Empirical Legal Studies Before 1940: A Bibliographic Essay

The modern empirical legal studies movement has well-known antecedents in the law and society and law and economics traditions of the latter half of the 20th century. Less well known is the body of empirical research on legal phenomena from the period prior to World War II. This paper is an extensive bibliographic essay that surveys the English language empirical legal research from approximately 1940 and earlier. The essay is arranged around the themes in the research: criminal justice, civil justice (general studies of civil litigation, auto accident litigation and compensation, divorce, small claims, jurisdiction and procedure, civil juries), debt and bankruptcy, banking, appellate courts, legal needs, legal profession (including legal education), and judicial staffing and selection. Accompanying the essay is an extensive bibliography of research articles, books, and reports

Determinants of the urinary and serum metabolome in children from six European populations

Background Environment and diet in early life can affect development and health throughout the life course. Metabolic phenotyping of urine and serum represents a complementary systems-wide approach to elucidate environment–health interactions. However, large-scale metabolome studies in children combining analyses of these biological fluids are lacking. Here, we sought to characterise the major determinants of the child metabolome and to define metabolite associations with age, sex, BMI and dietary habits in European children, by exploiting a unique biobank established as part of the Human Early-Life Exposome project (http://www.projecthelix.eu). Methods Metabolic phenotypes of matched urine and serum samples from 1192 children (aged 6–11) recruited from birth cohorts in six European countries were measured using high-throughput 1H nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and a targeted LC-MS/MS metabolomic assay (Biocrates AbsoluteIDQ p180 kit). Results We identified both urinary and serum creatinine to be positively associated with age. Metabolic associations to BMI z-score included a novel association with urinary 4-deoxyerythronic acid in addition to valine, serum carnitine, short-chain acylcarnitines (C3, C5), glutamate, BCAAs, lysophosphatidylcholines (lysoPC a C14:0, lysoPC a C16:1, lysoPC a C18:1, lysoPC a C18:2) and sphingolipids (SM C16:0, SM C16:1, SM C18:1). Dietary-metabolite associations included urinary creatine and serum phosphatidylcholines (4) with meat intake, serum phosphatidylcholines (12) with fish, urinary hippurate with vegetables, and urinary proline betaine and hippurate with fruit intake. Population-specific variance (age, sex, BMI, ethnicity, dietary and country of origin) was better captured in the serum than in the urine profile; these factors explained a median of 9.0% variance amongst serum metabolites versus a median of 5.1% amongst urinary metabolites. Metabolic pathway correlations were identified, and concentrations of corresponding metabolites were significantly correlated (r > 0.18) between urine and serum. Conclusions We have established a pan-European reference metabolome for urine and serum of healthy children and gathered critical resources not previously available for future investigations into the influence of the metabolome on child health. The six European cohort populations studied share common metabolic associations with age, sex, BMI z-score and main dietary habits. Furthermore, we have identified a novel metabolic association between threonine catabolism and BMI of children

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Significant perturbation of vitamin D-parathyroid-calcium axis and adverse clinical outcomes in critically ill patients

Purpose: A prospective multicentre cohort study was conducted to determine the prevalence of hypovitaminosis D in adult critically ill patients, to characterize alterations in the parathyroid hormone (PTH)-vitamin D-calcium axis and to explore associations between hypovitaminosis D and adverse clinical outcomes. Methods: Demographic, disease severity scores and clinical outcome data were collected in 100 consecutive patients with expected intensive care unit (ICU) admission of at least 2 days. Levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25-OH-D), 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D (1,25-(OH)-D), PTH and ionized calcium were measured on days 1, 3 and on day 7 or ICU discharge. Results: The prevalence of vitamin D insufficiency (25 nmol/L ≤ 25-OH-D ≤ 50 nmol/L) and deficiency (25-OH-D 7 pmol/L) was observed in 37.5 % of hypocalcaemic and 32.5 % of vitamin D insufficient/deficient patients, and was associated with higher SAPS-II [43 (31.3-60) vs. 36 (30-43), p = 0.03]. Conclusions: Hypovitaminosis D and secondary hyperparathyroidism are highly prevalent in critically ill patients. Low vitamin D status persists during ICU stay and is associated with worse disease severity and fewer hospital-free days