However, states would lose EEOC assistance should the Court decide that Title VII’s scope does not extend to sexual orientation or gender identification. Although the EEOC traditionally has been on the side of expanding Title VII protections, the federal government in the most recent litigation ...
On June 7, 2013, Mexico published its long-awaited Federal Environmental Liability Law (Ley Federal de Responsabilidad Ambiental; the “Law”), establishing the types of harms that incur liability and specifying which parties have standing to sue for environmental restoration. The scope of occurren...
Nuclear mattersLos Alamos lab's toxic waste seeps toward New Mexico's water sources Radioactive debris has been found in canyons that drain into the Rio Grande, but officials at the Los Alamos National Laboratory say there is no health risk; to comply with New Mexico’s clean up orders, th...
This paper estimates the impact of the U.S.-Mexico border fence on U.S.-Mexico migration by exploiting variation in the timing of U.S. government investment in fence construction. Using Mexican household survey data and data I collected on fence construction, I find that construction in a gi...
Minnesota Nanotechnology Cluster • University of New Mexico, Nanoscience at the University of New Mexico • University of Texas at Austin, Microelectronics Research Center • University of Washington, Center for Nanotechnology NSF's Network for Computational Nanotechnology (NCN) for Nanoelectronics, ...
Sandia National Laboratories (Albuquerque, NEW MEXICO, US) Parent Case Data: RELATED APPLICATION This application claims priority to U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 61/969,593, filed on Mar. 24, 2014, and entitled “EMBEDDED FIBER OPTIC SENSORS FOR MEASURING TRANSIENT DETONATION/SHOCK BEHAV...
Women entrepreneurship has drawn attention from many researchers around the world, coupled with economic growth, employment diversity, and gender equality issues [1] However, not only is the number of woman entrepreneurs still low compared to man entrepreneurs in most countries [2], but women’s ...
Land Use-Cover Changes (LUCCs) are one of the main problems for the preservation of biodiversity. Protected Areas (PAs) do not escape this threat. Some processes, such as intensive recreational use, forest fires or the expansion of artificial areas takin
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The region also contributes nutrient loads to the Gulf of Mexico, where a hypoxic zone has created an environmental and economic problem of national importance [11]. It is necessary to seek improved irrigation methods and scheduling, alternative water use, crop management, and field practices to ...