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Clapper v. Amnesty International and Data Privacy Litigation: Is a Change to the Law “Certainly Impending”?
On December 19, 2013, the retailer Target announced that unauthorized third parties had gained access to its customer payment information. While Target originally estimated that the security breach affected 40 million of its customers, a subsequent investigation revealed that anywhere from 70 to 110 million people—almost one in three Americans—may have had their sensitive payment information stolen. In response, the retailer offered free credit monitoring services and assured affected customers that they would not be responsible for fraudulent charges made with their payment information
The contribution of Qumran to historical Hebrew linguistics: Evidence from the syntax of participial negation
In this article we examine how Qumran Hebrew can contribute to our knowledge of historical Hebrew linguistics. The premise of this paper is that Qumran Hebrew reflects a distinct stage in the development of Hebrew which sets it apart from Biblical Hebrew. It is further assumed that these unique features are able to assist us to understand the nature of the development of Biblical Hebrew in a more precise way. Evidence from the syntax of participial negation at Qumran as opposed to Biblical Hebrew provides evidence for this claim
Semicontinuity of capacity under pointed intrinsic flat convergence
The concept of the capacity of a compact set in generalizes
readily to noncompact Riemannian manifolds and, with more substantial work, to
metric spaces (where multiple natural definitions of capacity are possible).
Motivated by analytic and geometric considerations, and in particular
Jauregui's definition of capacity-volume mass and Jauregui and Lee's results on
the lower semicontinuity of the ADM mass and Huisken's isoperimetric mass, we
investigate how the capacity functional behaves when the background spaces
vary. Specifically, we allow the background spaces to consist of a sequence of
local integral current spaces converging in the pointed Sormani--Wenger
intrinsic flat sense. For the case of volume-preserving ()
convergence, we prove two theorems that demonstrate an upper semicontinuity
phenomenon for the capacity: one version is for balls of a fixed radius
centered about converging points; the other is for Lipschitz sublevel sets. Our
approach is motivated by Portegies' investigation of the semicontinuity of
eigenvalues under convergence. We include examples to show the
semicontinuity may be strict, and that the volume-preserving hypothesis is
necessary. Finally, there is a discussion on how capacity and our results may
be used towards understanding the general relativistic total mass in non-smooth
settings
Inaugural BMC Ecology and Evolution image competition: the winning images
The inaugural BMC Ecology and Evolution image competition attracted entries from talented ecologists and evolutionary biologists worldwide. Together, these photos beautifully capture biodiversity, how it arose and why we should conserve it. This editorial celebrates the winning images as selected by the Editor of BMC Ecology and Evolution and senior members of the journal’s editorial board
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