Book Reviews

Urban Planning and Land Development Control Law. By Donald Hagman. This book seeks to distill, summarize and state textually the wisdom on planning and development control law collected and serves as a supplement to Mr. Hagman\u27s casebook. The reviewer criticizes the book for not more fully addressing zoning issues and the related problem of population concentration and dispersion as evidenced in the Golden v. Planning Board case. Public Workers and Public Unions. Edited by Sam Zagoria. This book brings together divergent views on on the growth of unions and other employee organizations, the impacts ad legal issues presented by collective bargaining, and the problems of the regulation of labor relations in the public sector

"BURO Case Study" In "Making the Repository Count: lessons from successful implementation"

Matt Holland and Tim Denning continue the research theme and consider the importance of IRs in support of research, focussing on three areas; how the IR fits with the university organisation; how to promote the use of the IR to end users and contributors; and how to secure long term benefits for the broadest range of stakeholders. They incorporate two case studies into the discussion, and include a description of the implementation of Bournemouth University Research Online (BURO). With contributions from Emma Crowley, BURO Manager

Parameter identification in continuum models

Approximation techniques for use in numerical schemes for estimating spatially varying coefficients in continuum models such as those for Euler-Bernoulli beams are discussed. The techniques are based on quintic spline state approximations and cubic spline parameter approximations. Both theoretical and numerical results are presented

BEYOND GATEWAY CITIES: ECONOMIC RESTRUCTURING AND POVERTY AMONG MEXICAN IMMIGRANT FAMILIES AND CHILDREN

Our main objective is to better understand how new residential patterns have reshaped patterns of poverty among America's growing Mexican-origin population. We use data from the Integrated Public Use Microdata Samples (IPUMS) to document recent changes in poverty rates among native-born and foreign-born Mexicans living in the Southwest and in new regions where many Mexican families have resettled. Our analysis focuses on how changing patterns of employment (e.g., in construction and food processing industries) have altered the risk of poverty among Mexican families and children. We demonstrate that the Mexican population dispersed widely throughout the United States during the 1990s. Perhaps surprisingly, Mexican workers, especially new immigrants, had much lower rates of poverty in the new destination regions and rural areas than their counterparts that remained in traditional areas of population concentration - the Southwest. As we show in this study, the dispersion of America's Mexican native-born and immigrant populations raises questions and hopes about their economic and political incorporation into American society.Food Security and Poverty,

Transitional Curricula in Leading Research and Land Grant Universities

In the years to come changes in the earth’s climate, human demographics and resource availability will necessitate revolutions in what we eat, where we live, how we travel, and how we produce the energy needed to power our society. While these transitions may be inevitable, we have some measure of control over when and how we adapt. Such efforts will require long-term thinking of a type seldom provided by those focused on the next election or quarterly report. Much of the responsibility to inform and promote action on these issues will fall on academia. The main objective of this project is to find out whether or not our nation’s colleges and universities are up to this task. To that end I have researched the course offerings at dozens of institutions of higher education in a search for curricula related to issues of sustainability. Relevant courses from all types of schools and departments are stored in an online database that includes links to hundreds of courses and departments across the United States. This data makes it easier to see what types of courses are being offered and what types of programs and departments are offering them. It also allows us to see which universities are taking the lead in developing these new types of courses and which are falling behind. Furthermore, it enables us to study the level of interaction between those offering instruction in different relevant disciplines. Our findings may be used to make suggestions for improved course offerings at this and other universities, as information gathered from schools that offer great quality and quantity of transitional curricula will be available to those institutions that do not

Raise The Yellow Submarine! Subafilms and Extraterritorial Application of the Copyright Act

Protecting United States industry from the costs of overseas pirating is complex without an enforceable bilateral copyright agreement. In fact, the U.S. loses billions of dollars to acts of piracy abroad every year. Yet, the Ninth Circuit destroyed a potential check against overseas piracy in Subafilms, Ltd. v. MGM-Pathe Communs. Co. when it ruled that the U.S. Copyright Act does not prohibit piracy abroad. After a discussion of relevant case law surrounding extraterritorial application of the Copyright Act, the Author of this Note criticizes the Subafilms decision and proposes changes to the current language contained in the Copyright Act

Raise The Yellow Submarine! Subafilms and Extraterritorial Application of the Copyright Act

Protecting United States industry from the costs of overseas pirating is complex without an enforceable bilateral copyright agreement. In fact, the U.S. loses billions of dollars to acts of piracy abroad every year. Yet, the Ninth Circuit destroyed a potential check against overseas piracy in Subafilms, Ltd. v. MGM-Pathe Communs. Co. when it ruled that the U.S. Copyright Act does not prohibit piracy abroad. After a discussion of relevant case law surrounding extraterritorial application of the Copyright Act, the Author of this Note criticizes the Subafilms decision and proposes changes to the current language contained in the Copyright Act