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Upside-Down Judicial Review, Corinna Barrett Lain Jan 2012

Upside-Down Judicial Review, Corinna Barrett Lain

Law Faculty Publications

The countermajoritarian difficulty assumes that the democratically elected branches are majoritarian and the unelected Supreme Court is not. But sometimes the opposite is true. Sometimes it is the elected branches that are out of sync with majority will and the Supreme Court that bridges the gap, turning the conventional understanding of the Court's role on its head. Instead of a countermajoritarian Court checking the majoritarian branches, we see a majoritarian Court checking the not-so-majoritarian branches, enforcing prevailing norms when the representative branches do not. What emerges is a distinctly majoritarian, upside-down understanding of judicial review. This Article illustrates, explains, and …

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The Sheathed Sword: Union Efficacy In Nonbargaining States, Ann C. Hodges Jan 2012

The Sheathed Sword: Union Efficacy In Nonbargaining States, Ann C. Hodges

Law Faculty Publications

Section I of this article briefly reviews the law in Virginia and North Carolina. Section II examines, in detail, many of the strategies and tactics unions have utilized, both successfully and unsuccessfully, in Virginia and North Carolina. Section III discusses the overwhelming challenges that public-sector unions, despite their success, still face under the laws and political climate in hostile states. Finally, section IV offers a brief analysis of how unions in other states that prohibit or severely limit collective bargaining can emulate their successes and learn from their failures.

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Maintaining Union Resources In An Era Of Public Sector Bargaining Retrenchment, Ann C. Hodges Jan 2012

Maintaining Union Resources In An Era Of Public Sector Bargaining Retrenchment, Ann C. Hodges

Law Faculty Publications

This article will look first at the law relating to payroll deduction of dues in Virginia and North Carolina and in several of the . states that have newly restrictive bargaining laws. The article will then discuss the significance of payroll ,deduction of union dues for effective representation of unionized employees. Next the article will analyze the existing law relating to constitutional challenges to statutory limitations on payroll deduction, along with the current legal challenge to the Wisconsin statute. Finally the article will consider how unions might maintain payroll deduction of union dues. The article concludes that while in some …

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Kant And A Problem Of Motivation, David Jensen Jan 2012

Kant And A Problem Of Motivation, David Jensen

Faculty Publications

In The Moral Problem, Michael Smith argues that there is an on-going tension in discussions among moral philosophers between the putative objectivity of morality, the practicality of moral judgments, and Hume’s view of motivation.1 From an agent’s point of view, putatively objective claims imply cognitivism, the view that moral judgments express beliefs about the way the world is morally.2 But if moral judgments are practical and on Hume’s view of motivation dependent on the desires of an agent, then from a moral standpoint, we risk making claims that the agent cannot be motivated to act upon.3 In …

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Nathan Richardson And The Editions Of The New Method For The Pianoforte, Sarah Kaye Prigge Jan 2012

Nathan Richardson And The Editions Of The New Method For The Pianoforte, Sarah Kaye Prigge

Music

Those studying music during the mid-nineteenth century in the United States began to experience music education through many of the models of pedagogy that are still in use at the present time. The use of a method book for music study was a new concept. A few more serious piano students traveled to Europe to study with the major performing artists of the day. As the number of homes with pianos increased, so did piano method books for home use. Women of the gilded age were encouraged to pursue music, most often for the purpose of playing at home and …

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North Dakota Climate Bulletin: Vol. 6, No. 4 (Fall 2012), Adnan Akyuz Jan 2012

North Dakota Climate Bulletin: Vol. 6, No. 4 (Fall 2012), Adnan Akyuz

North Dakota Quarterly Climate Bulletin

No abstract provided.

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Northern Eclecta - Volume 6 : 2012 Jan 2012

Northern Eclecta - Volume 6 : 2012

Northern Eclecta

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Comparison Of Personality Traits, Past Work, And Technology Experience Of Successful Disability Analyst Trainees, Melissa Phillips Jan 2012

Comparison Of Personality Traits, Past Work, And Technology Experience Of Successful Disability Analyst Trainees, Melissa Phillips

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

The purpose of this study was to determine factors resulting from past work experience and personality types that effect the ability of an analyst trainee to be able to meet the agency's definition of success to maintain their employment.

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Effectiveness Of High School Fashion Courses In Preparing Students For Fashion Courses In College, Jade Bolling Jan 2012

Effectiveness Of High School Fashion Courses In Preparing Students For Fashion Courses In College, Jade Bolling

OTS Master's Level Projects & Papers

The problem of this study was to determine if Old Dominion University fashion merchandising students earned a higher GPA if they had taken fashion marketing courses in high school to determine the added value of those courses.

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Registration Of ‘Ne01481’ Hard Red Winter Wheat, P. Stephen Baenziger, Robert A. Graybosch, Teshome H. Regassa, Lenis Alton Nelson, Robert N. Klein, Dipak K. Santra, D. D. Baltensperger, Lei Xu, Stephen N. Wegulo, Y. Jin, J. Kolmer, Ming-Shun Chen, Guihua Bai Jan 2012

Registration Of ‘Ne01481’ Hard Red Winter Wheat, P. Stephen Baenziger, Robert A. Graybosch, Teshome H. Regassa, Lenis Alton Nelson, Robert N. Klein, Dipak K. Santra, D. D. Baltensperger, Lei Xu, Stephen N. Wegulo, Y. Jin, J. Kolmer, Ming-Shun Chen, Guihua Bai

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Faculty Publications

‘NE01481’ (Reg. No. CV-1061, PI 659689) hard red winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) was developed cooperatively by the Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station and the USDA-ARS and released in April 2010. NE01481 will be marketed as Husker Genetics brand McGill. In addition to superior agronomic performance, Nebraska wheat growers would like to have increased resistance to Wheat soilborne mosaic virus. NE01481 was selected from the cross NE92458/‘Ike’ that was made in 1995. The pedigree of NE92458 is OK83201/‘Redland’ and the pedigree of OK83201, an experimental line developed by Oklahoma State University is ‘Vona’//‘Chisholm’/‘Plainsman V’. NE01481 was selected with the bulk …

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Effectiveness Of Grass Filters In Reducing Phosphorus And Sediment Runoff, Ahmed Al-Wadaey, Charles S. Wortmann, Thomas G. Franti, Charles A. Shapiro, Dean E. Eisenhauer Jan 2012

Effectiveness Of Grass Filters In Reducing Phosphorus And Sediment Runoff, Ahmed Al-Wadaey, Charles S. Wortmann, Thomas G. Franti, Charles A. Shapiro, Dean E. Eisenhauer

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Faculty Publications

Surface water contamination can often be reduced by passing runoff water through perennial grass filters. Research was conducted in 2006 to 2008 to evaluate the size of cool season grass filters consisting primarily of tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea Schreb) with some orchard grass (Dactylis glomerata L.) relative to drainage area size in reducing runoff sediment and phosphorus (P). The soil was Pohocco silt loam Typic Eutrochrepts with a median slope of 5.5%. The grass filters occupying 1.1 and 4.3% of the plot area were compared with no filter with four replications. The filters were planted in the V-shaped …

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High-Resolution Mapping Of Open Chromatin In The Rice Genome, Wenli Zhang, Yufeng Wu, James C. Schnable, Zixian Zeng, Michael Freeling, Gregory E. Crawford, Jiming Jiang Jan 2012

High-Resolution Mapping Of Open Chromatin In The Rice Genome, Wenli Zhang, Yufeng Wu, James C. Schnable, Zixian Zeng, Michael Freeling, Gregory E. Crawford, Jiming Jiang

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Faculty Publications

Gene expression is controlled by the complex interaction of transcription factors binding to promoters and other regulatory DNA elements. One common characteristic of the genomic regions associated with regulatory proteins is a pronounced sensitivity to DNase I digestion. We generated genome-wide high-resolution maps of DNase I hypersensitive (DH) sites from both seedling and callus tissues of rice (Oryza sativa). Approximately 25% of the DH sites from both tissues were found in putative promoters, indicating that the vast majority of the gene regulatory elements in rice are not located in promoter regions. We found 58% more DH sites in …

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Old Testament Survey, Steelman Library, Rodney White Dr. Jan 2012

Old Testament Survey, Steelman Library, Rodney White Dr.

Syllabus Repository

No abstract provided.

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Erratum To “Comparative Study Of Apically Extruded Debris Using One Manual And Two Rotary Instrumentation Techniques For Endodontic Retreatment” Journal Of Dental Sciences (2012) 7, 1–6, Alper Kustarci, Demet Altunbas, Kerem Engin Akpinar Jan 2012

Erratum To “Comparative Study Of Apically Extruded Debris Using One Manual And Two Rotary Instrumentation Techniques For Endodontic Retreatment” Journal Of Dental Sciences (2012) 7, 1–6, Alper Kustarci, Demet Altunbas, Kerem Engin Akpinar

Journal of Dental Sciences

No abstract provided.

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Occurrence Of Salmonella And Listeria Monocytogenes In Ready To Eat Meats In The United States: 2000-2010, Anthony Wilfred Ntaate Jan 2012

Occurrence Of Salmonella And Listeria Monocytogenes In Ready To Eat Meats In The United States: 2000-2010, Anthony Wilfred Ntaate

Food Safety

The purpose of this review is to characterize the occurrence of Salmonella and Listeria monocytogenes in ready to eat (RTE) meats in the United States between the years 2000-2010. Data were obtained from the CDC foodborne outbreak online database, morbidity and mortality weekly reports, summary of notifiable diseases and the foodborne outbreaks page. Additional information was obtained from peer reviewed journals. RTE roast pork, turkey deli meat, and Italian type salami meats were the vehicles in the Salmonella outbreaks reported. Half of the eight outbreaks reviewed were multistate in nature affecting many states and the rest were sporadic. The Salmonella …

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Time Away From Mandatory Physical Training And Its Effect On Maximal Vo2 In Rotc Cadets, Kassie Georgette Krebsbach Jan 2012

Time Away From Mandatory Physical Training And Its Effect On Maximal Vo2 In Rotc Cadets, Kassie Georgette Krebsbach

Health Nutrition and Exercise Science

During the school year, cadets in ROTC programs are required to participate in mandatory physical training. However, during the summer months, training is not required. Changes can occur in VO2max with both training and detraining. The purpose of this study was two-fold: (1) to determine if VO2max changes over the summer in cadets returning to campus and (2) to determine if there is a difference in VO2max between returning cadets and new cadets. Participants completed a graded exercise treadmill test to determine their VO2max in the spring of 2010 and in the fall of 2010. The results show a significant …

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Motivational Climate In Physical Education And Youth Sport, Alison Leigh Prichard Jan 2012

Motivational Climate In Physical Education And Youth Sport, Alison Leigh Prichard

Health Nutrition and Exercise Science

The purpose of this paper was to gain an understanding of how the motivational climate can affect children in the context of Physical Education (PE) and youth sport. In an effort to combat the increase in overweight and obesity rates, creating an environment in which children enjoy and develop positive habits related to physical activity has become a priority. The constructs of PE and youth sport have been identified as opportunities to reach children and instill healthy habits and attitudes regarding exercise that extend into adulthood. The motivational climate is a key structure for the proper facilitation and development of …

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Phosphate Removal And Recovery Using Iron Nanoparticles And Iron Cross-Linked Biopolymer, Talal Bakheet Almeelbi Jan 2012

Phosphate Removal And Recovery Using Iron Nanoparticles And Iron Cross-Linked Biopolymer, Talal Bakheet Almeelbi

Environmental and Conservation Sciences

Nanoscale zero-valent iron (NZVI) particles and iron cross-linked alginate (FCA) beads were successfully used for the first time for phosphate removal and recovery. NZVI was successfully used for phosphate removal and recovery. Batch studies indicated a removal of ~96 to 100% phosphate in 30 min (1, 5, and 10 mg PO43--P/L with 400 mg NZVI/L). Phosphate removal efficiency by NZVI was 13.9 times higher compared to Microscale ZVI (MZVI) particles. The successful rapid removal of phosphate by NZVI from aqueous solution is expected to have great ramification for cleaning up nutrient rich waters. The presence of sulfate, nitrate, and humic …

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Identification And Characterization Of Fibrous Zeolites In Western North Dakota, Jason Triplett Jan 2012

Identification And Characterization Of Fibrous Zeolites In Western North Dakota, Jason Triplett

Environmental and Conservation Sciences

The fibrous zeolite mineral erionite is a concern due to its potential for causing lung disease in humans. Studies have shown that exposure to altered volcanic bedrock containing erionite may be the explanation for a high lung disease rate throughout regions of the world (Metintas et al., 1999). Erionite was reported by Forsman (1986) as occurring in tuffaceous rock units of the Arikaree Formation in the Killdeer Mountains of western North Dakota. Rock and soil samples were collected where zeolite minerals are known or suspected to be present including North and South Killdeer Mountains in Dunn County and West and …

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Ecological Complexity Of Non-Native Species Impacts In Desert Aquatic Systems, Sujan Maduranga Henkanaththegedara Jan 2012

Ecological Complexity Of Non-Native Species Impacts In Desert Aquatic Systems, Sujan Maduranga Henkanaththegedara

Environmental and Conservation Sciences

Without an adequate understanding of complex interactions between native and non-native species, management of invasive species can result in unforeseen detrimental impacts. I used both field and laboratory experiments to study reciprocal species interactions between the endangered Mohave tui chub (Siphateles bicolor mohavensis) and invasive western mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis). I also examined the impacts of both fish species on the aquatic invertebrate communities in desert springs. I demonstrate a case of intraguild predation (IGP) as a mechanism facilitating co-persistence of the endangered Mohave tui chub with invasive mosquitofish using field mesocosm experiments. In this case of IGP, adult tui chub …

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But The Roots Remain: The Wisconsin Progressives In The Great Depression And Post-War Era, Daniel David Mccollum Jan 2012

But The Roots Remain: The Wisconsin Progressives In The Great Depression And Post-War Era, Daniel David Mccollum

History, Philosophy, and Religious Studies

This work is concerned with the development of the Progressives, a political faction of the Republican Party which was active in Wisconsin during the first half of the 20th century, throughout the Great Depression, and the Post-War era. It was during this period that the Progressives broke with the Republican Party, formed the Progressive Party and gained control of the state from 1934 through 1938, before finally dissolving in 1946, with many members moving into the Democratic Party, where they rejuvenated that moribund state party. This work, furthermore, focuses on the those Progressive leaders who operated in Wisconsin’s northern counties, …

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What Evidence Is Available On Apixaban For The Primary Prevention Of Stroke In Patients With Atrial Fibrillation?, Justin Dang, Laura Tsu Jan 2012

What Evidence Is Available On Apixaban For The Primary Prevention Of Stroke In Patients With Atrial Fibrillation?, Justin Dang, Laura Tsu

Pharmacy Faculty Articles and Research

This drug information question and answer sheet discusses the use of apixaban (Eliquis) for the primary prevention of stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation.

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Anti-Platelet Therapy In Acute Coronary Syndromes: Updates In Therapy After Stent Implantation, Ryan Mckenzie, Andrew Park, Laura Tsu Jan 2012

Anti-Platelet Therapy In Acute Coronary Syndromes: Updates In Therapy After Stent Implantation, Ryan Mckenzie, Andrew Park, Laura Tsu

Pharmacy Faculty Articles and Research

This home-study CPE activity has been developed to educate pharmacists on updates in anti-platelet therapy after stent implantation.

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Pegylated Silicon Nanowire Coated Silica Microparticles For Drug Delivery Across Intestinal Epithelium, Vuk Uskoković, Phin-Peng Lee, Laura Walsh, Kathleen Fischer, Tejal Dasai Jan 2012

Pegylated Silicon Nanowire Coated Silica Microparticles For Drug Delivery Across Intestinal Epithelium, Vuk Uskoković, Phin-Peng Lee, Laura Walsh, Kathleen Fischer, Tejal Dasai

Pharmacy Faculty Articles and Research

Composite particles made by growing nanoscopic silicon wires from the surface of monodispersed, microsized silica beads were tested in this study for their ability to affect the integrity and permeability of an epithelial cell layer. Polyethylene glycol (PEG) is known to sterically stabilize particles and prevent protein binding; as such, it is a routine way to impart in vivo longevity to drug carriers. The effect of the silica beads, both with and without silicon nanowires and PEG, on the disruption of the tight junctions in Caco-2 cells was evaluated by means of: (a) analysis of the localization of zonula occludens-1 …

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Choreographing The Adenylyl Cyclase Signalosome: Sorting Out The Partners And The Steps, Rennolds S. Ostrom, Amy S. Bogard, Robert Gros Jan 2012

Choreographing The Adenylyl Cyclase Signalosome: Sorting Out The Partners And The Steps, Rennolds S. Ostrom, Amy S. Bogard, Robert Gros

Pharmacy Faculty Articles and Research

Adenylyl cyclases are a ubiquitous family of enzymes and are critical regulators of metabolic and cardiovascular function. Multiple isoforms of the enzyme are expressed in a range of tissues. However, for many processes, the adenylyl cyclase isoforms have been thought of as essentially interchangeable, with their impact more dependent on their common actions to increase intracellular cyclic adenosine monophosphate content regardless of the isoform involved. It has long been appreciated that each subfamily of isoforms demonstrate a specific pattern of “upstream” regulation, i.e., specific patterns of ion dependence (e.g., calcium-dependence) and specific patterns of regulation by kinases (protein kinase A …

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Review Of Betting The Earth: How We Can Still Win The Biggest Gamble Of All Time, Brian G. Henning Jan 2012

Review Of Betting The Earth: How We Can Still Win The Biggest Gamble Of All Time, Brian G. Henning

Philosophy Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

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Guidelines For Cross-Departmental Secondary Academic Appointments Of Regular Full-Time Stony Brook Faculty., Stony Brook University. Arts And Sciences Senate. Faculty Rights And Responsibilities Policy Committee. Jan 2012

Guidelines For Cross-Departmental Secondary Academic Appointments Of Regular Full-Time Stony Brook Faculty., Stony Brook University. Arts And Sciences Senate. Faculty Rights And Responsibilities Policy Committee.

Arts and Sciences Committee on Faculty Rights and Responsibilities

No abstract provided.

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Fate And Characteristics Of Dissolved Organic Nitrogen Through Wastewater Treatment Systems, Halis Simsek Jan 2012

Fate And Characteristics Of Dissolved Organic Nitrogen Through Wastewater Treatment Systems, Halis Simsek

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Dissolved organic nitrogen (DON) represents a significant portion (25-80%) of total dissolved nitrogen in the final effluent of wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). DON in treated wastewater, once degraded, causes oxygen depletion and/or eutrophication in receiving waters and should be reduced prior to discharge. Biodegradability, bioavailability, and photodegradability are important characteristics of wastewater derived DON and are subjects of research in this dissertation. Four research tasks were performed. In the first task, laboratory-scale chemostat experiments were conducted to examine whether solids retention time (SRT) could be used to control DON and biodegradable DON (BDON) in treated wastewater. Nine different SRTs from …

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In Situ Groundwater Remediation Using Enricher Reactor-Permeable Reactive Biobarrier, Sreerama Murthy Kasi Somayajula Jan 2012

In Situ Groundwater Remediation Using Enricher Reactor-Permeable Reactive Biobarrier, Sreerama Murthy Kasi Somayajula

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Permeable reactive biobarrier (PRBB) is a flow-through zone where microorganisms degrade contaminants in groundwater. Discontinuous presence of contaminants in groundwater causes performance loss of a PRBB in removing the target contaminant. A novel enricher reactor (ER) - PRBB system was developed to treat groundwater with contaminants that reappear after an absence period. ER is an offline reactor for enriching contaminant degraders, which were used for augmenting PRBB to maintain its performance after a period of contaminant absence. The ER-PRBB concept was initially applied to remove benzene that reappeared after absence periods of 10 and 25 days. PRBBs without ER augmentation …

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Interaction Of Tackifier Resins With Water-Based And Olefinic Polymers, Puthenkovilakom Rajesh Raja Jan 2012

Interaction Of Tackifier Resins With Water-Based And Olefinic Polymers, Puthenkovilakom Rajesh Raja

Coatings and Polymeric Materials

The objective of this research was to investigate the interaction of tackifier resins in water-based and olefinic polymers for potential pressure sensitive adhesive applications. The first part of this research work was focused on evaluating the usefulness of olefinic block copolymer blends with two amorphous polyolefins (atactic propylene homopolymer and ethylene-propylene copolymer) as potential base polymers for hotmelt pressure-sensitive adhesives. Unsaturated and saturated hydrocarbon resins were studied as potential compatibilizing agents and rheology modifiers. Results show that the chemistry of hydrocarbon resins definitely influence the miscibility of the olefinic block polymer and amorphous polyolefin blends. Ethylene-propylene amorphous copolymer based blends …

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