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The Momentum Of Posthumous Conception: A Model Act, Raymond C. O'Brien Jan 2009

The Momentum Of Posthumous Conception: A Model Act, Raymond C. O'Brien

Scholarly Articles

This Article addresses the scenario of when, through advanced medical technology, a procedure is performed resulting in the birth of a child more than three hundred days-a time suggested by some statutes-after the death of the gamete provider. The embryo may result from in vitro fertilization or from a woman being artificially inseminated with the sperm of a deceased male gamete provider. And of course the woman could have predeceased too and left a viable ova, that was then fertilized with the sperm of a living or a deceased male to create an embryo, which was then placed into a …

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Response, Frames Of Reference And The "Turn To Remedy" In Facial Challenge Doctrine, Kevin C. Walsh Jan 2009

Response, Frames Of Reference And The "Turn To Remedy" In Facial Challenge Doctrine, Kevin C. Walsh

Scholarly Articles

This Symposium on Facial Challenges in the Roberts Court provides an opportunity to chart a path toward greater doctrinal coherence in light of the Court's most recent uses of the distinction between facial and as-applied challenges. In his contribution to this Symposium, David Faigman makes two claims that I address in this response. The first of Professor Faigman's claims is descriptive: "the debate over facial versus as-applied challenges is merely a subcategory of the pervasive issue concerning defining the proper frame of reference for empirical questions arising under the Constitution.'"' As Professor Faigman uses the term, a "frame of reference" …

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Smith, Stormans, And The Future Of Free Exercise: Applying The Free Exercise Clause To Targeted Laws Of General Applicability, Mark L. Rienzi Jan 2009

Smith, Stormans, And The Future Of Free Exercise: Applying The Free Exercise Clause To Targeted Laws Of General Applicability, Mark L. Rienzi

Scholarly Articles

Does the Free Exercise Clause extend to situations where the legislature deliberately targets a religious practice, but does so for neutral reasons and is willing to extend the ban to people who happen to engage in the same practice for non-religious reasons? While one can imagine reasonable arguments on both sides about the constitutionality of the Sunday morning alcohol ban, it seems absurd to say that the Free Exercise Clause is not part of the equation. Yet under the First Amendment analysis presently employed by many courts, that result is entirely likely.

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Pope Benedict Xvi And The Desideratum Of A Natural Law: Three Views, William J. Wagner, James V. Schall S.J., David Solomon Jan 2009

Pope Benedict Xvi And The Desideratum Of A Natural Law: Three Views, William J. Wagner, James V. Schall S.J., David Solomon

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In Gratitude For What We Are Given: A Common Morality For The Global Age, William J. Wagner Jan 2009

In Gratitude For What We Are Given: A Common Morality For The Global Age, William J. Wagner

Scholarly Articles

This introduction, first, sets out and evaluates the reciprocal, antiphonal steps of "Vatican initiative" and "university response" at this collection of essays' genesis. Once having done so, it offers the reader not only a basic synthesis of the authors' separate contributions but also of the contours of the collection as a whole. In these ways it offers readers an introductory roadmap to the wealth of insights that the collection contains and those that it may in turn inspire.

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Variables In Health Care Policy Making: Resolving A Quandary, George P. Smith Ii Jan 2009

Variables In Health Care Policy Making: Resolving A Quandary, George P. Smith Ii

Scholarly Articles

Contemporary debate in health care resource management is tied to a central moral issue: how to achieve the optimum level of reasonable or appropriate treatment based on the medical condition of each patient. Failure to tackle and resolve this issue in a confident and forthright manner ensures that the present approach to health care decision-making will continue in a state of indecisiveness if not, indeed, lethargy. Undergirding this moral issue is the foundational economic dilemma of controlling costs while limiting access to health care resources. Crafting a just solution to an equitable distribution of finite health care resources is, indeed, …

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Introduction To Civil Litigation Services; Special Report 09-1, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Forensic And Valuation Services Section Jan 2009

Introduction To Civil Litigation Services; Special Report 09-1, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants. Forensic And Valuation Services Section

Guides, Handbooks and Manuals

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System And Method For Quantitative Imaging Of Chemical Composition To Decompose More Than Two Materials, Xin Liu, L. Yu, C. H. Mccollough Jan 2009

System And Method For Quantitative Imaging Of Chemical Composition To Decompose More Than Two Materials, Xin Liu, L. Yu, C. H. Mccollough

Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Science Faculty Research & Creative Works

A system and method for decomposing more than two materials in an imaging object includes performing a CT imaging acquisition of a portion of an imaging object using at least two energy levels to acquire imaging data associated with each of the at least two energy levels. A total mass attenuation of the imaging data is expressed as a weighted sum of constituent element mass attenuation coefficients and an effective atomic number and density of the constituent elements in the portion of the imaging object is determined by one of a number of methods. Accordingly, concentration of the constituent elements …

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System And Method For Quantitative Imaging Of Chemical Composition To Decompose Multiple Materials, Xin Liu, L. Yu, C. H. Mccollough Jan 2009

System And Method For Quantitative Imaging Of Chemical Composition To Decompose Multiple Materials, Xin Liu, L. Yu, C. H. Mccollough

Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Science Faculty Research & Creative Works

The present invention provides a material decomposition method capable of determining the distribution of density and constituent material concentration throughout an imaged object. The concentration, in the form of a mass fraction, mass percent, weight fraction, or weight percent, is determined from CT images acquired at different energy levels. The ratio of attenuation coefficients associated with one energy level to attenuation coefficients associated with another energy level is determined and used as an index in a lookup table to determine the concentration of a given material throughout the imaged object.

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Media Subpoenas: Impact, Perception, And Legal Protection In The Changing World Of American Journalism, Ronnell Andersen Jones Jan 2009

Media Subpoenas: Impact, Perception, And Legal Protection In The Changing World Of American Journalism, Ronnell Andersen Jones

Faculty Scholarship

Forty years ago, at a time when the media were experiencing enormous professional change and a surge of subpoena activity, First Amendment scholar Vincent Blasi investigated the perceptions of members of the press and the impact of subpoenas within American newsrooms in a study that quickly came to be regarded as a watershed in media law. That empirical information is now a full generation old, and American journalism faces a new critical moment. The traditional press once again finds itself facing a surge of subpoenas and once again finds itself at a time of intense change—albeit on a different trajectory—as …

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Medellin, The Alien Tort Statute, And The Domestic Status Of International Law, David H. Moore Jan 2009

Medellin, The Alien Tort Statute, And The Domestic Status Of International Law, David H. Moore

Faculty Scholarship

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Law(Makers) Of The Land: The Doctrine Of Treaty Non-Self-Execution, David H. Moore Jan 2009

Law(Makers) Of The Land: The Doctrine Of Treaty Non-Self-Execution, David H. Moore

Faculty Scholarship

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2009 North Dakota Weed Control Guide, Richard K. Zollinger Jan 2009

2009 North Dakota Weed Control Guide, Richard K. Zollinger

W Series – Weeds

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A Report On The 180 Symposium, Roger Dudley, Allen Walshe Jan 2009

A Report On The 180 Symposium, Roger Dudley, Allen Walshe

Faculty Publications

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Three Reasons To Serve, Gary L. Hopkins, Duane C. Mcbride, Stuart Tyner, Jonathan Duffy Jan 2009

Three Reasons To Serve, Gary L. Hopkins, Duane C. Mcbride, Stuart Tyner, Jonathan Duffy

Faculty Publications

Young people in the Seventh-day Adventist Church are in need of leadership creating effective strategies for protecting the youngsters from engaging in high risk behaviors along with finding effective methods of keeping these same youngsters churched. It is clear that God had answers to these problems long ago. A review of Matthew 25 clearly states that our purpose as Christians should be to serve individuals in need. When young people engage in service, they are more likely to be attracted to the church, get involved in the church, and stay in the church. Furthermore, service is associated with better grades …

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Transformational Youth Ministry, Allen Walshe Jan 2009

Transformational Youth Ministry, Allen Walshe

Faculty Publications

This paper will point out how deeply ingrained post-modern thinking has become in Western culture. It will remind us that our youth and young adults, who are post-modern, are not the enemy (as some would categorize them), but that they are ‘the beloved of God.’ We have been called and commissioned to reach them by the grace of God. This paper will argue that the church’s response to our post-modern youth, if it is to be efficacious, will require a paradigm shift, from its predominantly information style toward a more relational model of ministry. This can be facilitated by restructuring …

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Reflections, Roger Dudley Jan 2009

Reflections, Roger Dudley

Faculty Publications

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Church Of Refuge: A Support Ministry For Youth And Young Adults, Ron Whitehead, Jeff Boyd Jan 2009

Church Of Refuge: A Support Ministry For Youth And Young Adults, Ron Whitehead, Jeff Boyd

Faculty Publications

At least 40 to 50 percent of youth and young adults leave the Seventh-day Adventist Church. To reverse this trend by helping local congregations meet the spiritual, social, and community impact needs of youth and young adults, the Center for Youth Evangelism proposes to launch Church of Refuge (COR). This organization will support churches in incorporating nine principles in their master planning. After demonstrating the inclusion of these principles, local congregations will be certified as Churches of Refuge and will be promoted to youth and young adults through web and print materials.

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Infinite-Randomness Quantum Critical Points Induced By Dissipation, Thomas Vojta, Chetan Kotabage, Jose A. Hoyos Jan 2009

Infinite-Randomness Quantum Critical Points Induced By Dissipation, Thomas Vojta, Chetan Kotabage, Jose A. Hoyos

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

We develop a strong-disorder renormalization group to study quantum phase transitions with continuous O(N) symmetry order parameters under the influence of both quenched disorder and dissipation. For Ohmic dissipation, as realized in Hertz's theory of the itinerant antiferromagnetic transition or in the superconductor-metal transition in nanowires, we find the transition to be governed by an exotic infinite-randomness fixed point in the same universality class as the (dissipationless) random transverse-field Ising model. We determine the critical behavior and calculate key observables at the transition and in the associated quantum Griffiths phase. We also briefly discuss the cases of super-Ohmic and sub-Ohmic …

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Summary Of Soil Fertility Levels For North Dakota, 1991-2001, L. J. Cihacek, D. W. Franzen, J. Seaholm Jan 2009

Summary Of Soil Fertility Levels For North Dakota, 1991-2001, L. J. Cihacek, D. W. Franzen, J. Seaholm

SF Series – Soils & Fertilizers

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Site Specific Farming 4: Economics And The Environment, Dave Franzen Jan 2009

Site Specific Farming 4: Economics And The Environment, Dave Franzen

SF Series – Soils & Fertilizers

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Fertilizing Hard Red Spring Wheat And Durum, D. W. Franzen Jan 2009

Fertilizing Hard Red Spring Wheat And Durum, D. W. Franzen

SF Series – Soils & Fertilizers

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Coulomb-Field-Induced Conversion Of A High-Energy Photon Into A Pair Assisted By A Counterpropagating Laser Beam, Erik Lotstedt, Ulrich D. Jentschura, Christoph H. Keitel Jan 2009

Coulomb-Field-Induced Conversion Of A High-Energy Photon Into A Pair Assisted By A Counterpropagating Laser Beam, Erik Lotstedt, Ulrich D. Jentschura, Christoph H. Keitel

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

The laser-induced modification of a fundamental process of quantum electrodynamics, the conversion of a high-energy gamma photon in the Coulomb field of a nucleus into an electron-positron pair, is studied theoretically. Although the employed formalism allows for the general case where the gamma photon and laser photons cross at an arbitrary angle, we here focus on a theoretically interesting and numerically challenging setup, where the laser beam and gamma photon counterpropagate and impinge on a nucleus at rest. For a peak laser field smaller than the critical Schwinger field and gamma photon energy larger than the field-free threshold, the total …

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Exploring Accounting Fraud In The Subsidiary Environment, Carmelita J. Troy, Madeline Ann Domino, Steven P. Landry Jan 2009

Exploring Accounting Fraud In The Subsidiary Environment, Carmelita J. Troy, Madeline Ann Domino, Steven P. Landry

Faculty Publications

This research explores accounting fraud in the subsidiary environment. Utilizing institutional theory, we propose that the subsidiary environment provides an opportune setting and vehicle for individuals to commit accounting fraud. While a growing body of literature exists on accounting fraud, minimal work has focused on the role of the subsidiary in accounting fraud, as reported by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). We sample companies for which the SEC has documented accounting fraud in their enforcement releases. We then analyze the related SEC documents to determine to what extent, if any, a subsidiary is involved in the accounting fraud. Our …

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Preliminary Report On The 2009 Season Of The Madaba Plains Project: Tall Jalul Excavations 2009, Paul Z. Gregor, Constance E. Gane, Randall Younker, Jennifer Groves, Paul Ray Jan 2009

Preliminary Report On The 2009 Season Of The Madaba Plains Project: Tall Jalul Excavations 2009, Paul Z. Gregor, Constance E. Gane, Randall Younker, Jennifer Groves, Paul Ray

Faculty Publications

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2008 Season At Tall Jalul, Jordan, Randall W. Younker Editor Jan 2009

2008 Season At Tall Jalul, Jordan, Randall W. Younker Editor

Faculty Publications

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Finding The ‘World’ In Biblical Studies: God-Talk, Culture, And Hermeneutics In The Study (And Teaching) Of Faith, Gerald A. Klingbeil Jan 2009

Finding The ‘World’ In Biblical Studies: God-Talk, Culture, And Hermeneutics In The Study (And Teaching) Of Faith, Gerald A. Klingbeil

Faculty Publications

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Summing Up A Life’S Work: Some Recent Festschriften In Biblical And Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Gerald A. Klingbeil Jan 2009

Summing Up A Life’S Work: Some Recent Festschriften In Biblical And Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Gerald A. Klingbeil

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Finding The Hidden Treasure Of The Pentateuch: Relevance, Meaning And Function Of Biblical Ritual, Gerald A. Klingbeil Jan 2009

Finding The Hidden Treasure Of The Pentateuch: Relevance, Meaning And Function Of Biblical Ritual, Gerald A. Klingbeil

Faculty Publications

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