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Seeing The State: Transparency As Metaphor, Mark Fenster

UF Law Faculty Publications

When applied as a public administrative norm, the term and concept “transparency” has two intertwined meanings. First, it refers to those constitutional and legislative tools that require the government to disclose information in order to inform the public and create a more accountable, responsive state. Second, it operates as a metaphor that identifies and decries the distance between the public and the state, and that drives and shapes the desire for a more perfect democratic order. Viewed together, these two meanings both demand efforts to impose legal obligations on the state to be “open” and suggest that such efforts are …

Unshackling Shawanna: The Battle Over Chaining Women Prisoners During Labor And Delivery, Elizabeth Alexander

University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review

No abstract provided.

A Theoretical Justification For Special Solicitude: States And The Administrative State, Matthew S. Melamed

Cardozo Public Law, Policy & Ethics Journal

The article examines the Supreme Court's decision in Massachusetts v. EPA, focusing on the doctrine of special solicitude in standing analysis for states. It argues that the Court's recognition of Massachusetts' quasisovereign interest to challenge the EPA's denial of a rulemaking petition reflects a federalist concern, ensuring states can hold federal administrative agencies accountable. The analysis critiques the Court's reliance on special solicitude, highlighting tensions between traditional standing requirements and the unique role of states in constitutional adjudication. The article posits that the special function model of standing, which emphasizes states' roles as protectors of citizens' interests, provides a …

Ethnomedicinal Survey For Important Plants Of Jalalpur Jattan, District Gujrat, Punjab, Pakistan, Khalid Hussain, M. Farrukh Nisar, Abdul Majeed, Khalid Nawaz, Khizar Hayat Bhatti

Ethnobotanical Leaflets

An ethnomedicinal survey was carried out in Jalalpur Jattan District Gujrat, Punjab-Pakistan for documentation of important flora and information from local community about their medicinal uses. The indigenous knowledge of local traditional uses was collected through questionnaire and personal interviews during field trips. Plants with their correct nomenclature were arranged by family name, vernacular name, part use, ethnomedicinal remedies and ethnomedicinal uses. The identification and nomenclature of the listed plants were based on The Flora of Pakistan. A total of 88 plants species were identified by taxonomic description and locally by ethnomedicinal knowledge of people existing in the region. Plant …

Screening For The Hypoglycaemic Potentials Of The Extract Of Vernonia Amyggalina, T. R. Fasola, P. C. Okeocha, A. Odetola

Ethnobotanical Leaflets

This work evaluates the hypoglycemic effect of Vernonia amygdalina on alloxan induced diabetic rats. Different doses of the aqueous leaf extract of Vernonia amygdalina (50mg/kg, 100mg/kg, 200mg/kg and 400mg/kg) were administered to alloxan induced diabetic rats under experimental conditions. The mean fasting blood sugar levels of the groups of diabetic rats increased significantly as it rose from basal blood sugar levels (mg/dl) of 38.0, 39.2, 35.2 and 35.8 to fasting blood sugar levels (mg/dl) of 277.6, 284.8, 256.4 and 265.6. The findings showed that there is a dose dependent reduction in fasting blood sugar in alloxan induced diabetic rats after …

Epicuticular Wax And Volatiles Of Kigelia Pinnata Leaf Extract, Atolani Olubunmi, Olatunji A. Gabriel

Ethnobotanical Leaflets

The fractions of volatile compounds in plants are essential in defining the sensory impact of an aromatic smell, as well as being of some medicinal importance. Epicuticular wax in plants also determine its susceptibility to disease, and herbivore, desiccation and ultraviolet radiation damage. The epicuticular wax consisting of hydrocarbons and some volatile compounds of the leaves of Kigelia pinnata (Kigelia africana; family Bignoniaceae), a multimedicinal plant, was extracted, isolated and analyzed qualitatively and quantitatively for the various chemical compositions using GC (equipped with a flame thermionic detector -GC/FTD) and GCMS (“GCMS-QP2010 Plus, which employs a dual inlet Turbo Molecular Pump …

Recent Developments In Stem Cell Research: Social, Ethical, And Legal Issues For The Future (George P. Smith Ii Lecture), Loane Skene

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

On February 12, 2009, Professor Skene delivered the George P. Smith II Lecture at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law.

Women's Employment Rights In China: Creating Harmony For Women In The Workplace, Jamie Burnett

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

This Note explores the global problem of gender-based labor inequality as exemplified in China. China's historic and cultural framework, the efforts the Chinese government has made to coordinate with the global community on women's rights initiatives, and recent legislation passed at both national and local levels in China provide an interesting case study for countries facing gender inequality in the workplace. The items of legislation, though sometimes drafted using international treaties as a framework, contain unique provisions that provide protections for Chinese women that are not seen elsewhere in the world. Additionally, the Chinese government's current political goal of achieving …

Leveling The Playing Field In Gmo Risk Assessment: Importers, Exporters, And The Limits Of Science, Alison Peck

Law Faculty Scholarship

The WTO system requires that trade restrictions meant to protect health and safety be based on a risk assessment supported by “sufficient scientific evidence.” Scholars and international standards organizations have pointed out, however, that science is incapable of providing answers to questions of health and safety without incorporating the risk assessors’ value judgments and assumptions. Before GMO-importing countries conduct risk assessments, GMO-producing and exporting countries have already conducted their own risk assessments, which led to their decision to produce and market the products in the first place. Both the exporting and importing countries’ risk assessments employ science informed by the …

Rabies Virus Infection Induces Type I Interferon Production In An Ips-1 Dependent Manner While Dendritic Cell Activation Relies On Ifnar Signaling., Elizabeth J Faul, Celestine N Wanjalla, Mehul S Suthar, Michael Gale, Christoph Wirblich, Matthias J Schnell

Department of Microbiology and Immunology Faculty Papers

As with many viruses, rabies virus (RABV) infection induces type I interferon (IFN) production within the infected host cells. However, RABV has evolved mechanisms by which to inhibit IFN production in order to sustain infection. Here we show that RABV infection of dendritic cells (DC) induces potent type I IFN production and DC activation. Although DCs are infected by RABV, the viral replication is highly suppressed in DCs, rendering the infection non-productive. We exploited this finding in bone marrow derived DCs (BMDC) in order to differentiate which pattern recognition receptor(s) (PRR) is responsible for inducing type I IFN following infection …

Teaching Social Skills To Children With Asperger’S And High Functioning Autism: An Evaluation Of Video Self-Modeling And Behavior Skills Training, Krystal M. Mcfee

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of video self-modeling and behavior skills training to teach social skills to children with Asperger’s and high functioning autism. The targeted social skills were social initiations and social responses. The video self-modeling alone condition was implemented first using a video feedforward approach. A behavior skills training (BST) procedure was implemented following the video self-modeling alone condition for each participant. BST consisted of instructions, modeling, rehearsal, and feedback. The frequency of each target behavior was scored from videotapes using 10-second frequency within interval recording. After the video self-modeling was introduced, a …

Wbwg News, Volume 6, No. 1, Summer 2010, Lorraine Andrusiak, Julie York

WBWG News

Contents: President's Corner -- State/Provincial Updates -- White-Nose Syndrome Updates -- PDF Corner -- Upcoming Events

Sfra Review, Summer 2010, Science Fiction Research Association

SFRA Newsletter (Science Fiction Research Association)

The Summer 2010 issue of the SFRA Review.

Oncolog Volume 55, Number 07, July 2010, Joe Munch, Sunni Hoseman

OncoLog MD Anderson's Report to Physicians (All issues) Archives

• Refining Approaches to Thyroid Cancer: Time-proven treatments and newer biologic agents offer hope, particularly for patirnts with advanced disease.
• Thyroid Cancer in Children.
• Compass Summer 2010: Locoregional Cancer of the Esophagus: Timimg Surgery and Other Therapies for Resectable Disease.
• HOUSE CALL: Understanding Clinical Trials

Marital Naming/Naming Marriage: Language And Status In Family Law, Suzanne A. Kim

Indiana Law Journal

What's in a name? Based on current family law and policy debates, the answer would seem to be: a whole lot. Today's discussion of legal prohibitions of same-sex marriage abounds with the assumption that language, in the form of names and labels, is deeply meaningful from a status perspective. Missing from this debate, however, is a careful examination of the role that names and labels play in the construction of the status category of marriage. This Article fills this gap in family law scholarship by providing an explicit account of how language plays a critical role in reflecting and reinforcing …

The Suppression Of A Saggin' Expression: Exploring The "Saggy Pants" Style Within A First Amendment Context, Onika K. Williams

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.

American Society Of Parasitologists Newsletter, V. 32, No. 1-2, Spring-Summer 2010, Scott Lyell Gardner

American Society of Parasitologists: Newsletter

An issue of the American Society of Parasitologists' quarterly newsletter, also called the Journal of Parasitology Newsletter.

Nebline, July 2010

NEBLINE Newsletter Archive from Nebraska Extension in Lancaster County

Feature: See, Learn, Explore Spring Creek Prairie

Farm Views

Horticulture

Food & Fitness

Home & Family Living

Environmental Focus

Urban Agriculture

4-H & Youth

Community Focus

Extension Calendar

Nutrition Education Program

Family and Community Education (FCE) Clubs

and other extension news and events

Water Current, Volume 42, No. 3, Summer 2010

Water Current Newsletter

Back-to-Back UNL Water Events in October
Mapping Evapotranspiration
Dvorak Temporarily Leaving for Czech Republic; Kuzila to Fill Water Center Director's Post
Meet the Faculty: Chris Henry, P.E., Tsegaye Tadesse, Ph.D.
Bob Daugherty: Man of Vision
Irrigation Management Project Expands
Environmental Science Education: Motive and Opportunity, but Maybe Not the Means?
Recent USGS Funding for NU Research
Tips to Prepare for EPA CAFO Inspections
Annual Water and Natural Resources Tour
EPA Proposes New Permit Requirements for Pesticide Discharge
News Briefs
Invasive Saltcedar, Russian Olive Consume Similar Amounts of Water as Cottonwoods and Willows

Testing The Social Processing Advantage In Recognition And Reconstruction Tasks, Stephan Adair

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

A recent study found that participants were more likely to recall words that were processed socially than when processed in other ways (Reysen & Adair, 2008). Using a similar methodology, the goal was to extend those observations. Specifically, two experiments examined the effect of social processing on participants’ ability to both recognize and reconstruct the order of list items. Participants were asked to remember a list of words with help either from a computer or, purportedly, another participant. It was hypothesized participants would be more likely to recognize list items and better at reconstructing the order of list items, if …

Fear Of And Fascination With The Foreign In Arthur Conan Doyle’S Sherlock Holmes Adventures, Mae Leigh Cooke

Masters Theses

Arthur Conan Doyle’s character Sherlock Holmes is infamous for his uncanny ability to detect and capture criminals from minimal clues. Doyle’s inclusion of Victorian England’s fascination with and fear of foreign elements within his detective stories made Holmes an instant success. By including Holmes’s stories in The Strand, circulation doubled, resulting in the public’s adoration of this eccentric hero spanning across decades. Doyle’s inclusion of developments in science at the time captivated the audience even further. The character became timeless because of his dual nature; he, like his readers, had personal flaws and unhealthy habits, but was able to …

Visual, Motor And Attentional Influences On Proprioceptive Contributions To Perception Of Hand Path Rectilinearity During Reaching, Robert A. Scheidt, Kyle P. Lillis, Scott J. Emerson

Biomedical Engineering Faculty Research and Publications

We examined how proprioceptive contributions to perception of hand path straightness are influenced by visual, motor and attentional sources of performance variability during horizontal planar reaching. Subjects held the handle of a robot that constrained goal-directed movements of the hand to the paths of controlled curvature. Subjects attempted to detect the presence of hand path curvature during both active (subject driven) and passive (robot driven) movements that either required active muscle force production or not. Subjects were less able to discriminate curved from straight paths when actively reaching for a target versus when the robot moved their hand through the …

Tourism To Japan: Quantitative Analyses On Perceived Image Of Japan As A Travel Destination, Abraham Pizam, Tadayuki Hara

Dick Pope Sr. Institute Publications

While some previous reports in Japanese claimed several factors as important and effective to attract foreign visitors to Japan, namely inbound visitors, this report may be the one of a few with scientific and quantitative data analysis to back up the findings. Respondents' profiles were collected at the same time so that we can not only view the general profiles of respondents but also conduct advanced statistical analyses.

Appellate Practice And Procedure, Robert G. Boliek Jr.

Mercer Law Review

The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit addressed a wide array of significant issues in the area of appellate practice and procedure in 2009. However, the most significant decision for the Eleventh Circuit in the area of appellate procedure came from the United States Supreme Court. In Mohawk Industries, Inc. v. Carpenter, the Supreme Court affirmed a 2008 Eleventh Circuit decision in which the court held that the collateral order doctrine does not allow for an immediate appeal of an order requiring the disclosure of evidence purportedly protected by the attorney-client privilege. Accordingly, this Article will …

The First Amendment’S Religion Clauses: The Calvinist Document That Interprets Them Both, Leah Farish Esq.

College of Arts and Cultural Studies Faculty Research and Scholarship

This paper suggests that the Westminster Confession of Faith's provisions about church and state, revised in Philadelphia at the start of the Constitution's ratifying convention, furnished much of the syntax and vocabulary for the First Amendment's religion clauses. Recognizing the cultural links between the new American government and the Presbyterian Church, the author argues that it was natural for the founders to look to how the new Westminster Confession situated church and state. The author argues that Fisher Ames's proposed wording for the First Amendment won immediate adoption because it resonated with the Confession, standing as it did in that …

Cloud Based Scientific Workflow For Nmr Data Analysis, Ashwin Manjunatha, Paul E. Anderson, Satya S. Sahoo, Ajith Harshana Ranabahu, Michael L. Raymer, Amit P. Sheth

Kno.e.sis Publications

This work presents a service oriented scientific workflow approach to NMR-based metabolomics data analysis. We demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach by implementing several common spectral processing techniques in the cloud using a parallel map-reduce framework, Hadoop.

Site-Specific Effects On Respiratory Rhythm And Pattern Of Ibotenic Acid Injections In The Pontine Respiratory Group Of Goats, Joshua M. Bonis, Suzanne Neumueller, Katie L. Krause, T. Kiner, A. Smith, B. D. Marshall, B. Qian, Lawrence Pan, Hubert Forster

Physical Therapy Faculty Research and Publications

To probe further the contributions of the rostral pons to eupneic respiratory rhythm and pattern, we tested the hypothesis that ibotenic acid (IA) injections in the pontine respiratory group (PRG) would disrupt eupneic respiratory rhythm and pattern in a site- and state-specific manner. In 15 goats, cannulas were bilaterally implanted into the rostral pontine tegmental nuclei (RPTN; n = 3), the lateral (LPBN; n = 4) or medial parabrachial nuclei (MPBN; n = 4), or the Kölliker-Fuse nucleus (KFN; n = 4). After recovery from surgery, 1- and 10-μl injections (1 wk apart) of IA were made bilaterally through the …

A Role For The Kolliker-Fuse Nucleus In Cholinergic Modulation Of Breathing At Night During Wakefulness And Nrem Sleep, Joshua M. Bonis, Suzanne E. Neumueller, Katie L. Krause, T. Kiner, A. Smith, B. D. Marshall, B. Qian, Lawrence Pan, Hubert V. Forster

Physical Therapy Faculty Research and Publications

For many years, acetylcholine has been known to contribute to the control of breathing and sleep. To probe further the contributions of cholinergic rostral pontine systems in control of breathing, we designed this study to test the hypothesis that microdialysis (MD) of the muscarinic receptor antagonist atropine into the pontine respiratory group (PRG) would decrease breathing more in animals while awake than while in NREM sleep. In 16 goats, cannulas were bilaterally implanted into rostral pontine tegmental nuclei (n = 3), the lateral (n = 3) or medial (n = 4) parabrachial nuclei, or the Kölliker-Fuse nucleus …

Mir-237 Is Likely A Developmental Timing Gene That Regulates The L2-To-L3 Transition In C. Elegans, Xi Li

Master's Theses (2009 -)

Development is regulated in both the spatial and temporal dimensions. The developmental timing pathway in C. elegans is the most extensively studied timing mechanism. Many components of the pathway are conserved across phyla. Postembryonic development of C. elegans is comprised of four larval stages (L1 to L4). The lin-4 microRNA regulates development from the L1 to L3 stages by repressing the expression of key developmental timing genes: lin-14 and lin-28. Another microRNA, mir-237, shares sequence similarity with lin-4 and they are grouped into one microRNA family. mir-237 and lin-4 display closely overlapped temporal expression in the hypodermis. I hypothesize that …

Effects Of Biologics On Pedicle Screw Fixation In A Sheep Model: Histological And Biomechanical Analysis, Akshi Arora

Master's Theses (2009 -)

Objective: Osteoinductive recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein (rhBMP–2) was delivered on an absorbable collagen sponge (ACS) within a novel titanium screw implant in an IACUC approved non–osteoporotic ovine spine model. Biomechanical pull–out strength, undecalcified histology, microradiography, and quantitative histomorphometry were used to assess effects of augmentation with rhBMP–2 on the holding power and peri–implant bone formation.

Methodology: rhBMP–2 (0.43 mg/ml) soaked ACS was placed within and around cannulated and fenestrated titanium pedicle screw implants. Sixty–four implants were randomly divided into 4 treatment groups (n=16 each). Biomechanical pull–out testing was done on half of the screws (n=32) to determine the pull–out …