Dispute settlement under the North American Free Trade Agreement: A model for future trade agreements?

NAFTA, dispute settlement

Hay-Ka Choo-Fever

Red, sniffly noses are the bane of all those who suffer from the common cold, and in particular the distress of those persons who are afflicted with hay-fever. Many persons have erroneous ideas about hay-fever. Science continues to investigate this illness-which is not contagious, which comes and goes in the cycle of a year, which depends so much upon the individual\u27s diet

Happy Homes With the Ratio 9 to 1

Take eight senior girls, one patient house director, one unsuspecting baby and place in a pleasantly furnished domain. Stir well and the resulting product, standard or otherwise, will be a Home Management house. In this homelike atmosphere the life of the student is transformed to one of six weeks never to be forgotten. Here the trials of many an amateur cook, housekeeper or child director first loom very gravely before her and later become a joy forever in her memories

Time to Reconsider Nullum Tempus Occurrit Regi - The Applicability of Statutes of Limitations Against the State of Maine in Civil Actions

Many states, including the State of Maine, take the position that they have, essentially, an infinite time within which to bring a civil action. The basis for the State\u27s claim of immunity from statutes of limitations is the old English common law doctrine, “nullum tempus occurrit regi”-- literally, no time runs against the King--which purports to exempt the State from statutes of limitations of general applicability unless statutes expressly provide otherwise. There has not been a Maine Supreme Judicial Court (Law Court) opinion mentioning the nullum tempusdoctrine since 1955, but the doctrine continues to be actively asserted by the State of Maine in civil actions filed in Superior Court. At least six Superior Court decisions since 1990 reference the nullum tempus doctrine. It is high time to consider whether the doctrine should remain good law in Maine. The Law Court abolished common law sovereign immunity from tort claims in 1976; over the last twelve years the high courts of the states of Colorado, New Jersey, and South Carolina have abrogated the nullum tempus doctrine, and the doctrine is ripe for policy reevaluation in light of the split in authority and changing concepts of justice. Given the not infrequent assertion of the doctrine by the State of Maine in civil actions, it is only a matter of time before the nullum tempus doctrine again comes before the Law Court. This Article analyzes current Maine law on the applicability of statutes of limitations to the State, specifically whether the nullum tempus doctrine should remain good law in Maine, and suggests that the doctrine is ripe for abrogation

Toda la Familia: An Occupational Therapy Resource Guide for Working with Latino Children Diagnosed with ASD and Their Families

The purpose of this scholarly project was to create a resource guide for occupational therapists working with Latino children diagnosed with ASD and their families. Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a developmental disability that has become increasingly prevalent within the United States (Baio, Wiggins, and Christensen, 2018), with ASD rates triplining in Hispanic children between the years of 2002 through 2006 (Pedersen et al., 2002). Blanche, Diaz, Barretto, and Cermak (2015) indicated that multiple family members, not just primary caretakers, are aiding in caring for a child diagnosed with ASD. However, many extended households which may include grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins, lack knowledge regarding caring for a child with ASD which can negatively impact child outcomes and family dynamics. This is further becoming a concern as multigenerational households are also increasing (Lofquist, 2012). In 2011, 10.3 percent, approximately 1.3 million households in the United States were Hispanic extended family households (Lofquist, 2012, p. 5). With an increase in both the extended family caring for the child and multigenerational households, practitioners are confronted with the challenge of holistically treating the family with incorporation of culturally appropriate interventions. However, many practitioners are unaware of how to properly implement family-centered care (Kuo et al., 2011) and research further lacks culturally evidence-based interventions for ASD (DuBay, Watson, & Zhang, 2018). An extensive review of literature was completed on ASD, ASD in Latino children, family-centered care, family networks, culturally appropriate interventions for vii ASD, and the role of occupational therapy in working with ASD to develop a resource guide that would aid the occupational therapy process. The developers utilized reliable databases, textbooks, and the American Occupational Therapy Association to obtain information. Based on the findings and gap in literature, the developers selected the Family Systems Theory and the Ecology of Human Performance to develop the culturally adapted family-centered based resource guide for occupational therapists working with Latino children diagnosed with ASD and their families

Life History of Dr. Sheri Montgomery, ORT/L, OTD

This life history one of 29 life history interviews that are a part of a larger project, Life Histories of Individuals Who Have Been Influential in Developing Occupational Therapy (OT) in North Dakota and Wyoming. The purpose of the project is to gather information about the history and evolution of occupational therapy (OT) practice in North Dakota and Wyoming through life histories of individual who have been influential in developing OT in these two state. It is anticipated that the life history process will be a powerful way to gather this information. This study is intended to provide current and future generations of occupational therapist a view of the history and how OT practice has evolved from its inception to current practice in North Dakota and Wyoming.https://commons.und.edu/ot-oral-histories-posters/1024/thumbnail.jp

Compensation between resolved wave driving and parameterized orographic gravity wave driving of the Brewer–Dobson circulation and its response to climate change

Following recent findings, the interaction between resolved (Rossby) wave drag and parameterized orographic gravity wave drag (OGWD) is investigated, in terms of their driving of the Brewer–Dobson circulation (BDC), in a comprehensive climate model. To this end, the parameter that effectively determines the strength of OGWD in present-day and doubled CO2 simulations is varied. The authors focus on the Northern Hemisphere during winter when the largest response of the BDC to climate change is predicted to occur. It is found that increases in OGWD are to a remarkable degree compensated by a reduction in midlatitude resolved wave drag, thereby reducing the impact of changes in OGWD on the BDC. This compensation is also found for the response to climate change: changes in the OGWD contribution to the BDC response to climate change are compensated by opposite changes in the resolved wave drag contribution to the BDC response to climate change, thereby reducing the impact of changes in OGWD on the BDC response to climate change. By contrast, compensation does not occur at northern high latitudes, where resolved wave driving and the associated downwelling increase with increasing OGWD, both for the present-day climate and the response to climate change. These findings raise confidence in the credibility of climate model projections of the strengthened BDC