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Murky Waters: The Law And Economics Of Salvaging Historic Shipwrecks, Paul Hallwood, Thomas J. Miceli

Economics Working Papers

The salvage of historic shipwrecks involves a debate between salvors, who wish to maximize profit, and archeologists, who wish to preserve historical value. Traditionally, salvage of shipwrecks has been governed by admiralty law, but the Abandoned Shipwreck Act of 1987 transferred title of historically important wrecks in U.S. waters to the state in whose waters the wreck is found, thereby abrogating admiralty law. This paper examines incentives to locate and salvage historic wrecks under traditional admiralty law and proposes an efficient reward scheme. It then re-considers current U.S. and international law in light of the results.

Achieving Universal Primary Education: Can Kenya Afford It?, Rob Vos, Arjun Bedi, Paul K. Kimalu, Damiano K. Manda, Nancy N. Nafula, Mwangi S. Kimenyi

Economics Working Papers

Kenya has experienced a rapid expansion of the education system partly due to high government expenditure on education. Despite the high level of expenditure on education, primary school enrolment has been declining since early 1990s and until 2003 when gross primary school enrolment increased to 104 percent after the introduction of free primary education. However, with an estimated net primary school enrolment rate of 77 percent, the country is far from achieving universal primary education. The worrying scenario is that the allocations of resources within the education sector seems to be ineffective as the increasing expenditure on education goes to …

Dixie's Daughters: The United Daughters Of The Confederacy And The Preservation Of Confederate Culture, Jennifer Ritterhouse

Civil War Book Review

Caretakers of the Cause

History of organization outlined

Historiography And Civil War, Christopher S. Freeman

Civil War Book Review

The father of history, Herodotus, in The Histories, wrote so that human achievement may not become forgotten in time. While his intellectual successor, Thucydides, in The History of the Peloponnesian War, wrote for those who want to look into the truth of what was done in the past. T....

Feature Essay, David Madden

Civil War Book Review

Swinging a Sabre Dipped in Ink

American artist's political parries and thrusts retold

Feature Essay, James D. Hardy

Civil War Book Review

Trials and Tribulations

Two Books offers insight into court cases

Legal Pragmatism, An Ideal Speech Situation, And The Fully Embodied Democratic Process, Dmitri N. Shalin

Nevada Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Relational And Informational Privileges And The Case Of The Mysterious Mediation Privilege, Eileen A. Scallen

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

No abstract provided.

Back To The Future With Privileges Abandon Codification, Not The Common Law, Paul R. Rice

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

No abstract provided.

A Legisprudential Analysis Of Evidence Codification: Why Most Rules Of Evidence Should Not Be Codified - But Privilege Law Should Be, Paul F. Kirgis

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

No abstract provided.

A Conversation With Judith Hopkins: Part I, Ellen T. Mcgrath

Law Librarian Other Scholarship

No abstract provided.

A Reconstruction Of Moreau Chambers' 1937 Excavation Of A Chickasaw Village In Northeastern Mississippi, Ladonna F. Brown

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

An analysis of the archival data relating to the earliest professional investigation of a Chickasaw village site was done in order to reconstruct the excavation and place the artifacts in their appropriate context. A progress report written near the beginning of the project, excavation photographs with annotations and catalogue entries for the primary documentation were available to begin reconstruction. The original field notes have been lost but there were a limited amount of data that were abstracted from them by an earlier researcher. Although an overview of the excavations was derived, there was not sufficient data to allow the reconstruction …

Police Blotter, Unlv Department Of Public Safety

Police Blotter

No abstract provided.

Are Anti-Retaliation Regulations In Title Vi Or Title Ix Enforceable In A Private Right Of Action: Does Sandoval Or Sullivan Control This Question?, Bradford C. Mank

Seton Hall Law Review

No abstract provided.

Multidisciplinary Business Planning Firms: Expanding The Regulatory Tent Without Creating A Circus, Anthony J. Luppino

Seton Hall Law Review

No abstract provided.

Access To Learning: A Handbook For Parents, Teachers, And Paraeducators For Preschool Children With Visual Impairments, Mariah D. Thiel

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Reducing The Use Of Seclusions And Restraints In A Residential Treatment Center For Children, Stephanie L. Nelson

Theses and Dissertations

Fourteen children participated in this study to examine if specific or clusters of interventions are able to reduce the ultimate outcome of the use of seclusion and restraint in a residential treatment center. The purpose of this study was also to develop an increased knowledge in alternative treatment methods for reducing the use of seclusion and restraint. A modified single subject research design, utilizing multiple baselines across behaviors and individuals was used to examine least restrictive and restrictive interventions. The results indicated that the utilization of least restrictive interventions increased by the time children were discharged and the use of …

Inside Unlv, Erin O'Donnell, Carol C. Harter, Diane Russell, Jennifer Vaughan

Inside UNLV

No abstract provided.

The Effectiveness Of Personal Data Assistants In Improving Daily Function Of Adults With Mild Traumatic Brain Injury, Connie Lee Budiwarman

Masters Theses

This study evaluated the effectiveness of using Personal Data Assistants to help with memory and/or organizational difficulties with adult patients who had survived mild Traumatic Brain Injury. Utilizing an AB single subject design method with a training period, one subject ultimately completed the study. The study demonstrated mixed results. Through the use of daily record sheets, the subject reported improvement in three areas of daily function but reported negative improvement in three areas of daily function. This study suggests, but does not completely support, the potential use of Personal Data Assistants with patients with Traumatic Brain Injury.

Checkup, Lehigh Valley Health Network

Checkup

No abstract provided.

Juju And Justice At The Movies: Vigilantes In Nigerian Popular Videos, John C. Mccall

Publications

This article examines the rise of vigilantism in southeastern Nigeria. Two opposing discourses on Nigerian vigilantism are examined. The first is characterized by the valorization of vigilantes as heroes in popular Nigerian video movies. The second is represented by a recent Human Rights Watch (HRW) report denouncing the vigilantes as criminals. My research utilizes ethnographic research to contextualize the video movies as a means toward understanding the ideological gap between these discourses. A close analysis of the Issakaba video series reveals a subtle treatment of the vigilante phenomenon designed to appeal to an indigenous perspective that is cognizant of the …

What Would Newman Do? John Cardinal Newman And Ex Corde Ecclesiae, Stephen J. Denig

Journal of Catholic Education

John Paul II’s 1990 Apostolic exhortation Ex Corde Ecclesiae and subsequent legislation require those teaching theological disciplines in Catholic Universities to have a mandatum. This article explores the thought of John Cardinal Newman with a view to defending a position, consistent with Newman’s thought, relative to the seeking and acceptance of a mandatum.

Hiring And Retaining High-Quality Teachers: What Principals Can Do, Roseanne L. Williby

Journal of Catholic Education

Many Catholic school principals have limited assistance from their respective central offices in the recruitment and selection of teachers, especially if their objective is to recruit candidates of color or candidates for a particular subject area. Aware that teacher quality is related to student achievement, Catholic school principals must employ up-to-date, effective recruitment and hiring strategies to compete for qualified candidates in today’s market. Mindful that teacher recruitment programs alone will not solve staffing problems, principals must remain vigilant for causes of low retention and strategize to retain their high-quality teachers. Implementing an intensive induction and mentoring program with expert …

The Spinnaker Vol. 28 No. 15, University Of North Florida

Spinnaker

Student newspaper for the UNF community.

The Massive Neutron Star Or Low-Mass Black Hole In 2s 0921-630, T. Shahbaz, J. Casares, C. A. Watson, P. A. Charles, R. I. Hynes, S. C. Shih, D. Steeghs

Faculty Publications

We report on the optical spectroscopy of the eclipsing halo low-mass X-ray binary 2S 0921 - 630, which reveals the absorption-line radial velocity curve of the K0 III secondary star with a semiamplitude K2 = 92.89 ± 3.84 km s-1, a systemic velocity γ = 34.9 ± 3. 3 km s-1, and an orbital period Porb of 9.0035 ± 0.0029 days (1 σ). Given the quality of the data, we find no evidence for the effects of X-ray irradiation. Using the previously determined rotational broadening of the mass donor and applying conservative limits on the orbital inclination, we constrain the …

Fragile Fiber3, An Arabidopsis Gene Encoding A Type Ii Inositol Polyphosphate 5-Phosphatase, Is Required For Secondary Wall Synthesis And Actin Organization In Fiber Cells, Ruiqin Zhong, David H. Burk, W. Herbert Morrison, Zheng Hua Ye

Faculty Publications

Type II inositol polyphosphate 5-phosphatases (5PTases) in yeast and animals have been known to regulate the level of phosphoinositides and thereby influence various cellular activities, such as vesicle trafficking and actin organization. In plants, little is known about the phosphatases involved in hydrolysis of phosphoinositides, and roles of type II 5PTases in plant cellular functions have not yet been characterized. In this study, we demonstrate that the FRAGILE FIBER3 (FRA3) gene of Arabidopsis thaliana, which encodes a type II 5PTase, plays an essential role in the secondary wall synthesis in fiber cells and xylem vessels. The fra3 mutations caused a …

'You'll Get Nothing Out Of It'? The Inquest, Police And Aboriginal Deaths In Colonial Queensland, Mark Finnane, Jonathan Richards

Faculty Publications

Colonisation in Australia entailed the establishment of legal institutions, but very often lagging the extension of the boundaries of settlement. As a common-law institution of ancient lineage the inquest was an important means of exploring reasons for unexplained deaths, even leading to prosecutions. Yet the protections afforded by rule of law institutions were nugatory where they affected Aboriginal people in conflict with settler society, as shown in this study of the many inquiries in which deaths were attributed to the actions of the police in colonial Queensland.

Lincoln's Constitution, Michael Berheide

Civil War Book Review

Liberty and Justice

Scholar dissects Fundamental Problem

Outrageous Women Of Civil War Times, Virginia Mercher

Civil War Book Review

Fascinating Females

Book seeks to highlight historical figures

On Shioda-Inose Structures Of One-Parameter Families Of K3 Surfaces, Ling Long

Faculty Publications

We develop an algorithm to determine a one-parameter family of elliptic curves associated to a one-parameter family of K3 surfaces with generic Picard number 19 by a Shioda-Inose structure. The family of elliptic curves is determined up to an isomorphism and an isogeny. An application to a generalized congruence number problem is also discussed. © 2004 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.