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Ay 2008/2009 Fs Meeting Minutes, 2008-10-15, Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Archives

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Ay 2008/2009 Sec Roster, Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Archives

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Are You Sirius? The Mistake Of Conditioning Approval Of The Sirius-Xm Merger On A Price Cap, Samuel J. Gordon

Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial & Commercial Law

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Lessons Learned From The Front Lines: A Trial Court Checklist For Promoting Order And Sound Policy In Asbestos Litigation, David C. Landin, Victor E. Schwartz, Phil Goldberg

Journal of Law and Policy

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No Child Left Behind Bars: The Need To Combat Cruel And Unusual Punishment Of State Statutory Rape Laws, Meredith Cohen

Journal of Law and Policy

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Teaching An Old Policy New Tricks: The 421-A Tax Program And The Flaws Of Trickle-Down Housing, Seth B. Cohen

Journal of Law and Policy

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Shielding Corporate Interests From Public Dissent: An Examination Of The Undesirability And Unconstitutionality Of "Eco-Terrorism" Legislation, Jared S. Goodman

Journal of Law and Policy

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Bargaining Power On Broadway: Why Congress Should Pass The Playwrights Licensing Antitrust Initiative Act In The Era Of Hollywood On Broadway, Ashley Kelly

Journal of Law and Policy

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Don't Put A Corn In Granholm V. Heald: New York's Ban On Interstate Direct Shipments Of Wine Is Unconstitutional, Andre Nance

Journal of Law and Policy

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Doing Well By Doing Good And Vice Versa: Self-Sustaining Ngo/Nonprofit Organizations, Barbara K. Bucholtz

Journal of Law and Policy

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Ensuring A Fair Hearing For Litigants With Mental Illnesses: The Law And Psychology Of Capacity, Admissibility, And Credibility Assessments In Civil Proceedings, Kevin M. Cremin, Jean Philips, Claudia Sickinger, Jeanette Zelhof

Journal of Law and Policy

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Loco Labels And Marketing Madness: Improving How Consumers Interpret Information In The American Food Economy, Margaret Sova Mccabe

Journal of Law and Policy

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Consumer-Driven Reform Of Higher Education: A Critical Look At New Amendments To The Higher Education Act, Julie Margetta Morgan

Journal of Law and Policy

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Cyberbullying On Trial: The Computer Fraud And Abuse Act And United States V. Drew, Sarah Castle

Journal of Law and Policy

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Playing Doctor: The Dangerous "Medi-Spa" Game Without Rules, Lauren Numeroff

Journal of Law and Policy

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Gotta Get A Get: Maryland And Florida Should Adopt Get Statutes, Jill Wexler

Journal of Law and Policy

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Using Government Policy To Create Middle Class Green Construction Careers, Benjamin S. Beach

Journal of Law and Policy

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Rethinking The Homeownership Society: Rental Stability Alternative, Arlo Chase

Journal of Law and Policy

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Community Benefits Agreements And Comprehensive Planning: Balancing Community Empowerment And The Police Power, Patricia E. Salkin, Amy Lavine

Journal of Law and Policy

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The Failure Of Fannie Mae And Freddie Mac And The Future Of Government Support For The Housing Finance System, Thomas H. Stanton

Journal of Law and Policy

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Fellow-Feeling And Gender In The Law Of Personal Injury, Anita Bernstein

Journal of Law and Policy

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Locking Down Our Borders: How Anti-Immigration Sentiment Led To Unconstitutional Legislation And The Erosion Of Fundamental Principles Of American Government, Jaime Nielsen

Journal of Law and Policy

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One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: How Mandating The Human Papillomavirus Vaccine Will Increase The Use Of Vaccine Exemptions And Negatively Impact Our Nation's Health, Katharine Southard

Journal of Law and Policy

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A Semester Of Global Health & Human Diversity Among United States Veterans In Rural Utah, Kent D. Blad, Janelle Jackson, Petr Ruda, Angelynn Singley, Paula; Ulberg, Ron S.; Speirs, Ron S. Ulberg

Faculty Publications

Patients and health care providers in rural communities face a unique combination of factors which create disparities in healthcare when compared with urban areas, such as economic factors, cultural values, reduced rates of formal education, lack of recognition by legislators, and isolation. There are more veterans per capita in rural than in urban areas. Health care for the rural population is coupled with the unique challenges of caring for veterans. Because of this, we chose to devote a semester to the study of improving health care to the rural veteran population.

Factors Influencing The Academic Major Selection Of Undecided Students: A Phenomenological Study, Christina D. Thompson

Masters Theses

This phenomenological, qualitative research study was designed to determine the most commonly selected academic major chosen by previously undecided students, the various factors that influenced the academic-major decision, and the similarities between the study participants. By comparing a Fall 2006 spreadsheet of undecided freshmen enrolled at Eastern Illinois University to a Fall 2008 spreadsheet of Eastern Illinois University students, the major choice of these previously undecided students was Communication Studies, determined to be the most highly selected academic major. Previously undecided students who had chosen Communication Studies were recruited for participation in this research. Data was collected through a demographic …

Analysis Of Transcription Factor Promoter Binding In Rat Hepatoma/Fibroblast Hybrids, Jordan C. Angle

Masters Theses

When hepatomas (liver cancer cells) are fused with fibroblasts (undifferentiated body cells), there is complete extinguishing of all tissue-specific gene expression. Once it was discovered that many hybrid cell lines do not express needed transcription factors for liver-specific gene transcription, the factors were reintroduced and forced to express through the use of plasmids. Even if the two primary transcription factors were present in the system, downstream tissue-specific gene expression was not rescued. To examine potential mechanisms for the repression of liver-specific gene expression in hepatoma x fibroblast hybrid cells, chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChlP) was used. This procedure allows the liver-specific gene …

Long-Term Assessment Of Predatory Fish Removal On A Pond-Breeding Amphibian Community In Central Illinois, Lee M. Gross

Masters Theses

Habitat loss and fragmentation are important contributors to population declines in many species, so maintaining suitable habitat has become a priority for wildlife management. Removal of introduced fish can help restore suitable habitats for amphibian populations, although long-term assessments of such removals are lacking at the community level. In 2001, drift fences and pitfall traps were constructed around the majority of four ponds to monitor an amphibian community in a nature preserve in central Illinois. Rotenone™ was applied to ponds containing introduced fish in 2001, and again, in 2003. I collected data from 2005-2007 to determine the long-term impacts of …

Habitat Selection And Niche Partitioning Of Fox And (Sciurus Niger) And Gray (Sciurus Carolinensis) Squirrels In Charleston, Il, Katelyn Marti

Masters Theses

Two species of tree squirrels inhabit Charleston, IL; fox squirrels (Sciurus niger) and gray squirrels (Sciurus caro/inensis). Although these species are sympatric throughout much of the eastern U.S., urban settings are usually occupied by one or the other. In the few localities where they co-occur, little is known about how they partition habitat. Therefore, the objectives of my study were to determine: (1) the relative abundance of each species, (2) whether habitat use differs between species, (3) if habitat use shifts with season, time of day, domestic predator abundance, or mast availability, and (3) observe interspecific and intraspecific interactions. The …

Factors Affecting Dietary Compliance In The Adolescent With Type 1 Diabetes, Maryjean K. Bargren

Masters Theses

The purpose of this study was to research adult persons with type 1 diabetes and determine what factors played a role in both compliance and non-compliance of their diabetes management as an adolescent. The purpose was also to determine what factors may have caused an adolescent to be non-compliant throughout their adolescent years but who in adulthood became compliant.

Managing diabetes throughout adolescence can be difficult with many changes occurring both hormonally and socially. A medium sized hospital in the Midwest was used to obtain participants for this study. Questionnaires were distributed to patients at their medical appointments. There were …

Reduced Neutrophil Count In People Of African Descent Is Due To A Regulatory Variant In The Duffy Antigen Receptor For Chemokines Gene, David Reich, Michael A. Nalls, W H Linda Kao, Ermeg L. Akylbekova, Arti Tandon, Nick Patterson, James Mullikin, Wen-Chi Hsueh, Ching-Yu Cheng, Josef Coresh, Eric Boerwinkle, Man Li, Alicja Waliszewska, Julie Neubauer, Rongling Li, Tennille S. Leak, Lynette Ekunwe, Joe C. Files, Cheryl L. Hardy, Joseph M. Zmuda, Herman A. Taylor, Elad Ziv, Tamara B. Harris, James G. Wilson

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Persistently low white blood cell count (WBC) and neutrophil count is a well-described phenomenon in persons of African ancestry, whose etiology remains unknown. We recently used admixture mapping to identify an approximately 1-megabase region on chromosome 1, where ancestry status (African or European) almost entirely accounted for the difference in WBC between African Americans and European Americans. to identify the specific genetic change responsible for this association, we analyzed genotype and phenotype data from 6,005 African Americans from the Jackson Heart Study (JHS), the Health, Aging and Body Composition (Health ABC) Study, and the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study. …