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How to Define (or Not to Define) the New History of Capitalism
Lindsay Schakenbach Regeleâs essay âA Brief History of the History of Capitalism, and a New American Varietyâ attempts to provide more structure to the field known as the new history of capitalism (NHOC) by defining martial capitalism as a new variant. In contrast, this essay asserts that the lack of definitional precision within the NHOC is not a bug, but rather one of its key features. To define capitalism would be to delimit where it was and was not present historically. If part of the argument of the NHOC is that capitalism pervadedâindeed infectedâall aspects of American life, then defining the term would be self-defeating. In the end, martial capitalism suffers from the same shortcomings of the NHOC more generally, in that it places all âwarlike activitiesâ of the state under the undefined umbrella of something vaguely called âcapitalism.
Anderson's ethical vulnerability: animating feminist responses to sexual violence
Pamela Sue Anderson argues for an ethical vulnerability which âactivates an openness to becoming changedâ that âcan make possible a relational accountability to one another on ethical mattersâ. In this essay I pursue Andersonâs solicitation that there is a positive politics to be developed from acknowledging and affirming vulnerability. I propose that this politics is one which has a specific relevance for animating the terms of feminist responses to sexual violence, something which has proved difficult for feminist theorists and activists alike. I will demonstrate the contribution of Andersonâs work to such questions by examining the way in which âethical vulnerabilityâ as a framework can illuminate the intersectional feminist character of Tarana Burkeâs grassroots Me Too movement when compared with the mainstream, viral version of the movement. I conclude by arguing that Andersonâs âethical vulnerabilityâ contains ontological insights which can allay both activist and academic concerns regarding how to respond to sexual violence
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Erratum: Author Correction: Identification of genes required for eye development by high-throughput screening of mouse knockouts.
[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1038/s42003-018-0226-0.]
Identification of genes required for eye development by high-throughput screening of mouse knockouts.
Despite advances in next generation sequencing technologies, determining the genetic basis of ocular disease remains a major challenge due to the limited access and prohibitive cost of human forward genetics. Thus, less than 4,000 genes currently have available phenotype information for any organ system. Here we report the ophthalmic findings from the International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium, a large-scale functional genetic screen with the goal of generating and phenotyping a null mutant for every mouse gene. Of 4364 genes evaluated, 347 were identified to influence ocular phenotypes, 75% of which are entirely novel in ocular pathology. This discovery greatly increases the current number of genes known to contribute to ophthalmic disease, and it is likely that many of the genes will subsequently prove to be important in human ocular development and disease
Identification of genes required for eye development by high-throughput screening of mouse knockouts
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Effects of antiplatelet therapy on stroke risk by brain imaging features of intracerebral haemorrhage and cerebral small vessel diseases: subgroup analyses of the RESTART randomised, open-label trial
Background
Findings from the RESTART trial suggest that starting antiplatelet therapy might reduce the risk of recurrent symptomatic intracerebral haemorrhage compared with avoiding antiplatelet therapy. Brain imaging features of intracerebral haemorrhage and cerebral small vessel diseases (such as cerebral microbleeds) are associated with greater risks of recurrent intracerebral haemorrhage. We did subgroup analyses of the RESTART trial to explore whether these brain imaging features modify the effects of antiplatelet therapy
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