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A predictor variable or dose that is measured with substantial error may possess an error-free milestone, such that it is known with negligible error whether the value of the variable is to the left or right of the milestone. Such a milestone provides a basis for estimating a linear relationship between the true but unknown value of the error-free predictor and an outcome, because the milestone creates a strong and valid instrumental variable. The inferences are nonparametric and robust, and in the simplest cases, they are exact and distribution free. We also consider multiple milestones for a single predictor and milestones for several predictors whose partial slopes are estimated simultaneously. Examples are drawn from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, in which a BA degree acts as a milestone for sixteen years of education, and the binary indicator of military service acts as a milestone for years of service.

Abstract
This section includes eighty-six short original essays commissioned for the inaugural issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. Written by emerging academics, community-based writers, and senior scholars, each essay in this special issue, "Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a Twenty-First-Century Transgender Studies," revolves around a particular keyword or concept. Some contributions focus on a concept central to transgender studies; others describe a term of art from another discipline or interdisciplinary area and show how it might relate to transgender studies. While far from providing a complete picture of the field, these keywords begin to elucidate a conceptual vocabulary for transgender studies. Some of the submissions offer a deep and resilient resistance to the entire project of mapping the field terminologically; some reveal yet-unrealized critical potentials for the field; some take existing terms from canonical thinkers and develop the significance for transgender studies; some offer overviews of well-known methodologies and demonstrate their applicability within transgender studies; some suggest how transgender issues play out in various fields; and some map the productive tensions between trans studies and other interdisciplines.

Christoph Wolf untersucht die Relevanz rechtlicher Wertungen des Täters für den strafrechtlichen Vorsatz. Seine diesbezügliche These, dass Rechtsirrtümer für den Vorsatz irrelevant sind, sucht der Autor durch eine breit angelegte Untersuchung abzusichern. Diese nimmt ihren Ursprung in Überlegungen zur Funktion der Strafrechtsdogmatik und unterzieht das dogmatische Instrumentarium der h.M. und dessen Anwendung im Kern- und Nebenstrafrecht einer eingehenden Kritik. Integriert sind in die Untersuchung die Bereiche des untauglichen Versuchs, des Erlaubnistatumstandsirrtums und der Rechtsanwendungspraxis. Am Ende gelangt der Autor zu dem Ergebnis, dass das propagierte Modell besser als das noch herrschende Konzept des vorsatzausschließenden Rechtsirrtums zu einer adäquaten Entlastung des Bürgers geeignet ist, der sich dieser Tage mit immer komplexeren rechtlichen Anforderungen konfrontiert sieht.