Small-group teaching in geography.

The manual guides staff in geography departments through the purposes, advantages and disadvantages of small-group teaching as an educational device in geography degrees. The manual covers issues of authority, roles, syllabus, learning outcomes and skills. It highlights areas of potential difficulty and how to cope with these. There is a wide range of examples of how small-group teaching can be used with different types of material, students at different stages, and to achieve a variety of learning outcomes and skills

Plaintiff Estate\u27s Motion for Sanctions Against Cuyahoga County Prosecutor William D. Mason

Estate’s motion for sanctions against William D. Mason for violation of Disciplinary Rule 7-107, which provides in pertinent part that “A lawyer who is participating. . . in. . . a matter shall not make an extra judicial statement that a reasonable person would expect to be disseminated. . . if the lawyer knows or. . . should know. . . will. . . materially prejudice an adjudicated procedure.” The Estate alleged that Prosecutor Mason violated D.R. 7-107 in a press conference interview on February 22, 2000, which resulted in the following Plain Dealer headline: “Sheppard Sought $3.25 Million, Mason Says.” The Estate argued that Mason improperly and inaccurately revealed details of a failed settlement agreement between the parties and that this could have had a prejudicial effect on the jury, which in fact caused the court to voir dire all eleven jurists, one of which actually saw the headline

Attorney Advertising and Competition at the Bar

Generally, advertising tends to lower prices and stimulate competition. This unexceptional statement becomes controversial, however,when applied to the legal profession. Indeed, only the newest members of the bar cannot recall the time when both professional and legal strictures precluded attorneys from advertising. Attorney advertising has been, and probably remains, a controversial subject. This Article analyzes attorney advertising and the regulations that police it. The Article begins by discussing the legal history of restraints on advertising.The Article then presents an economic analysis of the effects of attorney advertising. Finally, the Article examines the empirical evidence measuring the impact of attorney advertising on both the price and quality of legal services. Based on this discussion, this Article recommends further liberalization of restrictions constraining professional advertising

Transgenic Mouse Model of Chronic Beryllium Disease

Animal models provide powerful tools for dissecting dose-response relationships and pathogenic mechanisms and for testing new treatment paradigms. Mechanistic research on beryllium exposure-disease relationships is severely limited by a general inability to develop a sufficient chronic beryllium disease animal model. Discovery of the Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) - DPB1Glu69 genetic susceptibility component of chronic beryllium disease permitted the addition of this human beryllium antigen presentation molecule to an animal genome which may permit development of a better animal model for chronic beryllium disease. Using FVB/N inbred mice, Drs. Rubin and Zhu, successfully produced three strains of HLA-DPB1 Glu 69 transgenic mice. Each mouse strain contains a haplotype of the HLA-DPB1 Glu 69 gene that confers a different magnitude of odds ratio (OR) of risk for chronic beryllium disease: HLA-DPB1*0401 (OR = 0.2), HLA-DPB1*0201 (OR = 15), HLA-DPB1*1701 (OR = 240). In addition, Drs. Rubin and Zhu developed transgenic mice with the human CD4 gene to permit better transmission of signals between T cells and antigen presenting cells. This project has maintained the colonies of these transgenic mice and tested the functionality of the human transgenes