This article investigates the determinants of the blockbuster punitive damages awards of at least $100 million. As of the end of 2008, there had been 100 such awards with an average value of $3.0 billion. The U.S. Supreme ...

The complexity of detail that characterizes the Internal Revenue Code (Code) has been the subject of intense criticism and only faint praise. Yet, one of the more striking anomalies of the Code is that its often suffocating ...

How do individuals enact careers within our increasingly precarious economic system? Examining workers in artistic careers can bring insight into this question, given their history of precarity and non-traditional employment. ...

A number of high-profile toxic tort cases, such as silicone breast implants, have followed a familiar and disturbing path: Early studies suggest a link between a suspected substance and a particular illness. Based on these ...

This dissertation argues that religious and cultural media are socially organized technologies of power that reproduce, maintain, circulate, and exchange historical myths on black womanhood, which black women and girls ...

Pancreatic islet insulin secretion is impaired during diabetes pathogenesis, due in part to disruption of β-cell Ca2+ handling. TALK-1 K+ channels are key regulators of ꞵ-cell electrical excitability, Ca2+ entry, and ...

This dissertation presents some new results in certain areas of structural graph theory. In particular we are concerned with graph minors, and classes of graphs characterised in part by forbidding certain minors. There are ...

Laparoscopic liver surgery is challenging to perform due to a compromised ability of the surgeon to localize subsurface anatomy in the constrained environment. While image guidance has the potential to address this barrier, ...

The continuous demand for higher packing density and faster operating speeds in modern digital CMOS circuits has driven the scaling of the metal-oxide-silicon field effect transistors. The use of scaling schemes which do ...