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Commonwealth Times 2006-08-24

Commonwealth Times, 1969-

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Selfish Form, Selfless Nature, Richard K. Sutton

Landscape Architecture Program: Faculty Scholarly and Creative Activity

Tension exists between the use of technology and human connection to nature. While architectural design begins in the imitation of nature and attempts to solve human/nature problems, its final forms too often have more to do with technology than with nature. So much so the natural conditions at building sites are too often ignored, minimized or trivialized, The culprit in all this is the human ego a master that must be served an becomes memorialized in built form.

August 24, 2006, Council On Academic Affairs

Minutes

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Daily Eastern News: August 24, 2006, Eastern Illinois University

August

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The Daily Gamecock, Thursday, August 24, 2006, University Of South Carolina, Office Of Student Media

August

No abstract provided.

Volume 44, Number 02: August 24, 2006, University Of North Dakota

University Letter Archive

No abstract provided.

August 24, 2006, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

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Beyond Broadcasting: The Constitutionality Of Indecency Regulation On Cable And Direct Broadcast Satellite Services, Matthew S. Schwartz

ExpressO

This paper argues that if the federal government is serious about its stated goals of protecting children and the sanctity of the home, then the Federal Communications Commission should expand indecency regulations to cable and satellite services. The current enforcement system – fining the handful of free broadcasters hundreds of thousands of dollars for each instance of indecency they air, while completely ignoring the much more extreme indecency commonplace on cable and satellite – is arbitrary and nonsensical. After discussing the relevant laws and precedent, the paper analyzes the regulatory history of broadcast, cable and satellite over the past few …

Ironic Misnomer: How The Term, "Partial-Birth Abortion," Reveals Why Attempts To Ban The Practice Have (So Far) Been Largely Unsuccessful, Samuel W. Calhoun

ExpressO

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The Law, Marketing And Behavioral Economics Of Consumer Rebates, Matthew A. Edwards

ExpressO

This paper deals with mail-in consumer rebates — a significant, yet controversial marketing practices that has generated thousands of consumer complaints, inspired countless articles in major periodicals, and begun to attract the interest of state and federal legislators. The paper first aims to provide an understanding of the purposes of consumer rebate offerings. It then surveys the main categories of consumer rebate complaints, including that firms impose onerous rebate redemption requirements and that they fail to pay rebate rewards in a timely manner. The paper draws on recent marketing, psychological and behavioral economics research to address the potent claim that …

Reverse Monitoring: On The Hidden Role Of Employee Stock Ownership Plans, Sharon Hannes

ExpressO

This paper develops a new understanding of equity-based compensation schemes, such as employee stock option plans. Current literature views such schemes as a measure aimed at motivating the recipient employees to work harder for the firm. Under such a view, this remuneration method either complements or substitutes other measures used to monitor the performance of the recipient employees. In contrast, this paper proposes that the recipient employee be viewed as the potential monitor of other employees and that stock options (or similar types of compensation) motivate her to fulfill this task. This view has many applications and can shed light …

August 23rd 2006, Hispanic News

Inland Empire Hispanic News

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Healthy Lifestyles Of Adults In A Work Setting, Kim Schafer Astroth

Dissertations

Nurses have a key role in promoting healthy lifestyles to reduce incidence of disease in adults. Since the 1980¿s, researchers have recognized readiness as a key component of adopting healthy lifestyle change. Prochaska¿s transtheoretical model, which contains readiness, or stage of change, served as the theoretical framework for the current study. The purpose of this study was to test an exercise behavior model, and in so doing: (a) compare the concurrence rates of exercise stage of change classifications obtained from the four selected exercise stage of change self-report measures; and (b) determine the relative strength of the predictive factors of …

With Start Of School Year, Parents Should Be Aware Of Signs Of Bullying, Lori Wright

Media Relations

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The Spinnaker Vol. 30 No. 2, University Of North Florida

Spinnaker

Student newspaper for the UNF community.

It's Happening At State: August 23, 2006

It's Happening at State

Provides summary information of news and events of interest to the faculty and staff of NDSU.

The Roddey Mcmillan Record - August 23, 2006, Winthrop University

The RMR 2000-2009

The Roddey McMillan Record (RMR) is Winthrop University's multicultural student publication. Originally the publication was produced once a year and later became a monthly publication.

The Convicted Felon As A Guardian: Considering The Alternatives Of Potential Guardians With Less-Than-Perfect Records, Mike Jorgensen

ExpressO

Courts require discretion in appointing guardians. Oftentimes, the legislature prevents the courts from exercising discretion when statutes are enacted that prohibit felons from serving as guardians under any circumstances. Yet, the need for guardians is increasing and will continue to do so due to the exponential growth in the aging elder population.

At the same time, however, the pool of potential guardians is shrinking in size. Additionally, the same reducing pool of eligible guardians is being attenuated further by having a disproportionate amount of felonies.

The groups most impacted by these trends are the indigent and the minorities. The indigent …

Judith Johnson Ada Article, Judith Johnson

ExpressO

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A Friendly Approach To Reducing Medical Malpractice Litigation, Aaron A. Bucco

ExpressO

A Friendly Approach to Reducing Medical Malpractice Litigation focuses on practical and feasible solutions to the rising threat of medical malpractice litigation by establishing that psychological principles are fundamental to point-of-care physician-patient interaction. Several universities discussed in the article have recognized the benefits of incorporating bedside manner techniques into the curriculum. The article attempts to extend the logic understood by those universities to medical malpractice insurance providers as a means to effectively preempt litigation as opposed to maintaining a reactive posture, or worse, limiting the rights of patients, thereby raising their guard and weakening their tolerance for error.

Daily Eastern News: August 22, 2006, Eastern Illinois University

August

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Volume 44, Number 01: August 22, 2006, University Of North Dakota

University Letter Archive

No abstract provided.

Participant Responses To Retrospective Surveys Of Child Maltreatment: Does Mode Of Assessment Matter? , David Dilillo, Sarah Degue, Amanda Kras, Andrea R. Di Loreto-Colgan, Cindy Nash

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

This study examines the impact that different methods of assessing child maltreatment history may have on adult participants. A total of 334 female undergraduate students were randomly assigned to complete a retrospective measure of child sexual and physical abuse in one of three conditions: paper-and-pencil questionnaire, face-to-face interview, or computer-administered survey. Disclosure rates of abuse, psychological distress and mood change, preferences for assessment format, and perceptions of confi dentiality were examined across the three assessment formats. Although disclosure did not vary by condition, participants with a history of abuse reported more distress and mood change than did nonvictims, particularly in …

The Bg News August 22, 2006, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. August 22, 2006. Volume 97-Issue 3.

The George-Anne, Georgia Southern University

The George-Anne

• Jiu Jitsu Takes GSU by Force
• Photo Essay
• Campus News
• News Briefs
• Classifieds
• Sports
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Courts, Cops, Citizens, And Criminals, Justin David Heminger

ExpressO

The Supreme Court's 4-1-4 split decision in Missouri v. Seibert causes confusion with regard to question-first Miranda violations. Courts apply a Marks narrowest ground analysis to decide which opinion in Seibert is controlling. However, the majority approach to Seibert, which finds Justice Kennedy's concurrence controlling, is incorrect. Instead, lower courts should resolve question-first Miranda violations by applying legal principles expressed in the plurality's decision.

Discounting, On Stilts, Douglas A. Kysar

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

This paper provides a critical overview of several articles presented at the Intergenerational Discounting and Intergenerational Equity Conference held at the University of Chicago Law School on April 27-28, 2006. First, it demonstrates that conventional normative justifications offered for the use of discounting future costs and benefits for policy analysis in the intergenerational context do not withstand scrutiny. Second, it observes that the compensatory transfers that are sometimes thought to sanitize the cost-benefit procedure in the intergenerational context are deeply problematic, both in their theoretical construction and in their practical adequacy for the tasks they are being deployed to accomplish. …

The Epistemic Consumption Object And Postsocial Consumption: Expanding Consumer‐Object Theory In Consumer Research, Detlev Zwick, Nikhilesh Dholakia

College of Business Faculty Publications

We introduce the concept of the epistemic consumption object. Such consumption objects are characterized by two interrelated features. First, epistemic consumption objects reveal themselves progressively through interaction, observation, use, examination, and evaluation. Such layered revelation is accompanied by an increasing rather than a decline of the object’s complexity. Second, such objects demonstrate a propensity to change their “face‐in‐action” vis‐à‐vis consumers through the continuous addition or subtraction of properties. The epistemic consumption object is materially elusive and this lack of ontological stability turns the object into a continuous knowledge project for consumers. Via this ongoing cycle of revelation and discovery, consumers …

Ddasaccident482, Hd-Aid

Global CWD Repository

Continuing his SOP drills he began to excavate the area of the source of the signal to the metal detector using the trowel issued to him for this purpose. He may not have been working to the SOP drill, as it seems likely that, because of the restricted area of work caused by the surrounding rocks, he was digging directly down to the mine, rather than digging across to the mine by excavating a small trench. An explosion occurred when the PMN antipersonnel mine, which was the source of the metal detector signal, detonated.

Economic And State Budget Cost Of Reducing The Consumptive Use Of Irrigation Water In The Platte And Republican Basins, Ray Supalla, Thomas V. Buell, Brian Mcmullen

Department of Agricultural Economics: Presentations, Working Papers, and Gray Literature

The potential costs to irrigators, the state economy and the state budget were estimated for different methods of reducing consumptive use (CU) of irrigation water in the Platte and Republican Basins. The policy methods considered included: leased retirement of irrigated land using a willing buyer-willing seller approach; required land retirement with lease payments equal to actual producer losses; retirement of irrigated land by purchasing water rights using a willing buyer-willing seller approach; forced retirement of irrigated land with the purchase price equal to actual market value; allocation with 100 percent producer compensation; and allocation with 50 percent producer compensation. Both …