Progressive reformers envisioned a therapeutic juvenile court that made individualized treatment decisions in the child's "best interests." The Supreme Court's Gault decision provided the impetus for transforming the juvenile court from an informal welfare agency into a scaled-down criminal court. Since Gault, the juvenile court procedures increasingly resemble those of adult courts, although i...

Received April 16, 2014; final revision received June 23, 2014; accepted July 7, 2014. From the Department of Neurology, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany (W.H.); Department of Neurology, Johannes Wesling Klinikum Minden, Minden, Germany (P.D.S.); Department of Neurology, Stanford Stroke Center, Palo Alto, CA (G.W.A.); Department of Neurology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv Univ...

In this article, European public finances are analyzed by focusing on the EU budget and the influence of the EU on member states’ taxes and spending. Starting from the economic theory of federalism, the chapter surveys the development of EU revenue, spending and off-budget activities, discusses the redistributive impact of the EU budget on member states, budgetary decision-making procedures and...

conclusions project management may benefit both the managerial and scientific aspects of medical projects and reduce fund waste. however, little has been written to date on project management in the context of clinical research. the suggestions represent the views of the individual authors. to provide a high level of evidence in this regard, we recommend that a randomized controlled trial be pe...

Background: Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a disease with high prevalence, associated with severe comorbidities as well as being a huge burden on public health. It is known that glycemic control decreases long-term morbidity and mortality. The current standard therapy for T2DM is medical treatment. Several randomized controlled trials (RCTs) performed in obese patients showed remission of T...

Bei plattformvermittelten Essenslieferdiensten sind die Arbeitenden mehrfach fragmentiert. Die digitalen Arbeitsmodelle und Kontrollkonzepte der Plattformen führen zur räumlichen, organisatorischen sozialen Trennung Fahrradkurier*innen. Dies stellt interessenpolitische Mobilisierung in diesem Feld Erwerbsarbeit vor besondere Herausforderungen. Der Beitrag betrachtet plattformspezifischen Beding...

Claudia Lauer legt mit diesem Buch zur literarischen Intrige vier exemplarische Untersuchungen von prominenten Werken des 12. Jahrhunderts vor. Die 2017 in Tubingen als Habilitation angenommene Arbeit nimmt die diffizile Auslotung einer Zwischenposition vor: Wahrend das Phanomen der antiken Dramen und Epen klar umrissen auch Literatur Moderne viel beachtet wurde, macht deutlich, „wie sich im we...