Do US Circuit Courts' decisions on criminal appeals influence sentence lengths imposed by US District Courts? This Element explores the use of high-dimensional instrumental variables to estimate this causal relationship. Using judge characteristics as instruments, this Element implements two-stage models on court sentencing data for the years 1991 through 2013. This Element finds that Democratic, Jewish judges tend to favor criminal defendants, while Catholic judges tend to rule against them. This Element also finds from experiments that prosecutors backlash to Circuit Court rulings while District Court judges comply. Methodologically, this Element demonstrates the applicability of deep instrumental variables to legal data.
Gustavo Da Silva Araújo; Luis Bernal González; José L. Gámez Merino; María E. Martínez Gómez; Gustavo A. Muñoz Fernández; Daniel L. Rodríguez Vidanes; Juan B. Seoane Sepúlveda
Real Analysis: An Undergraduate Problem Book for Mathematicians, Applied Scientists, and Engineers is a classical Real Analysis/Calculus problem book. This topic has been a compulsory subject for every undergraduate studying mathematics or engineering for a very long time. This volume contains a huge number of engaging problems and solutions, as well as detailed explanations of how to achieve these solutions. This latter quality is something that many problem books lack, and it is hoped that this feature will be useful to students and instructors alike. FeaturesHundreds of problems and solutionsCan be used as a stand-alone problem book, or in conjunction with the author’s textbook, Real Analysis: An Undergraduate Textbook for Mathematicians, Applied Scientists, and Engineers, ISBN 9781032481487Perfect resource for undergraduate students studying a first course in Calculus or Real AnalysisContains explanatory figures, detailed techniques, tricks, hints, and “recipes” on how to proceed once we have a calculus problem in front of us.
Gustavo Da Silva Araújo; Luis Bernal González; José L. Gámez Merino; María E. Martínez Gómez; Gustavo A. Muñoz Fernández; Daniel L. Rodríguez Vidanes; Juan B. Seoane Sepúlveda
Real Analysis: An Undergraduate Problem Book for Mathematicians, Applied Scientists, and Engineers is a classical Real Analysis/Calculus problem book. This topic has been a compulsory subject for every undergraduate studying mathematics or engineering for a very long time. This volume contains a huge number of engaging problems and solutions, as well as detailed explanations of how to achieve these solutions. This latter quality is something that many problem books lack, and it is hoped that this feature will be useful to students and instructors alike. FeaturesHundreds of problems and solutionsCan be used as a stand-alone problem book, or in conjunction with the author’s textbook, Real Analysis: An Undergraduate Textbook for Mathematicians, Applied Scientists, and Engineers, ISBN 9781032481487Perfect resource for undergraduate students studying a first course in Calculus or Real AnalysisContains explanatory figures, detailed techniques, tricks, hints, and “recipes” on how to proceed once we have a calculus problem in front of us.
The quest to understand the condensation of proteins from solutions is a rapidly evolving field. The purpose of this book is to bring to an interdisciplinary audience the state-of-the-art in current research. The first part of the book deals with issues related to the production of high quality protein crystals from solution. Since protein function is determined by structure, high quality protein crystals must be grown in order to determine their structure by X-ray crystallography. The book also discusses diseases that occur due to undesired protein condensation, an increasingly important subject. Examples include sickle cell anemia, cataracts and Alzheimer's disease. Current experimental and theoretical work on these diseases is discussed, which seeks understanding at a fundamental, molecular level, to prevent the undesired condensation from occurring. The book, containing color plate sections, is suitable for graduate students and academic researchers in physics, chemistry, structural biology, protein crystallography and medicine.
Clinically oriented and student-friendly, Basic Clinical Neuroscience provides the anatomic and pathophysiologic basis necessary to understand neurologic abnormalities. This concise but comprehensive text emphasizes the localization of specific medically important anatomic structures and clinically important pathways, using anatomy-enhancing illustrations. Updated throughout to reflect recent advances in the field, the Third Edition features new clinical boxes, over 100 additional review questions, and striking full color artwork.Features Include:Clinical Connection boxesReview questions at the end of each chapter and detailed answers in the back of the bookAn entire chapter on locating lesionsAn atlas of myelin-stained sectionsUnique, hand-drawn, full color artworkA glossary of key terms
This brief presents a global perspective on the geometry of spaces of polynomials. Its particular focus is on polynomial spaces of dimension 3, providing, in that case, a graphical representation of the unit ball. Also, the extreme points in the unit ball of several polynomial spaces are characterized. Finally, a number of applications to obtain sharp classical polynomial inequalities are presented.The study performed is the first ever complete account on the geometry of the unit ball of polynomial spaces. Nowadays there are hundreds of research papers on this topic and our work gathers the state of the art of the main and/or relevant results up to now. This book is intended for a broad audience, including undergraduate and graduate students, junior and senior researchers and it also serves as a source book for consultation. In addition to that, we made this work visually attractive by including in it over 50 original figures in order to help in the understanding of allthe results and techniques included in the book.
Homelie inedite d'Origene sur Daniel et l'Ante-Christ / signe Pierre Batiffol]Date de l'edition originale: 1897Ce livre est la reproduction fidele d'une oeuvre publiee avant 1920 et fait partie d'une collection de livres reimprimes a la demande editee par Hachette Livre, dans le cadre d'un partenariat avec la Bibliotheque nationale de France, offrant l'opportunite d'acceder a des ouvrages anciens et souvent rares issus des fonds patrimoniaux de la BnF.Les oeuvres faisant partie de cette collection ont ete numerisees par la BnF et sont presentes sur Gallica, sa bibliotheque numerique.En entreprenant de redonner vie a ces ouvrages au travers d'une collection de livres reimprimes a la demande, nous leur donnons la possibilite de rencontrer un public elargi et participons a la transmission de connaissances et de savoirs parfois difficilement accessibles.Nous avons cherche a concilier la reproduction fidele d'un livre ancien a partir de sa version numerisee avec le souci d'un confort de lecture optimal. Nous esperons que les ouvrages de cette nouvelle collection vous apporteront entiere satisfaction.Pour plus d'informations, rendez-vous sur www.hachettebnf.fr
Bien que l'adoration dans l'Ancien Testament ait t un th me th ologique, elle a re u moins d'attention de la part des chercheurs en tant que th me du livre de Daniel. Ce livre, gr ce l'utilisation d'une m thode contextuelle, a mis en vidence la signification th ologique et les implications de l'adoration dans Daniel. L'adoration a une signification th ologique qu'elle met en lumi re. Et cette adoration de Dieu est perp tuelle, elle devrait avoir la pr minence sur le royaume terrestre pour atteindre sa pleine actualisation dans le royaume ternel de Dieu. Par cons quent, l'adoration est un th me th ologique dans Daniel, qui ne devrait pas tre rel gu dans la d couverte des valeurs th ologiques.
Les evenements prochains d'apres le livre de Daniel et l'Apocalypse / par l'abbe RaboissonDate de l'edition originale: 1874Ce livre est la reproduction fidele d'une oeuvre publiee avant 1920 et fait partie d'une collection de livres reimprimes a la demande editee par Hachette Livre, dans le cadre d'un partenariat avec la Bibliotheque nationale de France, offrant l'opportunite d'acceder a des ouvrages anciens et souvent rares issus des fonds patrimoniaux de la BnF.Les oeuvres faisant partie de cette collection ont ete numerisees par la BnF et sont presentes sur Gallica, sa bibliotheque numerique.En entreprenant de redonner vie a ces ouvrages au travers d'une collection de livres reimprimes a la demande, nous leur donnons la possibilite de rencontrer un public elargi et participons a la transmission de connaissances et de savoirs parfois difficilement accessibles.Nous avons cherche a concilier la reproduction fidele d'un livre ancien a partir de sa version numerisee avec le souci d'un confort de lecture optimal. Nous esperons que les ouvrages de cette nouvelle collection vous apporteront entiere satisfaction.Pour plus d'informations, rendez-vous sur www.hachettebnf.fr
The decision was made within a moment, one governed by the limitations of experience and the forces therein - one that changed all of them, yet still one that remained the focus going forward: A moment that was irrelevant. A moment best left forgotten to the past - the past, best left forgotten.As if it would.The past stood as the future for the woman that had stood next to Logan since the moment. It was where he went while taking walks in Paradise - reflecting back. It was where amends were needed. It meant the conversation he avoided. It meant facing those he'd left behind: To be left behind. To understand a moment that could not be understood, to watch a pillar fall that was infallible. To understand - how it could happen: It was not expected. It fell as betrayal, yet feeling it betrayal resounded selfish. To enumerate events and observations to bring clarity to what occurred.As if it would.Success stood upon the moment as an outlet Muriel had seized upon to comprehend, to understand exactly what went wrong. It became more complicated, the deeper that it grew, and in the end - was it worth it? The past was always present but it could be that the past was only that: Gone.Logan and Muriel look to the future while trying to move on from the past and leave it where it stood.As if it would.
Human rights advocacy in the West is changing. Before the turn of the century, access to goods such as food, housing, and health care-while essential to human survival-were deemed outside of the human rights sphere. Traditional human rights institutions focused on rights in the political arena that could be defended through legal systems. In Freedom from Poverty, Daniel P. L. Chong examines how today's nongovernmental organizations are modifying human rights practices and reshaping the political landscape by taking up the cause of subsistence rights. This book outlines how three types of NGOs-human rights, social justice, and humanitarian organizations-are breaking down barriers by incorporating access to economic and social goods into national laws and advancing subsistence rights through nonjuridical means. These NGOs are using rights not only as legal instruments but as moral and rhetorical implements to build social movements, shape political culture, and guide development work. Rights language is now invoked in churches, political campaigns, rock concerts, and organizational mission statements. Chong presents a social theory of human rights to provide a framework for understanding these changes and defending the legitimacy of these rights. Freedom from Poverty analyzes new trends in the evolution of human rights by combining constructivist and postpositivist legal approaches. This book provides valuable concepts to human rights practitioners, political scientists, antipoverty advocates, and leaders who are serious about ending widespread privation and disease.
Promises were made. Expectations were raised that vast opportunity laid openly available. Listen: A command set on every child - Dani listened and held each word that she was offered as if it carried utmost truth. But then, Miami disappeared, and hope; the future that had been prophesied was gone. The words of mystery and promise dropped to sudden silence - but not forgotten: Dani left when she was done with schooling, armed only with a tree to prove her worth, and determined to find the way back to Miami - convinced it was the means to understanding everything. Unflickering faith that it was necessary, to bring meaning to her life.
For millennia, people have taken to detailing life's victories and downfalls in a poetic way, be they humorous or tragic.This book is a collection of glimpses of times past, and present day. But the book's intention is primarily to inspire and entertain, which, in the final analysis, is what poetry is intended to do.
"If there's one thing this boy knows about, it's birds." So said Javi's father, with a tinge of embarrassment, as he responded to a claim excusing prolonged absence. Birdwatching became an outlet of expression as Javi tried to fit into a world that seemed to be offended by his mere presence. The avocation became a distinction, for better and worse, and coincidentally led to other, unexpected and unlikely interests - bringing new friendships and reconnection with old acquaintances. Though Javi finds many experiences to support his expectations, it is those that do not that he finds most difficult to accept.
There are moments where a clarity falls. Moments where a simple observation brings a rush of memory, a rush of feelings that were left behind - a reminder of the fears of what laid ahead, a fear of the consequences for the choices made: A moment where everything experienced distills and brings awareness to the present, greater understanding of all that is occurring and un-equivocating knowing of what is held most dear. Those moments strike disconcert; humility that lay one bare, that fall hard as a heavy punch straight in the gut.
