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Pain-Capable Neural Substrates May Be Widely Available In The Animal Kingdom, Edgar T. Walters

Animal Sentience

Neural and behavioral evidence from diverse species indicates that some forms of pain may be generated by coordinated activity in networks far smaller than the cortical pain matrix in mammals. Studies on responses to injury in squid suggest that simplification of the circuitry necessary for conscious pain might be achieved by restricting awareness to very limited information about a noxious event, possibly only to the fact that injury has occurred, ignoring information that is much less important for survival, such as the location of the injury. Some of the neural properties proposed to be critical for conscious pain in mammals …

How Not To Move The Line Drawn On Pain, Bjorn H. Merker

Animal Sentience

In this second commentary I outline the inadequacy of Key's responses to the many peer critiques of his thesis that have so far appeared in Animal Sentience. I illustrate with examples drawn from his response to my first commentary.

Nonverbal Indicators Of Pain, Simon Van Rysewyk

Animal Sentience

In discussing fish pain, Key (2016) privileges pain in humans — “the only species able to directly report on its feelings.” Human experience of pain is not necessarily best reflected by verbal self-report, however. Neural responses to noxious stimuli are influenced by individual differences and by context. Nonverbal pain displays such as facial expressions reflect part of the neural response to noxious stimuli. Most mammals have a specific facial grimace reflecting pain. If fish have a somatic expression of pain, the development of a reliable and accurate somatic pain scale specific to fish could make a contribution to the debate …

Fish Pain: An Inconvenient Truth, Culum Brown

Animal Sentience

Whether fish feel pain is a hot political topic. The consequences of our denial are huge given the billions of fish that are slaughtered annually for human consumption. The economic costs of changing our commercial fishery harvest practices are also likely to be great. Key outlines a structure-function analogy of pain in humans, tries to force that template on the rest of the vertebrate kingdom, and fails. His target article has so far elicited 34 commentaries from scientific experts from a broad range of disciplines; only three of these support his position. The broad consensus from the scientific community is …

Breaking The Silence: The Veterinarian’S Duty To Report, Martine Lachance

Animal Sentience

Animals, like children and disabled elders, are not only the subjects of abuse, but they are unable to report and protect themselves from it. Veterinarians, like human physicians, are often the ones to become aware of the abuse and the only ones in a position to report it when their human clients are unwilling to do so. This creates a conflict between professional confidentiality to the client and the duty to protect the victim and facilitate prosecution when the law has been broken. I accordingly recommend that veterinarian associations make reporting of abuse mandatory.

Toward A Better Understanding Of Community Benefits Assessment Practices., Peter B. Meyer, Lauren Heberle

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

No abstract provided.

State Of Metropolitan Housing Report: Living In Community: Housing For People Living With Disabilities And Our Aging Population, Lauren Heberle, B. Mcreynolds, A. Sizemore, S. Sizemore, T. Malone, J. Beard, Cate Fosl

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Lingual Pressure Generation In Relation To Saliva And Water Swallowing In Healthy Young Adults, Anna Joerger

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Lingual strength and swallowing pressures have been studied extensively in dysphagia rehabilitation literature; however, little research has considered how lingual pressure generation may relate to parameters of swallowing speed and endurance. Additionally, little is known about the ability of the tongue to generate pressure to a given target, known as lingual control. This project collected measures of lingual pressure and measures of swallowing speed and endurance in 10 healthy, young adults. Specifically it explored if lingual strength or control of the anterior and posterior tongue correlate with endurance or speed during saliva and water swallowing tasks. Significant relations among lingual …

Secret Jurisdiction, Irina D. Manta, Cassandra Burke Robertson

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

So-called "confidentiality creep" after the events of 9/11 has given rise to travel restrictions that lack constitutionality and do nothing to improve airline security. The Executive Branch's procedures for imposing such restrictions rely on several layers of secrecy: a secret standard for inclusion on the no-fly list, secret procedures for nominating individuals to the list, and secret evidence to support that decision. This combination results in an overall system we call "secret jurisdiction," in which individuals wanting to challenge their inclusion on the list are unable to learn the specific evidence against them, the substantive standard for their inclusion on …

Person, State, Or Not: The Place Of Business Corporations In Our Constitutional Order, Daniel J.H. Greenwood

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

Business corporations are critical institutions in our democratic republican market-based economic order. The United States Constitution, however, is completely silent as to their status in our system. The Supreme Court has filled this silence by repeatedly granting corporations rights against the citizenry and its elected representatives.

Instead, we ought to view business corporations, like municipal corporations, as governance structures created by We the People to promote our general Welfare. On this social contract view, corporations should have the constitutional rights specified in the constitutional text: none. Instead, we should be debating which rights of citizens against governmental agencies should also …

Legislation's Culture, Richard K. Neumann Jr.

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

American statutes can seem like labyrinthine mazes when compared to some countries’ legislation. French codes are admired for their intellectual elegance and clarity. Novelists and poets (Stendhal, Valéry) have considered the Code civil to be literature. Swedish legislation might be based on empirical research into problems the legislation is intended to remedy, and the drafting style, though modern today, is descended from an oral tradition of poetic narrative.

Comparing these legislative cultures with our own reveals that the main problem with American legislation is not too many words. It is too many ideas — a high ratio of concepts per …

Adverse Consequences And Constructive Opportunities For Immigrant Youth In Delinquency Proceedings, Theo Liebmann

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

For lawyers representing youth in juvenile delinquency cases, providing sound, knowledgeable counsel on immigration issues can empower clients to make informed decisions and help protect clients from potential adverse immigration consequences. This Article closely examines those consequences and opportunities; articulates the extent of the duty for lawyers who represent minors in delinquency cases to be able to competently advise and advocate for their clients, under both existing ethical rules and the 2010 Supreme Court decision Padilla v. Kentucky; and analyzes the challenges of applying those standards to the representation of immigrant youth in delinquency proceedings.

"Ev'ry American Experiment Sets A Precedent": Why One Florida State Court's Bitcoin Opinion Is Everyone's Business, Allison Caffarone, Meg Holzer

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

July 22, 2016. A Florida state court dismisses a three-count information against a sole defendant in "a Miami money-laundering case that is being closely watched around the world." The defendant, a dealer of the virtual currency bitcoin, is free to go. He is also free to continue engaging in the sale of bitcoin. This "victory for bitcoin users" was the first state court case to address Bitcoin in the context of the money services business and anti-money laundering statutes. And on every front, the court got it wrong — while the world was watching. Federal and state prosecutors, defense attorneys, …

Dogging Darwin: America's Revolt Against The Teaching Of Evolution, J. Herbie Difonzo

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

More than four in ten Americans believe that God created humans in their present form 10,000 years ago. American antagonism toward the teaching of evolution is deeply rooted in fundamentalist radition and an aversion to intellectualism. These forces have combined to demonize Charles Darwin to such an extent that sectarian-based legal and political attacks on evolution show no signs of abating. Darwin's day in court began in 1925 with the famous Scopes Monkey Trial. It continued into the 21' century with Kitzmiller v. Dover Area Schools. Throughout, the core creationist agenda has remained the same, although an evolution in labeling …

Dying Discourse: Contextualizing Advance Care Planning, Janet L. Dolgin

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Zika Funding And Partisan Politics, Janet L. Dolgin

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Treasury Proposes New Regulations To Restrict Valuation Discount Planning, Mitchell M. Gans, Howard M. Zaritsky, Jonathan G. Blattmachr

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Foreign Fathers, Japanese Mothers, And The Hague Abduction Convention: Spirited Away, Barbara Stark

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Introductory Note To Obligation To Negotiate Access To The Pacific Ocean (Bolivia V. Chile): Preliminary Objection (I.C.J.), Julian G. Ku

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Taking Patents, Gregory Dolin, Irina D. Manta

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

The America Invents Act (AIA) was widely hailed as a remedy to the excessive number of patents that the Patent & Trademark Office issued, and especially ones that would later turn out to be invalid. In its efforts to eradicate "patent trolls" and fend off other ills, however, the AIA introduced serious constitutional problems that this Article brings to the fore. We argue that the AIA's new "second-look" mechanisms in the form of Inter Partes Review (IPR) and Covered Business Method Review (CBMR) have greatly altered the scope of vested patent rights by modifying the boundaries of existing patents. The …

Habeas Corpus In Three Dimensions: Dimension Iii: Habeas Corpus As An Instrument Of Checks And Balances, Eric M. Freedman

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

The Isolated Orbital Floor Fracture From A Transconjunctival Or Subciliary Perspective-A Standardized Anthropometric Evaluation, Gregor F. Raschke, Gabriel Djedovic, Andre Peisker, Rene Wohlrath, Ulrich M. Rieger, Arndt Guentsch, Marta Gomez-Dammeier, Stefan Schultze-Mosgau

School of Dentistry Faculty Research and Publications

Background: The influence of orbital fractures and their repair on the rate of deformities of the lower eyelid is an ongoing source of discussion in the literature. Most of the present studies include isolated blow-out as well as combined orbital fractures. Material and Methods: We present a retrospective evaluation of a series of 100 patients after isolated blow-out fracture repair using reference anthropometric data on standardized photographs. Analysis included eye fissure width and height, lid sulcus height, upper lid height, upper and lower iris coverage, position of cornea to palpebra inferior, canthal tilt, scleral show, ectropion and entropion. It was …

2016 Ivmf Annual Report, Institute For Veterans And Military Families At Syracuse University

Institute for Veterans and Military Families

This report overviews the accomplishments of the IVMF during 2015-2016.

Clinical Practice Guidelines For Recall And Maintenance Of Patients With Tooth-Borne And Implant-Borne Dental Restorations, Avinash S. Bidra, Diane M. Daubert, Lily T. Garcia, Timothy F. Kosinski, Conrad A. Nenn, John A. Olsen, Jeffrey A. Platt, Susan S. Wingrove, Nancy Deal Chandler, Donald A. Curtis

School of Dentistry Faculty Research and Publications

Purpose

To provide guidelines for patient recall regimen, professional maintenance regimen, and at-home maintenance regimen for patients with tooth-borne and implant-borne removable and fixed restorations.

Materials and Methods

The American College of Prosthodontists (ACP) convened a scientific panel of experts appointed by the ACP, American Dental Association (ADA), Academy of General Dentistry (AGD), and American Dental Hygienists Association (ADHA) who critically evaluated and debated recently published findings from two systematic reviews on this topic. The major outcomes and consequences considered during formulation of the clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) were risk for failure of tooth- and implant-borne restorations. The panel conducted …

Habeas Corpus In Three Dimensions: Dimension Ii: Habeas Corpus As A Legal Remedy, Eric M. Freedman

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

This is the second of three planned articles in a project whose overall title is “Habeas Corpus in Three Dimensions.” The first installment discussed the importance of habeas corpus as a common law writ.2 This piece considers the significance of the fact that American habeas corpus until the first decades of the nineteenth century was embedded in a system of multiple constraints on government power.3 The third installment will trace the role of habeas corpus in the system of checks and balances that developed here subsequently.

Recent Advances In Brain Signal Analysis: Methods And Applications, Victor Hugo C. De Albuquerque, Placido R. Pinheiro, João Paulo Papa, Jorge Manuel R.S. Tavares, Ronaldo Parente De Menezes, Carlos A.S. Oliveira

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Hyperlactetemia And Its Trends In Critically Ill Children Admitted In Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Of A Developing Country, Qalab Abbas, Muhammad Tariq Jamil, Leena Jafri, Anwar Ul Haque, Vivek Khetpal

Department of Paediatrics and Child Health

Background: There is increasing evidence that in setting of critical ailments clinical signs lag biomarkers like Lactate and hyperlactetemia can be the only marker for this disorder. This study was conducted to describe the incidence of hyperlactatemia in critically ill children and its association with outcome.Methods: Retrospective review of medical records of all children who had their lactic acid (LA) levels measured during their admission in PICU from January 2014 to December 2015 was done. Demographic and clinical variables were recorded along with PICU therapies, outcome (Survived or expired) and development of multi-organ dysfunction. Results are presented as frequency with …

When Not To "Tie The Knot”: A Study Of Exogamous Marriage In Ezra-Nehemiah Against The Backdrop Of Biblical Legal Tradition, Gerald A. Klingbeil

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

The Business Case For Hiring A Veteran: Beyond The Cliches, Institute For Veterans And Military Families At Syracuse University

Institute for Veterans and Military Families

This brief draws from academic literature to suggest a robust, specific, and compelling business case for hiring individuals with military background and experience. It also details the results of a comprehensive review of academic literature from the fields of business, psychology, sociology, and organizational behavior.

New Models For Prosecutorial Accountability, Ellen Yaroshefsky

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.