INTRODUCTION Left atrial myxomas are rare benign tumors of the heart. They vary widely in size, and very little is known about their growth rate. The reported growth rates of left atrial myxomas from several published case reports appears to vary from no growth, to between 1.3 to 6.9 mm/month in diameter within patients with established myxoma who have not undergone surgery. CASE PRESENTATION...

This article explores two assumptions about constitutional law and the form of practical reasoning inherent in constitutional argument and decision that have shaped the debate over originalism. The first assumption—adopted by originalists—is that constitutional reasoning is a formalistic process. Originalism’s critics tacitly describe a very different and less formalistic model. The second assu...

The accelerated crucible r9tation technique (ACRT) has been applied to the THM growth of Hg I _xCdxTe crystals to grow the crystals at a higher rate. These higher growth rates, which should be achieved by extending the regions of convectional stirring towards the interfaces, have been used in an attempt to explain the results in terms of simple constitutional supercooling arguments. Some differ...

INTRODUCTION Constitutional laws of countries in the English-speaking Caribbean (ESC) have changed very little, at least in relative terms, since the independence of these countries. Nevertheless, the institutional and political environment of the ESC presents some unique challenges to constitutional reform in the contemporary era. This paper examines the constitutional trajectory of these coun...

This paper discusses the claim that System Dynamics models are unable to represent constitutional change. They do represent state transitions, but not constitutional transitions. Because the latter kind of transitions is the rule rather than the exception in the study of social phenomena, this inability has serious consequences. First of all, it leads to a neglect of constitutional issues; caus...

II. THE PREDICAMENTS OF IMPLEMENTING HUMAN RIGHTS IN TAIWAN............................................................................................ 148 A. The General Situation: The Grand Justices Build Taiwan’s Constitutional Law on Different Countries’ Constitutional Jurisprudence. ........................................................................... 149 B. Four Features of Current ...

In a recent Bibliography on self-regulation on the Internet, a report prepared for the OECD1 stated : « while there is a broad consensus that self regulation of the Internet is critical to its future growth, there is little consensus about how to achieve and to implement a self-regulatory régime ». Self-regulation is a word and a myth : the concept is presented as an adequate solution due to th...

In March 2004, the National Assembly of South Korea impeached President Roh Moo-hyun and brought about an immediate suspension of Roh's presidency. Two months later, the Constitutional Court of Korea restored the status quo by dismissing the impeachment and reinstating the President. This episode marks the first time in the history of modern constitutionalism that a president impeached by a leg...