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Effect Of Pineapple (Ananas Comosus L. Merrill) And Papaya (Carica Papaya L.) Fruit Extracts On Sericin Removal From Silk Moths Cocoons In Kenya, Pauline Wairimu Wainaina Jan 2010

Effect Of Pineapple (Ananas Comosus L. Merrill) And Papaya (Carica Papaya L.) Fruit Extracts On Sericin Removal From Silk Moths Cocoons In Kenya, Pauline Wairimu Wainaina

All Master’s Theses

Sericulture (Silk farming) is the rearing of silk moths for the production of raw silk. Silk farming originated from China where it was secretly practiced for many years before spreading to other parts of the world. Silk moths are grouped into mulberry silk moths (domesticated) and wild silk moths. Silk moth cocoon has a double filament made of insoluble protein known as fibroin which is embedded in a water soluble protein called sericin. Prior to processing cocoons, are boiled in strong alkali so as to dissolve the sericin a process called degumming. Proteinases enzymes such as papain from papaya (Carica …

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Morphormetrics And Dna Barcoding For The Identification Of Wild Silk Moths From Selected Sites In Kenya, Peter Kuria Kamau Jan 2010

Morphormetrics And Dna Barcoding For The Identification Of Wild Silk Moths From Selected Sites In Kenya, Peter Kuria Kamau

All Master’s Theses

Wild silk moth farming is a unique eco-friendly agro-practice with the potential of raising people's standards of living. However, the species identity is poorly understood in East Africa. This undermines efforts in conservation practices. Accurate identification is important in understanding the biology and ecology of the different species. Cocoons of wild silk moths were collected from Eastern and Rift valley provinces in Kenya. The samples included Gonometa species, Epiphora bauhiniae, and Argema besanti. Morphometric studies of the Kenyan wild silk moth species were performed based on three morphometric characters, which included forewing length, forewing width and body length measurements. Voucher …

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Can Islamizing A Legal System Ever Help Promote Liberal Democracy: A View From Pakistan, Clark B. Lombardi Jan 2010

Can Islamizing A Legal System Ever Help Promote Liberal Democracy: A View From Pakistan, Clark B. Lombardi

Articles

Over the past twenty-five years, academics in Europe and the United States have written a great deal about the relationship between Islam and democracy, and between Islam and human rights. This scholarship often fails to acknowledge or take into account similar debates that occurred earlier during a period of decolonization. This article discusses the work of a Christian judge who served on the Supreme Court of Pakistan. This judge, A.R. Cornelius, was a famous Cambridge-educated legal liberal who courageously tried in the 1950s and 60s to protect human rights as Pakistan came under martial rule. Cornelius came to argue shockingly …

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What Scribner Wrought: How The Invention Of Modern Dialysis Shaped Health Law And Policy, Sallie Thieme Sanford [email protected] Jan 2010

What Scribner Wrought: How The Invention Of Modern Dialysis Shaped Health Law And Policy, Sallie Thieme Sanford [email protected]

Articles

In March 1960, Clyde Shields, a machinist dying from incurable kidney disease, was connected to an "artificial kidney" by means of a U-shaped Teflon tube that came to be known as the Scribner shunt. By facilitating long-term dialysis, Dr. Belding Scriber’s invention changed chronic kidney failure from a fatal illness to a treatable condition. This medical advance has, in turn, had a profound impact on key areas of health law and policy. This paper focuses on the historical roots and current context of three interrelated areas: ethical allocation of scarce medical resources; public financing of expensive health care; and decisions …

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Dynamic Federalism And Patent Law Reform, Xuan-Thao Nguyen Jan 2010

Dynamic Federalism And Patent Law Reform, Xuan-Thao Nguyen

Articles

Patent law is federal law, and the normative approach to patent reform has been top down, looking to Congress and the Supreme Court for changes to the broken and complex patent system. The normative approach thus far has not yielded satisfactory results. This Article challenges the static approach to patent reform and embraces the dynamic-federalism approach that patent reform can be an overlapping of both national and local efforts. Patent reform at the local level is essential as locales can serve as laboratories for changes, vertically compete with national government to reform certain areas of the patent system, and become …

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A Few Inconvenient Truths About Michael Crichton's State Of Fear: Lawyers, Causes And Science, Lea B. Vaughn Jan 2010

A Few Inconvenient Truths About Michael Crichton's State Of Fear: Lawyers, Causes And Science, Lea B. Vaughn

Articles

Although Crichton has lost the battle regarding global warming, his characterization of lawyers and law practice remains unchallenged. This article challenges his damning portrait of lawyers as know-nothing, self-aggrandizing manipulators of various social and environmental causes. A more nuanced examination of "cause lawyering" reveals that lawyers are not part of a vast conspiracy to grab power through the causes for which many work; in fact, the rules of professional responsibility as well as the structure of "cause lawyering" limit their power and influence. Regardless, lawyers are nonetheless vital, and generally principled, participants in the debates and causes that inform environmental …

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A Bigger And Better Market-Participant Exception: Examining Justice Souter's Revision Of The Market-Participant Exception To The Dormant Commerce Clause In Department Of Revenue Of Kentucky V. Davis, Lisa M. Slepnikoff Jan 2010

A Bigger And Better Market-Participant Exception: Examining Justice Souter's Revision Of The Market-Participant Exception To The Dormant Commerce Clause In Department Of Revenue Of Kentucky V. Davis, Lisa M. Slepnikoff

South Dakota Law Review

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Violent Crimes And Known Associates: The Residual Clause Of The Armed Career Criminal Act, David C. Holman Jan 2010

Violent Crimes And Known Associates: The Residual Clause Of The Armed Career Criminal Act, David C. Holman

Connecticut Law Review

Confusion reigns in federal courts over whether crimes qualify as “violent felonies” for purposes of the Armed Career Criminal Act (“ACCA”). The ACCA requires a fifteenyear minimum sentence for felons convicted of possessing a firearm who have three prior convictions for violent felonies. Many offenders receive the ACCA’s mandatory minimum sentence of fifteen years based on judges’ guesses that their prior crimes could be committed in a violent manner—instead of based on the statutory crimes for which they were actually convicted. Offenders who do not deserve a minimum sentence of fifteen years may receive it anyway. The courts’ application of …

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Gardner-Webb, The Magazine 2010, Winter (Volume 44 No. 1), Noel T. Manning Ii Jan 2010

Gardner-Webb, The Magazine 2010, Winter (Volume 44 No. 1), Noel T. Manning Ii

Gardner-Webb, The Magazine

Gardner-Webb, The Magazine, previously titled The Webb Magazine, focuses on alumni news and campus events from Gardner-Webb College; now Gardner-Webb University.This issue begins by looking back on a survivor's story on U.S. Airways flight 1549. The magazine then moves on to recognize the new opening of an apartment style residence hall and the new distinguished alumni. One of the big stories in this issue is the one entitled "Drivers Education" and how alternative ideas fueled a class project. GWU also honors Jordan Boyd Traylor, a fallen soccer player by retiring his jersey.

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Continuing The Restoration And Transformation Of The Fda, Andrew C. Von Eschenbach Jan 2010

Continuing The Restoration And Transformation Of The Fda, Andrew C. Von Eschenbach

Journal of Health Care Law and Policy

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Development And Usage Of Extension’S Horsequest: An Online Resource, E. A. Greene, A. S. Griffin, J. Whittle, C. A. Williams, A. B. Howard, Kathleen P. Anderson Jan 2010

Development And Usage Of Extension’S Horsequest: An Online Resource, E. A. Greene, A. S. Griffin, J. Whittle, C. A. Williams, A. B. Howard, Kathleen P. Anderson

Department of Animal Science: Faculty Publications

eXtension (pronounced e-extension) is an online resource transforming how faculty can collaborate and deliver equine education. As the first Community of Practice launched from eXtension, HorseQuest (HQ) offers free, interactive, peer-reviewed, online resources on a variety of equine-related topics at http://www.extension.org. This group has adapted traditional educational content to the online environment to maximize search engine optimization, to be more discoverable and relevant in the online world. This means that HQ resources are consistently being found on the first page of search results. Also, by researching key words searched by Internet users, HQ has guided new content direction and …

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Nutritional And Management Methods To Decrease Nitrogen Losses From Beef Feedlots, Galen Erickson, Terry Klopfenstein Jan 2010

Nutritional And Management Methods To Decrease Nitrogen Losses From Beef Feedlots, Galen Erickson, Terry Klopfenstein

Department of Animal Science: Faculty Publications

Nitrogen losses from open beef feedlots are a concern. Methods that decrease volatilization losses will lead to greater manure N, which is likely to be beneficial in open lot beef operations. Twelve or more pens were dedicated to N research whereby N intake, retention, and excretion were quantified and a mass balance conducted using manure, runoff, soil balance, and loss quantities. The objective was to decrease N volatilization losses or increase manure N or both. Dietary CP affects N excretion and N volatilization losses. Four experiments across 2 yr compared industry average CP (13%) to diets that were phase-fed to …

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Evaluation Of In Vitro Gas Production And Rumen Bacterial Populations Fermenting Corn Milling (Co)Products, W. L. Williams, L. O. Tedeschi, Paul J. Kononoff, T. R. Callaway, S. E. Dowd, K. Karges, M. L. Gibson Jan 2010

Evaluation Of In Vitro Gas Production And Rumen Bacterial Populations Fermenting Corn Milling (Co)Products, W. L. Williams, L. O. Tedeschi, Paul J. Kononoff, T. R. Callaway, S. E. Dowd, K. Karges, M. L. Gibson

Department of Animal Science: Faculty Publications

The objective of this study was to evaluate the fermentation dynamics of 2 commonly fed corn (co)products in their intact and defatted forms, using the in vitro gas production (IVGP) technique, and to investigate the shifts of the predominant rumen bacterial populations using the 16S rDNA bacterial tag-encoded FLX amplicon pyrosequencing (bTEFAP) technique. The bTEFAP technique was used to determine the bacterial profile of each fermentation time at 24 and 48 h. Bacterial populations were identified at the species level. Species were grouped by substrate affinities (guilds) for cellulose, hemicellulose, pectin, starch, sugars, protein, lipids, and lactate. The 2 (co)products …

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Evaluation Of Protein Fractionation And Ruminal And Intestinal Digestibility Of Corn Milling Co-Products, J. M. Kelzer, Paul J. Kononoff, L. O. Tedeschi, T. C. Jenkins, K. Karges, M. L. Gibson Jan 2010

Evaluation Of Protein Fractionation And Ruminal And Intestinal Digestibility Of Corn Milling Co-Products, J. M. Kelzer, Paul J. Kononoff, L. O. Tedeschi, T. C. Jenkins, K. Karges, M. L. Gibson

Department of Animal Science: Faculty Publications

Novel corn milling co-products developed from technological advancements in ethanol production vary widely in chemical composition and nutrient availability. The objectives of this study were to characterize feed protein fractions and evaluate differences in rumen-undegradable protein (RUP) and its digestible fraction (dRUP), amino acid concentration, and in vitro gas production of 7 corn milling co-products. The crude protein (CP; % of dry matter) of co-products was 12.7 for germ, 26.9 for dried distillers grains plus solubles that had no heat exposure before fermentation (DDGS1), 45.4 for highprotein dried distillers grains (HPDDG), 12.7 for bran, 30.2 for wet distillers grains plus …

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Utilization Of Nitrogen In Cows Consuming Wet Distillers Grains With Solubles In Alfalfa And Corn Silage-Based Dairy Rations, A. M. Gehman, Paul J. Kononoff Jan 2010

Utilization Of Nitrogen In Cows Consuming Wet Distillers Grains With Solubles In Alfalfa And Corn Silage-Based Dairy Rations, A. M. Gehman, Paul J. Kononoff

Department of Animal Science: Faculty Publications

The objectives of this experiment were to determine the effects of forage type on nutrient digestibility, purine derivative excretion, nitrogen utilization, and milk production in dairy cattle consuming rations containing high levels of wet distillers grains with solubles (WDGS). Primiparous (n = 8) and multiparous (n = 20) Holstein cows were used in a replicated 4 × 4 Latin square. Animals were fed 1 of 4 treatments during each 21-d period: 1) CONT-CS, 0% WDGS and high corn silage; 2) CONT-AS, 0% WDGS and high alfalfa silage; 3) WDGS-CS, 25% WDGS and high corn silage; and 4) WDGS-AS, 25% WDGS …

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Effect Of Dietary Crude Protein Source On Hormone And Follicle Characteristics In Beef Heifers, J. L. Martin, D. M. Larson, H. L. Stroh, Andrea S. Cupp, Richard N. Funston Jan 2010

Effect Of Dietary Crude Protein Source On Hormone And Follicle Characteristics In Beef Heifers, J. L. Martin, D. M. Larson, H. L. Stroh, Andrea S. Cupp, Richard N. Funston

Department of Animal Science: Faculty Publications

Ground, raw soybeans (SB), or dried distillers grain plus solubles (DDGS) were utilized in heifer development diets to determine the effect of dietary fat and protein source on hormone and follicle characteristics and ADG. The experiment was conducted over 2 yr with 100 June-born heifers (199 ± 2 kg initial BW, n = 50 per yr). The experimental periods were 157 and 207 d in yr 1 and 2, respectively. Heifers were provided a dietary supplement (DM basis) of 1.23 kg of SB and 0.40 kg of corn or 1.65 kg of DDGS between weaning and breeding. Estrus was synchronized …

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Prediction Of Genetic Values For Feed Intake From Individual Body Weight Gain And Total Feed Intake Of The Pen, A. J. Cooper, Calvin Ferrell, Larry V. Cundiff, L. D. Van Vleck Jan 2010

Prediction Of Genetic Values For Feed Intake From Individual Body Weight Gain And Total Feed Intake Of The Pen, A. J. Cooper, Calvin Ferrell, Larry V. Cundiff, L. D. Van Vleck

Department of Animal Science: Faculty Publications

Records of individual feed intake (FI) and BW gain (GN) were obtained from the Germ Plasm Evaluation (GPE) program at US Meat Animal Research Center (USMARC). Animals were randomly assigned to pens. Only pens with 6 to 9 steers (n = 289) were used for this study (data set 1). Variance components and genetic parameters were estimated using data set 1. Estimated genetic values (EGV) for FI were calculated by 5 methods using single and 2-trait analyses: 1) individual FI and individual GN, 2) individual FI alone, 3) 2-trait with individual GN but with FI missing, 4) individual GN and …

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High-Throughput Sequencing Of The Dba/2j Mouse Genome, Xusheng Wang, Richa Agarwala, John A. Capra, Zugen Chen, Deanna M. Church, Daniel C. Ciobanu, Zhengsheng Li, Lu Lu, Khyobeni Mozhui, Megan K. Mulligan, Stanley F. Nelson, Katherine S. Pollard, Williams L. Taylor, Donald B. Thomason, Robert W. Williams Jan 2010

High-Throughput Sequencing Of The Dba/2j Mouse Genome, Xusheng Wang, Richa Agarwala, John A. Capra, Zugen Chen, Deanna M. Church, Daniel C. Ciobanu, Zhengsheng Li, Lu Lu, Khyobeni Mozhui, Megan K. Mulligan, Stanley F. Nelson, Katherine S. Pollard, Williams L. Taylor, Donald B. Thomason, Robert W. Williams

Department of Animal Science: Faculty Publications

The DBA/2J mouse is not only the oldest inbred strain, but also one of the most widely used strains. DBA/2J exhibits many unique anatomical, physiological, and behavior traits. In addition, DBA/2J is one parent of the large BXD family of recombinant inbred strains [1]. The genome of the other parent of this BXD family— C57BL/6J—has been sequenced and serves as the mouse reference genome [2]. We sequenced the genome of DBA/2J using SOLiD and Illumina high throughput short read protocols to generate a comprehensive set of ~5 million sequence variants segregating in the BXD family that ultimately cause developmental, anatomical, …

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The Economic Effects Of Sorting Cattle By Weight And Time Of Year Into Different Production Systems1, D. R. Adams, T. J. Klopfenstein, G. E. Erickson, D. R. Mark, Matt K. Luebbe, W. A. Griffin Jan 2010

The Economic Effects Of Sorting Cattle By Weight And Time Of Year Into Different Production Systems1, D. R. Adams, T. J. Klopfenstein, G. E. Erickson, D. R. Mark, Matt K. Luebbe, W. A. Griffin

Department of Animal Science: Faculty Publications

A 2-yr study using 288 steers each year was conducted to determine the economic effects of sorting and feeding genetically similar cattle in different production systems. Steers were purchased at weaning in November and assigned randomly into sorted or unsorted groups. Unsorted steers were assigned randomly to 1 of 3 production systems: calf-fed steers (enter feedlot after weaning), summer yearling, or fall yearling; n = 48 steers per system yearly. For sorted steers, the heaviest third were calf fed and the remaining steers grazed cornstalks during winter. After winter grazing, the heaviest half of those steers were fed as summer …

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Urban Geophysics: A Mapping Of Mount Bonnell Fault And Its Karstic Features In Austin, Tx, Mustafa Saribudak Jan 2010

Urban Geophysics: A Mapping Of Mount Bonnell Fault And Its Karstic Features In Austin, Tx, Mustafa Saribudak

KIP Articles

No abstract provided.

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Rethinking Board Function In The Wake Of The 2008 Financial Crisis, Nicola Faith Sharpe Jan 2010

Rethinking Board Function In The Wake Of The 2008 Financial Crisis, Nicola Faith Sharpe

Journal of Business & Technology Law

No abstract provided.

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Nadine Gillmor V. Family Link, Llc, A Utah Limited Liability Company; David K. Richards, An Individual; Barry Todd Miller, An Individual; Joan Ellen Miller, An Individual; Doug Carl Dohring, As An Individual And As A Trustee; Laurie Ann Dohring, An Individual; Kenneth W. Macey, An Individual; Robin A. Macey, An Individual; And John Does 1-40. : Reply Brief, Utah Court Of Appeals Jan 2010

Nadine Gillmor V. Family Link, Llc, A Utah Limited Liability Company; David K. Richards, An Individual; Barry Todd Miller, An Individual; Joan Ellen Miller, An Individual; Doug Carl Dohring, As An Individual And As A Trustee; Laurie Ann Dohring, An Individual; Kenneth W. Macey, An Individual; Robin A. Macey, An Individual; And John Does 1-40. : Reply Brief, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (2007– 2019)

On Writ of Certiorari from the Court of Appeals: Judges Thorne, Bench and Greenwood.

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The Pathology Of Addiction, Janis Dougherty Jan 2010

The Pathology Of Addiction, Janis Dougherty

Theses

The field of addiction has grown exponentially in the last 60 years with abundant research and results. Today we understand that addiction is less of a disease and more of a choice, however, it continues to be a perplexing disease. The focus of this thesis project is to condense the theories presented in Dr. Ronald Ruden's book The Craving Brain into a 7 minute animated film. The film illustrates three major topics outlined in the book: "Landscaping the Brain", stress, and neurotransmitters. The conclusion ties it all together showing how each individual piece contributes to the makeup of the addictive …

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University Of New Hampshire R+30 Headcounts Of Majors By College And Gender Unh - Durham Degree Candidates Only Fall 2009, University Of New Hampshire. Institutional Research And Assessment Jan 2010

University Of New Hampshire R+30 Headcounts Of Majors By College And Gender Unh - Durham Degree Candidates Only Fall 2009, University Of New Hampshire. Institutional Research And Assessment

UNH Factbooks

University of New Hampshire factbook data from the 2009-2010 academic year

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University Of New Hampshire Graduate School Catalog, 2010-2011, University Of New Hampshire Jan 2010

University Of New Hampshire Graduate School Catalog, 2010-2011, University Of New Hampshire

Graduate Catalog

No abstract provided.

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Expressions 2010, Amanda Rhoads, Lyndsey A. Wetzel, Fung Ming Ma, Michael D. Jeffries, Allison Cramer, Kevin Clark, David Geiger, Benjamin T. Rittgers, Michelle Gray, Caleb Nelson, Russell Luke, Christopher E. Lowe, Steven Patrick Fisher Jan 2010

Expressions 2010, Amanda Rhoads, Lyndsey A. Wetzel, Fung Ming Ma, Michael D. Jeffries, Allison Cramer, Kevin Clark, David Geiger, Benjamin T. Rittgers, Michelle Gray, Caleb Nelson, Russell Luke, Christopher E. Lowe, Steven Patrick Fisher

Expressions

No abstract provided.

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Long-Term Fish Oil Supplementation Induces Cardiac Electrical Remodeling By Changing Channel Protein Expression In The Rabbit Model, Xulin Xu, Min Jiang, Yuhong Wang, Timothy Smith, Clive M. Baumgarten, Mark A. Wood, Gea-Ny Tseng Jan 2010

Long-Term Fish Oil Supplementation Induces Cardiac Electrical Remodeling By Changing Channel Protein Expression In The Rabbit Model, Xulin Xu, Min Jiang, Yuhong Wang, Timothy Smith, Clive M. Baumgarten, Mark A. Wood, Gea-Ny Tseng

Physiology and Biophysics Publications and Presentations

Clinical trials and epidemiological studies have suggested that dietary fish oil (FO) supplementation can provide an anti-arrhythmic benefit in some patient populations. The underlying mechanisms are not entirely clear. We wanted to understand how FO supplementation (for 4 weeks) affected the action potential configuration/duration of ventricular myocytes, and the ionic mechanism(s)/molecular basis for these effects. The experiments were conducted on adult rabbits, a widely used animal model for cardiac electrophysiology and pathophysiology. We used gas chromatography - mass spectroscopy to confirm that FO feeding produced a marked increase in the content of n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids in the phospholipids of …

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Uri Undergraduate And Graduate Course Catalog 2010-2011, University Of Rhode Island Jan 2010

Uri Undergraduate And Graduate Course Catalog 2010-2011, University Of Rhode Island

URI Course Catalogs Archive

This is a digitized, downloadable version of the University of Rhode Island course catalog.

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Criminal Alternative Dispute Resolution: Restoring Justice, Respecting Responsibility, And Renewing Public Norms, Maggie T. Grace Jan 2010

Criminal Alternative Dispute Resolution: Restoring Justice, Respecting Responsibility, And Renewing Public Norms, Maggie T. Grace

Student Articles and Papers

This Article explores theoretical concerns underlying contemporary appeals to Alternative Dispute Resolution ("ADR") in the criminal justice system. Analyzing literature on free will and responsibility and leading work on transitional justice, I argue that a restorative justice approach to criminal ADR better accommodates the realities of social conditions that correlate with criminality while respecting deeply-held concepts of responsibility. I further argue that this approach provides a useful response to critics, such as Owen Fiss, who argue that ADR privatizes disputes, thereby failing to produce and reinforce essential public norms.

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Don’T Let Perfect Get In The Way Of Imperfect: The Wisdom Of Michelangelo’S Atlas Slave, David Ribar Jan 2010

Don’T Let Perfect Get In The Way Of Imperfect: The Wisdom Of Michelangelo’S Atlas Slave, David Ribar

Belmont Humanities Symposium Journal

I’ve always been attracted to the cliché: “Don’t let perfect get in the way of good.” As someone educated through 12 years of Catholic schooling, with Jesus Christ as the model for all things perfect and good, I’ve learned it’s impossible to reconcile my personal thoughts and behavior, and the behavior of others, with such lofty standards. Everyone else around me might well consider this view. God must have loved imperfection; he made so much of it. Acquired from my artistic education was the belief that Michelangelo was the model for all things aesthetically perfect and good. From his earliest …

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