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Food Miles: Environmental Protection Or Veiled Protectionism?, Meredith Kolsky Lewis, Andrew D. Mitchell Jan 2014

Food Miles: Environmental Protection Or Veiled Protectionism?, Meredith Kolsky Lewis, Andrew D. Mitchell

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This article examines the international trade, environmental, and development implications of campaigns to convince consumers to make food purchases based on food miles. Buying food from nearby sources has become a popular objective. One of the unmistakable messages of the “locavore” movement is that importing food – particularly food that comes from far away – causes environmental harm. The theory is that transporting food long distances results in the release of high levels of greenhouse gases (GHGs) into the atmosphere and is thus a dangerous contributor to climate change. Proponents of this view therefore argue that “food miles” – the …

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Exploring Appropriate Offset Values For Pencil Beam And Monte Carlo Dose Optimization In Lung Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy Encompassing The Effects Of Respiration And Tumor Location, Grant Evans Jan 2014

Exploring Appropriate Offset Values For Pencil Beam And Monte Carlo Dose Optimization In Lung Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy Encompassing The Effects Of Respiration And Tumor Location, Grant Evans

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

Evaluation of dose optimization using the Pencil Beam (PB) and Monte Carlo (MC) algorithms may allow physicists to apply dosimetric offsets to account for inaccuracies of the PB algorithm for lung cancer treatment with Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy (SBRT). 20 cases of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) were selected. Treatment plans were created with Brainlab iPlanDose® 4.1.2. The D97 of the Planning Target Volume (PTV) was normalized to 50 Gy on the Average Intensity Projection (AIP) using the fast PB and compared with MC. This exact plan with the same beam Monitor Units (MUs) was recalculated over each respiratory phase. The …

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The Woman Question In Post-Socialist Legal Education, Isabel Marcus Jan 2014

The Woman Question In Post-Socialist Legal Education, Isabel Marcus

Journal Articles

Sex equality—a significant contribution to the international human rights canon—was one of the legitimating principles of socialist states in Eastern Europe and, at least formally, of their post-socialist democratic successors. Why then has the subject been ignored or deeply marginalized in post-socialist legal education? Using socio-legal analysis to establish a legitimation or delegitimation dynamic regarding law in theory and practice in both eras, the author provides answers to this question and suggests various options for reforming post-socialist legal education to provide adequate training in the subject of women’s rights consistent with states’ international and regional human rights obligations.

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Perceptions Of Lawyers On Career Transition, Transferable Skills, And Preparation For Community College Leadership, Thomas T. Nguyen Jan 2014

Perceptions Of Lawyers On Career Transition, Transferable Skills, And Preparation For Community College Leadership, Thomas T. Nguyen

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

The purpose of this qualitative case study was to examine perspectives of attorneys who have transitioned into community college leadership. The study sought to answer questions concerning why attorneys decided to change careers, how they transition into new careers, and to what extent their legal backgrounds helped them in educational leadership. Interviews were conducted of 20 former attorneys across America on their perspectives about career transition and leadership competencies to determine whether they might serve as a viable source for leadership. Participant perceptions revealed a transition to make a difference, the transition process was smooth, and transition was made for …

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Exploring The Electromagnetics Of Millimeter-Wave Through Terahertz Spectrum: De Novo Studies Vis-À-Vis Materials Science, Biomedical Applications And Wireless Communication, Bharti Sharma Jan 2014

Exploring The Electromagnetics Of Millimeter-Wave Through Terahertz Spectrum: De Novo Studies Vis-À-Vis Materials Science, Biomedical Applications And Wireless Communication, Bharti Sharma

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

The present research is a targeted endeavor to study the underlying characteristics and novel applications of millimeter (mm) wave through terahertz (THz) spectrum of electromagnetic (EM) energy. Focused thereof are the following specific tasks broadly considered pertinent to the said EM spectral range: (i) To elucidate the material characteristics vis-à-vis the interaction with EM energy at the test frequencies; (ii) to identify biomedical applications based on the material characteristics studied and applied to biomedia; and (iii) to model the wireless communication channels supporting EM waves at the test frequency bands of interest. Commensurate with the scope as above, the objectives …

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A Comparison Of Body Proportions In Juvenile Sea Turtles: How Shape May Optimize Survival In A Vulnerable Life Stage, Jessica Hope Pate Jan 2014

A Comparison Of Body Proportions In Juvenile Sea Turtles: How Shape May Optimize Survival In A Vulnerable Life Stage, Jessica Hope Pate

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

Marine turtles produce many offspring which offsets the high mortality experienced by turtles during early development. Juvenile mortality might be reduced by evolving effective behavioral as well as morphological anti-predator defenses. Body proportions of three species (Caretta caretta, Chelonia mydas, Dermochelys coriacea) of turtles were measured in the first fourteen weeks of development to examine how growth may mitigate predation by gape-limited predators. Growth was categorized as isometric if shape did not change during development or allometric if body shape did change. All three species showed allometric growth in carapace width; however it was less pronounced in the larger D. …

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The Job Satisfaction, Occupational Sentiments, And Work-Related Stress Of Prison Wardens: Results From A National Survey, Martina Aa Dasilva Jan 2014

The Job Satisfaction, Occupational Sentiments, And Work-Related Stress Of Prison Wardens: Results From A National Survey, Martina Aa Dasilva

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

This study examined the results of the National Prison Wardens’ Survey to ascertain the levels of job satisfaction, occupational sentiments, and work-related stress among prison wardens and to establish whether these variables differed between male and female respondents. The findings indicated that wardens generally experience high levels of job satisfaction, reflect positive occupational sentiments, and report low levels of work-related stress. Additionally, results from the Chi-square tests and Lambda measures of association indicated that little to no relationship existed between gender and any of the explored variables.

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A Body Area Network As A Pre-Screening Surrogate To The Polysomnography, Sheryl Lafleur Jan 2014

A Body Area Network As A Pre-Screening Surrogate To The Polysomnography, Sheryl Lafleur

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

Out of 60 million Americans suffering from sleep disorder, an estimated 18 million have sleep apnea. According to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, sleep apnea is a chronic condition that disrupts a patient’s sleep. While the annual cost of treating sleep apnea patients in the United States is approximately $3.18 billion (including screening costs) it is estimated that untreated sleep apnea may cause $3.4 billion in additional medical costs. A polysomnography (PSG) is an all-night sleep study which monitors various physical functions during sleep including electrical activity of the heart, brain wave patterns, eye movement, muscle tone, …

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Social Impact Of Entrepreneurial Immigrants On Florida’S Gold Coast, Noemi Coltea Jan 2014

Social Impact Of Entrepreneurial Immigrants On Florida’S Gold Coast, Noemi Coltea

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

At the dawn of a new presidential election, we are reminded that what separates the United States from the rest of the world are the immigrants who came here in the pursuit of the American Dream. These immigrants do not just come to the United States as workers, but also as consumers and entrepreneurs who contribute to the American economy, and use the profits created by their successful entrepreneurship(s) in a way that they become catalysts of change. None of the studies have managed to track the qualities and perceptions of these entrepreneurial immigrants turned philanthropists since the 1940’s. By …

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A Comparison Of Practices For Teaching Math Word Problems In Turkey And The United States, Betul Erkan Jan 2014

A Comparison Of Practices For Teaching Math Word Problems In Turkey And The United States, Betul Erkan

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

This multiple case study investigated pedagogical differences and similarities among practices used to teach word problems in private schools of Turkey and the United States, the factors impacting teachers’ instructional decisions, and their approaches to teaching word problems as well as the role of culture in teaching and learning word problems. Quantitative survey data were collected from 28 Turkish and 27 U.S. high school mathematics teachers from private or independent schools. The survey investigated teachers’ background information, resources used, and their use of teaching practices (teacher-centered, student-centered, concrete-visualizing, analytical) and types of word problems (true or practice-oriented) as well as …

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A Generalized Stochastic Birth/Death Population Model Based On Indian Riverlagoon Dolphins, Jon Stonger Jan 2014

A Generalized Stochastic Birth/Death Population Model Based On Indian Riverlagoon Dolphins, Jon Stonger

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

For over a decade, researchers at Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute (HBOI) have conducted surveys of the bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) population of Indian River Lagoon (IRL) in Florida. I have constructed a 4-stage population model using the statistical program R. The model is used to conduct a viability analysis by analyzing the relationship between birth, calf and adult survival rates. The power analysis compares survey frequency to expected confidence intervals in estimating abundance. The sensitivity analysis shows that the population is most sensitive to changes in adult survival, followed by birth rate and calf survival. The model shows a strong …

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A Survival Analysis Of Adolescent Friendships: The Downside Of Dissimilarity, Amy C. Hartl Jan 2014

A Survival Analysis Of Adolescent Friendships: The Downside Of Dissimilarity, Amy C. Hartl

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

Adolescent friendships are critical for adjustment but are extremely unstable. Dyadic characteristics may put friendships at risk for dissolution, whereas individual characteristics may put individuals at risk for participating in unstable friendships. The present study examines whether dyadic or individual school-related characteristics predict rates of adolescent friendship dissolution. A sample of 410 adolescents (n=201 males, 209 females; M age=13.20 years) participated in 573 reciprocated friendships originating in the 7th grade which were followed from 8th-12th grade. Discrete-time survival analyses evaluated grade 7 dyadic and individual characteristics (sex, age, ethnicity, number of friends, peer acceptance, peer rejection, leadership, and school competence) …

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A Habitat Suitability Model For Wading Birds In A Large Subtropical Lake: Linking Hydrologic Fluctuations And Nesting, Richard A. Botta Jan 2014

A Habitat Suitability Model For Wading Birds In A Large Subtropical Lake: Linking Hydrologic Fluctuations And Nesting, Richard A. Botta

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

Anthropogenic hydrologic alterations can affect the quality of lake littoral zone habitats for wading birds, such as the great egret (Ardea alba), snowy egret (Egretta thula), and white ibis (Eudocimus albus). One such lake in Florida, Lake Okeechobee, has experienced a marked decline in wading bird nesting since the 1970’s, concomitant with changes in lake level management. It’s hypothesized that a reduction in foraging habitat has led to the nesting decline; however, there is little quantitative evidence of this link. A habitat suitability model was developed for Lake Okeechobee wading birds that incorporate the spatial and temporal dynamics of environmental …

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A Foot In Both Camps: The Influence Of Role Identity Centrality Of Professional Service Entrepreneurs On Entrepreneurial Orientation And Firm Performance, Steven Anthony Stewart Jan 2014

A Foot In Both Camps: The Influence Of Role Identity Centrality Of Professional Service Entrepreneurs On Entrepreneurial Orientation And Firm Performance, Steven Anthony Stewart

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

Professional service entrepreneurs (PSEs) paradoxically practice their profession in highly institutionalized contexts which require significant socialization, while at the same time enacting their role as an entrepreneur. Some activities consistent with entrepreneurship may be unnecessary for—and possibly even contradictory with— activities consistent with professional roles. In this dissertation, I addressed the questions of how two highly central role identities (professional and entrepreneurial) related to entrepreneurial orientation (EO) in professional service practices, and how EO influences performance in the context of professional practices. Using a sample of 139 physicians, I examined the relationships between the role identity centrality of two primary …

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A High-Level Fuzzy Logic Guidance System For An Unmanned Surface Vehicle (Usv) Tasked To Perform An Autonomous Launch And Recovery (Alr) Of An Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (Uuv), David Pearson Jan 2014

A High-Level Fuzzy Logic Guidance System For An Unmanned Surface Vehicle (Usv) Tasked To Perform An Autonomous Launch And Recovery (Alr) Of An Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (Uuv), David Pearson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

There have been much technological advances and research in Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USV) as a support and delivery platform for Autonomous/Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (AUV/UUV). Advantages include extending underwater search and survey operations time and reach, improving underwater positioning and mission awareness, in addition to minimizing the costs and risks associated with similar manned vessel operations. The objective of this thesis is to present the design and development a high-level fuzzy logic guidance controller for a WAM-V 14 USV in order to autonomously launch and recover a REMUS 100 AUV. The approach to meeting this objective is to develop ability for …

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A Paleopathological Survey Of Ancient Peruvian Crania Housed At The Peabody Museum Of Archaeology And Ethnology At Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts: A Special Emphasis On Scurvy, Tony J. Chamoun Jan 2014

A Paleopathological Survey Of Ancient Peruvian Crania Housed At The Peabody Museum Of Archaeology And Ethnology At Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts: A Special Emphasis On Scurvy, Tony J. Chamoun

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

This thesis is a paleopathological survey of ancient Peruvian crania housed at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Chapter one discusses the significance of this research, work prior to this thesis’s formulation, and defines paleopathological and bioarchaeological terms relevant to this thesis. Chapter two presents this thesis’s materials and methods. Of the 196 Peruvian crania in this study sample, 11 case studies are presented. Chapter three reports a case of probable scurvy and likely anemia comorbidity. This case study is accompanied by a critical analysis and review of the literature surrounding scurvy, a detailed …

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A Review Of Corporate-Based Wellness Programs For General Health Promotion And Prevention Of Type Ii Diabetes Mellitus, Jodian R. Hemmings Jan 2014

A Review Of Corporate-Based Wellness Programs For General Health Promotion And Prevention Of Type Ii Diabetes Mellitus, Jodian R. Hemmings

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

This research focuses on obesity and other major risk factors for chronic diseases such as Type II Diabetes Mellitus, Heart Disease, and Stroke. Worksite wellness programs have been successful in this realm of health promotion and disease prevention for heart disease and stroke, but their effectiveness in treating diabetes has been uncertain partially due to poor patient compliance, lack of stress reduction strategies, poor diet and lack of persuasive health education on the risk of being obese. Published peer-reviewed articles were reviewed, coded and analyzed to determine best practices, using a modified systematic review approach. The findings from these studies …

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A Study To Compare The Critical Thinking Dispositions Between Chinese And American College Students, Susan K. Dennett Jan 2014

A Study To Compare The Critical Thinking Dispositions Between Chinese And American College Students, Susan K. Dennett

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

The purpose of this quantitative research study was to compare Chinese and American students’ inclined level of critical thinking using the California Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory (CCTDI) (Insight Assessment, 2013). The literature of Paul and Elder (1996, 2000, 2005, 2010), Facione and Facione (1992, 1996) and Brookfield (2005, 2010, 2013) and the conceptual framework in this study provided the foundation for the main research question of whether there are differences between Chinese and American students’ scores on the seven individual scales and their total score on the CCTDI. The Sample included 41 Chinese and 50 American undergraduate and graduate students …

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Accelerated Corrosion Of Steel In Dry-Cast Reinforced Concrete Pipes After Initiation, Brian W. Weber Jan 2014

Accelerated Corrosion Of Steel In Dry-Cast Reinforced Concrete Pipes After Initiation, Brian W. Weber

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

Instrumented dry-cast reinforced concrete pipe (DC-RCP) specimens in which corrosion of the reinforcing steel had initiated were selected to accelerate the corrosion. Type C and type F DC-RCP were used. An anodic current density of various magnitudes (0.5 μA/cm2, 1 μA/cm2 and 2.5 μA/cm2) was applied during the corrosion propagation stage. The specimens were placed in high humidity and selected specimens were later covered with wet sand. Selected specimens were terminated for visual examination and gravimetric analysis. Typically, the reinforcement potentials during the accelerated corrosion period were more negative for F specimens compared to C specimens. The C specimens experienced …

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Accuracy Of Child Event Frequency Reports, Shrija R. Dirghangi Jan 2014

Accuracy Of Child Event Frequency Reports, Shrija R. Dirghangi

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

The current study assessed whether the accuracy of children’s self-reports of events experienced differs as a function of age and how the question is asked. Additional factors like metamemory and distractibility were assessed. Primary-school students (M= 7.7 years) and middle-school students (M = 9.7 years) completed two different versions of an event frequency measure, two times, at one week intervals. In one of the measures of event frequency, no memory prompts were provided (uncued questionnaire condition), while in the other measure, recall categories for aiding recollections were provided (cued questionnaire condition). Participants’ self-reported event frequencies for the cued and uncued …

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Legal Education In Crisis, And Why Law Libraries Are Doomed, James G. Milles Jan 2014

Legal Education In Crisis, And Why Law Libraries Are Doomed, James G. Milles

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The dual crises facing legal education - the economic crisis affecting both the job market and the pool of law school applicants, and the crisis of confidence in the ability of law schools and the ABA accreditation process to meet the needs of lawyers or society at large - have undermined the case for not only the autonomy, but the very existence, of law school libraries as we have known them. Legal education in the United States is about to undergo a long-term contraction, and law libraries will be among the first to go. A few law schools may abandon …

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All The Place You’Ve Got, Caryn Suhr Jan 2014

All The Place You’Ve Got, Caryn Suhr

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

All the Place You’ve Got is a collection of short stories inspired by and set in the author’s hometown of Warner Robins; Georgia. This is a work of fiction. Names, places, occurrences, and characters are either a product of the authors imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. The title is a partial quote of dialogue stated by Hazel Motes, the protagonist of Flannery O’Connor’s first novel Wise Blood. The full quote reads, “In yourself right now is all the place you’ve got.” This …

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Adult Learning For Healthy Aging: An Investigation Of Health Literacy And Technology Use In Older Adults, Elizabeth G. Swann Jan 2014

Adult Learning For Healthy Aging: An Investigation Of Health Literacy And Technology Use In Older Adults, Elizabeth G. Swann

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

This study explored the healthy aging process by: (a) examining the selected demographics of older adults in South Florida; (b) examining technology use of older adults in South Florida; (c) examining the health literacy levels of older adults in South Florida; (d) determining whether a relationship exists between older adults living in South Florida use of technology and their health literacy levels; and (e) evaluating the effects of health literacy as it relates to technology use in older adults in South Florida. Variables explored included health literacy, education, ethnicity, and technology use. The sample study included 102 older adults (age …

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Adaptive Controller Design For An Autonomous Twin-Hulled Surface Vessel With Uncertain Displacement And Drag, Wilhelm B. Klinger Jan 2014

Adaptive Controller Design For An Autonomous Twin-Hulled Surface Vessel With Uncertain Displacement And Drag, Wilhelm B. Klinger

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

The design and validation of a low-level backstepping controller for speed and heading that is adaptive in speed for a twin-hulled underactuated unmanned surface vessel is presented. Consideration is given to the autonomous launch and recovery of an underwater vehicle in the decision to pursue an adaptive control approach. Basic system identification is conducted and numerical simulation of the vessel is developed and validated. A speed and heading controller derived using the backstepping method and a model reference adaptive controller are developed and ultimately compared through experimental testing against a previously developed control law. Experimental tests show that the adaptive …

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Adaptive Hierarchical Weighted Fair Queuing Scheduling In Wimax Networks, Waleed Khalid Al-Ghanem Jan 2014

Adaptive Hierarchical Weighted Fair Queuing Scheduling In Wimax Networks, Waleed Khalid Al-Ghanem

Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019

The growing demand for faster connection to the Internet service and wireless multimedia applications has motivated the development of broadband wireless access technologies in recent years. WiMAX has enabled convergence of mobile and fixed broadband networks through a common wide-area radio-access technology and flexible network architecture. Scheduling is a fundamental component in resource management in WiMAX networks and plays the main role in meeting QoS requirements such as delay, throughput and packet loss for different classes of service. In this dissertation work, the performance of uplink schedulers at the fixed WiMAX MAC layer has been considered, we proposed an Adaptive …

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Disparity In Judicial Misconduct Cases: Color-Blind Diversity?, Athena D. Mutua Jan 2014

Disparity In Judicial Misconduct Cases: Color-Blind Diversity?, Athena D. Mutua

Journal Articles

This article presents and analyzes preliminary data on racial and gender disparities in state judicial disciplinary actions. Studies of demographic disparities in the context of judicial discipline do not exist. This paper presents a first past and preliminary look at the data collected on the issue and assembled into a database. The article is also motivated by the resistance encountered to inquiries into the demographic profile of the state bench and its judges. As such, it also tells the story of the journey undertaken to secure this information and critiques what the author terms a practice of colorblind diversity. Initially …

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Unhinging Same-Sex Marriage From The Constitutional Canon: The Search For A Principled Doctrinal Framework, Anthony Michael Kreis Jan 2014

Unhinging Same-Sex Marriage From The Constitutional Canon: The Search For A Principled Doctrinal Framework, Anthony Michael Kreis

Emory Law Journal Online

When eighty-four-year-old Edie Windsor challenged the Defense of Marriage Act's constitutionality, she may not have predicted the case's historic importance. The Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), enacted in 1996, amended the federal Dictionary Act to define "marriage" and "spouse" to exclude same-sex marriages in over 1,000 statutes and regulations.

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Nuance, Technology, And The Fourth Amendment: A Response To Predictive Policing And Reasonable Suspicion, Fabio Arcila Jr. Jan 2014

Nuance, Technology, And The Fourth Amendment: A Response To Predictive Policing And Reasonable Suspicion, Fabio Arcila Jr.

Emory Law Journal Online

In an engaging critique, Professor Arcila finds that Professor Ferguson is correct in that predictive policing will likely be incorporated into Fourth Amendment law and that it will alter reasonable suspicion determinations. But Professor Arcila also argues that the potential incorporation of predictive policing reflects a larger deficiency in our Fourth Amendment jurisprudence and that it should not be adopted because it fails to adequately consider and respect a broader range of protected interests.

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Remedies In A Wide-Angle Lens: Observations On Remedial Concilience, David Partlett Jan 2014

Remedies In A Wide-Angle Lens: Observations On Remedial Concilience, David Partlett

Emory Law Journal Online

Professor Partlett notes that Professor Jimenez's article appears to be an orphan in American legal academic discourse. After a thoughtful analysis, Professor Partlett commends Professor Jimenez's work, but urges that both a broader, comparative view of remedies and a revival of the virtues of private common law method are overdue in this area of scholarship.

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Precedent, Reliance, And The Judicial Function: A Response To Prof. Kozel, Timothy P. Terrell Jan 2014

Precedent, Reliance, And The Judicial Function: A Response To Prof. Kozel, Timothy P. Terrell

Emory Law Journal Online

In this response, Professor Terrell argues that Professor Kozel bears a particularly heavy burden of proof. He finds that Professor Kozel's thesis is, on the one hand, both bold and potentially far-reaching, but on the other, counterintuitive and inconsistent with our most basic understandings of the judicial role in our legal system. Professor Terrell evaluates Professor Kozel's recent article, and identifies several points of disagreement.

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