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Publications from 2008

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This Is To Whom It May Concern: A Guantánamo Narrative, 1 DePaul J. Soc. Just. 153 (2008)., Marc D. Falkoff, College of Law

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Rethinking the Digital Remix: Mashups and the Metaphysics of Sound Recording, David J. Gunkel, Department of Communication

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The Matrix Reconsidered: Thinking Through Binary Logic in Science Fiction and Social Reality, David J. Gunkel, Department of Communication

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Žižek and the Real Hegel, David J. Gunkel, Department of Communication

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Appropriating the city: space, theory, and bike messengers, Jeffrey L. Kidder,

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White Settler / Big City: Mimicry in the Metropolis in Fergus Hume’s The Mystery of a Hansom Cab, Mark Kipperman, Department of English

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Computer simulation of the role of groundwater seepage in forming Martian valley networks, W. Luo and A.D. Howard, Department of Geographic and Atmospheric Sciences

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Thickness Induced Structural Changes in Polystyrene Films, Laurence Lurio, M.K. Mukhopadhyay, X. Jiao, Zhang Jiang, J. Stark, Michael Sprung, S. Narayanan, A.R. Sandy, and S.K. Sinha,

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Systemically Screwing Dads: Out of Control Paternity Schemes, Jeffrey A. Parness, College of Law

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Expression Patterns of Arabidopsis DRG Genes: Promoter-GUS Fusions, Quantitative RT-PCR and Patterns of Protein Accumulation in Response to Environmental Stresses, Joel P. Stafstrom, Department of Biological Sciences

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Ex Parte Domestic Violence Orders of Protection: How Easing Access to Judicial Process Has Eased the Possibility for Abuse of the Process, David H. Taylor, College of Law

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Building a New Generation of Online Public History Resources: Promise and Problems Identified in the Development of the Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project, Drew VandeCreek, University Libraries

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Identification and Investigation of ORFans in the Viral World, Yanbin Yin and Daniel Fischer, Department of Biological Sciences

Publications from 2007

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Metaphysics Meets Physics on the Banks of the Raritan, Valia Allori, Department of Philosophy

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Primitive Ontology and the Structure of Fundamental Physical Theories, Valia Allori, Department of Philosophy

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O Brave New World? Electronic Voting Machines and Internet Voting: An Annotated Bibliography, Therese A. Clarke Arado and Susan M. Boland, College of Law

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Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Tornado Fatalities in the United States: 1880-2005, Walker S. Ashley, Department of Geographic and Atmospheric Sciences

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An extensive episode of derecho-producing convective systems in the United States during May and June 1998: A multi-scale analysis and review, Walker S. Ashley, Thomas L. Mote, and M.L. Bentley, Department of Geographic and Atmospheric Sciences

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The Dual Career of “Arirang”: The Korean Resistance Anthem That Became a Japanese Pop Hit, E. Taylor Atkins, Department of History

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Varieties of Evolutionary Psychology, David J. Buller, Department of Philosophy

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Multicellular Redox Regulation in an Early-Evolving Animal Treated with Glutathione, Joseph Doolen, Gabrielle Geddes, and Neil W. Blackstone, Department of Biological Sciences

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Conspiracy to Commit Poetry: Empathetic Lawyering at Guantánamo Bay, Marc D. Falkoff, College of Law

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Litigation and Delay at Guantánamo Bay, Marc D. Falkoff, College of Law

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Toward a Limited-Government Theory of Extraterritorial Detention, Marc D. Falkoff, College of Law

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Imagining Mexico in 1910: Visions of the Patria in the Centennial Celebration in Mexico City, Michael J. Gonzales, Center for Latino and Latin American Studies

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Balancing Ambition and Gender Among Decision Makers, Rebecca Hannagan, Christopher W. Larimer, and Kevin B. Smith,

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Fugitive women: Slavery and social change in early modern Southeast Asia, Eric A. Jones, Department of History

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Finishing a Friendly Argument: The Jury and the Historical Origins of Diversity Jurisdiction, Robert L. Jones, College of Law

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Lost Paternity in the Culture of Motherhood, Jeffrey A. Parness, College of Law

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Safe Haven, Adoption and Birth Record Laws: Where are the Daddies?, Jeffrey A. Parness and Therese A. Clarke Arado, College of Law

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Religious Diversity and Cooperation on Campus, Eboo Patel,

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Digital History and the Public: Envisioning the Mississippi Valley of the Nineteenth Century, Drew VandeCreek, University Libraries

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Webs of Significance: The Abraham Lincoln Historical Digitization Project, New Technology, and the Democratization of History, Drew VandeCreek, University Libraries

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U-series Disequilibria in Guatemalan Lavas, Crustal Contamination, and Implications for Magma Genesis Along the Central American Subduction Zone, James A. Walker, J. Erik Mickelson, Rebecca B. Thomas, Lina C. Patino, Barry Cameron, Michael J. Carr, Mark D. Feigenson, and R. Lawrence Edwards, Department of Geology and Environmental Geosciences

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Do The Sick Retire Early? Chronic Illness, Asset Accumulation, and Early Retirement., Virginia Wilcox-Gök and M. Solaiman Miah, Department of Economics

Publications from 2006

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Sacred Swing: The Sacralization of Jazz in the American Bahá'í Community, E. Taylor Atkins, Department of History

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Zirkussklaven, Sinclair Bell,

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Cloud-to-ground flash characteristics for Atlanta, Georgia (USA), M.L. Bentley, Department of Geographic and Atmospheric Sciences

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A Model of the Determinants of Effort, Carl M. Campbell III, Department of Economics

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Determination of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients by Heteroatom Selective Detection Using Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry with Ultrasonic Nebuilization and Membrane Desolvation Sample Introduction, Jon W. Carnahan, Kaho Kwok, John E. Carr, and Gregory K. Webster, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

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Temporal and Spatial Characteristics of Snowstorms in the Contiguous United States, David Changnon, Stanley A. Changnon, and Thomas R. Karl, Department of Geographic and Atmospheric Sciences

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Takings Jurisprudence as Three-Tiered Review, Mark W. Cordes, College of Law

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The influence of flaws on joint spacing and saturation: results of one-dimensional mechanical modeling, Mark P. Fischer and A. Polansky, Department of Geology and Environmental Geosciences

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Using dew points to estimate savings during a planned cooling shutdown, Matthew Friedlein, David Changnon, Eric Musselman, and Jeff Zielinski, Department of Geographic and Atmospheric Sciences

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The Virtual Dialectic: Rethinking The Matrix and its Significance, David J. Gunkel, Department of Communication

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Crucible of Andean Civilization: The Peruvian Coast from 3000 to 1800 B.C., Jonathan Haas and Winifred Creamer, Department of Anthropology

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Self-Determination and International Order, Tomis Kapitan,

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Bike Messengers and the Really Real: Effervescence, Reflexivity, and Postmodern Identity, Jeffrey L. Kidder,

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The Temporal and Spatial Scale of Microevolution: Fine-scale Color Pattern Variation in the Lake Erie Watersnake, Richard B. King and J.M. Ray, Department of Biological Sciences

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The Origins of Monumental Architecture in Ancient Hawai'i, Michael Kolb, Department of Anthropology

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Morphometric Analysis of Martian Valley Network Basins Using a Circularity Function, W. Luo and A.D. Howard, Department of Geographic and Atmospheric Sciences

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Topographically derived maps of valley networks and drainage density in the Mare Tyrrhenum quadrangle on Mars, W. Luo and T.F. Stepinski, Department of Geographic and Atmospheric Sciences

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A graph-theoretic method for detecting potential Turing bifurcations, Maya Mincheva and Marc R. Roussel,

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`Died in the Service of Portugal': Legitimacy of Authority and Dynamics of Group Identity among the Atsabe Kemak in East Timor, Andrea Molnar, Department of Anthropology

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American General Jurisdiction Trial Courts: New Visions, New Guidelines, Jeffrey A. Parness, College of Law

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Deserting Mothers, Abandoned Babies, Lost Fathers: Dangers in Safe Havens, Jeffrey A. Parness, College of Law

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Improving Judicial Settlement Conferences, Jeffrey A. Parness, College of Law

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New Federal Paternity Laws: Securing More Fathers for Children of Unwed Mothers, Jeffrey A. Parness, College of Law

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No Genetic Ties, No More Fathers: Voluntary Acknowledgment Recissions and Other Paternity Disestablishments Under Illinois Law, Jeffrey A. Parness, College of Law

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Preserving Madagascar’s Natural Heritage: The Importance of Keeping the Islands’s Fossils in the Public Domain, Karen E. Samonds, D.W. Krause, P.M. O'Connor, A.H. Rasoamiaramanana, G.A. Buckley, P.S. Chatrath, D.A. Burney, M.T. Carrano, J.J. Flynn, C.A. Forster, Laurie R. Godfrey, W.L. Jungers, R.R. Rogers, E.L. Simons, and A.R. Wyss, Department of Biological Sciences

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Beyond Encounters: Religion, Ethnicity, and Violence in the Early Modern Atlantic World, 1450-1700, Brian Sandberg, Department of History

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Through Naval Practice and the Association with Foreigners’: French Nobles’ Participation in Mediterranean Religious Struggles, Brian Sandberg, Department of History

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Body Image and Expected Future Interaction, Alecia M. Santuzzi, P.L. Metzger, and J.B. Ruscher,

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Flood Frequency in China's Poyang Lake Region: Trends and Teleconnections, David Shankman, Barry D. Keim, and Jie Song, Department of Geographic and Atmospheric Sciences

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Estimating the Long-Term Hydrological Budget over Heterogeneous Surfaces, Jie Song, M.L. Wesely, D.J. Holdridge, D.R. Cook, and J. Klazura, Department of Geographic and Atmospheric Sciences

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Tracing Nitrogen in Volcanic and Geothermal Volatiles from the Nicaraguan Volcanic Front, James A. Walker, L.J. Elkins, T.P. Fischer, D.R. Hilton, Z.D. Sharp, and S. McKnight, Department of Geology and Environmental Geosciences

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On the Origin of Microbial ORFans: Quantifying the Strength of the Evidence for Viral Lateral Transfer, Yanbin Yin and Daniel Fischer, Department of Biological Sciences

Publications from 2005

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On the episodic nature of derecho-producing convective systems in the United States, Walker S. Ashley, T.L. Mote, and M.L. Bentley, Department of Geographic and Atmospheric Sciences

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Responding to the Antique. A Rediscovered Roman Circus Sarcophagus and its Renaissance Afterlife, Sinclair Bell,

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Climatology of cloud-to-ground lightning in Georgia, USA, 1992-2003, M.L. Bentley and J.A. Stallins, Department of Geographic and Atmospheric Sciences

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Redox Signaling in Colonial Hydroids: Many Pathways for Peroxide, Neil W. Blackstone, Matthew J. Bivins, Kimberly S. Cherry, Robert E. Fletcher, and Gabrielle Geddes, Department of Biological Sciences

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Evolutionary psychology: the emperor’s new paradigm, David J. Buller,

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Get Over: Massive Modularity, David J. Buller, Department of Philosophy

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The Emperor Is Still Under-Dressed, David J. Buller, Jerry Fodor, and Tessa Crume, Department of Philosophy

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Lessons from the unusual impacts of an abnormal winter in the USA, David Changnon and Stanley A. Changnon, Department of Geographic and Atmospheric Sciences

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Fairness and Farmland Preservation: A Response to Professor Richardson, Mark W. Cordes, College of Law

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Geometry and kinematics of the Nuncios detachment fold complex: implications for lithotectonics in northeastern Mexico, Mark P. Fischer, I.C. Higuera-Diaz, and M.S. Wilkerson, Department of Geology and Environmental Geosciences

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Observed effects of horizontal surface temperature variations on the atmosphere over a Mid-west watershed during CASES 97, Robert L. Grossman, D. Yates, M. A. LeMone, M.L. Wesely, and Jie Song, Department of Geographic and Atmospheric Sciences

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Harmonic analysis of causal operators and their spectral properties, Ilya A. Krishtal and A.G. Baskakov,

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Adoption Notices to Genetic Fathers: No to Scarlet Letters, Yes to Good Faith Cooperation, Jeffrey A. Parness, College of Law

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Climatology of the Low-Level Jet at the Southern Great Plains Atmospheric Boundary Layer Experiments Site, Jie Song, Ke Liao, Richard L. Coulter, and Barry M. Lesht, Department of Geographic and Atmospheric Sciences

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Solomon Huebner and the Development of Life Insurance Sales Professionalism, 1905-1927, Drew VandeCreek, University Libraries

Publications from 2004

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On the Notion of Primitive Ontology, Valia Allori, Department of Philosophy

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What is Bohmian Mechanics, Valia Allori and Nino Zanghì,

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Characterization of the Aspergillus parasiticus delta12-desaturase Gene: A Role for Lipid Metabolism in the Aspergillus/plant Interaction, Ana M. Calvo, R.A. Wilson, P.K. Chang, and N.P. Keller,

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The Role of Education in Promoting Interfaith Cooperation, Loreta N. Castro,

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Affirmative Action After Grutter and Gratz, Mark W. Cordes, College of Law

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Structural Levels of Mental Illness Stigma and Discrimination, Patrick W. Corrigan, Fred E. Markowitz, and Amy Watson,

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Selected Research and Writings on Instruction for Music Librarians: An Annotated Bibliography, Michael J. Duffy IV, University Libraries

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The Mitochondrial Genome of the Peronosporomycete Saprolegnia Ferax: Organization, Gene Content, and Nucleotide Sequence, W. Scott Grayburn, D.S.S. Hudspeth, M. Gane, and M.E.S. Hudspeth, Department of Biological Sciences

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What's the Matter with Books?, David J. Gunkel, Department of Communication

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Guiding Civil Case Settlement Conferences and Their Aftermath: The Need to Amend Illinois Supreme Court Rule 218, Jeffrey A. Parness and Lance Cagle, College of Law

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TCA Microsatellite Repeats in the 5’UTR of the Sat5 Gene of Wild and Cultivated Accessions of Pisum and of Four Closely Related Genera, Joel P. Stafstrom and Paul Ingram, Department of Biological Sciences

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Queering the conflicts: What LGBT students can teach us in the classroom and online, Diana Swanson and Brad Peters,

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Ethical Dilemmas in Retrospective Studies on Genital Surgery in the Treatment of Intersexual Infants, Sharon Sytsma,

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The Moral Authority of Symbolic Appeals in Biomedical Ethics, Sharon Sytsma,

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An Analogue of Continued Fractions in Number Theory for Nevanlinna Theory, Zhuan Ye,

Publications from 2003

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Why Won’t Someone Help Me?: The Unspeakable Epidemic of Domestic Violence: an Annotated Bibliography, Therese A. Clarke Arado, College of Law

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Distribution of Mesoscale Convective Complex Rainfall in the United States, Walker S. Ashley, T.L. Mote, P.G. Dixon, S.L. Trotter, J.D. Durkee, E.J. Powell, and A.J. Grundstein, Department of Geographic and Atmospheric Sciences

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Edifying Tones: Using Music to Teach Asian History and Culture, E. Taylor Atkins, Department of History