Pseudo-prototyping of aerospace mechanical dynamic systems with a generalized computer program

The ADAMS computer program for automated analysis of mechanisms and machines is described. The program automatically formulates mathematical models for prototype or existing mechanisms with the minimum necessary physical and geometric data. The model can then be analyzed in various modes of analysis. The outputs (displacements, velocities, acceleration and forces) can be produced in tabular and graphical (plots, wire frame graphics) form. The application of this computer program to simulating satellite docking maneuvers is illustrated

A study to identify and compare airborne systems for in-situ measurements of launch vehicle effluents

An in-situ system for monitoring the concentration of HCl, CO, CO2, and Al2O3 in the cloud of reaction products that form as a result of a launch of solid propellant launch vehicle is studied. A wide array of instrumentation and platforms are reviewed to yield the recommended system. An airborne system suited to monitoring pollution concentrations over urban areas for the purpose of calibrating remote sensors is then selected using a similar methodology to yield the optimal configuration

Is Extraterritoriality the Golden Ticket Out of Corporate Liability? How the Modern-Day Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory Evaded Liability Under the Alien Tort Statute in Nestlé v. Doe

The Alien Tort Statute (“ATS”) was drafted as part of the Judiciary Act of 1789. It was intended to provide federal courts with the jurisdiction to hear civil actions brought by foreign plaintiffs for torts committed in violation of the law of nations or other United States treaty. After a two-hundred-year dormancy period, the Statute has since been revived and become a vehicle by which foreign plaintiffs seek redress for environmental and human rights offenses carried out on foreign soil, often at the hands of United States corporations. However, the Supreme Court continues to limit the reach of the Statute, imposing a hurdle of extraterritoriality, which prevents the Court from offering relief when the harms alleged have not touched or concerned U.S. soil. Regardless of whether these harms were orchestrated on U.S. soil and carried out by U.S. corporations, so long as the harms occurred on foreign soil, U.S. law cannot be invoked. This application is antithetical to the statutory intent of the ATS and the modern practice of international law. It has resulted in decisions that favor corporate defendants, allowing them to bypass liability for even the most egregious rights violations. In contrast, the United Kingdom has circumvented this hurdle by focusing not on sufficient proximity, but on general impositions of tort law, particularly in evaluating whether parent corporations breached a duty of care rightfully owed to claimants. This Note analyzes the UK Supreme Court approach as a means of overcoming the extraterritoriality limitation of the ATS. Among other advantages, this approach will fulfill the Statute’s intent, enabling plaintiffs to obtain redress and allowing federal courts the jurisdiction to condemn corporate defendants for atrocities carried out on foreign soil at the expense of foreign nationals and their land

Citrus Fruits Deluxe

Express package, Miss, growled the expressman as he deposited a box labeled Florida Oranges at my feet. In a moment the lid was off and I picked up a card which read: We know you will like our Florida citrus fruit, but won\u27t you write and tell us anyway

Medical Taking of Human Biological Material v. Traditional “Art Looting”: Henrietta Lacks and the Complex Ethical and Legal Liability Questions Raised by Her Unfortunate Case

During a poignant saga of American history, Henrietta Lacks stands as an emblem of both scientific triumph and ethical controversy. In 1951, Mrs. Lacks, a tobacco farmer and mother of five, visited Johns Hopkins Hospital for treatment of what was later discovered to be advanced stage cervical cancer. Her doctors treated her with radium, which was standard practice at the time. However, Mrs. Lacks’s cancer rapidly metastasized and she ultimately passed away just months later on October 4, 1951, at the age of 31. During the course of her treatment, Mrs. Lacks’s cells were non-consensually removed for purposes of scientific research. The cell line, coined “HeLa cells,” have in many ways immortalized Mrs. Lacks, playing an instrumental role in numerous medical breakthroughs, including the development of Covid vaccines. Despite the immense contributions her cell line made to scientific research, Mrs. Lacks and her family never received acknowledgement or compensation for the non-consensual taking and continued usage of HeLa cells. Decades later, her family filed a lawsuit against Thermo Fisher Scientific, seeking damages in profits gained from the commercialization of her cell line. This article explores the legal precedent governing the ownership of human biological materials and compares them to cases involving entrusted goods and stolen art. It scrutinizes the hurdles encountered by the Lacks family in their quest for accountability and compensation. Ultimately, the Lacks family settled with the biotech giant, sparking discussions about the ethical implications of using human biological materials in research and the need for greater protections of patient rights

Necrotic Machines/Zombie Genders: Transfeminine Disruptions of Feminist Progress

Predominant narratives of trans womanhood—from biomedical sources, Feminist depictions, and film representations—typically present trans women as monstrous and antagonistic to normative cisgender society. Accordingly, this thesis traces this oppositional frame to the roots of \u27trans\u27 as a cultural category, through 20th century biomedical discourses, Feminist conceptions of trans woman identity, and horror films in order to better understand the contemporary proliferation of antipathy and violence towards transgender women. In so doing, this thesis revisits trans exclusionary theorists such as Mary Daly and Janice Raymond, developing Daly\u27s concept of \u27robotitude\u27 into a notion of transitory \u27necrosis\u27, positing the zombie as a moving post-human model for mapping anti-trans violence and transphobia in regard to becoming-trans. This thesis further argues for trans identity not as a stable ontology, but as a hauntological trajectory of becoming in which trans lives are rendered illegible and occluded