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Swallowing and Communication in Cockayne Syndrome: Clinical Characteristics and Management
American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Cockayne syndrome (CS) is an ultrarare genetic disorder associated with genes encoding proteins involved in DNA repair. The clinical course of CS involves neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative features, including swallowing and communication impairments.
Abigail M. Spoden +2 more
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State of Recidivism: The Revolving Door of America's Prisons [PDF]
, 2011 Analyzes recidivism trends by state for new crimes or technical violations; the impact of sentencing and parole policies; and strategies to reduce recidivism and costs, including improved efficiency, sentencing and release policies, and reentry ...
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American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, EarlyView.ABSTRACT People with Phelan–McDermid syndrome (PMS) have reduced speech and language abilities, yet little research has profiled the communication abilities in this population. The purpose of this study was threefold: identifying the language and communication profiles of school‐aged children with PMS, identifying genetic contributions to language and ...
Sarah Quadri‐Valverde +12 more
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Neuroscience and Sentencing [PDF]
, 2016 This symposium comes at a propitious time for me. I am reviewing the sentences I was obliged to give to hundreds of men—mostly African American men—over the course of a seventeen-year federal judicial career.
Gertner, Nancy
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American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Homozygous achondroplasia is widely considered perinatal lethal by the medical community. In this case series, we report two children from a single family with longer‐term survival. One child lived for 17 months and the other was 60 months at the time of publication.
Hannah Singerline +3 more
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Making the Crime Fit the Penalty: The Role of Prosecutorial Discretion Under Mandatory Minimum Sentencing [PDF]
This paper empirically documents one way in which prosecutorial discretion can be used to dampen the effects of mandatory minimum sentencing laws. Specifically, I show prosecutors use their discretion over prosecution charges to circumvent a mandatory ...
David Bjerk
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The Effect of External Pressures on Sentencing Judges [PDF]
, 1983 Aldoupolis v. Commonwealth illustrates three potential types of pressure on a sentencing judge: public opinion, opinions voiced by influential political figures, and opinions expressed by the press.
Kunen, Eve
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Australia's Robodebt scheme, an automated debt recovery program introduced in 2016, was exposed by the Robodebt Royal Commission (RC) as a serious failure of public administration and source of significant harm for thousands of Australians. Through a critical discourse analysis (CDA) of Australian news media, this study explores whether the RC'
Rebecca Coleman‐Hicks +1 more
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Child Welfare and Alaska Native Tribal Governance: A Pilot Project in Kake, Alaska — Report of Findings [PDF]
, 1999 This report details research on child welfare decision-making in Kake in the context of a proposed ordinance for the establishment of an organized tribal court in the village.
Kandel, Randy, Rieger, Lisa
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Making Sense of Standardised Assessment Data: A Response to Snow et al. (2025)
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT I write in response to the commentary by Snow et al. (2025) on the paper Are Australian students' academic skills declining? Interrogating 25 years of national and international standardised assessment data published in this journal (Larsen 2024).
Sally A. Larsen
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