factor Of The Neutron At Q² = 0.5 And 1.0 Gev²/C², Jefferson Lab E93-026 Collaboration, G. Warren, F. Wesselmann, H. Zhu, A. Klimenko, S. E. Kuhn, L. Yuan, J. Yun, B. Zihlmann, Et Al.

Physics Faculty Publications

The electric form factor of the neutron was determined from measurements of the ^→d( ^→e, e'n)p reaction for quasielastic kinematics. Polarized electrons were scattered off a polarized deuterated ammonia (¹⁵ND₃) target in which the deuteron polarization was perpendicular to the momentum transfer. The scattered electrons were detected in a magnetic spectrometer in coincidence with neutrons in a large solid angle detector. We find Gⁿ_E =0.0526 ± 0.0033(stat) ± 0.0026(sys) and 0.0454 ± 0.0054 ± 0.0037 at Q²=0.5 and 1.0 (GeV/c)², respectively.

Scattering Of Shock Waves In Qcd, Ian Balitsky

Physics Faculty Publications

The cross section of heavy-ion collisions is represented as a double functional integral with the saddle point being the classical solution of the Yang-Mills equations with boundary conditions/sources in the form of two shock waves corresponding to the two colliding ions. I develop the expansion of this classical solution in powers of the commutator of the Wilson lines describing the colliding particles and calculate the first two terms of the expansion.

Unique Electron Polarimeter Analyzing Power Comparison And Precision Spin-Based Energy Measurement, J. M. Grames, C. K. Sinclair, J. Mitchell, E. Chudakov, H. Fenker, A. Freyberger, D. W. Higinbotham, M. Poelker, M. Steigerwald, M. Tiefenback, Vipuli Dharmawardane

Physics Faculty Publications

Precision measurements of the relative analyzing powers of five electron beam polarimeters, based on Compton, Moller, and Mott scattering, have been performed using the CEBAF accelerator at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility ( Jefferson Laboratory). A Wien filter in the 100 keV beam line of the injector was used to vary the electron spin orientation exiting the injector. High statistical precision measurements of the scattering asymmetry as a function of the spin orientation were made with each polarimeter. Since each polarimeter receives beam with the same magnitude of polarization, these asymmetry measurements permit a high statistical precision comparison of …

Metadata And Buckets In The Smart Object, Dumb Archive (Soda) Model, Michael L. Nelson, Kurt Maly, Delwin R. Croom Jr., Steven W. Robbins

Computer Science Faculty Publications

We present the Smart Object, Dumb Archive (SODA) model for digital libraries (DLs), and discuss the role of metadata in SODA. The premise of the SODA model is to "push down" many of the functionalities generally associated with archives into the data objects themselves. Thus the data objects become "smarter", and the archives "dumber". In the SODA model, archives become primarily set managers, and the objects themselves negotiate and handle presentation, enforce terms and conditions, and perform data content management. Buckets are our implementation of smart objects, and da is our reference implementation for dumb archives. We also present our …

How Instructional Leadership Is Addressed In Educational Administration/Leadership Programs, Lolethia Jones Kibble

Dissertations

Problem

Instructional leadership is a major factor in school effectiveness and student achievement, yet it is not widely practiced by school principals. One of the contributing factors, identified in the literature, is a lack of skills and knowledge. Although there is a great deal of information about principal preparation programs, there is very little information on the preparation of school leaders in the practice of instructional leadership behaviors. The purpose of this study was to examine how instructional leadership is addressed in both traditional and restructured educational administration/leadership programs and to what extent this is related to institutional and demographic …

The "Inexorable Zero", Bert I. Huang

Faculty Scholarship

[F]ine tuning of the statistics could not have obscured the glaring absence of minority [long-distance] drivers .... [T]he company's inability to rebut the inference of discrimination came not from a misuse of statistics but from "the inexorable zero."

The Supreme Court first uttered the phrase "inexorable zero" a quarter-century ago in International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States, a landmark Title VII case. Ever since, this enigmatic name for a rule of inference has echoed across legal argument about segregation, discrimination, and affirmative action. Justice O'Connor, for instance, cited the "inexorable zero" in a major sex discrimination decision upholding an …

Detachment Of Eschericia Coli From Saturated Porous Media In Laboratory Columns, Jessica L. Strauss

Master's Theses and Capstones

Recent studies suggest that bacterial contamination of groundwater is a national health concern in the United States. The movement of bacteria-laden water through soil and aquifer sediments often results in significant removal of bacteria from the aqueous phase, however, elevated concentrations of indicator organisms in drinking water aquifers are often detected and may be due, in part, to the slow release of sediment-associated bacteria. This condition, referred to as tailing, is caused by the detachment of previously attached cells over time, with aqueous concentrations often orders of magnitude below the peak concentration. Extended tailing has often been observed in laboratory …

If The Shoe Fits: Kasky V. Nike And Whether Corporate Statements About Business Operations Should Be Deemed Commercial Speech, Jason A. Cade

Scholarly Works

This Note argues that the Kasky court was correct to recognize that today's commercial speech encompasses communications beyond traditional advertisements about products or services. Corporations are aware that a sizeable number of consumers rely on their statements about their business operations when making investment and purchasing decisions. In order to ensure the accuracy of these statements, and thereby protect the integrity of the market, this speech is properly considered commercial speech.

Effects Of Irrigation Water Salinity On Forage Growth And Qualities Of Some Salt Tolerant Species Under Uae Conditions, Mahmood Abdul Razaq Belselah

Theses

Experiments were conducted at the International Center for Bio saline Agriculture (ICBA) in Dubai to evaluate the growth and productivity of some locally grown grass species; Rhodes grass (Chloris gayana L.) var. Katambora, Pioneer, and Callide; and Panicum grass (Panicum maximum) var. Green, and Gatton over a range of irrigation levels (1 gal/hr and 1.3 gal/hr), and water salinity (5 dS/m, 10 dS/m and 15 dS/m). The effect of different quality of water in respect to the salinity levels would provide information about water use efficiencies and soil salinity over a period. Growth and biomass productivity of …

Connecticut Blueprint For A Nclb “Housse” In Educational Technology, Antoinette P. Bruciati

Education Faculty Publications

According to the United States Department of Education, teacher quality is one of the most critical aspects of the teaching and learning process. The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) has required that state agencies assume the responsibility for increasing student achievement and ensuring teacher quality by the end of the 2005-2006 school year. The NCLB outlines minimum qualifications that are needed by teachers who work on any facet of classroom instruction and authorizes state administrators to establish the criteria through which an experienced teacher will meet the subject matter competencies in a specific content area. This paper …

Summary Of Health Plan Of Nev., Inc. V. Rainbow Medical, Llc, Matt Wagner

Nevada Supreme Court Summaries

This case was an appeal and cross-appeal dealing with Nevada’s Uniform Arbitration Act and the scope of judicial review of an arbitration award.

Summary Of In Re Mosley, 120 Nev. Adv. Rep. 94, Christopher Carson

Nevada Supreme Court Summaries

This case is an appeal of the evidentiary findings of the Nevada Commission on Judicial Discipline (Commission) on eleven different counts of an official complaint filed by a special prosecutor against the Honorable Donald M. Mosley (Judge Mosley). The complaint listed eleven inappropriate actions Judge Mosley allegedly committed from August of 1997 through August 1999. The counts alleged that Judge Mosley: Count I- Wrote a personal letter on official judicial letterhead to the principal of his son’s school in August 1999; Count II- Wrote a personal letter on official judicial letterhead to the principal of his son’s school in February …

Laboratory Investigation Of Transport And Treatment Of Chromium In Groundwater At Liwa District, Abu Dhabi, Wali-Ur-Rahman Din Badshah

Theses

Groundwater quality is a critical aspect affecting utilization of this source for certain purposes. In the UAE, utilization of groundwater for domestic purposes is well practiced. While the quality of groundwater at some locations does not permit direct utilization of this source, groundwater, in many cases, is mixed with desalinated water at certain proportion before being disinfected and then distributed to customers.

Groundwater of Liwa aquifer contains high level of Cr(VI) which is believed to originate from natural sources. However, little has been done to investigate the fate of this contaminant. Spreading of chromium to nearby aquifers may render the …

Nutritive Value Of Pastures In Kars District I. Botanical And Nutrient Composition At Different Stages Of Maturity, İsmai̇l Kaya, Ahmet Öncüer, Yücel Ünal, Sedat Yildiz

Turkish Journal of Veterinary & Animal Sciences

The objectives of this study were to examine the botanical composition and determine the nutritive value of pastures in 9 different locations in Kars district with respect to stages of maturity. Samples were collected bi-weekly from 21 May to 30 July 1999. The Gramineae, Leguminoseae and other plant families constituted 64.2, 22.8 and 13.0% of the plant population, respectively. There was a variation in the nutrient composition of samples collected from different locations (P < 0.05). Average dry matter (DM) content was 28.8% and concentrations of organic matter (OM), crude protein (CP), crude fiber (CF), neutral detergent fiber (NDF), nitrogen-free extract (NFE), ether extract (EE) and ash on a DM basis were 90.8, 15.3, 30.0, 57.6, 43.4, 2.0 and 9.2%, respectively. Stage of maturity altered nutrient composition (P < 0.5). Concentrations of OM, NFE and ash did not change, CP linearly decreased, and CF and NDF quadratically increased with advancing maturity. In conclusion, the Gramineae were the predominant flora of pastures in northeastern Turkey. Moreover, mathematical models developed to characterize changes in the nutrient composition of pastures with advancing maturity may help to improve current feeding strategies.

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Turkish Journal of Veterinary & Animal Sciences

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Turkish Journal of Veterinary & Animal Sciences

No abstract provided.