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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 …

Brown V. Board Of Education In West Virginia, Nelson R. Bickley

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Plight Of Putative Father: Public Policy V. Paternity Fraud, Maegan Padgett

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Quest For A Lactating Male: Biology, Gender, And Discrimination, Maureen E. Eldredge

Chicago-Kent Law Review

This paper analyzes employment discrimination faced by women due to unique biological characteristics, such as breastfeeding, contraception, and infertility. The paper discusses protection from discrimination provided by the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, gaps in that protection, and provides suggestions for ways to improve equal opportunity in the workplace.

The Texas Caver, Volume 51, No. 2, April 2005, Diana Tomchick

The Texas Caver

Contents: Caving Calendar - Christmas 2004: Journey in the Purificacion Karst - New Items for Sale in the TSA Store - Ney & Isbell: Texas Saltpeter Contractors - Forty-Five Years Ago in Texas History: Flemming Bat Cave - From the Files of the TSS: Indian Shelter Cave - The End is Still Near! 2004 Caverns of Sonora Restoration - General Caving News - Texas Speleological Survey News - TCMA Deep Cave Survey Project -Obituary: Thomas Alan (T-Bone) Bone - Obituary: David Hannah - TSA Project News - 2005 TSA Winter Meeting Minutes - 2005 TSA Spring Convention

Polytomies And Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference, Paul O. Lewis, Mark T. Holder, Kent E. Holsinger

EEB Articles

Bayesian phylogenetic analyses are now very popular in systematics and molecular evolution because they allow the use of much more realistic models than currently possible with maximum likelihood methods. There are, however, a growing number of examples in which large Bayesian posterior clade probabilities are associated with very short edge lengths and low values for non-Bayesian measures of support such as nonparametric bootstrapping. For the four-taxon case when the true tree is the star phylogeny, Bayesian analyses become increasingly unpredictable in their preference for one of the three possible resolved tree topologies as data set size increases. This leads to …

Polytomies And Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference, Paul O. Lewis, Mark T. Holder, Kent E. Holsinger

EEB Articles

Bayesian phylogenetic analyses are now very popular in systematics and molecular evolution because they allow the use of much more realistic models than currently possible with maximum likelihood methods. There are, however, a growing number of examples in which large Bayesian posterior clade probabilities are associated with very short edge lengths and low values for non-Bayesian measures of support such as nonparametric bootstrapping. For the four-taxon case when the true tree is the star phylogeny, Bayesian analyses become increasingly unpredictable in their preference for one of the three possible resolved tree topologies as data set size increases. This leads to …

Damage Assessment And Strength Predictions In S-Glass/Epoxy Laminates Subjected To Low Energy Impact, Tuan-Khoi Dang Nguyen

Master's Theses - Daytona Beach

Composite materials have become one of the leading materials for manufacturing in the aerospace industry today. Compared to "conventional" aerospace metals, composites generally have higher strength-to-weight and stiffness-to-weight ratios, good fatigue and corrosion resistance and reduced parts count. However, like any other material, they also have disadvantages. They are inherently brittle and are thus prone to impact damage. Low energy/velocity impact damage, in particular, can be dangerous because the damage oftentimes goes undetected and can subsequently grow under load. Also known as barely visible impact damage (BVID), this area of concentration focuses on the small-scale damage that may be very …

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% …

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

Gold & Blue

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

Flyer News, Vol. 52, No. 36 (April 1, 2005), University Of Dayton

Flyer News

Student-run newspaper of the University of Dayton

The Voice, Spring 2005: Volume 50, Issue 3, Dordt College

The Voice Archive

Local Non-Profits Receive Help from Graphics Students; Join Us in Dreaming Dreams; Default Rate is as Good as it Gets; Ver Meer Earns Top Student ADDY Award; Basics Come Before Breaking the Rules; Raindrops on Rooftops and Papaya for Parasites; Programming Team Earns Top Regional Finish; Students Reflect on AMOR; Dordt Theater Department Earns Three Awards at ACTF; Vice-President for Advancement Hired; Painting Students Add Color and Life to Amistad Cristiana's Worship Space; New Staff Hired at Dordt College; "Greeks" to "Grease," Costume Shop Has it All; How Do We Keep Education Relevant?; Baby Steps in Prairie Grass; Meet Me …

Table Of Contents - Issue 2, Chicago-Kent Law Review

Chicago-Kent Law Review

No abstract provided.

War For Sale! Battlefield Contractors In Latin America & The 'Corporatization' Of America's War On Drugs, Kristen Mccallion

University of Miami Inter-American Law Review

No abstract provided.

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

New Mexico Law Review

No abstract provided.

Furman Magazine. Volume 48, Issue 1 - Full Issue, Furman University

Furman Magazine

No abstract provided.

The Academic Workplace (Spring 2005): Learning A New Kind Of Leadership For The Academic Workplace, New England Resource Center For Higher Education At The University Of Massachusetts Boston, Joe Raelin, Gerry Lorentz, Sharon Singleton, Dwight Giles

The Academic Workplace

No abstract provided.

Hexapod Herald - Vol. 17, No. 2, April 2005

Hexapod Herald and Other Entomology Department Newsletters

Contents:
Congratulations
Welcome
Farewell
Faculty News
Grad Student News
From the Office
Grants
Meeting
News
Museum
News
Publications Travel Condolences
This & That
Hexapod Herald Archives

The New Hampshire, Vol. 94 [95], No. 39 [38] (April 1, 2005), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire. This volume was printed as 94, but it is the 95th volume in the series. This was corrected in pencil.

This issue was printed as 39, but it is the 38th issue in this volume. This was corrected in pencil.

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 …

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.

Review Of Faces Of The Great Plains: Prairie Wildlife Photographs And Field Notes By Bob Gress, Text By Paul A. Johnsgard, James H. Shaw

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

Bob Gress, director or the Great Plains Nature Center in Wichita, provides, an extraordinary set or photographs for this coffee-table book. The text is by Paul Johnsgard, emeritus professor or biology and the author or more than forty books. A color map on page xiv showing the distributions or grassland types follows the recent trend toward limiting the shortgrass prairies to regions south or the Nebraska-South Dakota state line. The opening sentence defies the common perception or the Great Plains as simply "flyover" country and sets the tone for the text: "Few geographic regions or North America offer a greater …

Editorial Matter For Volume 6, Number 1, Ada Long, Dail Mullins

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

Editorial Policy
Contents
Call for Papers
Submission Guidelines
Dedication to Faith Gabelnick
Editor's Introduction, Ada Long
About the Authors

Journal Of The National Collegiate Honors Council -- Volume 6, No. 1 -- Complete Issue

Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council Online Archive

CONTENTS

Call for Papers
Submission Guidelines
Dedication to Faith Gabelnick David Mowry
Editor’s Introduction -- Ada Long

FORUM ON HONORS STUDENTS
The Age of Imitation -- Joan Digby
The Age of False Positives -- Bernice Braid
Originality is a Risk -- Annmarie Guzy
Intimations of Imitation: Honors Students and Their Alps -- Jeffrey A. Portnoy
The Art of the Mash-Up: Students in the Age of Digital Reproduction -- Amy Bass
Responsibility and Imitation -- Michael K. Cundall, Jr.
The Ages of Imitation, Authenticity, and Originality -- Cheryl Achterberg
Imitation, Economic Insecurity, and Risk Aversion -- Jay Mandt
The Hopes and …

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 …

Evidence Of Holocene Climate Change In A Nebraska Sandhills Wetland, Barbara Nicholson, James B. Swinehart

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

The Nebraska Sandhills consist of 50,000 km² of dunes, currently stabilized by vegetation. Radiocarbon dates of paleosols, blocked paleovalleys, and sand beds found in interdunal wetlands suggest that the Holocene had significant periods of dune reactivation. A paleoecological investigation was conducted in Jumbo Valley, NE, in an interdunal wetland known to contain sand layers interbedded with peat. The sedimentary record in two cores is continuous, except for some loss due to surficial burns. Macrofossils indicate that the late Pleistocene was cool and wet, with current vegetation establishing around 12,000 years ago. Sand and bulk density profiles reveal significant periods …

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.

Review Of Lewis And Clark On The Great Plains: A Natural History By Paul A. Johnsgard, Andrea Laliberte

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

In Lewis and Clark on the Great Plains: A Natural History, Paul A. Johnsgard takes us on the Lewis and Clark trail from Kansas to Montana, describing the flora and fauna Meriwether Lewis and Williams Clark encountered on their historic journey in 1804-1806. Johnsgard focuses on species initially described or discovered by Lewis and Clark and on known species for which the explorers uncovered new biological information. Readers will not only discover which species Lewis and Clark first identified, but why in some cases the explorers failed to be credited wit ha discovery because that species wasn’t formally named …

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 …