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Cover And Contents Jan 2008

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Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry

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Genetic Analysis Of Grain Yield And Starch Content In Nine Maize Populations, Zvonimir Zdunic, Anto Mijic, Krunoslav Dugalic, Domagoj Simic, Josip Brkic, Ana Marjanovic Jeromela Jan 2008

Genetic Analysis Of Grain Yield And Starch Content In Nine Maize Populations, Zvonimir Zdunic, Anto Mijic, Krunoslav Dugalic, Domagoj Simic, Josip Brkic, Ana Marjanovic Jeromela

Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry

The objective of this study was to estimate main genetic effects including digenic non-allelic epistasis for yield and starch content in grain by generation mean analysis performed in 9 maize populations (biparental crosses) and their subsequent 6 generations (2 parental, F1 and F2, and 2 backcrosses). The estimated additive-dominance model of inheritance was, due to epistasis, only partially successful in explaining inheritance model for investigated traits and crosses. The additive-dominance model was adequate at 6 crosses for grain yield and 3 crosses for starch content. A digenic epistatic model was sufficient to explain the inheritance model at 6 crosses for …

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Cover And Contents Jan 2008

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Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry

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“Primitivism” And Theosophy In Paul Gauguin’S La Orana Maria, Katherine C. Scalia Jan 2008

“Primitivism” And Theosophy In Paul Gauguin’S La Orana Maria, Katherine C. Scalia

Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects

The purpose of this thesis is to reveal Paul Gauguin’s expression of his theosophical beliefs in his 1891 painting la Orana Maria. Through extensive research into Gauguin’s system of beliefs on art and religion I intend to demonstrate the likelihood that the tenets of Theosophy would have appealed to his spiritual and aesthetic sensibilities. Gauguin’s involvement in the Symbolist movement, his mystical inclinations, the desire to understand and attain enlightenment, his knowledge of, and respect for religions of the East, and his fascination with the “primitive” are all addressed as pathways that led him to express his theosophical beliefs in …

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Pathways Across The Valley Of Death: Novel Intellectual Property Strategies For Accelerated Drug Discovery, Arti K. Rai, Jerome H. Reichman, Paul F. Uhlir, Colin Crossman Jan 2008

Pathways Across The Valley Of Death: Novel Intellectual Property Strategies For Accelerated Drug Discovery, Arti K. Rai, Jerome H. Reichman, Paul F. Uhlir, Colin Crossman

Faculty Scholarship

Drug discovery is stagnating. Government agencies, industry analysts, and industry scientists have all noted that, despite significant increases in pharmaceutical R&D funding, the production of fundamentally new drugs - particularly drugs that work on new biological pathways and proteins - remains disappointingly low. To some extent, pharmaceutical firms are already embracing the prescription of new, more collaborative R&D organizational models suggested by industry analysts. In this Article, we build on collaborative strategies that firms are already employing by proposing a novel public-private collaboration that would help move upstream academic research across the valley of death that separates upstream research from …

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Public And Private International Law : German Views On Global Issues, Ralf Michaels Jan 2008

Public And Private International Law : German Views On Global Issues, Ralf Michaels

Faculty Scholarship

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The Virtue Of Judicial Statesmanship, Neil S. Siegel Jan 2008

The Virtue Of Judicial Statesmanship, Neil S. Siegel

Faculty Scholarship

Some of America’s most important judges have emphasized or embodied the practice of judicial statesmanship. Yet from the examples they set, it is not particularly clear what judicial statesmanship is or why it matters. In this Article, I conceptualize the elusive phenomenon of judicial statesmanship, and I defend statesmanship as a core, if underappreciated, dimension of judicial role. I argue that judicial statesmanship defines a virtue in the role of a judge. Statesmanship charges judges with approaching cases so as to facilitate the capacity of the legal system to legitimate itself—over the long run and with respect to the nation …

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Unratified Treaties, Domestic Politics, And The U.S. Constitution, Curtis A. Bradley Jan 2008

Unratified Treaties, Domestic Politics, And The U.S. Constitution, Curtis A. Bradley

Faculty Scholarship

Under contemporary treaty practice, a nation's signature of a treaty typically does not make the nation a party to the treaty. Rather, nations become parties to treaties through an act of ratification or accession, which sometimes occurs long after signature. Nevertheless, Article 18 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, which many commentators regard as reflecting customary international law, provides that when a nation signs a treaty it is obligated to refrain from actions that would defeat the “object and purpose” of the treaty until such time as it makes clear its intent not to become a party …

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A Convenient Untruth: Fact And Fantasy In The Doctrine Of Odious Debts, Sarah Ludington, Mitu Gulati Jan 2008

A Convenient Untruth: Fact And Fantasy In The Doctrine Of Odious Debts, Sarah Ludington, Mitu Gulati

Faculty Scholarship

The few years since the U.S. incursion into Iraq in 2003 have witnessed an explosion in the literature on odious debts - that is, debts incurred (a) without the consent of the people (e.g., by a despotic regime); (b) from which no benefits accrued to the people; and (c) when the creditors had knowledge of the foregoing. The key question in the literature is whether successors to the despotic regime are obligated to pay the debts of the despot. That is, whether the newly democratic nation of Iraq is obligated to pay the debts of Saddam Hussein. The starting point …

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Voices Of American Law: Us Supreme Court Cases Meet The 21st Century, Lauren M. Collins Jan 2008

Voices Of American Law: Us Supreme Court Cases Meet The 21st Century, Lauren M. Collins

Faculty Scholarship

reviewing Voices of American Law documentary series(Thomas B. Metzloff & Sarah Wood producers)

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Radiative Forcing: Climate Policy To Break The Logjam In Environmental Law, Jonathan B. Wiener Jan 2008

Radiative Forcing: Climate Policy To Break The Logjam In Environmental Law, Jonathan B. Wiener

Faculty Scholarship

This article recommends the key design elements of US climate law. Much past environmental law has suffered from four design problems: fragmentation, insensitivity to tradeoffs, rigid prescriptive commands, and mismatched scale. These are problems with the design of regulatory systems, not a rejection of the overall objective of environmental law to protect ecosystems and human health. These four design defects raised the costs, reduced the benefits, and increased the countervailing risks of many past environmental laws. The principal environmental laws successfully enacted since the 1990s, such as the acid rain trading program in the 1990 Clean Air Act (CAA) Amendments …

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Territorial And Maritime Dispute Between Nicaragua And Honduras In The Caribbean Sea (Nicaragua V. Honduras), Coalter G. Lathrop Jan 2008

Territorial And Maritime Dispute Between Nicaragua And Honduras In The Caribbean Sea (Nicaragua V. Honduras), Coalter G. Lathrop

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Report on Nicaragua v. Honduras, decided October 8, 2007 before the International Court of Justice.

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Sovereignty Over Pedra Branca/Pulau Batu Puteh, Middle Rocks And South Ledge (Malaysia/Singapore), Coalter G. Lathrop Jan 2008

Sovereignty Over Pedra Branca/Pulau Batu Puteh, Middle Rocks And South Ledge (Malaysia/Singapore), Coalter G. Lathrop

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Report on Malaysia/Singapore, decided May 23, 2008 before the International Court of Justice

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The Constitutive And Entrenchment Functions Of Constitutions: A Research Agenda, Ernest A. Young Jan 2008

The Constitutive And Entrenchment Functions Of Constitutions: A Research Agenda, Ernest A. Young

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Redesigning The European Court Of Human Rights: Embeddedness As A Deep Structural Principle Of The European Human Rights Regime, Laurence R. Helfer Jan 2008

Redesigning The European Court Of Human Rights: Embeddedness As A Deep Structural Principle Of The European Human Rights Regime, Laurence R. Helfer

Faculty Scholarship

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) is the crown jewel of the world’s most advanced international system for protecting civil and political liberties. In recent years, however, the ECHR has become a victim of its own success. The Court now faces a docket crisis of massive proportions, the consequence of the growing number of states subject to its jurisdiction, its favourable public reputation, its expansive interpretations of individual liberties, a distrust of domestic judiciaries in some countries, and entrenched human rights problems in others. In response to this growing backlog of individual complaints, the Council of Europe has, over …

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Questions About Tax Increment Financing In North Carolina, Joseph Blocher, Jonathan Q. Morgan Jan 2008

Questions About Tax Increment Financing In North Carolina, Joseph Blocher, Jonathan Q. Morgan

Faculty Scholarship

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Freedom To Err: The Idea Of Natural Selection In Politics, Schools, And Courts, Paul D. Carrington Jan 2008

Freedom To Err: The Idea Of Natural Selection In Politics, Schools, And Courts, Paul D. Carrington

Faculty Scholarship

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Second-Generation Dispute System Design Issues In Managing Settlements, Francis Mcgovern Jan 2008

Second-Generation Dispute System Design Issues In Managing Settlements, Francis Mcgovern

Faculty Scholarship

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Book Review, Ralf Michaels Jan 2008

Book Review, Ralf Michaels

Faculty Scholarship

reviewing, Denationalisierung des Privatrechts? Symposium anlässlich des 70. Geburtstages von Karl Kreuzer" (Eva-Maria Kieninger ed., Mohr Siebeck 2005))

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Tyranny Of The Available: Under-Represented Topics, Approaches, And Viewpoints, Katherine Topulos, Marci Hoffman Jan 2008

Tyranny Of The Available: Under-Represented Topics, Approaches, And Viewpoints, Katherine Topulos, Marci Hoffman

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Building A Better Innovation System: Combining Facially Neutral Patent Standards Withtherapeutics Regulation, Arti K. Rai Jan 2008

Building A Better Innovation System: Combining Facially Neutral Patent Standards Withtherapeutics Regulation, Arti K. Rai

Faculty Scholarship

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Prosecuting Aggression, Noah Weisbord Jan 2008

Prosecuting Aggression, Noah Weisbord

Faculty Scholarship

The Assembly of States Parties to the International Criminal Court will soon have its first opportunity to revise the Rome Statute and activate the latent crime of aggression, which awaits a definition of its elements and conditions for the exercise of jurisdiction. The working group charged with drafting a provision is scheduled to complete its task by 2008 or 2009, one year before the International Criminal Court’s first review conference. Beginning with a history of the crime meant to put the current negotiations in the context of past initiatives, this article sets out the status of the negotiations and begins …

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Amending The Exceptions Clause, Joseph Blocher Jan 2008

Amending The Exceptions Clause, Joseph Blocher

Faculty Scholarship

Jurisdiction stripping is the new constitutional amendment, and the Exceptions Clause is the new Article V. But despite legal academia’s long-running obsessions with the meaning of constitutional amendment and the limits (if any) on Congress’s power to control federal jurisdiction, we still lack even a basic understanding of how these two forms of constitutional politicking interact. As legislators increasingly propose and pass jurisdiction-stripping legislation and pursue politically charged constitutional amendments, these constitutional processes have begun to step off of the pages of law reviews and into the halls of Congress. The looming collision between them makes it all the more …

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Bias In Judicial Citations: A Window Into The Behavior Of Judges?, Mitu Gulati, Stephen J. Choi Jan 2008

Bias In Judicial Citations: A Window Into The Behavior Of Judges?, Mitu Gulati, Stephen J. Choi

Faculty Scholarship

This article tests for the presence of bias in judicial citations within federal circuit court opinions. Our findings suggest bias along three dimensions. First, judges base outside-circuit citation decisions in part on the political party of the cited judge. Judges tend to cite judges of the opposite political party less often than would be expected considering the fraction of the total pool of opinions attributable to judges of the opposite political party. Second, judges are more likely to engage in biased citation practices in certain high-stakes situations. These high-stakes situations include opinions dealing with certain subject matters (such as individual …

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Which States Have The Best (And Worst) High Courts?, Mitu Gulati, Stephen J. Choi, Eric A. Posner Jan 2008

Which States Have The Best (And Worst) High Courts?, Mitu Gulati, Stephen J. Choi, Eric A. Posner

Faculty Scholarship

This paper ranks the high courts of the fifty states, based on their performance during the years 1998-2000, along three dimensions: opinion quality (or influence as measured by out-of-state citations), independence (or non-partisanship), and productivity (opinions written). We also discuss ways of aggregating these measures. California and Delaware had the most influential courts; Georgia and Mississippi had the most productive courts; and Rhode Island and New York had the most independent courts. If equal weight is given to each measure, then the top five states were: California, Arkansas, North Dakota, Montana, and Ohio. We compare our approach and results with …

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A Hidden Markov Model For Alphabet-Soup Word Recognition, Shaolei Feng, Nicholas Howe, R. Manmatha Jan 2008

A Hidden Markov Model For Alphabet-Soup Word Recognition, Shaolei Feng, Nicholas Howe, R. Manmatha

Computer Science: Faculty Publications

Recent work on the “alphabet soup” paradigm has demonstrated effective segmentation-free character-based recognition of cursive handwritten historical text documents. The approach first uses a joint boosting technique to detect potential characters - the alphabet soup. A second stage uses a dynamic programming algorithm to recover the correct sequence of characters. Despite experimental success, the ad hoc dynamic programming method previously lacked theoretical justification. This paper puts the method on a sounder footing by recasting the dynamic programming as inference on an ensemble of hidden Markov models (HMMs). Although some work has questioned the use of score outputs from classifiers like …

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Legislating To Address Climate Change: Some Lessons From The Field, Christopher H. Schroeder Jan 2008

Legislating To Address Climate Change: Some Lessons From The Field, Christopher H. Schroeder

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

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The Vioxx Litigation: Two Case Studies, Michael E. Tigar Jan 2008

The Vioxx Litigation: Two Case Studies, Michael E. Tigar

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The Lost Sanctuary: Examining Sex Trafficking Through The Lens Of United States V. Ah Sou, M. Margaret Mckeown, Emily Ryo Jan 2008

The Lost Sanctuary: Examining Sex Trafficking Through The Lens Of United States V. Ah Sou, M. Margaret Mckeown, Emily Ryo

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Science, Intersubjective Validity, And Judicial Legitimacy, Richard B. Katskee Jan 2008

Science, Intersubjective Validity, And Judicial Legitimacy, Richard B. Katskee

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