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Fair Treatment For Experienced Pilots Act - All Good Things Really Do Come To An End, Jeff Orkin

Journal of Air Law and Commerce

No abstract provided.

Analysis Of The Proposed Hub Carrier Slot Preference At Chicago O'Hare, Erin Shea

Journal of Air Law and Commerce

No abstract provided.

Deer–Vehicle Collision Statistics And Mitigation Information: Online Sources, Terry A. Messmer, Destiny R. Messmer

Human–Wildlife Interactions

Although good data are lacking, published estimates suggest that >1.5 million deer– vehicle collisions (DVCs) occur annually in the United States. The estimated losses exceed 1 billion dollars. In some states, DVCs are a major cause of reportable accidents. Federal, state, and private partners have cooperated in monitoring trends in DVCs and implementing mitigation measures. Most of this information about such measures is readily available via the Internet. The purpose of this paper is to provide the reader with a broad overview of and a guide to the information currently available online to mitigate DVCs.

The "Reasonable Plant" Test: When Progress Outruns The Constitution, Max Stul Oppenheimer

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology

No abstract provided.

Out Of The Daubert Fire And Into The Fryeing Pan? Self-Validation, Meta-Expertise And The Admissibility Of Latent Print Evidence In Frye Jurisdictions, Simone A. Cole

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology

No abstract provided.

After Ebay, Inc. V. Mercexchange: The Changing Landscape For Patent Remedies, Bernard H. Chao

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology

No abstract provided.

The Costs Of Privilege: Defining Price In The Market For Educational Copyright Use, L. Ashley Aull

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology

No abstract provided.

Negative Dimensions Of Identity: A Research Agenda For Law And Public Policy, Avner Ben-Ner, Claire A. Hil

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology

No abstract provided.

The Rationality Of Preference Construction (And The Irrationality Of Rational Choice), Claire A. Hill

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology

No abstract provided.

Authentic Happiness, Self Knowledge & Legal Policy, Peter H. Huang

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology

No abstract provided.

Heterosexual Sexual Behavior Is Governed By Social Exchange And Basic Economic Principles: Sexual Economics Theory, Kathleen D. Vohs, Jannine Lasaleta

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology

No abstract provided.

Legal Innovation And The Compliance Paradox, Emanuela Carbonara, Francesco Parisi, Georg Von Wangenheim

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology

No abstract provided.

Intentions, Guilt And Social Interactions, J. Atsu Amegashie

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology

No abstract provided.

Justice Versus Benevolence: A Modern Humean View, Mario J. Rizzo

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology

No abstract provided.

Patents And Patients: Who Is The Tragedy Of The Anticommons Impacting And Who Is Bearing The Cost Of High-Priced Biotechnological Research?, Caroline A. Grenshaw

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology

No abstract provided.

The Riaa Litigation War On File Sharing And Alternatives More Compatible With Public Morality, Daniel Reynolds

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology

No abstract provided.

Psycho-Social Effects Of A Brain-Training Program Among Healthy Older Adults, Desma Hurley, M. Jean Turner, William C. Bailey

Discovery, The Student Journal of Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences

Grounded in cognitive neuroscience and social exchange theory, this research evaluated the relationship between changes in cognitive functioning and two psycho-social dimensions of life among healthy adults over the age of 70 (N=12). Specific psycho-social dimensions examined were social interaction and depression. Six females and six males participated in the study. All were white, college-educated individuals residing in a life-care residential retirement community. The participants used the Posit Science® Brain Fitness Program™, an auditory-based computer training program that improves memory and speed of processing, for forty hours over an eight-week period. Pre- and post-tests related to social interaction and depressive …

Using Combined Prediction Models To Quantify And Visualize Stormwater Runoff In An Urban Watershed, Keshia Koehn, Cristina Scarlat, Kristofor Brye

Discovery, The Student Journal of Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences

Stormwater runoff can transport nutrients, sediments, chemicals, and pathogens to surface waterbodies. Managing runoff is crucial to preserving water quality in rapidly developing urban watersheds like those in Northwest Arkansas. A watershed containing the majority of the University of Arkansas campus was designated as the study area because stormwater from it drains into the West Fork of the White River, designated as an impaired waterbody due to siltation. The project objective was to develop methodology to test existing stormwater drainage infrastructure, identify potential areas of improvement, and estimate potentially contaminated runoff by combining two widely used prediction models. The U.S. …

Effects Of Storage Temperature And Duration On The Milling Properties Of Rice, Tanya Pereira, Nora Cooper, Terry Siebenmorgen

Discovery, The Student Journal of Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences

To maximize rice quality, it is essential to quantify the various factors that affect milling properties of rice. Rice aging, a process during which rice undergoes a series of chemical and physicochemical changes, affects head rice yield (HRY) and the rate at which HRY changes with degree of milling (DOM). This study examined effects of storage duration (0, 2, and 4 months) and storage temperature (4, 21, and 35°C) on milling properties of ‘Wells’ (long-grain) and ‘Jupiter’ (medium-grain) rice cultivars. In general, HRY increased with storage duration, most significantly for Wells cultivar. Millability curves were developed by plotting HRY vs. …

Incorporating Cooperative Learning Activities Into Traditional Aerospace Engineering Curricula, Abraham Mathew, David B. Spencer

Journal of Aviation/Aerospace Education & Research

Active learning is a term used to describe programs where students learn by doing. In active learning programs, students work on projects where they use their theoretical classroom knowledge in real-world, hands-on activities. The activities range from single person projects to larger, complex, team oriented programs. In many programs the students work on actual hardware and software, many times similar to those used in industry. Many of the methods and techniques in active learning, such as time management and cost control are also similar to that of industry. A benefit of these types of projects is that the students cannot …

Play With The Slinky: Learning To Lead Collaboration Through A State-Wide Training Project Aimed At Grants For Community Partnerships, Elizabeth A. Curry

Library Presentations & Publications

How can training develop the philosophical commitment that library staff members need to successfully lead collaborative projects? How does conversation as a training model and play as an activity shape the collaborative learning process? How do we stimulate libraries and library staff to assume leadership roles in community building? This article is a study of a statewide training process designed to create opportunities for librarians to learn to lead collaborative community projects. It highlights the content, exercises, and methods used to stimulate learning. The workshops were facilitated as models of collaboration, and play, as well as sites of conversation about …

241st Annual Report Of The Selectmen And Other Town Officers Cornish, New Hampshire Year Ending December 31, 2007., Cornish Town Representatives

Cornish, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

Tennessee Farm Bureau News - January 2008, Tennessee Farm Bureau Federation

Tennessee Farm Bureau News

No abstract provided.

Why We Do The Things We Do? The Role Of Ethics In Water Resource Planning, Amy Hardberger

Faculty Articles

Water provides a natural framework in the role of ethics because ethical issues are present in every facet of water management. The value of water and the creation of ethics dictate decisions regarding water resource management. Value can be assessed from factors including happiness, well-being, or intrinsic value. Once a value is assessed, obligations that dictate actions regarding this issue are generated, and an ethic is created.

Various domestic and international policies have, both explicitly and implicitly, called for a human right to water. The presence of domestic and international policies that recognize or protect a person’s right to water …

Panel: Ethics-Based Decision-Making In Societal Water Management, Amy Hardberger

Faculty Articles

There is an ethical overlay to water-related decision-making and management, frequently drawing on personal experiences with water and the ubiquitous need for water. The modern South African Bill of Rights, ensuring its people’s access to water; the movement towards recognizing water as a basic human right; and even occurrences in Texas, including the passage of “environmental flows legislation” and the efforts to preserve and protect the Edwards Aquifer, reflect the presence of ethics in decision-making with respect to water management. Ethics are a part of water management decision-making.

Corruption In Education: A Global Legal Challenge, Vincent R. Johnson

Faculty Articles

In every educational institution, in every country and generation, there is a struggle between corrupt practices and the continuing quest for high ethical standards. An educational institution is poorer if its members engage in corrupt practices. Such misfeasance wastes limited resources, demoralizes participants, and adversely affects productivity. The nature of this corruption is multi-faceted, and observes no geographic boundaries. It exists in every culture.

In some of these cases, educational corruption can be quite subtle. This is true where conduct that is neither criminal, fraudulent, nor a breach of fiduciary duty nevertheless undercuts the moral foundations of the educational enterprise. …

Intermediate Accounting Ii, William Hahn

Syllabus Repository

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Overcoming Lochner In The Twenty-First Century: Taking Both Rights And Popular Sovereignty Seriously As We Seek To Secure Equal Citizenship And Promote The Public Good, Thomas B. Mcaffee

University of Richmond Law Review

Professor McAffee reviews substantive due process as the textual basis for modern fundamental rights constitutional decision-making. He contends that we should avoid both the undue literalism that rejects the idea of implied rights, as well as the attempt to substitute someone's preferred moral vision for the limits, and compromises, that are implicit in and intended by the Constitution's text. He argues, moreover, that we can largely harmonizethe variousgoals of our constitutionalsystem by taking rights se- riously and by understanding that securing rights does not ex-haustthe Constitution'spurposes.

A Search For Balance In The Discovery Of Esi Since December 1, 2006, Douglas L. Roger

Richmond Journal of Law & Technology

An explosion in the amount and discovery of electronically stored information (ESI) threatens to clog the federal court system and make judicial determination of the substantive merits of disputes an endangered species. It is interesting that this information discovery explosion has skipped over Rule 1 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, which provides in part that the federal rules “shall be construed and administered to secure the just, speedy, and inexpensive determination of every action.”

Patenting Part-Human Chimeras, Transgenics And Stem Cells For Transplantation In The United States, Canada, And Europe, Gregory R. Hagen, Sébastien A. Gittens

Richmond Journal of Law & Technology

The perceived need for part-human materials – considered to be biological materials containing human genetic material for the purposes of this paper – is at least twofold. First, given the continued shortage of human organs and other human biological materials suitable for transplantation, thousands of persons will suffer illness and death each year.