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Roberts, Ernest F.
No full textDuration 46:33From the video archives of the Cornell Law School Heritage Project. The interviewer is Peter W. Martin; the videographer, Michael d’Estries. This video covers Professor E.F. Roberts’ reflections on his career as a law professor. Roberts is the Edwin H. Woodruff Professor of Law, Emeritus, at Cornell Law School. A longtime specialist in land-use policy, Prof. Roberts has had a distinguished career as an academic and consultant on environmental issues. He served in private practice in Northampton before turning to teaching law at Villanova from 1957 to 1964, when he came to serve on the Cornell Law School faculty. He has also served on the Hudson River Basin Study Group, and was Chairman of the Ithaca Landmarks Preservation Commission, and is author of landmark studies on acquisition of public lands and structures for water resources management.1_tixwnce
Ernie Roberts
No full textA longtime specialist in land-use policy, Ernie Roberts has had a distinguished career as an academic and consultant on environmental issues. He is author of landmark studies on acquisition of public lands and structures for water resources management.
Professor Roberts served in private practice in Northampton before teaching law at Villanova starting in 1957. He joined the Cornell Law School faculty in 1964.
He served on the Hudson River Basin Study Group and was Chairman of the Ithaca Landmarks Preservation Commission
Ernie Roberts
No full textInterview with Emeritus Professor Ernie Roberts
A longtime specialist in land-use policy, Ernie Roberts has had a distinguished career as an academic and consultant on environmental issues. He is author of landmark studies on acquisition of public lands and structures for water resources management.
Professor Roberts served in private practice in Northampton before teaching law at Villanova starting in 1957. He joined the Cornell Law School faculty in 1964.
He served on the Hudson River Basin Study Group and was Chairman of the Ithaca Landmarks Preservation Commission.1_926qjge
An aerostable drag-sail device for the deorbit and disposal of sub-tonne, low earth orbit spacecraft
Get PDFThere is an increasing amount of debris in low Earth orbit arising from the
disintegration and collision of old spacecraft which have not been removed from
orbit. A ‘bolt-on’ deorbit device to be attached to new spacecraft is therefore
proposed, which would deploy an aerostable drag sail at end-of-life. This drag sail
would interact with the rarefied atmospheric gases and plasma present at altitudes of
up to 1,000 km and thus denude energy from the orbit, causing it to become lower
and lower until final re-entry of the host becomes inevitable. At this point the drag
sail would collapse and both the host and the deorbit device would be destroyed by
aerothermodynamic forces.
This work develops the deorbit device concept by demonstrating that aerostable drag
enhancement is an effective and competitive deorbit mechanism. This is done by:
• Calculating the aerodynamic, solar radiation pressure and gravitational
influences on the deployed drag sail and using them to model the
performance of the device.
• Using the results of that modelling to identify the optimum shape, size and
deployment conditions of the drag sail.
• Further calculating the structural strength required to resist the aerodynamic
loads until the desired collapse altitude.
• And finally by using that information to assemble a conceptual design which
demonstrates the practicability of the system
Among the Deep Sea Fishers, volume 76, issue 3 (October 1979)
No full textThis summer on the coast / Peter J. Roberts, M.D. -- Travelling doctor-Labrador south coast / Peter Sarsfield -- Rear Admiral Frank Houghton (Ret) / Theodore L. Badger, M.D. -- Dr. Donald Gordon Hodd / Gordon W. Thomas -- Mr. R. Harold Mack / Gordon W. Thomas -- To walk with kings / Eleanor (Cushman) Wescott -- Letter from Nain / Clara Voisey -- Grace Layman-friend, author and educator / Linwood and Rachel Brown -- On and off the coast -- Supporting associationsIncludes map: [Newfoundland and Labrador] (inside back cover).Among the Deep Sea Fishers: the Official Organ of the International Grenfell Association. This journal was published quarterly from 1903 to 1981 with the twofold purpose of providing "a record of Mission activities [and] also a strong and convincing appeal to every supporter and friend of Dr. Grenfell's work." The articles describe mission life, services and experiences. The Mission began under the auspices of the Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen but later a separate mission, the International Grenfell Association, was formed by Dr. Wilfred Grenfell
Monozygotic twins with distinct forms of idiopathic inflammatory myositis
No full text© The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Society for Rheumatology. All rights reserved.Vidya Limaye, Jenny Walker, Michael Ahern, Peter Bardy, Sally Cox, Peter Roberts-Thomson, Sue Lester and Peter Blumberg
Entropy-related measures of the utility of gambling.
No full textThe first author has known Peter for a very long time, dating back some 45 years to when we met at a colloquium he gave at the University of Pennsylvania. After that our paths crossed fairly often. For example, in the early 1970s, he spent a year at the Institute for Advanced Study where Luce spent three years until the attempt to establish a program in scientific social science was abandoned for a more literary approach favored by the humanists and, surprisingly, the mathematicians then at the Institute. The second author has learnt a tremendous amount about both substantive and technical issues from Peter's work, beginning with Peter's book Utility Theory for Decision Making (Fishburn, 1970), which he reviewed for Contemporary Psychology (see Marley, 1972). Peter's volume on interval orders (Fishburn, 1985) was a marvelous development of various ideas related to the algebra of imperfect discrimination that elaborated the first author's initial work on semiorders (Luce, 1956)
ATLAS Submission to the UK Government Sustainable Seas Inquiry
No full textThis is the ATLAS project response to the UK Government's Sustainable Seas Inquiry. Although Rachel Boschen-Rose was the lead author, contributions were received from Alan Fox, David Johnson, Georgios Kazanidis, Murray Roberts, Peter Spooner, David Thornalley and Philip Weaver
A new look at the pathogenesis of asthma
No full textAsthma is an inflammatory disorder of the conducting airways that has strong association with allergic sensitization. The disease is characterized by a polarized Th-2 (T-helper-2)-type T-cell response, but in general targeting this component of the disease with selective therapies has been disappointing and most therapy still relies on bronchodilators and corticosteroids rather than treating underlying disease mechanisms. With the disappointing outcomes of targeting individual Th-2 cytokines or manipulating T-cells, the time has come to re-evaluate the direction of research in this disease. A case is made that asthma has its origins in the airways themselves involving defective structural and functional behaviour of the epithelium in relation to environmental insults. Specifically, a defect in barrier function and an impaired innate immune response to viral infection may provide the substrate upon which allergic sensitization takes place. Once sensitized, the repeated allergen exposure will lead to disease persistence. These mechanisms could also be used to explain airway wall remodelling and the susceptibility of the asthmatic lung to exacerbations provoked by respiratory viruses, air pollution episodes and exposure to biologically active allergens. Variable activation of this epithelial-mesenchymal trophic unit could also lead to the emergence of different asthma phenotypes and a more targeted approach to the treatment of these. It also raises the possibility of developing treatments that increase the lung's resistance to the inhaled environment rather than concentrating all efforts on trying to suppress inflammation once it has become established.<br/
Food and eating in fiction since 1950 with particular reference to the writing of Angela Carter, Doris Lessing, Michele Roberts and Alice Thomas Ellis.
No full textPhDEating is a fundamental activity. What people eat, how and with whom, what
they feel about food, what they do or do not want to eat and why - even who
they eat - are of crucial significance in any reading of human behaviour.
In this thesis, I consider the diverse and complex uses of food and eating
in fiction since 1950, especially that written by women. I argue both that food
and eating carry much of the meaning of a novel or story and that the acts of
cooking, feeding and eating depicted are inseparable from issues of power and
control: individually, interpersonally, culturally, politically.
My discussion centres on the writing of Angela Carter, Doris Lessing,
Michele Roberts and Alice Thomas Ellis. Drawing on psychoanalytic theory,
sociology, anthropology, Foucault, Bakhtin and others, the thesis aims to
construct an interdisciplinary perspective which both resists reductive
interpretations and emphasises the centrality, complexity and diversity of food
and eating in literature in our culture.
I begin with an examination of the ambiguities of maternal feeding and
nurturing, moving on to explore the links between appetite, eating and sexuality.
I explore cannibalism and vampirism as manifestations of oppression, but also as
indicating insatiable emptiness and transgressive appetite. The body itself is
crucial, and my argument considers the paradox of not eating as
control/enslavement, also tracing self-starvation as a positive route towards
wholeness and connection. The last part of my argument focuses on social
eating, examining conventions, rituals and food itself in connection with power
relations, and finally considers how we might truly speak of food and eating in
the context of society as a whole
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