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Rapid Senescence In Pacific Salmon, Yolanda E. Morbey, Chad Brassil, Andrew P. Hendry Nov 2005

Rapid Senescence In Pacific Salmon, Yolanda E. Morbey, Chad Brassil, Andrew P. Hendry

School of Biological Sciences: Faculty Publications

Any useful evolutionary theory of senescence must be able to explain variation within and among natural populations and species. This requires a careful characterization of age-specific mortality rates in nature as well as the intrinsic and extrinsic factors that influence these rates. We perform this task for two populations of semelparous Pacific salmon. During the breeding season, estimated daily mortality rates increased from 0 to 0.2–0.5 (depending on the year) over the course of several weeks. Early-arriving individuals had a later onset and/or a lower rate of senescence in each breeding season, consistent with adaptive expectations based on temporal variation …

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Does The Service Matter? Comparative Benefits Of Direct And Indirect Service Learning Experiences, Susan M. Coomey, Felicia L. Wilczenski Nov 2005

Does The Service Matter? Comparative Benefits Of Direct And Indirect Service Learning Experiences, Susan M. Coomey, Felicia L. Wilczenski

Service Learning, General

This pilot study compared students' perceptions of their experiences in direct versus indirect service-learning. Middle through high school students in a suburban school district in the Northeast were surveyed about their direct and indirect service-learning experiences along personal, social, and academic dimensions. In this study, direct service experiences had a stronger positive impact on students' perceptions of their social growth than indirect service experiences. Female students rated personal and social outcomes higher than their male counterparts. Female students rated personal and social outcomes higher than their male counterparts.

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Issue Brief: Youth Helping America: The Role Of Social Institutions In Teen Volunteering, Corporation For National And Community Service Nov 2005

Issue Brief: Youth Helping America: The Role Of Social Institutions In Teen Volunteering, Corporation For National And Community Service

Service Learning, General

The Corporation for National and Community Service, in collaboration with the U.S. Census Bureau and the nonprofit coalition Independent Sector, in early 2005 conducted the first major federal survey if volunteering by teenagers in more than a decade. The survey collected information on the volunteering habits if youth between the ages if 12 and 18. A new Corporation study based on the survey, titled "Youth Helping America," looks at the state if youth volunteering and the connections between youth volunteering and the primary social institutions to which teenagers are exposed family, religious congregations, and schools.

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Earnings Quality: It's Time To Measure And Report, Jodi L. Gissel, Don E. Giacomino, Michael D. Akers Nov 2005

Earnings Quality: It's Time To Measure And Report, Jodi L. Gissel, Don E. Giacomino, Michael D. Akers

Accounting Faculty Research and Publications

Earning's quality is an important aspect of evaluating an entity's financial health, yet investors, creditors, and other financial statement users often overlook it. Earnings quality refers to the ability of reported earnings to reflect the company's true earnings, as well as the usefulness of reported earnings to predict future earnings. The SEC and the investing public are demanding greater assurance about the quality of earnings. There is significant need for the development of a uniform definition and a consistent model to measure earnings quality. An Earnings Quality Assessment (EQA) is a proposed model that is consistent with this definition. The …

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Modification Of Precipitation By Coastal Orography In Storms Crossing Northern California, Curtis N. James, Robert A. Houze Jr. Nov 2005

Modification Of Precipitation By Coastal Orography In Storms Crossing Northern California, Curtis N. James, Robert A. Houze Jr.

Applied Aviation Sciences - Prescott

This study compiles and interprets three-dimensional Weather Surveillance Radar-1988 Doppler (WSR-88D) data during a 2.5-yr period and examines the typical orographic effects on precipitation mainly associated with winter storms passing over coastal northern California.The three-dimensional mean reflectivity patterns show echo structure that was generally stratiform from over the ocean to inland over the mountains. The flow above the 1-km level was strong enough to be unblocked by the terrain, and the mean echo pattern over land had certain characteristics normally associated with an unblocked cross-barrier flow, both on the broad scale of the windward slopes of the coastal mountains and …

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Tribute To John Pickering, Raymond C. Clevenger Nov 2005

Tribute To John Pickering, Raymond C. Clevenger

Michigan Law Review

This is my homage to John. I ask you to summon up in your imagination today a grand circus, a sort of Cirque du Soleil of lawyers: full of shining talents performing legal feats of wonder, but presided over by a grand ringmaster. This ringmaster knows his performers very well. He knows how to train and stroke them to high achievement. He knows how to groom the younger workers. He can keep his stars in check. He knows when to sit back with a smile, letting his charges perform and claim the applause, even when the applause rightfully belongs to …

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Tribute To John Pickering, Marcia Greenberger Nov 2005

Tribute To John Pickering, Marcia Greenberger

Michigan Law Review

This room is filled with many women lawyers. All of us loved John Pickering and are in his debt, but we are only a small number of those who do. For many decades, John guided young, and I must admit not so young, women lawyers to positions where they could stand up for their own rights and the rights of others. He worked with us to champion the causes that matter most to women and their families. John used his great stature and the enormous respect that he garnered to open doors for women to leadership positions in the bar, …

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Tribute To John Pickering, Elaine R. Jones Nov 2005

Tribute To John Pickering, Elaine R. Jones

Michigan Law Review

This talented, persuasive, committed lawyer-leader, John Pickering, had several abiding personal and professional interests, two of which enhanced my life directly, and most of which enhanced my life indirectly. The first was the great personal interest he took in lawyers younger than himself, and the second was his passion about civil rights and combating the effects of racial discrimination.

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Tribute To John Pickering, Esther Lardent Nov 2005

Tribute To John Pickering, Esther Lardent

Michigan Law Review

I want to talk to you about the lessons that so many of us have learned from John, and the qualities that made him so memorable and so extraordinary. The first was his unerring ability to know what was right. Now, many of us want to do right, but John always knew what the right thing was. Despite growing up in a time and place where women and people of color were not valued, where the homeless, the despised, the poor, and the disadvantaged were not considered worthy, John cared deeply about doing right by all of these people.

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Tribute To John Pickering, Louis F. Oberdorfer Nov 2005

Tribute To John Pickering, Louis F. Oberdorfer

Michigan Law Review

John left word that he did not want a lot of eulogies, so there is much I could say about him that I do not because I honor his request.

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Tribute To John Pickering, John Payton Nov 2005

Tribute To John Pickering, John Payton

Michigan Law Review

I want to reflect on what we have heard here today, and over the course of the last several weeks, about John Pickering. We have heard simply remarkable things about a remarkable man of consequence. He was not just a remarkable person. He was more than that. He was a remarkable person who did things that actually changed everyone's lives. He mattered. We heard a lot of things today and some of them we heard for the first time. But I do not think that any of us was surprised to hear any of them about John Pickering. We just …

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Tribute To John Pickering, James Robertson Nov 2005

Tribute To John Pickering, James Robertson

Michigan Law Review

John Pickering was so much involved with both the United States District Court for the District of Columbia and the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, and with the bar of this city. It would take too long to recite all of the ways in which John supported and helped our Court and the Court of Appeals, but I will note that, in every one of the ten years since I have been on this bench, John has been invited to speak at the Law Clerks Luncheon Series. That is a big deal. The law clerks …

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Tribute To John Pickering, Stanley L. Temko Nov 2005

Tribute To John Pickering, Stanley L. Temko

Michigan Law Review

John was a close friend and a professional colleague of mine for more than fifty years, and he was admired by and very close to a number of members of our firm. Everyone knows his substantial contributions as a lawyer. I will just mention a couple.

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Deterrence Versus Brutalization: Capital Punishment's Differing Impacts Among States, Joanna M. Shepherd Nov 2005

Deterrence Versus Brutalization: Capital Punishment's Differing Impacts Among States, Joanna M. Shepherd

Michigan Law Review

Policymakers' false beliefs about capital punishment's universal deterrent effect may have caused many people to die needlessly. If deterrence is capital punishment's purpose then, in the majority of states where executions do not deter crime, executions kill convicts uselessly. Moreover, in the many states where the brutalization effect outweighs the deterrent effect, executions not only kill convicts needlessly but also induce the additional murders of many innocent people. After Part II discusses capital punishment's recent history in the United States, Part III reviews the conflict in recent studies on capital punishment and deterrence. Part IV explores differences in states' applications …

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Private Standards In Public Law: Copyright, Lawmaking And The Case Of Accounting, Lawrence A. Cunningham Nov 2005

Private Standards In Public Law: Copyright, Lawmaking And The Case Of Accounting, Lawrence A. Cunningham

Michigan Law Review

Government increasingly leverages its regulatory function by embodying in law standards that are promulgated and copyrighted by nongovernmental organizations. Departures from such standards expose citizens to criminal, civil, and administrative sanctions, yet private actors generate, control, and limit access to them. Despite governmental ambitions, no one is responsible for evaluating the legitimacy of this approach ex ante and no framework exists to facilitate analysis. This Article contributes an analytical framework and proposes institutional mechanisms to implement it. The lack of a comprehensive framework for evaluating copyright to standards embodied in law is surprising because the range of standards potentially affected …

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Info: November 2005, Seattle University Law Library Nov 2005

Info: November 2005, Seattle University Law Library

Law Library Newsletters

•WestPac
•New Databases
•"A Day in the Life of the Law Library Community"
•Library FAQs
•Presentations and Publications
•Training Sessions

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(Re) Examinning Race & Gender: An Introduction, Maria Bullon-Fernandez, Nalini Iyer Nov 2005

(Re) Examinning Race & Gender: An Introduction, Maria Bullon-Fernandez, Nalini Iyer

Seattle Journal for Social Justice

No abstract provided.

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Whose Sons And Daughters Are Treated Differently? (Re) Examining The Child Gender Literature Through The Lens Of Race And Ethnicity, Bridget Hiedemann, Jutta M. Joesch Nov 2005

Whose Sons And Daughters Are Treated Differently? (Re) Examining The Child Gender Literature Through The Lens Of Race And Ethnicity, Bridget Hiedemann, Jutta M. Joesch

Seattle Journal for Social Justice

No abstract provided.

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Corporate Prophet An Introduction To Susan Stabile's A Catholic Vision Of The Corporation, Kellye Y. Testy Nov 2005

Corporate Prophet An Introduction To Susan Stabile's A Catholic Vision Of The Corporation, Kellye Y. Testy

Seattle Journal for Social Justice

No abstract provided.

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New Strategies For Justice: Linking Corporate Law With Progressive Social Movements, An Introduction, Dana L. Gold Nov 2005

New Strategies For Justice: Linking Corporate Law With Progressive Social Movements, An Introduction, Dana L. Gold

Seattle Journal for Social Justice

No abstract provided.

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Confirming The Right To Meaningful Access To The Courts In Non-Criminal Cases In Washington State, James Bamberger Nov 2005

Confirming The Right To Meaningful Access To The Courts In Non-Criminal Cases In Washington State, James Bamberger

Seattle Journal for Social Justice

No abstract provided.

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Of Driver's Licenses And Debtor's Prison, John B. Mitchell, Kelly Kunsch Nov 2005

Of Driver's Licenses And Debtor's Prison, John B. Mitchell, Kelly Kunsch

Seattle Journal for Social Justice

No abstract provided.

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The Progressive Critique Of The Current Socio-Legal Landscape: Corporations And Political Injustice, John C. Bonifaz Nov 2005

The Progressive Critique Of The Current Socio-Legal Landscape: Corporations And Political Injustice, John C. Bonifaz

Seattle Journal for Social Justice

No abstract provided.

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How Sarbanes-Oxley Should Be Used To Expose The Secrets Of Discretion, Judgment, And Materiality Of The Auditor's Report, Arthur Acevedo Nov 2005

How Sarbanes-Oxley Should Be Used To Expose The Secrets Of Discretion, Judgment, And Materiality Of The Auditor's Report, Arthur Acevedo

DePaul Business & Commercial Law Journal

No abstract provided.

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Is Business Ethics Necessary?, Craig Ehrlich Nov 2005

Is Business Ethics Necessary?, Craig Ehrlich

DePaul Business & Commercial Law Journal

No abstract provided.

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Table Of Contents, Depaul College Of Law Nov 2005

Table Of Contents, Depaul College Of Law

DePaul Journal of Health Care Law

No abstract provided.

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Considering Tortious Racism, Camille A. Nelson Nov 2005

Considering Tortious Racism, Camille A. Nelson

DePaul Journal of Health Care Law

No abstract provided.

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Could Biobanking Be A Means To Include "Health Care Have-Nots" In The Genomics Revolution?, Michael J. Malinowski Nov 2005

Could Biobanking Be A Means To Include "Health Care Have-Nots" In The Genomics Revolution?, Michael J. Malinowski

DePaul Journal of Health Care Law

No abstract provided.

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Foreword, David A. Brueggen Nov 2005

Foreword, David A. Brueggen

DePaul Journal of Health Care Law

No abstract provided.

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Less Bull, Better Bioethics, Dr. Jerry Menikoff Nov 2005

Less Bull, Better Bioethics, Dr. Jerry Menikoff

DePaul Journal of Health Care Law

No abstract provided.

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