This chapter presents our methodological approach, our case selection, our data sources, and the general patterns emerging from our comparative analysis of lawmaking institutions and outcomes. Our results shows that Argentina’s last dictatorship, supported by a coalition of factions with high levels of unity and embeddedness, featured a reviser legislature that amended and rejected higher shares of government bills than both the notary legislature created by Franco’s regime in Spain, which was based on a coalition of factions with lower levels of unity and embeddedness, and the oscillating legislature of Brazil’s military dictatorship, based upon a coalition of factions with uneven and unstable levels of unity and embeddedness.

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The Self, the Other, and the Telos of Prosocial Action: Paul and Ethicists Ancient and Modern: Ancient ethicists portrayed ideal behaviour as oriented towards the construction of shared selves whose interests are irreducibly common, whereas modern ethicists rejected the possibility of shared selfhood and so interpreted all actions along a spectrum of egoism and altruism. Paul’s letters appear to stand in the former tradition.

Although most salonnières of the eighteenth century were members of the elite European classes, this was not always the case. In some instances, professional artists became salon hostesses themselves. This chapter discusses one such story – that of Marie-Emanuelle Bayon (1746–1825), a professional composer and keyboardist who went from being a salon habituée and participant to assuming the role of hostess herself. While the surviving evidence about Bayon’s life and career is scant, it seems that Bayon may have used the institution of the salon as part of a strategy to navigate the complexities of being a woman artist. On the one hand, she needed to make a living through her artistry, and for this, she attained the patronage of her wealthy contemporaries, as well as taking up opportunities for teaching and publication. On the other, she needed to balance displays of her creativity and talent with the strictures that were increasingly placed on women around public performance and participation in the public sphere. Thus, even as some women sought opportunities to perform at venues such as the Concert Spirituel, there is no record that Bayon ever performed publicly. This chapter suggests that this may have been a deliberate decision to avoid exposing herself to the scrutiny and criticism that sometimes resulted from such public activities. She appears to have used the institution of the salon, first as habituée and later as salonnière, to navigate these social constraints.

Chapter 3 begins with how the Donatist controversy shaped Augustine’s theology of justification by faith because the Donatists represented the real possibility of having faith without charity. The chapter then turns to the key features of Augustine’s theology of justification formed by the Pelagian controversy, especially participation in Christ’s righteousness. Both controversies pressed Augustine to consider how justification is by faith if faith sometimes fails to justify, as in Donatists, lax catechumens, and impenitent Christians. In both de spiritu et littera (The Spirit and the Letter) and his sermons, Augustine addresses this through a deeper psychology of faith: faith only obtains the grace of justification when it is motivated by hope and fails if it is motivated primarily by fear. The chapter concludes with de fide et operibus (Faith and Works), exploring Augustine’s understanding of faith, works, and charity, his criticism of sola fide (faith alone), and his development of a new terminology for justifying faith: fides Christi (faith in Christ).

This chapter highlights the prominence of Polish women in salon culture as hostesses, audiences, patrons, and artists, focusing on the salon’s role in the process of professionalization of music for women. I have selected three Polish salonnières connected to Chopin’s Varsovian and Parisian circles: Maria Szymanowska, Maria Kalergis-Muchanoff, and Marcelina Czartoryska. These women’s combined lives span almost the entire nineteenth century, and their salon activities traverse Europe – from Warsaw and Kraków to St. Petersburg, Vienna, Baden-Baden, Paris, London, and beyond. All three were first-rate pianists who performed in public, but each shaped her role in the musical world differently to promote various artistic, cultural, and social agendas. While these salonnières were active in fostering Polish national and patriotic cultures, the geography of their endeavors also underscores the transnational nature of the salon, reminding us that artists and their hosts traveled internationally and cultivated cosmopolitan artistic and social networks.

This chapter identifies two vantage points for examining the Court’s account of the rule of law in response to populism, Article 6 (in particular, its ‘tribunal established by law’ and ‘access to a court’ requirements) and Article 18 (bad faith violations). It shows that in the former case the Court makes a sustained effort to bring its principles of independence and impartiality to the fore but equally fails to identify a distinct type of (infrastructural) alteration to democracy and the rule of law. In the latter case, it is argued that (the rise of) Article 18 rescues a deficient proportionality test. It calls for an enhanced test, one that can grasp and respond to infrastructural erosion.

3 dimensional ultrasound and colour doppler techniques can be used to complement standard B mode transvaginal ultrasound imaging in early pregnancy. Colour dopppler can assist in the identification of corpora lutea, localisation of pregnancy implantation sites and confirmation of early embryonic demise. It can also aid the diagnosis of retained products of conception and gestational trophoblastic diseases. 3D ultrasound can facilitate the diagnosis of uterine anomalies and non-tubal ectopic pregnancies.

In this case scenario, a 55-year-old male presents with symptoms of Ebola virus disease (EVD) after returning from a medical mission in West Africa. The patient reports fever, chills, myalgias, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and one episode of bloody stool. Upon arrival, he is in septic shock with tachycardia, tachypnea, hypotension, and lethargy. Immediate resuscitation with IV fluids and vasopressors is initiated. As his condition worsens, he develops respiratory failure and pulmonary edema, requiring intubation. Laboratory findings indicate leukopenia, thrombocytopenia, transaminitis, coagulopathy, and metabolic acidosis, which are consistent with EVD. The patient is placed in isolation due to the suspicion of Ebola, and the case is reported to state and local health departments. The scenario emphasizes the importance of fluid resuscitation, hemodynamic support, appropriate PPE for Ebola management, and timely intubation, while discussing the management of exposure risk to clinical staff and follow-up procedures.

In Chapter 3 the threat to the Tang’s borders shifts south when in 863 the multiethnic kingdom of Nanzhao in modern Yunnan invades the neighboring Tang Protectorate of Annan in today’s northern Vietnam, with the help of rebellious cross-border tribes. To deal with the emergency, Gao Pian is redeployed to the deep South. The section “Ethnic Warfare” lays out the ethnic composition of the regional population. “The War Experienced by Civilians” describes the impact of the Tang defeat of 863 on the civilian populations of Annan and the mainland Tang prefectures that had provided the men and supplies of the destroyed garrison. In “Staging Posts,” Gao Pian approaches the new theatre of war via Yongzhou (Nanning) and Haimen, a sea port on the northern coast of the Gulf of Tonkin, while preparing the counter invasion. In “The Southern Campaign,” he ships his troops across the Gulf and begins attacking Nanzhao positions in the Red River delta, a major conduit for Tang maritime trade with Southeast Asia. “The Siege of Jiaozhi” describes the ferocious campaign for the recovery of Jiaozhi (Hanoi) through a battle narrative from Gao Pian’s own hand.

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