IN GEORGIA V. ASHCROFT, 539 U. S. 461 (2003), by a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court laid down a new interpretation of the meaning of the retrogression standard in Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. Justice O’Connor’s majority opinion replaces the exclusive focus in earlier Section 5 jurisprudence on reduction in the realistic opportunity of minority voters1 to elect candidates of choice2 with what ...

, © Ashcroft et al. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and redistribution in any medium, provided that the original author and source are credited. In this month's journal club at University Rovira i Virgili's Centre for Climate Change we explored the topic of Southern Hemispher...

Fatigue life and backface strain predictions in adhesively bonded joints. A. Graner Solana, A.D. Crocombe* and I.A. Ashcroft a Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences (J5), University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey GU2 7XH, UK. b Wolfson School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Loughborough University, Leicestershire LE11 3TU, UK * Corresponding author. Tel: +44 1483 689194 Fax: +...

In this essay, Professor Marc Spindelman examines the states' rights arguments that have been deployed in the Oregon v. Ashcroft litigation to challenge Attorney General John Ashcroft's interpretation of the federal Controlled Substances Act. Professor Spindelman criticizes those arguments as reflecting bad politics--politics of complicity--that self-styled liberals should resist and reject.

3. Cerit Z. Prediction of childhood obesity with or without vitamin D deficiency. Eur J Pediatr. 2017;176(4):557. doi: 10.1007/s00431-017-2860-9. 4. Coussens A, Timms PM, Boucher BJ, Venton TR, Ashcroft AT, Skolimowska KH, et al. A1alpha, 25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 inhibits matrix metalloproteinases induced by Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. Immunology. 2009;127:539-48. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-25...

S.J. Mills,* M.D. Farrar,* G.S. Ashcroft, C.E.M. Griffiths, M.J. Hardman and L.E. Rhodes Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, UK Dermatology Centre, Institute of Inflammation and Repair, University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK *These authors contr...

BACKGROUND The intratracheal instillation of bleomycin in mice induces early damage to alveolar epithelial cells and development of inflammation followed by fibrotic tissue changes and represents the most widely used model of pulmonary fibrosis to investigate human IPF. Histopathology is the gold standard for assessing lung fibrosis in rodents, however it precludes repeated and longitudinal mea...