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How Do Aesthetics Affect Our Ecology?, Zsuzsi I. Kovacs, Carri J. Leroy, Dylan G. Fischer, Sandra Lubarsky, William Burke

Journal of Ecological Anthropology

Beauty is a powerful force that affects both our emotions and our ecological practices, yet aesthetic values remain understated and under-discussed in ecology. Here we invite discussion about the influence of beauty on ecological research by outlining: 1) how aesthetics affect the practice of ecology, and 2) how aesthetics affect the implementation of ecological research on the landscape. The aesthetic sensibilities of ecologists develop through personal experiences and are enriched by professional training, including ecological coursework, fieldwork, research and discussion. Many ecologists choose an ecological career because it offers an opportunity to work in beautiful, natural places. However, these values …

Risks Of Atrazine Use To Federally Listed Endangered Barton Springs Salamanders (Eurycea Sosorum)

KIP Data Sets and Technical Reports

The purpose of this assessment is to make an "effects determination" for the Barton Springs salamander (Eurycea sosorum) by evaluating the potential direct and indirect effects of the herbicide atrazine on the survival, growth, and reproduction of this Federally endangered species. This assessment was completed in accordance with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) Endangered Species Consultation Handbook (USFWS/NMFS, 1998), the August 5, 2004 Joint Counterpart Endangered Species Act Section 7 Consultation Regulations specified in 50 CFR Part 402 (USFWS/NMFS, 2004a; FR 69 47732-47762), and procedures outlined in the Agency's Overview Document (U.S. …

Student Code Of Conduct Handbook, 2006-2007, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg. Division Of Student Affairs

Student Handbooks

The student code of conduct handbook for the University of South Florida St. Petersburg for the 2006-2007 academic year.

Humor And Laughter May Influence Health: Ii. Complementary Therapies And Humor In A Clinical Population, Mary Payne Bennett, Cecile Lengacher

Nursing Faculty Publications

Our results support a connection between sense of humor and self-reported physical health, however, it is difficult to determine the relationship to any specific disease process. Whereas relationships between sense of humor and self-reported measures of physical well-being appear to be supported, more research is required to determine interrelationships between sense of humor and well-being.

Humor And Laughter May Influence Health. I. History And Background, Mary Payne Bennett, Cecile A. Lengacher

Nursing Faculty Publications

Articles in both the lay and professional literature have extolled the virtues of humor, many giving the impression that the health benefits of humor are well documented by the scientific and medical community. The concept that humor or laughter can be therapeutic goes back to biblical times and this belief has received varying levels of support from the scientific community at different points in its history. Current research indicates that using humor is well accepted by the public and is frequently used as a coping mechanism. However, the scientific evidence of the benefits of using humor on various health related …

Misfearing: A Reply, Cass R. Sunstein

Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper Series

Human beings are prone to "misfearing": Sometimes they are fearful in the absence of significant danger, and sometimes they neglect serious risks. Misfearing is a product of bounded rationality, and it produces serious problems for individuals and governments. This essay is a reply to a review of Laws of Fear by Dan M. Kahan, Paul Slovic, Donald Braman, and John Gastil, who contend that "cultural cognition," rather than bounded rationality, explains people's fears. The problem with their argument is that cultural cognition is a product of bounded rationality, not an alternative to it. In particular, cultural differences are largely a …

Should We Aggreegate Mental Hospitalization And Prison Population Rates In Empirical Research On The Relationship Between Incarceration And Crime, Unemployment, Poverty And Other Social Indicators?, Bernard E. Harcourt

Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper Series

The incarceration explosion of the late twentieth century set off a storm of longitudinal research on the relationship between rates of imprisonment and crime, unemployment, education, and other social indicators. Those studies, however, are flawed because they fail to measure confinement properly. They rely on imprisonment data only, and ignore historical rates of mental hospitalization. With the exception of a discrete literature on the interdependence of the mental hospital and prison populations and some studies on explanations for the prison expansion, none of the empirical work related to the incarceration explosion—or for that matter, older research on the prison-crime and …

Accelerometry As An Estimate Of Energy Expenditure In Healthy Children And Children With Cerebral Palsy During Self-Paced Ambulation, Joseph F. Norman

Internet Journal of Allied Health Sciences and Practice

Oxygen consumption (VO2) is the criterion standard for determining energy expenditure during activity. Newer technologies have resulted in the development of portable metabolic gas analyzers capable of measuring VO2 during a wide range of physical activities in the field. Unfortunately, use of these devices is still limited due to the cost, availability and skill level required to utilize this newer technology. However, there is an instrument which may be utilized. Accelerometers are a type of physical activity monitor that provide estimates of energy expenditure and may potentially be of more practical use in the clinical setting. Purpose: This study was …

Importing Extended Producer Responsibility For Electronic Equipment Into The United States, Chad Raphael, Ted Smith

Communication

Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) is a policy approach that holds manufacturers accountable for the full costs of their products at every stage in their life cycle. EPR typically involves requiring that producers take back their products at the end of their useful lives, or pay a recycling contractor to do so, thereby internalizing the costs of recycling or disposal in a manufacturer’s bottom line. When companies know that they will bear the costs of product return and recycling, they are more likely to redesign their products for easier and safer handling at each step in the life cycle. This approach …

2006 Children's Legislative Report Card, Children's Advocacy Institute, University Of San Diego School Of Law

Children's Legislative Report Card

No abstract provided.

Engaged Surrender In The Void: Post-Secularist "Human" Rights Discourse And Muslim Feminists [Sic], Emily A. Hartigan

Faculty Articles

Human rights discourse is inherently multicultural, and multicultural discourse is messy. The reality of discourse on the post-secular manifests in various books and websites. This manifestation has led to religion resurfacing in the public realm. At some level, the academy that poses as secular is a small and politically inconsequential voice in the national and international arena. Among the restrictions that secular discourse would attempt to dictate are those suggested in projects to re-enchant a world that has become spiritually, epistemically, politically, and perhaps humanly desiccated by the relegation of talk of the sacred to the private realm.

The purely …

2006 Lindenwood University President’S Report, Dennis Spellmann

State of the University Address (Formerly Annual Reports or President's Reports/)

The 2006 annual report of Lindenwood University.

Ua64/2 The Challenge: Magazine Of The Center For Gifted Studies (No. 16, Winter 2006), Center For Gifted Studies, Tracy Inman Editor

Gifted Studies Publications

No abstract provided.

Organizational Culture Of Educational Non-Government Organizations In Post-Soviet Azerbaijan, Eddie Mcgee

Capstone Collection

This research is an ethnography of the organizational culture of four education-oriented local non-government organizations (LNGOs) in Ganje, Azerbaijan. To get a sense of the distinct features of the organizational culture of these LNGOs, qualitative research methods consisting of participant observation, formal interviews, SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) analysis, focus group discussions, and analysis of organizational literature were undertaken. Bolman and Deal's Four Frames model (structural, human resource, political, and symbolic) lends a perspective on the organizational culture of the LNGOs in terms of 1) organizational mission 2) rules, roles and relationships of members 3) service delivery 4) relations with …

Vivre Intensément L’Humain: Une Exploration Du Deuil Aprè Le Vih-Sida, Susan Cadell, Dennis Haubrich

Lyle S. Hallman Social Work Faculty Publications

Cette étude a pour but d’explorer l’expérience d’individus ayant pris soin de personnes décédées des complications dues au VIHsida. Des questions ouvertes ont permis d’analyser les expériences positives aussi bien que négatives de quinze personnes interviewées. Considérée comme ressource potentielle, la spiritualité faisait partie des sujets abordés dans cette étude. Les expériences positives prennent parfois racine dans la spiritualité et la religion. La spiritualité dans le deuil était très importante pour les soignants.

The New Jersey Constitution: Positive Rights, Common Law Entitlements, And State Action, Helen Hershkoff

Faculty Articles

During the last half of the twentieth century, the New Jersey Supreme Court built an impressive reputation for its “intellectually rigorous and forcefully progressive” interpretations of state constitutional law. The court’s status as a jurisprudential entrepreneur rests, in part, on decisions that involve social and economic life—most notably, its enforcement of the positive right to an adequate education. However, the court’s commitment to material well-being has not stopped at the border of state action. In contrast to federal doctrine, the New Jersey Supreme Court has shown a willingness to reconfigure contract and property rights in light of public policies that …

Montesquieu On Commerce, Conquest, War And Peace, Robert L. Howse

Faculty Articles

Commerce does not guarantee or secure peace in a world of sovereign states; rather, commerce represents for Montesquieu an alternative to a world of sovereign states, of closed political communities—a model of peaceful social cooperation that requires laws and conventions, certainly, but of a transnational, transpolitical kind. We now understand the meaning of Montesquieu’s notion that the model for law is not nomos (the custom or way of a particular society or community) but something more universal, a concept of order or structure that is prior to and more fundamental than nomos. However, while implicit in the idea of law, …

Backdoor Federalization, Samuel Issacharoff, Catherine M. Sharkey

Faculty Articles

Two primary arguments are advanced for the contemporary functional importance of federalist constraints on centralized political power. The first is captured in Justice Brandeis's famous invocation of the states as the laboratories of democracy in which "a single courageous State" may blaze new paths by trying "novel social and economic experiments." The second ties the smaller, decentralized scale of subnational units to a more robust democratic accountability, by which "government is brought closer to the people, and democratic ideals are more fully realized." This Article is largely about circumstances in which these two arguments for federalism fail. The question that …

Pathological Patenting: The Pto As Cause Or Cure, Rochelle C. Dreyfuss

Faculty Articles

Reviews the book "Innovation and Its Discontents: How Our Broken Patent System Is Endangering Innovation and Progress and What To Do About It," by Adam B. Jaffe and Josh Lerner.

Behavioral Economics: Human Errors And Market Corrections, Richard A. Epstein

Faculty Articles

As a matter of first principles, it seems impossible to deny two facts about human nature. First, people often make serious mistakes in deciding important matters. Second, people often find it hardest to keep their emotions in check when it matters the most. My task here is not to deny these obvious truths, but to ask about their significance in certain transactional settings. One key link in that inquiry is how individuals who suffer from both cognitive and emotional impairments can be regarded as "rational." Stated otherwise, do people with these dual limitations by and large make responsible decisions in …

What, Me Worry? The Multi-Front Assault On Privacy, Andrew Askland

Saint Louis University Public Law Review

No abstract provided.

Personal Information In Government Records: Protecting The Public Interest In Privacy, Grayson Barber

Saint Louis University Public Law Review

No abstract provided.

“What Is Sauce For The Gander Is Sauce For The Goose:” Enforcing Child Support On Former Same-Sex Partners Who Create A Child Through Artificial Insemination, Michael L. Hopkins

Saint Louis University Public Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Saint Louis University Public Law Review

No abstract provided.

Executing People With Mental Disabilities: How We Can Mitigate An Aggravating Situation, Ronald J. Tabak

Saint Louis University Public Law Review

No abstract provided.

Mental Health Courts And Title Ii Of The Ada: Accessibility To State Court Systems For Individuals With Mental Disabilities And The Need For Diversion, Ronda Cress, J. Neil Grindstaff, S. Elizabeth Malloy

Saint Louis University Public Law Review

No abstract provided.

Mental Illness And The Death Penalty, Eileen P. Ryan, Sarah B. Berson

Saint Louis University Public Law Review

No abstract provided.

Capital Punishment And Mental Health Issues: Global Examples, Nicola Browne, Seema Kandelia, Rupa Reddy, Peter Hodgkinson, O.B.E.

Saint Louis University Public Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Insanity Defense: History And Problems, James F. Hooper, M.D.

Saint Louis University Public Law Review

No abstract provided.

2006-07 Granite State College - Undergraduate Catalog, Granite State College

Granite State College Catalogs

No abstract provided.