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South Atlantic Mpas And Deepwater Coral Hapcs: Characterization Of Benthic Habitat And Fauna., Stacey Harter, Andrew David, John K. Reed, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute

Faculty Scholarship

Semi-Annual Report South Atlantic Shelf-edge MPAs and Deep-water Coral HAPCs Summary of Accomplishments to Date (October 1, 2012 – March 31, 2013)

Humidity And Gravimetric Equivalency Adjustments For Nephelometer-Based Particulate Matter Measurements Of Emissions From Solid Biomass Fuel In Cookstoves, Sutyajeet Soneja, Chen Chen, James M. Tielsch, Joanne Katz, Scott L. Zeger, William Checkley, Frank C. Curriero, Patrick L. Breysse

Global Health Faculty Publications

Great uncertainty exists around indoor biomass burning exposure-disease relationships due to lack of detailed exposure data in large health outcome studies. Passive nephelometers can be used to estimate high particulate matter (PM) concentrations during cooking in low resource environments. Since passive nephelometers do not have a collection filter they are not subject to sampler overload. Nephelometric concentration readings can be biased due to particle growth in high humid environments and differences in compositional and size dependent aerosol characteristics. This paper explores relative humidity (RH) and gravimetric equivalency adjustment approaches to be used for the

pDR-1000 used to assess indoor PM …

South Atlantic Mpas And Deepwater Coral Hapcs: Characterization Of Benthic Habitat And Fauna For; Noaa Ship Pisces Cruise 13-03 Uncw Super Phantom Rov July 2-11, 2013., John K. Reed, Stacey Harter, Stephanie Farrington, Andrew David, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute

Faculty Scholarship

A 12 day research cruise was conducted July 2-11, 2013, on the NOAA Ship Pisces with the UNCW Super Phantom ROV by NOAA National Marine Fisheries in collaboration with the Cooperative Institute for Ocean Exploration, Research, and Technology (CIOERT) at Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, Florida Atlantic University (HBOI-FAU), and other academic and federal partners (including NOAA NCCOS and University of North Carolina at Wilmington).

Recently, the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council (SAFMC) established eight deepwater Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) along the outer continental shelf off the southeastern U.S. This project is one of several research cruises to document and characterize …

Proposal To Gulf Of Mexico Fishery Management Council: Proposed Pulley Ridge Hapc Extension. Presented To Gomfc- Coral Group Meeting Webinar, Dec. 4, 2014., John K. Reed, Stephanie Farrington, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute

Faculty Scholarship

Project Goals: 1) Map & characterize the benthic habitat, macrobenthic biota, and fish populations within and adjacent to newly designated shelf-edge MPAs and CHAPCs off the SE US. 2) Compare with prior and future surveys to better understand long-term health and status of these important deepwater coral/sponge ecosystems. 3) Provide information to resource managers to inform decisions on protected habitats and managed key species.

Thermal Stress And Chemicals: Knowledge Review And The Highest Risk Occupations In Québec, Ginette Truchon, Joseph Zayed, Robert Bourbonnais, Martine Lévesque, Mélyssa Deland, Marc-Antoine Busque, Patrice Duguay

Rapports de recherche scientifique

L’exposition au froid ou à la chaleur déclenche une série de réponses physiologiques compensatrices qui permettent à l’organisme humain de maintenir sa température interne malgré un stress thermique. Ces mécanismes de thermorégulation sont bien documentés et les changements physiologiques qu’ils impliquent peuvent modifier les fonctions de plusieurs organes liées à l’absorption et au métabolisme des substances chimiques. Des études dans le domaine de la pharmacologie et de l’épidémiologie rapportent une augmentation de l’absorption et des effets de certains médicaments de même qu’une augmentation du taux de mortalité humaine associée à la pollution de l’air, lors d’une exposition simultanée à la …

The Clerks Of The Four Horsemen (Part I), Barry Cushman

Journal Articles

The names of Holmes clerks such as Tommy Corcoran and Francis Biddle, of Brandeis clerks such as Dean Acheson and Henry Friendly, and of Stone clerks such as Harold Leventhal and Herbert Wechsler ring down the pages of history. But how much do we really know about Carlyle Baer, Tench Marye, or Milton Musser? This article follows the interesting and often surprising lives and careers of the men who clerked for the Four Horsemen - Justices Van Devanter, McReynolds, Sutherland, and Butler. These biographical sketches confound easy stereotypes, and prove the adage that law, like politics, can make for strange …

Statistical Modeling Of The Number Of Deaths Of Children In Bangladesh, Morshed Alam, Manzur R. Farazi, Joseph Stiglitz, Munni Begum

Journal Articles: Biostatistics

Efforts to reduce the number of children’s death in developing countries through health care programs focus more to the prevention and control of diseases than to determining the underlying risk factors/predictors and addressing these through proper interventions. This study aims to identify socioeconomic and demographic predictors of the number of children’s death to women aged 12-49 from the Bangladesh Health and Demographic Survey (BDHS) administered in 2011. The number of children’s death in a family is a non-negative count response variable. The average number of children’s death is found to be 28 per 100 women with a variance of 44per …

A Framework For Explaining Accounting Students’ Formal Communication Gap, Charles Harter, Robert Marley

Accountancy: Faculty Publications

This paper introduces a framework that explains how innovations in communication technology have affected students’ communication skills. Our framework suggests that new communication mediums have reduced students’ exposure to contexts requiring formal communication and increased students’ exposure to contexts utilizing informal communication. As a result, today’s accounting students have less formal communication experience, thus less developed formal communication skills than their predecessors. To mitigate this communication gap, we discuss adapting the accounting classroom to familiarize, hone, and instill formal communication skills.

Federal Equal Protection, Taylor Flynn

Faculty Scholarship

The Author explores the use of due process and equal protection guarantees from the U.S. Constitution as a means to challenge workplace discrimination faced by LGBT government employees. The Author also discusses how private employees must rely on Title VII of the Civil Rights Act to assert similar claims. Because sex discrimination is prohibited under both the Constitution and Title VII, federal courts have relied on reasoning in the former context when analyzing the latter, and vice versa. This means that a watershed case regarding one law can contain reasoning for the other. The Author goes on to the discuss …

Production Of Hybrids Between Western Gray Wolves And Western Coyotes, Julie K. Young, L. David Mech, Bruce W. Christensen

Wildland Resources Faculty Publications

Using artificial insemination we attempted to produce hybrids between captive, male, western, gray wolves (Canis lupus) and female, western coyotes (Canis latrans) to determine whether their gametes would be compatible and the coyotes could produce and nurture offspring. The results contribute new information to an ongoing controversy over whether the eastern wolf (Canis lycaon) is a valid unique species that could be subject to the U. S. Endangered Species Act. Attempts with transcervically deposited wolf semen into nine coyotes over two breeding seasons yielded three coyote pregnancies. One coyote ate her pups, another produced …

Role Of Nicotine Dependence On The Relationship Between Variants In The Nicotinic Receptor Genes And Risk Of Lung Adenocarcinoma, Tung-Sung Tseng, Jong Y. Park, Jovanny Zabaleta, Sarah Moody-Thomas, Melinda S. Sothern, Ted Chen, David E. Evans, Hui-Yi Lin

School of Public Health Faculty Publications

Several variations in the nicotinic receptor genes have been identified to be associated with both lung cancer risk and smoking in the genome-wide association (GWA) studies. However, the relationships among these three factors (genetic variants, nicotine dependence, and lung cancer) remain unclear. In an attempt to elucidate these relationships, we applied mediation analysis to quantify the impact of nicotine dependence on the association between the nicotinic receptor genetic variants and lung adenocarcinoma risk. We evaluated 23 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the five nicotinic receptor related genes (CHRNB3, CHRNA6, and CHRNA5/A3/B4) previously reported to be associated with lung cancer risk …

Association Between Latent Toxoplasmosis And Major Depression, Generalised Anxiety Disorder And Panic Disorder In Human Adults, Shawn D. Gale, Bruce L. Brown, Andrew Berrett, Lance D. Erickson, Dawson W. Hedges

Faculty Publications

Latent infection with the apicomplexan Toxoplasma gondii (Nicolle et Manceaux, 1908) has been associated with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and self-harm behaviour. However, the potential relationship between T. gondii immunoglobulin G antibody (IgG) seropositivity and generalised-anxiety disorder (GAD) and panic disorder (PD) has not been investigated. The associations between serum reactivity to T. gondii and major depressive disorder (MDD), GAD and PD were evaluated in a total sample of 1 846 adult participants between the ages of 20 and 39 years from the United States Center for Disease Control's National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). Approximately 16% of the overall …

Remedies Unified In Nine Verses, Caprice L. Roberts

Maryland Law Review

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The American Dream, Deferred: Contextualizing Property After The Foreclosure Crisis, Priya S. Gupta

Maryland Law Review

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Apportioning Liability In Maryland Tort Cases: Time To End Contributory Negligence And Joint And Several Liability, Donald G. Gifford, Christopher J. Robinette

Maryland Law Review

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Preserving Preservation: Long Green Valley Association, Conservation Easements, And Charitable Trust Doctrine, Alyssa J. Domzal

Maryland Law Review

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Tributes To Professor Susan Leviton

Maryland Law Review

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Deference, Chenery, And Foia, Margaret B. Kwoka

Maryland Law Review

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Problem-Solving Courts And Pragmatism, Richard C. Boldt

Maryland Law Review

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Bad Medicine: Ftc V. Actavis, Inc. And The Missed Opportunity To Resolve The Pay-For-Delay Problem, Susan Schipper

Maryland Law Review

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Metabolic Reprogramming Induced By Ketone Bodies Diminishes Pancreatic Cancer Cachexia, Surendra K. Shukla, Teklab Gebregiworgis, Vinee Purohit, Nina V. Chaika, Venugopal Gunda, Prakash Radhakrishnan, Kamiya Mehla, Iraklis I. Pipinos, Robert Powers, Fang Yu, Pankaj K. Singh

Journal Articles: Eppley Institute

BACKGROUND: Aberrant energy metabolism is a hallmark of cancer. To fulfill the increased energy requirements, tumor cells secrete cytokines/factors inducing muscle and fat degradation in cancer patients, a condition known as cancer cachexia. It accounts for nearly 20% of all cancer-related deaths. However, the mechanistic basis of cancer cachexia and therapies targeting cancer cachexia thus far remain elusive. A ketogenic diet, a high-fat and low-carbohydrate diet that elevates circulating levels of ketone bodies (i.e., acetoacetate, β-hydroxybutyrate, and acetone), serves as an alternative energy source. It has also been proposed that a ketogenic diet leads to systemic metabolic changes. Keeping in …

Survivorship Analysis For Osteosarcoma And Ewing’S Sarcoma In Children And Adolescents At A Single Pediatric Institution: Comparison To Seer Data, Chittalsinh M. Raulji, Hope Pritchett, Matthew Stark, Kenneth Ward, Velasco Cruz, Jaime Morales

Journal Articles: Pediatrics

Primary malignant bone tumors account for approximately 6% of all childhood malignancies. Osteosarcoma (OS) and Ewing’s sarcoma (ES) are the most common and have an annual incidence of 8.7 per million under the age of 20 years. The mean 5-year survival for OS and ES has been 61% and 60% respectively. The survival for OS and ES has not significantly improved for past 20 years.

We examined the cases of OS and ES, treated at Children’s Hospital of New Orleans (CHNOLA) from 1999-2012. Comparison to national survival data from the Survival, Epidemiological and End Results (SEER) study was done. The …

Systemic Barriers To Effective Assistance Of Counsel In Plea Bargaining, Peter A. Joy, Rodney J. Uphoff

Scholarship@WashULaw

In a trio of recent cases, Padilla v. Kentucky, Missouri v. Frye, and Lafler v. Cooper, the U.S. Supreme Court has focused its attention on defense counsel's pivotal role during the plea bargaining process . At the same time that the Court has signaled its willingness to consider ineffective assistance of counsel claims at the plea stage, prosecutors are increasingly requiring defendants to sign waivers that include waiving all constitutional and procedural errors, even unknown ineffective assistance of counsel claims such as those that proved successful in Padilla and Frye. Had Jose Padilla and Galin Frye been forced to sign …

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission And Structural Reform Of The American Workplace, Margo Schlanger, Pauline Kim

Scholarship@WashULaw

In 2011, the United States Supreme Court struck down a class action suit alleging that Wal-Mart stores discriminated against female employees in pay and promotion decisions, making it more difficult to obtain certification of private employment discrimination class actions. As a result, the role of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in seeking structural reform of the workplace, always of substantial influence, has gained in comparative importance. Yet there is remarkably little written about the EEOC’s large-scale injunctive cases. This Article addresses this major gap in scholarship. Using both qualitative case studies and a new quantitative data-set, we test existing theories …

Big Data Ethics, Neil M. Richards, Jonathan H. King

Scholarship@WashULaw

We are on the cusp of a “Big Data” Revolution, in which increasingly large datasets are mined for important predictions and often surprising insights. The predictions and decisions this revolution will enable will transform our society in ways comparable to the Industrial Revolution. We are now at a critical moment; big data uses today will be sticky and will settle both default norms and public notions of what is “no big deal” regarding big data predictions for years to come.

In this paper, we argue that big data, broadly defined, is producing increased powers of institutional awareness and power that …

Four Privacy Myths, Neil M. Richards

Scholarship@WashULaw

Any discussion about privacy today inevitably confronts a series of common arguments about the futility of privacy in our digital age. "Privacy is Dead," we hear, and "people (especially young ones) don’t care about privacy." What’s more, privacy just protects bad behavior because those of us with "nothing to hide have nothing to fear." And anyway, the argument goes, new privacy laws would be bad policy since "privacy is bad for business."

There are other common claims, but these four are perhaps the most common. They are also myths, and in this essay I show why. First, privacy can’t be …

Policing Terrorists In The Community, Sahar F. Aziz

Faculty Scholarship

Twelve years after the September 11th attacks, countering domestic terrorism remains a top priority for federal law enforcement agencies. Using a variety of reactive and preventive tactics, law enforcement seeks to stop terrorism before it occurs. Towards that end, community policing, developed in the 1990s to combat violent crime in inner city communities, is being adopted as a means of collaborating with Muslim communities and local police to combat "Islamist homegrown terrorism." Developed in response to paramilitary policing models, community policing is built upon the notion that effective policing requires mutual trust and relationships among local law enforcement and the …

The Far-Reaching Shadow Cast By Ferguson, Kimberly Jade Norwood

Scholarship@WashULaw

In the Dred Scott case, Justice Taney remarked that black people “had no rights which the white man was bound to respect.” In The Far-Reaching Shadow Cast by Ferguson, Professor Norwood questions whether, in today’s society, Justice Taney’s sentiment still holds true. Citing examples of recent police shootings and beatings of unarmed African-Americans and personal and family experiences, Professor Norwood argues that our country is broken and needs fixing. Professor Norwood concludes that we are not the ‘post-racial’ society we claim to be and that the Michael Brown shooting, among others, provides a watershed moment to confront our country’s underlying …

The Uneasy Case Against Auer And Seminole Rock, Conor Clarke

Scholarship@WashULaw

The deference regimes of Auer and Seminole Rock give an agency's interpretation of its own regulation "controlling weight unless [the interpretation] is plainly erroneous or inconsistent with the regulation." This doctrine has long been criticized for giving agencies an incentive to promulgate vague regulations. In this essay I critically review these objections to Auer and Seminole Rock against the backdrop of plausible alternative regimes and recent developments in the lower courts.

Merging And Dissolving Special Districts, Conor Clarke

Scholarship@WashULaw

Special district governments exist in every state, providing services ranging from protection against fire to protection against fire ants. These governments are easy to form, but often they are difficult to dissolve or consolidate. Nevertheless, in many states, the number of special district governments is declining. This Comment draws on statistical analyses and interviews with government officials to explain the cause of this decline. It also discusses how existing legal frameworks may be revised to facilitate the efficient consolidation and dissolution of special district governments.