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Genetic Discrimination: Overview of the Issue and Proposed Legislation
[Excerpt] A key policy issue before Congress is whether the potential for genetic discrimination by employers and insurers merits protections for genetic information that are more extensive than those already in place for health information. For the stated purpose of prohibiting discrimination on the basis of genetic information with respect to health insurance and employment, the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2007 (H.R. 493) was introduced in the House on January 16, 2007. On January 22, 2007, the act was introduced in the Senate (S. 358). The act is identical to the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2005, which passed the Senate by a vote of 98-0 (S. 306, 109th). An identical House bill (H.R. 1227, 109th), never came to a vote. S. 306 was very similar to S. 1053 (108th), which the Senate passed in 2003 by a vote of 95-0. A distinct House bill, H.R. 1910 (108th), never came to a vote. This report focuses on the key points in the ongoing debate about genetic discrimination legislation
DieTryin: An R package for data collection, automated data entry, and post-processing of network-structured economic games, social networks, and other roster-based dyadic data
Researchers studying social networks and inter-personal sentiments in bounded or small-scale communities face a trade-off between the use of roster-based and free-recall/name-generator-based survey tools. Roster-based methods scale poorly with sample size, and can more easily lead to respondent fatigue; however, they generally yield higher quality data that are less susceptible to recall bias and that require less post-processing. Name-generator-based methods, in contrast, scale well with sample size and are less likely to lead to respondent fatigue. However, they may be more sensitive to recall bias, and they entail a large amount of highly error-prone post-processing after data collection in order to link elicited names to unique identifiers. Here, we introduce an R package, DieTryin, that allows for roster-based dyadic data to be collected and entered as rapidly as name-generator-based data; DieTryin can be used to run network-structured economic games, as well as collect and process standard social network data and round-robin Likert-scale peer ratings. DieTryin automates photograph standardization, survey tool compilation, and data entry. We present a complete methodological workflow using DieTryin to teach end-users its full functionality
Modern āliveā football: moving from the panoptican gaze to the performative, virtual and carnivalesque
Drawing on Redhead's discussion of Baudrillard as a theorist of hyperreality, the paper considers the different ways in which the mediatized āliveā football spectacle is often modelled on the āliveā however eventually usurps the āliveā forms position in the cultural economy, thus beginning to replicate the mediatized āliveā. The blurring of the āliveā and ārealā through an accelerated mediatization of football allows the formation of an imagined community mobilized by the working class whilst mediated through the sanitization, selling of āeventsā and the middle classing of football, through the re-encoding of sporting spaces and strategic decision-making about broadcasting. A culture of pub supporting then allows potential for working-class supporters to remove themselves from the panoptican gazing systems of late modern hyperreal football stadia and into carnivalesque performative spaces, which in many cases are hyperreal and simulated themselves
State-dependent rotations of spins by weak measurements
IIt is shown that a weak measurement of a quantum system produces a new state
of the quantum system which depends on the prior state, as well as the
(uncontrollable) measured position of the pointer variable of the weak
measurement apparatus. The result imposes a constraint on hidden-variable
theories which assign a different state to a quantum system than standard
quantum mechanics. The constraint means that a crypto-nonlocal hidden-variable
theory can be ruled out in a more direct way than previously.Comment: 10 pages, 2 figures. Substantially revised to concentrate on weak
measurement transformation of states and application to crypto-nonlocal
hidden-variable theor
Bipartite Bell inequalities for hyperentangled states
We show that bipartite Bell inequalities based on the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen
criterion for elements of reality and derived from the properties of some
hyperentangled states allow feasible experimental verifications of the fact
that quantum nonlocality grows exponentially with the size of the subsystems,
and Bell loophole-free tests with currently available photodetection
efficiencies.Comment: REVTeX4, 5 page
Multipartite positive-partial-transpose inequalities exponentially stronger than local reality inequalities
We show that positivity of {\it every} partial transpose of -partite
quantum states implies new inequalities on Bell correlations which are stronger
than standard Bell inequalities by a factor of . A violation of
the inequality implies the system is in a bipartite distillable entangled
state. It turns out that a family of -qubit bound entangled states proposed
by D\"ur {[Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 87}, 230402 (2001)]} violates the inequality
for .Comment: 4 pages, To appear in Phys. Rev.
Cholecystobronchocolic Fistula: A Late Complication of Biliary Sepsis
A case of a 48 year old woman presenting with bilioptysis due to a cholecystobronchocolic fistula is
reported. Bilioptysis is a rare complication of biliary fistulae, with a high mortality due to chemical
pneumonitis. Bronchospasm and rapid respiratory failure may ensue if aggressive management is not
adopted. The site of fistulation is established by cholangiography, preferably by the percutaneous
transhepatic route. Continued biliary drainage can lead to closure of these fistulae, or allow sufficient
improvement in clinical condition to allow definitive surgery to be performed electively
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