The Verkhovna Rada Should Establish Courts of Limited Jurisdiction with Both Civil and Criminal Jurisdiction as Part of Ukrainian Judicial Reform

This article offers suggestions to the Ukraine Parliament on how to create an effective small claims court that addresses misdemeanor criminal cases, preliminary hearings and limited damages civil jurisdiction. The paper is one of nine papers presented by American judges offering prototype blueprints for the three basic levels of courts in Ukraine. Three judges addressed appeals, three judges addressed general jurisdiction courts, and this paper was one of the three papers addressing limited jurisdiction courts. The papers were written at the request of the National Judicial College and USAid.gov to guide Ukraine’s efforts to strengthen their judiciary. The author is a Tennessee municipal judge and a Native American appellate jurist

Black p-Branes versus black holes in non-asymptotically flat Einstein-Yang-Mills theory

We present a class of non-asymptotically flat (NAF) charged black p-branes (BpB) with p-compact dimensions in higher dimensional Einstein-Yang-Mills theory. Asymptotically the NAF structure manifests itself as an anti-de-sitter spacetime. We determine the total mass / energy enclosed in a thin-shell located outside the event horizon. By comparing the entropies of BpB with those of black holes in same dimensions we derive transition criteria between the two types of black objects. Given certain conditions satisfied our analysis shows that BpB can be considered excited states of black holes. An event horizon $r_{+}$ versus charge square $Q^{2}$ plot \ for the BpB reveals such a transition where $r_{+}$ is related to the horizon radius $r_{h}$ of the black hole (BH) both with the common charge $$Comment: 10 pages, 1 figure, updated version. Final version to be published in EPJ

The Collapse of Large Extra Dimensions

In models of spacetime that are the product of a four-dimensional spacetime with an ``extra'' dimension, there is the possibility that the extra dimension will collapse to zero size, forming a singularity. We ask whether this collapse is likely to destroy the spacetime. We argue, by an appeal to the four-dimensional cosmic censorship conjecture, that--at least in the case when the extra dimension is homogeneous--such a collapse will lead to a singularity hidden within a black string. We also construct explicit initial data for a spacetime in which such a collapse is guaranteed to occur and show how the formation of a naked singularity is likely avoided.Comment: Uses revtex

Risk modelling of fires and explosions in open-sided offshore platform modules

Incidents involving fires and explosions present a major hazard to the workforce on offshore oil and gas platforms. Following the Piper Alpha Disaster in 1988, platform operators for the UK sector are required to submit safety cases for approval by the Health and Safety Executive. A key requirement of these safety cases is that hazards associated with an accidental release of hydrocarbons have been demonstrated to be as low as reasonably practicable. This paper aims to describe a process for estimating the expected number of fatalities on offshore platforms with open-sided modules using a Monte Carlo simulation method implemented within the SAROS (Safety and Reliability of Offshore Structures) software. The process involves estimation of the frequency and magnitude of jet fires, pool fires and explosions. This is combined with the distribution of the workforce over the platform at the time of the incident to predict the risk of fatality

Non-abelian magnetic black strings versus black holes

We present $d+1-$dimensional pure magnetic Yang-Mills (YM) black strings (or $1-$branes) induced by the $d-$dimensional Einstein-Yang-Mills-Dilaton black holes. Born-Infeld version of the YM field makes our starting point which goes to the standard YM field through a limiting procedure. The lifting from black holes to black strings, (with less number of fields) is by adding an extra, compact coordinate. This amounts to the change of horizon topology from $S^{d-2}$ to a product structure. Our black string in $5-$dimensions is a rather special one, with uniform Hawking temperature and non-asymptotically flat structure. As the YM charge becomes large the string gets thinner to tend into a breaking point and transform into a $4-$% dimensional black hole.Comment: 5 pages no figure; Final version to appear in EPJ

Open String Star as a Continuous Moyal Product

We establish that the open string star product in the zero momentum sector can be described as a continuous tensor product of mutually commuting two dimensional Moyal star products. Let the continuous variable $\kappa \in [~0,\infty)$ parametrize the eigenvalues of the Neumann matrices; then the noncommutativity parameter is given by $\theta(\kappa) =2\tanh(\pi\kappa/4)$. For each $\kappa$, the Moyal coordinates are a linear combination of even position modes, and the Fourier transform of a linear combination of odd position modes. The commuting coordinate at $\kappa=0$ is identified as the momentum carried by half the string. We discuss the relation to Bars' work, and attempt to write the string field action as a noncommutative field theory.Comment: 30 pages, LaTeX. One reference adde

Nucleotide Frequencies in Human Genome and Fibonacci Numbers

This work presents a mathematical model that establishes an interesting connection between nucleotide frequencies in human single-stranded DNA and the famous Fibonacci's numbers. The model relies on two assumptions. First, Chargaff's second parity rule should be valid, and, second, the nucleotide frequencies should approach limit values when the number of bases is sufficiently large. Under these two hypotheses, it is possible to predict the human nucleotide frequencies with accuracy. It is noteworthy, that the predicted values are solutions of an optimization problem, which is commonplace in many nature's phenomena.Comment: 12 pages, 2 figure

Risk modelling of fires and explosions in open-sided offshore platform modules

Incidents involving fires and explosions present a major hazard to the workforce on offshore oil and gas platforms. Following the Piper Alpha Disaster in 1988, platform operators for the UK sector are required to submit safety cases for approval by the Health and Safety Executive. A key requirement of these safety cases is that hazards associated with an accidental release of hydrocarbons have been demonstrated to be as low as reasonably practicable. This paper aims to describe a process for estimating the expected number of fatalities on offshore platforms with open-sided modules using a Monte Carlo simulation method implemented within the safety and reliability of offshore structures (SAROS) software. The process involves estimation of the frequency and magnitude of jet fires, pool fires, and explosions. This is combined with the distribution of the workforce over the platform at the time of the incident to predict the risk of fatality