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Construction Law, D. Stan Barnhill Nov 2008

Construction Law, D. Stan Barnhill

University of Richmond Law Review

No abstract provided.


Medical Malpractice Law, Kathleen M. Mccauley, William F. Demarest Iii Nov 2008

Medical Malpractice Law, Kathleen M. Mccauley, William F. Demarest Iii

University of Richmond Law Review

No abstract provided.


Railroad Law, Brent M. Timberlake Nov 2008

Railroad Law, Brent M. Timberlake

University of Richmond Law Review

No abstract provided.


Guarding The Guardians: Judges' Rights And Virginia's Judicial Inquiry And Review Commission, Jeffrey D. Mcmahan Jr. Nov 2008

Guarding The Guardians: Judges' Rights And Virginia's Judicial Inquiry And Review Commission, Jeffrey D. Mcmahan Jr.

University of Richmond Law Review

No abstract provided.


The Opinion Volume 46 Issue 3 – November 1, 2008, The Opinion Nov 2008

The Opinion Volume 46 Issue 3 – November 1, 2008, The Opinion

The Opinion Newspaper (all issues)

The Opinion newspaper issue dated November 01, 2008


The Uncertain Future Of Legal Reform In China, Stanley B. Lubman Nov 2008

The Uncertain Future Of Legal Reform In China, Stanley B. Lubman

Hong Yen Chang Center for Chinese Legal Studies

This talk looks at how far Chinese law reform has come since 1979, possible further reforms, and obstacles to meaningful reform.


Slippery Slope? Assessing The Economic Impact Of The 2002 Winter Olympic Games In Salt Lake City, Utah, Robert Baade, Robert Baumann, Victor Matheson Nov 2008

Slippery Slope? Assessing The Economic Impact Of The 2002 Winter Olympic Games In Salt Lake City, Utah, Robert Baade, Robert Baumann, Victor Matheson

Economics Department Working Papers

This paper provides an empirical examination of the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, Utah. Our analysis of taxable sales in the counties in which Olympic events took place finds that some sectors such as hotels and restaurants prospered while other retailers such as general merchandisers and department stores suffered. Overall the gains in the hospitality industry are lower than the losses experienced by other sectors in the economy. Given the experience of Utah, potential Olympic hosts should exercise caution before proceeding down the slippery slope of bidding for this event.


Contact With Nature, Sense Of Humor, And Psychological Well-Being, Thomas R. Herzog, Sarah J. Strevey Nov 2008

Contact With Nature, Sense Of Humor, And Psychological Well-Being, Thomas R. Herzog, Sarah J. Strevey

Peer Reviewed Articles

We administered a questionnaire measuring contact with nature, sense of humor, and psychological well-being. Factor analysis of the humor items yielded four factors: humor production, humor appreciation, coping humor, and humor tolerance. Factor analysis of 14 well-being measures yielded three factors: emotional well-being, personal development, and effective functioning. The best sense-of-humor predictor of the well-being measures and factors was humor appreciation. Regression models for each of the well-being factors as dependent variables with humor appreciation and contact with nature as independent variables showed that additive models with both predictors were appropriate for personal development and effective functioning and that a …


Specialty Insurance For Intellectual Property: Additional Security For Owners Of Intellectual Property Assets, Todd M. Rowe Nov 2008

Specialty Insurance For Intellectual Property: Additional Security For Owners Of Intellectual Property Assets, Todd M. Rowe

DePaul Journal of Art, Technology & Intellectual Property Law

No abstract provided.


Liability For Divided Performance Of Process Claims After Bmc Resources, Inc. V. Paymentech, L.P., Joshua P. Larsen Nov 2008

Liability For Divided Performance Of Process Claims After Bmc Resources, Inc. V. Paymentech, L.P., Joshua P. Larsen

DePaul Journal of Art, Technology & Intellectual Property Law

No abstract provided.


Communication Strategies Of Successful Coaches: A Content Analysis Of Books By Coaches About Coaching, Fredyne Yust Nov 2008

Communication Strategies Of Successful Coaches: A Content Analysis Of Books By Coaches About Coaching, Fredyne Yust

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Communication behaviors of coaches are critical in motivating athletes and creating a climate of success. Coaches learn their techniques from a variety of sources—mentors, education, and lessons learned from other coaches. For this study, university coaches were surveyed to determine five books written by successful coaches: The Smart Take from the Strong (Pete Carril), Sacred Hoops (Phil Jackson), Leading with the Heart (Mike Krzyzewski), Reach for the Summit (Pat Summitt) and They Call Me Coach (John Wooden). Using grounded theory, the researcher analyzed these texts and discovered discernible categories of communication techniques deemed significant to the process of successful coaching. …


Uniform Color Spaces Based On Ciecam02 And Ipt Color Difference Equations, Yang Xue Nov 2008

Uniform Color Spaces Based On Ciecam02 And Ipt Color Difference Equations, Yang Xue

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Color difference equations based on the CIECAM02 color appearance model and IPT color space have been developed to fit experimental data. There is no color space in which these color difference equations are Euclidean, e.g. describe distances along a straight line. In this thesis, Euclidean color spaces have been derived for the CIECAM02 and IPT color difference equations, respectively, so that the color difference can be calculated as a simple color distance. Firstly, the Euclidean line element was established, from which terms were derived for the new coordinates of lightness, chroma, and hue angle. Then the spaces were analyzed using …


Estimating Evolutionary Dynamics Of Cleavage Site Peptides Among H5ha Avian Influenza Employing Mathematical Information Theory Approaches, Sherry Dadgar Nov 2008

Estimating Evolutionary Dynamics Of Cleavage Site Peptides Among H5ha Avian Influenza Employing Mathematical Information Theory Approaches, Sherry Dadgar

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Estimating evolutionary conservation of cleavage site peptides among HA protein of all strains facilitates vaccine development against pandemic influenza. Conserved epitopes may be useful for diagnosis of animals infected with the influenza virus, and preventing their spread in other regions [ 1]. In the preliminary stage of this study, in silico analysis of hemagglutinin was applied to predict potential cleavage sites of each strain employing

SigCleave [2] and SignalP 3.0 server [3]. The second stage of the study focused on analyzing the structure of connecting peptides of hemagglutinin cleavage sites based on the availability of the existing experimental data. Our …


Bard Free Press, Vol. 10, No. 2 (November 2008), Bard College Nov 2008

Bard Free Press, Vol. 10, No. 2 (November 2008), Bard College

Bard Free Press - All Issues (2000-2018)

No abstract provided.


Interactive Tutorials In The Marketing Of Digital Cameras: How Tutorials Benefit Consumers & Retailers, Andrew Eckert Nov 2008

Interactive Tutorials In The Marketing Of Digital Cameras: How Tutorials Benefit Consumers & Retailers, Andrew Eckert

Theses

There is a growing market for digital single-lens refl ex cameras (SLRs) that is driven by their ease of use, accessibility, and falling price points. Marketing these cameras with an interactive tutorial not only allows photo enthusiasts to improve as photographers, but also gives the retailer a profi table add-on and selling incentive. This work explores how interactive multimedia can be utilized as a source for instruction in camera mechanics. The proposed model is an interface using a virtual camera with which the user interacts. From this starting point the user can choose tutorials from corresponding elements on the camera. …


Victorian Organ, Christine Dunn Nov 2008

Victorian Organ, Christine Dunn

Theses

This paper is a companion piece to my short film, “Victorian Organ”. This film is an effort to contextualize the mechanical, or man-made, within nature. It is an assertion that there really is no "man vs. nature"- (a radically illogical and inherently self-destructive notion), but only man as nature, in which case, alienation and disharmony ultimately lies in our own self-perception. The impulse to identify a relationship between the mechanical and organic is inspired not only by my observations of our human society, but as a way to decode my own inner workings –an urge to reconcile seemingly major dichotomies …


Vegetable Exhibits At Fairs And Shows, John Wesley, Maggie Wolf Nov 2008

Vegetable Exhibits At Fairs And Shows, John Wesley, Maggie Wolf

All Current Publications

This publication gives tips on how to choose the best produce for vegetable exhibits and what the judges are looking for in the displays.


What Story Got Wrong - Federalism, Localist Opportunism And International Law, Paul B. Stephan Nov 2008

What Story Got Wrong - Federalism, Localist Opportunism And International Law, Paul B. Stephan

Missouri Law Review

I first explain the theoretical underpinning of the argument against the inevitability of localist opportunism. I then illustrate the general theory with three examples where the international obligations of the United States can be met without the strong federal supervision that Story deemed necessary and that latter-day nationalists embrace. I first discuss the body of law that was the subject of Swift v. Tyson, namely the rules governing negotiable instruments. Story thought that developing a federal common law was necessary to thwart idiosyncratic, and presumably opportunistic, state decisions. Yet both before and after the overthrow of Swift v. Tyson in …


Detecting Relevant Changes In High Throughput Gene Expression Data, Anusha Aiyalu Kannan Nov 2008

Detecting Relevant Changes In High Throughput Gene Expression Data, Anusha Aiyalu Kannan

Theses

The management and analysis of the data produced by high-throughput technologies are challenging. This paper discuss multiple hypothesis testing by focusing on developing and applying computationally intensive techniques to achieve the goal of simultaneous tests for each spotID the null hypothesis of no association between the expression levels and the responses or covariates. The software provides features where the user controls the amount of data that can be used for analyzing. The software also produce graph of the output which provide the user with easy viewing of the results.


The Quiet Revolution Revived: Sustainable Design, Land Use Regulation, And The States, Sara C. Bronin Nov 2008

The Quiet Revolution Revived: Sustainable Design, Land Use Regulation, And The States, Sara C. Bronin

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

Thirty-seven years ago, a book called The Quiet Revolution in Land Use Control argued that states would soon take over localities' long-held power over land use regulation. In the authors' view, this quiet revolution would occur when policymakers and the public recognized that certain problems - like environmental destruction - were too big for localities to handle on their own. Although the quiet revolution has not yet occurred, this Article suggests that it will, and should, occur alongside the ever-growing green building movement. This movement presents practical and ideological challenges to our current system of regulating land use. This Article …


Fibergramme Vol. 31 No. 6, Weavers Of Orlando Nov 2008

Fibergramme Vol. 31 No. 6, Weavers Of Orlando

Text Materials of Central Florida

FIBERGRAMME is published in September, November, January, March and May.


Aquatic Perceived Competence Analysis In Children: Development And Preliminary Validation Of A Pictorial Scale, Juan Antonio Moreno Murcia, Luis Miguel Ruiz Pérez Nov 2008

Aquatic Perceived Competence Analysis In Children: Development And Preliminary Validation Of A Pictorial Scale, Juan Antonio Moreno Murcia, Luis Miguel Ruiz Pérez

International Journal of Aquatic Research and Education

The aim of this study was to develop and validate a scale for measuring perceived motor of children in the water (also known as aquatic perceived competence). One hundred boys and girls four and five years old took part in the study and were given a picture questionnaire featuring a series of images of children engaged in a variety of water tasks. Factor analyses were conducted to test whether the ten-item scale is made up of two major dimensions, the first of them referring to willingness (predisposition or attitudes of the children towards water) and the second to the perceived …


The Persistence Of Sleep Disturbance In Children Evaluated For Autism Spectrum Disorders: Predictive Factors And The Impact Of Co-Occurring Diagnoses, Celeste Elana Flachsbart Nov 2008

The Persistence Of Sleep Disturbance In Children Evaluated For Autism Spectrum Disorders: Predictive Factors And The Impact Of Co-Occurring Diagnoses, Celeste Elana Flachsbart

Doctor of Psychology (PsyD)

Mounting research suggests that children with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) and other clinical diagnoses demonstrate a higher prevalence of sleep problems than typically-developing children. Additionally, sleep problems are related to a number of cognitive, emotional, and behavioral concerns in pediatric populations. Limited research exists comparing sleep problems in children with ASDs with sleep problems in other clinical populations, or exploring the length of these sleep problems.

The current study sought to explore the development and improvement of sleep problems over one year, as well as predictors to help identify children at high risk for persistent sleep problem. Impact of age, …


Hungary: Request For Stand-By Arrangement, International Monetary Fund (Imf) Nov 2008

Hungary: Request For Stand-By Arrangement, International Monetary Fund (Imf)

Documents

No abstract provided.


Mortgage Finance: Final Report And Recommendations, James Crosby Nov 2008

Mortgage Finance: Final Report And Recommendations, James Crosby

Documents

No abstract provided.


Bar-Gill And Warren, Making Credit Safer, Oren Bar-Gil, Elizabeth Warren Nov 2008

Bar-Gill And Warren, Making Credit Safer, Oren Bar-Gil, Elizabeth Warren

Documents

No abstract provided.


Frbny Staff Report- The Federal Home Loan Bank System The Lender Of Next To Last Resort, Adam Ashcraft, Morten L. Bech, W. Scott Frame Nov 2008

Frbny Staff Report- The Federal Home Loan Bank System The Lender Of Next To Last Resort, Adam Ashcraft, Morten L. Bech, W. Scott Frame

Documents

No abstract provided.


Financial Sustainability Report, Banco De Espana/Central Bank Of Spain Nov 2008

Financial Sustainability Report, Banco De Espana/Central Bank Of Spain

Documents

No abstract provided.


A Summary Reflection On Legal Education, Robert A. Pascal, Olivier Moreteau Nov 2008

A Summary Reflection On Legal Education, Robert A. Pascal, Olivier Moreteau

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.


Technology Acceptance Factors Affecting Adoption Of Wireless Data Technology, Igal Hebron Nov 2008

Technology Acceptance Factors Affecting Adoption Of Wireless Data Technology, Igal Hebron

Graduate Student Dissertations, Theses, Capstones, and Portfolios

The study of acceptance and use of technology is traditionally based on models designed to identify and test the relationships forged between the user and the technology in question. Models designed to study the relationship of user and technology acceptance tend to integrate experiential criteria, such as the attitude of the user towards technology, as well as criteria found within the environment. As wireless communications become more prevalent, and the forms of wireless technology evolve, understanding the process of acceptance and usage will be of importance as companies compete to offer the most user friendly and sophisticated wireless devices.

The …