The due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment protects the right of terminally ill persons to hasten their inevitable death. In prohibiting physicians from prescribing lethal medications by which such patients might hasten death, Michigan's ban on "assisted suicide" unconstitutionally imposes an "undue burden" on the exercise of that right.

We study the analogy between buckled colloidal monolayers and the triangular-lattice Ising antiferromagnet. We calculate free-volume-induced Ising interactions, show how lattice deformations favor zigzag stripes that partially remove the Ising model ground-state degeneracy, and identify the martensitic mechanism prohibiting perfect stripes. Slowly inflating the spheres yields jamming as well as...

Internationally, the architectural profession is doing introspection and debating its future role relevance. In South Africa, profession, like others in built-environment sector, under pressure, due to political economic uncertainties a low growth rate. While many voices call for greater emphasis on business aspect of practice, this review article suggests that, addition, if architects were ado...

The problem of political corruption is particularly relevant for modern criminological science. processes formation and functioning power, due to their high social significance, have long been subject negative corruption, therefore they need a special protection mechanism. the study legal regulation banning financing activities (election campaigns), as well its reflection in local regulations c...