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Another Look at the Deterrent Effect of Death Penalty [PDF]
There is a question whether the execution rate is appropriate to examine the deterrent effect of death penalty. Instead of using execution rate, this paper uses dummy variables to categorize states into different groups and to compare the group mean ...
Choe, Jongmook
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International Journal of Cancer, EarlyView.What's New? Using 21 SNPs, two novel PRS were constructed and used to develop two new machine‐learning classifiers, one for the detection of prostate cancer and the other for the prediction of its aggressiveness and subsequent mortality. The classifier for disease detection is built using the PRS as the sole feature, whereas the one for disease ...
Leandro Rodrigues Santiago +3 more
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Indicators to identify cancer screening providers with suboptimal case detection: A scoping review
International Journal of Cancer, EarlyView.What's New? Quality control of cancer screening programs is essential to maintaining high public health standards. Here, the authors reviewed monitoring of case detection in cervical and colorectal cancer screening programs in Europe, and evaluated its effectiveness. They analysed 20 different measures used for this purpose and showed that many of them
Jiayao Lei +5 more
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International Journal of Cancer, EarlyView.What's New? Lung squamous cell carcinoma (LUSC) is more aggressive than lung adenocarcinoma, and is most often diagnosed at an advanced stage. Here, the authors evaluated gene expression data from LUSC tumors and came up with gene signatures for 34 genetic abnormalities whose expression changes throughout different precancerous stages. Several of these
Yupei Lin +9 more
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Criminal Justice Sentencing Policy Statement [PDF]
, 2005 This policy statement, put forth by the NCCD Board of directors, is a revision of our 1992 "Statement on Criminal Sentencing." We reviewed the developments of the past 13 years and outlined NCCD's positions on issues such as mandatory minimums and the ...
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Journal of Applied Econometrics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The synthetic control method assumes the existence of a perfect synthetic control, which cannot exist if the outcomes are functions of transitory shocks with nonzero asymptotic variance and may not exist even in expectation for the treated unit. This paper first shows the benefits of estimating synthetic controls for all units.
David Powell
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Empirical Analysis and the Fate of Capital Punishment [PDF]
, 2016 In his dissenting opinion in Glossip v. Gross, Justice Breyer attempted to give content to the Supreme Court’s prior command in Atkins v. Virginia that unless the imposition of the death penalty “measurably contributes to one or both of [the legitimate ...
Donohue, John J.
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Wild Animal Suffering Is Not Intractable: A Precautionary Approach to Compassionate Intervention
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Wild animals suffer due to human activity, yet natural factors contribute far more significantly to their suffering. In light of this, some propose that we have a pro tanto obligation to intervene in ecosystems to improve wild animal welfare.
Tristan Katz
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Death Penalty and Psychiatric Evaluation in Japan. [PDF]
Front Psychiatry, 2018 Kashiwagi H, Hirabayashi N.
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Positive Freedom and the Social Meaning of Money
Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Semiotic objections to markets hold that buying and selling certain things – for example, sex, body parts, votes, surrogacy services – expresses that those things are fungible with money, which has only profane value. This article offers a more fundamental challenge to semiotic critiques of market.
Andrew Allison +2 more
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