Disabilities on Death Row: The ADA, Ableism, and Alternatives to the Eighth Amendment

In one of the most recent death penalty cases, the Supreme Court of the United States held that the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution’s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment does not guarantee a painless death and that the execution was constitutional if there was not “superadded” pain, despite the inmate’s disability causing extreme pain when he was required to lie down on a gurney.While the Court used an Eight Amendment analysis to determine whether additional pain triggers further protection for a death row inmate, it may be time to view some cruel and unusual punishment claims under a disability lens. This article will explore the use of disability law and potential legislation to provide accommodations for inmates with disabilities during executions. Accommodations for death row inmates may be unpopular—and even gruesome—to consider, but they may be the best way to ensure that an execution is as painless as possible. The article will review recent incidents involving “botched” executions where persons with disabilities such as obesity, small veins, and heart conditions were executed despite their disabilities and will propose a legislative framework for addressing these and other potential disability-related matters in death penalty cases

Exercise-induced respiratory muscle work: Effects on blood flow, fatigue and performance

This is the post print version of this article. The official published version can be obtained from the link below.In healthy subjects, heavy intensity endurance exercise places substantial demands on the respiratory muscles as breathing frequency, ventilation and the work of breathing rise over time. In the highly trained subject working at high absolute work rates, the ventilatory demand often causes varying degrees of expiratory flow limitation, sometimes accompanied by lung hyperinflation and, therefore, increased elastic work of breathing. Time-dependant increases in effort perceptions for both dyspnea and limb discomfort accompany these increased ventilatory demands. Similar responses to endurance exercise but at much lower exercise intensities also occur in patients with COPD and CHF. Note that these responses significantly influence exercise performance times in both health and disease. This effect was demonstrated by the marked reductions in the rate of rise of effort perceptions and the enhanced exercise performance times elicited by unloading the respiratory muscles using pressure support ventilation or proportional assist mechanical ventilation. In healthy fit subjects, unloading the inspiratory work of breathing by about one half increased performance by an average of 14% (Harms et al. 2000), and in CHF and COPD patients performance time more than doubled with respiratory muscle unloading (O’Donnell et al. 2001). Why are effort perceptions of limb discomfort markedly reduced and exercise performance increased when the respiratory muscles are unloaded? Our hypothesis is shown in Fig. 1

PHP152 How are topics selected and prioritized by the national institute of health and care excellence (nice) and what might be the options if a technology is not selected?

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Fractal Theory Space: Spacetime of Noninteger Dimensionality

We construct matter field theories in ``theory space'' that are fractal, and invariant under geometrical renormalization group (RG) transformations. We treat in detail complex scalars, and discuss issues related to fermions, chirality, and Yang-Mills gauge fields. In the continuum limit these models describe physics in a noninteger spatial dimension which appears above a RG invariant ``compactification scale,'' M. The energy distribution of KK modes above M is controlled by an exponent in a scaling relation of the vacuum energy (Coleman-Weinberg potential), and corresponds to the dimensionality. For truncated-s-simplex lattices with coordination number s the spacetime dimensionality is 1+(3+2ln(s)/ln(s+2)). The computations in theory space involve subtleties, owing to the 1+3 kinetic terms, yet the resulting dimensionalites are equivalent to thermal spin systems. Physical implications are discussed.Comment: 28 pages, 6 figures; Paper has been amplified with a more detailed discussion of a number of technical issue

Search for dark matter in the Sun with the ANTARES neutrino telescope in the CMSSM and mUED frameworks

ANTARES is the first neutrino telescope in the sea. It consists of a three-dimensional array of 885 photomultipliers to collect the Cherenkov light induced by relativistic muons produced in CC interactions of high energy neutrinos. One of the main scientific goals of the experiment is the search for dark matter. We present here the analysis of data taken during 2007 and 2008 to look for a WIMP signal in the Sun. WIMPs are one of the most popular scenarios to explain the dark matter content of the Universe. They would accumulate in massive objects like the Sun or the Galactic Center and their self-annihilation would produce (directly or indirectly) high energy neutrinos detectable by neutrino telescopes. Contrary to other indirect searches (like with gamma rays or positrons), the search for neutrinos in the Sun is free from other astrophysical contributions, so the interpretation of a potential signal in terms of dark matter is much more robust

OWL-POLAR : semantic policies for agent reasoning

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