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Lessons From The Financial Crisis, Maurice Stucke

Scholarly Works

What lessons can we learn from the financial crisis concerning the issues of systemic risk, firms too big to fail, and the income inequality in the United States today?

In light of the public anger over the financial crisis and bailouts to firms deemed too big to fail, this Essay first addresses the issue of systemic risk posed by mergers generally and those in the financial services industries specifically. The federal government heard concerns in the 1990s about mega-mergers in the financial industry. The Department of Justice, for example, heard concerns that the Citibank-Travelers merger would create an institution too …

Money, Is That What I Want?: Competition Policy & The Role Of Behavioral Economics, Maurice Stucke

Scholarly Works

Although the behavioral economics and happiness economic literature are hot areas in legal and economic scholarship, the U.S. policymakers, until recently, have not embraced the literature. That is changing with the financial crisis. Policymakers are re-examining the assumptions underlying many neoclassical economic theories embedded in their policies.

This article addresses one cornerstone of neoclassical economic theory, namely that rational consumers pursue their economic self-interests. It is commonly associated with Adam Smith’s famous statement: “It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we can expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own …

Une Vie De Platon Du ViE Siècle (Olympiodore): Traduction Et Notes, N. D'Andres, Damian Caluori, D. Del Forno, L. Pitteloud, D. O'Meara, J. Schamp, E. Song, C. Tresson, M. Vonlanthen, S. Weiner

Philosophy Faculty Research

Le lecteur trouvera ci‐dessous la première traduction française complète d’une biographie de Platon rédigée à partir d’un cours donné par Olympiodore, professeur de philosophie à l’école platonicienne d’Alexandrie vers le milieu du VI^e siècle après J.‐C., ainsi que la première traduction française d’une biographie de Platon inclue dans un lexique (la Souda) de l’époque byzantine.¹ Nous espérons contribuer ainsi à la mise à disposition en traduction française de l’ensemble des biographies antiques de Platon. En effet, outre les biographies d’Olympiodore et de la Souda, nous pouvons encore lire des Vies de Platon, toutes accessibles en …

Differences In Ultrasonic Vocalizations Between Wild And Laboratory California Mice (Peromyscus Californicus), M. C. Kalcounis-Rueppell, R. Petric, J. R. Briggs, C. Carney, M. M. Marshall, J. T. Willse, David O. Ribble, J. P. Crossland

Biology Faculty Research

Background: Ultrasonic vocalizations (USVs) emitted by muroid rodents, including laboratory mice and rats, are used as phenotypic markers in behavioral assays and biomedical research. Interpretation of these USVs depends on understanding the significance of USV production by rodents in the wild. However, there has never been a study of muroid rodent ultrasound function in the wild and comparisons of USVs produced by wild and laboratory rodents are lacking to date. Here, we report the first comparison of wild and captive rodent USVs recorded from the same species, Peromyscus californicus.

Methodology and Principal Findings: We used standard ultrasound recording techniques …

Nuclear Gene Phylogeography Using Phase: Dealing With Unresolved Genotypes, Lost Alleles, And Systematic Bias In Parameter Estimation, Ryan C. Garrick, Paul Sunnucks, Rodney J. Dyer

Biology Publications

Background

A widely-used approach for screening nuclear DNA markers is to obtain sequence data and use bioinformatic algorithms to estimate which two alleles are present in heterozygous individuals. It is common practice to omit unresolved genotypes from downstream analyses, but the implications of this have not been investigated. We evaluated the haplotype reconstruction method implemented by PHASE in the context of phylogeographic applications. Empirical sequence datasets from five non-coding nuclear loci with gametic phase ascribed by molecular approaches were coupled with simulated datasets to investigate three key issues: (1) haplotype reconstruction error rates and the nature of inference errors, (2) …

Coal And Coalbed Methane Development In The Flathead—An International Water Dispute, Allan Ingelson, Lincoln Mitchell, Sean Assie

Global Business & Development Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Governing The Tributaries Of The Mekong—The Contribution Of International Law And Institutions To Enhancing Equitable Cooperation Over The Sesan, Alistair Rieu-Clarke, Geoffrey Gooch

Global Business & Development Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Beyond International Water Law: Successfully Negotiating Mutual Gains Agreements For International Watercourses, Alex Grzybowski, Stephen C. Mccaffrey, Richard K. Paisley

Global Business & Development Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Land Seizures In The People's Republic Of China: Protecting Property While Encouraging Economic Development, Jarrett Noble

Global Business & Development Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Creating The Optimistic Classroom: What Law Schools Can Learn From Attribution Style Effects, Corie Rosen

McGeorge Law Review

No abstract provided.

What Can We Learn From The 2010 Bp Oil Spill: Five Important Corporate Law And Life Lessons, Joseph Karl Grant

McGeorge Law Review

No abstract provided.

Assessment Of Selenium And Atrazine Exposure And Effects To Wildlife At The North Platte National Wildlife Refuge, Scottsbluff, Nebraska, Matthew S. Schwarz, Christina D. Lydick

United States Fish and Wildlife Service: Publications

This study evaluated selenium and atrazine exposure and effects to fish and wildlife at North Platte National Wildlife Refuge (Refuge) in Scotts Bluff County, Nebraska. Atrazine was detected in 2 of 54 water samples and at low concentrations that are not of concern. However, concentrations of selenium and strontium exceeded toxicity guidelines in water, sediment, invertebrates, whole-body fish and wood duck eggs. Concentrations of selenium in water at Refuge sites frequently exceeded a 2 μg/L total recoverable threshold for selenium bioaccumulation and were greatest at Stateline Island (9.7 μg/L) and Little Lake Alice (24 μg/L). In sediments, strontium concentrations were …

50 Cfr Part 17: Endangered And Threatened Wildlife And Plants; Determination For The Gunnison Sage-Grouse As A Threatened Or Endangered Species; Proposed Rule, Allan Pfister

United States Fish and Wildlife Service: Publications

We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), announce our 12–month finding on whether to list the Gunnison sage-grouse (Centrocercus minimus) as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (Act). After reviewing the best available scientific and commercial information, we find that the species is warranted for listing. Currently, however, listing the Gunnison sage-grouse is precluded by higher priority actions to amend the Lists of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants. Upon publication of this 12-month finding, we will add the Gunnison sage-grouse to our candidate species list. We will develop a proposed …

Saving Our Shared Birds:Partners In Flight Tri-Nationalvision For Landbird Conservation, Humberto Berlanga, Judith A. Kennedy, Terrell D. Rich

United States Fish and Wildlife Service: Publications

Table of Contents

Foreword....... 1

Overview....... 2–3

A Continent of Birds...... 4–5

A Continent of People Connected to Birds.... 6–7

Assessing Tri-National Conservation Priorities...8–9

Loss of Bird Diversity....10–15

Loss of Bird Abundance......16–17

Shared Birds, Shared Responsibility ....18–21

A Call to Tri-National Action.... 22-35

Appendices.......36–48

Acknowledgements........49

Landbirds are the most abundant and diverse group of birds in North America, with nearly 900 species distributed across every major terrestrial habitat. Birds are indicators of environmental health; their populations track changes in habitat, water, disease, and climate. They are providers of invaluable ecosystem services, such as pest control, seed dispersal, and pollination. As …

Implications Of Skinner's Verbal Behavior For Studying Dementia, Jeffrey Buchanan, Daniel Houlihan, Peter J.N. Linnerooth

Psychology Department Publications

Persons with dementia experience continual declines in a number of abilities. Language abilities are particularly hard hit and become increasingly impaired as the underlying disease progresses. These language impairments make verbal communication very challenging for family and professional caregivers. As a result, caregivers may inadvertently punish verbal behavior, thereby exacerbating the deterioration of verbal repertoires. Although the topography of language impairments associated with dementia have been well described, less empirical work has been conducted concerning how to minimize these impairments and their deleterious effects. In 1957 B.F. Skinner outlined his conceptualization of language and cognition in his book Verbal Behavior. …

Enrollment Data, Office Of Institutional Research And Effectiveness, Mississippi State University

Bulldog Basics

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Tune In, Turn On: The Novel, The Family, And The Plug-In Drug, Kathleen Fitzpatrick

Pomona Faculty Publications and Research

This article, forthcoming (January 2010) in an online casebook from Dalkey Archive Press on Curtis White’s Memories of My Father Watching TV, explores the peculiar relationship between the novel and its representations of television, arguing that this novel significantly complicates the anxious representations that I explored in The Anxiety of Obsolescence, by focusing on the subversive potential that television presents within the family.

Justice Rutledge's Appendix, John T. Valauri

California Western Law Review

No abstract provided.

Still Other People's Money: Reconciling Citizens United With Abood And Beck, Jeremy G. Mallory

California Western Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Unique And Enduring Friendship Of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings And Marcia Davenport, Karen De Vos

The Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Journal of Florida Literature

No abstract provided.

Reclaiming The Seminoles In Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, Mae Claxton

The Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Journal of Florida Literature

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Elephants - A Conservation Overview, Heidi Riddle, Bruce A. Schulte, Ajay Desai, Laura Van Der Meer

Biology Faculty Publications

Loss of habitat is one of the most significant problems facing elephants worldwide, leading to clashes over resources between wildlife and humans where elephants receive the largest part of blame – defined as Human Elephant Conflict (HEC). The sub-Saharan region of Africa contains an approximate population of 500,000 elephants that occupy 37 range countries. The African Elephant (Loxodonta africana) is categorized as Vulnerable in the Red List of Threatened Species; they are listed there as two distinct subspecies: the Savanna Elephant (L.a. africana) and the Forest Elephant (L. a. cyclotis). The Red List of …

Sustainable Agriculture Bibliography, Matt Bogard

Agriculture Department Seminar Series

An annotated bibliography related to the sustainability of biotechnology and pharmaceutical technologies used in modern agriculture.

Alfred Russel Wallace Notes 2 : The Spelling "Russel", And Wallace's Date Of Birth, Charles H. Smith, James Williams, Jonathan Stephens, George Beccaloni

DLPS Faculty Publications

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Burdens Of Disclosure: A Pastoral Theology Of Confidentiality, Virginia R. Morgan

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Receiving confidential disclosures can create burdens for pastoral care providers. This dissertation presents a study of pastoral confidentiality and the burdens associated with receiving confidential disclosures based on interviews with thirteen pastoral providers, a review of historical, legal and pastoral care literature. A thematic analysis of interviews identified three types of burdens associated with receiving confidential disclosures: 1) professional burdens associated with clarifying norms and standards for pastoral confidentiality in light of collegial, denominational and congregational norms; 2) ethical burdens created when the ethical value of pastoral confidentiality comes into conflict with another significant ethical value; and 3) structural burdens …

Toward A Distributed Actuation And Cognition Means For A Miniature Soft Robot, Xiaoting Yang

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis presents components of an on-going research project aimed towards developing a miniature soft robot for urban search and rescue (USAR). The three significant contributions of the thesis are verifying the water hammer actuation previous work, developing an estimator of water hammer impulse direction from hose shape, and creating the infrastructure for distributed cognitive networks. There are many technical issues in designing soft robots, in terms of perception, actuation, cognition, power, physical structure and so on. We are focusing on actuation and cognition issues in this thesis. We investigated water hammer actuation as an alternative system which provides a …

The Impact Of Adherence To Traditional Masculine Gender Role Norms On Anger And Depression, Matthew Charles Genuchi

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Large scale studies of the incidence and prevalence of psychological disorders have consistently shown that women meet full DSM-IV criteria for major depressive disorder at twice the rate of men (Kessler et al., 1994; Kessler et al., 2003; NCS-R, 2007; Robins & Reiger, 1991). Some have proposed (Cochran & Rabinowitz, 2000; Kilmartin, 2005; Pollack, 1998) that the current DSM-IV diagnostic criteria do not adequately reflect the depressive symptoms of some men. Men tend to use more externalizing defenses and distracting coping styles to manage negative affect, and anger is hypothesized as an externalizing symptom of a masculine variation of major …

The Impact Of A Mentorship Program On The Academic And Personal Development Of College Athletes, Larry Curry

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This qualitative study explored the impact of having a mentor through the academic and social life of student athletes who were recruited to become mentees in a program called the University of Colorado Athletic Mentorship Program (UCAMP). The sample consisted of 10 randomly selected mentors from the community and 10 mentees who had been matched to these mentors. The mentors and mentees, respectively, expressed their experiences of the mentoring relationship as well as their satisfaction with UCAMP, offering suggestions for its improvement. An interview protocol framed the interview and details of what took place during that time for both the …

Electrohydrodynamic Atomization For Improved Macromolecular Drug Delivery, Michelle Zeles-Hahn

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

With advances in drug research, the use of biological therapeutics is becoming a reality. Unfortunately, methods for processing and delivering these fragile macromolecules often limit their therapeutic potential. For this dissertation, we explore the aerosolization of macromolecules by way of electrohydrodynamic atomization (EHDA) and how this method can be used to process and deliver therapeutics. EHDA employs a high voltage to break a column of liquid into drops. It was unknown if or how the residual charge left of the resulting droplets would affect lung cells. An in vitro experiment was conducted to spray aerosolized DNA, by way of EHDA, …

Climate Change And Indigenous Peoples In Latin America, Amy C. Rademacher

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This research focused on the detrimental effects of climate change on indigenous peoples in Latin America. Indigenous peoples throughout the region tend to live subsistence livelihoods, which tie them closely to their land and the surrounding environment. This close relationship often means that indigenous peoples acutely experience the effects of climate change and are more susceptible to its negative outcomes than other populations. Further, indigenous peoples in the region lack the mitigation and adaptation capacities to deal with damaging climatic effects.

This research was designed to view the impacts of climate change on indigenous peoples through a human rights framework, …