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Although the debate over same-sex marriage in the United States has
ended, no one seems to know what lies on the horizon. The
conversation about what marriage could be like in the future is no
longer confined to academics. In his dissent in Obergefell, Chief
Justice Roberts linked the constitutionally-mandated legal
recognition of same-sex marriage to the possibility that states may
also have to recognize multi-person intimate relationships as well
to avoid discriminating against plural marriage enthusiasts. The
popularity of television shows like TLC's Sister Wives and HBO's
Big Love suggests that Americans no longer can be dismissive of the
possibility that in the foreseeable future, marriage could, and
perhaps should, look very different than it does today. Rather than
settling the question of whether states ought to abolish marriage,
make it more inclusive, contractual, or call it something else,
this book exposes readers to some of the normative, legal, and
empirical questions that Americans must address before they can
deliberate thoughtfully about whether to keep the marital status
quo where monogamy remains privileged. Unlike much of the debate
over same-sex marriage, they exchange reasons with one another as
they discuss marital reform. This book is for ordinary Americans,
their elected representatives, and judges, to help them ultimately
decide whether they want to continue to define marriage so
narrowly, make it more inclusive to avoid discrimination, or have
the state leave the marriage business. This edited,
interdisciplinary volume contains eight original contributions, all
of which illuminate important but often neglected areas of the
topic.
Although the debate over same-sex marriage in the United States has
ended, no one seems to know what lies on the horizon. The
conversation about what marriage could be like in the future is no
longer confined to academics. In his dissent in Obergefell, Chief
Justice Roberts linked the constitutionally-mandated legal
recognition of same-sex marriage to the possibility that states may
also have to recognize multi-person intimate relationships as well
to avoid discriminating against plural marriage enthusiasts. The
popularity of television shows like TLC's Sister Wives and HBO's
Big Love suggests that Americans no longer can be dismissive of the
possibility that in the foreseeable future, marriage could, and
perhaps should, look very different than it does today. Rather than
settling the question of whether states ought to abolish marriage,
make it more inclusive, contractual, or call it something else,
this book exposes readers to some of the normative, legal, and
empirical questions that Americans must address before they can
deliberate thoughtfully about whether to keep the marital status
quo where monogamy remains privileged. Unlike much of the debate
over same-sex marriage, they exchange reasons with one another as
they discuss marital reform. This book is for ordinary Americans,
their elected representatives, and judges, to help them ultimately
decide whether they want to continue to define marriage so
narrowly, make it more inclusive to avoid discrimination, or have
the state leave the marriage business. This edited,
interdisciplinary volume contains eight original contributions, all
of which illuminate important but often neglected areas of the
topic.
This book provides a timely and thorough snapshot into the emerging
and fast evolving area of applied genomics of foodborne pathogens.
Driven by the drastic advance of whole genome shot gun sequencing
(WGS) technologies, genomics applications are becoming increasingly
valuable and even essential in studying, surveying and controlling
foodborne microbial pathogens. The vast opportunities brought by
this trend are often at odds with the lack of bioinformatics
know-how among food safety and public health professionals, since
such expertise is not part of a typical food microbiology
curriculum and skill set. Further complicating the challenge is the
large and ever evolving body of bioinformatics tools that can
obfuscate newcomers to this area. Although reviews, tutorials and
books are not in short supply in the fields of bioinformatics and
genomics, until now there has not been a comprehensive and
customized source of information designed for and accessible to
microbiologists interested in applying cutting-edge genomics in
food safety and public health research. This book fills this void
with a well-selected collection of topics, case studies, and
bioinformatics tools contributed by experts at the forefront of
foodborne pathogen genomics research.
This is the first volume of BUILDING 2000, a pilot project of the
Commission's R&D programme 'Solar Energy Applications to
Buildings' with the purpose of encouraging the adoption of solar
architecture in large buildings. In this first volume the results
of the design studies illustrating passive solar architecture in
buildings in the European Community are presented in particular for
the building categories: SCHOOLS, LABORATORIES AND UNIVERSITIES,
and SPORTS AND EDUCATIONAL CENTRES. In a second volume, a similar
series of studies is presented for the building categories: OFFICE
BUILDINGS, PUBLIC BUILDINGS and HOTELS AND HOLIDAY COMPLEXES. There
was an enthousiastic response from project teams responsible for
the design of 32 large buildings with a total construction budget
of more than 140 million ECU. The willingness to improve their
building concepts by collaborating with R&D-experts was
encouraging to the Commission's action in this field. These two
books reflect the results of the exchange of information between
the actual design practitioners and the European R&D-community.
Within the BUILDING 2000 programme 'Science and Technology at the
Service of Architecture' became reality. This was not only realised
by the various support activities initiated by BUILD ING 2000, but
also by the active exchange of ideas by architects and design team
members with R&D-workers during the various workshops held
within the BUILDING 2000 programme. I highly recommend architects
and engineers interested in passive solar architecture and modem
daylighting approaches to study these final products of the
BUILDING 2000 programme.
This is the second volume of BUILDING 2000, a pilot project of the
Commission's R&D programme 'Solar Energy Applications to
Buildings' with the purpose of encouraging the adoption of solar
architecture in large buildings. In a first volume, a similar
series of studies is presented for the building categories:
SCHOOLS, LABORATORIES and UNIVERSITIES, and SPORTS AND EDUCATIONAL
CENTRES. In this second volume the results of the design studies
illustrating passive solar architecture in buildings in the
European Community are presented in particular for the building
categories: OFFICE BUILDINGS, PUBLIC BUILDINGS and HOTELS AND
HOLIDAY COMPLEXES. There was an enthousiastic response from project
teams responsible for the design of 32 large buildings with a total
construction budget of more than 140 million ECU. The willingness
to improve their building concepts by collaborating with
R&D-experts was encouraging to the Commission's action in this
field. These two books reflect the results of the exchange of
information between the actual design practitioners and the
European R&D-community. Within the BUILDING 2000 programme
'Science and Technology at the Service of Architecture' became
reality. This was not only realised by the various support
activities initiated by BUILD ING 2000, but also by the active
exchange of ideas by architects and design team members with
R&D-workers during the various workshops held within the
BUILDING 2000 programme. I highly recommend architects and
engineers interested in passive solar architecture and modem day
lighting approaches to study these final products of the BUILDING
2000 programme.
Contributors to this Conference have shown the wide range of active
and passive solar heating systems which have been researched,
installed and monitored in recent years throughout western Europe
and elsewhere. Yet much remains to be done if solar heating is to
reach its full potential. The Conference Committee hopes that this
record of the proceedings will provide a basis for the further
development of these systems. Many difficulties have been
surmounted in arriving at today's position. The foundations of the
growing confidence of architects and engineers are to be found in
the concerted programmes of research and development mounted by ty,
'o of the sponsors of the Conference the European Community and the
International Energy Agency. Some of the more tangible products of
these programmes have been reported here: component and system
behaviour has been subjected to rigorous scientific study; new test
facilities have been founded; test procedures devised; simulation
methods developed and evaluated; design rules formulated and
checked against measured performance. It has been apparent here
that the willingness to exchange information and experiences, which
has always been a feature of the solar energy scene, remains as
strong as ever. A further information-sharing initiative was noted
on the part of another sponsor, UNESCO - the setting-up of the
European Cooperative Network on Solar Energy, involving countries
from both eastern and western Europe.
Proceedings of the International TNO-Symposium held in Amsterdam,
The Netherlands, 5-6 November 1980 by the Netherlands Organization
for Applied Scientific Research
The objectives of the Modelling Sub-Group are to unify European
research in the field of computer models, to provide the best
simplified models in the Passive Solar Working Group's extensive
European Passive Solar Handbook and to ensure that these simple
models are easy to use for design purposes. It has defined the
needs of the research program for a large model and has chosen the
Scottish program ESP as a large simulation model to be used as a
reference for the analysis of the simplified ones. Each participant
has commissioned the chosen model on his own computer and run a
very simple exercise, just to verify that the program works
similarily on the different machines. The analysis of the large
model is being brought on its different sections, such as : input,
output, heat transfer, passive solar systems, etc. The group will
run ESP using the same passive solar bulding data as inputted to
simplified models to assess the sensitivity of the latter ones. It
will report on the work needed for the next 4 year CEC research
program.
Proceedings of the EC Contractors' Meeting held in Brussels, June
1-3, 1983
This book provides a timely and thorough snapshot into the emerging
and fast evolving area of applied genomics of foodborne pathogens.
Driven by the drastic advance of whole genome shot gun sequencing
(WGS) technologies, genomics applications are becoming increasingly
valuable and even essential in studying, surveying and controlling
foodborne microbial pathogens. The vast opportunities brought by
this trend are often at odds with the lack of bioinformatics
know-how among food safety and public health professionals, since
such expertise is not part of a typical food microbiology
curriculum and skill set. Further complicating the challenge is the
large and ever evolving body of bioinformatics tools that can
obfuscate newcomers to this area. Although reviews, tutorials and
books are not in short supply in the fields of bioinformatics and
genomics, until now there has not been a comprehensive and
customized source of information designed for and accessible to
microbiologists interested in applying cutting-edge genomics in
food safety and public health research. This book fills this void
with a well-selected collection of topics, case studies, and
bioinformatics tools contributed by experts at the forefront of
foodborne pathogen genomics research.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
The set of "Building 2000" brochures illustrates how architects and
other building designers can successfully apply passive solar
principles to produce energy-effient buildings. "Building 2000" is
a pilot project of the European Commission's R&D programme
"Solar Energy Applications to Buildings", encouraging the adoption
to solar architectures in large buildings. There was an
enthusiastic response from project teams responsible for the design
of 32 large buildings with a total construction budget of more than
140 million ECU. During the design phase of these buildings the
Commission offered free design support to architects and design
team members to improve the building designs. The willingness to
collaborate with R&D experts encouraged the Commission's action
in this field. A summary of the results from the various design
support activities is presented in the second part of each volume.
With over half of Americans now in favor of marriage equality, it
is clear that societal norms of marriage are being quickly
redefined. The growing belief that the state may not discriminate
against gays and lesbians calls into question whether the state may
limit other types of marital unions, including plural marriage.
While much has been written about same-sex marriage, as of yet
there has been no book-length legal treatment of unions among three
or more individuals. The first major study on plural marriage and
the law, In Defense of Plural Marriage begins to fill this lacuna
in the scholarly literature. Ronald C. Den Otter shows how the
constitutional arguments that support the option of plural marriage
are stronger than those against. Ultimately, he proposes a new
semi-contractual marital model that would provide legal recognition
for a wide range of intimate relationships.
With over half of Americans now in favor of marriage equality, it
is clear that societal norms of marriage are being quickly
redefined. The growing belief that the state may not discriminate
against gays and lesbians calls into question whether the state may
limit other types of marital unions, including plural marriage.
While much has been written about same-sex marriage, as of yet
there has been no book-length legal treatment of unions among three
or more individuals. The first major study on plural marriage and
the law, In Defense of Plural Marriage begins to fill this lacuna
in the scholarly literature. Ronald C. Den Otter shows how the
constitutional arguments that support the option of plural marriage
are stronger than those against. Ultimately, he proposes a new
semi-contractual marital model that would provide legal recognition
for a wide range of intimate relationships.
Americans cannot live with judicial review, but they cannot live
without it. There is something characteristically American about
turning the most divisive political questions - like freedom of
religion, same-sex marriage, affirmative action and abortion - into
legal questions with the hope that courts can answer them. In
Judicial Review in an Age of Moral Pluralism Ronald C. Den Otter
addresses how judicial review can be improved to strike the
appropriate balance between legislative and judicial power under
conditions of moral pluralism. His defense of judicial review is
predicated on the imperative of ensuring that the reasons that the
state offers on behalf of its most important laws are consistent
with the freedom and equality of all persons. Den Otter ties this
defense to a theory of constitutional adjudication based on John
Rawls's idea of public reason and argues that a law that is not
sufficiently publicly justified is unconstitutional, thus
addressing when courts should invalidate laws and when they should
uphold them even in the midst of reasonable disagreement about the
correct outcome in particular constitutional controversies.
Americans cannot live with judicial review, but they cannot live
without it. There is something characteristically American about
turning the most divisive political questions - like freedom of
religion, same-sex marriage, affirmative action and abortion - into
legal questions with the hope that courts can answer them. In
Judicial Review in an Age of Moral Pluralism Ronald C. Den Otter
addresses how judicial review can be improved to strike the
appropriate balance between legislative and judicial power under
conditions of moral pluralism. His defense of judicial review is
predicated on the imperative of ensuring that the reasons that the
state offers on behalf of its most important laws are consistent
with the freedom and equality of all persons. Den Otter ties this
defense to a theory of constitutional adjudication based on John
Rawls's idea of public reason and argues that a law that is not
sufficiently publicly justified is unconstitutional, thus
addressing when courts should invalidate laws and when they should
uphold them even in the midst of reasonable disagreement about the
correct outcome in particular constitutional controversies.
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