The internet and public–private governance in the European Union

The EU plays a significant role in public policy aspects of Internet governance, having created in the late 1990s the dot eu Internet Top Level Domain (TLD). This enables users to register names under a European online address label. This paper explores key public policy issues in the emergent governance system for dot eu, because it provides an interesting case of new European transnational private governance. Specifically, dot eu governance is a reconciliation resulting from a governance cultural clash between the European regulatory state and what can be described broadly as the Internet community. The EU has customised the governance of dot eu towards a public–private dispersed agencification model. The paper extends the evidence base on agencification within trans-European regulatory networks and the emergence of private transnational network governance characterised by self-regulation

Multiple litters in the California ground squirrel, Spermophilus beecheyi fisheri, in Tulare County

From the fall of 1977 through late spring of 1979, periodic examination of female ground squirrels in the low oak woodlands of southern Tulare County revealed that as much as 20 percent of the reproductively active females bred a second time within a given breeding season. This began to occur 50 to 80 days after the beginning of the breeding season. Evidence of litter loss from abortion was inapparent in 1979, but grossly obvious uterine inflammation was seen in 2 percent of the females in 1978. Neonatal losses were undetermined. Rebreeding appeared to occur in the older females, 2 years and older, and considering that older females probably constitute 35 percent of the breeding females, 20 percent breed-back would seem to be quite significant

A didelphid (Marsupialia) from the early Eocene of Colorado

It is known that opossums (Marsupialia, Didelphidae) were present and abundant locally, at least, in North America from late Cretaceous to early Miocene, reappearing in the Pleistocene and then continuing to the present time…

The periodical essayists of the eighteenth century

The present work is an endeavour to give an approximately complete and detailed survey of the Periodical Essay of the Eighteenth Century and its writers. In the preparation of the work, the author has seen and examined over one hundred and fifty periodicals . Many of these are now exceedingly rare, an full use has been made of the valuable collections in the great libraries: - The -British Museum Library, London; the Bodleian Library, Oxford; the Advocate's, the Signet's, and the University Libraries, Edinburgh. In addition the author has been privileged to see a number of periodicals in private collection.The question of arrangement presented difficulties. The simplest solution was to adopt as far as possible a chronological plan. The advantages of this scheme outweighed the dis- :advantage of a certain 'catalogue -y' effect which was almost inevitable when so many periodicals were being passed under review. A number of illustrative extracts support the critical statements made.Up to the present time no work has appeared devoted exclusively to this subject and limited to this period. Accordingly this endeavour to deal with the whole field of the periodical essay in the eighteenth century, (with the Martial exception of the work of Nathan Drake of over a century ago) is pioneer work, and an original contribution to the subject based on wholly personal investigation.An index of periodicals alphabetically and chronologically arranged concludes the work

Electromagnetic Scattering from a Gap in a Magneto-dielectric Coating on an Infinite Ground Plane

The electromagnetic scattering from a gap in a magneto-dielectric coating on an infinite ground plane is analyzed. In this context, the gap forms a break only in the magneto-dielectric slab coating while the ground plane is continuous and unbroken. Volume equivalence is used to convert the gap region to one containing unknown volumetric equivalent electric and magnetic currents. The equivalent problem then is one of these currents radiating in the presence of an unbroken grounded magneto-dielectric slab. A Green\u27s function for this geometry is developed consisting of two terms: a direct coupling term and correction term to account for the multiple reflected wave series resulting from the grounded-slab geometry. This bounce correction term is formulated using periodic array theory and is derived using the Array Scanning Method. A set of coupled integral equations based on these equivalent currents is then solved via the Method of Moments using pulse basis and delta testing functions. The model can represent a gap that is of a general 2D shape (the gap is assumed to be infinite in its translational direction) and can be filled with an inhomogeneous material possessing isotropic magnetic and dielectric constitutive properties different from those of the slab coating. Scattering from the gap is evaluated for plane wave illumination that is either TM or TE with respect to the gap

A Study of Some Chloronitroso Compounds with Special Reference to Their Suitability for Asymmetric Photolysis

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LV. On the Wilson-Gerdien theory of thunderstorm electricity

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