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Means Testing: The Failed Bankruptcy Revolution Of 2005, David G. Carlson
Means Testing: The Failed Bankruptcy Revolution Of 2005, David G. Carlson
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The monumental bankruptcy amendments of 2005 made means testing the very center of the attempt to restore discipline to consumer spending. Yet, one year of practical experiences shows that either the means test either promotes bankruptcy abuse, or it is meanginless, depending on whether courts think the mechanical means test pre-empts pre-2005 law, or whether it merely supplements it. This article explores the means test in details, shows why it is a flop, and what the courts have made of it so far.
An Analysis Of Economic Cost Minimization And Biological Invasion Damage Control Using The Awq Criterion, Gregory Deangelo, Amitrajeet Batabyal, Seshavadhani Kumar
An Analysis Of Economic Cost Minimization And Biological Invasion Damage Control Using The Awq Criterion, Gregory Deangelo, Amitrajeet Batabyal, Seshavadhani Kumar
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DeAngelo et al. (2006) have recently used the AWS criterion in a M/G/1 queuing model to show that there is no necessary tension between economic cost minimization and inspection stringency in non-native species management. In this paper, we use an alternate cost criterion (AWQ criterion) to investigate the generality of this central result in DeAngelo et al. (2006). Our theoretical analysis shows that there is no unambiguous answer to this question. Therefore, we use numerical methods and our numerical analysis leads to two findings. First, for many values of the model parameters that describe the strictness of inspections, there is …
Hepatitis B Virus Resistance To Adefovir In A Nucleotide Naive Patient With Chronic Hepatitis B Virus Infection, B Laoi, Celine M. Herra, S. Norris, B. Crowley
Hepatitis B Virus Resistance To Adefovir In A Nucleotide Naive Patient With Chronic Hepatitis B Virus Infection, B Laoi, Celine M. Herra, S. Norris, B. Crowley
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No abstract provided.
Spin Flips And Precession In Black-Hole-Binary Mergers, Manuela Campanelli, Carlos O. Lousto, Yosef Zlochower, Badri Krishnan, David Merritt
Spin Flips And Precession In Black-Hole-Binary Mergers, Manuela Campanelli, Carlos O. Lousto, Yosef Zlochower, Badri Krishnan, David Merritt
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We use the ‘moving puncture’ approach to perform fully non-linear evolutions of spinning quasicircular black-hole binaries with individual spins unaligned with the orbital angular momentum. We evolve configurations with the individual spins (parallel and equal in magnitude) pointing in the orbital plane and 45◦ above the orbital plane. We introduce a technique to measure the spin direction and track the precession of the spin during the merger, as well as measure the spin flip in the remnant horizon. The former configuration completes 1.75 orbits before merging, with the spin precessing by 98◦ and the final remnant horizon spin flipped by …
Supermassive Black Holes In The Sbc Spiral Galaxies Ngc 3310, Ngc 4303 And Ngc 4258, Guia Pastorini, Alessandro Marconi, Alessandro Capetti, David J. Axon, Daniel Batcheldor, Et Al.
Supermassive Black Holes In The Sbc Spiral Galaxies Ngc 3310, Ngc 4303 And Ngc 4258, Guia Pastorini, Alessandro Marconi, Alessandro Capetti, David J. Axon, Daniel Batcheldor, Et Al.
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We have undertaken an HST Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph survey of 54 late type spiral galaxies to study the scaling relations between black holes and their host spheroids at the low mass end. Our aim is to measure black hole masses or to set upper limits for a sizeable sample of spiral galaxies. In this paper we present new Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) observations of three spiral galaxies, NGC 4303, NGC 3310 and NGC 4258. The bright optical emission lines Hα λ 6564Å, [NII] λλ 6549, 6585Å and [SII] λλ 6718, 6732Å were used to study the kinematics of …
Large Merger Recoils And Spin Flips From Generic Black-Hole Binaries, Manuela Campanelli, Carlos O. Lousto, Yosef Zlochower, David Merritt
Large Merger Recoils And Spin Flips From Generic Black-Hole Binaries, Manuela Campanelli, Carlos O. Lousto, Yosef Zlochower, David Merritt
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We report the first results from evolutions of generic black-hole binaries, i.e. a binary containing unequal mass black holes with misaligned spins. Our configuration, which has a mass ratio of 2 : 1, consists of an initially non-spinning hole orbiting a larger, rapidly spinning hole (specific spin a/m = 0.885), with the spin direction oriented −45◦ with respect to the orbital plane. We track the inspiral and merger for ∼ 2 orbits and find that the remnant receives a substantial kick of 454 kms−1, more than twice as large as the maximum kick from non-spinning binaries. The remnant spin direction …
A Franco-Irish View Of The Great War : Louis-Ferdinand Céline And Sebastian Barry, Eamon Maher
A Franco-Irish View Of The Great War : Louis-Ferdinand Céline And Sebastian Barry, Eamon Maher
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Performance Characteristics Of A Therapeutic Ultrasound Wire Waveguide, Graham Gavin, Garrett Mcguinness, Finbar Dolan, M.S. Hashmi
Performance Characteristics Of A Therapeutic Ultrasound Wire Waveguide, Graham Gavin, Garrett Mcguinness, Finbar Dolan, M.S. Hashmi
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Therapeutic ultrasound angioplasty has been investigated, clinically, by a number of researchers and represents a potentially promising therapy for the treatment of atherosclerotic lesions. To date, there has been no detailed analysis of the effect of mechanical design parameters, such as wire geometry or damping characteristics, on wire waveguide performance. An apparatus capable of delivering therapeutic ultrasound down small diameter nickel–titanium (NiTi) wire waveguides is described. The output peak-to-peak (p–p) displacements at the distal tip of a 1.0mm diameter waveguide were measured experimentally, by means of an optical microscope and image analysis software. The output was measured for a range …
Parallel Java: A Unified Api For Shared Memory And Cluster Parallel Programming In 100% Java, Alan Kaminsky
Parallel Java: A Unified Api For Shared Memory And Cluster Parallel Programming In 100% Java, Alan Kaminsky
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Parallel Java is a parallel programming API whose goals are (1) to support both shared memory (thread-based) parallel programming and cluster (message-based) parallel programming in a single unified API, allowing one to write parallel programs combining both paradigms; (2) to provide the same capabilities as OpenMP and MPI in an object oriented, 100% Java API; and (3) to be easily deployed and run in a heterogeneous computing environment of single-core CPUs, multi-core CPUs, and clusters thereof. This paper describes Parallel Java’s features and architecture; compares and contrasts Parallel Java to other Java based parallel middleware libraries; and reports performance measurements …
Essay: On The Divergent American Reactions To Terrorism And Climate Change, Cass R. Sunstein
Essay: On The Divergent American Reactions To Terrorism And Climate Change, Cass R. Sunstein
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Two of the most important sources of catastrophic risk are terrorism and climate change. The United States has responded aggressively to the risk of terrorism while doing very little about the risk of climate change. For the United States alone, the cost of the Iraq War is in excess of the anticipated cost of the Kyoto Protocol. The divergence presents a puzzle; it also raises more general questions about both risk perception and the public demand for legislation. The best explanation for the divergence emphasizes bounded rationality. Americans believe that aggressive steps to reduce the risk of terrorism promise to …
On Your Mark, Get Set, Go! Overview Of A Digital Project From Start To Finish, Pam Hackbart-Dean, Doug Goans, Lauren Kata
On Your Mark, Get Set, Go! Overview Of A Digital Project From Start To Finish, Pam Hackbart-Dean, Doug Goans, Lauren Kata
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Rome wasn't built in a day, nor was an online collection of 105 years' worth of association publications. But a team of Georgia librarians had the stamina for a marathon project that lasted 2 years. Members even built their own digital library system along the way, and so far, the finished site has logged more than 65,000 unique visits.
On Logic In The Law: Something, But Not All, Susan Haack
On Logic In The Law: Something, But Not All, Susan Haack
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In 1880, when Oliver Wendell Holmes (later to be a Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court) criticized the "logical theology" of law articulated by Christopher Columbus Langdell (the first Dean of Harvard Law School), neither Holmes nor Langdell was aware of the revolution in logic that had begun, the year before, with Frege's Begriffsschrift. But there is an important element of truth in Holmes's insistence that a legal system cannot be adequately understood as a system of "axioms and corollaries"; and this element of truth is not obviated by the more powerful logical techniques that are now available.
An Ergonomic Assessment Of A Customer Service Organisation, Victor Hrymak
An Ergonomic Assessment Of A Customer Service Organisation, Victor Hrymak
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An ergonomic assessment of a customer services organisation was carried out. The nethodology is described and the results presented together with recommendations
The Struggle To Be Christian : Julian Green's ''Each Man In His Darkness'', Eamon Maher
The Struggle To Be Christian : Julian Green's ''Each Man In His Darkness'', Eamon Maher
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Collisionally Regenerated Dark Matter Structures In Galactic Nuclei, David Merritt, Stefan Harfst, Bertone Gianfranco
Collisionally Regenerated Dark Matter Structures In Galactic Nuclei, David Merritt, Stefan Harfst, Bertone Gianfranco
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We show that the presence of a r−3/2 dark matter overdensity can be robustly predicted at the center of any galaxy old enough to have grown a power-law density cusp in the stars via the Bahcall-Wolf mechanism. Using both Fokker-Planck and direct N-body integrations, we demonstrate collisional generation of these dark matter “crests” (Collisionally REgenerated STtructures) even in the extreme case that the density of both stars and dark matter were previously lowered by slingshot ejection from a binary supermassive black hole. The time scale for collisional growth of the crest is approximately the two-body relaxation time as defined by …
A Creditable Vat?, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
A Creditable Vat?, Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
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In the early 1990s, Bolivia tried to adopt a popular U.S. tax reform proposal: replacing its corporate income tax with a cash-flow -type consumption tax, broadly similar in structure to taxes proposed by a long line of theorists from Prof. William Andrews in 1974 to the President's Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform in 2006. Unfortunately, the Bolivian experiment ran into an insuperable obstacle: the U.S. foreign tax credit (FTC) rules. The U.S. Treasury decided that the Bolivian tax would not be creditable for U.S. corporations investing in Bolivia. Given the importance of U.S. foreign direct investment (FDI) for Bolivia, …
A New Application For Displaying And Fusing Multimodal Data Sets, Karl Baum, María Helguera, Andrzej Krol
A New Application For Displaying And Fusing Multimodal Data Sets, Karl Baum, María Helguera, Andrzej Krol
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A recently developed, freely available, application specifically designed for the visualization of multimodal data sets is presented. The application allows multiple 3D data sets such as CT (x-ray computer tomography), MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), PET (positron emission tomography), and SPECT (single photon emission tomography) of the same subject to be viewed simultaneously. This is done by maintaining synchronization of the spatial location viewed within all modalities, and by providing fused views of the data where multiple data sets are displayed as a single volume. Different options for the fused views are provided by plug-ins. Plug-ins typically used include color-overlays and …
Reconciliation: The Search For An Authentic Architecture, Noel Brady
Reconciliation: The Search For An Authentic Architecture, Noel Brady
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Glenn Murcutt and Juhani Pallasmaa in conversation with author discussing various architectural concepts and ideas
Preserving A Special Collection - Ten Things You Can Do When You're On Your Own, Stacy Etheredge
Preserving A Special Collection - Ten Things You Can Do When You're On Your Own, Stacy Etheredge
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No abstract provided.
The Law And Economics Of Company Stock In 401(K) Plans, Cass R. Sunstein, Shlomo Benartzi, Richard H. Thaler, Stephen P. Utkus
The Law And Economics Of Company Stock In 401(K) Plans, Cass R. Sunstein, Shlomo Benartzi, Richard H. Thaler, Stephen P. Utkus
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Some 11 million participants in 401(k) plans invest more than 20 percent of their retirement savings in their employer's stock. Yet investing in the stock of one's employer is risky: single securities are riskier than diversified portfolios, and an employee's human capital typically is positively correlated with the company's performance. In the worst-case scenario, workers can lose their jobs and much of their retirement wealth simultaneously. For workers who expect to work for a company for many years, a dollar of company stock can be valued at less than 50 cents after accounting for risk. However, employees still invest voluntarily …
Business Imperatives And Fiduciary Duty, Melanie B. Leslie
Business Imperatives And Fiduciary Duty, Melanie B. Leslie
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No abstract provided.
The Acs Virgo Cluster Survey. Xiii. Sbf Distance Catalog And The Three-Dimensional Structure Of The Virgo Cluster, Simona Mei, John P. Blakeslee, Patrick Côté, John L. Tonry, Michael J. West, Laura Ferrarese, Andrés Jordán, Eric W. Peng, André Anthony, David Merritt
The Acs Virgo Cluster Survey. Xiii. Sbf Distance Catalog And The Three-Dimensional Structure Of The Virgo Cluster, Simona Mei, John P. Blakeslee, Patrick Côté, John L. Tonry, Michael J. West, Laura Ferrarese, Andrés Jordán, Eric W. Peng, André Anthony, David Merritt
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The ACS Virgo Cluster Survey consists of HST/ACS imaging for 100 early–type galaxies in the Virgo cluster, observed in the F475W(≈ SDSS g) and F850LP (≈ SDSS z) filters. We derive distances for 84 of these galaxies using the method of Surface Brightness Fluctuations (SBF), present the SBF distance catalog, and use this database to examine the three-dimensional distribution of early–type galaxies in the Virgo Cluster. The SBF distance moduli have a mean (random) measurement error of 0.07 mag (0.5 Mpc), or roughly three times better than previous SBF measurements for Virgo Cluster galaxies. Five galaxies lie at a distance …
An Automatic Statistical Segmentation Algorithm For Extraction Of Fire And Smoke Regions, Ying Li, Anthony Vodacek, Yushan Zhu
An Automatic Statistical Segmentation Algorithm For Extraction Of Fire And Smoke Regions, Ying Li, Anthony Vodacek, Yushan Zhu
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Estimation of the extent and spread of wildland fires is an important application of high spatial resolution multispectral images. This work addresses a fuzzy segmentation algorithm to map fire extent, active fire front, hot burn scar, and smoke regions based on a statistical model. The fuzzy results are useful data sources for integrated fire behavior and propagation models built using Dynamic Data Driven Applications Systems (DDDAS) concepts that use data assimilation techniques which require error estimates or probabilities for the data parameters. The Hidden Markov Random Field (HMRF) model has been used widely in image segmentation, but it is assumed …
Fund Allocation Formula Analysis: Determining Elements For Best Practices In Libraries, Kitti Canepi
Fund Allocation Formula Analysis: Determining Elements For Best Practices In Libraries, Kitti Canepi
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The purpose of this study was to determine whether common elements in fund allocation formulas could be used to articulate "best practices" for fund allocations in academic libraries. Methodology involved a meta-analysis of published articles and Internet sites in which 75 fund allocation formulas were presented. Of the 75 formulas, 28 usable examples were analyzed to determine if there were any statistically significant elements within these formulas that could be identified, as well as to determine the degree of correlation for each component identified in the usable set. Findings are presented in this article, as well as implications for further …
Guarantees For The Success Frequency Of An Algorithm For Finding Dodgson-Election Winners, Christopher Homan, Lane Hemaspaandra
Guarantees For The Success Frequency Of An Algorithm For Finding Dodgson-Election Winners, Christopher Homan, Lane Hemaspaandra
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Dodgson’s election system elegantly satisfies the Condorcet criterion. However, determining the winner of a Dodgson election is known to be p 2-complete ([HHR97], see also [BTT89]), which implies that unless P = NP no polynomial-time solution to this problem exists, and unless the polynomial hierarchy collapses to NP the problem is not even in NP. Nonetheless, we prove that when the number of voters is much greater than the number of candidates (although the number of voters may still be polynomial in the number of candidates), a simple greedy algorithm very frequently finds the Dodgson winners in such a way …
Forward And Backward Compatibility Of Solder Alloys With Component And Board Finishes, Anand Kannabiran, Elavarasan Pannerselvam, S. Manian Ramkumar
Forward And Backward Compatibility Of Solder Alloys With Component And Board Finishes, Anand Kannabiran, Elavarasan Pannerselvam, S. Manian Ramkumar
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The primary objective of the research presented in this paper is to qualify the reliability of mixed assemblies by comparing them to the conventional Sn–Pb assembly and completely Pb-free assembly. The research investigates both forward and backward compatibility in electronic assemblies using a design of experiments (DOE) approach. The investigation utilized a test vehicle containing an area array component (BGA169) and chip components (0603 resistors). Hot air solder leveling (HASL) and organic solderability preservative (OSP) surface finishes were used on the test vehicles to represent Sn–Pb and Pb-free alternatives, respectively. The assembled test vehicles were cut into two panels—one containing …
Leveraging Automation And Integration To Improve Manufacturing Performance Under Uncertainty: An Empirical Study, Kun Liao, Qiang Tu
Leveraging Automation And Integration To Improve Manufacturing Performance Under Uncertainty: An Empirical Study, Kun Liao, Qiang Tu
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Throughout the history of manufacturing management, managers are constantly refining their skills for controlling and stabilizing against various technological and market uncertainties. Some of those skills such as division of labor and buffering technnical core from external changes had been very successful in the transition from craft to industrial manufacturing system, creating the powerhouse of US manufacturing.
Distributed Wrapper For Simset Monte Carlo Pet/Spect Simulator, Karl Baum, Maria Helguera
Distributed Wrapper For Simset Monte Carlo Pet/Spect Simulator, Karl Baum, Maria Helguera
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SimSET is a package for simulation of emission tomography data sets. Condor is a popular distributed computing environment. Simple C/C++ applications and shell scripts are presented which allow the execution of SimSET on the Condor environment. This is accomplished without any modification to SimSET by executing multiple instances and using its combinebin utility. This enables research facilities without dedicated parallel computing systems to utilize the idle cycles of desktop workstations to greatly reduce the run times of their SimSET simulations. The necessary steps to implement this approach in other environments are presented along with sample results.
Investigation Of Pet/Mri Image Fusion Schemes For Enhanced Breast Cancer Diagnosis, Karl Baum, Evan Schmidt, Kimberly Rafferty
Investigation Of Pet/Mri Image Fusion Schemes For Enhanced Breast Cancer Diagnosis, Karl Baum, Evan Schmidt, Kimberly Rafferty
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The benefit of registration and fusion of functional images with anatomical images is well appreciated in the advent of PET/CT. There is an increasing interest in expanding this approach to PET/MRI. The focus of much of the related research has been on registering images from different modalities. However, the importance of appropriately jointly displaying (i.e. fusing) the registered images has often been neglected and underestimated. Our aim is to determine which fusion techniques are most useful for enhanced diagnostic performance, ease of use, efficiency, and accuracy for reading registered MRI and PET breast images. Preliminary results indicate that the radiologists …
Privacy Preserving Telecardiology Sensor Networks: Towards A Low-Cost Portable Wireless Hardware/Software Co-Design, Fei Hu, Meng Jiang, Mark Wagner
Privacy Preserving Telecardiology Sensor Networks: Towards A Low-Cost Portable Wireless Hardware/Software Co-Design, Fei Hu, Meng Jiang, Mark Wagner
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Recently, a remote-sensing platform based on wireless interconnection of tiny ECG sensors called Telecardiology Sensor Networks (TSN) provided a promising approach to perform lowcost real-time cardiac patient monitoring at any time in community areas (such as elder nursing homes or hospitals). The contribution of this research is the design of a practical TSN hardware/software platform for a typical U.S. healthcare community scenario (such as large nursing homes with many elder patients) to perform realtime healthcare data collections. On the other hand, due to the radio broadcasting nature ofMANET, a TSN has the risk of losing the privacy of patients’ data. …