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Risky Business: Managing Interagency Acquisition, Steven L. Schooner Jan 2005

Risky Business: Managing Interagency Acquisition, Steven L. Schooner

GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works

This brief piece applauds the Government Accountability Office (GAO) for adding the management of interagency contracting to its High Risk List. It suggests that interagency acquisition, the poster child for the flexible, streamlined, businesslike approach of the 1990's acquisition reform movement, has become the federal procurement system's Achilles heel. It recommends that the government needs more qualified professionals to proactively craft results-oriented contracts and to manage effectively contractors' performance. Finally it suggests commencing a meaningful conversation about the appropriate role of businesslike models, generally, and fees, specifically, in governance.

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Sines, Cosines, And Conjugates, Caleb John Hallauer Jan 2005

Sines, Cosines, And Conjugates, Caleb John Hallauer

Honors Theses

This thesis is an investigation of angles whose sine and cosine are algebraic conjugates over the field of rational numbers. That is to say, sin(0) and cos(0) are roots of the same irreducible polynomial with integer coefficients. These interesting families are explored. First, it is shown that for n>2, the angles have this property. Second, all angles which are conjugate in this sense and which have a quadratic minimum polynomial are identified. The relationship between these two families is explored, and a family of conjugate angles with 4^^ degree minimum polynomials is explored as well. Questions for further investigation …

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Baseball In The Big Easy: An Analysis Of Professional Baseball In New Orleans, Louisiana, Christopher Emile Kieffer Jan 2005

Baseball In The Big Easy: An Analysis Of Professional Baseball In New Orleans, Louisiana, Christopher Emile Kieffer

Honors Theses

This paper is an analysis of the relationship between a community and a cultural activity. In this particular case it is about the relationship between New Orleans, Louisiana and its professional baseball teams, the minor league New Orleans Pelicans and New Orleans Zephyrs. The work examines how one can see the changes in the city during the twentieth century by examining the changes that surrounded its baseball teams. It shows that through the lens of baseball, one can examine the evolution of a community. The heart of the thesis is 17 first-hand interview accounts with several former players, fans and …

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The Effects Of Physiological Arousal On Measures Of Upper Extremity Position Sense In Healthy Young Adults, Melissa Angelique Parker Jan 2005

The Effects Of Physiological Arousal On Measures Of Upper Extremity Position Sense In Healthy Young Adults, Melissa Angelique Parker

Honors Theses

The purpose of this investigation was to examine the effects of physiological arousal on the ability to perceive upper extremity position in healthy young adults. Heart rate measurements and blood pressure measurements were taken at pre-established intervals during data collection. Pre-stressor and post-stressor upper extremity trials were also recorded. Twenty participants, 12 females and 8 males, with a mean age of 22.3 (20 33) years comprised the experimental sample. Participants in the experimental sample underwent a combination of the Stroop color-word task and simple math problems to produce a state of arousal and were pre and post tested for upper …

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The Relationship Between Religion/Spirituality And Healing As Demonstrated By Falun Gong And Christian Science, Maribeth Porter Jan 2005

The Relationship Between Religion/Spirituality And Healing As Demonstrated By Falun Gong And Christian Science, Maribeth Porter

Honors Theses

This paper provides an objective overview of the tradition and religion of Falun Gong and Christian Science in order to better evaluate their respective methods of healing. Each religion, as well as its primary texts, was thoroughly researched to provide the reader with information regarding the basic doctrines practitioners, foundation, healing methods, and opponents. Based on the research, it appears that religion can be beneficial to a practitioner s health as ion i-iu.i as conventional health care is not ignored on the premise that toe rei i alone can heal it seems as though current health care couia benefit rrom …

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The Impact Of The Sarbanes-Oxley Act Of 2002 On The Auditing Profession, Samantha Marie Rayburn Jan 2005

The Impact Of The Sarbanes-Oxley Act Of 2002 On The Auditing Profession, Samantha Marie Rayburn

Honors Theses

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 was passed in order to restore investor confidence to the market after a series of accounting fiascos. Congress included in this act legislation creating the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board to monitor audits conducted on publicly traded companies and made many provisions concerning auditor independence. However, the most controversial part of the legislation was Section 404 which requires an audit of internal controls. The intent of this study was to determine how Sarbanes-Oxley will impact the auditing profession. This was determined through an intense review of the most current articles available on the subject. It …

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Should Lawyers Participate In Rigged Systems: The Case Of The Military Commissions, Mary M. Cheh Jan 2005

Should Lawyers Participate In Rigged Systems: The Case Of The Military Commissions, Mary M. Cheh

GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works

Lawyers often represent clients when the odds are long or a catastrophe likely. The facts might be harmful, the evidence overwhelming, or the law clearly on the side of the opponent. Still, we do the best we can. But what if the system is rigged? What if the system has the trappings of a fair fight, but is, in fact, skewed to one side and, by design, the lawyer cannot fully defend the client? What if the lawyer can only lend legitimacy to a process that at its core is biased, slanted in favor of the other side, or fundamentally …

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Legislative Oversight Of Police: Lessons Learned From An Investigation Of Police Handling Of Demonstrations In Washington, D.C., Mary M. Cheh Jan 2005

Legislative Oversight Of Police: Lessons Learned From An Investigation Of Police Handling Of Demonstrations In Washington, D.C., Mary M. Cheh

GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works

There are various ways to oversee police behavior including internal discipline, civilian review boards, civil law suits, and criminal prosecutions. These are important tools but an equally important but less examined mechanism is legislative oversight, and, in particular, the legislative investigation. A legislature may choose to review police policies concerning the use of surveillance, informants and undercover operatives, the implementation of community policing, the use of force, eradication of gang activity, and perhaps most prominently in the post 9/11 world, counter terrorism initiatives. All of these matters involve policy decisions at the departmental level and not actions taken at the …

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The Labor Movement Needs A Twenty-First Century Committee For Industrial Organization, Charles B. Craver Jan 2005

The Labor Movement Needs A Twenty-First Century Committee For Industrial Organization, Charles B. Craver

GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works

Following the enactment of the NLRA in 1935, American Federation of Labor craft unions had difficulty organizing persons employed in manufacturing industries since most failed to fit within the jurisdictions of particular unions. The AFL formed the Committee for Industrial Organization to determine how best to organize these workers, and this Committee ultimately withdrew from the AFL and formed the Congress of Industrial Organizations. The CIO unions quickly organized the industrial workers in the steel, automobile, electrical manufacturing, and rubber industries. By the late 1950s, 35 percent of private sector employees were union members. As the United States economy began …

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Legal Scholarship Symposium: The Scholarship Of Lawrence M. Friedman, Robert J. Cottrol Jan 2005

Legal Scholarship Symposium: The Scholarship Of Lawrence M. Friedman, Robert J. Cottrol

GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works

Lawrence M. Friedman has achieved a singular preeminence as a legal historian for articulating a new vision of legal history as a discipline in his 1973 work entitled A History of American Law. This book treats American law as a mirror of society. At the time, Friedman's vision was still something quite new in American legal historiography. James Willard Hurst's notions of legal history as a sociolegal inquiry would heavily influence Friedman, helping to move the field into new and often surprising precincts. Friedman's approach to legal history is one that introduced us to previously unexamined actors and institutions. Whether …

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Scholarly Profit Margins And The Legal Scholarship Network: Reflections On The Web, Lawrence A. Cunningham Jan 2005

Scholarly Profit Margins And The Legal Scholarship Network: Reflections On The Web, Lawrence A. Cunningham

GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works

Controversy surrounding scholastic rankings arises, in part, because of complexities associated with measuring academic contributions. Legal researchers use various methodologies to assess scholarly production and impact but all suffer from inherent limitations and none provides data useful to scholarly self-reflection. The 10-year old Legal Scholarship Network (LSN) offers potential to improve considerably on both scores of public and personal assessment. This Essay critically evaluates approaches to conceptualizing scholarly profit margins, explores how LSN can enhance these conceptions, and opens new frontiers for this innovative Web-based repository of legal writing.

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Law And Accounting: Cases And Materials, Lawrence A. Cunningham Jan 2005

Law And Accounting: Cases And Materials, Lawrence A. Cunningham

GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works

Accounting textbooks for law or business schools invariably provide secondary narrative presentations of materials in the authors' own words. A better approach to learning this subject is to present thematically arranged original accounting pronouncements. The design this innovative book, helps readers appreciate how accounting is a tool that provides conceptual organization to economic exchange. The tool facilitates analyzing legal, business and public policy aspects of the transactions that accounting addresses. The original accounting standards, as well as SEC enforcement actions, presented in this book illuminate why transactions are pursued and related decisions made, economic aspects of transactions, and the conceptual …

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An Approach To Intellectual Property, Bankruptcy, And Corporate Control, F. Scott Kieff, Troy A. Paredes Jan 2005

An Approach To Intellectual Property, Bankruptcy, And Corporate Control, F. Scott Kieff, Troy A. Paredes

GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works

Corporate control is the central concern of corporate law, and, in addition to priority, has become a core concern of bankruptcy. The question of corporate control in bankruptcy is especially important for intellectual property ("IP") rights. Bankruptcy proceedings do not compromise fundamentally the value of most tangible assets. Tangible assets generally retain their value both during and after bankruptcy proceedings, although there is always the risk that the business will be run poorly. IP is different. IP rights are typically most valuable when they carry a credible threat of injunction. As a result, to the extent the delay and coordination …

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Ip Transactions: On The Theory & Practice Of Commercializing Innovation, F. Scott Kieff Jan 2005

Ip Transactions: On The Theory & Practice Of Commercializing Innovation, F. Scott Kieff

GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works

All too often within organizations and communities, innovations are not generated or put to use as rapidly or as broadly as they could be. Chief targets for blame include the problems of transaction costs, agency costs, lack of coordination, and improper incentives. Borrowing from the rich literature in the field generally known as new institutional economics, which has studied these types of problems more broadly, this Article elucidates how some practical tools might be expected to mitigate such problems. Particular arrangements of formal law and informal practice may help reach across the "valley of death" between early stage technologies and …

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Organizational Conflicts Of Interest: A Growing Integrity Challenge, Daniel I. Gordon Jan 2005

Organizational Conflicts Of Interest: A Growing Integrity Challenge, Daniel I. Gordon

GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works

Recent experience in the United States suggests that public procurement professionals increasingly encounter a particular kind of conflict of interest, organizational conflicts of interest (OCIs). OCIs arise in situations where an entity plays two or more roles that are, in some sense, at odds with one another. This article endeavors to set out some points for consideration in this increasingly important area. Alleged OCIs have been identified in various activities of the U.S. federal procurement process, from contracts for security services in Iraq to public/private competitions for work to be performed in the U.S. This article first suggests reasons for …

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Effects Of Focusing-Beam Field Variations On The Stability Of Laser Oscillators, Pitak Chenkosol, Lee W. Casperson Jan 2005

Effects Of Focusing-Beam Field Variations On The Stability Of Laser Oscillators, Pitak Chenkosol, Lee W. Casperson

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

Semiclassical models for the dynamical behavior of single-longitudinal-mode, homogeneously broadened, unidirectional ring-laser oscillators have long been available. However, in most of these models the beam's cross section is assumed to be independent of longitudinal position in the laser, while in practical laser systems it is common for the diameter to vary with position. A model for lasers with focusing-beam field variations is developed here. Linear stability analysis shows that higher values of excitation are required to reach the type 1 instability threshold for lasers with longitudinal variations of the beam diameter than for the uniform plane-wave laser model.

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The Quest For Novel Computational Paradigms And Machines, Christof Teuscher Jan 2005

The Quest For Novel Computational Paradigms And Machines, Christof Teuscher

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

The quest for novel and unconventional computing machines is mainly motivated by the man-machine dichotomy and by the belief that meeting tomorrow's complex real world challenges will require new paradigms and new engineering methods to organize, train, and program such machines and to interact with them.

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Depth-Shifting Of Shallow Water Guide Source Observations, Lisa M. Zurk, Brian H. Tracey Jan 2005

Depth-Shifting Of Shallow Water Guide Source Observations, Lisa M. Zurk, Brian H. Tracey

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

In theory, matched field processing offers the significant benefit of higher signal gains and increased localization capability. However, this has not been robustly observed in practice because of inherent uncertainties about details of the shallow water propagation environments which limit the prediction of the channel response. The use of guide sources to directly measure the transfer function between source and receiver arrays has been proposed as a means for reducing mismatch. However, the guide source measurement only provides a measured transfer function at the guide source location. In this paper a method of depth-shifting guide source observations is proposed, making …

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Faculty Masthead, Mjlst Editorial Board Jan 2005

Faculty Masthead, Mjlst Editorial Board

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology

No abstract provided.

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Glowing In The Dark: How America's First Transgenic Animal Escaped Regulation, Rebecca Bratspies Jan 2005

Glowing In The Dark: How America's First Transgenic Animal Escaped Regulation, Rebecca Bratspies

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology

No abstract provided.

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Can Regulation Be As Innovative As Science And Technology? The Fda's Regulation Of Combination Products, Susan B. Foote, Robert J. Berlin Jan 2005

Can Regulation Be As Innovative As Science And Technology? The Fda's Regulation Of Combination Products, Susan B. Foote, Robert J. Berlin

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology

No abstract provided.

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Understanding Legal Responses To Technological Change: The Example Of In Vitro Fertilization, Lyria Bennett Moses Jan 2005

Understanding Legal Responses To Technological Change: The Example Of In Vitro Fertilization, Lyria Bennett Moses

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology

No abstract provided.

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Copyright, Ownership, And Digital Media: A Trilogy, Laura J. Gurak, Gretchen Haas, Laurie A. Johnson, Krista A. Kennedy, Jessica L. Reyman Jan 2005

Copyright, Ownership, And Digital Media: A Trilogy, Laura J. Gurak, Gretchen Haas, Laurie A. Johnson, Krista A. Kennedy, Jessica L. Reyman

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology

No abstract provided.

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The United States Patent Reform Quagmire: A Balanced Proposal, Michael S. Mireles Jr. Jan 2005

The United States Patent Reform Quagmire: A Balanced Proposal, Michael S. Mireles Jr.

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology

No abstract provided.

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Whither The Conflict Over Agricultural Biotechnology?, Charles R. Mcmanis Jan 2005

Whither The Conflict Over Agricultural Biotechnology?, Charles R. Mcmanis

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology

No abstract provided.

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United States V. Kincade - Justifying The Seizure Of One's Identity, Michael S. Mireles Jr. Jan 2005

United States V. Kincade - Justifying The Seizure Of One's Identity, Michael S. Mireles Jr.

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology

No abstract provided.

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Follow The Giraffe's Lead - Lanco, Inc. V. Director, Division Of Taxation Gets Lost In The Quagmire That Is State Taxation, Cory D. Olson Jan 2005

Follow The Giraffe's Lead - Lanco, Inc. V. Director, Division Of Taxation Gets Lost In The Quagmire That Is State Taxation, Cory D. Olson

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology

No abstract provided.

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Bridgeport Music, Inc. V. Dimension Films: The Death Of The Substantial Similarity Test In Digital Sampling Copyright Infringement Claims - The Sixth Circuit's Flawed Attempt At A Bright-Line Rule, Matthew Brodin Jan 2005

Bridgeport Music, Inc. V. Dimension Films: The Death Of The Substantial Similarity Test In Digital Sampling Copyright Infringement Claims - The Sixth Circuit's Flawed Attempt At A Bright-Line Rule, Matthew Brodin

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology

No abstract provided.

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The Big Bad Wolf Hybrid: How Molecular Genetics Research May Undermine Protection For Wolves Under The Endangered Species Act, Collette L. Adkins Giese Jan 2005

The Big Bad Wolf Hybrid: How Molecular Genetics Research May Undermine Protection For Wolves Under The Endangered Species Act, Collette L. Adkins Giese

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology

No abstract provided.

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Transgenic Crops: The Good, The Bad, And The Laws, Wendy Thai Jan 2005

Transgenic Crops: The Good, The Bad, And The Laws, Wendy Thai

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology

No abstract provided.

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