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The Ladies' Health Protective Association: Lay Lawyers And Urban Cause Lawyering, Felice Batlan

Akron Law Review

By examining the LHPA, this Article seeks, however modestly, to extend the Hurstian project. The Article argues that the LHPA, composed of a group of middle-class women interacting with their environment, neighbors, the courts, private businesses, and city and state officials, on a deeply local and quotidian basis, had a significant impact in shaping a multitude of New York City laws and law had a profound affect in creating and molding the work and identity of the organization.

Constructing Consent: Legislating Freedom And Legitimating Constraint In The Expression Of Sexual Autonomy, Vanessa E. Munro

Akron Law Review

In the first section, the nature and parameters of the conventional understanding of consent will be examined in more detail and the contemporary challenges that have been lodged against it – particularly from those influenced by structural, post-structural, and communitarian analyses – will be considered. With the terrain of these debates on consent – and related concepts such as autonomy, agency, and self-determination – in place, the second section of this article will focus specifically upon their implications in the context of sexual consent in general, and women’s sexual consent in particular. It will outline the development of the Sexual …

The Trouble With Drink: Intoxication, (In)Capacity, And The Evaporation Of Consent To Sex, Dr. Sharon Cowan

Akron Law Review

The paper explores the contemporary concerns surrounding issues of intoxicated consent in cases of rape, particularly as expressed in U.K. case law, statute, and government policy. During the course of this paper, I will examine recent research on the problematic role of alcohol in sexual assault before going on to discuss specific policy and legislative responses to the problem of intoxicated consent. I will also engage in a close reading of several recent rape cases in the U.K. in which the capacity of the intoxicated complainant to consent to sexual intimacy has been of central concern. The paper deals only …

Rethinking Affirmative Consent In Canadian Sexual Assault Law: Neoliberal Sexual Subjects And Risky Women, Lise Gotell

Akron Law Review

While the struggle for affirmative consent is typically framed as a feminist law reform project, I contend that we need to understand the legal elaboration of a positive and explicit consent standard in relation to wider shifts in governance. The second section of this article explores how the legal elaboration of affirmative consent in Canadian law might be seen as a specific expression of neoliberal governmentality, forging new normative sexual subjects who interact within a transactional sexual economy. In section three, I demonstrate how discourses of responsibilization and risk management inform recent Canadian sexual assault decisions, constituting the ideal victim …

Copulemus In Pace: A Meditation On Rape, Affirmative Consent To Sex, And Sexual Autonomy, Dan Subotnik

Akron Law Review

Social change, to be sure, is not necessarily bad. But what if affirmative consent is not biologically or psychologically sound and, for that reason, women do not even desire it? Questioning the idea that increasing women’s power will be desirable even if not founded on the “the truth,” I ask: Can and should women — to say nothing of men — say “no” to affirmative consent? I examine this question in two parts. Part I evaluates the sexual environment today from which affirmative consent has arisen. Part II deals specifically with affirmative consent.

Back To The Future: Lorraine V. Markel American Insurance Co. And New Findings On The Admissibility Of Electronically Stored Information, Hon. Paul W. Grimm, Michael V. Ziccardi Esq., Alexander W. Major Esq.

Akron Law Review

Imagine the following hypothetical, patterned on an actual case pending in federal court, and you can begin to appreciate why there is a growing awareness of the need to have clear analytical thinking regarding the admissibility of electronically stored information, variously referred to as “ESI,” “digital,” “electronic,” “computer generated,” or “computer stored” evidence in state and federal courts. ConsumerPro is a corporation that provides installment credit to consumers with poor or un-established credit records to enable them to purchase on credit expensive electronic and computer products like flat screen televisions, computers, and entertainment systems. Under their business plan, a purchaser …

Black Boxes: Fmri Detection And The Role Of The Jury, Julie Seaman

Akron Law Review

Before I offer some thoughts on that question, let me mention three real-life cases in which cutting-edge neuroscientific evidence either did – or conceivably might in a not-so-distant future – influence the outcome of a criminal prosecution. In the first case, reported last week in the New York Times, EEG brain-fingerprinting-type evidence was admitted against a woman on trial in India for murdering her husband. She was convicted. In the second case, in England recently, neuroscientists performed an fMRI lie-detection scan on a woman who had previously been convicted of poisoning a child in her care. She claimed that she …

How Privacy Killed Katz: A Tale Of Cognitive Freedom And The Property Of Personhood As Fourth Amendment Norm, Christian M. Halliburton

Akron Law Review

With each passing day, new technologies push the horizons of official government investigative and surveillance activity deeper and deeper into the mind and consciousness of the surveilled subject. While law enforcement agencies have always relied on observing the behavior and activity of suspicious targets, and there has been little judicial ink spent preserving the confidentiality of such observable activity, the law has been slow to respond to rapid increases in the capacity or scope of official observation that the advance of technologically sophisticated surveillance techniques helped facilitate. The sampling of techniques at the center of this Article allow the operators …

Law And The Revolution In Neuroscience: An Early Look At The Field, Henry T. Greely

Akron Law Review

Several of the articles in this symposium consider different aspects of the intersection of neuroscience and testing for deception. Professor Joelle Moreno’s article provides an important philosophic link for those thinking about the role of the academy in evaluating novel scientific evidence such as neuroscience. Noting that “profound validity questions divide cognitive neuroscientists,” Professor Moreno cautions against ready admission of cognitive neuroscience evidence, recognizing that the images presented may be far more persuasive to judges and juries than they legitimately should be. Quoting studies on the effect of neuroscience evidence in forming opinions, she reminds readers that cognitive neuroscience evidence …

The Legacy Of Slaughterhouse, Bradwell, And Cruikshank In Constitutional Interpretation, Wilson R. Huhn

Akron Law Review

The conclusions that the Court drew about the meaning of the 14th Amendment shortly after its adoption were contrary to the intent of the framers of that Amendment and a betrayal of the sacrifices which had been made by the people of that period. In each case, the Court perverted the meaning of the Constitution in ways that reverberate down to the present day...In these cases the Court ruled upon several critical aspects of 14th Amendment jurisprudence, including (1) Whether the 14th Amendment prohibits the States from interfering with our fundamental rights; (2) How the equality of different groups should …

Infinite Hope - Introduction To The Symposium: The 140th Anniversary Of The Fourteenth Amendment, Elizabeth Reilly

Akron Law Review

This symposium celebrates the 140th anniversary of ratification. The anniversary provides us with a fruitful occasion to reflect upon the meaning of the Amendment to its Framers in Congress and as it was initially interpreted by the United States Supreme Court and the public, and to examine the lasting impacts of both conceptions...Therefore, our participants explicitly discuss applying their understanding of history to the modern implications of the Fourteenth Amendment and current law. Understanding the Amendment, especially because of its early reception by the Court, requires looking at law, history, political science, and sociology, among other disciplines, to try to …

What We Don't Know Can Hurt Us: The Need For Empirical Research In Regulating Lawyers And Legal Services In The Global Economy, Carole Silver

Akron Law Review

My goal here, however, is not directly to challenge the framework of lawyer regulation. Instead, I write to suggest an adjustment to the existing regulatory regime, setting aside, at least for the moment, any challenge to the merits of the system itself. My proposal is quite modest: In order to inform the choices implicit in rulemaking, regulation ought to be based upon sound empirical evidence. This is particularly important because of the complexities brought about by globalization.

Inside, Outside: Cross-Border Enforcement Of Attorney Advertising Restrictions, Margaret Raymond

Akron Law Review

The question that motivated this paper was three-fold: whether states can regulate this type of cross-border advertising, whether they do, and whether they should...If a state wants to regulate advertising, it wants to regulate all advertising that the state‘s consumers will see, regardless of where it originated or where the lawyers who engaged in it are admitted to practice. Enforcement accordingly advances the interests that are assertedly served by attorney advertising restrictions. A failure to enforce restrictive rules against out-of-state lawyers, by contrast, has a somewhat counterintuitive result.

Functional Characterization Of Fmr4, A Trans- Acting Long Non-Coding Rna Associated With The Fragile X Locus, Veronica J. Peschansky

Open Access Dissertations

CGG repeat expansions in the Fragile X mental retardation 1 (FMR1) gene are responsible for a family of associated disorders characterized by either intellectual disability and autism (Fragile X Syndrome, FXS), or adult-onset neurodegeneration (Fragile X-associated Tremor/Ataxia Syndrome, FXTAS). However, the FMR1 locus is complex and encodes several long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs), whose expression is altered by repeat expansion mutations. The role of these lncRNAs is thus far unknown; therefore we investigated the functionality of FMR4, which we previously identified. “Full”-length expansions of the FMR1 triplet repeat cause silencing of both FMR1 and FMR4, thus we are interested in potential …

Doubly Robust Estimation Of A Marginal Average Effect Of Treatment On The Treated With An Instrumental Variable, Lan Liu, Wang Miao, Baoluo Sun, James M. Robins, Eric J. Tchetgen Tchetgen

Harvard University Biostatistics Working Paper Series

No abstract provided.

Gsu View, 2015-06-29, Office Of Marketing And Communications

GSU View

Newsletter published by Governors State University 2007-current.

Cortisol Profiles As Bio-Markers Of Extreme Temperaments, Claudia Rasmuseen, Dr. James Dee Higley

Journal of Undergraduate Research

Temperament is defined as a variation between individuals’ affective-motivational reactivity and self-regulation (Rothbart & Bates, 1998; Rothbart & Derryberry, 1981; Rettew &McKee, 2005). Temperament can be measured as early as birth and has been found to remain relatively stable across the lifespan (Goldsmith, 1987; Lansade, Bouissou & Erhard, 2008;Chronis-Tuscano, et.al, 2009). Although most temperaments used to be grouped into reactivity and self-regulation, new temperament taxonomies have been found to belong to two higher order dimensions: degree of sensitivity to signals of punishment and a propensity to experience negative emotions (Rettew & McKee, 2005). The variety in taxonomies extends to non-human …

The 2014 Farm Bill: Farm Subsidies And Food Oppression, Andrea Freeman

Seattle University Law Review

The 2014 Farm Bill ushered in some significant and surprising changes. One of these was that it rendered the identity of all the recipients of farm subsidies secret. Representative Larry Combest, who is now a lobbyist for agribusiness, first introduced a secrecy provision into the bill in 2000. The provision, however, only applied to subsidies made in the form of crop insurance. Until 2014, the majority of subsidies were direct payments and the identity of the people who received them was public information. In fact, the Environmental Working Group’s release of the list of recipients led to a series of …

Today - June 29, 2015, Loma Linda University Health

TODAY

Inside this issue:

-- Loma Linda University celebrates 1,480 newest alumni
-- University celebrates honorees during ceremonies
-- Safe Kids and Children's Hospital host media event for water safety awareness
-- Zipcar, which brought car sharing to Loma Linda University Health, may expand
-- Kids learn to trust care providers during teddy bear clinic
-- Annual Celebration of Life provides heartfelt laughter, inspiration and hope
-- Food and family are important to LLUMC - Murrieta chef
-- Official negotiations begin for affiliation with San Gorgonio Memorial Hospital
-- Study finds increasing respiratory risks for children living near major rail yards …

Arctic Domain Awareness Center: Biographies, N/A University Of Alaska Anchorage

June 2015

No abstract provided.

Presentation To The Team At The First Annual Partner Review 2015, Helena S. Wisniewski

June 2015

No abstract provided.

Integrated Intelligent System Of Systems (Iisos), Kenneth Juengling, Collin Schroeder, Mark Pearson

June 2015

No abstract provided.

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Genetic And Pharmacological Modulation Of Trigeminal Pain Molecules In A Model Of Traumatic Brain Injury, Brittany V. Daiutolo, Ashley L. Tyburski, Shannon W. Clark, Md, Melanie B. Elliott, Phd

Department of Neurosurgery Faculty Papers

Introduction

Headache following traumatic brain injury (TBI) is highly prevalent, and it is also the most common and persistent symptom of post-concussion syndrome [1,2]. It could arise de novo or as a pre-existing headache disorder, in which migraine was the most frequent headache phenotype in both civilian and military patients with mild TBI [1,2]. Most post-traumatic headaches will resolve within a couple of weeks following injury; however, headache in a substantial subset of patients may last more than three months and contribute to a prolonged recovery from injury, disability, and a poor quality of living [2]. Headaches can persist well …

Potential Drug Lessens Neurodegeneration In Parkinson's Disease Mode, Jeff Hansen

Browse All News

No abstract provided.

Research Finds Males And Females Process Chronic Pain Differently, Staff

Browse All News

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Taranis Functions With Cyclin A And Cdk1 In A Novel Arousal Center To Control Sleep In Drosophila., Dinis J.S. Afonso, Die Liu, Daniel R. Machado, Huihui Pan, James E.C. Jepson, Dragana Rogulja, Kyunghee Koh

Department of Neuroscience Faculty Papers

Sleep is an essential and conserved behavior whose regulation at the molecular and anatomical level remains to be elucidated. Here, we identify TARANIS (TARA), a Drosophila homolog of the Trip-Br (SERTAD) family of transcriptional coregulators, as a molecule that is required for normal sleep patterns. Through a forward-genetic screen, we isolated tara as a novel sleep gene associated with a marked reduction in sleep amount. Targeted knockdown of tara suggests that it functions in cholinergic neurons to promote sleep. tara encodes a conserved cell-cycle protein that contains a Cyclin A (CycA)-binding homology domain. TARA regulates CycA protein levels and genetically …

Willful Understanding: Avicenna’S Philosophy Of Action And Theory Of The Will, Jon Mcginnis, Anthony Ruffus

Philosophy Faculty Works

In this study, we look at two interpretive puzzles associated with the thought of Avicenna that are still of intrinsic philosophical interest today. The first concerns to what extent, if at all, Avicenna’s deity can be said to act freely. The second concerns to what extent, if at all, humans within Avicenna’s philosophical system can be said to act freely. It is our contention that only through a careful analysis of Avicenna’s theory of action can one begin to assess his position concerning the status of the will and so provide a satisfactory response to these two interpretative issues. We …

Day 35 : 99 Days Of Art In St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg Arts Alliance

Marketing, Presentations & Publications

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Characteristic Of Water Holding Capacity And Color Changes Of Tan Sheep At Different Storage Temperatures, Wang Wei, Luo Ruiming, Li Junli, Zhang Ting

Food and Machinery

In this paper, the water holding capacity and color of Tan sheep were investigated under various storage temperatures. The postmortem Tan sheep preservation at 0～4 ℃ and 15 ℃, dynamic of pH, cooking loss, water holding capacity, dropping loss and meat color were measured at 1～7 d during preservation. The research results indicated that Tan sheep muscle which were preserved at 15 ℃ had fast decreasing speed of pH value, rapid speed of water holding capacity rally and worse meat color. Cooking loss of Tan sheep at 0～4 ℃ showed no significant differences from 15 ℃（P>0.05), dripping loss, water …