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Blazer V. Ebay, Northern Distict Of Alabama

Historical and Topical Legal Documents

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Larsen Law Offices V. David Larson, District Of Colorado

Historical and Topical Legal Documents

EXPERT REBUTTAL REPORT OF PROFESSOR ERIC GOLDMAN

Florida Abolitionist V. Backpage, Middle District Of Florida

Historical and Topical Legal Documents

No abstract provided.

Fields V. Twitter, Ninth Circuit Court Of Appeals

Historical and Topical Legal Documents

No abstract provided.

Randall V. Facebook, Eastern District Of Pennsylvania

Historical and Topical Legal Documents

No abstract provided.

Gorbatchev V. Google, Eastern District Of Texas

Historical and Topical Legal Documents

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Ftc V. Roca Labs, Middle District Of Florida

Historical and Topical Legal Documents

PLAINTIFF’S MOTION FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT AGAINST ALL DEFENDANTS AND MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT

Where Science Intersects Pop Culture: An Informal Science Education Outreach Program, Raychelle Burks, Kiyomi D. Deards, Erica Defrain

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

Attracting a general audience to STEM topics can be a challenge, and developing engaging and interactive instruction is important for educators in all fields. While many chemical educators have successfully used pop-culture themes to introduce their students to scientific concepts, these encounters are largely limited to formal classroom environments. Inspired by the successes of community science programs such as Science Café and Nerd Nite, science educators from two Nebraska campuses sought to broaden the exposure of their pop-culture themed class lectures, and created the SciPop Talks! program. Now entering its fifth year, this informal educational outreach program has become a …

Gene Expression Noise Enhances Robust Organization Of The Early Mammalian Blastocyst, William R. Holmes, Nabora Soledad Reyes De Mochel, Qixuan Wang, Huijing Du, Tao Peng, Michael Chiang, Olivier Cinquin, Ken Cho, Qing Nie

Department of Mathematics: Faculty Publications

A critical event in mammalian embryo development is construction of an inner cell mass surrounded by a trophoectoderm (a shell of cells that later form extraembryonic structures). We utilize multi-scale, stochastic modeling to investigate the design principles responsible for robust establishment of these structures. This investigation makes three predictions, each supported by our quantitative imaging. First, stochasticity in the expression of critical genes promotes cell plasticity and has a critical role in accurately organizing the developing mouse blastocyst. Second, asymmetry in the levels of noise variation (expression fluctuation) of Cdx2 and Oct4 provides a means to gain the benefits of …

China's Deliberate Non-Enforcement Of Foreign Corruption: A Practice That Needs To End, Gerry Ferguson

The International Lawyer

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Skeletal Stiffening In An Amphibious Fish Out Of Water Is A Response To Increased Body Weight, Andy J. Turko, Dietmar KüLtz, Douglas S. Fudge, Roger P. Croll, Frank M. Smith, Matthew R. Stoyek, Patricia A. Wright

Biology, Chemistry, and Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles and Research

Terrestrial animals must support their bodies against gravity, while aquatic animals are effectively weightless because of buoyant support from water. Given this evolutionary history of minimal gravitational loading of fishes in water, it has been hypothesized that weight-responsive musculoskeletal systems evolved during the tetrapod invasion of land and are thus absent in fishes. Amphibious fishes, however, experience increased effective weight when out of water – are these fishes responsive to gravitational loading? Contrary to the tetrapod-origin hypothesis, we found that terrestrial acclimation reversibly increased gill arch stiffness (∼60% increase) in the amphibious fish Kryptolebias marmoratus when loaded normally by gravity, …

Inequality Rediscovered, David Singh Grewal, Jedediah S. Purdy

Faculty Scholarship

Widespread recognition that economic inequality has been growing for forty years in most of the developed world, and in fact has tended to grow across most of the history of modern economies, shows that the period 1945-1973, when inequality of wealth and income shrank, was a marked anomaly in historical experience. At the time, however, the anomalous period of equality seemed to vindicate a long history of optimism about economic life: that growth would overcome meaningful scarcity and usher in an egalitarian and humanistic period that could almost qualify as post-economic. This has not been the experience of the last …

Cosmopolitan Democracy And The Detention Of Immigrant Families, Rebecca Sharpless

Articles

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Government Employee Religion, Caroline Mala Corbin

Articles

Picture a county clerk who refuses to issue a marriage license to an LGBT couple or a city bus driver who insists on wearing a hijab. The clerk is fired for failing to fulfill job responsibilities and the bus driver for violating official dress codes. Both claim that their termination violates the First Amendment speech and religion clauses.

There is a well-developed First Amendment government employee speech jurisprudence. Less developed is the doctrine and literature for First Amendment government employee religion. The existing Free Exercise Clause jurisprudence usually does not specifically account for the government employee context. This Article attempts …

The Desert Of The Unreal: Inequality In Virtual And Augmented Reality, Mary Anne Franks

Articles

The world we live in is structured by inequality: of gender, race, class, sexual orientation, disability, and more. Virtual and augmented reality technologies hold out the promise of a more perfect world, one that offers us more stimulation, more connection, more freedom, more equality than the "real" world. But for such technologies to be truly innovative, they must move us beyond our current limitations and prejudices. When existing inequalities are unacknowledged and unaddressed in the "real" world, they tend to be replicated and augmented in virtual realities. We make new worlds based on who we are and what we do …

Criminalization As Governance In The American Racial State, Charlton C. Copeland

Articles

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Inner-City Anti-Poverty Campaigns, Anthony V. Alfieri

Articles

This article offers a defense of outsider, legal-political intervention and community triage in inner-city anti-poverty campaigns under circumstances of widespread urban social disorganization, public and private sector neglect, and nonprofit resource scarcity. In mounting this defense, the Article revisits the roles of lawyers, nonprofit legal services organizations, and university-housed law school clinics in contemporary anti-poverty, civil rights, and social justice movements, in part by chronicling the emergence of a faith-based municipal equity movement in Miami, Florida. The Article proceeds in four parts. Part I introduces the notion of community triage as a means of addressing the impoverished and segregated aftermath …

Trading Spaces: The Changing Role Of The Executive In U.S. Trade Lawmaking, Kathleen Claussen

Articles

Since the earliest days of the republic, the U.S. executive has wielded a significant but constitutionally bounded influence on the direction of U.S. trade law. In the twenty-first century, the growth of free trade agreements has led to an institutionalization of trade norms that permits the executive many more spaces for engagement with trading partners. In addition, other types of quotidian lawmaking extend the power of the executive in both public and hidden spaces beyond congressional delegation, even as that power remains substantially bounded by congressional control. This Article analyzes the dynamics between the branches that will direct future U.S. …

Sexual Minorities In Legal Academia: A Retrospection On Community, Action, Remembrance, And Liberation, Francisco Valdes

Articles

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Socio-Emotional Cues Can Help 10-Month-Olds Understand The Relationship Between Others' Words And Goals, Youn Mi Cathy Lee, Minju Kim, Hyun-Joo Song

Psychology Faculty Articles and Research

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Evidence For The Use Of ‘‘Medical Marijuana’’ In Psychiatric And Neurologic Disorders, Christopher Noel

Pharmacy Faculty/Staff Publications

Introduction: Cannabis is listed as a Schedule I substance under the Controlled Substances Act of 1970, meaning the US federal government defines it as an illegal drug that has high potential for abuse and no established medical use; however, half of the states in the nation have enacted “medical marijuana” (MM) laws. Clinicians must be aware of the evidence for and against the use of MM in their patients who may consider using this substance.

Methods: A PubMed database search was performed using the text string: “Cannabis”[Mesh] OR “Marijuana Abuse”[Mesh] OR “Medical Marijuana”[Mesh] OR “Marijuana Smoking”[Mesh] OR “cannabi*” OR “tetrahydrocannabinol.” …

An Evaluation Of The Impact Of Immediate Compared To Delayed Feedback On The Development Of Counselling Skills In Pharmacy Students, Alexander Delucenay, Kelly Conn, Anthony Corigliano

Pharmacy Faculty/Staff Publications

Background: Simulation-based counselling using standardised patients (SPs) provide pharmacy students an authentic approach to training; limited data exists regarding student performance using immediate feedback approaches.

Aims: To compare grades of students receiving immediate feedback verses (vs.) delayed feedback.

Methods: A pre-trial assessment of student perceptions and an unblinded randomised trial comparing immediate and delayed feedback. Third year pharmacy students (n=153) counselled SPs in four clinical “experiences”; student grades were the primary outcome. Student t-test and repeated measures were used to compare grades between groups and grades over time.

Results: During pre-trial surveys 50% of students preferred immediate feedback, 22% …

Digitized Engineering Notebook, Bhargav Bolugoddu, Venkata Sharath Madamraju, Shamili Meneni, Anil Kuma Tanneru

All Capstone Projects

Digitized Engineering Notebook is a Web site application that simulates and transforms the characteristics of a paper notebook used for recording details of laboratory works into a digital version of such notebook. This is a web based application developed using the technologies like C#.Net, Asp.Net 4.0, Sql server 2014 as Database, JavaScript, CSS and few scripts and styles. Since the notebook is a permanent, documented and primary record of what you are doing in the laboratory: Digitized Engineering Notebook allows users to store records of text, data, and images to a database, and at the same time provides functionalities for …

Digitized Engineering Notebook, Sandeep Kumar Gudivada, Venkata Mahesh Kumar Gunturu, Bharat Vajrala

All Capstone Projects

Digitized Engineering Notebook is a fully operational web application which designed in a perspective to replace the traditional notebook of students with a complete digital feature. The noticeable functionalities of this project include front page with welcome message and a menu for navigation. The administrator will have access to edit the content in the database. The project leader and the team members can edit the content in the project. User will have option to create a new project or edit and can select existing project. Project leader will have accesses to add or remove members from the team and can …

Digitized Engineering Notebook, Naga Venkata Sandeep Kavuru, Shravan Kumar Redd Nareddy, Alekya Veeravalli, Ashwini Yarlagadda

All Capstone Projects

Digitized Engineering Notebook is a Web Based Application which is subject to the project status and their development reports and statistics. All the engineering students and professionals who work on the development of projects and mechanical applications maintain their notes and design process and other important attributes for the project. A General Engineering Notebook consists of Images, prototype sketches, development phases, data, and even text. These notebooks help the team members keep up with their work progress and make some important updates and notifications for themselves. However, this has a drop back by delaying the work and they take a …

Perceptions Of The Paraprofessional’S Roles, Rachela Nicholls

All Capstone Projects

This action research project was designed to survey the perceptions of special educators and paraprofessionals on the various paraprofessional roles and levels of training offered. The most common paraprofessional roles and types and amounts of training opportunities available were analyzed so that school districts would have the essential data to make programming decisions regarding the effectiveness of the paraprofessional programs within their schools. By using a survey process, paraprofessionals and special educators were asked a series of questions pertaining to the frequency of participation in each paraprofessional role, levels of formal and/or on-the-job training provided, and how the paraprofessionals’ jobs …

A Workshop For Transit Crisis, Ashley Tillman

All Capstone Projects

Crises can cause immediate chaos within any organization they touch. It is imperative that the individuals tasked with responding to crises are knowledgeable enough to communicate using a variety of methods and practices. Transit agencies task Transportation Managers and other key personnel to effectively communicate with front line employees before, during and after a crisis. In order for transit mangers to effectively communicate during crisis it is vital they are provided the necessary training relating to crisis communication. The purpose of the project is to develop a workshop for transit managers, stakeholders, and key leadership that are tasked with the …

Communication Styles: Increasing Awareness Between Genders In The Workforce, Tammie Bellephant

All Capstone Projects

Communication differences between males and females that exist often leads to miscommunication. Miscommunication, especially in the workplace, can create negative behavior resulting in low productivity. Identifying problems and implementing solutions learned through research to improve relationships and create mindful interpersonal communication. This research will analyze how different communication styles can interfere or hinder the message sent and evaluate how this information is perceived. Training on this topic will not only educate people on how to improve workplace relationships, but it will also identify a clear path for effective communication to travel. Through effective communication skills and clear expectations, individuals will …

Shifting Paradigms: Faculty's Navigation From The Classroom To Technology Enhanced Learning, Sheree Y. Sanderson

All Capstone Projects

Higher education is experiencing a decline in institutional resources, a change in student demographics, and a shift in teacher-to-student-centered learning. The impact of technology on faculty roles and the paradigm shift from the industrial age to the technological age has had a major influence on faculty and online teaching. This quantitative study was based on faculty technology experience, faculty’s attitude toward online teaching, the perceived quality of online teaching, and the institutional challenges; and how they impact faculty teaching modalities. It examined the training and support institutions provide to faculty as higher education becomes increasingly dependent on online teaching. Specifically, …

Labor Management Principles In The Communication Discipline: Developing A Communication Plan Based On An Organization Analysis, Michelle J. Williams

All Capstone Projects

The purpose of this research and workshop is to identify how the communication science discipline affects specific areas of the organization ranks and provide options to consider when measuring structural growth. The benefit of this analysis demonstrates how the rudimentary function of a core mission is able to work together and be compartmentalized for measurement but also explains how the implementation of communications theory and methods are able to assist in workplace diagnostics, training and development for an organization's communication plan. The importance of this workshop and literary analysis is to assist stakeholders and managers that maintain communication between organizational …