A severe winter storm has caused widespread power outages in the area. Temperatures are in the 20s Fahrenheit. To power their multifamily home, a group of families has set up a gasoline-powered generator in the basement, which has been running overnight. This has caused elevated carbon monoxide (CO) levels in the home as the CO has permeated the drywall and reached every part of the home. Multiple members of the families have begun feeling ill. One of them, a 75-year-old grandfather with multiple medical problems, is confused, lethargic, and cannot walk. He has a carboxyhemoglobin level of 30%, ischemic changes on his ECG, and an elevated troponin. If high-flow oxygen is not applied, the patient will have unstable ventricular tachycardia requiring synchronized cardioversion. He will stabilize with appropriate therapy. Family members will complain of symptoms, and this should prompt their evaluation or referral to be evaluated. If this does not happen, one of them will collapse on the floor.

This chapter considers an open quantum system, exemplified by a junction made up of a central region of finite size and of (at least two) connected terminals, with a time-dependent bias superposed on the terminals. For simplicity, fermions in the terminals are assumed to be noninteracting, while those in the central region are interacting. In particular, the time-dependent current flowing through the system is calculated using the Schwinger–Keldysh formalism developed in Part I for the normal phase. To this end, the present problem is framed in a more general context by adapting the Zwanzig P-Q projector operators technique. In this way, “memory” effects arise due to the transfer of information from P to Q subspaces (and vice versa).

Chapter 2 narrates the beginning of Gao Pian’s military career on the northwestern frontier. Gao forged his military temperament during twenty years in the harsh and remote environment of the Hexi corridor, a conduit for trade and diplomacy as well as a zone of conflict with competing Inner Asian powers. The chapter opens with a discussion of the imperial “Divine Strategy” or Shence army and its place in Tang border defense policy. Like several of his forebears, Gao entered government service through that army, which was also responsible for the security of the imperial palace. In “Defense Commissioner of Qinzhou,” Gao is invested as a general and placed in charge of recovering Tang frontier prefectures lost to Tibet a century earlier. In “Turning the Tide,” he significantly contributes to containing the Tibetan Empire and renewing Tang’s ascendancy in Inner Asia. “Spirit of the Valley” was the religious epithet of the author of Daoist tales Pei Xing who joined the writers in Gao Pian’s orbit in Gansu and became a lifelong retainer. Under “Palace Politics,” Gao’s growing prominence at court exposes him to the intrigues of inner palace eunuchs.

Which of the following classes of medication should not be considered for long-term adjunct therapy for treatment-resistant schizophrenia (TRS)?

This chapter builds on the assumption that constitutional references to the historical constitution can contribute to the community building process in Hungary. While this assumption itself might be contended, this paper puts aside the question of whether the Hungarian historical constitution could be revived in legal terms or whether it could have legally binding force in any way. Instead, it will approach the question from a non-legalistic point of view and consider whether references to the Hungarian historical constitution might be useful and desirable from the perspective of community building. To put it briefly, this chapter contends that it might be useful and desirable but only under certain circumstances. Unfortunately, whether these conditions prevail can only be established retrospectively.

This chapter considers the initial preparation of the many-particle system, whose control is achieved before the reference time t₀ when the time-dependent perturbation begins to act on the system. After t₀, the system is let to evolve in time according to the full time-dependent Hamiltonian. The initial control can be either full or partial. Full control signifies that at t₀ the system is prepared in a definite “pure” quantum state (like the ground state), while partial control signifies that initially the system is only known to be in a “mixture” of states with given probabilities, such that the information on the phases of the superposition is lost. These two cases are here treated separately.

Law students routinely forget that the legal tradition has been concerned with fact finding for centuries. The entire body of evidence law has evolved for two important purposes: ensuring that the evidence presented to a court is legally admissible; and ensuring that the evidence presented to the court is reliable so that the tribunal of fact is able to draw conclusions about whether or not an alleged fact existed in circumstances where the tribunal of fact has not witnessed the event for itself. Legal reasoning is empirically grounded and draws upon centuries of human experience in the examination of materials of this kind. With that in mind, principles from evidence law can be used to help us to think about facts as part of the analysis of a legal problem. Indeed, turning your mind to the rich body of evidence law is essential. It is not possible in a book like this to engage with evidence law in any detail. Evidence law in Australia is comprehensively examined by several authoritative authors, to which the reader is referred to for detail.

This chapter addresses intimate relationships of Black populations, as well as the sociocultural and economic contexts in which they are embedded. The authors underscore the heterogeneity of Black populations both in, and outside of, the United States. How racial discrimination is experienced, and the impact of that experience, differs across Black populations – underscoring heterogeneity. While some research suggests that racial discrimination contributes to negative relationship dynamics, other work suggests that when some individuals experience racial discrimination their partners engage in supportive behaviors. Despite declines and delays in marriage, many U.S.-born Blacks are still pursuing marital unions and are happily married (Skipper & Taylor, 2021; Skipper et al., 2021). This is likely a function of relational resilience, or even the Black Advantage Vision as many U.S. Black couples adapt and strive in spite of seemingly unsurmountable stressors over which they have little control.

Relationship development and growth have long drawn the interest of relationship scholars. This chapter focuses on the theoretical frameworks that have guided inquiry. We begin by explicating the term relationship development, including different ways researchers have studied it. Traditional theories (e.g., relational dialectics, relationship stage models, social exchange, social penetration, relational turning points) are described, alongside recently developed perspectives on relationship development and growth (e.g., relational turbulence theory, the relationship trajectory framework). The chapter also discusses current research associated with the theories and how this scholarship informs our understanding of the initiation of relationships and how relationships develop over the lifespan. Special attention is paid to the development and maintenance of marginalized relationships. The chapter concludes with suggestions for future research, including the need to assess the ability of current theories to describe development in different relationship contexts (e.g.., friendships, courtship, families) and in different communication contexts (e.g., online, offline).

The effects of the coupling to the environment can also manifest itself in a superfluid Fermi system. This chapter explicitly considers this case, by addressing the time-dependent behavior of the gap parameter following a sharp quench of the coupling parameter of the contact interaction. In this case, coupling the system to the environment is important for reaching equilibrium eventually. Several simplifying assumptions are adopted along the way for treating the problem in an as simple as possible way.

The aim of this chapter is to offer a study of the role of Europe (and European integration) in the Italian constitutional imagination. The argument identifies three phases which have shaped the way European integration (and more generally the horizon of European political unity) has been perceived by Italian constitutional actors (and especially by political parties). The first phase goes from 1943 to 1946 and is animated by a majority consensus for European political integration, with the exception of the Communist Party. The second phase, starting from the inception of the Constituent Assembly, is one where the telos of European unity does not occupy a central position in the constitutional imagination any longer, and it is ‘downgraded’ to a question of ordinary politics. The third phase (whose beginning can be conventionally identified with the ratification of the Maastricht Treaty) is one where European integration makes a comeback in the constitutional imagination but under the guise of the external bound. In conclusion, the chapter advances the hypothesis that this last phase is marked by the incapacity of Italian political parties to struggle for a constitutional imagination that is not colonised by markets and their imperatives.

This chapter describes how the book contributes to the understanding of lawmaking under authoritarianism by specifying the conditions under which legislatures perform their lawmaking function within authoritarian regimes, showing the mechanisms through which legislatures operate and influence the contents of policies, and helping to elucidate the ways in which legislatures may be consequential both to policymaking and politics, thus extending the scope conditions of power-sharing accounts of lawmaking to any type of autocracy. It also suggests how the theory and methods employed may be used to study the role of business and bureacracies in authoritarian regimes, and to recast the approaches to federalism and policymaking under dictatorship, and to the role of legislature in regime transitions.