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The Role Of Fault In § 1983 Municipal Liability, Michael Wells

Scholarly Works

Under Monell v. Department of Social Services, local governments are not vicariously liable for constitutional violations committed by their employees. Those governments, however, are liable under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for violations committed by "policymaking" officials. In the face of these two principles, courts have struggled with cases in which an underling commits a constitutional violation and the claim of municipal liability is based on a policymaker's failure to prevent it. The government can be liable in these "indirect-effect" cases for a policymaker's "deliberate indifference" to safeguarding constitutional rights, a standard that demands an even greater showing of culpability than …

Patent Inequality, Greg Day, W. Michael Schuster

Scholarly Works

Using an original dataset of over 1,000,000 patents and empirical methods, we find that the patent system perpetuates inequalities between powerful and upstart firms. When faced with growing numbers of patents in a field, upstart inventors reduce research and development expenditures, while those already holding many patents increase their innovation efforts. This phenomenon affords entrenched firms disproportionate opportunities to innovate as well as utilize the resulting patents to create barriers to entry (e.g., licensing costs or potential litigation).

A hallmark of this type of behavior is securing large patent holdings to create competitive advantages associated with the size of the …

Understanding The Gap Between Law And Practice: Barriers And Alternatives To Tailoring Adult Guardianship Orders, Eleanor Lanier

Scholarly Works

An overwhelming majority of state laws governing adult guardianship require an inquiry into whether less restrictive alternatives may be available/appropriate and, where guardianship is necessary, that guardianship orders be designed to maximize theindependence of the person subject to the guardianship. However, the best available data indicates that most guardianship orders are plenary," removing rights on a wholesale basis rather than individually tailoring the guardianship. To many observers, the imposition of plenary guardianship contradicts the unambiguous statutory language in most states favoring a tailored approach that implements guardianships to maximize an individual's independence and autonomy.

The literature is rife with examples …

Fragmentation, Harlan G. Cohen

Scholarly Works

A danger, an opportunity, passé, a cliché, destabilizing, empowering, destructive, creative: Depending on whom you ask, fragmentation has meant any and all of these for international law. The concept of fragmentation has been a mirror reflecting international lawyers’ perception of themselves, their field, and its prospects for the future.

This chapter chronicles fragmentation’s meanings over the past few decades. In particular, it focuses on the spreading fears of fragmentation around the millennium, how the fears were eventually repurposed, where, speculatively, those fear may have gone, and how and to what extent faith in international law was restored.

What Is International Trade Law For?, Harlan G. Cohen

Scholarly Works

Events of the past few years, including the Brexit vote in the United Kingdom and the demise of the Trans-Pacific Partnership and election of Donald Trump as President in the United States, have reignited debates about the global trade regime. In particular, many have begun to question whether the trade regime has done enough for those who feel left behind by globalization. While some have held fast to the view that redistribution of trade’s gains is primarily a matter of domestic policy, others have suggested tweaks to the international trade agreements aimed at better spreading the wealth.

But what if …

Free Speech And The Law Of Evidence, Dan T. Coenen

Scholarly Works

To what extent does the First Amendment limit the ability of prosecutors to offer evidence of a defendant’s past protected speech? As it turns out, the Supreme Court has touched on this question in only a handful of rulings, each of which it crafted to target only the distinctive facts of the case at hand. Many lower courts, however, have distilled from these decisions a sweeping, admissibility-favoring constitutional rule. According to that rule, the First Amendment imposes no limit on prosecutorial use of past-speech evidence—no matter how prejudicial—so long as it meets the minimum standard of evidentiary relevance. This approach …

Relationship Of Accessibility Oral Health Care With Sosiodemografi Conditions In Urban And Rural Areas Of Indonesia, 2018: Pilot Pathfinder Survey, Fuad H. Akbar

Journal of Dentomaxillofacial Science

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Commentary: Mediation And Moderation: An Historical Progress Report, Grayson Holmbeck

Psychology: Faculty Publications and Other Works

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Testosterone Replacement Therapy For The Recovery From Chronic Vestibular Dysfunction Following Repeat Mild Traumatic Brain Injury In Male Long-Evans Hooded Rats, Arthur Segismundo

Master's Theses

Repeat mild traumatic brain injury (rmTBI) is a major public health concern leading to both chronic hypogonadism and vestibular impairment. Following rmTBI, vestibular symptoms are one of the most common complaints and hypogonadism occurs in a majority of patients. Gonadal hormones have a well-established role in neuroplasticity and axonal regeneration. The loss of gonadal hormones due to rmTBI may delay recovery. A clinically relevant closed-headed rmTBI male rodent model was utilized to examine the role of testosterone replacement therapy on chronic vestibular dysfunction. This is the first study to demonstrate both hypogonadism and vestibular dysfunction in the acute and chronic …

Effects Of Various Toxeat$^{®}$ Concentrations On Growth Performance, Immune Response, Cecal Microflora, And Gut Morphology In Broilers Fed With Aflatoxin Contaminated Diets, Soheila Sarrami, Parvaneh Jafari, Maryam Tajabadi Ebrahimi, Seyed Naser Mousavi, Seyed Abdollah Hosseini

Turkish Journal of Veterinary & Animal Sciences

This study was conducted to investigate the effects of Toxeat$^{®}$, a mycotoxin binder, on functional indices, immune response, intestinal microflora, and gut morphology in broiler chickens fed aflatoxin-contaminated diets. Three hundred Cobb 500 broilers were randomly divided into 6 treatments with 5 replicates, each with 10 birds. The treatments included T1: negative control (NC), T$_{2:}$ T1 + 1 g/ton aflatoxin (positive control: PC), T$_{3:}$ PC + 1 kg/ton Toxeat$^{®}$, T$_{4:}$ PC + 2 kg/ton Toxeat$^{®}$, T$_{5:}$ PC + 3 kg/ton Toxeat$^{®}$, T$_{6:}$ PC + 1 kg/ton Toxeat$^{®}$ without hydrated sodium calcium aluminosilicate. Growth performance, immune system response, and lactic acid …

Genetic Appraisal Of Growth Traits In Iranian Native Ghezel Sheep Using Random Regression Models, Bashir Ghahri, Sadegh Alijani, Seyed Abbas Rafat, Reza Nabavi, Hossein Daghigh Kia

Turkish Journal of Veterinary & Animal Sciences

This research was carried out to estimate the genetic parameters of the body weight traits of the Ghezel sheep using three different random regression models. The used data were 39,288 test-day records collected from 13,378 animals at Ghezel Sheep Breeding Station in Miandoab, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran from 1994 to 2012. Fixed effects in models included type of birth (single, twin) and year of birth (1994-2012). The weight as a function of age in the days of weighting was considered as the fixed regression of orthogonal polynomial. The random effects of the basic model were direct genetic and direct permanent …

Quality Characteristics And Fatty Acid Profiles Of Bafra, Akkaraman, Andbafra × Akkaraman F$_{1}$ Lamb Meat, Büşra Yaranoğlu, Ceyhan Özbeyaz

Turkish Journal of Veterinary & Animal Sciences

The meat quality of Akkaraman, Bafra, and Bafra × Akkaraman F$_{1}$ (BAF$_{1}$) lamb genotypes was determined and then compared at slaughter weights of 34 and 42 kg. At the beginning of the study, 36 male lambs were fed intensively after weaning at approximately 3 months of age. Six animals of each genotype were slaughtered at each slaughter weight and certain meat quality characteristics, namely meat color, pH, cooking loss, tenderness, water holding capacity, and fatty acid profile, were investigated. The pH values of the M. longissimus dorsi (MLD) for the Bafra, Akkaraman, and BAF$_{1}$ genotypes at 24 h after slaughter …

Evaluation Of The Attitudes Of Veterinary Students Towards Cancer In Animals Using A Cancer Attitude Scale For Animals, İbrahi̇m Kiliç, İbrahi̇m Demi̇rkan, Aysun Çevi̇k Demi̇rkan, Si̇nan Saraçli

Turkish Journal of Veterinary & Animal Sciences

The aim of this descriptive study was to examine the attitudes of veterinary undergraduate students towards cancer in animals with cognitive, affective, and behavioral dimensions by a new cancer attitude scale for animals approach. Questionnaires, as data collection tools, were applied to 205 students training to be veterinary surgeons at Afyon Kocatepe University, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, who were selected by systematic random sampling method. Validity-reliability analysis and t-test as well as ANOVA were used in addition to descriptive statistics for the data analysis. The students? general attitudes to cancer were (X = 3.65) greater than the midscore, 3, according …

Determination Of The Causal Relationship Between Beef Prices And The Consumer Price Index In Turkey, Ahmet Cumhur Akin, Mustafa Bahadir Çevri̇mli̇, Mehmet Saltuk Arikan, Mustafa Agah Teki̇ndal

Turkish Journal of Veterinary & Animal Sciences

The rising prices of beef meat have recently restricted its accessibility for consumers who need to consume it for a balanced and healthy diet. Speculations have been made about the increase in beef meat prices being one of the major factors underlying the increase in the consumer price index (CPI). In this scope, the causal relationship between the monthly average prices of beef and the rate of year-on-year change in the CPI for the period between January 2005 and February 2018 was analyzed in the study. Since time series data were used, the augmented Dickey?Fuller and Phillips-Perron tests were conducted …

In Vitro Effect Of Recombinant Human Gonadotropins On Meiotic Competence Of Dog Oocytes, Kamber Demi̇r, Mi̇that Evecen, Ramazan Arici, Seli̇n Yağcioğlu, Nur Ersoy, Ni̇lhan Coşkun, Hatem Atalla, Kemal Ak, Sema Bi̇rler, Serhat Pabuccuoğlu

Turkish Journal of Veterinary & Animal Sciences

The reproductive biology of the domestic dog is unique among mammalian species; because of this, in vitro maturation (IVM) rate is still very low compared with other domestic animals in spite of attempts at improvement. The aim of this study was to consider the use of recombinant human gonadotropins as a replacement for pituitary gonadotropins for IVM of dog oocytes. A total of 845 cumulus-oocyte complexes were used in this study. To determine the effects of human recombinant gonadotropins, maturation medium was supplemented with two different concentrations (0.05 or 0.1 IU/mL) of pituitary (pFSH, pLH) and human recombinant (rhFSH and …

The Coexistence Of Heart Murmurs And Arrhythmias In An Equine Hospital Population ? A Retrospective Study, Ali̇ Cesur Onmaz, Vehbi̇ Güneş, Alexandra Pavaloiu, René Van Den Hoven

Turkish Journal of Veterinary & Animal Sciences

This study was performed to characterize the coexistence of valvar insufficiencies of the mitral, tricuspid, aortic, and pulmonary valves and their possible association with atrial fibrillation in an equine clinic population. During an 11-year period, 348 horses had been examined for cardiac arrhythmias and suspected defects of the cardiac valves at the Vetmeduni Vienna, Austria. The study population included 256 male and 92 female horses. A subpopulation of 197 (57%) horses was identified with at least one valvular disorder. In these horses, mitral valve regurgitation (MR) was reported in 124 animals (63%), aortic valve regurgitation (AR) in 101 (51%), tricuspid …

Comparative Detection Of Bovine Herpesvirus-1 Using Antigen Elisa, Immunohistochemistry And Immunofluorescence Methods In Cattle With Pneumonia, Seli̇m Çomakli, Yavuz Seli̇m Sağlam, Mehmet Özkan Ti̇murkan

Turkish Journal of Veterinary & Animal Sciences

This study was conducted to detect the prevalence and presence of bovine herpesvirus-1 (BoHV-1) using immunohistochemistry (IHC), immunofluorescence (IF) and antigen enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) in the lung samples of cattle (n = 1023). In addition, three methods were compared using receiver operating characteristic (ROC) and chi-square test ($χ^{2}$ test), and their usability were evaluated in laboratory conditions. Macroscopically, pneumonia was seen in 120 of the lung tissue samples (11.73%). Based on the microscopic examinations, the pneumonia types were classified as catarrhal-suppurative bronchopneumonia (6.7%), fibrinous bronchopneumonia (5%), interstitial pneumonia (84.1%), and granulomatous pneumonia (4.2%). The IHC, IF and antigen ELISA …

A Survey Of Summer Camp Directors On Current Behavior Management Practices And Needs, Samantha A. Blair, Joseph A. Anistranski

ACA National Camp Research Forum Abstracts

No abstract provided.

Benefits Of Winter Adventure Camp For Military Dependent Youth With And Without Disabilities, Erin Brooks, Christopher Harrist

ACA National Camp Research Forum Abstracts

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Medical Specialty Camps: Campers Perceptions Using The Aca Youth Outcomes Battery, Asiah Allen, Eddie Hill, Emmanuel Smith, Ron Ramsing

ACA National Camp Research Forum Abstracts

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Exploring The Effects Of A Program-Specific Camp On Sense Of Community In University Undergraduate Students, Marisa Buchanan, Barb Hamilton-Hinch, Karen Gallant

ACA National Camp Research Forum Abstracts

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Parental Anxiety Associated With Summer Camp: A Comparative Analysis Across Camp Staffing Models, Barry A. Garst, Ryan J. Gagnon, Lisa K. Olsen, Megan L. Owens

ACA National Camp Research Forum Abstracts

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Positive Outcomes In Youth Campers With Hemophilia And Other Inherited Bleeding Disorders, Deniece Chevannes, Kim Williams, Danielle Shojaie

ACA National Camp Research Forum Abstracts

This poster presents findings from a residential camp for youth with hemophilia or other inherited bleeding disorders, Camp Wannaklot. Participants completed a subset of scales from the American Camp Association’s Camp Youth Outcomes Battery. Results were compared with average scores from our host camp facility, Camp Twin Lakes, and with ACA benchmark scores for Friendship Skills, Independence, and Responsibility. We present evidence that Camp Wannaklot provides substantial benefits to youth with hemophilia or other inherited bleeding disorders.

Mindful Reflection On Daily Structured Experiences: Evaluation Of A Strategy For Enhancing Learning At Residential Camps, Travel Camps, And Related Programs For Youth, Andrew Lacanienta, Billy Zanolini, Gary D. Ellis, Darlene Locke, Dottie A. Goebel

ACA National Camp Research Forum Abstracts

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Autonomy, Competence, And Relatedness Among Residential Summer Camp Staff: Using Self Determination Theory To Understand The Relationship Between Basic Need Fulfillment And Staff Retention, Myles Lynch, Nate Trauntvein, Cindy Hartman, Robert ‘Bob’ Barcelona

ACA National Camp Research Forum Abstracts

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Creating Resilient Youth Through Triathlon: A College Campus Pilot Study, Taylor Mcintosh, Kayla Cooper, Eddie Hill, Meg Duncan, Duston Morris

ACA National Camp Research Forum Abstracts

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Using Mindfulness Exercises To Build Counselor Self-Awareness, Self- Management, And Responsible Decision-Making, Megan Owens, Amanda Wahle

ACA National Camp Research Forum Abstracts

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College For Kids' 2018 Summer Camp: Improving Perceptions Of Science And Shaping Lifestyle Choices, Samuli M.O. Rauhalammi, Jamie C. Wolgast, Elissa F. Craig, Theresa M. Radke

ACA National Camp Research Forum Abstracts

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Summer Camp As An Advantageous Setting For Long-Lasting Youth Development: A National Retrospective Study, Cait Wilson, Jim Sibthorp

ACA National Camp Research Forum Abstracts

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Examining Adolescent Smartphone Use And Separation Anxiety At Residential Summer Camp, Victoria Povilaitis

ACA National Camp Research Forum Abstracts

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