107 research outputs found
The Panic Defense and Model Rules Common Sense: A Practical Solution for a Twenty-first Century Ethical Dilemma
The attorney-client relationshipremains one of the mosthighly regarded associations in society and is ofindispensable importance for criminal defendants, but itis not a relationship that lasts forever. The Model Rules ofProfessional Conduct (Model Rules) not only allowbreaking this affiliation, but also sometimes demand it.Yet, in other circumstances, the Model Rules and judicialcustom may force an attorney to proceed with arepresentation-even in the face of fundamentaldisagreement with the core defense in a criminal case.Through the avenue of the gay panic defense, this Noteexplores how attorneys can become trapped between theirown moral beliefs and professional responsibilities, thusexposing a larger conflict in professional ethics. Howshould an attorney proceed when a case demands adefensive strategy that the attorney finds reprehensible?Should counsel set aside personal views, arguing the bestdefense for a client no matter how deep his disagreement?This Note demonstrates that the best interest of a clientmay, at times, be best served by allowing the attorney towithdraw. Therefore, this Note proposes amending theModel Rules to explicitly allow attorneys to withdraw inthe most extreme moral conflicts-an abort button to beused sparingly, but swiftly, so that a client\u27s interests canbe best served, even if by another lawyer
Strongly Coupled Matter-Field and Non-Analytic Decay Rate of Dipole Molecules in a Waveguide
The decay rate \gam of an excited dipole molecule inside a waveguide is
evaluated for the strongly coupled matter-field case near a cutoff frequency
\ome_c without using perturbation analysis. Due to the singularity in the
density of photon states at the cutoff frequency, we find that \gam depends
non-analytically on the coupling constant as . In contrast
to the ordinary evaluation of \gam which relies on the Fermi golden rule
(itself based on perturbation analysis), \gam has an upper bound and does not
diverge at \ome_c even if we assume perfect conductance in the waveguide
walls. As a result, again in contrast to the statement found in the literature,
the speed of emitted light from the molecule does not vanish at \ome_c and is
proportional to which is on the order of m/s for
typical dipole molecules.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figure
Universal corrections to scaling for block entanglement in spin-1/2 XX chains
We consider the R\'enyi entropies in the one dimensional spin-1/2
Heisenberg XX chain in a magnetic field. The case n=1 corresponds to the von
Neumann ``entanglement'' entropy. Using a combination of methods based on the
generalized Fisher-Hartwig conjecture and a recurrence relation connected to
the Painlev\'e VI differential equation we obtain the asymptotic behaviour,
accurate to order , of the R\'enyi entropies
for large block lengths . For n=1,2,3,10 this constitutes the 3,6,10,48
leading terms respectively. The o(1) contributions are found to exhibit a rich
structure of oscillatory behaviour, which we analyze in some detail both for
finite and in the limit .Comment: 25 pages, 5 figure
Nutrition Support in Acute Kidney Injury
Acute kidney injury is a frequent complication affecting many hospitalized patients and is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. Acute kidney injury often occurs in conjunction with critical illness, which is a hypermetabolic state presenting with hyperglycemia, insulin resistance, hypertriglyceridemia, and increased protein catabolism. In addition to addressing these changes, the clinician should evaluate the important nutrition implications of decreased kidney function. These include vitamins, electrolytes, minerals, trace elements, and the presence and type of renal replacement therapy. Optimal nutrition management in acute kidney injury includes providing adequate macronutrient support to correct underlying conditions and prevent ongoing loss, supplementing micronutrients and vitamins during renal replacement therapy, and adjusting electrolyte replacement based on the degree and extent of renal dysfunction
Pediculosis and the Pediatrician
Head lice commonly evoke feelings of disgust, revulsion, anger, and shame among parents and patients. There should, however, be no great cause for such alarm if a physician suspects pediculosis capitis. The recent introduction of several new pediculicidal drugs now allows a choice among four distinct therapeutic agents, which should substantially improve control of isolated cases and epidemics. Physicians must be aware that consumer groups are pressing public health authorities and drug manufacturers to establish proper treatment standards and safety warnings for the use of these agents. In addition, some controversy surrounds the use of lindane in children. This paper reviews the epidemiology and clinical appearance of pediculosis capitis in children, with emphasis on these recent developments. Pubic lice ( Phthirus pubis ) and body lice ( Pedicutus humanus corporis ), both of which are much less common pediatric infestations, are mentioned only briefly.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/72607/1/j.1525-1470.1984.tb00447.x.pd
Demonstrating a superconducting dual-rail cavity qubit with erasure-detected logical measurements
A critical challenge in developing scalable error-corrected quantum systems
is the accumulation of errors while performing operations and measurements. One
promising approach is to design a system where errors can be detected and
converted into erasures. A recent proposal aims to do this using a dual-rail
encoding with superconducting cavities. In this work, we implement such a
dual-rail cavity qubit and use it to demonstrate a projective logical
measurement with erasure detection. We measure logical state preparation and
measurement errors at the -level and detect over of cavity decay
events as erasures. We use the precision of this new measurement protocol to
distinguish different types of errors in this system, finding that while decay
errors occur with probability per microsecond, phase errors occur
6 times less frequently and bit flips occur at least 170 times less frequently.
These findings represent the first confirmation of the expected error hierarchy
necessary to concatenate dual-rail erasure qubits into a highly efficient
erasure code
The Panic Defense and Model Rules Common Sense: A Practical Solution for a Twenty-first Century Ethical Dilemma
The attorney-client relationshipremains one of the mosthighly regarded associations in society and is ofindispensable importance for criminal defendants, but itis not a relationship that lasts forever. The Model Rules ofProfessional Conduct (Model Rules) not only allowbreaking this affiliation, but also sometimes demand it.Yet, in other circumstances, the Model Rules and judicialcustom may force an attorney to proceed with arepresentation-even in the face of fundamentaldisagreement with the core defense in a criminal case.Through the avenue of the gay panic defense, this Noteexplores how attorneys can become trapped between theirown moral beliefs and professional responsibilities, thusexposing a larger conflict in professional ethics. Howshould an attorney proceed when a case demands adefensive strategy that the attorney finds reprehensible?Should counsel set aside personal views, arguing the bestdefense for a client no matter how deep his disagreement?This Note demonstrates that the best interest of a clientmay, at times, be best served by allowing the attorney towithdraw. Therefore, this Note proposes amending theModel Rules to explicitly allow attorneys to withdraw inthe most extreme moral conflicts-an abort button to beused sparingly, but swiftly, so that a client\u27s interests canbe best served, even if by another lawyer
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