Restoring Prosperity: The State Role in Revitalizing America's Older Industrial Cities

Presents a five-part agenda and organizing plan to reinvigorate the nation's older industrial cities, and aims to mobilize governors, legislative leaders, and local constituencies toward advancing urban reform

Preemption of Common Law Claims and the Prospect for FIFRA: Justice Stevens Puts the Genie Back in the Bottle

In the upcoming Term, the Supreme Court will consider a case raising the question whether the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act preempts state tort law, or only state positive law. FIFRA, under which the Environmental Protection Agency regulates pesticide labels, has an express preemption clause and clearly preempts state positive law on labeling. The question presented is whether and to what extent it also preempts state tort law, particularly claims for failure to warn. The Court\u27s precedent on preemption of state tort law is erratic, but for some reason, the pro-preemption view has been much more popular with lower courts. The view that FIFRA broadly preempted state tort law was unanimous for several years, until the EPA filed an amicus brief in a California case arguing against preemption. That brief was rejected in most courts but accepted in Montana and Oregon. Under President Bush, however, the EPA reversed its preemption and now argues in favor of preemption - which in practice means near-complete immunity for pesticide manufacturers against claims by consumers or bystanders. This paper argues that the Supreme Court should hold that even though FIFRA preempts states from passing laws about what should be on a pesticide label, FIFRA does not preempt tort claims for failure to warn about the dangers of the pesticide. In doing so, the Court should clarify the operation of various presumptions it is adopted for when to find state law preempted by a federal statute

ENDOGENOUS QUALITY AND AGRICULTURAL POLICY ANALYSIS

The typical analysis of agricultural policy assumes that the commodity of interest is homogeneous, and that it does not change as a result of policy implementation. This paper develops a model of agricultural policy analysis when the restriction of product homogeneity is relaxed and policy-induced quality responses are incorporated.agricultural policy analysis, quality variation, Agricultural and Food Policy,

Coleman-Gross height pairings and the pp-adic sigma function

We give a direct proof that the Mazur-Tate and Coleman-Gross heights on elliptic curves coincide. The main ingredient is to extend the Coleman-Gross height to the case of divisors with non-disjoint support and, doing some $p$-adic analysis, show that, in particular, its component above $p$ gives, in the special case of an ordinary elliptic curve, the $p$-adic sigma function. We use this result to give a short proof of a theorem of Kim characterizing integral points on elliptic curves in some cases under weaker assumptions. As a further application, we give new formulas to compute double Coleman integrals from tangential basepoints.Comment: AMS-LaTeX 17 page

“Binge drinking? It’s good, it’s harmless fun”:a discourse analysis of accounts of female undergraduate drinking in Scotland

Binge drinking in young people, particularly females and students, is a source of some concern to those engaged in health education. The concept is usually defined in terms of quantities of alcohol consumed within a relatively short space of time. Research suggests that reasons for drinking are varied, and are likely to be influenced by culture and context. This study aimed to explore issues important to female undergraduate students in Scotland. Semi-structured interviews were carried out with 19 participants who were asked to describe what they understand by the term ‘binge drinking’, why they drink and what might trigger excessive consumption. Discourse analysis was used to explore the possible ‘functions’ of what was said, as well as the content. Participants showed sensitivity to how others might interpret their responses. They described binge drinking in terms of its behavioural effects rather than quantities consumed. Crucially, they positioned themselves outside the categories of ‘serious’ or ‘anti-social’ drinkers. These findings have important implications for our understanding of factors influencing drinking behaviour in this group of people, which in turn impacts on the potential design of health-enhancing interventions. The study also demonstrates the usefulness of a discourse analytic approach to accounts of drinking behaviour

Computing local p-adic height pairings on hyperelliptic curves

We describe an algorithm to compute the local component at p of the Coleman-Gross p-adic height pairing on divisors on hyperelliptic curves. As the height pairing is given in terms of a Coleman integral, we also provide new techniques to evaluate Coleman integrals of meromorphic differentials and present our algorithms as implemented in Sage

Higher Education Working Together to Help Catholic Schools: The Greater Milwaukee Catholic Education Consortium

This essay was developed from a panel presentation by Henk and Maney, as well as other key professional colleagues, delivered at the 2012 CHEC Conference. The essay describes the formation and initial work of a consortium of five institutions of higher education in the greater Milwaukee area, including Alverno College, Cardinal Stritch University, Marian University, Marquette University, and Mount Mary College

Measuring athlete imagery ability: the Sport Imagery Ability Questionnaire

Based on literature identifying movement imagery, observation, and execution to elicit similar areas of neural activity, research has demonstrated movement imagery and observation to successfully prime movement execution. To investigate whether movement and observation could prime ease of imaging from an external visual imagery perspective, an internal visual imagery perspective, and kinaesthetic modality, 36 participants (M$_{age}$ = 20.58; SD = 3.11; 18 female, 18 male) completed the Movement Imagery Questionnaire-3 under four modes of delivery (movement prime, external observation prime, internal observation prime, and image-only). Results revealed ease of imaging was significantly greater during the movement and observation prime conditions compared to the image-only condition (p < .05). Specifically when priming external visual imagery and internal visual imagery, observation only facilitated ease of imaging when the perspective was congruent with the imagery perspective. Results support the utilization of movement and observation to facilitate ease of imaging, but highlight the importance of considering visual perspective when using observation