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Spread Spectrum Is Good-But It Does Not Obsolete Nbc V. U.S.!, Charles Jackson, Raymond Pickholtz, Dale Hatfield

Federal Communications Law Journal

The Authors criticize recent statements by leading legal commentators suggesting that the development of spread spectrum has eliminated radio interference and helped make the underlying legal foundations for regulating spectrum obsolete. The Authors provide a non-technical explanation of how spread spectrum works and why it does not have the effect of eliminating radio interference. The Authors conclude that new technologies are likely to increase the availability of usable spectrum, but they have not wiped out the problem of interference.

Reflections On The Role Of Appellate Courts: A View From The Supreme Court, Stephen G. Breyer

The Journal of Appellate Practice and Process

No abstract provided.

2006 Abstract Book, Undergraduate Research Forum

Undergraduate Creative Activities and Research Forum Abstract Books

No abstract provided.

Challenges And Opportunities In Finfish Nutrition, Jesse Trushenski, Craig Kasper, Christopher Kohler

Publications

Much of the criticism leveled at aquaculture (e.g., dependency on animal-derived feedstuffs, nutrient-laden effluent discharges, and increased organic contamination in edible products) can be traced to the feeds in use. Accordingly, finfish nutritionists are being challenged to formulate feeds that not only meet the nutritional requirements of livestock but also minimize production costs, limit environmental impacts, and enhance product quality. These challenges not only add considerable complexity to finfish nutrition but also afford opportunities to avoid some of the mistakes made by other industries in the past. From a review of the current status of finfish nutrition with respect to …

Breaking The Bank: Reconsidering Central Bank Of Denver After Enron And Sarbanes-Oxley, Celia R. Taylor

Missouri Law Review

This Article addresses one small aspect of gatekeeper liability, arguing that it is time to reinstate aiding and abetting liability for such "secondary actors" in suits brought by private parties under Section 10(b) and Rule I Ob-5 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the "'34 Act").' Although the Securities Exchange Commission (the "SEC") currently has the authority to pursue such claims, the Supreme Court in Central Bank of Denver, N.A. v. First Interstate Bank of Denver, N.A. ("Central Bank")2 held that private parties do not. Because aiding and abetting liability is an important weapon in the fight to deter …

Alaska Reflections, Volume 18, Number 1 – Spring 2006

United States Fish and Wildlife Service: Publications

Table of Contents:

Reflecting
Outreach News
“Chinese” Dunlin in Barrow!
Life’s Work
Out Foxed
Jack Paniyak
Submerged Salmon Surveilance
Awards
Fish Schticks

Sac Outreach Bulletin 2006, The South Asia Center

Newsletters from the South Asia Center

New faces at SU.

Association Mechanisms And The Intentionality Of The Mental, Mark Stephen Pestana

Articles, Book Chapters, Essays

This paper is an explanation of how the intentionality of perception is due to specific associations of sensations. It describes the intentionality of the mental and the problem that intentionality poses for accounts of the mind. The concept of "direction of fit" or "fulfillment of the act" is central to this description. An amalgamation of various recent interpretations of intentionality into a unified theory is presented along with an account of why even such a unified theory fails to account for direction of fit. The direction of fit of perceptual intentionality is then elucidated as a function of patterns of …

Toward A Formal Theory Of Flexible Spatial Behavior: Geometric Category Biases Generalize Across Pointing And Verbal Response Types, John P. Spencer, Vanessa R. Simmering, Anne R. Schutte

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

Three experiments tested whether geometric biases—-biases away from perceived reference axes—-reported in spatial recall tasks with pointing responses generalized to a recognition task that required a verbal response. Seven-year-olds and adults remembered the location of a dot within a rectangle and then either reproduced its location or verbally selected a matching choice dot from a set of colored options. Results demonstrated that geometric biases generalized to verbal responses; however, the spatial span of the choice set influenced performance as well. These data suggest that the same spatial memory process gives rise to both response types in this task. Simulations of …

Non-Analytical Thinking In Law Practice: Blinking In The Forest, Kandis Scott

Faculty Publications

Non-analytical thinking is indispensable to good legal representation .Despite its importance in law practice, it is devalued and neglected in the conventional law school curriculum. Even in clinical legal education, where the potential to teach students to use this mode of thinking is most obvious, the elevation of theory and analysis has stifled the impulse of clinical professors to teach students to "blink." One way law schools can counteract this trend, and thereby better train law students for practice, is to enhance clinical teachers' nonanalytical skills through more practice opportunities.

Articulating Silence In The Postcolonial Indian Novel, Kaelin O'Connell

Honors Theses

Whatever is worth seeing or hearing in India can be expressed in writing. As soon as everything of importance is expressed in writing, a man who is duly qualified may obtain more knowledge of India in one year, in his closet in England, than he could obtain during the course of the longest life, by the use of his eyes and ears in India.

-James Mill, The History of British India, 1817.

This quotation, from the first philosophical history of India, posits the common British colonial notion that language, specifically the written word, might capture all that is "worth …

Reflections - Spring 2006, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina

Reflections

Contents:

Groundbreaking Ceremonies Planned for New Thomas Cooper Library Wings..... p.1
Honorary Library Funds Established..... p.1
New Digital Collections..... p.2
Oral History Program Established at the South Caroliniana Library..... p.3
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Exhibit and Presentation Draw Appreciative Crowd..... p.4
Edwin E. Gordon Archive Dedicated..... p.4
University Libraries Join LOCKSS Program..... p.4
Bowers Exhibit and Panel Presented at TCL..... p.5
Fund Established to Document the Rise of the Republican Party in South Carolina..... p.5
In Memoriam: Carroll Ashmore Campbell Jr. 1940–2005..... p.5
William Jennings Bryan Dorn Young Scholar Prize Established at SCPC..... p.6
Dorn Collection Exhibited in Greenwood..... p.6
Outreach …

Producing Norms: Same-Sex Marriage, Refiguring Kinship And The Cultural Groundswell Of Queer Coupledom, Rob Cover

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

Poststructuralist feminism, postmodern inquiry, queer theory and various radical and liberal-humanist forms of lesbian/gay rights have worked to undo the claim to the naturalness of masculine-feminine and male-female complementarity in sex and relationships. That is, the rhetorical grounding of the very notion of relationship ‘coupledom’ has been put in question over the past half-century and opened the possibility of a radical reorganisation of modern kinship. The destabilising impact on much contemporary western legislation concerning family, children, IVF access, adoption, immigration rights and social security centers on whether or not the subject of that legislation is ‘single’ or ‘coupled’. Such legislation …

The Phenomenology Of Nonidentity And Theatrical Presence In M. Butterfly, William S. Haney Ii

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

David Henry Hwang’s postmodernist play M. Butterfly, abounds with alienation devices for deconstructing the notion of a unified subject. This essay, however, seeks to challenge the assumed poststructuralist vantage-point that the self and the metaphysics of presence are illusory by exploring what holds the play's identities together as dynamic matrices that function coherently within their discursive contexts. How tenable is the constructivist claim that our shifting subject positions designated by power relations are self-sustaining, that the self does not in fact extend beyond the material tokens of narrative conventions and discursive fields? Even if performers and audience can shift …

Otterbein Aegis Spring 2006, Otterbein Aegis

Aegis: The Otterbein Humanities Journal

Contents: Editor’s Introduction; Interview with Dr. Alan Lightman: At the Intersection of the Sciences and Humanities; Articles: Two Essays on Socrates: An Examination of Richard Kraut’s Liberalization of Socrates’ Political Philosophy —J. T. Craig; Would King Drink the Hemlock?: Socrates’ Views on King — Larsa Ramsini; The Not-So “Invisible Hand”: America’s Role in Haiti’s Endemic Poverty — Christina Amato; Philosophizing Disgrace: Anatomy and Analysis of Dylan’s “Hard Rain” — Adam Cottrel; A Priest of the Portrait as a Young Man: The Path to Stephen Dedalus’s Artistic Baptism — Adam Cottrel; The Moral Dilemma of Atomic Warfare — Edward Gunn; Jaingxi …

Genderless Marriage, Institutional Realities, And Judicial Elision, Monte Neil Stewart

Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy

The stuff of the marriage debate is not static. That is particularly true in the courts, where the legal definition of marriage is debated most thoroughly and most consequentially. This article addresses one of the new arguments advanced in support of man/woman marriage now drawing judicial attention, the argument from social institutional studies. The social institutional argument is a sufficient answer to the variety of constitutional challenges leveled against man/woman marriage. Yet to date, the courts holding for genderless marriage have chosen (consciously it appears) to elude rather than engage argument.

Effects Of Single Versus Multiple Verbal Operant Arrangements On The Acquisition Of Mands And Tacts In Preschool Children, Tina M. Sidener

Dissertations

Verbal Behavior programs for children diagnosed with autism typically teach novel language in the context of multiple verbal operant arrangements. Commonly called "mixed verbal behavior", this involves the interspersal of various exemplars across verbal operant categories. Despite the current recommended use of this teaching procedure, only 2 studies to date have empirically evaluated its effectiveness (i.e., Arntzen & Almas, 2001; Carroll & Hesse, 1987). In both of these studies, mixed mand-tact training resulted in faster mean acquisition of tacts than tact-only training. In Experiment 1 of the current investigation, a systematic replication of previous studies was conducted with 3 typically-developing …

University Reporter - Volume 10, Number 08 - April 2006

1996-2009, University Reporter

This issue of the University Reporter includes articles about the Center for Survey Research's work studying smoking cessation programs, campus recognition of actor and Dorchester native Kevin Chapman, campus support for athletics, and other news from UMass Boston.

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 …

If Your God Has Really Spoken To You… Then All The World Must Hear It: The Discourses Of Revelation And Satire In Salman Rushdie’S The Satanic Verses, Conrad William

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

In his essay, “Is Nothing Sacred?”, Salman Rushdie lays out a place for literature as an arena in which various perspectives may interact. He thereby provides a context for the controversy regarding his books, most particularly The Satanic Verses. Despite his claims, however, literature, as Rushdie conceives it, operates not simply as an arena for discourse but similarly as a rule-maker, controlling the discourse which operates within its bounds. The Satanic Verses, in particular, suggests that revelation as it passes through unstable and hybrid human language loses its authority and power to speak purely or dogmatically. In so …

Erisa's Casualties: Former Employees Duped Into Early Retirement - With Friends Like Erisa Who Needs Enemies?, Alexa Roberts

Denver Law Review

No abstract provided.

Thomas Cooper Society Newsletter - Spring 2006, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina

Thomas Cooper Society Newsletter

Contents:

Groundbreaking Ceremonies Planned for New Thomas Cooper Library Wings.....p.1
Library Fund Established to Honor Davy-Jo Ridge..... p.1
Susan Vreeland Speaks at Thomas Cooper Society Dinner..... p.2
Pope Brown Watercolors Available Online..... p.2
TCL Exhibits and Presentations Offer Educational Opportunities..... p.3
As Good as Gold: Library Volunteers..... p.4
Movietone News Sc reenings Presented at TCL..... p.4
Main Level Floor Plans for New TCL Wings..... p.5
Upcoming Exhibits at TCL..... p.5
New Acquisitions Memorialize Library Friends..... p.6
Class of 1956 Projects to Benefit Thomas Cooper Library..... p.6
Thomas Cooper Society Represented at South Carolina Book Festival..... p.6
The Donald J. and …

Human Rights, Moral Obligations, And Divine Commands, Ton Van Den Beld

Faith and Philosophy: Journal of the Society of Christian Philosophers

No abstract provided.

Doers Of The Living Word: Gospel Ideology And The African American Womanist Novel, Rebecca Erin Huskey

Dissertations

In Playing in the Dark, Toni Morrison issues a charge and illuminates the challenge that she and other African American writers face in defining the self through a racially oppressive language:

Neither blackness nor "people of color" stimulates in me notions of excessive, limitless love, anarchy, or routine dread. I cannot rely on these metaphorical shortcuts because I am a black writer struggling with and through a language that can powerfully evoke and enforce hidden signs of racial superiority, cultural hegemony, and dismissive "othering" of people and language which are by no means marginal or already and completely known and …

"I Have Heard Their Cry", Mathilde Frey

Shabbat Shalom: A Journal for Jewish-Christian Reconciliation

No abstract provided.

Supporting Second Language Acquisition In Head Start Classrooms, Laurie E. Coleman

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

That Was Totally Intense! A Study Of Emphatic Adverbial Modifiers In Male And Female Speech, Shellie Chiavetta

Inquiry Journal 2006

No abstract provided.

Balanced Literacy Versus Basal Reading Instruction For Urban African-American, Title I Third-Grade Students, Julie Ann Perkins

Theses and Dissertations in Urban Services - Urban Education

This study compared third-grade reading achievement of urban African-American, Title I students using a basal reading series with those using a balanced literacy program to determine whether the highly structured skills-based methods advocated by The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act actually foster or impede reading achievement in an urban school setting.

Two hundred forty-five third-grade African-American, Title I students from an urban elementary school in southeastern Virginia served as subjects for the study. Subjects were studied as intact groups to avoid disruption in the educational setting. Participants in the control group were third-grade classes of urban African-American, Title I …

Dance Halls, Masquerades, Body Protest And The Law: The Female Body As A Redemptive Tool Against Trinidad’S Gender-Biased Laws, Michle Alexandre

Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy

No abstract provided.

Pluma Fronteriza: Newsletter Of Chicano(A)/Latino(A) Writers Of The El Paso And Cd. Juárez Border Region, Utep Chicano Studies

Chicano Studies

Electronic newsletter of the Chicano(a)/Latino(a) Writers of the El Paso and Cd. Juárez Border Region.