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Metaphors In The Construction Of Theory: Ramus, Peirce And The American Mind, Laurel Warren Trufant

Doctoral Dissertations

This study argues for the mutual impenetration of logical, legal and scientific metaphors and attempts to determine the role played by them in the construction of theory. Specifically it attempts to discover the impact which the metaphors of topical logic may have had on the construction of American ideology.

Chapter 1 offers a brief discussion of logical metaphors and their relation to the social and intellectual settings which generate them. Chapter 2 extends that discussion to principles of positive law and political order as they developed in the unstable atmosphere of 16th Century Europe. Chapters 3, 4 and 5 attempt …

An Analysis Of Air Force Aircrew Retention, H T. Kaplan

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Depiction Of Lakota Culture In Waterlily, Kelly J. Morgan

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Hospital Ethics Committees : An Exploratory Study, Marlene I. Bengiamin

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Human Rights V. Extradition: The Soering Case, Stephan Breitenmoser, Gunter E. Wilms

Michigan Journal of International Law

The European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms is widely regarded as the most dynamic and effective of the various international human rights instruments. Its impact on the judiciary of the twenty-three Western European Member States, as well as its pace-setting role for other international mechanisms for the protection of human rights, has recently been confirmed by the unanimous judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in Soering v. United Kingdom. In its judgment delivered on July 7, 1989, the Court held that the United Kingdom would act in violation of article 3 of …

A Retail Branch Profitability Measurement Model For The Thrift Industry, Rex L. Smith Iii

Master's Theses

Deregulation of the financial services industry has created a need for management to adapt a different approach to operations. Drastic regulatory and environmental changes have forced thrifts and banks to concentrate on increasing efficiency and core profitability from the retail branch network. Once considered to be highly bureaucratic, financial institutions are trimming back off ice review and focusing on a more decentralized leaner operation. Expensive mergers and large conglomerate financial powerhouses have created a need for increased management controls and reasonable methods of measuring the true profitability of the individual business units within a financial services company.

Strain And Volume Loss In A Second Order Buckle Fold, Central Appalachian Valley And Ridge, U.S.A., Michelle J. Markley

Honors Papers

Large scale thrusts and imbricates overlain by folded sedimentary strata characterize structure in the Valley and Ridge Province of the Central Appalachians. The Cambrian Waynesboro Formation is a decollement zone that detached an imbricated Cambro-Ordovician sequence from an unfaulted Pre-Cambrian basement. The Ordovician Martinsburg Shale is a second zone of major detachment that de-coupled the blind thrust system in the Cambro-Ordovician carbonates from the overlying orogenic wedge. Thus, the Central Valley and Ridge deformed during the late Paleozoic Alleghenian orogeny as a three tiered system consisting of the undeformed basement, the imbricated stiff layer, and the primarily folded cover layer. …

The Japanese Labor Market In A Comparative Perspective With The United States: A Transaction-Cost Interpretation, Masanori Hashimoto

Upjohn Press

This study offers a comparative analysis of a number of Japanese labor market features in relation to the U.S. The author examines employer-employee attachment, workforce adjustment, and industrial relations including "unique" Japanese institutions such as joint consultation and consensus-based decision making. Hashimoto argues that cultural-traditional influences, which shape the transaction-cost environment, interacted with technological progress in shaping the various uniquely-Japanese labor market features.

Using Water Naturally, Holmes Rolston, Iii, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center

Books, Reports, and Studies

[ii], 26 p. ; 28 cm

Earth Day 2020: Will We Have A Healthier Environment?, George T. Frampton, Jr., University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center

Books, Reports, and Studies

10 leaves ; 28 cm

The Water Transfer Process As A Management Option For Meeting Changing Water Demands, Volume I, Robert S. Robinson, Lawrence J. Macdonnell, Charles W. Howe, Teresa A. Rice, Mark Squillace, Geological Survey (U.S.), University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center

Books, Reports, and Studies

1 v. : ill. ; 28 cm

V. 1.: Introduction -- Summaries of state reports -- Findings and comparative analysis -- Summary and conclusions

The Constitution, Property Rights And The Future Of Water Law, Joseph L. Sax, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center

Books, Reports, and Studies

22 p. ; 28 cm

From Basin To "Hydrocommons": Integrated Water Management Without Regional Governance, Gary D. Weatherford, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center

Books, Reports, and Studies

22 p. ; 28 cm

Water Rights Decisions In The Western States: Upgrading The System For The 21st Century, Steven J. Shupe, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center

Books, Reports, and Studies

18 p. ; 28 cm

Health Effects Of Air Pollutants (Sulfur Dioxide, Ozone, And Carbon Monoxide), Robert A. Bethel

Air Quality Protection in the West (November 27-28)

19 pages (includes illustrations).

Contains references.

To The U.S. Department Of Transportation: Comments Of The Environmental Defense Fund On The Secretary Of Transportation’S National Transportation Policy, Robert E. Yuhnke

Air Quality Protection in the West (November 27-28)

20 pages.

Motor Vehicle Air Pollution Control: The Remaining Issues, Michael P. Walsh

Air Quality Protection in the West (November 27-28)

26 pages (includes illustrations).

Contains references.

Diminishing Views: Air Quality In Western National Parks, Christine L. Shaver

Air Quality Protection in the West (November 27-28)

17 pages.

Contains references.

Strategies To Overcome Agency Recalcitrance Under The Federal Clean Air Act: The Acid Rain Litigation Experience, David R. Wooley

Air Quality Protection in the West (November 27-28)

12 pages.

Toxic Air Pollution: New Solutions To Old Problems, Devra Lee Davis, Curtis Moore

Air Quality Protection in the West (November 27-28)

12 pages.

The National Environmental Policy Act: No Longer A Teenager, But Not Yet Grown-Up, George W. (Rock) Pring

New Challenges for Environmental Protection: Second Sino-American Conference on Environmental Law (October 12-13)

98 pages.

Contains footnotes.

Agenda: New Challenges For Environmental Protection: Second Sino-American Conference On Environmental Law, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center

New Challenges for Environmental Protection: Second Sino-American Conference on Environmental Law (October 12-13)

Workshop held Sept. 18-19, 1989; conference held Oct. 12-13, 1989, in Boulder, Colorado.

Conference speakers included University of Colorado School of Law professors Daniel Barstow Magraw and Lawrence J. MacDonnell.

Contents of papers from workshop and conference:

To protect developing city by the enactment of local laws and regulations / Wu Zilin -- Legislative control of air pollution & water pollution of the P.R.China / Xiao Longan -- The law of natural conservation in China / Ma Xiang-cong -- 'Weighing environmental risks : EPA's unfinished business', Environment, vol. 30, no. 6, July/August 1988, p. 14-17, 34-39 / Richard Morgenstern, Stuart …

Black Music Research Bulletin, Fall 1989, Samuel Floyd

Center for Black Music Research Newsletter

BMR Newsletter is published by the Columbia College Center for Black Music Research and is devoted to the encouragement and promotion of scholarship and cultural activity in black American music, and is intended to serve as a medium for the sharing of ideas and information regarding current and future research and activities in universities and research centers. Articles: "Mose McQuitty's Unknown Career: A Personal History of Black Music in America"/D. Alex Albright; "A South Carolina Band in London, 1914"/Jeffrey P. Green; "Aspects of Musical Activities in the Black Communities of Baltimore and Washington, D.C, . 1840 to the Early 1920s"/ …

Resource Law Notes Newsletter, No. 18, Sept. 1989, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center

Resource Law Notes: The Newsletter of the Natural Resources Law Center (1984-2002)

No abstract provided.

An Analysis Of The Water Situation In The United States: 1989-2040, Richard W. Guldin, Usda Forest Service

All U.S. Government Documents (Utah Regional Depository)

Several Federal agencies have historically had responsibilities for conducting assessments of the Nation's water resources. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Department of Agriculture's Soil Conservation Service (SCS), and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and its predecessor agencies, among others, have conducted studies assessing the current situation and future prospects for water in particular regions of the country. Responsibility for national water assessments was assigned to the U.S. Water Resources Council (WRC) by the Water Resources Planning Act of 1965. With the demise of the WRC in 1981, several member agencies have attempted to take …

Half A Memory : The Vietnam War In The American Mind, 1975-1985, Mark W. Jackley

Master's Theses

This study attempts to show how Americans in general remembered the Vietnam War from 1975 to 1985, the decade after it ended. A kind of social history, the study concentrates on the war as remembered in the popular realm, examining novels as well as nonfiction, poetry, plays, movies, articles in political journals, songs, memorials, public opinion polls and more. Most everything but academic history is discussed. The study notes how the war's political history was not much remembered; the warrior, not the war, became the focus of national memory. The study argues that personal memory predominated over political memory for …

Late Quaternary Geomorphology Of The Great Salt Lake Region, Utah, And Other Hydrographically Closed Basins In The Western United States: A Summary Of Observations, United States, National Aeronautics And Space Administration

Water

This report reviews attributes of Quaternary lakes and lake basins which are often important in the environmental prehistory of semideserts. Basin-floor and basin-closure morphometry have set limits on paleolake sizes; lake morphometry and basin drainage patterns have influenced lacustrine processes; and water and sediment loads have influenced basin neotectonics. Information regarding inundated, runoff-producing, and extra-basin spatial domains is acquired directly from the paleolake record, including the littoral morphostratigraphic record, and indirectly by reconstruction.

Allocating Groundwater Among Nations, States And Tribes, Ann Berkley Rodgers, Carolyn J. Abeita

Boundaries and Water: Allocation and Use of a Shared Resource (Summer Conference, June 5-7)

70 pages.

Honduras Pawn And Policy Maker, Elizabeth P. Thornton

Graduate Program in International Studies Theses & Dissertations

A study of the weak state was conducted using the Honduras-U.S. relationship as a case study. Most existing literature, with the exception of Annette Baker Fox's The Power of Small States, does not analyze in detail a specific country's relationship with a powerful nation. This research examined the factors that helped a weak country maintain maneuverability in its domestic and foreign policies when under the influence of a strong power. Six conditions which facilitated maneuverability were: geographic proximity, rising nationalism, citizen participation in government, trade distribution and diversification, international pressure, and declining hegemony of the strong power. Events in Honduras …

Black Music Research Bulletin, Spring 1989, Samuel Floyd

Center for Black Music Research Newsletter

BMR Bulletin is published by the Columbia College Center for Black Music Research and is devoted to the encouragement and promotion of scholarship and cultural activity in black American music, and is intended to serve as a medium for the sharing of ideas and information regarding current and future research and activities in universities and research centers. Articles: "Turn-of-the-Century Jug Bands in the Southeastern United States"/Bruce Bastin and Jeffrey Green; Black Vaudeville and the TOBA in Atlanta"/Thomas L. Riis; "Kemper Harreld and Willis James: Music at Atlanta University, Morehouse College, and Spelman College"/Rebecca T. Cureau; Black Music Scholarship and the …