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Female And Male Perceptions Of Attractiveness: What Is Attractive And Why?, Ryan Schacht

Nebraska Anthropologist

The goal of mate selection is to choose a partner that will contribute to one's reproductive success. This contribution can be found in two possible ways: either through genetic quality or parental investment. These qualities are generally visible by the expressed phenotype of an individual and found to be more or less attractive based on their value to reproduction. Those features found to be attractive between the sexes are generally the same although, their proportions may vary. Indicators of attractiveness include waist-hip ratio, body mass index, facial and bodily symmetry, as well as other physical attributes. These phenotypic markers indicate …

Romantic Love And Marriage: An Analysis Of The Concept And Functionality Of Romantic Love As A Marital Stabilizing Agent, Emily Sorrell

Nebraska Anthropologist

When identifying the central components that constitute general social structures, one cannot overlook the integral role that marriage, in its many manifestations, plays in the make-up of human societies. Marriage, or the ultimate extension of pair bonding, developed largely as a cultural adaptation to the reproduction of slowly developing human offspring and hence can be viewed as a method of maximizing reproductive fitness. If this assumption is correct, then one may presume that it would be beneficial to humans and their reproductive success to engage in marriages of relative stability. Hence, it would be reasonable to assume that there must …

Postpartum Depression: An Evolutionary Perspective, Mark Tracy

Nebraska Anthropologist

There is no common consensus among theorists regarding the nature and purpose of postpartum depression. Evolutionary theorists have proposed that the onset of postpartum depression is an adaptive function that signals a potential fitness cost to the mother i. e. the investment in the child will be cost more than the evolutionary benefits to be gained from rearing this child Many studies have shown that there is a strong correlation between postpartum depression and lack of paternal or social support indicating that when these two variables are absent the mother is more likely to experience postpartum depression. In this paper …

Furman Alumni News, Furman University

Furman Magazine

No abstract provided.

Girl Child Soldiers In Northern Uganda: Do Current Legal Frameworks Offer Sufficient Protection, Abigail Leibig

Northwestern Journal of Human Rights

No abstract provided.

Commentary By Ambassadors To The United Nations, Johan Verbeke, Gilbert Laurin, Carlos Manuel Sada Solana, Richard Williamson

Northwestern Journal of Human Rights

No abstract provided.

Cafta And International Human Rights In El Salvador: Is The United States Acquiescing To Widespread Workers' Human Rights Violations?, Matthew E. Johnson

Northwestern Journal of Human Rights

No abstract provided.

Increasing The Accountability Of Transactional Corporations For Environmental Harms: The Petroleum Industry In Nigeria, Alison Shinsato

Northwestern Journal of Human Rights

No abstract provided.

The Graduate School, University Of New Hampshire Catalog, 2005-2007, University Of New Hampshire

Graduate Catalog

No abstract provided.

Graduate Degree Completions, 1991-2005, University Of New Hampshire. Institutional Research And Assessment

UNH Factbooks

University of New Hampshire factbook data from the 2004-2005 academic year

University Of New Hampshire Undergraduate Catalog, 2005-2006 Bulletin, University Of New Hampshire

Undergraduate Catalog

No abstract provided.

Ethnicity Of Full-Time Instructional Faculty By College Semester I, 2004-05, University Of New Hampshire. Institutional Research And Assessment

UNH Factbooks

University of New Hampshire factbook data from the 2004-2005 academic year

Bachelor Degree Completions By College, 1991-2005, University Of New Hampshire. Institutional Research And Assessment

UNH Factbooks

University of New Hampshire factbook data from the 2004-2005 academic year

Overall Instructor Rating On The Student Evaluation Of Teaching Form Summary By Course Level Fall 2004, University Of New Hampshire. Institutional Research And Assessment

UNH Factbooks

University of New Hampshire factbook data from the 2004-2005 academic year

Economic Impacts Of Alternative Sized Dairies In South Dakota, Erik Gerlach

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

South Dakota dairy production is declining in terms of number of dairy farms, number of dairy cows and volume of milk production. To reverse the decline, state policy makers and local action groups have worked to encourage dairy development, which has emerged primarily in South Dakota’s Interstate-29 (I-29) corridor. The milk production industry is trending towards larger units leading to a struggle between producers, local policy makers, and residents regarding locating larger dairy operations in eastern South Dakota. Therefore, it is important to know the economic impact of the dairy industry within South Dakota so informed decisions regarding the future …

Curiouser And Curiouser: Involuntary Medications And Incompetent Criminal Defendants After Sell V. United States, Dora W. Klein

Faculty Articles

The government should not place a defendant to whom it is administering involuntary medications in front of a jury. The test the Supreme Court created in Sell v. United States will likely result in the administration of involuntary medications to incompetent defendants in more than rare instances. Given the importance of the right to a fair trial, and the threat to this right posed by administering involuntary medications, the Supreme Court understandably cautions in its decision in Sell that the instances in which the government will be justified in administering such medications for the purpose of rendering a defendant competent …

Regulating Sars In China: Law As An Antidote?, Chenglin Liu

Faculty Articles

Severe Acute Respiratory Disease (SARS) is caused by a coronavirus, and as of this writing has no known vaccine or cure. Generally, the disease starts with a high fever, headaches, body aches, and mild respiratory symptoms. SARS spreads through respiratory droplets produced by an infected person when he or she coughs or sneezes or through physical contact.

The disease was first identified in a southern province of China in November of 2002, and quickly spread to twenty-seven different countries. In March of 2003, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared SARS a global health threat. In China, the economic and social …

The Court Of Appeals For The Fifth Circuit 2003-2004 Insurance Decisions: A Survey And An Empirical Analysis, Willy E. Rice

Faculty Articles

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decided twenty-four insurance-related appeals between the survey period of June 2003 through May 2004. Those cases originated in nine federal district courts. The overwhelming majority of appeals concerned the interpretation and enforcement of insurance contracts. Barring one case of first impression, most involved very familiar procedural and substantive conflicts.

This year, federal preemption questions and conflicts over subject matter jurisdiction appeared in several cases. The Fifth Circuit also decided six class-action or class-certification cases, and the court decided two conflicts involving allegedly widespread racial and ethnic discrimination in the sale and marketing of various …

Los Nuevos Derechos En El Sistema Jurídico De Estados Unidos, Roberto Rosas, Bill Piatt

Faculty Articles

No abstract provided.

2005-2007 Undergraduate Catalog, The University Of Alabama In Huntsville

Course Catalogs

Includes academic calendars, campus resources, a campus map, admissions requirements, and information about finances and degree programs for the academic years 2005-2006 and 2006-2007.

Fattening Foods: Under Products Liability Litigation Is The Big Mac Defective?, Charles E. Cantú

Faculty Articles

Excessive consumption of fast food may produce negative results, but it does not render fast food products, like the McDonald’s Big Mac, defective. While no product is technologically perfect, and any product can cause injury, American jurisprudence has always held purveyors of defective food liable. The question is whether fattening foods, such as the Big Mac, are defective under a strict products liability theory.

The cornerstone of this cause of action requires a product to be defective, which may stem from: (1) mis-manufacturing, where the product enters the stream of commerce in an unintended condition; (2) mis-marketing, where the risks …

Erisa: Fumbling The Limitations Period, George Lee Flint Jr

Faculty Articles

The Supreme Court designed the LMRA rule, adopted in 1966, based on legislative history suggesting that the LMRA lacked a need for uniformity in litigating employee benefit plan matters. Congress changed this conclusion when it adopted ERISA in 1974. Thus, Congress preempted state law insofar as it relates to employee benefit plans. The Supreme Court has specifically stated that this need for uniformity extends to ERISA causes of action and awards under them. The Supreme Court spelled out a three-step process to determine whether to use a uniform federal statute of limitations: (1) whether the federal cause of action demands …

Fighting Epidemics With Information And Laws: The Case Of Sars In China (Book Review), Vincent R. Johnson, Brian T. Bagley

Faculty Articles

In Chinese Law on SARS, Chenglin Liu recounts the tale of China’s efforts to cope with the recent SARS epidemic. The outbreak of SARS coincided with the full session of the 10th National People’s Congress, which elected a new Central Government in response to governmental failures in dealing with the crisis. The new government’s “proactive” approach to addressing the epidemic was to enact new legislation, republish an important law, and issue authoritative interpretations of existing criminal law provisions.

Liu offers a savvy analysis of why China’s centralized framework initially impeded the fight against SARS, and discusses the new government’s decisions …

The Good, Bad And The Indifferent: Explorations In Recommender System Health, Benjamin J. Keller, Sun-Mi Kim, N. Srinivas Vemuri, Naren Ramakrishnan, Saverio Perugini

Computer Science Faculty Publications

Our work is based on the premise that analysis of the connections exploited by a recommender algorithm can provide insight into the algorithm that could be useful to predict its performance in a fielded system. We use the jumping connections model defined by Mirza et al. [6], which describes the recommendation process in terms of graphs. Here we discuss our work that has come out of trying to understand algorithm behavior in terms of these graphs. We start by describing a natural extension of the jumping connections model of Mirza et al., and then discuss observations that have come from …

Holiday 2005, University Of North Dakota Alumni Association

ALL: UND Alumni Review Master List

Holiday 2005 issue of "The University of North Dakota Alumni Review." 40 pages

Volume 88, Number 5

Winter 2005, University Of North Dakota Alumni Association

ALL: UND Alumni Review Master List

Winter 2005 issue of "The University of North Dakota Alumni Review." 40 pages

Volume 88, Number 1

Defining Private Life Under The European Convention On Human Rights By Referring To Reasonable Expectations, H. Tomás Gómez-Arostegui

California Western International Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Symposium - Legal Reform: The Role Of Public Institutions And Legal Culture, California Western International Law Journal

California Western International Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Powerful States, Customary Law And The Erosion Of Human Rights Through Regional Enforcement, Melissa Robbins

California Western International Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Introduction, Bryan A. Liang, M.D., Ph.D., J.D.

California Western International Law Journal

No abstract provided.