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General Stream Adjudications, The Mccarran Amendment, And Reserved Water Rights, Lawrence J. Macdonnell

Wyoming Law Review

No abstract provided.

Rethinking The Use Of General Stream Adjudications, Lawrence J. Macdonnell

Wyoming Law Review

No abstract provided.

Medicaid: Can Federal Responsibilities, State Authorities, And Tribal Sovereignty Be Reconciled, Robert Onders

Wyoming Law Review

No abstract provided.

A Comprehensive Treatise On Contempt Of Court In Wyoming, Tori R.A. Kricken

Wyoming Law Review

No abstract provided.

Dialogue Across Differences Of Position, Perspective, And Identity: Reflective Practice In/On A Student-Faculty Pedagogical Partnership Program, Alison Cook-Sather

Education Program Faculty Research and Scholarship

Background: Inspired by various conceptualizations of both cultural diversity and cross-role partnership, this discussion challenges the assumption that holds sway in many people’s minds: Differences primarily divide us. The context for this argument is a program that pairs undergraduate students and faculty members in semester-long partnerships to explore and revise pedagogical practices.

Purpose: The purpose of this article is to explore how dialogue across differences supported by a student–faculty partnership program can inspire greater openness to and appreciation of differences. The focus is on fostering deeper connection and empathy across student and faculty positions, perspectives, and cultural identities.

Research Design: …

Kids, Leave The Guns At Home: Why Maryland's 'Good And Substantial Reason' Requirement Comports With Constitutional Aims In The Post-Heller Era, Julia Johnson

Criminal Law Practitioner

No abstract provided.

Co-Infection By Chytrid Fungus And Ranaviruses In Wild And Harvested Frogs In The Tropical Andes, Robin Warne, Brandon Labumbard, Seth Lagrange, Vance T. Vredenburg, Alessandro Catenazzi

Zoology Data Sets

We provide the first report of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) and Ranavirus (Rv) co-infection in South America, and the first report of Rv infections in the amphibian biodiversity hotspot of the Peruvian Andes, where Bd is associated with extinctions. Using these data, we tested the hypothesis that Bd or Rv parasites facilitate co-infection, as assessed by parasite abundance or infection intensity within individual adult frogs. Co-infection occurred in 30% of stream-dwelling frogs; 65% were infected by Bd and 40% by Rv. Among terrestrial, direct-developing Pristimantis frogs 40% were infected by Bd, 35% by Rv, and 20% co-infected. In Telmatobius frogs harvested …

Ranging Behavior Of Marsh Rice Rats In A Southern Illinois Wetland Complex, Scott A. Cooney, Eric M. Schauber, Eric Hellgren

Publications

The marsh rice rat (Oryzomys palustris) inhabits wetlands that are often fragmented and isolated by upland cover types. Persistence of marsh rice rat populations and metapopulations likely depends on their ability to enter and traverse the upland matrix, yet basic information, such as home-range size and landcover use patterns, is lacking. Our goal was to quantify home-range size and habitat selection by marsh rice rats in southern Illinois. Between March and November 2011, we radiocollared 21 male rice rats (8 subadults and 13 adults) that were each located 7 to 24 times each via triangulation and homing. We estimated home-range …

Relaxation Techniques For People With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Systematic Review And A Meta-Analysis, Eleonora Volpato, Paolo Banfi, Sheena M. Rogers, Francesco Pagnini

Dartmouth Scholarship

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) people suffer from severe physical impairments, which often elicit significant psychological distress and impact their quality of life. This meta-analysis aimed to assess evidence from the scientific literature on the effects of relaxation techniques. Methods. We investigated 9 databases to select 25 RCTs. Studies included both inpatients and outpatients with COPD. Both respiratory and psychological outcomes were considered.

2015-2016 Southern Illinois University Bulletin Carbondale Campus (Undergraduate Catalog), Southern Illinois University Carbondale

SIU Bulletins and Course Catalogs Archives

No abstract provided.

2015-2016 Southern Illinois University Bulletin Carbondale Campus (Graduate Catalog), Southern Illinois University Carbondale

SIU Bulletins and Course Catalogs Archives

No abstract provided.

The Impact Of Performance-Based Assessment On University Esl Learners' Motivation, Kadidja Koné

All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects

This thesis examines the impact of performance-based assessment on university ESL learners' motivation. To reach this aim, data were collected from 21 international ESL students taking an intensive oracy course for non-native speakers. Online motivation questionnaires were used in order to find out how these learners responded emotionally and motivationally to performance-based assessment, specifically an oral presentation project both before and after the project. The results revealed that the students responded positively to this type of project. However, their motivational and emotional states varied across time depending on their experience with the oral presentation, their performance, and the cohesion of …

Hook Up Culture: Changing The Structure Of Future Relationships?, Elise Woik

All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects

Hook up culture is a relatively new phenomenon that is reported to be occurring rampantly on college campuses across the nation. Research tends to focus on the negative implications of hook up culture and the impact it has on college students' well-being. There is limited research exploring if hook up behavior in college is influencing relationship structure in later life, as would be demonstrated by individuals engaging in consensual non-monogamy practices. The present study examined college students' relationship practices to assess if their current relationship status and relationship practices in the past year align with their ideal, future relationship. Results …

Salt Lake City, Plaintiff/Appellee, V. Joseph Howe, Defendant/Appellant : Brief Of Appellee, Utah Court Of Appeals

Utah Court of Appeals Briefs (2007– 2019)

Appeal from the Sentence, Judgement, and Commitment for one count of Lewdness involving a child, a class A misdemeanor, in violation of Utah Code 76-9-702.5, in the Third Judicial District, in and for Salt Lake County, State of Utah, the Honorable Judge Deno Himonas, presiding

Clarksville, New Hampshire 2014 Annual Town Report School Directors Annual Report., Clarksville Town Representatives

Clarksville, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a town/city in the state of New Hampshire.

Due Process Limits On Accomplice Liability, Michael G. Heyman

Minnesota Law Review Headnotes, Vols. 94-106 (2009-2022)

No abstract provided.

To Dignity Through The Back Door: Tsilhqot’In And The Aboriginal Title Test, Andrée Boisselle

The Supreme Court Law Review: Osgoode’s Annual Constitutional Cases Conference

The decision of the Supreme Court in Tsilhqot’in clarified the content of the test for Aboriginal title. This article examines the reasoning of the Court to determine whether the judgment meaningfully contributes to re-equilibrating the conceptual framework of Canadian Aboriginal jurisprudence, still deeply skewed in favour of the Crown and of its asserted sovereignty. Beyond the case’s positive outcome for the Tsilhqot’in people, does the clarification of the test empower Indigenous peoples seeking the recognition of their title over their traditional territory? Regarding the role reserved by the Court to Indigenous legal traditions in its reasoning, the answer is no: …

The Unlikely Antidote: Political Tension And Political Health In The Modern Western Tradition And The United States Of America, Savannah Berger

Government and International Relations Honors Papers

At the most elementary level, this honors study is concerned with political tension and its ability to procure political health. The study begins with a discussion in political theory, examining the contemporary theory of agonism, which accepts conflict as an inevitable fact of pluralist political society and defends it as necessary for the maintenance of democracy. The study identifies agonism’s origins in the ancient Greek agon, but also emphasizes that the first formal exposition of agonal political ideas comes in Machiavelli’s Discourses on Livy. It continues to work in the realm of theory, charting moments of appreciation of agonal ideas, …

Revisiting S.C.P.A. 17-A: Guardianship For People With Intellectual And Developmental Disabilities, Karen Andreasian, Natalie Chin, Kristin Booth Glen, Beth Haroules, Katherine I. Hermann, Maria Kuns, Aditi Shah, Naomi Weinstein

City University of New York Law Review

This is a report of the Mental Health Law Committee and the Disability Law Committee of the New York City Bar Association. This report was researched and written by Karen Andreasian, Natalie Chin, Kristin Booth Glen, Beth Haroules, Katheine I. Hermann, Maria Kuns, Aditi Shah, and Naomi Weinstein on behalf of the New York City Bar Association. It has been reviewed and approved by the New York City Bar Association and is being published by the City University of New York Law Review in accordance with the Association’s protocols in the interest of bringing to publication an important contribution to …

New Formalities For Casual Labor: Addressing Unintended Consequences Of China's Labor Contract Law, Daniel S.S. Cairns

Washington International Law Journal

China’s Labor Contract Law (“LCL”) came into force on January 1, 2008. The first major piece of labor legislation since the 1994 Labor Law, the Labor Contract Law expanded legal protection for workers by mandating that labor contracts be in writing and delivered to all workers. Employers, predicting that the law would effectively raise the cost of employing full-time, long-term workers, sought methods of “creative compliance” with the law. One avenue for creative compliance emerged through the loophole in the LCL for so-called “dispatch workers.” Dispatch workers are formally employed by third-party dispatch service agencies and thus not covered by …

Rough Waters: Assessing The Fifth Amendment Implications Of California’S Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, Micah Green

University of the Pacific Law Review

No abstract provided.

Healthy Outside-Healthy Inside: The Human Health & Well-Being Benefits Of Alberta's Protected Areas - Towards A Benefits-Based Management Agenda, Christopher J. Lemieux, Sean T. Doherty, Paul F.J. Eagles, Joyce Gould, Glen T. Hvenegaard, Elizabeth (Lisa) Nisbet, Mark W. Groulx

Geography and Environmental Studies Faculty Publications

This report details the results of an empirical study that examined perceived health and well-being motives and benefits among visitors to a sample of Alberta’s parks and protected areas. The study revealed several major findings with important policy and management implications. First, the human health and well-being benefits that the visitors expected to receive from visits were perceived to be a major personal motivation in the choice to visit Alberta protected areas. The most important motivation factors identified by respondents were psychological and emotional well-being (89.1% of visitors ranked this important), social well-being (88.3%), physical well-being (80.3%), and environmental well-being …

Predictors Of Renal Replacement Therapy And Mortality In Children With Chronic Kidney Disease, Jameela A. Kari, Youssef M. Farag, Ajay K. Singh

Saudi Medical Journal

Objectives: To study the epidemiology of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in children, and to look for risk factors to predict renal replacement therapy (RRT) and mortality. Methods: This is a retrospective cohort study conducted at King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia between 2006 and 2014, where the files of 1,000 children with CKD were reviewed. We determined the effect of consanguinity and hypertension, and being a Saudi indigene on mortality and RRT. We compared children with congenital versus non-congenital causes of CKD. Results: The mean±standard deviation age at presentation was 4.9±4.3 years. The median duration of follow up was …

Louisiana Agriculture Winter, 2015

Louisiana Agriculture

No abstract provided.

2015 Louisiana Summary: Agriculture And Natural Resources, Lsu Agcenter

Louisiana Summary: Agriculture and Natural Resources

This publication tabulates the value of Louisiana agriculture in 2015. Agents and specialists of the Louisiana Cooperative Extension Service, as well as other agencies – both private and public – compiled the data. Their analyses focus on the animal, forestry, fisheries, plant and wildlife commodities that comprise our vital agricultural industry. Agricultural and natural resource industries contribute significantly to our state’s economy with the potential for increased economic benefits and job creation through value-added processing in urban and rural communities throughout Louisiana.

After three consecutive years of nearly ideal growing conditions and record production, the 2015 production year was one …

Preserving Photon Qubits In An Unknown Quantum State With Knill Dynamical Decoupling: Towards An All Optical Quantum Memory, Manish K. Gupta, Erik J. Navarro, Todd A. Moulder, Jason D. Mueller, Ashkan Balouchi, Katherine L. Brown, Hwang Lee, Jonathan P. Dowling

Faculty Publications

The implementation of polarization-based quantum communication is limited by signal loss and decoherence caused by the birefringence of a single-mode fiber. We investigate the Knill dynamical decoupling scheme, implemented using half-wave plates, to minimize decoherence and show that a fidelity greater than 99% can be achieved in absence of rotation error and fidelity greater than 96% can be achieved in presence of rotation error. Such a scheme can be used to preserve any quantum state with high fidelity and has potential application for constructing all optical quantum delay line, quantum memory, and quantum repeater.

Institutional Racism: Perspectives On The Department Of Justice's Investigation Of The Ferguson Police Department., Cassandra Chaney Phd

Faculty Publications

On August 9, 2014, Michael Brown, an 18-year old Black man, was fatally shot by Darren Wilson, a white policeman with the Ferguson Police Department. The incident sparked protests and acts of vandalism in Ferguson as well as widespread calls for an investigation into the incident. On September 3, 2014, The Justice Department announced that it would open a broad civil rights investigation that would examine whether the Ferguson police had a history of discrimination or misuse of force beyond the Michael Brown case. On March 4. 2015, Attorney General Eric H. Holder publicly criticized the Ferguson Police Department …

Cellulose-Pectin Spatial Contacts Are Inherent To Never-Dried Arabidopsis Primary Cell Walls: Evidence From Solid-State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Tuo Wang, Yong Bum Park, Daniel J. Cosgrove, Mei Hong

Faculty Publications

© 2015 American Society of Plant Biologists. All rights reserved. The structural role of pectins in plant primary cell walls is not yet well understood because of the complex and disordered nature of the cell wall polymers. We recently introduced multidimensional solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy to characterize the spatial proximities of wall polysaccharides. The data showed extensive cross peaks between pectins and cellulose in the primary wall of Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana), indicating subnanometer contacts between the two polysaccharides. This result was unexpected because stable pectin-cellulose interactions are not predicted by in vitro binding assays and prevailing cell wall models. …

Isothiocyanate-Rich Moringa Oleifera Extract Reduces Weight Gain, Insulin Resistance, And Hepatic Gluconeogenesis In Mice, Patricio Rojas-Silva, Tugba Boyunegmez Tumer, Peter Kuhn, Allison J. Richard, Shawna Wicks, Jacqueline M. Stephens, Zhong Wang, Randy Mynatt, William Cefalu, Ilya Raskin

Faculty Publications

© 2015 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim. Scope: Moringa oleifera (moringa) is tropical plant traditionally used as an antidiabetic food. It produces structurally unique and chemically stable moringa isothiocyanates (MICs) that were evaluated for their therapeutic use in vivo. Methods and results: C57BL/6L mice fed very high fat diet (VHFD) supplemented with 5% moringa concentrate (MC, delivering 66 mg/kg/d of MICs) accumulated fat mass, had improved glucose tolerance and insulin signaling, and did not develop fatty liver disease compared to VHFD-fed mice. MC-fed group also had reduced plasma insulin, leptin, resistin, cholesterol, IL-1β, TNFα, and lower hepatic glucose-6-phosphatase …

Suppression Of Rnai By Dsrna-Degrading Rnaseiii Enzymes Of Viruses In Animals And Plants, Isabel Weinheimer, Yaming Jiu, Minna Liisa Rajamäki, Olli Matilainen, Jukka Kallijärvi, Wilmer J. Cuellar, Rui Lu, Mart Saarma, Carina I. Holmberg, Jussi Jäntti, Jari P.T. Valkonen

Faculty Publications

© 2015 Weinheimer et al. Certain RNA and DNA viruses that infect plants, insects, fish or poikilothermic animals encode Class 1 RNaseIII endoribonuclease-like proteins. dsRNA-specific endoribonuclease activity of the RNaseIII of rock bream iridovirus infecting fish and Sweet potato chlorotic stunt crinivirus (SPCSV) infecting plants has been shown. Suppression of the host antiviral RNA interference (RNAi) pathway has been documented with the RNaseIII of SPCSV and Heliothis virescens ascovirus infecting insects. Suppression of RNAi by the viral RNaseIIIs in non-host organisms of different kingdoms is not known. Here we expressed PPR3, the RNaseIII of Pike-perch iridovirus, in the non-hosts Nicotiana …