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“Making Bail”: Limiting The Use Of Bail Schedules And Defining The Elusive Meaning Of “Excessive Bail”, James A. Allen

Journal of Law and Policy

Every day in the United States, thousands of people are waiting in jail postarrest prior to any trial or conviction. Once arrested, these individuals frequently face harsh conditions while they are held for their first appearance to be assigned bail. Thousands of individuals wait more than forty-eight hours to first appear in front of a judicial officer who determines their bail conditions. Innocent people––people who have committed no offense except that of being underprivileged––are pressured into accepting plea bargains because they cannot pay bail. Thousands remain in jail unwilling to accept plea bargains or admit guilt but are detained nevertheless …

No “Gift” Giving Here: The Inadequate Gifted Education Programs In New York State And The Need For Gifted Education Reform, Jamie M. Kautz

Journal of Law and Policy

Gifted Education is a topic that is often not at the forefront of educational issues throughout federal and state discussions and legislative actions. However, while there are a large number of students in classrooms across the country who are “gifted,” the number of individual states with comprehensive gifted programs within their public school districts is small. As a result, gifted programming is limited and gifted students are not guaranteed any sort of academic assistance beyond that of a standard classroom curriculum for their designated grade levels. More importantly, in the majority of states, including New York, the legal protections offered …

Copyright Infringement In Sound Recording: How Courts And Legislatures Can Get In Vogue In A Post-Ciccone World, Kristen B. Kennedy

Journal of Law and Policy

Music sampling is a legally complex and ambiguous area, with staggeringly high costs attached for copyright infringers. The legality of sampling frequently depends upon what jurisdiction the inquiry into the sampling takes place in, and has been guided by inconsistently applied doctrines of fair use, de minimis, and copyright infringement. The Ninth Circuit’s decision in VMG Salsoul v. Ciccone has dramatically highlighted these inconsistencies. This note suggests a four-part solution to resolve the tensions in copyrightable sound recordings magnified by the recent circuit split created by VMG Salsoul v. Ciccone. It incorporates elements of de minimis and fair use, a …

Effect Of Sonication On The Viscosity Of Reconstituted Skim Milk Powder And Milk Protein Concentrate As Influenced By Solids Concentration, Temperature And Sonication, Vidita K. Desphande, M. K. Walsh

Nutrition, Dietetics, and Food Sciences Faculty Publications

Skim milk powder (SMP) and milk protein concentrates (MPCs) are manufactured by evaporation followed by spray drying and are widely used as functional and nutritional ingredients. This study investigated the effects of temperature (40–60 °C) and total solids content (TS) on the viscosity of reconstituted MPC (rMPC) (≥30% TS) and SMP (rSMP) (≥46% TS) in laboratory conditions. Additionally, the influence of sonication in batch (70% amplitude) and flow through systems (90% amplitude) was studied in a laboratory setting. The viscosity increased for all treatments with an increase in TS and decreased with an increase in temperature. Overall, sonication in both …

Advancing Civility In Elementary Schools, Melanie Domenech Rodriguez, Lesther A. Papa, Alexander Reveles, Samantha M. Corralejo

Psychology Student Research

No abstract provided.

Advancing Civility In Middle Schools, Melanie Domenech Rodriguez, Lesther A. Papa, Alexander Reveles, Samantha M. Corralejo

Psychology Student Research

No abstract provided.

Prevalence Of Anxiety In People With Aphasia After Stroke, Reg Morris, Alicia Eccles, Brooke Ryan, Ian I. Kneebone

School of Psychology

No abstract provided.

Other-Ing: Creating A Three-Dimensional Asian American Perspective, Caroline Yoo

Bachelor of Fine Arts Senior Papers

Through my thesis body of work “Other-ing,” my goal is to create a three-dimensional Asian American perspective. As a result of Western standards implemented as the norm, where colonialism is still prevalent and white still reigns supreme, the media has created an onslaught of fictional Asian characters to control this group. Representations, tropes, stereotypes have long shaped the Asian American community, so much so that it is often easier to understand these one-dimensional depictions rather than the complex reality of how an Asian American defines themselves. Not shying away from implicating myself in this systematic structure of racism, I become …

Setting Priorities For Knowledge Translation Of Cochrane Reviews For Health Equity: Evidence For Equity, Peter Tugwell, Jennifer Petkovic, Vivian Welch, Jennifer Vincent, Zulfiqar Ahmed Bhutta, Rachel Churchill, Don Desavigny, Lawrence Mbuagbaw, Tomas Pantoja

Department of Paediatrics and Child Health

Background: A focus on equity in health can be seen in many global development goals and reports, research and international declarations. With the development of a relevant framework and methods, the Campbell and Cochrane Equity Methods Group has encouraged the application of an 'equity lens' to systematic reviews, and many organizations publish reviews intended to address health equity. The purpose of the Evidence for Equity (E4E) project was to conduct a priority-setting exercise and apply an equity lens by developing a knowledge translation product comprising summaries of systematic reviews from the Cochrane Library. E4E translates evidence from systematic reviews into …

Intermediate-Term Risk Of Stroke Following Cardiac Procedures In A Nationally Representative Data Set., Laura Stein, Alison Thaler, John W. Liang, Stanley Tuhrim, Amit S. Dhamoon, Mandip S. Dhamoon

Department of Neurology Faculty Papers

BACKGROUND: Studies on stroke risk following cardiac procedures addressed only perioperative and long-term risk following limited higher-risk procedures, were poorly generalizable, and often failed to stratify by stroke type. We calculated stroke risk in the intermediate risk period following cardiac procedures compared with common noncardiac surgeries and medical admissions.

METHODS AND RESULTS: The Nationwide Readmissions Database contains readmission data for 49% of US admissions in 2013. We compared age-adjusted stroke readmission rates up to 90 days postdischarge. We used Cox regression to calculate hazard ratios, up to 1 year, of stroke risk comparing transcatheter aortic valve replacement versus surgical aortic …

Altevius A. Anderson

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Melvin Walton

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

From The Editor, Jessica Gallo

The Montana English Journal

Montana English Journal’s Editor introduces this volume’s content and the incoming Editor of MEJ.

Recent Case Decisions

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

No abstract provided.

A Reexamination And Reformulation Of The Habendum Clause Paying Quantities Standard Under Oil And Gas Leases, Alex Ritchie

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

No abstract provided.

Siting Carbon Dioxide Pipelines, Tara K. Righetti

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

No abstract provided.

European Energy Security, American Lng, And The Global Natural Gas Marketplace, Dr. Christopher S. Kulander

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

No abstract provided.

Editor's Introduction, Mason W. Smith

Oil and Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Journal

No abstract provided.

Quantifying Speech Intelligibility Based On Crowdsourcing, Edrei Chua, Jason Fedor, Caile Collins, Aaron Malenfant

Defensive Publications Series

The intelligibility of speech within media content, e.g., audio or video streams, is an important factor that determines the reach and popularity of the media. Objective measures of audio and speech quality, e.g., PESQ and SII scores, correlate poorly with human assessment. MOS, a widely accepted intelligibility test, is subjective, expensive, and time consuming.

Techniques disclosed herein provide an objective measure of the intelligibility of speech within video or audio content. Speech intelligibility scores are calculated based on the edit distance between human speech transcriptions of short clips and transcripts produced by an automatic speech recognizer. The speech intelligibility score …

Manufacturer Origin Attestation For Device User Authorization, Breno De Medeiros, Michael Dietz, Mengcheng Duan, Arnar Birgisson

Defensive Publications Series

This disclosure describes techniques for user authentication and authorization for devices with support for manufacturer origin attestation. A client attestation certificate allows an authorization service to associate a device with its manufacturer (client). A unique client identifier is assigned by the authorization service to the client. The client assigns a unique instance certificate to each device. During initial authorization, each device uses a trusted local channel to establish identification before the authorization service and obtain an authorization code. The authorization code, the device instance attestation certificate chain, and a proof of possession of the instance key, in the form of …

The Toxicity Of Nanoparticles Depends On Multiple Molecular And Physicochemical Mechanisms, Yue-Wern Huang, Melissa Cambre, Han-Jung Lee

Biological Sciences Faculty Research & Creative Works

Nanotechnology is an emerging discipline that studies matters at the nanoscale level. Eventually, the goal is to manipulate matters at the atomic level to serve mankind. One growing area in nanotechnology is biomedical applications, which involve disease management and the discovery of basic biological principles. In this review, we discuss characteristics of nanomaterials, with an emphasis on transition metal oxide nanoparticles that influence cytotoxicity. Identification of those properties may lead to the design of more efficient and safer nanosized products for various industrial purposes and provide guidance for assessment of human and environmental health risk. We then investigate biochemical and …

Winter 2017, Buddies Without Borders Expands To Graduate Students, Unh Global Education Center

UNH International Educator Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Book Review: Charles E. Mcclelland. Berlin, The Mother Of All Research Universities, 1860–1918., David Cahan

Department of History: Faculty Publications

Charles McClelland has long been one of the leading scholars of German universities and professionalism in Germany. His State, Society, and University in Germany, 1700–1914 (Cambridge, 1980), for example, is a fundamental introductory work for anyone wishing to understand the structure, growth, and development of the German universities during this period.

To help celebrate its bicentennial (2010), the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (to use the University of Berlin’s official name since 1949) commissioned a six-volume history, of which McClelland was the co-author of Volume 1, running from 1810 to 1918 and published in German. The work under review is an augmented, …

Timber Talk, Vol. 55, No. 4, December 2017

Timber Talk: Nebraska Forest Industry Newsletter

Lumber Market Reports: Northern, Southern, Appalachian

Hardwood Lumber Prices: Green, Kiln-Dried, Pallet Lumber, Ties (7x9)

Tribal Walnut Timber Harvesting Expanding in Nebraska, by Anthony Crill, Bureau of Indian Affairs

To Influence Buyers, Tell Stories, by Paul Reilly, Reilly Sales Training

Green Star Energy Group, South Sioux City Celebrates Bioenergy Day

Welcome Kristina Hughes

Nebraska Forest Industry Spotlight: Native Lumber & Sawmill, Litchfield

Wood Businesses Work to Increase Marketing Skills

Trading Post

A Comparative Analysis Of Three Major Transfer Airports In Northeast Asia Focusing On Incheon International Airport Using A Conjoint Analysis, Tae Won Chung, Yong Joo Lee, Hyun Mi Jang

Finance and Supply Chain Faculty Scholarship

Due mainly to the privatization and commercialization of airline companies and deregulation of the aviation rules, the demand for air transport has continuously been increasing. Airport authorities state that transfer passengers, who contribute to the large portion of the airports’ profits, are gaining much more importance, particularly in the Northeast Asia region where the air transport industry is very vital. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the competitiveness of IIA (Incheon International Airport) with other major airports located in Northeast Asia in passenger transfers made between Southeast Asia and China to North America using Conjoint Analysis. Results have indicated that …

Garden Building Design Project, Gena Farley, Vanessa Villanueva, Jayanne Asuncion

Building Information Modeling Final Projects

Final project from the EMGT 193/293 Building Information Modeling (BIM) course in the School of Engineering and Computer Science as part of the Bachelor of Science in Engineering Management degree. A student group designed and modeled a one-story building to house the Pacific Garden Program on campus.

Student Movement - Issue 11, Andrews University

Student Movement v. 102 (2017-2018)

Student Movement, Issue 11, 2017

Ub Law Forum Volume 32 Number 1 Winter 2017-18, University At Buffalo School Of Law

UB Law Forum

No abstract provided.

Contents, Ub Law Forum

UB Law Forum

No abstract provided.

Extending A Hand, Opening Doors, Ub Law Forum

UB Law Forum

No abstract provided.