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Determining Components Of Fluorophoric Dom In Narragansett Bay Using Fluorescence Eems And Parafac, Jessica Dombroski

Open Access Master's Theses

Fluorophoric dissolved organic matter (FDOM) is an important component of the carbon cycle, factors in nutrient cycling, plays a role in determining the fates of trace metals and hydrophobic organic contaminants, and influences the inherent optical properties of water, affecting photosynthetic activities, productivity, and abundance of organisms in the area.

Fluorescence spectroscopy is a sensitive analytical method that can be used in conjunction with the canonical decomposition parallel factor analysis (PARAFAC) to separate component fluorescence signatures embedded in excitation-emission matrices (EEMs) of complex chemical mixtures. In this study, the methods of fluorescence spectroscopy and PARAFAC were used to determine the …

Guaging Team Culture For Gay Student Athletes: A Descriptive Examination Of Intercollegiate Football, Amy L. Apicerno

Open Access Master's Theses

The purpose of this exploratory study was to learn more about Division I-A and Division I-AA collegiate football team culture and how it relates to gay student athletes. The study attempted to gauge player reactions to the presence of a gay teammate. It used qualitative methods and convenience sampling with phone interviews and a three part inquiry.

Twenty-eight scholar athletes participated, including eleven Division I-AA players and 17 from Division I-A. All were current players and attended geographically diverse institutions from four regions of the country. Telephone interview responses were transcribed by the interviewer, and responses were color coded by …

Endless Enlightenment: Eye-Operated Technology And The Political Economy Of Vision, Michael Gardiner

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

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Despite a residual popular temptation to see the posts of cultural analysis as signs of temporal closure, the logic of global visual media is strengthening, not weakening, metaphors of visibility which remain intact from the Enlightenment. Here I describe a stand-off between post-Enlightenment critiques (as in some sectors of Cultural Studies) and a narrow power base which is defined by producing light and managing the very conditions of visibility. For the world's most powerful state, still strongly bound to its original Enlightenment foundations, intervention into other states' sovereignty is increasingly justified by evidence from spy planes (rather than …

Unpatriotic Acts: An Introduction, Sadiq Reza

NYLS Law Review

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Turning The Tables: Using The Government’S Secrecy And Security Arsenal For The Benefit Of The Client In Terrorism Prosecutions, Sam A. Schmidt, Joshua L. Dratel

NYLS Law Review

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Creating A Public Defender System In The Shadow Of The Israeli – Palestinian Conflict, Kenneth Mann, David Weiner

NYLS Law Review

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Eyes Tied Shut: Litigating For Access Under Cipa In The Government’S “War On Terror”, Cameron Stracher

NYLS Law Review

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In Memoriam, W. Bernard Richland, Ross Sandler

NYLS Law Review

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Investigating New York’S Son Of Sam Law: Problems With The Recent Extension Of Tort Liability For People Convicted Of Crimes, Jessica Yager

NYLS Law Review

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Missing The Mark: Nasd Rule 2711 And Nyse Rule 472 Mistakenly Emphasize Disclosure Rather Than Amending The Pleading Requirements Of Pslra, James J. Barney

NYLS Law Review

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In Re Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. Research Reports Securities Litigation, Patrick G. Diamond

NYLS Law Review

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Homophobia And The “Matthew Shepard Effect” In Lawrence V. Texas, Kris Franklin

NYLS Law Review

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Our Right To Work, Our Demand To Be Heard: People With Disabilities, The 2004 Election, And Beyond, The Honorable Tony Coelho

NYLS Law Review

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The Bitter With The Sweet: The Impact Of The World Trade Organization’S Settlement Of The Banana Trade Dispute On The Human Rights Of Ecuadorian Banana Workers, Maxmillian Finley

NYLS Law Review

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Virtual Worlds As Comparative Law, James Grimmelmann

NYLS Law Review

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Virtual Crimes, Gregory Lastowka, Dan Hunter

NYLS Law Review

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United States V. Irving, Jared Spitalnick

NYLS Law Review

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Mmorpg's In The College Classroom, Aaron Delwiche

NYLS Law Review

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Violence In Virtual Societies, Peter Judmaier, Jorg Piringer

NYLS Law Review

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Undergraduate Catalog 2004-2005, University Of North Florida

UNF Course Catalogs

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Vanishing Vaccinations: Why Are So Many Americans Opting Out Of Vaccinating Their Children?, Steve P. Calandrillo

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

Vaccinations against life-threatening diseases are one of the greatest public health achievements in history. Literally millions of premature deaths have been prevented, and countless more children have been saved from disfiguring illness. While vaccinations carry unavoidable risks, the medical, social and economic benefits they confer have led all fifty states to enact compulsory childhood vaccination laws to stop the spread of preventable diseases. Today, however, vaccines are becoming a victim of their success-many individuals have never witnessed the debilitating diseases that vaccines protect against, allowing complacency toward immunization requirements to build. Antivaccination sentiment is growing fast in the United States, …

Child Laborers: The World's Potential Future Labor Resources Exploited And Depleted, Rupneet Sidhu

UC Law SF Journal on Gender and Justice

At this very moment, child laborers are working in unsuitable and hazardous conditions in both developed and developing nations. The adults, who are the main medium for giving voice to the concerns of the child laborers at the international and national levels, have failed. However, there are some promising international instruments whose full and sincere implementation can aid nations to eliminate at least the worst forms of child labor. Concurrently improving and enforcing national laws will help as well. Moreover, the non-governmental organizations should be recognized for being instrumental in keeping the child labor issues as a priority of the …

Architecting Design Repositories To Support Design Knowledge Storage, Reuse And Design Tool Generation, Matt R. Bohm

Masters Theses

"This collection of works describes the transformation of an existing set of heterogeneous product knowledge into a coherent design repository that supports product information archival, storage, reuse and design tool generation.

Existing product information was analyzed and compared against desired outputs to ascertain what information management structure was needed to produce design resources pertinent to the design process. Methods of incorporating non-conventional functional representations of artifacts are explored, incorporated and standardized along side conventional functional representations. A review of automatic design model generation addresses shortcomings in product representations by comparing standard hand generated design tools to computer-generated design tools. By …

The Escalating Copyright Wars, Peter K. Yu

Hofstra Law Review

Piracy is one of the biggest threats confronting the entertainment industry today. Every year, the industry is estimated to lose billions of dollars in revenue and faces the potential loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs. To protect itself against Internet pirates, the entertainment industry has launched the latest copyright war. So far, the industry has been winning. Among its trophies are the enactment of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Vivendi Universal's defeat and purchase of MP3.com, the movie studios' victory in the DeCSS litigation, the bankruptcy and subsequent sale of Napster and its recent relaunch as a legitimate subscription-based …

Unauthorized Pop-Up Advertising And The Copyright And Unfair Competition Implications, Michael A. Leon

Hofstra Law Review

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Judicial Ethics In The Twenty-First Century: Tracing The Trends, Roger J. Miner

Hofstra Law Review

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Judicial Correctness Meets Constitutional Correctness: Section 2c Of The Code Of Judicial Conduct, Andrew L. Kaufman

Hofstra Law Review

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Defense-Oriented Judges, Abbe Smith

Hofstra Law Review

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The Judicial Function: Justice Between The Parties, Or A Broader Public Interest?, Richard Zitrin

Hofstra Law Review

Because I intend to be prescriptive (or, when it comes to the esteemed members of the bench who may be in the audience, “suggestive,” since it is they who wield the gavels while I -- as any lawyer appearing before members of the bench -- have only words), I must confess some biases before going further. First, I believe in “sunshine in litigation” and openness of both court records and discovery. I believe that courts are public forums, and that arguments about the privacy of disputes should generally be outweighed by the public's right to know. Some have strongly argued …

Remarks At The Investiture Of Eric M. Freedman As The Maurice A. Deane Distinguished Professor Of Constitutional Law, November 22, 2004, Anthony G. Amsterdam

Hofstra Law Review

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