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The Sanctity Of Religious Liberty Of Minority Faiths Under State Constitutions: Three Hypotheses, Gary S. Gildin

Faculty Scholarly Works

No abstract provided.

Virginia Junior Academy Of Science Awards 2006 Awards

Virginia Journal of Science

List of award winners by section for the Virginia Junior Academy of Science 2006 Awards.

Inside Unlv, Diane Russell, Shane Bevell, Carol C. Harter, Cate Weeks, Mamie Peers, Regina Vaccari

Inside UNLV

No abstract provided.

The Gathering Twilight? Information Privacy On The Internet In The Post-Enlightenment Era, Mark F. Kightlinger

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

The steady stream of news reports about violations of privacy on the Internet has spawned a growing body of literature discussing the legal protections available for personally identifiable information—i.e., information about identified or identifiable persons—collected via the Internet. This Article takes the discussion of Internet privacy protection in a new and very different direction by reexamining the U.S. Internet privacy regime from the perspective of a broader cultural/historical analysis and critique. The perspective adopted is that of Alasdair MacIntyre's account of the disarray in Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment discourse about morality and human nature and the accompanying disappearance of rational justifications …

From Reproduction To Reproducibility: Creativity And Technics In Benjamin And Arendt, Graham Macphee

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Greater Tuna, April 27-29, 2006, Theatre Arts Discipline

Theatre Programs

University of Minnesota, Morris production of Greater Tunal by Jaston Williams, Joe Sears and Ed Howard and directed by Todd Janssen.

Synopsis: Greater Tuna is a comedy about a small town in Texas named Tuna, Texas' third smallest town. The wacky inhabitants of this town -- men, women, children and animals -- are all played by two skillful, transformative actors who must change parts at a rather breakneck speed and use inventive voicework.

Reasonable Expectations In The Sphere Of Liberty: A Theory Of Accidental Death Insurance Coverage, Catherine Spain

Connecticut Insurance Law Journal

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Regional Ocean Governance: The Perils Of Multiple-Use Management And The Promise Of Agency Diversity, Josh Eagle

Faculty Publications

Two high-level committees - the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy and the Pew Oceans Commission - have recently issued reports expressing grave concerns about the condition of America's oceans. In these reports, the commissions suggest that institutional flaws underlie current problems. Specifically, the commissions' views are that state and federal agencies with marine jurisdiction lack the mechanisms, and the incentives, to coordinate their management activities. Accordingly, both commissions recommend the creation of regional ocean governance bodies. Although the commissions' designs differ, their goal is the same: management that operates on a larger scale and incorporates more ocean interests. This article …

Cs 205-08: Computer Literacy And Office Automation, Kim Gros

Computer Science & Engineering Syllabi

No abstract provided.

Cs 205-01, 02, 03: Computer Literacy And Office Automation, Ann Tirpack

Computer Science & Engineering Syllabi

•To understand basic computer operations and the principal components of a computer and connected peripheral devices
•To understand and examine current operating systems, software utilities, device drivers and application software
•To define and understand current storage technology and learn about logical file storage and management
•To become proficient in using:
-Windows
-Word Processing Applications
-Spreadsheet Applications
-Database Applications
-Presentation Graphics Applications
•To understand the basics of e-mail
•To introduce networking concepts including the Internet and its components and web browser basics
•To learn ways to protect your data and avoid computer disasters

Crummer Suntrust Portfolio Spring 2006, Laura Busuioc, Joseph Culhane, Zach Hedge, Bob Hughes, Casey Johnson, Vijay Marolia, Trey Mcpherson, Kimberly Pruitt, Carlos Sayde, Ryan Spoeth, Mike Treidl, James Weidner

Crummer Truist Portfolios

No abstract provided.

Extrapolating The Trends Of The Most Significant Patterns Of World History, Csaba S. Kecsces

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

Black Power In Green And White: Integration And Black Protest In Michigan State University Football, 1947-1972, John Matthew Smith

Masters Theses

While southern college football teams remained all white until the late 1960s and early 1970s, Michigan State University head football coach Duffy Daugherty formed championship teams in 1965 and 1966 by recruiting the best southern black players. While coaches in the North recruited black athletes and played them regularly by the mid-1950s, no other coach took the risks Daugherty did to integrate his teams. Duffy Daugherty's path-breaking teams broke all the rules of integrated competition and forced southern schools to reconsider their stance on segregated college football.

The ground breaking integration of black athletes in the mid-1950s and 1960s under …

Test Methods And Results For Sensors In A Pre-Crash Detection System, Charles Birdsong, Peter Schuster, John Carlin, Daniel Kawano, William Thompson

Mechanical Engineering

Automobile safety can be improved by anticipating a crash before it occurs and thereby providing additional time to deploy safety technologies. This requires an accurate, fast and robust pre-crash sensor that measures telemetry, discriminates between classes of objects over a range of conditions, and has sufficient range and area of coverage surrounding the vehicle. The sensor must be combined with an algorithm that integrates data to identify threat levels. No one sensor provides adequate information to meet these diverse and demanding requirements. However the requirements can be met with an optimal combination of multiple types of sensors. Previous work considered …

Concerned Philosophers For Peace, Vol. 26, No. 1, Concerned Philosophers For Peace

Concerned Philosophers for Peace

No abstract provided.

Muslim Profiles Post 911: Is Racial Profiling An Effective Counterterrorist Measure And Does It Violate The Right To Be Free From Discrimination?, Bernard E. Harcourt

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

Racial profiling as a defensive counterterrorism measure necessarily implicates a rights trade-off: if effective, racial profiling limits the right of young Muslim men to be free from discrimination in order to promote the security and well-being of others. Proponents of racial profiling argue that it is based on simple statistical fact and represents “just smart law enforcement.” Opponents of racial profiling, like New York City police commissioner Raymond Kelly, say that it is dangerous and “just nuts.” As a theoretical matter, both sides are partly right. Racial profiling in the context of counterterrorism measures may increase the detection of terrorist …

The Law Of Implicit Bias, Cass R. Sunstein, Christine Jolls

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

Considerable attention has been given to the Implicit Association Test (IAT), which finds that most people have an implicit and unconscious bias against members of traditionally disadvantaged groups. Implicit bias poses a special challenge for antidiscrimination law because it suggests the possibility that people are treating others differently even when they are unaware that they are doing so. Some aspects of current law operate, whether intentionally or not, as controls on implicit bias; it is possible to imagine other efforts in that vein. An underlying suggestion is that implicit bias might be controlled through a general strategy of “debiasing through …

Plan Puebla Panama: An Economic Tool That Thwarts Sustainable Development And Facilitates Terrorism, Paulette L. Stenzel

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

No abstract provided.

Bioweapon Impacts On Public Health And The Environment, David Pimentel, Marcia Pimentel

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

No abstract provided.

2006 Inquiry Journal: Editorial Staff, Brigid C. Casellini

Inquiry Journal 2006

No abstract provided.

The Newman Application And The Uspto's Unnecessary Response: Patentability Of Humans And Human Embryos, Seán M. Coughlin

Chicago-Kent Journal of Intellectual Property

No abstract provided.

The Pas De Deux Between Dance And Law: Tossing Copyright Law Into The Wings And Bringing Dance Custom Centerstage, Katie Lula

Chicago-Kent Journal of Intellectual Property

No abstract provided.

The Supreme Court Tilts Toward Drug Developers: Drug Discovery After Merck V. Integra, Daniel J. O'Connor, Tamsen Valoir

Chicago-Kent Journal of Intellectual Property

No abstract provided.

Wildland Fire Effects On Visits And Visitors To The Bob Marshal Wilderness Complex, William T. Borrie, Stephen Mccool, Joshua G. Whitmore

Society and Conservation Faculty Publications

Wildland fire can affect wilderness visits and scientific efforts to understand visitor relationships with wilderness places. Large-scale and long-lasting fires occurred in the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex, Montana, in 2003. A study of visitors that year to monitor long-term trends in visit and visitor characteristics was repeated in 2004 to fully understand how the 2003 fires affected trend analysis. This article considers the question of how wildland fire changes the relationship people have with wilderness, particularly related to their visits and visitor attitudes toward fire management.

Antiestrogens Inhibit Xenoestrogen-Induced Brain Aromatase Activity But Do Not Prevent Xenoestrogen-Induced Feminization In Japanese Medaka (Oryzias Latipes), Adam J. Kuhl, Marius Brouwer

Faculty Publications

In fish, exposure to estrogen or estrogen-mimicking chemicals (xenoestrogeus)during a critical period of development can irreversibly invert sex differentiation. In medaka, a male-to-female reversal upon exposure to a xenoestrogen is accompanied by an increase in brain aromatase expression and activity. However, whether this increase is the direct cause of sex reversal is unknown. In this study we further examined the role brain aromatase plays in genesis of developmental abnormalities in response to endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs). Further, the effects of a mixture of apparent antagonistic environmentally relevant EDCs on development were examined to determine if their combined actions could lessen each …

Considering The Rationality Of African Ritual Behavior, Joel Grant Mort

Dissertations

The traditional social scientific method undervalues the role that cognitive processes play in human behavior and instead focuses on posited external causal forces, the most common of which is 'culture.' Normative models of rationality, on the other hand, often do suggest and emphasize cognitive reasoning strategies. What is lacking is a familiarity and understanding of what human beings actually do which is, ironically, something social scientists do know something about. Both assume a sort of rational normative baseline cognitive structure and then try to discover those circumstances in which this structure is compromised by the culture, the environment, learning, and …

Synthetic Studies Of 1,10-Phenanthroline Derivatives As Novel Catalysis Ligands And Their Application In Transition Metals Catalyzed Reactions, Son Duc Tran

Dissertations

The preparation of 1,10-phenanthroline derivatives entailed ring opening reactions of 1,10-phenanthroline epoxide as a key transformation, affording novelbidentate nitrogen ligands with new stereogenic centers in the 5- and 6-position. This research was concerned with (i) the epoxidation of 1,10-phen, (ii) epoxide ring opening reactions, (iii) the formation of trans -5,6-disubstituted-1,10-phenanthroline metal complexes, and (iv) application of 1,10-phenanthroline derivatives in metal-catalyze reactions such as palladium-catalyzed allylic substitution and aminohalogenation reactions; Zinc-catalyzed direct aldolreaction, and acetophenone reduction; Nickel-catalyzed Michael addition reaction.

Apocalypse - 2006, P. J. Beemer

Apocalypse

Contributers include: Maureen Flannery, B.Z. Niditch, Gwen Archer, Carrie Peters, Sherrene Hubbard, Israel Moskovits, Brian Whisenhunt, Jane Kolkevich, Ann Lamas, Meg Hahn, Kate TErnes, M.J. Malone, D.H. Lee, Christopher D. Pratl, Joshua Halpern-Givens, Joris Soeding, Douglas L. Jordan, Juan Montesinos, Paul Degen, Sarah Nelson, Brian Whisenhunt, Anita Lam, Tomas Farrell, Benigno Boyas, R.A. Chavez, Sean Murphy

A Joint Rolled In Toilet Paper: Funkadelic’S Funky Soul, Joseph T. Thomas Jr.

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

Through an examination of Parliament-Funkadelic’s lyrics and music, this paper explores shit, dirt, and the funk, investigating their relationship to George Clinton and his band’s desire to darken the Humanistic project of Enlightenment, their desire to soil language, and thereby question conventional, bourgeois values. The author argues that Funkadelic participate in what Mikhail Bakhtin calls the “peculiar logic” of the carnivalesque, detourning status quo notions of culture and society, creating complex contortions through the blurring of the good and the bad, the cerebral and the carnal, the sublime and the mundane. In essence, Funkadelic are a musical carnival that exists …

Review Of The Louisiana Project, By Carrie Mae Weems, Larry M. Taylor

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

No abstract provided.