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University Of Malaya-Kyoto University Secretariat Newsletter, Issue 2, Volume 1, 2011, Malaysia University Of Malaya

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Branded Versus Generic Competition - A Kind Word For The Branded Drugs, Richard A. Epstein

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Climate Regulation And The Limits Of Cost-Benefit Analysis, Jonathan Masur, Eric A. Posner

Articles

Over the past two years U.S. regulatory agencies have issued fourteen regulations that take into account the effect of industrial activities and products on the global climate. The regulatory activity so far has already set precedents on which future regulation will rest. Yet despite the potentially momentous consequences, it has received no comment in the law review literature. This Article examines the record of these agencies and criticizes the methods they have used to calculate the social cost of carbon emissions. We also develop a larger theme about the relationship between cost-benefit analysis and politics. The best case for cost-benefit …

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Questioning The Frequency And Wisdom Of Compulsory Licensing For Pharmaceutical Patents, Richard A. Epstein, F. Scott Kieff

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Many advocates for using compulsory licensing (CL) for pharmaceutical patents in developing countries like Thailand rest their case in part on the purported use of CL in the United States. In this Article we take issue with that proposition on several grounds. As a textual matter, the "commercially reasonable terms" language in Article 31 of TRIPS, even when qualified by the Doha declaration, prevents any host nation from using whatever royalties it wants in its CL arrangements, especially those that are below marginal cost. As a theoretical matter, we argue that the basic presumption in favor of voluntary licenses for …

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Plain Meaning In Context: Can Law Survive Its Own Language?, Richard A. Epstein

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Normative Foundations For Reasonable Expectations Of Privacy, Hamish Stewart

The Supreme Court Law Review: Osgoode’s Annual Constitutional Cases Conference

The right to be “secure against unreasonable search or seizure” in section 8 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms applies only where the Charter applicant has a reasonable expectation of privacy in the place searched or the information obtained. The Supreme Court of Canada’s methodology for deciding whether an applicant has such a reasonable expectation appears well settled. The Court asks first whether the applicant had a subjective expectation of privacy, and second whether, in light of a long list of factors, that expectation was reasonable. But the Court’s decisions reveal at least two potentially incompatible ways of …

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Severe 2010 Cold-Water Event Caused Unprecedented Mortality To Corals Of The Florida Reef Tract And Reversed Previous Survivorship Patterns, Frank E. Muller-Karger, Brian B. Barnes, Digna Rueda

Marine Science Faculty Publications

Background: Coral reefs are facing increasing pressure from natural and anthropogenic stressors that have already caused significant worldwide declines. In January 2010, coral reefs of Florida, United States, were impacted by an extreme cold-water anomaly that exposed corals to temperatures well below their reported thresholds (16°C), causing rapid coral mortality unprecedented in spatial extent and severity. Methodology/Principal Findings: Reef surveys were conducted from Martin County to the Lower Florida Keys within weeks of the anomaly. The impacts recorded were catastrophic and exceeded those of any previous disturbances in the region. Coral mortality patterns were directly correlated to in-situ and satellite-derived …

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Lark, Neil Oral History Interview, Doris Meyer

Emeriti Society Oral History Collection

Professor, Natural Sciences, Raymond College Professor, Physics, C.O.P. (1962 – 1999). Topic Include: Raymond College structure and faculty, Raymond curriculum development and dissolution, importance of professional development leaves, transfer to COP Physics Department, closure of Raymond College, University service, committees, etc.

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

UNH Factbooks

University of New Hampshire factbook data from the 2010-2011 academic year

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Urbanization, Water Quality, And The Regulated Landscape, Dave Owen

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Running Head: Foram Assemblages From Three Substrata Comparison Of Foraminiferal Assemblages From Three Kinds Of Substrata, Durney Key, West-Centralflorida, Usa, K. Anderson, Pamela Hallock

Marine Science Faculty Publications

As part of a project that assessed a proposed artificial reef site, this study compared benthic foraminiferal assemblages from three substrata: sediment, natural lime rock and recruitment tiles. The assemblage from sediment samples included 21 foraminiferal species representing 12 genera and was dominated by stress-tolerant taxa, especially Ammonia and Elphidium. Natural lime rock and recruitment tiles yielded 21 foraminiferal species representing 11 genera, which were dominated by miliolids. Intersample variability was characterized by “pulsating patches” as has been previously described forFloridaestuaries. The predominance of stress-tolerant taxa in sediments was consistent with other observations from the site, which indicated that …

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An Improved Bathymetry Compilation For The Bellingshausen Sea, Antarctica, To Inform Ice-Sheet And Ocean Models, A. G. C. Graham, F. O. Nitsche, R. D. Larter

Marine Science Faculty Publications

The southern Bellingshausen Sea (SBS) is a rapidly-changing part of West Antarctica, where oceanic and atmospheric warming has led to the recent basal melting and break-up of the Wilkins ice shelf, the dynamic thinning of fringing glaciers, and sea-ice reduction. Accurate sea-floor morphology is vital for understanding the continued effects of each process upon changes within Antarctica's ice sheets. Here we present a new bathymetric grid for the SBS compiled from shipborne multibeam echo-sounder, spot-sounding and sub-ice measurements. The 1-km grid is the most detailed compilation for the SBS to-date, revealing large cross-shelf troughs, shallow banks, and deep inner-shelf basins …

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Multibeam Investigation Of An Artificial Reef Settlement In The Adriatic Sea (Italy) 33 Years After Its Deployment, Sarine Manoukian, Gianna Fabi, David F. Naar

Marine Science Faculty Publications

Artificial reefs (ARs) are becoming a popular biological and management component in shallow water environments characterized by soft seabed, representing both important marine habitats and tools to manage coastal fisheries and resources. Because of the unstable nature of sediments, they require a detailed and systematic investigation that acoustic systems can provide. An AR into the marine environment acts as an open system with exchange of material and energy, altering the physical and biological characteristics of the surrounding area. The AR stability will depend on the balance of scour, settlement, and burial resulting from ocean conditions over time. The acoustic systems …

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Perennial Ponds Are Not An Important Source Of Water Or Dissolved Organic Matter To Groundwaters With High Arsenic Concentrations In West Bengal, India, Saugata Datta, Andrew W. Neal, T. Jade Mohajerin, Troy Ocheltree, Brad E. Rosenheim, Christopher D. White, Karen H. Johannesson

Marine Science Faculty Publications

[1] Arsenic (As) concentrations and stable hydrogen (δ²H) and oxygen (δ¹⁸O) isotope ratios of surface and groundwaters from a representative site in West Bengal, India, are reported. Shallow groundwaters (≤35 m) from the study site have among the highest As concentrations measured in the entire Bengal Basin, reaching values in excess of 4600 μg kg⁻¹. Stable isotope ratios of waters from constructed, perennial ponds indicate the ponds are chiefly recharged during the summer monsoon, and subsequently undergo extensive evaporation during the dry (winter) season. In contrast, groundwaters with high As concentrations …

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Predicting The Ancient Occurrence Of Evaporites Using Paleoclimate Modelling, Amiratu Yamusah

Earth & Environmental Sciences Theses - Archive

Evaporites are climatic indicators that depend on two main variables: mean annual temperature and mean annual precipitation. This study constructs a model that predicts the localities of ancient evaporites based on paleo- temperature and paleo- precipitation data. A climate envelope, a bivariate plot of temperature and precipitation, is constructed by intersecting the modern temperature and precipitation with climate data obtained from Fast Ocean Atmosphere Model (FOAM). Modern evaporites have a limited extent hence in this research, the yermosols- solonchak soil type was used as a proxy. The predictions were made for 16 time intervals. These were plotted on paleogeographic reconstructions …

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Evaluation Of Step Detection Of Piecewise Constant Signals Using Phase Congruency, Real Footprints And Complex Footprints, Srikanteswara Sachidananda

Electrical Engineering Theses - Archive

Several applications involve the use of signals that are piecewise constant. Often, their measurements or observations are contaminated with noise. Detecting the steps and recovering the true signal from its noisy measurements is an important problem.There are a number of methods in the literature that address this issue. We use two different approaches. First, we use the idea of phase congruency in detecting singularities in a 1-dimensional piecewise constant signal. Phase congruency has been previously used in feature detection from images. It is a dimensionless quantity that gives an absolute measure in finding the edges or discontinuity in a signal. …

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One Foot In The Grave: The Zombie's Consumption Of American Film, Ronni M. Davis

English Theses - Archive

American film has chronicled the evolution of the zombie mythos for nearly eight decades. Originally constructed as a projection of the plight of the enslaved population of Haiti, the zombie as introduced to American film remains a symbol of societal anxieties. I argue that, to reflect the changing zeitgeist, the zombie shifts into three general forms. The Haitian Zombi is generally a passive creature subject to the will of its creator; it reveals desire to control people that either pose a threat or that have something that the creator covets and is otherwise unable to attain. The Extraterrestrial Zombie represents …

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Investing In Accounting: A Call For Professional Involvement In Higher Education, Chun-Chia Chang, Mark Landis, Shaokun Carol Yu

Faculty Articles, Papers, and Other Scholarship

The current financial crisis has created serious repercussions for accounting education. Public universities have lost funding and initiated huge budget cuts. These drastic cutbacks have resulted in the losses of courses, enrollment, and faculty. These losses will translate into inaccessibility of education will reduce the future accounting work force. To recover from the recession, well trained accountants are critical to provide the financial fundamentals for businesses. While most of us understand that an investment in accounting education is an investment in successful business, effective practices for recruitment are needed in a time of scarce resources. In this paper, we would …

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Yahweh As Father: The Image In Ancient Israelite Context And Modern Appropriation, Joshua Wayne Lovelace

MA in Religion Theses

The goal of this thesis was to appropriate the image of Yahweh as father for modern Christendom in light of feminist critiques of the image. The methods in accomplishing this task were as follows: defining feminism and feminist biblical interpretation, conveying the critiques of Rosemary Radford Ruether and Julia M. O'Brien who were scholarly dialogue partners, studying the social milieu of ancient Israel, using historical, literary, textual, and social criticism to exegete texts that mention Yahweh as father, comparing findings of exegesis with social milieu of ancient Israel, responding to critiques of Ruether and O'Brien, and lastly taking the findings …

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Coastal Land Loss And Hypoxia: The 'Outwelling' Hypothesis Revisited, Anindita Das, Dubravko Justic, Erick M. Swenson, R. Euigene Turner, Masamichi Inoue, Dongho Park

Faculty Publications

It is generally believed that interannual variability in the areal extent of the Gulf of Mexico hypoxia is driven primarily by the magnitude of the Mississippi River freshwater and nutrient fluxes. It has recently been proposed that outwelling of carbon from deteriorating coastal wetlands into the surrounding Gulf of Mexico could be an important mechanism promoting the development of hypoxia. We used a coupled hydrology-hydrodynamics model of the Barataria estuary, a site of massive wetland loss, to calculate the fluxes of nitrogen, chlorophyll a and carbon at the estuary-ocean interface. The hydrology model calculates runoff from rainfall and evaporation data, …

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Seasonal Microphytobenthos On The Hypoxic Northern Gulf Of Mexico Continental Shelf, M M. Baustian, N N. Rabalais, W L. Morrison, R. Eugene Turner, M M. Baustian

Faculty Publications

The presence of photosynthetic organisms on the seafloor may indicate whether oxygen evolution contributes to the bottom water oxygen pool in the hypoxic area of the northern Gulf of Mexico. We sampled 3 stations (depth: 14, 20 and 23 m) 100 km west of the mouth of the Mississippi River over 3 hypoxic annual cycles to determine whether microphytobenthos or settled phytoplankton existed on the sediment surface. Microscopy and high-performance liquid chromatography were used to determine the presence and composition, and to estimate the biomass of microphytobenthos and phytoplankton in surface and bottom waters and sediments. The sediment community (cells …

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Integrating Stomach Content And Stable Isotope Analyses To Quantify The Diets Of Pygoscelid Penguins, Michael J. Polito, Wayne Z. Trivelpiece, Nina J. Karnovsky, Elizabeth Ng, William P. Patterson, Steven D. Emslie

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The Effects Of Maternal Separation On Alcohol Responses In Adult Mice, Rachel Beckstrom

Undergraduate Honors Theses

Early environmental stressors may play an important role in the development of alcohol abuse and alcoholism in humans. An animal model of early environmental disturbance, termed maternal separation (MS), has been shown to affect alcohol self-administration in adult animals with short periods of daily separation (e.g., 15 min) resulting in lower alcohol intake in adulthood than longer periods of separation (e.g., 180 or 360 min). The current research investigated the possibility that differences in adult alcohol intake following MS may be due, in part, to alterations in alcohol responses independently from the alcohol's reinforcing properties. In particular, the effects of …

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Identification Of Proteins That Interact With The Transcription Factor Emx2 In Developing Mouse Neocortex, Jennifer A. Groves

Undergraduate Honors Theses

Neocortex is the largest region of the cerebral cortex in the mammalian brain. It is composed of multiple functional areas that process discrete types of information including visual, somatosensory, and auditory input and motor control output. During embryonic development, the relative size of each area is determined by transcription factors such as EMx2. The goal of our work is to identify proteins that interact with Emx2 to influence its role in neocortical arealization, the process by which the specific areas of the neocortex are formed with discrete boundaries.

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Effects Of Fatty Acids And Bexarotene On Breast Cancer Cell Progression, Jessica Trappmann

Undergraduate Honors Theses

Breast cancer cell growth can be inhibited in vivo by retinoid X receptor (RXR) specific retinoids. In both animal and cell culture studies, omega-3 fatty acids share growth regulatory effects similar to those ofRXR specific retinoids (rexinoids). One synthetic rexinoid, bexarotene (LCD 1069, Targretin), is used clinically to treat cancer patients. Of concern is that some patients are unable to tolerate high doses of such treatment drugs. We hypothesized that n-3 fatty acids and bexarotene may work synergistically to slow breast cancer cell growth. To test our hypothesis, we used an in vitro cell culture model, MCF-7, a human breast …

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Characteristics Of Circadian Rhythm In Patients With Intracerebral Hemorrhage Before Death, Jun-Wen Guan, Mao-Jun Chen, Hao Li, Yan-Yu Liu, Chao You, Zheng-Rong Wang

Neurosciences

OBJECTIVE: To investigate characteristics of circadian rhythm in intracerebral hemorrhage before death. METHODS: This retrospective study was carried out from September 2002 to February 2009. One hundred and twenty-two dead cases with intracerebral hemorrhage(ICH) were collected. The study was carried out in the Department of Neurosurgery in The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical College, Zhanjiang, Guangdong, China. Blood pressure (BP) and heart rate (HR) were recorded every half-hour during the 72 hours before death. Data of BP andHR before deaths were divided into 3 time periods, namely, period A (72-48 hours to death), period B(48-24 hours to death), and …

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Troubled Waters Of The Gulf Of Mexico, N.N. Rabalais

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Gennet: A Platform For Hybrid Network Experiments., Kispersky Tj, Economo Mn, Randeria P, White Ja

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Summertime Tidal Flushing Of Barataria Bay: Transports Of Water And Suspended Sediments, Chunyan Li, John R. White, Changsheng Chen, Huichan Lin, Eddie Weeks, Kari Galvan, Sibel Bargu

Faculty Publications

Inlets provide a critical ecological link between restricted bays and estuaries to the coastal ocean. The net fluxes of water and suspended sediment are presented in this study. These fluxes are obtained based on data from a multidisciplinary, full tidal cycle survey across Barataria Pass in southern Louisiana on 31 July to 1 August 2008. The velocity profiles were obtained with an acoustic Doppler current profiler mounted on a small boat continuously crossing the inlet, which contains swift and turbulent tidal currents. Water samples were collected six times in a 24 h period at three discrete depths and three locations …

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It's In Our Blood: A Critique Of The Fda's Reluctance To Regulate The Use Of Bisphenol A In The Food Supply, Ryan J. Carra

Journal of Health Care Law and Policy

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University Of Malaya-Kyoto University Secretariat Newsletter, Issue 2, Volume 1, 2011, Malaysia University Of Malaya

Archival Material (2010s)

Branded Versus Generic Competition - A Kind Word For The Branded Drugs, Richard A. Epstein

Articles

Climate Regulation And The Limits Of Cost-Benefit Analysis, Jonathan Masur, Eric A. Posner

Articles

Questioning The Frequency And Wisdom Of Compulsory Licensing For Pharmaceutical Patents, Richard A. Epstein, F. Scott Kieff

Articles

Plain Meaning In Context: Can Law Survive Its Own Language?, Richard A. Epstein

Articles

Normative Foundations For Reasonable Expectations Of Privacy, Hamish Stewart

The Supreme Court Law Review: Osgoode’s Annual Constitutional Cases Conference

Severe 2010 Cold-Water Event Caused Unprecedented Mortality To Corals Of The Florida Reef Tract And Reversed Previous Survivorship Patterns, Frank E. Muller-Karger, Brian B. Barnes, Digna Rueda

Marine Science Faculty Publications

Lark, Neil Oral History Interview, Doris Meyer

Emeriti Society Oral History Collection

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

UNH Factbooks

Urbanization, Water Quality, And The Regulated Landscape, Dave Owen

Faculty Scholarship

Running Head: Foram Assemblages From Three Substrata Comparison Of Foraminiferal Assemblages From Three Kinds Of Substrata, Durney Key, West-Centralflorida, Usa, K. Anderson, Pamela Hallock

Marine Science Faculty Publications

An Improved Bathymetry Compilation For The Bellingshausen Sea, Antarctica, To Inform Ice-Sheet And Ocean Models, A. G. C. Graham, F. O. Nitsche, R. D. Larter

Marine Science Faculty Publications

Multibeam Investigation Of An Artificial Reef Settlement In The Adriatic Sea (Italy) 33 Years After Its Deployment, Sarine Manoukian, Gianna Fabi, David F. Naar

Marine Science Faculty Publications

Perennial Ponds Are Not An Important Source Of Water Or Dissolved Organic Matter To Groundwaters With High Arsenic Concentrations In West Bengal, India, Saugata Datta, Andrew W. Neal, T. Jade Mohajerin, Troy Ocheltree, Brad E. Rosenheim, Christopher D. White, Karen H. Johannesson

Marine Science Faculty Publications

Predicting The Ancient Occurrence Of Evaporites Using Paleoclimate Modelling, Amiratu Yamusah

Earth & Environmental Sciences Theses - Archive

Evaluation Of Step Detection Of Piecewise Constant Signals Using Phase Congruency, Real Footprints And Complex Footprints, Srikanteswara Sachidananda

Electrical Engineering Theses - Archive

One Foot In The Grave: The Zombie's Consumption Of American Film, Ronni M. Davis

English Theses - Archive

Investing In Accounting: A Call For Professional Involvement In Higher Education, Chun-Chia Chang, Mark Landis, Shaokun Carol Yu

Faculty Articles, Papers, and Other Scholarship

Yahweh As Father: The Image In Ancient Israelite Context And Modern Appropriation, Joshua Wayne Lovelace

MA in Religion Theses

Coastal Land Loss And Hypoxia: The 'Outwelling' Hypothesis Revisited, Anindita Das, Dubravko Justic, Erick M. Swenson, R. Euigene Turner, Masamichi Inoue, Dongho Park

Faculty Publications

Seasonal Microphytobenthos On The Hypoxic Northern Gulf Of Mexico Continental Shelf, M M. Baustian, N N. Rabalais, W L. Morrison, R. Eugene Turner, M M. Baustian

Faculty Publications

Integrating Stomach Content And Stable Isotope Analyses To Quantify The Diets Of Pygoscelid Penguins, Michael J. Polito, Wayne Z. Trivelpiece, Nina J. Karnovsky, Elizabeth Ng, William P. Patterson, Steven D. Emslie

Faculty Publications

The Effects Of Maternal Separation On Alcohol Responses In Adult Mice, Rachel Beckstrom

Undergraduate Honors Theses

Identification Of Proteins That Interact With The Transcription Factor Emx2 In Developing Mouse Neocortex, Jennifer A. Groves

Undergraduate Honors Theses

Effects Of Fatty Acids And Bexarotene On Breast Cancer Cell Progression, Jessica Trappmann

Undergraduate Honors Theses

Characteristics Of Circadian Rhythm In Patients With Intracerebral Hemorrhage Before Death, Jun-Wen Guan, Mao-Jun Chen, Hao Li, Yan-Yu Liu, Chao You, Zheng-Rong Wang

Neurosciences

Troubled Waters Of The Gulf Of Mexico, N.N. Rabalais

Faculty Publications

Gennet: A Platform For Hybrid Network Experiments., Kispersky Tj, Economo Mn, Randeria P, White Ja

Faculty Publications

Summertime Tidal Flushing Of Barataria Bay: Transports Of Water And Suspended Sediments, Chunyan Li, John R. White, Changsheng Chen, Huichan Lin, Eddie Weeks, Kari Galvan, Sibel Bargu

Faculty Publications

It's In Our Blood: A Critique Of The Fda's Reluctance To Regulate The Use Of Bisphenol A In The Food Supply, Ryan J. Carra

Journal of Health Care Law and Policy