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Domestic Airline Mergers And Defining The Relevant Market: From Cities To Airports, Alexa Naumovich

Journal of Air Law and Commerce

In 2017, more than four billion people in the world used aviation to travel. Airlines within the United States transported 741 million passengers domestically. As passenger demand for air travel has risen astronomically, the number of airlines who serve domestic passengers has dwindled to five major U.S. airlines. This shift in the airline industry and the reduced number of domestic airlines requires the Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division (Antitrust Division) to alter its analysis of airline mergers to determine their anticompetitive ramifications.

This article serves as guidance for the future of airline mergers within the United States. It argues …

Reflecting On My Year With Cil, April J. Schweikhard

Communications in Information Literacy

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Book Review: Information Literacy In The Workplace, Lore Guilmartin

Communications in Information Literacy

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Character Assassination: Amending Federal Rule Of Evidence 404(B) To Protect Criminal Defendants, Daniel J. Capra, Liesa L. Richter

Faculty Articles

There is a war raging over the admissibility of the prior bad acts of criminal defendants in federal trials. While many circuits treat Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b) as a rule of “inclusion” and liberally admit such prior bad-acts evidence with predictably explosive effects on criminal juries, a few circuits are developing rigorous standards designed to foreclose prosecutorial use of such bad-acts evidence. This Article chronicles the well-documented permissive admission of the prior bad acts of criminal defendants notwithstanding the prohibition on such evidence by Federal Rule of Evidence 404(b)(1), as well as recent efforts by some federal circuits to …

A Right To Care, Stacey A. Tovino

Faculty Articles

In this Article, Professor Stacey Tovino examines the right to care through a personal and historical lens, then attempts to fill a scholarly gap in legal literature surrounding the right to skilled care and rehabilitation for patients with group or commercial insurance. Professor Tovino first recounts the history of Medicare coverage for skilled care and rehabilitation, then she examines the limitations of group and commercial insurance, finally concluding by asserting a right to care.

A Literature Review Examining The Best Practices Of Volunteer Programs, Cara K. Reilly

Graduate Research Papers

Many organizations utilize volunteers and understand the countless benefits they add to an organization. Volunteers provide essential services in a cost-effective manner, connect organizations to the community, engage in promotional activities and many more helpful activities. The national value of volunteer's worth per hour is estimated at $23.56 (Independent Sector, 2016). However, one must know that a quantifiable value placed on a person's skill, time, and effort is complicated. Volunteers' worth and services exceed any monetary value.

Volunteer coordinators can measure the success of their volunteer programs by their retention rates. Keeping a high retention rate is important to any …

To What Extent Does Employee Engagement Impact On Business Productivity?, Leonie Kierans

Theses

Employee productivity is a critical element of business success. Employee engagement has a significant impact on an employee’s level of motivation and productivity. Due to the importance of engaged employees, this research will focus on engagement levels and what common motivators are driving engagement for employees within a recruitment agency. Specifically, the context of this study is focused around the researcher’s place of work, a small to medium sized recruitment agency with offices in Cork and Dublin, that recruit nationally for the life sciences sector. The researcher adopted a mixed methods approach, based on a sequential explanatory strategy for the …

What Is The Relationship Between Work-Life Integration And Job Satisfaction With Regard To Stress And Employee Well-Being?, Nicole King

Theses

The world of work is changing with the separation of work and personal life becoming an increasing challenge. Advances in technology have facilitated the mobility of work with over 6 billion people having access to a mobile phone which has led to greater demands on the modern worker which poses a question. What is the relationship between work-life integration and job satisfaction with regard to stress and employee well-being?

Due to the universal application of the chosen research topic, an industry focus was not chosen to allow for the collection of generalisable data. Questionnaires were the chosen research method and …

John Marshall’S Long Game. Review Of John Marshall: The Man Who Made The Supreme Court By Richard Brookhiser, Marc Arkin

Faculty Scholarship

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Piracy And Due Process, Andrew Kent

Faculty Scholarship

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Do Honeybees Act As Pollen Thieves Or Pollinators Of Datura Wrightii?, Andy Mccall, Sarah K. Richman, Eric Thomson, Monica Edgerton, Skyler Jordan

Faculty Publications

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Biotime: A Database Of Biodiversity Time Series For The Anthropocene, Maria Dornelas, Laura H. Antão, Faye Moyes, Amanda E. Bates, Anne E. Magurran, Sarah R. Supp

Faculty Publications

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Axiomatic Information Thermodynamics, Austin Hulse, Benjamin Schumacher, Mike Westmoreland

Faculty Publications

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Front Matter

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

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Think One Person Can Change The World? Plants Already Have, Anah Soble

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

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And We Don't Have Liftoff: The Origin Of Flightless Birds, Rachael Branscomb

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

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Nature Vs Nurture: The Impact Of Genes And Environment On Behavior, Ashley Xu

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

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Brain Boost: The Dangers Of Stimulant Abuse In College Students, Rachel Reardon, Monzerat Vargas, Zoe Olivo, Matt Hedman, Cami Walter

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

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Germ Theory: How We Became Acquainted With Diseases, Carson Mccann

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

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If Cartilage Wears Away, Hydrogels Can Save The Day: A Look Into The Future Of 3d Printing In The Biomedical Industry, Courtney Broady

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

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Marcelo Vinces, Victoria Albacete

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

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Crossword Corner, Rachel Dan

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

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Knockout Science, Loubna El Idrissi

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

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Jack Of Some Trades: How Trade-Offs Allow Organisms To Succeed Where It Counts, Philip Hurst

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

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A Different Rainbow: The Science Of Colorblindness, Rachel Dan

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

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First Lab-Grown Human Eggs: A Beacon Of Hope For Infertility, Jayla Johnson

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

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Boredom On The Brain: Could Lab Animal Enrichment Improve Biomedical Research?, Tara Santora

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

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The Death Of The Luminiferous Aether: The Evolution Of Scientific Thought, Miguel Botran

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

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La Llorona: The Ecology Of Folklore, Cella Wright

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

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Veronica De Pascuale, Jane Sedlak, Victoria Albacete

The Synapse: Intercollegiate science magazine

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