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Augmenting Transparency In The Ballot Initiative Process: Impacts Of The 2014 Reforms On The 2016 Election Cycle, Chris Chambers Goodman

Chapman Law Review

No abstract provided.

The California Supreme Court And The Popular Will, Kenneth P. Miller

Chapman Law Review

No abstract provided.

“The More Muslim You Are, The More Trouble You Can Be”: How Government Surveillance Of Muslim Americans Violates First Amendment Rights, Madiha Shahabuddin

Chapman Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Differential Effects Of Initiatives And Referenda On Voter Turnout In The United States, 1890-2008, Matt Childers, Mike Binder

Chapman Law Review

No abstract provided.

Valparaiso Law: 2015 Annual Review, Valparaiso University Law School

Alumni Magazine: Alumni News (1970, 1978-1987) / The Amicus (1987-1995) / Valpo Lawyer (2000-2006) / Annual Review (2013-2020)

No abstract provided.

It's The War Power, Again, Jeremy D. Bailey

Tulsa Law Review

Reviewing Fred I. Greenstein, Presidents and the Dissolution of the Union: Leadership Style from Polk to Lincoln; Stephen M. Griffin, Long Wars and the Constitution; Andrew J. Polsky, Elusive Victories: The American Presidency at War; and Mariah Zeisberg, War Powers: The Politics of Constitutional Authority.

The Highs And Lows Of Wild Justice, Corinna Barrett Lain

Tulsa Law Review

Reviewing Evan J. Mandery, A Wild Justice: The Death and Resurrection of Capital Punishment in America, and Thane Rosenbaum, Payback: The Case for Revenge.

Jon Springer1, Amber N. Brooks

The Stories of Greater Yellowstone

No abstract provided.

Constituting The Diasporic Collective: Irish-Americans At The Dawn Of The Twentieth Century, Margret Mccue-Enser

Iowa Journal of Communication

Through close examination of speeches dedicated to Robert Emmet, the Irish Nationalist, Republican, and rebel leader, on the centennial of his death, I reveal how Irish-American civic and religious leaders marshaled his memory into the ideographs of land and liberty, and in doing so mitigated diaspora and constituted Irish-Americans as not only a decent but also an exceptional part of the burgeoning American socio-political landscape. First, I examine the state of Irish-American diaspora in early twentieth century America and the role epideictic speeches celebrating the legacy of Robert Emmet played in constructing the Irish Americans as a collective. Next, I …

How Should Business Informatics Integrate Service, Process, Work System, And Enterprise Orientations?, Steven Alter

Business Analytics and Information Systems

Current research related to the subject matter of business informatics reflects divergent orientations that are fundamentally about representing, analyzing, and designing services or processes or work systems or enterprises. After summarizing those four orientations and citing typical exemplars, this paper identifies a variety of paths toward greater integration between different orientations within business informatics. It identifies central topics for each orientation along with areas in which each orientation provides ideas that complement other orientations and reveal possible synergies. Both the approach for identifying potential synergies and the proposed synergies themselves could encourage greater integration within business informatics.

The Concept Of “It Artifact” Has Outlived Its Usefulness And Should Be Retired Now, Steven Alter

Business Analytics and Information Systems

Vastly inconsistent definitions of the term “the IT artifact” in leading journals and conferences demonstrate why it no longer means anything in particular and should be retired from the active IS lexicon. Examples from the literature show why artifact-cousins, such as the IS artifact, sociotechnical artifact, social artifact, and ensemble artifact should be used with great care, if not retired as well. Any void created by these retirements could be filled through the following approaches: 1) relabeling with simple terms that are immediately understandable, 2) adopting guidelines for making sense of the whole X-artifact family, and 3) sidestepping the IT …

Procreation And Power In Early America, Jane Fiegen Green

Tulsa Law Review

Reviewing Mark E. Brandon, States of Union: Families and Change in the American Constitutional Order; Mark E. Kann, Taming Passion for the Public Good: Policing Sex in the Early Republic; and M. Michelle Jarrett Morris, Under Household Governance: Sex and Family in Puritan Massachusetts.

Fidelity To Our Living Constitution, James E. Fleming

Tulsa Law Review

Reviewing Bruce Ackerman, We the People, Volume III: The Civil Rights Revolution.

An Administrative Stopgap For Migrants From The Northern Triangle, Collin D. Schueler

Law Faculty Scholarly Articles

From 2011–2014, the United States Department of Homeland Security recorded an extraordinary increase in the number of unaccompanied children arriving at the southern border from Central America’s “Northern Triangle”—the area made up of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. In fact, in fiscal year 2014, United States Customs and Border Protection apprehended over 50,000 unaccompanied children from the Northern Triangle. That is thirteen times more than just three years earlier.

This Article examines the intersecting humanitarian and legal crises facing these children and offers an administrative solution to the problem. The children are fleeing a genuine humanitarian crisis—a region overrun by …

What A Difference Thirty Years - 1978 To 2008 - Makes In The Transformation Of Disability Law, Ruth O'Brien

Tulsa Law Review

Reviewing Ruth Colker, Disabled Education: A Critical Analysis of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, and Fred Pelka, What We Have Done: An Oral History of the Disability Rights Movement.

What Is Originalism Good For?, John W. Compton

Tulsa Law Review

Reviewing Frank B. Cross, The Failed Promise of Originalism; Mark A. Graber, A New Introduction to American Constitutionalism; and John O. McGinnis & Michael B. Rappaport, Originalism and the Good Constitution.

New Approaches To Old Questions In Gun Scholarship, Joseph Blocher

Tulsa Law Review

Reviewing Philip J. Cook and Kristin A. Gross, The Gun Debate: What Everyone Needs to Know; Saul Cornell and Nathan Kozuskanich, The Second Amendment on Trial: Critical Essays on District of Columbia v. Heller; Nicholas Johnson, Negroes and the Gun: The Black Tradition of Arms; Akinyele Omowale Umoja, We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement; and Craig Whitney, Living with Guns: A Liberal’s Case for the Second Amendment.

The People Maybe? Opening The Civil Rights Revolution To Social Movements, Sidney Tarrow

Tulsa Law Review

Reviewing Bruce Ackerman, We the People, Volume III: The Civil Rights Revolution.

Dissent Is Patriotic: Disobedient Founders, Narratives, And Street Battles, Laura R. Woliver

Tulsa Law Review

Reviewing Frederick W. Mayer, Narrative Politics: Stories and Collective Action; Robert W. T. Martin, Government by Dissent: Protest, Resistance, and Radical Democratic Theory in the Early American Republic; Lewis Perry, Civil Disobedience: An American Tradition; and Joshua C. Wilson, The Street Politics of Abortion: Speech, Violence, and America’s Culture Wars.

The Legitimacy Of Administrative Law, Jed Handelsman Shugerman

Tulsa Law Review

Reviewing Daniel R. Ernst, Tocqueville’s Nightmare: The Administrative State Emerges in America, 1900-1940; Joanna Grisinger, The Unwieldy American State: Administrative Politics Since the New Deal; Philip Hamburger, Is Administrative Law Unlawful?; Jerry L. Mashaw, Creating the Administrative Constitution: The Lost One Hundred Years of American Administrative Law; and Nicholas R. Parrillo, Against the Profit Motive: The Salary Revolution in American Government, 1780-1940.

A Promise To Pay Money If Transferred Land Is Used For Identified Energy-Related Activity: Can Successors Of The Promisor Be Bound?, Rex J. Zedalis

Tulsa Law Review

No abstract provided.

Communication And Sustainability Science Teams As Complex Systems, Bridie Mcgreavy, Laura Lindenfeld, Karen Hutchins Bieluch, Linda Silka, Jessica Leahy, Bill Zoellick

New Hampshire EPSCoR

Communication is essential to resilience, as interactions among humans influence how social-ecological systems (SES) respond to change. Our research focuses on how specific communication interactions on sustainability science teams, such as how people meet with each other; the ways in which they categorize themselves and others; the decision-making models they use; and their communication competencies affect outcomes. We describe research from a two-year study of communication in Maine's Sustainability Solutions Initiative, a statewide network of sustainability science teams. Our results demonstrate that decision making and communication competencies influenced mutual understanding, inclusion of diverse ideas, and progress toward sustainability-related goals. We …

Evaluate To Learn: Integrating Assessment Data To Improve Outcome Of A Didactic Biomedical Science Course, Paramita Basu, John Fisher, Batoul Senhaji-Tomza, Suzanne R. Soliman

Touro College of Pharmacy (New York) Publications and Research

Objectives: To describe the evaluation system used to identify curricular issues within a pre-clinical biomedical science course in a Pharm.D program and report the difference in outcome after implementation of the resulting changes.

Method: Course content, sequence of delivery and integration of topics with other courses in the relevant tracks were reviewed to identify discrepancies. Evaluation feedback from students and faculty were obtained from E-value online course evaluation system, and end of course discussion reports. Student performance in the course before and after implementing the recommended changes were compared to assess their effectiveness.

Results: Content duplications and …

A Phenomenological Study Of Participation In Specialized And Inclusive Recreation Programs, Charles Keith Mullins

Online Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this qualitative study was to understand whether participation in specialized recreation programs, which are designed for individuals with disabilities, increases opportunities for participation in inclusive programs, which are designed for both individuals with and without disabilities. Regardless of the popularity and growth of inclusive services, specialized programs persevere in numerous recreational service settings and continue to be used by individuals with disabilities and their families. This study helps to clarify why individuals with disabilities and their families choose to participate or not participate in these programs. The research questions focused on the connection between participation in specialized …

Temporal Comparisons On The Genetic Variation Of The Dusky Gopher Frog (Lithobates Sevosus), Kristin Michelle Hinkson

Online Theses and Dissertations

Monitoring temporal changes in genetic diversity within populations can provide vital information on future viability. The dusky gopher frog, Lithobates sevosus, exists in isolation with an estimated population size of 100-200 individuals, and previous research has shown that low genetic variability exists as a consequence of isolation and population size reduction. However, the temporal changes in genetic variation are not known. Therefore, my objectives were to (1) determine temporal trends in population genetic variation and implications for long-term viability of L. sevosus and (2) estimate effective population size. To accomplish these objectives, egg samples collected from 1997 to 2014 were …

Treatment Of Sigmoid Volvulus By Deflation Versus Surgery: A Single Site Report, Yonas Raru, Patricia Messmer, Arthur Williams, Dawood Sultan, Ashenafi Adale, Yalelet Shiferaw, Paul Hart, Hugh Pettigrew

Internal Medicine

Background: Although very common in developing regions like Africa, sigmoid volvulus (SV) has a much lower incidence in the West. There is a dearth of literature on the treatment of SV in countries with limited resources. This paper reports study results using a cohort of 200 SV patients in a low-income developing country. Objectives: The aim of this study was to identify the characteristics associated with length of hospital stay (LOS) in the largest sample of sigmoid volvulus patients drawn from a single site within a single year and to examine the effects of treatment complications and previous attacks of …

The ‘New’ Heidegger, Babette Babich

Articles and Chapters in Academic Book Collections

If discussion of “new” approaches to Martin Heidegger contradicts Heidegger’s own indictment of the passion for “novelty” in philosophy, today’s Black Notebooks scandal reminds us of the ontic problem of new news. Indeed the backwards working evidence of the notebooks kept before, during, and after WWII both vindicates and problematizes his notion of temporality temporalizing from the future -- lapsing into the past -- setting up what is now regarded as patent in the present. Simultaneously, we see that if heretofore many philosophers of technology sought to dismiss engagement with Heidegger’s critique of technology, these critical contributions turn out to …

Calling Science Pseudoscience: Fleck’S Archaeologies Of Fact And Latour’S ‘Biography Of An Investigation’ In Aids Denialism And Homeopathy, Babette Babich

Articles and Chapters in Academic Book Collections

Fleck’s Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact foregrounds claims traditionally excluded from reception, often regarded as opposed to fact, scientific claims that are increasingly seldom discussed in connection with philosophy of science save as examples of pseudo-science. I am especially concerned with scientists who question the epidemiological link between HIV and AIDS and who are thereby discounted—no matter their credentials, no matter the cogency of their arguments, no matter the sobriety of their statistics—but also with other classic examples of so-called pseudo-science including homeopathy and other sciences, such as cold fusion. The pseudo-science version of the demarcation problem turns …

Performance Evaluations Of Pavement Working Platforms Constructed With Large-Sized Unconventional Aggregates, Hasan Kazmee, Erol Tutumluer, Debakanta Mishra

Civil Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

With recent focus on sustainable construction practices and the ever-increasing transportation cost and scarcity of natural resources, use of unconventional aggregate materials, such as primary crusher run and concrete demolition waste, have become viable for the construction of pavement working platforms over very weak and often wet subgrade soils. To this end, a research study was undertaken at the Illinois Center for Transportation to evaluate the adequacy and field performances of such large-sized aggregate materials and validate new material specifications. A state-of-the-art image analysis technique was utilized to characterize the size and morphological properties, e.g. shape, texture and angularity of …

Linking Patent Reform And Civil Litigation Reform, Greg Reilly

Loyola University Chicago Law Journal

Patent reform increasingly focuses on discovery. Discovery is perceived as disproportionately expensive and burdensome in patent cases. Excessive discovery is said to fuel so-called “patent trolls” and impose an unhealthy tax on innovation and competition. These supposedly exceptional problems have led to exceptional patent-only reform proposals, such as delaying most discovery for over a year and reversing the seventy-five-year-old allocation of discovery costs. Treating patent litigation as exceptional has a siloing effect. Patent reform debates ignore parallel debates over general civil litigation reform that raise the same arguments about disproportionately expensive and burdensome discovery and propose their own set of …