Constitutional Admissibility of Hearsay under the Confrontation Clause: Reliability Requirement for Hearsay Admitted under a Non- Firmly Rooted Exception - Idaho v. Wright

This note discusses the facts of Idaho v. Wright, examines the history of the admissibility of hearsay under the Confrontation Clause, and analyzes the Wright decision. This note concludes that by excluding the use of corroborative evidence in determining the trustworthiness of non-firmly rooted hearsay, the Court enhances Confrontation Clause protection for criminal defendants, but perhaps at the expense of some crime victims, such as sexually abused children

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1980 peanut disease control guide

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Metallopanstimulin as a marker for head and neck cancer

BACKGROUND: Metallopanstimulin (MPS-1) is a ribosomal protein that is found in elevated amounts in the sera of patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC). We used a test, denoted MPS-H, which detects MPS-1 and MPS-1-like proteins, to determine the relationship between MPS-H serum levels and clinical status of patients with, or at risk for, HNSCC. PATIENTS AND METHODS: A total of 125 patients were prospectively enrolled from a university head and neck oncology clinic. Participants included only newly diagnosed HNSCC patients. Two control groups, including 25 non-smokers and 64 smokers, were studied for comparison. A total of 821 serum samples collected over a twenty-four month period were analyzed by the MPS-H radioimmunoassay. RESULTS: HNSCC, non-smokers, and smokers had average MPS-H values of 41.5 ng/mL, 10.2 ng/mL, and 12.8 ng/mL, respectively (p = 0.0001). CONCLUSION: We conclude that MPS-1 and MPS-1-like proteins are elevated in patients with HNSCC, and that MPS-H appears to be a promising marker of presence of disease and response to treatment in HNSCC patients

NV center emission in a substrate free low index environment

With in-built advantages (high quantum efficiency and room temperature photostability1) for deployment in quantum technologies as a bright on-demand source of single photons, the nitrogen vacancy (NV) center is the most widely studied optical defect in diamond. Despite significant success in controlling its spontaneous emission2, the fundamental understanding of its photo-physics in various environments and host material remains incomplete. Studying NV photoemission from nanodiamonds on a glass substrate, we recently pointed out a disparity between the measured and calculated decay rates (assuming near unity quantum efficiency)3. This indicates the presence of some strong nonradiative influences from factors most likely intrinsic to nanodiamond itself. To obtain a clearer picture of the NV emission, here we remove the substrate contributions to the decay rates by embedding our nanodiamonds inside silica aerogel, a substrate-free environment of effective index n ∼ 1.05. Nanodiamond doped aerogel samples were fabricated using the two-step process4. Time-resolved fluorescence measurement on ∼20 centers for both coverslip and aerogel configurations, showed an increase in the mean lifetime (∼37%) and narrowing of the distribution width (∼40%) in the aerogel environment, which we associate with the absence of a air/cover-glass interface near the radiating dipoles3. Finite difference time domain (FDTD) calculations showed the strong influence of the irregular nanodiamond geometry on the remaining distribution width. Finally a comparison between measurements and calculations provides an estimate of the quantum efficiency of the nanodiamond NV emitters as ∼0.7. This value is apparently consistent with recent reports concerning the oscillation of the NV center between negative and neutral charge states5. © 2013 SPIE

Twist and Degrade-Impact of Molecular Structure on the Photostability of Nonfullerene Acceptors and Their Photovoltaic Blends

Nonfullerene acceptors (NFAs) dominate organic photovoltaic (OPV) research due to their promising efficiencies and stabilities. However, there is very little investigation into the molecular processes of degradation, which is critical to guiding design of novel NFAs for long‐lived, commercially viable OPVs. Here, the important role of molecular structure and conformation in NFA photostability in air is investigated by comparing structurally similar but conformationally different promising NFAs: planar O‐IDTBR and nonplanar O‐IDFBR. A three‐phase degradation process is identified: i) initial photoinduced conformational change (i.e., torsion about the core–benzothiadiazole dihedral), induced by noncovalent interactions with environmental molecules, ii) followed by photo‐oxidation and fragmentation, leading to chromophore bleaching and degradation product formation, and iii) finally complete chromophore bleaching. Initial conformational change is a critical prerequisite for further degradation, providing fundamental understanding of the relative stability of IDTBR and IDFBR, where the already twisted IDFBR is more prone to degradation. When blended with the donor polymer poly(3‐hexylthiophene), both NFAs exhibit improved photostability while the photostability of the polymer itself is significantly reduced by the more miscible twisted NFA. The findings elucidate the important role of NFA molecular structure in photostability of OPV systems, and provide vital insights into molecular design rules for intrinsically photostable NFAs

Genetic Covariance Structure of Reading, Intelligence and Memory in Children

This study investigates the genetic relationship among reading performance, IQ, verbal and visuospatial working memory (WM) and short-term memory (STM) in a sample of 112, 9-year-old twin pairs and their older siblings. The relationship between reading performance and the other traits was explained by a common genetic factor for reading performance, IQ, WM and STM and a genetic factor that only influenced reading performance and verbal memory. Genetic variation explained 83% of the variation in reading performance; most of this genetic variance was explained by variation in IQ and memory performance. We hypothesize, based on these results, that children with reading problems possibly can be divided into three groups: (1) children low in IQ and with reading problems; (2) children with average IQ but a STM deficit and with reading problems; (3) children with low IQ and STM deficits; this group may experience more reading problems than the other two

High-efficiency and air-stable P3HT-based polymer solar cells with a new non-fullerene acceptor

We thank BASF for partial financial support, as well as EPSRC Projects EP/G037515/1 and EP/M023532/1, EC FP7 Project SC2 (610115), EC FP7 Project ArtESun (604397), EC FP7 Project POLYMED (612538), Project Synthetic carbon allotropes project SFB 953 and the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)