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Bioethics And Self-Governance: The Lessons Of The Universal Declaration On Bioethics And Human Rights, O. Carter Snead

Journal Articles

The following article analyzes the process of conception, elaboration, and adoption of the Universal Declaration of Bioethics and Human Rights, and reflects on the lessons it might hold for public bioethics on the international level. The author was involved in the process at a variety of levels: he provided advice to the IBC on behalf of the President's Council of Bioethics; he served as the U.S. representative to UNESCO's Intergovernmental Bioethics Committee; and led the U.S. Delegation in the multilateral negotiation of Government experts that culminated in the adoption of the declaration in its final form. The author is currently …

Pretextual Takings: Of Private Developers, Local Governments, And Impermissible Favoritism, Daniel B. Kelly

Journal Articles

Since Kelo v. City of New London, the preferred litigation strategy for challenging a condemnation that benefits a private party is to allege that the taking is pretextual. This Article contends that, although pretextual takings are socially undesirable, the current judicial test for identifying such takings is problematic. Yet an alternative, intent-based test might be impracticable, as well as underinclusive: condemnors often have mixed motives, particularly when confronted with a firm's credible threat to relocate. Instead, the Article develops a framework that emphasizes informational differences between local governments and private developers. When the government lacks information regarding the optimal site …

Response To Michael Sandel, Stephen F. Smith

Journal Articles

Professor Michael J. Sandel has treated us to an elegant argument against efforts by athletes to use medicine to "enhance" their bodies or by parents, in effect, to genetically engineer their children. I cannot agree with him more that "playing God" (my phrase, not his) in these ways is fundamentally an exercise in hubris, a rejection of the gifts that we have been given. I cannot improve on Professor Sandel's presentation of his argument. Unlike some Supreme Court Justices, I know that I am not a philosopher. Having said that, one of the joys of being a law professor is …

Religious Liberties: The International Religious Freedom Act, Richard W. Garnett, Thomas F. Farr, T. Jeremy Gunn, William L. Saunders

Journal Articles

MR. SAUNDERS: Welcome to this panel, put on by the Religious Liberties Practice Group. Any of you who would like to join that Practice Group, you are cordially invited to do so. Welcome to the Federalist Society Annual Convention. My name is Bill Saunders. I am a Senior Fellow at the Family Research Council, and I am the Chairman of the Religious Liberties Practice Group at the Federalist Society.

Our aim today is: to talk about religious freedom, to talk about whether it should be an aspect of U.S. foreign policy, how best to make it so if you believe …

Does Free Exercise Of Religion Deserve Constitutional Mention?, John M. Finnis

Journal Articles

The article discusses the inclusion of the free exercise of religion among a society's constitutional guarantees in the U.S. It cites Christopher Eisgruber and Lawrence Sager, authors of the book "Religious Freedom and the Constitution," who hold that religion does not deserve constitutional mention on account of any special value. It disputes this view and states that religion does deserve constitutional mention and that the constitution should protect a citizen's right to practice his or her religion.

From Nationalization Of Islam To Privatization Of Nationalism: Islam And Turkish National Identity, Tamer Balci

History Faculty Publications

This article traces the origins of various proposals to nationalize Islam in Turkey. The initial Turkish proposals failed because none of them had a feasible philosophical base to facilitate the co-existence of Islam and secularism. Aside from the previous studies on the nationalization of Islam, this article carries the topic to the Cold War by arguing that the Turkish-Islamic Synthesis was the last stage on the nationalization of Islam. Since TIS had no vision to alter the official ideology, Kemalism, and it claimed the compatibility of Islam, nationalism, secularism as well as Kemalism, it fulfilled the need of a national …

Social Analysis Of Cleft Lip And Palate Abnormality In Nigeria, Alice Umweni, Kokunre Agbontaen-­‐Eghafona, Hartwig Sauter

Journal of Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences

This study examined cleft lip and palate from the sociological point of view. It looked at the social aspects of a health issue by examining the social problems that may emanate from cleft lip/palate deformity. Questionnaires were administered in northern Nigeria to 32 patients between the ages of 10 and 60 who had been born with the defect. Oral interviews using the same set of questions were conducted with 18 patients with similar defects of cleft lip/palate deformity in southern Nigeria. The questionnaire method was preferred by the respondents in the north, whereas the respondents in the south preferred the …

Context Of Blue Jay (Cyanocitta Cristata) Mimicking Cooper’S Hawk (Accipiter Cooperii) Cackle, Jack P. Hailman

Florida Field Naturalist

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F C Baur And The TüBingen School : Turning Point In The Historiography Of Acts Of The Apostles, Kevin M. Crawford

Theses and Dissertations

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The Effect Of Social Support On Native American Elder Exercise, Nutrition, And Overall Health, Scott D. Johnson

Theses and Dissertations

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The Nature And Extent Of Middle School Student's Behaviors, Perceptions And Response To Cyber Bullying, Brett Holfeld

Theses and Dissertations

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Measuring The Relationship Between Gender Ideology And Locus Of Control, Timothy L. Driscoll

Theses and Dissertations

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The Influence Of Dutch Water Management On The Revolt Of The Netherlands : 1568-1648, Robert J. Tiegs

Theses and Dissertations

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Variation Of Failure Mechanisms Due To Geometric Changes, Kaiwalya M. Telang

Theses and Dissertations

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Perceived Disapproval & Knowledge Concerning The Consequences Of Drinking While Pregnant Among College Students, Shawnda M. Schroeder

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Evaluation Of Self-Consolidating Concrete For Use In North Dakota Transportation Projects, Joseph Scott Tonneson

Theses and Dissertations

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The Garden Estate : An Excerpt, Wolfgang Prometheus Wright

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Activities Of Lower Mass Hyaluronan Fragments In Cartilage Degeneration, Chang Liu

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Infant Feeding Choices And Claims Making : A Content Analysis Of Parents' Magazine, 1972-2000, Christina A. Pieske

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Modes Of Revision For The English Language Learner : Encouraging Student Authority In Writing Through Peer Revision And Teacher Commentary, Kathleen Elizabeth Porter

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Federalist Society Panel Discussion: Judicial Selection, Federal And State, Meryl J. Chertoff, William K. Kelley, William P. Marshall, Harold F. See Jr., Diane S. Sykes

Journal Articles

This panel discussion, selected from The Federalist Society's annual National Lawyers Convention, addresses the issue of judicial selection versus election at both the federal and state level. Panelists consider what, if anything, can be done to repair the federal judicial appointment process and address the longstanding debate at the state level over election versus appointment of judges. Finally, panelists reflect on whether merit selection is the answer or whether it would surrender the last vestiges of democratic control over the judiciary to a special interest elite.

Purification And Characterization Of Two Members Of The Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase Family, Paula A. Livingston

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

Two protein tyrosine phosphatases, dual specificity phosphatase PVP and low molecular weight phosphatase WZB were purified and characterized. PVP was expressed as inclusion bodies and a suitable purification and refolding method was devised. Enzyme kinetics revealed that p-nitrophenylphosphate and (Sb(B-naphthyl phosphate were substrates with KM of 4.0mM and 8.1mM respectively. PVP showed no reactivity towards phosphoserine. Kinetic characterization of WZB showed that only pnitrophenylphosphate was a substrate with no affinity for Ç-naphthyl phosphate and phosphoserine. Optimal conditions for activity with PNPP were found at a pH of 5 with a KM of 1.1mM, kcat of 35.4s-1 and kcat/KM of 32.2s-1mM-1. …

Relationship Between Organizational Culture And Effectiveness In University Residence Hall Associations, Lawrence B. Faerman

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

This study examined organizational member and housing staff perceptions of organizational culture and effectiveness of residence hall associations. Two instruments, the Residence Hall Government (RHA) Effectiveness Instrument designed by Tucker (2001) and the Organizational Culture Assessment Instrument (OCAI) designed by Cameron and Quinn (1999, 2006) were utilized to gather quantitative data, while individual interviews and focus groups were conducted utilizing selected questions from the Interview Questions for Doing a Competing Values Organizational Analysis (Quinn 1988) to collect qualitative data. A mixed methodology was utilized to collect and analyze data from three sites yielding 217 assessments, 27 interviews, and 6 student …

Regulation Of Growth By Tgf-B In Drosophila, Scott C. Gesualdi

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

Key to our understanding of growth regulation in Drosophila would be discovering a ligand that could regulate steroid synthesis. Activins are involved in regulating steroid hormone release in vertebrates. In invertebrates, they most likely function to keep ecdysone levels low to allow the larvae more time to achieve critical weight in order to initiate the metamorphic process. TGF-B(Transforming Growth Factor Beta) is a family of cytokine growth factors. We find that two members of the TGF-B signaling pathway Drosophila Activin (dACT) and Activin-like ligand Dawdle (DAW) signal through the type I receptor Baboon (BABO) and the type II receptor PUNT …

Relationship Between Principal Leadership Actions And Business And Social Justice Cultures In Schools, Daniel Reyes-Guerra

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

This study detected and explored the existence of two proposed school cultures, the use of leader actions by principals, and the relationships between them, of a sample of 42 public schools in Southeast Florida. A quantitative non-experimental design was used, guided by eight research questions. One instrument, the BSJQ, was created for the purposes of detecting school normative cultures and another, the SLQ, was refined and used to detect principal leader actions. The existence of Business and Social Justice cultures was confirmed, and three latent cultures of Standards Performance, Democratic Community and Equity Curriculum were discovered. Of the schools participating, …

Relationship Between Professional Development And The Changing Reading Practices Of Teachers In Low-Performing Elementary Schools, Michelle. Vaughan

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

The purpose of this multi-case study was to identify the influence of professional development experiences on the changing reading practices of third-grade teachers in low-performing schools. Schools were chosen to participate based upon a steady increase in reading achievement scores despite failing to meet Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) and being placed within the Corrective Action Phase of No Child Left Behind. Six teachers from 4 schools were chosen as participants based on the changing reading practices they reported on an initial survey of 13 teachers. Interviews, observations, focus groups, and collection of archival data was completed over the course of …

School Construction, Tracey. Miller

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

Schools must have adequate classroom space available in order to educate the growing population of school age students in Florida. School concurrency is one method used to attempt to have seats available in schools as the need arises. Two Florida counties that have attempted to implement school concurrency are presented in a case study format as well as a Nevada county that has taken a different approach to managing the same issue. Through an analysis of documents, interviews and district data, a hypothesized model is tested and modified to present one method of providing adequate classroom space in Florida schools.

Reduced Representation Of Neural Networks, Roxana A. Stefanescu

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

Experimental and computational investigations addressing how various neural functions are achieved in the brain converged in recent years to a unified idea that the neural activity underlying most of the cognitive functions is distributed over large scale networks comprising various cortical and subcortical areas. Modeling approaches represent these areas and their connections using diverse models of neurocomputational units engaged in graph-like or neural field-like structures. Regardless of the manner of network implementation, simulations of large scale networks have encountered significant difficulties mainly due to the time delay introduced by the long range connections. To decrease the computational effort, it is …

Study Examining The Impact Of Vocabulary Instruction On The Vocabulary Growth And Acquisition Of Adults Enrolled In A Community College Developmental Reading Course, Jodi Mcgeary Robson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of four instructional methods - context clues, definition, elaboration technique, or word parts and word families- on the vocabulary growth and acquisition of adults enrolled in a community college developmental reading course. The study investigated whether performance in any or all of the four instructional methods was moderated by age or language. Seventy-three respondents participated in the study. Participants were enrolled in one of five sections of College Reading Preparatory II (REA0002) offered in the Spring of 2009 at Indian River State College in Fort Pierce, Florida. All five sections …

Role Of Identity In Posttraumatic Growth And Psychological Adjustment For Adults With Cancer, Barbara E. Abernathy

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009

This mixed methods sequential research study was performed to explore the role of identity in posttraumatic growth and psychological adjustment for adults with cancer. One hundred nineteen individuals participated in an online survey which included items from Brief COPE, Mini-Mental Adjustment to Cancer (Mini-MAC), Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire (BIPQ), Sense of Coherence Scale - 3 items (SOC-3), Posttraumatic Growth Inventory (PTGI), Illness Intrusiveness Ratings Scale (IIRS), and Centrality of Event Scale (CES). A two-step cluster analysis divided the sample into two clusters based on the integration of cancer into identity: High Cancer Identity Cluster (cancer identity scores above M) with …