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Depositions Of Corporations: Problems And Solutions-Fed. R. Civ. P. 30(B)(6), M. Minnette Massey

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The Federal Circuit's 1985 Tax Cases: The Exercise Of Equity, William S. Blatt

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Air Carrier Technique For Row Crop Spraying Applications, Dennis G. Watson, Robert L. Wolff

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This study focuses on the problem of applying spray material to upper-plant, underside-leaf surfaces of corn and soybean plants. Aircraft and ground pressureatomizer applications of spray solution were quantified. Percent coverage values were generally less than 1 % on the sampling locations. Flat and hollow cone nozzle air carrier units were developed and evaluated for spray application to the upper-plant, bottom leaf surface. The air carrier method tested within a shroud improved spray deposition to the entire plant by 100% for corn and 234% for soybeans. Deposition to the upper-plant, bottom leaf surface was increased by 900% and 400% for …

Land Mobile Radio Systems - A Tutorial Exposition, S. C. Gupta, R. Viswanathan, R. Muammar

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An in-depth tutorial on land mobile radio systems

Statistics In The Courtroom: Building On Rubinfeld, Richard O. Lempert

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As the use of statistics in litigation has burgeoned and as more complicated statistical techniques have entered the courtroom, concern for the way courts use statistics has mounted and efforts to instruct lawyers and judges on the wise use of statistics have begun. Professor Rubinfeld's paper is a contribution toward this end. Two ideas at the core of this paper are particularly important if we are to develop a more satisfactory approach to the use of statistics in the courtroom. The first is Professor Rubinfeld's caution against the talismanic use of the .05 level of significances as a test of …

Nonparametric Receiver For Fh-Mfsk Mobile Radio, R. Viswanathan, S. C. Gupta

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Various parametric receivers such as the maximum likelihood and the hard-limiter have been analyzed for their performance in decoding the frequency hopped multilevel FSK (FH-MFSK) messages in mobile environment. Here, some nonparametric receivers such as the maximum rank sum receiver (MRSR) and the reduced rank sum receiver (RRR) are considered. RRR and MRSR are nearly identical in performance, but the former is much simpler to implement. The results indicate that RRR is a competing alternative to the parametric receivers.

Mediation With A Mugger: The Shortage Of Adjudicative Services And The Need For A Two-Tier Trial System In Civil Cases, Albert W. Alschuler

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Can Lawyers Solve The Problems Of Tort System?, Richard A. Posner

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Wealth Maximization Revisited, Richard A. Posner

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The Historical Origins And Economic Structures Of Workers' Compensation Law, Richard A. Epstein

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Getting Beyond Discrimination: A Regulatory Solution To The Problem Of Fetal Hazards In The Workplace, Emily Buss

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Introduction To The Symposium On Legal Structures For Managing The Pacific Northwest Salmon And Steelhead: The Biological And Historical Context, Dale Goble

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Czm In California, Oregon, And Washington, Richard G. Hildreth, Ralph W. Johnson

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Twenty years ago coastal zone protection was merely a gleam in the eyes of a few west coast visionaries. A flurry of state and federal laws in the late 1960s and into the 1970s changed this. Today, broad coastal management programs are in place in all three west coast states, with a special one for San Francisco Bay. Each program is unique, and at the same time shares significant qualities with the others. This article identifies the major attributes of these four programs and offers insights into the strengths and weaknesses of each. In comparing and contrasting the four programs, …

Bistabiity By Induced Waveguiding In Coupled Semiconductor Lasers, Daniel Heffernan, J. Mcinerney, L. Reekie, D. Bradley

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Recently, McInerney, Reekie, and Bradley observed bistability in twin diode GaAs/GaAlAs injection lasers in an external cavity when both diodes were above threshold. We show that this bistability may be explained by a form of self-focusing which is produced by induced waveguiding in the wide stripe lasers. A detailed analysis is performed on a standard model of these diodes in an external cavity. We have found very good agreement between theory and experiment.

The Un-Easy Case For Technological Optimism, James E. Krier, Clayton P. Gillette

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"Technological optimism" is a term of art, an article of faith, and a theory of politics. It is a view that pervades modem attitudes, yet gets little explicit attention. For a brief period the situation was otherwise. In the early 1970s, the optimistic outlook figured prominently in an important debate about nothing less than the future of the world. Technological optimism won. The outcome was unsurprising, given the nature of the argument. On one side of the debate was a group of self-proclaimed Malthusians who foresaw an impending period of stark scarcity unless relatively drastic remedial steps were quickly taken; …

Federal Regulation Of The Workplace In The Next Half Century, Theodore J. St. Antoine

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Even the general circulation press, from the New York Times to the Los Angeles Times to Business Week, has taken to examining the current malaise of the labor movement and the increased emphasis upon ensuring the safety, health, and economic security of employees through direct governmental regulation rather than through collective bargaining. What accounts for this upsurge of scholarly and popular interest in labor relations and labor law? There are undoubtedly multiple causes but I should like to focus on a couple of reasons that seem preeminent to me.

On The Social Significance Of Large Law Firm Practice, Robert A. Kagan, Robert E. Rosen

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Dissertation Abstracts: Performance Of Frequency-Hopping Spread-Spectrum Mobile Radio Systems, R. Viswanathan

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Dissertation Abstract for Ramanarayanan Viswanathan, “Performance of Frequency-Hopping Spread-Spectrum Mobile Radio Systems,” Ph.D., Department of Electrical Engineering, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX 75222, USA, May 1983. Advisor: S. C. Gupta.

Text And Intellect, Monroe E. Price

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The article explores the intersection of Jewish identity, legal education, and professional practice, arguing that the Talmudic tradition of rigorous textual analysis and ethical inquiry has profoundly shaped the legal thinking and contributions of Jewish lawyers and judges, such as Justice Philip Halpern. It suggests that this tradition, emphasizing precision in language, respect for authority, and the pursuit of justice, provides a unique lens for understanding law as both a moral and social force.

The Application Of The Conjugate Gradient Method To The Solution Of Transient Electromagnetic Scattering From Thin Wires, Sadasiva M. Rao, Tapan K. Sarkar, Sohail A. Dianat

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Previous approaches to the problem of computing scattering by conducting bodies have utilized the well-known marching-on-in-time solution procedures. However, these procedures are very dependent on discretization techniques and sometimes lead to instabilities as the time progresses. Moreover, the accuracy of the solution cannot be verified easily, and usually there is no error estimation. In this paper we describe the conjugate gradient method for solving transient problems. For this method, the time and space discretizations are independent of one another. The method has the advantage of a direct method as the solution is obtained in a finite number of steps and …

Book Reviews - Probability And Stochastic Processes For Engineers, R. Viswanathan

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A Discussion Of Various Approaches To The Linear-System Identification Problem, Tapan Sarkar, Sohail Dianat, Donald Weiner

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This paper deals with the pole zero identification of a linear system from a measured input-output record. One objective is to show that the pencil-of-function method minimizes a weighted version of the Kalman equation error. It follows that the pencil-of-function method is capable of yielding robust estimates for poles located in a given region of the complex s plane. The second objective of this paper is to illustrate that identical sets of equations arise in three supposedly different analytical techniques for obtaining the impulse response of a system. The techniques investigated are 1) the least squares technique based on the …

Proposal For A Digital Pseudorandom Number Generator, C. Downey

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A digital hardware implementation of a linear congruential sequence generator using shift and add techniques of multiplication is described. The sequence is of long period, low serial correlation and is rectangularly distributed. The method has certain advantages over conventional feedback shift register techniques.

B.R. Lakin: A Country Preacher, Elmer L. Towns

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Limits Of Antitrust, Frank H. Easterbrook

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The Role Of The Attorney In Estate Administration, Robert Stein, Ian Fierstein

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Estate administration is the process by which the affairs of a decedent are settled. During the course of administration of an estate, property owned by a decedent is collected and inventoried, debts and taxes are paid, and property is distributed to those having a right to succeed to it. Controversy has surrounded estate administration in recent years. 2 Critics of the process have advised the public to "avoid probate" because of allegedly high fees and unreasonable delays in settling estates; 3 the legal community has responded with various reform proposals. 4 The National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws …

Inequality From The Top: Applying An Ancient Prohibition To An Emerging Problem Of Distributive Justice, Richard Delgado

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The Washington Environmental Policy Act, William H. Rodgers, Jr.

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As the Washington State Environmental Policy Act of 1971 (SEPA)'approaches its fourteenth birthday, the time is ripe for an assessment of its recent history and foreseeable future. Several SEPA milestones have come and gone in the last several months, and a period of stability is in order. Reported Washington decisions citing SEPA now number close to one hundred; more than fifty of these are decisions of the Washington Supreme Court.

The books are closed on the two-year efforts of the Washington Commission on Environmental Policy (the SEPA Commission), whose work culminated in a report to the 1983 Legislature. There was …

The Language Of The Arms Race: Should The People Limit Government Speech, Richard Delgado

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Legal Barriers To Worker Participation In Management Decision Making, Theodore J. St. Antoine

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Collective bargaining lies at the heart of the union-management relationship. It is the end and purpose of the whole effort to protect employees against reprisals when they form an organization to represent them in dealing with their employers. Collective bargaining is grounded in the belief that industrial strife will be checked, and the workers' lot bettered, if workers are given an effective voice in determining the conditions of their employment. My thesis is that federal law, even while placing the force of government behind collective bargaining, has so artificially confined its scope that the process has been seriously impeded from …