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The Driving Force Behind Gun Crimes: A Time Series Analysis Of The Impact Of Gun Type And Gun Density, Matthew Graham Ii Jan 2007

The Driving Force Behind Gun Crimes: A Time Series Analysis Of The Impact Of Gun Type And Gun Density, Matthew Graham Ii

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Very few studies have explored the relationship between the availability of certain types of firearms and gun density on both gun aggravated assaults and gun homicides. Nonetheless, research by Koper (2001) discovered that the availability of more lethal types of firearms, not gun density, was directly related to an increase in gun homicide rates for Dallas. However, this study did not take into account certain social and economic variables that may strengthen or weaken the determined relationship. The current study uses data previously analyzed by Koper (2001) and includes social and economic variables that have been linked to lethal violence …

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Academic Success And Well-Being Of College Students: Financial Behaviors Matter (Tcai Report), Jing Jian Xiao, Soyen Shim, Bonnie Barber, Angela Lyons Jan 2007

Academic Success And Well-Being Of College Students: Financial Behaviors Matter (Tcai Report), Jing Jian Xiao, Soyen Shim, Bonnie Barber, Angela Lyons

Human Development and Family Science Faculty Publications

College students are at a pivotal time in their lives as they face financial independence and responsible decisionmaking. In moving from dependence to independence, they will chart a course with far-reaching consequences for their future happiness and security. The methods by which college students form desirable financial habits has been largely shadowed in supposition. Because the process is not yet understood, but is of tantamount importance to the future of young people, further study is imperative. Universities have a unique opportunity to influence the development of sound fiscal practices because they combine a pivotal time frame, an educational setting, and …

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Three Roads To Open Theism, Dale Tuggy Jan 2007

Three Roads To Open Theism, Dale Tuggy

Faith and Philosophy: Journal of the Society of Christian Philosophers

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Private Ordering And Intimate Spaces: Why The Ability To Negotiate Is Non-Negotiable, Michele Goodwin Jan 2007

Private Ordering And Intimate Spaces: Why The Ability To Negotiate Is Non-Negotiable, Michele Goodwin

Michigan Law Review

This review moves beyond a critique of Cherry's study to incorporate a radical new way of thinking about organ commodification as a social justice issue. Part I provides a brief empirical overview of organ demand in the United States, offering an alternative perspective and introducing data illexamined in commodification debates. Part II challenges the notion that private ordering abandons liberal and egalitarian values in favor of individualism over communitarianism. It also acknowledges the limitations of private ordering and addresses how its more problematic features, including the abuse of power, might be avoided. Part III argues for a hybrid system that …

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Interview With James Boyd White, James Boyd White Jan 2007

Interview With James Boyd White, James Boyd White

Michigan Law Review

The occasion of the following interview was the Montesquieu Lecture at the University of Tilburg, which Professor James Boyd White delivered in February 2006. In the lecture, entitled "When Language Meets the Mind," Professor White discussed the manner of interpreting and criticizing texts, both in the law and in other fields, that he has worked out over his career. The heart of this method, as described in the lecture, is to direct attention to three sets of questions: - What is the language in which this text is written, and the culture of which it is a part? How are …

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Federal Rule Of Civil Procedure 52(A) As An Ideological Weapon?, Bryan Adamson Jan 2007

Federal Rule Of Civil Procedure 52(A) As An Ideological Weapon?, Bryan Adamson

Faculty Articles

In this article, the author explores Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 52(a) and standard of review choice to determine whether appellate judges can exploit its terms to pursue ideological goals. The author examines the operative terms of Rule 52(a), viz., findings of fact, clear error, and documentary evidence, and concludes that they are so malleable as to give appellate judges wide discretion in deciding whether clear error, de novo, or some other standard of review is to be applied. The article then goes on to identify fact typologies appellate courts invoke (historical, ultimate, constitutional, legislative, sociological, scientific, political, economic, jurisdictional), …

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Tax And Economic Policy Responses To The Medicaid Long-Term Care Financing Crisis: A Behavioral Economics Approach, Diane Lourdes Dick Jan 2007

Tax And Economic Policy Responses To The Medicaid Long-Term Care Financing Crisis: A Behavioral Economics Approach, Diane Lourdes Dick

Faculty Articles

This article contributes to the prominent dialogue surrounding the healthcare financing crisis. It does so by analyzing policy solutions using consumer choice theory.

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Comic : An Exploration Into Computer-Mediated Intercultural Communication, Simone Alder Jan 2007

Comic : An Exploration Into Computer-Mediated Intercultural Communication, Simone Alder

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

This thesis explores how cultural differences manifest themselves in computermediated intercultural communication (CoMIC). This study particularly looks at the role and use of digital nonverbals (DNVs) and their regulatory functions. The data analyzed is from a global virtual team working together for a period of three months. The grounded theory method has been employed to code the electronic transcript of the team's communication. Furthermore, the participants were surveyed regarding their personal backgrounds, their work, and their perception of the communication processes that took place. The study shows that in an intercultural communication process DNVs are used to avoid intercultural misunderstandings …

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Ethiopia's Sovereign Right Of Access To The Sea Under International Law, Abebe T. Kahsay Jan 2007

Ethiopia's Sovereign Right Of Access To The Sea Under International Law, Abebe T. Kahsay

LLM Theses and Essays

Since Eritrea’s secession from Ethiopia there has been continuous opposition by intellectuals and the opposition to the government’s policy of making Ethiopia a landlocked country. Some totally reject the secession, while others accept the independence as a "fait accompli" and voice concern over the lack of an outlet to the sea, and still others acknowledge the right of self-determination and secession of Eritrea but denounce the inconsistency of the application of the Transitional Charter regarding the Red Sea Afar and the Algiers Agreement for denying Ethiopia its legitimate right to access to the sea and allege that the government is …

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Social Network Enhanced Digital City Management And Innovation Success: A Prototype Design, Bih-Ru Lea, Wen-Bin Yu, Prashanth Kannan Jan 2007

Social Network Enhanced Digital City Management And Innovation Success: A Prototype Design, Bih-Ru Lea, Wen-Bin Yu, Prashanth Kannan

Journal of International Technology and Information Management

Innovation is the process by which knowledge is transformed into products and services which in turn fuels economic development to create wealth and generates improvements in the standard of living. With the advance of technology, social networks that play a fundamental role as a medium for the spread of information, ideas, and influence among its members have taken a form of digital city to offer a range of online services, including access to social environments, community services, and e-commerce to its infohabitants. This study investigates how social network theories can be used to design and manage a web-based digital city …

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Red Families V. Blue Families, Naomi R. Cahn, June Carbone Jan 2007

Red Families V. Blue Families, Naomi R. Cahn, June Carbone

GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works

The "culture wars," as they play out in high profile Supreme Court decisions and legislative fights over abortion and same-sex marriage, are first and foremost about family values. Central to these differences - and the focus of the article - is the fact that different families in different parts of the country are leading different lives. The one clear, organizing principle that distinguishes the two systems: age of family formation. The defining characteristic of what we term the "new middle class morality" is delay in family formation until the late twenties or early thirties. This new morality, which correlates more …

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Gardening Programs In Schools: A Proposed Solution To Reverse The Consequences Of The Current American Food Culture, Charlotte Grace Blessey Jan 2007

Gardening Programs In Schools: A Proposed Solution To Reverse The Consequences Of The Current American Food Culture, Charlotte Grace Blessey

Honors Theses

This thesis examines the problems with current food consumption and production practices, and proposes the implementation of school gardening programs as a possible remedy to these problems. Methods and procedures consisted of research on current publications, periodicals, internet sources and scholarly articles concerning these topics. It was found that current diet is a significant factor in widespread health problems facing populations today. This diet is intertwined with an environmentally destructive and vulnerable system of intensive industrial agriculture based on centralization, mass distribution, and standardization. School garden programs target children beginning at a young age and help to counter the culture …

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Affect, Values, And Nanotechnology Risk Perceptions: An Experimental Investigation, Donald Braman, Dan M. Kahan, Paul Slovic, John Gastil, Geoffrey L. Cohen Jan 2007

Affect, Values, And Nanotechnology Risk Perceptions: An Experimental Investigation, Donald Braman, Dan M. Kahan, Paul Slovic, John Gastil, Geoffrey L. Cohen

GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works

Despite knowing little about nanotechnology (so to speak), members of the public readily form opinions on whether its potential risks outweigh its potential benefits. On what basis are they forming their judgments? How are their views likely to evolve as they become exposed to more information about this novel science? We conducted a survey experiment (N = 1,850) to answer these questions. We found that public perceptions of nanotechnology risks, like public perceptions of societal risks generally, are largely affect driven: individuals' visceral reactions to nanotechnology (ones likely based on attitudes toward environmental risks generally) explain more of the variance …

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A Pluralist Approach To International Law, Paul Schiff Berman Jan 2007

A Pluralist Approach To International Law, Paul Schiff Berman

GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works

This Essay is a contribution to a recent symposium at Yale Law School asking whether there is a new New Haven School of International Law. The original New Haven School of International Law offered a significant, process-based, rejoinder to the realism and positivism that had dominated international relations theory in the United States since the close of World War II. Whereas international relations realists viewed international law as merely a product of state power relations, and positivists dismissed international law entirely because it lacked both sovereign commands and a rule of recognition, scholars of the New Haven School studied law …

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Normative Nominalism: The Paradox Of Egalitarian Law In Inegalitarian Cultures - Some Lessons From Recent Latin American Historiography, Robert J. Cottrol Jan 2007

Normative Nominalism: The Paradox Of Egalitarian Law In Inegalitarian Cultures - Some Lessons From Recent Latin American Historiography, Robert J. Cottrol

GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works

This essay is a contribution to the discussion of the conflict that often exists between legal norms and legal practice in Latin America. It examines the conflict between equality under the law as a legal and constitutional norm in Latin America and the persistence of strong inequality as a social reality in Latin America. The essay examines this tension through a look at recent Latin American legal historiography. Essays include issues of race, class and the law in the nineteenth century Brazilian Empire, race and the law in early 20th century Cuba and Brazilian labor law in the middle and …

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Nomology, Ontology, And Phenomenology Of Law And Technology, Kieran Tranter Jan 2007

Nomology, Ontology, And Phenomenology Of Law And Technology, Kieran Tranter

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology

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A Synthetic Theory Of Law And Technology, Arthur Cockfield, Jason Pridmore Jan 2007

A Synthetic Theory Of Law And Technology, Arthur Cockfield, Jason Pridmore

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology

No abstract provided.

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Technology, Commerce, Development, Identity, Andrea M. Matwyshyn Jan 2007

Technology, Commerce, Development, Identity, Andrea M. Matwyshyn

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology

No abstract provided.

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Why Have A Theory Of Law And Technological Change?, Lyria Bennett Moses Jan 2007

Why Have A Theory Of Law And Technological Change?, Lyria Bennett Moses

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology

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Determinism And The Death Of Folk Psychology: Two Challenges To Responsibility From Neuroscience, Stephen J. Morse Jan 2007

Determinism And The Death Of Folk Psychology: Two Challenges To Responsibility From Neuroscience, Stephen J. Morse

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology

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Probation And Parole Officers Speak Out--Caseload And Workload Allocation, Matthew Demichele, Brian K. Payne Jan 2007

Probation And Parole Officers Speak Out--Caseload And Workload Allocation, Matthew Demichele, Brian K. Payne

Sociology & Criminal Justice Faculty Publications

The article deals with the perceptions of the Probation and Parole Officers on making case load and workload decisions. Caseload is the number of offenders an officer supervised while the workload is the amount of time needed to accomplish a task. The American Probation and Parole Association (APPA) provides baseline data in assisting policy-makers to resolve caseload and workload allocation issues. According to the article, officials should establish a definite goal to diminish recidivism through research-based processes.

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The Culture Of Under-Enforcement: Buried Treasure, Sarbanes-Oxley And The Corporate Pirate, Lisa H. Nicholson Jan 2007

The Culture Of Under-Enforcement: Buried Treasure, Sarbanes-Oxley And The Corporate Pirate, Lisa H. Nicholson

DePaul Business & Commercial Law Journal

No abstract provided.

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Bailey Junior High And The Desegregation Of Jackson Public Schools, Marcial Davidson Forester Iii Jan 2007

Bailey Junior High And The Desegregation Of Jackson Public Schools, Marcial Davidson Forester Iii

Honors Theses

This thesis details the history of Jackson, Mississippi through the eyes of education, specifically through the public schools, and in particular Bailey Junior High (present day Bailey Magnet School). Newspaper articles from Jackson’s primary media suppliers, along with personal interviews and academic essays, were used to gather information on the subject. Chapter One explores the early years of segregated public education in Jackson, as well as the beginning of Bailey Junior High and the community investment in Jackson Public Schools in the 1930s and 1940s. After World War II, the city’s growing population brought greater demands for classroom space, and …

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Bureaucratic Legalism, American Style: Private Bureaucratic Legalism And The Governance Of The Tort System, John Fabian Witt Jan 2007

Bureaucratic Legalism, American Style: Private Bureaucratic Legalism And The Governance Of The Tort System, John Fabian Witt

DePaul Law Review

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Talk Of Law: Contested And Conventional Legality, Susan S. Silbey Jan 2007

Talk Of Law: Contested And Conventional Legality, Susan S. Silbey

DePaul Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Teaching Parenting Skills In A Methadone Treatment Setting, Randy R. Gainey, Kevin P. Haggerty, Charles B. Fleming, Richard F. Catalano Jan 2007

Teaching Parenting Skills In A Methadone Treatment Setting, Randy R. Gainey, Kevin P. Haggerty, Charles B. Fleming, Richard F. Catalano

Sociology & Criminal Justice Faculty Publications

Family factors significantly affect children’s risk of substance abuse, delinquency, and other problem behaviors (Arthur, Hawkins, Pollard, Catalano, & Baglioni, 2002). Children of substance abusers represent a particularly high-risk population. Prenatal exposure to addictive substances and the medical complications that may arise are important factors that, from conception, place this population at high risk of drug abuse and other problem behaviors (Griffith, Azuma, & Chasnoff, 1994). As children of substance abusers mature, their lives are characterized by exposure to continued drug and alcohol abuse by family members, recurrent or chronic illnesses, frequent moves, financial troubles, legal conflicts, family disorganization, and …

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Ecosan Toilets In Tsunami Affected South India-Participatory Action In Development As An Implementation Strategy (X2), Shaila Noronha Jan 2007

Ecosan Toilets In Tsunami Affected South India-Participatory Action In Development As An Implementation Strategy (X2), Shaila Noronha

College of Liberal Arts & Social Sciences Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

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Interdisiplinarity: A Major Issue, Jessica B. Buckley, David Buckley Jan 2007

Interdisiplinarity: A Major Issue, Jessica B. Buckley, David Buckley

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

Interdisciplinary majors are a growing feature of the undergraduate university (Robles, 1998). Their widespread popularity should be of interest to both professional academics and student affairs professionals. These programs present unique opportunities to foster engagement across difference and to encourage a critically reflective learning approach, a style that the Association of American Colleges and Universities (2002), the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators and the American College Personnel Association (2004) all advocate. While highlighting the challenges and opportunities of interdisciplinary programs, these authors, who graduated with bachelor’s degrees in interdisciplinary majors, will argue that these programs provide important opportunities for …

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Feminist Film And The Dilemma Of Killing Us Softly, Joanne Morreale Jan 2007

Feminist Film And The Dilemma Of Killing Us Softly, Joanne Morreale

Iowa Journal of Communication

This essay traces the trajectory of Killing Us Softly, the classic feminist film critique of images of women in advertising. All four versions of the film from 1979 to 2001 provide insight into the social/historical context of the women's movement and its influence on advertising while simultaneously illustrating the influence of advertising on feminist discourse. As the original 1979 film is transformed in 1987, 2000, and 2001, this article analyzes its formal and strategic shifts in order to assess how feminist pedagogical films can best serve as tools for achieving social and political change.

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The Cup Heard Round The World: A Burkean Analysis Of The Nba's Reaction To The Brawl At Auburn Hills, Katherine L. Lavelle Jan 2007

The Cup Heard Round The World: A Burkean Analysis Of The Nba's Reaction To The Brawl At Auburn Hills, Katherine L. Lavelle

Iowa Journal of Communication

The November 19, 2004 brawl in Detroit provided vivid evidence of the National Basketball Association's (NBA) damaged image. The league embraces hip-hop culture to attract young fans, however, it ignores the violent aspects of urban life often associated with hip-hop. NBA Commissioner David Stern blamed the melee on Ron Artest. Artest had a troubled history, but he was not solely responsible for this incident. This paper uses Kenneth Burke's Terms of Order to show how scapegoating Artest highlighted a conflict in the NBA among its older fans and the younger fans and players who identify with hip-hop culture.

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