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The Opportunities For And Hurdles To Combined Heat And Power In New York City, Alexis Saba, Bianca Howard, Michael Gerrard, Vijay Modi Jan 2013

The Opportunities For And Hurdles To Combined Heat And Power In New York City, Alexis Saba, Bianca Howard, Michael Gerrard, Vijay Modi

Faculty Scholarship

This paper first seeks to quantify the potential for CHP development in New York City and describe the primary hurdles to optimal deployment in Parts I and II. Part III provides policy solutions for overcoming these hurdles and recommendations for how stakeholders can use information and analysis to maximize the opportunities for CHP.


Reducing Courts’ Failure-To-Appear Rate By Written Reminders, Brian H. Bornstein, Alan Tomkins, Elizabeth Neeley, Mitchel Herian, Joseph A. Hamm Jan 2013

Reducing Courts’ Failure-To-Appear Rate By Written Reminders, Brian H. Bornstein, Alan Tomkins, Elizabeth Neeley, Mitchel Herian, Joseph A. Hamm

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

This article examines the effectiveness of using different kinds of written reminders to reduce misdemeanor defendants’ failure- to-appear (FTA) rates. A subset of defendants was surveyed after their scheduled court date to assess their perceptions of procedural justice and trust and confidence in the courts. Reminders reduced FTA overall, and more substantive reminders (e.g., with information on the negative consequences of FTA) were more effective than a simple reminder. FTA varied depending on several offense and offender characteristics, such as geographic location (urban vs. rural), type of offense, and number of offenses. The reminders were somewhat more effective for Whites …


The Bulletin, Undergraduate Catalog 2013-2014 (2013), Minnesota State University Moorhead Jan 2013

The Bulletin, Undergraduate Catalog 2013-2014 (2013), Minnesota State University Moorhead

Undergraduate Bulletins (Catalogs)

No abstract provided.


Graduate Bulletin, 2013-2014, Minnesota State University Moorhead Jan 2013

Graduate Bulletin, 2013-2014, Minnesota State University Moorhead

Graduate Bulletins (Catalogs)

No abstract provided.


Access Denied: The "Facebook Law" And Illinois' Evolving Workplace Protections, Steven A. Montalto Jan 2013

Access Denied: The "Facebook Law" And Illinois' Evolving Workplace Protections, Steven A. Montalto

Public Interest Law Reporter

No abstract provided.


League Structure & Stadium Rent Seeking - The Role Of Antitrust Revisited, David Haddock, Tonja Jacobi, Matthew Sag Jan 2013

League Structure & Stadium Rent Seeking - The Role Of Antitrust Revisited, David Haddock, Tonja Jacobi, Matthew Sag

Faculty Articles

Professional North American sporting teams receive enormous pub for new and renovated stadiums after threatening to depart their hometowns, or by actually moving elsewhere. In contrast, English sporting teams neither receive much public money for such projects, nor move towns. This Article argues that no inherent cultural or political transatlantic variations cause the differences; rather, it is the industrial organization of sports in the two countries-the structure of league control-that enables rent-seeking by American teams but not by their English counterparts. Cross-country time series data contrasting American professional football and baseball stadiums with English soccer grounds support our claim, as …


Current Constitutional Issues In Canada, John M. Evans Jan 2013

Current Constitutional Issues In Canada, John M. Evans

Articles & Book Chapters

No abstract provided.


Incarceration And The Economic Fortunes Of Urban Neighborhoods, Jeffrey A. Fagan, Valerie West Jan 2013

Incarceration And The Economic Fortunes Of Urban Neighborhoods, Jeffrey A. Fagan, Valerie West

Faculty Scholarship

This chapter turns to the response of the criminal justice system to neighborhood violence, in particular examining to what extent persistently high levels of incarceration can depress economic well-being and human capital in disadvantaged and racially segregated communities. A panel analysis of New York City neighborhoods between 1985 and 1996, a period in which the city's violent-crime rates both rose and fell sharply, provides evidence that high incarceration rates reduce income growth, educational attainment, and work experience in disadvantaged and racially segregated neighborhoods. To rectify this, targeted micro investment and housing development in such areas can break the connection between …


Private Standards Organizations And Public Law, Peter L. Strauss Jan 2013

Private Standards Organizations And Public Law, Peter L. Strauss

Faculty Scholarship

Simplified, universal access to law is one of the important transformations worked by the digital age. With the replacement of physical by digital copies, citizens ordinarily need travel only to the nearest computer to find and read the texts that bind them. Lagging behind this development, however, has been computer access to standards developed by private standards development organizations, often under the umbrella of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), and then converted by agency actions incorporating them by reference into legal obligations. To discover what colors the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) requires for use in work-place caution …


Miller V. Alabama And The (Past And) Future Of Juvenile Crime Regulation, Elizabeth S. Scott Jan 2013

Miller V. Alabama And The (Past And) Future Of Juvenile Crime Regulation, Elizabeth S. Scott

Faculty Scholarship

This essay was the keynote address for a symposium on Miller v Alabama, the 2012 Supreme Court opinion holding unconstitutional under the Eighth Amendment a statute imposing a mandatory sentence of life without parole for juveniles convicted of homicide. The essay argues that Miller embodies a way of thinking about juvenile crime that has taken hold in the early 21st century – an approach that emphasizes the importance for legal policy of developmental differences between juveniles and adults. This emerging trend contrasts sharply with the regulatory approach of the 1990s when moral panics over juvenile crime fueled punitive law reforms …


Remaining Silent After Salinas, Brandon L. Garrett Jan 2013

Remaining Silent After Salinas, Brandon L. Garrett

Faculty Scholarship

In its ruling last Term in Salinas v Texas, the Supreme Court further eroded what little remains of the Fifth Amendment jurisprudence protecting against coercive police questioning of suspects. In this short piece for the University of Chicago Law Review's online Dialogue, I explore the Salinas decision and its implications. I argue that the result encourages precisely the types of informal, undocumented questioning that can cause false confessions and wrongful convictions.


Simplifying The Standard Of Review In North Carolina Administrative Appeals, Sarah H. Ludington Jan 2013

Simplifying The Standard Of Review In North Carolina Administrative Appeals, Sarah H. Ludington

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


The Regulation And Control Of Bail Recovery Agents: An Exploratory Study, Brian R. Johnson, Ruth S. Stevens Jan 2013

The Regulation And Control Of Bail Recovery Agents: An Exploratory Study, Brian R. Johnson, Ruth S. Stevens

Peer Reviewed Publications

This article explores the current status of the licensing and regulation of bail recovery agents in the United States. By reviewing state legislative and administrative codes in all the 50 states, this study found that 24 states control bail recovery agents through licensure or the imposition of other occupational regulations. These state controls include age, criminal history, and pretraining and educational requirements; some states also require continuing education and training for licensure and/or regulation. In contrast, 18 states have no licensing or other occupational requirements for bail recovery agents. These findings raise questions about the actual utility and function of …


The Republican Primaries In 140 Characters: How The 2012 Candidates Used Twitter To Mobilize Their Supporters, Interact With Them And Frame The Campaign, Ben S. Wasike Jan 2013

The Republican Primaries In 140 Characters: How The 2012 Candidates Used Twitter To Mobilize Their Supporters, Interact With Them And Frame The Campaign, Ben S. Wasike

Communication Faculty Publications

This study used content analysis to examine how the 2012 Republican candidates used Twitter to mobilize their supporters, interact with them, frame campaign issues and frame their opponents. The results indicated that Santorum has used Twitter the most. The most popular mobilization tactics were announcing appearances and voter recruitment. However, the candidates minimally used Twitter to frame campaign issues. Overall, the candidates’ use of Twitter was limited. Pertinent implications for the 2012 presidential elections are discussed.


Salute To Faculty Scholarship 2013, Clark University Jan 2013

Salute To Faculty Scholarship 2013, Clark University

Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


Awas Tingni V. Nicaragua Reconsidered: Grounding Indigenous Peoples' Land Rights In Religious Freedom, Bryan Neihart Jan 2013

Awas Tingni V. Nicaragua Reconsidered: Grounding Indigenous Peoples' Land Rights In Religious Freedom, Bryan Neihart

Denver Journal of International Law & Policy

No abstract provided.


Discovere, 2013-2014, Vol. 4, No. 1, Eastern Washington University. Academic Affairs Jan 2013

Discovere, 2013-2014, Vol. 4, No. 1, Eastern Washington University. Academic Affairs

EWU Research Magazines

This issue contains articles on Eastern professor taking students on rare research trip, partnership and history between EWU and federal government, Eastern wins right to host prestigious national research conference, computer science students work on real-world computer applications used by university and community


Financial Inclusion And Natural Disasters, Benjamin L. Collier Jan 2013

Financial Inclusion And Natural Disasters, Benjamin L. Collier

Theses and Dissertations--Agricultural Economics

This dissertation explores the implications of natural disaster risk for access to financial services, especially credit. Its results show that disasters can dramatically undermine the ability of financial intermediaries (FIs) to lend after an event, increasing the cost of the disaster and delaying recovery. Moreover, the risk of natural disasters discourages investment in vulnerable regions and economic sectors and so slows economic development. Financial risk transfer mechanisms such as insurance can help maintain lending following an event. While many international development projects have targeted disaster insurance markets to households, managing disaster-related credit risk may be done more effectively through insurance …


Fighting Cybercrime After United States V. Jones, David Gray, Danielle Keats Citron, Liz Clark Rinehart Jan 2013

Fighting Cybercrime After United States V. Jones, David Gray, Danielle Keats Citron, Liz Clark Rinehart

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


Cybersurveillance Without Restraint? The Meaning And Social Value Of The Probable Cause And Reasonable Suspicion Standards In Governmental Access To Third-Party Electronic Records, Andrew E. Taslitz Jan 2013

Cybersurveillance Without Restraint? The Meaning And Social Value Of The Probable Cause And Reasonable Suspicion Standards In Governmental Access To Third-Party Electronic Records, Andrew E. Taslitz

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.


'You Are Hereby Sentenced To A Term Of . . . Enslavement?': Why Prisoners Cannot Be Exempt From Thirteenth Amendment Protection, Alvaro Hasani Jan 2013

'You Are Hereby Sentenced To A Term Of . . . Enslavement?': Why Prisoners Cannot Be Exempt From Thirteenth Amendment Protection, Alvaro Hasani

Barry Law Review

No abstract provided.


White Men As The New Victims: Reverse Discrimination Cases And The Men's Rights Movement, Bethany M. Coston, Michael Kimmel Jan 2013

White Men As The New Victims: Reverse Discrimination Cases And The Men's Rights Movement, Bethany M. Coston, Michael Kimmel

Nevada Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Shelton V. Secretary, Department Of Corrections: A Constitutional Challenge To Florida's Drug Law, Noah Al-Malt Jan 2013

Shelton V. Secretary, Department Of Corrections: A Constitutional Challenge To Florida's Drug Law, Noah Al-Malt

Barry Law Review

No abstract provided.


Sexual Privacy In The Internet Age: How Substantive Due Process Protects Online Obscenity, Jennifer M. Kinsley Jan 2013

Sexual Privacy In The Internet Age: How Substantive Due Process Protects Online Obscenity, Jennifer M. Kinsley

Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law

Obscenity is one of the narrow categories of speech that has historically lacked First Amendment free-speech protection, and courts and scholars alike have wrestled with the indefinable and often unworkable nature of the obscenity test. The advent of the Internet has both intensified and yet potentially resolved these problems. Recent Supreme Court cases, such as Lawrence v. Texas, suggest that sexually explicit expression that falls outside the scope of the First Amendment may nevertheless be entitled to privacy protection under Fourteenth Amendment substantive due process. Yet Lawrence's potential applicability to online obscenity has created tension in lower-court decisions and produced …


Tropical Cyclone Intensity Estimation Using Temporal And Spatial Features From Satellite Data, Gholamreza Fetanat Haghighi Jan 2013

Tropical Cyclone Intensity Estimation Using Temporal And Spatial Features From Satellite Data, Gholamreza Fetanat Haghighi

Dissertations

Accurate intensity estimation of tropical cyclones (TC) is an important topic of research due to its economic impact and public safety concerns. An accurate measure of the current wind strength is necessary to accurately predict TC intensity. We have developed and tested automated method to estimate TC intensity based on the existing historical satellite images alone. The Hurricane Satellite data (HURSAT-B1) is used to develop the algorithm, which focuses on the North Atlantic from 1978-2009. The algorithm is trained and validated using aircraft reconnaissance-based data. Here, the data is restricted to include only fixes that are over water and are …


With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: Proposed Principles Of Digital Due Process For Ict Companies, Dawn C. Nunziato Jan 2013

With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: Proposed Principles Of Digital Due Process For Ict Companies, Dawn C. Nunziato

GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works

Information and Communications Technology (ICT) companies like Google/YouTube, Facebook, Yahoo, and Twitter are in control of an enormous amount of expression on the Internet. More so than any individual country, these companies are responsible for making decisions with regard to a vast amount of Internet expression. They host billions of pages of Internet content, while responding on a daily basis to countless requests from countries and individuals around the world to take down content that is deemed objectionable or illegal. These powerful ICT companies have become the de facto sovereigns of cyberspace, with the power to balance freedom of expression …


Annual Report Fiscal Years 2011 And 2012, Tennessee. Commission On Children And Youth. Jan 2013

Annual Report Fiscal Years 2011 And 2012, Tennessee. Commission On Children And Youth.

Annual Report

No abstract provided.


Estimating Willingness To Pay For River Amenities And Safety Measures Associated With Shale Gas Extraction, Thomas C. Kinnaman Jan 2013

Estimating Willingness To Pay For River Amenities And Safety Measures Associated With Shale Gas Extraction, Thomas C. Kinnaman

Faculty Journal Articles

This paper utilizes a Contingent Valuation Method survey of a random sample of residents to estimate that households are willing to pay an average of $12.00 per month for public projects designed to improve river access and $10.46 per month for additional safety measures that would eliminate risks to local watersheds from drilling for natural gas from underground shale formations. These estimates can be compared to the costs of providing each of these two amenities to help foster the formation of efficient policy decisions.


Table Of Contents Jan 2013

Table Of Contents

Richmond Journal of Law and the Public Interest

The issue examines two areas of the law: the impact of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act ("RLUIPA") and controversial issues on the outer edges of evidence law.


House Bills Jan 2013

House Bills

Richmond Journal of Law and the Public Interest

Listing of House bills from the 2013 General Assembly