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Publications from 2005

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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

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Existence of a Solution to the Line Contact Problem of Elastohydrodynamic Lubrication, Hamid Bellout,

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Finite-time singularity versus global regularity for hyper-viscous Hamilton-Jacobi-like equations, Hamid Bellout, Said Benachour, and Edriss S. Titi,

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Codex Coburgensis Nr. 21. Ein verschollener Zirkussarkophag in Privatbesitz, Sinclair Bell,

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A 15-year climatology of derecho producing mesoscale convective systems over the Central and Eastern United States, M.L. Bentley and Jesse Sparks, Department of Geographic and Atmospheric Sciences

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Development and Application of Acousto-Optic Background Correction for Inductively Coupled Plasma Atomic Emission Spectrometry, Jon W. Carnahan, Heather M. Miller, and Thomas M. Spudich, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

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Mixed Up Questions of Fact and Law: Illinois Standards of Appellate Review in Civil Cases Following the 1997 Amendment to Supreme Court Rule 341, Kathleen L. Coles, College of Law

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Complex Transitions Between C3 and C4 Photosynthesis During the Evolution of Paniceae: A Phylogenetic Case Study Emphasizing the Position of Steinchisma Hians (Poaceae), A C3-C4 Intermediate, Melvin R. Duvall, Dayle E. Saar, W. Scott Grayburn, and Gabriel P. Holbrook, Department of Biological Sciences

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Second Thoughts: Toward a Critique of the Digital Divide, David J. Gunkel, Department of Communication

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Civil Claim Settlement Talks Involving Third Parties and Insurance Company Adjusters: When Should Lawyer Conduct Standards Apply?, Jeffrey A. Parness, College of Law

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Federalizing Birth Certificate Procedures, Jeffrey A. Parness, College of Law

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Nonparty Insurers in Federal Civil Actions: The Need For New Written Civil Procedure Laws, Jeffrey A. Parness, College of Law

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Old-Fashioned Pregnancy, Newly-Fashioned Paternity, Jeffrey A. Parness, College of Law

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Participation of Unwed Biological Fathers in Newborn Adoptions: Achieving Substantive and Procedural Fairness, Jeffrey A. Parness, College of Law

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Expanded Recognition in Written Laws of Ancillary Federal Court Powers: Supplementing the Supplemental Jurisdiction Statute, Jeffrey A. Parness and Dan Sennott, College of Law

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Enforcing Settlements in Federal Civil Actions, Jeffrey A. Parness and Matthew Walker, College of Law

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Defending the Indefensible to Further a Later Case: Sanctioning Respondents in Illinois Domestic Violence Cases, David H. Taylor, College of Law

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Should It Take A Thief?: Rethinking the Admission of Illegally Obtained Evidence in Civil Cases, David H. Taylor, College of Law

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The Effects of Parents' Psychiatric Disorders on Children's High School Dropout, Virginia Wilcox-Gök, Farah Farahati, and Dave E. Marcotte, Department of Economics

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Estimating Earnings Losses Due to Mental Illness: A Quantile Regression Approach, Virginia Wilcox-Gök and Dave E. Marcotte, Department of Economics

Publications from 2002

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Korean P’ansori and the Blues: Art for Communal Healing, E. Taylor Atkins, Department of History

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A Multiscale Observational Case Study of the Development of an Isolated High Plains Tornadic Supercell, M.L. Bentley, Michael Buban, and Stonie Cooper, Department of Geographic and Atmospheric Sciences

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Function and Design Revisited, David J. Buller, Department of Philosophy

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Efforts to improve predictions of urban winter heating anomalies using various climate indices, David Changnon, Jeff Thompson, Tony April, Eric Schmidt, and Mike Falout, Department of Geographic and Atmospheric Sciences

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Agricultural Zoning: Impacts and Future Directions, Mark W. Cordes, College of Law

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Prayer in Public Schools After Santa Fe Independent School District, Mark W. Cordes, College of Law

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The Effect of Palazzolo v. Rhode Island on Takings and Environmental Land Use Regulation, Mark W. Cordes, College of Law

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Spenser’s Hermetic Tricksters in The Faerie Queene III and IV, William C. Johnson, Department of English

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Hypsometric Analysis of Margaritifer Sinus and Origin of Valley Networks, W. Luo, Department of Geographic and Atmospheric Sciences

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Immigration Offenses Involving Unlawful Entry: Is Federal Practice Comparable Across Districts?, Linda Drazga Maxfield and Keri B. Burchfield,

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Forensic Entomology for the Laboratory-Based Biology Classroom, J.S. Miller and Virginia L. Naples, Department of Biological Sciences

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Thinking Outside the Civil Case Box: Reformulating Pretrial Conference Laws, Jeffrey A. Parness and Matthew Walker, College of Law

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Changes in the Frequency of Extreme Warm-Season Surface Dewpoints in Northeastern Illinois: Implications for Cooling-System Design and Operation, Jesse Sparks, David Changnon, and Jason Starke, Department of Geographic and Atmospheric Sciences

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Civil Procedure by Contract: A Convoluted Confluence of Private Contract and Public Procedure in Need of Congressional Control, David H. Taylor, College of Law

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Surveying Gender Bias at One Midwestern Law School, David H. Taylor, College of Law

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Vestibular Information Is Required for Dead Reckoning in the Rat, Douglas G. Wallace, Dustin J. Hines, Sergio M. Pellis, and Ian Q. Whishaw,

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The Economic Performance of For-Profit and Not-for-Profit Hospitals, Virginia Wilcox-Gök, Department of Economics

Publications from 2001

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Seven Steps Toward the Classical World: The Problem of the Classical Limit in Quantum Mechanics, Valia Allori, Department of Philosophy

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The Origin of Man'yogana, John R. Bentley, Department of World Languages and Cultures

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A Growing-Season Hydroclimatology, Focusing on Soil Moisture Deficits, for the Ohio Valley Region, M.L. Bentley and Andrew J. Grundstein, Department of Geographic and Atmospheric Sciences

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Phylogenetics of Paniceae (Poaceae), Melvin R. Duvall, Jeffrey D. Noll, and Alexandra Minn, Department of Biological Sciences

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Enfer, Jim Millhorn, University Libraries

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Guy de Maupassant, Jim Millhorn, University Libraries

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Recognizing Party and Nonparty Interests in Written Civil Procedure Laws, Jeffrey A. Parness and Dan Sennott, College of Law

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Environmental controls on species composition along a (maquis) shrubland to forest gradient on ultramafics at Mont Do, New Caledonia, L.S. Rigg, N.J. Enright, and T. Jaffre, Department of Geographic and Atmospheric Sciences

Publications from 2000

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A Synoptic Climatology of Derecho Producing Mesoscale Convective Systems in the North-Central Plains, M.L. Bentley, Thomas L. Mote, and Stephen F. Byrd, Department of Geographic and Atmospheric Sciences

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Evolutionary Psychology, Meet Developmental Neurobiology: Against Promiscuous Modularity, David J. Buller and Valerie Gray Hardcastle,

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Politics, Religion, and the First Amendment, Mark W. Cordes, College of Law

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Quantifying groundwater-sapping landforms with a hypsometric technique, W. Luo, Department of Geographic and Atmospheric Sciences

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EconLit: Light on the Dismal Science, Jim Millhorn, University Libraries

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Abortions of the Parental Prerogatives of Unwed Natural Fathers: Deterring Lost Paternity, Jeffrey A. Parness, College of Law

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The Authority of Illinois Lawyers to Settle Their Clients' Civil Claims: On Principles Not Quite Settled, Jeffrey A. Parness and Austin Bartlett, College of Law

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Changes in Dryness/wetness in China during the last 529 years., Jie Song, Department of Geographic and Atmospheric Sciences

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Estimating Watershed Evapotranspiration with PASS. Part I: Inferring Root-Zone Moisture Conditions Using Satellite Dat, Jie Song, M.L. Wesely, R.L. Coulter, and E.A. Brandes, Department of Geographic and Atmospheric Sciences

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Estimating watershed evapotranspiration with PASS. Part II: moisture budgets during drydown periods, Jie Song, M.L. Wesely, M. A. LeMone, and Robert L. Grossman, Department of Geographic and Atmospheric Sciences

Publications from 1999

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Jammin’ on the Jazz Frontier: The Japanese Jazz Community in Interwar Shanghai, E. Taylor Atkins, Department of History

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Characterization of an Acousto-optic Tunable Filter and Use in Visible Spectrophotometry, Jon W. Carnahan and Ewa G. Bucher, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

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Property Rights and Land Use Controls: Balancing Private and Public Interests, Mark W. Cordes, College of Law

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Takings, Fairness, and Farmland Preservation, Mark W. Cordes, College of Law

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Characterization of the recD gene of Neisseria gonorrhoeae MS11 and the Effect of recD Inactivation on Pilin Variation and DNA Transformation, Stuart A. Hill, M.S. Chausee, and J. Wilson, Department of Biological Sciences

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Evolving Views of Civil Litigation: Future Civil Procedure Courses, Jeffrey A. Parness, College of Law

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Unsettling Questions Regarding Lawyer Civil Claim Settlement Authority, Jeffrey A. Parness and Austin Bartlett, College of Law

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The Substantive Elements in the New Special Pleading Laws, Jeffrey A. Parness, Amy Leonetti, and Austin Bartlett, College of Law

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An Improved Method to Derive Surface Albedo from Narrowband AVHRR Satellite Data: Narrowband to Broadband Conversion, Jie Song and W. Gao, Department of Geographic and Atmospheric Sciences

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Unseen Influence: Lucretia Blankenburg and the Rise of Philadelphia Reform Politics in 1911, Drew VandeCreek, University Libraries

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Prevalence and Patterns of Major Depressive Disorder in the United States Labor Force, Virginia Wilcox-Gök, Dave E. Marcotte, and D. Patrick Redmon, Department of Economics

Publications from 1998

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The War on Jazz, or Jazz Goes to War: Toward a New Cultural Order in Wartime Japan, E. Taylor Atkins, Department of History

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Etiological Theories of Function: A Geographical Survey, David J. Buller,

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The Public/Private Balance in Land Use Regulation, Mark W. Cordes, College of Law

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Coleridge, Shelley, Davy, and Science's Millennium, Mark Kipperman, Department of English

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`He Forgot' : Young Children's Use of Cognitive Explanations for Another Person's Mistakes, Bradford H. Pillow and Suzanne B. Lovett,

Publications from 1997

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Synoptic-Scale Features Common to Heavy Snowstorms in the Southeast United States, M.L. Bentley, Thomas L. Mote, Douglas W. Gamble, and S. Jeffrey Underwood, Department of Geographic and Atmospheric Sciences

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Individualism and Evolutionary Psychology (or: In Defense of 'Narrow' Functions), David J. Buller,

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The Determinants of Dismissals, Quits, and Layoffs: A Multinomial Logit Approach, Carl M. Campbell III, Department of Economics

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The Reasons for Wage Rigidity: Evidence From a Survey of Firms, Carl M. Campbell III and Kunal S. Kamlani, Department of Economics

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Leapfrogging the Constitution: The Rise of State Takings Legislation, Mark W. Cordes, College of Law