Artes Dictandi; use of French and of verse in letters; the verse epistle as a lyric genre; autobiographical ballade sequences; appropriation and imitation; doubt as between art and actuality

This chapter outlines the advantages and limitations of both third-party and first-party reporting requirements. We begin by evaluating the Biden Administration’s 2021 bank information reporting proposal as an example of a third-party information reporting reform. Then, we provide a model for introducing first-party information reporting from high-end taxpayers regarding their finances through an annual wealth reporting form, which we call the Annual Net Asset Statement. Next, we introduce a hybrid system that incorporates both first- and third-party information reporting and explain how this system would have offered an alternative approach to the Biden Administration’s proposal for reporting inflows and outflows from financial accounts. Finally, we describe how this framework can help improve the tailoring of penalties for noncompliance in two areas: with information-reporting obligations, and in the use of audit resources. We explain how a means-adjusted approach can improve the operation of these information-reporting rules and complement the activity-based focus in current law.

Atesede Makonnen’s “Romanticism and the Novel(ty) of Race” argues that not only did the Romantic novel take up questions about race, but the novel form was itself racialized during the Romantic era. Makonnen studies in particular Clara Reeve and Anna Letitia Barbauld, who attempted to taxonomize various “species” of prose in a mirror of the categorization central to that of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century racial philosophy and science. For both Reeve and Barbauld, the evolution of the modern novel is a move away from other forms – tales and fables, for instance – linked to the primitive and non-European. Thus, both writers link literary development as a mark of cultural, national, and, implicitly, racial progress.

This chapter will guide a candidate in core hand topics that regularly appear in Section 1 of the FRCS(Tr&Orth) exam. The chapter deals with hand questions providing high quality clinical based SBA questions. Detailed explanations of the SBA options with a clear logical approach to selecting the most appropriate option.

This chapter focuses on the Noncooperation Movement (1920–1922) and, in particular, the role played by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. The NCM was the largest political movement for swaraj that India had ever seen. As the leader of this movement, Gandhi would demand noncooperators refuse mercy, and if necessary, sacrifice their lives in pursuit of political freedom. For Gandhi, it was only by reclaiming the right to die a political death that the satyagrahi could finally escape the label of the criminal and the category of rebellion. The chapter studies the place of mercy in Gandhian thought by paying close attention to his response to the Amritsar Massacre, his public speeches and writings, and his performance in his trial for sedition in 1922. As I argue, by embracing guilt and rejecting mercy, Gandhi threatened to finally explode the political conditions upon which imperial sovereignty had been organized.

Taking shelter from an especially heavy monsoon deluge one June afternoon in 2014, I sat with a group of female sex workers in Abinaash Clinic (Abinaash), listening to their sukh-dukhher galpo (stories of everyday life). All of them were members of the Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee (Durbar), a grassroots sex-worker organization in Sonagachi, and peer educators (PEs) in the HIV/AIDS prevention program launched by the All India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health in 1992. As we passed around each other's tiffin boxes to share lunch, sitting in a circle on a madur (floor mat made of madurkathi reed), a commotion of voices floated upwards from the ground floor. Rama-di, suspecting that there was a problem, sprang to her feet and ran down the stairs. We could hear her voice, but it was not legible. As was usual in emerging situations like this, all of us ran down the stairs to join other sex workers and office staff who had already assembled. At the center of the commotion were two women, both dressed in a ‘nighty’ (a cotton house-gown) with a red and blue checked gamchha (cotton towel) laid over their chests like a dupatta (a long piece of cloth worn by women to cover their breasts). I recognized the older woman, Namita-di, as one of the malkins (brothel owners) whom I had met a year ago. She was very agitated as she spoke to Purnima-di, a retired sex worker and then the director of the Self-Regulatory Board (Board), Durbar's anti-trafficking initiative. However, it was difficult to follow the thread of the conversation since Namita-di often broke down and the other women stepped in to comfort her.

In between her weeping, she repeatedly said, “Meye tuley niye gechhey” (They took the girl away). Once she had calmed down, she gradually pieced her story together:

The first chapter contains an overview of what is accepted as good practice. We review several general ethical guidelines. These can be used to appreciate good research and to indicate where and how research does not adhere to them. Good practice is “what we all say we (should) adhere to.” In the second part of this chapter, the focus is more on specific ethical guidelines for statistical analysis. Of course, there is overlap with the more general guidelines, but there are also a few specifically relevant to statistics: Examples are misinterpreting p values and malpractice such as p hacking and harking.

This chapter will guide a candidate in the shoulder and elbow core topics that regularly appear in Section 1 of the FRCS(Tr&Orth) exam. The chapter deals with trauma and elective spine questions. High quality clinical based SBA questions that provide up to date information, higher order SBA questions and detailed explanations along with an evidence based approach to the most appropriate answer.

In practice it often happens that forecasts from econometric models are manually adjusted. There can be good reasons for this. Foreseeable structural changes can be incorporated. Recent changes in data, in measurement or in the relevance of variables, can be addressed. A main issue with manual adjustment is that the end user of a forecast needs to know why someone modified a forecast and, next, how that forecast was changed. This should therefore be documented. We discuss an example to show that one may also need to know specific details of econometric models, here growth curves, to understand that even a seemingly harmless adjustment by a priori fixing the point of inflection leads to any result that you would like. In this chapter we discuss why people manually adjust forecasts. We discuss the optimal situation when it comes to adjustment and the experience with manual adjustment so far. A plea is made to consider model-based adjustment of model forecasts, thus allowing for a clear understanding of how and why adjustment was made.