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Evaluation Of Suspected Renal Colic Patients With Unenhanced Low-Dose Multidetector Computed Tomography (Mdct), Nebayosi Twahirwa

Master of Medicine in Imaging and Diagnostic Radiology

Acute renal colic is probably one of the most excruciatingly painful event a person can endure. [1]. Though this is typical of urinary tract calculi, it’s important to note that non-calculus and non-genitourinary conditions can present in a similar manner. Unenhanced helical CT (CT KUB), originally described by Smith et al [2] in 1995, is one single radiological test that has proven successful in the valuation of patients presenting with renal colic. This technique has been shown to be more accurate compared to abdominal radiography [3,4], ultrasound and has replaced excretory urography in the detection of urinary tract calculi in …

Ubi Jus Ibi Remedium - For The Violation Of Every Right, There Must Be A Remedy: The Supreme Court's Refusal To Use The Bivens Remedy In Wilkie V. Robbins, Heather Jane Hanna, Alan G. Harding

Wyoming Law Review

No abstract provided.

Constitutional Law - Challenging Anti-Commerce State Regulatory Schemes In Light Of The Supreme Court's Admonition Of Protectionist Alcohol Regulations; Granholm V. Heald, 544 U.S. 460 (2005), Mike Figge

Wyoming Law Review

No abstract provided.

G-Perfect Nonlinear Functions, James A. Davis, Laurent Poinsot

Department of Math & Statistics Faculty Publications

Perfect nonlinear functions are used to construct DES-like cryptosystems that are resistant to differential attacks. We present generalized DES-like cryptosystems where the XOR operation is replaced by a general group action. The new cryptosystems, when combined with G-perfect nonlinear functions (similar to classical perfect nonlinear functions with one XOR replaced by a general group action), allow us to construct systems resistant to modified differential attacks. The more general setting enables robust cryptosystems with parameters that would not be possible in the classical setting. We construct several examples of G-perfect nonlinear functions, both Z₂ -valued and Z^{a …}

Slipping Through The Cracks And Into Schools: The Need For A Uniform Sexual Predator Tracking System, Cheryl Page

Journal Publications

Over half a million registered sex offenders currently live in the United States. Sex offenses are among the most devastating crimes because of the long-lasting emotional, physical, and psychological effects it has on victims. Sadly, most victims of sex offenses are innocent children. "Most sex offenders are not in prison, and ... are largely unknown to people in the community." Sex offenders also have a propensity for reoffending their crimes. "While community supervision and oversight is widely recognized as essential, the system for providing such supervision is overwhelmed." There are many loopholes in the current system that allow sex offenders …

Massachusetts V. Epa And The Future Of Environmental Standing In Climate Change Litigation And Beyond, Randall S. Abate

Journal Publications

This Article focuses on the future scope of environmental standing after Massachusetts v. EPA. Injury in fact has been and remains the most controversial component of the environmental standing test within and outside the context of global environmental harms. Part I of this Article discusses the background context of environmental standing for global environmental harms and its corresponding origins in procedural and substantive injury claims in cases involving purely domestic environmental harms. Part II examines the landmark decision in Massachusetts v. EPA and considers how it confirms and extends standing jurisprudence for global environmental harms, yet fails to resolve some …

Joan Of Arc And The Crusade: Memorizing Medieval Examples To Improve A Renaissance King, Lidia Radi

Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Faculty Publications

In 1518, Le Penser de royal memoire was published in Paris by Guillaume Michel de Tours.²Thanks to the pioneering research conducted by Anne-Marie Lecoq in her monumental book Francois I^er imaginaire, this allegorical text has recently caught the attention of scholars as part of an important moral and political literary production that was published under the reign of King Francis I (r. 1515-1547). Lecoq's study and subsequent works, such as the critical edition of Jean Thenaud's Triomphe des Vertus by Titia Schuurs-Janssen, shed new light on the literature of propaganda addressed to Francis I, the king …

Naso V. Fu : Brief Of Appellant, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (2007– 2019)

No abstract provided.

Taylor-West Weber Water Improvement District V. Jerry Olds, State Engineer Of The State Of Utah; Weber Basin Water Conservancy Distrit; And United States Of America Bureau Of Reclamation V. Roy City : Reply Brief, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (2007– 2019)

Appeal from the second Judicial District Court, Weber County, State of Utah The Honorable Pamela G. Heffernan

Olp, L.L.C., A Limited Liability Company, And Richard Wilson, An Individual V. Wayne Burningham, An Individual, And Optical Lens Products Management, Inc., Dba Intermountain Antireflective Coatings, A Utah Corporation : Brief Of Petitioner, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (2007– 2019)

PETITIONERS' OPENING BRIEF On Certiorari Review to the Court of Appeals, Case No. 20060178-CA District Court Case No. 010906652, Honorable Robert K. Hilder

State Of Utah V. Brian Dale Larsen : Brief Of Appellee, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (2007– 2019)

Appeal from an order of restitution following convictions for one count of joyriding with intent to temporarily deprive the owner thereof, a class xA. misdemeanor, in violation of Utah Code Ann. § 41- la-1314 (West Supp. 2008), and one count of unlawful possession of burglary tools, a class B misdemeanor, in violation of Utah Code Ann. § 76-6-205 (West 2004), in the Third Judicial District Court of Utah, Salt Lake County, the Honorable William W. Barrett presiding.

Flora Sue Macintosh V. Staker Paving And Construction Company : Brief Of Appellee, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (2007– 2019)

Appellee's Brief

Kang S. Park And Marsha Park V. Gary B. Stanford : Brief Of Appellee, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (2007– 2019)

Appeal from the Judgment of the Third Judicial District Court of Salt Lake County, State of Utah, Honorable Anthony B. Quinn

Ron Benson V. Peace Officer Standards And Training Council, Department Of Public Safety, State Of Utah : Reply Brief, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (2007– 2019)

APPEAL FROM THE PEACE OFHCER STANDARDS AND TRAINING COUNCIL

Ron Benson V. Peace Officer Standards And Training Council, Department Of Public Safety, State Of Utah: Brief Of Appellant, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (2007– 2019)

APPEAL FROM THE PEACE OFFICER STANDARDS AND TRAINING COUNCIL

Harvey V. Cedar Hills : Reply Brief, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (2007– 2019)

No abstract provided.

The Ethical Lacunae In Friedman's Concept Of The Manager, Jonathan B. Wight, Martin Calkins

Economics Faculty Publications

This article challenges along two lines Milton Friedman's injunction that the sole role of the business manager is to maximize profits for shareholders using all legal and ethical means. First, it shows how Friedman overly narrows the manager's moral duties to consequentialist profit maximization and thereby fails to account for a wide range of values and virtues necessary for good management. Second, it illustrates how more oblique approaches to management as well as Adam Smith's virtue-based model better capture the moral imagination and relational aspects of leadership that are critical to good management today. In the end, this article suggests …

Photolithography Based Patterning Of Bacteriorhodopsin Films, Christopher M. Anton

Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports - Open

The patterning of photoactive purple membrane (PM) films onto electronic substrates to create a biologically based light detection device was investigated. This research is part of a larger collaborative effort to develop a miniaturized toxin detection platform. This platform will utilize PM films containing the photoactive protein bacteriorhodopsin to convert light energy to electrical energy.

Following an effort to pattern PM films using focused ion beam machining, the photolithography based bacteriorhodopsin patterning technique (PBBPT) was developed. This technique utilizes conventional photolithography techniques to pattern oriented PM films onto flat substrates. After the basic patterning process was developed, studies were conducted …

Why The "One Great City" Movement Failed, John Paul Whitmore

Vulcan Historical Review

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Guided Discretion In Massachusetts Evidence Law: Standards For The Admissibility Of Prior Bad Acts Against The Defendant, Peter W. Agnes Jr.

Suffolk Journal of Trial and Appellate Advocacy

No abstract provided.

Megacases, Diversity, And The Elusive Goal Of Workplace Reform, Nancy Levit

Faculty Works

Employment discrimination class action suits are part of a new wave of structural reform litigation. Like their predecessors - the school desegregation cases in the 1950s, the housing and voting inequalities cases in the 1960s, prison conditions suits in the 1970s, and environmental lawsuits since then - these are systemic challenges to major institutions affecting large segments of the public. This article explores the effectiveness of various employment discrimination remedies in reforming workplace cultures, promoting corporate accountability, and implementing real diversity.

Reviewing the architecture and aftermath of consent decrees in five major employment discrimination cases - the cases against Shoney's, …

Recent Developments Affecting The Enforcement, Procurement, And Licensing Of Research Tool Patents, Joshua D. Sarnoff, Christopher M. Holman

Faculty Works

A vigorous discussion exists regarding the need to provide exclusive patent rights as incentives to invent and to disclose so-called "research tools," whether such exclusive rights should apply to all uses and users of patented research tools, and whether exclusive rights to prohibit all uses of research tools would unduly discourage sequential invention. This article summarizes recent developments under U.S. patent laws of particular relevance to the debate over the patenting of research tools, and provides some insights into the practices of various academic sciences, industries, and government agencies regarding the treatment of these important inventions. The article provides a …

Incrementalism, Comprehensive Rationality, And The Future Of Gun Control, Allen K. Rostron

Faculty Works

This article examines the issue of gun control through the lens of the 'comprehensive rationality' and 'incrementalism' models of policymaking and argues that incremental policymaking has been one of the major impediments to progress toward more effective regulation of guns. Gun laws are often an incoherent patch-work of provisions as new restrictions are piled atop old ones in response to particular tragedies or narrow concerns, instead of crafting bills to achieve an optimal approach to the entire problem. Political science and other social sciences literature has closely examined the 'incrementalism' and 'comprehensive rationality' models of policymaking over the past several …

Illuminating Justice Marshall's Death Penalty Jurisprudence Via The Prism Of Dynamic Constitutionalism, Saby Ghoshray

MC Law Review

Justice Thurgood Marshall: Exploring the Life and Legacy of One of America's Most Celebrated Jurists

Defining Employer Liability In Sexual Harassment And Title Vii Retaliation Claims: The Supreme Court Creates The Same Problem Twice, Thomas J. Hook Jr.

Suffolk Journal of Trial and Appellate Advocacy

No abstract provided.

Vindicating The Public Interest: The Public Law Implications Of Attorneys' Fee Restrictions In Class Actions, Andrew D. Thibedeau

Suffolk Journal of Trial and Appellate Advocacy

No abstract provided.

Possibility Of Plain Meaning: Wittgenstein And The Contract Precedents, Val D. Ricks

Cleveland State Law Review

Pacific Gas & Electric Co. v. G.W. Thomas Drayage & Rigging Co and In re Soper's Estate claim that plain meaning in contract law is impossible. This claim is left irrefuted in the casebooks and contract law literature, Part I notes, and in most teaching of contract law. The consequence is that students are taught that plain meaning is impossible. A startling implication of this conclusion, as Part I explains, is that the majority of U.S. courts, which hold to the plain meaning rule, are relying on a fiction. But the claim that plain meaning is impossible is false, as …

Incentives: The Effects On Reading Attitude And Reading Behaviors Of Third-Grade Students, Gayle M. Stanfield

The Corinthian

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether third grade literacy students who receive incentive rewards as part of their instruction will exhibit significantly higher reading habits and attitudes toward recreational reading than they did before the incentives were introduced. The study examined 19 third grade students with fairly high intellectual abilities. The students were given an Elementary Reading Attitude Survey (ERAS) as a pre- and postmeasure. Weekly data were kept on the number of Accelerated Reader (AR) books read as well as scores on the AR tests. Baseline was student AR performance during the first four weeks of …

Effects Of Fluency Instruction On Literacy Skills In The First Grade Classroom, Susan A. Buchanan

The Corinthian

The effects of fluency intervention strategies on students’ fluency rate, comprehension, and word identification were the focus of this study. Both the experimental and control groups were first grade classes, taught by the same teacher, at a primary school in central Georgia. The study was conducted over a 15-week period. The results of the study were inconclusive. The Lexia Comprehensive Reading Test was used at the beginning and end of fall semester. While the experimental group showed expected progress in comprehension, fluency rate, and word identification, there was no statistical difference in the achievement of both groups. Both groups improved …

An Empirical Examination Of Product And Litigant-Specific Theories For The Divergence Between Nafta Chapter 19 And U.S. Judicial Review, Juscelino F. Colares

Faculty Publications

Empirical analysis of NAFTA panel review has shown that panels reverse US agency trade remedy determinations twice as often as US courts. Recent studies have eliminated case selection and other hypotheses as potential explanations for this divergence. In this article, Probit regressions show that case docket differences, such as type of import or litigant identity, also cannot account for this discrepancy. As NAFTA panels must apply the same law and standards of review as the US courts they replace, this divergence presents serious questions regarding US Congressional acquiescence to the operation of NAFTA panels and encourages discussion of the role …