In the World but Not of It: Negotiating Evangelical Tradition and Gendered Identity in Contemporary Family Life

Evangelical Protestants are an influential force in the world of politics, particularly in bringing debates over family values to the forefront of public life within the last thirty years. Their perspectives on gender have become a central point of contention in the so-called culture wars in American society. Recent research shows that the majority of evangelicals do not embody gender roles that fit within traditional, patriarchal, and gender essentialist models once central to evangelical thought on family life. Evangelicals live out their everyday family lives in much the same way as non-evangelicals and non-religious Americans. Research on evangelicals and subcultural identity theories is here placed within the context of individual and collective narrative identity formation to demonstrate how the fusion between the gender essentialist symbols that persist in evangelical perspectives on the family and the everyday tasks encountered in family life assists evangelicals in fulfilling the biblical mandate to be in the world but remain not of it. Evangelicals\u27 negotiations of gender roles have taken place through debates both within the subculture and within mainstream American culture and have led to the construction of a dominant form of evangelical gender practice that combines gender essentialist notions and the egalitarian treatment of both sexes in marital and familial relationships. This symbolic traditionalism and practical egalitarianism (Gallagher 2003), and the debates on gender in evangelicalism in general, demonstrate the role of evangelical agency in assessing both the biblical validity of various perspectives on gender and the efficacy of employing these gender views in their own lives

Preliminary evaluation of the electrapette for possible use in the glovebox for pipetting plutonium solutions

At the Los Alamos Laboratory Plutonium Facility, Solution Assay Instruments (SAIs) are used to provide real-time information on the plutonium (Pu) content of the process stream at various stages in the process. Much of the solution analysis must be carried and as a glovebox to protect the operator from radiation. In order to overcome some of the difficulties usually encountered when working in a glovebox, an electronic solution-volume measuring device called an Electrapette was ordered from Matrix Technologies Corporation. It is said to be highly accurate, simple to use, and can handle the 25 ml of solution required for SAI analyses. It is microprocessor-controlled and comes in two components connected by a detachable cable so that the electronic part can be installed outside the box, while the nosepiece is inside. The two pieces are connected through a plug-in on the glovebox wall. The Electrapette was tested in three sets of experiments: a cold'' lab set, a set run is a hood in a production building, and a third set run in a glovebox using a process solution whose density had been predetermined. The accuracy of the determination could not be determined because the samples had been mixed with other feed before being sent for analysis by the Electrapette. 2 refs., 5 tabs

Angiopoietin-1 inhibits tumour growth and ascites formation in a murine model of peritoneal carcinomatosis

Angiopoietin-1 is an important regulator of endothelial cell survival. Angiopoietin-1 also reduces vascular permeability mediated by vascular endothelial growth factor. The effects of angiopoietin-1 on tumour growth and angiogenesis are controversial. We hypothesised that angiopoietin-1 would decrease tumour growth and ascites formation in peritoneal carcinomatosis. Human colon cancer cells (KM12L4) were transfected with vector (pcDNA) alone (control) or vector containing angiopoietin-1 and injected into the peritoneal cavities of mice. After 30 days, the following parameters were measured: number of peritoneal nodules, ascites volume, and diameter of the largest tumour. Effects of angiopoietin-1 on vascular permeability were investigated using an intradermal Miles assay with conditioned media from transfected cells. Seven of the nine mice in the pcDNA group developed ascites (1.3±0.5 ml (mean±s.e.m.)), whereas no ascites was detectable in the angiopoietin-1 group (0 out of 10) (P<0.01). Number of peritoneal metastases (P<0.05), tumour volume, (P<0.05), vessel counts (P<0.01), and tumour cell proliferation (P<0.01) were significantly reduced in angiopoietin-1-expressing tumours. Conditioned medium from angiopoietin-1-transfected cells decreased vascular permeability more than did conditioned medium from control cells (P<0.05). Our results suggest that angiopoietin-1 is an important mediator of angiogenesis and vascular permeability and thus could theoretically serve as an anti-neoplastic agent for patients with carcinomatosis from colorectal cancer

The neglected needs of care leavers in the criminal justice system: Practitioners' perspectives and the persistence of problem (corporate) parenting

The link between experiences of care and criminal justice systems is well documented, yet curiously neglected in policy and practice. While the over-representation of care leavers in the justice system is often taken as given, there has been negligible change in policy and practice that appropriately responds to the needs of these individuals. Drawing on interviews with practitioners, this article highlights a series of organizational and institutional barriers to implementing a unique intervention. More broadly, such barriers contribute to the persistence of care(less) practice, facilitating the neglect of care leavers’ needs to a system dominated by risk. It is argued that the continued inertia within this area can only be construed as practice negligence and an affront to justice

Introduction

“This right has in fact been exercised, under the American Convention, by persons who survive under extreme adversity (poor and marginalized persons, ‘street children’, incarcerated individuals, the next of kin of missing persons, among others). It is under circumstances such as these that International Human Rights Law attains its fullness and realizes its ultimate aim. Protection of victims and reparations for the damage they have suffered constitute its raison d’être.” Antônio A. Cançado T..

Liste des acronymes

Juridictions et organisations internationales CDI – Commission du droit international CIDH - I/A Court H.R. – Cour interaméricaine des droits de l’homme CEDH – Cour européenne des droits de l’homme CADH – Convention américaine relatives aux droits de l’homme CVDT – Convention de Vienne sur le droit des traités CIJ – Cour internationale de Justice CPIJ – Cour permanente de Justice internationale OEA – Organisation des États américains ONU – Organisation des Nations Unies TPIY – Tribunal Pénal ..

1. Le Jus Cogens : sa nature et l’identification de ses normes

Le jus cogens a pris racine dans les esprits juridiques dans la foulée – et l’effervescence – de la création des Nations Unies, de l’adoption de la Déclaration universelle des droits de l’homme, de l’ère de décolonisation qui s’ensuit et de l’adoption des deux Pactes onusiens relatifs aux droits de l’homme. Il apparaît peu à peu comme la conséquence inéluctable de la mise en place d’un droit objectif et communautaire, miroir d’une société internationale dont : [l]e nouveau droit des gens fond..