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The Nebraska Bird Review, Volume 88 March 2020 Number 1

Nebraska Bird Review

Winter Field Report, Dec. 2019 - Feb. 2020, by W. Ross Silcock …2

2019-2020 Christmas Bird Counts …18, 27-41

Annual Color Photo Section …19-26

Annual Treasurer's Report for 2019, by Jan Johnson …42

Subscription and Organization Information …43

Mcnair Challenger, October 2020, Mcnair Scholars Program

EMU McNair Challenger

No abstract provided.

Ethical Judicial Culture, Cynthia Gray

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

The problems that roil society affect the judiciary. Most recently, an uncontained virus challenged courts to perform their duties remotely for a time and then safely when they reopened. The #MeToo movement forced judicial systems to reckon with their past negligence and adopt reforms to do better in the future. And the racial justice movement of 2020 prompted commitments from state courts to, for example, “look afresh at what we are doing, or failing to do, to root out any conscious and unconscious bias in our courtrooms; to ensure that the justice provided to African-Americans is the same that is …

Looking At Judiciary Leadership From The Demand Side: Judges: “Invisible Leaders”?, Jeswald W. Salacuse

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

While the literature on leadership is vast and continues to expand at a rapid rate and while educational programs and courses on leadership exist at academic institutions of all levels and quality, judges and the judiciary are hardly ever considered fit subjects of study by leadership scholars and teachers. For them, “leaders” worthy of the name are to be found in corporate executive suites, presidential palaces, military commands, and even professional football teams, but not in the courts. As a result, in virtually all well-known books on leadership, judges are invisible. Moreover, even within the body of legal literature, in-depth …

Court Review: Journal Of The American Judges Association, Vol. 56, No. 2

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

Court Review, the quarterly journal of the American Judges Association, invites the submission of unsolicited, original articles, essays, and book reviews. Court Review seeks to provide practical, useful information to the working judges of the United States and Canada. In each issue, we hope to provide information that will be of use to judges in their everyday work, whether in highlighting new procedures or methods of trial, court, or case management, providing substantive information regarding an area of law likely to be encountered by many judges, or by providing background information (such as psychology or other social science research) …

Civil Cases In The Supreme Court’S October Term 2019, Thomas M. Fisher

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

With thanks to Professor Todd E. Pettys for his past years of service writing this column, it is my honor to summarize, for Court Review, the civil case docket for the Supreme Court’s 2019 Term. The Court’s term was most memorable for its blockbuster cases involving gay and transgender rights, abortion rights, religious liberties, and presidential power. But it also supplied important decisions governing remedies for constitutional violations. It also decided a handful of environmental law cases, and, with even less profile and fanfare, the Court ultimately disposed of a significant number of intellectual property cases, as well. Along …

Flying Colors Crossword Puzzle, Vol. 56, No. 3-4, Vic Fleming

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

Across

1 Grades that would get you kicked out of law school

5 Buds

9 First name in parenthood, often

A Small But Mighty Docket: Select Criminal Law And Procedure Cases From The Supreme Court’S 2019-20 Term, Eve Brensike Primus, Jeremy Shur

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

With its 2019-20 Term disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Supreme Court released just 53 signed decisions, the fewest decisions in a Term since the Civil War.1 But the Court’s lighter docket still featured important criminal law and procedure cases touching on what constitutes reasonable individualized suspicion, the necessity of jury unanimity, and the proper form of the insanity defense.

The more conservative justices on the Court overwhelmingly shaped the development of criminal law and procedure this Term. In the 14 cases summarized in this review, the Chief Justice and Justices Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh agreed in judgment 11 …

Commerce Connections Crossword Puzzle, Vol. 56, No. 2, Vic Fleming

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

Across

1 Words of action

6 Sent a dupe

10 Cutting edge

Rethinking Appellate Standards Of Review For Video Evidence, Pierre H. Bergeron

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

We live in an era of instant replay. Every sports fan, when witnessing a close play in a game, reflexively thinks, “I wonder what the replay will show?” And they can take comfort in the fact that the play will be showed in slow motion from multiple different vantage points as we all assess the correctness of the referee’s call. I recall watching the 2019 NCAA men’s basketball final (cheering on my law school alma mater, UVA), when a play near the end of the game occurred where a defender batted the ball out of bounds but the replay ultimately …

Undergraduate Symposium, 2020, College Of Arts & Sciences

Undergraduate Symposium Programs

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Occupational Radiation Exposures In Aviation: Air Traffic Safety Systems Considerations, Adeyinka Olumuyiwa Osunwusi

International Journal of Aviation, Aeronautics, and Aerospace

Radiation from both natural and artificial sources is an inescapable and undeniable reality of human existence. Aside from exposure to radiation from a wide variety of natural sources including background ionizing radiation and electromagnetic fields from the earth, the increasing multiplicity of scientific and technological advancements and the growing complexities of the urbanization process are combining to elevate the susceptibility of mankind to non-ionizing radiation from electromagnetic fields. Debates regarding the health outcomes of occupational radiation exposures in aviation have been intense in recent times with a focus that appears predominantly riveted on in-flight radiation exposures. Whereas the vast majority …

El Género Aleuroparadoxus Quaintance Y Baker 1914, Con Descripción De Tres Nuevas Especies, Nuevos Registros Y Clave Para Las Especies (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae), José Francisco García Ochaeta, Gregory A. Evans

Insecta Mundi

Se revisa el género Aleuroparadoxus Quaintance y Baker (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae: Aleyrodinae) y se describen e ilustran A. gabrieli García-Ochaeta y Evans, sp. nov., de Guatemala y México, A. elmarrojasi García- Ochaeta y Evans, sp. nov., de Guatemala y A. carapiai García-Ochaeta y Evans, sp. nov., de México. Se registran A. sapotae Russell y A. gardeniae Russell por primera vez para Guatemala. Se proporciona una clave ilustrada para la identificación de los grupos y especies del género.

The genus Aleuroparadoxus Quaintance and Baker (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae: Aleyrodinae) is revised and A. gabrieli García-Ochaeta and Evans, sp. nov., from …

Nebraska Nonsense: Trojan Horse Or Cash Crop?, Jared West

Nebraska Law Review

When I was a young boy, my father reminisced about driving through the Nebraska countryside in the 1970s. He told me about the vast fields of green he saw, only, they were not fields of corn. Yes, Nebraska has a long history with hemp. In fact, local hemp even earned its own nickname: “Nebraska Non-sense.”1 Despite this unique history, it has been illegal to grow hemp in Nebraska for almost a century— until recently. In 2019, responding to the recent trend of hemp legalization in the U.S., Nebraska lawmakers weighed the question of whether Nebraskans should be allowed to grow …

Status Of All Senate Bills As Of 8:00 A.M. July 17, 2020 - Final:, Colorado General Assembly

Colorado House and Senate Journals

No abstract provided.

Subject Index:, Colorado General Assembly

Colorado House and Senate Journals

No abstract provided.

Hegemony Versus Pluralism: Ayurveda And The Movement For Global Mental Health, Murphy Halliburton

Publications and Research

Under the aegis of the World Health Organization, the Movement for Global Mental Health and an Indian Supreme Court ruling, biomedical psychiatric interventions have expanded in India augmenting biomedical hegemony in a place that is known for its variety of healing modalities. This is occurring despite the fact that studies by the WHO show a better outcome in India for people suffering schizophrenia and related diagnoses when compared to people in developed countries who have greater access to biomedical psychiatry. Practitioners of ayurvedic medicine in Kerala have been mounting a claim for a significant role in public mental health in …

A Multi-State Evaluation Of The Knowledge Of The Background And Dangers Of Popular Fad Diets Among Cooperative Extension Agents In Family And Consumer Sciences, Abigail Paige Mcalister

Master's Theses

Cooperative extension provides communities with research-based information in several areas including family and consumer sciences (FCS) (Franz & Townson, 2008). Because FCS agents teach communities about dietary guidelines, it is important that they are aware of the latest nutrition research. This study assessed the knowledge of popular fad diets and their potential adverse effects among FCS cooperative extension agents, and its relationship among the variables of location, professional certifications held, years of extension work experience, membership in professional associations, and education level. FCS extension agents in Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, and Mississippi were emailed an online survey, which collected demographics and …

The Right To A Clean Environment In Nigeria: A Fundamental Right?, Ayodele Babalola

UC Law Environmental Journal

In most common law systems, environmental liability has developed from actions under tort to fundamental rights actions. In between this development, legislatures in common law countries have enacted and amended statutes that stipulate environmental liability and enforcement.1 It is logical to imagine that an unhealthy environment will have negative impacts on lives and property, which are protected fundamental rights in most countries. It is also desirable for a system to have multiple avenues available for the enforcement of sound environmental practices and processes. This Article examines whether environmental rights can be enforced via fundamental rights action under Chapter IV of …

Wildlife Is Not Crying Wolf: How Fish & Wildlife Service Can Utilize The Endangered Species Act To Mitigate Hybridization Threats To Listed Species, Kimberly Willis

UC Law Environmental Journal

As humans modify Earth’s landscapes and climate change fundamentally alters ecosystems, separately evolving wildlife populations may once again meet and interbreed with one another. This hybridization process may ultimately drive the less prolific of the two populations into extinction. U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (“FWS”) has failed to fully utilize the tools within the Endangered Species Act (“ESA”) to adequately address the unique problems of species hybridization. Although FWS has resisted attempts to delist species undergoing hybridization, their recovery plans and critical habitat designations fall short of maximizing the potential for species recovery. This paper first explores the current regulatory …

Research And Innovation As A Catalyst For Food System Transformation, A.C.L. Den Boer, K.P.W. Kok, M. Gill, J. Breda, Jean Cahill, C. Callenius, P. Caron, Z. Damianova, M. Gurinovic, L. Lähteenmäki, T. Lang, R. Sonnino, G. Verburg, H. Westhoek, T. Cesuroglu, B.J. Regee, J. E. W. Broerse

Research and Innovation - Articles

Background: Food systems are associated with severe and persistent problems worldwide. Governance approaches aiming to foster sustainable transformation of food systems face several challenges due to the complex nature of food systems. Scope and Approach: In this commentary we argue that addressing these governance challenges requires the development and adoption of novel research and innovation (R&I) approaches that will provide evidence to inform food system transformation and will serve as catalysts for change. We first elaborate on the complexity of food systems (transformation) and stress the need to move beyond traditional linear R&I approaches to be able to respond to …

Joint Employment: The Unintended And Unpredictable "Employment" Relationship, Richard Epstein, Timothy Tymkovich, Phillip Miscimarra, Richard Griffin, Pepper Crutcher

Articles

No abstract provided.

The Double Movement Of National Origin Discrimination, Aziz Huq

Articles

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Equality's Understudies, Aziz Huq

Articles

No abstract provided.

Is Police Behavior Getting Worse? Data Selection And The Measurement Of Policing Harms, Aurélie Ouss, John Rappoport

Articles

Public concern about harmful policing is surging. Governments are paying historic amounts for law enforcement liability. Has police behavior changed? Or is society responding differently? Traditional data sources struggle with this question. Common metrics conflate the prevalence and severity of policing harms with the responses of legal actors such as lawyers, judges, and juries. We overcome this problem using a new data source: liability insurance claims. Our data set contains 23 years of claims against roughly 350 law enforcement agencies that contract with a single insurer. We find that, while lawsuits and payouts have trended upward over the past decade, …

Cdca2 Inhibits Apoptosis And Promotes Cell Proliferation In Prostate Cancer And Is Directly Regulated By Hif-1Α Pathway., Yixiang Zhang, Yingduan Cheng, Zhaoxia Zhang, Zhongyuan Bai, Hongtao Jin, Xiaojing Guo, Xiaoyan Huang, Meiqi Li, Maolin Wang, Xing-Sheng Shu, Yeqing Yuan, Ying Ying

Articles, Abstracts, and Reports

Prostate cancer (PCa) is a major serious malignant tumor and is commonly diagnosed in older men. Identification of novel cancer-related genes in PCa is important for understanding its tumorigenesis mechanism and developing new therapies against PCa. Here, we used RNA sequencing to identify the specific genes, which are upregulated in PCa cell lines and tissues. The cell division cycle associated protein (CDCA) family, which plays a critical role in cell division and proliferation, is upregulated in the PCa cell lines of our RNA-Sequencing data. Moreover, we found that CDCA2 is overexpressed, and its protein level positively correlates with its histological …

Characterization Of A Novel Compound That Stimulates Sting-Mediated Innate Immune Activity In An Allele-Specific Manner., Jinu Abraham, Sara Botto, Nobuyo Mizuno, Kara Pryke, Bryan Gall, Dylan Boehm, Tina M Sali, Haihong Jin, Aaron Nilsen, Michael J. Gough, Jason R Baird, Marita Chakhtoura, Caroline Subra, Lydie Trautmann, Elias K Haddad, Victor R Defilippis

Articles, Abstracts, and Reports

The innate immune response to cytosolic DNA involves transcriptional activation of type I interferons (IFN-I) and proinflammatory cytokines. This represents the culmination of intracellular signaling pathways that are initiated by pattern recognition receptors that engage DNA and require the adaptor protein Stimulator of Interferon Genes (STING). These responses lead to the generation of cellular and tissue states that impair microbial replication and facilitate the establishment of long-lived, antigen-specific adaptive immunity. Ultimately this can lead to immune-mediated protection from infection but also to the cytotoxic T cell-mediated clearance of tumor cells. Intriguingly, pharmacologic activation of STING-dependent phenotypes is known to enhance …

Association Of Chinese Herbal Medicines Use With Development Of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Among Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Population-Based Cohort Study, Miao-Chiu Lin, Hanoch Livneh, Wei-Jen Chen, Ning-Sheng Lai, Ming-Chi Lu, Tzung-Yi Tsai

Counselor Education Faculty Publications and Presentations

Purpose: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients appear to report a higher risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). While Chinese herbal medicine (CHMs) is proven to lower COPD risk, the scientific evidence regarding its effect in relation to COPD onset among them is limited. This longitudinal cohort study aimed to determine the relationship between CHMs use and the COPD risk in RA patients.

Methods: Using the nationwide claim data, 8349 patients newly diagnosed with RA and simultaneously free of COPD between 1998 and 2010 were eligible for enrollment. From this sample, we enrolled 3360 CHMs users and 3360 non-CHMs users, randomly …

Forage News [2020-01], Department Of Plant And Soil Sciences, University Of Kentucky

Forage News

No abstract provided.

Pedigree Validation Using Genetic Markers In An Intensively-Managed Taonga Species, The Critically Endangered Kakī (Himantopus Novaezelandiae), Ashley Overbeek, Stephanie Galla, Liz Brown, Simon Cleland, Cody Thyne, Richard Maloney, Tammy Steeves

Biology Faculty Publications and Presentations

Many species recovery programmes use pedigrees to understand the genetic ancestry of individuals to inform conservation management. However, incorrect parentage assignment may limit the accuracy of these pedigrees and subsequent management decisions. This is especially relevant for pedigrees that include wild individuals, where misassignment may not only be attributed to human error, but also promiscuity (i.e. extra-pair parentage) or egg-dumping (i.e. brood parasitism). Here, we evaluate pedigree accuracy in the socially monogamous and critically endangered kakī (black stilt, Himantopus novaezelandiae) using microsatellite allele-exclusion analyses for 56 wild family groups across three breeding seasons (2014–2016, n= 340). We identified …