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Raman Spectral Signatures Of Cervical Exfoliated Cells From Liquid-Based Cytology Samples, Fiona Lyng, Padraig Kearney,, Damien Traynor, Franck Bonnier, John J. O’Leary, Cara M. Martin Jan 2017

Raman Spectral Signatures Of Cervical Exfoliated Cells From Liquid-Based Cytology Samples, Fiona Lyng, Padraig Kearney,, Damien Traynor, Franck Bonnier, John J. O’Leary, Cara M. Martin

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It is widely accepted that cervical screening has significantly reduced the incidence of cervical cancer worldwide. The primary screening test for cervical cancer is the Papanicolaou (Pap) test, which has extremely variable specificity and sensitivity. There is an unmet clinical need for methods to aid clinicians in the early detection of cervical precancer. Raman spectroscopy is a label-free objective method that can provide a biochemical fingerprint of a given sample. Compared with studies on infrared spectroscopy, relatively few Raman spectroscopy studies have been carried out to date on cervical cytology. The aim of this study was to define the Raman …


Development And Testing Of Low Spatial Frequency Holographic Concentrator Elements For Collection Of Solar Energy, Hoda Akbari, Izabela Naydenova, Hind Ahmed, Sarah Mccormack, Suzanne Martin Jan 2017

Development And Testing Of Low Spatial Frequency Holographic Concentrator Elements For Collection Of Solar Energy, Hoda Akbari, Izabela Naydenova, Hind Ahmed, Sarah Mccormack, Suzanne Martin

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The aim of this research is to use holographically recorded diffractive optical elements (DOEs) recorded in photopolymer in order to effectively collect and concentrate solar radiation. The potential for recording high diffraction efficiency DOEs with a large angular and wavelength range of operation in acrylamide based photopolymer and the optimum recording conditions have been presented in our previous work (Akbari et al., 2014b, 2014a). Theoretical modelling and experimental test are presented which demonstrate that low spatial frequency components, around 300 line pairs/mm, have an appropriate spectral bandwidth, high efficiency and very limited polarization dependence. Pairs of concentrating off-axis lenses are …


The Use Of Vibrational Spectroscopy To Study The Pathogenesis Of Multiple Sclerosis And Other Neurological Conditions, Fiona Lyng, Inês R. Ramos, Ihtesham Ur Rehman, Basil Sharrack, Nicola Woodroofe Jan 2017

The Use Of Vibrational Spectroscopy To Study The Pathogenesis Of Multiple Sclerosis And Other Neurological Conditions, Fiona Lyng, Inês R. Ramos, Ihtesham Ur Rehman, Basil Sharrack, Nicola Woodroofe

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Monitoring Doxorubicin Cellular Uptake And Trafficking Using In Vitro Raman Microspectroscopy: Short And Long Time Exposure Effects On Lung Cancer Cell Lines, Zeineb Farhane, Franck Bonnier, Hugh Byrne Jan 2017

Monitoring Doxorubicin Cellular Uptake And Trafficking Using In Vitro Raman Microspectroscopy: Short And Long Time Exposure Effects On Lung Cancer Cell Lines, Zeineb Farhane, Franck Bonnier, Hugh Byrne

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Raman microspectroscopy is a non-invasive, in vitro analytical tool which is being increasingly explored for its potential in clinical applications and monitoring the uptake, mechanism of action and cellular interaction at a molecular level of chemotherapeutic drugs, ultimately as a potential label-free preclinical screening and companion diagnostic tool. In this study, doxorubicin (DOX), a “gold standard” chemotherapeutic drug, is employed as a model in the in vitro lung cancer cell line A549 in order to demonstrate the potential of Raman microspectroscopy to screen and identify spectroscopic markers of its trafficking and mechanism of action. Confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) was …


Unbundling Freedom In The Sharing Economy, Deepa Das Acevedo Jan 2017

Unbundling Freedom In The Sharing Economy, Deepa Das Acevedo

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Courts and scholars point to the sharing economy as the most recent proof that our labor amp employment infrastructure is obsolete because it rests on a narrow and outmoded idea"”namely that only workers subjected to direct personalized control by their employers need workrelated protections and benefits Since they diagnose the problem as being our system's emphasis on control these critics have long called for reducing or eliminating the primacy of the "control test" in classifying workers as either protected employees or unprotected independent contractors Despite these persistent criticisms however the concept of control has been remarkably sticky in scholarly and …


Invisible Bosses For Invisible Workers, Or Why The Sharing Economy Is Actually Minimally Disruptive Law And The Disruptive Workplace, Deepa Das Acevedo Jan 2017

Invisible Bosses For Invisible Workers, Or Why The Sharing Economy Is Actually Minimally Disruptive Law And The Disruptive Workplace, Deepa Das Acevedo

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Saving Lives, Shalini Bhargava Ray Jan 2017

Saving Lives, Shalini Bhargava Ray

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Symposium: Conference On The Ethics Of Legal Scholarship: Introduction, Carissa Byrne Hessick, Paul Horwitz, Chad Oldfather Jan 2017

Symposium: Conference On The Ethics Of Legal Scholarship: Introduction, Carissa Byrne Hessick, Paul Horwitz, Chad Oldfather

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The Problem With Inference And Juvenile Defendants, Jenny E. Carroll Jan 2017

The Problem With Inference And Juvenile Defendants, Jenny E. Carroll

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Much of criminal law relies on proof by inference. The value of evidence frequently lies in what it suggests as much as what it shows. An outstretched hand in a dark alley is either an illicit drug deal or a handshake; a semi-coherent moan is either encouragement of, or resistance to, a sexual advance; shouted words to “fuck up” a school principal could be either a promise of harm to come or meaningless bravado. In criminal law, fact finders untangle not only what happened, but why it happened, or perhaps more accurately, what the defendant's state of mind was when …


Stress Hardiness And Lawyers, Pamela Bucy Pierson, Ashley Hamilton, Michael Pepper, Megan Root Jan 2017

Stress Hardiness And Lawyers, Pamela Bucy Pierson, Ashley Hamilton, Michael Pepper, Megan Root

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This article empirically analyzes original data to look at stress and stress hardiness in the legal profession A number of studies address stress in the legal profession and its impact on the mental health of lawyers Our study is the first to examine stress hardiness in the legal profession Drawing on quantitative data gathered from 20132016 in surveys of 530 law students and lawyers and qualitative data from 106 indepth interviews with lawyers and building on the work of research psychologists Salvatore Maddi and Suzanne Kobasa we look at whether some lawyers more stress hardy than others and if so …


Our Shrinking First Amendment: On The Growing Problem Of Reduced Access To Public Property For Speech Activity And Some Suggestions For A Better Way Forward Symposium: The Expanding First Amendment, Ronald J. Krotoszynski Jr. Jan 2017

Our Shrinking First Amendment: On The Growing Problem Of Reduced Access To Public Property For Speech Activity And Some Suggestions For A Better Way Forward Symposium: The Expanding First Amendment, Ronald J. Krotoszynski Jr.

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Lawyer Resilience Alabama Lawyer Assistance Program, Pamela Bucy Pierson Jan 2017

Lawyer Resilience Alabama Lawyer Assistance Program, Pamela Bucy Pierson

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Saving Lives, Shalini Bhargava Ray Jan 2017

Saving Lives, Shalini Bhargava Ray

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When Alan Kurdi a Syrian toddler drowned in the Mediterranean while fleeing civil war in his home country the world's attention turned to the Syrian refugee crisis Offers to transport and house refugees surged Private boats set out on the Mediterranean Sea to rescue refugees dying in the water A billionaire offered to purchase an island on which the refugees could live out their lives This Article analyzes private humanitarian aid to asylum seekers a subset of migrants whose claims for refugee protection have not yet been adjudicated and who typically travel without authorization This Article determines that much of …


Clerking For Grown-Ups: A Tribute To Judge Ed Carnes Writing In Tribute To Chief Judge Carnes' 25 Years On The U.S. Court Of Appeals For The Eleventh Circuit, Paul Horwitz Jan 2017

Clerking For Grown-Ups: A Tribute To Judge Ed Carnes Writing In Tribute To Chief Judge Carnes' 25 Years On The U.S. Court Of Appeals For The Eleventh Circuit, Paul Horwitz

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Not Young Guns Anymore: Dementia And The Second Amendment, Fredrick E. Vars Jan 2017

Not Young Guns Anymore: Dementia And The Second Amendment, Fredrick E. Vars

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Sovereignty And Social Change In The Wake Of India's Recent Sodomy Cases, Deepa Das Acevedo Jan 2017

Sovereignty And Social Change In The Wake Of India's Recent Sodomy Cases, Deepa Das Acevedo

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American constitutional law scholars have long questioned whether courts can really drive social reform and this position remains largely unchallenged even in the wake of recent landmark decisions affecting the LGBT community In contrast court watchers in India "” spurred by developments in a special type of legal action developed in the late 1970s known as "public interest litigation" or "PIL" "” have only recently begun questioning the judiciary's ability to promote progressive social change Indian scholarship on this point has veered between despair that PIL cases no longer reliably produce good outcomes for India's most disadvantaged and optimism that …


Clientless Lawyers, Russell M. Gold Jan 2017

Clientless Lawyers, Russell M. Gold

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Contracting For Torts, J. Shahar Dillbary Jan 2017

Contracting For Torts, J. Shahar Dillbary

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This article focuses on agreements to commit or induce the commission of a tort Examples include an agreement between factories to use a production process that would pollute a lake or an agreement where one entices another to publish a false statement by promising to share the cost of the injury Such agreements are unenforceable under contract law However the article reveals that tort law not only enforces such wrongdoings it encourages them Tort law picks up where contract law leaves off Tort law allows the injurers who acted on the agreement the polluting factories and the publisher to recover …


Serving The Public With A Pen Writing In Tribute To Chief Judge Carnes' 25 Years On The U.S. Court Of Appeals For The Eleventh Circuit, Kenneth M. Rosen Jan 2017

Serving The Public With A Pen Writing In Tribute To Chief Judge Carnes' 25 Years On The U.S. Court Of Appeals For The Eleventh Circuit, Kenneth M. Rosen

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Creaturely Law Essay Roundtable, William S. Brewbaker Iii Jan 2017

Creaturely Law Essay Roundtable, William S. Brewbaker Iii

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Dignity Takings In The Criminal Law Of Seventeenth-Century England And The Massachusetts Bay Colony Dignity Takings And Dignity Restoration, John Felipe Acevedo Jan 2017

Dignity Takings In The Criminal Law Of Seventeenth-Century England And The Massachusetts Bay Colony Dignity Takings And Dignity Restoration, John Felipe Acevedo

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Bankrupt Marketplace: First Amendment Theory And The 2016 Presidential Election, Leonard M. Niehoff Jan 2017

Bankrupt Marketplace: First Amendment Theory And The 2016 Presidential Election, Leonard M. Niehoff

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In this article I advance two arguments. The first is that 2016 was a particularly important year for freedom of speech and the press, although not for conventional reasons. The second is that hte events of 2016 revealed that one of the essential components of our democracy - the central role that free expression plays in the democratic process - is in a state of serious dysfunction, if not crisis.


Are Trump's Attacks On The Media Adversely Affecting Public Opinion?, Leonard M. Niehoff Jan 2017

Are Trump's Attacks On The Media Adversely Affecting Public Opinion?, Leonard M. Niehoff

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Both during the election cycle and as president of the United States, Donald Trump has enthusiastically and aggressively attacked the media. On Twitter, in speeches, and at rallies he has repeatedly deployed his favorite “f words” against mainstream broadcast, print, and online news sources: “fake,” “fraudulent,” “failing,” and (phonetically) “phony.” Some attacks have been personal to individual journalists, some have been more institutionally focused, and some have been made in contexts that appeared to create physical risk to reporters who were present. But whatever the variation in lavors, the frequency of the attacks has remained constant. Indeed, Trump has devoted …


Toward A History Of The Democratic State, William J. Novak, Stephen W. Sawyer, James T. Sparrow Jan 2017

Toward A History Of The Democratic State, William J. Novak, Stephen W. Sawyer, James T. Sparrow

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Over the past generation, the history of the state has been experiencing a much-noted renaissance, especially in France and the United States. In the United States as late as 1986, Morton Keller complained to William Leuchtenburg in the Journal of American History: “To say that ‘there is much still to be learned about the nature of the State in America’ is … a major understatement. There is close to everything to be learned about the State.” In France as late as 1990, Pierre Rosanvallon’s powerful introduction to L’État en France suggested that an ambitious history of the state could not …


Taking The First Bite: Who Should Tax Apple's $187 Billion In Ireland, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah, University Of Michigan Law School Jan 2017

Taking The First Bite: Who Should Tax Apple's $187 Billion In Ireland, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah, University Of Michigan Law School

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On December 19, 2016, the European Commission (hereinafter “Commission”) published its final decision in the Apple State aid case. The Commission concluded that two tax rulings granted in 1991 and 2007 on the allocation of profits to the Irish branches of Apple Sales International (“ASI”) and Apple Operations Europe (“AOE”) amounted to illegal state aid, and ordered Ireland to immediately recover this aid from Apple. The key issue in the Apple decision is where Apple’s foreign income ($187 billion, as of 2016) should be regarded as being generated. In the authors’ opinion, there is almost no basis for any argument …


Update Your Bookmarks! Great Sites For Effective Research, Nancy E. Vettorello Jan 2017

Update Your Bookmarks! Great Sites For Effective Research, Nancy E. Vettorello

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There are more than one billion websites available online. Many are useful tools for attorneys, so it makes sense to review and refresh your favorite bookmarks regularly. While none of the many free sites offer the sophisticated search abilities of fee-based research services, a few minutes spent exploring free sites can help researchers significantly narrow their searches once they turn to a fee-based system. Remember to always take advantage of the advancesearch option when available on a free site. Free sites are offering increasingly sophisticated search options, such as Boolean and proximity searches, which were previously exclusive to paid services.


Resurrecting (And Modernizing) The Research Treasure Hunt, Nancy E. Vettorello Jan 2017

Resurrecting (And Modernizing) The Research Treasure Hunt, Nancy E. Vettorello

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First-year associates will spend forty-five percent of their time on legal research; second- and third-year associates will spend thirty percent. And unfortunately, employers find their associates’ research skills lacking. This is not a new complaint. Employers have been complaining for more than a hundred years that recent law graduates cannot research well. None of this is lost on those who teach legal research, who have long debated the best way to do so. Techniques for teaching research have changed over time, and methods once thought appropriate were sometimes later disfavored. Changes were driven both by pedagogy and by the ever-changing …


Contemporary Practice Of The United States Relating To International Law, January 2017, Daugirdas Kristina, Julian Davis Mortenson Jan 2017

Contemporary Practice Of The United States Relating To International Law, January 2017, Daugirdas Kristina, Julian Davis Mortenson

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In this section: • Congress Overrides Obama’s Veto to Pass Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act • U.S. Federal Court of Appeals Upholds United Nations’ Immunity in Case Related to Cholera in Haiti • U.S.-Russian Agreements on Syria Break Down as the Syrian Conflict Continues • Russia Suspends Bilateral Agreement with United States on Disposal of Weapons-Grade Plutonium • The United States Makes Payment to Family of Italian Killed in CIA Air Strike • United States Ratifies Hague Convention on the International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance


The Work Of International Law, Monica Hakimi Jan 2017

The Work Of International Law, Monica Hakimi

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This Article crystallizes and then critiques a prominent view about the role of international law in the global order. The view - what I call the "cooperation thesis" - is that international law serves to help global actors cooperate, specifically by: (1) curbing their disputes, and (2) promoting their shared goals. The cooperation thesis often appears as a positive account of international law; it purports to explain or describe what international law does. But it also has normative force; international law is widely depicted as dysfunctional when it does not satisfy the thesis. In particular, heated or intractable conflict is …


The Sec's Shift To Administrative Proceedings: An Empirical Assessment, Stephen J. Choi, Adam C. Prichard Jan 2017

The Sec's Shift To Administrative Proceedings: An Empirical Assessment, Stephen J. Choi, Adam C. Prichard

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Congress has repeatedly expanded the authority of the SEC to pursue violations of securities laws in proceedings adjudicated by the SEC's own administrative law judges, most recently through the Dodd-Frank Act. We report the results from an empirical study of SEC enforcement actions against non-financial public companies to assess the impact of the Dodd-Frank Act on the balance between civil court and administrative enforcement actions. We show a general decline in the number of court actions and an increase in the number of administrative proceedings post-Dodd-Frank. At the same time, we show an increase in average civil penalties post-Dodd-Frank for …