HLS1X: CopyrightX: Spring 2013 Course Report

This report describes the first Harvard Law School open online course, first offered through HarvardX on the edX platform in Spring 2013. The course was taught by Professor William Fisher, who also prepared this report. Modified versions will be offered in the spring semesters of 2014 and 2015. This document describes and evaluates the 2013 version and outlines plans for the 2014 version

Stories about Property

A Review of Carol M. Rose, Property and Persuasion: Essays on the History, Theory, and Rhetoric of Ownershi

Texas minerals: trends in production

Bureau Publication GC6504 - to purchase a print copy please go to: https://store.beg.utexas.edu/geologic-circulars/386-gc6504.htmlMinerals play a vital role in the economy of an industrial State. In Texas, where annual production of minerals currently amounts to more than $4. 5 billion--twice the value of agricultural products, equal the value of manufactured products, and equal to half the value of all retail trade--mineral production is the principal part of the State's economic foundation. Analyses of past production trends and economic factors allow predictions of future trends in this vital and important segment of the Texas economy. Included herein are production graphs and brief annotations of production trends of principal or representative Texas mineral commodities. Period considered is 1950 through 1964, a period embracing significant post-war developments in the State and National economy.Bureau of Economic GeologyUT Librarie

Bloating characteristics of east Texas clays

Bureau Publication GC6501 - to purchase a print copy please go to: https://store.beg.utexas.edu/geologic-circulars/383-gc6501.htmlIncidence of bloating among approximately 600 clay samples from East Texas, ranging in age from Gulfian (Late Cretaceous) to Recent, correlates principally with clay mineralogy-and pH--together an indication of bulk composition--and to a lesser extent with texture, loss on ignition, and content of nonclay refractory minerals. Clay-mineral and pH data permit prediction of bloating with an accuracy of about 80 percent. Montmorillonitic and illitic clays are the best bloaters; bloating occurs in more than 80 percent of clays consisting of less than 30 percent kaolinite, more than l 0 percent illite, and between 20 and 90 percent montmorillonite. Only 10 percent of the high-alumina clays (more than 50 percent kaolinite) bloat; these generally are plastic and carbonaceous. Value of pH is an index of the amount of certain flux and gas-forming materials in clays; accordingly, bloating incidence generally increases with increase in pH. Incidence of bloating also increases slightly with decrease in grain size, increase in plasticity, increase in loss on ignition, and decrease in content of nonclay refractory minerals.Bureau of Economic GeologyUT Librarie

Patterns of Psychotherapy Attendance in Emerging and Mature Adults

Approximately 760,000 emerging adults use outpatient psychotherapy in the U.S. each year (Olfson et al.,2002). Emerging adults are 1.6-7.9 times more likely to drop out of mental health treatment than fully mature adults (Edlund et al., 2002; Olfson et al., 2002). This Study compared temporal patterns of attendance and non attendance between emerging and mature adult

An Assessment of the Oil Resource Base of the United States

A select panel of oil resource analysts, convened in August 1992 by the Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin, and the National Institute for Petroleum and Energy Research (NIPER) at the request of the U.S. Department of Energy, concludes that the remaining, recoverable volume of crude oil in the United States ranges from 99 to 204 billion barrels, inclusive of 25 billion barrels of oil carried as proved reserves by the Energy Information Administration at the end of 1991. The range in estimates reflects different assumptions of price and technology (including the geological ability to apply that technology). The lower estimate assumes a stable oil price of $20 per barrel (1992 dollars) with existing technology. The higher estimate assumes a price of$27 per barrel (1992 dollars) but with advanced technology. The range in estimates of the remaining resource base recoverable under the given assumptions is equivalent to 35 to 75 years of continued U.S. crude oil production at the current annual rate of 2.7 billion barrels.Bureau of Economic Geolog

Treatment Retention Strategies in Transition Age Youth

This study tests Motivational Interviewing as a treatment retention intervention in transition age youth to determine whether sufficient evidence can be found to justify a full scale clinical trial