Skeleton Key Research Articles

State Awareness and Collision Risk Assessment Algorithm for Tower Crane Based on Bidirectional Inverse Perspective Mapping and Skeleton Key Points

State Awareness and Collision Risk Assessment Algorithm for Tower Crane Based on Bidirectional Inverse Perspective Mapping and Skeleton Key Points

Skeleton Keys to Hospital Doors: Adolescent Adults who Refuse Life‐Sustaining Medical Treatment

We consider how the sufficiency of young adults’ autonomy is judged in light of biological, social and psychological evidence that adolescence can continue into the mid 20s. Until then, adolescent adults are prone to developmental immaturity which can affect risk taking, impulsivity, and independence in decision making. Some areas of law are starting to accommodate the impacts of adolescence into adulthood, and this article considers how they do so and whether and if so how the law relating to medical treatment refusals in England and Wales might similarly adapt. We argue that the right to full decision‐making about medical treatment refusals at 18 based on the adult status of the individual should accommodate greater sensitivity to individual developmental attributes and set out three ways in which that might be achieved.

Extracellular Vesicles and Resistance to Anticancer Drugs: A Tumor Skeleton Key for Unhinging Chemotherapies.

Although surgical procedures and clinical care allow reaching high success in fighting most tumors, cancer is still a formidable foe. Recurrence and metastatization dampen the patients’ overall survival after the first diagnosis; nevertheless, the large knowledge of the molecular bases drives these aspects. Chemoresistance is tightly linked to these features and is mainly responsible for the failure of cancer eradication, leaving patients without a crucial medical strategy. Many pathways have been elucidated to trigger insensitiveness to drugs, generally associated with the promotion of tumor growth, aggressiveness, and metastatisation. The main mechanisms reported are the expression of transporter proteins, the induction or mutations of oncogenes and transcription factors, the alteration in genomic or mitochondrial DNA, the triggering of autophagy or epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition, the acquisition of a stem phenotype, and the activation of tumor microenvironment cells. Extracellular vesicles (EVs) can directly transfer or epigenetically induce to a target cell the molecular machinery responsible for the acquisition of resistance to drugs. In this review, we resume the main body of knowledge supporting the crucial role of EVs in the context of chemoresistance, with a particular emphasis on the mechanisms related to some of the main drugs used to fight cancer.

A structural ambiguity analysis in sentences found in the skeleton key novel

As social beings, humans need other individual to survive. In social life, humans interact and communicate with each other using languages which use to ask for help or exchange information. Often in verbal or non-verbal communication, someone provides information that has two or more different meaning thus confusing the interlocutors, this condition of information call ambiguous. This study entitle “A Structural Ambiguity Analysis In Sentences Found in The Skeleton Key Novel” is aimed to identify one of the types of surface ambiguity in the structural ambiguity in sentences found in The Skeleton Key novel, and to analyze pattern of structural ambiguity in sentences that were found in The Skeleton Key novel by tree diagrams. The data of this study were analyzed by using the qualitative method. From 12 data that were found in the data source, one of the data were analyzed as the sample of this study. From six types of surface ambiguity propose by Kriedler (1998) only one of the types was analyzed for this research. It was a coordinate head with one modifier. In this research, the researcher found that the structure of sentence structure will affect the meaning of the sentence itself. Thus the analysis of sentence structure using tree diagram will produce different meaning according to intented construction in tree diagram.

Identification of burglars using foil impressioning based on tool marks and DNA evidence

In burglary cases, the skeleton keys used by burglars often leave tool marks that can not be identified. Hence, forensic trace experts can only provide investigating authorities with useful information by categorizing the lock opening method of pin tumbler lock cylinders and defining the class characteristics of the tool used. It is important to note that as per the standard processes, expensive and more time consuming DNA-tests may not be applied to this evidence type.During the past few years, more and more dimple locks were documented by the police being removed from security doors at burglary scenes and sent to the Hungarian Institute for Forensic Sciences. These dimple locks were made in China with no brand mark, with 6–8 pin tumblers. We noticed previously unknown tool marks on the horizontal keyway, on the face and on the side of the tumblers of most of these dimple locks. We also found fragments of aluminium foil in the bottom of the plugs. Based on this, we came to the conclusion that the burglars work with a new method when opening this type of locks, which required forensic trace experts to introduce a new way of examination.In this study specific data is meant to be presented supporting the observations above. This paper is presenting a new lock opening method and the tool marks left behind. Our purpose was to develop a new method which takes the benefit of a new type of evidence: foil fragments noticed in the cylinder with possible DNA evidence, which was previously unknown by the police. This goes beyond the scope of general investigative findings, allowing a more effective identification of the burglars.We are also going to explicate the results of our DNA tests. Foil fragments having been recorded under sterile conditions brought searchable DNA-profiles in 52 % of the cases. In 55 % of these cases DNA-profiles were matched with suspects' and a series of crimes and groups of criminals were explored. Examining the DNA-profiles that did not match suspects’ profiles revealed the presence of victims’ DNA in certain cases. The outcomes of our study highlight that collecting victim DNA-samples should be implemented as a default process in cases where a DNA-test is required.

The Skeleton Key Group: Teaching Electrolyte Disorders Using Social Media Tools and Spaced Learning

The Skeleton Key Group: Teaching Electrolyte Disorders Using Social Media Tools and Spaced Learning

“Trump Shit Goes into Overdrive”: Tracing Trump on 4chan/pol/

“Trump Shit Goes into Overdrive”: Tracing Trump on 4chan/pol/

“The Right Can’t Meme”: Transgression and Dissimulation in the Left Unity Memeolution of PixelCanvas

“The Right Can’t Meme”: Transgression and Dissimulation in the Left Unity Memeolution of PixelCanvas

Business Entities as Skeleton Keys

Modern business entities, such as LLCs, are increasingly created and deployed to accomplish customized transactions and evade legal restrictions. Rather than acting as traditional business enterprises, entities serve as tools to facilitate complex commercial transactions and surmount limitations presented by existing bodies of law. One limitation constrains the ways that private parties can agree to divide property rights—a doctrinal limitation sometimes referred to as numerus clausus. This Article shows that such limitations on the customizing of property rights by private agreement now can be surmounted by virtue of modern business entity law. After describing the key features of modern business entities, this Article provides a preliminary assessment of their logic and limits. Modern business law permits an asset or set of assets to be placed into separate business entities with carefully tailored structural and governance features. It allows parties to customize their property rights in the asset(s) however they wish, with surprisingly few limits. Entities can be formed and maintained cheaply with virtually no meaningful public disclosure required. Participants in the operation of the entity need undertake very few duties toward each other or the entity itself. The advent of flexible, powerful, and cheap entities under this body of business law renders limitations on the division of property rights increasingly obsolete. Large, complicated businesses already use webs of entities to divide rights in their assets and subsidiaries for financial, operational, and other reasons (such as regulatory arbitrage). Costs and convenience are now so low as to open the door to smaller scale participants in commerce. As a concrete example of these developments, this Article focuses on the “Artist’s Contract,” a 1971 project in which artists sought to retain rights in artworks they sold—to obtain a percentage of future appreciation in value, to exhibit works upon request, and so on. As noted in prior scholarship, the transaction contemplated by the Artist’s Contract could not have been accomplished in regular contract form due to numerus clausus and related limitations. But this no longer remains true. This Article describes an “Art LLC” solution to the “problem” of the Artist’s Contract. By structuring the sale of art as the sale of a membership interest in a carefully crafted business entity that actually holds title to the art, the goals of the Artist’s Contract can be achieved at relatively little expense or inconvenience. In other words, modern business entity law provides convenient, reliable tools to “solve” the legal problems of the Artist’s Contract, and to allow for the bespoke, divided property rights sought by the originators of the Contract. This Article then assesses the proposed Art LLC solution and the broader trend it exemplifies in business law. This Article surveys the various bodies of law that limit the effectiveness of this type of legal maneuver and that protect against its abuse, and it identifies some advantages of novel, business entity-based solutions over more traditional approaches to the division of property rights. This Article concludes by discussing the need for further research into the logic and limits of evolving uses of business entities for transactional purposes.

Action Recognition Using Weighted Fusion of Depth Images and Skeleton's Key Frames

This paper presents a new method for human action recognition fusing depth images and skeletal maps. Each depth image is represented by 2D and 3D auto-correlation of gradients features. A feature using spatial and orientational auto-correlation is extracted from depth images. Mutual information is used to define the similarity of each frame in the skeleton sequence, and then extract the key frames from the skeleton sequence. The skeleton feature extracted from the key frames as complementary features to cope with the temporal information loss in depth images. Each set of feature is used as input to two extreme learning machine classifiers and assign different weight to each set of feature. Using different classifier weights provides more flexible to different features. The final class label is determined according to the fused result. Experiments conducted on MSR_Action3D depth action data set show the accuracy of this proposed method is 1.5% higher than the state-of-the-art action recognition methods.

Gothic reflections: Mirrors, mysticism and cultural hauntings in contemporary horror film

Abstract As both a cultural and an aesthetic entity, the mirror functions as a site of transformation, intermingling, and (un)clarity. Even at the most embryonic level, the mirror is connected to the framework of the Gothic via the notion of the ‘double’, the terrifying Other that lingers in the margins of our consciousness, and challenges our cultural certainties. In the reflection, the familiar becomes unfamiliar, the known becomes unknown, the certain merges with the uncertain. Taking this in-between status as a point of departure, this article offers a preliminary analysis of the role played by the mirror in contemporary Gothic horror film. Focusing particularly on The Skeleton Key (Softley, 2005) as an evocative example, I uncover how the mirror is intertwined with narratives of magic and mysticism. My discussion shows how scary and often supernatural encounters with mirrors are inevitably entangled with matters of a cultural nature, where the blurred and intangible margins of Gothicized reflections channel contemporary preoccupations surrounding ethnicity, spirituality, identity and haunted histories.

The Weber-Wieser Connection: Early Economic Sociology as an Interpretative Skeleton Key

Max Weber’s relationship to economics in general and to the Austrian School in particular has received more attention recently. However, this literature as conducted by Weber scholars and by Austrian economists exhibits two major deficiencies. First, the studies are often either purely ahistorical or use superficial historical expositions. Second, the conceptual focus is often motivated by Weber’s importance for the theoretical edifice of Ludwig von Mises, a motivation which leads the analyses in a rather narrowly confined direction. The current paper attempts to provide a solid biographical foundation of Weber’s relationship to the early Austrian School as seen from a channel rarely studied systematically before: His relationship to economist and economic sociologist Friedrich von Wieser. Such a perspective sheds light on the multiple levels of interaction between Weber and the early Austrians between 1876 and 1920: 1) Weber’s formative years at Heidelberg and his early professorship at Freiburg; 2) several institutional contexts, especially the Verein fur Socialpolitik; 3) the cooperation with Wieser during the Grundris der Sozialokonomik project 1909-1914; 4) Weber’s brief stay at the University of Vienna 1917-1918. This portrayal shows not only biographical proximities and affinities, but also several levels of substantive overlap between Weber and Wieser. Their projects of “Social Economics” are studied comparatively, with a special focus on the concepts of power(s) and order(s) that are central for both. The goal is twofold. First, the “Heidelberg-Vienna” connection offers important insights for the development of “Social Economics” and of the early economics of the Austrian School. Second, this connection enables new interpretations of the later evolution in the German-language politico-economic discourses, especially of the “Freiburg-Vienna” connection between the ordoliberals and later generations of the Austrian School.

A Guide through Finnegans Wake (review)

EPSTEIN, EDMUND LLOYD. Guide through Finnegans Wake. The Florida James Joyce Series. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2009. Pp. xiii + 314. $29.95. With Guide through Finnegans Edmund Epstein given us a great handbook the for the novice and expert alike. The explicit goal of the namely to explicate the for the benefit of readers common and uncommon (2). This goal a large degree achieved--yet not without serious omissions of important aspects of the text (especially the linguistic aspect). Guide through Finnegans the result of Epstein's many decades spent working and living with the Wake; as a consequence, it impressively knowledgeable and erudite--yes, highly competent, reliable, and concise. Nonetheless, it maintains a light tone that quite engaging and sympathetic; and even though the style personal, it never idiosyncratic or private, but rather hospitable, patient, and modest. The author's clarity and enthusiasm is, indeed, enjoyable and recommendable. Epstein's point of departure, thematically speaking, that the has a profound human meaning. It about the centered line of the life of man and woman--the creation of the family and the shift of power when the children grow up (2). This not a controversial claim, but highly sympathetic--particularly when Epstein's appreciation of the humour of the added this. Epstein contests that Joyce's magnum opus is extremely funny ... and there indeed a laugh on every page of the Wake (1). It a great quality of Epstein's that this appreciation of the deeply human--as well as funny--aspects of the dictates his from cover cover. This furthermore, I think, mirrored in Epstein's recognition of the theme of love in the Wake: A complete act of love takes place in the blank space between the end and the beginning of the ... Every day, twice a day, forever, the great act of love, the embrace and withdrawal of Anna Livia and the ocean, acts out an eternal love affair in SPACE and TIME, in enumeration and narration, the two modes of presentation in Finnegans Wake (13-14). Epstein's cognizance of this theme also very much be prized as his assertion that the work not a narcissistic, sterile, and cerebral gesture of an absent author-divinity, but a funny, compassionate, and comic story of the follies, imperfections, and dignity of human beings. Epstein--the grand old man of Joyce criticism (the first generation of critics working after Joyce's death)--writes in continuation of the 'traditional' aids Joyce's book of the dark (Finnegans [1975 ed.] 251), such as, for example, Joseph Campbell and Henry Morton Robinson's Skeleton Key Finnegans (1944), William York Tindall's Reader's Guide Finnegans (1959), and John Gordon's Finnegans Wake: Plot Summary (1987). Perhaps, some degree, with the exception of Tindall's work, these books share the same tendency mollify the radicality of the text, which they 'domesticate' in order get a more traditional novel with identifiable plot, characters, and viewpoints that are be found behind the veil of the obscuring language. Epstein operates with the as being doubled in the sense that there first and foremost (1) a narrative line (belonging the realm of the traditional novel), which, however, clouded by and enveloped in (2) linguistic buffoonery and form-experimentation. What Epstein offers consequently a distillation of the proper narrative essence of the work that extracted from the opaque foil of the text. This clear, for example, from a passage like this: Despite the Wake's radical experimentation in language and form, it a giant hymn of praise the imperfect world of fallen human beings (3). In other words, in spite of its expression the offers a thematic content be enjoyed, if the reader--with the help of Epstein--manages look away from the linguistic blur. …

SECURING THE ENGLISHMAN'S CASTLE: SITUATIONAL CRIME PREVENTION IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

In 1839, the Constabulary ForceCommission, created by Parliament to study the conditions of crime and policing beyond London and to make recommendations for jurisdictional reforms, published its findings in theFirst Constabulary Report. To illustrate for readers the necessity of establishing constabularies modeled after London's Metropolitan Police Force in counties and boroughs throughout England and Wales, Edwin Chadwick, utilitarian reformer and principal draftsman of theReport, interwove the Commission's recommendations with numerous testimonies from representatives of the so-called criminal classes that pervaded nineteenth-century society. These sometimes graphic confessions were calculated to shock as much as persuade, which made for popular reading, notwithstanding widespread political opposition to the Commission's proposals (Philips 69). Section twenty eight, for example, contains the account of “J– R–,” a nineteen-year-old ex-sailor from Manchester who had committed a series of petty larcenies before turning to more serious burglaries of homes and businesses, at which he became quite adept. This young-but-seasoned offender's confession included what were intended to be alarming revelations about the physical vulnerabilities of English houses. JR testified that he had “[f]ound none or very few difficulties in the way of committing crime. The readiness with which property was got . . . was an encouragement” (Lefevre, Rowan, and Chadwick 27). In recounting the details of his crimes (and citing anecdotal evidence from fellow thieves), he pointed out that most houses were entered easily with the use of skeleton keys or through cellar windows, and that householders and servants practiced few if any serious security precautions (27–28). JR concluded that he did “not know of any places or kinds of property so protected as to induce depredators to refrain from attacking them” but added, no doubt with pressure from the interviewer, that the “most important obstruction which could be placed in the way of depredations is a more efficient police” (29).

The Skeleton Key for Intracellular Pathogens: Nanoparticles and Pulmonary Vaccination

A nanoparticle-linked antigen induces cytotoxic T cell responses and protective immunity against influenza in mice.

Voodoo Dolls, Charms, And Spells In The Classroom: Teaching, Screening, And Deconstructing The Misrepresentation Of The African Religion

New Orleans voodoo, also called crole voodoo, is an amalgamation of an honoring of the spirits of the dead, a respect for the elderly and the spiritual life, African knowledge of herbs and charms, and European elements of Catholicism. It is a religion of ancestor worship that is unknown to us, and that we are not necessarily exposed to or included in. As such, it is something foreign to our own belief system. Being ignorant about what the religion entails, people in general stigmatize it as something not worthy to discuss, nor to practice. Unfortunately, popular novels like Voodoo Season (2006) and Voodoo Dreams (1995) by Jowell Parker Rhodes, and especially Hollywoods production of horror movies such as White Zombie (1932), I Walked with a Zombie (1943), The Serpent and the Rainbow (1987), Voodoo Dawn (1998) or Hoodoo for Voodoo (2006), do not provide the public with a truthful background of the African, Haitian, or New Orleanean voodoo tradition. All too often these fictional sources fuel the already existing misrepresentations of the religion and represent it as something shadowy, highly secretive, and fearful. This differentiated introduction to New Orleans voodoo via Iain Softleys film The Skeleton Key (2004) exposes students to the major characteristics of the religion, makes them aware of popular cultures falsified voodoo construct, and teaches them how to deconstruct it. This interactive approach is student centered, appeals to their individual intelligences and learning styles, promotes critical thinking, and trains analytical skills.

Skeleton keys: the purpose and applications of keyloggers

Keyloggers are used for many purposes - from monitoring staff through to cyber-espionage and malware. Understanding how they work is crucial if you want to ensure that sensitive data isn't being secretly captured in your organisation. So here we examine the key technologies and applications - and some of the countermeasures.

Porządek publiczny jako zasadniczy przedmiot ochrony prawa wykroczeń i czynnik rozgraniczający z powszechnym prawem karnym

The author reviews those types of prohibited acts under criminal code and petty offences code which provide for public order protection. This serves as an attempt to prove that a value like public order should rather be protected under petty offences code (or other forms of legal sanctions eg. administrative ones) rather than under criminal law. The scope of criminalisation should not be extended towards criminalisation of acts against public order. This can be summarised in a debate on forms of legal reaction to prohibited acts. The review of the relevant act of law becomes the point of departure to formulate the opinion that public order is a separate object of legal protection. It does not require penal sanctions provided for crimes – in spite of well-established opinions in legal literature that petty offences differ from crimes basically only in the degree of social damage they cause. The author also makes numerous observations of a classical penal reaction indicators which can be described as “punitive type sanctions”. This proves that our times bring an abrupt increase of legal regulations which create norms of public order and prohibit acts of administrative character which do not belong to the area of criminal law and should not require sanctions provided for acts classified as crimes. A thorough examination of types of petty offences made in the article provides a surprising picture of what the legislator included under the sphere of public order. Names of particular divisions of the code are irrelevant here. In the view of the examination of the acts prohibited by petty offences code, public order is recognised by designators, that is objects protected by particular types of acts, regardless of the title of the chapter they were placed in. They include quiet night hours, protection of plants in public green areas, lack of graffiti on buildings, freedom from aggressive prostitution offers, beggary without a substantial cause, lack of soil in public places, conducting a business without registration required by law, registration of place of residence, obeying rules on public roads, freedom from various forms of disturbance of peace and quiet, freedom from infringements of public assembly or no production of skeleton keys and seals or stamps without a licence. There is also a category of bitypical offences that is prohibited acts which are classified as a petty offence or a crime depending on the value of property (eg. theft of an item of values less than PLN 250 is a petty offence, not a crime). In the opinion of the author, if they are classified as petty offences they can also be included in the category of violation of order, although this order has more of a civil that administrative character. Separate comments concern the criteria of classification of petty offences in fiscal penal code.

Possible Worlds Theory and the Fantasy Universe of Finnegans Wake

Possible Worlds Theory and the Fantasy Universe of Finnegans Wake Margot Norris (bio) In the first chapter of his Narrative Design in "Finnegans Wake," Harry Burrell points to one of the central tensions in the history of Wake criticism by heading his discussion with the single word "Narrative?"1 He writes that "David Hayman, Bernard Benstock, John Bishop, and Margot Norris, for example, have all concluded that there is no underlying narrative and have evolved different systems of dealing with the dilemma" (8). In contrast, he notes, Fritz Senn and Clive Hart continue to yearn for the text's deep structural meaning to be disclosed (8). Burrell's study offers that deep structural meaning by treating the Wake as Joyce's rewriting of the Bible and creation of "a new theology" (7)—a claim that, in many respects, harks back to a founding text of Wake criticism: Joseph Campbell and Henry Morton Robinson's 1944 A Skeleton Key to "Finnegans Wake."2 But however provocative its argument, Burrell's study does not end the controversy over the "Narrative?" of Finnegans Wake nor does it engage the question of the Wake's narrative in a theoretical way. Yet the present moment in the early twenty-first century is particularly opportune for narratological study of avant-garde texts, thanks to a new development in the field that offers tools for more rigorously conceptualizing the nature of fiction itself. Called "Possible Worlds" theory, a branch of narratology that addresses "the fictionality of fictional worlds" has blossomed in the last fifteen years.3 Gerald Prince gives the following explanation of "possible worlds" in his Dictionary of Narratology: "Narratives comprise temporally ordered sequences of states of affairs that are taken to be actual/factual ('what happens') and that are linked to other states of affairs considered non-actual or counterfactual and constituted by the mental activity of various characters (their beliefs, wishes, plans, hallucinations, fantasies, etc.)."4 The posited separation between what theorist Marie-Laure Ryan calls a "[t]extual actual world" (n.p.) and the nonactual "worlds" that belong to the minds of characters in fiction can be readily recognized in a genre like realism. Ulysses is full of events that are assumed to be "factual" and to occur in the "actual" 1904 Dublin world posited within the novel—events like Bloom cooking breakfast at 7 Eccles [End Page 455] Street, the funeral of Paddy Dignam, or Stephen's Shakespeare lecture in the National Library, for example. These events are not, in fact, actual or factual in the sense that they historically occurred in the real world, but Joyce's novel Ulysses pretends that they did. This pretended textual actual world in Ulysses is simultaneously connected to the virtual worlds—or possible worlds—of its characters' ruminations, memories, fantasies, and stories. But how do actual and possible worlds function in the fictional realm of Finnegans Wake? Possible Worlds theory offers tools to analyze the Wake's narrative and fictional operation with greater rigor than before. This essay offers an introduction to such an analysis, though it defers exploring the content or significance of the ontological realms that the analysis discloses. The question of whether Finnegans Wake exhibits anything resembling an "actual" or "factual" textual world—analogous to the richly imagined 1904 world of Dublin and its inhabitants in Ulysses—has, of course, been an issue in Wake criticism from the very beginning. Edmund Wilson's 1939 essay, "The Dream of H. C. Earwicker," posited a model in which the tavern in Book III functions as the site of an actual world in the Wake: It is a Saturday night in summer, after a disorderly evening in the pub. Somebody—probably Earwicker himself—has been prevailed upon to sing a song: later, when it was closing time, he had to put a man outside, who abused him and threw stones at the window. There has also been a thunderstorm. Earwicker has been drinking off and on all day and has perhaps gone to bed a little drunk. At any rate, his night is troubled. At first he dreams about the day before, with a bad conscience and a sense of humiliation: then, as the night...

EDUCATION: Skeleton Key

EDUCATION: Skeleton Key