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University Of Central Florida Libraries, Annual Report 2005-2006, Ucf Libraries Jan 2006

University Of Central Florida Libraries, Annual Report 2005-2006, Ucf Libraries

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Beyond The Buzzwords: A Perspective On Integrated Coastal And Ocean Management In Canada, Aldo Chircop, Lawrence Hildebrand Jan 2006

Beyond The Buzzwords: A Perspective On Integrated Coastal And Ocean Management In Canada, Aldo Chircop, Lawrence Hildebrand

Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press

It is now more than five years since the Oceans Act came into force as Canada’s modern legal framework for integrated coastal and ocean management (ICOM). Although there have been several integrated management initiatives at the national, regional and provincial level, the assessment of the record to date is not a simple matter.

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Access To Justice And The Evolution Of Class Action Litigation In Australia, Camille Cameron, Bernard Murphy Jan 2006

Access To Justice And The Evolution Of Class Action Litigation In Australia, Camille Cameron, Bernard Murphy

Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press

The federal and Victorian class action regimes are intended to facilitate aggregation of multiple claims. Aggregation can improve efficiency by combining similar claims and can enhance access to justice by providing a mechanism to litigate small claims. This article considers whether these efficiency and access aims are being achieved. The authors argue that whilst some developments in class action jurisprudence have been consistent with these legislative aims, other have not. Several features of Australian class action jurisprudence and practice have hampered the healthy development of the legislative regimes, including adverse costs orders, unclear threshold requirements, evasive posturing and unresolved class …

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Mapping Orientalism: Representations And Pedagogies, Diane Hoeveler, Jeffrey Cass Jan 2006

Mapping Orientalism: Representations And Pedagogies, Diane Hoeveler, Jeffrey Cass

English Faculty Research and Publications

In order to understand Orientalism it is necessary to realize, as Vincent T. Harlow has noted, that there were “two British empires.” The first empire consisted of the colonies in America and the West Indies and was established in the seventeenth century, with the explorations in the Pacific, and the trading networks that developed with Asia and Africa. The “second British empire” dates from 1783 and resulted from the loss of America, which in turn forced Britain to formulate new ideas about and approaches to its empire. The Colonial Office was set up in 1801, and, as Harlow observed, Britain …

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Newfound Religion: Mothers, God, And Infanticide, Susan Ayres Jan 2006

Newfound Religion: Mothers, God, And Infanticide, Susan Ayres

Fordham Urban Law Journal

This essay focuses on cultural constructions of infanticide and psychosis, especially cases in which the mother heard delusional commands to kill her children. Part I examines the background of the Yates, Laney, and Diaz cases. Part II explores whether these mothers can be seen paradoxically as feminist subjects of empowerment rather than as victims. This essay argues that psychotic mothers have been disempowered and silences, so their acts cannot be seen as subversive feminist gestures. Part III, however, argues that the legal trials of Laney and Diaz demonstrate a possible subversion through trial strategy. These two trials more fully told …

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No Penis, No Problem, Kay L. Levine Jan 2006

No Penis, No Problem, Kay L. Levine

Fordham Urban Law Journal

Over the past century and a half, the gendered essence of statutory rape has become deeply embedded in the purpose of the statute, extending its tentacles far beyond the statutory language, such that we can no longer extricate the male-on-female image from the formal law's requirements for prosecution. The reality of statutory rape is, however, far more complex than the traditional gender construct implies. Female sex abusers and male victims exist, in substantial numbers and varieties. Part I documents the statutory rape law's gendered essence, explaining the formal law's traditional gendered classification scheme, the Supreme Court's approval of that approach, …

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Sex Before Violence: Girls, Dating Violence, And (Perceived) Sexual Autonomy, Cheryl Hanna Jan 2006

Sex Before Violence: Girls, Dating Violence, And (Perceived) Sexual Autonomy, Cheryl Hanna

Fordham Urban Law Journal

This article explores the phenomenon of girl violence by examining teen dating violence and girls' experiences with intimate abuse both as victims and as perpetrators. While there is a tendency to view women's experiences as victims of violence as separate and distinct from their experiences as victims of violence, the two phenomena are interrelated. A girl's violent victimization can lead her to victimize someone else, just as her own violence can lead her to violent victimization. These conversations about young women and sexual behavior are especially important for lawyers and advocates. While the implementation of legal strategies such as civil …

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Mad Women And Desperate Girls: Infanticide And Child Murder In Law And Myth, Elizabeth Rapaport Jan 2006

Mad Women And Desperate Girls: Infanticide And Child Murder In Law And Myth, Elizabeth Rapaport

Fordham Urban Law Journal

This article first offers a comparison between the stereotype dominated understanding of infanticide and child homicide in the United States and the statistical landscape it obscures. It then turns to the history of the crime of infanticide, a history which confirms that a fascination with deviant women as long dominated the story of infanticide. The article concludes with the exploration of the "Good Mother Defense." That exploration reveals the extent to which the fate of a woman tried for child homicide hinges on whether the jury sees her as a good mother, rather than on the prosecutors' ability to prove …

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Rare & Inconsistent: The Death Penalty For Women, Victor L. Streib Jan 2006

Rare & Inconsistent: The Death Penalty For Women, Victor L. Streib

Fordham Urban Law Journal

Previous studies of the national landscape around the death penalty for women have identified and analyzed past themes and issues.22 This Article brings the analysis current through 2005, beginning with a reprise of the conversations about gender bias and disparity in the death penalty system. It appears that female offenders have always been treated differently from male offenders in the death penalty system, sometimes for reasons that are easily justifiable but too often simply because of sex bias. The next section of this Article explores the current death penalty era, identifying those women who have been sentenced to death, those …

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Mother Of Atrocities: Pauline Nyiramasuhuko's Role In The Rwandan Genocide, Carrie Sperling Jan 2006

Mother Of Atrocities: Pauline Nyiramasuhuko's Role In The Rwandan Genocide, Carrie Sperling

Fordham Urban Law Journal

This article describes Pauline Nyiramasuhuko's role in the Rwandan genocide and her case before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). It explores a woman's ability to be equally involved in atrocities by exploring Pauline's case. Her case challenges the myth than women, by their nature, are incapable of being warriors, and that somehow their roles as women and mothers prohibit them from planning or participating in depraved violence.

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Loyalt's Reward - A Felony Conviction: Recent Prosecutions Of High-Status Female Offenders, Michelle S. Jacobs Jan 2006

Loyalt's Reward - A Felony Conviction: Recent Prosecutions Of High-Status Female Offenders, Michelle S. Jacobs

Fordham Urban Law Journal

This Article analyzes white-collar female crime and compares several high profile cases to those of regular female offenders. It uses government statistical data on female crime to paint a portrait of the female offender. It then compares the prosecution of "street-level" and white-collar female offenders. The Article discusses the prosecutions of Martha Stewart, Betty, Vinson, and Lea Fastow. The Article argues that these women often share a similar trait of committing the crime out of loyalty to a man engaged in wrong-doing.

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The Feminist Pacifism Of Emily Greene Balch, Nobel Peace Laureate, Judy Whipps Jan 2006

The Feminist Pacifism Of Emily Greene Balch, Nobel Peace Laureate, Judy Whipps

Faculty Peer Reviewed Articles

Emily Greene Balch (1867–1961) was an international peace activist and social reformer who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946 for a lifetime of continuous work, primarily with women’s organizations, for the cause of justice. Balch was a founding member of the Women’s International League of Peace and Freedom and worked in an unofficial capacity with both the League of Nations and the United Nations. This essay brings Balch’s work as a feminist peace activist into dialogue with contemporary issues, illustrating that the women of the early twentieth century faced many of the same issues that feminist peace activists continue …

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Effects Of Rural High School Size And Socioeconomic Status On Achievement Of Tenth Graders, Peter W. O'Rourke Jan 2006

Effects Of Rural High School Size And Socioeconomic Status On Achievement Of Tenth Graders, Peter W. O'Rourke

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The current emphasis on the equal access to a qualityEducation for all children, highlighted in the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) legislation and Public Law 221 in Indiana has stimulated much discussion on the ability of schools urban, suburban, and rural to meet this challenge. Moreover, the thrust of currentEducational initiatives in Indiana emphasize the closing of achievement gaps between various student cohorts; of particular interest is the capacity of rural high schools to reduce this gap for economically disadvantaged students. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of enrollment size and socioeconomicstatus (SES) as measured …

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Effects Of Student Response System Use On Student Learning And Verbal Participation For A Sixth-Grade Mathematics Unit, Gary Thomas Grissom Ii Jan 2006

Effects Of Student Response System Use On Student Learning And Verbal Participation For A Sixth-Grade Mathematics Unit, Gary Thomas Grissom Ii

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this quasi-experimental quantitative study was to examine the effects of Student Response System (SRS) use on student learning and verbal participation in an authentic K-12 classroom environment for a sixth-grade mathematics unit on probability. A self-report survey was administered to report student attitudes regarding SRS use for the unit. A sample of 84 sixth-grade students from a rural Midwestern elementary school was used for the study by established grouping. Two sections of the sixth-grade class were used as the treatment condition of SRS use and two sections of the sixth-grade class were used as the control group …

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Jobs Are Going Overseas: The Discursive Construction Of Outsourcing, Vandana Pednekar-Magal, Kathryn Remlinger Jan 2006

Jobs Are Going Overseas: The Discursive Construction Of Outsourcing, Vandana Pednekar-Magal, Kathryn Remlinger

Peer Reviewed Articles

In this article we examine the discourse of outsourcing and globalization in India and the US as represented in global popular media; and show that it is rooted in a given range of ideological positions—revealed by identifying key arguments, vocabulary and linguistic structure of the texts. Ideological material, we argue, is enacted in the discursive structures of the text; and that the role of the state is discursively constructed through those positions.

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Characterization Of Nicotine’S Ability To Serve As A Negative Feature In A Pavlovian Appetitive Conditioning Task In Rats, Rick A. Bevins, Jamie L. Wilkinson, Matthew I. Palmatier, Hannah L. Siebert, Steven M. Wiltgen Jan 2006

Characterization Of Nicotine’S Ability To Serve As A Negative Feature In A Pavlovian Appetitive Conditioning Task In Rats, Rick A. Bevins, Jamie L. Wilkinson, Matthew I. Palmatier, Hannah L. Siebert, Steven M. Wiltgen

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

Rationale Pavlovian feature negative discriminations have been widely used to understand inhibitory conditioning processes using exteroceptive stimuli. Comparatively little is known about inhibitory conditioning processes using a drug state as a negative feature. A negative feature signals that presentation of a conditional stimulus (CS) will not be paired with an unconditioned stimulus. Objectives: The present research examined whether nicotine served as a negative feature and started characterizing its properties. Methods and results: In acquisition, rats received intermixed saline and nicotine (0.4 mg/kg, base) sessions. On saline sessions, a 15-s light CS was paired with 4-s access to sucrose; the CS …

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Identity Orientation, Voice, And Judgments Of Procedural Justice During Late Adolescence, Mark R. Fondacaro, Eve M. Brank, Jennifer Stuart, Sara Villanueva-Abraham, Jennifer Luescher, Penny S. Mcnatt Jan 2006

Identity Orientation, Voice, And Judgments Of Procedural Justice During Late Adolescence, Mark R. Fondacaro, Eve M. Brank, Jennifer Stuart, Sara Villanueva-Abraham, Jennifer Luescher, Penny S. Mcnatt

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

This study focused on the relationship between voice and judgments of procedural justice in a sample of older adolescents and examined potential moderating and mediating influences of identity orientation (personal, social, and collective) and negative emotional response. Participants read 1 of two different family conflict scenarios (voice and no voice) asking them to imagine themselves in a disagreement with their parents over grades and financial support. In the voice condition, parents were described as making their decision after listening to the participant’s input. In the no voice condition, parents were described as making their decision without listening to the participant’s …

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Canada’S External Constitution And Its Democratic Deficit, Stepan Wood, Stephen Clarkson Jan 2006

Canada’S External Constitution And Its Democratic Deficit, Stepan Wood, Stephen Clarkson

Articles & Book Chapters

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Developmental Needs Of Adolescents And Media, Laura M. Padilla-Walker Jan 2006

Developmental Needs Of Adolescents And Media, Laura M. Padilla-Walker

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

Adolescence is marked by a number of physical, cognitive, and social changes that interact to create a number of developmental needs specific to this age group. As adolescents seek to define themselves independently of their parents, they often turn to media as sources of self-socialization and of messages about their identity in terms of gender, sexuality, and ethnicity. Although parents and peers remain influential during this transition, this entry focuses on adolescents’ use of media to navigate developmental changes and cope with the daily difficulties of being teenagers, and on the role of media in shaping adolescents’ development of identity …

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Foreword, Harriet Miers Jan 2006

Foreword, Harriet Miers

SMU Law Review

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Appellate Practice And Procedure, Ladawn H. Conway, Holly M. Church Jan 2006

Appellate Practice And Procedure, Ladawn H. Conway, Holly M. Church

SMU Law Review

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Conflict Of Laws, James P. George, Anna K. Teller Jan 2006

Conflict Of Laws, James P. George, Anna K. Teller

SMU Law Review

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Family Law: Husband And Wife, Joseph W. Mcknight Jan 2006

Family Law: Husband And Wife, Joseph W. Mcknight

SMU Law Review

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Intellectual Property Law, David L. Mccombs, Phillip B. Philbin Jan 2006

Intellectual Property Law, David L. Mccombs, Phillip B. Philbin

SMU Law Review

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Smu Dedman School Of Law Roy R. Ray Lecture Freedom Of The Press In Time Of War, Geoffrey R. Stone Jan 2006

Smu Dedman School Of Law Roy R. Ray Lecture Freedom Of The Press In Time Of War, Geoffrey R. Stone

SMU Law Review

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Tort Suits Filed By Rape And Sexual Assault Victims In Civil Courts: Lessons For Courts, Classrooms And Constituencies, Ellen M. Bublick Jan 2006

Tort Suits Filed By Rape And Sexual Assault Victims In Civil Courts: Lessons For Courts, Classrooms And Constituencies, Ellen M. Bublick

SMU Law Review

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The Changing Culture Of American Land Use Regulation: Paying For Growth With Impact Fees, Ronald H. Rosenberg Jan 2006

The Changing Culture Of American Land Use Regulation: Paying For Growth With Impact Fees, Ronald H. Rosenberg

SMU Law Review

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Replacing The Federal Income Tax With A Postpaid Consumption Tax: Preliminary Thoughts Regarding A Government Matching Program For Wealthy Investors And A New Tax Policy Lens, J. Clifton Fleming Jr. Jan 2006

Replacing The Federal Income Tax With A Postpaid Consumption Tax: Preliminary Thoughts Regarding A Government Matching Program For Wealthy Investors And A New Tax Policy Lens, J. Clifton Fleming Jr.

SMU Law Review

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Implementation Of Image Processing Approach To Translation Of Asl Finger-Spelling To Digital Text, Divya Mandloi, Kanthi Sarella, Chance Glenn Jan 2006

Implementation Of Image Processing Approach To Translation Of Asl Finger-Spelling To Digital Text, Divya Mandloi, Kanthi Sarella, Chance Glenn

Articles

The present analysis is the phase one of a broader project, the Sign2 Project, which is focused on a complete technological approach to the translation of American Sign Language (ASL) finger-spelling to digital audio and/or text. The methodology adopted in this analysis employs a grayscale image processing technique. We will describe the latest results as well as future enhancements to the system. This paper will also discuss the application of the approach to the telecommunication Industry.

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Twisted Solenoids And Maps Of R2 Whose Minimal Sets Are Cantor Sets, William Basener, Carl V. Lutzer Jan 2006

Twisted Solenoids And Maps Of R2 Whose Minimal Sets Are Cantor Sets, William Basener, Carl V. Lutzer

Articles

We construct homeomorphisms of R2 that have a Cantor set which is a minimal set. Some of these homeomorphisms are proven to be C^(infinity), while the others are conjectured to be nondifferentiable (Refer to PDF file for exact formulas).

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