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A Symposium: The Legal and Polticial Implications of Buckley v. Valeo (1976)
One of the most vexing issues in constitutional jurisprudence concerns the political regulation of money and its democratic implications. The resolution of the constitutional question for democracy involves striking a balance between two competing interests: the protection of political liberty under the First Amendment and the legitimate interest government has in preventing money from having a corrosive or corrupting effect on the political system. With its landmark ruling in Buckley v. Valeo, some say that the Supreme Court successfully reconciled these interests and, in fact, strongly preserved the basic ideal of American freedom. Different commentators, however, maintain that the Supreme Court managed to protect neither interest adequately. Still others familiar with campaign finance adopt a more neutral position, implying that Buckley is a sound ruling but nonetheless leaves many key constitutional issues and public policy questions unsettled. To be sure, the range of debate surrounding Buckley illustrates that it is the basis for legal and political controversy
Zinc - 1,10-phenanthroline complexes and their analytical application
The use of ultraviolet spectrophotometry for quantitative inorganic analytical purposes has long remained unexploited. An extremely large number of complexes of metals have characteristic absorption properties in the visible portion of the spectrum and many colorimetric methods of analysis depend upon this fact. With the present availability of ultraviolet spectrophotometric equipment the charachteristic absorption properties of many colorless metallic complexes in the ultraviolet region of the spectrum should as conveniently be capable of similar utilization
Model validation for a noninvasive arterial stenosis detection problem
Copyright @ 2013 American Institute of Mathematical SciencesA current thrust in medical research is the development of a non-invasive method for detection, localization, and characterization of an arterial stenosis (a blockage or partial blockage in an artery). A method has been proposed to detect shear waves in the chest cavity which have been generated by disturbances in the blood flow resulting from a stenosis. In order to develop this methodology further, we use both one-dimensional pressure and shear wave experimental data from novel acoustic phantoms to validate corresponding viscoelastic mathematical models, which were developed in a concept paper [8] and refined herein. We estimate model parameters which give a good fit (in a sense to be precisely defined) to the experimental data, and use asymptotic error theory to provide confidence intervals for parameter estimates. Finally, since a robust error model is necessary for accurate parameter estimates and confidence analysis, we include a comparison of absolute and relative models for measurement error.The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the Deopartment of Education and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
On the Interplay of Monopoles and Chiral Symmetry Breaking in Non-Compact Lattice QED
Non-compact lattice QED is simulated for various numbers of fermion species
ranging from 8 through 40 by the exact Hybrid Monte Carlo algorithm. Over
this range of , chiral symmetry breaking is found to be strongly
correlated with the effective monopoles in the theory. For between 8 and
16 the chiral symmetry breaking and monopole percolation transitions are second
order and coincident. Assuming powerlaw critical behavior, the correlation
length exponent for the chiral transition is identical to that of monopole
percolation. This result supports the conjecture that monopole percolation
``drives" the nontrivial chiral transition. For between 20 and 32, the
monopoles experience a first order condensation transition coincident with a
first order chiral transition. For as large as 40 both transitions are
strongly suppressed. The data at large N_f (N_f \mathrel {\mathpalette \vereq
>} 20) is interpreted in terms of a strongly interacting monopole gas-liquid
transition.Comment: Revtex file, 23 pages, hardcopy figures only
`t Hooft Anomaly Matching for QCD
I present a set of theories which display non-trivial `t Hooft anomaly
matching for QCD with flavors. The matching theories are non-Abelian gauge
theories with "dual" quarks and baryons, rather than the purely confining
theories of baryons that `t Hooft originally searched for. The matching gauge
groups are required to have an dimensional representation. Such a
correspondence is reminiscent of Seiberg's duality for supersymmetric (SUSY)
QCD, and these theories are candidates for non-SUSY duality. However anomaly
matching by itself is not sufficiently restrictive, and duality for QCD cannot
be established at present. At the very least, the existence of multiple anomaly
matching solutions should provide a note of caution regarding conjectured
non-SUSY dualities.Comment: 8 pages, LaTeX, version to be published in PR
Evaluation of Flying Start NHS
Introduction In January 2006 “Flying Start NHS”, a national web-based educational resource to support the transition from student to qualified practitioner for all newly qualified nurses, midwives and allied health professionals (NMAHP) joining NHS Scotland was launched. This report brings together the findings from a two-year evaluation which focussed on the impact and effectiveness of Flying Start NHS in supporting the recruitment, confidence and skills development of newly qualified nurses, midwives and allied health professionals within NHS Scotland. The evaluation was carried out be a research team from the University of the West of Scotland, the University of Stirling, and the University of Dundee
Large Loops of Magnetic Current and Confinement in Four Dimensional Lattice Gauge Theory
We calculate the heavy quark potential from the magnetic current due to
monopoles in four dimensional lattice gauge theory. The magnetic current
is found from link angle configurations using the DeGrand-Toussaint
identification method. The link angle configurations are generated in a cosine
action simulation on a lattice. The magnetic current is resolved into
large loops which wrap around the lattice and simple loops which do not.
Wrapping loops are found only in the confined phase. It is shown that the long
range part of the heavy quark potential, in particular the string tension, can
be calculated solely from the large, wrapping loops of magnetic current.Comment: 15 pages (Latex file plus 3 postscript files appended), Univeristy of
Illinois Preprint ILL-(TH)-93-\#1
Infusion of P‐Capt prion‐filtered red blood cell products demonstrate acceptable in vivo viability and no evidence of neoantigen formation
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/86946/1/j.1537-2995.2011.03133.x.pd
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