Defining Due Process Down: Punitive Awards and Mandatory Arbitration of Securities Disputes

Published in cooperation with the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolutio

Late-onset Tay-Sachs disease

We discuss the assessment and differential diagnoses of a young adult Hungarian man with a 1-year history of a progressive and symmetric amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-like syndrome, along with irregular action tremor and stimulus-sensitive myoclonus of the arms. MR scan of the brain showed isolated cerebellar atrophy and formal neuropsychometric testing identified significant subclinical deficits in attention, processing speed and memory. We suspected a form of GM2 gangliosidosis, and white cell enzyme analysis showed markedly reduced enzymatic activity of β-hexosaminidase A. Genetic testing subsequently revealed two heterozygous pathogenic mutations in the HEXA gene (c.1499delT p.(Leu500fs) and c.805G>A p.(Gly269Ser)), confirming the very rare diagnosis of adult-onset Tay-Sachs disease

ВЛИЯНИЕ ТРАНСПОРТНыХ ЗАДЕРЖЕК ШЛАМОВыХ ПОТОКОВ НА ПРОДОЛЖИТЕЛЬНОСТЬ НЕСТАЦИОНАРНОГО РЕЖИМА РАБОТы ВОДНО-ШЛАМОВыХ СИСТЕМ

Проблема и ее связь с научными и практическими задачами. Все подре-шетные воды гравитационного отделения аккумулируются в зумпфах большой емкости и далее перекачиваются на операцию предварительной регенерации в гидроциклоны, классификаторы или сгустители. При этом необходимо обеспе-чить подачу на самую верхнюю отметку для дальнейшего распределения шла-мовых потоков самотеком. Как правило, такие потоки характеризуются высо-кими транспортными задержками. Магистрали для шламовых потоков перед узлами вывода имеют меньшие геометрические размеры, переносят незначи-тельное количество пульпы по сравнению с вводными коммуникациями

Spirituality and music therapy: An action research project in clinical music therapy within the context of an anthropological theory of spirituality

Το παρόν άρθρο παρουσιάζει μια μεταθεωρητική προοπτική της μουσικοθεραπείας υπό το πρίσμα της ανθρωπολογικής θεωρίας του Karl Baier για την πνευματικότητα. Ως εργαλείο για τη θεραπευτική αλληλεπίδραση, η θεωρία αυτή προσφέρει μια ερμηνεία των εμπειρικών δεδομένων που προέκυψαν σχετικά με τον προσανατολισμό ζωής ορισμένων αυστριακών ασθενών με καρκίνο σε ένα ογκολογικό κλινικό περιβάλλον. Τα δεδομένα προέρχονται από ένα ερευνητικό πρόγραμμα δράσης που αποτελούσε μέρος μιας πτυχιακής εργασίας στη μουσικοθεραπεία στο IMC University of Applied Sciences στο Κρεμς της Κάτω Αυστρίας. Το πρόγραμμα πραγματοποιήθηκε μεταξύ Νοεμβρίου 2013 και Μαρτίου 2014 στο γενικό νοσοκομείο Wiener Neustadt στην Κάτω Αυστρία. Οι συνεδρίες μουσικοθεραπείας με ασθενείς με καρκίνο (n = 3) καταγράφηκαν οπτικά και ηχητικά, ηχογραφήθηκαν, μεταγράφηκαν αυτολεξεί και αναλύθηκαν. Αυτό το άρθρο επιχειρεί να δείξει πώς οι βασικές έννοιες της ανθρωπολογικής θεωρίας του Karl Baier περί πνευματικότητας, όπως αυτές της «κατάστασης» [situation], της «βασικής κατάστασης» [ground situation] και της «κατάστασης αποκάλυψης» [disclosure situation], προσφέρουν έναν ερμηνευτικό χώρο για αυτά τα εμπειρικά δεδομένα.This paper presents a metatheoretical perspective of music therapy under the lens of Karl Baier’s anthropological theory of spirituality. As a tool for therapeutic encounter, this theory gives an interpretation of empirical data on the life orientation of Austrian cancer patients in the clinical environment of oncology. The data comes from an action research project as part of a Bachelor’s thesis in Music Therapy at the IMC University of Applied Sciences in Krems, Lower Austria. Based in a general hospital, Wiener Neustadt, in Lower Austria, the project took place between November 2013 and March 2014. Music therapy sessions with cancer patients (n=3) were video and audio recorded, transcribed verbatim and analysed. This paper seeks to show how the core concepts of Karl Baier’s anthropological theory of spirituality, such as ‘situation’, ‘ground situation’ and ‘disclosure situation’, offer interpretative space for the data

Fairer Sex or Fairer Analysis? Gender, Risk, and Corruption

Scholars of the relationship between gender and corruption frequently assume that women are more risk averse than men in order to explain why women are less corrupt than men. Despite the popularity of this assumption, existing scholarship on gender and corruption lacks rigorous, large‑N testing of the relationship between risk, gender, and corruption. We reviewed the economics literature around risk and gender and the literature in political science on risk, gender, and corruption to derive hypotheses. Using the World Values Survey (49 countries), we analysed the relationship between risk, gender, and bribery (generalised linear mixed model). Unsurprisingly, respondents who perceive higher risks of being held accountable for corrupt actions engage in less corruption than respondents who perceive low risks. Yet this relationship is rather weak. Surprisingly, we found no significant gender difference for perceived risk of being held accountable for corruption, nor did we find gendered differences for the relationship between risk and corruption

Intraretinal Exudates in Coats' Disease as Demonstrated by Spectral-Domain OCT

Purpose: To describe the spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) findings in a case of Coats’ disease, with emphasis on the intraretinal exudates. Methods: Case report of a 4.5-year-old girl who presented with total exudative retinal detachment and organized exudates in a stellate configuration. SD-OCT was performed before and after treatment, which included surgical drainage of subretinal fluid and indirect laser application during the surgery. Results: At presentation, the SD-OCT showed an elevation of the foveal contour, with thickening of the retina, many exudates and a large quantity of subretinal fluid. Two months after the surgical treatment, SD-OCT revealed a significant reduction in the amount of subretinal fluids, but with persistence of the exudates. Conclusion: SD-OCT can be used as an important tool in order to describe the changes in each layer of the retina in Coats’ disease. Considering the histopathological findings in Coats’ disease, it is reasonable to assume that the exudates accumulate in the outer plexiform layer

Territorial arrangements and ethnic conflict management:The paradox that isn’t

Ethnic civil war, the most common type of war in the 21st century, is one of the biggest challenges for development practitioners and scholars. Like other types of armed conflict, it impedes countries’ economic, social and political development, and there is no consensus on how ‘best’ to solve it. Territorial self-governance has received much attention in efforts to reduce the risk of ethnic civil war, but the academic and policy debates over its effects remain inconclusive. This has reinforced the notion that territorial self-governance is a ‘paradoxical’ institution, which either increases or mitigates the risk of ethnic civil war. In this article, we argue that claims of a ‘paradox’ of territorial self-governance are exaggerated, as they stem from differences in empirical operationalization. We present a systematic overview of the underlying definitions, geographic and temporal scope of quantitative indicators from ten datasets, and compare how they capture aspects of self-rule, shared rule and their lega