Consumer Class Actions Under the Uniform Deceptive Trade Practices Act

The Uniform Deceptive Trade Practices Act, presently in force in eight states, makes a private injunctive remedy available to persons likely to be damaged by misleading advertising, false disparagement, trade symbol infringement and other deceptive trade practices. This article explores the utility of the Uniform Act to individual consumers, and to groups of consumers. The procedural prerequisites of class actions under both the new and old versions of Rule 23 are considered in detail, and it is concluded that consumer class actions under the Uniform Act can provide an effective remedy for widespread and systematic consumer protection

FIRBACK: II. Data Reduction and Calibration of the 170 micron ISO Deep Cosmological Survey

We present the final reduction and calibration of the FIRBACK ISOPHOT data. FIRBACK is a deep cosmological survey performed at 170 microns. This paper deals with the ISOPHOT C200 camera with the C160 filter. We review the whole data reduction process and compare our final calibration with DIRBE (for the extended emission) and IRAS (for point sources). The FIRBACK source extraction and galaxy counts is discussed in a companion paper (Dole et al., 2001).Comment: Accepted for publication in A&A. 9 pages, includes new aa.cls. Also available (with better quality figures) at http://wwwfirback.ias.u-psud.fr and http://mips.as.arizona.edu/~hdole/firback (new aa.cls is here

A Biographical Sketch of John Greenleaf Whittier from The Early Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier

Biographical sketch from The Early Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier. Spine title Whittier\u27s Poetical Works. Biographical sketch written by N. H. Dole. Pages ix-xxxii. Portrait of Whittier included.https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/quakerbooks/1040/thumbnail.jp

A Lower-Limit Flux for the Extragalactic Background Light

... A strict lower-limit flux for the evolving extragalactic background light (and in particular the cosmic infrared background) has been calculated up to redshift of 5. The computed flux is below the existing upper limits from direct observations, and in agreement with all existing limits derived from very-high energy gamma-ray observations. The corrected spectra are still in agreement with simple theoretical predictions. The derived strict lower-limit EBL flux is very close to the upper limits from gamma-ray observations. This is true for the present day EBL but also for the diffuse flux at higher redshift. If future detections of high redshift gamma-ray sources require a lower EBL flux than derived here, the physics assumptions used to derive the upper limits have to be revised. The lower-limit EBL model is not only needed for absorption features in AGN and other gamma-ray sources but is also essential when alternative particle processes are tested, which could prevent the high energy gamma-rays from being absorbed. It can also be used for a quaranteed interaction of cosmic-ray particles. The model is available online.Comment: 12 pages, 6 figures, accepted by A&

Explicit comprehension instruction : a review of research and a new conceptualization of instruction

Includes bibliographical references (p. 13-16)The work upon which this publication was based was supported in part by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement under cooperative agreement no. OEG 0087-C100

Auditing the Numeracy Demands of the Middle Years Curriculum

The National Numeracy Review Report recognized that numeracy development requires an across the curriculum commitment. To explore the nature of this commitment we conducted a numeracy audit of the South Australian Middle Years curriculum, using a numeracy model that incorporates mathematical knowledge, dispositions, tools, contexts, and a critical orientation. All learning areas in the published curriculum were found to have distinctive numeracy demands. The audit should encourage teachers to promote numeracy in even richer ways in the curriculum they enact with students