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Litigation's Role In The Path Of U.S. Federal Climate Change Regulation: Implications Of Aep V. Connecticut, Hari M. Osofsky

Articles

This symposium analyzes the role of litigation in climate change regulation, with a particular focus on the U.S. Supreme Court's June 2011 decision in American Electric Power Co. v. Connecticut ("AEP"). 1 This Essay adds to that conversation by exploring the significance of AEP for U.S. federal legal approaches to regulating climate change.

Deidentification And Reidentification In Returning Individual Findings From Biobank And Secondary Research: Regulatory Challenges And Models For Management, William Mcgeveran, Leili Fatehi, Pari Mcgarraugh

Articles

No abstract provided.

Siblings In Law, Jill Elaine Hasday

Articles

No abstract provided.

Growth Pressures On Sensitive Natural Areas: The Environment And Growth In The Twin Cities, Institute On Metropolitan Opportunity

Presentations

Presentation on environmental effects of growth in the Twin Cities

Profiles In Science: John Bennett Fenn, Kimberly Brady, Roy Brown, Emily Johnson, Shannon D. Jones, Margaret Henderson, Dana Ladd, Irene Lubker, Jennifer A. Mcdaniel

VCU Libraries Faculty and Staff Publications

“Don’t ever try to be a scientist or engineer!” Had John Bennett Fenn listened to this advice given by his ninth grade teacher, he might not have gone on to pursue a career in analytical chemistry which would culminate in the attainment of the Nobel Prize in 2002. Gathered from interviews, publication analyses, glowing tributes, and his reminiscences, this paper outlines the academic and professional life of John Fenn from childhood through the end of his career in 2010.

Balancing Public Health And Individual Choice: A Proposal For A Federal Emergency Vaccination Law, Sara Mahmoud-Davis

Health Matrix: The Journal of Law-Medicine

No abstract provided.

Pgtandme: Social Networking-Based Genetic Testing And The Evolving Research Model, Valerie Gutmann Koch

Health Matrix: The Journal of Law-Medicine

No abstract provided.

A Thousand Tiny Pieces: The Federal Circuit's Fractured 'Myriad' Ruling, Lessons To Be Learned, And The Way Forward, Jonathan Stroud

Celebrating WCL Student Authors

The Supreme Court granted, vacated, and remanded the infamous Myriad gene isolation patentability case to the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) in light of the recent Prometheus decision, which held 9-0 that a certain diagnostic method was invalid subject matter because it was an abstract idea merely modified by other obvious steps. This Essay argues that Myriad should be affirmed again by the Federal Circuit, particularly in light of Prometheus, in order to inject certainty, clarity, and consistency into the § 101 patentable subject matter jurisprudence

Undergraduate Bulletin 2012-2013, John Jay College Of Criminal Justice

College Bulletins

Covers the academic year 2012-2013

Susceptible To Injury : Why Older Adults Are More Prone To Injuries During Physical Activity Compared To Young Adults?, Christina Smithson

Honors Capstones

The purpose of this study is to better understand why the older adults ranging from ages 30 - 75 years tend to be more prone to injury (especially knee injuries) during physical activity than when they took on the same activities as a young person ranging from ages 5-25 years. My hypothesis is that age causes deterioration in specific joint cartilage, bone strength, muscle and connective tissue composition. Changes in these factors in people’s knee joints as they age can influence wear and tear on the joint during running, playing sports, and lifting weights causing an increased incidence of injury. …

Due Process And The Future Of Class Actions, Alexandra D. Lahav

Loyola University Chicago Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Graduate Bulletin 2012-2013, Cuny John Jay College

College Bulletins

Covers academic year 2012-2013

The Backpack Food Program's Effects On Self-Reported Hunger And On-Task Behavior, Meghan E. Ecker

All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects

Variations of the BackPack Food Program are implemented in cities and states throughout the nation, however little is known regarding the effects that providing this food has on student performance in school. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the BackPack Food Program's effectiveness in combating student's hunger over the weekends and school breaks, thus decreasing student's self-reported hunger levels. Additionally, this study attempted to analyze the program's effects on student's on-task behavior in the classroom. Over the course of three semesters, hunger surveys were evaluated for 82 students and observations of on-task behavior were recorded for 52 students. …

Supreme Court Of Canada Equality Jurisprudence And “Everyday Life”, Patricia Hughes

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

The author asks whether the Supreme Court’s equality jurisprudence poses a model or standard for the equality efforts undertaken by organizations, or whether the standard is too low or complex. The Supreme Court’s rhetoric around equality has contributed to the broader equality conversation over the past 30 years and in some specific cases has had a definite impact. This is not the same, however, as the Court’s serving as a “leader” in advancing equality in the private or public sectors. The jurisprudence has been erratic and recent efforts to simplify it have not helped. The author concludes that only a …

Complexity Of Mitochondrial Genome Sequences, Brandon Toun

Undergraduate Journal of Mathematical Modeling: One + Two

The purpose of this project is to compare the complexities of different species' mitochondrial genome sequences. Using an implementation of Deflate compression algorithm from Java standard library, we were able to compress mitochondrial genomes of nine different species. The complexity of each sequence is estimated as a ratio of the original sequence length to the length of the compressed sequence. In addition, we show how a notion of topological entropy from symbolic dynamics can be used as another complexity measure of nucleotide sequences.

Renewable Energy And The Public Trust Doctrine, Alexandra B. Klass

Articles

This Article explores the role of the public trust doctrine in current efforts to site large-scale wind and solar projects on public and private lands. Notably, both proponents and opponents of such renewable energy projects have looked to the public trust doctrine to advance their goals. Proponents of large-scale renewable energy projects point to the environmental and climate change benefits associated with renewable energy development and argue that the use of public lands and large tracts of private lands to facilitate such projects are both in the public interest and consistent with the public trust doctrine. At the same time, …

Widespread Triploidy In Western North American Aspen (Populus Tremuloides), Karen E. Mock, Colin M. Callahan, M. Nurul Islam-Faridi, John D. Shaw, Hardeep S. Rai, Stewart C. Sanderson, Carol A. Rowe, Ronald J. Rye, Michael D. Madritch, Richard S. Gardner, Paul G. Wolf

Biology Faculty Publications

We document high rates of triploidy in aspen (Populus tremuloides) across the western USA (up to 69% of genets), and ask whether the incidence of triploidy across the species range corresponds with latitude, glacial history (as has been documented in other species), climate, or regional variance in clone size. Using a combination of microsatellite genotyping, flow cytometry, and cytology, we demonstrate that triploidy is highest in unglaciated, drought-prone regions of North America, where the largest clone sizes have been reported for this species. While we cannot completely rule out a low incidence of undetected aneuploidy, tetraploidy or duplicated loci, our …

Improved Ex Vivo Method For Microbiocidal Activity Across Vertebrate Species, Susannah S. French, Lorin A. Neuman-Lee

Biology Faculty Publications

The field of ecoimmunology is currently undergoing rapid expansion, whereby biologists from a wide range of ecological disciplines are increasingly interested in assessing immunocompetence in their study organisms. One of the key challenges to researchers is determining what eco-immune measures to use in a given experiment. Moreover, there are limitations depending on study species, requirements for specific antibodies, and relevance of the methodology to the study organism. Here we introduce an improved ex vivo method for microbiocidal activity across vertebrate species. The utility of this assay is that it determines the ability of an organism to remove a pathogen that …

Finding Florida : The Guide To The Southernmost State, Revised, Cathy Salustri

USF St. Petersburg campus Master's Theses (Graduate)

In the 1930s the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Writers Project hired unemployed writers to create driving tours of each state. Florida chose Zora Neale Hurston and Stetson Kennedy. They crisscrossed the state separately – Jim Crow would not allow black Zora to travel with white Stetson – carving out the routes immortalized in the Guide to the Southernmost State. Over seventy years later, I decided I wanted to go, too. I broke out my shiny, red Florida Gazetteer and tried to reconstruct twenty-two tours, studying towns and researching old route numbers. Often I could only recreate the Depression-era routes by …

A Textual Analysis Of Media Frames: The Coverage Of The Shooting Of Trayvon Martin, Andrea K. Andrus

USF St. Petersburg campus Master's Theses (Graduate)

This study explores the media’s framing of the Trayvon Martin shooting incident, as well as Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman, the individuals involved. Grounded in framing theory this study uses a qualitative textual analysis to examine the employment of five identified news frames in the coverage of the shooting of Trayvon Martin: conflict, attribution of responsibility, human-interest, racial and legal. The analysis of articles from two television news websites, perceived conservative network foxnews.com and perceived liberal network cnn.com revealed that there are both inconsistent and consistent ways in which the stories were framed. Although the presence of the frames in …

Bat Species And Distribution In A Gulf Coast System At Fort Desoto Park, Florida, Jennifer Beltran

USF St. Petersburg campus Master's Theses (Graduate)

Determining the spatial distribution and species of bats in coastal habitats is a crucial step toward integrating bat conservation with local, state and national land management practices. Short-term acoustical monitoring with the Anabat SD2 detector was conducted at Fort DeSoto Park in Pinellas County, Florida from June 2010 to May 2011; excluding January, February, November, and December. Foraging activity by four species of bats was recorded. Echolocation calls by the Brazilian free-tailed (Tadarida brasiliensis), evening (Nycticeius humeralis) and the northern yellow (Lasiurus intermedius) were common; the Seminole (Lasiurus seminolus) was recorded only twice. Temporily, foraging activity was highest during the …

Local Institutions For Subsistence Harvesting In Western Alaska: Assessing Their Adaptive Role In The Context Of Global Change, Colin Thor West, Connor Ross

Journal of Ecological Anthropology

This article identifies key types of local institutions rural Alaska Native communities use to manage subsistence resources such as fish, game, and edible plants. Local institutions are the informal rules and norms communities use to manage these and other natural resources. Other scholars have mostly discussed them in the context of how they help subsistence users cope with ecological fluctuations in the abundance of certain species. The study presented here discusses them within a larger context of social and economic change. These local institutions were identified based on personal interviews with 62 active subsistence users in six different Yup’ik communities …

Population Change In And Around Protected Areas, Lucas Joppa

Journal of Ecological Anthropology

Two global analyses of human population growth near protected areas seek to go beyond case studies to generalize the impact human populations have on nearby protected areas and rural development. Answering these questions is important for both human welfare and biodiversity conservation. However, as author of one of those studies, I would argue that human migrations operate at multiple spatial and temporal scales, ensuring that any hope for a globally coherent signal is premature at best or misdirected at worst.

Traditional Native American Foods: Stories From Northern Plains Elders, Sarah E. Colby, Leander R. Mcdonald, Greg Adkison

Journal of Ecological Anthropology

An understanding of traditional Native American food patterns is needed to develop efforts for decreasing chronic disease that include traditional Native American foods in culturally relevant ways. Via oral history-focused in-depth interviews, I explored traditional food and dietary practices among Native American Elders in the Northern Plains. In addition to staple foods discussed, five primary themes included hunger, sharing, gathering, medicine, and religion. Barriers to use of Native foods primarily concerned knowledge, convenience and availability.

Alfred Russel Wallace & The Notion Of Final Causes In Evolution, Charles H. Smith

Faculty/Staff Personal Papers

The methodology of Empiricism, with its emphasis on linking efficient causes to specific effects, has now dominated science for over three hundred years, and to productive end. Another of the other original Aristotelian concepts of causation, however, the notion of “final causes,” has largely been ignored by the scientific community – perhaps because it seems to necessitate teleology, or even direct interventions (“first causes”) from outside of the realm of natural process.

The most famous example of the operation of final causes comes down from ancient times. The sculptor is described as imagining what his completed form will look like, …

Out Of The Closet And Into The Sunshine : The Johns Committee's Homophobic Assault At Usf, James Anthony Schnur

USF St. Petersburg Campus Faculty Publications

Transcript of a lecture delivered by Schnur as the Keynote Address of USF's First Annual Gay and Lesbian Awareness Week (GALA), Martin Luther King Plaza, USF Tampa. A partial agenda of programs and lectures is included. Other documents refer to a similar program Schnur offered about the Johns Committee's homophobic witch hunts at the Suncoast Pride Coalition in downtown Tampa on 5 June 1994 and a 30 March 1995 article in the Tampa Tribune (University Edition) that spotlighted Schnur's lecture.

Public Services Department : Annual Report : 2012 - 2013, Tina M. Neville, Kaya Van Beynen, Carol G. Hixson

USF St. Petersburg Campus Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Association Of Ireb2 And Chrna3 Polymorphisms With Airflow Obstruction In Severe Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency., Woo Jin Kim, Alice M. Wood, Alan F. Barker, Mark L. Brantly, Edward J. Campbell, Edward Eden, Gerard Mcelvaney, Stephen I. Rennard, Robert A. Sandhaus, James M. Stocks, James K. Stoller, Charlie Strange, Gerard Turino, Edwin K. Silverman, Robert A. Stockley, Dawn L. Demeo

Journal Articles: Pulmonary & Critical Care Med

BACKGROUND: The development of COPD in subjects with alpha-1 antitrypsin (AAT) deficiency is likely to be influenced by modifier genes. Genome-wide association studies and integrative genomics approaches in COPD have demonstrated significant associations with SNPs in the chromosome 15q region that includes CHRNA3 (cholinergic nicotine receptor alpha3) and IREB2 (iron regulatory binding protein 2).We investigated whether SNPs in the chromosome 15q region would be modifiers for lung function and COPD in AAT deficiency.

METHODS: The current analysis included 378 PIZZ subjects in the AAT Genetic Modifiers Study and a replication cohort of 458 subjects from the UK AAT Deficiency National …

Stop The Fight For Women's Equality, Miranda Mcgowan

Constitutional Commentary, Vols 1–36 (1984–2022)

Book Review of Gender equality: Dimensions of women's citizenship, (Linda C. McClain & Joanna L. Grossman, eds.). New York, Cambridge University Press. 2009. Pp. 450.

Environmental Justice And The Bp Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Hari M. Osofsky, Kate Baxter-Kauf, Bradley Hammer, Ann Mailander, Brett Mares, Amy Pikovsky, Andrew Whitney, Laura Wilson

Articles

This Article analyzes the environmental justice implications of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill and proposes ways to better address these concerns currently and in the future. It explores the justice problems that have arisen with respect to the spill response, compensation, and employment and workers. The Article argues that these problems result from a mix of inadequate information, failure to incorporate environmental justice into planning, and statutory provisions that favor oil companies and limit protections for vulnerable populations. It proposes ways in which to address these causes in the context of this disaster and more broadly.