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An Analysis Of The Million Module March Algorithm Applied To The Atron Robotic Platform, James Phipps

Theses

The Million Module March algorithm is a locomotion planning algorithm for self-reconfiguring robotic systems. It was first introduced by Robert Fitch and Zack Butler. It has already been proven to successfully plan movement for a kinematic abstraction whose traits are very different from the kinematic traits of the ATRON system. In this work we further examine this algorithm, and an adaptation of it to the ATRON robotic system. We examine a two dimensional proof of the reachability of connected configurations of sliding squares, and expand the proof to the three dimensional SlidingCube model of a self-reconfiguring robot. Using this proof, …

Introduction To Ip Multicast In Production Networks, Ganesh Vidyadharan Girija

Theses

The objective of this paper is to introduce the reader to the world of IP multicasting. I intend to achieve this goal by providing an introduction that bridges the gap between the existing unicast networks and the developing multicast network. The basics of multicast that is covered in the earlier chapter includes the multicast addressing scheme, different protocols used for multicast transmission, various distribution trees that are formed by these protocols and various aspects of multicast forwarding. We take a look at IGMP which is the protocol that runs between the host devices and their first hop multicast routers, enabling …

Lawyer, Candidate, Beneficiary And Judge? Role Differentiation In Elected Judiciaries, James Sample

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

The article presents information on the law of judicial election with reference to the trial Republican Party of Minnesota v. White and its decisions. It further discusses the involvement of Judge Frank Easterbrook of Court of Appeals of the U.S. in enforcement of disqualification rules for protecting and preserving judicial impartiality. It also discusses the role of jurists and judges as public employees.

Democracy At The Corner Of First And Fourteenth: Judicial Campaign Spending And Equality, James Sample

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

The Supreme Court recently decided in Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Co. that substantial independent expenditures in support of a judicial candidate present threats to judicial impartiality similar to those posed by direct contributions. This Article posits that the Caperton holding, guaranteeing due process of law in state courts, presents a compelling state interest justifying the regulation of spending in judicial elections.

The Supreme Court's landmark decision in Buckley v. Valeo is understood to hold that only an "anti-corruption" rationale can justify campaign finance regulations. Buckley drew a rigid distinction between political campaign "expenditures" and "contributions, " holding that the …

The Curious Case Of Corporate Liability Under The Alien Tort Statute: A Flawed System Of Judicial Lawmaking, Julian G. Ku

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

This article challenges the widely held view that the Alien Tort Statute (ATS) imposes liability on private corporations for violations of customary international law. I lay out the modern origins and development of this cause of action in U.S. federal courts and argue that doctrine rests on shaky, indeed illusory, analytical and jurisprudential foundations. Despite the absence of a well defined norm of customary international law that imposed liability upon private corporations, courts, when they even considered the validity of the claims, built a consensus around the fact that no norm existed forbidding the imposition of liability on private corporations. …

Protocol Additional To The Geneva Conventions Of 12 August 1949, And Relating To The Treatment Of Terrorist Combatants (Protocol Iv)--A Proposal, Erin Creegan

California Western International Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Should The Law Governing Maritime Areas In The Arctic Adapt To Changing Climatic Circumstances?, Erik Franckx

California Western International Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Transitional Justice In Kenya? An Assessment Of The Accountability Process In Light Of Domestic Politics And Security Concerns, Thomas Obel Hansen

California Western International Law Journal

No abstract provided.

The Interwoven Fabric Of Anglo-American Law: A Bibliographic View From Alabama, Paul M. Pruitt Jr.

Articles

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The Puzzling Persistence Of Curtiss-Wright-Based Theories Of Executive Power, Robert D. Sloane

Faculty Scholarship

This is a brief comment on Curtiss-Wright responding to one of the Journal of the National Security Forum's "Ten Questions" for its recently released symposium issue. It describes the origins of Justice Sutherland's controversial thesis, canvasses a few of the many critiques of that thesis, and offers a few reflections on why a theory about executive power that has been vigorously criticized by scholars across the ideological spectrum continues to exert an influence out of proportion to its substantive merits.

Does Westlawnext Really Change Everything: The Implications Of Westlawnext On Legal Research, Ronald E. Wheeler

Faculty Scholarship

WestlawNext, Thomson Reuters’ newest electronic research service, has been around for over a year now. Ron Wheeler shares his thoughts on how this service may impact various aspects of legal research, and he suggests further study and research are necessary to fully evaluate and comprehend the system.

Poverty Tourism And The Problem Of Consent, Kyle Powys Whyte, Evan Selinger, Kevin Outterson

Faculty Scholarship

Is it morally permissible for financially privileged tourists to visit places for the purpose of experiencing where poor people live, work, and play? Tourism associated with this question is commonly referred to as 'poverty tourism.' While some poverty tourism is plausibly ethical, other practices will be more controversial. The purpose of this essay is to address mutually beneficial cases of poverty tourism and advance the following positions. First, even mutually beneficial transactions between tourists and residents in poverty tourism always run a risk of being exploitative. Second, there is little opportunity to determine whether a given tour is exploitative since …

The Willingness To Pay—Willingness To Accept Gap, The "Endowment Effect," Subject Misconceptions, And Experimental Procedures For Eliciting Valuations: Reply, Charles R. Plott, Kathryn Zeiler

Faculty Scholarship

The purpose of Plott and Zeiler (2005) — henceforth, PZ — was to investigate whether previously published experiments using consumption goods such as mugs and candy bars to measure gaps between willingness to pay (WTP) and willingness- to-accept (WTA) support endowment effect theory (EET). Our results demonstrate that the gap for commodities can be turned on and off by implementing procedures designed to control for subject misconceptions about the value elicitation procedures. Following experiments traditionally used to demonstrate the endowment effect, we used mug valuations to test EET. We used lottery rounds only to provide our subjects with paid practice …

The Consumer Indebtedness Crisis: Law School Clinics As Laboratories For Generating Effective Legal Responses, Peggy Maisel, Natalie Roman

Faculty Scholarship

For the legal system to operate effectively, it must address problems arising from the absence of needed laws, or, if enacted, of laws that have been drafted poorly or are not being implemented in a fair and just manner. Since law schools are generally part of a larger university community, they are uniquely placed to serve as laboratories to find solutions to such problems, perhaps nowhere more so than in their legal clinics. The latter have in fact often played the role of legal innovators, but their contributions to the law and therefore to society at large have been little …

The Freedom Of Health, Abigail Moncrieff

Faculty Scholarship

What would have happened if the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) really had authorized government “death panels” that would decide whether an elderly patient could get treatment? Leaving aside commerce clause and other constraints particular to Congress, would that kind of direct healthcare rationing be a constitutional exercise of governmental power in the United States? I think not. I argue here that an emergent substantive due process constraint would invalidate such an exercise; direct rationing of that kind would violate a constitutional “freedom of health” that is nascent in Supreme Court jurisprudence. Based on that logic, I argue …

Solidarity, Subsidiarity, And Preference For The Poor: Extending Catholic Social Teaching In Response To The Climate Crisis, Jame Schaefer

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

Grounding Catholic social thought is the belief that each human person has an intrinsic dignity and a desire for relationships with others that should lead to cooperating for their mutual good, making decisions individually and collectively to achieve it, and showing preference for the poor, vulnerable, and suffering in decision-making and actions. Rooted in the sacred scriptures, reflected upon at least implicitly for centuries by theologians, and taught by bishops of the Roman Catholic Church (the magisterium), principles to guide our decisionmaking and actions began to be considered collectively toward the end of the 19th century as “Catholic social teaching” …

The Global War On Terror: Who Wins, Who Loses?, G. Simon Harak S.J.

Theology Faculty Research and Publications

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Probabilistic Knowledge Of Third-Party Trademark Infringement, Mark P. Mckenna

Journal Articles

This essay views secondary trademark liability in light of tort law’s treatment of parties whose actions expose a plaintiff to third party-wrongdoing. Broadly speaking, tort law imposes liability on a party for contributing to the tortious activity of another in two different ways. In vicarious and accomplice liability cases, courts impose the same liability on the defendant as they would have on the direct tortfeasors, had they been defendants: if the third-party wrongdoer is a batterer, the defendant is liable for battery. Another line of cases imposes liability for unreasonably putting a defendant at risk of third-party wrongdoing, and these …

Synthesis And Characterization Of Polymeric Antioxidant Delivery Systems, Paritosh P. Wattamwar

Theses and Dissertations--Chemical and Materials Engineering

Even though the role of oxidative stress in a variety of disease states is known, strategies to alleviate this oxidative stress by antioxidants have not been able to achieve clinical success. Particularly, treatment of oxidative stress by small molecule antioxidants has not received due attention because of the challenges associated with its delivery. Antioxidant polymers, where small molecule antioxidants are incorporated into the polymer backbone, are an emerging class of materials that can address some of these challenges.

In this work, biodegradable polymers incorporating phenolic antioxidants in the polymer backbone were synthesized. Antioxidant polymers were then characterized for their in …

The Obama Education Files: Is There Hope To Stop The Neoliberal Agenda In Education?, Paul R. Carr, Brad Porfilio

Journal of Inquiry and Action in Education

The contributors to this special issue of The Journal of Inquiry and Action provide insight into why the Obama administration’s educational policies manifest the dominance of neoliberal ideology over most elements of social life. The articles presented herein build on the work originally presented in The Phenomenon of Obama and the agenda for Education: Can hope audaciously trump neoliberalism? (Carr & Porfilio, 2011).

Implications Of Bias In Conservation Research And Investment For Freshwater Species , William Darwall, R Holland, K Smith, D Allen, E Brooks, V Katarya, C Pollock, Y Shi, Viola Clausnitzer, Neil Cumberlidge, A Cuttelod, K D. Dijkstra, M Diop, N Garcia, M Seddon, P Skelton, J Snoeks, D Tweddle, Jc Vie

Journal Articles

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Image Editing Style-Based Authorship Authentication, Chengcui Zhang, Wei-Bang Chen, Liping Zhou

College of Arts & Sciences Professional Work

This paper aims to provide an authorship identification framework that can provide added clues to online auction user profiling systems, the primary purpose of which is early detection and prevention of fraudulent behaviors such as account taken-over. This framework authenticates the authorship of product listing pictures in terms of their image editing styles, and it achieves this goal in three steps: (1) editing style distinction: using a Hough transform based edge clustering algorithm to differentiate between image editing styles created by the same seller, (2) editing style summarization: analyzing and encoding each distinctive image editing style into a template based …

Prediction Of Mmpi-2 Clinical Scales For Incomplete Protocols: Comprehensive Short-Form Analysis, F. Scott Winstanley, Bradley N. Axelrod, Leif V. Lalone

Archives of Assessment Psychology

The MMPI-2 is a thorough tool for personality assessment that has substantial importance in the field of neuropsychology. However, there have been reported problems for many neurologically impaired individuals who do not complete the test because of the demands of its length. Incomplete protocols are of little value with no formal way of scoring and interpreting the completed items. The following study examined the clinical utility of short-form versions of the MMPI-2 validity and clinical scales. Raw score correlations between various short-form and full-form tests on all validity and clinical scales, as well as mean raw score differences between short-form …

Time To Bury The Tomahawk Chop: An Attempt To Reconcile The Differing Viewpoints Of Native Americans And Sports Fans, Justin P. Grose

American Indian Law Review

No abstract provided.

Preserving Indian Preference For Native American Self-Governance, Freya Ray

American Indian Law Review

No abstract provided.

Eltrombopag For Management Of Chronic Immune Thrombocytopenia (Raise): A 6-Month, Randomised, Phase 3 Study, Gregory Cheng, Mansoor Saleh, Claus Marcher, Sandra Vasey, Bhabita Mayer, Manuel Aivado, Michael Arning, Nicole Stone, James Bussel

Haematology and Oncology, East Africa

Background: Eltrombopag is an oral thrombopoietin receptor agonist for the treatment of thrombocytopenia. We aimed to compare the response to once daily eltrombopag versus placebo in patients with chronic immune thrombocytopenia during a 6-month period.

Methods: We undertook a phase 3, double-blind, placebo-controlled study in adults with previously treated immune thrombocytopenia of more than 6 months’ duration who had baseline platelet counts lower than 30 000 per μL. Patients were randomly allocated (in a 2:1 ratio) treatment with local standard of care plus 50 mg eltrombopag or matching placebo once daily for 6 months. Randomisation was done centrally with a …

An Effective And Efficient Analytic Technique: A Bootstrap Regression Procedure And Benford's Law, Ikseon Suh, T. Christopher Headrick, Sandra Minaburo

Accounting Faculty Research and Publications

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The Effects Of Disclosure Type And Audit Committee Expertise On Chief Audit Executives’ Tolerance For Financial Misstatements, Carolyn S. Norman, Jacob M. Rose, Ikseon Suh

Accounting Faculty Research and Publications

This study involves an experiment where 73 Chief Audit Executives and deputy Chief Audit Executives determine the amount of adjustment required to correct a misstatement. We manipulate the financial reporting location of the misstatement (recognized vs. disclosed) and the level of audit committee expertise (high vs. low). The results indicate that financial reporting location has significant effects on internal auditors’ decisions to correct misstatements. Specifically, internal auditors are more willing to waive disclosed misstatements relative to recognized misstatements. Contrary to expectations, the results do not indicate that increased audit committee expertise and associated increases in audit committee members’ perceived powers …

Examining An Online Investment Research Service: The Motley Fool, Don E. Giacomino, Michael D. Akers

Accounting Faculty Research and Publications

The Motley Fool has been described as “the most popular Internet stock chat website” (Hirschey et al, Financial Analysts Journal, 1999). Per the company‟s website, the mission of the privately-held multimedia financial services company is to educate, amuse, and enrich” in order “to build the world‟s greatest investment community” (www.fool.com/press/about.htm). The Motley Fool notes that their products are designed to “help people take control of their financial lives”. While other internet financial services exist, this article examines the performance of the investment services/advice provided by The Motley Fool (TMF) because of its notoriety. We use investment publications, information posted on …

Lighting Design For From Sun To Sun A Day In A Railroad Camp, Nathan Szewczyk

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

In this thesis the notion of a theoretical approach to the beginning stages of designing lighting for a theatrical production will be discussed. The topic being researched is: How a theoretical approach to entering the design process will enhance the final lighting design. The target audience for this study is theatrical lighting designers. A theoretical approach, in this case to the beginning of the design process, could be described as utilizing current dramatic theories to develop a better understanding for the design of this production. In order to better understand this topic one would need to know how the process …