Interface control scheme for computer high-speed interface unit

Control scheme is general and performs for multiplexed and dedicated channels as well as for data-bus interfaces. Control comprises two 64-pin, dual in-line packages, each of which holds custom large-scale integrated array built with silicon-on-sapphire complementary metal-oxide semiconductor technology

Sexual Minority Behavioral Health Outcomes: The Role of Social Stressors and Self-Regulation

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer individuals have been shown to experience significantly more negative health outcomes than do heterosexuals. The current study examined the effects of identity authenticity on problematic alcohol and drug use and sexual compulsivity. The current study also tested whether this relationship between identity authenticity and negative behavioral health outcomes is mediated by self-regulation depletion, as well as internalized homonegativity and rejection sensitivity. Identity authenticity was associated with self-regulation depletion, internalized homonegativity, problematic alcohol use, and sexual compulsivity. Identity authenticity did not predict rejection sensitivity or problematic drug use. Evidence supports the role of self-regulation depletion in mediating the effects of identity authenticity on problematic alcohol use, and rejection sensitivity predicted variance in alcohol use contrary to the expected direction. Self-regulation depletion mediated the effects of identity authenticity on sexual compulsivity. Internalized homonegativity also accounted for significant variance in sexual compulsivity and mediated the effects of identity authenticity. These results suggest that self-regulation effectiveness may offer an additional account of negative behavioral outcomes among sexual minorities beyond sexual minority stress as presently conceptualized

The Welfare Cost of Distortions in the United States Tax System: A General Equilibrium Approach

Using a general equilibrium model of the United States economy,we examine the combined welfare cost of all taxes in the U.S. revenue system.We find that the welfare losses caused by distortionary taxation can be very large, both on average and at the margin.The marginal welfare loss to consumers from raising an additional dollar of revenue is in the range of 34 cents to 48 cents, depending on certain elasticities. This has very important implications for cost-benefit analysis.If a public project must be financed by distortionary taxes which cause dead-weight loss, this excess burden must be taken into account when we decide whether to undertake the project. Our calculations indicate that the marginal deadweight loss is between one-third and one-half of marginal revenues. This large wedge could cause us to approve many fewer projects than we would approve if we were to use the simple condition that the sum of the marginal rates of substitution should equal the marginal rate of transformation.The average deadweight loss per dollar of revenue is smaller than the marginal deadweight loss, but it is still substantial. We estimate that the present value of the gain from replacing the distortionary tax system with certain lump sum taxes would be in the range of $1.8 trillion to$3.1 trillion,or 13 cents to 22 cents per dollar of revenue. The gains would be about 60 percent as great if the existing system were replaced with a proportional income tax. Replacing the existing system with a consumption-type value-added tax would give even greater gains than those from switching to a proportional income tax.

The Vicksburg National Military Park Archives

Report of working with archival collections at the Vicksburg National Military Park

The Civil War in the West: Victory and Defeat From the Appalachians to the Mississippi

A Grand Narrative of the Western War Earl Hess has produced another fine study, this one long needed and much anticipated. An overview of the Civil War in the Western Theater had been needed for many years, especially since more historians are agreeing that the war was decided in the We...

The Bloody Shirt: Terror After Appomattox

The Battlefield of Reconstruction Published on the heels of Nicholas Lemann’s Redemption: The Last Battle of the Civil War (2006), Stephen Budiansky reinforces the sad story of the so-called Redemption movement in the South toward the end of Reconstruction. Redemption sounds bet...