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Justice Blackmun And The Spirit Of Liberty, Richard C. Reuben

Missouri Law Review

As we see in this symposium, Justice Harry Blackmun is as controversial in death as he was in life. His strongest critics, such as Professor Greg Sisk, view the Justice as an unprincipled judge who let his personal views on the issues before the Court control his jurisprudence.' More damning words cannot be spoken about a judge, and Roe v. Wade of course is the case they focus on. His strongest proponents, most famously Yale Law School Dean Harold Koh and Stanford Law School Professor Pam Karlan, view the Justice as a man of high principle who worked carefully, methodically, …

Reflections On Judging: A Discussion Following The Release Of The Blackmun Papers, Martha Dragich Pearson, Christina E. Wells

Missouri Law Review

Justice Blackmun's papers were opened to the public on March 4, 2004, the fifth anniversary of his death. Held in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress, the collection includes over half a million items, many handwritten by Justice Blackmun. Anyone can read them. For legal scholars, this kind of research can only be described as exhilarating and many of the articles in this symposium draw on research from Justice Blackmun's papers. For the public, the release comes at a time when the interest in judges is particularly acute.

Why Do Supreme Court Justices Succeed Or Fail - Harry Blackmun As An Example, Lawrence S. Wrightsman, Justin R. La Mort

Missouri Law Review

At present, 108 Justices have served on the United States Supreme Court. Some have clearly been successes as judges, while a few have clearly not, and a large number are cast into that middle, "satisfactory" or "average," category. The purpose of this paper is to propose, examine, and evaluate specific factors as determinants of judicial success, and then to consider Justice Harry Blackmun's place on a continuum of successes and failures. The paper is divided into three sections. First, it reviews several ideal qualities and examines the results of several surveys of experts, which classify the Justices into categories based …

Widow, Children Of Alum Slain In 9/11 Pentagon Attack To Visit, Staff Report

University of Mississippi News

Masako Nagasawa, widow of U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Patrick Jude Murphy - a 1986 graduate of the University of Mississippi who was killed Sept. 11, 2001, in the terrorist attack on the Pentagon - plans to visit the Ole Miss campus Nov. 11.

Solids Flow Mapping In A High Pressure Slurry Bubble Column, Novica Rados, Ashfaq Shaikh, Muthanna H. Al-Dahhan

Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Successful Design and Scale-Up of Slurry Bubble Column Reactors (SBCRs) Require Proper Understanding of How Operating Conditions Affect their Flow Behavior. Presently, there is Little Information on the Flow Dynamics of Solids (E.g., Distribution of Velocities and Turbulent Parameters) in Slurry Systems that Are Operated at Industrially Relevant Conditions of High Pressure, High Superficial Gas Velocities, and High Solids Loading. Computer Automated Radio Particle Tracking (CARPT) is Widely Recognized as One of a Few Techniques that Can Be Reliably Used Even in Highly Turbulent and Opaque Slurry Flows. This Work Utilizes an Improved CARPT Technique to Investigate the Effect of …

Residents' Learning From Conducting A Research, S. Chaithonhwongwattana

Chulalongkorn Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

Effect Of Maternal Weight Gain,On Smallfor Gestational Age (Sga) Infants, D. Weiangkham, N. Pichainarong, W. Chaveepojnkamjorn, P. Kerdmongkol, S. Tanawattanacharoen

Chulalongkorn Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

Dental Treatment Protocol For Irradiated Head And Neck Cancer Patients, T. Boonroung

Chulalongkorn Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

Human Embryonic Stem Cell And Therapeutic Cloning, S. Kiatpongsan, K. Pruksananonda, P. Virutamasen

Chulalongkorn Medical Journal

No abstract provided.

Is It Too Late For Title Vi Enforcement? - Seeking Redemption Of The Unequal United States' Long Term Care System Through International Means, Ruqaiijah Yearby

DePaul Journal of Health Care Law

No abstract provided.

Sketching The Pharisees, Roger M. Rundell

Doctor of Ministry

This paper explores the Pharisees and their place in Palestinian society, particularly during the first century. Recent scholarly reconstructions are reviewed and compared to the evidence found in the works of Josephus, the New Testament, and rabbinic literature. This paper examines the Pharisees through the eyes of each source and attempts to use each viewpoint to develop a picture of the Pharisaic movement. The evidence proves too ambiguous to clarify the fine details of the movement, and it resists placing them at the top of the Jewish social or religious system. It does, however, suggest that the Pharisees represent a …

The Merchant Of Venice, November 2-5, 2005, Theatre Arts Discipline

Theatre Programs

University of Minnesota, Morris production of The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare and directed by Ray Schultz.

Synopsis: In the melting pot of Venice, currency opens many doors. A multicultural metropolis, Venice welcomes its arms to all – so long as they come prepared for the brutality of the business of trade. Young Bassanio wants to take a gamble for brilliant Portia, the wealthy heiress of Belmont. He is willing to risk all he has to win her hand, but all he has is not enough. In need of extra money to make a proper suit, Bassanio enlists the …

Economic Globalization And Civil War, Katherine Barbieri, Rafael Reuveny

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Qubit, November 2005

Qubit (Cuban science fiction magazine)

The November 2005 issue of the Qubit.

Integrated High Speed Intelligent Utility Tie Unit For Disbursed/Renewable Generation Facilities, Worakarn Wongsaichua

Electrical Engineering Dissertations - Archive

After experiencing the price hikes and rotating blackouts in California, the disbursed or distributed generation (DG) is considered as one of the most attractive alternatives for future utility industry. In addition to the conventional DG that uses fossil-fuel to generate power, the DG via renewable energy is of interest due to the environmental concern. Fuel cell and photovoltaic are the most promising technologies for the urban residential and small commercial users. For economic and reliability purposes, it is desirable for these facilities to be interconnected with the utility grid to perform peak shaving, demand reduction, and to serve as emergency …

Kinetic Evaluation Of Human Cloned Coproporphyrinogen Oxidase Using A Ring Isomer Of The Natural Substrate, Marjorie A. Jones, Christopher L. Cooper, Timothy D. Lash

Faculty Publications – Chemistry

Background: The enzyme coproporphyrinogen oxidase (copro'gen oxidase) converts coproporphyrinogen-Ill (GIII) to protoporphyrinogen-IX via an intermediary monovinyl porphyrinogen. The A ring isomer coproporphyrinogen-IV (C-IV) has previously been shown to be a substrate for copro'gen oxidase derived from avian erythrocytes. In contrast to the authentic substrate (GIII) where only a small amount of the monovinyl intermediate is detected, C-IV gives rise to a monovinyl intermediate that accumulates before being converted to an isomer of protoporphyrinogen-IX. No kinetic studies have been carried out using the purified human copro'gen oxidase to evaluate its ability to process both the authentic substrate as well as analogs. …

Connecting Students And Communities Program, University Relations

Campus News Archive

No abstract provided.

Youth Helping America - Building Active Citizens: The Role Of Social Institutions In Teen Volunteering, Corporation For National And Community Service

School K-12

At a time when many are worried that the United States is experiencing a general decline in civic and political engagement, volunteering appears particularly strong among today’s young people. While volunteering is just one form of community involvement, research has shown that it is often connected to other forms of engagement, and, among youth, volunteering plays a valuable role in shaping how youth learn to interact with their community and develop the skills, values, and sense of empowerment necessary to become active citizens.

Bond Strength And Transfer Length Of Pre-Tensioned Bridge Girders Cast With Self-Consolidating Concrete, Amgad F. Morgan Girgis, Christopher Y. Tuan

Civil Engineering Faculty Publications

Self-consolidating concrete (SCC) is becoming increasingly popular in the precast/prestressed concrete industry in the United States. However, there have been concerns regarding the bond strength, transfer length, and development length of prestressing strands and mild steel reinforcement with SCC. Further, there are no design guidelines for using SCC. In this study, a literature survey on the bond strength of SCC was conducted. Moustafa pullout tests were performed to determine the bond strength of 0.6 in. (15.2 mm) pretensioning strands with sec. The transfer lengths of three pretensioned concrete bridge girders were measured using Demec points. Pullout tests were also performed …

Critical Pedagogy, Image Theater And The Instruction Of Diversity Education, Franklin Titus Thompson

Teacher Education Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

This interactive workshop utilizes Critical Pedagogy, Image Theater, and Forum Theater in the instruction of race, human, and gender relations. It borrows from Paulo Freire and Augusto Boal’s concept of Humanizing Education. Praxis, the dialectical relationship between thought and practice, becomes the vehicle for establishing a problem solving process that leads to “Permanent Relationships.”

Hepatitis B And C: Prevalence And Social Factors Associated With, Wasim Jafri, Nida Jafri, Javed Yakoob, Muhammad Islam, Sfa Tirmizi, T. Jafar, S Akhtar, Saeed Hamid, Shahab Abid, Syed H Shah, Shaikh Qamaruddin Nizami

Section of Gastroenterology

No abstract provided.

Castor Canadensis Winter 2005 (1), Jedediah Smith Society

Castor Canadensis - Jedediah Smith Society

Newsletter of the Jedediah Smith Society

Evaluation Of Cost Effective Sensor Combinations For A Vehicle Precrash Detection System, John Carlin, Charles Birdsong, Peter Schuster, William Thompson, Daniel Kawano

Mechanical Engineering

The future of vehicle safety will benefit greatly from precrash detection -the ability of a motor vehicle to predict the occurrence of an accident before it occurs. There are many different sensor technologies currently available for pre-crash detection. However no single sensor technology has demonstrated enough information gathering capability within the cost constraints of vehicle manufacturers to be used as a stand alone device. A proposed solution consists of combining information from multiple sensors in an intelligent computer algorithm to determine accurate precrash information. In this paper, a list of sensors currently available on motor vehicles and those that show …

Endorsement Retires: From Religious Symbols To Anti-Sorting Principles, Adam M. Samaha

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

No abstract provided.

Information Asymmetries And The Rights To Exclude, Lior Strahilevitz

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

No abstract provided.

The Eagleville Times,Volume 3, Issue 11, Debbie Ryan

Eagleville Times

No abstract provided.

Selective Object Stabilization For Home Video Consumers, Zailiang Pan, Chong-Wah Ngo

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

This paper describes a unified approach for video stabilization. The essential goal is to stabilize image sequences that consist of moving foreground objects, which appear frequently in today's home videos captured by hand-held consumer cameras. Our proposed techniques mainly, rely on the analysis of;motion content. Three major components area initialization, segmentation and stabilization. In motion initialization, we propose a novel algorithm to efficiently search for the best possible frame in a sequence to start segmentation. Our segmentation algorithm is based on Expectation-Maximization (EM) framework which provides the mechanism for simultaneous estimation of motion models and their layers of support. Based …

Accurately Extracting Coherent Relevant Passages Using Hidden Markov Models, Jing Jiang, Chengxiang Zhai

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

In this paper, we present a principled method for accurately extracting coherent relevant passages of variable lengths using HMMs. We show that with appropriate parameter estimation, the HMM method outperforms a number of strong baseline methods on two data sets.

Walter Rodney And Black Power: Jamaican Intelligence And Us Diplomacy, Michael O. West

African Journal of Criminology and Justice Studies

No abstract provided.

A Refutation Of Racial Differentials In The Juvenile Recidivism Rate Hypothesis, Jospeter M. Mbuba

African Journal of Criminology and Justice Studies

It has repeatedly been argued that race is an important predictor of juvenile recidivism, invariably with black offenders having significantly higher odds of recidivating than white offenders (DeComo, 1998; Strom, 2000; Benda, 2001; Langan & Levin, 2002; Harms, 2003; Pope and Snyder, 2003; Puzzanchera, 2003; Stahl, 2003). This study refutes that assertion. Using data from the Department of Public Safety and Corrections in the state of Louisiana, a total of 2,810 juvenile offenders released in the 1999/2000 fiscal year were examined and a socio-demographic profile of those who were returned into the correctional system one year post release was established. …