In a recent article, Gabel and Hager argue that the line-item veto and the balanced budget amendment (BBA) promote and may increase pork-barrel spending. In their discussion of the balanced budget amendment, Gabel and Hager present one example to support their claim. I demonstrate that the effect of a BBA in their model is highly contingent on parameter values, and that their results hold only ...

abstract the use of plants to remove contaminants from the environment and concentrate them in above-ground plant tissue is known as phytoextraction. this study was conducted to investigate the potential of phytoextraction of pb and cd metals canola (brassica napus) and sorghum (sorghum bicolor) which are high biomass crop and the effect of amendments on the efficiency of phytoextraction. the s...

INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1039 R I. THE PRIMARY JURISDICTION DOCTRINE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1043 R II. CONSTITUTIONAL CONSTRAINTS IN FEDERAL-COURT LITIGATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1048 R A. Article III Constraints . . . . . . ...

Remediation of soils contaminated with petroleum is a challenging task. Four different bioremediation strategies, including natural attenuation, biochar amendment, phytoremediation with ryegrass, and a combination of biochar and ryegrass, were investigated with greenhouse pot experiments over a 90-day period. The results showed that planting ryegrass in soil can significantly improve the remova...

In its 1990 Term, the United States Supreme Court heard five cases involving the Fourth Amendment. In this article, Professor Bruce Green analyzes these five search-and-seizure decisions in light of Justice Marshall's criticism that '[Plower, not reason, is the new currency of this Court's decision-making. " He examines the various considerations the Court advances in its Fourth Amendment analy...

Changes in microbial communities associated with nematode control were studied by comparing population numbers of fungi and bacteria in the soil and in internal root tissues (endorhiza) in non-amended and chitin-amended soils. Addition of chitin to soil at 1% (w/w) eliminated plant-parasitic nematodes in a first planting of cotton cv. ‘Rowden’ and significantly reduced Meloidogyne incognita inf...

In this article, Professor Morgan Cloud proposes a surprising remedy for a Fourth Amendment jurisprudence he criticizes as lacking a unifying theory and failing to preserve the rights guaranteed by the Amendment. Professor Cloud's solution is a return to the theories espoused by the Supreme Court during the infamous Lochner era of the early twentieth century. He calls for a merging of the forma...

Safe amendment rates (the predicted no-effect concentration or PNEC) of seven organic wastes were estimated from the species sensitivity distribution of a battery of soil biota tests and compared with different realistic amendment scenarios (different predicted environmental concentrations or PEC). None of the wastes was expected to exert noxious effects on soil biota if applied according eithe...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Providing patients access to their medical records offers many potential benefits including identification and correction of errors. The process by which patients ask for changes to be made to their records is called an 'amendment request'. Little is known about the nature of such amendment requests and whether they result in modifications to the chart. METHODS We con...