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Dynamic Energy Federalism, Hari M. Osofsky, Hannah J. Wiseman Jan 2013

Dynamic Energy Federalism, Hari M. Osofsky, Hannah J. Wiseman

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U.S. energy law and the scholarship analyzing it are deeply fragmented. Each source of energy has a distinct legal regime, and limited federal regulation in some areas has resulted in divergent state and local approaches to regulation. Much of the existing energy law literature reflects these substantive and structural divisions, and focuses on particular aspects of the energy system and associated federalism disputes. However, in order to meet modern energy challenges — such as reducing risks from deepwater drilling and hydraulic fracturing, maintaining the reliability of the electricity grid in this period of rapid technological change, and producing cleaner energy …

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Cyber-Conflict, Cyber-Crime, And Cyber-Espionage, David Weissbrodt Jan 2013

Cyber-Conflict, Cyber-Crime, And Cyber-Espionage, David Weissbrodt

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Computers and the Internet have changed and are continuing to change the way governments, militaries, businesses, and other organs of society manage their activities. While computers can improve efficiency, they are vulnerable to cyber-attack, cyber-crime, and cyber-espionage. 1 The international community, states, and businesses are still adapting to the unique set of challenges posed by cyber-attack, cyber-crime, and cyber-espionage. States are creating military operations that specialize in cyber-attack and defense to adapt to these relatively new threats to national security operations. 2

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Individual Responsibility For Mass Atrocity: In Search Of A Concept Of Perpetration, Neha Jain Jan 2013

Individual Responsibility For Mass Atrocity: In Search Of A Concept Of Perpetration, Neha Jain

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International criminal law lacks a coherent account of individual responsibility. This failure is due to the inability of international tribunals to capture the distinctive nature of individual responsibility for crimes that are collective by their very nature. Specifically, they have misunderstood the nature of the collective action or framework that makes these crimes possible, and for which liability can be attributed to intellectual authors and leaders. In this paper, I draw on the insights of comparative law and methodology to propose a new doctrine of perpetration that reflects the role and function of high level participants in mass atrocity while …

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Behind Closed Doors: What Really Happens When Cops Question Kids, Barry C. Feld Jan 2013

Behind Closed Doors: What Really Happens When Cops Question Kids, Barry C. Feld

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Police interrogation raises difficult legal, normative, and policy questions because of the State's need to solve crimes and obligation to protect citizens' rights. These issues become even more problematic when police question juveniles. For more than a century, justice policies have reflected two competing visions of youth: vulnerable and immature versus responsible and adult-like. A century ago, Progressive reformers emphasized youths' immaturity and created a separate juvenile court to shield children from criminal trials and punishment. 2 By the end of the twentieth century, lawmakers adopted "get tough" policies, which equated adolescents with adults and punished youths more severely. 3 …

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The Youth Discount: Old Enough To Do The Crime, Too Young To Do The Time, Barry C. Feld Jan 2013

The Youth Discount: Old Enough To Do The Crime, Too Young To Do The Time, Barry C. Feld

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In a trilogy of cases, the Supreme Court applied the Eighth Amendment to the entire category of juvenile offenders, repudiated its “death is different” jurisprudence, and required states to consider youthfulness as a mitigating factor in sentencing. Roper v. Simmons prohibited states from executing offenders for murder they committed when younger than eighteen years of age.1 Roper reasoned that immature judgment, susceptibility to negative influences, and transitory personalities reduced youths’ culpability and barred the most severe sentence.2 Graham v. Florida extended Roper’s diminished responsibility rationale and prohibited states from imposing life without parole (LWOP) sentences on youths convicted of nonhomicide …

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Discussion Of Christine C. Shepard, Vera N. Agostini, Ben Gilmer, Tashya Allen, Jeff Stone, William Brooks And Michael W. Beck. Reply: Evaluating Alternative Future Sea-Level Rise Scenarios, Natural Hazards, 2012 Doi:10.1007/S11069-012-0160-2, A. Boretti Jan 2013

Discussion Of Christine C. Shepard, Vera N. Agostini, Ben Gilmer, Tashya Allen, Jeff Stone, William Brooks And Michael W. Beck. Reply: Evaluating Alternative Future Sea-Level Rise Scenarios, Natural Hazards, 2012 Doi:10.1007/S11069-012-0160-2, A. Boretti

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

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Separate-Channel Integrated Guidance And Autopilot For Automatic Path-Following, Takeshi Yamasaki, S. N. Balakrishnan, Hiroyuki Takano Jan 2013

Separate-Channel Integrated Guidance And Autopilot For Automatic Path-Following, Takeshi Yamasaki, S. N. Balakrishnan, Hiroyuki Takano

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

An integrated guidance and autopilot scheme for a path-following uninhabited aerial vehicle is presented in this study. A fixed-wing aircraft usually performs a bank-to-turn maneuver to change its flight direction. The novel approach presented here, however, assumes that each of the three channels of the integrated guidance and autopilot can be independently designed. This concept makes the design process simple. A virtual target moving on the prespecified path for the uninhabited aerial vehicle is introduced to facilitate the algorithm development. A first-/ second order sliding structure with a second order sliding mode and a high-order sliding mode differentiator for the …

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Significance And Analysis Of Milia-Like Cysts In Dermoscopy Skin Lesion Images, Sneha K. Mahajan Jan 2013

Significance And Analysis Of Milia-Like Cysts In Dermoscopy Skin Lesion Images, Sneha K. Mahajan

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“Milia-like cysts (MLCs) are dermoscopic structures frequently observed in seborrheic keratoses(SKs), which are the most common type of skin lesions. Diverse appearances of these skin lesions make them difficult to differentiate from melanoma, a deadly type of skin cancer. Classified by size into two main groups, starry MLCs and cloudy MLCs, the presence of these structures in a skin lesion has been known to help differentiate benign lesions from melanoma. Though the presence of cloudy MLCs is not exclusively associated with SKs, they can be a useful tool to differentiate SKs from melanoma. This research study determines the statistical occurrence …

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Rotary Displacement Piezoelectric Energy Harvester, Headman Sanei Jan 2013

Rotary Displacement Piezoelectric Energy Harvester, Headman Sanei

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“This study proposes a novel piezoelectric energy harvester for rotary motion applications. It is based on an annular unimorph plate, mounted on a shaft rotating at a constant angular velocity, under constant amplitude point-wise force. The mathematical model and the analysis was proposed for the inverse problem of a rotating disk under a static stationary force. The disk, however, is assumed to be stationary subjected to a traveling force. The distributed parameter electromechanical equations governing the behavior of the system are provided in closed-form, incorporating both an AC and a simple rectifier circuit. The performance of the energy harvester was …

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A Case Study: Motivational Attributes Of 4-H Participants Engaged In Robotics, Mariah Lea Smith Jan 2013

A Case Study: Motivational Attributes Of 4-H Participants Engaged In Robotics, Mariah Lea Smith

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Robotics has gained a great deal of popularity across the United States as a means to engage youth in science, technology, engineering, and math. Understanding what motivates youth and adults to participate in a robotics project is critical to understanding how to engage others. By developing a robotics program built on a proper understanding of the motivational influences, the program can be built on a foundation that addresses these influences. By engaging more youth in the robotics program, they will be able to envision a future for themselves as a high-school or college graduate, in addition to a viable employee …

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