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The Hilltop 11-1-2006, Hilltop Staff

The Hilltop: 2000 - 2010

No abstract provided.

Poetic Justice, Jim Chen

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Role Of Child Emotional Responsiveness And Maternal Negative Emotion Expression In Children’S Coping Strategy Use, Rebecca Goodvin, Gustavo Carlo, Julia C. Torquati

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

This study examined the additive and interactive effects of children’s trait vicarious emotional responsiveness and maternal negative emotion expression on children’s use of coping strategies. Ninety-five children (mean age = 5.87 years) and their mothers and teachers participated in the study. The mothers reported on their own negative emotion expression and the children’s empathic concern and personal distress tendencies. The mothers and teachers reported on the children’s use of avoidant, support-seeking, and aggressive-venting coping strategies. Empathic concern was positively associated with the children’s use of support seeking and negatively associated with the children’s use of aggressive venting, whereas personal distress …

How To Reason With Owl In A Logic Programming System, Markus Krotzsch, Pascal Hitzler, Denny Vrandecic, Michael Sintek

Computer Science and Engineering Faculty Publications

Logic programming has always been a major ontology modeling paradigm, and is frequently being used in large research projects and industrial applications, e.g., by means of the F-Logic reasoning engine OntoBroker or the TRIPLE query, inference, and transformation language and system. At the same time, the Web Ontology Language OWL has been recommended by the W3C for modeling ontologies for the Web. Naturally, it is desirable to investigate the interoperability between both paradigms. In this paper, we do so by studying an expressive fragment of OWL DL for which reasoning can be reduced to the evaluation of Horn logic programs. …

Security In Pervasive Computing: Current Status And Open Issues, Munirul Haque, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed

Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science Faculty Research and Publications

Million of wireless device users are ever on the move, becoming more dependent on their PDAs, smart phones, and other handheld devices. With the advancement of pervasive computing, new and unique capabilities are available to aid mobile societies. The wireless nature of these devices has fostered a new era of mobility. Thousands of pervasive devices are able to arbitrarily join and leave a network, creating a nomadic environment known as a pervasive ad hoc network. However, mobile devices have vulnerabilities, and some are proving to be challenging. Security in pervasive computing is the most critical challenge. Security is needed to …

Sunny Side Up, Lori L. Phillips

Theses

A description of the author's thesis project creating pots with a chicken motif, with the intention of conveying grace and Southern hospitality. Includes 18 slides of her thesis exhibition and a CD-ROM including many more images in .jpg format.

Whose Tube? A Contributory Copyright Infringement Analysis Of The Pending Lawsuit, Robert Tur V. Youtube Inc., Philip Kunz

DePaul Journal of Art, Technology & Intellectual Property Law

No abstract provided.

E.S.S. Entertainment 2000, Inc. V. Rock Star Videos, Inc. 444 F. Supp. 2d 1012 (C.D. Cal. 2006), Yianni Kaiafas

DePaul Journal of Art, Technology & Intellectual Property Law

No abstract provided.

Gender Matters, Volume 12, Issue 2, November/December 2006, Women's, Gender, And Sexuality Studies Program

Gender Matters (2006-2011)

A bulletin of the Illinois State University Women’s and Gender Studies program, Volume 12, Issue 2, November/December 2006.

Reflection In Action: Constructive Narratives Of Experience, Nilofar Vazir

Institute for Educational Development, Karachi

This paper examines narratives of experience from teachers’ lives. It locates teachers as academic constructors of knowledge and uses the cases of reflective practice and inquiry in the development of self‐knowledge. I explore teachers knowledge in light of my own understanding from literature, research findings on beginning teachers, reflections on my personal experiences; my development as a teacher overseas and in my country Pakistan. Most importantly as self‐reflection I offer Pakistan’s move to construct professional knowledge and my own attempt as a teacher educator to aspire towards that goal.

A Pakistani Teacher Educator’S Self-Study Of Teaching Self-Study Research, Ayesha Bashiruddin

Institute for Educational Development, Karachi

This paper describes a teacher educator’s self-study of work with her M.Ed. students at a private international university in Pakistan. This systematic inquiry highlights changes and improvements in teaching drawn from experiences of practice based on autobiographies. Analysis shows that improvement in teaching came from the author’s learning through self-study. Analysis also reveals implications for teacher educators and teacher education in general.

Survey Results From Improving The State Superfund Process (2006), Robin K. Saha

Environmental Studies Faculty Publications

The report section contains a summary of the University of Montana's survey results in a memo submitted to the EQC by Robin Saha. The graduate students conducted research requested to support the investigation regarding House Joint Resolution 34 on challenges that occur at Superfund sites under the federal Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), the state Comprehensive Environmental Cleanup and Responsibility Act (CECRA), and the Voluntary Cleanup and Redevelopment Act (VCRA). Students completed research for the six sites: Bozeman Solvent; Brewery Flats (Lewistown); Burlington Northern (Livingston); Lockwood Solvent; S&W Sawmill (Darby); and Upper Tenmile Creek (Rimini). The memo …

Reconciling Carbon-Cycle Concepts, Terminology, And Methods, F. S. Chapin Iii, G. M. Woodwell, J. Randerson, E. B. Rastetter, G. M. Lovett, Dennis Baldocchi, D. A. Clark, M. E. Harmon, D. S. Schimel, R. Valentini, C. Wirth, J. D. Aber, J. J. Cole, M. L. Goulden, J. W. Harden, M. Heimann, Robert W. Howarth, P. A. Matson, A. D. Mcguire, Jerry M. Melillo, H. A. Mooney, J. C. Neff, R. A. Houghton, M. L. Pace, M. G. Ryan, Steven W. Running, Osvaldo E. Sala, W. H. Schlesinger, E. D. Schulze

Numerical Terradynamic Simulation Group Publications

Recent projections of climatic change have focused a great deal of scientific and public attention on patterns of carbon (C) cycling as well as its controls, particularly the factors that determine whether an ecosystem is a net source or sink of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2). Net ecosystem production (NEP), a central concept in C-cycling research, has been used by scientists to represent two different concepts. We propose that NEP be restricted to just one of its two original definitions-the imbalance between gross primary production (GPP) and ecosystem respiration (ER). We further propose that a new term-net ecosystem carbon balance (NECB)-be …

Psychology And Bapcpa: Enhanced Disclosure And Emotion, Richard L. Wiener, Michael Holtje, Ryan J. Winter, Jason A. Cantone

Missouri Law Review

This article describes a program of research that applies social analytic jurisprudence to test some of the assumptions in consumer bankruptcy law and policy.4 Our work first seeks to describe selected provisions from the newly enacted bankruptcy amendments that pertain to enhanced disclosure requirements, and then to locate some of the behavioral assumptions implicit in these provisions. 5 Next, we assess the accuracy of these assumptions based on an experiment that we conducted looking at a simulated online shopping trip that we constructed specifically to test the effects of enhanced disclosure

Will The Ecumenical Ship Sink?, Bishop Hilarion

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.

Ex Ante Choices Of Law And Forum: An Empirical Analysis Of Corporate Merger Agreements, Theodore Eisenberg, Geoffrey P. Miller

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

Legal scholars have focused much attention on the incorporation puzzle—why business corporations so heavily favor Delaware as the site of incorporation. This paper suggests that the focus on the incorporation decision overlooks a broader but intimately related set of questions. The choice of Delaware as a situs of incorporation is, effectively, a choice of law decision. A company electing to charter in Delaware selects Delaware law (and authorizes Delaware courts to adjudicate legal disputes) regarding the allocation of governance authority within the firm. In this sense, the incorporation decision is fundamentally similar to any setting in which a company selects …

Crystals, Mud, Bapcpa, And The Structure Of Bankruptcy Decisionmaking, R. Wilson Freyermuth

Missouri Law Review

As a real estate professor, I tend to focus on bankruptcy only as it intersects with mortgage law and Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code. Thus, I feel somewhat out of my element as a commenter in this symposium, and my observations may be suspect coming from a bankruptcy "outsider." But as an outside observer, it seems troublesome that bankruptcy's dispute resolution system - and particularly its multiple layers of appellate review - has always been so poorly designed to produce doctrinal clarity. And even if BAPCPA does resolve a number of specific legal issues that have bedeviled the …

Residential Privacy And Free Speech: Competing Interests In Charitable Solicitation Regulation, Marcus Wilbers

Missouri Law Review

Although these two quotations represent society's mixed feelings toward charity, they also represent a distinction people often make between a charity's aims and its means. Charitable organizations have the potential to spread hope, re-allocate societal resources, and advocate societal values. How they go about accomplishing these noble goals, however, is sometimes the subject of public frustration and annoyance. This creates a tension between admiring the charity's philanthropy and becoming irritated with the means used to achieve it. Undoubtedly, one of the most unwelcome guests in any household is a telemarketer. In fact, 98% of 1.78 million respondents to a recent …

Good In Theory, Bad In Practice: The Unintended Consequences Of Bapcpa's Credit Counseling Requirement, Katherine A. Jeter-Boldt

Missouri Law Review

On April 20, 2005, after nearly a decade of lobbying by the credit industry, President Bush signed the Bankruptcy Abuse and Consumer Protection Act (BAPCPA). The publicly stated goal of BAPCPA was to make bankruptcy less desirable so that debtors would stop abusing the protections of the Bankruptcy Code. Although Congress was motivated by laudable intentions, it is clear that BAPCPA contains at least one good idea that does not work in practice - the credit counseling requirement. Under BAPCPA, a debtor must receive credit counseling before filing for bankruptcy. Not only did Congress fail to instruct judges on the …

Reform And Empire: The British And American Transnational Search For The Rights Of Black People In The Late Nineteenth And Early Twentieth Centuries, Thomas E. Smith

Department of History: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

Late nineteenth century modernity forced reformers in Great Britain and the United States to embrace a new sense of immediacy in their strategies. These new strategies, however, rarely extended to black people who were often subject to violence and discrimination in the period of high imperialism. Instead, when most reformers discussed the problems black people faced all they could offer were traditional promises of religious-based protections or “uplift.” The violence of lynching in the 1890s forced reformers to address the problems of white supremacy in a direct fashion, while promoting an understanding of the connection between the plight of African …

Institute For Regulatory Policy Studies Newsletter, Vol. 2, No. 1, November 2006, Illinois State University, Institute For Regulatory Policy Studies

Institute for Regulatory Policy Studies Newsletter

Newsletter of the Institute for Regulatory Policy Studies at Illinois State University

Opting Out Or Copping Out - An Argument For Strict Scrutiny Of Individual Contracts, Charles L. Knapp

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

No abstract provided.

Writing Your Own Rules: Contracting Out Of (And Into) The Uniform Commercial Code; Intrastate Choice Of Law, Fred H. Miller

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

No abstract provided.

An Essay On Article 2'S Irrelevance To Licensing Agreements, Raymond T. Nimmer

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

No abstract provided.

Catholicity Or Consensus? The Role Of The Consensus Patrum And The Vincentian Canon In Lutheran Orthodoxy: From Chemnitz To Quenstedt, Quentin Stewart

Doctor of Philosophy Dissertation

Stewart, Quentin D. "Catholicity or Consensus? The Role of the Consensus Patrum and the Vincentian Canon in Lutheran Orthodoxy: From Chemnitz to Quenstedt." Ph.D. diss., Concordia Seminary, 2006. 340 pp.

This dissertation traces the role played by the Vincentian Canon and its theological corollary, the consensus patrum, within the parameters of Lutheran Orthodoxy. Though Luther had no use for the consensus patrum, his chief colleague Philip Melanchthon had a high view of the consensus of the ancient church, especially whenever it could be applied to evangelical Lutheran theology. As a humanist, Melanchthon maintained a critical reverence for the ancient church …

Report, Spanish Language Materials, November 2006, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. Nelson Poynter Memorial Library

All-Library Assessments Reports, Summaries & Misc Reports

A report on Spanish language collections at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg's Nelson Poynter Memorial Library.

Nemo News, Volume 3, Issue 3, Uno Library Science Education

NEMO Newsletter

This issue of NEMO News features Advice from the Frontlines from Robin Bernstein, Student Spotlight on Joy Stortvedt, Alumni Spotlight on Sally Snyder, Announcements, Congratulations, and Holiday Wishes.

Guidance And Learn And Serve Program Partnerships: A View Towards Integration For Classroom Delivery, Bob Bhaerman, Harry Drier

School K-12

The purpose of this monograph is to stimulate a dialogue between counselors, their guidance programs, and classroom teachers about how they might work together to design or continue to and implement community service-learning efforts. We first will raise a series of questions on service-learning and then tum to exploring how and where guidance programs fit into service learning outcomes and activities. As you review the questions on service learning, think of the ways in which you, in your role as counselor and guidance program manager, might become a more meaningful partner with classroom teachers. This monograph helps us to see …

Assimilation And Contrast Effects In Cultural Frame Switching: Bicultural Identity Integration And Valence Of Cultural Cues, Chi-Ying Cheng, Fiona Lee, Veronica Benet-Martinez

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

This study examines how the valence of cultural cues in the environment moderates the way biculturals shift between multiple cultural identities. The authors found that when exposed to positive cultural cues, biculturals who perceive their cultural identities as compatible (high bicultural identity integration, or high BII) respond in culturally congruent ways, whereas biculturals who perceive their cultural identities as conflicting (low BII) respond in culturally incongruent ways. The opposite was true for negative cultural cues. These results show that both high and low BIIs can exhibit culturally congruent or incongruent behaviors, and have implications for understanding situations where high and …

Religious Groups And The Gay Rights Movement: Recognizing Common Ground, J. Brady Brammer

BYU Law Review

No abstract provided.