The Ethical Perils of Representing the Juvenile Defendant Who May Be Incompetent

This Article examines questions likely to arise with respect to these interests when an attorney suspects his or her juvenile client may be incompetent. Part I reviews the doctrine of adjudicative competence in the context of adult criminal proceedings. Part II summarizes the newly evolved application of the doctrine in juvenile court. Part III examines the ethical, legal, and practical considerations that arise when a lawyer has concerns about whether a juvenile client possesses the competence needed to participate appropriately in juvenile court proceedings

Cultivating Positive Project Teams: Accelerating Time to Team Formation

High technology project teams must form, innovate, execute and deliver complex solutions at continually increasing speeds to meet market demands. This paper explores how building team positivity, connectedness and efficacy can accelerate team formation and establish an expansive environment for ongoing collaboration and innovation. A program framework for forming positive project teams utilizing empirically-based positive interventions and appreciative inquiry theory is presented. By using appreciative inquiry as a team-development intervention we can help new teams create generative images for themselves based on an affirmative understanding of their past. Team members come together in a safe and encouraging space and get to know each others’ strengths, passions, experience and styles while building a vision and action plan for their most positive future. By investing in building positive project teams during team formation, businesses can accelerate team formation, achieve greater team satisfaction and increase overall performance outcomes

Indiana Record for \u3ci\u3eOnthophagus Taurus\u3c/i\u3e (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae): Northwestward Range Extension

(excerpt) The scarab, Onthophagus taurus Schreber, was introduced from Europe, although the details of its introduction are unknown (Fincher and Woodruff 1975). It was first collected in the Florida panhandle in 1971 (Fincher and Woodruff 1975); by 1974 its range had extended into Georgia, and by 1980 it had reached South and North Carolina (Fincher et al. 1983)

Pascal and Fermat: Religion, Probability, and Other Mathematical Discoveries

This final project primarily discusses how Blaise Pascal and Pierre de Fermat, two French seventeenth century mathematicians, founded the field of mathematical Probability and how this area continued to evolve after their contributions. Also included in this project is an analysis of how Pascal and Fermat were affected, or not, in their mathematical work by the widespread impact that the Catholic Church had on life in France during this time period. I further discuss two other central discoveries by these theorists: Pascal’s Triangle and Fermat’s Last Theorem. Lastly, the project analyzes how all of these aspects: the influence of the contemporary religion of the period on science and mathematics, Pascal’s discoveries, and Fermat’s different method of approach, impacted the trajectory of mathematical history

Dissociating Siv Env and Cd4: Consequenes for Virus and Host

CD4 tropism is conserved among all primate lentiviruses and likely contributes to viral pathogenesis by targeting cells that are critical for the adaptive anti-viral immune responses. Although CD4-independent variants of HIV and SIV have been described that can utilize coreceptors CCR5 or CXCR4 in the absence of CD4, these viruses typically retain their CD4 binding sites and can still interact with CD4. In this thesis, I present the characterization and evaluation, both in vitro and in vivo, of a novel CD4-independent variant of SIV lacking a CD4 binding site. I first describe the derivation of iMac239, a CD4-independent variant of SIVmac239. Like other CD4-independent variants, we found that a mutation in the V1/V2 loops of Env was required for CD4-independent entry, and that acquisition of CD4-independence resulted in an increase in neutralization sensitivity. While iMac239 was CD4-independent, its CD4-binding site was intact, thus we removed the Aspartic Acid residue at position 385 (analogous to D-368 in HIV-1) to ablate CD4 binding. We found that this novel variant, iMac239-ΔD385, exhibited replication kinetics similar to that of the parental iMac239 strain, and was insensitive to neutralization by soluble CD4. Both CD4-independent strains exhibited an expansion of cellular tropism in vitro with infection of CD4- CD8+ T cells in stimulated rhesus PBMCs. Next, I present our evaluation of iMac239-ΔD385 pathogenesis and immunogenicity in four rhesus macaques. iMac239-ΔD385 replicated to a high acute viral peak, but was quickly controlled to undetectable levels by the host immune response. iMac239-ΔD385 infection elicited high and sustained neutralizing antibody titers and polyfunctional T cell responses. Strikingly, we observed an alteration in the distribution of infected cells in the lymph node and expansion in the types of cells infected. We tested iMac239-ΔD385 as a live attenuated vaccine against a pathogenic SIVsmE660, and while the number of animals in the study is too small to determine significance we observed a trend toward improved outcomes post challenge, potentially due to a synergistic interaction between iMac239-ΔD385 vaccination and Trim5α alleles

Examining gifted students\u27 transition to university and its influence on learning

This phenomenological study examined the first-year university transition experience of 39 gifted students and the impact of this transition on their beliefs, attitudes, and perceptions of learning through a multiple methods design via semi-structured individual interviews, focus groups, and survey instruments, specifically the Learning and Study Strategies Inventory and the College Survival and Success Scale. In addition, an autoethnographic component was incorporated in order to (a) frame the researcher’s bias, and (b) provide a means of eliciting analytic insights that connect personal experience to broader theoretical issues. The theoretical framework for this study incorporated three complementary theories, symbolic interactionism, role theory, and social cognitive theory, in order to provide an intricate lens for examining gifted university students’ lived experience in terms of expectations (both self and other’s), context, and identity. Using the interpretive phenomenological analysis method (J. A. Smith & Osborn, 2008), the study found that gifted students experienced transition issues similar to the regular student population, with one exception–struggling gifted students indicated that there was a gap in their learning skillset. These students felt that in addition to the regularly anticipated transition issues, they were also faced with the task of “learning how to learn.” Upon further investigation, it was revealed that participants believed that the societal, familial, and personal expectations and assumptions associated with the gifted label was predominantly responsible for hindering the development of a variety of learning and study skills, and that participants’ first experience of failure challenged their perceptions about themselves as gifted and as learners. This study revealed that many gifted students are not as prepared for university learning as one would expect. Finding ways of addressing these issues at all levels of education is necessary to help ensure gifted students can excel in the new learning environment of university. This information becomes particularly important for secondary and post-secondary administrators and academic counselors when developing transition or orientation programs and providing educational counseling. Understanding the issues related to this critical educational transition would potentially help students who are gifted and talented reduce stress, manage failure, and build learning and coping strategies

Alien Registration- Millard, Adrienne E. (Fort Fairfield, Aroostook County)

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Clarina Howard Nichols: A rhetorical criticism of selected speeches

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, Communication Studies, 1987

Who Should Make Medical Decisions for Incompetent Adults? A Critique of RCW 7.70.065

To show why the Revised Code of Washington (RCW) 7.70.065, Washington\u27s medical decision-making statute should be rewritten, this Comment discusses: (1) the importance of autonomy and self-determination in medical decision-making; (2) the purpose of proxy medical decision-making statutes; (3) Washington\u27s proxy *574 decision-making statute; and, (4) current family demographics. This Comment concludes by proposing a new medical decision-making statute for Washington

A change has swept over our land : American Moravians and the Civil War

When they first came to North America, the Moravians—a pietistic, Germanic Christian sect—settled in isolated communities where only a few people ventured out to do missionary work for the community. They separated themselves from their non-Moravian neighbors, one missionary community serving the North from its seat in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and the other serving the South from Salem, North Carolina, and neither participating in civic or military life. Then, over the course of a few decades, economic and civic circumstances forced the Moravians in North America to adapt their ways to be more like those of their non-Moravian neighbors, adopting styles of living and commerce from them. By the time of the American Civil War, though both communities maintained a separate sense of Moravian identity, they had both come to resemble their neighbors so closely that Moravians in Bethlehem and Salem were some of the first to enlist to fight against fellow Moravians. Though the communities chose opposite sides on the battlefield, it was because they had undergone the same change