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In The United States Court Of Appeals For The Fourteenth Circuit, Richard A. Posner

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Infrastructure For Distributed Applications In Ad Hoc Networks Of Small Mobile Wireless Devices, Alan Kaminsky

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Mobile wireless computing devices such as cellphones, pagers, personal digital assistants, pocket PCs, and tablet computers are all potential platforms for participating in small group, wireless, many-to-many distributed applications. The networking technology needed to support such applications is readily available. However, almost all existing middleware infrastructure for distributed applications was designed for central servers and wired connections. The Anhinga Infrastructure described here runs entirely on the wireless mobile devices and so does not require any central server support. The Anhinga Infrastructure provides a message broadcast ad hoc networking protocol and a distributed computing platform based on lightweight versions of Java, …

Grace In The Fiction Of Graham Greene, Eamon Maher

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Chief Judge Edward R. Becker: A Truly Remarkable Judge, Marci A. Hamilton

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Applications For An Improvised Digital Streak Camera, Andrew Davidhazy

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A close relative of the strip camera, details about which are available in several articles listed below, the streak camera is not very well known but it can be a valuable tool for research and development. Streak cameras display time as an obvious dimension of the images they generate.

Is There A Role For The Catholic Intellectual In Ireland Anymore?, Eamon Maher

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On American Legal Education Reform In Japanese Legal Education, Carl E. Schneider

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The one hundredth anniversary of the Kyoto University Faculty of Law is the kind of splendid occasion when, as Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes remarked, a distinguished institution "becomes conscious of itself and its meaning." I can hardly express my pleasure at being invited to join in your celebration; but I must express my fear that I can add little to it. When Dean Tanaka kindly invited me, I should probably have declined, for I, a foreigner, can hardly know enough about an institution so central to the life of its country and its profession to speak of it and its …

Cross-Testing, Nondiscrimination, And New Comparability: A Rejoinder To Mr. Orszag And Professor Stein, Edward A. Zelinsky

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In their response to my article in this symposium issue of the Buffalo Law Review, Peter Orszag and Norman Stein advance their analysis of cross-testing, new comparability and the nondiscrimination norm. I write this brief rejoinder both to clarify the areas of our disagreement and to complete our dialogue.

Is Cross-Testing A Mistake: Cash Balance Plans, New Comparability Formulas, And The Incoherence Of The Nondiscrimination Norm, Edward A. Zelinsky

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The increasing tendency of large employers to convert their traditional defined benefit pension plans to the cash balance format has engendered substantial controversy, both within the qualified plan community and among the general public. The rise of "new comparability" plans has yet to generate the same level of popular or political concern, perhaps because such plans have largely been embraced by smaller employers. However, among pension mavens, new comparability has occasioned strong supporters and equally firm detractors.

Piracy, Prejudice, And Perspectives: An Attempt To Use Shakespeare To Reconfigure The U.S.-China Intellectual Property Debate, Peter K. Yu

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In Defense Of Making Government Pay: The Deterrent Effect Of Constitutional Tort Remedies, Myriam E. Gilles

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Legal economists are concerned with setting optimal deterrence levels. Armed with information concerning the public and private costs and benefits of a particular harmful activity, the legal economist seeks to set a “price” for the activity which, to some socially optimal extent, minimizes external costs while retaining external benefits. If the economist's information is perfect, he can predict precisely how an economically rational actor will respond to a particular price and achieve optimal deterrence of activities whose costs outweigh their benefits.

The Cash Balance Controversy Revisited: Age Discrimination And Fidelity To Statutory Text, Edward A. Zelinsky

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A German View Of Irish Catholicism, Eamon Maher

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Ccd Speckle Observations Of Binary Stars From The Southern Hemisphere. Iii. Differential Photometry, Elliott P. Horch, Zoran Ninkov, Otto Franz

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Two hundred seventy-two magnitude difference measures of 135 double star systems are presented. The results are derived from speckle observations using the Bessel V and R passbands and a fast readout CCD camera. Observations were taken at two 60 cm telescopes, namely the Helen Sawyer Hogg Telescope, formerly at Las Campanas, Chile, and the Lowell-Tololo Telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter- American Observatory, Chile. The data analysis method is presented and, in comparing the results to those of Hipparcos as well as to recent results using adaptive optics, we find very good agreement. Overall, the measurement precision appears to be …

The Elusive Safeguards Of Federalism, Marci A. Hamilton

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The Supreme Court has issued a series of opinions that turn on the Constitution's inherent principles of federalism, decisions that have alarmed many a legal scholar. The Court has been attacked for overstepping its bounds and, by some, on the grounds that the federalism-state balance should be maintained through the political process rather than judicial review. This criticism of the judicial enforcement of federalism fails as a matter of constitutional history and on empirical grounds. The Supreme Court in this era deserves praise, not criticism, for its recent federalism jurisprudence.

Free? Exercise, Marci A. Hamilton

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Representational Standing: U.S. Ex Rel. Stevens And The Future Of Public Law Litigation, Myriam E. Gilles

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In May 2000, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Vermont Agency of Natural Resources v. U.S. ex rel. Stevens, a seemingly predictable 11th Amendment case. In upholding the plaintiff's Article III standing to bring that case, however, the Court suggested a theory of "representational standing" that holds the potential to radically transform the entire body of law governing the ability of private citizens to seek, through the federal courts, the vindication of broadly-held public interests.

Over the past 30 years, the Court's increasingly restrictive standing jurisprudence has effectively precluded private citizens from playing a meaningful role in public …

Law, Economics, And The Skeleton Of Value Fallacy, Kyron Huigens

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Experiments in the last decade or so have demonstrated persistent failures on the part of ordinary individuals rationally to pursue self-interest. The experiments pose serious challenges to economics, rational choice theory, and the law and economics school. Some experiments, for example, suggest an "endowment effect", that contradicts the Coase Theorem; the notion that, in the absence of transaction costs, goods will find their most efficient distribution regardless of their initial assignment. Cass Sunstein has collected a set of essays by economists and legal scholars exploring these challenges, in a volume entitled Behavioral Law and Economics.

Layers Of Meaning, Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire

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A Case For Reading Jean Sulivan In Translation, Eamon Maher

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Reading The Clean Air Act After Brown & Williamson, Michael Herz

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Robust Stabilization Of Tone Reproduction Curves For The Xerographic Printing Process, Perry Li, Sohail Dianat

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The problem of stabilizing a single color tone reproduction curve of a xerographic printing engine is considered. This problem is critical to ensure high-fidelity color printing. The control system uses a small number of actuators and a small number of measurements to stabilize the potentially high-dimensional tone reproduction curve. The goal is to minimize the overall least squares deviation of the tone reproduction curve from the ideal nominal one in the face of disturbances like material changes, temperature, humidity, and uncertainty in the system description. The control design consists of the steps of 1) determining a robust optimally performing static …

On The Difference Equation Xn+1=(Alpha)+(Beta)Xn-1e^(-Xn), H. El-Metwally, Edward Grove, Gerry Ladas

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We study the global stability, the boundedness nature, and the periodic character of the positive solutions of the difference equation x(n+1)=(alpha)+(beta)x(n-1)e^(-xn), n=0,1,... which is interesting in its own right, but which may also be viewed as describing a population model (Refer to PDF file for exact formulas).

Dual-Mode Combustion Of Hydrogen In A Mach 5, Continuous-Flow Facility, C. Goyne, J. Mcdaniel, T. Quagliaroli

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Results of an experimental and numerical study of a dual-mode scramjet combustor are reported. The experiment consisted of a direct-connect test of a Mach 2 hydrogen-air combustor with a single unswept-ramp fuel injector. The flow stagnation enthalpy simulated a flight Mach number of S. Measurements were obtained using conventional wall instrumentation and a particle-imaging laser diagnostic technique. The particle imaging was enabled through the development of a new apparatus for seeding fine silicon dioxide particles into the combustor fuel stream. Numerical simulations of the combustor were performed using the GASP code. The modeling, and much of the experimental work, focused …

Integration Of Silicon-Based Tunnel Diodes With Cmos: An Rit-Osu-Nrl-Nsf Effort, Jeremy Kempisty, Karl Hirschman, Santosh Kurinec

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Resonant tunneling diodes (RTDs) are promising band gap engineered heterostructures that exhibit a distinctive negative differential resistance (NDR) that can be exploited for various electronic functions. Large scale integration of RTDs with heterojunction field effect transistors (HFETs) has been demonstrated in III-V compound semiconductors. Since the current microelectronics industry has evolved around silicon CMOS technology, it is of great interest if RTDs can be integrated with Si CMOS circuitry. Silicon-based tunnel diodes have great potential for this integration. Ohio State University and RIT have received funding from the National Science Foundation to address these issues with the Naval Research Laboratory. …

The Impact Of Time-Based Manufacturing Practices On Mass Customization And Value To Customer, Qiang Tu, Mark Vonderembse, T.S. Ragu-Nathan

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Mass customization capabilities enable firms to design, produce, and deliver a high volume of differentiated products that meet specific customer needs in a timely manner and at close to mass-production prices. A critical part of mass customization is simultaneously achieving customer responsiveness, cost efficiency, and high volume production in the manufacturing system. This research describes mass customization. Data were collected from 303 manufacturing firms of various size, location, and industry to develop the instrument and test the relationships in the framework. The primary research method was structural equation modeling using LISREL. This study indicates that firms with high levels of …

Locus Of Supply And Global Manufacturing, John Ettlie, Kannan Sethuraman

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Interest in supply chain management has been escalating during the last decade. Using a large sample of durable good firms located in all major regions of the work, we extend two theoretical perspectives, namely the resource-based view and the transaction cost economics view of the firm, to better understand the issues behind global sourcing. Both theory extensions were supported in separate by statistically significant regression results. Then, pooling predictors to represent both models together, these measures independently increase the odds of predicting global sourcing. For example, building of a firm's technological capabilities that was captured through the levels of its …

Measuring Process Performance For Multiple Variables: Revisited, Donald Holmes, A. Erhan Mergen

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The use of the algebraic values of the d_ij's in Eq. (1) does not give a true picture of the process quality level. This is due to the fact that when variables are negatively correlated, deviations of one variable in one direction tend to be compensated for in a sum by deviations of the other variable in the other direction (2). Thus we propose a revision to C_m which is discussed next.

Information Management (Im) Strategy: The Construct And Its Measurement, Bhanu Ragu-Nathan, T.S. Ragu-Nathan, Qiang Tu

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The information system (IS) literature has consistently emphasized the need for a proper alignment of IS goals and strategies with organizational goals and strategies. A number of theoretical frameworks have been proposed to develop the linkages between IS and organizational strategies. However, while there has been much theorizing in the area, validated instruments for empirical testing of these theories have been scarce. This research reports on the development and validation of a set of operational measures for Information Management Strategy which is one of the components of the three-level framework for information system strategy proposed in the literature. The operational …

An Interview With John Mcgahern: Introduction, Eamon Maher

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