171 research outputs found
The Genus Rhogosana (Homoptera: Cicadellidae) with Descriptions of Three New Species
No full textAuthor Institution: Department of Entomology, Ohio State UniversityDELONG, DWIGHT M. The genus Rhogosana (Homoptera: Cicadellidae) with Descriptions of Three New Speices. Ohio J. Sci. 75(3): 126, 1975. The genus Rhogosana (Osborn) is treated and contains four known species, the type-species R. rugulosa Osborn, brazilia n. sp., duida n. sp. and aldeia n. sp
Justice or Injustice for the Poor?: A Look at the Constitutionality of Congressional Restrictions on Legal Services
No full textUpon enacting the Legal Services Corporation Act in 1974, Congress created the Legal Services Corporation (LSC), which provides federal funding to grantees that perform legal services for low-income individuals. In recent years, Congress has enacted restrictions upon grantees\u27 receipt of such federal funding, limiting the legal services these legal aid attorneys can provide to their clients. This move has sparked great debate. Proponents of the restrictions argue that they are needed to correct abuse and misuse of the legal services program, while opponents argue that the restrictions only harm low-income individuals.
In this Note, the author addresses this controversial issue by first examining the purpose and history of the Legal Services Corporation. The author then examines recent Supreme Court opinions analyzing the constitutionality of attaching conditions to the use of federal funds. In applying the unconstitutional conditions doctrine recently set out by the Supreme Court, the author argues that many of Congress\u27s recent restrictions are not only harmful; they are unconstitutional.
The author argues that many of the restrictions Congress recently has enacted interfere with the protected attorney-client relationship and implicate First Amendment concerns. Specifically, the author argues that the restrictions prohibiting welfare-reform advocacy and abortion-related litigation constitute viewpoint discrimination and thus are unconstitutional. Also unconstitutional are the restrictions on lobbying and influencing the government because they are impermissibly overbroad. Finally, the author argues that restrictions requiring affiliate organizations of grantees to satisfy certain program integrity requirements unconstitutionally restrict grantees\u27 right to engage in prohibited speech or activities using non-LSC funds.
The author concludes the Note by arguing that in enacting the recent restrictions, Congress has thwarted the purpose of the Legal Services Corporation Act. Instead of providing justice for low-income individuals, the restrictions only create more injustice
Aerodynamic Shape Optimization Using the Discrete Adjoint of the Navier-Stokes Equations: Applications Toward Complex 3D Configutations
No full textWithin the next few years, numerical shape optimization based on high fidelity methods is likely to play a strategic role in future aircraft design. In this context, suitable tools have to be developed for solving aerodynamic shape optimization problems, and the adjoint approach - which allows fast and accurate evaluations of the gradients with respect to the design parameters - is seen as a promising strategy. After describing the theory of the viscous discrete adjoint method and its implementation within the unstructured RANS solver TAU, this paper describes application for aerodynamic shape optimization. First wing and fuselage designs of the DLR-F6 wing-body aircraft are presented. A step forward in complexity is considered by applying the adjoint for flap and slat optimal settings of the DLR-F11 model, a wing-body aircraft in high-lift configuration. On all cases presented, optimization were successfully performed within a limited number of flows evaluations
Dwight Davis and the foundation of the Davis cup in tennis: Just another doubleday myth?
No full textDwight F. Davis is widely credited with having invented, or at least conceived, the original idea for the international tennis competition that bears his name, the Davis Cup. This paper aims to debunk this myth through comprehensive critical analysis of the period preceding Davis's apparent epiphany in 1899. Previous national-team-based competitions are investigated, alongside key figures in American and British/Irish tennis, to demonstrate that numerous others had proposed the idea for an international team-based competition long before Davis and that Davis may have appropriated his idea from others with whom he came into contact. Davis's wealthy background, political ambitions, and model-American image arguably helped smooth the process of his idea being officially accepted by the United States National Lawn Tennis Association, which likely saw in Davis a perfect "frontman" for American tennis at a time when the nation used sporting prowess to promote its identity, particularly in relation to the British, in international sporting competition.Peer reviewedPublished
Evaporative cooling on a grooved surface
No full textSpray evaporative cooling defines a mode of heat transfer where the drops evaporate on contact with the heated surface. Since no water accumulates on the surface, the term "dry wall" is used to described the surface condition. If while operating in the drywall mode the surface temperature is lowered, there will be a transition to a point where water will begin to accumulate on the surface. When water begins to accumulate the surface is said to be "flooded". Behavior at this transition point was investigated experimentally to determine the temperatures and corresponding heat flux at which this transition occurred. Several pressure ranges were considered including one below the triple point of water. Additionally, the results using a grooved surface were compared to those using a smooth surface. It was determined that a grooved surface has no effect on the heat transfer
PDF: Awful disclosures of Maria Monk : as exhibited in a narrative of her sufferings during a residence of five years as a novice, and two years as a black nun, in the Hotel Dieu Nunnery at Montreal
No full textHigh quality PDF version of Maria Monk's personal narrative as related to Theodore Dwight. Maria Monk's personal narrative as related to Theodore Dwight. Has also been ascribed to John J. Slocum and to William K. Hoyte. Cf. New York herald, Aug. 12, 1836, p.2, col. 1 : The Colophon, pt. 17, 1934; Sabin and Gagnon, P. Essai de bibl. can. Dwight, Theodore, 1796-1866; Slocum, J. J. (John Jay), 1803-1863, supposed author; Hoyte, William K., 9from old Maria Monk's personal narrative as related to Theodore Dwight. Has also been ascribed to John J. Slocum and to William K. Hoyte.Maria Monk's personal narrative as related to Theodore Dwight. Has also been ascribed to John J. Slocum and to William K. Hoyte
Awful disclosures of Maria Monk : as exhibited in a narrative of her sufferings during a residence of five years as a novice, and two years as a black nun, in the Hotel Dieu Nunnery at Montreal
No full textMaria Monk's personal narrative as related to Theodore Dwight. Maria Monk's personal narrative as related to Theodore Dwight. Has also been ascribed to John J. Slocum and to William K. Hoyte. Cf. New York herald, Aug. 12, 1836, p.2, col. 1 : The Colophon, pt. 17, 1934; Sabin and Gagnon, P. Essai de bibl. can. Dwight, Theodore, 1796-1866; Slocum, J. J. (John Jay), 1803-1863, supposed author; Hoyte, William K., 9from old Maria Monk's personal narrative as related to Theodore Dwight. Has also been ascribed to John J. Slocum and to William K. Hoyte.Maria Monk's personal narrative as related to Theodore Dwight. Has also been ascribed to John J. Slocum and to William K. Hoyte
Pricing Weather Derivatives
No full textThis article presents a general method for pricing weather derivatives. Specification tests find that a temperature series for Fresno, CA follows a mean-reverting Brownian motion process with discrete jumps and autoregressive conditional heteroscedastic errors. Based on this process, we define an equilibrium pricing model for cooling degree day weather options. Comparing option prices estimated with three methods: a traditional burn-rate approach, a Black-Scholes-Merton approximation, and an equilibrium Monte Carlo simulation reveals significant differences. Equilibrium prices are preferred on theoretical grounds, so are used to demonstrate the usefulness of weather derivatives as risk management tools for California specialty crop growers. Copyright 2004, Oxford University Press.
Goal oriented adaptation of unstructured meshes: Application to finite volume methods
No full textIn the present thesis report the author synthetizes 9 months of work at the DSNA department of ONERA in Chatillon, France. The topic of the thesis is goal oriented mesh adaptation with particular application to unstructured grids and to _nite volume methods. The motivation of the present work is the application to unstructured meshes of a novel indicator for mesh adaptation, based on the total derivative of the goal function with respect to mesh nodes coordinates, introduced by Peter et al. in [6], [7] and that has been tested until now on structured grids only. In chapter 1 a brief literature survey is presented, with the aim of introducing the theoretical background of the work and the state of the art of goal oriented mesh adaptation techniques. In chapter 2 the author gives a description of the gradient computation module of the CFD software elsA, developed by ONERA, that has been the main tool used for ow simulations and mesh adaptation and the core of the code development work.Aerospace Engineering | Aerodynamics and Wind Energ
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