Federal Questions and the Domestic-Relations Exception

Federal Asymmetry and Intergovernmental Relations in Spain

Robert Agranoff School of Public and Environmental Affairs Indiana University-Bloomington, USA and Instituto Universitario Ortega y Gasset Madrid, SPAIN Asymmetry in governing receives a fair amount of attention in Spain. Late in 2004 the Basque Country parliament put forth the Ibarretexe plan (named after the regional premier Juan José Ibarretexe), that attempts to redefine devolved regional a...

the effects of cooperative versus individual directed reading thinking activities on students inferential and referential questions

two groups of students were assigned as experimental and control ones, and were given instruction on directed reading-thinking activities and after some treatment, they were post-tested. although the initial pre-test did not show any significant differences, the final post-test result revealed that the cooperative reading comprehension helped the experimental group. the cooperative students’...

Domestic Relations: Heterologous Artificial Insemination

Former-Testimony Exception in the Proposed Federal Rules of Evidence, The

Fraenkel–Carnap Questions for Equivalence Relations

An equivalence is a binary relational system A = (A, ρA) where ρA is an equivalence relation on A. A simple expansion of an equivalence is a system of the form (Aa1 an) were A is an equivalence and a1, . . . , an are members of A. It is shown that the Fraenkel–Carnap question when restricted to the class of equivalences or to the class of simple expansions of equivalences has a positive answer:...