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An adult with mental retardation who commits a murder should be held legally accountable (assuming the retardation is not so profound as to render him or her incompetent to stand trial).

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Waveplates and retardation plates are optical elements with two principal axes, one slow and one fast, that resolve an incident polarized beam into two mutually perpendicular polarized beams. Their ...

China's core maternal and child health indicators have improved steadily in recent years, now ranking among the top in middle ...

Principle of Waveplate. Waveplates (retardation plates or phase shifters) are made from materials which exhibit birefringence. The velocities of the extraordinary and ...

Such disruptions have been associated with cancer, syndromes involving chromosomal instabilities, and mental retardation (Table 1). Epigenetics and Cancer The first human disease to be linked to ...

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ECT response is associated with older age, psychotic symptoms, necessity for urgent intervention, severe distress, ...

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