Partnership—Disclosure, Fairness and Substantive Administrative Regulation of a General Partner\u27s Fiduciary Duty in a Real Estate Limited Partnership—Bassan v. Investment Exchange Corp., 83 Wn. 2d 922, 524 P.2d 233 (1974); Wash. Ad. Code §§ 460-32A-010 et seq. (1975)

Bassan is the first case in Washington to be decided under Section 9 of the Washington Uniform Limited Partnership Act (WULPA) since its adoption in this jurisdiction in 1945. The court\u27s decision is unique not only in its statement that the general partner is precluded from retaining undisclosed profits in its dealings with and on behalf of the limited partnership without the express consent of all limited partners, but also in its implication that the court will look beyond the form of the transaction to examine the substantive fairness of the bargain to the limited partners. This note will discuss the specific problems raised in Bassan and analyze the court\u27s disposition of the issues as presented. Second, the note will examine and evaluate, in the context of the real estate limited partnership, the basis for imposing a fiduciary duty of disclosure upon a general partner, as well as the nature of the duty. The note concludes that, in order to provide greater protection to limited partners than that provided by the general rules of contract law, the court should examine the substantive fairness of post-formation transactions between the general partner and the limited partnership, utilizing recently promulgated administrative guideline

A study of perceptions of organizational climate based on gender and organizational rank

The main objective of this thesis is to analyze the perceived climate of one university from the points of view of males and females, and probationary and recently-tenured faculty. The concept of climate is generally regarded as a more overt and limited perspective on the organization than is the concept of culture. It is for this reason that this thesis will concentrate on the perceptions of organizational climate rather than the culture of an organization. The research methods implemented in collecting the data used herein were quantitative in nature which is highly conducive to describing an organization's climate. To fully uncover the deep-seated concept of organizational culture, qualitative research methods must be employed as well

Resolving Orbital and Climate Keys of Earth and Extraterrestrial Environments with Dynamics 1.0: A General Circulation Model for Simulating the Climates of Rocky Planets

Resolving Orbital and Climate Keys of Earth and Extraterrestrial Environments with Dynamics (ROCKE-3D) is a 3-Dimensional General Circulation Model (GCM) developed at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies for the modeling of atmospheres of Solar System and exoplanetary terrestrial planets. Its parent model, known as ModelE2 (Schmidt et al. 2014), is used to simulate modern and 21st Century Earth and near-term paleo-Earth climates. ROCKE-3D is an ongoing effort to expand the capabilities of ModelE2 to handle a broader range of atmospheric conditions including higher and lower atmospheric pressures, more diverse chemistries and compositions, larger and smaller planet radii and gravity, different rotation rates (slowly rotating to more rapidly rotating than modern Earth, including synchronous rotation), diverse ocean and land distributions and topographies, and potential basic biosphere functions. The first aim of ROCKE-3D is to model planetary atmospheres on terrestrial worlds within the Solar System such as paleo-Earth, modern and paleo-Mars, paleo-Venus, and Saturn's moon Titan. By validating the model for a broad range of temperatures, pressures, and atmospheric constituents we can then expand its capabilities further to those exoplanetary rocky worlds that have been discovered in the past and those to be discovered in the future. We discuss the current and near-future capabilities of ROCKE-3D as a community model for studying planetary and exoplanetary atmospheres.Comment: Revisions since previous draft. Now submitted to Astrophysical Journal Supplement Serie

Three new families with recurrent male miscarriages and hypercoiled umbilical cord

No abstract available.http://journals.lww.com/clindysmorphol/pages/default.aspx2016-07-31hb201

Tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes: Streamlining a complex manufacturing process

Adoptive cell therapy of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes has shown promise for treatment of refractory melanoma and other solid malignancies; however, challenges to manufacturing have limited its widespread use. Traditional manufacturing efforts were lengthy, cumbersome and used open culture systems. We describe changes in testing and manufacturing that decreased the process cycle time, enhanced the robustness of critical quality attribute testing and facilitated a functionally closed system. These changes have enabled export of the manufacturing process to support multi-center clinical trials

The Relationship between in-Vehicle Technologies and Self-Regulation among Older Drivers.

The study sought to understand the relationship between in-vehicle technologies (IVTs) and self-regulatory behaviors among older drivers. In a large multi-site study of 2990 older drivers, self-reported data on the presence of IVTs and avoidance of various driving behaviors (talking on a mobile phone while driving, driving at night, driving in bad weather, and making left turns when there is no left turn arrow) were recorded. Self-reports were used to identify whether avoidance was due to self-regulation. Hierarchical logistic regressions were used to determine whether the presence of a particular IVT predicted the likelihood of a given self-regulatory behavior after controlling for other factors. Results suggest that the presence of Integrated Bluetooth/Voice Control systems are related to a reduced likelihood of avoiding talking on a mobile phone while driving due to self-regulation (OR= 0.37, 95% CI= 0.29-0.47). The presence of a Navigation Assistance system was related to a reduced likelihood of avoiding talking on a mobile phone while driving (OR= 0.65, 95% CI= 0.50-0.84) and avoiding driving at night due to self-regulation (OR= 0.80, 95% CI = 0.64-1.00). Present findings suggest in-vehicle technologies may differently influence the self-regulatory behaviors of older drivers