A System Appallingly out of Balance : Morgan v. State and the Rights of Defendants and Victims in Sexual Assault Prosecutions

In a series of three cases that culminate with Morgan v. State, Alaska\u27s courts established a unique protection for defendants in sexual assault cases. This protection, which allows such defendants to attack their victims in court with previous reports of sexual assault that did not result in prosecution, is not afforded to defendants in other cases and is based on a dubious general principle that the credibility of sexual assault victims has special relevance. The protection is problematic in several ways: it is grounded in erroneous stereotypes about the victims of sex crimes; it is detrimental to victims and the pursuit of truth; it is inconsistent with traditional rules of evidence; and it is unnecessary to protect the rights of defendants. For these reasons, this protection for defendants in sexual assault cases should be abrogated by legislative action as proposed herein

B-52B/DTV (Drop Test Vehicle) flight test results: Drop test missions

The NASA test airplane, B-52B-008, was a carrier for drop tests of the shuttle booster recovery parachute system. The purpose of the test support by Boeing was to monitor the vertical loads on the pylon hooks. The hooks hold the Drop Test Vehicle to the B-52 pylon during drop test missions. The loads were monitored to assure the successful completion of the flight and the safety of the crew

Kinematic analysis of the ARID manipulator

The kinematic structure of the ARID manipulator lends itself to simple forward and inverse kinematics analysis. The purpose of this paper is to fully document and verify an existing analysis. The symbolic software package MATHEMATICA was used to produce and verify the equations presented here. In the analysis to follow, the standard Devenit-Hartenberg kinematic parameters of the ARID were employed

Stable Leader Election in Population Protocols Requires Linear Time

A population protocol *stably elects a leader* if, for all $n$, starting from an initial configuration with $n$ agents each in an identical state, with probability 1 it reaches a configuration $\mathbf{y}$ that is correct (exactly one agent is in a special leader state $\ell$) and stable (every configuration reachable from $\mathbf{y}$ also has a single agent in state $\ell$). We show that any population protocol that stably elects a leader requires $\Omega(n)$ expected "parallel time" --- $\Omega(n^2)$ expected total pairwise interactions --- to reach such a stable configuration. Our result also informs the understanding of the time complexity of chemical self-organization by showing an essential difficulty in generating exact quantities of molecular species quickly.Comment: accepted to Distributed Computing special issue of invited papers from DISC 2015; significantly revised proof structure and intuitive explanation