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Effects Of Weather Conditions On Pollinator Behavior At Stachytarpheta Jamaicensis (Verbenaceae), November 2005, Michelle Murguia Tamez

Monteverde Institute: Tropical Ecology and Conservation

Competition between pollinators, such as nectar-eating birds, bats, and small insects, plays an important role in understanding resource distribution among feeding guilds (Murray et al. 2000). This study suggested that territorial behaviors exhibited by hummingbirds are not hardwired, but rather, they may be affected by abiotic factors such as weather conditions. An individual may increase its energy budget through selective defense of a plant. Hummingbird and butterfly visits to and agonistic interactions (i.e. chases) at a Stachytarpheta jamaicensis plant were observed for a total of 40 hours and weather conditions were quantified. As the activity of butterflies (a competing species) …

Community Composition And Diversity Of Lichens Along A Disturbance Gradient In San Luis, Costa Rica, November 2005, Sarah Hosford

Monteverde Institute: Tropical Ecology and Conservation

This research was conducted to better understand lichen morphology and diversity in different habitats in San Luis, Costa Rica. Lichens on trees in adjacent pasture, forest edge, and mature forest areas were identified to morphospecies and the species richness, diversity and total coverage per tree was compared across habitats. Eighteen different morphospecies were found across all three habitats. The forest trees had the lowest species richness and diversity, while the forest edge and the pasture had the highest.

Community Composition Coleopteran’S At Two Different Elevational Ranges, November 2005, Carrington Dahmer

Monteverde Institute: Tropical Ecology and Conservation

The order Coleoptera is the most diverse among animals, composing 70-80% of all described animals in the world. (White 1983) Even though this order is the most described in the world, there is still very little known about their composition in the canopy. Diversity and abundance of the canopy was investigated along elevational ranges attempting to find whether the increase in elevation played a factor in the Coleopteran composition within the canopy. Beetles were sampled at two different elevations in the Monteverde cloud forest at La Estación Biológica, Monteverde, Costa Rica. Diversity was found to be highest at the low …

Brave New School: A Constitutional Argument Against State-Mandated Mental Health Assessments In Public Schools, Jennifer H. Gelman

Northern Illinois University Law Review

This comment examines the constitutionality of emotional health assessments in public schools. Despite the Supreme Court's recognition nearly a century ago that parents have a right to control the education of their children, American courts have grown increasingly hostile to parental interests in conflicts between parent and school. The author explores the possibility that the Court's reaffirmation of parental rights in Troxel v. Granville (2003) could be invoked in certain cases to reverse that trend. It is argued, in particular, that parental objections to school involvement in emotional health determinations ought to merit some form of heightened scrutiny.

Edict V. Dicta: Rolling Back Rights In The Second Circuit Under The Clearly Established Clause Of The Aedpa Amended Habeas Statute, Aron E. Goldschneider

Northern Illinois University Law Review

This article, through a close critical analysis of two recent habeas corpus decisions by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, shows how appellate courts, under § 2254 of the AEDPA amended habeas statute, are methodically erasing venerable and well-considered federal habeas precedents that formerly protected state defendants' rights. In the process of examining these Second Circuit decisions' impact on two discrete areas of criminal trial procedure, the article exposes the way in which habeas review under the AEDPA too often becomes a formalistic yet un-disciplined exercise that turns away from the crucial question that should be at the heart of …

Experts' Opinions On Frequently Asked Questions, Richard Donato, Dolores Parker

PASAA

Over the past years, the use of tasks to promote language development has been discussed, researched, and incorporated into many curricular innovations. In this issue, two experts in the field of English language teaching were interviewed via email on some questions which are frequently asked by those who are interested in understanding task based instruction.

A Survey Of Students' Attitudes Toward Group Work, Pornpim Kijsiripanth

PASAA

Research has shown that collaborative learning has positive effects on students' attitudes toward both themselves and subjects studied. Working collaboratively can motivate students to learn and achieve common goals. The present study was classroom-based research which aimed to investigate students' attitudes toward group work and other activities in class. The subjects were 29 students who took the English Writing for Economics, a required course for second- year Faculty of Economics students at Chulalongkorn University. Collaborative work was used in several activities during the second half of the semester. The survey revealed that students had positive attitudes toward group work. They …

Theology Of Brotherly Love, Robert L. Marshall Jr.

Doctor of Ministry

Is it possible to have an adverse experience with Christianity and emerge being empowered by a new understanding of the gospel? Howard Thurman seems to answer that question in the affirmative. Thurman analyzes comments from Mahatma Gandhi and a barrister from "India" about Christianity under the light of the gospel. This encounter was important. It was the Genesis of Thurman's theology of brotherly love. This paper is an historical analysis of Howard Thurman's struggle to resolve the conflict between the perception that Christianity is a white man's religion and the gospel of Jesus and the disinherited. The writer will discuss …

Things Which Had Grown Are Being Made New: The Revitalization Of Missional Intent In The Diocese Of Oregon, George Thomson Hemingway

Doctor of Ministry

The problem addressed in this paper is to find out if the application of missional principles in the Episcopal Diocese of Oregon can revitalize this diocese, direct the diocese to missional ends, and provide applications for similar situations in other dioceses. This investigation assumes that the existing infrastructure of the diocese has intrinsic value for mission if it can become focused on God's mission as its primary end. This approach assumes that the diocese has been and perhaps still is distracted by matters of secondary importance such as maintenance of existing facilities, issues of power, lack of trust, and cultural …

Nikki Giovanni, Clarence Page And Michael Dyson Headline University Of Dayton's Diversity Lecture Series

News Releases

News release announces that four nationally acclaimed writers and an environmental activist will round out the University of Dayton's 2005-2006 Diversity Lecture Series.

Lawlessness Revealed: The Supreme Court's Man Of Liberty Transcends Tort Law, Nelson P. Miller

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.

Rediscovering Subjectivity In Contracts: Adhesion And Unconscionability, Richard L. Barnes

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.

Article I Courts, Substantive Rights, And Remedies For Government Misconduct, David A. Case

Northern Illinois University Law Review

This article argues that Article I courts can use equitable principles to provide individuals who have been victimized by corrupt behavior of government attorneys with a remedy. Article III courts have struggled to define the powers of Article I courts in a way that does not do violence to the petition clause, the appropriations clause, or the takings clause, sometimes concluding that petitioners were entitled to no relief when the government had violated some right of the petitioners. After tracing the development of claims against the government in general, and in the extant Article I courts, the article employs Professors …

How We Got Where We Are: A Look At Informed Consent In Colorado--Past, Present, And Future, R. Jason Richards

Northern Illinois University Law Review

This article examines the historical development of the doctrine of informed consent in this country, paying specific attention to its evolution in Colorado. In doing so, the author examines the two theories of patient disclosure that have emerged over time-the "professional standard" and the "reasonable patient standard." The article analyzes the legal and practical justifications of each approach in light of the contemporary doctor/patient relationship and concludes that the best way to protect patient autonomy rests with in- formed decision-making, which can only be accomplished by adopting the reasonable patient standard of disclosure in Colorado.

Picturing Terror: Derrida's Autoimmunity, W. J. T. Mitchell

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Rhetorical Context Of A Ged Preparatory Program, Kay A. Mooy

Rhetoric and Composition PhD papers

Since rhetoricians believe that everything is rhetorical and I am a rhetorician, I wanted to look at the rhetoric involved in a program of GED training. The professional context or culture that I examined in this research project is a GED Preparatory Program at a large school district Community Learning Center in a Mexican-U.S. border town. What I found was that four categories or themes emerged from the interviews, observations, and documents that I examined. Three of the four themes are directly from classical and modern rhetoric, and the fourth, I contend is a result of the other three operating …

Abacus 2005-5 Cdo Offering Circular, Goldman Sachs

Documents

This offering circular serves the interest of Abacus 2005-5 and Goldman Sachs.

Construction Law, K. Brett Marston, J. Barrett Lucy

University of Richmond Law Review

Since the last survey of this topic published in the fall of 2000, construction law in Virginia has continued to evolve in an array of areas involving issues such as claims on surety bonds, claims against public entities, construction-related products like Exterior Insulation Finishing Systems ("EIFS"), and mechanic's liens. These changes have implicated and better defined legal principles including the "no damage for delay" clause on public contracts, requirements for privity in breach of warranty claims, and implied indemnification. The significant issues in construction law have arisen both in a number of significant judicial decisions, mostly from the Supreme Court …

Côte D’Ivoire Needs A New Conflict Resolution And Peace-Building Strategy, Essoh J. M. C. Essis

Peace and Conflict Studies

The military and political crisis in Cote d’Ivoire is an illustration of the assertion that resistance is a concept embodying a multitude of meanings. The Ivorian parties have framed their civil war as the result of a conflict between several meanings of resistance. The presidential party claims to lead a nationalist resistance against neocolonial forces associated with the French government, as well as a Christian resistance against Islamic terrorism. The armed rebellion and the traditional political opposition contend that their actions are justified by a duty of resistance against ethnic and religious sectarianism, as well as Mr. Gbagbo’s despotic and …

The Availability Heuristic, Intuitive Cost-Benefit Analysis, And Climate Change, Cass R. Sunstein

Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper Series

Because risks are on all sides of social situations, it is not possible to be "precautionary" in general. The availability heuristic ensures that some risks stand out as particularly salient, whatever their actual magnitude. Taken together with intuitive cost-benefit balancing, the availability heuristic helps to explain differences across groups, cultures, and even nations in the assessment of precautions to reduce the risks associated with climate change. There are complex links among availability, social processes for the spreading of information, and predispositions. If the United States is to take a stronger stand against climate change, it is likely to be a …

Buddy's Alphabet Adventure, Jeremy Andrew Galante

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The Strategic Use Of Mexico To Restrict South American Access To The Diversity Visa Lottery, Jonathan H. Wardle

Vanderbilt Law Review

In 1990, Congress enacted the Family Unity and Employment Opportunity Act (the "1990 Act"), which created a visa lottery to enhance the diversity of the immigrant stream and to ensure that areas of the world sending relatively few immigrants to the United States could still have access to the immigrant stream. In order to achieve these goals, Congress created a complex formula by which 55,000 "diversity" visas would be distributed annually among six geographically defined regions based on the total number of immigrant admissions from each region. Under this formula, regions with relatively low admission rates are granted more visas …

Mosaic, Vicki L. Kennedy

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Mosaic is the story of Alicia O'Day, a woman who looks back at her life from the vantage point of middle age and attempts to arrange the shards of her past into something meaningful. As she relates her story, illustrating her errors, we realize she has changed and grown enough to see herself with added wisdom and humor. The chaos of her younger days is seen as a learning process. The broken vessel has been mended, and the scars from the seams add interest to the original piece.

As Alicia reviews her life, she glues the broken fragments back into …

Seeking Story: Finding The Modern Day Folktale In The Daily News, Brandice Palmer

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This study explores the local news story for evidence of the folktale tradition. It examines a range of local news stories for their folktale functions. The study compares the cultural and psychological function of the news story to that of the folktale and compares the functional definition of folklore to that of journalism. The study also explores the idea of a classifiable sphere of formal character, motif and plot functions that may be explored within the news story and folktale texts. This study builds on the premise that the study of folklore should be at the center of a consideration …

Prolegomenon: Radical Patience: Deconstruction's Fall Into History, Anselm Haverkamp

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.

Deconstruction's Legal Career, Jack M. Balkin

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.

Ability And Faith: On The Possibility Of Justice, Christoph Menke

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.

Section 1782(A) After Intel: Reconciling Policy Considerations And A Proposed Framework To Extend Judicial Assistance To International Arbitral Tribunals, Daniel A. Losk

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.

Lter Network Office Survey, 2005, Long Term Ecological Research Network

Long Term Ecological Research Network

No abstract provided.

Book Reviews, Parameters Editors

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.