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Author Index, Water Law Review

Water Law Review

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Heldermon V. Wright, 2006 Ok 86 (Okla. 2006), Michael S. Samelson

Water Law Review

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Wayment V. Howard, 144 P.3d 1147 (Utah 2006), Ryan Malarky

Water Law Review

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Vol. 10, No. 2: Full Issue, Water Law Review

Water Law Review

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The Effect Of Comic Books On Students' Reading Attitudes, Sheila Lambert

Masters Theses

An experimental study was conducted to determine if the addition of comic books as self-selected reading material in the classroom improved students' attitudes toward recreational reading. Sixth grade students (n=62) completed the first ten items that address recreational reading from the Elementary Reading Attitude Survey (McKenna & Kear, 1990) as a pre- and post-test. The students in the experimental group (n=35) had comic books available in their sixth grade language arts classroom libraries during free classroom reading periods. Comic books were not available in the language arts classroom libraries for the sixth grade students in the control group (n=27). Students …

The Search For Authentic Identity In Three Novels By West Indian Author Earl Lovelace, Todd A. Cornwell

Masters Theses

In this thesis, I examine the evolving concept of authentic identity, individual, cultural, and national in the post-colonial Caribbean context embodied in West Indian author Earl Lovelace's The Schoolmaster, The Dragon Can't Dance, and Salt. These three novels when analyzed together demonstrate Lovelace's emerging vision of a future for the Caribbean rooted in indigenous values, self-possession, historical reclamation, and, ultimately, true independence.

Additionally, this thesis explores Lovelace's paradox of the mask, in its many different physical and psychological forms, that simultaneously liberates and imprisons, and the consequences of masking on West Indian identity. In Lovelace's own words, these three novels …

Mating, Kinship, And Population Structure In Illinois Beaver Populations, Joanne C. Crawford

Masters Theses

The North American beaver, Castor canadensis, is an important wildlife species for a variety of reasons. As a furbearer, it provides income and recreation to trappers throughout the state. As a wetland engineer, it helps maintain functioning ecosystems (Naiman et al. 1986, McKinstry and Anderson 2002). Finally, the beaver serves as a model organism for studies of mating and kinship, as it has beed reported to be almost exclusively monogamous (Sun 2003).

Monogamy in mammals is generally restricted to the primates, canids, and rodents, and is defined as a mating system in which a pair remains together for at least …

Supramolecular Usefulness Of Hexamethylenetetramine, Philias Daka

Masters Theses

Because non-covalent contacts are important to the design and construction of materials with functional applications, efforts that seek to uncover chemical features responsible for the assembly of multimolecular arrays hold current interest. The building-block approach is one strategy that has been successfully employed for the construction of molecular assemblies. By designing molecular components with complementary functional groups, the construction of predictable supramolecular motifs is possible. Although various modes of molecular alignment have been generated using this strategy, the extension of low dimensional motifs (discrete and 1-D patterns) to 2- and 3-D patterns remain a current challenge.

Ay 2006/2007 Sec Meeting Minutes, 2007-07-11, Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Archives

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Entropy And The National Market System, Junius W. Peake

Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial & Commercial Law

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Intermarket Competition And Monopoly Power In The U.S. Stock Markets, Roger D. Blanc

Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial & Commercial Law

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The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire And The Merrill Lynch Analyst Ratings Scandal: Legislative And Prosecutorial Responses To Corporate Malfeasance, Christopher Lucas

Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial & Commercial Law

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Suggestions For Procedural Reform In Securities Market Regulation, Lanny A. Schwartz

Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial & Commercial Law

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To Sue Or Not To Sue: Video-Sharing Web Sites, Copyright Infringement, And The Inevitability Of Corporate Control, Andrea Frey

Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial & Commercial Law

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A Framework For Assessing Scientific Arguments: Gaps, Relevance And Integrated Evidence, Carl F. Cranor

Journal of Law and Policy

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Regulating Crime Laboratories: The Impact Of Dna Evidence, Paul C. Giannelli

Journal of Law and Policy

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Online Auction Houses: How Trademark Owners Protect Brand Integrity Against Counterfeiting, Emily Favre

Journal of Law and Policy

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Byzantine Fault Tolerant Coordination For Web Services Atomic Transactions, Wenbing Zhao

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

In this paper, we present the mechanisms needed for Byzantine fault tolerant coordination of Web services atomic transactions. The mechanisms have been incorporated into an open-source framework implementing the standard Web services atomic transactions specification. The core services of the framework, namely, the activation service, the registration service, the completion service, and the distributed commit service, are replicated and protected with our Byzantine fault tolerance mechanisms. Such a framework can be useful for many transactional Web services that require high degree of security and dependability.

Communication And Authenticity: Transformations Of The Self In The Digital Age, John Dowd

Masters Theses

Through an examination of disembodied forms of communication and technological discourse, this project explores the concepts of authenticity and its implications for communication research. Situated within phenomenological notions of embodiment, authenticity can serve as an important tool for doing rhetorical criticism. It provides an ethical component to criticism that is sorely lacking within many social scientific approaches to the study of human communication, which operate under the guise of objectivity. As authenticity, subjectivity, and embodiment are inescapably connected and as all three provide the foundation for this project, chapter one provides a working definition of each. It is argued that …

Service Pays: Creating Opportunities By Linking College With Public Service, Ganesh Sitaraman, Elizabeth Warren, Sandy Baum

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

If college is to be the gateway to security and success, then a new financing mechanism is essential, one that lets students take responsibility for the cost of their own educations without burdening their families unduly, forcing them into career choices that push them out of public service, or mortgaging their futures. Our Service Pays proposal is designed to give every student who wants to work hard a means of paying for college - and to give young people an economically viable option to engage in public service for a few years after college. After describing the high costs of …

Rational Discounting For Regulatory Analysis, W. Kip Viscusi

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

This Article examines the economic basis for what is termed "rational discounting," which entails full recognition of policy effects over time and exponential discounting at a riskless rate of return. Policies often cannot be ranked unambiguously in terms of their present or future orientation. Both failure to discount and preferential intergenerational discounting generate inconsistencies and economic anomalies. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) discounting guidelines now stipulate more reasonable discount rates than earlier guidelines, but err in permitting open-ended preferential rates for intergenerational effects. This Article presents a methodology for monetizing the value of statistical life for people of different …

The Perils Of Evidentiary Manipulation, Edward K. Cheng

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

The use of evidentiary rules to achieve substantive goals strikes me as a Faustian bargain, and, given Bierschbach and Stein's acknowledgedly tentative position, I hope to dissuade them of the virtues of the practice. My goal therefore is to explore briefly the potential dark side of specialized evidentiary rules. The concerns of injecting substantive goals into evidence law extend far beyond the narrow legitimacy concerns Bierschbach and Stein raise. It is not simply the question of whether we aspire to a pluralistic or majority-take-all democratic society. Rather, evidentiary manipulation threatens the legitimacy of criminal and evidence law... Bierschbach and Stein's …

Alternative School Administrators And Teachers Perception Of Effective School Correlates In The Organizational Culture And Operation Of Alternative Schools, C.W. Gardenhire

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of the study was to examine whether alternative schools incorporate effective school correlates in their organizational culture and operation as these same elements are typically identified in the traditional effective school research. A quantitative descriptive study method was selected to conduct the study. The sample consisted of administrators and teachers actively involved in alternative schools. Further the sample was geographically located in the Mid-South, specifically Arkansas, East Texas, Northern Louisiana, North West Mississippi, and Western Tennessee. The study concluded that effective school correlates — clear school mission, frequent monitoring of students, and instructional leadership — were perceived to …

An Environmental Complexity Analysis For Robot-Environment System Design, Gang Yang

Theses and Dissertations

Recently, researchers have begun to investigate intelligent environments for robot applications. In this work, a robot and its work environment can be considered to be an integrated system. Currently, such robot-environment systems are designed on an ad-hoc basis, with the final performance of the system greatly dependent on the experience and preferences of the designer. This dissertation investigates a way to improve on this situation by looking at the complexity of an environment from the perspective of a robot. The objective of this research is to develop a method to evaluate environmental complexity and then use this information to help …

Computational Models To Predict The Inhibition Of Cytochrome P450 3a4 By Selected Natural Compounds, Sushma Thotakura

Theses and Dissertations

Cytochrome P450 3A4 (CYP3A4) plays a pivotal role in the metabolism of xenobiotics. Methylenedioxobenzene containing natural products have been shown to inhibit CYP3A4. Given that these compounds are widely distributed in nature there is a strong potential for drug interaction with many plants used for dietary or medicinal purposes. In this research we have developed two different computational models (Comparative Molecular Field Model and Artificial Neural Network Model) to assist in the identification of potentially strong inhibitors that could be further studied for potential inhibitory effects. These models were used to screen for the CYP3A4 inhibitory effects of 100 naturally …

Demystifying Content Management: Practical Applications For Writing Professionals, Nancy J. Howard

Theses and Dissertations

"Demystifying Content Management: Practical Applications for Writing Professionals" explores the subject of content management. This thesis explains what content management is, and it suggests a realistic approach for developing a content management plan and choosing a content management system (CMS). Before selecting a CMS, companies should define requirements, identify staffing needs, evaluate their content life cycle, and create an information model. Once the organization has a content management strategy, it can begin the process of choosing a CMS. This process involves establishing selection criteria, researching and evaluating potential vendors, and then making the final selection. This thesis concludes by identifying …

Differentiating Between Women In Hard And Soft Science And Engineering Disciplines, Amanda Gail Camp

Theses and Dissertations

The intent of the study was to investigate how women in hard (engineering, mathematics, computer science, physical science) and soft (social, psychological, life sciences) sciences differ from each other among a set of variables known to influence educational attainment and to evaluate how well Weidman's undergraduate socialization model explains higher education's influence on women in science and engineering fields. Using the Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study (1996-2001), descriptive discriminant analysis and multivariate analysis of variance were used to identify differences among the women, and structural equation modeling was used to evaluate Weidman's model. Results indicated that women who went into …

Giant Pandas Balance Energy Budgets With Metabolic Depression: Insights From Radar Detection Of Heart Rates, Tommy Gene Finley

Theses and Dissertations

Giant pandas ( Ailuropoda melanoleuca ) are flagship species for conservation because of their endangered status and charismatic nature. Giant pandas are placed in the bear family (Urisidae) within the order Carnivora. They specialize on a diet of bamboo, yet retain a typical carnivore gastrointestinal tract. Low energy digestive efficiency (9.5–34%) was calculated from bamboo-only digestibility trials conducted on captive giant pandas. Huge amounts of bamboo are consumed to overcome inefficient extraction and thus obtain sufficient energy and nutrients. I designed this study to gain insights into giant panda energy balance by measuring heart rates during sleep, their primary means …

Identification Of Potential Organic Contributors In Carbonaceous Aerosols: Enhanced Uv Absorption Spectra, Anand Mangu

Theses and Dissertations

Direct aerosol climate effects include light scattering and absorption that present the largest uncertainties in the assessment of radiative forcing. To estimate the overall effect of aerosols on climate the relative amounts of scattering and absorption must be known. Determination of aerosol UV-absorption spectra is the primary focus of this thesis research. Aerosol samples were collected in Mexico City in 2003 and 2006 as a part of Mexico City Metropolitan Area field study and also at Little Rock. UV-visible absorption spectra of these aerosol samples have been obtained by using an integrating sphere coupled to a UV-visible spectrometer and compared …

Load Distribution And Channel Assignment In Ieee 802.11 Wireless Local Area Networks, Mohamad Haidar

Theses and Dissertations

Recent growth in Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) deployment has generated considerable interest in load management and channel assignment among network designers. WLAN has become a major component of the modern telecommunication infrastructure. Load management and Channel assignment are among the critical aspects that face WLAN deployments. Well planned WLAN service environments require a network designed to provide not only radio coverage but also better load distribution and less interference across the service area, which in turn improves the Quality of Service (QoS). In this dissertation, a novel approach to the WLAN load distribution and channel assignment is proposed that …