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Antonio Possevino: From Secretary To Papal Legate In Sweden, John Donnelly

History Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Reuben Gold Thwaites And The Historical Resurrection Of Lewis And Clark, Matt Blessing

Library Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Fmri Of Healthy Older Adults During Stroop Interference, Scott Aaron Langenecker, Kristy A. Nielson, Stephen M. Rao

Psychology Faculty Research and Publications

The Stroop interference effect, caused by difficulty inhibiting overlearned word reading, is often more pronounced in older adults. This has been proposed to be due to declines in inhibitory control and frontal lobe functions with aging. Initial neuroimaging studies of inhibitory control show that older adults have enhanced activation in multiple frontal areas, particularly in inferior frontal gyrus, indicative of recruitment to aid with performance of the task. The current study compared 13 younger and 13 older adults, all healthy and well educated, who completed a Stroop test during functional magnetic resonance imaging. Younger adults were more accurate across conditions, …

The Metaphysics Of The Sublime: Old Wine, New Wineskin?, Philip J. Rossi

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

John Milbank’s and Phillip Blond’s narratives of modernity’s descent to nihilism identify the “metaphysics of the sublime” as a feature of modernity, assimilated from Kant’s critical project, that is particularly problematic for the robust post-modern Christian theology proposed in Radical Orthodoxy. This essay argues that the sublime is not the concept most fundamental to their account of Kant’s role in modernity. Far more important is the “phenomenon/noumenon” distinction, which Milbank and Blond read as a “two-world” distinction—an understanding that, despite a long history in Kant interpretation, is not Kant’s. It is less important, however, that constructive dialogue between Radical Orthodoxy …

Celestial Choirmaster: The Liturgical Role Of Enoch-Metatron In 2 Enoch And Merkabah Tradition, Andrei Orlov

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

This article investigates the roots of Enoch-Metatron’s liturgical office of celestial choirmaster which plays a prominent role in the Merkabah tradition. Although references to this office of the exalted patriarch are absent in 1 Enoch, Jubilees, Genesis Apocryphon, and the Book of Giants, this article argues that the roots of Enoch-Metatron’s liturgical imagery can be traced to the Second Temple Enochic lore, namely to 2 Enoch, the Jewish apocalypse, apparently written in the first century CE. This article investigates a tradition found in 2 Enoch 18 where the translated patriarch encourages the celestial Watchers to …

Review Of The Church In A Postliberal Age By George Lindbeck, M. Therese Lysaught

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

Dr. Lysaught reviews George Lindbeck's book The Church in a Postliberal Age.

M. Therese Lysaught was affiliated with the University of Dayton at the time of publication.

Muscle Fatigue And The Mechanisms For Task Failure, Sandra K. Hunter, Jacques Duchateau, Roger M. Enoka

Exercise Science Faculty Research and Publications

An alternative approach in the study of muscle fatigue is to address the question, “What causes task failure during a fatiguing contraction?” This approach is described by considering how variation in the type of load supported and contraction intensity influence both the time to task failure and the centrally mediated adjustments in reflex activity and motor unit behavior

Fatigability Of The Elbow Flexor Muscles For A Sustained Submaximal Contraction Is Similar In Men And Women Matched For Strength, Sandra K. Hunter, Ashley Critchlow, In-Sik Shin, Roger M. Enoka

Exercise Science Faculty Research and Publications

The purpose of this study was to compare the time to task failure for a submaximal fatiguing contraction sustained with the elbow flexor muscles by men and women who were matched for strength (n = 20, 18-35 yr). The maximal torque exerted at the wrist was similar for the men and women [64.5 ± 8.7 (SD) vs. 64.5 ± 8.3 N·m; P > 0.05], which meant that the average torque exerted during the fatiguing contraction [20% of maximum voluntary contraction (MVC)] was similar for the two sexes. The time to task failure was similar for these strength-matched men and women …

Change In Diet, Physical Activity, And Body Weight In Female College Freshman, Scott M. Butler, David R. Black, Carolyn L. Blue, Randall J. Gretebeck

College of Nursing Faculty Research and Publications

Objective: To examine diet, physical activity, and body-weight changes associated with relocation from home to university.

Methods: Diet, fitness/physical activity, body-weight parameters and self-efficacy were assessed among 54 freshman women upon college entry and 5 months later.

Results: Although caloric intake significantly decreased, a significant increase occurred in body-weight parameters that may be attributed to significant decreases in total physical activity.

Conclusions: Interventions are needed aimed at increasing physical activity; improving diet quality related to consumption of vegetables, fruits, breads and pasta, and meats; and decreasing alcohol consumption.

Saving God, Robert Masson

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Fidelity In Context: John Courtney Murray (1904-1967), Thomas Hughson

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Alexander Crombie (1762-1840) Über Die Rationalität Natürlicher Theologie, Ulrich Lehner

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

Neben William Paley (f 1805) sind auch andere bedeutende englisch-schottische Denker des 19. Jahrhunderts der Tradition der ,Theologia Naturalis1 2 3 4 gefolgt, um den Materialismus von Hume, Laplace, d’Holbach wirksam zu bekämpfen. Unter diesen ist - fast vergessen - der schottische Philosoph Alexander Crombie (1762-1840)1 mit seinem Werk „Natural Theology“2. Crombie trug keine umfangreiche naturwissenschaftliche Stoffsammlung für einen physikotheologischen Gottesbeweis zusammen, wie dies in seiner Zeit durchaus üblich war und unter oft kuriosen Namen geschah3, sondern analysierte die Aussagen der Materialisten auf ihre Konsistenz und Kohärenz hin, um ihre „intellectual flaws“ aufzudecken.4 Sein über 1200 Seiten starkes Werk steht …

Kentucky's Perpetual Prisoner Machine: It's About Money, Stephen C. Richards, James Austin, Richard S. Jones

Social and Cultural Sciences Faculty Research and Publications

Kentucky is currently facing a severe budget crisis and is seeking ways to lower its prison and community corrections costs. This article focuses on our study of the prison and parole experience of men and women in Kentucky. What we found is a virtual “perpetual incarceration machine” where prisoners are recycled from prison to parole and back to prison. The following discussion includes: Kentucky's prison population continues to grow, parole failure, methods, description of interview samples, interview data, the structure producing parole failure, and Kentucky's perpetual incarceration mechine. Based on our findings, several promising reforms are recommended that if implemented …

Foundations In Wisconsin: A Directory [23rd Ed. 2004], Mary C. Frenn, Rebecca Cesarz, Katie Schrader, Vance Thomas, Lisa Zongolowicz

Foundations in Wisconsin: A Directory

This 2004 edition of Foundations in Wisconsin marks the 23^rd release of the print directory and the 4^th year of the online version. The directory is designed as a research tool for grantseekers interested in locating information on private, corporate, and community foundations registered in Wisconsin. Each entry in this new edition has been updated or reviewed to provide the most current information available. Most of the data was extracted from IRS 990-PF tax returns filed by the foundations. However, additional information was obtained from surveys, annual reports, and foundation Web sites.

Wisconsin foundations have shown small increases …

A New Species Of Amphipod Crustacean, Pleusymtes Comitari Sp Nov, Associated With Gorgonians On Deep-Water Coral Reefs Off Ireland, A. A. Myers, J. M. Hall-Spencer

School of Biological and Marine Sciences

No abstract provided.

Collective Intentionality, Complex Economic Behavior, And Valuation (Book Chapter), John B. Davis

Economics Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.

Directions In Sexual Harrassment Law: Afterword, Catharine A. Mackinnon

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

No abstract provided.

Dollars And Death, Cass R. Sunstein, Eric A. Posner

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

Administrative regulations and tort law both impose controls on activities that cause mortality risks, but they do so in puzzlingly different ways. Under a relatively new and still-controversial procedure, administrative regulations rely on a fixed value of a statistical life representing the hedonic loss from death. Under much older law, tort law in most states excludes hedonic loss from the calculation of damages, and instead focuses on loss of income, which regulatory policy ignores. Regulatory policy also disregards losses to dependents; tort law usually allows dependents to recover for loss of support. Regulatory policy generally treats the loss of the …

Nationalizing International Criminal Law: The International Criminal Court As A Roving Mixed Court, Jenia Iontcheva

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

No abstract provided.

Submajority Rules (In Legislatures And Elsewhere), Adrian Vermeule

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

No abstract provided.

The Credibility Imperative: The Political Dynamics Of Retaliation In The World Trade Organization's Dispute Resolution Mechanism, Jide Nzelibe

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

Under the WTO’s dispute settlement procedures, a party that has been injured by a scofflaw state’s failure to comply with its trade obligations may retaliate against the scofflaw state by withdrawing equivalent trade concessions. Legal and economic commentators generally view retaliation as an economically perverse strategy for enforcing free trade norms. This Article explores an alternative explanation, arguing that retaliation may provide the optimal enforcement mechanism for trade liberalization given the prevalence of low compliance incentives and high enforcement costs in international cooperation agreements. This Article argues that retaliation is superior to other remedial options because it enables an injured …

Assessing Alternative Methods Of Estimating The Present Value Of Future Earnings: A Fifteen-Year Update, Brian Brush

Economics Faculty Research and Publications

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Money Demand Stability Under Currency Substitution: Some Recent Evidence, Santi Chaisrisawatsuk, Subhash C. Sharma, Abdur Chowdhury

Economics Faculty Research and Publications

This study deals with the issue of independent monetary policy and the stability of the domestic money demand function in the presence of currency substitution and capital mobility in five Asian economies. It is argued that money demand will be less stable and more difficult to control in the presence of international variables. The money demand function is derived using the portfolio balance approach. The results from the cointegration analysis reveal that capital mobility and currency substitution are significant factors in the domestic money demand equations for Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand. The results also show that the US …

Gasoline Prices, State Gasoline Excise Taxes, And The Size Of Urban Areas, James Mcgibany

Economics Faculty Research and Publications

A monocentric model of land use that assumes urban spatial size is determined by a set of exogenous variables is employed to test the hypothesis that urban land size is negatively related to gasoline prices. Using a model from Brueckner and Fansler (1983), the amount of urbanized land area is shown to be a function of population, income, agricultural land prices and commuting costs. The latter is measured as the price of gasoline, broken into two components; the amount of any state gasoline excise tax imposed plus the total price paid by consumers minus such a tax. Using 1990 data, …

A Global Lottery And A Global Premium Bond, Tony Addison, Abdur Chowdhury

Economics Faculty Research and Publications

Proposals are evaluated, from both an economic and an ethical viewpoint, for development funding through a global lottery, along with a complement to this: a global premium bond (a loan instrument in which the interest takes the form of a lottery prize, the capital being repayable on request, so that it has the characteristics of a savings product, which makes it potentially attractive to ethical investors). The chapter starts by looking at how a global lottery might work, evaluating the issue by discussing lottery operators and their regulation, the market for lotteries, competition between the global lottery and national lotteries, …

An Initial Look At Technology And Institutions On Defense Industry Consolidation, John D. Driessnack, David R. King

Management Faculty Research and Publications

Conventional wisdom holds that defense industry consolidation resulted from decreased defense spending. However, we maintain that understanding dynamic changes in key defense institutions helps provide a more complete explanation for observed consolidation. Specifically, we examine the interaction of evolving technology and changing institutions. Institutions reviewed include procurement policies, weapons requirements process and the procurement organizations. We take an initial look at the industry and highlight how these changes influenced transaction costs in the defense industry more fully explain the forces driving consolidation and provide greater insight to policy makers seeking to improve the performance of the defense industry. Further research …

The Impact Of Augmenting Traditional Instruction With Technology-Based, Experiential Exercise, David R. King, William W. Jennings

Management Faculty Research and Publications

Traditional instruction, under an experiential learning model, is neither the sole nor a sufficient means of learning. Learning systems that engage students as contributors to learning offer opportunities for educators. The availability of technology to support experiential exercises represents one opportunity to augment traditional instruction. In a quasi-experiment, traditional-only instruction was compared with traditional instruction augmented with a technology-based, experiential exercise. The two instructional methods were evaluated based on student learning, intended behavior, and satisfaction. Our findings suggest that augmented instruction significantly increased student learning and satisfaction. The implications for students are clear. However, there are also noteworthy implications for …

Managerial Discretion In The Use Of Self-Ratings In An Appraisal System: The Antecedents And Consequences, Edward J. Inderrieden, Robert E. Allen, Timothy J. Keaveny

Management Faculty Research and Publications

Self-evaluations of performance have elicited the interests of researchers over the last four decades. Supporters attest to the importance of employee involvement in the appraisal process while detractors raise issues concerning leniency, validity and purpose. This study examines the circumstances under which superiors have discretion to ask subordinates to self-evaluate their performance in an ongoing appraisal system. Three primary issues are investigated: the conditions under which superiors requested subordinates to self-evaluate, the relationship between opportunity to self-evaluate and the type of post-appraisal interview that was conducted, and the impact of self-ratings on performance appraisal outcomes. Three hundred twenty-six subordinates responded …

Meta-Analyses Of Post-Acquisition Performance: Indications Of Unidentified Moderators, David R. King, Dan R. Dalton, Catherine M. Daily, Jeffrey G. Covin

Management Faculty Research and Publications

Empirical research has not consistently identified antecedents for predicting post-acquisition performance. We employ meta-analytic techniques to empirically assess the impact of the most commonly researched antecedent variables on post-acquisition performance. We find robust results indicating that, on average and across the most commonly studied variables, acquiring firms’ performance does not positively change as a function of their acquisition activity, and is negatively affected to a modest extent. More importantly, our results indicate that unidentified variables may explain significant variance in post-acquisition performance, suggesting the need for additional theory development and changes to M&A research methods.

Understanding The Meaning Of Collaboration In The Supply Chain, Mark Barratt

Management Faculty Research and Publications

Despite its infancy, some authors are already suggesting that the writing may be on the wall for supply chain collaboration. It has been reported that supply chain collaboration has proved difficult to implement; there has been an over‐reliance on technology in trying to implement it; a failure to understand when and with whom to collaborate; and fundamentally a lack of trust between trading partners. This paper proposes that a supply chain segmentation approach, based on customer buying behaviour and service needs, is the most appropriate context for collaboration. The paper also proposes the need for a greater understanding of the …

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