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Medical Disputes And Conflicting Values: Is There A “Right To Die” Later?, Janet L. Dolgin

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

The article compares the benefits and disadvantages that each institutional approach, that of statutory law, courts, and hospital ethics consultants, brings to medical-futility disputes. Topics discussed include social and legal responses to conflicts about dying, conflicting values central to contemporary medial ethics, and value of autonomous patient choice.

Teressia Deloach

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

Be A Hero Too, Samantha S. Rohe, Sophie Cemaj

Books: Pediatrics

This children's book explains COVID-19 and how to decrease the incidence of transmissions.

Lower Extremity Stiffness In Collegiate Distance Runners Pre- And Post-Competition, Jake Tavernite, Matthew F. Moran

Exercise Science Faculty Publications

Previous evidence has suggested that there is a relationship between leg stiffness and improved running performance. The purpose of this investigation was to determine how leg stiffness of runners was influenced in the 24 and 48 hour period following a cross country race. Twenty-two collegiate cross-country runners (13 males, 9 females, 19.5 ± 1.4 yr) were recruited and participated in the study. Leg stiffness was assessed 24 hours before and after a race as well as 48 hours post-race. Three jumping protocols were conducted: 1) a static jump, 2) a countermovement jump, and 3) a vertical hopping test. Two embedded …

Multitarget Stool Dna Testing For The Prevention Of Colon Cancer: Outcomes In A Large Integrated Healthcare System, Nimish Vakil, Kristin Ciezki, Nadia Huq, Maharaj Singh

School of Dentistry Faculty Research and Publications

Background and Aims

Multitarget stool DNA (MT-sDNA) testing is used in primary care as a screening test for colon cancer. Test effectiveness and patient compliance were examined in clinical practice.

Methods

We assessed outcomes of MT-sDNA testing in a cohort study conducted in a large integrated healthcare system comprising 15 hospitals and 150 outpatient clinics using advanced electronic data capture (Clarity2 [Epic, Verona, Wisc, USA] and REDCap [Encinitas, Calif, USA]) followed by manual chart review to confirm MT-sDNA test results and to monitor the outcomes of subsequent colonoscopy.

Results

A total of 6835 MT-sDNA tests were performed over 1 year …

Santé Et Sécurité Du Travail : Notions Utiles À La Supervision De Stages De Métiers Semi-Spécialisés, Marie Laberge, Aurélie Tondoux, Gabriel Charland, Marie-Hélène Poirier

Guides

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Ethical Blind Spots In Adoption Lawyering, Malinda L. Seymore

Faculty Scholarship

Lawyers engaged in adoption work often call it “happy law,” and consider adoption – finding a child for yearning parents, finding parents for a needy child – an unmitigated good. That attitude can mask the fact that all adoption begins with loss. One family loses a child so that another family can gain one. A lawyer’s assurance that she is engaged in positive work can lead to ethical blind spots that ignore the complexities of adoption practice. And while the touchstone of adoption is the best interests of the child, the primacy in legal ethics of the interests of the …

Copyright And The 1%, Glynn Lunney

Faculty Scholarship

No one ever argues for copyright on the grounds that superstar artists and authors need more money, but what if that is all, or mostly all, that copyright does? This article presents newly available data on the distribution of players across the PC videogame market. This data reveals an L-shaped distribution of demand. A relative handful of games are extremely popular. The vast majority are not. In the face of an L curve, copyright overpays superstars, but does very little for the average author and for works at the margins of profitability. This makes copyright difficult to justify on either …

Povos Indígenas, Genocídio E Pademia No Brasil, Fernanda Frizzo Bragato, Marco Antônio Delfino De Almeida, Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum

Articles

Indigenous Peoples, Genocide and Pandemics in Brazil

COVID-19 pandemics spreads among Brazilian indigenous communities while they endure the dismantling of protective policies, the current government's hostility, as well as the disproportionate effects in terms of contamination and mortality. This situation has been concerning indigenous organizations and public authorities in Brazil and worldwide. Indigenous peoples are potential victims of genocide, an act characterized both as a criminally punishable conduct and as a State policy capable to generate international State liability. This study intends to investigate whether and how the conditions of susceptibility to the physical destruction met by several Brazilian indigenous …

Why Protect Unauthorized Workers? Imperfect Proxies, Unaccountable Employers, And Antidiscrimination Law's Failures, Angela D. Morrison

Faculty Scholarship

This article explores a gap in the scholarship regarding the unauthorized workplace. It describes and names the two main justifications on which advocates and courts have relied to extend federal antidiscrimination protections to unauthorized workers. First, the proxy justification insists that workplace protections must include unauthorized workers because their protection is necessary to protect U.S. citizen and authorized workers. Second, the deterrence/accountability justification states that workplace protections must include unauthorized workers because it will deter employers from future violations of antidiscrimination laws and hold them accountable for violations of immigration law. While these justifications have led to some protection for …

From The Frontlines Of The Modern Movement To End Forced Arbitration And Restore Jury Rights, F. Paul Bland, Myriam E. Gilles, Tanuja Gupta

Articles

No abstract provided.

Hydrogen Peroxide Preconditioning Promotes Protective Effects Of Umbilical Cord Vein Mesenchymal Stem Cells In Experimental Pulmonary Fibrosis, Tayebeh Mahmoudi, Kamal Abdolmohammadi, Hamed Bashiri, Mehdi Mohammadi, Mohammad Jafar Rezaie, Fardin Fathi, Shohreh Fakhari, Mohammad Ali Rezaee, Ali Jalili, Mohammad Reza Rahmani, Lobat Tayebi

School of Dentistry Faculty Research and Publications

Purpose

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a progressive lung disorder with few available treatments. Mesenchymal stem cell therapy (MSCT), an innovative approach, has high therapeutic potential when used to treat IPF. According to recent data, preconditioning of MSCs can improve their therapeutic effects. Our research focuses on investigating the anti-inflammatory and antifibrotic effects of H₂O₂-preconditioned MSCs (p-MSCs) on mice with bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis (PF).

Methods

Eight-week-old male C57BL/6 mice were induced with PF by intratracheal (IT) instillation of bleomycin (4 U/kg). Human umbilical cord vein-derived MSCs (hUCV-MSCs) were isolated and exposed to a sub-lethal concentration (15 …

The Cynical Successes Of The Guantánamo Bay Military Commissions, G. Alex Sinha

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

Since they were first authorized in the weeks after the 9/11 attacks, the Guantanamo Bay Military Commissions--special military tribunals for the trial of certain terror suspects--have generated eight minor convictions at a cost of over one billion dollars. Nearly half of the convictions have been vacated on appeal. The three ongoing contested cases, including the case against those accused of complicity in the 9/11 attacks, remain mired in pretrial proceedings. The biggest storylines emanating from the commissions do not concern convictions, but rather government surveillance of the defense teams and the compelled recusal of judges for the appearance of partiality …

Front Matter, Kanya Wattanakul

Journal of Letters

No abstract provided.

A Comparative Study Of The New Woman In Prissana, A Thai Novel By V. Na Pramuanmarg, And The New Woman In The English Novels At The End Of The Nineteenth Century(การศึกษาเปรียบเทียบนวสตรีในนวนิยายไทยเรื่อง ปริศนา ของ ว. ณ ประมวญมารค กับนวสตรีในนวนิยายอังกฤษยุคปลายคริสตศตวรรษที่ 19), Tapanat Khunpakdee

Journal of Letters

This research compares the characteristics of the New Woman with traditional female characters in educational, economic, social, and cultural contexts. The eponymous New Woman in Prissana by V. Na Pramuanmarg is compared with the New Women, Evadne, Angelica and Beth, in two English novels: The Heavenly Twins and The Beth Book by Sarah Grand. The research has found that Prissana's character is completely different from traditional female characters because of her intelligence and education abroad, which cultivated her self-confidence and personal aptitudes. These qualities coincide with those of the English New Woman characters. The comparison shows that Prissana, Evadne, Angelica, …

'So Hydous Was The Noyse': Forgetting The 1381 Rebellion In Geoffrey Chaucer's The Nun's Priest's Tale, Rawitawan Sophonpanich

Journal of Letters

Since the medieval period, memory has been considered a site of identity formation and an important cultural force. Forgetting, on the other hand, has been dismissed because it seems impossible to study or recover what has already been forgotten. This study argues to the contrary. I focus on forgetting as a significant cultural practice, allowing the ruling classes and social institutions to perpetuate ideologies and manipulate how history is represented. In so arguing, I choose one of the most renowned events in medieval England as the subject of my study, which is the Peasants' Revolt of 1381. This Rebellion has …

Fashion And Social Status: A Classic Formula Of The White Telephone Films During The Fascist Italy(แฟชั่นกับสถานภาพทางสังคม: สูตรสําเร็จของภาพยนตร์โทรศัพท์สีขาว ในยุคฟาสซิสต์อิตาลี), Pajaree Tachart

Journal of Letters

This article analyses the relationship between fashion, new Italian lifestyle and social mobility that constitute the classic formula of the Italian screwball comedy, the so-called "White Telephone Films", mainly produced during the second decade of the Fascist period. It focuses on three Italian films directed by Mario Camerini which are Darò un milione (1935), Il Signor Max (1937) and I Grandi Magazzini (1939). Since the mid-1930s, the Government of Benito Mussolini used this genre of Italian cinema as a political tool to manipulate public opinions and to make them accept or even agree with fascist policies. Therefore, the director had …

Lao Substratum Influence On The Ideophones Of Khorat Language(อิทธิพลภาษาพื้นเดิมลาวในคําอีดิโอโฟนภาษาโคราช), Thananan Trongdee

Journal of Letters

The origin of Khorat language has been a controversial issue among linguists. Three hypotheses are proposed. Firstly, Khorat is the result of the Yo system recoding to Bangkok Thai. Secondly, Khorat is a Lao dialect whose tones have been influenced by Central Thai. Thirdly, Khorat is a Lao dialect that has shifted to Thai but manifested Lao tone substratum. Most of the hypotheses, however, are based on phonological phenomena, especially the tone systems. In this article, evidence on category, structure and vocalic sound symbolism of ideophones in Khorat is proposed. It is found that some of the ideophone structures and …

Adjectives As A Word Class In Arabic: A Linguistic Analysis.(หมวดคําคุณศัพท์ในภาษาอาหรับ: การวิเคราะห์ตามแนวภาษาศาสตร์), Dulyawit Naknawa

Journal of Letters

Traditional Arabic grammar divides Arabic words into 3 categories: nouns, verbs and prepositions. Adjectives are not a traditional word class, but realized as syntactic positions in sentences, an approach which is followed in practice. However, the researcher proposes that adjectives should be considered a distinct word class separate from nouns. This is based on various evidence, such as typology, morphology and syntax. In certain contexts, adjectives can appear instead of nouns or eventually decategorize to noun but this does not mean that Arabic should have no adjective category.(ไวยากรณ์อาหรับดั้งเดิมแบ่งประเภทของคําในภาษาอาหรับออกเป็น 3 หมวดได้แก่ คํานาม กริยา และบุพบท ในส่วนของมโนทัศน์คุณศัพท์ไม่ใช่ประเภทของหมวดคํา แต่เป็นตําแหน่งทางวากยสัมพันธ์ในประโยค แนวทางดังกล่าวยึดเป็นแนวปฏิบัติจนถึงปัจจุบัน อย่างไรก็ดี ผู้เขียนจึงขอนําเสนอว่า คําคุณศัพท์เป็นหมวดคําหนึ่งที่แยกออกมาจากคํานาม โดยพิจารณาจากหลักฐานหลายประการ …

Cultural Studies In German As A Foreign Language In Thailand: Learning And Teaching About The Cultures Of German Speaking Countries In The Context Of Thai Higher Education(วัฒนธรรมศึกษาในสาขาภาษาเยอรมันในฐานะภาษาต่างประเทศในประเทศไทย: การเรียนการสอนเกี่ยวกับวัฒนธรรมของกลุ่มประเทศ ที่ใช้ภาษาเยอรมันเป็นภาษาราชการในบริบทอุดมศึกษาไทย), Thanakon Kaewwipat

Journal of Letters

Teaching cultural studies in the field of German as a Foreign Language in Thailand tends to focus on providing information and facts about the geography, political-administrative systems and cultural issues of the Federal Republic of Germany. This approach doesn't conform with current trends in learning and teaching cultural studies in the wider academic community of German as a Foreign Language, which place more emphasis on the culture of German speaking countries. This article discusses a theoretical framework in relation to learning and teaching about the cultures of German speaking countries, and investigates the possibilities and limitations of the tangible application …

A Study On The Cultural Development Of Korea Towards Thailand Through The New Southern Policy, Kamon Butsaban

Journal of Letters

Korea's current administration introduced the New Southern Policy in 2017, with the aim of creating a "people-centered community of peace and prosperity" between Korea and the ASEAN countries. Thailand is a central hub for Korea to strengthen and expand its regional soft power, and is the largest market for Korean culture, as represented by the Korean Wave or Hallyu. However, despite these close ties between Thailand and Korea, economic cooperation between the two countries has remained stagnant compared to other ASEAN countries. In this context, this paper analyzes the New Southern Policy in Thailand and its cultural implications. Specifically, it …

Guidelines For Fieldwork Activities In Environmental Geography: A Case Study Of The East Of Thailand, Pakorn Meksangsouy, Sureeporn Nipithwittaya, Chudech Losiri

Journal of Letters

Geography is an interdisciplinary subject which can be divided into three areas: physical geography, human geography, and geographical techniques. Fieldwork is considered a crucial element of the fact-discovery process and a path to understanding relationships between the physical dimension and human activities. This paper has two objectives: first, to explore suitable geographical fieldwork sites; second, to create guidelines for geographical fieldwork activities. This paper conducted surveys as the main methodology. All 8 provinces across the East of Thailand were selected as the study area. These provinces are diverse in physical landforms and human activities. The results showed that 23 sites …

Report On The 1st Edition Of The Techlawclinics Project At The Jagiellonian University And The University Of Lodz (Academic Year 2019/2020), Monika Namysłowska, Piotr Tereszkiewicz

internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (internet Quarterly on Antitrust and Regulation)

Report on the 1st edition of the TechLawClinics project at the Jagiellonian University and the University of Lodz (academic year 2019/2020)

Entire Issue Vol. 9 No. 8

internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (internet Quarterly on Antitrust and Regulation)

Entire issue Vol. 9 No. 8

The European Electronic Communications Code (From The Volume Editor), Mateusz Chołodecki

internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (internet Quarterly on Antitrust and Regulation)

From the Volume Editor.

Competition And Consumer Protection And The Eu Cybersecurity Model, Cezary Banasiński, Marcin Rojszczak

internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (internet Quarterly on Antitrust and Regulation)

from the Editors-in-Chief

Entire Issue Vol. 9 No. 2

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Vol. 9 No. 2

Mergers And Acquisitions: Anything New Under The Sun?, Agata Jurkowska-Gomułka

internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (internet Quarterly on Antitrust and Regulation)

from the Volume Editor

Vol. 9(4) - Entire Issue

internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (internet Quarterly on Antitrust and Regulation)

Vol. 9(4)

Guidelines, Communications And Others: Acts Of Soft Law In The Application Of Competition Law, Grzegorz Materna

internetowy Kwartalnik Antymonopolowy i Regulacyjny (internet Quarterly on Antitrust and Regulation)

from the Editors-in-Chief