Maintaining religious identity in hiring in faith-based schools: A comparative analysis of Australia and the United States

Even as Australia and the United States (US) are becoming increasingly secularised, they retain a significant number of faith-based primary and secondary schools. Aware of the tension between changing societal norms and the freedoms associated with religious institutions, the main part of this paper is divided into two sections. The first part surveys the relevant constitutional and anti-discrimination laws in Australia and the US along with exemplary litigation on how these statutes are applied. The second section offers six suggestions for school administrators who are wrestling with the challenge of preserving the faith-based ethos in their schools in the face of pressures to change, particularly in light of changing attitudes with regard to matters of sexuality such as sexual preference and same-sex relationships as they may conflict with religious teachings. The article ends with a brief conclusion

Bilateral obturator bypass for combined aortic and femorofemoral graft infection

Benedicto García, Josep ManuelPla general de la plaça Gal·la Placídia amb la Font de la Blancaneu o Nena amb Cèrvol, de J.M.Benedicto Garcia, inaugurada el 1947, restaurada per Mª Luisa Aguad

Mapping Hierarchical Structures with Synchrony for Binding: Preliminary Investigations

Synchrony of firing has recently become a popular technique for dynamic binding in neural networks, and has been applied to numerous problem domains. However, hierarchical structures are difficult to represent using synchrony for binding. This paper presents our progress toward a framework for representing hierarchies in a neural network using synchrony for dynamic binding. We illustrate the approach with a model of analogical mapping. The model (IMM2) uses synchrony to bind case roles to objects within propositions. Hierarchies are established by allowing units representing propositions to play a dual role, acting both as the argument of one proposition and as a pointer to another

Volumetric mammographic density: heritability and association with breast cancer susceptibility loci.

BACKGROUND: Mammographic density is a strong heritable trait, but data on its genetic component are limited to area-based and qualitative measures. We studied the heritability of volumetric mammographic density ascertained by a fully-automated method and the association with breast cancer susceptibility loci. METHODS: Heritability of volumetric mammographic density was estimated with a variance component model in a sib-pair sample (N pairs = 955) of a Swedish screening based cohort. Associations with 82 established breast cancer loci were assessed in an independent sample of the same cohort (N = 4025 unrelated women) using linear models, adjusting for age, body mass index, and menopausal status. All tests were two-sided, except for heritability analyses where one-sided tests were used. RESULTS: After multivariable adjustment, heritability estimates (standard error) for percent dense volume, absolute dense volume, and absolute nondense volume were 0.63 (0.06) and 0.43 (0.06) and 0.61 (0.06), respectively (all P < .001). Percent and absolute dense volume were associated with rs10995190 (ZNF365; P = 9.0 × 10(-6) and 8.9 × 10(-7), respectively) and rs9485372 (TAB2; P = 1.8 × 10(-5) and 1.8 × 10(-3), respectively). We also observed associations of rs9383938 (ESR1) and rs2046210 (ESR1) with the absolute dense volume (P = 2.6 × 10(-4) and 4.6 × 10(-4), respectively), and rs6001930 (MLK1) and rs17356907 (NTN4) with the absolute nondense volume (P = 6.7 × 10(-6) and 8.4 × 10(-5), respectively). CONCLUSIONS: Our results support the high heritability of mammographic density, though estimates are weaker for absolute than percent dense volume. We also demonstrate that the shared genetic component with breast cancer is not restricted to dense tissues only.This work was supported by the Swedish Research Council (grant no. 521-2011- 3187) and Swedish Cancer Society (grant no. CAN 2013/469). The KARolinska MAmmography project for risk prediction of breast cancer study was supported by Märit and Hans Rausing’s Initiative Against Breast Cancer and the Cancer and Risk Prediction Center CRisP (http://ki.se/en/meb/crisp), a Linneus Centre (Contract ID 70867902) financed by the Swedish Research Council. KH is supported by the Swedish Research Counsil (grant no. 521-2011-3205) and JL is a UNESCO-L’OREAL International Fellow.This is the accepted manuscript. The final version is available from OUP at http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jnci/dju33

Inter-species variation in colour perception

Inter-species variation in colour perception poses a serious problem for the view that colours are mind-independent properties. Given that colour perception varies so drastically across species, which species perceives colours as they really are? In this paper, I argue that all do. Specifically, I argue that members of different species perceive properties that are determinates of different, mutually compatible, determinables. This is an instance of a general selectionist strategy for dealing with cases of perceptual variation. According to selectionist views, objects simultaneously instantiate a plurality of colours, all of them genuinely mind-independent, and subjects select from amongst this plurality which colours they perceive. I contrast selectionist views with relationalist views that deny the mind-independence of colour, and consider some general objections to this strategy