The Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution has been the foundation for judicial rulings against discriminatory laws affecting racial minorities, women, and other groups. However, it has had only limited application in mental health law, even though individuals with mental disorders have been subjected to long-standing discrimination in many contexts. In the pres...

The Third Edition of the MATLAB Primer is based on version 4.004.1 of MATLAB. While this edition reeects an extensive general revision of the Second Edition, most sig-niicant is the new information to help one begin to use the major new features of version 4.004.1, the sparse matrix and enhanced graphics capabilities. The plain T E X source and corresponding PostScript le of the latest printing...

A Multinomial-Choice Model of Neighborhood Effects Author(s): William A. Brock and Steven N. Durlauf Source: The American Economic Review, Vol. 92, No. 2, Papers and Proceedings of the One Hundred Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association (May, 2002), pp. 298-303 Published by: American Economic Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3083420 . Accessed: 10/09/20...

2. At its Fourteenth Session (2013), the Commission endorsed the Genebank Standards for Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, contained in this document. The Genebank Standards were originally endorsed by the Commission in 1993. In 2009, the Commission requested FAO to revise the Genebank Standards in cooperation with the relevant international organizations to ensure up-to-date con...

INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................... 369 I. LEGAL BACKGROUND ..................................................................... 371 II. ECONOMIC CONTRIBUTIONS ........................................................... 372 III. CURRENT APPROACHES TO FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT ANALYSIS........................................................

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.

1. The Executive Secretary is circulating herewith, for the information of participants of the fourteenth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice, this note on sustainable agriculture and the sustainable use of agricultural biodiversity: concepts, trends and challenges, as submitted by Bioversity International. The note is circulated in the form and lang...

This Comment will explore the issue of incidental and future genetic research findings and the participant’s right to receive such information in the context of constitutional law. It will attempt to answer the question: does a participant in a voluntary genetic study have a right of access to the results? Thus far, there has been no case law that establishes an answer to the question. Under Fi...

Articles by Gaston Wiet in the 1920s, M. Perlmann in 1942, and Donald Little in 1976 have encouraged the perception that the first century of the Mamluk period marked a turning-point in the history of Coptic conversion to Islam. According to Wiet in his article on the Copts in the Encyclopaedia of Islam: "The government of the Mamluks gave the coup de grâce to Christianity in Egypt," and he goe...