Investigation of the visual reference requirements for pilot control of gliding parachutes for land landing of spacecraft

Test program for determining visual reference requirements for pilot control of gliding parachutes used in landing spacecraft on lan

Extending the Guiding Lefthand of Counsel: The Minnesota Supreme Court Provides Protection against Uncounseled Waivers of the Right to Counsel During Interrogations

It is the thesis of this Article that the cases on which the Minnesota Supreme Court in Lefthand relied and the policy concerns that motivated the court suggest that the rule of Lefthand should apply to any suspect who has asserted her right to counsel, regardless of whether that suspect is in custody, formally charged, or formally represented by counsel. If the court\u27s ruling in Lefthand is carried to its logical scope, law enforcement officers and prosecutors in Minnesota may find that very early in the criminal justice process they are precluded from obtaining waivers of the right to counsel from suspects in order to obtain a statement, unless the suspect\u27s attorney is present or has been notified prior to any interrogation. This Article first briefly reviews the current law regarding right to counsel under the Fifth and Sixth Amendments to the United States Constitution. It demonstrates that in the factual setting of the Lefthand case and similar cases, these federal rights are not violated when the police obtain a waiver of the right to counsel from the suspect without counsel being present or having been notified, and subsequent statements are admissible under federal law. This Article then examines the right to counsel provided suspects under Minnesota state law. In particular, the Article focuses on the Lefthand case and the cases to which the Lefthand court referred as giving notice of our \u27strong[] disapprov[al]\u27 of the practice engaged in by the government. The Article argues that these cases, especially when read in the context of the Minnesota Supreme Court\u27s history of jealously guard[ing] the right to counsel, require the court to apply the right recognized in Lefthand to all suspects who have asserted their right to counsel, regardless of whether they are within the narrow fact situation at issue in Lefthand.s As demonstrated below, such a rule is necessary to protect adequately the right to counsel so highly valued by the Minnesota Supreme Court

Extending the Guiding Lefthand of Counsel: The Minnesota Supreme Court Provides Protection against Uncounseled Waivers of the Right to Counsel During Interrogations

It is the thesis of this Article that the cases on which the Minnesota Supreme Court in Lefthand relied and the policy concerns that motivated the court suggest that the rule of Lefthand should apply to any suspect who has asserted her right to counsel, regardless of whether that suspect is in custody, formally charged, or formally represented by counsel. If the court\u27s ruling in Lefthand is carried to its logical scope, law enforcement officers and prosecutors in Minnesota may find that very early in the criminal justice process they are precluded from obtaining waivers of the right to counsel from suspects in order to obtain a statement, unless the suspect\u27s attorney is present or has been notified prior to any interrogation. This Article first briefly reviews the current law regarding right to counsel under the Fifth and Sixth Amendments to the United States Constitution. It demonstrates that in the factual setting of the Lefthand case and similar cases, these federal rights are not violated when the police obtain a waiver of the right to counsel from the suspect without counsel being present or having been notified, and subsequent statements are admissible under federal law. This Article then examines the right to counsel provided suspects under Minnesota state law. In particular, the Article focuses on the Lefthand case and the cases to which the Lefthand court referred as giving notice of our \u27strong[] disapprov[al]\u27 of the practice engaged in by the government. The Article argues that these cases, especially when read in the context of the Minnesota Supreme Court\u27s history of jealously guard[ing] the right to counsel, require the court to apply the right recognized in Lefthand to all suspects who have asserted their right to counsel, regardless of whether they are within the narrow fact situation at issue in Lefthand.s As demonstrated below, such a rule is necessary to protect adequately the right to counsel so highly valued by the Minnesota Supreme Court

Technical Tension Between Achieving Particulate and Molecular Organic Environmental Cleanliness: Data from Astromaterial Curation Laboratories

NASA Johnson Space Center operates clean curation facilities for Apollo lunar, Antarctic meteorite, stratospheric cosmic dust, Stardust comet and Genesis solar wind samples. Each of these collections is curated separately due unique requirements. The purpose of this abstract is to highlight the technical tensions between providing particulate cleanliness and molecular cleanliness, illustrated using data from curation laboratories. Strict control of three components are required for curating samples cleanly: a clean environment; clean containers and tools that touch samples; and use of non-shedding materials of cleanable chemistry and smooth surface finish. This abstract focuses on environmental cleanliness and the technical tension between achieving particulate and molecular cleanliness. An environment in which a sample is manipulated or stored can be a room, an enclosed glovebox (or robotic isolation chamber) or an individual sample container

Higher Magnification Imaging of the Polished Aluminum Collector Returned from the Genesis Mission

The polished aluminum collector (previously referred to as the polished aluminum kidney) was intended for noble gas analysis for the Gene-sis mission. The aluminum collector, fabricated from alloy 6061T, was polished for flight with alumina, then diamond paste. Final cleaning was performed by soak-ing and rinsing with hexane, then isopropanol, and last-ly megasonically energized ultrapure water prior to installation. It was mounted inside the collector canister on the thermal shield at JSC in 2000. The polished aluminum collector was not surveyed microscopically prior to flight

Using Image Pro Plus Software to Develop Particle Mapping on Genesis Solar Wind Collector Surfaces

The continued success of the Genesis mission science team in analyzing solar wind collector array samples is partially based on close collaboration of the JSC curation team with science team members who develop cleaning techniques and those who assess elemental cleanliness at the levels of detection. The goal of this collaboration is to develop a reservoir of solar wind collectors of known cleanliness to be available to investigators. The heart and driving force behind this effort is Genesis mission PI Don Burnett. While JSC contributes characterization, safe clean storage, and benign collector cleaning with ultrapure water (UPW) and UV ozone, Burnett has coordinated more exotic and rigorous cleaning which is contributed by science team members. He also coordinates cleanliness assessment requiring expertise and instruments not available in curation, such as XPS, TRXRF [1,2] and synchrotron TRXRF. JSC participates by optically documenting the particle distributions as cleaning steps progress. Thus, optical document supplements SEM imaging and analysis, and elemental assessment by TRXRF

Twelve weeks of BodyBalance® training improved balance and functional task performance in middle-aged and older adults

Purpose: The purpose of the study was to evaluate the effect of BodyBalance® training on balance, functional task performance, fear of falling, and health-related quality of life in adults aged over 55 years. Participants and methods: A total of 28 healthy, active adults aged 66±5 years completed the randomized controlled trial. Balance, functional task performance, fear of falling, and self-reported quality of life were assessed at baseline and after 12 weeks. Participants either undertook two sessions of BodyBalance per week for 12 weeks (n=15) or continued with their normal activities (n=13). Results: Significant group-by-time interactions were found for the timed up and go (P=0.038), 30-second chair stand (P=0.037), and mediolateral center-of-pressure range in narrow stance with eyes closed (P=0.017). There were no significant effects on fear of falling or self-reported quality of life. Conclusion: Twelve weeks of BodyBalance training is effective at improving certain balance and functional based tasks in healthy older adults

Undergraduate Research Opportunities in Microelectronics at Boise State University

Several opportunities exist for undergraduates in the Microelectronics area at Boise State University. This paper will describe the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program funded by the National Science Foundation and other opportunities that have resulted for undergraduates due to external support. BSU became a NSF REU site for Microelectronics research in 1999. Each year 10 students are recruited nation-wide from various engineering and science disciplines to come to BSU for 8 weeks. The students work intensively with various faculty advisors and graduate student mentors. Another unique feature of our program is the tie to local industry. In 1999-2001, three students have and will benefit from an interaction with a local company, SCP Global Technologies, and this will be described

Texas Department of Agriculture Bulletin, Number 77, June-July, 1924

Articles providing detailed information about the cultivation of pecans in Texas, including preferred conditions for orchards, insects and diseases that affect pecan trees, and statistics related to agriculture in the state

Ultra Pure Water Cleaning Baseline Study on NASA JSC Astromaterial Curation Gloveboxes

Future sample return missions will require strict protocols and procedures for reducing inorganic and organic contamination in isolation containment systems. In 2012, a baseline study was orchestrated to establish the current state of organic cleanliness in gloveboxes used by NASA JSC astromaterials curation labs [1, 2]. As part of this in-depth organic study, the current curatorial technical support procedure (TSP) 23 was used for cleaning the gloveboxes with ultra pure water (UPW) [3-5]. Particle counts and identification were obtained that could be used as a benchmark for future mission designs that require glovebox decontamination. The UPW baseline study demonstrates that TSP 23 works well for gloveboxes that have been thoroughly degreased. However, TSP 23 could be augmented to provide even better glovebox decontamination. JSC 03243 could be used as a starting point for further investigating optimal cleaning techniques and procedures. DuPont Vertrel XF or other chemical substitutes to replace Freon- 113, mechanical scrubbing, and newer technology could be used to enhance glovebox cleanliness in addition to high purity UPW final rinsing. Future sample return missions will significantly benefit from further cleaning studies to reduce inorganic and organic contamination