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Jurists Uprooted : German-speaking Émigré Lawyers in Twentieth-century Britain
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List of Contributors
List of Abbreviations xiv
‘Was Heimat hieß, nun heißt es Hölle’
The emigration of lawyers from Hitler’s Germany: political background,
legal framework, and cultural context
by Reinhard Zimmermann
Aliens, Enemy Aliens, and Friendly Enemy Aliens
Britain as a Home for Emigré and Refugee Lawyers
by Jack Beatson
Fritz Schulz (1879–1957)
by Wolfgang Ernst
Fritz Pringsheim (1882–1967)
by Tony Honoré
David Daube (1909–1999)
by Alan Rodger
Roman Law in Twentieth-century Britain
by Peter Birks
Hermann Kantorowicz (1877–1940) and Walter Ullmann (1910–1983)
by David Ibbetson
Otto Kahn-Freund (1900–1979)
by Mark Freedland
Ernst J. Cohn (1904–1976)
by Werner Lorenz
Comparative Law in Twentieth-century England
by J. A. Jolowicz
Clive M. Schmitthoff (1903–1990)
by John N. Adams
F. A. Mann (1907–1991)
by Lawrence Collins
Martin Wolff (1872–1953)
by Gerhard Dannemann
Kurt Lipstein (*1909)
by Christopher Forsyth
Private International Law in Twentieth-century England
by Peter North
Wolfgang Friedmann (1907–1972), with an Excursus on Gustav Radbruch (1878–1949)
by John Bell
Gerhard Leibholz (1901–1982)
by Manfred H. Wiegandt
Lassa Oppenheim (1858–1919)
by Mathias Schmoeckel
Hersch Lauterpacht (1897–1960)
by Martti Koskenniemi
Georg Schwarzenberger (1908–1991)
by Stephanie Steinle
Public International Law in Twentieth-century England
by James Crawford
Hermann Mannheim (1889–1974) and Max Grünhut (1893–1964)
by Roger Hood
Emigré Legal Scholars in Britain—Personal Recollections
by Peter Stein
German Refugees in Oxford—Some Personal Recollections
by Barry Nicholas
Kurt Lipstein—The Scholar and the Man
by Christian v. Bar
Cambridge 1933–2002
by Kurt Lipstein
Appendix
by Frank Wooldridge, Jack Beatson, Reinhard Zimmerman
Errata
No full textMatthew W. Finkin's review of Jack Beatson and Reinhard Zimmermann, Jurists Uprooted: German-Speaking Émigré Lawyers in Twentieth-Century Britain (LHR 24 [2006]: 459-62), mispelled the names of Jack Beatson, Barry Nicholas, Gerhard Leibholz, and Wolfgang Friedmann. The book review editor regrets these errors.</jats:p
Designing self-service technologies for e-wellness
No full textIn the context of an international economic shift from manufacturing to services and the constant expansion of industries towards online services (Sheth and Sharma, 2008), this study is concerned with the design of self-service technologies (SSTs) for online environments. An industry heavily adopting SSTs across a variety of different services is Health and Wellness, where figures show an ever growing number of health and wellness apps being developed, downloaded and abandoned (Kelley, 2014). Little is known about how to enhance people’s engagement with online wellness SSTs to support self-health management and self-efficacy. This literature review argues that service design of wellness SSTs in online contexts can be improved by developing an enhanced understanding from a people perspective and customer experience point of view. Customer value, quality of service, usability, and self-efficacy all play an important role in understanding how to design SSTs for wellness and keep users engaged. There is a need for further study on how people interact and engage with online services in the context of wellness in order to design engaging wellness services
Identifying mobile health engagement stages: Interviews and observations for developing brief message content
No full textBACKGROUND: Interest in mobile health (mHealth) has increased recently, and research suggests that mHealth devices can enhance end-user engagement, especially when used in conjunction with brief message content. OBJECTIVE: This research aims to explore the stages of engagement framework for mHealth devices and develop a method to generate brief message content to promote sustained user engagement. This study uses the framework by O'Brien and Toms as a point of departure, where engagement is defined as the uptake or the use of an mHealth device. The framework is a linear repeatable process, including point of engagement, period of engagement, disengagement, and re-engagement. Each stage is characterized by attributes related to a person's technology experience. Although the literature has identified stages of engagement for health-related technology, few studies explore mHealth engagement. Furthermore, little research has determined a method for creating brief message content at each stage in this engagement journey. METHODS: Interviews and observations from 19 participants who used mHealth technologies (apps, devices, or wellness websites) in a solo capacity were recruited for sample group 1. In sample group 2, interviews, and observations from 25 participants using mHealth technologies in a group capacity through the Global Corporate Challenge were used. These samples were investigated at 3 time points in both research contexts. The results underwent deductive-inductive thematic analysis for the engagement stages' framework and attributes. RESULTS: In addition to the 4 stages identified by O'Brien and Toms, 2 additional stages, self-management and limited engagement, were identified. Self-management captures where users had disengaged from their technology but were still engaged with their health activity. Limited engagement captures where group mHealth users had minimal interaction with their mHealth technology but continued to engage in a group fitness activity. The results revealed that mHealth engagement stages were nonlinear and embedded in a wider engagement context and that each stage was characterized by a combination of 49 attributes that could be organized into 8 themes. Themes documented the total user experience and included technology usability, technology features, technology aesthetics, use motivations, health awareness, goal setting, social support, and interruptions. Different themes were found to have more relevance at different engagement stages. Knowing themes and attributes at all engagement stages allows technology developers and health care professionals to generate relevant brief message content informed by a person-centered approach. CONCLUSIONS: This research extends an existing engagement stages framework and identifies attributes and themes relevant to mHealth technology users' total user experience and incorporates concepts derived from health, business studies, and information systems literature. In addition, we offer a practical 5-step process based on a person-centered approach to develop mHealth technology brief message content for sustained engagement
The principle of Ultra Vires and the local authorities’ decisions in England
No full textThe hypothesis of this thesis is that valid administrative decisions from local authorities are guaranteed via clear and precise enabling clauses in the primary legislation. Taking examples from local government in England, the author argues that the style of drafting local authorities’ legislations influences decisions taken by local authorities - so in attempting to exercise implied powers conferred by the imprecise enabling legislation and insufficient guidance, local authorities tend to go beyond intended legal powers and as a result take unreasonable, arbitrary and invalid decisions
Mortality Salience and Cultural Cringe: The Australian Way of Responding to Thoughts of Death
No full text© The Author(s) 2014. Kashima ES, Beatson R, Kaufmann L,
Branchflower S, Marques MD. Mortality Salience and Cultural Cringe: The
Australian Way of Responding to Thoughts of Death. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. 2014;45(10):1534-1548. doi:10.1177/0022022114543521Terror Management Theory predicts that mortality salience (MS) instigates cultural worldview defenses, especially among individuals with lower self-esteem. That MS intensifies positive evaluations of pro-U.S. essay authors, and negative evaluations of anti-U.S. essay authors have been documented as supportive evidence. However, the evidence to date may have been limited to where praising for the former and rejection of the latter authors is consistent with a shared cultural script and thus normative. In the case of Australian people, the cultural script of cringe prescribes them to evaluate their country modestly and to reject high praise of their country. We therefore predicted that MS (vs. control) should lead Australians, with low self-esteem in particular, to evaluate pro-Australia essay authors less positively while not affecting their evaluations of anti-Australia essay authors. Results from two studies were consistent with this prediction. It is important to distinguish MS effects on adherence to cultural norms from those on reaffirming collective self-esteem, and to consider relevant cultural scripts when interpreting evidence for worldview defenses.</div
Cadherin-like domains in alpha-dystroglycan, alpha/epsilon-sarcoglycan and yeast and bacterial proteins
No full textDystrophin, a gene product that is mutated in individuals with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, is tethered to the extracellular matrix via membrane-associated multimolecular complexes. In striated muscle cells this complex contains two glycoprotein subcomplexes, the sarcoglycan (SG) and dystroglycan (DG) complexes. Disruption of these large transmembrane complexes has been shown to result in muscle disease. Altered glycosylation of α-DG is associated with two types of congenital muscular dystrophy [1. and 2.] and mutations in the α-DG–binding laminin α2 gene product is linked to a third congenital muscular dystrophy [3.]. Mutations in α-SG (adhalin) and var epsilon-SG result in type 2D limb-girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD2D) and myoclonus-dystonia syndrome (a CNS disorder), respectively [4. and 5.]. The dystroglycan gene product is cleaved post-translationally to yield two associated glycoproteins [6.]. α-DG represents the highly glycosylated amino-terminal portion, which binds several extracellular molecules, whereas the β-DG carboxy-terminal portion spans the membrane and links to the actin cytoskeleton via dystrophin or its paralogue utrophin. DG and α/var epsilon-SG homologues are known in other vertebrates and invertebrates yet their domain contents and evolutionary heritages have not been reported. Here we reveal that DG and α/var epsilon-SG sequences contain cadherin domain homologues (see legend to Fig. 1). In animals, cadherin domain-containing proteins are adhesion molecules that modulate a wide variety of processes including cell polarization and migration [7.]. Our study also identified cadherin domains in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Axl2p (also known as Sro4p and Bud10p) and several very large proteins from magnetotactic bacteria
Easyfig: A genome comparison visualizer
No full textEasyfig is a Python application for creating linear comparison figures of multiple genomic loci with an easy-to-use graphical user interface. BLAST comparisons between multiple genomic regions, ranging from single genes to whole prokaryote chromosomes, can be generated, visualized and interactively coloured, enabling a rapid transition between analysis and the preparation of publication quality figures. © The Author(s) 2011. Published by Oxford University Press
Bell, Rev. Sir Nicholas Dodd Beatson, (1867–12 Feb. 1936), ICS; Vicar of Cornish Hall End since 1932
No full textSystematic review: Effects of sustained nurse home visiting programs for disadvantaged mothers and children
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