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

Articles

Considerable attention has been given to the Implicit Association Test (IA T), 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 …

Climate Change And Animals Responses To Global Warming: The Law, Economics, And Science Of Climate Change, Cass R. Sunstein, Wayne Hsiung

Articles

Climate change is already having adverse eeds on animal life, and those effects are likely to prove devastating in the future. Nonetheless, the relevant harms to animals have yet to become a serious part of the analysis of climate change policy. Even if animals and species are valued solely by reference to human preferences, consideration of animal welfare dramatically increases the argument for aggressive responses to climate change. We estimate that, even under conservative assumptions about valuation, losses to nonhuman life might run into the hundreds of billions of dollars annually. Whatever the precise figure, the general conclusion is clear: …

Government Secrets, Constitutional Law, And Platforms For Judicial Intervention, Adam M. Samaha

Articles

American law has yet to reach a satisfying conclusion about public access to information on government operations. But recent events are prompting reconsideration of the status quo. As our current system is reassessed, three shortfalls in past debates should be overcome. The first involves ignorance of foreign systems. Other democracies grapple with information access problems, and their recent experiments are illuminating. Indeed they expose two additional domestic weaknesses. One is a line we have drawn within constitutional law. Courts and commentators tend to treat constitutional issues of public access separately from those of executive discretion to withhold information, but these …

Undue Process, Adam M. Samaha

Articles

This Article explores the relationship of the US. Constitution to the costs of government decision making. Constitutional law clearly can escalate these costs, as when the Due Process Clauses are read to mandate additional procedure not otherwise favored by decisionmakers. This much is understood But the Constitution and its doctrine sometimes put downward pressure on decision costs. We lack a systematic investigation of when this is, and should be, true. The Article makes three general claims: (1) The entire Constitution tends to reduce decision costs insofar as it is a focal point for confining disputes, and empirical work suggests that …

It 501 Technology In Ministry, Kenneth A. Boyd

Syllabi

Required Readings Schultze, Quentin. High-Tech Worship: Using Presentational Technologies Wisely. Grand Rapids, Baker, 2004. Wilson, Len. Digital Storytellers: The Art of Communicating the Gospel in Worship. Nashville. Abingdon Press, 2002.

Forage News [2006-01], Department Of Plant And Soil Sciences, University Of Kentucky

Forage News

• Forages at KCA
• Heart of America Grazing Conference
• 26th Kentucky Alfalfa Conference
• Selecting Varieties for Kentucky
• Upcoming Events

Differential Habituation Of Male Betta Splendens To Qualitatively Different Stimuli, Lauren Baard

Undergraduate Research Symposium (UGRS)

Habituation is a learning mechanism that functions to decrease the amount of energy and attention focused on a certain stimuli. Male Siamese Fighting Fish, Betta splendens, are territorial animals that defend their territories using a number of aggressive displays. Male Bettas have previously shown the ability to habituate to the presence of a conspecific male when visually exposed to each other. Due to the costly nature of many of the male Betta’s displays, I hypothesized that male Bettas should differentially habituate to qualitatively different stimuli. I presented each of three groups of male Betta splendens with a different stimulus, each …

A Broad-Spectrum Mer Operon In A Multi-Drug Resistant Strain Of The Fish Pathogen, Aeromonas Salmonicida., Erin Parry

Undergraduate Research Symposium (UGRS)

Aeromonas salmonicida AS03, a potential fish pathogen, was isolated from Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, in 2003. This strain was found to be resistant to ≥1000 mM HgCl2 and ≥32 mM phenylmercuric acetate as well as multiple antimicrobials. Mercury (Hg) and antibiotic resistance genes are often located on the same mobile genetic elements, so the genetic determinants of both resistances and the possibility of horizontal gene transfer were examined. Specific PCR primers were used to amplify and sequence distinctive regions of the mer operon. A. salmonicida AS03 was found to have a pDU1358-like broad-spectrum mer operon, containing merB as well as …

Abstracts Of Presentations, Colby College

Undergraduate Research Symposium (UGRS)

No abstract provided.

Histopathologic Evaluation Of Neurogenic Pulmonary Edema After Subarachnoid Hemorrhage In Rabbits, Cemal Gundogdu, Mehmet Kizilkaya, Mehmet D. Aydin, Canan Atalay, Zuhtu U. Sevimli

Neurosciences

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effects of subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) on lung tissue. METHODS: We conducted this study on 20 rabbits in the Ataturk University Medical Faculty, Erzurum, Turkey in 2005. Experimental SAH was applied to all animals under general anesthesia. After 20 days, all animals were sacrificed. Their lungs were examined histopathologically. RESULTS: Foamy hemorrhagic parenchymal lesions, alveolar rupture, and subintimal fluid collection in the pulmonary vasculature were observed in the lungs of the non-surviving animals. However, minimal changes were found in the lungs of the surviving animals (p<0.01). CONCLUSION: Our results suggest that luminal narrowing of the lung vessels due to subintimal fluid collection plays an important role in the development of pulmonary hypertension and neurogenic pulmonary edema in SAH.

Raves, Clubs And Ecstasy: The Impact Of Peer Pressure, Baojun Song, Melissa Castillo-Garsow, Karen R. Ríos-Soto, Marcin Mejran, Leilani Henso, Carlos Castillo-Chavez

Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Ecstasy has gained popularity among young adults who frequent raves and nightclubs. The Drug Enforcement Administration reported a 500 percent increase in the use of ecstasy between 1993 and 1998. The number of ecstasy users kept growing until 2002, years after a national public education initiative against ecstasy use was launched. In this study, a system of differential equations is used to model the peer-driven dynamics of ecstasy use. It is found that backward bifurcations describe situations when sufficient peer pressure can cause an epidemic of ecstasy use. Furthermore, factors that have the greatest influence on ecstasy use as predicted …

Biblical Biopolitics: Judicial Process, Religious Rhetoric, Terri Schiavo And Beyond, Joshua E. Perry

Health Matrix: The Journal of Law-Medicine

No abstract provided.

Truth In Testing Laws: A Shot In The Arm For Designer Gene Tests, Alexander Van Voorhees

Health Matrix: The Journal of Law-Medicine

No abstract provided.

Data Protection And E-Commerce In The United States And The European Union, Demetrios Eleftheriou, Marco Berliri, Giulio Coraggio

The International Lawyer

No abstract provided.

Genetically Modified Organisms In Food: A Model Of Labeling And Monitoring With Positive Implications For International Trade, Debra M. Strauss

The International Lawyer

No abstract provided.

Behavioral Tendencies Of The Jewel Wasp, Nasonia Vitripennis, Jessica M. Nicholson

Honors Capstones

Two main areas of focus were examined in three experiments: the effects of mating status on male activity and the effects of crowding on female activity in the parasitoid wasp Nasonia vitripennis. The first experiment dealt with wing dispersal among lone versus crowded females. Competition appeared to make the females more likely to wing-disperse than when the female was alone. The second experiment dealt with the locomotor activity of lone versus crowded females. Competition appeared to cause females to be more active when with another female than when alone. The final experiment dealt with the locomotor activity of mated versus …

Controlling Conflicts Of Interest: A Tale Of Two Industries, Ahmed E. Taha

Loyola University Chicago Law Journal

No abstract provided.

The United States' Experience With Energy-Based Tax Incentives: The Evidence Supporting Tax Incentives For Renewable Energy, Mona Hymel

Loyola University Chicago Law Journal

No abstract provided.

The Silent Woolf: The Examination Of The Effects Of Silence By Gender, Shannon Ann Chisholm

USF St. Petersburg campus Honors Program Theses (Undergraduate)

Virginia Woolf was tortured by limitations in her both life and writing. What modem critics now see as innovative and unique aspects of her style, she identified as flaws. Besides never being able to find a perfect balance between intellect and expression in her writing, Woolf also found limitations within language. Sue Roe explains that through her essays on silence, Woolf "expressed her sense that the English language was no longer equipped to suggest the nuances of emotional and psychological insight" (14). To her, modem English is not expansive enough to express the emotions that lingered inside the human soul.

Black Churchgoers, Environmental Activism And The Preservation Of Nature In Miami, Florida, Eileen M. Smith-Cavros

Journal of Ecological Anthropology

This paper examines connections in three case studies of Black churchgoers in Miami and their views toward the natural environment, from environmental attitudes to activism. There were four major findings in the research. First, there is a link between the preservation of Black history and the preservation of the environment among Black churchgoers who feel a strong connection to rural life. Second, these case studies dispute the stereotype of Black churchgoers as less concerned about the environment due to pressing social concerns in Black neighborhoods. This stereotype artificially separates environmental and social issues. Third, public access to public lands is …

Politics Of Environmentalism And Ecological Knowledge At The Intersection Of Local And Global Processes, Katja Neves-Graça

Journal of Ecological Anthropology

This article scrutinizes the intersection of globalized and localized environmentalism in Lajes do Pico, Azores, Portugal, at the historical juncture when whale-watching superseded whale hunting in this village. In so doing, the article explains how localized environmentalism—including the ecological knowledges and practices of local inhabitants —was reproduced, learned, and transformed within the context of globalized environmental concerns, and vice versa. Using ethnographic materials I collected in Lajes do Pico between 1998 and 2000, I suggest that, rather than constituting two clearly distinct types of knowledge, through comparison and dialogical articulation local and scientific knowledge are typically locked in a process …

Evolutionary Universal Aesthetics In Ecological Rationality, Mimi E. Lam, Roberto Gonzalez-Plaza

Journal of Ecological Anthropology

We contend that individual reactions to universal aesthetics were critical in adapting human brain structure and evolutionary cognition. Emotional responses to aesthetics and reflexive judgments by prehistoric people may have evolved an ecological rationality with intimate pragmatics of survival. In North American Pacific Northwest ecosystems, complex indigenous societies flourished for millennia, developing strategies that allowed them to co-adapt with locally varying, productive landscapes. They evolved ‘societal phenotypes’ based on cultural belief systems fostering ecosystem balance. Their detailed contemplation and experience of natural phenomena, including other organisms’ behaviors, were formalized as traditional ecological knowledge. For example, pre-contact Pacific Northwest societies co-evolved …

St. Christopher And The Bearded Squirrel, Bruce Kitchens

Society for Advancement of Poynter Library

Short story that won second place in the 2006 Bayboro Fiction Contest hosted by the Society for Advancement of Nelson Poynter.

Growth Pressures On Sensitive Natural Areas, Institute On Metropolitan Opportunity

Studies

This report examines projected growth and its threat to remaining sensitive natural areas in the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources’ 17-county central region.

Growth Pressures On Sensitive Natural Areas Part I, Institute On Metropolitan Opportunity

Studies

Report

Modern Public Trust Principles: Recognizing Rights And Integrating Standards, Alexandra B. Klass

Articles

The public trust doctrine has a long history from its beginnings as an obligation on states to hold lands submerged under navigable waters in trust for the public, to its resurgence in the 1970s as a protector of natural resources, to its influence on state statutory and constitutional law as the public embraced environmental protection principles. However, many have argued that the public trust doctrine has not lived up to its potential as a major player in environmental and natural resources law. This article proposes a new framework for the public trust doctrine as a state tool for environmental protection …

11th Annual Joseph C. Andrews Mentoring Breakfast, February 2, 2006, Black Faculty And Staff Association

BFSA Collection - Mentoring Breakfast Materials

No abstract provided.

Presidential Signing Statements And Executive Power, Curtis A. Bradley, Eric A. Posner

Constitutional Commentary, Vols 1–36 (1984–2022)

No abstract provided.

The Constitution And The Annexation Of Texas, Earl M. Maltz

Constitutional Commentary, Vols 1–36 (1984–2022)

No abstract provided.

Institutional Review Boards, Regulatory Incentives, And Some Modest Proposals For Reform, Dale Carpenter

Articles

It is time to rethink the role of Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) in approving social science research. While most law professors conduct their research in an almost unregulated environment - pouring through cases, statutes, and each other's articles, all without the kind of human interaction subject to IRB regulation - their colleagues elsewhere in the university have been coping for decades with an increasingly intrusive bureaucracy that sometimes undermines basic academic values. Three things seem very clear. First, there are a lot of IRBs - at least 4,000 - and their numbers are growing. Second, they have recently "increased their …