Guoying Gao,1,2 Roald Hoffmann,2,* N. W. Ashcroft,3,* Hanyu Liu,1 Aitor Bergara,4,5,6 and Yanming Ma1,* 1State Key Laboratory of Superhard Materials, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, People’s Republic of China 2Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 14853, USA 3Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 148...

This paper analyzes O.A Bushnell’s the Return of Lono from postcolonial perspective, focusing on ambivalence colonial discourse and resulting contradiction which ultimately undermine Western claim superiority. novel dramatizes arrival Captain Cook’s expedition Hawai’ian isles first-person perspective Jonathan Forrest as he reminiscences their prior expedition. The Westerners’ view an idealized ...

The case of Eldred v. Ashcroft focused the public’s attention on the question of the duration of a copyright owner’s right. An even more compelling problem is raised by the scope of the property right associated with copyright. Statutorily, the copyright owner is granted the exclusive rights of reproduction, distribution, adaptation, public performance, and public display subject to the doctrin...

Reactive oxygen species (ROS) have been implemented in the etiology of pulmonary fibrosis (PF) in systemic sclerosis. In the bleomycin model, we evaluated the role of acquired mutations in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and respiratory chain defects as a trigger of ROS formation and fibrogenesis. Adult male Wistar rats received a single intratracheal instillation of bleomycin and their lungs were ex...

Ashcroft FM. ATP-sensitive K channels and disease: from molecule to malady. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 293: E880–E889, 2007. First published July 24, 2007; doi:10.1152/ajpendo.00348.2007.—This essay is based on a lecture given to the American Physiological Society in honor of Walter B. Cannon, an advocate of homeostasis. It focuses on the role of the ATP-sensitive potassium K (KATP) channel ...

In 1998, Mary Bono, congresswoman and widow of singer/actor/congressman Sonny Bono, implored her colleagues to adopt the Copyright Term Extension Act (CTEA) that bore her departed husband's name and ideological imprimatur. [FN2] Mrs. Bono reported that Mr. Bono had "wanted the term of copyright protection to last forever," [FN3] though the CTEA's drafters modestly aspired to add only twenty yea...

Conference on dementia was the latest in a series of national and international ‘think-ins’ that has seen the condition emerge from the shadows of denial and neglect to be recognised as the single most significant challenge to health and social care, economies and personal philosophy now and for the predictable future. The Guardian’s letters page and a thoughtful article from Richard Ashcroft l...

93 Iranian-British Medical Communication Association, jointly hosted by Tehran University of Medical Sciences and the British Council. The conference was busy and interactive, and we were struck by the enthusiasm of the audience, and their desire to increase collaborative links between our two countries. The hospitality we received was extremely generous and indicative of their wish to overcome...

INTRODUCTION ......................................................................................586 I. PRO SE LITIGATION AND LIBERAL CONSTRUCTION .......................589 A. The Right to Proceed Pro Se ............................................... 590 B. The Federal Pro Se Docket .................................................. 591 1. Evidence of a Burgeoning Caseload ....................

This project empirically explores civil litigation from its inception by examining the content of civil complaints. We utilize spectral cluster analysis on a newly compiled federal district court data set of causes of action in complaints to illustrate the relationship of legal claims to one another, the broader composition of lawsuits in trial courts, and the breadth of pleading in individual ...