RICO Conspiracy: The Ninth Circuit Distinguishes Itself From the Rising Costs of Guilty Thoughts

Part I of this Comment briefly surveys the legislative development of the RICO statute. It discusses the elements of a RICO cause of action and disputes that have arisen among the circuit courts over its interpretation. Part II of this Comment examines the development of civil liability for conspiring to participate in a RICO enterprise. It focuses on cases that have significantly shaped civil RICO conspiracy liability throughout the circuit courts. Part III explores the split that has developed among the circuits over the definition of RICO conspiracy liability, specifically, the difference between the Ninth Circuit\u27s definition and that of the majority. This discussion also considers the Congressional intent that shaped the RICO statute, policy aims of the statute and implications arising from the different standards of liability

RICO Conspiracy: The Ninth Circuit Distinguishes Itself From the Rising Costs of Guilty Thoughts

Part I of this Comment briefly surveys the legislative development of the RICO statute. It discusses the elements of a RICO cause of action and disputes that have arisen among the circuit courts over its interpretation. Part II of this Comment examines the development of civil liability for conspiring to participate in a RICO enterprise. It focuses on cases that have significantly shaped civil RICO conspiracy liability throughout the circuit courts. Part III explores the split that has developed among the circuits over the definition of RICO conspiracy liability, specifically, the difference between the Ninth Circuit\u27s definition and that of the majority. This discussion also considers the Congressional intent that shaped the RICO statute, policy aims of the statute and implications arising from the different standards of liability

Barriers and facilitators to health care access for children in a low-income are in Cape Town

Background In Cape Town the under-5 mortality rate has plateaued to 20 per 1000 live births. The southern subdistrict has the largest paediatric population in Metro West and accounts for 31% of deaths in Metro West. Across the metropole 60% of child deaths are out of hospital. We investigated barriers to accessing health care for children in the False Bay Hospital drainage area. Methods Quantitative and qualitative methods were used: community survey (n=62), qualitative interviews (n=11) with caregivers of children who presented critically ill or deceased (January 2017 - Dec 2020) and a modified nominal group meeting of community based and clinical services managers to identify and achieve consensus on solutions. Results Community members (74%) experienced barriers in accessing care and only 60% knew the correct emergency contact numbers. Knowledge of basic home care for common conditions was limited. Interview themes showed barriers of affordability, acceptability, access, as well as household and facility factors. The nominal group technique suggested that improvement in community-based services, transport access and lengthening service hours would alleviate some of the challenges in accessing care. Conclusions The barriers to accessing care seem insurmountable to those who encounter them, yet solutions and community assets do exist. The optimal utilization of services and community assets have the potential to improve access to care with resultant decreased out-of-hospital deaths and improvement of the under-5 mortality rate. A well-coordinated Community Orientated Primary Care (COPC) program with intersectoral collaboration and government commitment needs to be implemented

Evaluating the cognitive and affective changes in the worldview of a group of Eastern Kentucky community college students resulting from a college-level course in religious studies

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Compassionate fire: Women\u27s stories of subjective and social change

Feminist social work literature has focused on the provision of educational groups for women who have been abused but has overlooked the question of women’s movement from individual survival to collective resistance. This qualitative study explores the processes through which survivors of abuse by male partners become involved in collective action to combat violence against women. Using story telling and testimonio as a research method, the author interviewed 11 women about the factors, insights, events, and processes that inspired them to join with other women to confront violence against women. The author found that women’s movement from individual survival to collective action entails significant changes in consciousness and subjectivity. Women’s processes of conscientization are complex, contradictory and often painful because they involve political and psychic dimensions of subjectivity, protracted struggles with contradictions and conflict, and resistance to knowledge that threatens to unsettle relatively stable notions of identity. She argues that feminist social work literature and practice must take into account the social, material and psychic costs of women’s growth processes, the discursive and material conditions that facilitate women’s movement, and the multifaceted and difficult nature of women’s journey in recognizing and naming abuse, making sense of their experiences, and acting on this knowledge to work for change. The author recommends that feminist social work practice recognize that survivors can and do contribute to social change efforts, and that it develop new, more inclusive liberatory models for working with survivors of abuse

Evaluation of real-world versus clinical trial outcomes of tyrosine kinase inhibitor therapy for chronic myeloid leukemia

Tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) are the mainstay of treatment for chronic myeloid leukemia (CML). Patients enrolled in clinical trials investigating the safety and efficacy of TKIs in CML are generally younger, have fewer comorbidities, and are monitored differently than patients treated in the real world. This narrative literature review summarizes efficacy outcomes (complete cytogenetic response, major molecular response, and disease progression) and safety outcomes (duration of TKI therapy, TKI discontinuation rates, dosage changes, and frequently reported adverse events) from landmark clinical trials as well as real-world studies. Patients with CML treated with TKIs in a real-world setting may achieve different rates of specific response milestones than those treated on clinical trials. While real-world studies reported similar overall incidences of adverse events as clinical trials, real-world patients with CML were more likely to discontinue TKIs due to adverse events

Four years' interferometric observations of Galactic binary Cepheids

We give an update on our long-term program of Galactic Cepheids started in 2012, whose goal is to measure the visual orbits of Cepheid companions. Using the VLTI/PIONIER and CHARA/MIRC instruments, we have now detected several com- panions, and we already have a good orbital coverage for several of them. By combining interferometry and radial velocities, we can now derive all the orbital elements of the systems, and we will be soon able to estimate the Cepheid masses.Comment: 2 pages, 1 figure, proceedings of the 22nd Los Alamos Stellar Pulsation Conference "Wide-field variability surveys: a 21st-century perspective" held in San Pedro de Atacama, Chile, Nov. 28-Dec. 2, 201