The National and International Legal Complications of Subseabed Emplacement of High-Level Nuclear Waste

High-level radioactive waste produced by nuclear power generation, weapons production, and medical research has been accumulating in temporary storage pools in many countries. A permanent method of disposal will soon benecessary to ensure against contamination of man and the environment. Land-based geologic formations, such as salt domes, are the preferred sites for disposal at this time in the United States. Subseabed emplacement is one option under consideration and the technological aspects of this method are currently being studied. In order to resolve these issues, it is proposed that relevant laws be conditionally amended to legalize subseabed emplacement, but only after all experimentation and observation has been completed, an international management system is operational, arguments by all actors have been considered, and international laws have been altered to explicitly cover emplacement. It is further proposed that the international management system be developed within the framework of the convention on the Law of the Sea, in order to take advantage af an existing institution, and minimize conflicts with the International Seabed Authority

The Herbert Pickering Lewis Collection of Talavera Poblano

This thesis describes a one hundred and seventy-nine piece collection of ceramics, the Herbert Pickering Lewis Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago. The collection arrived in Chicago seventy-five years ago. The objects were made in Mexico. Mexico, once home to the deities, sports and commerce of the Aztec, Maya and Olmec civilizations, was settled by Europeans early in the sixteenth century . . . and New Spain became the first Spanish American viceroyalty, eventually including all of ancient Mesoamerica, northern Mexico, the Caribbean and most of the south-western USA (see Hoggart, page 230). Though the political map has changed since 1521, the territories that composed New Spain continue to be associated with social and economic structures traced to a rigid colonial administration (230). This study explores and highlights the ceramics of New Spain, the first Spanish American Viceroyalty, and it applies a criteria of value to the Herbert Pickering Lewis ceramics known as Talavera poblana. The donation of the collection is supported by archival documents and registered records at the Art collection is supported by archival documents and registered records at the Art Institute of Chicago. The thesis addresses and provides the reasoning for the Lewis collection and its place within the holdings of the Art Institute. As a topic of concern to the general public, art of sixteenth through eighteenth century New Spain is of timely interest because it is an example of the confluence of cultures that contributed to Hispanic society. The late twentieth century which nurtured this report displays the evolution of New Spain\u27s arts and beliefs. The results of the study produced considerable justification for an exhibition of the Herbert Pickering Lewis Collection of Spanish Colonial ceramics

Review of \u3cem\u3eGhettos, Tramps, and Welfare Queens: Down and Out on the Silver Screen.\u3c/em\u3e by Stephen Pimpare

Review or: Stephen Pimpare, Ghettos, Tramps, and Welfare Queens: Down and Out on the Silver Screen. Oxford University Press (2017), 342 pages, $35 (hardcover)

Adolescent Family Survivors of Sexual Trauma: Program Development

This thesis will explore theory and propose a program specific to the needs of a particular population of adolescent female survivors of child sexual trauma. This population of adolescent and young adult females are the runaway, throwaway, and homeless survivors of child sexual trauma that i have had the opportunity to work with for the past three years as an outreach worker. These survivors have had a history of sexual violence and too little support to enable them to heal from these experiences. This thesis focuses on expanding current outreach services to this population of young women grounded in the exploration of the current literature. The expansion of services involves the development of a comprehensive abuse healing program with group work as the chosen method of treatment. Theory and program development will take place within a framework of feminist theory drawing on empowerment models, personal and professional observations and experiences. The proposed programs structure, goals, and curriculum will attempt to reduce and undo some of the fear, isolation and loneliness that pervades much of the lives of the young survivors in this group. It will offer a nurturing and non stigmatizing environment of care aimed at providing an opportunity for both individual healing and collective group empowerment

Exploring news framing in military-oriented newspapers

This research paper explores news framing within two military-oriented newspapers, the Stars and Stripes and Military Times, on the topics of sexual assault and the effects of deployment on military families, as well as the organizational and extramedia factors that influence how military news reporters frame news on these topics. Major frames for sexual assault include failures in the military justice system; a "troubling command culture" (Tritten, 2016); the difficulty that sexual assault victims in the military face in speaking out; and a worsening of sexual assault problems in the military system. Major frames for deployment effects include: not enough institutional/cultural support for military families with deployment-related issues; the need for military families to reconcile these issues; military spouses' tendency to shelve their own emotional needs during/after deployments; and the cultural stigma military mothers face when they deploy. The Military Times frames articles to include a broader audience and focuses on advocating for service members' health and career needs, while the Stars and Stripes focuses on a narrower military audience with emphasis on military family relationships. Both newspapers focused on pinpointing problems and causes in sexual assault articles, and solutions or moral implications in deployment effects articles (Entman, 1993). Perceptions of mission and audience appear to influence news reporting at military-oriented newspapers more than ownership.Dr. Tim Vos, Thesis Supervisor.Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-155)

Quantum Monte Carlo Calculations of Light Nuclei Using Chiral Potentials

We present the first Green's function Monte Carlo calculations of light nuclei with nuclear interactions derived from chiral effective field theory up to next-to-next-to-leading order. Up to this order, the interactions can be constructed in a local form and are therefore amenable to quantum Monte Carlo calculations. We demonstrate a systematic improvement with each order for the binding energies of $A=3$ and $A=4$ systems. We also carry out the first few-body tests to study perturbative expansions of chiral potentials at different orders, finding that higher-order corrections are more perturbative for softer interactions. Our results confirm the necessity of a three-body force for correct reproduction of experimental binding energies and radii, and pave the way for studying few- and many-nucleon systems using quantum Monte Carlo methods with chiral interactions.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures, 4 tables. Updated references. Cosmetic changes to figures, tables, and equations; added a sentence clarifying the correspondence between our real-space cutoffs and momentum-space cutoffs. Other sentences were reworded for clarit

Chiral Three-Nucleon Interactions in Light Nuclei, Neutron-α\alpha Scattering, and Neutron Matter

We present quantum Monte Carlo calculations of light nuclei, neutron-$\alpha$ scattering, and neutron matter using local two- and three-nucleon ($3N$) interactions derived from chiral effective field theory up to next-to-next-to-leading order (N$^2$LO). The two undetermined $3N$ low-energy couplings are fit to the $^4$He binding energy and, for the first time, to the spin-orbit splitting in the neutron-$\alpha$ $P$-wave phase shifts. Furthermore, we investigate different choices of local $3N$-operator structures and find that chiral interactions at N$^2$LO are able to simultaneously reproduce the properties of $A=3,4,5$ systems and of neutron matter, in contrast to commonly used phenomenological $3N$ interactions.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures, 1 table - updated version: small wording changes, one reference chang

Quantum Monte Carlo calculations of light nuclei with local chiral two- and three-nucleon interactions

Local chiral effective field theory interactions have recently been developed and used in the context of quantum Monte Carlo few- and many-body methods for nuclear physics. In this work, we go over detailed features of local chiral nucleon-nucleon interactions and examine their effect on properties of the deuteron, paying special attention to the perturbativeness of the expansion. We then turn to three-nucleon interactions, focusing on operator ambiguities and their interplay with regulator effects. We then discuss the nuclear Green's function Monte Carlo method, going over both wave-function correlations and approximations for the two- and three-body propagators. Following this, we present a range of results on light nuclei: Binding energies and distribution functions are contrasted and compared, starting from several different microscopic interactions.Comment: 21 pages, 14 figures, published version, Editor's Suggestio