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Linear-Strip Photographs Using Cirkut And Hulcher Cameras, Andrew Davidhazy Dec 1997

Linear-Strip Photographs Using Cirkut And Hulcher Cameras, Andrew Davidhazy

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This article describes the process by which cameras originally designed for use as rotating, 360 degree coverage, panoramic cameras can be used for applications such as photographing the full length of a passing train or the facades of all the buildings along a street.


For Realization: Income Taxation, Sectoral Accretionism, And The Virtue Of Attainable Virtues, Edward A. Zelinsky Dec 1997

For Realization: Income Taxation, Sectoral Accretionism, And The Virtue Of Attainable Virtues, Edward A. Zelinsky

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Of Flutes, Oboes And The As If World Of Evidence Law, Richard O. Lempert Dec 1997

Of Flutes, Oboes And The As If World Of Evidence Law, Richard O. Lempert

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Reading Allen's article, I am reminded of a cold war parable I heard during the 1960s. It concerned a flute and an oboe who joined an orchestra one year and immediately set to quarrelling. The flute was distressed because whenever it was playing at its lyrical best the oboe would enter. drowning it out. The oboe was affronted because its deepest, most sonorous passages were invariably ruined by the high-pitched flute butting in. When the orchestra split up for the summer and these quarrelsome instruments went their separate ways, the flute, as it angrily contemplated the oboe, found itself stretching …


Phase Jitter In Mpsk Carrier Tracking Loops: Analytical, Simulation And Laboratory Results, Brian T. Kopp, William P. Osborne Nov 1997

Phase Jitter In Mpsk Carrier Tracking Loops: Analytical, Simulation And Laboratory Results, Brian T. Kopp, William P. Osborne

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A performance characteristic of M-ary phase shift keying (MPSK) receivers is the variance of the phase error between the received and recovered signal carriers. For binary phase shift keying (BPSK) and quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK) loops utilizing integrate and dump filters and operating in the linear region, closed-form solutions for this variance exist [1], [2]. In this paper the variance is found by numerical methods for M > 4. For verification and to investigate operation in the nonlinear region, computer simulation and hardware modeling were used [3].


In Memoriam: William J. Brennan, Richard A. Posner Nov 1997

In Memoriam: William J. Brennan, Richard A. Posner

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The Current Illegitimacy Of International Human Rights Litigation, Jack L. Goldsmith, Curtis A. Bradley Nov 1997

The Current Illegitimacy Of International Human Rights Litigation, Jack L. Goldsmith, Curtis A. Bradley

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Peripheral Imaging With Electronic Memory Unit, Andrew Davidhazy Nov 1997

Peripheral Imaging With Electronic Memory Unit, Andrew Davidhazy

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Description of how a Colorado Video 593 peak store instrument is applied to making 360 degree roll-out images of the surface of cylindrical subjects.


Ccd Speckle Observations Of Binary Stars From The Southern Hemisphere, Elliott P. Horch, Zoran Ninkov, Robert W. Slawson Nov 1997

Ccd Speckle Observations Of Binary Stars From The Southern Hemisphere, Elliott P. Horch, Zoran Ninkov, Robert W. Slawson

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We present 119 position angle and separation measures of 86 double stars observed by way of speckle interferometry with the University of Toronto Southern Observatory 60 cm telescope at Las Campanas, Chile. Speckle interferograms are recorded with a bare (unintensified) front-illuminated CCD in a fast subarray-readout mode. Position angles and separations are determined by a weighted least-squares fitting algorithm applied to the binary power spectra, and the 180-degree ambiguity in the position angle inherent in this approach is resolved by bispectral analysis. In this configuration the 60 cm telescope exhibits near-diffraction-limited performance. Initial results indicate that our separation measures have …


The Political Economy Of The Bankruptcy Reform Act Of 1978, Eric A. Posner Oct 1997

The Political Economy Of The Bankruptcy Reform Act Of 1978, Eric A. Posner

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Julien Green - A Life Full Of Paradoxes, Eamon Maher Oct 1997

Julien Green - A Life Full Of Paradoxes, Eamon Maher

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Dedication To Professor Ralph W. Johnson, David H. Getches Oct 1997

Dedication To Professor Ralph W. Johnson, David H. Getches

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This Indian law symposium issue of the Washington Law Review was inspired by the work of Professor Ralph W. Johnson, whose teaching and personal commitment to the field have motivated hundreds, if not thousands, of law students. The decision of the Editorial Board to dedicate the symposium to him might have been made by as many as thirty classes that have passed through the University of Washington School of Law. Those students have been introduced to and moved by Professor Johnson's elucidation of a field that is at once intellectually challenging and morally significant. Johnson's alumni have spread over the …


Indian Tribes And The Legal System, Ralph W. Johnson Oct 1997

Indian Tribes And The Legal System, Ralph W. Johnson

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This article surveys the past and present role of lawyers in the field of Indian law, from the absence of attorneys in early treaty negotiations through the formative role lawyers played in developing the federal trust relationship, to their modem role as "legal warriors" for the increasingly independent, autonomous tribes of today. To understand all the changes now occurring in Indian law, a review of the background is helpful. What follows is a synopsis of the significant events in Indian history, focusing on how the U.S. government initially treated Indians and the role the legal profession played in this treatment.


Gravity And Bf Theory Defined In Bounded Regions, V. Husain, Seth Major Sep 1997

Gravity And Bf Theory Defined In Bounded Regions, V. Husain, Seth Major

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We study Einstein gravity in a finite spatial region. By requiring a well-defined variational principle, we identify all local boundary conditions, derive surface observables, and compute their algebra. The observables arise as induced surface terms, which contribute to a non-vanishing Hamiltonian. Unlike the asymptotically flat case, we find that there are an infinite number of surface observables. We give a similar analysis for SU(2) BF theory.


Schlieren Photography Principles, Andrew Davidhazy Jul 1997

Schlieren Photography Principles, Andrew Davidhazy

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This text went along with a demo which you will have to imagine!||"Schlieren Photography Principles" was a handout provided by Andrew Davidhazy at "Optical Diagnostics and Imaging Metrology: Ultrahigh- and high-speed photography and image-based motion measurement." Proceedings of SPIE--International Society for Optical Engineering, Conference 3173A. Held in San Diego, California: 27 July - 1 August 1997 (30 July 1997). Describes the theory of Schlieren imaging for flow visualization.


The Descending Trail: Holmes' Path Of The Law One Hundred Years Later, Albert Alschuler Jul 1997

The Descending Trail: Holmes' Path Of The Law One Hundred Years Later, Albert Alschuler

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Testing Testing, Carl E. Schneider Jul 1997

Testing Testing, Carl E. Schneider

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Last year, Congress passed the Ryan White Care Act Amendments of 1996. The amendments authorize ten million dollars for each fiscal year from 1996 through 2000 for counseling pregnant women on HIV disease, for "outreach efforts to pregnant women at high risk of HN who are not currently receiving prenatal care," and for voluntary testing for pregnant women. The amendments compromise a central question: whether prenatal and neonatal AIDS testing should be compelled. The compromise is complex. The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is instructed to establish a system for states to use to discover and …


Mens Rea And Inchoate Crimes, Kimberly Ferzan, Larry Alexander Jul 1997

Mens Rea And Inchoate Crimes, Kimberly Ferzan, Larry Alexander

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After The Dna Wars: Skirmishing With Nrc Ii, Richard O. Lempert Jul 1997

After The Dna Wars: Skirmishing With Nrc Ii, Richard O. Lempert

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This article traces some of the controversies surrounding DNA evidence and argues that although many have been laid to rest by scientific developments confirmed in the National Research Council's second DNA report, there remain several problems which are likely to lead to continued questioning of standard ways prosecutors present DNA evidence. Although much about the report is to be commended, it falls short in several ways, the most important of which is in its support for presenting random match probabilities independent of plausible error rates. The article argues that although one can sympathize with the NRC committee's decision as an …


On The Stark Broadening Parameters Of The Two Nii Spectral Lines Of The 3d-4f Transition, Vladimir Milosavljevic, Stevan Djenize Jun 1997

On The Stark Broadening Parameters Of The Two Nii Spectral Lines Of The 3d-4f Transition, Vladimir Milosavljevic, Stevan Djenize

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Stark parameters (width and shift) of two singly ionized nitrogen spectral lines, that belong to 3d-4f transition have been measured in a linear pulsed, low pressure, arc discharge in the nitrogen-oxygen plasma at a 54000 K electron temperature and at a 2.8×10 23 m−3 electron density. The measured values have been compared to the existing experimental and calculated data


The Search For Authenticity In François Mauriac's ''Thérèse Desqueyroux'', Eamon Maher Jun 1997

The Search For Authenticity In François Mauriac's ''Thérèse Desqueyroux'', Eamon Maher

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Should There Be Homosexual Marriage? Is So, Who Should Decide? (Reviewing William N. Eskridge, Jr., The Case For Same-Sex Marriage: From Sexual Liberty To Civilized Commitment (1996)), Richard A. Posner May 1997

Should There Be Homosexual Marriage? Is So, Who Should Decide? (Reviewing William N. Eskridge, Jr., The Case For Same-Sex Marriage: From Sexual Liberty To Civilized Commitment (1996)), Richard A. Posner

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Book Review (Reviewing William N. Eskridge, The Case For Same-Sex Marriage: From Sexual Liberty To Civilized Commitment (1996)), Richard A. Posner May 1997

Book Review (Reviewing William N. Eskridge, The Case For Same-Sex Marriage: From Sexual Liberty To Civilized Commitment (1996)), Richard A. Posner

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Book Review (Reviewing Neal Devins, Shaping Constitutional Values: Elected Government, The Supreme Court, And The Abortion Debate (1996)), Tom Ginsburg May 1997

Book Review (Reviewing Neal Devins, Shaping Constitutional Values: Elected Government, The Supreme Court, And The Abortion Debate (1996)), Tom Ginsburg

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The Liberty Dimension Of Historic And Contemporary Segregation, James W. Nickel May 1997

The Liberty Dimension Of Historic And Contemporary Segregation, James W. Nickel

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Playing The "Culture Card": Trials In A Mutli-Cultural Democracy, Richard O. Lempert Apr 1997

Playing The "Culture Card": Trials In A Mutli-Cultural Democracy, Richard O. Lempert

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As I write, the racial divide in America is said to be greater than at any time in the past 25 years.' Two events are blamed: the O.J. Simpson criminal trial and the Louis Farrakan led "Million Man March." That these events should exacerbate racial division is extraordinary. The Farrakan led march brought together between 400,000 and 800,000 black males to pledge that they would take the kind of responsibility for their actions and their families that white Americans have long argued they should take. The O.J. Simpson trial was more a "who done it" than a racial morality play. …


The Hazards Of Tinkering With The Common Law Of Future Interests: The California Experience, Laura E. Cunningham Apr 1997

The Hazards Of Tinkering With The Common Law Of Future Interests: The California Experience, Laura E. Cunningham

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U.S. International Treatment Of Financial Derivatives, Reuven Avi-Yonah, Linda Swartz Mar 1997

U.S. International Treatment Of Financial Derivatives, Reuven Avi-Yonah, Linda Swartz

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The current proposals to substitute consumption for income as the principal U.S. tax base have already been the topic of considerable commentary in these pages. However, one issue has received relatively little attention in the discussion of the various reform proposals: What potential complications are likely to arise if a single major player in the world's economy unilaterally adopts radical tax reform? The global economy is becoming more and more unified, with multinational corporations dominating world trade and trillions of dollars in portfolio investment flowing across national boundaries. In this economy, what would be the consequences if a single country, …


Evidence For The Specific Status Of The Honduran Lizards Formerly Referred To Ctenosaura Palearis (Reptilia: Squamata: Iguanidae), Larry Buckley, Ralph Axtell Feb 1997

Evidence For The Specific Status Of The Honduran Lizards Formerly Referred To Ctenosaura Palearis (Reptilia: Squamata: Iguanidae), Larry Buckley, Ralph Axtell

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Ctenosaura melanosterna, a new species of spiny-tailed iguana, is described from the Aguan Valley and the Cayos Cochinos in Honduras. Its closest phylogenetic affinities are with C. palearis from the Motagua Valley in Guatemala with which it has previously been considered conspecific. Previous work on relationships within Ctenosaura presented evidence of a clade consisting of C. palearis (including the species described herein), C. bakeri, and C. oedirhina (de Queiroz, 1987a, 1987b; Kohler, 1995c). Data presented here adds additional support for this clade. Alternative biogeographic scenarios are discussed, with the conclusion that the current range of these species of Ctenosaura in …


To End Deferral As We Know It: Simplification Potential Of Check-The-Box, Reuven Avi-Yonah Jan 1997

To End Deferral As We Know It: Simplification Potential Of Check-The-Box, Reuven Avi-Yonah

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On December 17, 1996, the Treasury Department issued final regulations under section 7701 of the Internal Revenue Code implementing the regime dubbed "check-the-box," under which taxpayers can elect to be treated as corporations or as passthrough entities for U.S. tax purposes. The purpose of this article is to argue that the adoption of these regulations affords a momentous opportunity for Congress to achieve significant simplification of the notoriously complex U.S. international tax rules. Fundamentally, the adoption of check-the- box means that U.S. taxpayers will be able to elect whether or not their foreign-source active income will enjoy deferral from current …


Toward Respectful Representation: Some Thoughts On Selling Same-Sex Marriage, Marc A. Fajer Jan 1997

Toward Respectful Representation: Some Thoughts On Selling Same-Sex Marriage, Marc A. Fajer

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