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A Hard Pill To Swallow: A Critical Look At Eli Lilly & Co.'S Nafta Challenge Of The Canadian Patent Regime, And Its Potential Side Effects, J. Damian Hakert Ii

The International Lawyer

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International Covergence On The Need For Third Parties To Become Internet Copyright Police (But Why?), Dennis S. Karjala

Richmond Journal of Global Law & Business

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Transnational Legal Practice (United States), Laurel S. Terry

The International Lawyer

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The Debate On Discounting: Reconciling Positivists And Ethicists, Christian Gollier

Chicago Journal of International Law

Using a simple arbitrage argument, positivists claim that the interest rate provides the right basis to fix the discount rate to evaluate green investment projects. The real interest rate observed in the US during the twentieth century was around 1 percent. On the other band, ethicists estimate the discount rate using the marginal rate of substitution between current and future consumption. From classical estimations of intertemporal inequality aversion and prudence, assuming a 2 percent growth rate of consumption, they recommend a discount rate of around 3.5 percent. Ethicists are therefore less prone to investing for the future than positivists. I …

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Climate Change: Why Theories Of Justice Matter, Martha C. Nussbaum

Chicago Journal of International Law

Climate Change Justice is impressive, and one of its merits is its serious treatment of philosophical issues. Developing its philosophical aspects further will strengthen the argument, in three areas: (1) the relationship between entitlements and duties; (2) the moral status of the nation; and (3) the question of plural ends.

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The U.S. International Trade Commission's Statutory Domestic Industry Requirement Would Need To Be Amended By Congress In Order To Bar Patent Trolls, Steven F. Meyer

The International Lawyer

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Who Should Pay For Climate Change? "Not Me", Paul Baer

Chicago Journal of International Law

In Climate Change Justice, Eric A. Posner and David Weisbach argue not only that a climate treaty with significant North-to-South redistribution of wealth is infeasible, but also that to support such a treaty is counterproductive. They ague instead that all countries should support an "optimal" climate treaty, balancing marginal costs and benefits, and that side payments should go to ensure that no countries-even wealthy, high-polluting countries that are externalizing huge costs and risks-are worse off than the status quo. They justify this seeming contradiction to their welfarist moral theory by arguing that North-South redistribution is better handled in a separate …

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Living With A Changing Climate: Holocene Climate Variability And Socio-Evolutionary Trajectories, Central Turkey, Samantha Lee Allcock

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Theses

Collaborative studies between Quaternary scientists and archaeologists increasingly provide new and informative discussions about the nature and timing of cultural change and links with variation in the natural world (particularly climate). In the Eastern Mediterranean region, connecting the human past with palaeoclimate is an important research theme but the complex interactions between them are still poorly understood and past climate records have often been collected from regions distant from the human record. The thesis aims to derive a record of past climatic and environmental changes from lake sediment cores and synthesise this with archaeological data in order to reconstruct human-climate …

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Revenge Of The Steamroller: Abcp As A Window On Risk Choices, Carlos Arteta, Mark Carey, Ricardo Correa, Jason Kotter

Faculty Publications

We empirically examine financial institutions’ motivations to take systematic bad-tail risk in the form of sponsorship of credit-arbitrage asset-backed commercial paper vehicles. A run on debt issued by such vehicles played a key role in causing and propagating the liquidity crisis that began in the summer of 2007. We find evidence consistent with important roles for both ownermanager agency problems and government-induced distortions, especially government control or ownership of banks.

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Perils And Profits: A Reexamination Of The Link Between Profitability And Safety In U.S. Aviation, Peter M. Madsen

Faculty Publications

In many industries, for-profit business organizations make decisions that critically impact the safety of their employees and the public. Managers in such organizations often argue that there is no trade-off between profitability and safety because “safety is good business.” However, prior studies examining the profitability–safety relationship report inconsistent and conflicting results. In the present study, the author reexamines this issue, building on insights into managerial risk taking from the behavioral theory of the firm and hypothesizing that the slope of the profitability–safety relationship reaches an inflection point at the organizational profitability aspiration. Using data from the U.S. airline industry, the …

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Argentina's Right To Be Forgotten, Edward L. Carter

Faculty Publications

A version of the right to be forgotten emerges in Argentina.

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Weight Patterns And Perceptions Among Female University Students Of Karachi: A Cross Sectional Study, Zubaida Sirang, Hassaan Hasan Bashir, Bilal Jalil, Sarah Haroon Khan, Samia Altaf Hussain, Aneeqa Baig, Maryam Taufeeq, Kashif Samad, Muhammad Masood Kadir

Community Health Sciences

Background: Body weight and its perception play an important role in the physical and mental well-being of a person. Weight perception is found to be a better predictor of weight management behaviour as compared to actual weight. In Pakistan, studies have been done on the prevalence of weight status but weight perception is still unexplored. The study was done to examine relationships between body weight perception, actual weight status, and weight control behaviour among the female university students of Karachi.
Methods: A cross sectional study was carried out during Sep-Nov 2009 on female students in four universities of Karachi, Pakistan. …

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Behavior And Effects Of Nanoparticles In Complex Fluid Systems, Chen Wang

Doctoral Dissertations

"The development of nanoscale technologies has greatly expanded the scientific and engineering horizons and also has the potential to turn molecular discoveries into worldwide benefits on multiple fronts. Despite recent extensive efforts, the focus of nanoparticle studies has been on their synthesis and various possible derivatives. In this dissertation, molecular based modeling and simulation studies have been performed to characterize and understand the behavior, properties, and effects of nanoparticles in some important material systems. The results show that small nanoparticles that are highly faceted have significant shape effects, which are not captured by classical continuum-based approaches. When dissolved in confined …

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Cost Effectiveness Of Recycling: A Systems Model, David J. Tonjes, Sreekanth Mallikarjun

Technology & Society Faculty Publications

Financial analytical models of waste management systems have often found that recycling costs exceed direct benefits, and in order to economically justify recycling activities, externalities such as household expenses or environmental impacts must be invoked. Certain more empirically based studies have also found that recycling is more expensive than disposal. Other work, both through models and surveys, have found differently. Here we present an empirical systems model, largely drawn from a suburban Long Island municipality. The model accounts for changes in distribution of effort as recycling tonnages displace disposal tonnages, and the seven different cases examined all show that curbside …

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Degradable Plastics And Solid Waste Management Systems, David J. Tonjes, Krista L. Thyberg

Technology & Society Faculty Publications

Plastics, which are woven into the fabric of modern life, have consequential impacts on the environment. Many of these are associated with end-of-lifetime processes, and include chemical contamination of the environment and effects from litter. Plastics also complicate waste management processes, causing contamination in composting operations, and having poor recovery rates through recycling. Plastics that are not as biologically recalcitrant, that decompose when use is done, have been perceived as solutions to at least some of these problems. The first generation of degradable plastics did not meet marketing claims; some of the more recent formulations, partly as a consequence of …

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Impacts From Ditching Salt Marshes In The Mid-Atlantic And Northeastern United States, David J. Tonjes

Technology & Society Faculty Publications

Tidal inundation extent and duration, and water drainage and retention by marsh peat – marsh hydrology – determine most physical and ecological characteristics of salt marsh systems. Ditching, installed across nearly all marshes on the US East Coast by 1940 to control mosquitoes, alters marsh hydrology. Two linchpin papers are used here as springboards to review the literature that describes the resulting effects, which clearly include reduced water table height for most marshes and changes in avian populations. Effects on invertebrate populations, including mosquitoes, are generally less, although to a smaller degree than is sometimes reported. Impacts on nekton are …

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Using Elicited Oral Response Testing To Determine The Need For An Interpreter, Troy L. Cox, William G. Eggington

Faculty Publications

Hamza,' an African immigrant, travels on a domestic flight in the United States. He harmlessly flirts with his young seatmate, until she becomes angry with him and moves. When he exits the plane, the police approach him and request an interview. He quickly realizes that something serious is happening and he is being interrogated about his conversation with the young lady. He does not understand what is occurring, but because, in his culture, compliance with authority is seen as a practical and civic duty, he agrees with many of the police's statements. Unfortunately, his English language ability is too poor …

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School Of Nursing Schedule Of Classes For 2013, Winter, Stony Brook University

Winter Sessions Class Schedules

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Graduate Schedule For 2013, Winter [Winter Sessions], Stony Brook University

Winter Sessions Class Schedules

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The Law And Philosophy Of Personhood: Where Should South Dakota Abortion Law Go From Here, Brendan Pons

South Dakota Law Review

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Edison State College General Catalog 2012-2013, Edison State College

FSW Course Catalogs

Edison State College General Catalog Volume Fifty One. 2012-2013. Scanned by Internet Archive.

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Mixed Motives Speak In Different Tongues: Doctrine, Discourse, And Judicial Function In Class-Of-One Equal Protection Theory, Alex M. Hagen

South Dakota Law Review

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Chinese College Students'gender Self-Esteem And Transprejudice, Bing Chen

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The aim of this study was to examine transprejudice of college students from mainland China. Moreover, this study allowed us to determine if gender self-esteem, which may contribute to transprejudice in Western countries or individualistic societies, is also a significant contributor to transprejudice in mainland China, or a collectivistic society. We explored possible gender differences in transprejudice, and possible differences in prejudice towards transwomen and transmen. Additionally, we used Social Identity Theory to examine the possible relationship between gender self-esteem and transprejudice. Hypotheses were as follows: 1) heterosexual men would endorse more transprejudice than heterosexual women; 2) heterosexual men and …

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An Experiment To Assess The Utilization Of Adaptive Control Technology On A Cnc Lathe To Reduce Energy Consumption During Machining: A Step Towards Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing, Dean L. Bartles

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Global warming is a well-documented concern. If left unabated, many scientists believe that global warming could potentially have devastating impacts to life on earth. Current research points to greenhouse gas emissions caused by the burning of fossil fuels to produce electricity as one of the primary causes of global warming. The more electricity produced and consumed the more greenhouse gas emissions are released to the atmosphere. Industry is one of the most significant consumers of electricity. Within industry, manufacturing accounts for a significant majority of all energy consumed with machine tools being one of the largest consumers. Machine tool builders …

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Ethical Dimensions Of Corporate Governance Practice In Ghana: Building A Theoretical Perspective, Mark Boadu

Plymouth Business School Theses

Having dominated policy agenda in developed economies for well over three decades, corporate governance is now getting to the top of the policy agenda in developing countries (Abor and Adjasi, 2007). However, the issues of corporate governance have focused on the major shareholders and institutional shareholders of the organization while little or no attention has been paid to public sector and the private enterprises in developing countries. This has been ignored by the literature. This study investigates the ethical dimensions of corporate governance practice in Ghanaian public sector and private enterprises. It aims to understand the phenomena of governance practices …

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Working Memory And Executive Functioning Impairment As Endophenotypes Of Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders, Carina A. Iati

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Evidence indicates that impairments in working memory and executive functioning exist in individuals who have decompensated into schizophrenia, as well as their genetic relatives. Few studies, however, have examined whether these impairments function as premorbid indicators of vulnerability to schizophrenia-related disorders in the absence of genetic relatedness for risk determination. According to Meehl's (1962, 1990) model of schizotypy individuals vulnerable to schizophrenia-related disorders evidence subtle symptoms of vulnerability, referred to as endophenotypes, regardless of whether eventual decompensation occurs. The present study represents a cross-sectional portion of a larger longitudinal study, and investigates whether individuals who demonstrate an elevated risk for …

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Mathematics Career Simulations: An Invitation, Robb Sinn, Marnie Phipps

International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning

A simulated academic career was combined with inquiry-based learning in an upper-division undergraduate mathematics course. Concepts such as tenure, professional conferences and journals were simulated. Simulation procedures were combined with student-led, inquiry-based classroom formats. A qualitative analysis (ethnography) describes the culture that emerged within the simulation during a pilot test. A discussion follows evaluating the potential for career simulations to invite students to consider graduate studies and academic careers in the STEM disciplines.

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Weight Loss Methods And Eating Disorder Risk Factors In Collegiate Wrestlers, Jessica Rea

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Purpose: The purpose of the study is to investigate the weight loss of collegiate wrestlers and assess their risk for eating disorders (ED). Methods: Wrestlers were recruited by contacting the athletic trainer (AT) at the institution they wrestled. ATs who agreed to participate were sent an electronic link containing a survey, 143 wrestlers provided usable data. The survey was created from two surveys one allows the athlete to describe his eating behaviors and the ATHLETE questionnaire which measures risk for ED. We analyzed the data using descriptive statistics and frequencies. Results: 76.6% of wrestlers indicated binge eating; eating behaviors are …

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The Effect Of External Ankle Support On Football Specific Performance Tests And The Perception Of The Athletes That Wear Them, Matthew Cutts

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Context: Researchers and manufacturers have been looking for the optimal method to safely and adequately support the ankle joint without hindering performance. A plethora of information on sport specific performance utilizing taping and/or bracing methods exists. However, no study has compared actual performance to the athletes' perception of their performance wearing various ankle support. Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of ankle braces and taping on football performance tests and the participants' perception of the affect the ankle support had on their performance. Design: Mixed methods crossover design with 3 conditions unsupported (U), a taped …

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Weight Loss Methods And Eating Disorder Risk Factors In Collegiate Wrestlers, Jessica Rea

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Purpose: The purpose of the study is to investigate the weight loss of collegiate wrestlers and assess their risk for eating disorders (ED). Methods: Wrestlers were recruited by contacting the athletic trainer (AT) at the institution they wrestled. ATs who agreed to participate were sent an electronic link containing a survey, 143 wrestlers provided usable data. The survey was created from two surveys one allows the athlete to describe his eating behaviors and the ATHLETE questionnaire which measures risk for ED. We analyzed the data using descriptive statistics and frequencies. Results: 76.6% of wrestlers indicated binge eating; eating behaviors are …

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A Hard Pill To Swallow: A Critical Look At Eli Lilly & Co.'S Nafta Challenge Of The Canadian Patent Regime, And Its Potential Side Effects, J. Damian Hakert Ii

The International Lawyer

International Covergence On The Need For Third Parties To Become Internet Copyright Police (But Why?), Dennis S. Karjala

Richmond Journal of Global Law & Business

Transnational Legal Practice (United States), Laurel S. Terry

The International Lawyer

The Debate On Discounting: Reconciling Positivists And Ethicists, Christian Gollier

Chicago Journal of International Law

Climate Change: Why Theories Of Justice Matter, Martha C. Nussbaum

Chicago Journal of International Law

The U.S. International Trade Commission's Statutory Domestic Industry Requirement Would Need To Be Amended By Congress In Order To Bar Patent Trolls, Steven F. Meyer

The International Lawyer

Who Should Pay For Climate Change? "Not Me", Paul Baer

Chicago Journal of International Law

Living With A Changing Climate: Holocene Climate Variability And Socio-Evolutionary Trajectories, Central Turkey, Samantha Lee Allcock

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Theses

Revenge Of The Steamroller: Abcp As A Window On Risk Choices, Carlos Arteta, Mark Carey, Ricardo Correa, Jason Kotter

Faculty Publications

Perils And Profits: A Reexamination Of The Link Between Profitability And Safety In U.S. Aviation, Peter M. Madsen

Faculty Publications

Argentina's Right To Be Forgotten, Edward L. Carter

Faculty Publications

Weight Patterns And Perceptions Among Female University Students Of Karachi: A Cross Sectional Study, Zubaida Sirang, Hassaan Hasan Bashir, Bilal Jalil, Sarah Haroon Khan, Samia Altaf Hussain, Aneeqa Baig, Maryam Taufeeq, Kashif Samad, Muhammad Masood Kadir

Community Health Sciences

Behavior And Effects Of Nanoparticles In Complex Fluid Systems, Chen Wang

Doctoral Dissertations

Cost Effectiveness Of Recycling: A Systems Model, David J. Tonjes, Sreekanth Mallikarjun

Technology & Society Faculty Publications

Degradable Plastics And Solid Waste Management Systems, David J. Tonjes, Krista L. Thyberg

Technology & Society Faculty Publications

Impacts From Ditching Salt Marshes In The Mid-Atlantic And Northeastern United States, David J. Tonjes

Technology & Society Faculty Publications

Using Elicited Oral Response Testing To Determine The Need For An Interpreter, Troy L. Cox, William G. Eggington

Faculty Publications

School Of Nursing Schedule Of Classes For 2013, Winter, Stony Brook University

Winter Sessions Class Schedules

Graduate Schedule For 2013, Winter [Winter Sessions], Stony Brook University

Winter Sessions Class Schedules

The Law And Philosophy Of Personhood: Where Should South Dakota Abortion Law Go From Here, Brendan Pons

South Dakota Law Review

Edison State College General Catalog 2012-2013, Edison State College

FSW Course Catalogs

Mixed Motives Speak In Different Tongues: Doctrine, Discourse, And Judicial Function In Class-Of-One Equal Protection Theory, Alex M. Hagen

South Dakota Law Review

Chinese College Students'gender Self-Esteem And Transprejudice, Bing Chen

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

An Experiment To Assess The Utilization Of Adaptive Control Technology On A Cnc Lathe To Reduce Energy Consumption During Machining: A Step Towards Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing, Dean L. Bartles

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Ethical Dimensions Of Corporate Governance Practice In Ghana: Building A Theoretical Perspective, Mark Boadu

Plymouth Business School Theses

Working Memory And Executive Functioning Impairment As Endophenotypes Of Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders, Carina A. Iati

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Mathematics Career Simulations: An Invitation, Robb Sinn, Marnie Phipps

International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning

Weight Loss Methods And Eating Disorder Risk Factors In Collegiate Wrestlers, Jessica Rea

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The Effect Of External Ankle Support On Football Specific Performance Tests And The Perception Of The Athletes That Wear Them, Matthew Cutts

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Weight Loss Methods And Eating Disorder Risk Factors In Collegiate Wrestlers, Jessica Rea

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations