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Navigating The Irb, Martha F. Jones

Human Research Protection Program (HRPP) Education

No abstract provided.

Unheard Voices: Adoption Narratives Of Same-Sex Male Couples, Malcolm Dort

Canadian Journal of Family Law

This is the first legal study in Canada on same-sex adoption law, adoption administrative practice, and the social realities of parenting as experienced specifically by same-sex male couples. This paper identifies a gap in existing legal literature and jurisprudence with respect to the adoption narratives of same-sex male couples. Next, focusing on the province of Québec, it offers insight into how legal rules and social expectations construct families headed by such couples. It also highlights how, post-adoption, same-sex male couples conceive of their own families in a legal and social environment that continues to privilege heterosexual family models. Contradictorily, by …

Newborn Adoption: Birth Mothers, Genetic Fathers, And Reproductive Autonomy, Lori Chambers

Canadian Journal of Family Law

Overwhelmingly, Canadian-born children relinquished for newborn adoption have been born to unmarried mothers. Under provincial adoption acts, in cases of "illegitimacy" only the mother's consent was necessary for a child to be eligible for adoption. Since adoption statutes were introduced, however, the distinctions between those born within and outside of marriage have been eliminated at law. Provincial legislation now recognizes a wide range of unmarried men as fathers, lists circumstances under which paternity will be presumed and provides for the use of genetic testing. But this raises significant questions in the context of newborn adoption. Whose consent is required to …

De-Anonymising Sperm Donors In Canada: Some Doubts And Directions, Angela Cameron, Vanessa Gruben, Fiona Kelly

Canadian Journal of Family Law

This paper addresses whether sperm donor anonymity should continue in Canada and what the effects might be of abolishing anonymity, particularly for marginalized groups such as lesbian mothers. The first part of the paper outlines the legislative and historical context surrounding the donor anonymity debate in Canada. The second part of the paper addresses the interests of the various social and legal stakeholders, including donor conceived offspring, the social and biological parents of those offspring, and sperm donors. The final segment outlines a twofold law reform agenda. First, it is proposed that Canada prospectively abolish donor anonymity in an effort …

Access To Assisted Conception: A Call For Legislative Reform In Light Of The Modern Family (Susan Doe V. Attorney General Of Canada), Lisa Feldstein

Canadian Journal of Family Law

This paper explores the impact of laws regarding assisted conception and the discriminatory effect these laws have in light of non-traditional family forms. Specifically, it considers the Processing and Distribution of Semen for Assisted Conception Regulations and how these regulations serve to exclude certain individuals who do not fit into the "traditional" nuclear family model. The author critiques the judgement of Susan Doe v. Attorney General of Canada and calls for legislative reform in order for the laws to accurately reflect realities of the family in the 21st century.

Navigating Potentially Conflicting Political Rationalities: Discursive Strategies About “Family” In Alberta’S Child Welfare Law, Joshua Friedstadt

Canadian Journal of Family Law

This paper empirically investigates how lawmakers navigate family law's contested terrain. Using Alberta's newest child welfare law, the Child, Youth and Family Enhancement Act (2004) as a case, I explain the discursive strategies used to pass this unique law through a socio-political context dominated by political rationalities with partially divergent ideas of "family." Analysis reveals two dominant discursive strategies. The first creates a discursive framework that expels welfarist rationalities and centers tensional neoliberal and neoconservative logics. The second navigates the tensions between neoliberal and neoconservative images of family by constituting the content of families as autonomous and responsible while leaving …

An Alternative Conception: The Legality Of Home Insemination Under Canada’S Assisted Reproduction Act, Fiona Kelly

Canadian Journal of Family Law

Despite access to fertility clinics, at-home self-insemination with the sperm of a known donor is a common practice amongst lesbian and single women. Home insemination is understood to provide several advantages over conception at a fertility clinic, particularly given the federal prohibition on sperm donation by donors who have had sex with other men. Despite the prevalence of the practice, there is some doubt in Canada as to whether home insemination is legal. While the Assisted Human Reproduction Act ("AHRA") does not explicitly address home insemination, it could be interpreted as outlawing the practice. This article addresses the …

Njit Highlanders Men's Volleyball 2010 Media Guide, New Jersey Institute Of Technology Athletic Department

Volleyball - Men's

No abstract provided.

Seeds Of Doubt: The European Court Of Justice's Decision In Monsanto V. Cefetra And The Effect On European Biotechnology Patent Law, Craig C. Carpenter

The International Lawyer

No abstract provided.

Instructions For Authors, Discovery Editors

Discovery, The Student Journal of Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences

No abstract provided.

Past Presidents Of The Arkansas Academy Of Science, Academy Editors

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

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Search For The Next "Silver Bullet": A Review Of Literature, V. A. Black, G. Njewel

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

We present a review on the application of silver containing compounds that have been incorporated in the surfaces of a large variety of medical devices including vascular, urinary, and peritoneal catheters, endotracheal tubes, sutures, and fracture fixation devices, as well as other materials such as plastics in kitchen appliances and fabrics. We found renewed and rising interest in silver-containing materials due to their antimicrobial, including antiviral and antifungal, properties, their good toxicology and environmental record. Silver-containing compounds could be used against bacterial strains that are known to be resistant to antibiotics. More research is necessary to determine safe levels and …

Ua64/2 The Challenge: Magazine Of The Center For Gifted Studies (No. 24, Winter 2010), Center For Gifted Studies, Tracy Inman Editor

Gifted Studies Publications

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Introduction, John Shuford

Journal of Hate Studies

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he Institute for Hate Studies at Gonzaga University is pleased to offer Volume 8 of the Journal of Hate Studies, the theme of which is “The Other Among Us.” It is a timely topic, no doubt, as nativism, racism, and extrem- ism boil over in America’s immigration debate. This volume considers those issues as well as a wider range of perspectives on engagement and disengagement with “the other” in our society, culture, and lives.

Imbedded in this volume’s theme are myriad questions. Who is the “other” among us, and what does it mean to be an “other” or to …

Adaptive Management In The Courts, J.B. Ruhl, Robert Fischman

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

Adaptive management has become the tonic of natural resources policy. With its core idea of "learning while doing," adaptive management has infused the natural resources policy world to the point of ubiquity, surfacing in everything from mundane agency permits to grand presidential proclamations. Indeed, it is no exaggeration to suggest that these days adaptive management is natural resources policy. But is it working? Does appending "adaptive" in front of "management" somehow make natural resources policy, which has always been about balancing competing claims to nature’s bounty, something more and better? Many legal and policy scholars have asked that question, with …

The Choice Of The Four Fathers: Henry Iv, Falstaff, The Lord Chief Justice, And The King Of France In The Henriad, Kenji Yoshino

Faculty Articles

To speak of justice in Shakespeare's plays without speaking of the sovereign may seem like playing Hamlet without the Prince. In Shakespeare's time, the sovereign was the ultimate symbolic source of justice, as seen in the iconographic conflation of Queen Elizabeth I with Astraea, the goddess of Justice.(FN1) Perhaps Shakespeare's deepest meditation on what makes a just ruler lies in the four plays scholars have dubbed the Henriad (Richard II;(FN2) Henry IV, Part I;(FN3) Henry IV, Part 2;(FN4) and Henry V(FN5)). In these plays, we follow the development of the dissolute youth Prince Hal as he matures into the paradigmatic …

Academic Fraud Today: Its Social Causes And Institutional Responses, Richard A. Epstein

Faculty Articles

In this Article, I shall address a topic that we should all like to sweep under the rug if it were possible: academic integrity and its converse, academic fraud. As an initial observation, it is clear that academic fraud can occur outside the university setting at other institutions conducting research on matters of scientific importance. It is equally clear that the risk of academic fraud is not confined to the physical or biological sciences, but can also arise in research in the social sciences and the humanities. At this point, however, I shall not dwell on these differences; rather, I …

Surrogate Selection: An Increasingly Viable, But Limited, Solution To Intractable Futility Disputes, Thaddeus Mason Pope

Saint Louis University Journal of Health Law & Policy

No abstract provided.

Will Full Benefits Parity Create Real Parity? – Congress’S Second Attempt At Ending Discrimination Against Mental Illness: The Paul Wellstone And Pete Domenici Mental Health And Addiction Equity Act Of 2008, Justin C. Wilson

Saint Louis University Journal of Health Law & Policy

No abstract provided.

Who’S Guarding The Henhouse And What Are They Doing With The Eggs (And Sperm)? A Call For Increased Regulation Of Gamete Donation And Long-Term Tracking Of Donor Gametes, Lisa M. Luetkemeyer

Saint Louis University Journal of Health Law & Policy

No abstract provided.

Reflections On Preparedness: Pandemic Planning In The Bush Administration, Stewart Simonson

Saint Louis University Journal of Health Law & Policy

No abstract provided.

Pandemics, Populism And The Role Of Law In The H1n1 Vaccine Campaign, Wendy E. Parmet

Saint Louis University Journal of Health Law & Policy

No abstract provided.

Assessing The Impact Of Federal Law On Public Health Preparedness, Benjamin E. Berkman, Susan C. Kim, Lindsay F. Wiley

Saint Louis University Journal of Health Law & Policy

No abstract provided.

Impaired M3 And Enhanced M2 Muscarinic Receptor Contractile Function In A Streptozotocin Model Of Mouse Diabetic Urinary Bladder, K. J. Pak, Rennolds S. Ostrom, M. Matsui, F. J. Ehlert

Pharmacy Faculty Articles and Research

We investigated the contractile roles of M2 and M3 muscarinic receptors in urinary bladder from streptozotocin-treated mice. Wild-type and M2 muscarinic receptor knockout (M2 KO) mice were given a single injection of vehicle or streptozotocin (125 mg kg−1) 2–24 weeks prior to bladder assays. The effect of forskolin on contractions elicited to the muscarinic agonist, oxotremorine-M, was measured in isolated urinary bladder (intact or denuded of urothelium). Denuded urinary bladder from vehicle-treated wild-type and M2 KO mice exhibited similar contractile responses to oxotremorine-M, when contraction was normalized relative to that elicited by KCl (50 mM). Eight to 9 weeks after …

Absence Of Predation Eliminates Coexistence: Experience From The Fish-Zooplankton Interface, Z. M. Gilwicz, Wayne A. Wurtsbaugh, E. Szymansk

Watershed Sciences Faculty Publications

Examples from fishless aquatic habitats show that competition among zooplankton for resources instigates rapid exclusion of competitively inferior species in the absence of fish predation, and leads to resource monopolization by the superior competitor. This may be a single species or a few clones with large body size: a cladoceran such as Daphnia pulicaria, or a branchiopod such as Artemia franciscana, each building its population to a density far higher than those found in habitats with fish. The example of zooplankton from two different fish-free habitats demonstrates the overpowering force of fish predation by highlighting the consequences of its absence. …

Health Literacy Dallas, Matthew Gayer, M. C. Corey, Austin Prentice, Matthew Hendrick, Michael Shapleigh, Stephen Armstrong, Jennifer Herring, Vincent Rossi, Natalie Kashefi, Christina Pham, Jake Fleming, Adriana Martinez, Jose Campos, Amrita Vir, Nicholas Burns, Ashley Stockton

Big iDeas 2010 Proposals

No abstract provided.

On The Road Towards Greater Mental Healthcare, Saira Husain, Jasia Mahdi

Big iDeas 2010 Proposals

No abstract provided.

Solar Energy On Campus, Huanlu Chen, Xiao Liang

Big iDeas 2010 Proposals

No abstract provided.

Study Of Stability Of Time-Domain Features For Electromyographic Pattern Recognition, Dennis Tkach, He Huang, Todd A. Kuiken

Electrical, Computer, and Biomedical Engineering Faculty Publications

Background: Significant progress has been made towards the clinical application of human-machine interfaces (HMIs) based on electromyographic (EMG) pattern recognition for various rehabilitation purposes. Making this technology practical and available to patients with motor deficits requires overcoming real-world challenges, such as physical and physiological changes, that result in variations in EMG signals and systems that are unreliable for long-term use. In this study, we aimed to address these challenges by (1) investigating the stability of time-domain EMG features during changes in the EMG signals and (2) identifying the feature sets that would provide the most robust EMG pattern recognition.

Methods: …

The Effects Of Concentric Ring Electrode Electrical Stimulation On Rat Skin, Walter Besio, V. Sharma, J. Spaulding

Electrical, Computer, and Biomedical Engineering Faculty Publications

Surface electrodes are commonly used electrodes clinically, in applications such as functional electrical stimulation for the restoration of motor functions, pain relief, transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation, electrocardiographic monitoring, defibrillation, surface cardiac pacing, and advanced drug delivery systems. Common to these applications are occasional reports of pain, tissue damage, rash, or burns on the skin at the point where electrodes are placed. In this study, we quantitatively analyzed the effects of acute noninvasive electrical stimulation from concentric ring electrodes (CRE) to determine the maximum safe current limit. We developed a three-dimensional multi-layer model and calculated the temperature profile under the CRE …