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Ira Arms Are Likely Stockpiled, Ready For Destruction, Tom Clonan Jan 2005

Ira Arms Are Likely Stockpiled, Ready For Destruction, Tom Clonan

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The Provisional IRA in its statement yesterday pledges to ‘verifiably put its arms beyond use in a way which will further enhance public confidence and to conclude this as quickly as possible’. Given the size and dispersed nature of the IRA’s arsenal, this task will likely prove a logistical challenge that will take at least several weeks to complete. Over the last four decades, the IRA has taken delivery of a considerable number of consignments of weapons for its armed campaign. The main sources of IRA armament have traditionally been from republican sympathisers in the US and from other anti-establishment …


The Future Of Ireland's Neutrality And Security, Tom Clonan Jan 2005

The Future Of Ireland's Neutrality And Security, Tom Clonan

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The future for Ireland’s conventional defence forces and defence and security policy appears set to follow a peculiarly asymmetrical trajectory. On the one hand, Ireland’s skies, land mass and territorial waters lack even the most basic defensive military oversight or protection. On the other hand, in a process that has denied Irish citizens a healthy debate on military neutrality, Ireland’s Defence Forces are being integrated by stealth into the EU’s newly-created military structures. Ireland's defence forces are being integrated into an EU with grand military ambitions. According to the EU St. Malo Declaration of 1998, this grand design involves Europe …


Changing Festival Places: Insights From Galway, Bernadette Quinn Jan 2005

Changing Festival Places: Insights From Galway, Bernadette Quinn

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This paper focuses on cultural reproduction in arts festival settings. It begins by conceptualizing festival settings as places whose characters derive from a combination of both internally derived traits and a diverse series of interactions with other places. Drawing on case study research conducted in an arts festival setting in Galway in the Republic of Ireland, the discussion identifies how elements indigenous to the place connect and engage with external forces. The study found the process of interacting with other places to be complex, involving much negotiation and adaptation as locales became contexts for re-working an array of often conflicting …


Study Of Transmission Response Of Edge Filters Employed In Wavelength Measurements, Qian Wang, Gerald Farrell, Thomas Freir Jan 2005

Study Of Transmission Response Of Edge Filters Employed In Wavelength Measurements, Qian Wang, Gerald Farrell, Thomas Freir

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The ratiometric wavelength-measurement system is modeled and an optimal design of transmission response of the employed edge filter is demonstrated in the context of a limited signal-to-noise ratio of the signal source. The corresponding experimental investigation is presented. The impact of the limited signal-to-noise ratio of the signal source on determining the optimal transmission response of edge filters for a wavelength-measurement application is shown theoretically and experimentally.


Imagine Ahead, Plan Backwards: Prospective Methodology In Urban And Regional Planning, Elzbieta Krawczyk, John Ratcliffe Jan 2005

Imagine Ahead, Plan Backwards: Prospective Methodology In Urban And Regional Planning, Elzbieta Krawczyk, John Ratcliffe

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Supply Chain Learning Needs: Towards A Port Community Perspective, Edward Sweeney, Pietro Evangelista Jan 2005

Supply Chain Learning Needs: Towards A Port Community Perspective, Edward Sweeney, Pietro Evangelista

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The traditional role of ports in the wider supply chain context is currently being subject to a process
of radical review. In broad terms, the traditional model is being replaced by a model which focuses on higher value and more knowledge intensive activities. This trend requires a change in the way in which new knowedge and skills are developed by staff in companies of all kinds within port communities. Traditional models need to be re-evaluated to reflect the increasing importance of knowledge and skills acquisition, particularly in relation to the supply chain management (SCM) concept and the evolving role of …


Ruminations On Dissemination: Limits On Administrative And Judicial Review Under The Information Quality Act, Stephen M. Johnson Jan 2005

Ruminations On Dissemination: Limits On Administrative And Judicial Review Under The Information Quality Act, Stephen M. Johnson

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Supporters call it "one of the most significant developments in the federal rulemaking system since passage of the Administrative Procedure Act." Opponents suggest that it "may well prove the most destructive half-page of law that most people do not know is on the books." It is the Information Quality Act, enacted in 2000 as a two paragraph rider to appropriations legislation for the 2001 fiscal year. While it was supposed to improve the quality of information that the government relies upon in decision making, critics assert that the Act contributes to the ossification of rulemaking, encourages agencies to make decisions …


Preserving The Foundation Of Liberty, Elizabeth Brandt Jan 2005

Preserving The Foundation Of Liberty, Elizabeth Brandt

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Cool Data On A Hot Issue: Empirical Evidence That A Law School Bar Support Program Enhances Bar Performance, Linda Jellum Jan 2005

Cool Data On A Hot Issue: Empirical Evidence That A Law School Bar Support Program Enhances Bar Performance, Linda Jellum

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Theoretical And Experimental Investigations Of Macro-Bend Losses For Standard Single Mode Fibers, Qian Wang, Gerald Farrell, Thomas Feir Jan 2005

Theoretical And Experimental Investigations Of Macro-Bend Losses For Standard Single Mode Fibers, Qian Wang, Gerald Farrell, Thomas Feir

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Modeling of macro-bend losses for single mode fibers with multiple cladding or coating layers is presented. Macro-bend losses for standard single mode fibers (SMF28) are investigated theoretically and experimentally, showing that the inner primary coating layer of SMF28 has a significant impact on the bend losses and most of the radiation field is absorbed in the inner primary coating layer of SMF28. The agreement between theoretical calculations and experimental measurements suggests that the so-called elastooptical correction in modeling is not required for SMF28.


Putting Supply Chain Learning Theory Into Practice: Lessons From An Irish Case, Edward Sweeney, Pietro Evangelista, Renato Passaro Jan 2005

Putting Supply Chain Learning Theory Into Practice: Lessons From An Irish Case, Edward Sweeney, Pietro Evangelista, Renato Passaro

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The logistics service market is currently going through a fundamental transition. The development of closer relationships with customers and the continuous adaptation of products and services, represent potentially successful approaches to the development of improved competitive capability. To this end knowledge resources and learning processes increasingly represent key elements within the evolving framework of the 3PL business. This paper describes the case of NITL’s Foundation Certificate Programme (FCP) learning programme with specific reference to its use in addressing some of current shortcomings related to supply chain knowledge and skills in the Irish third party logistics (3PL) industry. The FCP rationale …


Use Of Advanced Synthesis Tools In Teaching Vlsi Design, Kevin Berwick, Dominic Nardone Jan 2005

Use Of Advanced Synthesis Tools In Teaching Vlsi Design, Kevin Berwick, Dominic Nardone

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Takings, Commons, And Associations: Why The Telecommunications Act Of 1996 Misfired, Richard A. Epstein Jan 2005

Takings, Commons, And Associations: Why The Telecommunications Act Of 1996 Misfired, Richard A. Epstein

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Joint efforts by two or more parties can be achieved either through voluntary cooperation, through state coercive activity under some version of the takings power, or by the creation of some form of commons. Network industries, such as telecommunications, cannot usually work by the former, and thus require some level of state coercion. The choice of the method of coercion is, however, critical because the use of the eminent domain power does not work well when applied to a high frequency of low level transactions that are difficult to price and monitor. In contrast, the creation of an interconnection obligation, …


The Expressive Power Of Adjudication, Richard H. Mcadams Jan 2005

The Expressive Power Of Adjudication, Richard H. Mcadams

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This article provides a causal explanation of adjudicative compliance that is distinct from both the court's threat of sanctions and its institutional legitimacy. The new mechanism for compliance is the power of adjudicative expression. The theory of "expressive adjudication" arises from a previously neglected synergy among three expressive concepts in game theory -correlated equilibria, focal points, and signals. The article identifies the circumstances in which adjudicative expression can, by itself, influence the behavior of existing disputants and of future potential disputants. In each case, ambiguity in the relevant facts or the concepts underlying intentional and spontaneous order can cause a …


Judging The Tournament, Thomas J. Miles, Jay S. Bybee Jan 2005

Judging The Tournament, Thomas J. Miles, Jay S. Bybee

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Why We Need A Federal Reporter's Privilege, Geoffrey R. Stone Jan 2005

Why We Need A Federal Reporter's Privilege, Geoffrey R. Stone

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A Social Networks Theory Of Privacy, Lior Strahilevitz Jan 2005

A Social Networks Theory Of Privacy, Lior Strahilevitz

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What facts are public and what facts are private? It is the fundamental, first-principles question in privacy law, and a necessary element in the two most important privacy torts public disclosure of private facts and intrusion upon seclusion. This paper argues that insights from the literature on social networks and information dissemination can help provide courts with a coherent and consistent methodology for determining whether an individual has a reasonable expectation of privacy in a particular fact that he has shared with one or more persons. The social networks literature has generated theoretical and empirical insights about the probability that …


Substantive Consolidation Today, Douglas G. Baird Jan 2005

Substantive Consolidation Today, Douglas G. Baird

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In large corporate reorganizations, bankruptcy judges often confirm plans of reorganization that call for "substantive consolidation" of the different corporate entities comprising the corporate group. Substantive consolidation allows the general creditors of the various entities to share in a common pool of assets; it often simplifies a reorganization and wins broad support among the creditors. Nevertheless, a statutory basis for the doctrine is hard to find, and the lower court practice is often at odds with the doctrine as spelled out in appellate court opinions. The emerging debate over the proper scope of substantive consolidation shows how much bankruptcy law …


Contract And Copyright, Frank H. Easterbrook Jan 2005

Contract And Copyright, Frank H. Easterbrook

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What (Not) To Do About Obesity: A Moderate Aristotelian Answer, Richard A. Epstein Jan 2005

What (Not) To Do About Obesity: A Moderate Aristotelian Answer, Richard A. Epstein

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Empirical Economics And The Study Of Punishment And Crime, Thomas J. Miles Jan 2005

Empirical Economics And The Study Of Punishment And Crime, Thomas J. Miles

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Unbundling Scope-Of-Permission Goods: When Should We Invest In Reducing Entry Barriers?, Randal C. Picker Jan 2005

Unbundling Scope-Of-Permission Goods: When Should We Invest In Reducing Entry Barriers?, Randal C. Picker

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Rewinding Sony: The Evolving Product, Phoning Home And The Duty Of Ongoing Design, Randal C. Picker Jan 2005

Rewinding Sony: The Evolving Product, Phoning Home And The Duty Of Ongoing Design, Randal C. Picker

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Judicial Independence In International Tribunals, Eric A. Posner, John C. Yoo Jan 2005

Judicial Independence In International Tribunals, Eric A. Posner, John C. Yoo

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Hayek, Law, And Cognition, Richard A. Posner Jan 2005

Hayek, Law, And Cognition, Richard A. Posner

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Our 18th Century Constitution In The 21st Century World, Diane P. Wood Jan 2005

Our 18th Century Constitution In The 21st Century World, Diane P. Wood

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In this speech delivered for the annual James Madison Lecture, the Honorable Diane Wood tackles the classic question of whether courts should interpret the United States Constitution from an originalist or dynamic approach. Judge Wood argues for the dynamic approach and defends it against the common criticisms that doing so allows judges to stray from the original intent of those who wrote the Constitution or take into consideration improper foreign influences. She argues the necessity of an "unwritten Constitution" since a literalist approach to interpretation would lead to unworkable or even absurd results in the modern context, and since restricting …


Free Speech And Academic Politics (Reviewing Donald Alexander Downs, Restoring Free Speech And Liberty On Campus (2005)), Geoffrey R. Stone Jan 2005

Free Speech And Academic Politics (Reviewing Donald Alexander Downs, Restoring Free Speech And Liberty On Campus (2005)), Geoffrey R. Stone

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The Roman Law Of Cyberconversion, Richard A. Epstein Jan 2005

The Roman Law Of Cyberconversion, Richard A. Epstein

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Consent, Aesthetics, And The Boundaries Of Sexual Privacy After Lawrence V. Texas, Lior Strahilevitz Jan 2005

Consent, Aesthetics, And The Boundaries Of Sexual Privacy After Lawrence V. Texas, Lior Strahilevitz

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Prometheus Radio Project V. Fcc: The Persistence Of Scarcity, Aaron Perzanowski Jan 2005

Prometheus Radio Project V. Fcc: The Persistence Of Scarcity, Aaron Perzanowski

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Part I traces the history of broadcast regulation, emphasizing the development of the scarcity doctrine and the subsequent deregulatory trend. Part II examines the FCC's 2003 rule changes and the Third Circuit's analysis of those modifications in Prometheus Radio Project v. FCC. Part III analyzes the assumptions underlying the FCC's proffered explanation for its rule changes, ultimately concluding that they lack justification, and offers suggestions for responsible ownership deregulation. Part IV calls on Congress to reassert itself as the final arbiter of media policy.