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Forsaking The Forests For The Trees: Forestry Law In Papua New Guinea Inhibits Indigenous Customary Ownership, Alyssa A. Vegter

Washington International Law Journal

Illegal logging in the tropical forests of Papua New Guinea is one of the greatest threats to the forests and indigenous people of this island nation. Increasing pressure from the commercial logging industry, legislation that restrains customary ownership, and an unclear legal basis for this ownership subjects the indigenous people of Papua New Guinea to unscrupulous, unsustainable, and illegal logging practices. As a region central to the preservation of global ecological and cultural diversity, the devastating consequences of illegal logging in Papua New Guinea have become nationally and internationally significant. Customary ownership of the forests by the indigenous clans of …

The Water Resources Protection Act And Its Impact On West Virginia Water Law, David M. Flannery, Blair D. Gardner, Jeffrey R. Vining

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.

Introduction, Dana Brakman Reiser, Evelyn Brody

Chicago-Kent Law Review

No abstract provided.

Let Charitable Directors Direct: Why Trust Law Should Not Curb Board Discretion Over A Charitable Corporation's Mission And Unrestricted Assets, Robert A. Katz

Chicago-Kent Law Review

What are the legal limits on a charity's ability to change its mission and redirect donations to new purposes? The answer often turns on the charity's legal form, whose essential elements are encapsulated in a few nonmandatory default rules. Absent extraordinary circumstances, a charitable trust's controllers (a.k.a. "trustees") may not deviate from the specific charitable purposes selected by the trust's creator (a.k.a. the "settlor"), unless the settlor expressly expanded the trustees' discretion. By contrast, a nonprofit corporation's controllers (a.k.a. its "board of directors") are typically free to change the charitable purpose and redeploy donations, unless the corporate charter or a …

Fabrication And Compressive Yield Strength Of Open Cell Corrugated Cellular Solids, Jeong Ho Choi

Master's Theses - Daytona Beach

This thesis studied the fabrication and compressive yield strength of open cell corrugated cellular solids made from type 304 stainless steel. Test samples were made by corrugating woven wire meshes, then laminating these in a high temperature argon environment. Mesh sizes ranging from 9.5 pore/cm (24 pore/in) to 31.5 pore/cm (80 pore/in) with wire diameters ranging from 0.178 mm (0.007 in) to 0.3556 mm (0.014 in) were bonded using lithobraze 925 (Ag-7.5Cu-0.2Li) to create cellular solids having relative densities ranging from 0.0384 to 0.0920. Test samples were then quasistatically compressed to measure the stress-strain response. The stress level at 25% …

Valuing Relationships: The Role Of Damages For Loss Of Society, Joellen Lind

New Mexico Law Review

No abstract provided.

Loss, Heidi Li Feldman

New Mexico Law Review

No abstract provided.

Making The System Work Better: Improving The Process For Determination Of Noneconomic Loss, James F. Blumstein

New Mexico Law Review

No abstract provided.

Isr@Bucknell, Information Services And Resources, Bucknell University

ISR @ Bucknell

isr@bucknell was a newsletter published by Bucknell University's Information Services and Resources department (later Library and Information Technology). The publication served the community by providing software, project, and service updates. Regular features included a letter from the Associate Vice President for Information Services and Resources, the "Ask ISR" column, and featured ISR web pages. This issue includes the following articles: "Changes in Scholarly Communication," "The Disruptive Nature of Technology," "Before There was ISR, There was Tech Support," "Tech Tips: Browsing a More Crowded Field," "The Student Advisory Group," "Meet the New ISR Staff Members," "The Degregorio Collection: Interacting with Antiquity," …

Forage News [2005-04], Department Of Plant And Soil Sciences, University Of Kentucky

Forage News

• Thanks to Barnhart Fund for Excellence
• Kentucky Grazing School
• New Alfalfa Website
• Ancient Crop: Modern Use?
• Kentucky Van to AFGC in Illinois
• Pennington Seed & AgResearch Announce Part Settlement of Tall Fescue Endophyte Patent Lawsuit
• Contracting Toxic-Endophyte Contamination Between Endophyte-Free and Nontoxic-Endophyte Tall Fescue Pastures
• Upcoming Events

Articles, Notes And Commentary - Primary And Secondary Education - Law Review Digests

The Journal of Law and Education

No abstract provided.

New Use In Copyright: A Messy Case, Anthony Difrancesca

Media Law and Policy

No abstract provided.

New Use In Copyright: A Messy Case, Anthony Difrancesca

Media Law and Policy

No abstract provided.

Supporting Innovation In Targeted Treatments: Licenses Of Right To Nih-Funded Research Tools, Tanuja V. Garde

Michigan Telecommunications & Technology Law Review

Support for new drug development has taken some interesting turns in current patent law jurisprudence. Beginning with the severe curtailment of scope of the common law experimental use doctrine in Madey v. Duke University, and culminating with the recent Supreme Court decision in Merck KGaA v. Integra Lifesciences I, Ltd., broadening the scope of the statutory research exemption, the freedom to conduct experimental research using another's patented inventions becomes dependent in part on the purpose of the research. That the patent at issue in Merck was characterized by the Federal Circuit as being directed to a research tool raised the …

God In The Machine: A New Structural Analysis Of Copyright's Fair Use Doctrine, Matthew Sag

Michigan Telecommunications & Technology Law Review

Recognition of the structural role of fair use has the potential to mitigate some of the uncertainty of current fair use jurisprudence. The statutory framework for fair use both mitigates and causes uncertainty. It mitigates uncertainty by providing a consistent framework of analysis the four statutory factors. However, when judges apply the statutory factors without articulating or justifying their own assumptions, they increase uncertainty. The statutory factors mean nothing without certain a priori assumptions as to the scope of the copyright owner's rights. A more stable and predictable fair use jurisprudence would begin to emerge if those assumptions were made …

Montanan, Spring 2005, University Of Montana--Missoula

Montanan Magazine, 1969-2024

This is the magazine of the University of Montana with news about the University for UM alumni as well as current faculty, students, staff, and administrators. This is volume 22, number 2.

"Vanishing" Indians? Cultural Persistence On Display At The Omaha World's Fair Of 1898, Josh Clough

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Nebraska's Indian population exploded in the summer of 1898, but it was not due to natural increase. More than 500 Indians representing twenty-three tribes came to Omaha as part of the United States Indian Bureau's exhibit at the Trans-Mississippi Exposition. During their three-month stay at the world's fair, Indians engaged in dancing, feasting, visiting, and earned money performing sham battles. In doing so they demonstrated not only the vibrancy and resilience of Native American cultures, but also the ineffectiveness of the government's assimilation policy. The Indian Bureau spent $40,000 for the Indian Congress (as this gathering of Native peoples came …

What Honors Can Do, Vince Brewton

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Since becoming honors director at a small regional institution in March, I have had more than a few opportunities to reflect on what honors might be and what it is not, or should not, be. When Dail W. Mullins, Jr. writes of “balancing tensions” between meritocratic and egalitarian tendencies, it is a reminder that honors education is not a single linear pursuit as outsiders often conceive it, “working with the best and the brightest” (what could be easier or more straightforward!), but involves a reconciliation of opposites that is fundamental to paradox. Most of us arrive in our profession with …

Review Of Empty Pastures: Confined Animals And The Transformation Of The Rural Landscape By Terence J Centner, Laura L. Jackson

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

The shift from integrated crop and livestock farms to confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs) in the last thirty years requires better regulatory policies, better enforcement, greater incentives for farmers to prevent pollution, and modification of some “right to farm” legislation. This is the thesis of Empty Pastures: Confined Animals and the Transformation of the Rural Landscape by Terence Centner, a professor of agricultural law and economics at the University of Georgia.

Availability Of Suitable Habitat For Northern River Otters In South Dakota, Alyssa M. Kiesow, Charles D. Dieter

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Currently, the northern river otter (Lontra canadensis) is listed as a threatened species in South Dakota. We determined whether adequate habitat was available for reintroducing river otters in South Dakota. The 17 rivers/creeks included in the analysis were selected according to stream size, water gradient, and water permanence. A vegetation transect was conducted and a water sample was collected at each study site, ranging from one to four per river. Rivers/creeks were rated (1 = least suitable to 5 = most suitable) according to habitat requirements of river otters in the following categories: stream characteristics, watershed features, water …

Review Of Eighteenth-Century Naturalists Of Hudson Bay By Stuart Houston, Tim Ball, And Mary Houston, Greg Michalenko

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Eighteenth-Century Naturalists of Hudson Bay by Stuart and Mary Houston, veteran Saskatchewan ornithologists and historians of northern Canadian exploration, and climatologist Tim Ball provides a welcome, colorful addition to McGill-Queen's University Press's thirty-four-volume Native and Northern Series.
The 1670 Crown charter to the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) granted a vast trading territory including substantial parts of the northern Canadian Plains and a portion of North Dakota and Minnesota. Furs were brought from a network of posts for shipping out of Hudson Bay, primarily at Fort Churchill and York Factory. Most of the posts and their commercial activities were outside of …

Distribution Of Carnivore Burrows In A Prairie Landscape, Glennis Kaufman, Scott Kocher, Donald Kaufman

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Mammals impact prairie ecosystems through burrowing activities. Burrows used by carnivores were studied in four habitat types at the Konza Prairie Biological Station, a native tallgrass prairie near Manhattan, KS. We surveyed nearly 40 km of l0-m-wide transects and counted burrows in upland, slope, and lowland prairie and along ravines. Burrows were placed selectively along slopes (7.3 per km) and to a lesser extent along edges of ravines (4.2), but only infrequently in upland (0.6) and never in lowlands (0.0). We also recorded features (e.g., location, aspect, and slope steepness) along slope transects at a 30 m intervals to estimate …

Great Plains Research, Volume 15, Number 1, Spring 2005 - Editorial Matter

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

No abstract provided.

Potential Ecological Impact Of Diet Selectivity And Bison Herd Composition, Claudia Rosas, David Engle, James Shaw

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Behavioral segregation between the sexes of bison (Bas bison), coupled with artificially manipulated sex ratios of bison herds, might profoundly influence prairie ecosystems. Therefore, we measured carbon isotopes in hair collected from bison from the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve in northeast Oklahoma to determine if adult male, adult female, and juvenile bison segregate on the basis of botanical composition of their diet. Sex ratio of bison herds in the Great Plains and behavioral differences between sexes were used to assess potential effects of sex ratio on tallgrass prairie. Botanical composition of diet differed among the three bison groups, in …

Airline Quality Rating 2005, Brent D. Bowen, Dean E. Headley

Airline Quality Rating Report

The Airline Quality Rating (AQR) was developed and first announced in early 1991 as an objective method for assessing airline quality on combined multiple performance criteria. This current report, the Airline Quality Rating 2005, reflects monthly Airline Quality Rating scores for 2004. AQR scores for the calendar year 2004 are based on 15 elements in four major areas that focus on airline performance aspects important to air travel consumers.

The Airline Quality Rating 2005 is a summary of month-by-month quality ratings for U.S. airlines that have at least 1% of domestic passenger volume during 2004. Using the Airline Quality Rating …

Wither The Fruited Plain: The Long Expedition And The Description Of The "Great American Desert", Kevin Z. Sweeney

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The view from Pikes Peak is breathtaking. Situated where the Great Plains meets the Rocky Mountains, one feels as if the whole nation is laid out before you. It is the perfect vantage point from which to write an inspirational anthem to the environmental magnificence of the United States. In the summer of 1893, Katherine Lee Bates, a Wellesley College English professor, sat on the summit of Pikes Peak, inspired by the panorama to pen the words to "America the Beautiful." Her poem was set to the tune "Materna" by Samuel Augustus Ward two years later to become one of …

Thyrotoxic Heart Disease, Chung-Wah Siu, Hung-Fat Tse, Chu-Pak Lau

Journal of the Hong Kong College of Cardiology

The close link between the thyroid gland and the heart has been well recognized since the first description of thyrotoxicosis in nearly 200 years ago. Despite this well known association, there have been only a few population based studies performed on thyrotoxic heart disease except thyrotoxic atrial fibrillation. Even so, there has not been any consensus for the definition for "thyrotoxic heart disease". For other cardiac manifestations of thyrotoxicosis including thyrotoxic cardiomyopathy and thyrotoxic pulmonary hypertension, only occasion case reports can be found in the current medical literatures. Their natural history, clinical course and outcomes are largely unknown. On the …

Physical Mapping Of Genes In The Porcine Ovarian Transcriptome, A. R. Caetano, J. B. Edeal, K. Burns, R. K. Johnson, C. K. Tuggle, Daniel Pomp

Department of Animal Science: Faculty Publications

Reproductive efficiency and associated traits are of major economic importance to the swine industry and have been more difficult to improve genetically than other production traits. Integration of phenotypical data with gene mapping and expression studies provides a powerful approach for dissection of the genetic basis regulating complex traits. We developed a total of 101 polymerase chain reaction-based markers, representing 91 unique genes, for expressed sequence tags previously reported to be putatively differentially expressed in the porcine ovarian transcriptome of a swine line selected on an index of high ovulation rate and embryonic survival. These were subsequently used in physical …

Extended Visions, March/April 2005

Extended Visions Newsletter (ARDC)

Contents:
ARDC FEATURE - Cow/Calf Research
An Overview
Management
Research Herd
Teaching Herd
Big Red Truths
A Nebraska Education is One of America’s “Best Values”
Calendar of Events
Chemigation & Nitrogen Management Training
Cooperative Extension Impact
Hundreds Learn About No-Till
Crop Management Winter Programs
Soybean Rust First Detector
Crop Scout Training - March 14
Director's Comments
Save the Date - June 3
Extension Promotes Conservation in Wanahoo Project
Home Study Course Provides Soil Fertility Education
Levis Joins Extension Team
Mark Your Calendar for These 4-H Events
Meet the Members
On-Farm Research Update
March 8
Rezac Selected as 2004 ARDC Employee …

Merging Information Literacy And Technology Through Instructional And Collaborative Initiatives, Jennifer Sharkey

LOEX Quarterly

No abstract provided.