Working Effectively With Employees who Have Sustained a Brain Injury

This brochure on individuals who have sustained a brain injury and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is one of a series on human resources practices and workplace accommodations for persons with disabilities edited by Susanne M. Bruyère, Ph.D., CRC, SPHR, Director, Program on Employment and Disability, School of Industrial and Labor Relations – Extension Division, Cornell University. It was updated in June, 2000 by Stephanie Hanson, Ph.D., College of Health Professions, University of Florida. The original as written by Thomas P. Golden, M.S., Program on Employment and Disability, Cornell Universit

Testing for the Internal Consistency of Choice Experiments Using Explicit Rankings of Quality Attributes

Choice experiments (CEs) are an increasingly important tool in the environmental valuation literature because of their ability to deal with multifaceted environmental issues and their basis in random utility theory. One particularly useful aspect of the CE method is that it allows researchers to estimate marginal rates of substitution between an environmental resource’s various attributes. These marginal rates of substitution provide an implicit ranking of the attributes, which can be compared with other ranking mechanisms. In this paper we describe a method for testing for the internal consistency of choice experiments by comparing the implicit attribute ranking generated by a CE with that generated by an explicit attribute-ranking exercise. The analysis uses data gathered through a unique survey in which respondents completed both a CE exercise and an attribute-ranking exercise indicating their preferences over pollution abatement and water quality improvement strategies for a freshwater lake in north-central Iowa. Comparisons are made on a sample-wide basis as well as an individual basis.Environmental valuation, choice experiments, internal consistency

Restricting RICO Under FSIA

(Excerpt) This Note explores two competing interpretations: (1) that so long as the criminal act underlying the civil RICO suit falls within a FSIA exception, the sovereign may not raise immunity, and (2) that absent a grant of criminal jurisdiction, a foreign sovereign is not amenable to suit in a civil RICO claim. This Note asserts that the courts should find foreign sovereigns immune from civil RICO suits. Exploring the two FSIA interpretations requires an understanding of both statutes. To better understand FSIA’s framework, Part I discusses the underlying theories of immunity that gave rise to its development, as well as the congressional intent behind it. To illustrate civil RICO’s quasi-criminal nature, Part I also sketches the development of RICO. Part II explores the two competing interpretations of RICO in light of FSIA by detailing two circuit court cases with substantially similar facts yet diverging outcomes: Southway v. Central Bank of Nigeria and Keller v. Central Bank of Nigeria. Part II also briefly examines the dispositions of other courts on civil RICO claims brought under FSIA. Finally, Part III analyzes the diverging arguments in light of the statutory text, case law, international law, and policy considerations. Part III argues that granting immunity in civil RICO claims better reconciles FSIA’s text and purpose, and better aligns U.S. practice with international law. Part III concludes that, in light of policy concerns, courts should refrain from exercising jurisdiction over foreign sovereigns in civil RICO claims

Parameter identification applied to linear quadratic differential games

A two player zero-sum linear quadratic differential game is investigated for the case in which one of the players has incomplete a priori knowledge of the parameters of his opponent\u27s dynamic system. This incomplete system parameter information game is shown to be playable since the ignorant player can make limiting estimates of the unknown parameters from the relative controllability condition for the game. Performance from the ignorant player\u27s point of view is suboptimal. It is also shown that parameter identification techniques can be applied by the ignorant player in order to directly identify the smart player\u27s closed-loop parameters in the case in which the smart player\u27s optimal control gains become time-invariant. The open-loop system parameters may then be estimated from the identified closed-loop parameters. Using these estimated open-loop parameters in the optimal control law results in an asymptotically optimal adaptive control strategy for the ignorant player. Both continuous and discrete time parameter identification techniques were applied to the incomplete system parameter information game. In doing so, multivariable extensions were derived for previously developed single input/output continuous time and discrete time identification techniques. A multivariable combination response error and equation error continuous time learning model identification technique was also developed --Abstract, page ii

A nonlinear sampled data feedback control system employing pulsed thrust position control

This thesis shows that reaction jet thrust pulses, each of constant amplitude and time duration, in conjunction with sampled data error information can provide satisfactory position and/or attitude control for space vehicles. Incremental phase-plane analysis of the system yields a technique for determining system response and suggests a means of compensation. Control system response for the vehicle under the influence of external forces is shown to be satisfactory by digital computer simulation --Abstract, page ii

63/12/18 Indictment for Carrying Concealed Weapons (for John W. Terry & Richard D. Chilton)

John W. Terry and Richard D. Chilton\u27s indictment for carrying concealed weapons, filed 12/18/1963