Constitutional Law - Free Television Act Passed by California General Electorate Held Violative of Free Speech Guarantee. Weaver v. Jordan (Cal. 1966)

This recent case discusses Weaver v. Jordon (Cal. 1966)

What's new in surface irrigation equipment

Advances are being made to improve and develop new equipment for both furrow and flooding methods of surface irrigation

Utilizing UV and Visible Sensors on Micro Satellites to Demonstrate Target Acquisition and Tracking

The Distributed Sensing Experiment (DSE) program is a technology demonstration of target acquisition, tracking, and three-dimensional track development using a constellation of three micro satellites. DSE will demonstrate how micro satellites, working singly and as a group, can observe test-missile boost and ballistic-flight events. The overarching program objective is to demonstrate a means of fusing measurements from multiple sensors into a composite track. To perform this demonstration, each DSE micro satellite will acquire and track a target, determine a two-dimensional direction and movement rate for each, communicate observations to other DSE satellites, determine a three-dimensional target position and velocity, and relay this information to ground systems. A key design parameter of the program is incorporating commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware and software to reduce risk and control costs, while maintaining performance. Having completed a successful Critical Design Review, the program is currently in fabrication, integration, and test phase. The constellation of satellites is scheduled for launch in CY2009. This paper describes the status and capabilities of the UV and visible sensor payloads, as well as the algorithms and software being developed to achieve the DSE mission

Geometric phase in the Hopf bundle and the stability of non-linear waves

We develop a stability index for the traveling waves of non-linear reaction–diffusion equations using the geometric phase induced on the Hopf bundle . This can be viewed as an alternative formulation of the winding number calculation of the Evans function, whose zeros correspond to the eigenvalues of the linearization of reaction–diffusion operators about the wave. The stability of a traveling wave can be determined by the existence of eigenvalues of positive real part for the linear operator. Our for locating and counting eigenvalues is inspired by the numerical results in Way’s Way (2009). We provide a detailed proof of the relationship between the phase and eigenvalues for dynamical systems defined on and sketch the proof of the method of geometric phase for and its generalization to boundary-value problems. Implementing the numerical method, modified from Way (2009), we conclude with open questions inspired from the results

What's new in surface irrigation equipment

Advances are being made to improve and develop new equipment for both furrow and flooding methods of surface irrigation

A Constellation of Three Micro Satellites uses UV and Visible Sensors to Demonstrate Target Acquisition and Tracking

The Distributed Sensing Experiment (DSE) program demonstrates the technology of using micro satellites to perform target acquisition, tracking, and three-dimensional track development using a visible camera payload. DSE is a concept demonstration to show how micro satellites, working singly and as a group, can perform a large part of the missile defense function at a much lower cost than traditional systems. A key design parameter of the program is incorporating commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware and software to reduce risk and cost, while maintaining performance. Having completed a successful Critical Design Review, the program is currently in fabrication, integration, and test phase. The constellation of satellites is scheduled for launch in CY2009. This paper describes the status and capabilities of the UV and visible sensor payloads, as well as algorithms and software being developed to achieve the DSE mission

The Victorian press coverage of the 1842 report on child labour. The metamorphosis of images

This article aims to explore the Victorian press iconographic coverage of the first illustrated parliamentary report ever produced in the United Kingdom. Published in 1842, The First Report on the Condition and Treatment of the Children Employed in the Mines and Collieries of the United Kingdom showed children and women working half-naked underground. The report on child labour has attracted the attention of social and medical historians, political economists and scholars of gender studies. Scant consideration has been given to the study of the afterlife of its images, which were widely disseminated through media outlets. This article concerns the transformative processes the original images underwent in order to be published in newspapers and periodicals of the time. It will show how the report’s engravings were retouched, cut and laid out in a selection of publications in order to enhance their marketability. I suggest that the copies of the illustrations that appeared in the Victorian press reinforced the ideological premise of the report. However, the metamorphosis of the images challenged the idea that the reality of the miners was a unique and unequivocally observable fact, and subtly disputed the role of the state as a provider of authoritative and accurate visual evidence in the form of parliamentary reports