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Image Processing Based Control For Scaled Automated Vehicles, N. Schlegel, Pushkin Kachroo, Joseph A. Ball, J. S. Bay

Electrical & Computer Engineering Faculty Research

This paper presents a way to design a lateral controller for an automated vehicle using information gained through image processing with the control objective being to stay on a desired path. Two possible ways to obtain the information necessary for lateral control by image processing are presented, one based on pixel intensity summation and the other on vanishing point calculations. The paper also describes two algorithms for the actual lateral control, one based on classical control theory and the other on modern H∞ control. The resulting control algorithms were implemented on a scaled autonomous vehicle system.

Advancing Skills Of Developmental Specialists, Robert L. Morgan

Special Education and Rehabilitation Counseling Faculty Publications

Advancing Skills of Developmental Specialists focuses on general skills related to preparing and delivering instruction, carrying out activities related to Individual Program Plans, gathering information on a person's progress, and troubleshooting problems. This program addresses topics important to many specialists, including those working with people who have various disabilities. Since its scope is broad, the program is organized around general principles that have a wide range of application. However, because the scope is broad, instructors working for some organizations may wish to supplement information in this manual with additional material. You are encouraged to supplement with additional information where necessary!

Aicpa Annual Report 1996-97; Setting Our Sights On...Tomorrow, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants

AICPA Annual Reports

No abstract provided.

Project Proposal For Alternative Polyphonic Realities (Apr), Sui-Kang Zhao 赵穗康

Zhou Documents

This proposal consists of a summary and fundamental concepts of the artist's project: Alternative Polyphonic Realities. (He Zhang 25')

Heroes From The Book Of Mormon., Cristie B. Gardner

Review of Books on the Book of Mormon 1989–2011

Review of Heroes from the Book of Mormon (1995), by Deseret Book

The Visionary World Of Joseph Smith, Richard Lyman Bushman

BYU Studies

Several people around the time of Joseph Smith had visionary experiences, opening a way for some to hear and receive the Prophet's unique messages.

Voicing Differences (Comment), Margaret E. Montoya

Faculty Scholarship

Jane Aiken and Kimberly O'Leary undertake the difficult work of developing specific approaches and techniques for taking account of characteristics such as race/ethnicity, gender, dis/ability, and sexual identity in clinical pedagogy. Carolyn Grose uses outsider narratives and popular culture to challenge the "pre-understanding" of students, and to assist them to accept client stories as true and valid. Focusing on the professional value of striving to promote justice, fairness, and morality identified in the MacCrate Report, Professor Aiken exhorts us to promote justice by unmasking privilege, the invisible package of unearned assets--about which I (we? or you?) was "meant" to remain …

The North-South Debate Over The Protection Of Intellectual Property, Rafik Bawa

Dalhousie Journal of Legal Studies

The conflict over intellectual property in the international context takes place in a tense environment of change. It is shaped by economic, political social and philosophical dimensions which exemplify the sharp contrast of opinions between developed, industrial countries and less developed countries. This article argues that the solution to this debate, as it is most commonly defined, is unfeasible. In redefining the solution, the author constructs criteria for compromise: instead of focusing on the implementation of a universal standard of protection, an individually-tailored framework suited to a nations stage of development is proposed. *** Le conflit concernant la propriété intellectuelle …

Fair Representation And Conflict Of Interest: Sexual Harassment Complaints Between Co-Workers, Lori L. Park

Dalhousie Journal of Legal Studies

In exchange for the abandonment of individual employee negotiations in the workplace and the vesting of exclusive control over the grievance process to a certified bargaining agent, union members are owed a duty of fair representation by their union. Given that the union’s purpose is to foster the greatest collective good, union members expect that they will sometimes have to make individual sacrifices. However, where the subject of a workplace grievance is a dispute between two individual union members, as in a complaint of sexual harassment lodged by one bargaining unit member against another, it is not clear where the …

Needing Closure On Disclosure: The Application Of R. V. Stinchcombe In Human Rights Proceedings, Vincent Kazmierski

Dalhousie Journal of Legal Studies

Human rights commissions were first introduced in this country as an alternative mechanism to address complaints of discrimination. From the outset, human rights proceedings were designed to operate differently than criminal proceedings. While criminal courts assess the guilt or innocence of an accused using the reasonable doubt standard of proof, boards of inquiry assess evidence according to the balance of probabilities. Moreover, the boards of inquiry are mandated to compensate the victims of discrimination, and not necessarily to punish the discriminators. Despite these differences, boards of inquiry and courts alike have started, in recent years, to compare criminal and human …

Was Slavery Unconstitutional Before The Thirteenth Amendment? Lysander Spooner’S Theory Of Interpretation, Randy E. Barnett

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

In 1843, radical abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison called the Constitution of the United States, "a covenant with death and an agreement with hell." Why? Because it sanctioned slavery, one of the greatest crimes that one person can commit against another. Slavery was thought by abolitionists to be a violation of the natural rights of man so fundamental that, as Lincoln once remarked: "If slavery were not wrong, nothing is wrong." Yet the original U.S. Constitution was widely thought to have sanctioned this crime. Even today, many still believe that, until the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment prohibiting involuntary servitude, slavery …

Dynamics Of Culture Change And It's Reflection In The Archaeological Record At Espiritu Santo De Zuniga, Victoria, Texas, Tamra L. Walter

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

(De)Presenting The Self| Milan Kundera's Deconstruction Of The Public Persona Through Paradox, Paula S. Delbonis-Platt

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

No abstract provided.

The Santa Clara Experiment: A New Fee-Generating Model For Clinical Legal Education, Patricia Pierce, Kathleen Ridolfi

Clinical Law Review

Santa Clara University's Law Clinic was established over twenty-five years ago. From January 1995 through May 1996, we experimented with a fee-generating model at the Clinic which consisted of an employment law project operating in conjunction with the criminal defense clinic already in place. Our results exceeded our expectations and offer an encouraging new model for a clinical program that can generate substantial fees without compromising the goals and values of clinical educators. In recent years a lively and often heated debate has arisen in clinical scholarship about the feasibility and utility of implementing fee-generating legal clinics. This debate has …

Learning From Colleagues: A Case Study In The Relationship Between "Academic" And "Ecological" Clinical Legal Education, Robert J. Condlin

Clinical Law Review

From the beginning of its resurgence in the 1960s, the clinical movement in American legal education has been driven by a kind of "academic" perspective. Emphasizing the necessary relationship between theory and practice, the central role of ideas in the development of behavioral competence, and the importance of the intellectual dimension of professional socialization, this perspective has shaped not only the intellectual content of most American clinical legal education, but also its programmatic structure. Academic clinical instruction is characterized by a commitment to supervision by full-time law faculty, on cases selected principally for their educational value, based in law offices …

Using "Difference Analysis" To Teach Problem-Solving, Kimberly E. O'Leary

Clinical Law Review

One of the most important contributions of the critical legal scholarship movement has been its recognition of the fundamental importance of perspective in understanding the law. In a related phenomenon, a number of law professors have begun the work of widening the perspectives that are considered in the law school classroom. Nonetheless, law professors have not fully integrated "difference analysis" into paradigms of problem-solving on behalf of clients. This article will explore how law professors, and especially clinical law professors, can better integrate "difference analysis" into teaching law students the central skill of problem-solving. The primary purpose of teaching students …

"Of Deaths Put On By Cunning And Forced Cause": Reality Bites The Tobacco Industry, Paul A. Lebel

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.

Of Pitcairn's Island And American Constitutional Theory, Dan T. Coenen

William & Mary Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Triumph Of Timing: Raines V. Byrd And The Modern Supreme Court's Attempt To Control Constitutional Confrontations, Neal Devins, Michael A. Fitts

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Corporate Philanthropy, Executives' Pet Charities And The Agency Problem, Jayne W. Barnard

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

A Renaissance Death For Medieval Theater: Reconstructing Stage Directions In The Plays Of Marguerite De Navarre, George Hoffmann

Quidditas

Vladimir: This is Awful!

Estragon: Sing something.

Vladimir: No, no!

—Beckett

The Logic Of Declining Participation, Jason William Beutler

Sigma: Journal of Political and International Studies

No abstract provided.

Telecommunications Privatization In Mexico, Kevin R. Hanson

Sigma: Journal of Political and International Studies

No abstract provided.

Vol. 15, Pi Sigma Alpha Review, Pi Sigma Alpha Review

Sigma: Journal of Political and International Studies

No abstract provided.

Hrotswitha Of Gandersheim's Dulcitius And Callimachus In A New Translation, Mark L. Damen

Quidditas

Even without external corroborating evidence, we may infer from her works that the nun Hrotswitha (Hrotsvit in Saxon) lived in Saxony during the second half of the tenth century. Because she seems to have had considerable freedom of movement and expression for a woman at that time, writing about worldly affairs evidently with some personal knowledge of them, she was most likely a canoness, that is, not fully cloistered. She must have visited the courts of the Saxon kings, probably more than once, since she chronicles their exploits and composes poetry of a type briefly popularized by a scholar in …

Demythifying Multicultural Education: Social Semiotics As A Tool Of Critical Pedagogy, Stephanie Urso Spina

Publications and Research

This article discusses the assumptions and curricular implications of a social semiotic approach to education. Semiotics refers to the meaning we make with language as well as other objects. events, and actions. Social semiotics emphasizes the social, cultural, historic, and political contexts that shape that meaning. A social semiotic approach to education can help teachers and teacher educators to deconstruct the reproduction of class, politicize the ideology of colonialism, and overcome the inequities they engender. By providing a way to challenge selectively reproduced cultural politics, social semiotics provides a way to reconstruct and democratize schools and society.

Subjunctive Lawyering And Other Clinical Extern Paradigms, Kate E. Bloch

Clinical Law Review

Every decision in legal practice contains an ethics component. Legal education must, therefore, prepare prospective lawyers to recognize and resolve these ethical issues in a principled manner. Because law students who participate in live-client clinical programs become both observers and direct actors in the ethics of legal decisions, the clinical experience provides an intensely motivating and uniquely concrete opportunity to teach and learn legal ethics. Enhancing student perception and understanding of legal ethics represents a nearly universal goal of clinical teachers. The clinician's emphasis, the student's pre-existing ethics consciousness, and the immersion in the immediacy of live lawyering prompt students …

Testing The Grades: Evaluating Grading Models In Clinical Legal Education, Stacy L. Brustin, David F. Chavkin

Clinical Law Review

In 1994, the JOURNAL OF LEGAL EDUCATION published a survey of grading practices at law schools across the United States. That survey revealed a mix of grading approaches for clinical programs. 31 percent of all clinical courses used a fully-graded model; 33 percent graded students on a pass/fail basis; and 16 percent utilized both graded and pass/fail models. The article did not attempt to evaluate qualitatively the effectiveness of the various grading models. At about the same time that this article was published, clinicians teaching in Columbus Community Legal Services (CCLS) of The Catholic University of America were reconsidering the …

Striving To Teach "Justice, Fairness, And Morality", Jane Harris Aiken

Clinical Law Review

By far the most challenging value is the injunction to strive to promote justice, fairness, and morality. Arguably, the first value, the provision of competent representation, can be fostered by effective skills training. The third value, striving to improve the profession, can be fostered through active participation in the Bar. The fourth value, professional self-development, appears to be mainly concerned with effective Continuing Legal Education programs that enhance lawyers' ability to learn through experience. Yet methods of promoting the second value are not only less obvious than they are for the other three values, but also more difficult. The MacCrate …

A Field Trip To Benetton ... And Beyond: Some Thoughts On "Outsider Narrative" In A Law School Clinic, Carolyn Grose

Clinical Law Review

One of the goals of clinicians as teachers is to train law students to listen to, hear and retell their clients' stories. This task is complicated by the fact that the students - who are for the most part white and middle-class, and by definition college-educated - inhabit a world vastly different from - indeed some might say diametrically opposed to - the world inhabited by the clinic's client population, which generally tends to be poor people with a limited education, and for the most part people of color. Given these differences, students' ability to hear and believe their clients' …