1,302 research outputs found
Opacity calibration
No full textTitle from folder labelProject report form no. 1 dated August 25, 1971. Effects of modification of the illuminating and viewing system of the GERS-RF to meet more closely the specifications for the measurement of opacity / L. Dearth -- Project report form no. 2 dated May 21, 1973. Check on the opacity scale / L. Dearth, W. Shillcox -- Project report form no. 3 dated October11, 1973. Check on the opacity scale / L. Dearth -- Project report form no. 4 dated April 9, 1974. Check on the opacity scale / R. Gertz -- Quarterly research report dated Oct. 11, 1974. -- Quarterly research report dated January 20, 1975. -- Project report form no. 5 dated October 1, 1975. Check on the opacity scale / R. Gertz. -- Project report form no. 6 dated August 26, 1976. Check on the opacity scale / R. Gertz -- Project report form no. 7 dated August 26, 1977. Check on the opacity scale / R. Gertz -- Project report form no. 8 dated August 4, 1978. R. Gertz. Check on the opacity scale / R. Gertz -- Project report form no. 9 dated August 29, 1979. Check on the opacity scale / R. Gertz
Confidentiality of personal health information used for research
No full textMedical research has a long history in the United Kingdom and has generally enjoyed good public support. Researchers take confidentiality seriously and few breaches have been recorded. Concerns over research practices at Alder Hey hospital related to consent rather than confidentiality,1 but they tarnished the overall reputation of research. At much the same time, the Data Protection Act 1998 defined stricter criteria for handling personal data,2 supplementing the provisions in the UK common law of confidentiality. There is thus a legal and a moral impetus to ensure that research is conducted with the maximum respect for participants and their privacy, even if the research is not linked to clinical care. Many questions can be answered without the active participation of individuals, but researchers must strike a careful balance between their pursuit of health improvements for all and their obligation to maintain the privacy of individuals participating in research
ChatGPT: the route to loneliness?:No comfort from AI
No full textFrom ChatGPT to Replika, AI is being touted as a tool to solve the loneliness epidemic. But is this just a false marketing promise, or perhaps something more sinister. In these habitually lonely times wanting someone to talk to, even if they’re just an AI chat bot, is understandable. But besides the emptiness of a conversation with an AI, author of Nihilism and Technology, Nolen Gertz, argues that even the most optimistic story of connection could lead to danger
The Search for Consistency in Constitutional Defamation Law
No full textSince the U.S. Supreme Court\u27s historic ruling in New York Times v. Sullivan, the law of defamation has been developed largely by the Supreme Court with constitutional protections, removed from common law or statutory development by the states. The author, the plaintiff in the leading defamation case of Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc., traces the constitutionalization of the law of defamation. The author argues that the Supreme Court decisions since New York Times have been inconsistent and have resulted in the localization of constitutional protection, such that the result in a given defamation case depends on the state in which the action arises. The author advocates a return to the common law or, alternatively, regulation by state statute
The Search for Consistency in Constitutional Defamation Law
No full textSince the U.S. Supreme Court\u27s historic ruling in New York Times v. Sullivan, the law of defamation has been developed largely by the Supreme Court with constitutional protections, removed from common law or statutory development by the states. The author, the plaintiff in the leading defamation case of Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc., traces the constitutionalization of the law of defamation. The author argues that the Supreme Court decisions since New York Times have been inconsistent and have resulted in the localization of constitutional protection, such that the result in a given defamation case depends on the state in which the action arises. The author advocates a return to the common law or, alternatively, regulation by state statute
The Search for Consistency in Constitutional Defamation Law
No full textSince the U.S. Supreme Court\u27s historic ruling in New York Times v. Sullivan, the law of defamation has been developed largely by the Supreme Court with constitutional protections, removed from common law or statutory development by the states. The author, the plaintiff in the leading defamation case of Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc., traces the constitutionalization of the law of defamation. The author argues that the Supreme Court decisions since New York Times have been inconsistent and have resulted in the localization of constitutional protection, such that the result in a given defamation case depends on the state in which the action arises. The author advocates a return to the common law or, alternatively, regulation by state statute
The Public Figure Doctrine: A Reexamination of Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc., in Light of Lower Federal Court Public Figure Formulations
No full textThis article focuses new attention oi the United States Supreme Court decision in Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc., the seminal defamation case in which the Court sets out the current test for determining whether a defamation plaintiff is a public figure. The Courts of Appeals have differed in their formulations of the Gertz test, which in turn has led to inconsistent application of the public figure doctrine. Through an examination of the history of defamation law and an analysis of recent lower court public figure decisions, the author posits that the Gertz test is unlikely to ever be universally applied
A Constitutional Revolution in the Law of Libel: New York Times and Gertz Applied
No full textObserves the complex set of privileges the common law developed in order to foster the free exchange of ideas while preserving the reputational interest. The author notes that the most important privilege was the fair comment rule. By juxtaposing the New York v. Sullivan and Gertz v. Robert Welch cases, the author analyzes the two conflicting interests of the state’s that redresses defamatory attacks upon reputation and that of effective self-governance in the first amendment
A Criticism of the Gertz Public Figure/Private Figure Test in the Context of the Corporate Defamation Plaintiff
No full textThis Comment examines the development of the law with respect to corporate defamation, with particular focus on the Supreme Court\u27s decision in Gertz v. Robert Welch, Inc. The author argues that the Court\u27s creation of the public figure/private figure formula is problematic when applied to corporate defamation plaintiffs. The author addresses the various problems presented by this formula in light of the goals of the defamation privilege and proposes various solutions to these problems
An Evaluation Testbed for Alternative Wind Turbine Blade Tip Designs
No full textThe majority of present-day horizontal axis wind turbine blade tips are simple
designs based on historical trends. There is, however, some evidence that varying the
design of the tip can result in significant changes in performance characteristics such
as power output, noise, and structural loading. Very few studies have tested this idea
on an actual rotating blade and there is much to be investigated. Thus, a project was
devised to examine experimentally the effect of various tip designs on an operational
rotating wind turbine rotor.
A tapered, twisted blade 1.6 m in length was custom designed for use in the UW
Wind Energy Research Facility using the blade element momentum (BEM) method.
A coupling mechanism was designed such that the outer 10% of each blade could be
exchanged to evaluate the effect of different tip designs. A set of three blades was
fabricated out of fibre-reinforced plastic, while the tips were machined out of maple
wood on a CNC milling machine.
The blade was evaluated with a standard rectangular tip to establish baseline
performance against which to compare the alternative tip configurations. The three-bladed
rotor was tested at shaft speeds from 100 rpm to 240 rpm in wind speeds
up to the facility maximum of 11.1 m/s. The rotor was found to have a maximum
power coefficient of 0.42 at a tip speed ratio of 5.3 and a 1.45 kW rated power at a
wind speed of 11 m/s. The performance was compared to predictions made using the
BEM method with airfoil data generated using a modified Viterna method and the
Aerodas method. While the Aerodas data was capable of predicting the power fairly
accurately from 5 m/s to 10 m/s, the modified Viterna method predicted the entire
curve much more accurately.
Two winglet designs were also tested. The first (called Maniaci) was designed
by David Maniaci of Pennsylvania State University and the other (called Gertz) was
designed by the author. Both winglets were found to augment the power by roughly
5% at wind speeds between 6.5 m/s and 9.5 m/s, while performance was decreased
above and below this speed range. It was calculated that the annual energy production
could be increased using the Maniaci and Gertz winglets by 2.3% and 3%, respectively.
Considering the preliminary nature of the study the results are encouraging and it is
likely that more optimal winglet designs could be designed and evaluated using the
same method. More generally, this study proved that the blades with interchangeable
tips are capable of being used as an evaluation testbed for alternative wind turbine
blade tip designs
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