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Introduction: Who Feels Their Pain - The Challenge Of Noneconomic Damges In Civil Litigation: Eleventh Annual Clifford Symposium On Tort Law And Social Policy, Stephan Landsman

DePaul Law Review

No abstract provided.

General Damages Are Incoherent, Incalculable, Incommensurable, And Inegalitarian (But Otherwise A Great Idea), Richard Abel

DePaul Law Review

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Pain And Suffering And Beyond: Some Thoughts On Recovery For Intangible Loss, Robert L. Rabin

DePaul Law Review

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A Comparative Law Look At Pain And Suffering Awards, Stephen D. Sugarman

DePaul Law Review

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Coming Down To Earth: Why Rights-Based Theories Of Tort Can And Must Address Cost-Based Proposals For Damages Reform, Benjamin C. Zipursky

DePaul Law Review

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Why Do Proposals Designed To Control Variability In General Damages (Generally) Fall On Deaf Ears? (And Why This Is Too Bad), Joseph Sanders

DePaul Law Review

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Two Conceptions Of Tort Damages: Fair V. Full Compensation , John C.P. Goldberg

DePaul Law Review

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The Psychological Impact Of Litigation: Compensation Neurosis, Malingering, Ptsd, Secondary Traumatization, And Other Lessons From Mvas, Edward J. Hickling, Edward B. Blanchard, Matthew T. Hickling

DePaul Law Review

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Media Reporting Of Jury Verdicts: Is The Tail (Of The Distribution) Wagging The Dog?, Robert J. Maccoun

DePaul Law Review

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Second Best Damage Action Deterrence, Margo Schlanger

DePaul Law Review

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Noneconomic Damages, Suffering, And The Role Of The Plaintiff's Lawyer, Ellen S. Pryor

DePaul Law Review

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Community-Based Efforts At Reducing America's Childhood Obesity Epidemic: Federal Lawmakers Must Weigh In, Breighanne Aileen Fisher

DePaul Law Review

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On Bended Knee (With Fingers Crossed), Lee Taft

DePaul Law Review

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Right Of Return: Lee V. City Of Chicago And Continuing Seizure In The Property Context, Graham Miller

DePaul Law Review

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The Texas Two-Step: Evidence On The Link Between Damage Caps And Access To The Civil Justice System, Stephen Daniels, Joanne Martin

DePaul Law Review

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The Intersection Of Factual Causation And Damages, Michael D. Green

DePaul Law Review

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An Examination Of The Gender Relations And Causes Of Gender Inequality In The Latin American Workforce., Kimberly Lane Kilpatrick

Honors Theses

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Winston Churchill And Social Reform, Patrick Winston Kelso

Honors Theses

The purpose of this Senior Honors Thesis is to examine the role of Winston Churchill in regards to social reform in Twentieth Century Britain. Although many books have been written on Churchill’s life, few specifically speak to his role in domestic politics. Often times Churchill’s role as Prime Minister during World War II overshadows his lengthy parliamentary career. This study will attempt to explain the role Winston Churchill played i__ domestic politics in respect to social reform and the rise of the British welfare state. Biographies, academic journal articles, books, memoirs, speeches, archival material, as well as books by the …

China's Growing Unemployment Problems: Past, Present, And Future, Andrew Piletz

Honors Theses

China’s unemployment problem is relatively new because of the planned economy under Mao Zedong. This study shows how China’s employment has been affected by Deng’s “socialist market economy,” educational reforms in 1999, and accession to the WTO in 2001. Also, it sets out to determine the effectiveness of China’s reemployment efforts, and proposes solutions for the future. Data for this thesis was attained through three main methods. The first was through scholarly secondary sources. The second was through primary data such as government statistics. The third was through a survey I had conducted at Shandong University at Weihai among over …

Ils En Ont Parle, Mary Elizabeth Roe

Honors Theses

The Dreyfus Affair, which began in 1894. was not only a political clash. It also engulfed the social and cultural worlds of France during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. From the highest politician to the average French citizen, people from ever}' background were aware of the Dreyfus Affair and its implications for France. This Affair divided the people of France in every way possible and impressed itself upon every walk of French life for over a decade. With the aid of modem mass media, the Affair spread to every corner of France. By causing divisions in its cultural, social, and …

Ecocritism And The Renaissance: A Study In Shakespeare And More, Melissa Levert Smith

Honors Theses

This study draws on ideas from the emerging field of literary criticism known as ecocriticism and extends its basic assumptions back to the Renaissance works of Thomas More and William Shakespeare. The research therefore includes primary Renaissance texts, current ecocritical works, and selections from the twentieth-century criticism from which ecocriticism developed. I investigate in detail More’s Utopia and Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and King Lear. The study takes into account the disparity between Renaissance attitudes towards the environment and current concerns about pollution and scarcity of resources, but I suggest that the questions asked by ecocritical scholars today, when …

Cotton And Compromise: Charles Pinckney And The Political Unification Of South Carolina 1788-1808, Hunter Glenn Upchurch

Honors Theses

This project surveys the life and times of South Carolinian Charles Pinckney after he participated in the Constitutional Convention of 1787. My objective was to discern how Pinckney’s political career both mirrored and contributed to South Carolina’s gradual shift away from Federalism towards Jeffersonian-Republicanism, as the western “Up-Country” region slowly took power from the more traditional, coastal “Low- Country.” To achieve this goal, I examined hundreds of pages of primary sources, including Pinckney’s extant speeches, his published articles or pamphlets, and many of his personal letters. To augment my factual and historiographical knowledge of the early national period of United …

Improving Group Work: Voices Of Students, Brian K. Payne, Elizabeth Monk-Turner, Donald Smith, Melvina Sumter

Sociology & Criminal Justice Faculty Publications

Group work is increasingly being used in a variety of college courses. A number of strengths have driven the increase in the use of this form of collaborative learning. Still, a number of problems potentially limit the use of group projects. In this study, we report on research in which we examined how students recommended changing group projects. Results are categorized into student-centered themes and faculty-centered themes. Implications are provided.

Collaboration: Paradigm Of The Digital Cultural Content Environment, Anne Cuyler Salsich

Works by Oberlin College Libraries Staff

Government grant-funding agencies have spawned an explosion of images from historical collections on the Internet. They have encouraged collaborative projects in which institutions share resources for capital-intensive digitization projects. These Web ‘exhibits’ are neither publications nor exhibits in the traditional sense, most often without identified authors, curators, designers, or sources. Reviews in journal literature are one mechanism for accountability, but not all humanities journals offer exhibit reviews. In those that do, the space allocated in history and archival studies journals reveals the relative importance they place on peer review of these exhibits, compared with that for book reviews. The type …

Isolation And Characterization Of Toxin A-Negative, Toxin B-Positive Clostridium Difficile In Dublin, Ireland, Denise Drudy, N. Harnedy, S. Fanning, R. O’Mahony, L. Kyne

Articles

Clostridium difficile is a major cause of infectious diarrhoea in hospitalised patients. Most pathogenic C. difficile strains produce two toxins, A and B; however, clinically relevant toxin A-negative, toxin Bpositive (A– B+ ) strains of C. difficile that cause diarrhoea and colitis in humans have been isolated worldwide. The aims of this study were to isolate and characterise A– B+ strains from two university hospitals in Dublin, Ireland. Samples positive for C. difficile were identified daily by review of ELISA results and were cultured on selective media. Following culture, toxin-specific immunoassays, IMR-90 cytotoxicity assays and PCR were used to analyse …

High-Level Resistance To Moxifloxacin And Gatifloxacin Associated With A Novel Mutation In Gyrb In Toxin-A-Negative, Toxin-B-Positive Clostridium Difficile, Denise Drudy, T. Quinn, R. O'Mahony, L. Kyne, P. O'Gaora, S. Fanning

Articles

OBJECTIVES:

To determine the mechanism of high-level resistance to fluoroquinolone antimicrobials in toxin-A-negative, toxin-B-positive (A- B+) Clostridium difficile isolates.

METHODS:

Following culture 16-23S PCR ribotyping was used to determine genomic relationships between A- B+ C. difficile isolates. Antimicrobial susceptibilities were determined using Etests in the presence and absence of the efflux pump inhibitors reserpine (20 microg/mL), L-phenylalanine-L-arginine-beta-naphthylamide (PAbetaN; 20 microg/mL) and verapamil (100 microg/mL). Genomic regions including the quinolone-resistance-determining-region (QRDR) of gyrA and gyrB were amplified and characterized.

RESULTS:

PCR ribotyping profiles identified one major cluster of A- B+ C. difficile, universally resistant to the fluoroquinolones tested (ofloxacin, ciprofloxacin, levofloxacin, …

Characterization Of A Collection Of Enterobacter Sakazakii Isolates From Environmental And Food Sources., Denise Drudy, Michele O'Rourke, Mary Murphy, Niall Mullane, Rebecca O'Mahony, Lorainne Kelly, Matthias Fischer, Suhad Sanjag, Pauline Shannon, Patrick Wall, Micheál O'Mahony, Paul Whyte, Séamus Fanning

Articles

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Comparative Phylogenomics Of Clostridium Difficile Reveals Clade Specificity And Microevolution Of Hypervirulent Strains., Denise Drudy

Articles

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Analysis Of Enzyme, Carbohydrate And Mineral Distribution In The Foot Of Abalone Shellfish., Leanne F. Harris, Nuala O'Byrne-Ring, Helen Lambkin

Articles

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Inducers And Authorisers: A Comparison Of The Us Supreme Court's Grokster Decision And The Australian Federal Court's Kazaa Ruling, Jane C. Ginsburg, Sam Ricketson

Faculty Scholarship

On June 27, 2005, the US Supreme Court announced its much-awaited decision in MGM Studios, Inc. v. Grokster Ltd. A few months after this, the Federal Court of Australia handed down its decision at first instance in relation to parallel litigation in that country concerning the KaZaa file sharing system. Both decisions repay careful consideration of the way in which the respective courts have addressed the relationship between the protection of authors' rights and the advent of new technologies, particularly in relation to peer-to-peer networks.

In the Grokster case, songwriters, record producers and motion picture producers alleged that two popular …