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Chiasmus In Chronicles: Investigating The Structures Of 2 Chronicles 28:16-21; 33:1-20; And 31:20–32:33, Mary Katherine Yem Hing Hom

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

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In Defense Of Non-Natural, Non-Theistic Moral Realism, Erik J. Wielenberg

Faith and Philosophy: Journal of the Society of Christian Philosophers

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Conal Condren, Stephen Gaukroger, And Ian Hunter, Eds., The Philosopher In Early Modern Europe, Kurt Smith

Faith and Philosophy: Journal of the Society of Christian Philosophers

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Preventive War, Deterrent Retaliation, And Retrospective Disproportionality, Brian Lee

Faculty Scholarship

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The Who, What, Where, When, And Why Of Whois: Privacy And Accuracy Concerns Of The Whois Database, Kathryn Elliott

SMU Science and Technology Law Review

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Joint Infringement And The Impact Of Bmc Resources, Inc. V. Paymentech, L.P., Ben Morgan

SMU Science and Technology Law Review

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The Interpretation Of Multilingual Statutes By The European Court Of Justice, Lawrence Solan

Faculty Scholarship

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The Hardening Of Soft Law In Securities Regulation, Roberta S. Karmel, Claire Kelly

Faculty Scholarship

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The Nature Of Universal Moralities, Bailey Kuklin

Faculty Scholarship

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Eliminating Racial Discrimination In The Subprime Mortgage Market: Proposals For Fair Lending Reform, Winnie F. Taylor

Faculty Scholarship

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Mitigating Risk For Anxiety Among Preschool-Age Children Living In Poverty: Evaluating The Impact Of Adult-Provided Social Support On Autonomic Stress Reactivity, Brian Cory Wolff

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Poverty increases children's exposure to stress, elevating their risk for developing patterns of heightened sympathetic and parasympathetic stress reactivity. Repeated patterns of high sympathetic activation and parasympathetic withdrawal place children at risk for anxiety disorders. This study evaluated whether providing social support to preschool-age children during mildly stressful situations helps reduce reactivity, and whether this effect partly depends on children's previously assessed baseline reactivity patterns. The Biological Sensitivity to Context (BSC) theory proposes that highly reactive children may be more sensitive than less reactive children to all environmental influences, including social support. In contrast, conventional physiological reactivity (CPR) theory contends …

Change Is Here, Eric C. Shoaf

Publications

The article discusses various reports published within the issue including one by Wyoma van Duinkerken and Pixey Anne Mosley about the psychological and emotional impacts of change in workspace configurations, another by Tim Spindler about how improved statistical analysis can provide more precise forecasting of library needs, and one by Marian Fragola, who examines the relationship between professional and paraprofessional staff in the library.

Donner Un Sens Au Travail : Promouvoir Le Bien-Être Psychologique, Estelle M. Morin, Charles Gagné

Rapports de recherche scientifique

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Un travail auquel on attribue du sens a des effets vitaminiques sur la santé mentale du travailleur et stimule son engagement envers une organisation, alors qu'un travail qui n'en a pas favorise l'apparition de symptômes de stress, voire de détresse. À l'aide de questionnaires, l'équipe de recherche a colligé des données auprès du personnel de quatre organisations dans le but de démontrer que des caractéristiques telles l'utilité du travail, la rectitude morale du travail, les occasions d'apprentissage et de développement, l'autonomie, la reconnaissance et la qualité des relations humaines avaient un …

4,4'-Diphenylmethane Diisocyanate (Mdi): Safety Practices And Concentration During Polyurethane Foam Spraying, Brigitte Roberge, Rodrigue Gravel, Daniel Drolet

Rapports de recherche scientifique

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Au cours des dernières années, des travailleurs québécois de la construction ont été «sensibilisés» au diisocyanate-4,4’ de diphénylméthane (MDI). Cette substance est émise lors de la pulvérisation d’un polyisocyanate (mélange de polymères de MDI) et d’un composé polyhydroxylé (résine) pour former une mousse rigide de polyuréthane utilisée comme isolant thermique de bâtiments. La valeur d’exposition admissible (VEA) québécoise du MDI est de 0,051 mg/m³ (51 μg/m³) pour la forme monomère. Cette substance est identifiée sensibilisant dans le Règlement sur la santé la sécurité du travail (RSST), qui mentionne …

Occupational Risks In The Performing Arts: An Exploratory Study, Élise Ledoux, Esther Cloutier, François Ouellet, Isabelle Gagnon, Chloé Thuilier, Julie Ross

Rapports de recherche scientifique

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Cette étude exploratoire émane d’une demande de la Table de concertation paritaire en santé et sécurité du travail du domaine des arts de la scène. Cette Table de concertation découle de la mesure cinq du Plan d’action pour l’amélioration des conditions socioéconomiques des artistes, « Pour mieux vivre de son art », rendu public en 2004. En lien avec cette mesure, il est prévu de réaliser une étude sur les risques en matière de santé et de sécurité au travail. En effet, depuis les travaux de Michel Perreault (1988), très peu …

Cleaning And Decontamination Of Workplaces Containing Beryllium: Techniques And Cleaning Solutions, Stéphanie Viau, Chantal Dion, Guy Perrault, André Dufresne, Valérie Turcotte, Hooman Golshahi, Bethany Campbell, Teodor Mocanu, Annie Ouellet, Pierre-Jean Désormeaux

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La relation entre l’exposition au béryllium (Be) par voie respiratoire et l’atteinte à la santé n’est pas bien définie. La contribution de l’absorption par la voie cutanée a été suggérée pour expliquer le développement de la sensibilisation (BeS). Dans ce contexte, la surveillance des niveaux de contamination des surfaces constitue un outil important de la maîtrise des émissions. De bonnes pratiques de nettoyage des lieux où il y a utilisation ou manipulation de béryllium sont nécessaires afin de prévenir l’accumulation de béryllium sur les surfaces et les outils de travail.

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Best Practices Guide To Synthetic Nanoparticle Risk Management, Claude Ostiguy, Brigitte Roberge, Luc Ménard, Charles-Anica Endo

Rapports de recherche scientifique

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Une nouvelle révolution industrielle est amorcée autour des nanotechnologies. Les applications devraient permettre d’améliorer de façon substantielle les performances de multiples produits et favoriser le développement économique, l’amélioration de la qualité de vie et la protection de l’environnement. La très petite taille des nanoparticules de synthèse (NP < 100 nanomètres) leur confère des propriétés uniques qui ne se retrouvent pas chez les produits de même composition chimique mais de plus grande taille. Des impacts majeurs sont anticipés dans tous les domaines de la vie économique et sociale et la plupart des universités québécoises de même que plusieurs centres de recherche œuvrent déjà à la conception de nouvelles applications. Plusieurs entreprises sont en phase de démarrage, en exploitation ou incorporent déjà des NP dans leurs procédés afin d’améliorer la performance de leurs produits et la tendance devrait s’accentuer au cours des prochaines années. Au niveau international, en 2007, on comptait plus de 500 produits nanotechnologiques commercialisés, pour un marché mondial de 88 milliards de dollars lequel devrait presque doubler en 2008.

La synthèse et la production de ces nouveaux matériaux soulèvent actuellement de nombreuses questions et génèrent des inquiétudes à cause des connaissances scientifiques fragmentaires sur les risques pour la santé et pour la sécurité. Néanmoins, la recherche a déjà démontré différents risques reliés à …

Exploring Differences In The Representations Held By Clinicians And Those Held By Workers Suffering From Musculoskeletal Disorders, During The Occupational Rehabilitation Process, Marie-France Coutu, Raymond Baril, Marie-José Durand, Nicole Charpentier, Annick Rouleau, Daniel Côté, Geneviève Cadieux

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Le travail occupe une place importante dans la vie active des individus et joue un rôle déterminant dans l’identité et la conformité sociale des adultes. Or, chaque année, un nombre important de personnes est exclu du travail en raison d’un trouble musculo-squelettique (TMS) engendrant chez 8 % d’entre eux une incapacité à maintenir une vie active au travail. Ce petit nombre compte pour la moitié des coûts d’indemnisation à la CSST. Plusieurs facteurs sont impliqués dans le développement et la persistance de l’incapacité au travail. Parmi ces facteurs, certains …

Making Work Meaningful: Promoting Psychological Well-Being, Estelle M. Morin, Charles Gagné

Rapports de recherche scientifique

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Un travail auquel on attribue du sens a des effets vitaminiques sur la santé mentale du travailleur et stimule son engagement envers une organisation, alors qu'un travail qui n'en a pas favorise l'apparition de symptômes de stress, voire de détresse. À l'aide de questionnaires, l'équipe de recherche a colligé des données auprès du personnel de quatre organisations dans le but de démontrer que des caractéristiques telles l'utilité du travail, la rectitude morale du travail, les occasions d'apprentissage et de développement, l'autonomie, la reconnaissance et la qualité des relations humaines avaient un …

Assuming Personal Responsibility For Improving The Environment: Moving Toward A New Environmental Norm, Hope M. Babcock

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

There is general agreement that we are nearing the end of achieving major gains in pollution abatement from traditional sources, that a significant portion of the remaining environmental problems facing this country is caused by individual behavior, and that efforts to control that behavior have either failed or not even been made.

The phenomenon of individuals as irresponsible environmental actors seems counterintuitive when polls show that people consistently rate protecting the environment among their highest priorities, contribute to environmental causes, and are willing to pay more to protect environmental resources.

This article is the author's second effort at understanding why …

Responsible Environmental Behavior, Energy Conservation, And Compact Fluorescent Bulbs: You Can Lead A Horse To Water, But Can You Make It Drink?, Hope M. Babcock

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

Despite professing to care about the environment and supporting environmental causes, individuals behave in environmentally irresponsible ways like driving when they can take public transportation, littering, or disposing of toxic materials in unsound ways. This is the author's fourth exploration of how to encourage individuals to stop behaving irresponsibly about the environment they allege to care deeply about. The prior three articles all explored how the norm of environmental protection could be enlisted in this effort; this article applies those theoretical conclusions to the very practical task of getting people to switch the type of light bulb they use.

To …

Civic Republicanism Provides Theoretical Support For Making Individuals More Environmentally Responsible, Hope M. Babcock

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

The genesis for this essay is the recognition that individual behavior is contributing in a significant way to the remaining environmental problems we have. For a variety of reasons, ranging from the difficulty of trying to identify and then regulate all of these individual sources to the political backlash that might result if such regulation was tried, efforts to control that behavior have either failed or not been tried. The phenomenon of individuals as irresponsible environmental actors seems counter-intuitive given the durability of the environmental protection norm and polls that consistently show that people contribute to environmental causes, are willing …

American Oresteia: Herbert Wechsler, The Model Penal Code, And The Uses Of Revenge, Anders Walker

All Faculty Scholarship

The American Law Institute recently revised the Model Penal Code's sentencing provisions, calling for a renewed commitment to proportionality based on the gravity of offenses, the "blameworthiness" of offenders, and the "harms done to crime victims." Already, detractors have criticized this move, arguing that it replaces the Code's original commitment to rehabilitation with a more punitive attention to retribution. Yet, missing from such calumny is an awareness of retribution's subtle yet significant role in both the drafting and enactment of the first Model Penal Code (MPC). This article recovers that role by focusing on the retributive views of its first …

The Violent Bear It Away: Emmett Till & The Modernization Of Law Enforcement In Mississippi, Anders Walker

All Faculty Scholarship

Few racially motivated crimes have left a more lasting imprint on American memory than the death of Emmett Till. Yet, even as Till's murder in Mississippi in 1955 has come to be remembered as a catalyst for the civil rights movement, it contributed to something else as well. Precisely because it came on the heels of the Supreme Court's 1954 ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, Till's death convinced Mississippi Governor James P. Coleman that certain aspects of the state's handling of racial matters had to change. Afraid that popular outrage over racial violence might encourage federal intervention in …

Revocation Of Police Officer Certification: A Viable Remedy For Police Misconduct?, Roger L. Goldman, Steven Purro

All Faculty Scholarship

We take it as a given that any profession or occupation, which involves interaction with the public, will be regulated by a state agency. Accountants, architects, attorneys, barbers, cosmeticians, dentists, etc. are all required to undergo training, meet selection standards and, if they seriously misbehave, they will have their licenses or certificates revoked by the board or commission which regulates that profession. Until fairly recently, there was no license or professional certificate issued by a state agency for law enforcement officers. That meant that an officer, who had successfully completed his police academy training and received a diploma, could be …

Regulating Physician Behavior: Taking Doctors’ 'Bad Law' Claims Seriously, Sandra H. Johnson

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Physician behavior is a key target of government regulation intended to improve the efficiency, quality, and accessibility of health care. Yet according to physicians’ "bad law" claims, the legal effort to promote patient health and well-being has actually caused significant harm. These "bad law" claims - that malpractice litigation prompts defensive medicine, that patients’ rights policies prompt doctors to provide futile care, that controlled substance laws cause physicians to undertreat patients in pain - have diminished in significance due to the deconstruction of professionalism. Claims are often discarded as the cries of "bad apple" doctors or in the interest of …

Publicity, Pressure, And Environmental Legislation: The Untold Story Of Availability Campaigns, Molly J. Walker Wilson

All Faculty Scholarship

The availability heuristic — a cognitive rule of thumb whereby events that are easily brought to mind are judged to be more likely — is employed by decision-makers on a daily basis. Availability campaigns occur when individuals and groups strategically exploit this cognitive tendency in order to generate publicity for a particular issue, creating pressure to effect legislative change. This paper is the first to argue that environmental availability campaigns are more beneficial than they are harmful. Because they result in pressure on Congress, these campaigns serve as a catalyst for the enactment of critical new legislative initiatives. Specifically, these …

The Anti-Case Method: Herbert Wechsler And The Political History Of The Criminal Law Course, Anders Walker

All Faculty Scholarship

This article is the first to recover the dramatic transformation in criminal law teaching away from the case method and towards a more open-ended philosophical approach in the 1930s. It makes three contributions. One, it shows how Columbia Law Professor Herbert Wechsler revolutionized the teaching of criminal law by de-emphasizing cases and including a variety of non-case related material in his 1940 text Criminal Law and Its Administration. Two, it reveals that at least part of Wechsler's intention behind transforming criminal law teaching was to undermine Langdell's case method, which he blamed for producing a "closed-system" view of the law …

The Victim-Informed Prosecution Project: A Quasi-Experimental Test Of A Collaborative Model For Cases Of Intimate Partner Violence, Lauren Bennett Cattaneo, Lisa A. Goodman, Deborah Epstein, Laurie S. Kohn, Holly A. Zanville

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

The Victim-Informed Prosecution Project (VIP) was designed to amplify the voice of the victim in the prosecution of a battering current or ex-partner through collaboration between the prosecution and victim-centered agencies. This article describes the rationale for and design and implementation of VIP and then explores whether it increased perceived voice. While some VIP services (advocacy and civil protection order representation) were associated with increased perceived voice, the program as a whole was associated with it only in the context of greater contact with prosecutors, when cases were more likely to be felonies. The authors make specific recommendations for applying …

A Review Of “How Judges Think” By Richard A Posner, Chad Flanders

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This is a short review of How Judges Think by Richard Posner.