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Optimizing Biofuel Cell Performance Using A Targeted Mixed Mediator Combination, Jason C. Klar

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

A study of how mediators interact with the catabolic pathways of microbes was undertaken with a view towards improving the performance of microbial fuel cells. The use of mediators is known to improve the power density in microbial fuel cells, but this work suggests that no single mediator is ideally suited to the task. Instead, a carefully selected mixture of two targeted mediators (Methylene Blue and Neutral Red) might be optimal. To test this hypothesis, a yeast-catalyzed microbial fuel cell was built and empirically evaluated under different mediation conditions while keeping all other parameters constant. The results clearly show that …

Who’S In And Who’S Out? Can India’S Answer Help Us Determine Who Qualifies For Affirmative Action? , Sean A. Pager

ExpressO

Who should be the beneficiaries of racially targeted affirmative action? In its Croson decision, the Supreme Court answered part of the “Who Question” when it conditioned affirmative action eligibility on underrepresentation. What the Court did not tell us was underrepresentation of whom? The Court thus instructs us to select beneficiary groups by counting heads, but leaves open which heads get counted where and what categories to use.

By artificially separating what are necessarily related inquiries, the Court left a definitional lacuna that lower courts have struggled to fill. Such definitional issues matter because they often determine who benefits from affirmative …

Halos, Billboards, And The Taxation Of Charitable Sponsorships, Ethan G. Stone

ExpressO

This article reexamines the controversy in the 1990s over the tax treatment of revenues charities earn by selling sponsor acknowledgements. The controversy erupted when the IRS tried to tax Mobil Cotton Bowl and John Hancock Bowl on their sponsorship revenues, claiming that it represented payment for advertising. It ended when Congress amended to tax code to grant sponsorship revenues an effective exemption from tax. Traditionally, this has been understood as a simple and sordid story of raw lobbying power supplanting good tax policy. I argue that the controversy reflects the overriding importance of political symbolism in understanding the charitable tax …

Junior Recital: Rhiannon Nolt, Mezzo-Soprano, Department Of Music, University Of Richmond

Music Department Concert Programs

No abstract provided.

John Jones: The Father Of American Surgery, Ximena Chrisagis

Annual Conference Presentations, Papers, and Posters

The presentation discusses the life of John Jones, M.D. who was considered to be the "Father of American Surgery." The presentation was given at the Ohio Academy of Medical History Annual Conference at the Lloyd Library and Museum on March 25, 2006.

Sbe Notícias, Ano 1, No. 9, March 25, 2006, Marcelo A. Rasteiro, Mariana Whitehead, Ana Paula Faez

SBE Notícias

SBE realiza safári fotográfico no Parque Taquaral -- SEPARN Denuncia degradação de cavernas -- SBE apóia semana de espeleologia na UNICAMP -- Palestra e demonstração de técnicas verticais -- Índios reivindicam direitos sobre subsolo -- Auriga mapeia usuários -- Oportunidade a jovens pesquisadores -- Estado de SP registra casos de raiva em morcegos -- Gruta Lago Azul (MT) será aberta para o turismo -- Eventos Internacionais.

Formal Versus Informal Allocation Of Land In A Commons: The Case Of The Macarthur Park Sidewalk Vendors, Gregg Kettles

ExpressO

Sidewalk vendors are becoming a more common presence in cities in Latin America and the United States. Vendor demand for the best sidewalk vending spots increasingly exceeds supply, making necessary a system to allocate space in what is essentially an open access commons. This paper presents an empirical study of two very different systems of allocation that have been adopted in the city of Los Angeles, California, a formal one imposed by the city on legal vendors when they were unable to come up with one on their own, and a second that was embraced by illegal vendors across the …

Believing In Products Liability: Reflections On Daubert, Doctrinal Evolution, And David Owen's "Products Liability Law", Richard L. Cupp

ExpressO

No abstract provided.

Volume 41 - Issue 20 - Friday, March 24, 2006, Rose Thorn Staff

The Rose Thorn Archive

The Rose Thorn, Rose-Hulman's independent student newspaper.

We Are...Marshall, March 24, 2006, Office Of Marshall University Communications

We Are ... Marshall: the Newsletter for Marshall University 1999-2023

No abstract provided.

Reporter - March 24th 2006, Rit Reporter Staff

University Publications

No abstract provided.

Durham V. Dept Corr

2006 Decisions

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Sandspur, Vol 112, No 22, March 24, 2006, Rollins College

The Rollins Sandspur

Rollins College student newspaper, written by the students and published at Rollins College. The Sandspur started as a literary journal.

Museum's 'Mostly Mississippi' Exhibit By Alumna Shows Fearless Use Of Color, Rebecca Lauck Cleary

University of Mississippi News

OXFORD, Miss. - Bold, vibrant images seem to jump off of Miriam Weems' canvases in her "Mostly Mississippi" exhibit at the University of Mississippi Museum through May 21.

Antisthenes' Theory Of Unique Enunciation: Similarities, Differences, And Possible Influences, Fouad Kalouche

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

In this paper I will focus on Antisthenes’ theory of unique enunciation, and will then discuss its similarities and differences with, and/or possible influences on, other theories on language that flourished around the 4th and 3rd centuries BCE. I showed elsewhere that Antisthenes’ theory of language is a practical application or a strategy that has direct implication for his ethical project. My aim here is merely to highlight the originality and relevance of Antisthenes’ theory by presenting it and contextualizing it, before assessing relevant similarities and differences between certain positions of Antisthenes and those of some Skeptics, Sophists, Cyrenaics, and …

The Concept Of Abstraction, Allan Bäck

The Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy Newsletter

Philosophers deal with abstractions. Being reflective, they also have come up with theories about what these abstractions are. Aristotle is no exception, and indeed gave what came to be a canonical account of abstraction. Here I shall investigate what Aristotle thinks abstraction is. I shall conclude that Aristotle views abstraction as selective attention.

As its very name suggests, abstracting (ἀφαιρέω) consists in taking away something from an object. The root verb, αἱρέω, suggests additionally a sense of grasping or of choosing, of taking for oneself something of what lies ready to hand.

These lexical meanings leave open a wide range …

The Pocahontas Exception: American Indians And Exceptionalism In Virginia’S Racial Integrity Act Of 1924, Kevin Noble Maillard

ExpressO

Most scholarship on Loving v. Virginia (1967) briefly mentions the “Pocahontas Exception,” a subsection of Virginia’s Racial Integrity Act of 1924 which counted persons of limited American Indian ancestry as white. However, few of these works raise the issue outside of a footnote. This article addresses the treatment of Native American ancestry as a curious exception to the threat of racial impurity. Virginia’s antimiscegenation statute sought to eradicate stealth intrusions of tainted blood into the white race, which proponents believed to be threatened “by the quagmire of mongrelization.” Exempted from this racial policing regime were those influential whites, the “First …

When 2 Or 3 Come Together, Tracey L. Meares

ExpressO

This article investigates policies that are responsive to crime in disadvantaged, urban neighborhoods from a community-based context. The vehicle is an analysis of a community-wide prayer vigil held in Chicago in May of 1997. The vigil resulted from a collaboration between the Chicago Police Department and hundreds of (mostly) African-American churches on Chicago’s West Side. Strikingly, the local police district’s commander facilitated the vigil. We explain the sociological and political significance of this collaboration by drawing upon the “Chicago School” of urban sociology and demonstrating theoretically and empirically the potential for the collaboration, through the integration of key community institutions, …

A Norms Approach To Jury "Nullification", Joseph Sanders

ExpressO

The paper synthesizes economic and sociological approaches to norms to explain the circumstance under which juries are most likely to substitute their own rules and criteria for that of the law when deciding a case. It concludes that this type of “nullification” is most likely to occur when substantive societal value norms embedded in scripts are contrary to legal rules.

March 23, 2006, James Madison University

The Breeze, 2000-2009

The Breeze is the student newspaper of James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

Commonwealth Times 2006-03-23

Commonwealth Times, 1969-

No abstract provided.

Western News, March 23, 2006, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: Bosco to coordinate WMU's "Promise" efforts; New Carnegie classification for WMU; Plans set for Cesar Chavez Day celebration; On Campus with Shawn Nelson.

The Setonian, March 23, 2006, Seton Hall University

2006

No abstract provided.

Merck Kgaa V. Integra Lifesciences I, Ltd.: Greater Research Protection For Drug Manufacturers, Samuel Rubin

Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy Sidebar

Merck sought protection under a statutory exemption from claims of patent infringement brought by Integra Lifesciences. The Court held unanimously that the safe harbor contained in 35 U.S.C. § 271(e)(1) protected the use of patented inventions used in preclinical research where the results were not submitted to the FDA. The Court's interpretation of the safe harbor provision broadened protection for those engaged in drug research at a substantial cost to patent-holders.

Discrete Shells Origami, Rob Burgoon, Zoë J. Wood, Eitan Grinspun

Computer Science and Software Engineering

We introduce a way of simulating the creation of simple Origami (paper folding). The Origami is created in a thin shell simulation that realistically models the behavior and physical properties of paper. We demonstrate how to fold and crease the simulated paper wherever the user desires. This work employs cutting-edge advances in the field of discrete shell modeling to meet the challenge of simulating Origami. We found that the discrete shell model is capable of creating simple Origami that does not involve paper to paper collisions. For more advanced origami, however, some kind of collision detection and resolution scheme is …

Daily Eastern News: March 23, 2006, Eastern Illinois University

March

No abstract provided.

Central Florida Future, Vol. 38 No. 54, March 23, 2006

Central Florida Future

No abstract provided.

March 23, 2006, Council On Academic Affairs

Minutes

No abstract provided.

The Weekly Challenger, March 23, 2006, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The March 23, 2006, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

The East Texan, 2006-03-23, Texas A&M University-Commerce

All Issues

Volume 90, number 22 of The East Texan, a student newspaper published at Texas A&M University-Commerce.