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How Do Corporations Play Politics?: The Fedex Story, Jill E. Fisch

Vanderbilt Law Review

Corporate political activity has been the subject of federal regulation since 1907, and the restrictions on corporate campaign contributions and other political expenditures continue to increase. Most recently, Congress banned soft money donations in the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 ("BCRA"), a ban upheld by the Supreme Court in McConnell v. FEC. Significantly, although the omnibus BCRA clearly was not directed exclusively at corporations, the Supreme Court began its lengthy opinion in McConnell by referencing and endorsing the efforts of Elihu Root, more than a century ago, to prohibit corporate political contributions. Repeatedly, within the broad context of campaign …

Coordinating Development: Can Income-Based Incentive Schemes Eliminate Pareto Inferior Equilibria?, Philip Bond, Rohini Pande

Discussion Papers

No abstract provided.

Idcr: Infectious Diseases In Corrections Report, Vol. 8 No. 10, Infectious Diseases In Corrections

Infectious Diseases in Corrections Report (IDCR)

No abstract provided.

Neither Innocent Nor Proven Guilty: The Aviall Services V. Cooper Industries Dilemma, Jeannette Paull

Buffalo Environmental Law Journal

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Not In Anybody's Backyard? The Non-Distributive Problem With Environmental Justice, Joshua Glasgow

Buffalo Environmental Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Water Current, Volume 37, No. 4. Fall 2005

Water Current Newsletter

Contents

• Missouri River Mainstem System is North America’s Largest Reservoir System by Mary S. Roth

• UNL, Well Drillers, NRD Team on York Well Demo by Steve Ress

• From the Director

• Meet the Faculty

• August Four States Tour Looks at Front Range Water and Agriculture Issues by Steve Ress

• Understanding the Ins-and-Outs of LB 962

• Managing Australia’s Great Artesian Basin by Steve Ress

• Husker Harvest Days 2005

• Master Manual Sees Changes Since First Adopted in 1961 by Roy F. McAllister

• Ponca State Park Habitat Restoration Project by Luke Wallace

• Emergent …

Effect Of Interface States On Spin-Dependent Tunneling In Fe/Mgo/Fe Tunnel Junctions, Kirill D. Belashchenko, Julian P. Velev, Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

Materials Research Science and Engineering Center: Faculty Publications

The electronic structure and spin-dependent tunneling in epitaxial Fe/MgO/Fe(001) tunnel junctions are studied using first-principles calculations. For small MgO barrier thickness the minority-spin resonant bands at the two interfaces make a significant contribution to the tunneling conductance for the antiparallel magnetization, whereas these bands are, in practice, mismatched by disorder and/or small applied bias for the parallel magnetization. This explains the experimentally observed decrease in tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) for thin MgO barriers. We predict that a monolayer of Ag epitaxially deposited at the interface between Fe and MgO suppresses tunneling through the interface band and may thus be used to …

The Chronicle - Special Back-To-School Issue, Matt Bockert, Cheyenne Hayes, Amber Bryant-Tapper, Sabrina Kempton, Eddie Fieg

Campus Chronicle

No abstract provided.

Nature - Nanotechnology-Live Wire, Ravi F. Saraf, Vikas Berry

Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering: News Releases

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Economic Efficiency And The Parameters Of Fairness: A Marriage Of Marketplace Morals And The Ethic Of Care, Barbara Ann White

Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy

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Reciprocity, Justice, And Disability, Lawrence C. Becker

Philosophy Faculty Scholarship

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Red Tape Or Accountability: Privatization, Public-Ization, And Public Values, Ellen Dannin

Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy

No abstract provided.

The Chair, The Needle, And The Damage Done: What The Electric Chair And The Rebirth Of The Method-Of-Execution Challenge Could Mean For The Future Of The Eighth Amendment, Timothy S. Kearns

Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy

No abstract provided.

A Fe-Fd Hybrid Scheme For Solving Parabolic Two-Step Micro Heat Transport Equations In Irregularly Shaped Three Dimensional Double -Layered Thin Films Exposed To Ultrashort -Pulse Lasers, Brian R. Barron

Doctoral Dissertations

Multi-layer thin films are important components in many micro-electronic devices. These films are often used when a single film layer is insufficient to meet devices specifications. The continued reduction in component size has the side effect of increasing the thermal stress on these films and consequently the devices they comprise. Understanding the transfer of heat-energy at the micro-scale is important for thermal processing using a pulse-laser. Often, micro-voids may be found in processed devices. This is due to thermal expansion. Such defects may cause an amplification of neighboring defects resulting in severe damage and consequently the failure of the device. …

Design And Development Of Poly -(3 -Hexylthiophene) Field Effect Transistors, Fengliang Xue

Doctoral Dissertations

Organic field effect transistors (OFETs) with poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) as the active layer are developed and studied. The device characteristics are significantly affected by source/drain contact resistance, and P3HT-SiO 2 interface and the traps. These results are verified by the numerical device simulations. The temperature dependence of device mobility is studied, which indicates that the carrier transport is either heat-assisted or heat-limited at different temperature ranges. The on/off ratio and threshold voltage are found to be dependent on the temperature. Hysteresis effect due to gate electric stress is investigated. The silanol groups present at the SiO2 surface are thought to be …

Decision Making Beyond Arrow's "Impossibility Theorem", With The Analysis Of Effects Of Collusion And Mutual Attraction, Hung T. Nguyen, Olga Kosheleva, Vladik Kreinovich

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

In 1951, K. J. Arrow proved that, under certain assumptions, it is impossible to have group decision making rules which satisfy reasonable conditions like symmetry. This Impossibility Theorem is often cited as a proof that reasonable group decision making is impossible.

We start our paper by remarking that Arrow's result only covers the situations when the only information we have about individual preferences is their binary preferences between the alternatives. If we follow the main ideas of modern decision making and game theory and also collect information about the preferences between lotteries (i.e., collect the utility values of different alternatives), …

Effect Of Sound Cue Frequency Filters On Front/Back Localization Performance For Three-Dimensional Verbal And Non-Verbal Warnings, Angelica A. Hernandez

Master's Theses - Daytona Beach

In aviation, as technology becomes more advanced and more demands are placed on the human operator, warnings have become an important part of display design. Although warnings have made a significant contribution to safety, problems still plague their design. Recent technological advances have been able to give sounds and warnings a three-dimensional quality (3D). This technology enables a person to perceive sound from any direction around the listener without having the sound physically come from that direction. Three-dimensional sounds have been shown to improve target acquisition and collision avoidance in flight (Oving & Bronkhorst, 1999), and may have other future …

Wildlife Health Centre Newsletter, Volume 11, Fall 2005

Canadian Cooperative Wildlife Health Centre: Newsletters and Publications

Canada Takes a Big Step Forward
Update from the Centre for Coastal Health
West Nile Virus in non-corvid Bird Species
National Cervid Population Estimates
Disease Updates
Atlantic Region:
Fatal Encounter of a Great Horned Owl with a Porcupine
Total Amputation of Extremities in a Raccoon
Foot Gangrene in Northern Gannets
Quebec Region:
Avian Cholera in the St. Lawrence Estuary in the Common Eider
Verminous pneumonia in beluga whales from the St. Lawrence Estuary
Ontario Region:
Type E Botulism in Lake Ontario 2004/2005
Pesticide Toxicities in Birds
Virus Infections in Gulls & Cormorants on Lakes Erie and Ontario
A Mortality Event …

Canada’S National Chronic Wasting Disease Control Strategy

Canadian Cooperative Wildlife Health Centre: Newsletters and Publications

The objective of Canada’s National Chronic Wasting Disease Control Strategy is to establish a coordinated national policy and a disease response and management framework to minimize the negative impacts of Chronic Wasting Disease on biodiversity, human and livestock health, the environment and the economy. The ultimate objective of this Strategy is to eradicate Chronic Wasting Disease from Canada or, failing this, to achieve the tightest possible control of the disease so that it does not spread to new geographic areas or to new species, and so that its environmental, economic and health impacts are minimized. As mandated by the federalprovincial/ …

Field, Issue 73, Fall 2005, Multiple Contributors

FIELD: Contemporary Poetry and Poetics

No abstract provided.

Textile Society Of America Newsletter — Fall 2005, Textile Society Of America

Textile Society of America: Newsletters

Collections Management and Preservation Project for the Kala Raksha Trust, Kutch, India
Symposium 2006
From the President
TSA News
TSA Study Tours
Collections News
Conservation News
TSA Member News
Corrections Research
Conference Reviews
Exhibition Reviews
Book Reviews
Resources
Calendar-Exhibitions, Lectures, Seminars, Workshops, Tours, Residencies
Conferences and Symposia
Grants and Awards
Opportunities

Gold & Blue, Fall 2005, St. Mary's University- San Antonio, Texas

Gold & Blue

This is the Fall 2005 edition of Gold & Blue which is St. Mary's University's official school publication.

Disparity: The Normative And Empirical Failure Of The Federal Guidelines, Albert Alschuler

Articles

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The Effect Of Channel Length On The Residual Circulation In Tidally Dominated Channels, Chunyan Li, James O'Donnell

Faculty Publications

With an analytic model, this paper describes the subtidal circulation in tidally dominated channels of different lengths, with arbitrary lateral depth variations. The focus is on an important parameter associated with the reversal of the exchange flows. This parameter (δ) is defined as the ratio between the channel length and one-quarter of the tidal wavelength, which is determined by water depth and tidal frequency. In this study, a standard bottom drag coefficient, CD = 0.0025, is used. For a channel with δ smaller than 0.6-0.7 (short channels), the exchange flow at the open end has an inward transport in deep …

Oct 2005, Unauthored (D.Hunter), Csos Top Issues Remaining In Ifc Perf Standards, Ifc

IFC E&S Performance Standards

No abstract provided.

The Admissibility Of Expert Testimony In North Carolina After Howerton: Reconciling The Ruling With The Rules Of Evidence, William A. Woodruff

Campbell Law Review

Part II of this paper briefly describes the federal rule in order to appreciate the context of the North Carolina approach to expert testimony. Part III traces the development of North Carolina's expert testimony law from the common law to codification in the rules of evidence through the decision in Howerton and reveals that the North Carolina test for reliability is, essentially, an evaluation of the credibility of the testifying expert. Part IV argues that Howerton's adoption of a less stringent and credibility-based substantive test for reliability but retention of the Daubert procedural "gatekeeping" role of the judge in determining …

The Unresolved Debates That Scorched Kyoto: An Analytical Framework, David W. Childs

University of Miami International and Comparative Law Review

No abstract provided.

Motions 2005 Volume 41 Number 2, University Of San Diego School Of Law Student Bar Association

Newspaper, Motions (1987-2019)

No abstract provided.

Employment Practices Liability Insurance: Are Epli Policies A License To Discriminate - Or Are They A Necessary Reality Check For Employers, Nancy H. Van Der Veer

Connecticut Insurance Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Review Of "Performing Russia: Folk Revival And Russian Identity" By L. J. Olson, Sibelan E. S. Forrester

Russian Faculty Works

No abstract provided.