John F. Sonnett Memorial Lecture Series: Cruel and Unusual Punishment: The Proportionality Rule

Lecture by Judge William Hughes Mulligan of United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (1971-1981) and Dean of Fordham University School of Law (1956-1971) regarding the relationship between the judiciary and the legislature in the application of the Eighth Amendment. Document includes a speaker introduction and handwritten notes.https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/events_programs_sonnet_lectures/1000/thumbnail.jp

Likelihood inference for particle location in fluorescence microscopy

We introduce a procedure to automatically count and locate the fluorescent particles in a microscopy image. Our procedure employs an approximate likelihood estimator derived from a Poisson random field model for photon emission. Estimates of standard errors are generated for each image along with the parameter estimates, and the number of particles in the image is determined using an information criterion and likelihood ratio tests. Realistic simulations show that our procedure is robust and that it leads to accurate estimates, both of parameters and of standard errors. This approach improves on previous ad hoc least squares procedures by giving a more explicit stochastic model for certain fluorescence images and by employing a consistent framework for analysis.Comment: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/09-AOAS299 the Annals of Applied Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aoas/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org

Why Ethics Should be on the Critical Thinking Syllabus

Critical thinking texts typically treat ethical reasoning as being in principle no different from non-moral types of reasoning. I argue that there are two distinctive types of ethical argument—those which appeal to principles of right and wrong conduct, and those which appeal to consequences—and that they cannot be properly understood or assessed on the basis of non-ethical models of reasoning. The failure to recognize this produces a simplistic understanding of ethical reasoning, and contributes to the view that ethical judgments are mere expressions of personal feelings

Creation of Occupational Therapy Treatment Protocols for Diagnoses Affecting the Upper Extremities

This doctoral capstone project included creation of 20 conservative and post-surgical occupation-based and occupational therapy focused treatment protocols covering diagnoses affecting the upper extremities as well as a comprehensive protocol manual accompanied by a guide for use. This doctoral capstone poster contains a needs assessment, goals of the project, the protocols development process, the occupational therapy perspective, and examples of the protocols created

Minnesota, Pipestone School, 1925

The Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions (BCIM) was created in 1874 as the Office of the Commissioner for Catholic Indian Missions to protect, promote, and administer the Native American mission interests of the Catholic Church in the United States. Records in this group are organized by record group and then state or territory and year. Collection organization varies very little throughout the collection, however, prior to 1921, general correspondence was organized by location. Starting with Director Hughes, general correspondence was placed as its own subgroup within the collection and is organized alphabetically. Please go to Ask an Archivist (https://www.marquette.edu/library/archives/askarch.php ) if you have any questions