The Failure of the Act: Conceptions of the Law in \u3ci\u3eThe Merchant of Venice, Bleak House, Les Miserables\u3c/i\u3e, and Richard Weisberg’s \u3ci\u3ePoethics\u3c/i\u3e

Richard Weisberg is a leading participant in the academic subfield known as Law and Literature, which is dedicated to what Weisberg aptly describes as the delightful task of associating two major human enterprises: establishing justice and telling stories. In his most recent book, Poethics: And Other Strategies of Law and Literature, Weisberg attempts to provide, more systematically . . . than elsewhere, a guidebook to Law and Literature theory and practice. Several of the chapters in Poethics were written for other occasions and previously published; accordingly, it is no surprise that Weisberg succeeds more in demonstrating his critical acuity, the breadth of his literary interests, and his graceful writing style than in providing a systematic guide to the field

Hyperbolic outer billiards : a first example

We present the first example of a hyperbolic outer billiard. More precisely we construct a one parameter family of examples which in some sense correspond to the Bunimovich billiards.Comment: 11 pages, 8 figures, to appear in Nonlinearit

On the trace identity in a model with broken symmetry

Considering the simple chiral fermion meson model when the chiral symmetry is explicitly broken, we show the validity of a trace identity -- to all orders of perturbation theory -- playing the role of a Callan-Symanzik equation and which allows us to identify directly the breaking of dilatations with the trace of the energy-momentum tensor. More precisely, by coupling the quantum field theory considered to a classical curved space background, represented by the non-propagating external vielbein field, we can express the conservation of the energy-momentum tensor through the Ward identity which characterizes the invariance of the theory under the diffeomorphisms. Our ``Callan-Symanzik equation'' then is the anomalous Ward identity for the trace of the energy-momentum tensor, the so-called ``trace identity''.Comment: 11 pages, Revtex file, final version to appear in Phys.Rev.

Intramuscular midazolam versus intravenous lorazepam for the prehospital treatment of status epilepticus in the pediatric population

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RAMPART (Rapid Anticonvulsant Medication Prior to Arrival Trial): A double‐blind randomized clinical trial of the efficacy of intramuscular midazolam versus intravenous lorazepam in the prehospital treatment of status epilepticus by paramedics

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