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Faculty Status And Institutional Effectiveness, Deborah Maranville, Ruth Anne Robbins, Kristen K. Tiscione

Chapters in Books

Legal education has expanded to incorporate practice-oriented topics and courses over the past several decades, and student academic support services have multiplied in response to changing student populations. As a consequence of these changes, law schools are overdue to address the issue of the status of the individuals they hire to fill the multiple and ever expanding needs and interests of students.

Should law schools hire new personnel as teachers, staff, or administrators? If hired as teachers, what titles and governance rights should they be given? Should they be eligible for tenure, presumptively renewable long-term contracts, or short-term contracts? What …

Data Protection In Clinical Trials: Adapting Eu Solutions To Us Research, Phillip Defedele

Student Works

No abstract provided.

Photoluminescence Of Cadmium Selenide-Based Quantum Dots In The Presence Of A Metal Oxide, Kira D. Patty

Dissertations

Quantum dots (QDs) are semiconductor nanocrystals that self-assemble from solution and come in a variety of shapes, sizes, and materials. Due to their extremely small sizes, QDs exhibit atom-like quantum mechanical properties that make them highly desirable for many applications and for fundamental research in quantum mechanics. Further, when continuously irradiated, the intensity of QD emissions can increase over time; a phenomenon referred to as photo-induced fluorescence enhancement (PFE). For almost every application that deals with the optics of QDs, the enhancement of their quantum efficiency and control of their photoluminescence properties is highly desirable. This research explores how the …

3d Printed Medical Devices: Saving Lives But Do We Need More Regulation?, Cherie Lynn Dingman

Student Works

No abstract provided.

Outstanding Student Retention And Graduation: The Peer Advisors And Mentors Program At The University Of Richmond, Hope N. Walton, Roger Mancastroppa

University Staff Publications

Today’s colleges and universities continue to face the challenges of retaining and graduating their students. Historically, peer-mentoring programs have helped to successfully meet these challenges. The Peer Advisors and Mentors (PAM) program has assisted in the retention of students, all while giving students opportunities that develop and hone their leadership, academic, and personal skills. Over the course of 22 years, PAM has evolved into a program that touches on significant facets deemed important by experts on the matters of retention and graduation. Such factors include mentoring, advising, integration, and engagement. This article gives an historical perspective on how a peer-mentoring …

Blurred Lines: Sexual Orientation And Gender Nonconformity In Title Vii, Burton F. Peebles

Emory Law Journal

Title VII¿s prohibition of discrimination on the basis of sex is read broadly to include gender nonconformity. Although social scientists have documented the historic link between the homosocial performance of sexual orientation and the achievement of hegemonic masculinity within the modern workplace, courts continue to struggle with the task of defining the scope of protected gender nonconforming conduct. As many within the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community continue to demand equal access, recognition, and employment opportunity, only twenty-one states provide statutory protections for LGBT persons or their allies, and courts utilize a number of judicial limits in an attempt …

The Representation Of Women And Gender In Warner Bros. Cartoons: A Performance Of Satire, Eliza Wells

Audre Lorde Prize

No abstract provided.

A Primer On Higher Education In The 21st Century: The University As A Whole And Contributions Made By Law Schools, Ronald Griffin

Journal Publications

Citizens live within their unit's belief systems and superstitions. Truth is derived from family narratives, stories spun by old friends, outbursts from neighbours, barbers, religious figures, and priests. Certainty and comfort come from living in these spaces. But there is a wider world out there with characters doing things that conflict with routine. Higher education illuminates this realm. Legal education predicts what authorities will do about their antics and, while this is a laudable undertaking in the abstract, legal education should do more. It should arm the next generation with tools to cope with cultural ruptures, social confusion, dislocations, avatars, …

African Origins Of International Law: Myth Or Reality?, Jeremy I. Levitt

Journal Publications

This Article reconsiders the prevalent ahistorical assumption that international law began with the Treaty of Westphalia. It gathers together considerable historical evidence to conclude that the ancient world, particularly the New Kingdom period in Egypt or Kemet from 1570-1070 BCE, deployed all three of what today we would call sources of international law. African states predating the modern European nation state by nearly 6000 years engaged in treaty relations (the Treaty of Kadesh), and applied rules of custom (the MA 'AT) and general principles of law (as enumerated in the Egyptian Bill of Rights). While Egyptologists and a few international …

Biology: Inquiry-Based Learning Assignment, Richa Gupta

Open Educational Resources

Students perform a literature review on a biology topic, choose 2-3 papers published in scientific journals to discuss in their assignment, provide a final opinion on the topic, and some voluntarily present on their selected topic.

Introduction To Neuroscience, Charles Keller

Open Educational Resources

Working with a partner from the class, students will choose a topic of interest relevant to the field of neuroscience, explore the relevant literature, write a 5-7 page paper on the topic, and present the results of their research to the class in the form of a 5-10 minute oral presentation.

Human Anatomy And Physiology I (Laboratory), Cecilia Ortiz

Open Educational Resources

Students will be able to understand and do the following: describe the mechanism by which osmosis and different types of diffusion occur and compare and contrast the effects of hypertonic, isotonic and hypotonic conditions on cells.

Anti-Grand: Contemporary Perspectives On Landscape, N. Elizabeth Schlatter, Kenta Murakami

Exhibition Catalogs

Anti-Grand: Contemporary Perspectives on Landscape

Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art University of Richmond Museums, VA
January 15 to March 6, 2015

Anti-Grand: Contemporary Perspectives on Landscape features 24 contemporary, international artists, artists’ collectives and game developers who examine, challenge, and re-define the concept of landscape while simultaneously drawing attention to humanity’s hubristic attempts to relate to, preserve, and manage the natural environment. Anti-Grand includes 33 works of art, with video, installation, video games, and traditional two- and three-dimensional work.

All of the works in the exhibition were created since 2000 to focus on art made well after the …

Nutrinews Volume 1, January, 2015, Department Of Nutrition And Dietetics, University Of North Florida

NutriNews

This issue features Who are we? Introducing the Editorial Board, Students of the Month, Faculty Spotlight

Shorebird Foraging Habitat In Southeast Arkansas, J. E. Aycock, C. G. Sims

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

Approximately 500,000 shorebirds travel through the Mississippi Alluvial Valley (MAV) each spring and fall. During migration, the average 45g shorebird needs to eat approximately 8g of invertebrates per day. While shorebird stopover habitat guidelines for the MAV are based on an expert estimate of 2g of invertebrates/m2, this estimate has not been quantified in Arkansas. Invertebrate biomass available for shorebird foraging was examined on five properties in southeastern Arkansas during spring and fall migration (fall 2010, spring and fall 2011, and spring 2012). Macroinvertebrate biomass was less than the estimated 2 g/m2 in three of the four sampled seasons. Further …

Oxidized Cell Wall Fragments In Plant Growth And Development, Karl Schneider

Ocean Engineering and Marine Sciences Student Publications

Cell wall fragments may function as regulators of plant cell division, growth and development. The best characterized of these are the p-benzoquinones (pBQs) derived from the oxidation of cell wall phenols by reactive oxygen species (ROS)1,2. ROS are known to accumulate at sites associated with cell division, elongation, and wounding in plants. We propose that pBQs accumulate at these sites and play a role in regulating these crucial events. Prior studies have confirmed that pBQs, like DMBQ, inhibit root growth2. We are utilizing the model system Arabidopsis thaliana because of its fast growing time, well defined pattern of growth, and …

A Genetic Assessment Of The Conservation Status Of A Threatened Scrub Endemic, Angela Ricono

Ocean Engineering and Marine Sciences Student Publications

Reductions in population size can cause a loss of genetic diversity and a reduced ability to adapt to changes in habitats (e.g. environmental changes/anomalies; anthropogenic effects; Frankham et. al, 2009). Lupinus westianus (Gulf Coast lupine) is a threatened scrub endemic plant that has suffered drastic declines in population size (Wunderlin and Hansen, 2008). Habitat degradation has fragmented L. westianus into small populations that are likely to be geographically isolated from one another. An understanding of current levels of genetic diversity and connectivity among populations is important for management of threated, isolated, and declining populations. Findings of this research will aid …

Formation Of Compound Plates In The Skeleton Of The Sea Urchin Tripneustes Gratilla, Beverly Petilli

Ocean Engineering and Marine Sciences Student Publications

The sea urchin’s body, or test, is divided into 20 columns of calcareous skeletal plates. These columns are divided into paired, alternating regions. The ambulacral region is distinguished by the presence of tube feet. The interambulacral region separates the amulacral columns. The ambulacral region is composed of compound plates. Compound plates are three skeletal plates that have compounded (fused). Compound plates are distinctive because they typically bear one spine. Singular skeletal plates within the ambulacral region are added at the top of the organism under a specialized plate called the ocular plate. The present study explores how compound plates form …

Mass Spectrometry Analysis Of Fatty Acid Binding To Albumin, Carolina Nascimento

Ocean Engineering and Marine Sciences Student Publications

Albumin is responsible for the transportation of numerous amphipathic molecules including fatty acids in our blood. The number of fatty acids bound to each albumin fluctuates under physiologic and pathologic conditions (2). Current biochemical methods used for the analysis of the interaction requires the use of radioactive isotope (3) and/or enzymatic methods (1) which are unable to specify the type of fatty acids bound to albumin. MALDI-ToF-MS is a powerful tool capable of analysis of small and large biomolecules. Here we examine the potential of MALDI-ToF-MS in analyzing fatty acid binding to albumin.

Temperature-Induced Changes In The Feeding Mechanism Of The Invasive Florida Fish Cichlasoma Uropthalmus, Taylor Jones, Molly Wightman

Ocean Engineering and Marine Sciences Student Publications

Climate change has caused an increase in global water temperatures, leading to increased ranges of previously tropical fish. • Generalist, invasive species are capable of adapting to new environments by utilizing a wide range of resources in the invaded ecosystem. • A number of non-native fish species, including Cichlasoma urophthalmus, can now be found in Florida, however, their ecological and evolutionary implications are unknown. • The impact of colder waters on the morphological features of generalist, invasive species is also unknown.

From Total War To Total Annihilation, Katherine Dover

Vulcan Historical Review

pp. 63-77

"Scientists Are Wrong Most Of The Time": An Interview With Dr. Steven Austad, Susmita Murthy

Inquiro (undergraduate research journal)

p. 5

https://www.uab.edu/inquiro/issues/past-issues/volume-9/scientists-are-wrong-most-of-the-time-an-interview-with-dr-steven-austad

Eye Lens Protein Composition In Aging Cataractous Icr/F Rats, Supraja Sridhar

Inquiro (undergraduate research journal)

pp. 38-47

https://www.uab.edu/inquiro/issues/past-issues/volume-9/eye-lens-protein-composition-in-aging-cataractous-icrf-rats

Traumatic Brain Injury And The Law: Introduction, Sean O'Brien, Kenneth D. Ferguson

Faculty Works

Introduction to UMKC Law Review symposium issue focusing on the intersection of traumatic brain injuries (TBI) and the law.

Children's Interests: An Annotated Bibliography, 2013-2015, Nancy Levit

Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

The Critical Role Of Patents In The Development, Commercialization And Utilization Of Innovative Genetic Diagnostic Test And Personalized Medicine, Christopher M. Holman

Faculty Works

Arguments in favor of reining in the availability of effective patent protection in the area of genetic diagnostic testing are based largely on two fundamental misconceptions regarding the role of patents in this important area of technological innovation. The first is the mistaken assumption that patents negatively impact patient access to genetic diagnostic testing by preventing research that might lead to new or improved versions of a genetic test and by increasing the cost of testing services. The second is the failure to appreciate the substantial positive role patents play in in the development and utilization of genetic diagnostic tests. …

Statistics In The Billera-Holmes-Vogtmann Treespace, Grady S. Weyenberg

Theses and Dissertations--Statistics

This dissertation is an effort to adapt two classical non-parametric statistical techniques, kernel density estimation (KDE) and principal components analysis (PCA), to the Billera-Holmes-Vogtmann (BHV) metric space for phylogenetic trees. This adaption gives a more general framework for developing and testing various hypotheses about apparent differences or similarities between sets of phylogenetic trees than currently exists.

For example, while the majority of gene histories found in a clade of organisms are expected to be generated by a common evolutionary process, numerous other coexisting processes (e.g. horizontal gene transfers, gene duplication and subsequent neofunctionalization) will cause some genes to exhibit a …

Do Biotech Patent Lawsuits Really “Overwhelmingly Lose?”: A Response To Our Divided Patent System, Christopher M. Holman

Faculty Works

On October 14, 2014, Stanford’s Professor Mark Lemley tweeted “My new study with Allison & Schwartz shows that software and biotech patent lawsuits overwhelmingly lose.” He was referring to an article entitled Our Divided Patent System, co-authored by Lemley and two other prominent law professors. Taken at face value, the assertion that “biotech patent lawsuits overwhelmingly lose” would seem to hold troubling implications for biotechnology. In order to better understand the basis for Lemley’s assertion, I reanalyzed the underlying data and found that the situation is not nearly as bleak as his tweet might suggest. My significantly different interpretation of …

Developments In Synthetic Biology Are Altering The Ip Imperatives Of Biotechnology, Christopher M. Holman

Faculty Works

While the accomplishments of the biotechnology industry have been substantial, recent technological advances promise to dramatically increase the power and utility of the discipline over the coming years. The term “synthetic biology” has been coined to describe the application of these powerful new tools to the engineering of synthetic genetic sequences and organisms. In essence, synthetic biology represents the next iteration in the ongoing evolution of biotechnology, and hopes run high that in time, the fruits of synthetic biology will dwarf the past successes of conventional biotechnology. There is, however, some concern that the current patent-centric approach to Intellectual Property …

Dead Money: A Posthumously Conceived Child's Inheritance Rights Under The Social Security Act & State Intestacy Law, Heather Lacount

Suffolk Journal of Trial and Appellate Advocacy

No abstract provided.