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This research is focused on how relationship, violence, alcohol, and dress play a role when a jury is assessing a rape case. I manipulated the relationship of the victim and the perpetrator, whether they were strangers or acquaintances, because research shows that a jury will attribute more blame to a victim if they knew the perpetrator (Wenger & Bornstein, 2006). Level of violence was manipulated: whether there is a threat of violence or physical violence.

Volume of urine excreted, volume of fluid retained, and percent of fluid retained was analyzed in four male subjects (24 ± 3 yrs., 70 ± 3.5 kg) who consumed four different treatment strategies during an investigation of the effects of caffeine consumption on sodium-aided hyperhydration. Treatments included: 1. Consumption of 60 mg/kg body mass of NaCl + placebo (aspartame), 2. Consumption of 5 mg/kg body mass of caffeine + placebo, 3. Consumption of 60 mg/kg body mass of NaCl + 5 mg/kg body mass of caffeine, or 4. Consumption of placebos.

The intent of this paper is to address the current landscape of American music copyright law by examining the law's development through history, legislation, and relevant case law, and through interviews with contemporary professionals in the music industry. As such, the paper will be divided into two sections; the first containing a historical exploration and an analysis of current legislation and case law, and the second being comprised of two interview transcripts, and relevant analysis.

The relationship between the United States and Israel has always been an interesting one, and one that has played a focal point in the foreign policy of many of the nation's presidents since Israel became an independent state. Often, US-Israeli policy has tended to fall along ideological lines. However, President George H. W. Bush broke this mold.

The classics that make up the Western canon in the English classroom are valuable in the perspectives they bring and in the way that they both encapsulate and expose a particular time period or way of thinking. Many of the themes (good vs. evil, man vs. nature, suffering and redemption, etc.) are timeless and still applicable to students and society today. The problem, however, is that the classics were not written for the adolescents who are studying them.

Older individuals are often underrepresented in media portrayals despite an aging population in the United States. In addition, aging women are often judged more harshly than aging men particularly relative to physical appearance. The present study examines the 2009 to 2011 Women's Health and Men's Health covers to assess the relationship between age, gender, and cover model depiction. Consistent with the hypothesis and previous research, male cover models were significantly older than female models.

Employee engagement is a relatively new term in today's academic business literature. The original concept of employee engagement proposed that individuals have the decision to leverage or not leverage their personal selves in the work roles that they perform. Although employee engagement is a concept that has been discussed at great length in the current literature, there remains confusion and a lack of clarity on the true meaning of the concept and how it can be practically applied and assessed in the workplace.

In this work we introduce the reader to the program of reverse mathematics. This is done by discussing second order arithmetic and constructing the big five subsystems of second order arithmetic used in reverse mathematics. These five subsystems may be used to classify mathematical theorems in terms of their logical strength. A theorem independent of this classification is considered as well. The work concludes with an original article by Hirst and Hughes in which marriage theorems are analyzed via the language of reverse mathematics.

Breath analysis has recently become more prevalent as a non-invasive diagnostic tool for medicine. This is a result of new and innovative technologies making it easier to measure a large array of compounds present in exhaled human breath. Volatile organic compounds (VOCs), which can have adverse health effects, have been found to be present in human breath. Measuring the concentrations of these in a subject during both healthy and unhealthy states offers a diagnostic potential for evaluating health and well-being.

This study examines the leisure motivations among people who participate in cycling as a form of serious leisure. It examines what motivates cyclists to build a life around cycling. This study is a replicative study to Robert G. LaChausse's study on leisure motivations among cyclists. This study used the Serious Leisure Inventory and Measure (SLIM) created by James Gould. Participants were contacted through a variety of local and national list serves.