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Transgender Student-­Athletes And Sex-­Segregated Sport: Developing Policies Of Inclusion For Intercollegiate And Interscholastic Athletics, Erin E. Buzuvis

Faculty Scholarship

This Article discusses the discrimination of transgender students who may be excluded, discouraged, or simply made to feel uncomfortable participating in athletic programs for their natal sex, by the sex-segregated world of athletics. The Author believes that until sports' governing bodies develop and enforce policies of inclusion, transgender students will continue to be denied access to and the benefits of athletic participation. The Author examines the values that should go into the formation of such policies, including legal, medical and educational concerns. Part I of the Article puts transgender students' athletic participation in context by examining educational athletic's deep and …

The Challenge Of Temporary Work In Twenty-First Century Labor Markets: Flexibility With Fairness For The Low-Wage Temporary Workforce, Harris Freeman, George Gonos

Faculty Scholarship

As the Commonwealth wrestles with the social and economic aftershocks of the worst economic recession in 80 years, the widespread use of temporary staffing arrangements is a sober reminder that the “standard” employment relationship, a cornerstone of the prosperity of the post-­World War II era, is no longer available to a large segment of the American workforce. “Job ladders” have disintegrated, depriving capable and dedicated workers of predictable promotions. Regular step increases in pay and cost-­of-­living adjustments are in many occupational categories a thing of the past. Simply put, the “good jobs” working people need to support families, pay the …

Criminalized State: The International Criminal Court, The Responsibility To Protect, And Darfur, Republic Of Sudan, Matthew H. Charity

Faculty Scholarship

The international community continues to struggle with the question of what to do when a nation fails to protect its own people from systemic neglect, mistreatment, or even genocide. For many years, this debate pitted proponents of humanitarian intervention by a third-party against those who believe that all others must defer to the sovereign right of the state to control its own affairs and the affairs of its people. In the midst of this debate, the international community has adopted a middle road: insisting that states must acknowledge their responsibility to protect their populations and if the state manifestly fails …

Caster Semenya And The Myth Of A Level Playing Field, Erin E. Buzuvis

Faculty Scholarship

In August of 2009, policies and procedures to verify the sex of female athletes were called into question when South African runner Caster Semenya
won the 800 meter event of the World Championships in Berlin. Responding to rumors of gender fraud, and fueled by Semenya’s speed, musculature, and deep voice, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) requested that Semenya submit to sex verification to confirm her eligibility for the women’s division.

This Article discusses the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) policy on sex testing, the myth of sex-verification testing, and the myth of the level playing field. It concludes with …

Victimized Twice: The Reasonable Efforts Requirement In Child Protection Cases When Parents Have A Mental Illness, Jeanne M. Kaiser

Faculty Scholarship

State child protection agencies are required by federal law to exert reasonable efforts to keep families together before seeking termination of parental rights. Some states, however, have created an exception to this requirement when the parent involved suffers from a chronic mental illness. Moreover, even in those states that enforce the requirement, the reunification services provided to parents with a mental illness often do not meet the needs of those parents.

This Article argues that although parents with a mental illness face serious challenges in caring for their children, they should not be categorically excluded from reunification efforts by means …

Assessment Of Human-Coyote Conflicts: City And County Of Broomfield, Colorado, Stan Grant, Julie K. Young, Seth Riley

Wildland Resources Faculty Publications

In the summer of 2011, the Anthem Highlands neighborhood of the City and County of Broomfield (Broomfield), Colorado experienced multiple serious incidents between humans and coyotes. Broomfield has a detailed policy about coexisting with wildlife in general, and coyotes in particular, that includes extensive public education and outreach. Because of the serious nature of the incidents, the Colorado Division of Parks and Wildlife, with assistance from USDA-Wildlife Services and in collaboration with Broomfield, engaged in coyote removal efforts. One coyote was lethally removed after the first incident, another was shot after the second incident, 8 coyotes were lethally removed (7 …

Range-Wide Assessment Of Livestock Grazing Across The Sagebrush Biome, Kari E. Veblen, D. A. Pyke, C. L. Aldridge, M. L. Casazza, T. J. Assal, M. A. Farinha

Wildland Resources Faculty Publications

Domestic livestock grazing occurs in virtually all sagebrush habitats and is a prominent disturbance factor. By affecting habitat condition and trend, grazing influences the resources required by, and thus, the distribution and abundance of sagebrush-obligate wildlife species (for example, sage-grouse Centrocercus spp.). Yet, the risks that livestock grazing may pose to these species and their habitats are not always clear. Although livestock grazing intensity and associated habitat condition may be known in many places at the local level, we have not yet been able to answer questions about use, condition, and trend at the landscape scale or at the range-wide …

Tennessee Farm Bureau News - January 2011, Tennessee Farm Bureau Federation

Tennessee Farm Bureau News

No abstract provided.

The Influence Of Depressive Symptomatology And Perceived Stress On Plasma And Salivary Oxytocin Before, During And After A Support Enhancement Intervention, Wendy C. Birmingham, Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Kathleen C. Light

Faculty Publications

Oxytocin (OT) activity increases in response to stress as well as to warm social contact. Subclinical depression is associated with higher stress but less reward from social contacts. The present investigation was intended to examine whether husbands and wives with high depressive symptomatology scores have increased plasma and salivary OT that may be mediated partly by higher perceived stress, and also to assess whether an intervention to convey partner support through ‘‘warm touch’’ may reduce effects of depressive symptoms on OT. In this study, 34 healthy married couples (n = 68) ages 20—39 provided self reports of depressive symptoms (CESD) …

“Which Is The Wisest Course?”: Political Power And Prophetic Agency In Nineteenth-Century Mormon Rhetoric, Richard Benjamin Crosby

Faculty Publications

This article enters the conversation about religion and communication at the crossing of two important but under-traveled paths: prophetic rhetoric and Mormonism. Mormon polygamy has a rich and controversial history that includes a series of public arguments and internal debates over how to navigate the historically radical religion through the political landscape of nineteenth-century mainstream America. Wilford Woodruff, president and prophet of the church when the government compelled the Mormons to stop the practice of polygamy, needed to end “plural marriage” without undermining the vitality of the church’s revelatory claims. I argue that Woodruff’s response breaks the limited rules of …

Treating Depression Among End-Stage Renal Disease Patients: Lessons Learned From Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Classes, Jana L. Wardian Phd, Fei Sun

Journal Articles: Hospital Medicine

This study tested the feasibility and effectiveness of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) in alleviating symptoms of depres­sion and improving quality of life for patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD). Four ESRD patients in the experimental group attended four weeks of classes using CDs and group discussion to gain CBT skills, and six patients in the control group listened to the same CDs. While there were no significant changes in participants’ depression or quality of life scores, patients expressed personal benefits from group interaction and from the information they received. Due to the many barriers to attend­ing group classes for this …

Camp Douglas: Keeping A Watchful Eye On The Saints, Kenneth L. Alford Ph.D.

Faculty Publications

A discussion of the establishment (1862) and early years of Camp Douglas, Utah Territory. Discusses the tense relationship between Brigham Young and Colonel (later Brigadier General) Patrick Edward Connor, U.S. Army commander of Camp Douglas.

On Legal Education And Reform: One View Formed From Diverse Perspectives, Robert J. Rhee

Maryland Law Review

No abstract provided.

Pornography As Pollution, John Copeland Nagle

Maryland Law Review

No abstract provided.

Allen V. Dackman: Doing Away With Limited Liability In Maryland, Jeffrey S. Quinn

Maryland Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Roles Of Conserved And Nonconserved Cysteinyl Residues In The Oligomerization And Function Of Mammalian Prestin, Benjamin Currall, Danielle Rossino, Heather Jensen Smith, Richard Hallworth

Journal Articles: Eppley Institute

The creation of several prestin knockout and knockin mouse lines has demonstrated the importance of the intrinsic outer hair cell membrane protein prestin to mammalian hearing. However, the structure of prestin remains largely unknown, with even its major features in dispute. Several studies have suggested that prestin forms homo-oligomers that may be stabilized by disulfide bonds. Our phylogenetic analysis of prestin sequences across chordate classes suggested that the cysteinyl residues could be divided into three groups, depending on the extent of their conservation between prestin orthologs and paralogs or homologs. An alanine scan functional analysis was performed of all nine …

Reduction Of Exacerbations By The Pde4 Inhibitor Roflumilast--The Importance Of Defining Different Subsets Of Patients With Copd, Stephen I. Rennard, Peter M.A. Calverley, Udo M. Goehring, Dirk Bredenbröker, Fernando J. Martinez

Journal Articles: Pulmonary & Critical Care Med

BACKGROUND: As chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a heterogeneous disease it is unlikely that all patients will benefit equally from a given therapy. Roflumilast, an oral, once-daily phosphodiesterase 4 inhibitor, has been shown to improve lung function in moderate and severe COPD but its effect on exacerbations in unselected populations was inconclusive. This led to the question of whether a responsive subset existed that could be investigated further.

METHODS: The datasets of two previous replicate, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel-group studies (oral roflumilast 500 μg or placebo once daily for 52 weeks) that were inconclusive regarding exacerbations were combined in …

Beyond Principal-Agent Theories: Law And The Judicial Hierarchy, Pauline Kim

Scholarship@WashULaw

This Essay critically examines the commonplace use by judicial politics scholars of principal-agent models to describe the federal judicial hierarchy. It argues that agency models are useful in highlighting certain aspects of the interaction between upper and lower courts - specifically, the existence of value conflicts and informational asymmetries - but that in other ways traditional principal-agent models fit poorly the relationship between the lower federal courts and the Supreme Court. As a consequence, these models tend to obscure important normative questions about the relationship between lower and upper courts, as well as to distort the role that law plays …

Living With Schizophrenia: A Phenomenological Investigation, Andri Yennari

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study investigated the experience of living with schizophrenia through seven participants' accounts of the way they have been perceived and treated by others, as well as the way they viewed themselves after having been identified with the diagnosis of schizophrenia. Participants were recruited through psychologists at the mental health facility where they received treatment and were interviewed by the researcher in that facility.

To analyze the data of this study, an empirical phenomenological method was used to explicate the meaning of schizophrenia as it was experienced and lived by participants. A hermeneutic component was included to interpret the data …

Fee Shifting In Investor-State Arbitration: Doctrine And Policy Justifying Application Of The English Rule, David P. Riesenberg

Duke Law Journal

In investor-state arbitration, tribunals can and should apply the English rule on legal costs and abandon the two alternatives, the American rule and the pro-claimant rule. Under the English rule, the unsuccessful party in a dispute must indemnify the prevailing party for the costs of dispute resolution. Both doctrine and public policy support the application of the English rule, particularly in light of the much-publicized backlash against the investor-state arbitration system. Most importantly, the English rule would help to mitigate the two most commonly identified causes of the backlash the system's alleged proinvestor bias and its chilling effect on host …

The Rising Bar For Persecution In Asylum Cases Involving Sexual And Reproductive Harm, Fatma E. Marouf

Faculty Scholarship

This Article argues that there is a rising bar for establishing persecution in U.S. asylum cases involving sexual and reproductive' harm. Analyzing recent cases, the Article shows that adjudicators tend to apply a higher standard for physical harm in these types of cases and largely overlook nonphysical harm, including psychological suffering and the intangible harm caused by deprivation of equality, autonomy, and privacy. The Article focuses specifically on two types of cases where these patterns appear: (1)female genital mutilation (FGM); and (2) involuntary insertion of an intrauterine device (IUD). Regarding FGM, the Article discusses an emerging dispute as to whether …

Rationing Justice By Rationing Lawyers, Peter A. Joy

Scholarship@WashULaw

The number of lawyers in the United States continues to increase, but low and middle-income persons still find it difficult, if not impossible, to afford legal assistance. National and state surveys reveal that more than 80 percent of the civil legal needs of the poor go unmet, as do a majority of the needs of middle-income persons. Legal representation can often dramatically increase a person’s ability to win at trial or to negotiate a favorable outcome, and the lack of access to lawyers effectively closes the courthouse doors for millions. This Article focuses on the crisis in Missouri's public defender …

Is The "Post" In Post-Racial The "Blind" In Colorblind?, Ian F. Haney López

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.

Post-Racial Proxies: Resurgent State And Local Anti-"Alien" Laws And Unity-Rebuilding Frames For Antidiscrimination Values, Mary D. Fan

Cardozo Law Review

Though unauthorized migration into the United States has diminished substantially since 2007, anti-"illegal alien" state and local laws and furor are flaring again. While one of the biggest worries regarding such "anti-alien" laws is the risk of racialized harm, courts invalidating overreaching statutes are relying on structural or procedural grounds, such as preemption and due process doctrines. This Article examines how these political and legal trends point to how proxies are used in a post-racial era to dance around race, in constructive, national unity-rebuilding as well as divisive, inflammatory ways. Anti-alien legislation is a proxy way to vent resurgent racialized …

The Four Pillars Of Constitutional Doctrine, Suzanna Sherry

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Utilization Of A Respiratory Care Journal Club To Facilitate State Continuing Division Of Educational Credits, Kenneth Miller Med, Rrt-Nps, Linda Cornman Bs, Rrt-Nps, Steven Pyne Rrt, Angela Lutz Bs, Rrt-Nps

Patient Care Services / Nursing

No abstract provided.

Social Impact, Edward F. Lawler, Ellen Rostand, Julie Kennedy, Jessica Martin, Toky Branding + Design, Dan Page

Social Impact Publication

No abstract provided.

Social Impact, Edward F. Lawler, Keith Negley, Ellen Rostand, Julie Kennedy, Toky Branding + Design, Jessica Martin

Social Impact Publication

From the Dean: It's a "Go-Go" Place;

Perspectives: Michael Sherraden: Policy Innovator: The Key to Our Children's Future;

Interview: Q&A with Robert Joiner;

Bookshelf: Latina Suicide;

Bookshelf: A Mini MPH;

The Rise of the Social Entrepreneur: A new social work specialization arms socially minded entrepreneurs and creates an evidence base for an exploding field.;

Scaling Up Abroad: As demand for international service opportunities grows, academic and policy leaders determine how to expand availability and measure impact.;

Tip of the Iceberg: The Affordable Care Act's sweeping changes are already reshaping America's health care, and there is so much more to go …

Chemical Modulation Of Memory Formation In Larval Zebrafish, Marc A. Wolman, Roshan A. Jain, Laura Liss, Michael Granato

Biology Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

T Cell Receptor Signal Strength In Treg And Inkt Cell Development As Revealed By A Novel Fluorescent Reporter Mouse, Amy E. Moran, Keli L. Holzapfel, Nicole R. Cunningham, Jennifer Punt

Biology Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.