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Decentralizing Legislation In China’S Law On Legislation Amendment, Wei Cui, Jiang Wan

All Faculty Publications

We present a novel account of China’s recent move to decentralize legislation through amending the Law on Legislation (LL). Conventional wisdom pervading both Chinese political discourse and social scientific scholarship on China portrays law as incompatible with experimentation and as only suitable for codifying policies adopted after experimentation. Moreover, the value of legislatures is viewed as lying in their independence from the executive branch. We highlight rationales offered by the Chinese Communist Party for the LL amendment that repudiate these assumptions: the Party proclaimed the intention to promote lawmaking as a central instrument of policy experimentation; moreover, the Party’s intervention …

Mechanics And Historical Evolution Of Sea Level Blowouts In New York Harbor, Praneeth Gurumurthy, Philip Orton, Stefan A. Talke, Nickitas Georgas, James F. Booth

Civil and Environmental Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

Wind-induced sea level blowouts, measured as negative storm surge or extreme low water (ELW), produce public safety hazards and impose economic costs (e.g., to shipping). In this paper, we use a regional hydrodynamic numerical model to test the effect of historical environmental change and the time scale, direction, and magnitude of wind forcing on negative and positive surge events in the New York Harbor (NYH). Environmental sensitivity experiments show that dredging of shipping channels is an important factor affecting blowouts while changing ice cover and removal of other roughness elements are unimportant in NYH. Continuously measured water level records since …

Public Morality And Ethno-Religious Chauvinism In Nigerian: Why History Matters, Bright Alozie, Ngozika Anthonia Obi-Ani

Black Studies Faculty Publications and Presentations

Indubitably, history is a branch of knowledge which stretches way back to the beginning of time in human civilization and ipso facto, contributes to the shaping of a society’s past and future as well. As Marcus Mosiah Garvey (1887-1940) puts it, a people without the knowledge of the past History, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. Therefore, since development is a product of change, and the subject matter of history focuses on continuity and change, it follows that development can only be understood and appreciated within the context of history. This article examines the relevance of history …

Double Deadbeat Plus Repetitive Control Scheme For Microgrid System, Sreedhar Madichetty, Malabika Basu, Sukumar Mishra, Josep M. Guerrero

Articles

Parallel connection of converters is a convenient choice when system capacity is to be increased. Parallel-connected voltage source converters, especially neutral point clamped converters, are one of the best choices for its range. However, with the parallel connectivity, the converter possesses a circulating current in its legs, which consequently threatens the safe operation of the system. To alleviate this circulating current problem, in this paper, a double deadbeat (DD) plus repetitive control (RC) scheme is proposed. The RC scheme is employed to mitigate the circulating currents and the DD loop control scheme is employed to achieve a high operating bandwidth …

Characterisation Of Cholesterolcontaining Microparticles In Autoimmunity, Shuai Shuai Hu

Doctoral

In recent years, it has become apparent that sub-micron scale remnants of cells, called microparticles (MPs), are present in human circulation. MPs contain DNA, RNA, protein and lipids (such as cholesterol). Increased numbers of MPs are observed in autoimmune conditions such as Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) and Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA). This work aims to address the deficiency in the literature concerning MP cholesterol (MPC) by establishing reference values for MPC in a representative healthy population group, and by investigating the potential of MP cholesterol as a biomarker in autoimmunity.

Standardized Analysis Of Morphology & Toxicology Effects In Freshwater Organisms To Nano-Polystyrene Exposure (Samtefone), Andrew Reynolds

Doctoral

This thesis focuses on studying a series of standardised OECD tests used to check a nano plastic dispersal into a freshwater environment to assess acute toxicity. The experimentation also focused on using additional validation tests in conjunction with these acute toxicity tests to attempt to discern possible chronic effects from this nano plastic. The current research analyses the effects of fluorescent 100 nm diameter nano-polystyrene spheres (NPS) as a representative MNP particle. The NPS were examined for their stable fluorescence emission in all test media and all NPS concentrations utilised in the study. Dynamic Light Scattering (DLS) analysis was run …

Large-Scale Green Supplier Selection Approach Under A Q-Rung Interval-Valued Orthopair Fuzzy Environment, Limei Liu, Wenzhi Cao, Biao Shi, Ming Tang

Articles

As enterprises pay more and more attention to environmental issues, the green supply chain management (GSCM) mode has been extensively utilized to guarantee profit and sustainable development. Greensupplierselection(GSS),whichisakeysegmentofGSCM,hasbeeninvestigated to put forward plenty of GSS approaches.

What's Reasonable Now? Sexual Harassment Law After The Norm Cascade, Joan C. Williams, Jodi L. Short, Margot Brooks, Hilary Hardcastle, Tiffanie Ellis, Rayna Saron

Faculty Scholarship

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Harnessing Virtual Reality To Prevent Prosecutorial Misconduct, Kate Bloch

Faculty Scholarship

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Copyright Enforcement In The Digital Age: When The Remedy Is The Wrong, Ben Depoorter

Faculty Scholarship

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Plaintiff Personal Jurisdiction And Venue Transfer, Scott Dodson

Faculty Scholarship

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The Irrelevance Of Jurisdictionality In Fort Bend County V. Davis, Scott Dodson

Faculty Scholarship

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A Tax Professor’S Guide To Formative Assessment, Heather M. Field

Faculty Scholarship

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Tax Lawyers As Tax Insurance, Heather M. Field

Faculty Scholarship

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The Burden Of Federalism: Challenges To State Attempts At Controlling Prescription Drug Costs, Jaime S. King, Katherine L. Gudiksen

Faculty Scholarship

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California Groundwater Management, Science-Policy Interfaces, And The Legacies Of Artificial Legal Distinctions, Dave Owen, Alida Cantor, Nell Green Nylen, Thomas Harter, Michael Kiparsky

Faculty Scholarship

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Symmetric Constitutionalism: An Essay On Masterpiece Cakeshop And The Post-Kennedy Supreme Court, Zachary S. Price

Faculty Scholarship

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Balanced Liberty: Justice Kennedy's Work In Criminal Cases, Rory K. Little

Faculty Scholarship

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Artificial Intelligence In The Health Care Space: How We Can Trust What We Cannot Know, Robin Feldman, Ehrik Aldana, Kara Stein

Faculty Scholarship

As Al moves rapidly into the health care field, it promises to revolutionize and transform our approach to medical treatment. The black-box nature of AI, however, produces a shiver of discomfort for many people. How can we trust our health, let alone our very lives, to decisions whose pathways are unknown and impenetrable?

As challenging as these questions may be, they are not insurmountable. And, in fact, the health care field provides the perfect ground for finding our way through these challenges. How can that be? Why would we suggest that a circumstance in which we are putting our lives …

Scattered: The Assimilation Of Sushi, The Internment Of Japanese Americans, And The Killing Of Vincent Chin, A Personal Essay, Frank Wu

Faculty Scholarship

In a personal Essay, Frank H. Wu discusses the acceptance of sushi in America as a means of analyzing the acceptance of Japanese Americans, before, during, and after World War II. The murder of Vincent Chin in Detroit in 1982 is used as a defining moment for Asian Americans, explaining the shared experiences of people perceived as "perpetual foreigners."

Whose Voices Count In Biodiversity Conservation? Ecological Democracy In Biodiversity Offsetting, Redd , And Rewilding, David Takacs

Faculty Scholarship

Ecological democracy seeks environmentally sustainable ends through broad, active democratic participation. What happens when laws fostering participation in environmental decision-making and biodiversity preservation lead to differing results? What is best for biodiversity may not be what for local citizens believe is best. I examine conflicts and congruencies in the context of Biodiversity Offsetting, REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation), and the Rewilding movement. I ask questions that are legal (Who has what legal rights to speak for or against programs that enhance biodiversity?), epistemological (Whose expertise and knowledge matters when scientists and non-scientists don’t agree?), axiological (Are some …

A Common Law Perspective On The Supreme Court And Its Functions, Richard L. Marcus

Faculty Scholarship

The text presents different attributes of the Supreme Court in common law and civil law systems. The author claims that the question of design and function of a supreme court, while important, is no more significant than the issue of its institutional status and evolution, i.e. something one could refer to as “legal culture”. Neither the “common law camp”, nor the “civil law camp” turns out to be monolithic in this regard. The distinctive history of the US Supreme Court is presented through the perspective of its statutory and procedural supremacy, as well as its power of constitutional adjudication. The …

Regulating Bite Mark Evidence: Lesbian Vampires And Other Myths Of Forensic Odontology, Jennifer D. Oliva, Valena E. Beety

Faculty Scholarship

e third piece in a trilogy that examines and evaluates the standards that American co e proffered by prosecutors in criminal trials. The first two articles in the trilogy expose the criminal courts’ on-going practice of admitting false forensic evidence that is virtually always excluded in civil cases. They also advance a panoply of procedural and evidentiary solutions aimed at reforming this legally unviable discrepancy. Those solutions are court-centric insofar as they advocate for, among other things, open and early criminal discovery, pre-trial Daubert hearings to challenge evidence and experts, and court-appointment of qualified forensic science experts. This Article takes …

A Scientometric Study On Journal Of Climate Based On Web Of Science Databasae, Prakash M, Jayaprakash M

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The present study explores the Scientometric analysis of the journal on “JOURNAL OF CLIMATE”. This study covered 2787records worldwide from 2014 to 2018. The data were collected from the web of science database. In this study discussed the Journal of climate year by year in this study. The study was undertaken to examine the year wise distribution of contributions, authorship pattern, co-author index and degree of collaboration, relative growth rate and doubling time, Document wise distribution of records. A Number of publications published in the year of 2015 with 575(20.6%) records. USA ranked first in the journal of climate research …

Librarians And Their Distinctive Personality Traits In The 21st Century Digital Era, Shohar Bano, Midhat Mehraj, Ikhlaq Ur Rehman

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

While there is a fair extension of literature in terms of core skills required by librarians but there is rareness of research on competencies that librarians should possess in terms of their personality traits that distinguish them from the rest of the professions. The role of librarians in the 21^st century has migrated from information disseminators to the talent searchers, technological experts, innovators, strategy makers, and entrepreneur. Accordingly, they cannot rely on so-called "soft skills" of primitive nature; their skills must have a touch of dynamism. The study being theoretical type describes the personality based traits of the librarians …

Copy Cataloguing In The Online Environment: Do We Still Need Qualified Cataloguers?, Madireng Monyela, Stephen M. Mutula (Prof)

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The paper examines copy cataloguing in Cape Town Metropolitan Public Libraries. The study was necessitated by the fact that cataloguing is a critical aspect of the library work without which there would be total chaos in the organization of library materials, making location and use of such materials almost impossible. The following research questions were formulated: What skills do the cataloguers of Cape Town Metropolitan libraries possess? To what extent do cataloguers in Cape Town Metropolitan public libraries adhere to international standards when creating records in the online catalogue? How copy cataloguing is done in Cape Town Metropolitan public libraries? …

Library Facilities And Services For Differently Abled Students In Universities Of Karnataka: A Study, Chandrakanth Hg Research Scholar, K Ramakrishna Reddy Research Guide

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Purpose – In Karnataka, there are considerable number of differently abled persons, who are studying in various educational institutions. It has been observed that some of the educational institutions provided with suitable access facilities in Libraries to the disabled, but majority of them are devoid of this facility. In this article, an attempt has been made to study on the facilities being provided to the disabled users in some of the University Libraries of Karnataka. The facilities being provided are briefed under 3 major categories – (1) Access to resources, (2) Physical access to library building, and (3) Services and …

Scientometric Analysis And Literature Research Growth Of Lupus During 2010-2017, Mohamed Idhris, Manuelraj Peter, Abdurahiman Pattukuthu, Spurgeon Anandraj Samuel

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

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The paper analyses the growth pattern of Lupus disease literature during 2010-2017. The data downloaded from web of science database, further interpreted and analyzed for the study purpose. Total number of publications has been identified as 38750 records. The distribution of publications based on the year of production, country wise productivity, document type of the publications, Major subject categories, Authors whose contribution is in the maximum level were studied. The study reveals a progressive increase on LUPUS research during 2010-2017. The year 2016 contributed highest number of publications. United States is the top contributor during 2010-2017. PETRI M is …

Motivational Factors And Job Performance Of Librarians In Federal University Libraries In North-East Nigeria, Chinyere Nkechi Ikonne, Oluwafemi Joseph Fajonyomi

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

Librarians’ performance is getting tasks and duties assigned completed at the expected time, through an effective and efficient manner. Librarians’ performance seems to be low in the libraries located in North-East Nigeria where they work. Motivational factors stimulate individuals to put in their best to see to the completion of an assigned duty/task. Literature has not being fully established on how motivational factors influence job performance of librarians in North-East Nigeria Federal University libraries. It is on this premise that this study aimed to find out the influence of motivational factors on job performance of librarians in Federal University libraries …

An Assessement Of Acquisition And Collection Development Activities In Academic Libraries: A Study Of Joseph Ayo Babalola University Ikeji – Arakeji, Nigeria, Samson Adesina Akinola

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This study assesses the Acquisition and Collection Development Activities in academic Libraries in Nigeria with attention on the experiences of Joseph Ayo Babalola University Library, Ikeji - Arakeji. Six research questions steered the study. An Assessment Survey Design was espoused in carrying out the study. The total population for this study was three hundred and sixty-seven (367) respondents comprising of lecturers, students, library and administrative staff of the university and other users of the library. The major instrument for data collection was questionnaire. Three hundred and sixty-seven copies of questionnaires were disseminated to respondents, out of which three hundred and …