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Justice Bertha Wilson: A Classically Liberal Judge, Kent Roach

The Supreme Court Law Review: Osgoode’s Annual Constitutional Cases Conference

This paper argues that Justice Wilson’s approach to judging was influenced by a classical liberalism that defended the rights of the individual against the power of the state. The first part of the paper explores the concept of classical liberalism by examining Justice Wilson’s judgment in R. v. Morgentaler. Although this landmark judgment is influenced by feminism because Justice Wilson writes from the perspective of a woman, it is ultimately grounded in classical liberalism that protects the freedom of all individuals and requires the state to justify any incursion on individual freedom. The second part of the paper examines a …

Conceptualizing Collective Bargaining Under The Charter: The Enduring Problem Of Substantive Equality, Judy Fudge

The Supreme Court Law Review: Osgoode’s Annual Constitutional Cases Conference

This paper has three goals. First, it attempts to understand how the Supreme Court conceptualizes the constitutionally protected right to bargain collectively in B.C. Health Services. It concludes that the Court has adopted a purely formal or procedural approach to collective bargaining. Although this conception may promote democratic deliberation by requiring governments to consult with the unions representing government employees who will be adversely affected by legislation that interferes with collective agreements, the paper concludes that it is disconnected from a broader, deeper and more secure normative base upon which to ground labour rights. Second, the paper argues that the …

Bionormativity And The Construction Of Parenthood, Katharine K. Baker

Georgia Law Review

This Article explores the relationship between legal and biological parenthood. It examines how neither history, nor biology, nor moral philosophy dictate a legal regime in which parenthood must be based on biological connection, but that attractionto a biological (or"bionormative")regime remains strong. In explaining why, it suggests that much of what attracts people to bionormativity is not biology itself, but the way in which a biological regime constructs parenthood as a private, exclusive, and binary enterprise. It is these ancillary qualities of bionormativity that people may care the most about. Today, a variety of forces put pressure on these ancillary qualities …

Drug Treatment Courts In The Twenty-First Century: The Evolution Of The Revolution In Problem-Solving Courts, The Honorable Peggy F. Hora, Theodore Stalcup

Georgia Law Review

Covering developments in the drug treatment court movement in the years since the turn of the millennium, Judge Hora and Mr. Stalcup inform the reader about updates relevant to the subject and address the arguments and concerns of other authors. The Article reviews drug treatment court basics, describes their function, and evaluates legal aspects of drug treatment court practice. The authors' analysis includes the latest in genetic research, penal statistics, and recent court cases that bear on the subject. Beginning with the premise that traditional criminal case processing does not address the underlying causes of much criminal behavior, the authors …

Designating Health Care Decisionmakers For Patients Without Advance Directives: A Psychological Critique, Nina A. Kohn, Jeremy A. Blumenthal

Georgia Law Review

States' default surrogate statutes allow family or friends to make health care decisions for incapacitated patients who lack advance directives. Although such statutes are commonly justified on the grounds that they honor the wishes of incapacitated persons, the review of empirical research on surrogate decision making in this Article challenges this justification. The authors find that default surrogate statutes do a reasonable job of capturing majority preferences for health care decision making processes, but do not ensure that patients receive the treatment they would have selected for themselves if able. Rather,surrogates appointed under default surrogate statutes can be expected to …

Child Welfare And Future Persons, Carter Dillard

Georgia Law Review

While ethicists have delved deeply into the rights and wrongs of procreating,lawyers have had little to say about the matter, because they are stymied by practical concerns, by the tendency of the law to ignore prospective children and their interests,and by the misperception that a fundamental rights boundary absolutely forbids state intervention. But recently a small door has opened in this wall between law and ethics: courts faced with repeatedly having to remove abused and neglected children from parents judged unfit, have issued temporary no-procreation orders. As precedent builds and the possibility of ex ante regulation of procreation and parenthood …

Using Noninvasive Genetic Sampling To Assess And Monitor Grizzly Bear Population Status In The Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem, Jeffrey Brian Stetz

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

Wildlife managers need reliable estimates of population size, trend, and distribution to recover at–risk populations, yet obtaining these estimates is costly and often imprecise. The threatened grizzly bear (Ursus arctos) population in northwestern Montana has been managed for recovery since 1975, yet no rigorous data were available to evaluate the program’s success. We assessed population status using data from a large noninvasive genetic sampling project and 33–years of physical captures. Our abundance estimate, Nˆ= 765 (CV = 3.8%), was more than double the working estimate. Based on our results, the total known, human–caused mortality rate was 4.6%, slightly above the …

Why Take The Risk?: Women's Interpretive Repertoires For Choosing Home Birth, Laura Ann St. Clair

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

The purpose of this project was to use a social constructivist approach to understand the perception of risk by mothers making the choice to give birth at home in Missoula, Montana. Social constructivism assumes that knowledge about risk is filtered through “social and cultural frameworks of understanding” (Lupton and Tulloch 2002, 321). The information gained from participants in this study was interpreted as a representation of the individual’s culture, including their beliefs, values and upbringing, as well as the influences of the individual’s social network which can include family members, spouses, friends, and community members. Various phenomena, elements or constructs …

“Redox Pumping” In The Near Surface Missoula Aquifer On The Floodplain Of The Clark Fork River: Surface Water And Groundwaterinteractions And Arsenic Related Chemistry At A Compost Facilitynear A Wastewater Treatment Plant, Donna Lee Smith

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

Arsenic transport in groundwater is evaluated at Eko Compost, a site with measurable levels of arsenic, organic carbon and nutrients in the ground water. The compost facility is located adjacent to the Missoula wastewater treatment plant on a contaminated floodplain of the Clark Fork River in the Missoula Valley, Montana, USA. This site was evaluated over two years for hydrological and chemical characteristics. A series of potentiometric surface maps was created over time and hydraulic conductivity and ground water movement were characterized. Water samples were also collected monthly and results from chemical analyses of the waters were contoured over the …

A Phenomenological Study Of Reiki Practitioners And Their Perceptions Of Reiki As It Relates To Their Personal Health, Tannis Mardece Hargrove

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

The purpose of this study was to understand the essence of becoming a Reiki practitioner and Reiki’s relationship to an individual’s personal health. The phenomenological research perspective utilized in this study allowed the data to speak for itself and represented the essence of Reiki and Reiki practitioners in Missoula, Montana. Ten Reiki practitioners were interviewed about their personal experience with Reiki. Interviewees were all volunteers, over the age of 18, who were trained in Reiki II or higher and had more than three years of experience practicing Reiki. Participants had practiced Reiki either on themselves or someone else regularly, which …

Vietnamese Women's Critical Reflections On Their Adaptation To Living In The United Sates, Mai Le Ho Del Buono

Doctoral Dissertations

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Not Another Grim(M) Tale: The Rights Of Passage In Marie Von Olfers’ “Little Princess”, Bernadette H. Hyner

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If we accept, as Edward Said suggests, that the terms authorship and authority both emphasize a writer’s capacity to establish an alternative discourse, control, and preserve it, then Marie von Olfers is best remembered as a tale spinner who redrafts conventional gender designations in her fairy tales. Specifically, her narrative “Little Princess,” published in 1862, presents alternative interpretations of female agency and sisterhood, while it also debases traditional concepts of family. Von Olfers’ unusual reading of these topics suggests that she construes family and rites of passage in response, perhaps even in opposition, to her male predecessors’ more traditional approach …

In Planta Distribution Of ‘Candidatus Liberibacter Asiaticus’ As Revealed By Polymerase Chain Reaction (Pcr) And Real-Time Pcr, Satyanarayana Tatineni, Uma Shankar Sagaram, Siddarame Gowda, Cecile J. Robertson, William O. Dawson, Toru Iwanami, Nian Wang

Department of Plant Pathology: Faculty Publications

Huanglongbing (HLB) is one of the most devastating diseases of citrus worldwide, and is caused by a phloem-limited fastidious prokaryotic α- proteobacterium that is yet to be cultured. In this study, a combination of traditional polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and real-time PCR targeting the putative DNA polymerase and 16S rDNA sequence of ‘Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus,’ respectively, were used to examine the distribution and movement of the HLB pathogen in the infected citrus tree. We found that ‘Ca. Liberibacter asiaticus’ was distributed in bark tissue, leaf midrib, roots, and different floral and fruit parts, but not in endosperm and …

Three Genes Of Citrus Tristeza Virus Are Dispensable For Infection And Movement Throughout Some Varieties Of Citrus Trees, Satyanarayana Tatineni, Cecile J. Robertson, Stephen M. Garnsey, Moshe Bar-Joseph, Siddarame Gowda, William O. Dawson

Department of Plant Pathology: Faculty Publications

Citrus tristeza virus (CTV), a member of the Closteroviridae, possesses a 19.3-kb positive-stranded RNA genome that is organized into twelve open reading frames (ORFs). The CTV genome contains two sets of conserved genes, which are characteristic of this virus group, the replication gene block (ORF 1a and 1b) and the quintuple gene block (p6, HSP70 h, p61, CPm, and CP). With the exception of the p6 gene, they are required for replication and virion assembly. CTV contains five additional genes, p33, p18, p13, p20 and p23, in the 3′ half of the genome, some of which (p33, p18 and …

Regulation Of Apical Dominance In Aspergillus Nidulans Hyphae By Reactive Oxygen Species, Camile P. Semighini, Steven D. Harris

Department of Plant Pathology: Faculty Publications

In fungal hyphae, apical dominance refers to the suppression of secondary polarity axes in the general vicinity of a growing hyphal tip. The mechanisms underlying apical dominance remain largely undefined, although calcium signaling may play a role. Here, we describe the localized accumulation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in the apical region of Aspergillus nidulans hyphae. Our analysis of atmA (ATM) and prpA (PARP) mutants reveals a correlation between localized production of ROS and enforcement of apical dominance. We also provide evidence that NADPH oxidase (Nox) or related flavoproteins are responsible for the generation of ROS at hyphal tips and …

Myron Kendall Brakke: 1921 To 2007, Karen-Beth G. Scholthof, Andrew O. Jackson, James L. Van Etten

Department of Plant Pathology: Faculty Publications

Plant pathology lost a distinguished pioneer in plant virology with the death of Dr. Myron K. Brakke on 15 June 2007. Those who were his close colleagues also lost a valued mentor, an irreplaceable friend, and a trusted adviser. Brakke’s most notable accomplishment was the development of sucrose density gradient centrifugation for the purification and characterization of viruses and macromolecules, which led to major advances in biochemistry and molecular biology. He also was responsible for introducing numerous techniques and equipment for fractionation of macromolecules that were crucial for the development of virology, biochemistry, and molecular biology. In the early stages …

Education Of Researchers, Sarah Fowler-Dixon

Human Research Protection Program (HRPP) Education

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Factors Influencing The Distribution Of Overwintered Bullfrog Tadpoles (Rana Catesbeiana) In Two Small Ponds, S. E. Hargis, M.-K. Harr, C. J. Henderson, W. J. Kim, Geoffrey R. Smith

Faculty Publications

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Diet And Sexual Dimorphism Of The Desert Iguana, Dipsosaurus Dorsalis, From Sonora, Mexico, C. J. Dibble, Geoffrey R. Smith, J. A. Lemos-Espinal

Faculty Publications

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Development Of Srap, Srap-Rga, Rapd, And Scar Markers Linked With A Fusarium Wilt Resistance Gene In Eggplant, Nedim Mutlu, Filiz Hatice Boyacı, Münevver Göçmen, Kazım Abak

Department of Biochemistry: Faculty Publications

Fusarium wilt (Fusarium oxysporum Schlecht. f. sp. melongenae) is a vascular disease of eggplant (Solanum melon­gena L.). The objectives of this work were (1) to confirm the monogenic inheritance of fusarium wilt resistance in eggplant, (2) to identify molecular markers linked to this resistance, and (3) to develop SCAR markers from most informative markers. We report the tagging of the gene for resistance to fusarium wilt (FOM) in eggplant using SRAP, RGA, SRAP-RGA and RAPD markers. Analysis of segregation data confirmed the monogenic inheritance of resistance. DNA from F2 and BC1 populations of eggplant segregating for …

An Examination Of The Association Of Sex And Gender And The Motives For Lying In Intimate Relationships, Anca Moraru

Open Access Master's Theses

The current thesis examined the most common motives for lying in intimate relationships and the possible sex and gender differences in lying behavior. Student participants (N= 250), aged between 19-25 years old, at the University of Rhode Island, completed an anonymous questionnaire concerning motives for lying in intimate relationships. All participants were currently involved in a romantic relationship at the time of the study or had been involved in such a relationship in the recent past. Participants were asked to recall a prior serious deceptive experience with a relational partner. In the second part of the questionnaire students completed a …

Main Hall To Main Street, January 2008, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of University Relations

Main Hall to Main Street, 2005-2010

This is volume 14, number 1 of Main Hall to Main Street.

An Immunofluorescence Assay To Detect Urediniospores Of Phakopsora Pachyrhizi, Fulya Baysal-Gurel, Melanie L. Lewis Ivey, Anne E. Dorrance, Douglas Luster, Reid Frederick, Jill Czarnecki, Michael J. Boehm, Sally A. Miller

Department of Plant Pathology: Faculty Publications

An indirect immunofluorescence spore assay (IFSA) was developed to detect urediniospores of Phakopsora pachyrhizi, utilizing rabbit polyclonal antisera produced in response to intact nongerminated (SBR1A) or germinated (SBR2) urediniospores of P. pachyrhizi. Both antisera were specific to Phakopsora spp. and did not react with other common soybean pathogens or healthy soybean leaf tissue in enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). SBR1A and SBR2 bound to P. pachyrhizi and P. meibomiae urediniospores were detected with goat anti-rabbit Alexa Fluor 488-tagged antiserum using a Leica DM IRB epifluorescent microscope with an I3 blue filter (excitation 450 to 490 nm, emission 515 nm). The …

Blogging About Feminist Lnterdisciplinarity In The Study Of Communication, Language, And Gender, Cynthia Berryman-Fink, Janet Bing, Deborah Cameron, Amy Sheldon, Anita Taylor

English Faculty Publications

This article provides information about several blog posts discussed during a round-table discussion on feminist interdisciplinary studies in relation to communication, language, and gender. Topics under discussion include the nature of interdisciplinarity and its relevance to feminist studies, intercultural communication, and the study and teaching of gender in women's studies programs in higher education.

The Western Michigan University Magazine, Winter 2008, Western Michigan University

Western Michigan University Magazine (1997-present)

• The details get Dunn WMU’s
• The reluctant guru
• More than meets the ear
• College news
• Campus places
• Classnotes/Obituaries

Fact Book 2008-09, Western Michigan University

Western Michigan University Fact Books

• General Information
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• Institutional Comparison
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Faculty Senate Yearbook, 2008-09, Wmu Faculty Senate

WMU Faculty Senate Yearbooks

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Uah Women's Club 1994-1995, 1995-02, University Of Alabama In Huntsville

University Women's Club

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Uah Women's Studies, Spring 2008, University Of Alabama In Huntsville

Newsletters

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Focus, Bob Evancho (Editor)

FOCUS on Boise State

Research shows that creativity and innovation lead to business success. To find out just how creative Boise’s economy is, Boise State student Ryan Cooper devised a creativity index that ranks Boise, Seattle and Portland in a number of key areas that are believed to contribute to their economic success. Find out how Boise stacks up to its neighbors. Cover photo of Cooper (right) and business professor Nancy Napier, director of Boise State’s Centre for Creativity and Innovation, by John Kelly.