Electrodes for sealed secondary batteries

Self-supporting membrane electrode structures, in which active ingredients and graphite are incorporated in a polymeric matrix, improve performance of electrodes in miniature, sealed, alkaline storage batteries

Confessions of a Collaborator: Shoesole and Stewardship Alliance of Northeast Elko County, Nevada

Abstract – The Shoesole Management Team (Shoesole) and the Stewardship Alliance of Northeastern Elko (SANE) are place-based, landowner-organized, natural and human resource conservation initiatives. The Shoesole was organized in 2002 to take a more holistic approach to grazing management issues on two federal livestock grazing allotments. This effort provided the foundation for SANE, which was organized in 2012 by representatives of eight ranches in northeastern Nevada in response to the potential listing of the greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus; sage-grouse). Shoesole and SANE came together voluntarily, as a rancher organized initiative, with a common goal of creating a better place-based conservation decision-making process. The SANE and Shoesole encompass over 688,000 ha in northeastern Nevada of which 200,000 ha is privately-owned and 488,000 ha of public land allotments managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and U.S. Forest Service (USFS). Over fifty percent of the sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) habitat in SANE area was designated a Sagebrush Focal Area in the BLM Resource Plan and USFS Land Use Plan sage-grouse amendments. The SANE includes state and federal land management and resource agencies with regulatory and management authority in the region. The SANE group tackled the planning and implementation of sound conservation management through the development of a Sagebrush Ecosystem Conservation Plan. Both Shoesole and SANE are collaborative, consensus based local working groups that developed from the ground up. The groups address the social science side of the range management and sage-grouse equation through a facilitated collaborative model that builds trusting relationships, as the foundation of solution, place-based resource management

International Implications of Limitations on Aggregate Concentration

Traditionally, antitrust laws have been concerned with competition and concentration within a single market. In the past few years, however, increasing attention has been given to economywide or aggregate concentration-especially when such concentration is accomplished by merger rather than by internal growth. In 1979 and 1980, Congress considered Senate Bill S. 600 which would limit mergers based on size criteria that are unrelated, at least directly, to proof of a lessening of competition within any given market. The international implications of applying this principle are complex and difficult, and have yet to be fully addressed. It is the purpose of this article to articulate the contours of this area of emerging importance

Judicial Independence and the Rule of Law

The rule of law provides two basic protections against arbitrary or discriminatory government action. It provides that the rule applied to a particular case must be reasonably predictable. And it provides that the rule must be predictable without regard for the identity of the parties. We know the importance that the rule of law has for our society, our democracy, and the kind of civilization we want, but we rarely take the time to think about what the components of the rule of law are and how we assure that the rule of law continues. Why has this country been successful—much more successful than most societies—in preserving the rule of law? How can we continue to be successful? How can we lead societies emerging into the democratic arena to adopt the rule of law and then protect and preserve it

The Circumnavigation of Penobscot Bay

An account of a boat trip made by Eric Sexton, Boies Penrose, and Douglas H. Gordon around Penobscot Bay

Instrument for measuring potentials on two dimensional electric field plots Patent

Instrument for measuring potentials on two dimensional electric field plo