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The Undiscovered Country: Execution Competency & Comprehending Death, Jeffrey Kirchmeier

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Abortion, The Undue Burden Standard, And The Evisceration Of Women's Privacy, Caitlin Borgmann

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Vigilante Justice: Prosecutor Misconduct In Capital Cases, Jeffrey Kirchmeier

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Optimization And Analysis Of A Quantitative Real-Time Pcr-Based Technique To Determine Microrna Expression In Formalin-Fixed Paraffin-Embedded Samples, Rashmi S. Goswami, Levi Waldron, Jerry Machado, Nilva K. Cervigne, Wei Xu, Patricia Reis, Denis Bailey, Igor Jurisica, Michael R. Crump, Suzanne Kamel-Reid

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Background: MicroRNAs (miRs) are non-coding RNA molecules involved in post-transcriptional regulation, with diverse functions in tissue development, differentiation, cell proliferation and apoptosis. miRs may be less prone to degradation during formalin fixation, facilitating miR expression studies in formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissue.

Results: Our study demonstrates that the TaqMan Human MicroRNA Array v1.0 (Early Access) platform is suitable for miR expression analysis in FFPE tissue with a high reproducibility (correlation coefficients of 0.95 between duplicates, p < 0.00001) and outlines the optimal performance conditions of this platform using clinical FFPE samples. We also outline a method of data analysis looking at differences in miR abundance between FFPE and fresh-frozen samples. By dividing the profiled miR into abundance strata of high (Ct35), we show that reproducibility between technical replicates, equivalent dilutions, and FFPE vs. frozen samples is best in the high abundance stratum. We also demonstrate that the miR expression profiles of FFPE samples are comparable to those of fresh-frozen samples, with a correlation of up to 0.87 (p < 0.001), when examining all miRs, regardless of RNA extraction method used. Examining correlation coefficients between FFPE and fresh-frozen samples in terms of miR abundance reveals correlation coefficients of up to 0.32 (low abundance), 0.70 (medium abundance) and up to 0.97 (high abundance).

Conclusion: Our study thus demonstrates the utility, reproducibility, and optimization steps needed in miR expression studies using FFPE samples on a high-throughput quantitative PCR-based miR …

Family Structure, Parent-Child Conversation Time And Substance Use Among Chinese Adolescents, Kwok-Kei Mak, Sai-Yin Ho, G Neil Thomas, C Mary Schooling, Sarah M. Mcghee, Tai-Hing Lam

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Background: The family plays a vital role in shaping adolescent behaviours. The present study investigated the associations between family structure and substance use among Hong Kong Chinese adolescents.

Methods: A total of 32,961 Form 1 to 5 (grade 7-12 in the US) Hong Kong students participated in the Youth Smoking Survey in 2003-4. An anonymous questionnaire was used to obtain information about family structure, daily duration of parent-child conversation, smoking, alcohol drinking and drug use. Logistic regression was used to calculate the adjusted odds ratios (OR) for each substance use by family structure.

Results: Adjusting for sex, age, type of …

Diminishing The Legal Impact Of Negative Social Attitudes Toward Acquaintance Rape Victims, Michelle J. Anderson

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Appellate Review Of Social Facts In Constitutional Rights Cases, Caitlin E. Borgmann

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There is great confusion among scholars and courts about whether and when appellate courts may, or must, defer to trial courts' findings of social fact in constitutional rights cases. The Supreme Court has never directly decided the question and indeed has addressed it only once, in passing. A common assumption, promoted by scholars and adopted as binding by some circuits, is that the deferential, "clearly erroneous" standard of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 52(a)(6) does not apply to social facts. This Article challenges that assumption. There is nothing in the text of the rule that supports this conclusion. Moreover, except …

Promoting Worker-Owned Cooperatives As A Ced Empowerment Strategy: A Case Study Of Colors And Lawyering In Support Of Participatory Decision-Making And Meaningful Social Change, Carmen Huertas-Noble

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Legal Research As A Fundamental Skill: A Lifeboat For Students And Law Schools, Sarah Valentine

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“They Use It Like Candy”: How The Use Of Psychotropic Drugs On State-Involved Children In The United States Violates International Law, Angela Burton

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Archives & Records In Armed Conflict: International Law And The Current Debate Over Iraqi Records And Archives, Douglas Cox

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Poverty, Guardianship, And The Vulnerable Elderly: Human Narrative And Statistical Patterns In A Snapshop Of Adult Guardianship Cases In New York City, Joseph Rosenberg

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Diminishing The Legal Impact Of Negative Social Attitudes Toward Acquaintance And Intimate Rape Victims, Michelle Anderson

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Legal Research As A Fundamental Skill: A Lifeboat For Students And Law Schools, Sarah Valentine

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What The 2007 Tac Market Design Game Tells Us About Effective Auction Mechanisms, Jinzhong Niu, Kai Cai, Simon Parsons, Peter Mcburney, Enrico Gerding

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This paper analyzes the entrants to the 2007 TAC Market Design Game. We present a classification of the entries to the competition, and use this classification to compare these entries. The paper also attempts to relate market dynamics to the auction rules adopted by these entries and their adaptive strategies via a set of post-tournament experiments. Based on this analysis, the paper speculates about the design of effective auction mechanisms, both in the setting of this competition and in the more general case.

Critical Review Of The Chronicle Of Higher Education “Fix Nonprofit Higher Ed First” Article, Mark Rivera

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A critical review of Marc Bousquet's editorial column in the Chronicle of Higher Education titled “Fix Nonprofit Higher Ed First”.

National Science Foundation, U.S, Aldemaro Romero Jr.

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Sex Education And Rape, Michelle Anderson

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Medical Conscience And The Policing Of Parenthood, Richard Storrow

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When Your Attorney Is Your Enemy: Preliminary Thoughts On Ensuring Effective Representation For Queer Youth, Sarah Valentine

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Governance, Accountability, And The New Poverty Agenda, Wendy Bach

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Deplete Locally, Impact Globally: Environmental History Of Shore-Whaling In Barbados, W.I, Aldemaro Romero Jr., Joel E. Creswell

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Folk Concepts, Jay H. Bernstein

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About Us And Not About Us: Theorizing Student Resistance To Learning About Race And Racism From Underrepresented Faculty, Eve Tuck, Karanja Keita Carroll, Michael D. Smith

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Three early-career scholars write across their experiences as underrepresented faculty who teach required diversity courses to future educators in a predominantly white, small, state college. The authors theorize student resistance to course material and to faculty of color teaching about race and racism in a series of tableaus of their classrooms. They examine the ways that students' tactics of avoidance, consuming the Other, and "I won't learn from you" are simultaneously ''about us and not about us," unmasking uneven assumptions about the role of diversity courses in teacher preparation programs.

The Future Of Natural Selection Knowledge Measurement: A Reply To Anderson Et Al. (2010), Ross Nehm, Irvin Sam Schonfeld

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The development of rich, reliable, and robust measures of the composition, structure, and stability of student thinking about core scientific ideas (such as natural selection) remains a complex challenge facing science educators. In their recent article (Nehm & Schonfeld 2008), the authors explored the strengths, weaknesses, and insights provided by a detailed exploration of three commonly used measures of student thinking about natural selection in a large sample of underrepresented minority students. One of their core findings was that all of the tools they studied--including the CINS--have strengths and weaknesses that must be carefully taken into consideration by those …

Resilience & Recovery After War: Refugee Children And Families In The United States, Katherine Porterfield, Adeyinka M. Akinsulure-Smith, Molly A. Benson, Theresa Betancourt, B. Heidi Ellis, Maryam Kia-Keating, Kenneth Miller

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Introduction To Dominican Blackness, Silvio Torres-Saillant

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This study is a reflection on the complexity of racial thinking and racial discourse in Dominican society.

Understanding Financial Behavior Among Dominicans In New York City, Ramona Hernandez, Lincoln Restler, Greysi Peralta

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The aim of the study was to enhance understanding of the fiscal habits and financial literacy of Dominicans in the New York City area and to produce data that can be used to compare the experiences of Dominicans with other Latino communities in the United States. In addition, this study seeks to inform policy makers and community leaders in designing approaches that will effectively address financial asset building and management within the Dominican community. The study relied on a survey conducted with 613 persons of Dominican descent.

The Trouble With Logins: The Challenges Of Online Identity, Steven Ovadia

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The article explores the challenges of multiple logins and discusses projects like OpenID and OAuth. It also discusses "Identity 3.0," the so-called next generation of identity management.

“Globalized Philomels: State Patriarchy, Transnational Capital, And The Femicides On The Us-Mexican Border In Roberto Bolaño’S 2666”, M Laura Barberan Reinares

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