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De Novo Juries, Misdemeanor Counsel, And Other Problems: Changes Ahead For The Maine District Courts?, Pierce B. Hasler May 2025

De Novo Juries, Misdemeanor Counsel, And Other Problems: Changes Ahead For The Maine District Courts?, Pierce B. Hasler

Maine Law Review

The Maine judicial system has two levels of criminal courts, the superior court having exclusive trial jurisdiction over felony prosecutions and the district court operating with concurrent trial jurisdiction for misdemeanors. The district court also processes the preliminary phases of felony cases; included in this function are bail hearings, initial appearances (arraignments), and preliminary hearings. To provide jury trials in misdemeanor prosecutions state law permits all district court convictions to be appealed to the superior court for trial de novo to a jury. The accepted reason for unlimited de novo trials is that the state constitution requires a jury in …


Ransoming The Maine Environment, G. Graham Waite May 2025

Ransoming The Maine Environment, G. Graham Waite

Maine Law Review

The call for natural resource conservation is widely heard today. Purity of air and water are goals that most persons seem to endorse, at least in the abstract. The dollar costs of governmental programs for achieving relatively clean air and water doubtless are high, making questions of who bears them important. Some recent decisions of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court suggest that in Maine the major costs will be paid by taxpayers at large rather than by individual resource users.


A Proposal To Protect Maine From The Oilbergs Of The 70'S, Eugene C. Coughlin Iii May 2025

A Proposal To Protect Maine From The Oilbergs Of The 70'S, Eugene C. Coughlin Iii

Maine Law Review

The oil industry is moving into Maine with plans to develop new oil ports and to build oil refineries along the coast. Although the Portland harbor is one of the busiest oil ports on the eastern seaboard, the enormous increase in oil transportation over Maine waters, as envisioned by the oil magnates, poses frightening consequences for Maine people. Responding to this threat and to a growing conservation lobby, as well as an aroused public, the 104th Legislature passed measures that hopefully will begin to cope with the problem. Hailed as landmark conservation legislation, the new laws go further than past …


The Balance Of Power In Professional Sports, Barry Zimmerman May 2025

The Balance Of Power In Professional Sports, Barry Zimmerman

Maine Law Review

This note examines the problems of the professional athlete in dealing with the "establishment" in the sports world. The basic framework for analysis lies in the operation of our free enterprise ideas in the practical context of professional sports. The professional athlete suffers from a severe lack of bargaining power in his relationship with management. This bargaining imbalance is inconsistent with the premises of our free enterprise system and must be eliminated if the professional sports world is to avoid a total breakdown in labor-management relations.


A Marketable Title Act For Maine, Chadbourn H. Smith May 2025

A Marketable Title Act For Maine, Chadbourn H. Smith

Maine Law Review

Conveyancing procedure in Maine, as in many other states, has become progressively more complex. Under the traditional recording system two elements—an ever-growing labyrinth of land records and the consequent likelihood of a defect in the chain of title—make repetitive, over-meticulous title examinations common, and uncertainty almost inevitable. Both of these elements must be eradicated by effective legislation, redefining and promoting marketability. No longer should landholders be faced with a constant challenge from the past, protection against which is by means of an expensive title report, carefully conditioned and couched in terms of the title-searcher's opinion rather than law. Attorneys should …


Bankruptcy Courts In Transition Toward Debtor Rehabilitation, Conrad K. Cyr May 2025

Bankruptcy Courts In Transition Toward Debtor Rehabilitation, Conrad K. Cyr

Maine Law Review

This article attempts primarily to cope with the so-called debtor relief provisions of the Bankruptcy Act rather than with its ordinary or straight bankruptcy provisions. The different emphasis upon liquidation in ordinary bankruptcy and rehabilitation in debtor relief proceedings justifies their separate treatment. It must be cautioned, however, that not only the philosophy but many of the administrative and procedural precepts of chapters I-VII of the Bankruptcy Act are incorporated, either by word or implication, into the debtor relief chapters. Moreover, most types of cases filed under the Bankruptcy Act are administered by the same personnel in the same court …


Greenlining: A Policy Response To Environmental Racism, Adynn L. Kitchin May 2025

Greenlining: A Policy Response To Environmental Racism, Adynn L. Kitchin

Thinking Matters Student Research Symposium

Redlining describes the deliberate actions made in the 1930s by the U.S. Government’s Home Owners’ Loan Corporation(HOLC), in which the race of a neighborhood’s residents was used to measure its degree of desirability. This information was produced through maps, which consequently denied these individuals’ access to mortgages and other financial services. Although redlining was outlawed by the 1968 Fair Housing Act and the 1974 Equal Credit Opportunity Act, the legacy still lingers today. The United States’ Department of Justice launched the Combating Redlining Initiative in 2021, which has since received $107 million in settlements for neighborhoods of color across the …


Ableism And Museum Art Education: A Qualitative Phenomenological Study Of Museum-Based Visual Studio Art Teachers, Elizabeth W. Buck May 2025

Ableism And Museum Art Education: A Qualitative Phenomenological Study Of Museum-Based Visual Studio Art Teachers, Elizabeth W. Buck

Doctor of Education Program Dissertations

All people, including individuals with disabilities, who participate in hands-on visual art can experience various benefits. However, visual studio art teachers, especially museum-based teachers, have various backgrounds that do not always include education or training in serving individuals with disabilities. The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to explore how museum-based visual studio art teachers perceived that their training and preparation informed their awareness of ableism and ability to serve students with disabilities in art museums in the New England region of the United States. Twelve museum-based, visual studio art teachers participated in this study through semi-structured interviews. Through …


Reliability Analysis Of The Porto Velho Pier - Rio Grande/Rs Throughlimit Equilibrium And Finite Element Method, Luiza Antiqueira Da Silva Neta, Diego De Freitas Fagundes, Antônio Marcos De Lima Alves May 2025

Reliability Analysis Of The Porto Velho Pier - Rio Grande/Rs Throughlimit Equilibrium And Finite Element Method, Luiza Antiqueira Da Silva Neta, Diego De Freitas Fagundes, Antônio Marcos De Lima Alves

Seatific Journal

This study analyzes the global stability of the Porto Velho pier, a structure in the port complex of the city of Rio Grande - RS, Brazil. This structure is a gravity pier with a length of 640 m which has been showing excessive displacements in a 150 m stretch. Limit Equilibrium and Finite Element tools associated with the Monte Carlo and FOSM Methods were applied. Four scenarios will be analyzed that represent the evolution of the erosion of the base of the pier structure, in which it can be concluded that as the loss of soil and rockfill of the …


The Effect Of Various Bulbous Bow Forms On The Resistance Of A Black Sea Type Fishing Boat, Dursun Saral May 2025

The Effect Of Various Bulbous Bow Forms On The Resistance Of A Black Sea Type Fishing Boat, Dursun Saral

Seatific Journal

In this study, resistance analyses of a 35-meter-long Black Sea Type Fishing Boat with various bow forms were conducted using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). The boat's bow shapes included a normal bow without a bulb, a special bulb, a special-elliptical bulb, and an elliptical bulb. To determine the resistance values of these forms, the Realizable k-ε model was chosen as the turbulence model, and the Volume of Fluid (VOF) method was applied. Resistance analyses were performed at five different speeds (5.5, 7.5, 9.5, 11.5, and 13.5 knots), within the Fn range of 0.15 to 0.40. Shear, pressure, and total resistance …


Correlation Of The Ship Speed And Carbon Dioxide Emissions: A Study On Panamax Tankers, Levent Bilgili, Volkan Şahin May 2025

Correlation Of The Ship Speed And Carbon Dioxide Emissions: A Study On Panamax Tankers, Levent Bilgili, Volkan Şahin

Seatific Journal

The amount of energy needed by the maritime industry is increasing depending on the global energy demand and the increase in commercial activities. Larger ships are expected to create greater challenges in the energy demand and environmental performance issues. Therefore, estimating fuel consumption and emissions are important preliminary steps to avoid these problems. In this study, the relationship between speed and CO2 emissions is reduced to a single equation. It aims to reach fuel consumption and emission amounts by using only speed input. Since the speed input includes RPM, weather and sea conditions, cargo quantity and wave course data, the …


Ensuring Environmental Sustainability In The Context Of Innovation Through High-Quality Training Of Seafarers Using Vr Technologies, Serhii Voloshynov, Vadym Danyk, Alona Yurzhenko May 2025

Ensuring Environmental Sustainability In The Context Of Innovation Through High-Quality Training Of Seafarers Using Vr Technologies, Serhii Voloshynov, Vadym Danyk, Alona Yurzhenko

Seatific Journal

The paper examines the use of VR technologies in the provision of quality training for seafarers, particularly in the context of innovations to ensure environmental sustainability. The authors review the current training provisions for seafarers and highlight the need for a more environmentally conscious approach to it. They then discuss the advantages of using VR in training scenarios and explore how this technology can be used to provide high-quality training that promotes sustainable practices. The article provides a detailed analysis of the different VR applications that can be used to develop seafarers' knowledge in relation to green sustainability including modelling …


Analyzing Tandem Effects In Oscillating Water Column Wec Arrays: A Numerical Study Of Diverse Geometries And Inter-Device Gaps, Burcu Ozselek, Yonglai Zheng May 2025

Analyzing Tandem Effects In Oscillating Water Column Wec Arrays: A Numerical Study Of Diverse Geometries And Inter-Device Gaps, Burcu Ozselek, Yonglai Zheng

Seatific Journal

The utilization of wave energy holds significant promise as a renewable energy source, with Oscillating Water Column (OWC) Wave Energy Converters (WECs) being one of the most established technologies in this domain. This study examines the influence of various spacing configurations and different shapes of OWCs on device-device interaction, aiming to assess their impact on hydrodynamic performance. Employing a fully nonlinear 3D computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model based on RANS equations and a VOF surface capturing scheme, numerical analyses of six array cases are conducted using Star CCM+. To refine free surface wave representations, the Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) technique …


A Numerical Study About The Influence Of Bathymetry On The Generation And Propagation Of Realistic Irregular Waves And Representative Regular Waves Occurred In Tramandaí, Brazil, Ana Paula Mocellin, Maycon Paıva, Elizaldo Dos Santos, Luiz Rocha, Liércio Isoldi, Juliana Sartori Ziebell, Bianca Machado May 2025

A Numerical Study About The Influence Of Bathymetry On The Generation And Propagation Of Realistic Irregular Waves And Representative Regular Waves Occurred In Tramandaí, Brazil, Ana Paula Mocellin, Maycon Paıva, Elizaldo Dos Santos, Luiz Rocha, Liércio Isoldi, Juliana Sartori Ziebell, Bianca Machado

Seatific Journal

Due to the increase in global energy consumption and the search for diversification of the energy matrix, there has been an increase in research related to renewable energy sources. The energy contained in sea waves stands out when it comes to renewable sources. Then, the present study aims to analyze the influence of wave channel bathymetry on the generation and propagation of realistic irregular waves and representative regular waves of the sea state that occurred in Tramandaí, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Thereunto, two geometries were considered for the wave channel: with an inclined bottom (representing …


Smart Materials Finishing And Insulation Solutions Applied To The Interior Design Of A Cruise Ship Cabin, Angela Denise Peri May 2025

Smart Materials Finishing And Insulation Solutions Applied To The Interior Design Of A Cruise Ship Cabin, Angela Denise Peri

Seatific Journal

A cruise ship cabin can be outlined using a complex bill of materials, components and sub-assemblies properly interconnected, considering its functional nature as a whole. In this regard, modern scientific achievements have allowed the development of so-called smart materials. The research activity has started with a scoping review of the currently constituent finishing, as well as insulation materials installed on-board. The assessment of smart and high-performance solutions are aimed of optimizing thickness, weight, noise and vibrations parametres. Actual cases under analysis related to finishing materials include performance paints and inks, fabrics with antibacterial and water-repellent properties which, together with a …


Numerical Investigation Into The Effect Of Duct Use On The Performance Of Controllable Pitch Propellers, Ahmet Yurtseven May 2025

Numerical Investigation Into The Effect Of Duct Use On The Performance Of Controllable Pitch Propellers, Ahmet Yurtseven

Seatific Journal

In this study, CFD methods are used to solve the complex flow around a CPP propeller with ducts. It is aimed to investigate the performance differences between ducted and non-duct propeller versions. In particular, the values of pitch changes and blade spindle torques at different advance coefficients were determined. STAR-CCM+, a commercial computational fluid dynamics (CFD) code, was used in the study. The k-ε model was preferred to predict turbulence in the flow. In addition to the coefficients of performance such as thrust coefficient, torque coefficient and propeller efficiency, the study also examined the blade spindle torque that provides the …


Numerical Investigation Of The Resistance And Static Drift Condition Of The Autosub Submarine, Sare Nur Çıplakkaya, Yasemin Arıkan Özden May 2025

Numerical Investigation Of The Resistance And Static Drift Condition Of The Autosub Submarine, Sare Nur Çıplakkaya, Yasemin Arıkan Özden

Seatific Journal

This study involves the force and moment calculations using the 3/4rd scale model and full-scale geometries of the Autosub submarine. Computational fluid dynamics calculations are performed using RANS equations and the k-ω turbulence models. The resistance analyses are conducted for speeds ranging from 0 to 2 m/s. Static drift analyses are conducted between the range of 0 to 10 degrees drift angles at 2 degrees intervals. A mesh independence study is carried out to determine the adequate mesh density. The mesh structure is determined in the analyses for 6 degrees of drift angle and this mesh structure is used for …


A Domestic Waste Heat Recovery System: Mathematical Model Of A Green Kitchen Module, Stefano Maria Spagocci May 2025

A Domestic Waste Heat Recovery System: Mathematical Model Of A Green Kitchen Module, Stefano Maria Spagocci

Seatific Journal

A lumped parameter model of a domestic heat storage/recovery system is described. This is a typical green kitchen application, where the heat dissipated by kitchen appliances is stored in suitable materials by temperature rise and/or phase transitions. To this aim, sensible heat materials and phase change materials are considered. Based on the model, a number of design solutions are proposed, making use of fixed beds or shell-and-tube heat exchangers, where heat is stored in spheres or cylinders made up of (or encapsulating) suitable materials. The best solution (a PCM-based shell-and-tube exchanger) corresponds to ~50×50×25 cm, ~30 kg modules.


Low-‎Computational Adaptive Mpc Algorithmization Strategy For Over ‎And ‎Undershoots ‎Instantaneous ‎Water ‎Heaters Stability, Ismael Ehtiwesh May 2025

Low-‎Computational Adaptive Mpc Algorithmization Strategy For Over ‎And ‎Undershoots ‎Instantaneous ‎Water ‎Heaters Stability, Ismael Ehtiwesh

Seatific Journal

Tankless gas Hot Water users' ‎comforting perception ‎is severely affected by ‎sudden ‎changes ‎in temperature ‎apart from ‎the ‎desired temperature. The instability of the ‎water ‎temperature ‎with ‎overshoots and ‎undershoots is the ‎most common disadvantage ‎that ‎appears ‎mainly ‎because of the sudden changes in ‎the water flow demanded by ‎users ‎and ‎the ‎response delays inherent to ‎the heating system. ‎Classical ‎controllers for heat ‎cells have ‎difficulties in ‎responding ‎to ‎temperature ‎instability in a timely manner because ‎they do not ‎have the ‎capacity to anticipate ‎the ‎effects ‎of sudden variations in water flow ‎rate. ‎The ‎model ‎predictive control with adaptive function …


Taper Ratio Influence On The Performance Of 3-D Cavitating Hydrofoils Moving Under Free Surface, Şakir Bal May 2025

Taper Ratio Influence On The Performance Of 3-D Cavitating Hydrofoils Moving Under Free Surface, Şakir Bal

Seatific Journal

Taper ratio influence on the performance of three-dimensional (3-D) cavitating hydrofoils moving steadily under a free water surface has been investigated numerically. An iterative boundary element method (IBEM) developed before has been modified and extended to solve this problem. The fluid is assumed to be inviscid, incompressible and the flow irrotational. All variables and equations are made non-dimensional to achieve a consistent numerical scheme and a very quick convergence. The IBEM solves the hydrofoil problem and free surface problem separately with the effects of each other via their potential values in an iterative way. Both the 3-D hydrofoil surface and …


Optimizing Power Of A Variable-Temperature Heat Reservoir Brayton Cycle For Space Nuclear Power Plant, Tan Wang, Lingen Chen, Yanlin Ge, Shuangshuang Shi, Huijun Feng May 2025

Optimizing Power Of A Variable-Temperature Heat Reservoir Brayton Cycle For Space Nuclear Power Plant, Tan Wang, Lingen Chen, Yanlin Ge, Shuangshuang Shi, Huijun Feng

Seatific Journal

A variable-temperature heat reservoir endoreversible simple closed Brayton cycle (CBC) model for space nuclear power plant is established. Thermal efficiency (TEF) and power output (POW) are derived. When total heat transfer area of radiator panel and two heat exchangers (HEXs) is fixed, the maximum POW ( ) is obtained by optimizing area distributions ( , and ) among two HEXs and radiator panel, the double maximum POW ( ) is obtained by optimizing inlet temperature ( ) of cooling fluid in low temperature heat sink, and the triple maximum POW ( ) is obtained furtherly by optimizing thermal capacity rate …


Thermodynamic Aspects Of Solid Propellant Gas Generator For Aircraft Application, Bhupesh Parate, Pune N/A May 2025

Thermodynamic Aspects Of Solid Propellant Gas Generator For Aircraft Application, Bhupesh Parate, Pune N/A

Seatific Journal

This research work present mainly on various thermodynamic aspects of solid propellant gas generator for aircraft application. A gas generating device is hot gas generator that creates high temperature and pressure combustion gas on burning of the propellant inside the cartridge case. Thermodynamics is the branch of science which deals with energy transformation into work and vice versa. These devices are filled with energetic materials (EMs) and used to perform a critical operation in an emergency under adverse conditions. It releases the energy very quickly. Gas generator has a large number of applications and its demand is continuously increasing in …


First And Second Law Assessment Of A Solar Tower Power Plant For Electrical Power Production And Error Analysis, Mohd Parvez, Syed Mohammed Mahmood, Osaman Khan May 2025

First And Second Law Assessment Of A Solar Tower Power Plant For Electrical Power Production And Error Analysis, Mohd Parvez, Syed Mohammed Mahmood, Osaman Khan

Seatific Journal

The primary objective of this study is to investigate the solar-powered combined-cycles system in order to convert the available solar energy to its truest potential and generate electrical power. This combined-cycles system consists of solar power tower, steam turbine cycle, and organic Rankine cycle. The study focused on recovering the waste heat which is obtained from the exit of a steam turbine and uses it to operate the Rankine cycle by using the refrigerants, R-113, R-11, and R-1233zd. The analysis also predetermines the effects of solar irradiance for a mass flow rate of molten salt and steam, turbine inlet pressure, …


Finned Wafer Baking Plates For Heat Transfer And Distribution, Márcio Carzino, George Stanescu, Marcelo Errera May 2025

Finned Wafer Baking Plates For Heat Transfer And Distribution, Márcio Carzino, George Stanescu, Marcelo Errera

Seatific Journal

Wafer baking is a recognized process in food industry, and there is a large worldwide demand to develop wafer baking equipment for the current trends, namely, high-productivity, high quality with lower wastes and lower energy expenditure. This work deals with the thermal design of the heating side of flat wafer baking plates in gas ovens seeking less heat, less baking time and better quality control. The key feature under study is the thermal interaction between the gas flames and the baking plates. Heat flows mostly by thermal radiation to the back of the baking plates which design is under study. …


Maximum Entropy Production And Constructal Law: Variable Conductance And Branched Flow, Phillip Johnson May 2025

Maximum Entropy Production And Constructal Law: Variable Conductance And Branched Flow, Phillip Johnson

Seatific Journal

Within the scope of modern thermodynamics, several new principles have been advanced. Yet a coherent picture has not yet fully emerged beyond classical thermodynamics, in part because of the disparate nature of these principles. This work analyzes two such principles, that of maximum entropy production and also the constructal law. These ideas are compared in two examples scenarios, atmospheric convection and riverbed generation. It is shown that both ideas utilized a flow network with variable conductivity, particularly that of a branched system. Comparison is made to show underlying shared principles.


Fog Collection - Materials, Techniques And Affecting Parameters - A Review, Abdullah A. Elshennawy, Mohamed M. Awad, Magdy Y. Abdelaal, Ahmed M. Hamed May 2025

Fog Collection - Materials, Techniques And Affecting Parameters - A Review, Abdullah A. Elshennawy, Mohamed M. Awad, Magdy Y. Abdelaal, Ahmed M. Hamed

Seatific Journal

Water scarcity has shown a great challenge during the past decades with millions suffering from lack of potable water. Although, people try to benefit from the water naturally existing in air by two sources: fog and humid air. In this paper, we mainly allot the work on fog water. Fog collection is undergone using fog mesh collectors. There are lots of methods to rate the quality of fog water collection. Most used method is the quantity of water collected in kilograms for a one square meter harvester mesh per one hour. However, sometimes water contact angle on a flat surface …


Freedom And Evolution In Science, Adrian Bejan May 2025

Freedom And Evolution In Science, Adrian Bejan

Seatific Journal

This article is about evolutionary design and freedom and is based on my new book, Freedom and Evolution: Hierarchy in Nature, Society and Science [1]. There is a lot to say about this broad subject, therefore I’ve reduced it to the topics of thermodynamics, freedom and evolution, diversity and hierarchy, and science and freedom. First, I will present the terminology, which will be followed by the applications of the evolution of cooling technology for high-density heat-generating components in a packet. Finally, I will show why this book is important for you, the reader, as well as for the practitioner.


Ships And Sea Structures With A Hydrodynamic Perspective, Odd Magnus Faltınsen May 2025

Ships And Sea Structures With A Hydrodynamic Perspective, Odd Magnus Faltınsen

Seatific Journal

This article concentrates on aspects of marine technology such as fish cages, ships, sea structures, and marine operations. It addresses net cages and closed-containment fish farms through sloshing while discussing both displacement and high-speed vessels. The ship topics under consideration include CO2 emissions in waves, dynamic instabilities, whipping and springing, maneuvering in waves, and sloshing-induced slamming in prismatic LNG tanks. The considered sea structures include offshore platforms used for gas and oil exploration and production and for renewable energy. The article also discusses lowering and lifting of objects through the free surface from ships and addresses the accidental dropping of …


Development An Experimental Method To Investigate Hydrodynamic Drag, Serkan Türkmen, Mehmet Atlar, Irma Yeginbayeva May 2025

Development An Experimental Method To Investigate Hydrodynamic Drag, Serkan Türkmen, Mehmet Atlar, Irma Yeginbayeva

Seatific Journal

Newcastle University [UNEW] has enhanced the test section of their existing water channel facility. The new measurement section is utilized to measure pressure drop (and hence frictional drag) across a standard flat test panel (length=0.6 m; width=0.22 m). The panel can be tested as cleanly coated as well as exposed to light biofilm growth. Based on measured pressure gradients, the skin friction coefficients of these surfaces are calculated and compared with other well-established methods (i.e., measuring the boundary layer of similar surfaces using a [LDV] system in UNEW’s Emerson Cavitation Tunnel [ECT], to evaluate the pressure drop methodology. This paper …


Performance Evaluation Of Spectral Wave Model Caused By Era-Interim, Era5, And Cfsr Wind Fields In The Black Sea, Fulya Islek, Yalçın Yüksel, Adem Özdemir May 2025

Performance Evaluation Of Spectral Wave Model Caused By Era-Interim, Era5, And Cfsr Wind Fields In The Black Sea, Fulya Islek, Yalçın Yüksel, Adem Özdemir

Seatific Journal

The main objective of the present study is to evaluate the performance of the MIKE 21 SW (Spectral Wave) in a semi-closed basin (Black Sea). Wind data were obtained from ECMWF ERA-Interim, ECMWF ERA5, and NCEP CFSR. The wave model was calibrated and validated with wave measurements recorded at seven different stations along the Black Sea coastlines. In the calibration, several different physical parameters were tested to determine the optimal model settings, and the whitecapping parameter (Cds) was more influential than the bottom friction parameter (kn), wave breaking parameter (γ), and nonlinear wave-wave interactions in the prediction of the Black …