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Thoughts On Commercial Speech: A Roundtable Discussion, Ronald K.L. Collins, Steven H. Shiffrin, Erwin Chemerinsky, Kathleen M. Sullivan

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

Adam Liptak, the legal affairs writer for The New York Times, moderates a lively discussion about commercial speech between three esteemed constitutional scholars: Professor Erwin Chemerinsky of Duke University School of Law; Professor Kathleen Sullivan of Stanford Law School; and Professor Steve Shiffrin of Cornell Law School. These scholars debate the proper definition of defining commercial speech, how the corporate identity of a speaker and the content of the speech determines the level of First Amendment protection, whether it is possible to demarcate commercial speech from political speech, and the problems of paternalism and viewpoint discrimination in this complex and …

Depauperate Small Mammal Communities In Managed Pine Plantations In Eastern Virginia, James D. Dolan, Robert K. Rose

Virginia Journal of Science

Loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) plantations of four different ages were examined to identify changes in the small mammal community in relation to changes in the vegetational community. Small mammals were evaluated during five seasons using two methods of trapping. Live traps accounted for 65% of captures and seven of nine species, whereas pitfall traps yielded eight species, of which two were not taken with live traps. For both trap types, catch rates averaged less than two per 100 trap-nights, very low even for pine forests. Both abundance and biomass of small mammals declined with increasing stand age, whereas species …

Wcsa Alumnews: Fall 2007, University Of Minnesota, Morris Office Of Alumni Relations

WCSA AlumNEWS

Contents Include: Neuhaus '47 credits WCSA for preparing him for life; Greetings from the Director of Alumni Relations and Annual Giving; Preservation plan receives Preservation Alliance award; WCSA gathering planned for Texas in February 2008; Biomass gasifier construction underway; Greetings from the Alumni Association President; 2008 WCSA All-School Winter Reunion; WCSA All-School Reunion; Class News; Lloyd Nigg '49 shares a few words about WCSA's impact on his life; (Neuhaus continued from page one); A message from Maddy Maxeiner, UMM associate vise chancellor for external relations; Attention class of 1948; Class News; Spring 2007 garden planting

The Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter, Vol. 16, No. 1, The Sinclair Lewis Society

Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter

“It Can’t Happen Here Wins Libertarian Futurist Award”

“Sinclair Lewis and Ida K. Compton Conference”

“A Citizen of the Mirage,” by Sinclair Lewis, part 4 “

‘A novel filled with jackasses and jackals’: Animal Imagery in Elmer Gantry,” by Frederick Betz, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale

“The Tragedy of Martin Arrowsmith: A Physician’s Perspective,” by Russell Gollard, M.D.

“Parts of Lewis’s Library for Sale”

Envisioning The Constitution, Thomas P. Crocker

Faculty Publications

If one of the more persistent problems of constitutional interpretation, particularly of the Bill of Rights, is that we lack a clear view of it, then it would appear that how we see the Constitution is as important as how we read it. What clauses we see as connected in order to form comprehensive values, such as federalism or rights protections, are not so much products of constitutional interpretation as constitutional vision. To obtain a view of the Constitution, we have to do more than derive semantic meaning from diverse articles and clauses. To have a vision of the Constitution …

Reflections - Fall 2007, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina

Reflections

Contents:

Willis Retires as Dean of Libraries; McNally Becomes Interim Dean..... p.1
Plans Altered for Special Collections Library..... p.1
Libraries and English Department Join Forces to Present Fall Festival of Authors..... p.2
Focus of First-Year Reading Experience Exhibit is Japanese Americans..... p.2
Exhibits & Events..... p.3
Charles Darwin Exhibit Accompanies New Lecture Series..... p.3
Carolina Alumni Association Members Given Access to Research Databases..... p.4
Francis Marion’s Regimental Muster Roll, 1778..... p.4
World War I Exhibit at Thomas Cooper Library.... p.4
Hallman Bequest to Support University’s Ernest Hemingway Collection..... p.5
Collection of “Carolina Hobo” Claude Casey Comes to Music Library..... p.5 …

Welcoming The Outside: A Reading Of Hospitality And The Event In Derrida And Deleuze, Tyler Kessel

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

[First paragraph]

In their introduction to Between Deleuze and Derrida, Paul Patton and John Protevi argue that "while Deleuze seeks to begin with the pure outside or plane of immanence and show the construction of the inside or transcendent plane by restriction or folding of the outside, Derrida seeks to show that the outside or plane of transcendence is prior or interior to the supposed inside or plane of immanence"(6-7). Drawing on the distinction Patton and Protevi make, the following essay reads Derrida and Deleuze via their relations to - and more to the point, their welcoming of - …

An Interview With Fatih Benzer, Larry Taylor

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

Fatih Benzer is a contemporary artist currently based in South Dakota. He is originally from Turkey and has lived and worked in Arizona and California. He has studied at California State University and Arizona State University, where he obtained a doctorate. His paintings have been shown internationally. This interview was conducted during his exhibition, "The Meeting Point, Part II," at the Washington Pavilion Visual Arts Center. His unique perspective makes for engaging treatment of the otherwise flattening subject of globalization.

Graphic Travelogues And The Revival Of A 'Rotting Form': Peter Carey's Wrong About Japan And Guy Delisle’S Pyongyang: A Journey In North Korea, Gene Mcquillan

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

[First paragraph]

One need not be a malicious critic to be curious about an insulting review. One day while browsing on-line for new travel books, I came across the following statement by Ian Sansom:

In his remarkable book The Art of Travel (1855) Charles Darwin's cousin Francis Galton noted that "In Napoleon's retreat, after his campaign in Russia, many a soldier saved or prolonged his life by creeping within the warm and reeking carcase of a horse that had died by the way." These days, Peter Carey does much the same with travel writing, snuggling up inside a rotting form …

Theme Park Reconstructed [English] (Photo Essay), Tanya Ury

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

[Subheading]

Including the photo series Theme Park (51 photos) 2005-06

[First paragraph]

Prora near Sassnitz, is part of a small holiday resort, Ostseebad Binz on the Prora Wiek, one of the bays on the Island of Ruegen, north Germany. Only a few kilometres of sandy beach separate them. The one, practically uninhabited, is a ghost town that is nevertheless visited by 250,000 sightseers each year because of its historical importance; the other is a tourist paradise, swarming with people, mainly in summer.

Muscogiana Vol. 18(2), Fall 2007, Reagan L. Grimsley

Muscogiana

No abstract provided.

The Chichilticale Camp Of Francisco Vásquez De Coronado: The Search For The Red House, Nugent Brasher

New Mexico Historical Review

No abstract provided.

Mississippi River Stories: Lessons From A Century Of Unnatural Disasters, Sandra B. Zellmer, Christine A. Klein

Faculty Law Review Articles

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the nation pondered how a relatively weak Category 3 storm could have destroyed an entire region. Few appreciated the extent to which a flawed federal water development policy transformed this apparently natural disaster into a "manmade" disaster; fewer still appreciated how the disaster was the predictable, and indeed predicted, sequel to almost a century of similar disasters. This Article focuses upon three such stories: the Great Flood of 1927, the Midwest Flood of 1993, and Hurricanes Katrina and Rita of 2005. Taken together, the stories reveal important lessons, including the inadequacy of engineered flood …

Ecology, Culture, And Rationality: Toynbee And Diamond On The Growth And Collapse Of Civilizations, George Von-Der-Muhll

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.

Taylor: A Magazine For Taylor University Alumni And Friends (Fall 2007), Taylor University

The Taylor Magazine (1963-Present)

The Fall 2007 edition of Taylor Magazine, published by Taylor University in Upland, Indiana.

Availability Cascades And Risk Regulation, Timur Kuran

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

An availability cascade is a self-reinforcing process of collective belief formation by which an expressed perception triggers a chain reaction that gives the perception increasing plausibility through its rising availability in public discourse. The driving mechanism involves a combination of informational and reputational motives: Individuals endorse the perception partly by learning from the apparent beliefs of others and partly by distorting their public responses in the interest of maintaining social acceptance. Availability entrepreneurs-- activists who manipulate the content of public discourse-strive to trigger availability cascades likely to advance their agendas. Their availability campaigns may yield social benefits, but sometimes they …

The Dysfunctional Progeny Of Eugenics: Autonomy Gone Awol, Matthew D. Martin Iii

Cardozo Journal of International and Comparative Law

The article examines the ethical and legal implications of state-mandated sterilization, tracing its evolution from eugenic practices in the early 20th century to modern forms of reproductive control. It argues that such policies, whether justified by eugenics or population control, consistently violate human rights and raise significant moral concerns. The analysis critiques the Supreme Court's decision in Buck v. Bell as a landmark example of judicial endorsement of pseudoscientific discrimination, while also exploring contemporary issues like prenatal genetic testing and coercive family planning policies.

The Eagleville Times,Volume 5, Issue 17 (October), Debbie Ryan

Eagleville Times

No abstract provided.

The Presence And Possibility Of Moral Sensibility In Beginning Pre-Service Teachers, Sharon Chubbuck, Terry J. Burant, Joan Whipp

College of Education Faculty Research and Publications

This paper presents research on the moral sensibility of six pre-service teachers in an undergraduate teacher education program. Using their reflective writing across their first two semesters of coursework as well as focus group interviews in their third semester as sources of data, the paper identifies and describes three distinctive types of moral sensibility and examines ways in which moral sensibility interacts with experiences in teacher education. Suggestions for explicitly incorporating the moral in pre-service teacher education are presented.

Sketchwizard: Wizard Of Oz Prototyping Of Pen-Based User Interfaces, Richard C. Davis, T. Scott Saponas, Michael Shilman, James A. Landay

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

SketchWizard allows designers to create Wizard of Oz prototypes of pen-based user interfaces in the early stages of design. In the past, designers have been inhibited from participating in the design of pen-based interfaces because of the inadequacy of paper prototypes and the difficulty of developing functional prototypes. In SketchWizard, designers and end users share a drawing canvas between two computers, allowing the designer to simulate the behavior of recognition or other technologies. Special editing features are provided to help designers respond quickly to end-user input. This paper describes the SketchWizard system and presents two evaluations of our approach. The …

Growth Environment And Sex Differences In Lipids, Bodyshape And Diabetes Risk, Mary Schooling, Tai Hing Lam, G. Neil Thomas, Benjamin J. Cowling, Michelle Heys, Edward D. Janus, Gabriel M. Leung

Publications and Research

Background
Sex differences in lipids and body shape, but not diabetes, increase at puberty. Hong Kong Chinese are mainly first or second generation migrants from China, who have shared an economically developed environment for years, but grew up in very different environments in Hong Kong or contemporaneously undeveloped Guangdong, China. We assessed if environment during growth had sex-specific associations with lipids and body shape, but not diabetes.

Methodology and Principal Findings
We used multivariable regression in a population-based cross-sectional study, undertaken from 1994 to 1996, of 2537 Hong Kong Chinese residents aged 25 to 74 years with clinical measurements of …

Global Perspectives On Large Dams: Evaluating The State Of Large Dam Construction And Decommissioning Across The World, Kara Difrancesco, Kathryn Woodruff

Yale School of the Environment Publications Series

Report on a Conference held November 3-5, 2006 at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies

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

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

No abstract provided.

Developing A Managerial Plan To Guide The Planning Process For Charity Events, Nicole Molina

UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones

The purpose of this paper was to develop a managerial plan to guide the planning process for charity events. A guideline was developed, tested and refined based on a case study of the Prostate Cancer Foundation charity held in October, 2007 at Wynn Las Vegas. A strategy arose from an adaptation of the standard business plans outlined by the Small Business Administration. The resulting business plan, detailed event checklist and timeline will be a guiding tool when planning other charity events.

Impact Of Culture On International Business Negotiation: A Cross-Cultural Comparison Of Taiwan, Hong Kong, And Mainland China, Jung-Tsung Tu

Graduate Student Dissertations, Theses, Capstones, and Portfolios

Each year international business amounts to more than $1 trillion U.S. dollars (WTO, 2005). Both foreign investment and international trade are growing substantially, causing increasing interdependence of national economies as well as furthering the globalization of companies. Presently, Greater China's economy holds an increasingly large influence on the world. Despite the enthusiasm for increased economic exchange, many people have found that cultural differences have hindered their ability to efficiently conduct business due to their lack of understanding of the cultural differences among Chinese citizens living in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China. People engaged in the negotiations of agreements in …

Osteopontin Mediates Obesity-Induced Adipose Tissue Macrophage Infiltration And Insulin Resistance In Mice, Takashi Nomiyama, Diego Perez-Tilve, Daisuke Ogawa, Florence Gizard, Yue Zhao, Elizabeth B. Heywood, Karrie L. Jones, Ryuzo Kawamori, Lisa A. Cassis, Matthias H. Tschöp, Dennis Bruemmer

Internal Medicine Faculty Publications

Obesity is associated with a state of chronic, low-grade inflammation characterized by abnormal cytokine production and macrophage infiltration into adipose tissue, which may contribute to the development of insulin resistance. During immune responses, tissue infiltration by macrophages is dependent on the expression of osteopontin, an extracellular matrix protein and proinflammatory cytokine that promotes monocyte chemotaxis and cell motility. In the present study, we used a murine model of diet-induced obesity to examine the role of osteopontin in the accumulation of adipose tissue macrophages and the development of insulin resistance during obesity. Mice exposed to a high-fat diet exhibited increased plasma …

Writing The World: Ursula K. Le Guin And Margaret Atwood’S Literary Contributions To Ecofeminism, Melissa Messer

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

Along with the philosophical writings of ecofeminism’s greatest proponents and critics, the growth of ecofeminist philosophy has relied heavily on fiction writers. The term ecofeminism was coined in 1975, and the following year ecofeminism found fertile ground for exploration and growth in March Peircy’s science fiction novel, Woman on the Edge of Time (1976). The social, academic, and literary trends leading up to the emergence of ecofeminism, however, began well before 1975. Both Ursula K. Le Guin and Margaret Atwood are speculative fiction authors whose work before and after 1975 examines important ecofeminist topics and contributes to the growth of …

The Migration Of Forms: Bullet Time As Microgenre, Bob Rehak

Film & Media Studies Faculty Works

Rehak considers the ways in which the film "The Matrix" "branded" bullet time both as technical process and stylistic convention, and discusses bullet time's ancestry in image experimentation of the 1980s and 1990s. In his analysis, Rehak uses the conceptual framework of the microgenre to explore the cultural lifespan of bullet time, treating it less as a singular special effect than a package of photographic and digital techniques whose fortunes were shaped by a complex interplay of technology, narrative and style. Rehak's goal is to shed light not just on bullet time, but on the changing behavior of visual texts …

If You Love Arbitration, Set It Free: How "Mandatory" Undermines "Arbitration", David S. Schwartz

Nevada Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Ipulse: October 2007, Lynn University

Student Newspapers

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