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Taking Victims Seriously: A Dworkinian Theory Of Punishment, Luis E. Chiesa

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Northeast Ohio Information Technology Workforce Report, Center For Public Management

All Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs Publications

No abstract provided.

Activism And Pedagogies: Feminist Reflections, Patricia Ticineto Clough, Michelle Fine

Publications and Research

Together our two essays move between scenes of teaching and researching with women and men who are or have been in prison. Having written on ethnography, autoethnography, and participatory research, we both have sought a method that would allow us to abandon superficial identifications, mistaken for deep connection, with those who are or have been incarcerated. While we are conscious of the failures and successes of our attempts, we nonetheless write because what we have learned about the state's support for mass incarceration and the state's retreat from public higher education—particularly for persons of color—more than warrants it. With this …

Executive Power And The Political Constitution, Richard H. Fallon Jr.

Utah Law Review

At the present time, it seems safe to assume that in any case in which the President defied a direct judicial order, Congress and the people would begin with strong presumptions that it was lawless and unconstitutional for the President to disobey and that a lawless President cannot be tolerated. In acceding to direct judicial mandates in nearly all cases in constitutional history, presidents have probably made political as well as legal calculations in at least some instances. In other words, they have likely complied with judicial orders, not only because they felt that the Constitution obliged them to do …

Toward A Feminist Theory Of The Rural, Lisa R. Pruitt

Utah Law Review

Angela Harris argued almost two decades ago that, "to energize legal theory, we need to subvert it with narratives and stories, accounts of the particular, the different, the hitherto silenced. I have sought to do precisely that here: to surface the stories of rural women, one group who have been overlooked, misunderstood, and thus silenced. Rural women have been silenced not only because of the lack of power that stems from socioeconomic disadvantage, but also because of their physical distance from public places, from centers of power, from services, and from opportunities of all sorts. The deepest atrocities of their …

Method And Madness In Copyright Law, Dan L. Burk

Utah Law Review

Copyright law is a source of nearly endless scholarly fascination because of the paradoxes, the absurdities, the contradictions in its doctrines. Lewis Carroll's White Queen had nothing on copyright law. Copyright asks us to accept far more than six impossible, almost nonsensical assertions as part of its standard doctrine. Copyright asks us to believe, for example, that creative works have an existence independent of their embodiment that corporations, rather than people, can author documents that computer code is a literary work, like poetry or novels that artists have a special propensity to bungle their business affairs. The list seems nearly …

Copyright, Fair Use And Motion Pictures, Peter Jaszi

Utah Law Review

The Edison court also demonstrated another kind of truth about motion pictures: that from its inception the new medium was a radically appropriative one. Whether or not one believes the self-serving and ultimately unavailing representation of the defendant, Sigmund "Pop" Lubin, that he was unaware of the Edison copyright is not the pointS then, as now, the movies thrived on their ability to capture and repurpose existing material, much of it subject to prior claims of copyright protection.

Authors In Disguise: Why The Visual Artists Rights Act Got It Wrong, Roberta Rosenthal Kwall

Utah Law Review

In the civil law tradition, moral rights protection is justified on the ground that a work of creative authorship reveals the author's individual process of creativity and artistic autonomy. Thus, given the infusion of "self' that occurs by virtue of the authorship process, an author should be entitled to claim certain personal guarantees such as the right of attribution and the right of integrity, which allow an author to prevent modifications to her work that are inconsistent with her artistic vision. Some critics are troubled, however, by the very concept of moral rights. Beginning in the late 1970s, literary critics …

Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute Annual Report 2006-2007

UGPTI Biennial Highlights

No abstract provided.

Pldb, A Putative Phospholipase D Homologue, Mediates Quorum Sensing In Dictyostelium Discoideum Development, Yi Chen

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Quorum sensing, the ability to measure the local cell density, is required for animal cells to achieve proper cell growth, differentiation and development. However, because of the genetic intractability of mammalian cells, we study quorum sensing in the genetically pliable unicellular eukaryote Dictyostelium discoideum. D. discoideum cells live as individual cells under vegetative conditions. Starvation sets off development to a multicellular organism. But cells won't develop unless enough cells are under starvation conditions. Approximately 10⁵ cells are needed to form a fruiting body, the final stage of the development. When starved, cells are able to calculate the concentration …

Brief Note From The Editor, Irvin Sam Schonfeld

Publications and Research

No abstract provided.

To Cite Or Not To Cite? Confronting The Legacy Of (European) Writing On African Music, Kofi Agawu

Publications and Research

English Abstract:

The current citational practice in Western scholarship is ideologically loaded, being far more suited to a written economy than a primarily oral culture in which knowledge is preserved in memory and disseminated through repeated performance. The impact of orality on musical scholarship should be more closely investigated; African scholars have all too often become informants rather than theorists of their own traditions. It is therefore proposed that the routine citation of a body of scholarship developed without Africa's historically-specific intellectual needs and ambitions in mind should in fact be discouraged.

German Abstract:

Die heutige Zitierpraxis der westlichen Wissenschaft …

Directflow: A Domain-Specific Language For Information-Flow Systems, Andrew P. Black, Chuan-Kai Lin

Computer Science Faculty Publications and Presentations

Programs that process streams of information are commonly built by assembling reusable information-flow components. In some systems the components must be chosen from a pre-defined set of primitives; in others the programmer can create new custom components using a general-purpose programming language. Neither approach is ideal: restricting programmers to a set of primitive components limits the expressivity of the system, while allowing programmers to define new components in a general-purpose language makes it difficult or impossible to reason about the composite system. We advocate defining information-flow components in a domain-specific language (DSL) that enables us to infer the properties of …

Cache Coherence Protocol Verification Using Ωmega, Ki Yung Ahn

Computer Science Faculty Publications and Presentations

We verify some correctness properties of the DASH cache coherence protocol using Ωmega. Ωmega is a language with a rich type system featuring GADTs, type functions, and user-guided type checking rules. Cache coherence protocols have both safety properties and liveness properties. We show how to describe some of the safety properties of DASH cache coherence protocol in mega. Since liveness properties are not easily expressed by types, we investigate invariants sufficient to imply some of the liveness properties of concern, and assert those invariants as well in the type system of Ωmega. Using Ωmega, we can have both a working …

Protecting The Internet With Public Work, Ed Kaiser, Wu-Chang Feng

Computer Science Faculty Publications and Presentations

Distributed denial-of-service attacks represent a growing problem for networked systems. To tackle this problem, this paper explores the addition of a public work function to the service advertisement mechanisms used by such systems. When under attack, services advertise this function along with their location information and clients must attach a solution to the function with subsequent requests. The function, which can be made specific to the source of traffic, is publicly verifiable, allowing arbitrary network devices at the edges of the network to quickly verify that subsequent communication from the source will be accepted by the destination. We describe a …

Toward The "Tipping Point" Decision Aids And Informed Patient Choice, Jaime S. King, Annette M. O'Connor, John E. Wennberg, France Legare, Hilary A. Llewellyn-Thomas, Benjamin W. Moulton, Karen R. Sepucha, Andrea G. Sodano

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

The Man-Made Disaster: Fire In Cities In The Medieval Middle East, Anna Akasoy

Publications and Research

Considering the building materials and climatic conditions in the medieval Middle East, fires must have been a major problem. This article provides a first survey of sources which are relevant for studying the impact of fires in urban environments. Evidence can be found, for example, in historiographies such as Ibn Kathīr's The Beginning and the End, or in legal discussions. Most fires mentioned in these sources were caused during riots or war, or by accidents in markets. The article also analyses how far fires fit into the general pattern of discussions around disasters in medieval Arabic literature.

Stonewall, Polly Thistlethwaite

Publications and Research

This is a brief history of the Stonewall Inn in New York City's Greenwich Village, site of massive resistance to police harassment in June 1969. The Stonewall Riot immediately became a rallying point for U.S. gay liberation movements. The Stonewall resistance is commemorated by annual gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) protests and celebrations around the world.

Provocative Enactments As Regulators Of Underarousal And Its Associated Affects, Steven Bashkoff

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This theoretical/clinical-case study explores the function of provocative enactments as a means to regulate underaroused states and the affects associated with underarousal. A great deal of psychoanalytic literature emphasizes the function of provocative enactments as destructive or as a way to devalue others or disconnect from them; this function certainly exists in one class of such enactments where the actor’s goal is to destroy interpersonal ties or enhance self-esteem by kindling negative affect in the other person. However, this dissertation proposes that there exists another, distinct class of provocative enactments where their function serves to activate or reengage another person …

True Collaboration: Envisioning New Ways Of Working Together, Debra Gerardi, Dorrie K. Fontaine

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

The Emerging Culture Of Health Care: Improving End-Of-Life Care Through Collaboration And Conflict Engagement Among Health Care Professionals, Debra Gerardi

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Edward Durell Stone: Perception And Criticism, Mary Anne Hunting

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

The work of the New York City-based architect Edward Durell Stone (1902-1978) has been subject to ongoing critical controversy. Stone achieved phenomenal success, beginning in the 1950s as an architect in the period of the Cold War, with buildings on four continents, in thirteen foreign countries, and in thirty-two states. But an examination of his stylistic progression reveals that Stone increasingly fell out of critical favor as he shifted modernism from the International Style to a more "romantic" modern aesthetic that incorporated decoration along with aspects of monumentality, regionalism, historicism, and fantasy—a progression that can be traced in six of …

Family Temporal Organization And Children's Affect Regulation: A Quantitative And Qualitative Study Of First Generation Dominican Families, Alba Cabral

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

This study examined the hypothesis that temporal organization of family life is associated with children's affect regulation in first generation Dominican families. Eighteen families with children between ages one and half and five participated in this study, completing questionnaires about family time and routines, children's affect regulation, and child behavior problems. The families participated in interviews that inquired into family routines, family time and children's affect regulation according to the parent. Four of these families were selected for qualitative analysis of themes that illuminated the hypotheses tested. Correlational analysis confirmed the main hypothesis tested, namely, the existence of a relationship …

Beyond "Vectors Of Transmission" Through Commercial Sex: Exploring Models Of Sexual Risk Taking With Clients And Casual Partners Among Internet Based Male Sex Workers, David S. Bimbi

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

Male sex workers (MSWs) have often been portrayed as vectors of disease although most published studies have reported high rates of condom use with clients in this population. Regardless, social psychological models of sexual behavior that have been widely utilized to examine sexual risk taking in the gay and bisexual male community have not been applied to research with MSWs. Further, sexual behaviors with casual sex partners among MSWs has been absent in most reported research. More recently, the rise of barebacking (unprotected anal sex) in the gay male community has challenged assumptions that most gay and bisexual men want …