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Mcnair News, Volume 1, Number 2, Spring 2007

McNair News: Newsletter of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln McNair Scholars Program

Scholars Gearing Up for Summer Research Experience
McNair by the Numbers: as of March 2007
Meet the 2006-2007 McNair Junior Scholars
Senior Scholars Scene
McNair Faculty Mentor Profile: Dr. Mark Wilson
McNair Spring Event Calendar
Kudos to McNair Scholars
Scholar Spotlight on Melissa Tehee
McNair Tip: Test-Taking Strategies for the GRE
McNair Alumnus Nathan Palmer Wins TRIO Award
Senior Scholar Amy Castro Heads to Arizona for the Summer
Words from the Wise: Natasha Luepke

Complexities Of Urban Coyote Management: Reaching The Unreachable, Teaching The Unteachable, And Touching The Untouchable, Robert H. Schmidt

Wildlife Damage Management Conference Proceedings

Urban coyote (Canis latrans) management is often complicated, but the technical portion of any management program is only one part of the equation. The use of lethal (traps, snares, shooting, toxicants) and non-lethal (exclusion, guard animals, husbandry practices, harassment) coyote management strategies can be successful, less than successful, or not successful depending on the appropriate match of technical skill and technology available in a particular situation. However, technical sophistication is only a portion of the management dilemma. Issues of policy, law, politics, and economics, as well as human values, attitudes, and ethics play an obvious and profound role …

Coyotebytes.Org: A New Educational Web Site, Robert M. Timm

Wildlife Damage Management Conference Proceedings

A web site, www.CoyoteBytes.org, has been developed as a tool to provide sciencebased management recommendations to homeowners and municipal officials on methods to reduce conflicts with coyotes (Canis latrans) in urban and suburban areas. Such conflicts include aggression toward or attacks on children and adults; attacks on pet dogs and cats; attacks on hobby animals, such as poultry, sheep, and goats; and damage to drip irrigation systems, garden crops, and to other resources. In addition to providing information, the website allows individuals to upload photos or video clips of urban and suburban coyotes, and to submit firsthand reports …

John Milton: Complete Poems And Major Prose, Richard A. Posner

Articles

No abstract provided.

Classic Revisited: Penal Theory In Paradise Lost, Richard A. Posner, Jillisa Brittan

Articles

No abstract provided.

Sdwri Water News, South Dakota Water Resources Institute

SDWRI Water News

No abstract provided.

Unh: The Magazine Of The University Of New Hampshire, Spring 2007, Unh Magazine

UNH Magazine

Archived version of web content originally found at https://unhmagazine.unh.edu/pastissues.html

Renewable Energy Technologies: A Promising Energy Alternative, Ursula Kazarian

PEEL Alumni Scholarship

Creating legal instruments that incorporate renewable energy policy interests is a complex, but not insurmountable, challenge. Renewable energy technologies (“RETs”) provide clean, safe, and lasting energy supplies. The finite nature of hydrocarbon fuels, the controversy surrounding carbon sequestration, the debate over “clean coal,” and the safety and waste management concerns regarding nuclear energy have resulted in RETs emerging as promising alternatives. Successful examples of the implementation of RETs demonstrate the importance of integrating this technology into local, national, and international legislation.

The Dwarfing Of Men In Victorian Fairy-Tale Literature, Heather Victoria Vermeulen

Honors Theses

As Jack Zipes explains in his preface to Victorian Fairy Tales: The Revolt of the Fairies and the Elves, "The Victorian fairy-tale writers always had two ideal audiences in mind when they composed their tales -young middle-class readers whose minds and morals they wanted to influence, and adult middle-class readers whose ideas they wanted to challenge and reform" (xiv). "It was through the fairy tale," he continues, "that a social discourse about conditions in Victorian England took form, and this discourse is not without interest for readers today" (xi). My project begins with a critical analysis of the Grimm Brothers' …

Rna Gene Finding With Biased Mutation Operators, Jennifer A. Smith

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

The use of genetic algorithms for non-coding RNA gene finding has previously been investigated and found to be a potentially viable method for accelerating covariance-model-based database search relative to full dynamic-programming methods. The mutation operators in previous work chose new alignment insertion and deletion locations uniformly over the length of the model consensus sequence. Since the covariance models are estimated from multiple known members of a non-coding RNA family, information is available as to the likelihood of insertions or deletions at the individual model positions. This information is implicit in the state-transition parameters of the estimated covariance models. In the …

Vietnam Patent Law: Substantive Law Provisions And Existing Uncertainties, Nguyen Nguyet Dzung

Chicago-Kent Journal of Intellectual Property

No abstract provided.

Intellectual Property For The Botanist And The Plant Breeder: An Overview Of Protection Afforded By Plant Patents And Plant Variety Protection Certificates, Scott D. Locke

Chicago-Kent Journal of Intellectual Property

No abstract provided.

Americans And The Quest For An Ethical International Law, Mark Weston Janis

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Myth Of Factual Innocence, Morris B. Hoffman

Chicago-Kent Law Review

The movie 12 Angry Men is part of a larger American myth about the frequency of wrongful criminal convictions. This essay examines the broader contours of that myth, including its most recent incarnation in the form of innocence projects, suggests more realistic upper and lower bounds for the real wrongful conviction rate, and argues that exaggerations about the frequency of wrongful convictions threaten to become self-fulfilling.

The German Response To 12 Angry Men, Stefan Machura

Chicago-Kent Law Review

12 Angry Men was well received by the German audience. It would be hard to find a German equivalent, since Germany is not a jury country. However, writer Bodo Kirchhoff and director Niki Stein created a film along the lines of 12 Angry Men. The TV film Die Konferenz (2004) depicts the deliberation of a teachers' conference on the fate of a young man accused of raping a fellow student. Like 12 Angry Men, Die Konferenz addresses key social problems of its time. The main topic is gender relations. Tellingly, Die Konferenz has no dominant hero like Henry …

Fathers In Law: Violence And Reason In 12 Angry Men, Austin Sarat

Chicago-Kent Law Review

In this article I argue that 12 Angry Men is as much a film about fatherhood and law as about juries and civic virtue. It is a powerful presentation of sons subject to paternal brutality, of fathers tormented by their sons, and of the very real possibility of sons murdering their brutal fathers. This film thus deploys complex images of fatherhood as a site and source of violence and anger. By presenting those images it reminds us of law's own complex relationship to reason and violence.

Kate 2007 Spring, Jen Roberts, Amber Robertson, Chrysm Harcalvel, Glenna Jackson, Jen Knox, Julie Eaton, Celeste Kaitsa, Laine Bair, Janice Windborne, Jenna Brader, Kelly Givens, Brittany Craver, Sarah Martindell, Colleen Deel

Kate

Each year, kate seeks to:

• explore ideas about normative gender, sex, and sexuality
• work against oppression and hierarchies of power in any and all forms
• serve as a voice for race and gender equity as well as queer positivity
• encourage the silent to speak and feel less afraid
• build a zine and community that we care about and trust

Warts And All: The Fate Of The American Toad, Heather Moulton

Inquiry Journal 2007

No abstract provided.

Language As An Emergent System, K. David Harrison, E. Raimy

Linguistics Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

Wooster Magazine: Spring 2007, Karol Crosbie

Wooster Magazine: 2001-2010

This edition of the Wooster Magazine was published in the spring of 2007. Patrice Smith is featured for donating a kidney to a stranger and then getting back to leading the noon exercise class within two weeks. President Stanton Hales writes farewell to those of the Wooster community in a letter on page eleven. His time at Wooster follows the letter. Nancy McCarthy '59 travels the world to photograph people, animals, and the surrounding landscape. Professor Shirley Huston-Findley's FYS, Creativity and Aging, is highlighted from page twenty-four to twenty-nine. The Class Notes section is from page thirty to sixty-three.

The Texas Caver, Volume 53, No. 2, April-May 2007, Mark Alman

The Texas Caver

Contents: Minutes of the Spring TSA Business Meeting, April 14th 2007, in Albert, Tx: Submitted by Mark Alman -- TSA Convention Photos, Salon Winners, and Wrap Up: Photos Submitted by Bill Bentley. Robo Bull Photo by Mark Alman. -- TCC Cave Day & Winter Conference Report: Text and Photos Submitted by Mike Walsh -- Amazing Maze - Into the 21st Century: Submitted by Philip Rykwalder and Peter Sprouse. Photos by Peter Sprouse -- Punkin Cave Surveying Trip: Submitted by Jim Kennedy. Photos by Chris Vreeland -- Government Canyon Karst Project Report – April 2007: Submitted by Marvin Miller -- Sierra …

Alaskan Caver, Volume 27, No. 2, April 2007, Carlene Allred

Alaskan Caver

Contents: Juneau’s UAS Caving Club Happenings - Chitistone Expedition Report, By Donald G. Davis - Map Of Whispering Cave And Others In Vicinity - Map Of Birthday Cave - Map Of Ominous Crack Cave - Map Of Upper Sheep Cave - Ketchikan Caving Club Happenings - Map Of Frost Ring Cave - World’s Largest Cave Crystals - Grotto Election Results - Dr. Science

Pages News, Volume 15, No. 1, April 2007, John Dearing, Louise Cromer, Thorsten Kiefer

PAGES

Contents: Editorial: Past human-climate-ecosystem interactions -- PAGES calendar -- Inside PAGES -- PAGES session at INQUA -- Broecker awarded the 2006 Crafoord Prize -- New on the PAGES bookshelf -- National Page -- United Kingdom -- Program News -- IMAGES - The hydrological cycle and ocean temperature - A paleo-perspective -- RESOLuTION - Rapid climatic and environmental shifts during Oxygen Isotope Stage 2 and 3 -- Special Section: Past Human Climate Ecosystem Interactions -- Program News -- PHAROS - Past Human- Climate Ecosystem Interactions -- IHOPE - Integrated History and future Of People on Earth -- Science Highlights -- The …

Fabrication And Compressive Behavior Of Corrugated Aramid-Epoxy Cellular Solids, Jeffrey Arthur Schneider

Master's Theses - Daytona Beach

Cellular solids are materials whose base material does not always occupy the entire solid fraction available. A number of cellular solids can provide blast protection and absorb impact energy, but few perform well resisting blunt object (ballistic) penetration. In this thesis, a method is proposed for fabricating cellular solids from aramid-epoxy composites that can absorb impact energy and resist blunt object penetration. The aramid-epoxy samples were fabricated using wet-layup techniques, with two different styles of Kevlar 49 woven fabric in a variety of orientations. Test sample density ranged from 0.08 0.23 g/cm3. Different lamination orientations, assembly techniques, and bonding adhesives …

The State Of The Art In Evaluating The Performance Of Department Chairs And Division Heads., David G. Dunning, Timothy M. Durham, Mert N. Aksu, Brian M. Lange

Journal Articles: College of Dentistry

This study explores the little understood process of evaluating the performance of department chairs/division heads in dental schools. Specifically, this research aimed to elucidate the methods, processes, and outcomes related to the job performance of department chairs/division heads. Forty-three deans and 306 chairs completed surveys with both close-ended and open-ended questions. In addition, ten deans and ten chairs were interviewed. Results indicate that 80 to 90 percent of department chairs are formally evaluated, although as many as 50 percent may lack job descriptions. Recommended best practices for performance appraisal--such as having at least yearly appraisals, holding face-to-face meetings, and setting …

The Voice, Spring 2007: Volume 52, Issue 3, Dordt College

The Voice Archive

Senior Nurses Will Be First to Earn B.S.N. Accreditation from Dordt; What Do We Owe?; The Reckoning Screening is Moved to Fall; A Snapshot of Residence Life at Dordt College: Developing Good People; Theatre Arts Department Earns Four ACTF Awards; Dordt Engineers Earn Awards; Alons Family Provides Gift to Benefit Students; Alumni-Funded Capital Management Club Gets Busy; Teaching Writing Was the Highlight of Van Gilst's Career; Stel Joins Admissions Office; Clubs Round Out Students' Education; Dykshoorn Looks Beyond Borders; Psalm CDs Digitally Remastered; Is the Sky Falling? Doug Allen Sorts Through Global Climate Change Data; Jena Helmus Finds Her Place …

Wanted! Dead And/Or Alive: Choosing Among The Not-So-Uniform Statutory Definitions Of Death, Jason L. Goldsmith

University of Miami Law Review

No abstract provided.

La Raza Latina?: Multiracial Ambivalence, Color Denial, And The Emergence Of A Tri-Ethnic Jurisprudence At The End Of The Twentieth Century, Tom I. Romero Ii

New Mexico Law Review

No abstract provided.

Institutional Repositories And The Principle Of Open Access: Changing The Way We Think About Legal Scholarship, Carol A. Parker

New Mexico Law Review

Open access to scholarship, that is, making scholarship freely available to the public via the Internet without subscription or access fees, is a natural fit for legal scholarship given our tradition of making government and legal information available to citizens, and the many benefits that flow from freely disseminating information for its own sake. Law schools, journals and scholars should espouse the principle of open access to legal scholarship, not only for the public good, but also for the enhanced visibility it provides journals and authors. Open access can be accomplished by archiving digital works in online institutional repositories. Legal …

Volume 6 Number 1, Archives And Records Management, Syracuse University

Newsletters from University Archives - Access

No abstract provided.