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Developing A Massive Open Online Course (Mooc) At A College Of Education: Narrative Of Disruptive Innovation?, Dalit Levy, Sarah Schrire

Current Issues in Emerging eLearning

A case study involving the establishment of a connectivist massive open online course (cMOOC) at a college of education is presented. cMOOCs are seen to represent an approach to learning that should be of interest to educators preparing their learners (the teachers of tomorrow) for life and work in a knowledge society. In other words, the cMOOC becomes an example of innovation and change, and an object of inquiry into organizational change and leadership. The chapter examines the case of establishing a cMOOC at the college using a methodology for analyzing organizational transformation triggered by the adoption of computing technologies. …

Hamilton Holt School Graduate Catalog 2015-2016, Rollins College

Hamilton Holt School Catalogs

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Computational Estimation Of The Pka's Of Purines And Related Compounds, Kara L. Geremia

Browse all Theses and Dissertations

The acid dissociation value pKa of a compound provides important information regarding the neutral and ionic forms of the compound present under different conditions. However, for many compounds experimental pKa values are not available, and for others the measured values are sometimes uncertain. Consequently, having a computational means for estimating pKa values can be of benefit for biochemical, pharmaceutical, polymer, and many other studies. Purines form a key group of bioactive compounds whose acid/base activities are of considerable interest. The purine class includes such diverse compounds as the nucleic acid bases adenine and guanine, the gout-related compound uric acid, the …

Molecular Characterization Of Diverse Wheat Germplasm For Puroindolineproteins And Their Antimicrobial Activity, Vishal Chugh, Kirandeep Kaur, Dharmendra Singh, Vinod Kumar, Harinderjit Kaur, Harcharan Singh Dhaliwal

Turkish Journal of Biology

Thirty different wheat genotypes, including landraces, cultivars, and related wild species, were analyzed for puroindoline genes and proteins. Full-length Pina and Pinb genes were amplified using gene-specific markers where 13 genotypes amplified both genes, while 17 genotypes had either one or none of the puroindoline genes. None of the puroindoline genes were detected in any of the Triticum durum cultivars. Genotypes with both puroindoline genes had a soft grain texture, while other genotypes had hard grains. Related nonprogenitor species with A, C, M, U, and S genomes also showed the presence of either one or both the puroindoline genes, indicating …

Do We Need A Human Right To A Healthy Environment?, Rebecca Bratspies

Publications and Research

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Due Process And The Failure Of The Criminal Court, Steven Zeidman

Publications and Research

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Gang Policing: The Post Stop-And-Frisk Justification For Profile-Based Policing, K. Babe Howell

Publications and Research

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Cook V. Nara Versus The Public’S Right To Know, Sarah Lamdan

Publications and Research

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Flourish Or Founder: The New Regulatory Regime In Legal Education, Sarah Valentine

Publications and Research

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Toxic Sweatshops: Regulating The Import Of Hazardous Electronics, Allison Robbins

Publications and Research

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Intimate Partner Violence Against Asian American Women: Moving From Theory To Strategy, Donna Lee

Publications and Research

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Standing In The Wake Of Statutes, Mark Seidenfeld, Allie Akre

Scholarly Publications

In Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife, the Supreme Court held that when Congress creates a legal interest to see that the law is followed, the deprivation of that interest, without more, is insufficient to allow a plaintiff to meet Article III’s standing requirements. Lujan created significant uncertainty about Congress’s ability to influence judicial standing inquiries by creating statutory rights, especially in light of Justice Kennedy’s concurrence and the majority’s footnote seven. This Article argues that Kennedy’s concurrence and footnote seven are best explained by recognizing that Congress is institutionally superior to courts in evaluating the gravity of likely harms …

Does The Public Care How The Supreme Court Reasons? Empirical Evidence From A National Experiment And Normative Concerns In The Case Of Same-Sex Marriage, Courtney Megan Cahill, Geoffrey Christopher Rapp

Scholarly Publications

Can the Supreme Court influence the public’s reception of decisions vindicating rights in high-salience contexts, like samesex marriage, by reasoning in one way over another? Will the people’s disagreement with those decisions—and, by extension, societal backlash against them—be dampened if the Court deploys universalizing liberty rationales rather than essentializing equality rationales? Finally, even if Supreme Court reasoning does resonate with the people as a descriptive matter, should the Court minimize anxiety-producing characteristics in decisions vindicating civil rights—such as homosexuality in the marriage-equality context—simply in order to assuage the people?

This Article combines constitutional theory and empirical legal analysis to ask …

Response To Heather Gerken's 'Federalism And Nationalism: Time For A Détente?', Erin Ryan

Scholarly Publications

This essay is a transcription of remarks made at the 2014 Childress Lecture at St. Louis University Law School, honoring Heather Gerken’s federalism scholarship. The essay, invited by Professor Gerken, responds to her lead symposium piece on the synthesis of federalism and nationalism ideals in federalism theory. It reflects on her contributions to the discourse as both a scholar and a mentor, praising her work as a leading component of an emerging consensus among federalism theorists that the old frameworks for thinking about interjurisdictional governance require revisiting. This new literature recognizes that the federal system depends as much on interjurisdictional …

Identity Contests: Litigation And The Meaning Of Social-Movement Causes, Mary Ziegler

Scholarly Publications

What do we mean by a right to life? Should—or does—such a right cover only antiabortion claims? Or should the term apply more broadly—to debates about class and welfare, about the death penalty, or even about human rights? In the abortion wars, litigation strategy has helped to dictate the answers to these questions. Historians and legal scholars have studied the tensions between lawyers and the lay actors they represent, chronicling how lawyers modify and even limit the social changes activists demand. By putting the attorney-client relationship center stage, scholars have sometimes obscured an equally important story about how litigation strategy—as …

The Intratextual Independent "Legislature" And The Elections Clause, Michael T. Morley

Scholarly Publications

Many states have delegated substantial authority to regulate federal elections to entities other than their institutional legislatures, such as independent redistricting commissions empowered to determine the boundaries of congressional districts. Article I’s Elections Clause and Article II’s Presidential Electors Clause, however, confer authority to regulate federal elections specifically upon State “legislatures,” rather than granting it to States as a whole. An intratextual analysis of the Constitution reveals that the term “legislature” is best understood as referring solely to the entity within each state comprised of representatives that has the general authority to pass laws. Thus, state constitutional provisions or laws …

Private Ordering Under Threat Of Regulation, Jake Linford

Scholarly Publications

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Property And Exceptionalism In China And The Anglo-American World, 1650-1860, Tahirih V. Lee

Scholarly Publications

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The False Dichotomy Between Suggestive And Descriptive Trademarks, Jake Linford

Scholarly Publications

Classifying a trademark as descriptive rather than suggestive fundamentally alters the scope of trademark protection. A descriptive mark, derived from a feature of the product or service sold, only qualifies for protection after the mark has acquired source significance, i.e., consumers see it as a trademark. A suggestive trademark, which indirectly invokes qualities of the product or service, is protected without evidence of source significance. Courts often struggle to distinguish between suggestive and descriptive marks. The effort would nevertheless be reasonable if the differences between suggestive and descriptive marks justified their disparate legal treatment. But in light of cognitive and …

Continuum: Volume 39 (Winter 2015), Osgoode Hall Law School Of York University

Continuum: Osgoode Hall Law School Alumni Magazine

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The United States As A Refuge State For Child Abductors: Why The United States' Fails To Meet Its Own Expectations Relative To The Hague Convention, Andrew Zashin

Faculty Publications

This paper asserts that the only way true progress can be made regarding this problem is for the United States to acknowledge that this serious problem actually exists. One has to look beyond the feel-good statistics and congratulatory press releases to see that the existing system, including the application of the Hague Convention on Child Abduction, fails LBPs. Until the nature and scope of the problem is identified and examined, the United States will continue to be a refuge state for child abductors.

Access And Innovation In A Time Of Rapid Change: Physician Assistant Scope Of Practice, Ann Davis, Stephanie M. Radix, James F. Cawley, Roderick S. Hooker, Carson S. Walker

Annals of Health Law and Life Sciences

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Enforcing Mental Health Parity Through The Affordable Care Act's Essential Health Benefit Mandate*, Kathleen G. Noonan, Stephen J. Boraske

Annals of Health Law and Life Sciences

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Holding Health Insurance Marketplaces Accountable: The Unheralded Rise And Imminent Demise Of Structural Reform Litigation In Health Care, Sarah L. Grusin

Annals of Health Law and Life Sciences

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Red-State Health Reform: Threading The Political Needle, Robert B. Leflar

Annals of Health Law and Life Sciences

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Employers And Health Insurance Under The Affordable Care Act, Arnold J. Rosoff, Anthony W. Orlando

Annals of Health Law and Life Sciences

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Relying On Government In Comparison: What Can The United States Learn From Abroad In Relation To Administrative Estoppel, Dorit Rubinstein Reiss

UC Law SF International Law Review

The United States' Supreme Court has never upheld a claim of estoppel against the government. A citizen relying on the government's advice does that at her peril: if the government wrongfully misrepresents or misinterprets a statute it can (and by some interpretations, must) go back on its word leaving the aggrieved citizen with no recourse. The Supreme Court has provided many arguments for this position, but the core of its rationale is premised on protecting what Europeans refer to as "the principle of legality." The principle of legality states that the Executive cannot waive requirements from primary legislation or deviate …

How Graduate Counselor Education Students Articulate Professional Purpose As It Relates To Clinical Population Selection, Christina M. Riga

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to examine how the ability to articulate a professional purpose informed the lived experiences of master's-level post-practicum students during their practicum experience. This qualitative phenomenologically oriented study used Damon's (2008) definition of purpose, Gestalt principles of figure and ground (Polster & Polster, 1973), van Manen's (1990) four lived existentials, and existing literature regarding the construct of purpose as its theoretical underpinnings. There is no existing literature on how a professional purpose, or the lack of one, factors into a novice counselor's selection of a population with which to work during the practicum experience, and …

Myron Helfgott : An Inventory Of My Thoughts, Myron Helfgott

Anderson Gallery Art Exhibition Catalogues

"This catalog was published in conjunction with the retrospective exhibition Myron Helfgott: an inventory of my thoughts (January 16-March 8, 2015), organized by the Anderson Gallery with generous support from the Office of the Dean, VCU School of the Arts." --p. 2.

Audio tracks for several of the selections in this catalog appear on the CD Myron Helfgott: Enregistrements/Recordings:

"Tyranny of the Theoretical: Alone" (p. 58) is track 3.

"Tyranny of the Theoretical: Chide/cajole/rant" (p. 62) is track 4.

"Two Beautiful Women in the Luxembourg Gardens" (p. 130) is track 5.

"Chapter One" of "A Film in Three Chapters …

Out Of The Building, Into The Fire: An Analysis Of Cognitive Biases During Entrepreneurial Interviews, Tianxu Chen, Mark Simon, Ph.D., John Kim, Brian Poploskie

New England Journal of Entrepreneurship

A major source of failure for new ventures is the entrepreneurs’ misunderstanding of the product-market fit. Recently, researchers have suggested that to get a better understanding of the product-market fit, entrepreneurs should “get out of the building” and interview many customers. This approach, while advantageous, is not without drawbacks. This article presents a conceptual model that incorporates the characteristics of “getting out of the building” to conduct customer interviews, and the biases that can arise to influence the entrepreneurs’ misjudgment of the product-market fit. We provide recommendations to overcome these biases.