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A Bibliometric Analysis and Visualisation of Research Trends in Toxicity of Nickel-implants
No full textNickel is one of the most used metals for implants. The bibliometric analysis had been conducted to understand the active authors, organizations, journals, and countries involved in the research domain of “Toxicity of Nickel-implants”. All published articles related to “Toxicity of Nickel-implants” from “Scopus”, were analyzed using the VOS viewer to develop analysis tables and visualization maps. This article had set the objective to consolidate the scientific literature regarding “Toxicity of Nickel-implants” and also to find out the trends related to the same. The most active journals in this research domain biomaterial. The most active country was the United States of America and United Kingdom. The leading organization engaged in the research regarding the toxicity of Nickel implants was the Rush University Medical Center, United States of America. The most active author who had made valuable contributions related to the toxicity of Nickel implants was Hallab N.J.
 
Effect of vitamin A deficiency on oxalate uptake by rat intestinal brush border membrane vesicles (BBMV) and its contribution towards urolithiasis.
No full text"Naturalization" and Naturalization Law: Some Empirical Observations
No full textIan F. Haney López, White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race. New York: New York University Press, 1996. Pp. xiv, 296. 17.95 (paper). Fourteen years ago, Robert Gordon noted that scholars associated with the Critical Legal Studies movement "pay a lot of attention to history." In fact, wrote Gordon, Critical Legal Studies scholars "have probably devoted more pages to historical description - particularly the intellectual history of legal doctrine - than to anything else." Much the same could be said today of the academic movement known as Critical Race Theory. Although Critical Race theorists are concerned above all with alleviating current racial injustice, they devote a good deal of their intellectual energy to examining the past. In the following Book Note, I consider one of the most recent and celebrated historical contributions to Critical Race Theory, Ian Haney López's White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race. Unlike other evaluations of White by Law, this Book Note focuses not on Haney López's theoretical objectives, but on one of his central empirical claims. In particular, it examines Haney López's pathbreaking discussion of the role anthropological evidence played in determining the outcome of two Supreme Court decisions of the 1920s: Ozawa v. United States and United States v. Thind. Both decisions clarified the racial requirements for becoming a naturalized U.S. citizen under federal law. I have divided this Book Note into three brief sections. First, I describe the subject of White by Law and explain why Haney López's analysis of Ozawa and Thind forms the foundation on which he constructs his more general historical and normative conclusions. Second, by considering the language of Ozawa and Thind and the jurisprudence of Justice George Sutherland, the author of both decisions, I suggest how that analysis is open to empirical critique. My remarks on Justice Sutherland focus on his consistent wariness toward the use of social science by the Supreme Court, as well as on his drive to consolidate federal authority over international affairs. Finally, I propose an alternative perspective on Ozawa and Thind that I hope might supplement Haney López's trenchant interpretation
Naturalization and Naturalization Law: Some Empirical Observations
No full textIan F. Haney López, White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race. New York: New York University Press, 1996. Pp. xiv, 296. 17.95 (paper).
Fourteen years ago, Robert Gordon noted that scholars associated with the Critical Legal Studies movement pay a lot of attention to history. In fact, wrote Gordon, Critical Legal Studies scholars have probably devoted more pages to historical description - particularly the intellectual history of legal doctrine - than to anything else. Much the same could be said today of the academic movement known as Critical Race Theory. Although Critical Race theorists are concerned above all with alleviating current racial injustice, they devote a good deal of their intellectual energy to examining the past. In the following Book Note, I consider one of the most recent and celebrated historical contributions to Critical Race Theory, Ian Haney López\u27s White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race. Unlike other evaluations of White by Law, this Book Note focuses not on Haney López\u27s theoretical objectives, but on one of his central empirical claims. In particular, it examines Haney López\u27s pathbreaking discussion of the role anthropological evidence played in determining the outcome of two Supreme Court decisions of the 1920s: Ozawa v. United States and United States v. Thind. Both decisions clarified the racial requirements for becoming a naturalized U.S. citizen under federal law.
I have divided this Book Note into three brief sections. First, I describe the subject of White by Law and explain why Haney López\u27s analysis of Ozawa and Thind forms the foundation on which he constructs his more general historical and normative conclusions. Second, by considering the language of Ozawa and Thind and the jurisprudence of Justice George Sutherland, the author of both decisions, I suggest how that analysis is open to empirical critique. My remarks on Justice Sutherland focus on his consistent wariness toward the use of social science by the Supreme Court, as well as on his drive to consolidate federal authority over international affairs. Finally, I propose an alternative perspective on Ozawa and Thind that I hope might supplement Haney López\u27s trenchant interpretation
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Not white enough ::the long, shameful road to Japanese American Internment /
No full text"Not White Enough is a trade legal and political history of anti-Asian bigotry, beginning with the California Gold Rush and ending with the infamous Supreme Court decision that upheld the imprisonment without trial of more than 100,000 innocent Americans on the spurious grounds of national security. The book demonstrates how law and politics bled into each other for decades to enable two-tiered justice, brushing aside Constitutional guarantees of equality under law. Not White Enough examines each of the key Supreme Court decisions-Wong Kim Ark, Ozawa, and Thind, for example-as expressions of political will and not simply jurisprudence. The author chronicles the political history of racism that made Japanese internment almost inevitable, including the key role San Francisco mayors James D. Phelan and Eugene Schmitz, political boss Abe Ruef, and California attorney general Ulysses Webb played in instigating, for political convenience, some of the most egregious anti-Asian legislation"-
Formation of Mn-rich interfacial phases in Co2FexMn1-xSi thin films
No full textWe report the formation of Mn-rich regions at the interface of Co2FexMn1-xSi
thin films grown on GaAs substrates by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE). Scanning
transmission electron microscopy (STEM) with electron energy loss (EEL)
spectrum imaging reveals that each interfacial region: (1) is 1-2 nm wide, (2)
occurs irrespective of the Fe/Mn composition ratio and in both Co-rich and
Co-poor films, and (3) displaces both Co and Fe indiscriminately. We also
observe a Mn-depleted region in each film directly above each Mn-rich
interfacial layer, roughly 3 nm in width in the x = 0 and x = 0.3 films, and 1
nm in the x = 0.7 (less Mn) film. We posit that growth energetics favor Mn
diffusion to the interface even when there is no significant Ga interdiffusion
into the epitaxial film. Element-specific X-ray magnetic circular dichroism
(XMCD) measurements show larger Co, Fe, and Mn orbital to spin magnetic moment
ratios compared to bulk values across the Co2FexMn1-xSi compositional range.
The values lie between reported values for pure bulk and nanostructured Co, Fe,
and Mn materials, corroborating the non-uniform, layered nature of the material
on the nanoscale. Finally, SQUID magnetometry demonstrates that the films
deviate from the Slater-Pauling rule for uniform films of both the expected and
the measured composition. The results inform a need for care and increased
scrutiny when forming Mn-based magnetic thin films on III-V semiconductors like
GaAs, particularly when films are on the order of 5 nm or when interface
composition is critical to spin transport or other device applications.We acknowledge support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), USA through NSF-CAREER Award No. DMR-2047251. ICTS-CNME at UCM is acknowledged for offering access to STEM microscopy and expertise. ICMAB author acknowledges Spain’s Agencia Estatal de Investigación Severo Ochoa Program for Centers of Excellence in R&D (CEX2019-000917-S). The work at Washington University was supported by the NSF through awards # DMR-1806147 and DMR-2145797. A portion of the STEM experiments were performed at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS), which is a US Department of Energy, Office of Science User Facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.With funding from the Spanish government through the ‘Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence’ accreditation (CEX2019-000917-S).Peer reviewe
Financing the embedded value of life insurance portfolios
No full textIn May 2004 the CFO Forum harmonized the various efforts of reporting the embedded valueof life insurance companies by issuing the European Embedded Value (EEV) Principles.In this working paper a methodology is proposed to derive a maximum lending amountfrom EEV figures without much additional data requirements from the originating insurer. The approach chosen is similar to that of other financing areas, e.g. real estate finance, where first a prudent best estimate valuation is done and later risk deductions are performed in the form of applying loan to value ratios, e.g. 60-80 % of the prudent amount. Here, this prudent value is called bankable embedded value and the loan to value analysis presented leads to the maximum lending amount. The deductions proposed to arrive at a maximum lending amount are based on parameter adjustments and risk allowances for unexpected risks. There is an analogy with insurers for determining their own capital needs. The methodology proposed is based on the stress test approach which increasingly gains popularity with insurance supervisors in Europe. --European embedded value,embedded value,life insurance policies,maximum lending amount,required capital,risk analysis,risk discount rate,value reporting and analysis,value sensitivity analysis
Cardiovascular Complications of Marijuana and Related Substances: A Review
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How does Canada stack up? A bibliometric analysis of the primary healthcare electronic medical record literature
No full textBackground Major initiatives are underway in Canada which are designed to increase electronic medical record (EMR) implementation and maximise its use in primary health care. These developments need to be supported by sufficient evidence from the literature, particularly relevant research conducted in the Canadian context.Objectives This study sought to quantify this lack of research by: (1) identifying and describing the primary health care EMR literature; and (2) comparing the Canadian and international primary healthcare EMR literature on the basis of content and publication levels.Methods Seven bibliographic databases were searched using primary health care and EMR keywords. Publication abstracts were reviewed and categorised. First author affiliation was used to identify country of origin. Proportions of Canadian- and non-Canadian-authored publications were compared using Fisher’s exact test. For countries having 10 or more primary healthcare EMR publications, publications per 10 000 researchers were calculated.Results After exclusions, 750 publications were identified. More than one-third used primary healthcare EMRs as a study data source. Twenty-two (3%) were Canadian-authored. There were significantly different publication levels in three categories between Canadian- and non-Canadian-authored publications. Based on publications per researchers, the Netherlands ranked first, while Canada ranked eighth of nine countries with 10 or more publications.Conclusions A relatively small body of literature focused on EMRs in primary health care exists; publications by Canadian authors were low. This study highlights the need to develop a strong evidence base to support the effective implementation</p
