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Analyzing Cut Mark Characteristics on Bone from Chopping/Hacking Tools
No full textSharp force trauma (SFT) is a mechanism of traumatic injury in which a tool with a slanted edge impacts the skin and/orbone, producing a cut mark. While experimental SFT research has been conducted utilizing smaller tools, minimal research focuses on damage inflicted by chopping/hacking tools. Thus, the purpose of this research was to experimentally evaluate and analyze macroscopic characteristics of chopping/hacking trauma inflicted on pig bones (Sus scrofa domesticus) to determine if differentiation of tool class type can be made. An additional goal of this study was to develop a standardized approach to chopping/hacking research to provide appropriate comparisons between the results of different macroscopic experimental studies. Trauma was inflicted to 20 partially fleshed pig limbs utilizing four chopping/hacking tools (axe, hatchet, machete, and cleaver) as well as a carving knife for comparison. Macroscopic evaluation of 16 cut mark characteristics commonly described in the forensic literature was conducted to assess statistical significance. Utilizing a chi-squared analysis, three of the 16 cut mark characteristics (wall regularity, kerf bisection, and edge chattering) demonstrated statistically significant differences in relation to the tool utilized, although Cramer’s V correlations indicated weak to moderate effect sizes. A Fleiss kappa analysis indicated substantial agreement during a test for interobserver error regarding characteristics for each tool type and characteristics regardless of tool type. Similar trends in wall regularity, kerf bisection, and edge chattering have been demonstrated in the current experimental literature. Overall, this study confirmed that the ability to differentiate chopping/hacking tools from macroscopic characteristics is challenging
Book Review: The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness by Megan O’Rourke
No full textBook Review: The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness. Megan O’Rourke, New York, NY: Riverhead Books, 2022. 336 pages, $18 paperback.
Publisher webpage: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/317923/the-invisible-kingdom-by-meghan-orourke/
Review by Cristina De León-Menjivar (she/her/ella), Old Dominion University
E-mail: [email protected]
Date posted: June 2023
Recommended Citation: De Leon-Menjivar, Christina. (2023) “Book review: The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness,” Rhetoric of Health & Medicine: Vol. 6 : Iss. 3
The Constitutionality of the Taxation Consequences for Renouncing U.S. Citizenship
No full textFlorida Tax Review Volume 9, Number 12, 201
Reconciling Identity Narratives: Creating Collaborative Space with Isotopic Baselines
No full textIsotopic methods have provided breakthrough insights into bioarchaeological identity studies, yet merit more critical theoretical perspectives. Inspired by and in conversation with intersectional feminist, Indigenous, and environmental literatures, we interrogate with and for whom such research is conducted. Potential inequities in bioarchaeological research using isotopes include the extractive and specialized nature of isotopic methods. Additionally, in the context of identity studies, Western notions of the individual may separate humans from nature, creating an artificial division between people and place. We propose isotopic baselines may create a more engaged practice by considering living human dynamics and place. Looking toward a more inclusive and equitable future for bioarchaeological and isotopic research, we propose ways to reduce power imbalances created by isotopic research. Ultimately, we suggest the collection and interpretation of environmental baseline data provide an opportunity to reconcile and expand conceptualizations of identity beyond the West.
Los métodos de isótopos han aportado conocimientos innovadores sobre los estudios bioarqueológicos sobre la identidad, pero son necesarias perspectivas teóricas más críticas. Inspiradas por y en conversación con la literatura interseccional feminista, Indígena y ambiental, nos interrogamos con y para quién se lleva a cabo dicha investigación. Las potenciales desigualdades en la investigación bioarqueológica que utiliza isótopos incluyen la naturaleza extractiva y especializada de los métodos isotópicos. Además, en el contexto de los estudios de identidad, las nociones occidentales del individuo pueden separar a los humanos de la naturaleza, creando una división artificial entre las personas y el lugar. Proponemos que las bases de referencias isotópicas pueden crear una práctica más comprometida al considerar la dinámica humana, y el lugar. Mirando hacia un futuro más inclusivo y equitativo para la investigación bioarqueológica e isotópica, proponemos formas de reducir los desequilibrios de poder creados por la investigación isotópica. En última instancia, sugerimos que la recopilación e interpretación de datos ambientales de referencia brinden la oportunidad de reconciliar y expandir las conceptualizaciones de identidad más allá de Occidente
Anime’s Identity: Performativity and Form Beyond Japan by Stevie Suan
No full textReview of: Stevie Suan. Anime’s Identity: Performativity and Form Beyond Japan.Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021. 372 pages
Notes on Contributors
No full textNotes on contributors to Volume 49, Number 2 of the Journal of Political & Military Sociology
A Unique Case of Hereditary Multiple Osteochondromas in the Feet
No full textThis report describes the differential diagnosis of osseous growths in the first metatarsals of an adult male previously unreported in the literature. Examination of the remains via macroscopic analysis and conventional radiography identified unusual bilateral growths arising from the lateral aspects of the first metatarsals with growth directed towards the tarsometatarsal joint. Two exostoses in the ribs were also observed. Using the available evidence, hereditary multiple osteochondromas (HMO) was determined the likely causative disorder for the pedal growths based on the presence of cartilage caps on the ends of the growths, a lack of articular morphology, and the presence of a rib exostosis consistent with HMO. The potential bilateral expression of HMO in the first metatarsals in this case challenges the dominating diagnostic criteria that HMO growths are directed away from the growth plate and only occur in the metaphysis, expanding the spectrum of HMO’s manifestation in the human skeleton. Medical records for the decedent provided no indication of a disorder associated with the development of osteochondromas, nor any indication that medical treatment was undertaken to manage the growths
Stanley Surrey, the Code and the Regime
No full textStanley Surrey (1910–1984) was arguably the most important tax scholar of his generation. Surrey was a rare combination of an academic (Berkeley and Harvard law schools, 1947-1961 and 1969-1981) and a government official (Tax Legislative Counsel, 1942-1947; Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy, 1961-1969). Today he is mostly remembered for inventing the concept of tax expenditures and the tax expenditure budget. This paper will argue that while Surrey was influential in shaping domestic tax policy for a generation and had an impact after his death on the Tax Reform Act of 1986, his longest lasting contributions were in shaping the international tax regime, since the concept of the single tax principle that shapes contemporary international tax reform efforts can be traced directly to his writing and activities both in academia and in the government
Duplicative Taxation Among the States: A Problem Not Worth Solving?
No full textRecent legal and economic changes—not to mention the rise in telecommuting caused by COVID—have raised the salience of a long-simmering fact about the operation of state and local income tax systems: some multistate employers and employees pay a combined income tax liability that is higher than the tax they would have borne had they operated in just one jurisdiction. Seemingly beyond the reach of the courts to correct, there have been persistent calls for congressional action to eliminate or reduce this “duplicative” taxation. This Article suggests that the alleged problem may be both less of a problem, and more resistant to a solution, than is commonly understood