859 research outputs found
[Rhode Island Artillery]
No full textPhotograph of Rhode Island artillery at El Paso, Texas. The author of the postcard identified this group of men and equipment as being part of the Rhode Island Artillery group. The Franklin Mountains are in the background; this is part of Fort Bliss is on the Lanoria Mesa
Les araignées du genre Rhode de Yougoslavie (Araneae, Dysderidae)
No full textRhode magnifica n. sp. is described from a Montenegrine cave and Rhode stalitoides n. sp. from a Bosnian cave. There is a redescription of Rhode aspintfera (Nikolié). The author includes in the genus Rhode the species previously contained in the genera Harpassa and Typhlorhode. The northern Yugoslav genus Stalita and related genera are regarded to be the nearest relatives of Rhode and it is concluded that they have originated on the Balkan Peninsula from a common ancestor
Diversity and Gender Equity in the Profession
No full textDeborah L. Rhode, Director, Center on the Legal Profession, E.W. McFarland Professor of Law, Stanford Law School presented the 13th Annual Buck Colbert Franklin Memorial Civil Rights Lecture on Thursday, September 13, 2012 at 6 p.m. at The University of Tulsa College of Law, John Rogers Hall.
Rhode also appeared on TU Public Radio\u27s Studio Tulsa to discuss her lecture.
Deborah L. Rhode is one of the country’s leading scholars in the fields of legal ethics and gender, law, and public policy. An author of over 20 books, including The Beauty Bias, Women and Leadership and Moral Leadership, she is the nation’s most frequently cited scholar in legal ethics. She is the director of the Stanford Center on the Legal Profession and Founding President of the International Association of Legal Ethics
Book Review: Deborah Rhode, Women and Leadership
No full textIn this essay, the student author reviews the book Women & Leadership by Deborah Rhode, which offers potential solutions to the all-too-common challenges faced by those seeking to increase the number of women in top leadership positions
Did Plant Patents Create the American Rose?
No full textThe Plant Patent Act of 1930 was the first step towards creating property rights for biological innovation: it introduced patent rights for asexually-propagated plants. This paper uses data on plant patents and registrations of new varieties to examine whether the Act encouraged innovation. Nearly half of all plant patents between 1931 and 1970 were for roses. Large commercial nurseries, which began to build mass hybridization programs in the 1940s, accounted for most of these patents, suggesting that the new intellectual property rights may have helped to encourage the development of a commercial rose breeding industry. Data on registrations of newly-created roses, however, yield no evidence of an increase in innovation: less than 20 percent of new roses were patented, European breeders continued to create most new roses, and there was no increase in the number of new varieties per year after 1931.
Using age structure to create projections of vehicle miles of travel in Rhode Island
No full textThis study investigated the relationship between demographic variables, specifically
age and gender, and travel demand in Rhode Island. The data sources were the
Census Bureau and the Nationwide Personal Transportation Survey (NPTS). Annual
vehicle miles of travel (VMT) per driver was used as a measure of travel demand. The
goal of the study was to assess the importance of incorporating age and gender into
projections of greenhouse gases resulting from future personal vehicle use. I created
projections of future VMT in Rhode Island through 2025, varying assumptions about
population growth and change in VMT per driver, and either incorporating age
structure or using only aggregate population. Values of VMT/driver in 1995, as well
as the direction and magnitude of historical trends of VMT/driver, differed by age
and gender. The range of travel demand projected for Rhode Island for 2025 was 8 to
12 billion vehicle miles of travel (compared to 7.9 billion in 2000). In projections
where VMT/driver was held constant at 1995 levels, including age structure did not
affect the outcome; however, when VMT/driver was assumed to grow according to
past trends, age structure affected results substantially. The effect of including age
structure was to increase projected VMT for Rhode Island as a whole by as much as
400 million VMT annually in 2025. There was also a marked difference between the
projections I created and ones constructed by Tellus for the Rhode Island Greenhouse
Gas Process. This study highlighted the importance of making well-founded
assumptions in travel demand modeling, particularly about how VMT/driver will
change over time. It also indicated that, if VMT/driver follows different trajectories
of change for different age groups, including age structure may improve the accuracy
of baseline travel demand projections for Rhode Island
#MeToo: Why Now? What Next?
No full textDeborah L. Rhode, the Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law at Stanford University, delivers the Brainerd Currie Memorial and Kenan Institute for Ethics Distinguished Lecture, #MeToo: Why Now? What Next? .
Prof. Rhode, director of Stanford\u27s Center on the Legal Profession and Program in Law and Social Entrepreneurship, is the most frequently cited scholar on legal ethics and the author or co-author of over 30 books in the area of professional responsibility, leadership, and gender. She has received the American Bar Association\u27s Michael Franck Award for contributions to the field of professional responsibility and Pro Bono Publico Award for her work on expanding public service opportunities in law schools, the American Bar Foundation\u27s W. M. Keck Foundation Award for distinguished scholarship on legal ethics and Outstanding Scholar Award, and the White House\u27s Champion of Change Award for a lifetime\u27s work in increasing access to justice.
Sponsored by the Office of the Dean and the Kenan Institute for Ethics
Elder Affairs Officers in Rhode Island: An Exploratory Descriptive Study
No full textThis paper examines the current state and perceived effectiveness of the Elder Affairs Officer system in Rhode Island, with an additional focus on identifying how current practice might be improved. To the author\u27s knowledge, this is the first systematic study of this issue. Participants in the study were Elder Affairs Officers from police departments around Rhode Island. A survey was used to allow officers to share their experiences and opinions of the current system. Results of this study include participants\u27 positive view of multi-disciplinary teams and the need for increased training in Rhode Island. Recommendations for training and implementation of multi-disciplinary teams are proposed
Rhode Island's Tragic Era
No full textThis article is only a short extract from an interesting study on the employment problems of Rhode Island from 1935-1950; it has as objective to make known to the reader the historical and economic evolution of the textile industry in Rhode Island. The author describes the competition which arose between the North and the South; very unimportant at the beginning, it increased afterwards to take on disastrous proportions and bring about fatal consequences: decrease in productivity, migration of the mills to the South and general unemployment. The history of the textile industry of New England furnishes an example of a system conforming to the "laissez-faire" of free capitalism: the seeking of the highest possible profit without worrying about social responsibility. This system must be subjected to the ethics of business or destroy itself.</jats:p
Rhode Island's Tragic Era
No full textThis article is only a short extract from an interesting study on the employment problems of Rhode Island from 1935-1950; it has as objective to make known to the reader the historical and economic evolution of the textile industry in Rhode Island. The author describes the competition which arose between the North and the South; very unimportant at the beginning, it increased afterwards to take on disastrous proportions and bring about fatal consequences: decrease in productivity, migration of the mills to the South and general unemployment. The history of the textile industry of New England furnishes an example of a system conforming to the "laissez-faire" of free capitalism: the seeking of the highest possible profit without worrying about social responsibility. This system must be subjected to the ethics of business or destroy itself
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