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Freedom and criminal responsibility in American legal thought
\"As the first full-length study of twentieth-century American legal academics wrestling with the problem of free will versus determinism in the context of criminal responsibility, this book deals with one of the most fundamental problems in criminal law. Thomas Andrew Green chronicles legal academic ideas from the Progressive Era critiques of free will-based (and generally retributive) theories of criminal responsibility to the midcentury acceptance of the idea of free will as necessary to a criminal law conceived of in practical moral-legal terms that need not accord with scientific fact to the late-in-century insistence on the compatibility of scientific determinism with moral and legal responsibility and with a modern version of the retributivism that the Progressives had attacked. Foregrounding scholars' language and ideas, Green invites readers to participate in reconstructing an aspect of the past that is central to attempts to work out bases for moral judgment, legal blame, and criminal punishment\"-- Provided by publisher.
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ON CHAINSAWS AND ACOUSTIC VIOLENCE
This article explores distinct practices of sounding and listening that have emerged in a context of severe deforestation in Ajusco-Chichinautzin, a region south of Mexico City. It applies the concept of acoustic violence to this setting, as part of wider attempts to build constructive responses to climate breakdown through sound and music scholarship. As the first indication of occurring logging, the sound of chainsaws proves vital in attempts by forest guards and police to detect and halt deforestation Equally, attentiveness to acoustic violence allows us to cut through sensationalist media presentations of the problem of deforestation, to perceive how local populations—often blamed for complicity with loggers—are in fact direct victims of environmental loss. The concept of acoustic violence can also illuminate how, in a context not just environmental loss but of dispossession, modalities of listening may become simplified instrumentalized, or lost.
Este artículo explora distintas prácticas de sonar y escuchar que han surgido en un contexto de severa deforestación en Ajusco-Chichinautzin, una región al sur de la Ciudad de México. Aplica el concepto de violencia acústica a este contexto, como parte de intentos más amplios de construir respuestas constructivas al colapso climático a través de la investigación sonora y musical. Como primer indicio de la tala en curso, el sonido de las motosierras resulta vital en los intentos de los guardabosques y la policía por detectar y detener la deforestación. De igual modo, prestar atención a la violencia acústica nos permite trascender las presentaciones sensacionalistas de los medios de comunicación sobre el problema de la deforestación y percibir cómo las poblaciones locales, a menudo culpadas de complicidad con los taladores, son de hecho víctimas directas de la pérdida ambiental. El concepto de violencia acústica también puede iluminar cómo, en un contexto no sólo de pérdida ambiental sino de despojo, las modalidades de escucha pueden simplificarse, instrumentalizarse o perderse.
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Entanglement growth from squeezing on the MPS manifold
Finding suitable characterizations of quantum chaos is a major challenge in many-body physics, with a central difficulty posed by the linearity of the Schrödinger equation. A possible solution for recovering non-linearity is to project the dynamics onto some variational manifold. The classical chaos induced via this procedure may be used as a signature of quantum chaos in the full Hilbert space. Here, we demonstrate analytically a previously heuristic connection between the Lyapunov spectrum from projection onto the matrix product state (MPS) manifold and the growth of entanglement. This growth occurs by squeezing a localized distribution on the variational manifold. The process qualitatively resembles the Cardy-Calabrese picture, where local perturbations to a moving MPS reference are interpreted as bosonic quasi-particles. Taking careful account of the number of distinct channels for these processes recovers the connection to the Lyapunov spectrum. Our results rigorously establish the physical significance of the projected Lyapunov spectrum, suggesting it as an alternative method of characterizing chaos in quantum many-body systems, one that is manifestly linked to classical chaos.
Recent work explored the connection between quantum thermalization in closed many-body systems and classical chaos by projecting quantum dynamics onto classical dynamics. Here the authors further this understanding by analytically linking entanglement growth to the Lyapunov spectrum.
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Firefly encyclopedia of transportation : a comprehensive look at the world of transportation
\"The book is a fully illustrated encyclopedia of transportation for the young reader. Topics covered include land, water, air, and space transportation systems and vehicles, as well as the history of transportation.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Hierarchical quantum classifiers
Machine learning: Quantum networks for classical and quantum dataQuantum algorithms with hierarchical tensor network structures may provide an efficient approach to machine learning using quantum computers. Recent theoretical work has indicated that quantum algorithms could have an advantage over classical methods for the linear algebra computations involved in machine learning. At the same time, mathematical structures called tensor networks, with some similarities to neural networks, have been shown to represent quantum states and circuits that can be efficiently evaluated. Edward Grant from University College London and colleagues from the UK and China have shown how quantum algorithms based on two tensor network structures can be used to classify both classical and quantum data. If implemented on a large scale quantum computer, their approach may enable classification of two-dimensional images and entangled quantum data more efficiently than is possible with classical methods.
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Fables. Volume 22, Farewell
The \"Eisner Award-winning series sees the conclusion of the beloved stories of Bigby Wolf, Rose Red, Boy Blue, Pinnochio and countless other timeless fables. The only question left to be answered is whether or not they will have a happy ending.\"--Provided by publisher.
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Subtyping of Breast Cancer by Immunohistochemistry to Investigate a Relationship between Subtype and Short and Long Term Survival: A Collaborative Analysis of Data for 10,159 Cases from 12 Studies
Immunohistochemical markers are often used to classify breast cancer into subtypes that are biologically distinct and behave differently. The aim of this study was to estimate mortality for patients with the major subtypes of breast cancer as classified using five immunohistochemical markers, to investigate patterns of mortality over time, and to test for heterogeneity by subtype.
We pooled data from more than 10,000 cases of invasive breast cancer from 12 studies that had collected information on hormone receptor status, human epidermal growth factor receptor-2 (HER2) status, and at least one basal marker (cytokeratin [CK]5/6 or epidermal growth factor receptor [EGFR]) together with survival time data. Tumours were classified as luminal and nonluminal tumours according to hormone receptor expression. These two groups were further subdivided according to expression of HER2, and finally, the luminal and nonluminal HER2-negative tumours were categorised according to expression of basal markers. Changes in mortality rates over time differed by subtype. In women with luminal HER2-negative subtypes, mortality rates were constant over time, whereas mortality rates associated with the luminal HER2-positive and nonluminal subtypes tended to peak within 5 y of diagnosis and then decline over time. In the first 5 y after diagnosis the nonluminal tumours were associated with a poorer prognosis, but over longer follow-up times the prognosis was poorer in the luminal subtypes, with the worst prognosis at 15 y being in the luminal HER2-positive tumours. Basal marker expression distinguished the HER2-negative luminal and nonluminal tumours into different subtypes. These patterns were independent of any systemic adjuvant therapy.
The six subtypes of breast cancer defined by expression of five markers show distinct behaviours with important differences in short term and long term prognosis. Application of these markers in the clinical setting could have the potential to improve the targeting of adjuvant chemotherapy to those most likely to benefit. The different patterns of mortality over time also suggest important biological differences between the subtypes that may result in differences in response to specific therapies, and that stratification of breast cancers by clinically relevant subtypes in clinical trials is urgently required.
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Teen Titans. Volume 5, The trial of Kid Flash
\"When Titans Fall. He trained under the Dark Knight himself. But then Red Robin stepped out from under the Batman's shadow to start a new team of teenaged heroes like himself. As the Teen Titans, they battled against threats no other, older team could face. He never could have imagined that their greatest threats would come from within. Spinning out of the events of \"Forever Evil,\" the team is lost in the timestream, repeatedly slammed together only to be torn apart again. Superboy has been targeted by the murderous Son of Superman he was cloned from. Raven's deal with her devilish father Trigon--her freedom for the Titans' soul--has almost been sealed. And the carefree crimefighter called Kid Flash is about to be called to account for crimes that defy comprehension. As the trial of the friend and hero they thought they knew nears its dreaded verdict, the Teen Titans will be forced to make a fateful decision. Will they stand together-- or fall apart?\" -- page 4 of cover.
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Remembering health workers who died from Ebola in 2014
Each country has lost doctors who also worked as medical teachers; their deaths are a loss to the next generation of health workers. The individuals featured here are just some of the health professionals who died from Ebola in 2014. We pay tribute to their contribution.
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