HERESY AND FORFEITURE IN MARIAN ENGLAND

Asset Forfeiture and Criminal Deterrence

Asset forfeiture laws allow the seizure of assets used in the commission of a crime. This paper examines the impact of such laws on deterrence by incorporating the possibility of asset forfeiture into the standard economic model of crime. When punishment is by a fine that can be optimally chosen, forfeiture is never optimal because of the deadweight loss it imposes in the capital market. When t...

MARIAN Client / Server Interaction

The MARIAN system, like many information systems, can be divided in to a client part and a server part (Fig. 1). Historically, MARIAN was designed to support stand-alone single-user clients running on desktop machines. Although some of these clients are still in existence, this has not been the primary means of interacting with the system since the Web revolution of the mid-1990s. Most users no...

Marian Walhout: Transcriptional mapmaker

T rying to pick your way through all the factors that govern differential gene expression patterns in multi-cellular organisms can be a tricky business. A quick glance at Marian Walhout's maps of the interactions between transcription factors and DNA elements could easily leave one feeling more lost than ever. But Walhout, who constructs these maps using high-throughput screens and computationa...

Dogma and heresy in quantum computing

Panel: “Heresy, Inquisition, and the State”

Religious persecution of “heretics” by the Catholic Church that characterizes the middle ages had its roots in power struggles centuries prior. In the first centuries of Christianity, Christians fought amongst themselves for interpretive and doctrinal authority. Heterodoxy didn’t stand a chance in the Middle Ages; in Late Antiquity nothing was certain. Everything changed when, in 380, Emperor T...