Nearly four out of every five federal court of appeals opinions are unpublished. For more than twenty-five years, judges and scholars have debated the wisdom and fairness of this body of "secret" law. The debate over unpublished opinions recently intensified when the Eighth Circuit held that the Constitution requires courts to give these opinions precedential value. Despite continuing controver...

A case-control study of rotavirus diarrhoea in Apache children up to two years old was conducted at the White Mountain Apache reservation from 1 May through 15 December 1985 to identify risk factors for rotavirus diarrhoea. The mothers of fifty cases, forty-five hospital controls and twenty-five neighbourhood controls participated in this study. Exposure to other children with diarrhoea stood o...

A B S T R ACT. This essay is a critical historiographical overview of the ongoing debate about the role of the Protestant Reformation in the process of ‘ the disenchantment of the world ’. It considers the development of this thesis in the work of Max Weber and subsequent scholars, its links with wider claims about the origins of modernity, and the challenges to this influential paradigm that h...

The approach to alignment discussed here uses a systematic and detailed language to describe curricular content in a manner that can be applied to multiple components of the standards-based, accountability-driven educational system. By employing a rich but systematic language for describing curricular content, it becomes possible to make detailed, quantitative comparisons of the instructional c...

Over the last twenty-five years, a different approach to economics has been slowly birthing, and slowly growing—complexity economics. Complexity economics holds that the economy is not necessarily in equilibrium, that computation as well as mathematics is useful in economics, that increasing as well as diminishing returns may be present in an economic situation, and that the economy is not some...

This paper deals with the semiotic meanings which are given both to the appearance and/or behavior of insect species according to the ethnoentomological knowledge of the inhabitants of the village of Pedra Branca, Bahia State, Brazil. Data were collected from February to May 2001 by performing open-ended, recorded interviews with nine men and twenty-five women, whose ages ranged from 19 to 82 y...

In 1906 a commission was appointed by act of Congress to report to that body a plan of a better type of schoolhouse for the District of Columbia. The commission was composed of the Superintendent of Schools, the Supervising Architect of the Treasury, and the Engineer Commissioner of the District. Two members were, therefore, expert builders. This commission, of which I was chairman, visited man...

For a long time criticality has been considered in epidemiological models. We review the body of theory developed over the last twenty five years for the simplest models. It is at first glance difficult to imagine that an epidemiological system operates at a very fine tuned critical state as opposed to any other parameter region. However, the advent of self-organized criticality has given hints...

Multimedia has emerged in recent years as a viable component in shaping built environments, where media, such as audio, visual and interactive content take on spatial significance. This has spurred multidisciplinary ventures exploring potential applications of multiple media in habitable spaces. Particularly relevant are the progressive insights emerging from works of multimedia installation ar...

An anaesthetic technique employing halothane in oxygen for use in adult turkeys is described. The mixture was administered using a Magill attachment and a Hall cat mask. Induction was rapid and excitement-free. Anaesthesia was maintained for varying periods of time up to a maYimnm of 80 minutes. Recovery was rapid. In a total of twenty-five turkeys no deaths occurred which were attributable to ...