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Gibson, RA; Makrides, Maria

doi:10.1111/j.1651-2227.1999.tb00073.x

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“…One recent study by Professors James Gibson, Milton Lodge, and Benjamin Woodson examines how exposure to judicial symbols affects the level of support given to the Court and willingness to challenge the Court's rulings. 61 In the study, one participant group was exposed to judicial symbols-a gavel, the Supreme Court courthouse, and the Justices in their robes-while the other was not, and a survey elicited information about their responses to various judicial rulings. 62 In general, they found that exposure to these symbols enhanced levels of support, especially for those with relatively less prior awareness of the Court.…”

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The Supreme Court and the Judicial Genre

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Although the Supreme Court is a singular institution within the American judiciary, it remains recognizably a court. Among the many institutional characteristics that mark the Court as a court, perhaps the most defining is that it exercises its lawmaking function via justificatory opinions that accompany dispositions in individual cases. By conforming its lawmaking texts to the judicial genre, the Court distinguishes itself from other government actors, such as Congress and the president, that exercise government authority through other textual forms, such as statutes and executive orders. This Article presents the results of a quantitative analysis of Supreme Court opinions that measures the degree to which the content of the Court's opinions conforms to, or departs from, the judicial genre. With the opinions of the federal appellate courts as a baseline, we use topic modeling to estimate the degree of semantic distinctiveness of Supreme Court opinions and track changes in that distinctiveness over the second half of the twentieth century. We find that the Court has become measurably more distinctive over time. We further find that the divergence of the Court's opinions from the judicial genre is not due to the selection of an increasingly non-representative pool of cases for review. Rather, the Court is analyzing and writing about a similarly representative pool of cases, but in an increasingly idiosyncratic fashion. We accompany this quantitative analysis with a qualitative analysis of individual Supreme Court opinions that draws out the significance of this change.

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“…This indicates that the apatite layer is carbonate HA (CHA) which is similar to the biological bone apatite. All these results demonstrated that the novel Si-HA films were highly bioactive, since the time frame for apatite formation was significantly reduced from 17 days to 4 days [7]. This was possibly due to the nanoscale structure of the film that was being developed in this study, which greatly enhanced the bioactivity and was also likely to be beneficial in terms of mechanical properties.…”

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Fast Apatite-Forming Ability of Magnetron Co-Sputtered Silicon-Containing Hydroxyapatite (Si-HA) Thin Films

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0.8 wt.% silicon-containing hydroxyapatite (Si-HA) thin films of thickness 600 nm have been successfully developed using a magnetron co-sputtering technique, through careful selection and control of the processing conditions. These films were immersed in simulated body fluid (SBF) to investigate the nucleation and growth of an apatite layer on their surfaces. A newly-formed apatite layer with similar characteristics to that of the biological bone apatite, was observed after 4 days of immersion in SBF. X-ray diffraction and infrared analyses confirmed this layer to be calciumdeficient micro-crystalline carbonate HA. These results demonstrated that the novel Si-HA films were highly bioactive and the time frame required for apatite formation was reduced by approximately 76 % (from 17 days to 4 days).

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Fast Apatite-Forming Ability of Magnetron Co-Sputtered Silicon-Containing Hydroxyapatite (Si-HA) Thin Films

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