The Supreme Court Fails to Decide the Inverse Condemnation Issue: MacDonald, Sommer & Frates v. Yolo County

The purpose of this Article is to review and organize the current law of inverse condemnation in light of MacDonald. First this Article briefly reviews the origin of inverse condemnation and the tangled web woven by the Court in Agins, San Diego Gas, and Hamilton Bank. Second, the Article reviews MacDonald and the state of the law after MacDonald. Finally, the Article provides some insight into what action can be expected from the Court on inverse condemnation and finishes with some practical considerations for current land use disputes

Forfeiture of Residential Land Contracts in Ohio: The Need for Further Reform of a Reform Statute

The purpose of this article is to examine the problems created by Chapter 5313, Installment Land Contracts (the Act ). In order to do that, the article begins with a background section which more fully describes the type of contractual arrangement under discussion, why people use land contracts, and the economic factors in the current Ohio real estate market which have caused an increase in the use of land contracts and may cause mounting problems with Ohio\u27s land contract statute. The second section describes the common law treatment of land contract defaults and the positions taken by states other than Ohio. The next section discusses Ohio law both before and after passage of the Act, along with the history of the Act. The last section considers the various policies raised in the prior sections and contains proposals for both legislative and judicial action

Ohio Land Contract Law

This Article is taken from Chapter 4, Installment Land Contracts, of the authors\u27 multi-volume treatise, Ohio Real Property Law and Practice, (Michie Co., 5th ed., to be published 1995). This Article appears in substantially the same form as it will appear in the upcoming treatise; however, the footnotes have been altered to conform with A Uniform System of Citation (15th ed. 1st printing 1991), copyright by the Columbia and University of Pennsylvania Law Reviews, the Harvard Law Review Association, and the Yale Law Journal

Quality metrics for the evaluation of Rapid Response Systems: Proceedings from the third international consensus conference on Rapid Response Systems.

BACKGROUND: Clinically significant deterioration of patients admitted to general wards is a recognized complication of hospital care. Rapid Response Systems (RRS) aim to reduce the number of avoidable adverse events. The authors aimed to develop a core quality metric for the evaluation of RRS. METHODS: We conducted an international consensus process. Participants included patients, carers, clinicians, research scientists, and members of the International Society for Rapid Response Systems with representatives from Europe, Australia, Africa, Asia and the US. Scoping reviews of the literature identified potential metrics. We used a modified Delphi methodology to arrive at a list of candidate indicators that were reviewed for feasibility and applicability across a broad range of healthcare systems including low and middle-income countries. The writing group refined recommendations and further characterized measurement tools. RESULTS: Consensus emerged that core outcomes for reporting for quality improvement should include ten metrics related to structure, process and outcome for RRS with outcomes following the domains of the quadruple aim. The conference recommended that hospitals should collect data on cardiac arrests and their potential predictability, timeliness of escalation, critical care interventions and presence of written treatment goals for patients remaining on general wards. Unit level reporting should include the presence of patient activated rapid response and metrics of organizational culture. We suggest two exploratory cost metrics to underpin urgently needed research in this area. CONCLUSION: A consensus process was used to develop ten metrics for better understanding the course and care of deteriorating ward patients. Others are proposed for further development

Learning From Early Attempts to Generalize Darwinian Principles to Social Evolution

Copyright University of Hertfordshire & author.Evolutionary psychology places the human psyche in the context of evolution, and addresses the Darwinian processes involved, particularly at the level of genetic evolution. A logically separate and potentially complementary argument is to consider the application of Darwinian principles not only to genes but also to social entities and processes. This idea of extending Darwinian principles was suggested by Darwin himself. Attempts to do this appeared as early as the 1870s and proliferated until the early twentieth century. But such ideas remained dormant in the social sciences from the 1920s until after the Second World War. Some lessons can be learned from this earlier period, particularly concerning the problem of specifying the social units of selection or replication

Large-scale association analysis identifies new lung cancer susceptibility loci and heterogeneity in genetic susceptibility across histological subtypes.

Although several lung cancer susceptibility loci have been identified, much of the heritability for lung cancer remains unexplained. Here 14,803 cases and 12,262 controls of European descent were genotyped on the OncoArray and combined with existing data for an aggregated genome-wide association study (GWAS) analysis of lung cancer in 29,266 cases and 56,450 controls. We identified 18 susceptibility loci achieving genome-wide significance, including 10 new loci. The new loci highlight the striking heterogeneity in genetic susceptibility across the histological subtypes of lung cancer, with four loci associated with lung cancer overall and six loci associated with lung adenocarcinoma. Gene expression quantitative trait locus (eQTL) analysis in 1,425 normal lung tissue samples highlights RNASET2, SECISBP2L and NRG1 as candidate genes. Other loci include genes such as a cholinergic nicotinic receptor, CHRNA2, and the telomere-related genes OFBC1 and RTEL1. Further exploration of the target genes will continue to provide new insights into the etiology of lung cancer