\u3ci\u3eHeller\u3c/i\u3e‘s Collateral Damage: As-Applied Challenges to the Felon-in-Possession Prohibition

A longstanding firearm regulation in the United States prohibits individual convicted of felonies and certain misdemeanors from possessing a firearm. Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in District of Columbia v. Heller, waves of litigation challenged, among other laws, the felon-in-possession prohibition. Due to the lack of clarity in Heller and the Court’s refusal to address it, there is an unsettling circuit split over whether and how an individual can mount an as-applied challenge to the felon-in-possession prohibition. A decade after Heller, the Third Circuit upheld the first successful asapplied challenge while four circuits have denied the permissibility of these challenges, creating an urgent need for clarification from the Court. Because the Court denied certiorari in the Third Circuit case, the present state of the law is that an individual’s right to restore their Second Amendment rights is determined by where they live. The resulting issue cannot be relegated to the gun control debate and instead represents a constitutional dilemma that demands resolution by the Court. This Note argues that the Court is shirking its duties and should not continue to leave a fundamental right subject to an individual’s residence

Higher Education in China: Tertiary Education in State Development

The People's Republic of China experienced rapid growth over the past quarter century; with this new economic power come the challenges to sustain it. Over the course of time, state development must tackle specific issues to progress into the future. Thus, under the pretext of continued development, what is the state of China's Higher Education system

Il trattamento dei disturbi di personalità nel setting forense e sue applicazioni nello scenario italiano

Our present work represents a review of the scientific literature currently available on effective psychotherapeutic treatmentsfor mentally ill offenders. What has come out from the review of the scientific literature on effective treatments focused onthis specific subpopulation is the necessity of highly integrated therapeutic interventions that have to me administered in synergism by different health professionals and community services. Specifically literature states that it is essential to differentiate the forensic patient treatment plan (meaning both psychiatric and penal rehabilitation, antisocial behaviours, prevention of psychiatric and antisocial relapses, intervention on relapse risk factors, work opportunities..) on at least two macro levels: one mainly “institutional” community based, that implies a network cooperation among different services, what we call an enrollment in a community program (both clinical and judiciary) and the other one strictly “clinical” focusing on psychosocial, psychological (and psychotherapeutic) interventions that involve patients themselves and, when possible, their relatives. This paper will introduce a first section on available community treatments literature data and a second one focused on effective psychotherapeutic interventions that are currently suggested for mentally ill offenders. The theoretical frameworks taken into considerations belong to the most valuable and experienced authors on treatment and assessment of forensic psychiatric patients.&nbsp

Intervención psicopedagógica en la institución educativa

Este trabajo fue realizado en base a las prácticas pre-profesionales que se llevaron a cabo en el marco de la Cátedra de Trabajo Final de la Licenciatura en Psicopedagogía en la Universidad Católica de Córdoba. Las mismas se realizaron en el Instituto Secundario Don Orione en modalidad virtual debido a la situación de pandemia por COVID-19 con la intención de articular la teoría con la práctica, plasmándolo en las intervenciones realizadas y sistematizar las prácticas psicopedagógicas en los ámbitos del acompañamiento psicopedagógico y la orientación vocacional. A partir de estas intervenciones se propuso trabajar la promoción de la salud y prevención de riesgos en el aprendizaje para ofrecer un proyecto de mejora institucional teniendo en cuenta los rasgos y las necesidades propias de la institución.Fil: Angulo, María Lourdes. Universidad Católica de Córdoba. Facultad de Educación; Argentina.Fil: Godoy, Marcela Antonella. Universidad Católica de Córdoba. Facultad de Educación; Argentina.Fil: Lagrotteria Medina, Ana Inés. Universidad Católica de Córdoba. Facultad de Educación; Argentina.Fil: Toscano, Virginia Magalí. Universidad Católica de Córdoba. Facultad de Educación; Argentina

A Case of Malignant Pericardial Mesothelioma With Constrictive Pericarditis Physiology Misdiagnosed as Pericardial Metastatic Cancer

Malignant pericardial mesothelioma is a rare and progressive cardiac tumor. There is no established standard treatment and the prognosis is poor. Most patients were retrospectively diagnosed from surgery or autopsy due to absence of specific clinical manifestation. Most patients with pericardial mesothelioma have demonstrated constrictive physiology on echocardiography or cardiac catheterization. Therefore, pericardial mesothelioma was often misdiagnosed as other causes of constrictive pericarditis. We report a case of primary pericardial mesothelioma misdiagnosed as pericardial metastasis of unknown origin

Efficacy of Fidaxomicin Versus Vancomycin as Therapy for Clostridium difficile Infection in Individuals Taking Concomitant Antibiotics for Other Concurrent Infections

Concomitant antibiotic (CA) use compromised initial response to Clostridium difficile infection therapy and durability of that response. Fidaxomicin was significantly more effective than vancomycin in achieving clinical cure in the presence of CAs and preventing recurrence regardless of CA use

Land art : implementing fundamental theories and practices for the environmental enrichment in the academic setting.

openAttraverso un'analisi teorica dei fondamenti della geografia, la mia tesi indaga le pratiche artistiche fruibili a scuola per ottenere una varietà di linguaggi geografici rivolti alla valorizzazione del territorio. Tramite uno studio di caso dell'Associazione Arte Sella, un'associazione culturale rivolta a forme d'arte contemporanea, traduciamo il senso del luogo in arte, connettendo uomo e natura tramite format laboratoriale. Si instaura così un movimento artistico che esplora ed esprime il territorio, ed il senso di questo, secondo la visione del singolo. L'educazione al senso del luogo, la cosiddetta Place Based Education, diviene un focus interdisciplinare e coinvolgente, rivolto alle esperienze di ciascuno. La mia domanda di ricerca si è rivolta al chiedermi se i linguaggi artistici possano essere efficienti nell'educare al senso del luogo e, terminata questa, posso dire di sì. Questa tesi rappresenta per me una modalità alternativa di fare geografia, una disciplina spesso resa frontale e mnemonica, ma che coinvolge invece le classi ad essere parte attiva della realtà che li circonda. Utilizzando una bibliografia per lo più geografica ed artistica, ho ricavato informazioni consultando anche manuali ed articoli provenienti da realtà estere inglesi ed americane, fondamentali per ottenere approfondimenti in merito alla Land Art ed alla Place Based Education

"The Distance between California and Kentucky": Regionally Gendered Identity in The Patron Saint of Liars

In Ann Patchett’sThe Patron Saint of Liars, Rose Clinton’s narrative prompts us to consider “how the distance between California and Kentucky” plays a prominent role in identity formation and community membership (Patron321). Rose migrates from Marina del Rey, California, to Habit, Kentucky, and her journey forces her to confront Sherrie Inness’ and Diana Royer’s question: “How essentially are we changed by movement among regions?”. Discovering that she is pregnant forces twenty-three-year-old Rose to admit she does not love her husband and motivates her to leave him and her unfulfilling domestic life. She takes a road trip across the country that leads her to Saint Elizabeth’s (a home for pregnant girls managed by nuns—this takes place during the 1950s) and away from her husband (Thomas), her mother, and California. Mostly in order to keep her daughter (nicknamed Sissy), Rose marries Son, the groundskeeper of Saint Elizabeth’s. Tensions caused by Rose’s competing Appalachian and Southwestern identities are highlighted through her relationships with Son and Sissy. 

Feminist Pedagogies in the Creative Writing Classroom: Possibilities and Reflections

As a first-time student in a creative writing course and a long-time instructor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, I see possible paths that instructors in both fields could take in order to integrate creative writing and feminist pedagogy in ways that might increase students’ desire to write and to share their writing while at the same time helping students undertake feminist analyses. In the creative nonfiction writing class I took with Professor Lardner in the fall of 2015, I saw how many students (myself included) were writing about transformative personal experiences, but in this class, we never discussed these experiences as such. Instead of letting the content of the students’ writing take the shape of the elephant in the room, using a feminist lens of inquiry to examine these experiences via the content of the students’ writing would, I argue, benefit the creative writing classroom. I believe this feminist-informed approach can be the kind that helps students understand their environments, their perspectives, their positionalities, ultimately themselves, better

"The Distance between California and Kentucky": Regionally Gendered Identity in The Patron Saint of Liars

In Ann Patchett’sThe Patron Saint of Liars, Rose Clinton’s narrative prompts us to consider “how the distance between California and Kentucky” plays a prominent role in identity formation and community membership (Patron321). Rose migrates from Marina del Rey, California, to Habit, Kentucky, and her journey forces her to confront Sherrie Inness’ and Diana Royer’s question: “How essentially are we changed by movement among regions?”. Discovering that she is pregnant forces twenty-three-year-old Rose to admit she does not love her husband and motivates her to leave him and her unfulfilling domestic life. She takes a road trip across the country that leads her to Saint Elizabeth’s (a home for pregnant girls managed by nuns—this takes place during the 1950s) and away from her husband (Thomas), her mother, and California. Mostly in order to keep her daughter (nicknamed Sissy), Rose marries Son, the groundskeeper of Saint Elizabeth’s. Tensions caused by Rose’s competing Appalachian and Southwestern identities are highlighted through her relationships with Son and Sissy.