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Author(s): E. Troja (corresponding author) [1, 2]; L. Piro [3]; H. van Eerten [4]; R. T. Wollaeger [5]; M. Im [6]; O. D. Fox [7]; N. R. Butler [8]; S. [...]

2. Ex Ante Exclusions The legal limitations on point-of-treatment utilization review by insurers contrast starkly with the fact that, in most cases, insurers may legally refuse to pay for interventions [...]

With the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ("ACA") set to dramatically increase access to medical care, the problem of rising costs will move center stage in health law and [...]

Boston University Winner of the Best Paper Contest, 2009 SSAWW Conference, General Category In the opening section of Pauline E. Hopkins's Contending Forces, set in the 179os, Charles Montfort, a [...]

I. INTRODUCTION The irregular process under which the Fourteenth Amendment was adopted has long been the source of controversy among legal historians. (2) The Thirty-Ninth Congress, which met during the [...]

In the 1976 novel The Boys from Brazil, (1) the infamous Nazi concentration camp doctor, Josef Mengele, who disappeared after World War II, never to be found, has created ninety-four [...]

The interpolation of a real and harsh 1829 North Carolina appellate court proslavery decision in Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1856 novel 'Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp' is discussed. She had used the strategy to bring to light the ongoing slavery debates in both legal and abolitionist writings of the time.

In a chorus of recent readings of The Coquette (1797), literary critics have situated Hannah Foster's novel within public political discourse of the late 1790s, reading Eliza Wharton, its doomed [...]

Occurrence of cathode plasma jet pinching and its dependence on anode-cathode separation (d = 2-10 mm) in a moderate-current (~10 kA) low-energy ([less than or equal to] 20 J) vacuum discharge is presented. Discharge was created between a planar titanium cathode and a conical point-tip titanium anode by producing plasma on the cathode using 27-ps-duration laser pulses. For d = 2-3 mm, constricted flow of cathode plasma jet up to anode was observed along with multiple feeble local pinchings. A neck formation was observed for d = 5-6 mm, whereas multiple pinching occurred for larger separations. Temporal profiles of the X-ray emission from the anode due to bombardment by electrons extracted from the expanding cathode plasma, for different anode-cathode separations, were consistent with the characteristics of cathode plasma jet pinching. Index Terms--Laser triggered, plasma pinch, vacuum discharge, X-ray emission.

The present study explored predictors of the duration of therapy exclusive of outcome utilizing data on 77 patients at St. John's University Center for Psychological Services. Measures of time in therapy were the total number of sessions attended and the number of sessions attended within the first six months of therapy. A bivariate Pearson product-moment correlation matrix was constructed, comprised of measures for time in therapy, severity of symptom measures, treatment modality (psychodynamic or cognitive-behavioral), age, and sex. There was a significant correlation between scores on state anxiety and the total number of sessions as well as between scores on state anxiety and number of sessions attended within six months, but no other correlations between measures of severity of symptoms and time in therapy were significant (p > .05). The results indicate that severity of symptoms does not significantly predict the duration of therapy.

'The Scarlet Letter's' narrative specificity, boundedness, closure and interpretive ambiguities made it an ideal contribution to the American cultural dialogue on law and obedience. In the same month that this novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne appeared, the Compromise Act of 1950, whose provisions include the Fugitive Slave Law, was being promoted as a means to preserve the nation. However, in exploring the relation of crime and law to the private individual, Hawthorne was more interested in the sufferings of whites, not blacks.

INTRODUCTION Most civil lawsuits in the United States are settled out of court through negotiation rather than in court through adjudication.[1] Nevertheless, the disputes that do go to trial impose [...]