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High Federalism: Marijuana Legalization And The Limits Of Federal Power To Regulate States, David S. Schwartz Dec 2013

High Federalism: Marijuana Legalization And The Limits Of Federal Power To Regulate States, David S. Schwartz

Cardozo Law Review

The conflict between state marijuana legalization and the blanket federal marijuana prohibition of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) has created a federalism crisis in which the duties of state officials to adhere to state or federal law are unclear. Current federalism doctrine cannot even tell us whether or not a local police officer who encounters a person in state-authorized possession of marijuana must arrest the person and seize the marijuana. The two most clearly applicable federalism doctrines - the Tenth Amendment anti-commmandeering doctrine and federal preemption of state law under the Supremacy Clause - offer only unsatisfactory answers. Anti-commandeering doctrine …

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Engaging Men As Fathers: The Courts, The Law, And Father-Absence In Low-Income Families, Laurie S. Kohn Dec 2013

Engaging Men As Fathers: The Courts, The Law, And Father-Absence In Low-Income Families, Laurie S. Kohn

Cardozo Law Review

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Cosmopolitanism In Constitutional Law, Vlad Perju Dec 2013

Cosmopolitanism In Constitutional Law, Vlad Perju

Cardozo Law Review

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Art Or Signage?: The Regulation Of Outdoor Murals And The First Amendment, Christina Chloe Orlando Dec 2013

Art Or Signage?: The Regulation Of Outdoor Murals And The First Amendment, Christina Chloe Orlando

Cardozo Law Review

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Curbing Overzealous Prosecution Of The Espionage Act: Thomas Andrews Drake And The Case For Judicial Intervention At Sentencing, Pamela Takefman Dec 2013

Curbing Overzealous Prosecution Of The Espionage Act: Thomas Andrews Drake And The Case For Judicial Intervention At Sentencing, Pamela Takefman

Cardozo Law Review

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A Seasonal, Density-Dependent Model For The Management Of An Invasive Weed, Esther Shyu, Eleanor A. Pardini, Tiffany M. Knight, Hal Caswell Dec 2013

A Seasonal, Density-Dependent Model For The Management Of An Invasive Weed, Esther Shyu, Eleanor A. Pardini, Tiffany M. Knight, Hal Caswell

Biology Faculty Research

The population effects of harvest depend on complex interactions between density dependence, seasonality, stage structure, and management timing. Here we present a periodic nonlinear matrix population model that incorporates seasonal density dependence with stage-selective and seasonally selective harvest. To this model, we apply newly developed perturbation analyses to determine how population densities respond to changes in harvest and demographic parameters. We use the model to examine the effects of popular control strategies and demographic perturbations on the invasive weed garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata). We find that seasonality is a major factor in harvest outcomes, because population dynamics may …

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Iranian Democracy: A Century Of Struggle, Setback, And Progress, Bridget Marie Heing Dec 2013

Iranian Democracy: A Century Of Struggle, Setback, And Progress, Bridget Marie Heing

All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)

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Classification Of Malicious Web Traffic, Goce Anastasovski Dec 2013

Classification Of Malicious Web Traffic, Goce Anastasovski

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Attacks targeting Web system vulnerabilities have shown an increasing trend in the recent past. A contributing factor in this trend is the deployment of Web 2.0 technologies. Due to the ability of users to create their own content, Web 2.0 applications have become increasingly popular and in turn this has made them attractive targets for malicious attacks. Given these trends there is a need to better understand and classify malicious cyber activities. The work presented in this thesis is based on malicious data collected by three high-interaction honeypots, and organized in HTTP sessions, each characterized by 43 different features. The …

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Essays On Evidence-Based Design As Related To Buildings And Occupant Health, John Christopher Haddox Dec 2013

Essays On Evidence-Based Design As Related To Buildings And Occupant Health, John Christopher Haddox

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

This dissertation is comprised of three essays that explore the connections between buildings and their impacts on outcomes associated with occupant health. The essays are: 1. The Effect of Certified Green Office Buildings on Occupant Health: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, 2. Understanding Evidence-Based Design Through a Review of the Literature, 3. Future Directions for Evidence-Based Design in Health Care Facilities.;Essay one, entitled The Effect of Certified Green Office Buildings on Occupant Heath: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, explores the connections between certified green office buildings and their impacts on occupant health via the application of a systematic review and …

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Doubling On Euphonium And Tuba: A Guide For Euphonium Players, Matthew Murchison Dec 2013

Doubling On Euphonium And Tuba: A Guide For Euphonium Players, Matthew Murchison

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

As a euphonium player there has basically been one viable career option: the military. However in the past ten years or so, more and more euphonium players have begun to seriously double on tuba in professional situations. This gives euphonium players a newfound career potential. While more and more euphonium players have been learning to play tuba, there is not yet a written method describing the best way in which to accomplish the task.;The purpose of this research project is to create a set of daily exercises through which a euphonium player may learn to play tuba. This method is …

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Simulation Of Multi-Component Gas Flow And Condensation In Marcellus Shale Reservoir, Abdallah Elamin Dec 2013

Simulation Of Multi-Component Gas Flow And Condensation In Marcellus Shale Reservoir, Abdallah Elamin

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

The Marcellus shale formation, with more than 463 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) of recoverable gas in Pennsylvania and West Virginia, will play a critical role in providing clean energy, environmental sustainability, and increased security for our nation. However, due to recent low gas prices, most of the operating companies have slowed down their activities in dry gas areas and refocused their attention in oil and condensate production from liquid-rich regions. This change in production plans requires detailed investigation of gas condensate bank developments and saturation dynamics in shale gas reservoirs that change greatly with reservoir conditions. An advanced level of …

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Africa, Appalachia, And Acculturation: The History Of Bluegrass Music, Charles W. Perryman Dec 2013

Africa, Appalachia, And Acculturation: The History Of Bluegrass Music, Charles W. Perryman

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Though primarily associated with white Southerners, bluegrass music is actually the product of over three hundred years of black and white musical interaction that occurred in the American Southeast. This document begins by reviewing the first complete definition of bluegrass music written by Mayne Smith. It then proceeds to explore the history of cross cultural exchanges in the South, particularly in the Appalachian Mountains, that began when the first slaves were brought to the New World. In the South, these interactions created the folk music that would eventually develop into country music and later bluegrass in the twentieth century. Black …

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Temporal, Spatial, And Environmental Influences On The Demographics And Harvest Vulnerability Of American Black Bears (Ursus Americanus ) In Urban Habitats In New Jersey, Pennsylvania And West Virginia, Andrew Tri Dec 2013

Temporal, Spatial, And Environmental Influences On The Demographics And Harvest Vulnerability Of American Black Bears (Ursus Americanus ) In Urban Habitats In New Jersey, Pennsylvania And West Virginia, Andrew Tri

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

To date, no research studies in the eastern United States have addressed the spatial ecology of black bears (Ursus americanus) in urban and suburban habitats, and there is limited information regarding black bear space use, habitat selection, and harvest vulnerability. I assessed the harvest vulnerability, home range size, and spatial ecology of black bears in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia in collaboration with the New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife, Pennsylvania Game Commission, and the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources. The major objectives of my study were to identify and quantitatively assess: (1) if black bears shift …

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Determining Transportation And Development Impacts Of Consolidated Schools In West Virginia, Bradley J. Dicola Dec 2013

Determining Transportation And Development Impacts Of Consolidated Schools In West Virginia, Bradley J. Dicola

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

School consolidation has become commonplace in the West Virginia, with a declining student population as West Virginia has lost population over the last several decades. Consolidated schools offer school districts the opportunity to provide greater offerings in terms of coursework and extracurricular activities, while also allowing a reduction in some operating costs since fewer facilities are maintained and few administrative staff are needed to operate them. Consolidation also has impacts on school transportation, both in terms of time and mode choice, as well as the impact on land use patterns around the consolidated school facility.;This research seeks to help quantify …

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Altered Hemodynamic Control In The Skeletal Muscle Microcirculation In The Metabolic Syndrome: The Emergence Of A New Attractor, Joshua Thomas Butcher Dec 2013

Altered Hemodynamic Control In The Skeletal Muscle Microcirculation In The Metabolic Syndrome: The Emergence Of A New Attractor, Joshua Thomas Butcher

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Peripheral vascular disease is a pathological disease state whereby the peripheral vascular system becomes progressively limited in its ability to adequately perfuse extremities despite increases in metabolic demand. One of the primary risk factors for development of peripheral disease is the Metabolic Syndrome. It is the presentation of three simultaneous comorbidities, with obesity being the most common denominator in most metabolic syndrome patients, but also including a pro-inflammatory state, pro-oxidant state, pro-thrombotic state, increased blood pressure, atherogenic dyslipidemia, or insulin resistance. Currently, the population of the United States is approximately 75% overweight, obese, or extremely obese and the prevalence of …

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Science Teaching Efficacy Beliefs And The Lived Experience Of Preservice Elementary Teachers, Karen A. Kettler Dec 2013

Science Teaching Efficacy Beliefs And The Lived Experience Of Preservice Elementary Teachers, Karen A. Kettler

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

The current study utilized a mixed methods approach to examine the science teaching efficacy beliefs (STEB) of preservice elementary teachers as they participated in a Science Methods course. The following questions were addressed using quantitative survey data and qualitative interviews: What are the STEB of preservice elementary teachers as they progress through a Science Methods course?; How do the STEB of preservice elementary teachers with higher and lower personal science teaching efficacy (PSTE) beliefs change as they progress through a Science Methods course?; What is the nature of the lived experiences of preservice elementary teachers with higher and lower PSTE …

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A Versatile Method Of Resolution Enhancement For Tactile Sensor Array Used As Synthetic Skin: Modeling And Implementation, Karen Flores De Jesus Dec 2013

A Versatile Method Of Resolution Enhancement For Tactile Sensor Array Used As Synthetic Skin: Modeling And Implementation, Karen Flores De Jesus

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Tactile sensors are one of the major devices that enable robotic systems to interact with the surrounding environment. In particular, modern assistive robotic systems need to carry out many human-like activities. Thus, it is desired to have sensor arrays that can acquire different environmental information just like human skin. In the past two decades, various types of tactile sensor arrays have been developed to acquire different physical properties, such as temperature, force, and geometric shapes. However, though the measurement of a single sensor can be accurate, the planar resolution is limited due to fabrication difficulties. This research aims to propose …

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The Science Of Team Science: Exploring Principal Investigator Leadership Style And Team Collaboration Satisfaction, Stephenie K. Kennedy Dec 2013

The Science Of Team Science: Exploring Principal Investigator Leadership Style And Team Collaboration Satisfaction, Stephenie K. Kennedy

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

This study examined the relationship between the leadership style of principal investigators (PIs) of interdisciplinary research teams at academic health science centers and the collaboration satisfaction of their team members. Two stage sampling was used. One hundred NIH-funded principal investigators at eight regional health science centers completed a team identification form, identifying their teams as interdisciplinary and providing the names and emails of team members. An online survey instrument that included a basic demographic questionnaire, the Bolman and Deal Leadership (Others) Survey, and the Collaboration and Transdisciplinary Integration Survey was then sent to team members. The sample used for analysis …

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Mixing Biometric Data For Generating Joint Identities And Preserving Privacy, Asem A. Othman Dec 2013

Mixing Biometric Data For Generating Joint Identities And Preserving Privacy, Asem A. Othman

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Biometrics is the science of automatically recognizing individuals by utilizing biological traits such as fingerprints, face, iris and voice. A classical biometric system digitizes the human body and uses this digitized identity for human recognition. In this work, we introduce the concept of mixing biometrics. Mixing biometrics refers to the process of generating a new biometric image by fusing images of different fingers, different faces, or different irises. The resultant mixed image can be used directly in the feature extraction and matching stages of an existing biometric system. In this regard, we design and systematically evaluate novel methods for generating …

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Folding Solid-Membrane Wing Structure For A Micro Air Vehicle, Joe D. Allen Jr. Dec 2013

Folding Solid-Membrane Wing Structure For A Micro Air Vehicle, Joe D. Allen Jr.

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

The design of a solid-membrane folding wing for use on a tube launched micro air vehicle (MAV), and experimental wind tunnel results of the wing integrated on an engineering MAV model are presented herein. Due to the sizing and performance requirements of the MAV, the wing must provide sufficient wing area while minimizing its stowed footprint. Many current available methods for folding the wing for such a MAV sacrifice aerodynamic efficiency or are cost prohibitive. The solid-membrane wing design presented blends elements of a solid semi-rigid wing with those of a membrane wing. This provides the aerodynamic efficiency of a …

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The Influence Of Gender On The Peer Leadership-Cohesion Relationship, Michael E. Berrebi Dec 2013

The Influence Of Gender On The Peer Leadership-Cohesion Relationship, Michael E. Berrebi

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

Research shows that a moderate to large cohesion-performance relationship exists, suggesting teams that build strong social and task cohesion are more likely to be successful. This effect has also found to be stronger in female over male teams. Peer leadership positions are somewhat overshadowed by coach positions on sport teams but can have an important influence on a team's task and social cohesion. This study investigated the influence gender has on the peer leadership-cohesion relationship. Participants were 381 NCAA Division I male and female soccer players from 67 different universities. Each participant completed questionnaires assessing team cohesion and athlete leader …

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Techniques For Ocular Biometric Recognition Under Non-Ideal Conditions, Raghavender Reddy Jillela Dec 2013

Techniques For Ocular Biometric Recognition Under Non-Ideal Conditions, Raghavender Reddy Jillela

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

The use of the ocular region as a biometric cue has gained considerable traction due to recent advances in automated iris recognition. However, a multitude of factors can negatively impact ocular recognition performance under unconstrained conditions (e.g., non-uniform illumination, occlusions, motion blur, image resolution, etc.). This dissertation develops techniques to perform iris and ocular recognition under challenging conditions. The first contribution is an image-level fusion scheme to improve iris recognition performance in low-resolution videos. Information fusion is facilitated by the use of Principal Components Transform (PCT), thereby requiring modest computational efforts. The proposed approach provides improved recognition accuracy when low-resolution …

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Dexia – Rise & Fall Of A Banking Giant, Nicholas Whitbeck Dec 2013

Dexia – Rise & Fall Of A Banking Giant, Nicholas Whitbeck

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Historical Tables: Monetary And Financial Indicators, Banca D'Italia Dec 2013

Historical Tables: Monetary And Financial Indicators, Banca D'Italia

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Effects Of Estrogen In An Aged Animal Model Of Stroke, Rachel L. Leon Dec 2013

Effects Of Estrogen In An Aged Animal Model Of Stroke, Rachel L. Leon

Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports (ETD)

In 2000, approximately 10 million women were taking hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for alleviation of menopausal symptoms. A number of prior animal studies also suggested that HRT may be neuroprotective and cardioprotective as well. Although estrogen is neuroprotective in young adult animal models of stroke, clinical trials demonstrate that estrogen increases the incidence and severity of stroke in aged women. We have previously shown that experimental stroke pathophysiology differs between young adult and aged rats. In the first study, we show that aged rats treated with 17beta-estradiol had significantly increased infarct volumes compared to placebo-treated aged rats. Young adult rats …

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The Relationship Between Human Investment And Economic Growth In Iraq (1985-2010) And Measuring Return Of Investment Of Human, Rajaa Abdullah Isa Dec 2013

The Relationship Between Human Investment And Economic Growth In Iraq (1985-2010) And Measuring Return Of Investment Of Human, Rajaa Abdullah Isa

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

Investment in human capital of renewable energy can be relied upon to get to achieve the goals of development is important for Iraq through the intellectual community cards creative able to innovate and develop what is so is study the effect of human investment on economic growth through the adoption of the index of national income as a function of variables independent ( human capital, physical capital) and this is built on the premise that the relationship direct correlation between economic growth and human investment, and it can measure the return on human investment, which is an incentive to increase …

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Applied Probability Model Of Inventory Multi- Period In Stores Of Cement Factory In Samawah, Qutaiba N. Nayef Al-Qazaz, Hussein Shakir Abdul Razzaq Dec 2013

Applied Probability Model Of Inventory Multi- Period In Stores Of Cement Factory In Samawah, Qutaiba N. Nayef Al-Qazaz, Hussein Shakir Abdul Razzaq

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

In this paper will be applied to a probability model of inventories periods of multiple stores of raw materials used in the cement industry, cement factory in Samawah and basic materials are limestone, soil normal, iron soil, fuel oil and gypsum. It was built of this model after the test and determine the distribution of demand during the supply period (waiting period) for each subject and independently of the rest of the material as it is not affected by any of the materials above interrelated in the process of supply, this test has been using the Statistical Package of (SPSS) …

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Can We Calculate Fairness And Reasonableness? Determining What Satisfies The Fair Cross-Section Requirement Of The Sixth Amendment, Colleen P. Fitzharris Dec 2013

Can We Calculate Fairness And Reasonableness? Determining What Satisfies The Fair Cross-Section Requirement Of The Sixth Amendment, Colleen P. Fitzharris

Michigan Law Review

The Impartial Jury Clause of the Sixth Amendment requires that the venire from which the state and the defendant draw a twelve-person petit jury be a fair cross-section of the community. The Supreme Court announced a three-prong test in Duren v. Missouri to help courts determine whether there has been a Sixth Amendment violation: (1) whether a distinctive group in the community was excluded; (2) whether the venire was not a fair and reasonable representation of the county population as a whole; and (3) whether that underrepresentation was the result of systematic exclusion. When evaluating the second prong, courts routinely …

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Constitutionally Tailoring Punishment, Richard A. Bierschbach, Stephanos Bibas Dec 2013

Constitutionally Tailoring Punishment, Richard A. Bierschbach, Stephanos Bibas

Michigan Law Review

Since the turn of the century, the Supreme Court has regulated noncapital sentencing under the Sixth Amendment in the Apprendi line of cases (requiring jury findings of fact to justify sentence enhancements) as well as under the Eighth Amendment in the Miller and Graham line of cases (forbidding mandatory life imprisonment for juvenile defendants). Although both lines of authority sound in individual rights, in fact they are fundamentally about the structures of criminal justice. These two seemingly disparate doctrines respond to structural imbalances in noncapital sentencing by promoting morally appropriate punishment judgments that are based on individualized input and that …

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The Effects Of Gender On Anxiety Sensitivity In Relation To Interoceptive Task Performances : An Exploratory Study., Brittany Deanne Miller Dec 2013

The Effects Of Gender On Anxiety Sensitivity In Relation To Interoceptive Task Performances : An Exploratory Study., Brittany Deanne Miller

College of Arts & Sciences Senior Theses

This study examined whether males or females have higher anxiety sensitivity, and how this may affect performance on interoceptive tasks. Females in this study, reported significantly higher rates of anxiety sensitivity than males, as measured by the Anxiety Sensitivity Index-3 (Taylor et al., 2007). No significant gender differences were found on either of two interoceptive sensitivity tasks, the Schandry Heartbeat Detection task (Schandry, 1981) and the Mindfulness Interoceptive Sampling Task (Dreeben, 2012). Results of this study suggest that, although females have higher self-reported anxiety sensitivity than males, this does not appear to either enhance or hinder their performance on interoceptive …

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