12 research outputs found
The Most Common Path to a Public Interest Career Is Also the Least Discussed
No full textThere are ultimately three avenues to a public interest legal career. The first is a postgraduate fellowship with a public interest organization. The second is a judicial clerkship; clerkships demonstrate a commitment to public service that can attract public interest employers. While these paths to a public interest career are certainly desirable, it is probably fair to say that most future public interest lawyers pursue a third avenue: taking whatever comes, maintaining a long-term perspective, and doing one’s best to exemplify a commitment to public interest in the meantime
Professor Mort Cohen: An Advocate Professor\u27s Journey
No full textProfessor Mort Cohen has taught at GGU Law for 30 years. In addition to teaching, Cohen has taken on pro bono cases as an advocate, most recently in service of the elderly and mentally ill. In 2012, Cohen successfully represented two individuals and the California Association of Mental Health Patients Rights Advocates in K.G. Et al v. Meredith as a Marin County Public Guardian. In an unprecedented, unanimous decision, a three-judge panel in The California Court of Appeal, First District stated that patients could not be treated with mind-altering drugs without their informed consent. It further stated that the County of Marin denied such people due process by failing to give them adequate notice, counsel, and a hearing before finding them disabled and rendering them incapable of exercising rights of decisional autonomy (their right to make their own medical decisions). In 2012, he was presented with two Attorney of the Year awards, one from California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform and one from the California Association of Mental Health Patients Rights Advocates. Recently, Professor Cohen generously took some time to discuss his professional journey and passion
GGU Law Director Named Chair of NALP’s Public Service Section
No full textLeeor Neta, Assistant Director for Public Interest Programs at Golden Gate University School of Law, has been named the 2012-2013 chair of the Public Service Section of the National Association of Law Placement (NALP); the association charged with serving legal career professionals
Build on Your Law School Success
No full textMuch — perhaps too much — has been written about the skills one needs to obtain a legal job. From our point of view as administrators on either end of the law school experience, it is clear that many of the attributes sought by law school admissions committees are akin to those sought by prospective employers. We counsel students and attorneys to consider how the soft skills they relied on to gain entry to law school will serve them equally well as job seekers
Electronic structure and magnetic properties of materials with strong electron-electron correlations
No full textTitle: Electronic structure and magnetic properties of materials with strong electron-electron correlations Author: Maxim Tchaplianka Department: Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences Supervisor: Ing. Alexander B. Shick, CSc., DSc., Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences Abstract: In this thesis, we present several computational methods of studying magnetic materials, and apply them to several real materials. Density functional theory with exact diagonalization is used to investigate three materials which consist of a cobalt impurity coupled to a metallic substrate. The observables and spectral densities found in each case are presented. Next, FeHfSb and UFe10Si2 are investigated as potentially magnetically hard materials, via the calculation of their magnetocrystalline anisotropy and thermodynamic stability. Keywords: density functional theory, Anderson impurity model, exact diagonal- ization, magnetic anisotropy, Kondo effec
Elektronická struktura a magnetické vlastnosti materiálů se silnými elektron-elektronovými korelacemi
No full textNázev práce: Elektronická struktura a magnetické vlastnosti materiálů se silnými elektron-elektronovými korelacemi Autor: Maxim Tchaplianka Katedra: Fyzikální ústav Akademie věd České republiky Vedoucí disertační práce: Ing. Alexander B. Shick, CSc., DSc., Fyzikální ústav Akademie věd České republiky Abstrakt: V práci popisujeme několik výpočetních metod studia magnetick- ých materiálů, které následně aplikujeme na vybrané reálné materiály. Teorie funkcionálu hustoty kombinovaná s exaktní diagonalizací příměsového modelu je použita ke zkoumání tří případů kobaltového atomu zabudovaného v krystalové mříži nebo adsorbovaného na povrchu jiného přechodového kovu. Pro každou z těchto příměsí jsou vypočteny různé fyzikální charakteristiky včetně její spek- trální hustota. Dále jsou zkoumány sloučeniny FeHfSb a UFe10Si2 jako potenciální magneticky tvrdé materiály, a to prostřednictvím výpočtů jejich magnetokrystal- ické anizotropie a termodynamické stability. Klíčová slova: teorie funkcionálu hustoty, Andersonův model příměsí, přesná di- agonalizace, magnetická anizotropie, Kondo efektTitle: Electronic structure and magnetic properties of materials with strong electron-electron correlations Author: Maxim Tchaplianka Department: Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences Supervisor: Ing. Alexander B. Shick, CSc., DSc., Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences Abstract: In this thesis, we present several computational methods of studying magnetic materials, and apply them to several real materials. Density functional theory with exact diagonalization is used to investigate three materials which consist of a cobalt impurity coupled to a metallic substrate. The observables and spectral densities found in each case are presented. Next, FeHfSb and UFe10Si2 are investigated as potentially magnetically hard materials, via the calculation of their magnetocrystalline anisotropy and thermodynamic stability. Keywords: density functional theory, Anderson impurity model, exact diagonal- ization, magnetic anisotropy, Kondo effectFaculty of Mathematics and PhysicsMatematicko-fyzikální fakult
Polymorphism, Structure, and Nucleation of Cholesterol.H2O at Aqueous Interfaces and in Pathological Media: Revisited from a Computational Perspective
No full textWe revisit the important issues of polymorphism, structure, and nucleation of cholesterol monohydrate, using first principles calculations based on dispersion-augmented density functional theory. For the lesser known monoclinic polymorph, we obtain a new, fully extended H-bonded network, comprising the sterol hydroxyl groups and water molecules in a structure akin to that of hexagonal ice. We show that the energy of the monoclinic and triclinic polymorphs is similar, strongly suggesting that kinetic and environmental effects play a significant role in determining polymorph nucleation. Furthermore, we find evidence in support of various O-H…O bonding motifs, in both polymorphs, that may result in structural disorder. We then rationalize what we believe is a single-crystal to single-crystal transformation of the monoclinic form on increased interlayer growth beyond that of a single cholesterol bilayer, interleaved by a water bilayer, and show that the ice-like structure is also relevant to the related cholestanol dihydrate (2H2O) crystal. Finally, we posit a possible role for cholesterol esters in the crystallization of cholesterol.H2O in pathological environments, with a composite of a bilayer of cholesteryl palmitate bound epitaxially as a nucleating agent to the monoclinic form of cholesterol.H2O
Polymorphism, Structure, and Nucleation of Cholesterol·H2O at Aqueous Interfaces and in Pathological Media: Revisited from a Computational Perspective
No full textWe revisit the important issues of polymorphism, structure, and nucleation of cholesterol center dot H2O using first-principles calculations based on dispersion-augmented density functional theory. For the lesser known monoclinic polymorph, we obtain a fully extended H-bonded network in a structure akin to that of hexagonal ice. We show that the energy of the monoclinic and triclinic polymorphs is similar, strongly suggesting that kinetic and environmental effects play a significant role in determining polymorph nucleation. Furthermore, we find evidence in support of various O-H center dot center dot center dot O bonding motifs in both polymorphs that may result in hydroxyl disorder. We have been able to explain, via computation, why a single cholesterol bilayer in hydrated membranes always crystallizes in the monoclinic polymorph. We rationalize what we believe is a single-crystal to single-crystal transformation of the monoclinic form on increased interlayer growth beyond that of a single cholesterol bilayer, interleaved by a water bilayer. We show that the ice-like structure is also relevant to the related cholestanol center dot 2H(2)O and stigmasterol center dot H2O crystals. The structure of stigmasterol hydrate both as a trilayer film at the air-water interface and as a macroscopic crystal further assists us in understanding the polymorphic and thermal behavior of cholesterol center dot H2O. Finally, we posit a possible role for one of the sterol esters in the crystallization of cholesterol center dot H2O in pathological environments, based on a composite of a crystalline bilayer of cholesteryl palmitate bound epirmrially as a nucleating agent to the monoclinic cholesterol center dot H2O form
Polymorphism, Structure, and Nucleation of CholesterolH2O at Aqueous Interfaces and in Pathological Media: Revisited from a Computational Perspective
No full textWe
revisit the important issues of polymorphism, structure, and
nucleation of cholesterol·H2O using first-principles
calculations based on dispersion-augmented density functional theory.
For the lesser known monoclinic polymorph, we obtain a fully extended
H-bonded network in a structure akin to that of hexagonal ice. We
show that the energy of the monoclinic and triclinic polymorphs is
similar, strongly suggesting that kinetic and environmental effects
play a significant role in determining polymorph nucleation. Furthermore,
we find evidence in support of various O–H···O
bonding motifs in both polymorphs that may result in hydroxyl disorder.
We have been able to explain, via computation, why a single cholesterol
bilayer in hydrated membranes always crystallizes in the monoclinic
polymorph. We rationalize what we believe is a single-crystal to single-crystal
transformation of the monoclinic form on increased interlayer growth
beyond that of a single cholesterol bilayer, interleaved by a water
bilayer. We show that the ice-like structure is also relevant to the
related cholestanol·2H2O and stigmasterol·H2O crystals. The structure of stigmasterol hydrate both as
a trilayer film at the air–water interface and as a macroscopic
crystal further assists us in understanding the polymorphic and thermal
behavior of cholesterol·H2O. Finally, we posit a possible
role for one of the sterol esters in the crystallization of cholesterol·H2O in pathological environments, based on a composite of a
crystalline bilayer of cholesteryl palmitate bound epitaxially as
a nucleating agent to the monoclinic cholesterol·H2O form
TODAY, AT THE DUMP, THE WORLD IS IN THE BIN
No full textShort story included in 22 Fictions: New Writing from Desperate Literature and Brick Lane Bookshop.
“If 22 Fictions is an argument for the short form, it is winning. A book worth studying.”
— Isabel Waidner, Goldsmiths Prize winning author of Sterling Karat Gold and Corey Fah Does Social Mobility
A curated selection drawn from the first five years of two indie bookseller-run projects—Madrid’s Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize and London’s Brick Lane Bookshop Short Story Prize—these 22 Fictions feature Purim celebrations, multiple Stuart Halls, a kidnapping, gender injustice, an aeroplane fleeing a volcano, a chicken shop menu, climate change, a shaved horse, activism, and much besides, all the while roaming from a Cornish farming village to a Paris basement, a hotel bar, an island with a steep hill, a location deep within the internet, a family dinner table and further.
Proudly internationalist and profoundly imaginative, the 22 stories in this vital anthology are wild, innovative, funny, sad, harrowing and tender. Together they celebrate the energy and diversity of short fiction writing today, pushing the boundaries of the form into new territory and bringing together a radical new generation of writers from across the globe.
Featuring work from:
Shola Von Reinhold, Leeor Ohayon, Tom Benn, Alice Haworth-Booth, N G F Clark, Danielle Giles, Francesca Reece, Melody Razak, Mariana Roa Oliva, Giovanna Iozzi, Suey Kweon, K. Lockwood Jefford, Katie Hale, Max Lury, Jay Gao, Aoife Inman, Andrea Mason, Aisha Phoenix, Isha Karki, Jack Houston, Siri Katinka Valdez, Rajasree Variyar.
Foreword by Joanna Walsh and an introduction by Wendy Erskine, former judges of the two prizes.
Edited by Kate Ellis and Robert Loyko-Greer, published by CHEERIO.
“Bold and emboldening — each story here engages with the form in new and rewarding ways.”
— Gurnaik Johal, author of We Move and Saraswati
“Partnering with two of the world’s most forward-thinking booksellers to publish the razor-edge of contemporary writing speaks exactly to the DIY spirit CHEERIO was founded on. A dream.”
– Darren Biabowe Barnes, Editorial Director of CHEERIO Publishin
