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Oceanic Uptake And The Global Atmospheric Acetone Budget, Christa Marandino, Warren J. De Bruyn, Scott Miller, M. J. Prather, Eric S. Saltzman Jan 2005

Oceanic Uptake And The Global Atmospheric Acetone Budget, Christa Marandino, Warren J. De Bruyn, Scott Miller, M. J. Prather, Eric S. Saltzman

Biology, Chemistry, and Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles and Research

In this study, direct measurements of the air/ sea flux of acetone were made over the North Pacific Ocean. The results demonstrate that the net flux of acetone is into, rather than out of the oceans. The extrapolated global ocean uptake of 48 Tg yr(-1) requires a major revision of the atmospheric acetone budget. This result is consistent with a recent reevaluation of acetone photodissociation quantum yields.

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Analysis And Insights From A Dynamical Model Of Nuclear Plant Safety Risk, Stephen Hess, Alfonso M. Albano, John Gaertner Jan 2005

Analysis And Insights From A Dynamical Model Of Nuclear Plant Safety Risk, Stephen Hess, Alfonso M. Albano, John Gaertner

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

In this paper, we expand upon previously reported results of a dynamical systems model for the impact of plant processes and programmatic performance on nuclear plant safety risk. We utilize both analytical techniques and numerical simulations typical of the analysis of nonlinear dynamical systems to obtain insights important for effective risk management. This includes use of bifurcation diagrams to show that period doubling bifurcations and regions of chaotic dynamics can occur. We also investigate the impact of risk mitigating functions (equipment reliability and loss prevention) on plant safety risk and demonstrate that these functions are capable of improving risk to …

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Do Rural Land Markets Increase Inequality? Evidence From A Chinese Province, Qian Forrest Zhang Jan 2005

Do Rural Land Markets Increase Inequality? Evidence From A Chinese Province, Qian Forrest Zhang

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

Using a 2001 provincial survey, we find that disparities in land-rights distribution have greatly increased in rural China, and the growth of land markets is directly responsible for that. The land markets tend to concentrate land in those who can more efficiently use it. This translates disparities in land-rights distribution to magnified inequality in farm income. However, such widening disparities caused by land markets have compensatory effects on overall rural inequality, as land markets tend to bring up families who would fall at the bottom of income distribution in the absence of such markets. Expansion of markets, in this case, …

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Defining (Multiple) Selves: Stories From The Field, Chang Yau Hoon Jan 2005

Defining (Multiple) Selves: Stories From The Field, Chang Yau Hoon

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

The ‘Self’ in late-modernity is never singular but multiplies across different discourses, practices and positions. It is constructed through difference. It is only through a relation to the ‘Other’ that the ‘Self’ can be defined. This paper endeavours to map the endless negotiations of my ‘Self’ as male Australian academic of Chinese descent, a Malaysian citizen, a Bruneian resident, and an Indonesian specialist, over a period of fieldwork in Jakarta in 2004. It discusses how I defined my multiple ‘Selves’ to different individuals and communities, how they in turn defined me, and how these constructions were always shifting. Depending on …

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Human Mental Models Of Humanoid Robots, Sau-Lai Lee, Ivy Yee-Man Lau, Sara Kiesler, Chi-Yue Chiu Jan 2005

Human Mental Models Of Humanoid Robots, Sau-Lai Lee, Ivy Yee-Man Lau, Sara Kiesler, Chi-Yue Chiu

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

Effective communication between a person and a robot may depend on whether there exists a common ground of understanding between the two. In two experiments modelled after human-human studies we examined how people form a mental model of a robot's factual knowledge. Participants estimated the robot's knowledge by extrapolating from their own knowledge and from information about the robot's origin and language. These results suggest that designers of humanoid robots must attend not only to the social cues that robots emit but also to the information people use to create mental models of a robot.

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The Definition Of Disability In The Americans With Disabilities Act: Its Successes And Shortcomings: Proceedings Of The 2005 Annual Meeting, Association Of American Law Schools Sections On Employment Discrimination Law; Labor Relations And Employment Law; And Law, Medicine And Health Care, Sharona Hoffman, Paul Steven Miller, Chai R. Feldblum, Michael Ashley Stein Jan 2005

The Definition Of Disability In The Americans With Disabilities Act: Its Successes And Shortcomings: Proceedings Of The 2005 Annual Meeting, Association Of American Law Schools Sections On Employment Discrimination Law; Labor Relations And Employment Law; And Law, Medicine And Health Care, Sharona Hoffman, Paul Steven Miller, Chai R. Feldblum, Michael Ashley Stein

Faculty Publications

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Prenatal Stress And Stress Physiology Influences Human Fetal And Infant Development, Elyssia Poggi Davis, Calvin J. Hobel, Curt A. Sandman, Laura M. Glynn, Pathik D. Wadhwa Jan 2005

Prenatal Stress And Stress Physiology Influences Human Fetal And Infant Development, Elyssia Poggi Davis, Calvin J. Hobel, Curt A. Sandman, Laura M. Glynn, Pathik D. Wadhwa

Psychology Faculty Books and Book Chapters

"Prenatal stress has been proposed as a risk factor that may have developmental consequences persisting throughout the lifespan. Exposing rodents to stress during pregnancy has consequences for brain development, stress regulation, learning, emotionality (increased anxiety), and social behavior (increased withdrawal) of the offspring (Weinstock, 2001; Chapillon et al., 2002). Additionally, non-human primates who experience stress during pregnancy have offspring with enhanced behavioral reactivity to stressors later in life (Clarke et al., 1994), lowered levels of motor behavior (Schneider, 1992), compromised neuromotor responses (Schneider and Coe, 1993), irritable temperament (Schneider et al., 1992), and attentional problems (Schneider et …

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Patent Claim Interpretation And Information Costs, Christopher A. Cotropia Jan 2005

Patent Claim Interpretation And Information Costs, Christopher A. Cotropia

Law Faculty Publications

The concept of invention is crucial to patent law. Inventions of patentable quality are what the patent system is trying to encourage. In order to provide this incentive to produce such inventions, the patent system must provide protection for the invention. The problem the patent system runs into is that inventions are dijjicult to define-the dijjiculty stemming in part from the intangible nature of inventions. As a result, patent law encounters an information cost problem. Everyone in the patent system needs information about the invention, but the invention's intangibleness makes this information costly to produce, collect, and comprehend. Patent law …

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The Prerogative Of The Sovereign In Virginia: Royal Law In A Republic, William Hamilton Bryson Jan 2005

The Prerogative Of The Sovereign In Virginia: Royal Law In A Republic, William Hamilton Bryson

Law Faculty Publications

The history of the prerogative of the sovereign, the lex prerogativa, in Anglo American jurisprudence is long and complicated. It has exercised the minds of jurists and political philosophers for many centuries, and there has not been universal agreement as to its nature and scope. The purpose of this essay, as prompted by the two quotations just given, is to describe the prerogative law and trace its development from medieval England to modem Virginia.

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The Blackout Of 2003: What Is Next?, Joel B. Eisen Jan 2005

The Blackout Of 2003: What Is Next?, Joel B. Eisen

Law Faculty Publications

The blackout of August 2003 was a massive dislocation of American life, with millions of people in eight states and Canada losing power and a cost estimated in billions of dollars. As many as fifty million people were affected by the blackout. While the ultimate cause of the blackout is still being investigated, the implications for national policy may not be fully known for decades. The blackout was a wake up call and a watershed event that calls for reevaluation of just about every facet of the electric utility industry. We tend to think of a "wakeup call" as something …

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Human Rights And Bioethics: Formulating A Universal Right To Health, Health Care, Or Health Protection?, George P. Smith Ii Jan 2005

Human Rights And Bioethics: Formulating A Universal Right To Health, Health Care, Or Health Protection?, George P. Smith Ii

Scholarly Articles

Codifying, and then implementing, an international right to health, health care, or protection is beset with serious roadblocks - foremost among them being contentious issues of indeterminacy, justiciability, and progressive realization. Although advanced - and to some degree recognized under the rubric of a social or cultural entitlement within the law of human rights and, more particularly, the U.S. Declaration on Human Rights, together with International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, the European Convention on Human Rights, and presently UNESCO's Draft Declaration on Universal Norms on Bioethics - attainment …

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Keeping Friendships Alive: Self-Monitoring And Maintenance Strategies, Nadia Nicol Flanigan Jan 2005

Keeping Friendships Alive: Self-Monitoring And Maintenance Strategies, Nadia Nicol Flanigan

UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The relationship between self-monitoring and use of maintenance strategies in friendships was examined. It was hypothesized that low self-monitors would engage in more idealization, report higher degrees of closeness, and report higher degrees of platonic love in their relationships with their best friends than would high self-monitors. Participants (81 females, 61 males) completed Snyder and Gangestad's (1986) revised Self- Monitoring Scale; Edmond's (1967) Marital Conventionalization Scale; Hendrick's (1988) Relationship Assessment Scale; the Diversity and Strength scales of Berscheid, Snyder, & Omoto's (1989) Relationship Closeness Inventory; Aron, Aron, and Allen's (1998) Desirability, Probability, Desirability of the State, and Intensity Scales; and …

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Some Effects Of Self-Monitoring, Perceived Norms, And Sex-Role Stereotypes On Romantic Betrayals, Alissa Anne Garth Jan 2005

Some Effects Of Self-Monitoring, Perceived Norms, And Sex-Role Stereotypes On Romantic Betrayals, Alissa Anne Garth

UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations

It was hypothesized that high self-monitors (compared to low self-monitors) would report more betrayals of their romantic partners. Perceptions of others' betrayals should follow sex-role stereotypes (i.e., males are more likely to betray than females). Sex-role stereotyping might be attenuated when counter-stereotypical norms are made salient. One-hundred seventy five undergraduates completed the Interpersonal Behavior Survey (Roscoe et aI., 1988) and the Self-Monitoring Scale (Snyder & Gangestad, 1986). Before doing so, participants read one of two instructional sets: females are more likely than males to betray their romantic partners; people in general are likely to betray their romantic partners. Participants responded …

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2005 Katrina Edition, Alumni Affairs School Of Medicine Jan 2005

2005 Katrina Edition, Alumni Affairs School Of Medicine

Medicinews

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Achieving Batterer Accountability In The Child Protection System, Leigh Goodmark Jan 2005

Achieving Batterer Accountability In The Child Protection System, Leigh Goodmark

Kentucky Law Journal

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Internet Libel And The Communications Decency Act: How The Courts Erroneously Interpreted Congressional Intent With Regard To Liability Of Internet Service Providers, Emily K. Fritts Jan 2005

Internet Libel And The Communications Decency Act: How The Courts Erroneously Interpreted Congressional Intent With Regard To Liability Of Internet Service Providers, Emily K. Fritts

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.

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The Supreme Court's Mixed Messages On The Public Domain: Cases Interpreting Section 43 Of The Lanham Act, William Scott Hunt Jan 2005

The Supreme Court's Mixed Messages On The Public Domain: Cases Interpreting Section 43 Of The Lanham Act, William Scott Hunt

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.

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Eliminating The Exception? Lawrence V. Texas And The Arguments For Extending The Right To Marry To Same-Sex Couples, Tyler S. Whitty Jan 2005

Eliminating The Exception? Lawrence V. Texas And The Arguments For Extending The Right To Marry To Same-Sex Couples, Tyler S. Whitty

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.

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Confederation-Era Discrimination Against Interstate Commerce And The Legitimacy Of The Dormant Commerce Clause Doctrine, Brannon P. Denning Jan 2005

Confederation-Era Discrimination Against Interstate Commerce And The Legitimacy Of The Dormant Commerce Clause Doctrine, Brannon P. Denning

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.

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In Cases Involving Sites Of Religious Significance, Plaintiffs Will Fall In The Gap Of Judicial Deference That Exists Between The Religion Clauses Of The First Amendment, Jeff Pinter Jan 2005

In Cases Involving Sites Of Religious Significance, Plaintiffs Will Fall In The Gap Of Judicial Deference That Exists Between The Religion Clauses Of The First Amendment, Jeff Pinter

American Indian Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Indian Mascot World Series Tied 1 - 1: Who Will Prevail As Champion?, Stacie L. Nicholson Jan 2005

Indian Mascot World Series Tied 1 - 1: Who Will Prevail As Champion?, Stacie L. Nicholson

American Indian Law Review

No abstract provided.

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In Re M.J.J., J.P.L., & J.P.G: The "Qualified Expert Witness" Requirements Of The Indian Child Welfare Act, Paul David Kouri Jan 2005

In Re M.J.J., J.P.L., & J.P.G: The "Qualified Expert Witness" Requirements Of The Indian Child Welfare Act, Paul David Kouri

American Indian Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Book Review: John W. W. Mann, Sacajawea's People: The Lemhi Shoshones And The Salmon River Country, University Of Nebraska Press, 2004, Jari D. Barnett Jan 2005

Book Review: John W. W. Mann, Sacajawea's People: The Lemhi Shoshones And The Salmon River Country, University Of Nebraska Press, 2004, Jari D. Barnett

American Indian Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Natural Dissent: The Ethics Of Evolutionary Biology, Ronald Osborn Jan 2005

Natural Dissent: The Ethics Of Evolutionary Biology, Ronald Osborn

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

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There Shall Be No Poor Among You: Poverty In The Bible [Review] / Leslie J. Hoppe., Pedrito U. Maynard-Reid Jan 2005

There Shall Be No Poor Among You: Poverty In The Bible [Review] / Leslie J. Hoppe., Pedrito U. Maynard-Reid

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

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Joseph Bates: The Real Founder Of Seventh-Day Adventism [Review] / George R. Knight., Frederick G. Hoyt Jan 2005

Joseph Bates: The Real Founder Of Seventh-Day Adventism [Review] / George R. Knight., Frederick G. Hoyt

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

No abstract provided.

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Interpreting The Bible & The Constitution [Review] / Jaroslav Pelikan., Nicholas P. Miller Jan 2005

Interpreting The Bible & The Constitution [Review] / Jaroslav Pelikan., Nicholas P. Miller

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

No abstract provided.

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The Federal Arbitration Act: Federal Preemption Of State Law Regulating Arbitration, W. Mark C. Weidemaier Jan 2005

The Federal Arbitration Act: Federal Preemption Of State Law Regulating Arbitration, W. Mark C. Weidemaier

Faculty Publications

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Proposed Statement On Standards For Valuation Services : Valuation Of A Business, Business Ownership Interest, Security, Or Intangible Asset;Valuation Of A Business, Business Ownership Interest, Security, Or Intangible Asset; Exposure Draft (American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants), 2005, March 30, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Consulting Services Executive Committee Jan 2005

Proposed Statement On Standards For Valuation Services : Valuation Of A Business, Business Ownership Interest, Security, Or Intangible Asset;Valuation Of A Business, Business Ownership Interest, Security, Or Intangible Asset; Exposure Draft (American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants), 2005, March 30, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Consulting Services Executive Committee

Exposure Drafts, Comment Letters, and Statements of Position

Given the increasing number of members of the AICPA who are performing business valuation engagements or some aspect thereof, the AICPA Consulting Services Executive Committee has written this standard to improve the consistency and quality of practice among AICPA members performing business valuations. AICPA members will be required to follow this standard whenever they undertake to perform a business valuation engagement that culminates in the expression of a conclusion of value or a calculated value.

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Proposed Statements On Auditing Standards: Amendment To "Due Professional Care In The Performance Of Work" Of Statement On Auditing Standards No. 1, Codification Of Auditing Standards And Procedures; Amendment To Statement On Auditing Standards No. 95, Generally Accepted Auditing Standards; Audit Evidence; Audit Risk And Materiality In Conducting An Audit; Planning And Supervision; Understanding The Entity And Its Environment And Assessing The Risks Of Material Misstatement; Performing Audit Procedures In Response To Assessed Risks And Evaluating The Audit Evidence Obtained; Amendment To Statement On Auditing Standards No. 39, Audit Sampling; Exposure Draft (American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants), 2005, June 15, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Auditing Standards Board Jan 2005

Proposed Statements On Auditing Standards: Amendment To "Due Professional Care In The Performance Of Work" Of Statement On Auditing Standards No. 1, Codification Of Auditing Standards And Procedures; Amendment To Statement On Auditing Standards No. 95, Generally Accepted Auditing Standards; Audit Evidence; Audit Risk And Materiality In Conducting An Audit; Planning And Supervision; Understanding The Entity And Its Environment And Assessing The Risks Of Material Misstatement; Performing Audit Procedures In Response To Assessed Risks And Evaluating The Audit Evidence Obtained; Amendment To Statement On Auditing Standards No. 39, Audit Sampling; Exposure Draft (American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants), 2005, June 15, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Auditing Standards Board

Exposure Drafts, Comment Letters, and Statements of Position

These proposed SASs establish standards and provide guidance concerning the auditor's assessment of the risks of material misstatement in a financial statement audit, and the design and performance of audit procedures whose nature, timing, and extent are responsive to the assessed risks. Additionally, these proposed SASs establish standards and provide guidance on planning and supervision, the nature of audit evidence, and evaluating whether the audit evidence obtained affords a reasonable basis for an opinion regarding the financial statements under audit. These proposed SASs were originally exposed on December 2, 2002 (except for the amendment to SAS No. 1 which was …

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