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Medical Futility And Religious Free Exercise, Teneille Ruth Brown

First Amendment Law Review

No abstract provided.

University Of Dayton Magazine, Autumn 2016, University Of Dayton Magazine

University of Dayton Alumni Publications

The University of Dayton Magazine is published quarterly by the Office of Communications for alumni, parents, students, faculty/staff, trustees and other friends of UD. Articles included are "A conversation with UD's 19th president," a story about former UD Hockey team, the Lincoln Hill gardens project, and 100 years of the National Park Service.

Creche Herald Vol. 20, No. 3, Rita B. Bocher

Creche Herald

The Fall 2016 publication features nativity sets and personal reflections from members in the organization; information about nativities and nativity exhibits; and information about the Friends of the Creche annual meeting.

Review Of "A Primer Of Human Genetics" By G. Gibson, John B. Jenkins

Biology Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

Viewbook 2016, New York Law School

Admissions Viewbooks

To view online version, click here.

The Banner - V. 151, No. 8 - (September 2016), Christian Reformed Church In North America

The Banner

No abstract provided.

The Rise And Rise Of Neurosurgery: Academic Journey Of A Young Department In A Developing Country, Muhammad Shahzad Shamim, Hamid Hussain Rai Hussain Rai

Pakistan Journal of Neurological Sciences (PJNS)

The Section of Neurosurgery, part of the Department of Surgery, and the Mind and Brain Service Line at the Aga Khan University Hospital Karachi, has come a long way since its recognition in mid-90s. Although the program itself was recognized in late 90’s and the first resident graduated in 2004, it wasn't until 2008 that it assumed its current shape of a formal, structured training program. Currently it has six full-time faculty members, one part-time faculty member, two instructors, and a team of 12 residents. Following are few of the innovations introduced within the program over the last few years.

Did Bp Atone For Its Transgressions? Expanding Theory Of “Ethical Apology In Crisis Communication, Audra Diers-Lawson, Augustine Pang

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

Ethical communication during crisis response is often assessed by external perceptions of the organization's intentions, rather than an assessment of the organization's communicative behaviors. This can easily lead researchers to draw editorial conclusions about an organization's ethics in crisis response rather than accurately describing its communicative behaviors. The case of BP's 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico provides a prime example for the importance of accurately assessing the ethical content of an organization's crisis response because the ethics of BP's response have been discussed in news and academic sources; yet little direct examination of the ethical content in …

Gene Duplication And Divergence Produce Divergent Mhc Genotypes Without Disassortative Mating, Donald C. Dearborn, Andrea B. Gager, Andrew G. Mcarthur, Morgan E. Gilmour, Elena Mandzhukova, Robert A. Mauck

All Faculty Scholarship

Genes of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) exhibit heterozygote advantage in immune defence, which in turn can select for MHC-disassortative mate choice. However, many species lack this expected pattern of MHC-disassortative mating. A possible explanation lies in evolutionary processes following gene duplication: if two duplicated MHC genes become functionally diverged from each other, offspring will inherit diverse multilocus genotypes even under random mating. We used locus-specific primers for high-throughput sequencing of two expressed MHC Class II B genes in Leach's storm-petrels, Oceanodroma leucorhoa, and found that exon 2 alleles fall into two gene-specific monophyletic clades. We tested for disassortative vs. …

Hearing Is Believing: Birds Learn Fear, Christopher B. Sturdy, Darren S. Proppe

University Faculty Publications and Creative Works

Although it is known that animals attend to the vocalizations of others (referred to as eavesdropping), what has been missing, or at least left experimentally unproven, until now is whether animals can learn new associations between a signal and a threat. Here Magrath and colleagues (Current Biology, 25(15), 2047–2050, 2015) have for the first time conducted a field experiment that demonstrates just this: superb fairy-wrens learned to associate a novel vocalization with a predator.

Professional Speech And The First Amendment, Rodney A. Smolla

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.

Legislation's Culture, Richard K. Neumann Jr.

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.

Gouldian Finch Breeding Surveys 2016: Ord-East Kimberley Expansion Project - Weaber Plain Development Area, Sarah R. Pryke

Irrigated Agricultural Development in the North

As part of the requirement for State approval under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) and the Gouldian Finch Management Plan (GFMP), a baseline assessment and on-going monitoring of the endangered Gouldian finch (Erythrura gouldiae) is required during the construction and operation of the Ord River Irrigation Area Weaber Plain Development Project in the eastern Kimberley, Western Australia. This report details the findings from surveys of Gouldian finches during their annual breeding season (2016).

A Nominal Credit: Why Donor Recognition Should Not Limit The Deductibility Of Section 170 Charitable Contributions, Benjamin J. Imdieke

ACTEC Law Journal

In figuring their federal income tax liability, individuals are generally entitled to deduct from gross income the amount of their charitable contributions. Charities often recognize such donors for their gifts by associating donor names with the projects such donors make possible. In 2015, Lincoln Center made headlines when it recognized David Geffen's $100 million gift by placing his name on what the Center had previously named Avery Fisher Hall. The story renewed a debate over whether donor recognition should affect the amount of such donor's charitable deduction and, is so, how. This article argues that donor recognition should not affect …

Defending Dependent Disclaimers, Katheleen R. Guzman

ACTEC Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Summoning The State: Northern Farmers And The Transformation Of American Politics In The Mid-Nineteenth Century, Ariel Ron

History Faculty Publications

A vast agricultural reform movement emerged in the northeastern countryside during the antebellum era. The massive popularity of state and county agricultural fairs, starting in the late 1840s, formed the most visible manifestation of this phenomenon, while the earlier rise of an independent agricultural press formed its essential precondition. Surprisingly, historians have paid relatively little attention either to the social determinants or to the political consequences of the agricultural reform movement. Socially, the movement was rooted in a set of economic conditions and the thick print and associational networks characteristic of what I call the “Greater Northeast.” This article thus …

July To September 2016

All Summaries

No abstract provided.

Vol. 20, No. 1: Front Matter, Water Law Review

Water Law Review

No abstract provided.

Evolving Water Law And Management In The U.S.: Delaware, James R. May

Water Law Review

No abstract provided.

Thirsty For A Solution: Promoting More Efficient Water Use In The West, Casey Clowes, Tessa Hustead, Daniel Kolomitz

Water Law Review

No abstract provided.

Vol. 20, No. 1: Full Issue, Water Law Review

Water Law Review

No abstract provided.

Toward A Thomistic Environmental Ethic: How Aquinas's Metaethic Provides The Groundwork For An Environmentally And Zoologically Responsible Moral System, William Merle Green

Masters Theses

While the trend in contemporary discussions of environmental ethics is often to dispense with traditional anthropocentric conceptions of morality in favor of more biologically and ecologically inclusive perspectives, I will argue that Natural Law Theory and Virtue Ethics, both integral components of the moral philosophy of Thomas Aquinas, provide the groundwork for an ecologically and zoologically responsible ethic. Thus, utilizing the core of Aquinas’s ethical system, I will attempt to construct a robust moral framework that is Thomistic in every important sense while at the same time satisfies the sufficiency conditions for a successful environmental code of conduct.

Forage News [2016-09], Department Of Plant And Soil Sciences, University Of Kentucky

Forage News

• Dr. Chris Teutsch Accepts Forage Extension Specialist Position in Princeton, KY
• UK and USDA Specialists to speak at KFGC Field Day
• Forage News Quote of the Month: "You Can Observe a Lot Just by Watching"
• 16th Kentucky Grazing Conference Schedule Announced
• Difficulty with Alfalfa Establishment in 2016
• Featured Publication: Wildlife Benefits of Switchgrass Production in Kentucky (AGR-221)
• Considerations in Selecting a Cool Season Cereal Variety
• KFGC Award Nominations
• KFGC Board Nominations

Castor Canadensis Fall 2016, Jedediah Smith Society

Castor Canadensis - Jedediah Smith Society

Newsletter of the Jedediah Smith Society

Nine Poems On The Death Of My Mother, Jaime Robles

The Goose

Poetry by Jaime Robles

Subscription And Organization Information [September 2016]

Nebraska Bird Review

The Nebraska Bird Review is published quarterly by the Nebraska Ornithologists' Union, Inc., as its official journal, and is sent to members not in arrears of dues. Annual subscription rates (on a calendar-year basis only): $25 in the United States and $35 in all other countries, payable in advance. Single copies are $7 each, postpaid, in the United States and $9 elsewhere. Send orders for back issues to Anita Breckbill, NOU Librarian, c/o Music Library, WMB 30, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588-0101.

Memberships in the NOU (on a calendar-year basis only): Active Household (one or more people) $25; Sustaining …

A Documented Occurrence Of Black Rail (Laterallus Jamaicensis) In Nebraska, Cody Mcgregor, Eric Bruster, Mary Bomberger Brown, Lauren R. Dinan, Joel G. Jorgensen

Nebraska Bird Review

Black Rails (Laterallus jamaicensis) are the smallest of the rails found in North America. Even though they are broadly distributed in coastal tidal and inland freshwater marshes, they are rarely seen and consequently are poorly known. They prefer areas of moist soil interspersed with scattered small pools of shallow water surrounded by fine-stemmed rushes, grasses, and sedges for use during migratory stopover and nesting. All populations of Black Rail have declined precipitously over the past century due to the draining of marshes and wetlands and demands on water resources. In 2011, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service initiated …

Summer Field Report, June–July 2016, W. Ross Silcock

Nebraska Bird Review

This was a routine summer, if there is such a thing. Items of interest involved some rarities, most of which were distributional and temporal, some range changes, and a few issues that triggered more discussion than usual.

The only mega-rarity was Nebraska's second Swallow-tailed Kite; this species has apparently moved northward on the Great Plains in the last couple of years. Distributional rarities included the 3rd record for the east of Long-billed Curlew, a White-eyed Vireo in Cherry Co, the 2nd fall Yellow-throated Vireo record for the Panhandle, the 6th Cherry Co record for Purple Martin, and the 5th and …

2015 (27th) Report Of The Nou Records Committee, Mark A. Brogie

Nebraska Bird Review

The “Official List of the Birds of Nebraska” was first published in 1988 (NOU 1988) and has been updated three times (NOURC 1997, 2004, 2009). The “Official List” has been appended twenty-five times: (Mollhoff 1989; Grenon 1990, 1991; Gubanyi 1996a, 1996b, 1996c; Brogie 1997, 1998, 1999, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009a, 2009b, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015; Jorgensen 2001, 2002, 2003).

The American Ornithologists' Union Checklist of North American Birds, Seventh Edition (1998) and its following supplements (AOU: 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015) contain many taxonomic changes affecting …

Nebraska Bird Review (September 2016) 84(3), Whole Issue

Nebraska Bird Review

Summer Field Report, June–July 2016 ... 110

A Documented Occurrence of Black Rail (Laterallus jamaicensis) in Nebraska … 132

2015 (27th) Report of the NOU Records Committee ... 138

Subscription and Organization Information ... 151