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All this has made me less optimistic about the judiciary doing its bit. Ultimately, it is the people who will protect the Constitution, and all of the wisdom it contains about personal liberties and individual freedoms. Prof Stanley phrases this appropriately when he says, “The ordinary citizen [must] stand up and loudly confront people who engage in… fascist rhetoric and not be afraid. Those millions of acts of individual bravery, if we can stitch together, will save us.” This is a time for individual acts of bravery. These are what will save us from a dangerous future.

150. In the present case, the persons who wish to make complaints have all indicated that they do not wish their full written statements to be made available to Isaacs or anyone else, that they do not wish to be questioned or challenged in person by Isaacs or anyone else even in a modified form as this Panel has suggested (i.e. video or audio links or through questions presented by the Panel).

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In a study published in July in JAMA Oncology, researchers from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, the Royal Marsden Hospital in the U.K., and Lawson Health Research Institute in Canada showed that they could use a characteristic of CTCs to predict the optimal treatment for patients with advanced prostate cancer. The blinded, four-year study utilized the Oncotype DX AR-V7 Nucleus Detect test to determine if the nuclei from CTCs taken from 142 castration-resistant prostate cancer patients contained a protein called AR-V7. It is one of the first tests to validate the predictive value of a liquid biopsy for therapeutic response and demonstrated survival benefit. The researchers found that patients who had this variant present in the nucleus lived longer when treated with taxane-based chemotherapy, while those who tested negative for nucleic AR-V7 lived longer when treated with hormone-targeting therapy using androgen-receptor signaling (ARS) inhibitors.

In India’s “first-past-the-post” electoral system, the number of legislative seats secured by each party may be paramount in determining the winners and losers of each election, but the changes in each party’s share of the popular vote still serve as a good indicator of larger scale shifts in electoral preferences.

We put the Kia Soul on our 10Best Trucks and SUVs list for the past two years, even while some internal debating continued as to whether a tall front-wheel-drive hatchback really qualifies as a subcompact SUV. It beat out its peers—many of which are also hatchback adjacent—as our best subcompact crossover for both 2017 and 2018. It got the nod because it’s a spacious and generally comfortable little thing, and because it’s the best-driving contender in a class where vehicle dynamics often get short shrift. That the Soul also dominated segment sales during that period seems to validate our opinion that it’s a compelling proposition, however you characterize it.

376. It might be that these are all issues which could have been more carefully and more pro- actively addressed by the Board as a whole or the Subcommittee in charge of Human Resources.

The drug is contraindicated for patients with a history of serious allergic reaction to human granulocyte colony-stimulating factors, and is not indicated for the mobilization of peripheral blood progenitor cells for hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation. The most common adverse reactions associated with pegfilgrastim-cbqv are bone pain and pain in the extremities.

UV purification devices like the two I tried out from Steripen emit a specific wavelength of UV light that kicks microorganisms right where their DNA strands code for reproduction. So even if you consume them, the little buggers can’t infect you because they can’t reproduce. If your water is clear, you might be okay to skip straight to purification. But if it’s turbid or murky, you’re best off filtering first, since sediment can shield microorganisms from the UV light.

New Delhi : The country’s fiscal deficit touched 114.8 percent of the full-year target of Rs 6.24 lakh crore at the end of November on account of lower revenue collections, showed government data.

“These are really exciting findings that point to the potential importance of the N-terminal portion of tau,” commented Celeste Karch of Washington University in St. Louis. “It will be interesting moving forward to understand the source of blood tau and the biological processes that lead to N-terminal tau fragments changing as a function of disease.”

112. The personal and often intimate nature of sexual harassment suggests that the usual and accepted procedures of legal practice and particularly the law of evidence require adjustment to meet the exigencies of the situation – vulnerability, horror, distress, remembrance, trauma and so on. We know in the criminal courts that special procedures are adopted in closing the courts to the public, family members or the media in rape cases or ordering that names not be published. We know that in criminal cases involving children our courts utilize intermediaries appointed in terms of the relevant legislation and that evidence is given from other rooms through television. In short, there is no intrinsic reason why an enquiry such as this should not adapt or develop traditional methods of receiving and testing evidence and seek a more transformative methodology of exposing and examining allegations of sexual and other harassment. The Panel has been committed to a transformative approach in the gathering of appropriate information, utilizing such information and then enabling it to be appropriately examined and evaluated.