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Transcript: Lost In Transition: The If/When/How Of Disclosing To An Employer, American University Washington College Of Law Office Of Student Affairs

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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Transcript: Suffering In Silence: The Tension Between Self-Disclosure And A Law School's Obligation To Report, American University Washington College Of Law Office Of Student Affairs

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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Transcript: Anticipating And Meeting Challenges In A Changing Landscape, American University Washington College Of Law Office Of Student Affairs

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law

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Derived Data Storage And Exchange Workflow For Large-Scale Neuroimaging Analyses On The Birn Grid, David B. Keator, Dingying Wei, Syam Gadde, Jeremy Buckholt, Jeffrey S. Grethe, Daniel Marcus, Nicole Aucoin, Ibrahim B. Ozyurt

Open Access Publications

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In Vitro And Murine Efficacy And Toxicity Studies Of Nebulized Scc1, A Methylated Caffeine-Silver(I) Complex, For Treatment Of Pulmonary Infections, Carolyn L. Cannon, Lisa A. Hogue, Ravy K. Vajravelu, George H. Capps, Aida Ibricevic, Khadijah M. Hindi, Aysegul Kascatan-Nebioglu, Michael J. Walter, Steven L. Brody, Wiley J. Youngs

Open Access Publications

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Presence Of The Kpc Carbapenemase Gene In Enterobacteriaceae Causing Bacteremia And Its Correlation With In Vitro Carbapenem Susceptibility, Jonas Marschall, Robert J. Tibbetts, W. Michael Dunne Jr., Jonathan G. Frye, Victoria J. Fraser, David K. Warren

Open Access Publications

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The Metal Homeostasis Protein, Lsp, Of Streptococcus Pyogenes Is Necessary For Acquisition Of Zinc And Virulence, Benjamin F. Westin, Audrey Brenot, Michael G. Caparon

Open Access Publications

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Mechanism For Sortase Localization And The Role Of Sortase Localization In Efficient Pilus Assembly In Enterococcus Faecalis, Kimberly Kline, Andrew L. Kau, Swaine L. Chen, Adeline Lim, Jerome S. Pinkner, Jason Rosch, Sreedhar R. Nallapareddy, Barbara E. Murray, Birgitta Henriques-Normark, Wandy Beatty, Michael G. Caparon, Scott J. Hultgren

Open Access Publications

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Restricting Access To Infertility Services: What Is A Justified Limitation On Reproductive Freedom?, Crystal Liu

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology

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When 1 + 1 No Longer Equals 2: The New Math Of Legal "Additionality" Controlling World And U.S. Global Warming Regulation, Steven Ferrey

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology

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The Ashley Treatment: The Current Legal Framework Protects The Wrong Rights, Jillian Kornblatt

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology

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Biotechnology Obviousness In The Post-Genomic Era: Ksr V. Teleflex And In Re Kubin, Rebecca Hays

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology

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The Warren Court, Legalism And Democracy: Sketch For A Critique In A Style Learned From Morton Horwitz, William H. Simon

Faculty Scholarship

Morton Horwitz's Transformation books developed a critical approach that elaborates the underlying premises of legal doctrine and compares them to suppressed or ignored alternative perspectives. However, Horwitz's Warren Court book is largely an appreciation of the Court's doctrine that accepts at face value its underlying premises and the judges' claim to vindicate democratic values. In this essay, I speculate on what a Transformation-style critique of the Warren Court might look like and suggest that the Court is vulnerable to criticisms analogous to those the Transformation books make of earlier doctrine. I suggest that book ignores an alternative perspective on social …

The Rise Of 'People Power': Role Of Civil Society In The "Color Revolutions", Vladyslav Galushko

Graduate Program in International Studies Theses & Dissertations

This dissertation has been spurred by the surprising turn of events that took place in Georgia and Ukraine in 2003 and 2004 respectively. Both countries were scheduled to have elections—parliamentary in Georgia and presidential in Ukraine. Though fraud, voter intimidation and opposition harassment were widely expected, few predicted the magnitude of popular response that swept away the regimes of Leonid Kuchma and Eduard Shevarnadze. Grappling with the unexpected, many heaped praise on the so-called “people power” that was able to bring masses to the streets and sustain their involvement in what were quickly labeled “color revolutions.” Civil society groups like …

The Aga Khan University Prospectus 2009, Institute For Educational Development

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Brief Of Aarp, The National Legislative Association On Prescription Drug Prices, Community Catalyst, And Prescription Policy Choices, As Amici Curiae In Support Of Appellees, Ims Health Inc. V. Sorrell, Sean Flynn

Amicus Briefs & Court Filings

This brief supports protecting the confidentiality of prescription records in the state of Vermont from commercial uses by pharmeceutical companies to market new drugs to physicians directly.

Brief Of American Medical Association Et Al. As Amici Curiae In Support Of Plaintiffs’ Opposition To Defendants’ Motion To Dismiss And In Support Of Plaintiffs’ Motion For Summary Judgment, Association For Molecular Pathology V. U.S. Patent And Trademark Office, Joshua Sarnoff

Amicus Briefs & Court Filings

Amici seek to provide this Court with insight into the adverse effects on medical care and innovation that gene patents cause. These adverse effects could and should have been avoided, because genetic sequence and correlation patents – including all of the Myriad patents at issue – are not patentable inventions. These patents should never have been granted, and are not needed to create incentives for innovation.

The Myriad patents on breast cancer genes, mutations, and correlations between mutations and disease have a direct, severe, and adverse impact on members of the Amici medical organizations and all humanity. Myriad’s announced intention …

Depth Sensitivity And Image Reconstruction Analysis Of Dense Imaging Arrays For Mapping Brain Function With Diffuse Optical Tomography, Hamid Dehghani, Brian R. White, Benjamin W. Zeff, Andrew Tizzard, Joseph P. Culver

Open Access Publications

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Ube2j2 Ubiquitinates Hydroxylated Amino Acids On Er-Associated Degradation Substrates, Xiaoli Wang, Roger A. Herr, Martijn Rabelink, Rob C. Hoeben, Emmanual J.H.J. Wiertz, Ted H. Hansen

Open Access Publications

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Serologic Evidence Of Frequent Human Infection With Wu And Ki Polyomaviruses, Nang L. Nguyen, Binh-Minh Le, David Wang

Open Access Publications

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Po10.19 Clinical Spectrum Of Pseudo Seizures At A Tertiary Care Hospital Karachi: A Video Eeg Based Study, Nadeem Ahmed Memon, Bhojo A. Khealani, Fazal Karim, Mustafa Khan, Nadir Ali Syed, Saad Shafqat

Department of Medicine

Background: Nonepileptic seizures are involuntary episodes of movement, sensation, or behaviors (e.g., vocalization, crying and other expressions of emotion), that do not result from abnormal cortical discharges. The events typically occur in teenage patients with anxiety and affective disorders. Psychotherapy, behavioral therapy, drugs, hypnosis and placebo are mainstay of treatment. There is no published data on clinical characteristics of pseudo-seizures from Pakistan. The objective of our study is to describe the clinical characteristics of pseudoseizures in a tertiary care hospital in Karachi, Pakistan. Methods: This is a descriptive study. Patients with pseudo-seizures were identified from departmental Video EEG monitoring …

Po5.53 Critical Illness Polyneuropathy And Myopathy: Experience At A Tertiary Care Center In Pakistan, Ghulam Shabbir, Ali Mehmood Raufi, Mustafa Khan, Nawal Salahuddin, Saad Shafqat

Department of Medicine

Background: Polyneuropathy and Myopathy are frequently encountere in the setting of Critical illness patients. Up to 50% of intensive care unit (ICU) patients show electrophysiological features of either or both conditions. These conditions interfere with functional recovery and delay weaning from mechanical ventilation, resulting in excess morbidity,mortality and cost of care. This study was to define the clinical spectrum of critical illness Polyneuropathy (CIP) and Myopathy (CIM) in a setting of developing country.
Methods: Hospital records spanning the period 2000 through 2005 weresearched with ICD-9 codes to identify patients with CIP and CIM. Functional improvement was judged by (i) …

Into The Void: Governing Finance In Central & Eastern Europe, Katharina Pistor

Faculty Scholarship

Twenty years after the fall of the iron curtain, which for decades had separated East from West, many countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) are now members of the European Union and some have even adopted the Euro. Their readiness to open their borders to foreign capital and their faith in the viability of market self-governance as well as supra-national governance of finance is both remarkable and almost unprecedented. The eagerness of the countries in CEE to join the West and to become part of a regional and global regime as a way of escaping their closeted socialist past …

Constitutional Limits On Punitive Damages Awards: An Analysis Of Supreme Court Precedent, Dorothy S. Lund

Faculty Scholarship

Over the last fifteen years, the Supreme Court has formulated new constitutional principles to constrain punitive damages awards imposed by state courts, invoking its authority under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. This intervention has been controversial from the start, generating dissents from several Justices asserting that the actions of the Court are unwarranted and amount to unjustified judicial activism. Over the ensuing years lower courts and commentators have criticized the Court’s prescription of procedural and substantive limitations, finding them to be vague and unnecessarily restrictive of state common law prerogatives. Some observers with an economic orientation have …

Seven Things The New Epa Administrator Should Do, Michael B. Gerrard

Faculty Scholarship

In view of the dramatic shift in the nation's environmental policy that is presaged by the ascension of Barack Obama, I have been asked to suggest several actions that should be undertaken by the new administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

This article was written on Jan. 26, 2009, six days after the inauguration. It is to appear in March. Thus every reader will know something that, today, I don't – what long-pent-up actions were taken by President Obama shortly after he moved into the Oval Office. But I am guessing that by the time this article appears, Lisa …

Caretaker Ratings Of Attention Problems In Maltreated Children : The Effects Of Gender, Age, And Type Of Maltreatment, Dawn M. Mcdonald

PCOM Psychology Dissertations

Child maltreatment is a severe stressor which is associated with a variety of adverse outcomes, including attention, learning, and behavior problems. Attention problems are common in maltreated children, with rates of ADHD in samples of abused and neglected children consistently higher than those found in the general population or in clinical samples of children without abuse histories. Despite the association between ADHD and maltreatment, attention problems in maltreated children remain poorly characterized and not well understood. In an attempt to better delineate the nature of attention problems in maltreated children, this study examined the effects of age, gender, type of …

13c-Methyl Isocyanide As An Nmr Probe For Cytochrome P450 Active Site, Christopher R Mccullough, Phani Kumar Pullela, Sang-Choul Im, Lucy Waskell, Daniel S. Sem

Chemistry Faculty Research and Publications

The cytochromes P450 (CYPs) play a central role in many biologically important oxidation reactions, including the metabolism of drugs and other xenobiotic compounds. Because they are often assayed as both drug targets and anti-targets, any tools that provide: (a) confirmation of active site binding and (b) structural data, would be of great utility, especially if data could be obtained in reasonably high throughput. To this end, we have developed an analog of the promiscuous heme ligand, cyanide,with a ¹³CH₃-reporter attached. This ¹³C-methyl isocyanide ligand binds to bacterial (P450cam) and membrane-bound mammalian (CYP2B4) CYPs. It can be …

Tetranuclear Group 7/8 Mixed-Metal And Open Trinuclear Group 7 Metal Carbonyl Clusters Bearing Bridging 2-Mercapto-1-Methylimidazole Ligands, Shishir Ghosh, Shariff E. Kabir, Salina Pervin, Arun K. Raha, G. M. Golzar Hossain, Daniel T. Haworth, Sergey V. Lindeman, Dennis W. Bennett, Tasneem Siddiquee, Luca Salassa, Herbert W. Roesky

Chemistry Faculty Research and Publications

The reactivity of group 7 metal dinuclear carbonyl complexes [M₂(CO)₆(μ-SN₂C₄H₅)₂] (1, M = Re; 2, M = Mn) toward group 8 metal trinuclear carbonyl clusters were examined. Reactions of 1 and 2 with [Os₃(CO)₁₀(NCMe)₂] in refluxing benzene furnished the tetranuclear mixed-metal clusters [Os₃Re(CO)₁₃(μ₃-SN₂C₄H₅)] (3) and [Os₃Mn(CO)₁₃(μ₃-SN₂C₄H₅)] (4), respectively. Similar treatment of …

Korean- And English-Speaking Children Use Cross-Situational Information To Learn Novel Predicate Terms, Jane B. Childers, Jae H. Paik

Psychology Faculty Research

This paper examines children’s attention to cross-situational information during word learning. Korean-speaking children in Korea and English speaking children in the US were taught four nonce words that referred to novel actions. For each word, children saw four related events: half were shown events that were very similar (Close comparisons), half were shown events that were not as similar (Far comparisons). The prediction was that children would compare events to each other and thus be influenced by the events shown. In addition, children in these language groups could be influenced differently as their verb systems differ. Although some differences were …

Reasons: Practical And Adaptive, Joseph Raz

Faculty Scholarship

I will consider some of the differences between epistemic reasons and reasons for action, and use these differences to illuminate a major division between types of normative reasons, which I will call ‘adaptive’ and ‘practical’ reasons. A few clarifications of some aspects of the concept of epistemic reasons will lead to a distinction between standard and non-standard reasons (section 1). Some differences between epistemic and practical reasons will be described and explained in section 2, paving the way to generalising the contrast and explaining the difference between adaptive and practical reasons (section 3). sections 4 and 5 further explain and …