38 results on '"Cooney, Mark"'
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2. Individualization and the decline of homicide: England 1250–1750
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Cooney, Mark and Patterson, Jeffery
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- 2023
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3. INDIVIDUALIZATION AND THE DECLINE OF HOMICIDE: ENGLAND 1250-1750
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Cooney, Mark, primary and Patterson, Jeffery, additional
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- 2023
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4. What Counts as "Violence?" Semantic Divergence in Cultural Conflicts.
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Boches, Daniel J. and Cooney, Mark
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CULTURE conflict ,VIOLENCE ,POLARIZATION (Social sciences) ,VANDALISM ,SEMANTICS - Abstract
In times of conflict, the meaning of words tends to fluctuate. For example, the word "violence" traditionally refers to physical force against people or property. However, some have expanded the term "violence" to include non-force (e.g., speech). Conversely, others have actively avoided the "violence" label to describe clear instances of force (e.g., property destruction). When the definitions of concepts expand and contract, semantic divergence – the degree of disagreement over the meaning of words – increases. Drawing on the work of Donald Black, we derive a partial explanation for the semantic divergence of "violence" labeling in cultural conflicts. First, at the macro-level, as social intimacy and inequality have declined over the past few hundred years, violence has become increasingly stigmatized, rendering an allegation of "violence" a potentially powerful weapon for deployment against cultural opponents. Second, at the case-level, social distance and partisanship, fostered by the internet, combine to produce social polarization – factions internally close but externally distant – of which a predictable result is the semantic divergence of "violence." [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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5. Geometrical Justice
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Cooney, Mark, primary and Phillips, Scott, additional
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- 2022
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6. What Counts as “Violence?” Semantic Divergence in Cultural Conflicts
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Boches, Daniel J., primary and Cooney, Mark, additional
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- 2022
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7. "May" for Granting Discretion.
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Cooney, Mark
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JUDICIAL discretion ,LEGAL composition of contracts ,UNITED States. Immigration & Nationality Act - Published
- 2023
8. Decluttering Sentences.
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Cooney, Mark
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LEGAL professions ,LEGAL composition of contracts ,COPYRIGHT - Published
- 2022
9. Hepatic lipid droplet-associated proteome changes distinguish dietary-induced fatty liver from glucose tolerance in male mice.
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Woerkom, Andries Van, Harney, Dylan J., Nagarajan, Shilpa R., Hakeem-Sanni, Mariam F., Lin, Jinfeng, Hooke, Matthew, Pulpitel, Tamara, Cooney, Gregory J., Larance, Mark, Saunders, Darren N., Brandon, Amanda E., and Hoy, Andrew J.
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FATTY liver ,LIPIDS ,GLUCOSE intolerance ,GLUCOSE ,MICE ,INSULIN - Abstract
Fatty liver is characterized by the expansion of lipid droplets (LDs) and is associated with the development of many metabolic diseases. We assessed the morphology of hepatic LDs and performed quantitative proteomics in lean, glucose-tolerant mice compared with high-fat diet (HFD) fed mice that displayed hepatic steatosis and glucose intolerance as well as high-starch diet (HStD) fed mice who exhibited similar levels of hepatic steatosis but remained glucose tolerant. Both HFD- and HStD-fed mice had more and larger LDs than Chow-fed animals. We observed striking differences in liver LD proteomes of HFD- and HStD-fed mice compared with Chow-fed mice, with fewer differences between HFD and HStD. Taking advantage of our diet strategy, we identified a fatty liver LD proteome consisting of proteins common in HFD- and HStD-fed mice, as well as a proteome associated with glucose tolerance that included proteins shared in Chow and HStD but not HFD-fed mice. Notably, glucose intolerance was associated with changes in the ratio of adipose triglyceride lipase to perilipin 5 in the LD proteome, suggesting dysregulation of neutral lipid homeostasis in glucose-intolerant fatty liver. We conclude that our novel dietary approach uncouples ectopic lipid burden from insulin resistance-associated changes in the hepatic lipid droplet proteome. NEW & NOTEWORTHY: This study identified a fatty liver lipid droplet proteome and one associated with glucose tolerance. Notably, glucose intolerance was linked with changes in the ratio of adipose triglyceride lipase to perilipin 5 that is indicative of dysregulation of neutral lipid homeostasis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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10. "You Don't Want to Be Perceived as Wild and Unruly": How Ethnic Minority Women Experience and Negotiate Their Autonomy within Honor-Related Contexts.
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Ahmad, Menal
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SHAME ,SOCIAL isolation ,MINORITY women ,MINORITIES ,ETHNICITY - Abstract
Within honor-related contexts, women's appearances, actions, and life choices are closely tied to the honor of the entire family. As a result, women who opt to deviate from prevailing feminine honor codes are subject to violence as a means of restoring the family's good name. Based on the life stories of fourteen Dutch ethnic minority women who deviated from feminine honor codes, this study investigates how women experience their autonomy as a process within their social context. Rather than analyzing this process through a binary conception of autonomy (i.e., agency/coercion), this study highlights women's experiences through a relational approach to autonomy. In doing so, this study uncovers three overarching themes: (1) honor codes are enforced implicitly through expectations surrounding the role of "the honorable daughter/wife", and explicitly through a shared religious and/or ethnic identity, (2) women detach themselves from honor codes either by strategically renegotiating honor codes or after experiencing a turning point that triggers an immediate process towards detachment from honor codes, and (3) women's decision-making processes are accompanied with health concerns caused by lingering guilt, social shame, and isolation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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11. Does Globalization Reduce Personal Violence? The Impact of International Trade on Cross-National Homicide Rates.
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LaFree, Gary and Jiang, Bo
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GLOBALIZATION ,CRIME statistics ,VIOLENT crimes ,HOMICIDE ,POVERTY ,GROSS domestic product - Abstract
While interest in globalization has continued to increase, few researchers have linked it to crime rates. However, if globalization has the characteristics suggested by either its supporters or detractors, it likely has a significant effect on cross-national violent crime rates. Supporters of the doux commerce (gentle commerce) thesis argue that increasing international trade decreases all types of violence, including homicide, by providing individuals with a rational interest in engaging peacefully with others, offering opportunities for cross border commerce and travel, and encouraging greater understanding of diverse cultures. By contrast, detractors argue that as globalization increases, inequality and poverty separate the economic well-being of highly industrialized core nations from that of developing peripheral nations and as this gap intensifies, it leads to crime increases. We also consider the possibility that the effects of trade globalization are either too small or too macro-level to significantly affect violent crime rates. Based on these competing arguments we examine whether homicide rates are significantly lower for countries with high levels of globalization, compared to countries with low globalization levels. We assemble a homicide database of 2145 observations over five decades, control for a wide range of alternative explanations, and test for an interaction between globalization and GDP. Consistent with the doux-commerce argument, we find that rising globalization has resulted in lower cross-national homicide rates during the past half century and that these declines are greatest for low GDP-high inequality countries. We consider the implications for theory, future research and policy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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12. Using Law to Limit Religious Freedom: The Case of New Religious Movements in France.
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Adeliyan Tous, Sajjad, Richardson, James T., and Taghipour, Alireza
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FREEDOM of religion ,CULTS ,SOCIOLOGICAL jurisprudence ,RELIGIOUS law & legislation ,RELIGIOUS groups ,RELIGIOUS movements - Abstract
France, with its approach to managing religion known as laïcité, has been almost unique among Western nations in its approach to religious freedom for minority religious groups and movements. In recent decades it has passed widely criticized laws in efforts to implement a program of social control over such groups, including both new religious movements (NRMs) as well as older religious groups that have functioned in France for many decades. Examining why and how this has happened helps reveal how religious freedom can be curtailed in a modern Western society using the legislative process and the law. We apply theories from the sociology of law offered by Donald Black and by William Chambliss, as well as other relevant ideas, to understand how the situation developed in France. Black's concepts of status and intimacy are particularly useful, as is Chambliss' dialectic approach to law, which emphasizes human volition in lawmaking. Chambliss focuses on how societies develop resolutions to resolve dilemmas as they attempt to resolve conflicts that arise from contradictions in how society functions. The role of courts in such situations will also be addressed. We conclude that the liberalistic and humanitarian national motto ("liberté, égalité, fraternité") of the French Republic does not necessarily lead to the non-discrimination and non-persecution of new religious movements and other nontraditional religious groups. We also conclude that the resolution obtained with the About–Picard law was, as predicted by Chambliss, not a final one, and that dilemmas continue to exist about how to address concerns about religious groups in French society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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13. Violence against Women—The Case of Divorced Palestinian-Arab women in Israel.
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Meler, Tal
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VIOLENCE against women ,DIVORCED women ,COMMUNITIES ,MINORITY women - Abstract
Focusing on divorced Palestinian-Arab women in Israel, this study aims to provide a nuanced examination of the different types of violence (physical, mental, and economic) these women experience from their ex-partners or relatives. The study emphasizes the presence in extreme cases of ex-partner violence ending in murder, recontextualizing crimes associated with so-called honor or tradition. The findings are based on interviews with thirty-five divorced women. The study also relies on a secondary analysis of data extrapolated from media surveillance. The findings indicate that a supportive institutional network is necessary to serve as a protective shield for women from minority communities who remain vulnerable when legislation and policy is detached from their civic status and their cultural context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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14. NEGOTIATING MEANING IN THE TRANSLATION OF RIDDLES IN J.R.R. TOLKIEN'S THE HOBBIT.
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VIŞAN, NADINA
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RIDDLES ,TRANSLATING & interpreting ,AMBIGUITY ,OPACITY (Linguistics) ,ROMANIAN language - Abstract
The aim of the present paper is to investigate strategies of translating riddles in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit. Taking as framework Pagis' (1996) and Senderovich's (2005) model of analysis for riddles as well as Wagner's (2020) pragma-semantic model of ambiguity, the paper redefines literary riddles as forms of conventionalized ambiguity that are strategically produced, perceived and resolved. The analysis of four target texts reveals that the main strategies employed in preserving a balance between opacity and transparency in literary riddles are equivalence, explicitation, rationalization and omission and that translation loss can be repaired through compensation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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15. Conservatism and Capitalist Dictatorship: The Impact of Conservative Ideology and Politics on Capitalism and Democracy.
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ZAFIROVSKI, MILAN Z.
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DICTATORSHIP ,CONSERVATISM ,PRACTICAL politics ,IDEOLOGY ,DEMOCRACY ,CAPITALISM - Abstract
The paper studies the relationship between conservatism to capitalist dictatorship. It argues that conservatism constitutes the prime ideological determinant and predictor of capitalist dictatorship, along with fascist and religious dictatorships. It establishes and specifies the connection of conservatism to capitalist dictatorship. It examines the historical emergence and evolution of conservatism in relation to capitalist dictatorship. In particular, it investigates the link of conservatism to capitalist dictatorship through anti-labor ideology. The paper concludes that conservatism comoves closely with capitalist dictatorship, just as with fascism and theocracy, and suggests further theoretical and empirical directions for further research. It aims to contribute to better understanding and explaining the links between conservatism and capitalist and similar dictatorship, including present trends in America post-2016 and via contagion or convergence other societies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
16. Studies from University College London (UCL) Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health Yield New Data on Gliomas (Resistance, Rebound, and Recurrence Regrowth Patterns In Pediatric Low-grade Glioma Treated By Mapk Inhibition: a Modified...).
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STREET children ,CHILDREN'S health ,GLIOMAS ,UNIVERSITIES & colleges ,MITOGEN-activated protein kinases ,BRAIN tumors - Abstract
A recent study conducted by the University College London (UCL) Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health focused on pediatric low-grade glioma (pLGG), which is the most common childhood brain tumor group. The study aimed to understand the regrowth patterns of pLGG after treatment with MAPK inhibition, a targeted therapy. The research found that tumor regrowth can occur during therapy due to drug resistance, off treatment as tumor recurrence, or as rapid rebound growth. The study used a modified Delphi approach to develop consensus-based definitions and recommendations for regrowth patterns in pLGG. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2024
17. New Findings Reported from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Describe Advances in Burn Care Research (51 The Association Between Neighborhood Disadvantage and Patient-Reported Outcomes in Burn Survivors).
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NEIGHBORHOODS ,BURN care units ,CHEMICAL burns ,PHYSICAL mobility ,INCOME ,REPORTERS & reporting ,BIVARIATE analysis - Abstract
A recent study conducted by researchers at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine explored the association between neighborhood disadvantage and patient-reported outcomes in burn survivors. The study found that burn patients living in areas with higher levels of neighborhood disadvantage were more likely to report increased long-term pain and reduced physical function, even after controlling for other known risk factors. The findings suggest that policies targeting neighborhood disadvantage may help improve post-burn outcomes and identify patients at increased risk for negative health-related outcomes. Further research with larger, nationally representative samples is recommended. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2024
18. Legal Research and Writing for Paralegals
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Deborah E. Bouchoux and Deborah E. Bouchoux
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- Legal assistants--United States--Handbooks, manuals, etc, Legal composition, Legal research--United States
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Legal Research and Writing for Paralegals emphasizes the skills and issues that paralegals encounter in practice. Thoroughly up to date, the Tenth Edition continues to combine clear text with visual aids, writing samples, tips, and pointers. Designed specifically for paralegal students, Deborah Bouchoux's classroom-tested approach teaches cutting-edge research skills, writing style, and proper citation form to equip students with an essential skill set and well-founded confidence. The author's logical and comprehensive approach enhances students'understanding. Part I covers Primary Authorities, Part II discusses Secondary Authorities, and Part III covers the basics of Legal Writing. In addition, Bouchoux integrates writing strategies into each research chapter to demonstrate the link between the two processes. The text thoroughly explains proper citation form and updating/validating legal authorities. The Legal Writing section includes samples of legal writing, such as letters, a court brief, and a legal memorandum.New to the Tenth Edition: Significant focus on newer technologies available to legal researchers such as Lexis+ Brief Analysis, Westlaw Edge's Quick Check, and more. Coverage of the use of analytics tools now used by legal professionals, such as Lexis+ Context. An entirely new section in Chapter 11 on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in legal research. Expanded section on techniques to achieve gender-inclusive language. A new section in Chapter 15 on using tech tools such as ProWritingAid, BriefCatch, WordRake, NoRedInk, and Cooley GO to improve writing. A new section on texting and confidentiality issues in Chapter 16. A completely revamped and expanded discussion on e-memos in Chapter 17. Revised throughout with new ethics alerts and updated figures. All new Research Questions and Internet Legal Research Assignments included in each chapter. Professors and students will benefit from:Clear pedagogy designed to enhance the accessibility of the material. Targeted and ample exercises help students learn how to use a wide range of research sources. Charts and practice tips, updated for this edition, help students apply what they have learned. Thorough coverage of electronic research with chapters on both Internet research and fee-based services.
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- 2024
19. A Linguistic Insight Into Legislative Drafting : Tradition and Change in the UK Legislation
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Giulia Adriana Pennisi and Giulia Adriana Pennisi
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- Great Britain. Parliament, Law--Language.--Great Britain, Bill drafting--Great Britain, Legislation--Great Britain, Legislative bodies--Great Britain
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The main assumption proposed in this book is that legislative drafting represents an example of professional discourse, where the propositions of specialized information is translated into meanings, and such meanings are given as input to the rules and strategies of grammatical formulation. A relevant question for our understanding of modern legislative process is related to the effects of ‘context'at different levels, within which legislative process takes place. By looking at those levels, the analysis conducted in the book demonstrates that it becomes possible to reach a deeper understanding of the professional groups taking part in the process, better assess the lexico-grammatical and textual features of its final product (i.e., normative texts), and suggest alternative linguistic and textual strategies aimed at making texts more accessible to potential readers and/or intended users.
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- 2024
20. How to Think Better About Social Justice : Why Good Sociology Matters
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Bradley Campbell and Bradley Campbell
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- Social justice, Sociology--Study and teaching, Thought and thinking
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Those who are pursuing social justice too often fail to incorporate the insights of sociology, and when they do make use of sociology, they often draw heavily from claims that are highly contested, unsupported by the evidence, or outright false. This book shows why learning to think sociologically can help us to think better about social justice, pointing us toward possibilities for social change while also calling attention to our limits; providing us with hope, but also making us cautious. Offering a series of tips for thinking better about social justice, with each chapter giving examples of bad sociological thinking and making the case for drawing from a broader range of sociological theory and research to inform social justice efforts, it advocates an approach rooted in intellectual and moral humility, grounded in the normative principles of classical liberalism. A fresh approach to social justice that argues for the importance of sociological understanding of the world in our efforts to change it, How to Think Better About Social Justice will appeal to scholars and students of sociology with interests in social justice issues and the sociology of morality, as well as those working to bring about social change.
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- 2024
21. Über Kriege
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Michael Mann and Michael Mann
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Warum werden Kriege geführt? Was ist ausschlaggebend für die Entscheidung zum Krieg? Michael Mann erzählt die Geschichte des Krieges vom antiken Rom bis zum Überfall auf die Ukraine, vom kaiserlichen China bis zu Auseinandersetzungen im Nahen Osten, von Japan und Europa bis zur postkolonialen Geschichte Lateinamerikas und zu den Kriegen der Vereinigten Staaten. Obwohl sich die Waffen und die Organisation des Krieges im Laufe der Zeit enorm gewandelt haben, hat sich der Charakter der Entscheidungsprozesse kaum verändert. Fast immer wurde und wird der finale Entschluss von sehr kleinen Gruppen von Machthabern getroffen, manchmal nur von einer Person. Charaktere, Emotionen und Ideologien sind ausschlaggebend. Doch auch Status, Ehre und Ruhm spielen nach wie vor eine große Rolle. Die meisten Herrscher, die Kriege beginnen, verlieren sie, und in historischer Perspektive ist die große Mehrheit der Staaten aufgrund von Kriegen untergegangen. Durch die meisterhafte Verbindung ideologischer, wirtschaftlicher, politischer und militärischer Analysen eröffnet der preisgekrönte Soziologe Michael Mann neue Perspektiven auf die Geschichte und Gegenwart von Kriegen.
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- 2024
22. Juveniles in Contemporary Society : Understanding Juvenile Justice and Delinquency
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Saundra D. Trujillo, L. Thomas Winfree, Carlos E. Posadas, Saundra D. Trujillo, L. Thomas Winfree, and Carlos E. Posadas
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- Juvenile delinquents--Legal status, laws, etc, Juvenile delinquency--Law and legislation, Juvenile justice, Administration of
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Juveniles in Contemporary Society: Understanding Juvenile Justice and Delinquency is an authoritative and well-crafted introduction to today's Juvenile Justice system. Using a thematic framework that supports analysis, the authors provide an integrated approach to topical coverage. Through clear writing, an interdisciplinary selection of sources, and thoughtful themes, authors Saundra D. Trujillo, L. Thomas Winfree, Jr., and Carlos E. Posadas illuminate the roles of history and theory in shaping today's juvenile justice system. Helpful pedagogy consistently supports understanding, retention, and review. Professors and students will benefit from: Diverse author team who bring a variety of backgrounds and perspectives to the text. Theoretical Reflections boxes that integrate overarching themes throughout the text. Comparative and international insights grounded in the content of each chapter, with International Perspectives boxes included throughout the book. Understandable historical review of both juvenile justice and juvenile delinquency. Compelling vignettes that open each chapter, raising questions about the themes to be explored, illustrating basic concepts, and fueling class discussion Helpful graphs and tables illustrate the key topics. Excellent Critical Thinking questions at the end of each chapter. Unique chapters that are key to the study of Juvenile Justice today: Chapter 5, Understanding Delinquency: Theories of Race, Ethnicity and Gender and Chapter 12, Race, Ethnicity, and Gender: Highlights from Recent Research explore the impacts of social constructions like gender, race, and ethnicity on youths'interactions with the justice system. Chapter 6, Delinquency Prevention addresses prevention and intervention from both philosophical and practical perspectives, discussing what works and what does not work and some of the reasons behind program success or failure. Chapter 11, Juvenile Probation and Aftercare provides thoughtful and in-depth discussion of this often-overlooked topic. Chapter 13, Youth Gangs and Violence highlights a national issue and shows how theory can inform research and how research can inform both policy and practice in the juvenile justice system.
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- 2024
23. Acute Myeloid Leukemia: Diagnosis, Prognosis, Treatment and Outcomes
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Rina Kansal and Rina Kansal
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- Acute myeloid leukemia, Acute myeloid leukemia--Diagnosis, Acute myeloid leukemia--Treatment
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This book is written by multidisciplinary specialists who diagnose and treat acute myeloid leukemia (AML) patients and is meant for anyone interested in the clinical care of patients with hematologic malignancies, including students and trainees. The 21 contributors for this book include expert clinicians in leukemia and hematologic malignancies, infectious diseases, pharmacological drug administration, pathology, cytogenetics, molecular genetics, and artificial intelligence, and one medical student and advanced trainees. The book comprises nine chapters, starting with a comprehensive overview of the global epidemiology, etiology, prognosis, treatment, and outcomes in patients with AML. Chapter 2 describes the classification of myeloid neoplasms, including AML, with a historical perspective and current diagnostic criteria. This chapter describes the fifth edition of the World Health Organization (WHO) classification and the updates from the revised fourth edition of the WHO classification. It compares the similarities and differences from the International Consensus Classification. Chapter 3 is focused on genetic evaluation in AML, emphasizing cytogenetic techniques, with numerous illustrations depicting genetic abnormalities in AML. Chapter 4 discusses measurable residual disease (MRD) in AML and explains the approaches and current guidelines for MRD detection by multiparametric flow cytometry and molecular techniques, emphasizing the pre-analytical, analytical, and post-analytical factors in evaluating MRD, with illustrations for essential concepts. Chapter 5 describes clonal hematopoiesis and its role in the development of myeloid neoplasms. Chapter 6 discusses inherited germline predisposition to myeloid malignancies, including inherited bone marrow failure syndromes and syndromic and non-syndromic predisposition syndromes for hematologic malignancies. Chapter 7 describes and illustrates novel therapeutic agents in AML, including genetically-targeted therapies, non-genetically targeted therapies, and immunotherapies. Chapter 8 covers the management of infectious complications in patients with AML, and Chapter 9 introduces the reader, with many illustrations, to the emerging applications of artificial intelligence in diagnostic hematopathology.
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- 2024
24. After Tragedy Strikes : Why Claims of Trauma and Loss Promote Public Outrage and Encourage Political Polarization
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Thomas D. Beamish and Thomas D. Beamish
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- Secondary traumatic stress--Political aspects--United States--21st century, Psychic trauma--Social aspects--United States--21st century, Psychic trauma--Political aspects--United States--21st century, Secondary traumatic stress--Social aspects--United States--21st century, Psychic trauma and mass media--United States--21st century
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While trauma and loss can occur anywhere, most suffering is experienced as personal tragedy. Yet some tragedies transcend everyday life's sad but inevitable traumas to become notorious public events: de facto'public'tragedies. In these crises, suffering is made publicly visible and lamentable. Such tragedies are defined by public accusations, social blame, outpourings of grief and anger, spontaneous memorialization, and collective action. These, in turn, generate a comparable set of political reactions, including denial, denunciation, counterclaims, blame avoidance, and a competition to control memories of the event. Disasters and crises are no more or less common today than in the past, but public tragedies now seem ubiquitous. After Tragedy Strikes argues that they are now epochal—public tragedies have become the day's definitive social and political events. Thomas D. Beamish deftly explores this phenomenon by developing the historical context within which these events occur and the role that political elites, the media, and an emergent ideology of victimhood have played in cultivating their ascendence.
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- 2024
25. Taking Stock of Homicide : Trends, Emerging Themes, and Research Challenges
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Karen F. Parker, Richard Stansfield, Ashley M. Mancik, Karen F. Parker, Richard Stansfield, and Ashley M. Mancik
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- Homicide--United States
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Taking Stock of Homicide provides a critical look at homicide, offering a comprehensive review of the major areas of homicide research, including topics largely unexplored in the literature, such as qualitative and historical accounts. Featuring leading scholars, this volume is organized around key themes and areas that reflect major contemporary trends and patterns in criminological literature. Chapters consider fundamentals such as data collection, sources, and histories; structural dynamics, including methodologies and fieldwork plus factors involving race and public health; the circumstances, types, and variations in homicide, from intimate partner violence to gangs, drugs, and firearms; as well as the prevention of and responses to homicide. An essential state-of-the-discipline examination, Taking Stock of Homicide expands our knowledge while offering a toolkit for how to conduct future research on this serious, violent crime. Contributors: Mark Berg, Laura Boisten, Anthony Braga, Fiona Brookman, Shytierra Gaston, Veronica Valencia Gonzalez, Elizabeth Griffiths, Chris Guerra, John Hipp, John Jarvis, Helen Jones, Sharon Jones-Eversley, Jungmyung Kim, Kenneth Land, Marieke Liem, Michael Light, Xiaoshuang Iris Luo, Amy Magnus, Patricia McCall, Erin Orrick, Alex Piquero, William Pridemore, David Pyrooz, Arnaldo Rabolini, Kasey Ragan, Wendy Regoeczi, Johnny Rice II, Jacqueline Rhoden-Trader, Ethan Rogers, Meghan Rodgers, Randolph Roth, Jose Antonio Sanchez, Daniel Semenza, James Tuttle, Jolien van Breen, Kirk Williams, and the editors
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- 2024
26. Punishing Transgression in Honor Culture and Face Culture
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Mine Krause, Yan Sun, Michael Steppat, Mine Krause, Yan Sun, and Michael Steppat
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- Honor in literature, Honor in motion pictures, Shame in literature, Shame in motion pictures, Reputation, Stigma (Social psychology)
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In the world's so-called honor and face cultures, certain values and codes related to the protection of a family's stainless reputation are deep-rooted. When they are violated by what is perceived as an immoral action, and the respective transgression becomes known, the honor not only of the deviant, but also of the in-group itself is damaged. This leads to stigmatization followed by collective rejection. Consequently, the stigma needs to be removed, usually by a publicly recognizable punitive action taken against those who caused this loss of honor or face, which is experienced as a kind of social death. The punishments range from psychological to physical violence, sometimes including murder. With attention to social science as well as works of fiction, this book studies such punitive measures that affect both women and men by also taking into account intercultural contexts of migration and ethnic minorities. Attention is equally devoted to movies that deal with the consequences of honor and face loss. The book is endorsed by the celebrated Turkish writer Elif Shafak.
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- 2023
27. On Wars
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Michael Mann and Michael Mann
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- War--History, War and society
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A history of wars through the ages and across the world, and the irrational calculations that so often lie behind them Benjamin Franklin once said, “There never was a good war or a bad peace.” But what determines whether war or peace is chosen? Award-winning sociologist Michael Mann concludes that it is a handful of political leaders—people with emotions and ideologies, and constrained by inherited culture and institutions—who undertake such decisions, usually irrationally choosing war and seldom achieving their desired results. Mann examines the history of war through the ages and across the globe—from ancient Rome to Ukraine, from imperial China to the Middle East, from Japan and Europe to Latin and North America. He explores the reasons groups go to war, the different forms of wars, how warfare has changed and how it has stayed the same, and the surprising ways in which seemingly powerful countries lose wars. In masterfully combining ideological, economic, political, and military analysis, Mann offers new insight into the many consequences of choosing war.
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- 2023
28. In This Place Called Prison : Women's Religious Life in the Shadow of Punishment
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Rachel Ellis and Rachel Ellis
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- Women prisoners--Religious life--United States--21st century
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In This Place Called Prison offers a vivid account of religious life within an institution designed to punish. Rachel Ellis conducted a year of ethnographic fieldwork inside a U.S. state women's prison, talking with hundreds of incarcerated women, staff, and volunteers. Through their stories, Ellis shows how women draw on religion to navigate lived experiences of carceral control. A trenchant study of religion colliding and colluding with the state in an enduring tension between freedom and constraint, this book speaks to the quest for dignity and light against the backdrop of mass incarceration, state surveillance, and American inequality.
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- 2023
29. It Did Happen Here: The Rise of Fascism in Contemporary Society
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Milan Zafirovski and Milan Zafirovski
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- Fascism--United States--History--21st century
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This book argues and demonstrates that fascism did happen in contemporary society such as especially America, as during post-2016. It classifies and discusses the main elements of fascism to see if these reveal and replicate themselves in America post-2016. It discovers the specific syndromes of fascism in America post-2016 that reveal and replicate universal fascist features. It detects the main social causes of fascism in America post-2016. It identifies primary counterforces to fascism in America and elsewhere. Lastly, the book constructs a composite fascism index and calculates fascism indexes for Western and comparable societies like OECD countries. These indexes provide suggestive evidence that fascism happened in America and other OECD countries, even if not in Western Europe, especially Scandinavia.
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- 2023
30. Young People, Stalking Awareness and Domestic Abuse
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Maria Mellins, Rachael Wheatley, Caroline Flowers, Maria Mellins, Rachael Wheatley, and Caroline Flowers
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- Youth--Attitudes, Youth--Conduct of life, Offenses against the person--Prevention, Youth and violence--Prevention
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This book addresses domestic abuse and stalking among young people in the UK and Ireland, with a focus on intersectionality and lifestyle settings. In partnership with the Alice Ruggles Trust, this book draws on a wealth of expert contributions including those with lived experience, frontline services such as Paladin National Stalking Advocacy Service, charities EmilyTest and Hollie Gazzard Trust, researchers of so-called honour-based abuse and online harms, and forensic psychologists who work with people who stalk. It begins with an overview of ways to recognise harmful behaviours, including those carried out online. The discussion then moves on to methods and motivations of stalking and coercive control and the various lifestyle contexts including education environments, young people in the workplace, and the role of the police and frontline support services in tackling these issues. It is a vital resource for undergraduate students across criminology, sociology, law, psychology, education, social justice, policing, and forensic psychology, as well as a combination of academic researchers and professionals working within stalking and domestic abuse support and prevention. This action-orientated book also includes'Key Points'and ‘Discussion Questions'in each chapter to direct student learning in the classroom and to create discussion points for wider readers.
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- 2023
31. Explosive Conflict : Time-Dynamics of Violence
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Randall Collins and Randall Collins
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- Violence, Social conflict, Equality--Social aspects, Social media and society, Social media--Political aspects
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This sequel to Randall Collins'world-influential micro-sociology of violence introduces the question of time-dynamics: what determines how long conflict lasts and how much damage it does. Inequality and hostility are not enough to explain when and where violence breaks out. Time-dynamics are the time-bubbles when people are most nationalistic; the hours after a protest starts when violence is most likely to happen. Ranging from the three months of nationalism and hysteria after 9/11 to the assault on the Capitol in 2021, Randall Collins shows what makes some protests more violent than others and why some revolutions are swift and non-violent tipping-points while others devolve into lengthy civil wars. Winning or losing are emotional processes, continuing in the era of computerized war, while high-tech spawns terrorist tactics of hiding in the civilian population and using cheap features of the Internet as substitutes for military organization. Nevertheless, Explosive Conflict offers some optimistic discoveries on clues to mass rampages and heading off police atrocities, with practical lessons from time-dynamics of violence.
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- 2022
32. Geometrical Justice : The Death Penalty in America
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Scott Phillips, Mark Cooney, Scott Phillips, and Mark Cooney
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- Capital punishment--Moral and ethical aspects--United States, Capital punishment--United States, Racism in criminal justice administration, Racism in criminal justice administration--United States
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Legal decisions continue to mystify: why was this person sentenced to 20 years in prison, but that person to just 10 years for the same crime? Why did one person sue for civil damages, but another let the matter drop? Legal rules are supposed to answer these questions, but their answers are radically incomplete. Wouldn't it be wonderful to have a theory that predicted and explained legal decisions? Drawing on Donald Black's theoretical ideas, Geometrical Justice: The Death Penalty in America addresses these issues, focusing specifi cally on who is sentenced to death and executed in the United States. The book explains why some murders are more serious than others and how the social characteristics of defendants, victims, and jurors aff ect case outcomes. Building on the most rigorous data in the field, the authors reveal wide discrepancies in capital punishment – why one person lives, but another person dies.Geometrical Justice will be of interest to those engaged in criminal justice, criminology, and socio- legal studies, as well as students taking courses on sentencing, corrections, and capital punishment.
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- 2022
33. The Darker Angels of Our Nature : Refuting the Pinker Theory of History & Violence
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Philip Dwyer, Mark Micale, Philip Dwyer, and Mark Micale
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- Violence--History, Violence--Historiography, Violence--Psychology
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In The Better Angels of Our Nature Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker argued that modern history has witnessed a dramatic decline in human violence of every kind, and that in the present we are experiencing the most peaceful time in human history. But what do top historians think about Pinker's reading of the past? Does his argument stand up to historical analysis? In The Darker Angels of our Nature, seventeen scholars of international stature evaluate Pinker's arguments and find them lacking. Studying the history of violence from Japan and Russia to Native America, Medieval England and the Imperial Middle East, these scholars debunk the myth of non-violent modernity. Asserting that the real story of human violence is richer, more interesting and incomparably more complex than Pinker's sweeping, simplified narrative, this book tests, and bests,'fake history'with expert knowledge.
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- 2022
34. Femicide, Criminology and the Law
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Hava Dayan, Yifat Bitton, Hava Dayan, and Yifat Bitton
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- KMK4049.5.W65
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This book offers an interdisciplinary perspective on femicide, using Israel as an illuminating case study, given its diverse communities and common-law-based legal system. Utilizing analytical alongside practical perspectives, the book offers a novel crimino-legal approach to femicide. In addition to its interdisciplinary novelty, the book presents originality in going beyond the more usual focus on the central victims and the common legal tools. Here, the authors extend the analysis to secondary victims of femicide and examine the applicability of second-tiered relevant legal tools, mostly tort law, as a means for gaining justice for the victims. This explorative journey culminates with the authors'definition of femicide as a quintessential'crime of distinct nature'. In the context of current international pledges to better understand and consequently better fight femicide, this work allows readers to comprehend the phenomenon and the ways to abolish it. The book will be an invaluable resource for academics, researchers and policy makers working in the areas of criminal law, tort law, family law, criminology and gender studies, as well as for legal theorists and criminologists seeking integration of both disciplines.
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- 2022
35. Vigilante Justice in Society and Popular Culture : A Global Perspective
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Peter Robson, Ferdinando Spina, Peter Robson, and Ferdinando Spina
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- Vigilantes--Legal status, laws, etc, Popular culture, Vigilantism, Criminal justice, Administration of--Citizen participation, Crime prevention--Citizen participation
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This unique collection explores the complex issue of vigilantism, how it is represented in popular culture, and what is its impact on behavior and the implications for the rule of law. The book is a transnational investigation across a range of eleven different jurisdictions, including accounts of the Anglophone world (Australia, Britain, Canada, and the United States), European experiences (Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, and Portugal), and South American jurisdictions (Argentina and Brazil). The essays, written by prominent international scholars in law, sociology, criminology, and media studies, present data, historical and recent examples of vigilantism; examine the national Laws and jurisprudence; and focus on the broad theme of vigilante justice in popular culture (literature, films, television). Vigilante Justice in Society and Popular Culture sheds light on this topic offering a detailed look beyond the Anglophone world. This collection will enrich the debate by adding the opportunity for comparison which has been largely lacking in scholarly debate. As such, it will appeal not only to scholars of law, sociology, criminology, and media studies, but also to all those who are engaged with these topics alike.
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- 2022
36. Macrocriminology and Freedom
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John Braithwaite and John Braithwaite
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- Free will and determinism, Criminology
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How can power over others be transformed to'power with'?It is possible to transform many institutions to build societies with less predation and more freedom. These stretch from families and institutions of gender to the United Nations. Some societies, times and places have crime rates a hundred times higher than others. Some police forces kill at a hundred times the rate of others. Some criminal corporations kill thousands more than others. Micro variables fail to explain these patterns. Prevention principles for that challenge are macrocriminological.Freedom is conceived in a republican way as non-domination. Tempering domination prevents crime; crime prevention reduces domination. Many believe a high crime rate is a price of freedom. Not Braithwaite. His principles of crime control are to build freedom, temper power, lift people from poverty and reduce all forms of domination. Freedom requires a more just normative order. It requires cascading of peace by social movements for non-violence and non-domination. Periods of war, domination and anomie cascade with long lags to elevated crime, violence, inter-generational self-violence and ecocide. Cybercrime today poses risks of anomic nuclear wars.Braithwaite's proposals refine some of criminology's central theories and sharpen their relevance to all varieties of freedom. They can be reduced to one sentence. Strengthen freedom to prevent crime, prevent crime to strengthen freedom.
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- 2022
37. Macrocriminology and Freedom
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BRAITHWAITE, JOHN and BRAITHWAITE, JOHN
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- 2022
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38. 'Pile Clamp For Suspending A Wave-Attenuating Disk Above A Floor Of A Body Of Water' in Patent Application Approval Process (USPTO 20220341112)
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Water waves ,Government ,Political science - Abstract
2022 NOV 17 (VerticalNews) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Politics & Government Week -- A patent application by the inventors Boyd, Randall Arthur (Raleigh, NC, US); Cooney, [...]
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- 2022
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