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Symposium: Introduction: The Fortieth Anniversary Of Title Ix, Erin E. Buzuvis

Faculty Scholarship

The five articles in this Symposium issue reflect on harassment and bullying in schools, the equal treatment of a high school girls basketball team, and an annotated bibliography on the subject. The articles speak to the effectiveness of Title IX legislation.

Securing Equal Access To Sex-Segregated Facilities For Transgender Students, Harper Jean Tobin, Jennifer L. Levi

Faculty Scholarship

If Title IX is to have any real meaning for transgender students, it must protect a student's ability to live and participate in school as a member of the gender with which they identify. This means that students must be permitted to use gender-segregated spaces, including restrooms and locker rooms, consistent with their gender identity, without restriction. Denial of equal access to facilities that correspond to a student's gender identity singles out and stigmatizes transgender students, inflicts humiliation and trauma, interferes with medical treatment, and empowers bullies. A student subjected to these conditions is, by definition, deprived of an equal …

Primary Care Physician Assistants In Nebraska, Soumitra S. Bhuyan, Marlene Deras, Tamara S. Ritsema, Michael J. Huckabee, Jim P. Stimpson

Reports: Center for Health Policy

No abstract provided.

Center For Health Policy Inaugural Report, Jim P. Stimpson

Reports: Center for Health Policy

No abstract provided.

Grand Bargains For Big Data: The Emerging Law Of Health Information, Frank Pasquale

Maryland Law Review

No abstract provided.

Strickland-Lite: Padilla’S Two-Tiered Duty For Noncitizens, César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández

Maryland Law Review

No abstract provided.

Maryland's Family Division: Sensible Justice For Families And Children, Barbara A. Babb

Maryland Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Maryland Legal Aid Bureau: Decades Of Service And Reform, José Felipé Anderson

Maryland Law Review

No abstract provided.

Introduction: Connecting The Dots Between Two Parallel Worlds, Rena Steinzor

Maryland Law Review

No abstract provided.

When Strong Enforcement Works Better Than Weak Regulation: The Epa/Doj New Source Review Enforcement Initiative, Thomas O. Mcgarity

Maryland Law Review

No abstract provided.

Lefemine V. Wideman: Entrenching Judicial Confusion And Beckoning A More Streamlined Analysis Of First Amendment Violations In The Anti-Abortion Protest Context, Blake Lauren Walsh

Maryland Law Review

No abstract provided.

Too Big To Jail Or Too Abstract (Or Rich?) To Care, Victor B. Flatt

Maryland Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Commerce Clause And Executive Power: Exploring Nascent Individual Rights In National Federation Of Independent Business V. Sebelius, Ronald Kahn

Maryland Law Review

No abstract provided.

De-Naturalizing Criminal Law: Of Public Perceptions And Procedural Protections, Benjamin Levin

Scholarship@WashULaw

In this essay, I examine and challenge the rhetorical trope of the guilty going free by emphasizing the institutional and political intricacies that comprise the criminal justice system and necessarily under-gird a determination of “guilt”. My goal, at its essence, is to de-naturalize the criminal law and discussions of the criminal justice system in the context of this symposium. I aim to emphasize that a guilty verdict is the result of a series of (politically-inflected) decisions about how to draft criminal statutes, how to structure a trial, and how to select a jury. De-naturalizing criminal law is, of course, a …

Keeping Abreast Of The Literature..., Sarah Sobonya

Neureuther Book Collection Essay Competition

Graduate Winner: 1st Place, 2013. 26th Annual Carl Neureuther Student Book Collection Competition.

The Ole Miss, University Of Mississippi

The Ole Miss (1897-)

The Ole Miss Annual 2013

Three Paradoxes Of Big Data, Neil M. Richards, Jonathan H. King

Scholarship@WashULaw

Big data is all the rage. Its proponents tout the use of sophisticated analytics to mine large data sets for insight as the solution to many of our society’s problems. These big data evangelists insist that data-driven decision making can now give us better predictions in areas ranging from college admissions to dating to hiring to medicine to national security and crime prevention. But much of the rhetoric of big data contains no meaningful analysis of its potential perils, only the promise. We don’t deny that big data holds substantial potential for the future, and that large dataset analysis has …

The Perils Of Social Reading, Neil M. Richards

Scholarship@WashULaw

Our law currently treats records of our reading habits under two contradictory rules: rules mandating confidentiality and rules permitting disclosure. Recently, the rise of the social Internet has created more of these records and more pressures on when and how they should be shared. Companies like Facebook, in collaboration with many newspapers, have ushered in the era of “social reading,” in which what we read may be “frictionlessly shared” with our friends and acquaintances. Disclosure and sharing are on the rise.

This Article sounds a cautionary note about social reading and frictionless sharing. Social reading might have some appeal, but …

Building A Taxonomy Of Litigation: Clusters Of Causes Of Action In Federal Complaints, Christina L. Boyd, David A. Hoffman, Zoran Obradovic, Kosta Ristovski

Scholarship@WashULaw

This project empirically explores civil litigation from its inception by examining the content of civil complaints. We utilize spectral cluster analysis on a newly compiled federal district court dataset of causes of action in complaints to illustrate the relationship of legal claims to one another, the broader composition of lawsuits in trial courts, and the breadth of pleading in individual complaints. Our results shed light not only on the networks of legal theories in civil litigation but also on how lawsuits are classified and the strategies that plaintiffs and their attorneys employ when commencing litigation. This approach permits us to …

Economic Theory Lost In Translation: Will Behavioral Economics Reshape The Compelled Commercial Speech Doctrine, Kyle Rozema

Scholarship@WashULaw

This Article consolidates the economic and legal theory needed to properly analyze the impact of salience measures on the commercial speech doctrine. By walking through various First Amendment scenarios, this Article describes and differentiates between the two main governmental interests motivating graphic image requirements on cigarette labels: reducing smoking and informing consumers. The Article then sets up a game-theoretic model of the compelled commercial speech doctrine and uses Bayesian inference to make assumptions about how the Supreme Court would rule if it eventually rules on similar graphic images placed on cigarette labels. Solving the model by way of forward induction …

Operating Room Holds: How One Pacu Worked Collaboratively To Solve The Problem (Poster), Jodi Koch Bsn, Rn, Kathleen Duckworth Rn, Cpan

Patient Care Services / Nursing

No abstract provided.

Psychiatric Nursing Care For Patients With Cardiac Disease, Gail Stern Msn, Donna Petruccelli Msn, Crnp, Np-C, Jeanne Manavizadeh Bsn, Rn, Pccn

Patient Care Services / Nursing

No abstract provided.

Initial Results Tracking Patient Satisfaction In An Oncology Navigation Program, Dorothy Morrone Rnc, Ms, Ocn, Diane Mchugh Bsn, Ocn, Cbpn-Ic, Laura Beaupre Bsn, Ocn, Cbpn-Ic, Kathy Sevedge Rn, Ma, Aocn, Jane Zubia Rn, Ocn, Cbpn I-C, Raizalie Roman-Rosado Bsn, Ocn, Cmsrn, Martiza Y. Chicas Rn, Pccn

Patient Care Services / Nursing

No abstract provided.

Cholera Outbreaks In Nigeria Are Associated With Multidrug Resistant Atypical El Tor And Non-O1/Non-O139 Vibrio Cholerae., M. A. Marin, Cristiane C. Thompson, F. S. Freitas, E. L. Fonseca, Iruka N. Okeke

Biology Faculty Scholarship

Background

The current millennium has seen a steep rise in the number, size and case-fatalities of cholera outbreaks in many African countries. Over 40,000 cases of cholera were reported from Nigeria in 2010. Variants of Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor biotype have emerged but very little is known about strains causing cholera outbreaks in West Africa, which is crucial for the implementation of interventions to control epidemic cholera.

Methodology/Principal Findings

V. cholerae isolates from outbreaks of acute watery diarrhea in Nigeria from December, 2009 to October, 2010 were identified by standard culture methods. Fifteen O1 and five non-O1/non-O139 strains were …

Patient Rounding: Improving The Process Through On-Line Documentation, Marjorie Lavin Rn, Ms, Cnrn

Patient Care Services / Nursing

No abstract provided.

Winning The Battle Against Surgical Site Infections, Lisa Farthing Msn, Rn, Cnor, Michelle Reigard Rn, Cnor

Patient Care Services / Nursing

No abstract provided.

Planning Prompts As A Means Of Increasing Preventive Screening Rates, Katherine L. Milkman, John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian

Faculty Publications

In the U.S., 18,800 lives could be saved annually if those advised to obtain colorectal screenings based on national guidelines complied (Zauber et al., 2012). Subtle suggestions embedded in a decision-making environment can change people's choices (Thaler and Sunstein, 2008). Past research has shown that prompting people to form plans about where and when they will complete an intended behavior increases engagement in activities ranging from voting to vaccination (Gollwitzer and Sheeran, 2006; Milkman et al., 2011; Nickerson and Rogers, 2010). When plans are formed, they link intended behaviors with a concrete future moment and course of action, creating cues …

Virginia Dental Journal (Vol. 90, No. 4, 2013)

Virginia Dental Journal

No abstract provided.

Virginia Dental Journal (Vol. 90, No. 1, 2013)

Virginia Dental Journal

No abstract provided.

Genome-Wide Association Analysis Of Aluminum Tolerance In Cultivated And Tibetan Wild Barley, Shengguan Cai, Dezhi Wu, Zahra Jabeen, Yuqing Huang, Yechang Huang, Guoping Zhang

Publications

Tibetan wild barley (Hordeum vulgare L. ssp. spontaneum), originated and grown in harsh enviroNment in Tibet, is well-known for its rich germpalsm with high tolerance to abiotic stresses. However, the genetic variation and genes involved in Al tolerance are not totally known for the wild barley. In this study, a genome-wide association analysis (GWAS) was performed by using four root parameters related with Al tolerance and 469 DArT markers on 7 chromosomes within or across 110 Tibetan wild accessions and 56 cultivated cultivars. Population structure and cluster analysis revealed that a wide genetic diversity was present in Tibetan wild barley. …