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2012-08-06 Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Staff Congress.

Staff Congress Records

Staff Congress meeting minutes for August 6, 2012.

Loss Of Atm Kinase Activity Leads To Embryonic Lethality In Mice, Jeremy A. Daniel, Manuela Pellegrini, Baeck-Seung Lee, Zhi Guo, Darius Filsuf, Natalya V. Belkina, Zhongsheng You, Tanya T. Paull, Barry P. Sleckman, Lionel Feigenbaum, André Nussenzweig

Open Access Publications

No abstract provided.

President's Weekly Perspective, 8/6/2012, Robert G. Frank

President Frank's Administration

No abstract provided.

Is The Argentine Gov't Helping Or Hindering Energy Growth?, Inter-American Dialogue's Latin American Energy Advisor

Latin American Energy Dialogue, White Papers and Reports

The Argentine government on July 27 announced a new energy investment plan that will increase government oversight of the sector, Reuters reported. Deputy Economy Minister Axel Kicillof will oversee a commission that evaluates the investment plans of private companies and will have the power to ask for changes or fine companies for failing to comply. What will be the practical implications of the decree? Will it spur growth in the long-struggling energy sector, as the government hopes, or scare off investors? Is Argentina's energy sector poised to do well considering the country's current economic situation?

Girkin Joins Editorial Board For Leading Ophthalmology Journal, Alicia Rohan

Browse All News

No abstract provided.

The Disappearing Provision: Medical Liability Reform Vanishes From The Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act Despite State Court Split, Rafael Andre Roberti

Legislation and Policy Brief

The legal and medical communities have debated the impact and necessity of medical liability reform for over twenty years. At the heart of the debate is the question of how to strike a balance between compensating patients and their families for the thousands of deaths and injuries resulting from medical errors that occur annually, and encouraging physicians to continue to care for patients across America. While several states have passed medical liability reform laws previously, on March 23, 2010, President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA)—colloquially known as the “health care bill”—that contains provisions on medical …

The Future Of Limitless Debate: The Filibuster In The 113th Congress, Mark Kogan

Legislation and Policy Brief

Human cloning, the caning of teen vandals, and the belief that aliens descend from space to abduct humans and livestock all hold something in common: they are more popular than Congress. With the 112th Congress bottoming out at a record-low 9% approval rating, it is clear that Americans are deeply unsatisfied with the gridlock gripping Washington. While it is popular, and even easy, to lambaste Republicans for blanket obstructionism and to condemn Democrats for failure to stand up to minority bullying, collective blame shifting will not breach the dam of a hyper-partisan Congress. Instead, individuals hoping to get Congress moving …

Finding Safe Harbor: Protection, Prosecution, And State Strategies To Address Prostituted Minors, Darren Geist

Legislation and Policy Brief

The common policy of treating sexually exploited minors as criminals represents a fundamental failing of the justice system. Prostituted minors should not be treated as delinquents requiring discipline but rather as severely traumatized and abused victims requiring specialized services and counseling. Yet, in most states, prostituted minors are re-traumatized through arrest, prosecution, and detention instead of receiving specialized services. Besides being unjust, this policy is counter-productive. Arresting, prosecuting, and detaining minors hinders law enforcement efforts to go after the real criminals – the pimps and the johns, and misses an important opportunity to rescue minors from a system of commercial …

In Defense Of The Obama Administration's Non-Defense Of Doma, Daniel J. Crooks Iii

Legislation and Policy Brief

The Constitution charges the President with the duty to “take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed . . . .” Moreover, the President takes an oath to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” Although “[g]enerally, these duties are compatible . . ., when the Executive faces a law that he believes is unconstitutional, he must decide whether the law should be executed as written and defended if attacked, or whether the duty of faithfulness to the Constitution requires its repudiation.” This decision belongs to the President alone as the head of a co-equal branch of …

Making The Case For Wilderness: The Bureau Of Land Management’S Wild Lands Policy And Its Role In The Storied History Of Wilderness Protection, Maureen O’Dea Brill

Legislation and Policy Brief

On December 23, 2010, the Secretary of the Department of the Interior, Ken Salazar, issued Secretarial Order No. 3310, commonly referred to as the Wild Lands Policy. The Wild Lands Policy established a two-step process through which the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), an agency within the Department of the Interior, was to inventory and to manage its lands with wilderness characteristics (LWCs). The policy continued the requirement that the BLM maintain a current inventory of LWCs and evaluate these LWCs during the previously established land use planning process. The Wild Lands Policy further required that the BLM protect LWCs …

Seeking Stability In An Oily World: The Gulf War And American Imperialism, Kate Keleher

The Macalester Review

Oil has profoundly shaped the political, economic, and social structures of the twentieth century and it continues to shape the global order today. As both a source and a medium of power, oil binds together seemingly disparate elements into a highly sensitive web. This paper examines the first Gulf War as a turning point in the narrative of oil and power. The United States’ engagement in the Gulf War reasserted American dominance over the Middle East and ushered in a new era of oil security. In the war’s aftermath, the United States assumed roles that indicate an agenda of new …

Social Movements And Free Riders: Examining Resource Mobilization Theory Through The Bolivian Water War, J.P. Weismuller

The Macalester Review

Mancur Olson's free rider problem suggests that self-interested individuals would be more rational to abstain from rather than participate in collective action. This possibility is particularly problematic for social movement theories attempting to account for movement emergence. In this essay, I critique resource mobilization theory's solution to Olson's problem, arguing that its "elite support hypothesis" cannot account for the emergence of entirely grassroots movements. However, through an analysis of the Bolivian Water War, I ultimately suggest that resource mobilization theory can be salvaged. I claim that a distinction between "vertical" and "horizontal" organizations allows resource mobilization theory to maintain its …

An Analysis Of The Career Length Of Professional Basketball Players, Kwame D. Fynn, Morgan Sonnenschein

The Macalester Review

An interesting problem in professional basketball is predicting how long a player remains in the NBA League. Previous research on this problem has focused on factors such as race, performance in games, and size. We propose to analyze career duration in the NBA based on awards won, position played and biological variables such as height. Using Accelerated Failure Time models, Cox Proportional Hazards models and Kaplan-Meier analyses, we determine that both height and number of awards won lengthen career duration; however, only certain player positions significantly affect career length of a player.

Does The Equity Market Affect Economic Growth?, Kwame D. Fynn

The Macalester Review

This paper examines the impact of the stock market primarily on economic growth using panel data from 1990-2010. I apply Generalized Least Squares techniques for fixed effects with the exclusion of the subgroup 2005-2010 which uses random effects. The effect of the stock market on growth is based on country-specific effects and varies in different time periods.

An Address Delivered At The World Methodist Historical Society Conference (2000, Aug. 15), Donald W. Dayton

ATS Conferences

No abstract provided.

Medical School Watercooler Newsletter - August 5, 2012, Lindsey Lyle

Watercooler Newsletter

This is the August 5, 2012 edition of the Frederick P. Whiddon College of Medicine's newsletter - Watercooler.

Contents Include:

• August Med School Café: 'Parkinson's Disease, Tremors and Other Common Movement Disorders in the Adult Population'
• Snapshots: Mobile Street Clean-Up Day
• USA College of Medicine Welcomes Dr. Paola Maurtua-Neumann
• Mark Your Calendar: 2012 Sickle Cell Conference

Deafdigest: Gold Edition, August 5, 2012, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Gold 2012

No abstract provided.

Deafdigest: Blue Edition, August 5, 2012, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Blue 2012

No abstract provided.

St. Mark’S Catholic Community Of The Deaf, August 5, 2012

Saint Mark's Catholic Community of the Deaf

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Edmonton, Canada

Saint Mark's Catholic Community of the Deaf Finding Aid

Valentine & Shower - Bowling Green, Kentucky (Sc 706), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 706. Two account books, 1851-1855, of tailors Valentine and Shower, at Bowling Green, Warren County, Kentucky. Also included is a letter from John L. Shower asking about auctioning a surplus of goods in Gallatin, Tennessee.

Empirical Model For The Transconductance-Current Dependence Of Short-Channel Mosfets, Vladimir I. Prodanov

Electrical Engineering

This work is concerned with the g_m-I dependence of sub-micrometer MOSFETs. The transconductance-current expression given by the Advanced Compact Model (ACM) is reviewed and simple modification is proposed. The modification yields an expression which (with proper parametrization) captures the g_m-I dependence of short-channel MOSFETs. The proposed expression is “universal” in the sense that it is capable of modeling the g_m-I dependence of long-channel MOSFETs, short-channel MOSFETs, and resistively-degenerated BJTs.

08/05/2012 Obituary Records, Hawaii Obituaries

Obituaries

List of Obituaries for individuals who passed away on 08/05/2012. Scroll down to see the names and obituary description.

Last Day & Farewell... Sort Of!, Emily A. Francisco

Blogging the Library

My summer internship experience at the library is officially done. It’s odd to think about just how much I’ve accomplished this summer—I’ve researched Civil War genre painters, learned about nineteenth-century sheet music, installed frames, arranged Union soldiers’ swords—the list goes on. I truly am fortunate to have had such a unique and stimulating experience this summer. [excerpt]

Design Of Wideband Continuous-Time Δς Adcs Using Two-Step Quantizers, Sakkarapani Balagopal, Vishal Saxena

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

Continuous-time delta sigma (CT-ΔΣ) ADCs are established as the data conversion architecture of choice for the next-generation wireless applications. Several efforts have been made to simultaneously improve the bandwidth and dynamic range of ΔΣ ADCs. We proposed using two-step quantizer in a single-loop CT-ΔΣ modulator to achieve higher conversion bandwidth. This paper presents a tutorial for employing the design technique through a 130n CMOS implementation. The proposed 640 MS/s, 4^th order continuous-time delta sigma modulator (CT-ΔΣM) incorporates a two-step 5-bit quantizer, consisting of only 13 comparators. The CT-ΔΣM achieves a dynamic range of 70 dB, peak SNDR of 65.3 …

A 1 Gs/S, 31 Mhz Bw, 76.3 Db Dynamic Range, 34 Mw Ct-Δς Adc With 1.5 Cycle Quantizer Delay And Improved Stf, Sakkarapani Balagopal, Vishal Saxena

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

A 1 GS/s Continuous-time Delta-Sigma modulator (CT-ΔΣM) with 31 MHz bandwidth, 76.3 dB dynamic range and 72.5 dB signal-to-noise is reported in a 0.13μm CMOS technology. The design employs an excess loop delay (ELD) of more than one clock cycle for achieving higher sampling rate. The ELD is compensated using a fast-loop formed around the last integrator by using a sample-and-hold. Further, the effect of this ELD compensation scheme on the signal transfer function (STF) of a feedforward CT-ΔΣ architecture has been analyzed and reported. In this work, an improved STF is achieved by using a combination of feed-forward, feed-back …

The Longitudinal Stability Of Memory In Males With Autism Spectrum Disorder, Alexander J. Cramond

Theses and Dissertations

Previous research has demonstrated mixed evidence on impaired memory functioning in autism spectrum disorder (ASD), with the only consensus that there appears to be much heterogeneity. In addition, no research to date has examined the stability of memory in ASD. This study examined the stability of memory function in ASD compared to typically developing age-matched controls. Participants were administered the Test of Memory and Learning (TOMAL) twice, three years apart, in an established longitudinal NIH-supported investigation of ASD. Based on available research contrasting memory development in healthy individuals versus those with ASD, it was hypothesized that memory performance in the …

Adopting A Beginners Mind To Craft Experiments That Break The Curse Of Knowledge, Russell P. Engel

WCBT Working Papers

The experiment and lesson developed in this paper aim at dealing with the curse of knowledge, or the disharmony between what instructors believe they are teaching and what students are learning. This paper proposes that by adopting a beginner’s mind, instructors will be able to mitigate the disharmony. To adopt a beginner’s mind, an instructor must first recognize any priors he holds that will be important for understanding the topic that differ from the priors that students likely hold. The best way to deal with these mismatched priors is to craft an experiment that develops the priors in a straightforward …

Revitalizing The Small Church, Ronald K. Crandall

ATS Conferences

No abstract provided.

Planned Cabra Strand Of Luas Gets Green Light, Olivia Kelly

Media

No abstract provided.

August 4, 2012: Religious Exemptions, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Blog post, “Religious Exemptions“ discusses politics, theology and the law in relation to religion and public life in the democratic United States of America.