On-line digital computer control of the NERVA nuclear rocket engine

The problem of on-line digital computer control of the NERVA nuclear rocket engine is considered. Proposed is a method of State Dependent State Variable Feedback (SDSVF) as a practical approach to the control of NERVA and other complex nonlinear and/or time-varying systems. The difficulties inherent in other design methods are avoided by defining the optimal closed loop system in terms of a desired transfer function, rather than a performance index to maximize or minimize

Ablative resin Patent

Ablative resins used for retarding regression in ablative materia

Victims of Downing Street: Popular Pressure and the Press in the Stoddart and Conolly Affair, 1838-1845

During the summer of 1842, Emir Nasrullah of Bukhara, in what is now Uzbekistan, beheaded Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Stoddart and Captain Arthur Conolly, two British officers sent to his kingdom on a diplomatic mission. Reports of the officers’ deaths caused an uproar across Britain, and raised questions about the extent to which Britons abroad were entitled to government protection. Historians have generally examined the officers’ deaths exclusively in the context of the Great Game (the nineteenth century Anglo-Russian rivalry over Central Asia) without addressing the furor the crisis caused in England. By focusing too narrowly on the relevance of this crisis to the Anglo-Russian relations, scholars have overlooked the way Britons of the 1840s interpreted the crisis. This thesis argues that in order to understand the Stoddart and Conolly crisis fully, historians must also consider the British response to it, both in the press and in the form of a popular campaign. Seen in this light, the Stoddart and Conolly crisis is significant not merely as an event in the history of the Great Game, but also as an incident which raised lasting questions about the extent of the government’s responsibility to and for its agents

Criminal Law and Procedure -- 1962 Tennessee Survey

The American states have generally codified in one form or other the common law felony murder rule to the effect that homicide committed while perpetrating or attempting a felony, and as a consequence thereof, is murder. Tennessee\u27s statute in this regard, which largely follows the most widely adopted version of the rule in limiting it to specified felonies and in classifying homicides committed in connection therewith as first degree murder, was applied in two cases decided by the state supreme court during the survey period

Criminal Law and Procedure--1959 Tennessee Survey

Conspiracy--Cline v. State was an appeal from a conviction of a conspiracy to dynamite and destroy a public school building in Clinton, Tennessee, in violation of a statute making it a felony for two or more persons to agree to commit an illegal act capable of producing conditions destructive to life or property.. . by possessing, transporting or using explosives. Three men, D1, D2 and D3, had been indicated; but, before defendants were put to trial, the state entered a nolle prosequi against D1, who became a state\u27s witness. Afterwards, D2 was acquitted in the same trial in which D3, the appellant here, was convicted. Reversal was sought on the basis of precedent holding that, it being essential to criminal conspiracy that two or more persons combine to do an illegal thing, when only two are charged with a conspiracy, and one of them is acquitted, the conviction of the other is void. The court conceded that on authority if both D1 and D2 had been acquitted the case against D3 as a joint conspirator would have failed. But it distinguished precedent on the ground that here only D2, and not D1 as well, had been acquitted and--adopting the rule that so long as the acquittal or death of co- conspirators does not remove the basis for a charge of conspiracy, a single defendant may be prosecuted and convicted of the offense. . . . --found no error in this regard concerning D3\u27s conviction

Informal Marriages in Tennessee--Marriage by Estoppel, by Prescription and by Ratification

Tennessee courts have the means for upholding informal marriages whenever the social reasons are sufficiently strong to impel them to do so. This is a very desirable result, and one which is not open to the criticism that the courts are inviting or encouraging informal marriages as against the ceremonial, statutory marriage. These devices are not alternative means of attaining the marriage status ab initio, but are merely remedial devices looking backwards, which the courts may use on occasion when satisfied that it is for the good of the state and society, as well as for the parties and their children and descendants. Of course, the application of these devices will continue not to be mechanical, but the courts will carefully consider the motives of the parties and the character of the relationship they maintained, both in the inception and in subsequent years, and weigh in the balance the somewhat conflicting public policies noticed above, before deciding which result would be more for the overall good

An analysis of the community development program of the Georgia Power Company as a phase of community relations.

Thesis (M.S.)--Boston Universit