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Risk Estimation And Expert Judgment: The Case Of Yucca Mountain, Kristin Shrader-Frechette Sep 1992

Risk Estimation And Expert Judgment: The Case Of Yucca Mountain, Kristin Shrader-Frechette

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Professor Shrader-Frechette discusses factors responsible for acute disagreement between the federal government and Nevada citizens over potential Risks at Yucca Mountain and focuses on the use of expert judgment, concluding that some of them appear to exemplify "bad science." That aside, she argues that 1,000 year predictions cannot be made from current knowledge of geology or, e.g., institutional behavior and concludes that permanent disposal of radioactive waste is currently impossible.

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The Welfare Economics Of Immigration Law: A Theoretical Survey With An Analysis Of U.S. Policy, Alan O. Sykes Sep 1992

The Welfare Economics Of Immigration Law: A Theoretical Survey With An Analysis Of U.S. Policy, Alan O. Sykes

Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper Series

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Portland State Magazine, Portland State University. Office Of University Communications Sep 1992

Portland State Magazine, Portland State University. Office Of University Communications

Portland State Magazine

PSU’s alumni magazine, published 2-3 times a year. In this issue: A PSU professor continues his work on innovative community projects while coping with the effects of a cancerous brain tumor; community and alumni accomplishments remain, despite the closing of the School of Health and Human Performance; Columbia River Correctional Institution is like a small town with a PSU alumnus as its mayor; students photographed the people and places of Portland State during a 24-hour period last spring; and more.

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Pallet And Apparatus For Forming A Pallet With Deep Drawn Legs, L. Bogue Sandberg, Bruce A. Haataja, Douglas C. Jurmu, Robert D. Palardy, Frank H. Story, William A. Yates Sep 1992

Pallet And Apparatus For Forming A Pallet With Deep Drawn Legs, L. Bogue Sandberg, Bruce A. Haataja, Douglas C. Jurmu, Robert D. Palardy, Frank H. Story, William A. Yates

Michigan Tech Patents

A method and apparatus for molding articles such as pallets from flake-like wood particles mixed with binder, the pallets housing a deck and integral molding legs. A loosly fitted mat of wood flakes is formed by depositing a first plurality of layers of wood flakes onto a supporting surface with a flake aligners provided for causing alignment of those flakes which will form legs of the pallet. A second plurality of layers are formed with a flake aligner provided for causing alignment of flakes which will form the legs of the pallet and in a direction transverse to the direction …

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Section 1: Moot Court: Nixon V. United States, Institute Of Bill Of Rights Law, William & Mary Law School Sep 1992

Section 1: Moot Court: Nixon V. United States, Institute Of Bill Of Rights Law, William & Mary Law School

Supreme Court Preview

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Section 4: Moot Court: Church Of The Lukumi Babulu Aye V. City Of Hialeah, Institute Of Bill Of Rights Law, William & Mary Law School Sep 1992

Section 4: Moot Court: Church Of The Lukumi Babulu Aye V. City Of Hialeah, Institute Of Bill Of Rights Law, William & Mary Law School

Supreme Court Preview

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Section 5: Plenary Review: Press Coverage Of The Judiciary, Institute Of Bill Of Rights Law, William & Mary Law School Sep 1992

Section 5: Plenary Review: Press Coverage Of The Judiciary, Institute Of Bill Of Rights Law, William & Mary Law School

Supreme Court Preview

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Section 3: Preview Of The Court's Docket, Institute Of Bill Of Rights Law, William & Mary Law School Sep 1992

Section 3: Preview Of The Court's Docket, Institute Of Bill Of Rights Law, William & Mary Law School

Supreme Court Preview

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Implementation Of Back-Propagation Neural Networks With Matlab, Jamshid Nazari, Okan K. Ersoy Sep 1992

Implementation Of Back-Propagation Neural Networks With Matlab, Jamshid Nazari, Okan K. Ersoy

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technical Reports

The artificial neural network back propagation algorithm is implemented in Matlab language. This implementation is compared with several other software packages. The effect of reducing the number of iterations in the performance of the algorithm iai studied. The speed of the back propagation program, mkckpmp, written in Matlab language is compared with the speed of several other back propagation programs which are written in the C language. The speed of the Matlab program mbackpmp is, also compared with the C program quickpmp which is a variant of the back propagation algorithm. It is shown that the Matlab program mbackpmp is …

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Comparative Study Of Motion Control Methods For A Nonlinear System, Daniel J. Pack,, Min Meng, A. C. Kak Sep 1992

Comparative Study Of Motion Control Methods For A Nonlinear System, Daniel J. Pack,, Min Meng, A. C. Kak

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technical Reports

What led to the novel ideas, some of them theoretical, presented in this paper is our highly experimental approach to nonlinear control. We actually designed and fabricated a two-link inverted pendulum, and learned about the relationships and the trade offs that exist in such a device. In the context of controlling an inverted pendulum, the novel ideas presented in this paper relate to i) the design of a fuzzy logic controller; ii) the design of a neuralnetwork controller; and iii) experimental implementation of a nonlinear controller based on differential-geometric notions; etc. etc. These novel ideas are presented in a comparative …

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Design Methodology For Low Speed Variable Reluctance Motors, John R. Suriano Sep 1992

Design Methodology For Low Speed Variable Reluctance Motors, John R. Suriano

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technical Reports

Lowering the gear reduction in actuators by utilizing high-torque low-speed motors enables the use of less expensive and simpler gear systems and decreases the overall system inertia. Variable reluctance machines can produce high torque at low speeds. Their static torque, a critical quantity for determination of low speed operation, is colnpared for three variable reluctance motor design variations using linear analysis. Saturation effects, which are crucial to the accurate determination of static torque, are modeled using a dual energy technique first proposed by Lord Rayleigh. Dual energy techniques utilizing flux tubes and magnetomotive force slices are developed into a numerical …

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A Neural Network Architecture For Prediction, W. Hsu, L. S. Hsu, M. F. Tenorio Sep 1992

A Neural Network Architecture For Prediction, W. Hsu, L. S. Hsu, M. F. Tenorio

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technical Reports

This report describes a neural network architecture ClusNet designed for the prediction of chaotic time series. It advantages include simplicity, fast and sure convergence, and less need for computing resources. After describing its architecture and learning algorithms, its prediction perfo1:mance on the Logistic and the Mackay-Class chaotic time series is presented. Compared to other current prediction approaches, ClusNet predicts with the same level of accuracy while utilizing less resources.

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Development Of A Computer Model For Polycrystalline Thin-Film Cuinse2 And Cdte Solar Cells, Jeffery L. Gray, Richard J. Schwartz, Youn Jung Lee Sep 1992

Development Of A Computer Model For Polycrystalline Thin-Film Cuinse2 And Cdte Solar Cells, Jeffery L. Gray, Richard J. Schwartz, Youn Jung Lee

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technical Reports

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Vlsi Implementation Of Discrete Cosine Transform Based On The Shared-Multiplier Algorithm, Sze-Po Hung, Wen-Zen Shen, O. K. Ersoy Sep 1992

Vlsi Implementation Of Discrete Cosine Transform Based On The Shared-Multiplier Algorithm, Sze-Po Hung, Wen-Zen Shen, O. K. Ersoy

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technical Reports

In this paper a new algorithm for discrete cosine transform (DCT) is proposed. This algorithm is especially efficient for VLSI implementation because each multiplier in @e 1-D DCT is shared by two constants rather than one. This greatly reduces the chip area, and the high speed characteristics are still retained. Based on this algorithm, we have developed the corresponding bit-parallel, fully-pipelined architecture for the size-8 DCT. The core area of the chip is only 8.6mm x 8.5mm, using 1.2um double-metal single-poly CMOS technology. This chip is simulated for operation at the maximum speed of 100 MHz which far exceeds the …

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The Montclarion, September 01, 1992, The Montclarion Sep 1992

The Montclarion, September 01, 1992, The Montclarion

The Montclarion

Student Newspaper of Montclair State College

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Op Ed -- Imhbco (In My Humble But Correct Opinion) -- Lj And The Nra: Separated At Birth? Or, Knee-Jerk Politics Makes Strange Bedfellows, Rick Anderson Sep 1992

Op Ed -- Imhbco (In My Humble But Correct Opinion) -- Lj And The Nra: Separated At Birth? Or, Knee-Jerk Politics Makes Strange Bedfellows, Rick Anderson

Against the Grain

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Product Distributions In The Co2-Nh3-H2o System From Liquid Conductivity Measurements, James E. Pelkie, P. John Concannon, David B. Manley, Bruce E. Poling Sep 1992

Product Distributions In The Co2-Nh3-H2o System From Liquid Conductivity Measurements, James E. Pelkie, P. John Concannon, David B. Manley, Bruce E. Poling

Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

The objective of this work was to illustrate how liquid conductivity measurements could be used to provide information about the extent of ionization and the amounts of the various ionic products that are formed in the liquid phase in the CO2-NH3-H2O system. To accomplish this, pressures and liquid-phase conductivities for the CO2-NH3-H2O system were measured at 25 °C and over a range of pressures and concentrations. In order to acquire the desired information from bulk conductivity measurements, calibration curves were established from measurements with several potassium salts. These …

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Asset-Based Social Welfare Policy: Homeownership For The Poor, Alice K. Johnson, Michael Sherraden Sep 1992

Asset-Based Social Welfare Policy: Homeownership For The Poor, Alice K. Johnson, Michael Sherraden

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Asset-based social welfare policy is an emerging theme in public policy that focuses on accumulation of wealth rather than on levels of household consumption. In this paper, housing policy is used to illustrate asset-based policy for the poor. Rather than increasing income-based rent subsidies, asset-based housing policy would promote homeownership. Homeownership has played a critical role in the upward mobility of immigrant groups (Bauman, 1987) and the exiting of families from public housing (Fuerst & Williams, 1983). U.S. public policy promotes homeownership for the nonpoor, and we spend quite a lot of money on it. But for the poor, we …

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A Continuum Theory For Social Work Knowledge, Yair Caspi Sep 1992

A Continuum Theory For Social Work Knowledge, Yair Caspi

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Relativist approaches, to knowledge, suggested by some social workers as alternative to the predominant scientific logical positivistic approaches to knowledge, suffer from serious flaws. Between the poles of objectivism and relativism exists a third and more useful approach to knowledge in social work. This approach is presented and developed based on recent sources from the philosophy of knowledge, the philosophy of science, and metatheoretical developments in the social sciences. A continuum theory of knowledge, between objectivism and relativism, is suggested for social work. The continuum theory narrows the gap between research and practice and between the scientific side and the …

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The Fall And Rise Of The Entrapment Defense, Paul Marcus Sep 1992

The Fall And Rise Of The Entrapment Defense, Paul Marcus

Popular Media

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Federal Preemption Under 45 U.S.C. Section 434 Of Railroad Liability Regarding Construction Of Mechanical Grade Crossing Gates: A Train Of Legal Thought Going In The Wrong Direction, Lewis L. Laska, Scott Mohnkern Sep 1992

Federal Preemption Under 45 U.S.C. Section 434 Of Railroad Liability Regarding Construction Of Mechanical Grade Crossing Gates: A Train Of Legal Thought Going In The Wrong Direction, Lewis L. Laska, Scott Mohnkern

Transportation Law Journal

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Private Land Use, Changing Public Values, And Notions Of Relativity, Lynda L. Butler Sep 1992

Private Land Use, Changing Public Values, And Notions Of Relativity, Lynda L. Butler

BYU Law Review

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Southern Kurils Or Northern Territories? Resolving The Russo-Japanese Border Dispute, Keith A. Call Sep 1992

Southern Kurils Or Northern Territories? Resolving The Russo-Japanese Border Dispute, Keith A. Call

BYU Law Review

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The History, Application, And Policy Of The Judicially Created Standards Of Review For Arbitration Awards, Bret F. Randall Sep 1992

The History, Application, And Policy Of The Judicially Created Standards Of Review For Arbitration Awards, Bret F. Randall

BYU Law Review

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Payne V. Tennessee: The Supreme Court Places Its Stamp Of Approval On The Use Of "Victim Impact Evidence" During Capital Sentencing Proceedings, Stephen M. Sargent Sep 1992

Payne V. Tennessee: The Supreme Court Places Its Stamp Of Approval On The Use Of "Victim Impact Evidence" During Capital Sentencing Proceedings, Stephen M. Sargent

BYU Law Review

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The Transfiguration Of Samuel Chase: A Rebuttal, Raoul Berger Sep 1992

The Transfiguration Of Samuel Chase: A Rebuttal, Raoul Berger

BYU Law Review

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Primary Prevention Of Child Abuse: Is It Really Possible?, Mary K. Rodwell, Donald E. Chambers Sep 1992

Primary Prevention Of Child Abuse: Is It Really Possible?, Mary K. Rodwell, Donald E. Chambers

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Despite the growing interest in child abuse and its prevention, to date no systematic research has been conducted to determine the usefulness of instruments used to identify and predict abuse or neglect. The present study is a review and analysis of predictive instruments of abuse or neglect with the goal of identifying the predictive efficiency of the instruments. Analysis reveals a variety of problems with predictive efficiency, particularly as predicting individual risk of abuse or neglect relates to primary prevention. Implications of the findings and suggestions for practice are discussed.

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Echoes From The Hill, Southwestern Oklahoma State University Office Of Institutional Advancement And Alumni Sep 1992

Echoes From The Hill, Southwestern Oklahoma State University Office Of Institutional Advancement And Alumni

Echoes from the Hill

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The Crisis In The Sanctity Of Conscience In American Jurisprudence, James M. Washington Sep 1992

The Crisis In The Sanctity Of Conscience In American Jurisprudence, James M. Washington

DePaul Law Review

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Repentance, Constitutionalism, And Sacrality, Douglas Sturm Sep 1992

Repentance, Constitutionalism, And Sacrality, Douglas Sturm

DePaul Law Review

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