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Hospital-Based Educational Services And The Well-Being Of Children With Chronic Illness: A Self-Study, Samantha Gold Oberstein

College of Education Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Nature Versus Nurture: Campus Involvement’S Effect On Student Leadership Development, Stephanie Souvenir

College of Education Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this research was to find if leadership skills are developed from co-curricular involvement. Research would determine whether natural-born leaders were drawn to student involvement opportunities, or whether involvement develops the average students’ leadership skills. To arrive at a conclusion, research asked the question “Does involvement on a college campus develop leadership skills?” Research was answered by quantitative research. Fifty undergraduate students from a private Midwestern university were surveyed. Each participant was given two assessments. One was a leadership self-assessment and another was a campus involvement assessment. The campus involvement assessment was created for the purpose of this …

Research Funding At Colleges Of Osteopathic Medicine In The United States, Richard Suminski, Linda E. May, V. James Guillory

Faculty and Staff Publications

Context: Research is a vital component of a college of osteopathic medicine (COM) portfolio. Previous studies have described research activity at COMs from 1989 through 2004 using data from surveys of COM administrators conducted by the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (AACOM). However, these studies had limitations.

Objectives: To address the limitations of previous studies and to provide more depth of understanding regarding research activity at COMs by (1) documenting changes in research funding at COMs from 2004 to 2009 according to the funding agencies, principal investigators' degrees, and areas of study after considering inflation and (2) examining …

Resource Access Costs, Lee Anne Fennell

Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper Series

No abstract provided.

Voice Versus Exit In Health Care Policy, M. Todd Henderson

Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper Series

This essay uses the recent controversy over President Obama's mandate that insurance companies provide generous birth control coverage to explore larger issues about the optimal locus of health care decision making. Mandates may be justified in some instances, but they sacrifice choice and local variation and perhaps lead to worse social outcomes. The key question for policy makers is whether market processes or rule by expert is more likely to strike the right balance of choice and mandate. Keywords: law and economics, federalism, health care policy, birth control.

The Law Of Ponzi Payouts, Spencer A. Winters

Michigan Law Review

When a Ponzi scheme collapses, there will typically be net winners and net losers. The bankruptcy trustee will often seek to force the net winners - those who received more money back from the Ponzi scheme than they invested - to disgorge their profits. Courts diverge on whether they should compel disgorgement in this instance. This Note argues that under prevailing fraudulent transfer law, net winners in a Ponzi scheme need not disgorge their profits. This is because the investor's dollar-for-dollar discharge of a preexisting debt constitutes the transfer of value in exchange for the payout. There are two exceptions …

State V. Smith Appellant's Reply Brief Dckt. 39183

Not Reported

No abstract provided.

Public Forum 2.1: Public Higher Education Institutions And Social Media, Robert H. Jerry Ii, Lyrissa Barnett Lidsky

UF Law Faculty Publications

Like most of us, public colleges and universities increasingly are communicating via Facebook, Second Life, YouTube, Twitter and other social media. Unlike most of us, public colleges and universities are government actors, and their social media communications present complex administrative and First Amendment challenges. The authors of this article — one the dean of a major public university law school responsible for directing its social media strategies, the other a scholar of social media and the First Amendment — have combined their expertise to help public university officials address these challenges. To that end, this article first examines current and …

Legal Tolerance Toward The Business Lie And The Puffery Defense: The Questionable Assumptions Of Contract Law, M. Neil Browne, Kathleen M. S. Hale, Maureen Cosgrove

Southern Illinois University Law Journal

American contract law is supposed to facilitate the efficiency and fairness of market transactions between parties.  Does the increasing success of the puffery defense in false advertising and securities cases further the fairness of transactions between companies with major advertising budgets and consumers?  This Article contends that it does not.

In assessing the validity of a market transaction, American contract law assumes that transparency exists between the parties.  But because of courts’ willingness to accept the puffery defense, companies have significant ability to lessen the transparency.  Puffing about products or services, such as claims that a product is the best …

Perils And Pontifications: Reflections On The Failures And Joys Of A Law Teacher, John W. Teeter Jr.

Southern Illinois University Law Journal

In this Article, John Teeter reexamines his life as a law teacher and engages in uncommonly pungent self-criticism that he hopes will prove insightful for other professors and those pondering a career in academics.  By reassessing critical decisions he made as a student, a lawyer, and a teacher, Teeter reveals how he repeatedly undermined both his interpersonal aspirations and professional potential.  Such failures have given rise to their own solace and peculiar wisdom, however, and Teeter also explicates the joy he derives from teaching and offers ideas on how others can enhance their fulfillment and success in the academy.

Practitioner’S Guide To The Voluntary Payment Doctrine, Colin E. Flora

Southern Illinois University Law Journal

In the two centuries since its inception, the voluntary payment doctrine has become a powerful instrument for defendants to resist the repayment of money not rightfully owed.  This Article examines the origins, evolution, modern application, and approaches to defeat the application of the doctrine.  The Article aspires to provide practitioners with the tools necessary to navigate their clients’ cases through the treacherous waters of the voluntary payment doctrine by seeing how the doctrine is applied throughout the many American jurisdictions, the underlying rationales, and the ways that litigants have been able to defeat its application.  The Article also includes tables …

Burdens Of Proof And Qualified Immunity, Kenneth Duvall

Southern Illinois University Law Journal

Despite the need to strike a proper balance between effective § 1983 suits to deter government misconduct and corresponding, robust defenses to deter frivolous suits, courts across the nation cannot agree on the fundamental questions of what the proper defenses to § 1983 actions are or how to allocate the burdens of proof in such litigation.  This Article would remedy this situation, proposing an approach that offers both a single defense to § 1983 claims and a uniform allocation of the burdens of proof when that defense is raised.

In Part II, this Article briefly explains the burdens of proof, …

Broke: The Pocketbook Of Illinois And The Single Subject Rule After Wirtz V. Quinn, 953 N.E.2d 899 (Ill. 2011)., Eric Block

Southern Illinois University Law Journal

State courts have wrestled with the single subject rule for over a century and a half.  A workable legal standard for this rule has been elusive, however.  A recent Illinois case addressing a controversial piece of legislation illustrates just how evasive the application of this rule can be.  In Wirtz v. Quinn, the Illinois Supreme Court upheld a state “stimulus” package, which addressed topics ranging from candy taxes to video gaming in its nearly three hundred pages, because it felt that the bill fell under the subject of “capital projects.”  In addition to introducing a new “smoking gun” requirement, …

Resource Review: Breakout Edu, Rachel Bayer, Catherine Sorenson

Journal of Youth Development

Game-based learning is becoming an increasingly popular pedagogical technique for providing engaging learning experiences for youth. The Breakout EDU platform provides an opportunity to bring game-based learning into formal and non-formal learning environments using an escape-room-like approach while teaching specific subject areas and building life skills. There are more than 1,500 ready-made games for teaching a variety of topic areas, from science and math to team building, in any learning context. It also provides resources and tools to support youth development professionals in creating their own games. This review provides an overview of Breakout EDU and its kit and digital …

Kids Growing With Grains: Connecting Agriculture, Nutrition, And Environmental Literacy, Rachel Bayer, Ashley Travis, Chenzi Wang

Journal of Youth Development

Kids Growing with Grains is a school-based agricultural education program that improves youths’ conceptual understanding of how agriculture is linked to nutrition, the environment, and human health. University of Maryland Extension Educators developed the program’s hands-on activities, which focus on grain science, grains and the environment, grains and animals, and grain nutrition. The program is traditionally implemented through a station-based field trip experience lasting 4 hours in length. The program has been evaluated using a mixed-methods approach that includes qualitative and quantitative data collected from both teachers and students. Evaluation results from the past 2 years indicate the program is …

Acute Quadriparesis Due To Acute Demyelinating Polyneuropathy In A Patient Newly Diagnosed As A Case Of B -Cell Lymphoma- An Unusual Presentation. A Case Report With Review Of Literature, Sardar M. Alam, Haroon Khan, Rafi Ud Din, Faiqa Filza, Tariq Khan

Pakistan Journal of Neurological Sciences (PJNS)

No abstract provided.

The Evolution Of Cranioplasty: A Review Of Graft Types, Storage Options And Operative Technique, Pooja Kanhya Lal, Muhammad Shahzad Shamim

Pakistan Journal of Neurological Sciences (PJNS)

No abstract provided.

Mine Action And Development: Challenges Of Inter-Organizational Relationships, Brian Da Cal

Global CWD Repository

This project examines the history of mine action as well as the debated link between landmines and development. It also explains why strong, inter-organisational relationships between the mine action and development sectors are so critical for both humanitarian and socio-economic, development reasons. It examines major influences and challenges to establishing and sustaining such relationships, characterised by a lack of coordination on policy, planning and practice, at the international, national and field level. The likely causes for these challenges are examined, ranging from historical differences in the culture, vision and values of people and organisations within those sectors, segregated donor funding …

Mcquade Messenger- Fall 2012, Merrimack College

McQuade Messenger

Triannual newsletter outlining the activities, events, hours, features, and resources available at McQuade Library. Fall 2012, 4 pages.

Multimodal Pain Therapy For Perioperative Pain, Angela F. Bischof

Theses and Dissertations

Pain is an expected reaction from tissue injury in the postoperative setting, yet it is commonly inadequately managed. The literature has exposed some clear-cut guidelines to manage acute pain, and the consequences poorly managed pain. Pain management is expected to be individualized, timely, safe, evidence based and multi modal. An extensive literature review of the cement research of multimodal pain management was conducted. Specifically, the use of opiates along with at least one non-opioid (Tylenol, NSA1Ds, gabapentin and pregabalin). The evidence illustrates the positive effects of multimodal pain management, better pain control and a decrease in the side effects of …

Report On 120 Days Of Listening Campaign, Robert G. Frank

President Frank's Administration

No abstract provided.

New Mexico's New Communal Settlers, Timothy Miller

New Mexico Historical Review

No abstract provided.

The Toll Extracted: Workers And Safety In Southern New Mexico Mining, Jamie L. Bronstein

New Mexico Historical Review

No abstract provided.

Parenthood With Exposure To Mycophenolic Acid Products, Sophia M. Termimi, Megan Clary, Lisa Coscia, Carolyn Mcgrory, Vincent T. Armenti

Department of Surgery Faculty Papers

Successful pregnancy outcomes have been reported in all solid-organ transplant recipients on a variety of immunosuppressive medication regimes. In October 2007, the FDA pregnancy category of mycophenolic acid products (MPA) was changed from category C to D, based on registry and post-marketing data which revealed a higher incidence of spontaneous abortions and structural birth defects. The purpose of this abstract is to describe pregnancy outcomes with exposure to MPA and pregnancies fathered by male transplant recipients conceived while taking MPA. Data were collected by the National Transportation Pregnancy Registry (NTPR) via questionnaires, telephone interview and medical records. There were 152 …

“Indians, In A Jurisdictional Sense”: Tribal Citizenship And Other Forms Of Non-Indian Consent To Tribal Criminal Jurisdiction, Paul Spruhan

Faculty Scholarship

Can tribes exert criminal jurisdiction over non- Indians who consent, by whatever means, to adhere to tribal laws? Has federal Indian law, and tribes’ reaction to it, changed the universe of tribal jurisdiction so significantly that non-Indians can truly never be subject to tribal criminal law? This article explores the concept of consent as a still viable theory of tribal criminal jurisdiction. I first examine some historical examples of non-Indian consent through adoption or naturalization under tribal law, and reactions to such consent by federal officials. I then discuss modern examples of tribal law theories of consent, primarily through recent …

Applying Crawford's Confrontation Right In A Digital Age, Jeffrey Bellin

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Reseñas

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

No abstract provided.

Cine Mexicano Y Su Representación Periférica: La Representación De Las Luchas Armadas Contemporáneas, Guillermo Martínez Sotelo

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

El cine mexicano ha sido históricamente ligado al centro cultural del país, la Ciudad de México; y la cinematografía que se produce en la periferia regularmente toma una forma crítica en contra del sistema. El objetivo del análisis de estas dos películas es dar a conocer a más profundidad una vertiente del cine mexicano que hace crítica a dicho sistema establecido, sin necesidad de estar dentro del centro de poder. En este ensayo se analiza la temática y la construcción visual que hacen dos películas mexicanas y que cuya temática se desarrolla enfocada en los conflictos armados que se han …

El Sujeto De La Lengua Sujeto A La Lengua: Reflexiones Sobre La Dramaturgia Performativa Contemporánea, Stephan Baumgärtel, Miguel Ángel Zamorano, Karen Basaure

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

Partiendo de un breve análisis de la performatividad escénica contemporánea, este artículo investiga procedimientos formales de una escritura teatral que muestra rasgos más performativos que representacionales. Para tal fin, analiza aspectos performativos de la dramaturgia de Valére Novarina, Rainald Goetz e Heiner Müller. Enfoca la materialidad de la lengua y el uso desviante de estructuras lingü.sticas habituales como tácticas que predominan en una estética de escritura teatral que presenta a la propia lengua como el personaje principal. A partir del reconocimiento de la ausencia del sujeto-constituyente, muestra por qué la dramaturgia performativa puede calificarse de posmoderna y posdramática y argumenta …

Reflexiones Entorno Al Patrimonio Cinematográfico En España Y Su Protección, Gloria Camarero Gómez

Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos / A Journal of Theater Studies

El objetivo de este texto es presentar y evaluar las políticas realizadas en el marco normativo nacional e internacional, que han articulado el concepto de patrimonio cinematográfico susceptible de protección y su excepcionalidad. Igualmente, se insiste en las actuaciones concretas llevadas a cabo recientemente en España dentro del rescate, restauración y divulgación del mismo, así como en el futuro de tales intervenciones.