201 research outputs found

    Questimonial: Silence

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    Shusaku Endo\u27s Silence tells the story of a Jesuit missionary sent to Japan during the height of its persecution of the nation\u27s small population of Christians. The novel confronts readers with the four curriculum questions and how to endure the reality that sometimes the world greets our response to those questions with silence.https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/questimonials/1003/thumbnail.jp

    Resurrecting the Dead Second Amendment: How the Libertarian Legal Movement Has Shaped Gun Control Litigation

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    For nearly two centuries following its adoption, the Second Amendment was largely ignored and even referred to as a “dead amendment.” Virtually all legal scholarship considered the right protected by the amendment to be a collective right written into the Constitution to protect local militias from a powerful federal standing army. However, beginning in the late 1970s a surge of libertarian scholarship began to emerge promoting the Second Amendment as a safeguard for an individual right to bear arms without any connection to military service. Promoted by the National Rifle Association and libertarian theorists, the individual-right theory began to gain popularity among legal scholars and historians, and in 2008 it was adopted by the Supreme Court of the United States in District of Columbia v. Heller. Following Heller, lower courts have primarily read Justice Antonin Scalia’s decision narrowly, upholding challenged gun control laws. One area of legislation, the restriction of concealed-carry rights, has served as the exception to this rule, as libertarian judges have successfully struck down such laws. The battle over the meaning of the Second Amendment between traditional conservative and libertarian judges and scholars illustrates a growing divide in the conservative legal movement. Questioning the traditional conservative reliance on judicial restraint, libertarians have slowly challenged conservative legal convention, aimed at limiting the scope of the American regulatory state. This thesis analyzes the conflict between traditional conservatives and libertarians, assesses the rise of the libertarian constitutionalism and its impact on Second Amendment litigation, and evaluates the future of the libertarian legal movement

    Temporal Trends in Pancreatic Cancer

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    Gaussian lower bounds on the Dirichlet heat kernel and non-existence of local solutions for semilinear heat equations of Osgood type

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    We give a simple proof of a lower bound for the Dirichlet heat kernel in terms of the Gaussian heat kernel. Using this we establish a non-existence result for semilinear heat equations with zero Dirichlet boundary conditionsand initial data in Lq(Ω)L^q(\Omega) when the source term ff is non-decreasing and lim supssγf(s)=\limsup_{s\to\infty}s^{-\gamma}f(s)=\infty for some γ>q(1+2/n)\gamma>q(1+2/n).This allows us to construct a locally Lipschitz ff satisfying the Osgood condition \int_{1}^{\infty}1/f(s)\ \,\d s =\infty, which ensures global existence for bounded initial data, such that for every qq with $1\le

    Non-existence of local solutions of semilinear heatequations of Osgood type in bounded domains

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    We establish a local non-existence result for semilinear heat equations with Dirichlet boundary conditions and initial data in L^q when the source term f is non-decreasing. We construct a locally Lipschitz f satisfying the Osgood condition (which ensures global existence for bounded initial data), such that for every q there is an initial condition in L^q for which the corresponding semilinear problem has no local-in-time solution

    WASP: a software package for correctly characterizing the topological development of ribbon structures

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    We introduce the Writhe Application Software Package (WASP) which can be used to characterisze the topology of ribbon structures, the underlying mathematical model of DNA, Biopolymers, superfluid vorticies, elastic ropes and magnetic flux ropes. This characterization is achieved by the general twist–writhe decomposition of both open and closed ribbons, in particular through a quantity termed the polar writhe. We demonstrate how this decomposition is far more natural and straightforward than artificial closure methods commonly utilized in DNA modelling. In particular, we demonstrate how the decomposition of the polar writhe into local and non-local components distinctly characterizes the local helical structure and knotting/linking of the ribbon. This decomposition provides additional information not given by alternative approaches. As example applications, the WASP routines are used to characterise the evolving topology (writhe) of DNA minicircle and open ended plectoneme formation magnetic/optical tweezer simulations, and it is shown that the decomponsition into local and non-local components is particularly important for the detection of plectonemes. Finally it is demonstrated that a number of well known alternative writhe expressions are actually simplifications of the polar writhe measure

    5 Temporal Trends in Pancreatic Cancer

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    The Grizzly, April 9, 2015

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    Students Expose Racism on Yik Yak • English Honor Society Hosting Gatsby Party • Goss, Fulbright Winner, Plans to Travel to Turkey • HEART Lab Offers Unique Research • Annual Edible Book Festival Continues for Eleventh Year • New Minors Created for Fall • Opinion: A Fourth CIE Question That Breaks the Silence; Fourth Question Not True to Liberal Arts • Stick it to \u27em • On the Right Trackhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1930/thumbnail.jp

    The Grizzly, November 1, 2012

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    Search for Student Activities • Presidential Debate Wrap-Up • Staff Editorial • Homecoming 2012 • 24-Hour Play Set to Begin Friday • Departments Revise Curriculums • Students Prepare for November 6 Election • Campus Radio Grows • Up \u27Til Dawn Fights Kids\u27 Cancer • Opinion: Presidential Candidates Head to Head; No Matter Political Affiliation, College Students Need to Vote; Reaction to Sports Opinion Piece • Football Falls to JHUhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1868/thumbnail.jp
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