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Recording the new renaissance: Legal education and legal profession during and after COVID-19
No full textCOVID-19 is a deadly pandemic that has impacted all walks of human life. As we write this editorial, the traces of coronavirus still continue to remain in the world amid many continuing human efforts to wipe them out. Although the light of hope—the luminosity of freedom—is brimming on the horizon, it only consoles the soul. The sigh of relief is far off. Losses caused by this deadly monster have been countless—of lives, health, peace, love, protection, care, and security. Everyone’s heart goes out to the other—we are human, after all. But that’s not the best we can do in our fight against the Pandemic. We need to battle the malady. We need to gather the fragments strewn by the blow of the Pandemic and secure them from further destruction. We need to renew our creative energies. We need to renew our collective willing and acting
Overcoming the Boundaries of Legal Education: How to Make Sense of the Pandemic
No full textThe COVID-19 pandemic has confronted most Universities, and in partic-ular Universities in Continental Europe, with the necessity to critically revise some of the most traditional aspects of legal education. This paper argues that we strongly need to overcome two forms of “isolation” that characterized the orthodox model of legal education: (a) territorial isolation, deriving from the idea that the law that has to be taught and learnt is primarily the law of the territory; (b) methodological isolation, represented by the idea of a necessary cleavage between law and its environment. The pandemic experience, among other factors, has put such elements under strain, insofar as it abolished the physical borders through the massive recourse to digital technologies (platforms for legal education and open access) and the methodological ones as a result of the increasing resort to the law as an instrument of social gover-nance in a time of emergency. The pandemic may be a trigger for a more humanist form of legal education, one that locates the law—to recall a famous essay by Justice Kasirer—within the dimension of the “cosmos”, rather than that of the “empire”
FIGURE 1. Musa arunachalensis. A. habit. B. pseudostem. C. leaf abaxial surface. D in Musa arunachalensis: a new species of Musa section Rhodochlamys (Musaceae) from Arunachal Pradesh, northeastern India
No full textFIGURE 1. Musa arunachalensis. A. habit. B. pseudostem. C. leaf abaxial surface. D. inflorescence at arising stage. E. inflorescence at advanced blooming. F. bract adaxial surface. G. bract abaxial surface. H–K. female flower parts. H. entire flower. I. compound tepal. J. free tepal. K. Pistil with staminodes. L–P. male flower parts. L. entire flower. M. compound tepal. N. free tepal. O. rudiment pistilode with stamens. P. pistilode. Photos by Alfred Joe.Published as part of Sreejith, Puravannoor E., Joe, Alfred & Sabu, Mamiyil, 2013, Musa arunachalensis: a new species of Musa section Rhodochlamys (Musaceae) from Arunachal Pradesh, northeastern India, pp. 49-54 in Phytotaxa 134 (1) on page 51, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.134.1.4, http://zenodo.org/record/508609
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Ecological Impact of Tsunami on the nearshore western coasts of Kerala and Tamil Nadu
No full textDeapartment of Ocean Development (DOD), Government of IndiaUnpublishedope
Mitomycin C in highly myopic eyes - Author reply
No full textOphthalmology. 2005 Feb;112(2):208-18; discussion 219.
Mitomycin C modulation of corneal wound healing after photorefractive keratectomy in highly myopic eyes.
Gambato C, Ghirlando A, Moretto E, Busato F, Midena E.
SourceRefractive Surgery Service and Antimetabolite Therapy Research Unit, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.
Abstract
PURPOSE: To evaluate the role of topical mitomycin C in corneal wound healing (CWH) after photorefractive keratectomy (PRK) in highly myopic eyes.
DESIGN: Prospective, double-masked, randomized clinical trial.
PARTICIPANTS: Seventy-two eyes of 36 patients affected by high (>7 diopters) myopia.
METHODS: In each patient, one eye was randomly assigned to PRK with intraoperative topical 0.02% mitomycin C application, and the fellow eye was treated with a placebo. Postoperatively, mitomycin C-treated eyes received artificial tears (3 times daily, tapered in 3 months), whereas the fellow eye was treated with fluorometholone sodium 2% and artificial tears (3 times daily, tapered in 3 months).
MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Uncorrected visual acuity (UCVA) and best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA), contrast sensitivity, manifest refraction, and biomicroscopy. Contrast sensitivity was determined using the Pelli-Robson chart. Corneal confocal microscopy documented CWH.
RESULTS: Mean follow-up was 18 months (range, 12-36). No side effects or toxic effects were documented. At 12-month follow-up examination, UCVAs (logarithm of the minimum angle of resolution) were 0.4+/-0.48 and 0.5+/-0.53 (P = .03) in mitomycin C-treated eyes and corticosteroid-treated eyes, respectively. At 1 year, corneal haze developed in 20% of corticosteroid-treated eyes, versus 0% of mitomycin C-treated eyes. At 12, 24, and 36 months, corneal confocal microscopy showed activated keratocytes and extracellular matrix significantly more evident in untreated eyes (Ps = 0.004, 0.024, and 0.046, respectively).
CONCLUSION: Topical intraoperative application of 0.02% mitomycin C can reduce haze formation in highly myopic eyes undergoing PRK.
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Ophthalmology. 2006 Feb;113(2):357; author reply 357-8
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Very hot tea drinking increases esophageal squamous cell carcinoma risk in a high-risk area of China: a population-based case–control study
No full textAji Gopakumar,1 Anusha Sreejith,2 Shatha Al Sharbatti,2 Jayadevan Sreedharan2 1Institutional Research Unit, Gulf Medical University, Ajman, United Arab Emirates; 2Department of Community Medicine, College of Medicine, Gulf Medical University, Ajman, United Arab EmiratesThe objective of the study titled “Very hot tea drinking increases esophageal squamous cell carcinoma risk in a high-risk area of China: a population-based case–control study” by Yang et al1 was to find the effect of drinking very hot tea on the risk of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC). We appreciate the authors for their contribution to this area with a sound methodology, design, and well conduct of the research. Though the study was appreciable, there need some clarifications in the following areas in the analysis section of the article.View the original paper by Yang and colleagues. 
A Multi-Language Comparison of Influences on Author Verification using Character N-Grams
No full textWe create a new multi-language corpus for author verification based on Wikipedia talkpages, and evaluate the influence that differences in topic and time have on character n-gram author profiles. Topic alignment between two texts is found to increase author verification precision, and an authors writing style is found to change over time, but not more significantly after 3 years than after 1 year.Information ArchitectureWISElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc
A 0.12mm<sup>2</sup> Wien-Bridge Temperature Sensor with 0.1°C (3σ) Inaccuracy from -40°C to 180°C
No full text Resistor-based temperature sensors can achieve much higher resolution and energy efficiency than conventional BJT-based sensors [1], but they typically occupy more area (> 0.25 mm 2 ) and have lower operating temperatures (le 125 {circ} {C}) [2]-[4]. This work describes a 0.12mm 2 resistor-based sensor that uses a Wien-bridge (WB) filter to achieve 0.1 {circ} {C} (3 sigma) inaccuracy from - 40 {circ} {C} to 180 {circ} {C}. Compared to a state-of-the-art WB sensor [4], it occupies 6 × less area and achieves comparable relative accuracy over a 76% wider operating range. Session 10.3 Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Electronic InstrumentationMicroelectronic
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