512 research outputs found
The Attorneys' Gender: Exploring Counsel Success Before the United States Supreme Court
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Women who argue in front of the US Supreme Court win just as often as men – but it’s harder for them to get there.
No full textOver the past 70 years, lawyers have argued cases before the US Supreme Court more than 10,000 times, but just under seven percent of these appearances have been by women. In new research, Jonathan S. Hack and Clinton M. Jenkins find that while over time, women have been no less likely to win a Supreme Court case than men, women have had to be, on average, more qualified and experienced compared to their male counterparts in order to be able to appear there in the first place
Exploring hidden narratives: Conscript graffiti at the former military base of Kummersdorf
No full textThis article explores the cultural significance and interpretative potential of graffiti left by Soviet conscripts at Kummersdorf, a former military base in the German federal state of Brandenburg. The graffiti is framed as war art and its typology, distribution and content is studied in detail. In this way opportunities for further research are highlighted, as well as the potential for the graffiti to contribute to interpretative and conservation strategies. We demonstrate how the graffiti embodies multi-level interpretative narratives which can help to reveal hidden aspects of Soviet conscript life and cultural practices whilst alluding to global events and Soviet and Russian military policy. More generally, the article aims to promote the potential of graffiti and other forms of what is traditionally considered vandalism to contribute to the cultural significance and interpretation of heritage sites
Historicizing authorship - the run-away author in Jonathan Swift’s A tale of the tub : The attribution debate reconsidered
No full textThe analysis of the author-function in Jonathan Swift’s A Tale of a Tub in this paper is part of a project that traces the changing notions of authorship through the eighteenth century, primarily in relation to satire, parody, and meta-fiction, which are often interpreted with reference to authorial intention. As I argue here, if we are to historicize authorships in a way that elucidates the literary works, a discussion of intentionality is indeed necessary. A versatile approach to authorial intention serves this purpose, seeking “the best position for receiving the utterance of a … particular, historically embedded author” (Levinson), a position which, in the case of satiric and parodic works, includes the rhetorical situation. Criticism of Jonathan Swift’s Tale of a Tub is often informed by the attribution debate around the first, 1704 edition; the fifth, 1710 edition, inscribes these speculations about authorship through the added Apology and footnotes, presumably unmasking the author’s true intent (though not his identity), and providing a key to ironic allusions. However, as I argue here, rather than arresting the carnivalesque game (through the Hack persona) of the Tale proper, these additions feature a new version of the “run-away author," highlighting the “densely allusive intertextual nature” of the text (Griffith). As part and parcel of the dedications and the preface of the first edition, the new texts of the 1710 edition exhibit the kind of self-reflexive irony that characterizes metafictive novels of a later date, reflecting on the authorial activity, on other writers, and on the audience.</p
Justice in the Fields
Get PDFIn this piece, Nick Hack talks about the agricultural labor in California. The paper explores the ebb and flow of the shifting tides of ethnicity in the state: What ethnic groups have been the major contributors to labor in Californian agriculture and what roles have they played? The author challenges the reader to consider the parallelism between land and labor exploitation and further explores local organizations that have been created to bring alternatives both in the management of the land as well as in the creation of opportunities for agricultural laborers
Authorship and the Narrative of the Self
No full textThis chapter conforms to the plot scheme recommended by Frances Taylor Patterson, instructor of silent-movie photoplay composition at Columbia University in the 1920s, who summarized it as follows: Act I - get a man up a tree; Act II - throw stones at him; Act III - get him down. In this case, the "man" in question is "the author". This plot structure enables a conceptual and textual investigation of authorship under three headings: God is an Author (Shakespeare); No-one is an Author (Vogue); Everyone is an Author (Jefferson Hack). Authorship falters where a print publication can work at the top level of professional creativity and name-branded talent without needing the concept to organize the way that readers respond to the text. The chapter also talks about "narrative of the self" and the way that do-it-yourself publishing and social media have everyone responsible for participating in authorship © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Characterizing the mechanism of differential pharmacokinetic disposition of two structurally similar nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors, zidovudine and didanosine
No full textThe differential contributions of efflux transporters and metabolizing enzymes to the disposition of zidovudine (azidothymidine, AZT) and didanosine (dideoxyinosine, ddI) were investigated using murine and human cells, mouse kidney slices, and mice. Cellular transport, transport in mouse kidney slices, brain uptake, and urinary excretion of AZT and ddI were investigated.
Fumitremorgin C (FTC), a breast cancer resistance protein (BCRP) specific inhibitor), increased AZT accumulation, but had little or no effect on ddI accumulation in either HEK-R482 or in J774. Involvement of BCRP was investigated by comparing results in Mock- and BCRP- transfected cells, and confirmed by repeating the studies after silencing BCRP using siRNA. MK-571, a MRP family inhibitor, blocked the efflux of AZT and ddI in murine and human cells. Silencing MRP3 and MRP4 attenuated the efflux of AZT while silencing MRP1 attenuated ddI efflux. The effect of blocking efflux transporters was found to be minor as compared to inhibition of metabolizing enzymes. The major form of AZT deposited inside murine cells was AZT-MP, while the major form found inside human cells was AZT-TP. MK-571 abolished the efflux of AZT-MP in both murine and human cells. However, the efflux of AZT, ddI and their metabolites was not affected by FTC. Application of MK-571 also decreased the efflux of GAZT and ddI in kidney slices. The urinary excretion of AZT and ddI with MK-571 in mice was measured. MK-571 did not cause any significant changes in the urinary excretion of AZT, ddI, or their metabolites between the MK-571 untreated and treated groups.
Collectively, the results of these studies indicate that AZT and ddI are substrates of BCRP and MRPs, however since their effects are limited in in situ and in vivo situation they appear to be relatively minor players in the overall disposition of these drugs.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical references (p. 98-107)
Evaluating the development potential for intermodal transportation centers using the Miami Intermodal Center (MIC)
No full textThesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1996 [first author]; and, (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies, 1996 [second author].Includes bibliographical references (leaves 143-151).by Omar F. del Rio and Donald R. Hackstaff.M.S
Schneider, Jonathan (Death, 1871-09-29)
No full textAddress: 68 CutterAge at death: 13 moPg 190/1871/443/M W S/Cinti/Dr. H. Minor/Hack/St. JosephsOriginal record filed in drawer labeled 'SCHMIDT-SCHNEIDER'
Electronic plebiscites
Get PDFWe suggest a technology and set of procedures by which a major democratic de?cit of modern society can be addressed. The mechanism, whilst it makes limited use of cryptographic techniques in the background, is based around objects and procedures with which voters are currently familiar. We believe that systems like this hold considerable potential for the extension of democratic participation and control
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