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Informed consent and the transmission of sexual disease: Dadson Revivified
This article examines the impact of the decisions in R v Dica (2004) and R v Konzani (2005) on the extent of the defence of consent. As well as analysing the impact of the decisions on the extent of the defence where a defendant faces criminal liability for the transmission of sexual disease, it also considers and examines the wider issue of whether the presence or absence of consent forms part of the actus reus of the relevant assault offence or whether it is a separate and independent element that stands outside of the conduct component of the offence. It is argued that recent developments have given insufficient consideration to accepted doctrine and revived much criticised principles by focusing on unknown circumstances of justification rather than the defendant's state of knowledge and mind
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Perceived Facial Distortions in Selfies Are Explained by Viewing Habits.
Spin 1 inversion: a Majorana tensor force for deuteron alpha scattering
We demonstrate, for the first time, successful S-matrix to potential
inversion for spin one projectiles with non-diagonal yielding a
interaction. The method is a generalization of the
iterative-perturbative, IP, method. We present a test case indicating the
degree of uniqueness of the potential. The method is adapted, using established
procedures, into direct observable to potential inversion, fitting ,
, , and for d + alpha scattering over
a range of energies near 10 MeV. The interaction which we find is
very different from that proposed elsewhere, both real and imaginary parts
being very different for odd and even parity channels.Comment: 7 pages Revtex, 4 ps figure
Scattering Theory for Quantum Hall Anyons in a Saddle Point Potential
We study the theory of scattering of two anyons in the presence of a
quadratic saddle-point potential and a perpendicular magnetic field. The
scattering problem decouples in the centre-of-mass and the relative
coordinates. The scattering theory for the relative coordinate encodes the
effects of anyon statistics in the two-particle scattering. This is fully
characterized by two energy-dependent scattering phase shifts. We develop a
method to solve this scattering problem numerically, using a generalized lowest
Landau level approximation.Comment: 5 pages. Published version, with clarified presentatio
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Application of thermoelectric aging models to polymeric insulation in cable geometry
The life expressions of models of insulation ageing are functions of temperature and field as well as material parameters. A methodology is presented that allows these models to be applied to a cable geometry in which there is a radial variation of both field and temperature. In this way material parameters can be extracted from cable data. The methodology is illustrated using one such model and the parameters deduced from cable failure distributions are compared with those obtained for thin films. This comparison allows conclusions to be drawn about how the ageing process affects specimens of the same material with different volumes
A review of satellite time-transfer technology: Accomplishments and future applications
The research accomplishments by NASA in meeting the needs of the space program for precise time in satellite tracking are presented. As a major user of precise time signals for clock synchronization of NASA's worldwide satellite tracking networks, the agency provides much of the necessary impetus for the development of stable frequency sources and time synchronization technology. The precision time required for both satellite tracking and space science experiments has increased at a rate of about one order of magnitude per decade from 1 millisecond in the 1950's to 100 microseconds during the Apollo era in the 1960's to 10 microseconds in the 1970's. For the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System, satellite timing requirements will be extended to 1 microsecond and below. These requirements are needed for spacecraft autonomy and data packeting
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Application of polymer ageing models to power cables
Ageing models have been developed to predict the lifetime of polymeric insulation subject to electro-thermal stresses. We present here a method for applying the models to situations in which the field is not constant over the whole specimen, as for cable geometry. The method has been applied to characteristic lifetime data from AC ageing experiments on cables. The results are presented, and the effect of insulation volume upon the model parameters is discussed
Hearing the grass grow. Emotional and epistemological challenges of practice-near research
This paper discusses the concept of practice-near research in terms of the emotional and epistemological challenges that arise from the researcher coming 'near' enough to other people for psychological processes to ensue. These may give rise in the researcher to confusion, anxiety and doubt about who is who and what is what; but also to the possibility of real emotional and relational depth in the research process. Using illustrations from three social work doctoral research projects undertaken by students at the Tavistock Clinic and the University of East London the paper examines four themes that seem to the author to be central to meaningful practice-near research undertaken in a spirit of true emotional and epistemological open-mindedness: the smell of the real; losing our minds; the inevitability of personal change; and the discovery of complex particulars
Investigation of the Coupling Potential by means of S-matrix Inversion
We investigate the inelastic coupling interaction by studying its effect on
the elastic scattering potential as determined by inverting the elastic
scattering -matrix. We first address the effect upon the real and imaginary
elastic potentials of including excited states of the target nucleus. We then
investigate the effect of a recently introduced novel coupling potential which
has been remarkably successful in reproducing the experimental data for the
C+C, C+Mg and O+Si reactions over a
wide range of energies. This coupling potential has the effect of deepening the
real elastic potential in the surface region, thereby explaining a common
feature of many phenomenological potentials. It is suggested that one can
relate this deepening to the super-deformed state of the compound nucleus,
Mg.Comment: 12 pages with 3 figure
Density waves and supersolidity in rapidly rotating atomic Fermi gases
We study theoretically the low-temperature phases of a two-component atomic
Fermi gas with attractive s-wave interactions under conditions of rapid
rotation. We find that, in the extreme quantum limit, when all particles occupy
the lowest Landau level, the normal state is unstable to the formation of
"charge" density wave (CDW) order. At lower rotation rates, when many Landau
levels are occupied, we show that the low-temperature phases can be
supersolids, involving both CDW and superconducting order.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figure, uses feynmp.st
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