Twenty-five years ago, then-Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg delivered a thought-provoking lecture entitled Some Thoughts on Autonomy and Equality in Relation to Roe v. Wade.1 One of her central points was that Roe v. Wade “sparked public opposition and academic criticism” partly because the Court “presented an incomplete justification for its action.”2 The Court’s decision located a woman’s right to ...

I n a paper published in 1952, J. L. Coolidge (1873–1954) appreciates that the story of curvature is “unsatisfactory” [2], and he points out that “the first writer to give a hint of the definition of curvature was the fourteenth century writer Nicole Oresme, whose work was called to my attention by Carl Boyer.” Then Coolidge comments: “Oresme conceived the curvature of a circle as inversely pro...

Sixteen Wistar rats weighing 160-180 g were used in this research work. The rats were divided into three groups, designated A, B, and C. Group A served as the control and consisted of four rats, whereas groups B and C consisted of six rats each and served as the experimental groups. A. cordifolia leaf extract was administered to the experimental groups B and C orally at a dose of 250 mg/kg/day ...

OBJECTIVES The pharmacological effects of methylprednisolone (MP) and ganglioside GM-1 on spinal injuries have been thoroughly investigated, but only a few studies have evaluated the interaction between these two drugs. METHODS Twenty-four Wistar rats were subjected to contusive injury of the spinal cord produced by the NYU system. These animals were divided into four groups: group I was inje...

The purpose of this study was to determine the influence of ramp spacing on the traffic flow characteristics on the Atlanta Freeway System and city streets influenced by the freeway. Timelapse photography was used to collect data at four study locations on the freeway. Speed and delay studies were also made on the freeway and surface streets during ramp closure periods and during normal operati...

Gerrymandering is returning to the Supreme Court. For the first time in three decades, a federal court invalidated redistricting legislation on the grounds that it constituted a partisan gerrymander in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. That court relied, in part, on a new tool—the efficiency gap—which some have touted as the means to “end gerrymandering once and for all.” We evaluate this ...

Abstract This paper challenges the conventional characterisation of glazed ware productions in eastern Mediterranean, especially ones which did not feature use opaque or tin-glazed technology, as technologically stagnant and unsusceptible to broader socio-economic developments from late medieval period onwards. Focusing on Cypriot example, we devise a new approach that combines scientific analy...

BACKGROUND The ancient Croatian statutes were written in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The aim of this study was to seek out regulations concerning public health in the oldest medieval statutes of the towns on the northern Adriatic coast (W Croatia). METHODS All translated text editions of the statutes of the three towns were examined. The statutes were written in the thirteenth an...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the roles of leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF) in a 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA) mouse model of Parkinson disease (PD), and explore how the LIF improves PD symptoms. METHODS This study was performed in Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China, between April 2008 and January 2010. Seventy-two mice were allocated into a control group (CON), sham operation group (SHA), ph...