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Against Sovereignty: A Cautionary Note On The Normative Power Of The Actual, Patrick Mckinley Brennan Nov 2006

Against Sovereignty: A Cautionary Note On The Normative Power Of The Actual, Patrick Mckinley Brennan

Notre Dame Law Review

No abstract provided.


Framing Effects And Regulatory Choice, Jonathan Remy Nash Nov 2006

Framing Effects And Regulatory Choice, Jonathan Remy Nash

Notre Dame Law Review

No abstract provided.


Punishing Children In The Criminal Law, Cynthia V. Ward Nov 2006

Punishing Children In The Criminal Law, Cynthia V. Ward

Notre Dame Law Review

No abstract provided.


Having One's Property And Eating It Too: When The Article 9 Security Interest Becomes A Nuisance, Lawrence Ponoroff, F. Stephen Knippenberg Nov 2006

Having One's Property And Eating It Too: When The Article 9 Security Interest Becomes A Nuisance, Lawrence Ponoroff, F. Stephen Knippenberg

Notre Dame Law Review

No abstract provided.


Low-Latency Broadcast In Multirate Wireless Mesh Networks, Chun Tung Chou, Archan Misra, Junaid Qadir Nov 2006

Low-Latency Broadcast In Multirate Wireless Mesh Networks, Chun Tung Chou, Archan Misra, Junaid Qadir

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

In a multirate wireless network, a node can dynamically adjust its link transmission rate by switching between different modulation schemes. In the current IEEE802.11a/b/g standards, this rate adjustment is defined for unicast traffic only. In this paper, we consider a wireless mesh network (WMN), where a node can dynamically adjust its link-layer multicast rates to its neighbors, and address the problem of realizing low-latency network-wide broadcast in such a mesh. We first show that the multirate broadcast problem is significantly different from the single-rate case. We will then present an algorithm for achieving low-latency broadcast in a multirate mesh which …


Understanding User Perceptions On Usefulness And Usability Of An Integrated Wiki-G-Portal, Yin-Leng Theng, Yuanyuan Li, Ee Peng Lim, Zhe Wang, Dion Hoe-Lian Goh, Chew-Hung Chang, Kalyani Chatterjea, Jun Zhang Nov 2006

Understanding User Perceptions On Usefulness And Usability Of An Integrated Wiki-G-Portal, Yin-Leng Theng, Yuanyuan Li, Ee Peng Lim, Zhe Wang, Dion Hoe-Lian Goh, Chew-Hung Chang, Kalyani Chatterjea, Jun Zhang

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

This paper describes a pilot study on Wiki-G-Portal, a project integrating Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia, into G-Portal, a Web-based digital library, of geography resources. Initial findings from the pilot study seemed to suggest positive perceptions on usefulness and usability of Wiki-G-Portal, as well as subjects' attitude and intention to use.


Smartic: Towards Building An Accurate, Robust And Scalable Specification Miner, David Lo, Siau-Cheng Khoo Nov 2006

Smartic: Towards Building An Accurate, Robust And Scalable Specification Miner, David Lo, Siau-Cheng Khoo

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Improper management of software evolution, compounded by imprecise, and changing requirements, along with the “short time to market ” requirement, commonly leads to a lack of up-to-date specifications. This can result in software that is characterized by bugs, anomalies and even security threats. Software specification mining is a new technique to address this concern by inferring specifications automatically. In this paper, we propose a novel API specification mining architecture called SMArTIC (Specification Mining Architecture with Trace fIltering and Clustering) to improve the accuracy, robustness and scalability of specification miners. This architecture is constructed based on two hypotheses: (1) Erroneous traces …


The International Protection Of Cultural Property: Some Skeptical Observations, Eric A. Posner Nov 2006

The International Protection Of Cultural Property: Some Skeptical Observations, Eric A. Posner

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

Cultural property is subject to two international legal regimes, one of which protects cultural property during wartime, and the other of which regulates the international trade in cultural property. Neither legal regime has been notably successful. Cultural property is often targeted and destroyed during wars, or given inadequate protection. And the international trade in cultural property flourishes because states have been unwilling to invest resources in controlling it. As a result, scholars and advocates argue that both legal regimes should be strengthened. Sanctions should be enhanced; states should be forced to devote greater resources to complying with treaties; treaty obligations …


Workable Sisterhood: The Political Journey Of Stigmatized Women With Hiv/Aids. [Book Review]., Deborah H. Charbonneau Nov 2006

Workable Sisterhood: The Political Journey Of Stigmatized Women With Hiv/Aids. [Book Review]., Deborah H. Charbonneau

Library Scholarly Publications

No abstract provided.


University Of Minnesota, Morris Strategic Plan (2006), Strategic Positioning Task Force Nov 2006

University Of Minnesota, Morris Strategic Plan (2006), Strategic Positioning Task Force

Campus Documents and Reports

The University of Minnesota, Morris Strategic Positioning Task Force was charged by Senior Vice President Robert Jones and Chancellor Sam Schuman to identify Morris’ unique contribution to the University’s goal of becoming one of the top three public research universities in the world and recommend new ways to serve our students and the state while engaging in bold and visionary thinking to identify strategies that will propel us forward.


Got Wheels - Article 2a, Standardized Rental Car Terms, Rational Inaction, And Unilateral Private Ordering, Irma S. Russell Nov 2006

Got Wheels - Article 2a, Standardized Rental Car Terms, Rational Inaction, And Unilateral Private Ordering, Irma S. Russell

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

No abstract provided.


Is Arbitration Lawless, Christopher R. Drahozal Nov 2006

Is Arbitration Lawless, Christopher R. Drahozal

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

No abstract provided.


Contracting Out Of Revised Ucc Article 5 (Letters Of Credit), James E. Byrne Nov 2006

Contracting Out Of Revised Ucc Article 5 (Letters Of Credit), James E. Byrne

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Ethics Of Invalid And Iffy Contracts Clauses, Christina L. Kunz Nov 2006

The Ethics Of Invalid And Iffy Contracts Clauses, Christina L. Kunz

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

No abstract provided.


Constitutional Collectivism And Ex-Offender Residence Exclusion Laws, Wayne A. Logan Nov 2006

Constitutional Collectivism And Ex-Offender Residence Exclusion Laws, Wayne A. Logan

Scholarly Publications

The U.S. has often been imperiled by the competing interests of individual states, and while past threats have most frequently assumed economic or political form, this article addresses a different threat: state efforts to limit where ex-offenders (those convicted of sex crimes in particular) can live. The laws have thus far withstood constitutional challenge, with courts deferring to the police power of states. This deference, however, ignores the negative externalities created when states jettison their human dross, and defies Justice Cardozo's oft-repeated constitutional tenet that the “the peoples of the several states must sink or swim together.” The article discusses …


A Conversation With Harry Martz, Paul H. Kvam Nov 2006

A Conversation With Harry Martz, Paul H. Kvam

Department of Math & Statistics Faculty Publications

Harry F. Martz was born June 16, 1942 and grew up in Cumberland, Maryland. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics (with a minor in physics) from Frostburg State University in 1964, and earned a Ph.D. in statistics at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 1968. He started his statistics career at Texas Tech University's Department of Industrial Engineering and Statistics right after graduation. In 1978, he joined the technical staff at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in Los Alamos, New Mexico after first working as Full Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering at Utah State …


Objectifying Anxieties: Scientific Ideologies In Bram Stoker’S Dracula And The Lair Of The White Worm, Diane Hoeveler Nov 2006

Objectifying Anxieties: Scientific Ideologies In Bram Stoker’S Dracula And The Lair Of The White Worm, Diane Hoeveler

English Faculty Research and Publications

Scientific ideologies swirl throughout Stoker’s two most gothic novels, Dracula (1897) and The Lair of the White Worm (1911), and this essay will address those ideologies as literary manifestations of just some of the “weird science” that was permeating late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Europe. Specifically, the essay examines racial theories, physiognomy, criminology, brain science, and sexology as they appear in Stoker’s two novels. Stoker owned a copy Johann Caspar Lavater’s five-volume edition of Essays on Physiognomy (1789), and declared himself to be a “believer of the science” of physiognomy. The second major “weird science” infecting the gothic works of Stoker is …


The Hilltop 11-1-2006, Hilltop Staff Nov 2006

The Hilltop 11-1-2006, Hilltop Staff

The Hilltop: 2000 - 2010

No abstract provided.


Table Of Contents - Cardozo Law Review, Volume 28, Issue 2 Nov 2006

Table Of Contents - Cardozo Law Review, Volume 28, Issue 2

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Poetic Justice, Jim Chen Nov 2006

Poetic Justice, Jim Chen

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Using The Courts To Influence The Implementation Of No Child Left Behind, Benjamin Michael Superfine Nov 2006

Using The Courts To Influence The Implementation Of No Child Left Behind, Benjamin Michael Superfine

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.


Maryland's "Wal-Mart" Act: Policy And Preemption, Edward A. Zelinsky Nov 2006

Maryland's "Wal-Mart" Act: Policy And Preemption, Edward A. Zelinsky

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.


An Unwarranted Disparity: Granting Fast-Track Departures In Non-Fast-Track Districts, Evan W. Bolla Nov 2006

An Unwarranted Disparity: Granting Fast-Track Departures In Non-Fast-Track Districts, Evan W. Bolla

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 Nov 2006

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 Nov 2006

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. …


Efforts To Split The Ninth Circuit Unsuccessful In The 109th Congress, Carl W. Tobias Nov 2006

Efforts To Split The Ninth Circuit Unsuccessful In The 109th Congress, Carl W. Tobias

Law Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


Security In Pervasive Computing: Current Status And Open Issues, Munirul Haque, Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed Nov 2006

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 Nov 2006

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.


Two In Vivo Surgical Approaches For Lumbar Corpectomy Using Allograft And A Metallic Implant: A Controlled Clinical And Biomechanical Study, Philbert Huang, Munish C. Gupta, Nesrin Sarigul-Klijn, Scott Hazelwood Nov 2006

Two In Vivo Surgical Approaches For Lumbar Corpectomy Using Allograft And A Metallic Implant: A Controlled Clinical And Biomechanical Study, Philbert Huang, Munish C. Gupta, Nesrin Sarigul-Klijn, Scott Hazelwood

Biomedical Engineering

Background context: Both bone graft and metallic implants have been used in combination with the necessary anterior rod or plate instrumentation to fill the voids left by vertebral body removal, with the ultimate goal of restoring stability. One type of device that has recently been introduced is an expandable titanium telescoping cage that is designed to be used as a strut implant to fill corpectomy defects. The use of these devices has met varying success. Acceptance by surgeons and spine biomechanicians has been limited by clinical failure with subsequent loss of reduction and increase in kyphosis. In order to further …


Continuing An American Legacy Of Racial And Cultural Injustice: A Critical Look At Bonnichsen V. United States, Ashley Young Nov 2006

Continuing An American Legacy Of Racial And Cultural Injustice: A Critical Look At Bonnichsen V. United States, Ashley Young

DePaul Journal of Art, Technology & Intellectual Property Law

No abstract provided.