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During the last months of 2001, the United States took into custody suspected al-Qaeda terrorists. These detainees included Afghan nationals, Pakistanis, Saudis, Yemenis, and others from different parts of the world. Members of the U.S. military screened and interrogated detainees to identify persons who might be prosecuted or detained or who might have useful information about the terrorist network. In January 2002, 482 of these detainees were flown to Cuba, where they were incarcer- ated at Camp X-Ray. The conditions were at best spartan, which drew criticism from human rights organizations. Over time the United States upgraded the facilities and by early 2003, a small number of detainees had been returned to their country of origin, having satisfied U.S. officials that they had no terrorist ties. By April 2009, 241 detainees remained at the facility. President

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Indeed, when dealing with offenders under 16, the youth court’s powers and duties extend to the parents of the offender. Thus, a youth court is required to order parents to attend court if their child is being prosecuted, unless it would be unreasonable to require this. There is also a presumption that a court should bind over the parents of a child aged under 16 to exercise proper care and control over the child: if it declines to do so, it should state its reasons. There is a further power to bind over the parents of a child who is placed on a community sentence, requiring them to ensure that the child completes it. The general theme of encouraging greater parental responsibility is undoubtedly right, insofar as family units are critical to much social behaviour. But a more constructive approach than court orders, threats and coercion would be to provide greater support for parents through local authority social workers and parental support groups. Thus the Children Act 1989 provides for local authorities to provide support and assistance to parents based on assessment of the needs of the child, without resort to care proceedings and without any attribution of blame. However, parents may have other duties imposed on them, such as that of attending all meetings of a young offender panel relating to their child, where a referral order has been made. Indeed, ss. 8–10 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 also empower a court to make a parenting order, requiring a parent to attend guidance sessions and so on as specified. The questions of the appropriate degree of coercion on parents of offending children remains controversial. 24

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Gastric ulcers that appear benign by radiography present special problems. Some physicians believe that gastroscopy is not mandatory if the radiographic features are typically benign, if complete healing can be visualized by x-ray within 6 weeks, and if a follow-up contrast radiograph obtained several months later shows a normal appearance. However, we recommend gastroscopic biopsy and brush cytology for all patients with a gastric ulcer in order to exclude a malignancy. Malignant gastric ulcers must be recognized before they penetrate into surrounding tissues, because the rate of cure of early lesions limited to the mucosa or submucosa is >80%. Since gastric carcinomas are difficult to distinguish clinically or radiographically from gastric lymphomas, endoscopic biopsies should be made as deeply as possible, due to the submucosal location of lymphoid tumors.

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Antibodies to self-antigens result from a breakdown of immune tolerance causing B or T lymphocytes (or both) to respond to the host’s own cells and tissues. The causes of this breakdown are complex and involve genetic predisposition with, in some cases, linkage to a particular HLA type, and environmental factors. There is a large body of evidence suggesting that the trigger for the autoimmune response is frequently bacterial and/or viral infection (reviewed by Oldstone 1998). Murakami and co-workers (1997) used a transgenic mouse model in which the mice carry immunoglobulin genes encoding an anti-red cell autoantibody (4C8) to show that autoimmune disease in these animals does not develop when the animals are kept in pathogen-free conditions. Goverman and co-workers (1993) used a transgenic mouse model constructed to express a rearranged T-cell receptor speciﬁc for myelin basic protein and showed that the mice developed spontaneous experimental allergic encephalomyelitis when kept in a non-sterile facility, but not when maintained in a sterile pathogen-free facility.

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envelope to challenge current parameters. From aviation where ENVELOPE is the limit of a plane’s range and powers, via 1990s’ marketing speak US, 1998. < push up the daisies; pushing up the daisies to be dead, especially dead and buried; use is occasionally extended to the dying. An image first sketched as dated ‘turn up your toes to the daisies’ in 1842 – from which we derive turn up your toes, (to die). Other variations that have slipped from use: ‘under the daisies’, ‘kick up daisies’ and, less certainly, ‘grin at the daisy-roots’, which may also relate to ‘roots’ (boots) UK, 1918. < push your luck to take a risk UK, 1911

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Waller, R. A. and Duncan, D. B. (1969). "A Bayes Rule for the Symmetric Multiple Comparison Problem", Journal of the American Statistical Association 64, pages 1484-1504. Waller, R. A. and Kemp, K. E. (1976). "Computations of Bayesian t-Values for Multiple Comparisons", Journal of Statistical Computation

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The internal consistency reliability of the whole GWBI scale was very high (>0.95) indicating that there may well be redundancy of items, particularly as two pairs of items are similarly worded, adding unnecessarily to respondent burden. The two general health items loading on Factor 3 in the unforced factor analysis had similar wording, and one or the other would appear to be redundant (if either were deleted from the scale then only two factors emerged in the unforced analysis). Although the reliability of the three potential GWBI subscales was high, overlap is con- siderable and we agree with the recommendation by McK- enna et al [20] that there are no clear subscales to the questionnaire, and only a total score should be calculated. Factor analysis of the W-BQ12 indicated three relatively clean factors providing evidence for W-BQ12 subscales of Negative Well-being and Positive Well-being and, although two W-BQ12 Energy items double loaded, it was possible to interpret the third W-BQ12 factor as an Energy subscale. There was support for the calculation of a total score for the questionnaire. The internal consistency relia- bility of subscales and W-BQ12 General Well-being com- bined scale was excellent. This high value would not indicate item redundancy, however, (as in the case of the

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Each year a consumer agency ranks all domestic airlines for on-time performance during the previous year, using as its sole criterion the percentage of each airline’s flights that left no more than fifteen minutes late. The agency does not count delays due to mechanical reasons, but the fact that the percentage of delayed flights hat were delayed for mechanical reasons was approximately the same for all domestic airlines last year means that ----- .

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designs Internet “exchanges” for corporate purchasing departments) showed assets of just $385 million and reported a net loss of $63 mil- lion on only $34 million in total revenues. The stock of this minuscule company had risen nearly 900% since its IPO, hitting a total market capitalization of $15 billion. Was it overpriced? “Yes, we have a big market cap,” Commerce One’s chief executive, Mark Hoffman, shrugged in an interview. “But we have a big market to play in. We’re seeing incredible demand. . . . Analysts expect us to make $140 mil- lion in revenue this year. And in the past we have exceeded expecta- tions.”

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It is for this reason that Dicey says that it would be erroneous to suppose that the Acts of Indemnity which follow Suspension Acts merely substitute the ‘despotism of Parliament for the prerogative of the Crown’. ‘[T]he fact that the most arbitrary powers of the English executive must always be exercised under Act of Parliament places the government, even when armed with the widest authority, under the supervision, so to speak, of the courts.’ In his view, the judges would exercise a control on executive action informed by their understanding of the ‘general spirit of the common law’. And he claimed that in England ‘Parliamentary sovereignty has favoured the rule of law . . . [T]he supremacy of the law of the land both calls forth the exertion of Parliamentary sovereignty, and leads to its being exercised in a spirit of legality.’ 82 In other words, the rule of law is preserved to the extent that the officials who acted illegally are still accountable to a statute and because judges will interpret that statute to ensure that the officials acted in good faith and in a fashion that did not amount to reckless cruelty. However, the extent to which the rule of law can be preserved is obvi- ously dependent on the terms of the Act of Indemnity. An Act of Indemnity could make it clear that any acts, including acts done in bad faith and acts that are recklessly cruel, were covered, and that judges were not entitled to review official action during the emergency to see whether it fell within the terms of the Act. And Dicey might conclude that just as in the case of a statute that ordered that blue-eyed babies be put to death, judges would be powerless in the face of such a statute. This Act of Indemnity would establish a legal black hole – a zone of illegality – retrospectively and Dicey would surely have no hesitation in labelling it despotic.

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Remark 3.7. In the setting of combinatorial species there is a general notion of “sub- stitution” or “partitional composition” for two species, and assemblies of structures are a special case involving the species of sets E . See [1] for more information and an expla- nation of the notation. It is possible to define the substitution H ◦ F for a combinatorial species H (a functor from the category B to itself) and a q -species F . Letting H = E n

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We performed the algorithm by using needles of different thickness to achieve an almost refined result at the end of each insertion step. This is a simple approach which achieves desirable sub-optimal designs. Takashashi, 1995 explains how sub-optimal designs of thin film filters are less sensitive to fabrication errors and temperature fluctuations. Depending on the accuracy chosen for incrementing the thickness and position, there are k calculations for the thickness and for each thickness there are m calculations for every position. We therefore had to compute k· m merit values for each needle, which can be very time consuming. However, because all of these calculations were based on the same TFF structure, we could subdivide them into small packets of parameters that were distributed to many computers, allowing us to reduce the time to obtain a result and/or to use a smaller step size to find a more optimised TFF. Nevertheless, even with a network of 20 standard desktop PCs, each synthesis could take several days of run time.

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Let (x 0 , y 0 ), (x 1 , y 1 ), (x 2 , y 2 )... (x n , y n ) be given (n + 1) points. Let y 0 , y 1 , y 2 ,...y n be the values of the function corresponding to the values of argument x 0 , x 1 , x 2 ,...x n which are not equally spaced. Since the difference of the function values with respect to the difference of the arguments are called divided differences, so the first divided difference for the arguments x 0 , x 1 , is given by

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This chapter explain why sub-national governments exist at all and compare the merits of fiscal decentralisation and centralisation; describe the Tiebout model; describe the assignment of expenditure functions and revenue sources (tax powers) to the national, provincial, and local spheres of government in South Africa; distinguish between tax competition and tax harmonisation.

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T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) is a genetically heterogeneous disease with the need for treatment optimization. Previously, high expression of Insulin-like growth factor binding protein 7 (IGFBP7), a member of the IGF system, was identified as negative prognostic factor in adult T-ALL patients.

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