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A Promise The Nation Cannot Keep: What Prevents The Application Of The Thirteenth Amendment In Prison?, Raja Raghunath Dec 2009

A Promise The Nation Cannot Keep: What Prevents The Application Of The Thirteenth Amendment In Prison?, Raja Raghunath

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

The walls of the prison are not solely physical. The doctrine of judicial deference to prison officials, which compels courts to defer to the discretion of those officials in almost all instances, obstructs the effective scrutiny of modern practices of punishment. Since its ratification, the Thirteenth Amendment—which prohibits slavery or involuntary servitude anywhere within the United States or its jurisdiction, except where imposed “as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted”1—has been seen by courts as one brick in this wall. This Article makes the novel argument that, properly read, the amendment should function instead …

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The Archway Investment Fund Semi Annual Report, December 2009, Bryant University, Archway Investment Fund Dec 2009

The Archway Investment Fund Semi Annual Report, December 2009, Bryant University, Archway Investment Fund

Archway Investment Fund

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Exploring Attitudes Toward Homosexuality, Hollis Cobb Dec 2009

Exploring Attitudes Toward Homosexuality, Hollis Cobb

McNair Scholars Research Journal

No abstract provided.

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The Impact Of Gentrification On Latino Families In East Dallas, Stephanie Fenniri Dec 2009

The Impact Of Gentrification On Latino Families In East Dallas, Stephanie Fenniri

McNair Scholars Research Journal

No abstract provided.

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Full Issue, The Mcnair Team Dec 2009

Full Issue, The Mcnair Team

McNair Scholars Research Journal

No abstract provided.

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The "Vandergriff Years" And The Growth Of Arlington, Christopher Mangus Dec 2009

The "Vandergriff Years" And The Growth Of Arlington, Christopher Mangus

McNair Scholars Research Journal

No abstract provided.

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The Riaa’S Troubling Solution To File- Sharing , Genan Zilkha Dec 2009

The Riaa’S Troubling Solution To File- Sharing , Genan Zilkha

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

No abstract provided.

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Saving Savannah: The City And The Civil War (Book Review), Edward L. Ayers Dec 2009

Saving Savannah: The City And The Civil War (Book Review), Edward L. Ayers

History Faculty Publications

Review of the book, Saving Savannah: The City and the Civil War by Jacqueline Jones. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.

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Que Ondee Sola - December 2009, Xavier Luis Burgos Dec 2009

Que Ondee Sola - December 2009, Xavier Luis Burgos

Que Ondee Sola

Student publication founded in 1972, articles include: Victims of Life on the Down-Low, Gender Inequality's Deadly Toll, BACCA's Radio Program, BACCA Students Reflect on Underage Drinking in Humboldt Park, Film Review: Nothing Like the Holidays, Money Trickles North as Mexicans Help Relatives, Ecosystem in Peru Losing a Key Ally, Poetry

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The Fish Crow (Corvus Ossifragus) Reaches Nebraska, Joel G. Jorgensen, Melissa J. Panella, W. Ross Silcock, Kristal J. Stoner Dec 2009

The Fish Crow (Corvus Ossifragus) Reaches Nebraska, Joel G. Jorgensen, Melissa J. Panella, W. Ross Silcock, Kristal J. Stoner

Nebraska Bird Review

The Fish Crow (Corvus ossifragus) was formerly endemic to the southeastern United States where it inhabited coastal areas along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts (McGowan 2001). Since the early 1900s, the species has steadily expanded north and west along major river systems (McGowan 2001). Fish Crow range expansion has followed a logical pattern, expanding along major rivers in regions close to established populations, in adjacent states to the south and east of Nebraska. The species was first recorded in Missouri in 1964 (Robbins and Easterla 1992). In 1984, Fish Crow was first reported in Kansas and by 1991 …

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Long Distance Molt Migration By A Giant Canada Goose From Eastern South Dakota, Bobby J. Anderson, Charles D. Dieter Dec 2009

Long Distance Molt Migration By A Giant Canada Goose From Eastern South Dakota, Bobby J. Anderson, Charles D. Dieter

The Prairie Naturalist

To reduce crop damage by resident giant Canada geese (Schaible et al. 2005), the South Dakota Department of Game, Fish and Parks (SDGFP) initiated a program to reduce goose nesting success in eastern South Dakota. One management tool used by SDGFP personnel was the destruction of giant Canada goose nests. When a giant Canada goose has its nest destroyed, they are known to initiate a molt migration (Mykut 2002, Luukkonen et aI. 2008). We attached Platform Transmitting Terminals (PTT; model ST -19) to document and describe molt migrations of giant Canada geese following nest destruction. We captured 3 adult nesting …

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Monitoring Meadows With A Modified Robel Pole In The Northern Black Hills, South Dakota, Daniel W, Uresk, Daryl E. Mergen, Ted A. Benzon Dec 2009

Monitoring Meadows With A Modified Robel Pole In The Northern Black Hills, South Dakota, Daniel W, Uresk, Daryl E. Mergen, Ted A. Benzon

The Prairie Naturalist

We used a modified Robel pole to measure vegetation for a study conducted in the northern Black Hills, South Dakota. Objectives were to determine the relationship between visual obstruction readings and clipped standing herbage, and develop guidelines for monitoring standing herbage. The relationship between visual obstruction readings and standing herbage was linear and regression coefficients were significant (P≤ 0.001). Herbage ranged from 140 to 3313 kg· ha-1 with a mean of 1386 kg· ha-1 (SE = 320 kg· ha-1) for 123 transects. Visual obstruction readings (VOR) ranged from 0.6 to 30.4 (number of 1.27 cm bands …

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A Partial Inventory Of Islands In North Dakota: Potential For Breeding Waterfowl Management, Michael L. Szymanski Dec 2009

A Partial Inventory Of Islands In North Dakota: Potential For Breeding Waterfowl Management, Michael L. Szymanski

The Prairie Naturalist

Islands can provide secure nesting habitat for ducks and other waterbirds, especially in agriculturally dominated landscapes. I inventoried natural and man-made islands in the portion of North Dakota covered by the Prairie Pothole Joint Venture (PPJV). I mapped 1,305 islands in this area; up to 46% of which could provide enhanced nest success with management (e.g., predator removal or establishment of brushy cover). Management of islands for breeding ducks may be an important method for achieving desired reproductive rates in the PP JV as substantial areas of perennial grass cover are lost from federal conservation programs, primarily the Conservation Reserve …

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Sos: Searching Help Pages Of R Packages, Spencer Graves, Sundar Dorai-Raj, Romain François Dec 2009

Sos: Searching Help Pages Of R Packages, Spencer Graves, Sundar Dorai-Raj, Romain François

The R Journal

The sos package provides a means to quickly and flexibly search the help pages of contributed packages, finding functions and datasets in seconds or minutes that could not be found in hours or days by any other means we know. Its findFn function accesses Jonathan Baron’s R Site Search database and returns the matches in a data frame of class "findFn", which can be further manipulated by other sos functions to produce, for example, an Excel file that starts with a summary sheet that makes it relatively easy to prioritize alternative packages for further study. As such, it provides a …

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Copas: An R Package For Fitting The Copas Selection Model, J. Carpenter, G. Rücker, G. Schhwarzer Dec 2009

Copas: An R Package For Fitting The Copas Selection Model, J. Carpenter, G. Rücker, G. Schhwarzer

The R Journal

This article describes the R package copas which is an add-on package to the R pack age meta. The R package copas can be used to f it the Copas selection model to adjust for bias in meta-analysis. A clinical example is used to illustrate fitting and interpreting the Copas selection model.

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Aspects Of The Social Organization And Trajectory Of The R Project, John Fox Dec 2009

Aspects Of The Social Organization And Trajectory Of The R Project, John Fox

The R Journal

Based partly on interviews with members of the R Core team, this paper considers the development of the R Project in the context of open-source software development and, more generally, voluntary activities. The paper de scribes aspects of the social organization of the R Project, including the organization of the R Core team; describes the trajectory of the R Project; seeks to identify factors crucial to the success of R; and speculates about the prospects for R.

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Generic Reassignment Of Species In The Tribe Cephaloleiini Chapuis, 1875 (Coleoptera: Cassidinae), C. L. Staines Dec 2009

Generic Reassignment Of Species In The Tribe Cephaloleiini Chapuis, 1875 (Coleoptera: Cassidinae), C. L. Staines

Insecta Mundi

Thirty-one species of Cephaloleiini are assigned to new genera, creating new combinations: 19 to Parimatidium Spaeth, 10 to Stilpnaspis Weise, and two to Demotispa Baly. Demotispa peruana membrata Uhmann, 1957 is raised to full species status. As the transfer of Cephaloleia limbatum Pic to Demotispa creates a homonymy, the species is renamed Demotispa pici nomen novum.

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Convergenceconcepts: An R Package To Investigate Various Modes Of Convergence, Pierre Lafaye De Micheaux, Benoit Liquet Dec 2009

Convergenceconcepts: An R Package To Investigate Various Modes Of Convergence, Pierre Lafaye De Micheaux, Benoit Liquet

The R Journal

ConvergenceConcepts is an R pack age, built upon the tkrplot, tcltk and lattice packages, designed to investigate the convergence of simulated sequences of random variables. Four classical modes of convergence may be studied, namely: almost sure convergence (a.s.), convergence in probability (P), convergence in law (L) and convergence in r-th mean (r). This investigation is performed through ac curate graphical representations. This package may be used as a pedagogical tool. It may give students a better understanding of these notions and help them to visualize these difficult theoretical concepts. Moreover, …

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Transitioning To R: Replicating Sas, Stata, And Sudaan Analysis Techniques In Health Policy Data, Anthony Damico Dec 2009

Transitioning To R: Replicating Sas, Stata, And Sudaan Analysis Techniques In Health Policy Data, Anthony Damico

The R Journal

Statistical, data manipulation, and presentation tools make R an ideal integrated package for research in the fields of health pol icy and healthcare management and evaluation. However, the technical documentation accompanying most data sets used by researchers in these fields does not include syntax examples for analysts to make the transition from another statistical package to R. This paper describes the steps required to import health policy data into R, to prepare that data for analysis using the two most common complex survey variance calculation techniques, and to produce the principal set of statistical estimates sought by health pol icy …

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The Beetles Of St. Lucia, Lesser Antilles (Insecta: Coleoptera): Diversity And Distributions, Stewart B. Peck Dec 2009

The Beetles Of St. Lucia, Lesser Antilles (Insecta: Coleoptera): Diversity And Distributions, Stewart B. Peck

Insecta Mundi

The published beetle fauna of the island of St. Lucia is summarized. It contains 135 genera, and 175 species in 25 families. Four species are accidentally introduced by human activities. Twenty three species are endemic (restricted) to the island. Twenty seven species on St. Lucia are shared only with other islands of the Lesser Antilles, and 22 species are widespread Antilles endemics. The remaining 56.6% of the fauna is otherwise mostly one which is widely distributed in the Antilles and the Neotropics. This suggests that it is mostly an immigrant fauna originating in the continental Neotropics. Undoubtedly, the actual numbers …

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A New Country Record For Chrysina Diversa (Ohaus, 1912) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae) In Central America, Conrad P. D. T. Gillett Dec 2009

A New Country Record For Chrysina Diversa (Ohaus, 1912) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae) In Central America, Conrad P. D. T. Gillett

Insecta Mundi

Chrysina diversa (Ohaus, 1912) is recorded for the first time from Belize. Detailed information on its capture in that country is presented.

Chrysina diversa (Ohaus, 1912) est signalée pour la première fois de Belize. Des informations détaillées sur sa capture dans cette pays sont présentées ici.

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Program Committee Report December 2009, Regenstrief Center For Healthcare Engineering Dec 2009

Program Committee Report December 2009, Regenstrief Center For Healthcare Engineering

RCHE Reports

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The Role Of Reactive Oxygen Species In Oxidative-Induced Neoplastic Transformation, Daniel J. Puleston Dec 2009

The Role Of Reactive Oxygen Species In Oxidative-Induced Neoplastic Transformation, Daniel J. Puleston

The Plymouth Student Scientist

The generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) is a normal occurrence in the life of a cell. ROS are derived from both exogenous and endogenous sources and take part in a plethora of normal physiological mechanisms from host immunity to cell cycle regulation. However, ROS also exhibit a deleterious, disruptive character that means they must now be taken seriously as a genuine carcinogenic agent able to alter a variety of pathways leading to the initiation of cancer. The two-sidedness of ROS means that the relationship between ROS and the onset and progression of cancer is hard to determine. ROS and …

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The Role Of The Virus-Phytoplankton System In Marine Biogeochemical Cycling: Possible Impacts Of Climate Change, George Sorensen Dec 2009

The Role Of The Virus-Phytoplankton System In Marine Biogeochemical Cycling: Possible Impacts Of Climate Change, George Sorensen

The Plymouth Student Scientist

Phytoplankton is the main driver of ocean net primary production (Falkowski et al., 1998) and a dominant force behind biogeochemical cycling in the ocean. It is a component of one of the oldest and best described virus-host relationships (e.g. Suttle et al., 1990). Viruses have typically been viewed as pathogens of marine organisms but it has become clear that they also play a critical role in biogeochemical processes in marine systems, themselves falling into the category of dissolved organic matter (DOM) (Wilhelm & Suttle, 1999). Viruses play a large part in carbon (Middelboe & Lyck, 2002), sulphur (Hill et al., …

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Understanding Unconscious Plagiarism: The Effects Of Idea Elaboration And Perceived Idea Quality On Later Recall And Recognition Of Ideas, Rachel Elliman Dec 2009

Understanding Unconscious Plagiarism: The Effects Of Idea Elaboration And Perceived Idea Quality On Later Recall And Recognition Of Ideas, Rachel Elliman

The Plymouth Student Scientist

Previous research has shown that idea improvement and perceived idea quality have differential effects on recall-own and generate-new plagiarism. Participants completed a generative task in pairs and read some ideas perceived to be of high quality before elaborating on a selection of the ideas. It was expected that other-generated ideas that had been improved or read out loud would be more susceptible to unconscious plagiarism. Participants returned a week later to complete recall-own generated, recall-own read, generate-new and source monitoring tasks. Partner-generated ideas were significantly more likely to be plagiarised following improvement only. Participants were significantly more likely to plagiarise …

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Does Culture In The Darkness Effect Retina Morphology Of Sepia Officinalis?, Rachael Warrington Dec 2009

Does Culture In The Darkness Effect Retina Morphology Of Sepia Officinalis?, Rachael Warrington

The Plymouth Student Scientist

In Sepia officinalis there was no significant difference (P = 0.241) for the eye diameter in terms of body length. The body length was significantly longer in cuttlefish reared in the dark treatment (P = 0.029). This could be due to photoperiod regulating the release of growth hormones. The outer segment is similar in both treatments containing small compacted rhabdomeres elongating towards the inner segment. The dark retina has a thicker outer segment than the light, which could be an adaptation increasing the probability for photon capture by the rhabdomeres. Rhabdomeres vary little between treatments in comparison to vesicle cells …

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Unlv Special Collections In The Twenty-First Century, Tom D. Sommer Dec 2009

Unlv Special Collections In The Twenty-First Century, Tom D. Sommer

Library Faculty Research

University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) Special Collections is consistently striving to provide several avenues of discovery to its diverse range of patrons. Specifically, UNLV Special Collections has planned and implemented several online tools to facilitate unearthing treasures in the collections. These online tools incorporate Web 2.0 features as well as searchable interfaces to collections.

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Pilgrimages Through Mountains, Deserts And Oceans: The Quest For Indigenous Citizenship (Puno 1900-1930), Annalyda Alvarez Calderon Dec 2009

Pilgrimages Through Mountains, Deserts And Oceans: The Quest For Indigenous Citizenship (Puno 1900-1930), Annalyda Alvarez Calderon

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

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Computational Fluid Dynamics Of Aggregating Red Blood Cells In Postcapillary Venules, Bong Jae Chung, Sangho Kim, Paul C. Johnson, Aleksander S. Popel Dec 2009

Computational Fluid Dynamics Of Aggregating Red Blood Cells In Postcapillary Venules, Bong Jae Chung, Sangho Kim, Paul C. Johnson, Aleksander S. Popel

Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

Aggregate formation of red blood cells (RBCs) in a postcapillary venular bifurcation is investigated with three-dimensional computer simulations using the Chimera grid method. Interaction energy between the RBCs is modelled by a depletion interaction theory; RBCs are modelled as rigid oblate ellipsoids. The cell-cell interactions of RBCs are strongly dependent on vessel geometry and shear rates. The experimental data on vessel geometry, pseudoshear rates, and Dextran concentration obtained in our previous in vivo RBC aggregation study in postcapillary venules of the rat spinotrapezius muscle were used to simulate RBC aggregation. The computational results were compared to the experimental results from …

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Commencement Convocation Program, St. Petersburg Campus, December 1, 2009, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg Dec 2009

Commencement Convocation Program, St. Petersburg Campus, December 1, 2009, University Of South Florida St. Petersburg

USF St. Petersburg Graduations and Commencements

King O'Neal Awards: Sean Amodeo, Gertrud Huessy; Regional Chancellor's Award for Civic Engagement: David Carr

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