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Class Action Settlements In Louisiana, Kent A. Lambert

Louisiana Law Review

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University Reporter - Vol. 05, No. 03 - November 2000, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1996-2009, University Reporter

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The Guardian, November 1, 2000, Wright State University Student Body

The Guardian Student Newspaper

Twenty-four page issue of The Guardian, the official student-run newspaper for Wright State University. The Guardian has been published regularly since March of 1965.

Biomedical Engineering Company Announces Its Disa S-Flex Coronary Stent, Africas First Ce Marked Heart Implant, Gregory Starke

Saudi Medical Journal

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Executive Summary: Comparative Evaluation Of The Impact Of Roofing Systems On Residential Cooling Energy Demand In Florida, Florida Solar Energy Center, John Sherwin

FSEC Energy Research Center®

Roof and attic thermal performance exert a powerful influence on cooling energy use in Florida homes. Unshaded residential roofs are heated by solar radiation causing high afternoon attic air temperatures. The large influence on cooling is due to increased ceiling heat transfer as well as heat gains to the duct systems which are typically located in the attic space (Figure E-1). The Florida Power and Light Company and the Florida Solar Energy Center instrumented six side-by-side Habitat homes in Ft. Myers, Florida with identical floor plans and orientation, R-19 ceiling insulation, but with different roofing systems designed to reduce attic …

Ud Interfaith Prayer Service For Attorneys, Public Officials Coincides With Election Day; Ud Engineering Labs Open For Career Day Visitors; N.Y. Giants Assistant General Manager To Visit Ud Class, Talk Business Side Of Football

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News release announces that local judges, attorneys, law enforcement officials and elected public officials will gather for a 40-minute interfaith prayer service; more than 300 high school students, their parents and guidance counselors have signed up to visit UD for Engineering Career Awareness Day; Rick Donohue will return to his alma mater to talk football with students at the University.

Chief Judge Melvin Shortess: A Pencil Sketch From Life, Paul R. Baier

Louisiana Law Review

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Of Envelopes And Legends: Reflections On Tort Law, Frank L. Maraist

Louisiana Law Review

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Changing Structures In The Practice Of Law, Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr.

Louisiana Law Review

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Equality And Affiliation As Bases Of Ethical Responsibility, Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr.

Louisiana Law Review

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The Biased Expert Witness In Louisiana Tort Law: Existing Mechanisms Of Control And Proposals For Change, W. Raley Alford Iii

Louisiana Law Review

No abstract provided.

Wednesday Community Ministry Suppers, Dianne Borch

Consensus

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Museletter: November 2000, Gail F. Zwirner

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Technically Speaking: Meet the Technical Services Staff by Tim Edwards

At the Movies: The Contender by Gail Zwirner

New!!! Law School Exams Now Available Online! by James Wirrell and Lois Brown

Recent Faculty Publications

Fall 2000 Computer Challenges by Kim Wiseman

William Taylor Muse, November 27, 1906 - October 31, 1971

Strategic Disclosure In The Patent System, Douglas Gary Lichtman, Scott Baker, Kate Kraus

Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper Series

Patent applications are evaluated in light of the prior art. What this means is that patent examiners evaluate a claimed invention by comparing it with what in a rough sense corresponds to the set of ideas and inventions already known to the public. This is done for three reasons. First, the comparison helps to ensure that patents issue only in cases where an inventor has made a non-trivial contribution to the public’s store of knowledge. Second, it protects a possible reliance interest on the part of the public since, once an invention is widely known, members of the public might …

Of Green Tulips And Legal Kudzu: Repackaging Rights In Subpatentable Innovation, J. H. Reichman

Vanderbilt Law Review

How to enable entrepreneurs to appropriate the fruits of their investments in cumulative and sequential innovation' without impeding follow-on innovation and without creating barriers to en- try has become one of the great unsolved puzzles that the law and economics of intellectual property rights needs to address as the new millennium gets underway. This Article draws briefly from my earlier works to identify some of the key historical difficulties en- countered in protecting small grain-sized innovations that do not rise to the level of "novel and nonobvious inventions" or "original and creative works of authorship." It then re-examines these difficulties …

Market Hierarchy And Copyright In Our System Of Free Expression, Neil W. Netanel

Vanderbilt Law Review

If trends of the past two decades persist, a vast inequality of wealth may well become a fundamental, defining characteristic of political and social life in many Western democracies, particularly the United States.' Among its potentially pernicious effects, massive wealth disparity threatens the integrity of the democratic process. Liberal democracy aspires to political equality, which demands that opportunities to acquire and assert political power be widespread and broadly distributed. Political equality does not require economic equality. But political equality may be undermined by severe disparities of wealth. Absent preventive regulation, private wealth buys political power. It enables those with greater …

Patent Policy Innovations: A Clinical Examination, Josh Lerner

Vanderbilt Law Review

On the domestic front, the dispute has centered on the question of whether the United States should honor commitments made in bi- lateral agreements with Japan to remove idiosyncratic features of its patent system. In particular, legislation to require the publication of pending patent applications and to grant awards to the party that is first to file for an award (as are the practices in most nations) have been fiercely debated in the past few congressional sessions. In the developing nations, the requirements for minimal levels of patent protection in the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariff and …

Shaping Competition On The Internet: Who Owns Product And Pricing Information?, Maureen A. O'Rourke

Vanderbilt Law Review

Historically, markets have almost always fallen short of satisfying the conditions for and providing consumers with the benefits of perfect competition. Certain characteristics of electronic markets, however, enhance the possibility that e-commerce will be conducted in an environment that comes closer to attaining the perfectly competitive ideal than that of most conventional markets. Essentially, technology analogous to that which users already employ to search the Internet can also enable this retailing revolution by allowing consumers easily to obtain comparative product and pricing information. However, for a number of reasons, on-line merchants (e-tailers), are asserting a variety of legal claims that, …

Copyright And The Perfect Curve, Julie E. Cohen

Vanderbilt Law Review

Everyone agrees that the purpose of the copyright system is to promote progress.' At the same time, though, skepticism about the law's ability to define the substance of progress runs deep within copyright case law and theory. Legal decisionmakers and scholars have quite properly doubted their own ability to evaluate artistic or literary merit, and have worried that efforts to do so would result in an inappropriately elitist and conservative standard. In addition, there is room for substantial debate about whether the metaphor of forward motion leaves out other important measures of what "progress" is or might be. This agnosticism …

Analyze This: A Law And Economics Agenda For The Patent System, Rebecca S. Eisenberg

Vanderbilt Law Review

Patent law as a field of academic study has benefited enormously from the attention of economists. Indeed, law professors are relative newcomers to the academic patent field, trickling in behind the economists in small but growing numbers as patent law evolves from an arcane, practitioner-taught specialty to a less marginal role in law school curriculums.' Yet considering the prominence of economists in academic discourse about the patent system, they have had relatively little impact on patent law and policy. One reason for this disparity between the role of economists in the academy and in policy arenas may be the indeterminacy …

Judges, Juries, And Patent Cases - An Emprical Peek Inside The Black Box, Kimberly A. Moore

Michigan Law Review

The frequency with which juries participate in patent litigation has skyrocketed recently. At the same time, there is a popular perception that the increasing complexity of technology being patented (especially in the electronic, computer software, biological and chemical fields) has made patent trials extremely difficult for lay juries to understand. These developments have sparked extensive scholarly debate and increasing skepticism regarding the role of juries in patent cases. Juries have participated in some aspects of patent litigation since the enactment of the first patent statute in 1790, which provided for "such damages as shall be assessed by a jury." The …

Gasturbnlab Simulation Of Instability In A Gas Turbine, A. C. Catlin, S. Fleeter, Elias N. Houstis, John R. Rice, C. Zhou

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

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An Access Protocol To Provide Qos In Wireless :Networks, Xin Liu, Edwin K. P. Chong, Ness B. Shroff

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technical Reports

In wireless networks, contention-and-reservation schemes provitle promising implementations of packet switching, which efficiently multiplexes different classes of traffic. In this report, we present an access scheme to satisfy the QoS requirements for two classes of traffic during the contention-based communicat,ion. In this algorithm, different classes of users contend with other users for resources based on controlled class-dependent permission probabilities. We prove that our algorithm is stable for a large class of arrival processes. Under certain QoS requirements, we derive an upper-bound for the throughput for a general class of random access algorithms. We show that the throughput of our algorithm …

Efficient Balance-And-Truncate Model Reduction For Large Scale Systems , Venkataramanan Balakrishnan, Qing Su, Cheng-Kok Koh

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technical Reports

We present efficient implement at ions of the balanceand- truncate model reduction technique for large-scale systems. The key observation that distinguishes our approach is that Krylov subspace methods (Arnoldi and Lanczos) directly yield approximate low-rank square roots1 of the system Gramians; the balancing transformation can be then constructed from these square roots, obviating the need for solving any Lyapunov equations. In addition, the order of the reduced model is not fixed a priori as with some existing methods, but is determined from the problem data. Numerical simulations show t,hat our approach performs very well over a range of examples, and …

Traffic Conditioner Design For Assured Forwarding In Differentiated Services Network, Ahsan Habib, Sonja Fahmy, Bharat Bhargava

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

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Straight From The Heart, Volume 2, Number 3, Sacred Heart University

News, Magazines and Reports

Highlights: CCJU receives record $1 million gift --SHU Forum explores Catholicism's role in higher education --Theatre launches renovation project --Lombardi leads WSHU's rise --Coaches Corner: Tara Jelley --Dr. Rose's election night analysis aired by WSHU.

Detection Of Solid Pigment In Dermatoscopy Images Using Texture Analysis, Murali Anantha, William V. Stoecker, Randy Hays Moss

Chemistry Faculty Research & Creative Works

Background/aims: Epiluminescence microscopy (ELM), also known as dermoscopy or dermatoscopy, is a non-invasive, in vivo technique, that permits visualization of features of pigmented melanocytic neoplasms that are not discernable by examination with the naked eye. ELM offers a completely new range of visual features. One such feature is the solid pigment, also called the blotchy pigment or dark structureless area. Our goal was to automatically detect this feature and determine whether its presence is useful in distinguishing benign from malignant pigmented lesions.

Methods: Here, a texture-based algorithm is developed for the detection of solid pigment. The factors d and a …

Second-Harmonic And Sum-Frequency Imaging Of Organic Nanocrystals With Photon Scanning Tunneling Microscope, Yuzhen Shen, Jacek Swiatkiewicz, Jeffrey G. Winiarz, Przemyslaw P. Markowicz, Paras N. Prasad

Chemistry Faculty Research & Creative Works

Second-harmonic generation and sum-frequency generation with photon scanning tunneling microscopy and shear-force detection are used to map the nonlinear optical response and the surface topograph of N-(4-nitrophenyl)-(L)-prolinol crystals with a subdiffraction-limited resolution. The domain-size dependence of the spatial feature is obtained, which shows the local orientational distribution of the optical near field radiated by nonlinear nanocrystals and reveals the difference between nanoscopic and macroscopic second-order optical nonlinearities of molecular crystals.

Central Florida Future, November 1, 2000

Central Florida Future

High tide for UCF; Cultural Awareness provided by annual International Fair; Students take part in debate held at UCF.