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Premenstrual Symptoms And Academic Stress In Emerging Adulthood Women, Pam Hulstein Jan 2009

Premenstrual Symptoms And Academic Stress In Emerging Adulthood Women, Pam Hulstein

Faculty Work Comprehensive List

Premenstrual symptoms are a universal event during a woman’s reproductive life but little is known about the experience of emerging adulthood women aged 18-25 years. The purpose of this study was to determine feasibility of daily symptom data collection via an electronic diary and to examine the relationship between premenstrual symptom perception, severity and distress with academic stress. This sample consisted of 50 women with a mean age of 20(±.9) years living in campus housing of a private undergraduate rural college. Results determined it is feasible to utilize an electronic diary for daily prospective symptom and academic demand data collection. …

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How Planned Parenthood V. Casey (Pretty Much) Settled The Abortion Wars, Neal Devins Jan 2009

How Planned Parenthood V. Casey (Pretty Much) Settled The Abortion Wars, Neal Devins

Faculty Publications

More than twenty-one years after Robert Bork's failed Supreme Court nomination and seventeen years after Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, the rhetoric of abortion politics remains unchanged. Pro-choice interests, for example, argue that states are poised to outlaw abortion and that Roe v. Wade is vulnerable to overruling. In this Essay, I will debunk those claims. First, I will explain how Casey's approval of limited abortion rights reflected an emerging national consensus in 1992. Second, I will explain why the Supreme Court is unlikely to risk political backlash by formally modifying Casey- either by restoring the trimester test …

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Constitutional Birthright: The State, Parentage, And The Rights Of Newborn Persons, James G. Dwyer Jan 2009

Constitutional Birthright: The State, Parentage, And The Rights Of Newborn Persons, James G. Dwyer

Faculty Publications

State parentage laws, dictating who a newborn child's first legal parents will be, have been the subject of constitutional challenges in several U.S. Supreme Court and many lower court decisions. All of those decisions, however, have focused on constitutional rights of adults (especially unwed biological fathers) who wish to become, or to avoid becoming, legal parents. Neither courts nor legal scholars have considered whether the children have any constitutional rights that constrain legislatures and courts in deciding which adults will be their legal parents. If a state enacted a parentage law that said, for example, that any child born to …

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Portrayals Of Motherhood In Four Women's Magazines: 1985 And 2009., Kristen A. Sato Jan 2009

Portrayals Of Motherhood In Four Women's Magazines: 1985 And 2009., Kristen A. Sato

Master's Theses

This thesis concerns representations of women as mothers in women's magazines during 1985 and 2009. It analyzes the images, symbols, and textual messages within the advertisements of these magazines. Gender roles and gender scripts for women during the respective years are then considered with the collected data, in order to contrast portrayals of mothers in the advertisements against aspects of actual motherhood.

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"I'M Korean, Living In The United States", Youngmin Seo Jan 2009

"I'M Korean, Living In The United States", Youngmin Seo

Master's Theses

This study explores the acculturation process of generation 1.5 Korean immigrants in the United States with special attention to their construction of ethnic identity as it influences their adjustment to the new culture. The researcher defines generation 1.5 Korean as those who were born in Korea and immigrated to the United States between age 5 and 16. For the purpose of this study, the researcher conducted in-depth semi-structured interviews on the participants' immigration experiences, focusing on how they have developed their ethnic identities over time. Twenty Korean immigrants were recruited and interviewed in the area of San Jose, California.

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From Corporate Social Responsibility To Corporate Responsible Behaviour: A Futures Approach: Proposing A New Conceptual And Operational Framework To Foster Responsibility Within The Commercial Property Industry, Gillian O'Brien Jan 2009

From Corporate Social Responsibility To Corporate Responsible Behaviour: A Futures Approach: Proposing A New Conceptual And Operational Framework To Foster Responsibility Within The Commercial Property Industry, Gillian O'Brien

Doctoral

This research examines corporate responsible behaviour (CRB) and the role of Futures Studies, as both a philosophy and a critical research methodology in fostering a culture of responsibility within the commercial property industry in the UK. More specific objectives are to critically evaluate CRB and its role in business; to explore the potential role, effects and implications of futures in the development of CRB policy and practice; to propose an integrative conceptual and operational framework for guiding the commercial property industry in formulating systematic, executable CRB policies and practices; and to build a set of propositions that may influence the …

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Wikitruth Through Wikiorder, David A. Hoffman, Salil K. Mehra Jan 2009

Wikitruth Through Wikiorder, David A. Hoffman, Salil K. Mehra

Emory Law Journal

How does large-scale social production coordinate individual behavior to produce public goods? In 1968, Hardin denied that the creation of public goods absent markets or the State is possible. Benkler, Shirky, Zittrain, and Lessig recently countered that the necessary coordination might emerge though social norms. However, scholars have not fully explained how this coordination is to occur. Game theorists have modeled large-scale social production as a solution to the herder problem/multi-player Prisoner¿s Dilemma. But we demonstrate that the ¿weeding in function reflects dynamics more accurately captured in coordination games. In this way, dispute resolution can provide a constitutive function for …

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Scaling Waller: How Courts Have Eroded The Sixth Amendment Public Trial Right, Daniel Levitas Jan 2009

Scaling Waller: How Courts Have Eroded The Sixth Amendment Public Trial Right, Daniel Levitas

Emory Law Journal

American courts and legal commentators have long praised the Sixth Amendment public trial right, but courts often lack the willingness to enforce it. Although the Supreme Court has consistently held that violations of the public trial right belong to an exceedingly small class of constitutional errors requiring reversal, appellate courts persist in upholding improper courtroom closures even when the record shows that courts below have violated the applicable constitutional standard. When criminal trials are fatally fouled by structural, constitutional error of this kind, the reluctance of appellate courts to reverse is damaging in two ways¿it encourages repetition of the same …

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Weighing The Value Of Information: Why The Federal Government Should Require Nutrition Labeling For Food Served In Restaurants, Devon E. Winkles Jan 2009

Weighing The Value Of Information: Why The Federal Government Should Require Nutrition Labeling For Food Served In Restaurants, Devon E. Winkles

Emory Law Journal

Obesity has become a growing public health concern in the United States. State and local policymakers, as well as the federal government, have proposed and implemented a variety of measures to curb consumption of unhealthy food and promote healthy lifestyles. Providing nutrition information to consumers is one strategy that has been implemented, most notably in the Nutritional Labeling and Education Act of 1990. Such a strategy should again be employed to address overconsumption and over-marketing of high calorie food at restaurants, as well as to remedy the patchwork of menu labeling requirements that has been created in recent years and …

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Essay: Telling Stories Of Shareholder Supremacy, Daniel J.H. Greenwood Jan 2009

Essay: Telling Stories Of Shareholder Supremacy, Daniel J.H. Greenwood

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

At its core, corporate law, like most law, is a morality play. Its internal structure is not determined by logic, justice, or efficiency. Instead, doctrine and action alike flow from a highly contested argument over status and position. Holmes had it partly right: "[t]he life of the law has not been logic." But it has not "been experience," a non-reflective naive pragmatism or a mere superstructure passively reflecting underlying class struggle, either. The law is a conflict of narratives. The stories it tells have independent power that can influence, as well as be influenced by, the struggles that create it …

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Stopping For Death: Re-Framing Our Perspective On The End Of Life, Ruth C. Stern, J. Herbie Difonzo Jan 2009

Stopping For Death: Re-Framing Our Perspective On The End Of Life, Ruth C. Stern, J. Herbie Difonzo

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

How we die is increasingly becoming a matter of law and public policy. We grapple with issues of patient autonomy, the proper parameters of doctor-patient discussions on the end of life, the right to hasten death, and the right to control our own medical treatment. But it is physicians and patients, not judges and legislators, who are the principal actors in events at the end of life. Palliative medicine is just beginning to probe the multi-dimensional totality of suffering in dying and seriously ill patients. What we learn will influence our options at the end of life and tell us …

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The Impact Of Mental Challenge On Indicators Of Endothelial Function In Obese Individuals, Chun-Jung Huang Jan 2009

The Impact Of Mental Challenge On Indicators Of Endothelial Function In Obese Individuals, Chun-Jung Huang

Theses and Dissertations

A number of investigators have examined psychological stress-induced endothelial dysfunction, however, the underlying mechanisms for these responses have not been clearly elucidated. The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of mental challenge on forearm blood flow, total antioxidant capacity (a measure of oxidative stress), the release of norepinephrine (NE; stress induced neurotransmitter), and pro-inflammatory cytokine responses [both lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-stimulated TNF-α and IL-6 cytokine and mRNA] in lean and obese individuals. Twelve subjects who had a BMI above 30 kg/m2 and were above 30% body fat were categorized as obese and twelve subjects with a BMI below 25 …

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Minority Interests, Majority Politics: A Comment On Richard Collins’ "Telluride's Tale Of Eminent Domain, Home Rule, And Retroactivity", Ashira Ostrow Jan 2009

Minority Interests, Majority Politics: A Comment On Richard Collins’ "Telluride's Tale Of Eminent Domain, Home Rule, And Retroactivity", Ashira Ostrow

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

In his article, Telluride's Tale of Eminent Domain, Home Rule, and Retroactivity, Professor Richard Collins skillfully parses many of the unique legal issues that confronted the Colorado Supreme Court in Town of Telluride v. San Miguel Valley Corp. In particular, Professor Collins explores the constitutional right to a change of venue based on jury bias in an eminent domain action, the scope of Telluride's home rule power of eminent domain, and the extent to which a state statute purporting to limit such power could be retroactively applied.

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Revisiting Prosecutorial Disclosure, Alafair Burke Jan 2009

Revisiting Prosecutorial Disclosure, Alafair Burke

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

After the exoneration of more than 200 people based on post-conviction DNA evidence, a growing movement against wrongful convictions has called increased attention to the prosecutorial suppression of material, exculpatory evidence. Commentators frequently study prosecutorial failures to disclose as a form of intentional misconduct, coloring both the description of the problem and the recommended solutions. This Article, in contrast, explores how even ethical prosecutors might fail to disclose exculpatory evidence because of flaws in the Brady doctrine itself - specifically, the Court's limitation of the doctrine to "material" exculpatory evidence. The materiality standard preys upon cognitive biases that distort even …

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Theories Of Poverty/The Poverty Of Theory, Barbara Stark Jan 2009

Theories Of Poverty/The Poverty Of Theory, Barbara Stark

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

The world has never been richer. At the same time, the number of people living in poverty has increased by almost 100 million and the chasm between the rich and the poor has become unfathomable. In 2004, 969 million people lived on less than a dollar a day. As former World Bank President Robert McNamara summed up, these people experience "a condition of life so characterized by malnutrition, illiteracy, disease, squalid surroundings, high infant mortality and low life expectancy as to be beneath any reasonable definition of human decency."' Yet there are more billionaires than ever before, people who have …

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Workplace Discrimination And Learning Disability: The National Eeoc Ada Research Project, Joseph Conway Jan 2009

Workplace Discrimination And Learning Disability: The National Eeoc Ada Research Project, Joseph Conway

Theses and Dissertations

Using the Integrated Mission System of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the employment discrimination experience of Americans with Learning Disabilities (SLD) is documented for Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The study examines demographic characteristics of the charging parties and the industry of the responding employer against whom complaints are filed. It establishes the nature of the discriminatory act, specifically, pin-points the issue(s) that predicated the allegation, and shows the final outcome or resolution of these complaints. Key dimensions of workplace discrimination as experienced by individuals with LD are detected using two Tests of Proportion. The first …

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A Rylean Revision To Biological Naturalism, Timothy E. Kunke Jan 2009

A Rylean Revision To Biological Naturalism, Timothy E. Kunke

Master's Theses

This essay is a contrasting of John Searle's biological naturalist view of the mind with Gilbert Ryle's deconstruction of the problem of mind-body interaction. These two positions are most uniquely suited for this purpose since, together they constitute the best positive theory and criticism of the same problem. It will be argued that consciousness - a feature of human experience which proves to be one of the most difficult to account for, from the perspective of the naturalist can be regarded as a dispositional attribute of a complex biological organism. Considered as such, it is what Searle would term a …

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Female Stereotypes In 21st Century News And Business Magazines, Gosia Gizycki Jan 2009

Female Stereotypes In 21st Century News And Business Magazines, Gosia Gizycki

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

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Uses And Gratifications Of The Food Network, Cori Lynn Hemmah Jan 2009

Uses And Gratifications Of The Food Network, Cori Lynn Hemmah

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

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Mutable Bodies And Wills : The Implications Of Humoral Discourse In Literature, Heather Stanger Jan 2009

Mutable Bodies And Wills : The Implications Of Humoral Discourse In Literature, Heather Stanger

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

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La Malinche : ¿ VindicacióN Del MéXico Del Siglo Xxi? = La Malinche : Xxi Century Mexico's Vindication?, MaríA Elena Bueno Jan 2009

La Malinche : ¿ VindicacióN Del MéXico Del Siglo Xxi? = La Malinche : Xxi Century Mexico's Vindication?, MaríA Elena Bueno

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

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Forms And Functions Of Englishisms In Japanese Women's Fashion Magazines, Yumie Sase Jan 2009

Forms And Functions Of Englishisms In Japanese Women's Fashion Magazines, Yumie Sase

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

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Purposive Dance And Motivating Students In California's Public Schools, Kathleen Wehr Jan 2009

Purposive Dance And Motivating Students In California's Public Schools, Kathleen Wehr

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

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A Cross-Cultural Comparison Of U.S. And Taiwanese Print Advertising Strategy, Chun-Lin Wu Jan 2009

A Cross-Cultural Comparison Of U.S. And Taiwanese Print Advertising Strategy, Chun-Lin Wu

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

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Revealing The Textual Mask, John Jason Buckley Jan 2009

Revealing The Textual Mask, John Jason Buckley

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

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U.S. Missile Shield In Europe : Framing In The New York Times And Izvestiya, Abdufarrokh Turaev Jan 2009

U.S. Missile Shield In Europe : Framing In The New York Times And Izvestiya, Abdufarrokh Turaev

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

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Nebuchadnezzar, Jesse Kay Martin Jan 2009

Nebuchadnezzar, Jesse Kay Martin

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

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The Evidential Weight Of Considered Moral Judgments, Christopher Michael Cloos Jan 2009

The Evidential Weight Of Considered Moral Judgments, Christopher Michael Cloos

Master's Theses

The input objection to reflective equilibrium (RE) claims that the method fails as a method of moral justification. According to the objection, considered moral judgments (CMJs) are not truth-conducive. Because the method uses inputs that are not credible, the method does not generate justified moral beliefs. The objection is solved by reinterpreting RE using contemporary developments in ethical intuitionism. The first half of the thesis sets up the input objection, explores potential responses to the objection, and uncovers the best way to solve the objection. The second half of the thesis solves the input objection by defining key terms, detailing …

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Why Floods Be Served To Us In Bowls: Emily Dickinson's Souvenirs, Hannah Lee Jan 2009

Why Floods Be Served To Us In Bowls: Emily Dickinson's Souvenirs, Hannah Lee

Honors Papers

This paper examines the uncanny object in Emily Dickinson's poems and letters through the lens of critic Susan Stewart's writing on souvenirs.

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Mixed-Race Looks, Ronald Sundstrom Jan 2009

Mixed-Race Looks, Ronald Sundstrom

Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)

The multiracial population is growing larger and so is popular awareness about multiracial or mixed-race identity. Simmering beneath the growing public recognition of multiracial identity are questions about the legitimacy of mixed race, multiracial, or biracial as social categories, and further questions about the ethics and politics of those identities. Behind some of these questions are worries about how multiracial identity interacts with racialized aesthetic standards. This essay addresses these issues by investigating whether those affirmations are racist and betray monoracial groups. This essay concludes that such affirmations are not necessarily racist or traitorous. Instead, they are consistent with modern …

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