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A Longitudinal Analysis of the U.S. News Law School Academic Reputation Scores between 1998 and 2013
(2013)
This article is a revised update to a previously released study of the U.S. News academic reputation scores (“peer assessment scores”). The revised study incorporates the results from the 2013 U.S. News rankings and ...
A juvenile subfossil crocodylian from Anjohibe Cave, Northwestern Madagascar
(PeerJ, 2016-09-15)
Madagascar’s subfossil record preserves a diverse community of animals including elephant birds, pygmy hippopotamus, giant lemurs, turtles, crocodiles, bats, rodents, and carnivorans. These fossil accumulations give us a ...
The relationship between insufficient sleep and self-rated health in a nationally representative sample
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2012)
Reduced sleep has been found to be associated with increased risk of diabetes mellitus, hypertension, cardiovascular disease (CVD), and mortality. Self-rated health (SRH) has been shown to be a predictor of CVD and mortality. ...
The Price of Pleasure: Children Hurt Too
(2012)
In her two recent articles on pregnancy support, “Preglimony” in the Stanford Law Review and “The Price of Pleasure” in the Northwestern Law Review, Professor Shari Motro argues that American laws should no longer treat ...
Habeas, Informational Asymmetries, and the War on Terror
(2011)
Although most American lawyers and legal scholars are primarily familiar with habeas corpus in the context of federal review of state convictions, habeas petitions have been used to challenge detention by the executive ...
Survey of Illinois Law: Stepparent Childcare
(2014)
In Illinois, the “liberty interests of parents” are reflected in the “superior rights doctrine,” which holds, as elsewhere, that parents have superior rights regarding the care of their children. This doctrine is necessitated ...
How to Make Sense of Quantum Mechanics (and More): Fundamental Physical Theories and Primitive Ontology
(Open Academic Press, 2016-04)
Quantum mechanics has always been regarded as, at best, puzzling, if not contradictory. The aim of the paper is to explore a particular approach to fundamental physical theories, the one based on the notion of primitive ...
The Intersection of Culture and ICF-CY Personal and Environmental Factors for Alternative and Augmentative Communication
(Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups, 2016)
Clinicians facilitate successful use of Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC). The most clinically competent providers, however, address needs that extend beyond technical AAC use to help clients experience full ...
Parentage Prenups and Midnups
(2015)
In July 2012, the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws recommended for enactment in all American states the Uniform Premarital and Marital Agreements Act. Unlike its predecessor, the Act treats ...
How Do You Rate Your Lawyer?: Lawyers’ Responses to Online Reviews of Their Services
(2014)
With the proliferation of opportunities for consumers to review a variety of services on the Internet, it is probably only a matter of time until more clients review their attorneys’ services on the Internet. This raises ...