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A Christian Librarians Response To Government Secrecy, Dora Wagner Jan 2007

A Christian Librarians Response To Government Secrecy, Dora Wagner

The Christian Librarian

The nature of Christian librarianship requires professionals to remain aware of current political decisions made in our government that directly affect the public’s access to relevant information. Utilizing past literature concerning what it means to practice Christian librarianship and exploring the current administrations’ actions regarding The Freedom of Information Act, the author concludes the Christian library community must educate itself and its patrons and demand honesty and integrity from the government.

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Conditional Discrimination And Reversal In Amnesia Subsequent To Hypoxic Brain Injury Or Anterior Communicating Artery Aneurysm Rupture, C. E. Myers, J. Deluca, Ramona O. Hopkins, M. A. Gluck Jan 2007

Conditional Discrimination And Reversal In Amnesia Subsequent To Hypoxic Brain Injury Or Anterior Communicating Artery Aneurysm Rupture, C. E. Myers, J. Deluca, Ramona O. Hopkins, M. A. Gluck

Faculty Publications

Human anterograde amnesia can develop following bilateral damage to the hippocampus and medial temporal lobes, as in hypoxic brain injury, or following damage to the basal forebrain, as following anterior communicating artery (ACoA) aneurysm rupture. In both cases, the mnestic deficit may be similar when assessed by standard neuropsychological measures. However, animal and computational models suggest that there are qualitative differences in the pattern of impaired and spared memory abilities following damage to hippocampus versus basal forebrain. Here, we show such a dissociation in human amnesia using a single two-stage task, involving conditional discrimination and reversal. Consistent with a prior …

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Brain Integrity And Cerebral Atrophy In Vietnam Combat Veterans With And Without Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Bruce L. Brown, Dawson W. Hedges, G. William Thatcher, Pamela J. Bennett, Shabnam Sood, David Paulson, Sarah Creem-Regehr, Steven Allen, Jamie Johnson, Brooke Froelich, Erin D. Bigler Jan 2007

Brain Integrity And Cerebral Atrophy In Vietnam Combat Veterans With And Without Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Bruce L. Brown, Dawson W. Hedges, G. William Thatcher, Pamela J. Bennett, Shabnam Sood, David Paulson, Sarah Creem-Regehr, Steven Allen, Jamie Johnson, Brooke Froelich, Erin D. Bigler

Faculty Publications

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is associated with decreased hippocampal volume, but the relationship between trauma and brain morphology in the absence of PTSD is less clear. In this study, measures of brain integrity were determined by estimating gray and white matter regional brain volumes using structural magnetic resonance imaging in six patients with PTSD and in five controls with comparable trauma exposure but without clinical evidence of PTSD. The only statistically significant volume difference between groups was observed multivariately in the white matter of the right temporal lobe (superior temporal gyrus, fusiform gyrus, parahippocampal gyrus, white-matter stem, middle temporal gyrus, …

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Propertizing Thought, Kevin Emerson Collins Jan 2007

Propertizing Thought, Kevin Emerson Collins

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Constructive Nonvolition In Patent Law And The Problem Of Insufficient Thought Control, Kevin Emerson Collins Jan 2007

Constructive Nonvolition In Patent Law And The Problem Of Insufficient Thought Control, Kevin Emerson Collins

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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An Experimental Study Of Vertical Habitat Use And Habitat Shifts In Single-Species And Mixed-Species Shoals Of Native And Nonnative Congeneric Cyprinids., Brandon J. Keplinger Jan 2007

An Experimental Study Of Vertical Habitat Use And Habitat Shifts In Single-Species And Mixed-Species Shoals Of Native And Nonnative Congeneric Cyprinids., Brandon J. Keplinger

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

This thesis includes two chapters. The first (Chapter 1) is a literature review focusing on the ecological consequences of introduced fishes on host communities, and specifically on native fishes of similar morphology and phylogenetic origins. The second (Chapter 2) is a manuscript synthesizing the aquaria based study of the interspecific relationships, with respect to habitat utilization, between two syntopically occurring congeneric species pairs in the Greenbrier River. Each pair consists of an introduced and a native cyprinid species. Several species native (often endemic) to the New River watershed are experiencing reductions in abundance and distribution. Meanwhile, a concurrent increase has …

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Costume Design For "The Ice Wolf" By Joanna Halpert Kraus., Reiko Ishikawa Jan 2007

Costume Design For "The Ice Wolf" By Joanna Halpert Kraus., Reiko Ishikawa

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

This document is intended to record the costume design process for West Virginia University’s 2006 production of Joanna Halpert Kraus’s The Ice Wolf. The costume design was assigned and completed in partial fulfillment of the Master of Fine Arts degree in Theatre Design, specifically costumes. This document includes the process of the costume design with visual documents of research, development, photographs, and paperwork needed to complete the design. This is the record of Reiko Ishikawa as a young theatre designer and this is only her first step into the theatre world.

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Design Of A Selective Catalytic Reduction System To Reduce Nitrogen Oxide Emissions Of The 2003 West Virginia University Futuretruck., Russell T. King Jan 2007

Design Of A Selective Catalytic Reduction System To Reduce Nitrogen Oxide Emissions Of The 2003 West Virginia University Futuretruck., Russell T. King

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

A Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) System was designed and built to reduce NOx emissions of the 2003 West Virginia University (WVU) Diesel Hybrid-Electric FutureTruck. FutureTruck was a student competition that challenged students to redesign a new Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV) to improve fuel economy and reduce emissions. A comprehensive literature review discussing all aspects of SCR was completed. The review focuses on harmful effects of NOx emissions, future emission standards, NOx reduction technologies and last presents an in-depth review of SCR. The SCR control system designed was used for both data acquisition and determination of urea injection amounts. The system …

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The Effect Of Steam Conditioning Practices On Pellet Quality And Growing Broiler Nutritional Value., Sarah Elizabeth Cutlip Jan 2007

The Effect Of Steam Conditioning Practices On Pellet Quality And Growing Broiler Nutritional Value., Sarah Elizabeth Cutlip

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Feed currently incurs 60-65% of the total cost of broiler production. Pellets are the primary feed form for commercially-reared broilers. Understanding how to optimize pellet quality through precision thermo-mechanical processing may impact broiler performance and nutrient availability, thus cost of production. Steam conditioning represents a manipulable thermo-mechanical processing variable. Corn-soybean meal based diets were conditioned with one of four steam pressure x temperature combinations: 138 kPa at 82.2ºC, 138 kPa at 93.3ºC, 552 kPa at 82.2ºC or 552 kPa at 93.3ºC. High steam pressure and temperature conditioning were shown to increase pellet quality. Three additional diets were prepared: unprocessed mash, …

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The Effect Of Treadmill Exercise On The Long Bones Of Young Adult Zucker Obese (Fa/Fa) And Lean Male Rats., Tsun Yin Ip Jan 2007

The Effect Of Treadmill Exercise On The Long Bones Of Young Adult Zucker Obese (Fa/Fa) And Lean Male Rats., Tsun Yin Ip

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Background: Studies indicate that weight-bearing exercise increases bone mass and bone strength. There are also suggestions that obesity may result in bone loading that increases bone mass and strength. Objective: To investigate the combined effect of exercise and obesity on body mass, bone strength and bone mineral content (BMC) in young Zucker obese fa/fa and lean male rats. Methods: Young (age 6 weeks) obese (fa/fa) and lean male Zucker rats were randomly assigned (n=8-9/group) to either no exercise or treadmill exercise for 9 weeks at a 0% incline. Following the 9-week experiment, both femurs and tibiae were excised and bone …

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The Effects Of Contaminants On Sperm Quality And Intersex Condition Of Smallmouth Bass (Micropterus Dolomieu) In The Potomac River., Holly Henderson Jan 2007

The Effects Of Contaminants On Sperm Quality And Intersex Condition Of Smallmouth Bass (Micropterus Dolomieu) In The Potomac River., Holly Henderson

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

The purpose of this study was to analyze sperm quality parameters and intersex severity of smallmouth bass in the South Branch of the Potomac River, and to determine if contaminants present in this river negatively affect these parameters. Samples were collected by boat electrofishing in May 2006 from three sites in the South Branch of the Potomac River and one site in the Gauley River. The three South Branch sites are in areas with historically high intersex occurrence. The site on the Gauley serves as the reference site. Gonads were collected from 38 male fish. Samples were split, one gonad …

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A Decentralized Cooperative Control Framework For Multiple Uavs., Dustin Michael Geletko Jan 2007

A Decentralized Cooperative Control Framework For Multiple Uavs., Dustin Michael Geletko

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

The main focus of this research and thesis was the development of a decentralized framework for the cooperative control of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The goal of the software was to coordinate multiple UAVs to perform a wide area search on a defined area. The developed algorithms were based on the idea that simple rules can be programmed leading to an overall complex behavior. The simple algorithm that was developed illustrates a high level of autonomy, including reactive behavior without human interaction. The developed software was tested and run onboard an actual hardware avionics unit with a payload computer …

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Identification Of A Novel Importin α Predominantly Expressed In Bovine Oocytes And Early Embryos., Jyothsna Tejomurtula Jan 2007

Identification Of A Novel Importin α Predominantly Expressed In Bovine Oocytes And Early Embryos., Jyothsna Tejomurtula

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Early embryonic development is a complex process that involves timely and quantitative control of gene transcription. Nuclear proteins, including transcription factors and chromatin remodeling proteins, are required for initiation of transcription in early embryos prior to embryonic genome activation. The nuclear transport of these proteins is mediated by transport factors such as importins. Through analysis of EST sequences from a bovine oocyte cDNA library and the database, we identified a novel transcript which shows sequence similarity to the importin α gene. The novel transcript (contig) is represented by multiple ESTs that are only present in the oocyte library and a …

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"And A Little Child Shall Lead Them": Romanticism And Quakerism In Edward Hicks' Peaceable Kingdoms., Alison E. Keller Jan 2007

"And A Little Child Shall Lead Them": Romanticism And Quakerism In Edward Hicks' Peaceable Kingdoms., Alison E. Keller

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Edward Hicks, the American Quaker minister and artist, painted a series of works entitled The Peaceable Kingdom between 1820 and 1849. This series of paintings is based on the Old Testament passage Isaiah 11:6. This thesis explores the intersection of Quakerism and Romanticism in nineteenth-century America which is represented in Hicks‟ Peaceable Kingdoms. Romantic themes in the Peaceable Kingdom are the concept of childhood, the presence of Nature, and the ideal of the noble savage. Romanticism in nineteenth-century America was impacted by Christian Romanticism and the development of special educational, social, and spiritual roles for children. The presence of Nature …

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Stress Perceptions In Occupational Therapy Students: Traditional Versus Distance Education., Amanda Kessler Rogers Jan 2007

Stress Perceptions In Occupational Therapy Students: Traditional Versus Distance Education., Amanda Kessler Rogers

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Increased stress is a common problem in students enrolled in medical and allied health college programs. The negative effects of stress can result in physical and psychological illnesses, in addition to negatively impacting a student’s academic performance. The purposes of this study were to (1) determine the stress level of the occupational therapy students, (2) determine the social provisions (social support) experienced by the students, and (3) determine the relationship between stress levels and various predictors, such as marital status and grade level. The sample of convenience (n= 69) included 54 traditional and 15 distance education occupational therapy students enrolled …

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"A Brave New World?": A Study Of The Disappearing Boundaries Between Entertainment And Hard News., Michael William Janney Jan 2007

"A Brave New World?": A Study Of The Disappearing Boundaries Between Entertainment And Hard News., Michael William Janney

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

As journalism moves ahead in the 21st Century, alternate methods of presentations could distort the information and messages presented. This thesis examines the presence of such distortions in broadcast journalism. Analyzing three types of programs ñ the traditional nightly news broadcast, the political pundit commentary/news broadcast and satirical/fake news broadcast, the study examines some of their characteristics to see how they compare and contrast. Methodologies include a quantitative content analysis, along with a descriptive observation and analysis of the data set. Research concludes that these programs have many similarities in their methods of presentation and inclusion of entertainment, but differ …

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The Aggregate Harmony Metric And A Statistical And Visual Contextualization Of The Rehnquist Court: 50 Years Of Data, Peter A. Hook Jan 2007

The Aggregate Harmony Metric And A Statistical And Visual Contextualization Of The Rehnquist Court: 50 Years Of Data, Peter A. Hook

Articles by Maurer Faculty

This article contains aggregated data from fifty years of the annual matrixes of justice inter-agreement for particular Supreme Court terms published by the Harvard Law Review (1956 to 2005 terms). Aggregating how often any two justices sided together on cases for a particular term relative to the amount of cases the two justices heard together allows one to derive a measure of the particular term that reflects the relative amount of agreement or disagreement for the term. This new metric, called the Aggregate Harmony Metric, allows for comparative benchmarks. For instance, the 2005 term, with an aggregate agreement of 70%, …

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Culture, Self-Determination And Colonialism: Issues Around The Revitalization Of Indigenous Legal Traditions, Gordon Christie Jan 2007

Culture, Self-Determination And Colonialism: Issues Around The Revitalization Of Indigenous Legal Traditions, Gordon Christie

All Faculty Publications

This paper works from the assumption that the power of the state to determine and regulate debate around the reinvigoration of Indigenous legal traditions must be set aside, and that the path forward must be laid out by Indigenous peoples. Working out the implications of this assumption leads to ruminations on the roles that identity, colonialism, culture and self- determination must play in structuring debate around the rebuilding of these legal traditions. The position that begins to emerge from these ruminations focuses attention on the need to control processes of identity formation. Given the historical and ongoing impacts of colonial …

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Security And Human Rights, Liora Lazarus, Benjamin J. Goold Jan 2007

Security And Human Rights, Liora Lazarus, Benjamin J. Goold

All Faculty Publications

In the wake of the events of September 11th, the task of reconciling issues of security with a respect for fundamental human rights has emerged as one of the key challenges facing governments throughout the world. Although the issues raised by the rise of security have been the subject of considerable academic interest, to date much of the debate surrounding the impact of security on human rights has taken place within particular disciplinary confines. In contrast, this collection of essays from leading academics and practitioners in the fields of criminal justice, public law, international law, international relations and legal philosophy …

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Storm In A Teacup: The U.S. Supreme Court’S Use Of Foreign Law, Austen L. Parrish Jan 2007

Storm In A Teacup: The U.S. Supreme Court’S Use Of Foreign Law, Austen L. Parrish

Articles by Maurer Faculty

In this Article, Professor Parrish explores the legitimacy of the U.S. Supreme Court's use of foreign law in constitutional adjudication. In recent years, the U.S. Supreme Court has used foreign law as persuasive authority in a number of highly contentious cases. The backlash has been spirited, with calls for foreign law to be categorically barred from constitutional adjudication, and even for Justices to be impeached if they cite to foreign sources. Last year, the condemnation of comparative constitutionalism reached a high note, as a barrage of scholarship decried the practice as illegitimate and a threat to our national sovereignty. The …

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Empty Threats? How Egyptians' Self-Ontology Should Affect The Way We Read Many Texts, Kerry M. Muhlestein Jan 2007

Empty Threats? How Egyptians' Self-Ontology Should Affect The Way We Read Many Texts, Kerry M. Muhlestein

Faculty Publications

Egyptologists have typically divided texts into those that dealt with the divine and those that treated the mundane. This false dichotomy is not one that the Egyptians themselves would have imposed. They saw themselves as mortal beings that interacted with the divine realm and the afterlife. The texts they created reflect this understanding, and thus we are greatly hampered when we insist that the language of a decree, threat formula, or other texts, must refer to either the mundane or the supernatural, but not both. There is ample evidence that the Egyptians often intended specific wording to invoke multiple realms, …

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Child Of Freedom, Caitlin A. Clarke Jan 2007

Child Of Freedom, Caitlin A. Clarke

The Mercury

No abstract provided.

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The Edited Senior Heintzelman, Rachel E. Rakoff Jan 2007

The Edited Senior Heintzelman, Rachel E. Rakoff

The Mercury

No abstract provided.

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Using Federal And State Laws To Promote Secure Housing For Survivors Of Domestic Violence, Deborah A. Widiss, Emily J. Martin Jan 2007

Using Federal And State Laws To Promote Secure Housing For Survivors Of Domestic Violence, Deborah A. Widiss, Emily J. Martin

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Exposing Sex Stereotypes In Recent Same-Sex Marriage Jurisprudence, Deborah A. Widiss, Elizabeth Rosenblatt, Douglas Nejaime Jan 2007

Exposing Sex Stereotypes In Recent Same-Sex Marriage Jurisprudence, Deborah A. Widiss, Elizabeth Rosenblatt, Douglas Nejaime

Articles by Maurer Faculty

This article examines sex discrimination arguments in recent same-sex marriage cases. Since 1993, when the Hawaii Supreme Court held in Baehr v. Lewin that denying same-sex couples the right to marry could state a claim of sex discrimination, every state high court to consider the issue has rejected the claim. But many recent decisions have in fact relied upon sex-based stereotypes to justify marriage restrictions. These include claims that men and women, simply by virtue of their gender, provide distinct role models for children; that men and women play "opposite" or "complementary" roles within marriage; and that marriage is essential …

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The Practice Of Law In The Peaceable Kingdom, Robert P. Burns Jan 2007

The Practice Of Law In The Peaceable Kingdom, Robert P. Burns

Georgia Law Review

Milner Ball would be the last person to claim to have constructed a system. After all, he writes in the essay form, one that is "tentative, reflective, suggestive, contradictory, and incomplete."' It is a style that suggests there is more afoot than any science or philosophy is likely to conceive and that much of what is most important has to be shown, not stated. Surely, the notion of a system, as in "the legal system," reflects many of the qualities that, as we will see, he is most at pains to criticize. However, there are definitely themes in his work …

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Jesus, The Great Shepherd-King, Dana M. Pike Jan 2007

Jesus, The Great Shepherd-King, Dana M. Pike

Faculty Publications

“The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters” (Psalm 23:1–2). So begins one of the most beloved psalms and best-known biblical passages mentioning a shepherd. Shepherd imagery is utilized in scripture to depict three important aspects of Jesus’s identity and mission: His roles as Savior, King, and Jehovah, the God of Israel. Of these three, His role as compassionate Savior, devoted to protecting and saving the flock of God, is the aspect of shepherd symbolism that typically comes to mind. Less well known, …

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Meeting Of The Minds, Part Ii: A Dark And Angry God Arises, Paul J. Heald Jan 2007

Meeting Of The Minds, Part Ii: A Dark And Angry God Arises, Paul J. Heald

Georgia Law Review

In 1988, Professor Heald found a lost manuscript of Steve Allen's groundbreaking television show, "A Meeting of the Minds."' In that episode, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Mark Kelman, Blaise Pascal, and Richard Posner discussed the nature of law.2 While completing renovation of a house, possibly visited by Allen, Heald recently found another manuscript jammed on top of an old water tank...

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Savings Clauses And Trends In Natural Resources Federalism, Robert L. Fischman, Angela King Jan 2007

Savings Clauses And Trends In Natural Resources Federalism, Robert L. Fischman, Angela King

Articles by Maurer Faculty

This article considers recent trends in federalism, with particular attention to natural resource law's statutory savings clauses. It begins with a case study of elk management in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The elk controversy shows how a statutory savings clause can provide a state with traction to advance its interests, and demonstrates how the political winds of change can shift the balance of state-federal relations. The article then focuses on the common statutory savings clauses and their roles in circumscribing federal agency authority and establishing a basis for cooperation between federal and state governments. We analyze the interpretive approaches the judiciary …

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Confronting Myths And Myopia On The Road From Doha, Daniel R. Cahoy Jan 2007

Confronting Myths And Myopia On The Road From Doha, Daniel R. Cahoy

Georgia Law Review

Recent patent compulsory licenses issued by Thailand and Brazil have focused attention on this property rights safety valve as a means for balancing access and innovation in essential medicines. While derided in some quarters,many view these measures as a legitimate exercise of the flexibilities that exist in international intellectual property agreements, recently enhanced as a result of the WTO's Doha round of trade negotiations. But the increasing willingness to utilize patent compulsory licenses faces a troubled future: the international framework is dangerously ambiguous and significantly misaligned. Chief among the concerns is the level of compensation owed to a patent owner …

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