SCOTUS 2019
Major Decisions and Developments of the US Supreme Court
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Open AccessGovernance basics for the physician-scientist considering business ventures. Lessons from Theranos
The prospect of an innovative laboratory device capable of an array of testing from a tiny amount of blood caught the intense attention of both the medical and investment community. The device, however, was ne...
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State of global land regulation inadequate to control biofuel land-use-change emissions
Under current land-use regulation, carbon dioxide emissions from biofuel production exceed those from fossil diesel combustion. Therefore, international agreements need to ensure the effective and globally com...
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Bioenergy-induced land-use-change emissions with sectorally fragmented policies
Controlling bioenergy-induced land-use-change emissions is key to exploiting bioenergy for climate change mitigation. However, the effect of different land-use and energy sector policies on specific bioenergy ...
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Head and Neck Virtual Coach: A Randomized Control Trial of Mobile Health as an Adjunct to Swallowing Therapy During Head and Neck Radiation
Dysphagia is a common consequence of head and neck radiation and may be mitigated by performance of swallowing exercises during radiation treatment. Given historically poor adherence to such exercise protocols...
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Open AccessPolar jet stream fluctuations in an energy balance model
We investigate the effect of increased longwave radiative forcing (a proxy for increased greenhouse gas concentration) on the zonally averaged location of the eddy-driven jet stream in a latitude dependent, tw...
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Fallstudie Nachhaltigkeitsprozess in Kultureinrichtungen der Landeshauptstadt Dresden
Nach Durchsicht dieses Kapitels sollten die Leserin und der Leser in der Lage sein,
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Open AccessCompletions and algebraic formulas for the coefficients of Ramanujan’s mock theta functions
We present completions of mock theta functions to harmonic weak Maass forms of weight \(\nicefrac {1}{2}\)
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A sustainable development pathway for climate action within the UN 2030 Agenda
Ambitious climate policies, as well as economic development, education, technological progress and less resource-intensive lifestyles, are crucial elements for progress towards the UN Sustainable Development G...
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Ramos v. Louisiana on Unanimous Juries
There is no question that the Sixth Amendment recognizes the right to “an impartial jury,” and little doubt that the Fourteenth Amendment incorporates this right against state governments. But does a jury need...
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Disruption oder Evolution? – Der Logistik-Start-up-Boom aus Sicht der Transaktionsmärkte
Die Logistikbranche steht zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts am Scheideweg: Digitale Geschäftsmodelle stellen die Grundsätze der historisch gewachsenen Branchendynamik infrage. Die moderne Logistik der letzten 20 ...
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Transactions & Valuation in the Global Logistics Market
The transaction market in the transport and logistics sector is a valuable indicator for the state of the industry. Digitalization shaped the development of logistics throughout the last decade. Often, the pla...
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Open AccessBio-energy and CO2 emission reductions: an integrated land-use and energy sector perspective
Biomass feedstocks can be used to substitute fossil fuels and effectively remove carbon from the atmosphere to offset residual CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion and other sectors. Both features make bioma...
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Quantification of an efficiency–sovereignty trade-off in climate policy
The Paris Agreement calls for a cooperative response with the aim of limiting global warming to well below two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels while reaffirming the principles of equity and common,...
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Open AccessBioenergy technologies in long-run climate change mitigation: results from the EMF-33 study
Bioenergy is expected to play an important role in long-run climate change mitigation strategies as highlighted by many integrated assessment model (IAM) scenarios. These scenarios, however, also show a very w...
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Global energy sector emission reductions and bioenergy use: overview of the bioenergy demand phase of the EMF-33 model comparison
We present an overview of results from 11 integrated assessment models (IAMs) that participated in the 33rd study of the Stanford Energy Modeling Forum (EMF-33) on the viability of large-scale deployment of bioen...
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Open AccessAir quality co-benefits of ratcheting up the NDCs
The current nationally determined contributions, pledged by the countries under the Paris Agreement, are far from limiting climate change to below 2 ∘C temperature increase by the end of the century. The necessar...
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Other Major Cases
This chapter discusses seven additional cases that may well have earned individual chapters of their own if space in this brief volume had allowed it. Several cases are about who can and cannot be sued under v...
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Meniscal Root Repair
Meniscal root injuries have been recognized as biomechanically unique injuries since they mimic the biomechanics of total meniscectomy [3]. Root tears can cause meniscal extrusion by over 3 mm past the joint m...
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Root Cause Analysis of an Oil-Burning Tabletop Torch Explosion
Recent severe burn injuries and at least one death have been attributed to the sudden explosion of a particular type of tabletop fuel oil-burning torch when moved by or somehow affected by the user while lit. ...
