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Electronically Manufactured Law, Katrina Fischer Kuh

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

This Article seeks to strengthen the case for the academy and the legal profession to pay heed to the consequences of the shift to electronic research, primarily by employing cognitive psychology to guide predictions about the impacts of the shift and, thereby, address a perceived credibility gap. This credibility gap arises from the difficulty and imprecision in postulating how changes in the research process translate into changes in researcher behavior and research outcomes. Applying principles of cognitive psychology to compare the print and electronic research processes provides an analytical basis for connecting changes in the research process with changes in …

It's Happening At State: October 01, 2008

It's Happening at State

Provides summary information of news and events of interest to the faculty and staff of NDSU.

Defense Costs And Insurer Reserves In Medical Malpractice And Other Personal Injury Cases: Evidence From Texas, 1988-2004, Bernard Black, David A. Hyman, Charles Silver, William M. Sage

Faculty Scholarship

We study defense costs for commercially insured personal injury tort claims in Texas over 1988–2004, and insurer reserves for those costs. We rely on detailed case-level data on defense legal fees and expenses, and Texas state bar data on lawyers’ hourly rates. We study medical malpractice (“med mal”) cases in detail, and other types of cases in less detail. Controlling for payouts, real defense costs in med mal cases rise by 4.6 percent per year, roughly doubling over this period. The rate of increase is similar for legal fees and for other expenses. Real hourly rates for personal injury defense …

Delighting In The Written Word And Sharing A Love Of Learning, Fay Verburg

Georgia Library Quarterly

A personal narrative is presented which recounts the author's appreciation and interest for reading and learning.

Georgia Library Quarterly, Fall 2008, Susan Cooley

Georgia Library Quarterly

Complete issue of Georgia Library Quarterly, Fall 2008, vol. 45, no. 3.

Improving Student Engagement: Use Of The Interactive Whiteboard As An Instructional Tool To Improve Engagement And Behavior In The Junior High School Classroom, Georgia Lyn Morgan

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

This study examined the impact of interactive whiteboard use on student engagement and appropriate at-task behaviors of junior high school students. Two hundred twenty-six students at two public schools in northeast Florida were observed during the second quarter of the school year. Data were collected using an at-task checklist, and students completed an attitude survey regarding their perception of their own engagement and enjoyment with interactive whiteboard use. Significant differences were noted in student behavior between instruction without interactive whiteboard use and instruction with interactive whiteboard use. No significant correlations were found between the variables gender and ethnicity and improved …

In The Balance: Immigrant Economic Contributions And The Advancement Of Human Rights In Nebraska - Ollas Policy Brief No. 1, Jonathan Benjamin-Alvarado, Lourdes Gouveia

Latino/Latin American Studies Policy Briefs

No abstract provided.

Rs-Dvr Slides Past Its First Obstacle And Gets The Pass For Full Implementations, Megan Cavender

North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology

No abstract provided.

Tag - Now You're Really It What Photographs On Social Networking Sites Mean For The Fourth Amendment, Daniel Findlay

North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology

No abstract provided.

Running Down A Dream: Oscar Pistorius, Prosthetic Devices, And The Unknown Future Of Athletes With Disabilities In The Olympic Games, Alexis Chappell

North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology

No abstract provided.

Markovich V. Secretary Of Health And Human Services: An Ounce Of Cure For A Pound Of Prevention, J. Hunter Appler

North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology

No abstract provided.

Ims Health, Inc. V. Ayotte: Small Step For Privacy, Giant Leap Still Needed For Prescription Data Privacy, Kathryn M. Marchesini

North Carolina Journal of Law & Technology

No abstract provided.

Asia Focus: Recent Developments In Asian Deposit Guarantee Programs, Cindy Marks, Walter Yao

Documents

No abstract provided.

Finra Regulatory Notice 08-58, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (Finra)

Documents

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The Korean Financial Market And Economy: Resilience Amidst Turbulence, Chang Yong Rhee

Documents

No abstract provided.

Ethanol's Roots: How Brazilian Legislation Created The International Ethanol Boom, Vanessa M. Cordonnier

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

No abstract provided.

Developing Wind Power In The Commonwealth: No Longer A Quixotic Quest To Build Wind Farms In Virginia, Brian E. Maxted

William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review

No abstract provided.

Title I Program Models Of Delivery: The Impact Of Paraeducator Instruction On Idaho Fourth Grade Reading Proficiency, Janet S. Byers-Kirsch

Boise State University Theses and Dissertations

Under federal law No Child Left Behind (NCLB, 2002), each state must annually increase the percentage of students proficient on their achievement tests. They must also have a plan to ensure school districts adequately train and evaluate paraeducators or possibly face losing them as instructional assistants. The study was a descriptive design using quantitative analysis from information gleaned from Idaho’s school district Title I Directors and principals statewide who responded to Qualtrics web-based survey with data about their elementary schools’ models of Title I program service delivery, instructional staff and their training. It examined the relationship between the five most …

Public-Private Partnership In Local Administration: An Exploratory Study Of The City Of Sandy Springs, Manavi Manavi

Dissertations, Theses and Capstone Projects (Full IR Collection)

This research paper is an attempt to understand and analyze the unique nature of the public-private partnership embraced by the City of Sandy Springs, in the Greater Atlanta area, North Georgia. The City of Sandy Springs’s innovative experiments with a different layer of public-private partnership has created immense curiosity among municipalities around the nation for a plausible new governing model that could revolutionize the way local governments function in the future. Hence, this exploratory study makes an effort to bring out the salient features of the governing model of the City of Sandy Springs which would encourage further empirical research …

Help America Vote Act Enforcement, Tiana Butcher

Celebrating WCL Student Authors

Although the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA) features extensive mandates, its enforcement provisions are weaker than those found in previous federal election reform laws,including the Voting Rights Act and the National Voter Registration Act. Activists argue this limited enforcement power is a failing of the Act. Congress may have chosen to adopt weak enforcement mechanisms due to political posturing, lack of funding, faulty technology, or lobbying by the states. Regardless of the reason behind this choice, stronger enforcement mechanisms in HAVA would, paradoxically, fail to encourage election reform or deter election reform altogether.

University Reporter - Volume 13, Number 02 - October 2008

1996-2009, University Reporter

This issue of the University Reporter includes articles about access to higher education, the new Venture Development Center, the growth of the university's Safety Awareness Program, the College of Management's new Finance Program, and other news from UMass Boston.

Mcnair Messenger- Fall 2008, Mcnair Staff

McNair Messenger

McNair Scholars Program

Columns Fall 2008, Southern Adventist University

Alumni Newsletter

Features the article "Summer School in the Tropics". This summer, the jungles and beaches of Indonesia served as a classroom for about 20 Southern students. Take a peek at their journey through pictures and journal entries.

A Detailed Look At The Omega-K Algorithm For Processing Synthetic Aperture Radar Data, Matthew A. Tolman

Theses and Dissertations

In this thesis, the Omega-k algorithm used for processing stripmap synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data is explored in detail. While the original Omega-k algorithm does not achieve the same SNR as a matched filter, a modification is presented which enables the algorithm to nearly achieve that SNR. It is shown that the focused point spread function obtained when the Omega-k algorithm is used differs in important ways from the output of a modified version of the matched filter. Spread out sidelobes and a stretched mainlobe are observed when the data is processed by the Omega-k algorithm. These differences may increase …

Deletion Of Gsk-3beta In Mice Leads To Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Secondary To Cardiomyoblast Hyperproliferation., Risto Kerkela, Lisa Kockeritz, Katrina Macaulay, Jibin Zhou, Bradley W. Doble, Cara Beahm, Sarah Greytak, Kathleen Woulfe, Chinmay M. Trivedi, James R. Woodgett, Jonathan A. Epstein, Thomas Force, Gordon S. Huggins

Center for Translational Medicine Faculty Papers

Based on extensive preclinical data, glycogen synthase kinase-3 (GSK-3) has been proposed to be a viable drug target for a wide variety of disease states, ranging from diabetes to bipolar disorder. Since these new drugs, which will be more powerful GSK-3 inhibitors than lithium, may potentially be given to women of childbearing potential, and since it has controversially been suggested that lithium therapy might be linked to congenital cardiac defects, we asked whether GSK-3 family members are required for normal heart development in mice. We report that terminal cardiomyocyte differentiation was substantially blunted in Gsk3b(-/-) embryoid bodies. While GSK-3alpha-deficient mice …

Myspace Or Yours? The Impact Of The Myspace-Attorneys General Agreement On Online Businesses, Chelsea Peters

Washington Journal of Law, Technology & Arts

On January 14, 2008, social networking Web site MySpace.com announced an agreement with the Attorneys General of forty-nine states and the District of Columbia aimed at increasing the safety of children online. MySpace.com and the Attorneys General created a “Joint Statement on Key Principles of Social Networking Sites Safety,” which sets forth various principles and goals for improving online safety for children through new online safety tools, design and functionality changes, education tools, and law enforcement cooperation. This article closely examines the agreement between MySpace.com and the Attorneys General and attempts to determine whether any best practices have emerged regarding …

Script To Screen: "Wicked Like The Chaff", Robert J. Deignan

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

No abstract provided.

Temporary Rejuvenation Or Lifelong Learning? A Life-Changing Conference Session, Mary Todd Chesnut

LOEX Quarterly

No abstract provided.

A Project To Foster Spiritual Formation In Online Classrooms, Robert Vaughan

Doctor of Ministry

Online programs are a growing phenomenon in adult education. Many Christian colleges and universities use this method to meet the educational needs of non-traditional students. A drawback of online education is the challenge to address the spiritual needs of students in a virtual environment. This project will propose an approach for fostering spiritual formation in asynchronous, adult online educational programs.

Section 2 will demonstrate the problem of fostering spiritual formation in online environments including the following issues: the demographics of the project, an organizational analysis of the project, and historical timelines of online adult education.

Section 3 will explore how …

Celebrating Meri Phillips

The Prairie Light Review

No abstract provided.