Goals into Action: An Evaluation Report on the Third Bush Justice Conference

This evaluation reports on the Third Bush Justice Conference, held in Kenai, Alaska on November 8–12, 1976. Prior bush justice conferences were held at Alyeska (1970) and Minto (1974). The report outlines themes addressed in all the bush justice conferences, focuses on ways in which bush justice conferences can improve the administration of justice in rural Alaska, and recommends ways in which state justice agencies and Alaska Native representatives can work together proactively to respond to specific problems identified at conferences.Bush Justice Project, Alaska Federation of Native

Robust similarity registration technique for volumetric shapes represented by characteristic functions

This paper proposes a novel similarity registration technique for volumetric shapes implicitly represented by their characteristic functions (CFs). Here, the calculation of rotation parameters is considered as a spherical crosscorrelation problem and the solution is therefore found using the standard phase correlation technique facilitated by principal components analysis (PCA).Thus, fast Fourier transform (FFT) is employed to vastly improve efficiency and robustness. Geometric moments are then used for shape scale estimation which is independent from rotation and translation parameters. It is numericallydemonstrated that our registration method is able to handle shapes with various topologies and robust to noise and initial poses. Further validation of our method is performed by registering a lung database

The Cosmic Myths of Homer and Hesiod

Embedded in the narratives of the Homeric poems are a few passages which open windows on the ways in which the Homeric poet envisioned the cosmos around him. They occur as brief digressions, offering powerful but by no means consistent images, intruding into the narrative and then vanishing from it, but always prompted by some suitable context.--Homer's Comic Imagery

The Alphabetic Mind: A Gift of Greece to the Modern World

Up until about 700 years before Christ the Greek peoples were non-literate. About that time they invented a writing system conveniently described as an "alphabet," the Greek word for it. The use of this invention in the course of 300 to 400 years after 700 B.C. had a transformational effect upon the behavior of the Greek language, upon the kind of things that could be said in the language and the things that could be thought as it was used. The transformation, however, did not substitute one language for another. The Greek of the Hellenistic age is recognizably close kin to the Greek of Homer. Yet the degree of transformation can be conveniently measured by comparing Homer at the upper end of the time-span with the language of Aristotle at the lower end. The earlier form came into existence as an instrument for the preservation of oral speech through memorization. This memorized form was not the vernacular of casual conversation but an artifi cially managed language with special rules for memorization, one of which was rhythm. The later form, the Aristotelean one, existed and still exists as a literate instrument designed primarily for readers. It preserves its content not through memorization but by placing it in a visual artifact, the alphabet, where, the content can survive as long as the artifact and its copies survive also. The transformational effect made itself felt slowly in the course of 350 years. It was a complex process. What precisely was its nature? Its complexity can be summed up variously as on the one hand, a shift from poetry to prose as the medium of preserved communication; or again as a shift in literary style from narrative towards exposition; or again as the creation of a new literate syntax of defi nition which could be superimposed upon the oral syntax that described action. Or again we discern the invention of a conceptual language superimposed upon a non-conceptual; or alternatively a creation of the abstract to replace the concrete, the invention of an abstract version of what had previously been experienced sensually and directly as a series of events or actions.--Page 134-135.In 1963 Eric Havelock's landmark book Preface to Plato revolutionized the way we read both Homer and other ancient Greek literature by making the case for the "oral encyclopedia" of cultural attitudes, values, and beliefs that was "published" in oral performance. A collection of his seminal writings, The Literate Revolution in Greece and Its Cultural Consequences (1982), has since appeared, as has a fascinating study of the Presocratics (1983). He is Sterling Professor of Classics (Emeritus) at Yale University

A Solution to The Similarity Registration Problem of Volumetric Shapes

This paper provides a novel solution to the volumetric similarity registration problem usually encountered in statistical study of shapes and shape-based image segmentation. Shapes are implicitly representedby characteristic functions (CFs). By mapping shapes to a spherical coordinate system, shapes to be registered are projected to unit spheres and thus, rotation and scale parameters can be conveniently calculated.Translation parameter is computed using standard phase correlation technique. The method goes through intensive tests and is shown to be fast, robust to noise and initial poses, and suitable for a variety of similarity registration problems including shapes with complex structures and various topologies

Alaska Wealth Management and the Politics of Envy

This report explores issues in the management of public wealth in Alaska, particularly in relation to the oil industry and oil taxes, the public vs. private sectors, and lessons of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act.Research Development CouncilI. The Midas Touch / II. Limitations on Income / III. Limiting Income: Other than Oil / IV. Controlling State Expenditure: Demands of the Private Sector / V. Privatization / VI. Limiting Public Sector Growth / VII. Privatizing the Public Sector / VIII. Required: A Long Term Vie

Manual of Criminal Law and Procedure

Intended to aid to Alaska law enforcement officers in the performance of their duties in the field, this manual was designed to provide brief, quick access to major points of substantive and procedural criminal law. The manual contained discussion and procedural guidelines for investigatory stops, identification procedures including line-ups, arrest, search and seizure, interrogation, as well as discussion of justification for the use of nondeadly and deadly force whether by peace officers or civilians, culpability, entrapment, trial preparation, and media relations. The section on substantive criminal law deals with a selection of crimes most likely to be encountered by "street" officers as defined with the recently enacted Revised Alaska Criminal Code (effective January 1, 1980), desribing elements of each crime, investigative hints, and differences with previous provisions of the criminal code, where relevant.Alaska Department of Law Grant No. 78-A-014Introduction / Criminal Procedures / Substantive Criminal Law / Justification / Culpability / Entrapment / Trial Preparation / Media Relations / Appendice

The Pre-Law Introductory Program: A Report

This report describes an intensive four-week Pre-Law School Introductory Program offered in August 1980 by the Justice Center at University of Alaska, Anchorage to potential law school candidates from Alaska, focusing on Alaska Natives and members of other ethnic minorities. Two possible directions for further development of this pre-law program are discussed.Purpose / Recruitment/Publicity / Program Description / Evaluation / Recommendations / Funding / APPENDICES / A. List of People, Organizations, and Corporations Contacted / B. Statistical Breakdown of 60 Candidate

Capillary-gravity waves: The effect of viscosity on the wave resistance

The effect of viscosity on the wave resistance experienced by a 2d perturbation moving at uniform velocity over the free surface of a fluid is investigated. The analysis is based on Rayleigh's linearized theory of capillary-gravity waves. It is shown in particular that the wave resistance remains bounded as the velocity of the perturbation approches the minimun phase speed, unlike what is predicted by the inviscid theory.Comment: Europhysics Letters, in pres

Photon creation in a spherical oscillating cavity

We study the photon creation inside a perfectly conducting, spherical oscillating cavity. The electromagnetic field inside the cavity is described by means of two scalar fields which satisfy Dirichlet and (generalized) Neumann boundary conditions. As a preliminary step, we analyze the dynamical Casimir effect for both scalar fields. We then consider the full electromagnetic case. The conservation of angular momentum of the electromagnetic field is also discussed, showing that photons inside the cavity are created in singlet states.Comment: 14 pages, no figure