Applying coupon-collecting theory to computer-aided assessments

Computer-based tests with randomly generated questions allow a large number of different tests to be generated. Given a fixed number of alternatives for each question, the number of tests that need to be generated before all possible questions have appeared is surprisingly low.Comment: 19 pages; bibliographic information added as follows. To appear in Bingham, N. H., and Goldie, C. M. (eds), Probability and Mathematical Genetics: Papers in Honour of Sir John Kingman. London Math. Soc. Lecture Note Series. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Pres

A Note On Some Diverse Meanings Of The Common Heritage Of Mankind.

The author attempts to define the notion of The Common Heritage Of Mankind as pertains to the mining of the ocean floor

Profile of a terrorist: distinguishing freedom fighters from terrorists

As the terrorist becomes increasingly internationalized, he becomes more the enemy of all mankind than at any previous time. In this process, states are seeking everwidening bases for exercising their jurisdiction in their pursuit of security and the implementation of punishment for indiscriminate killing and injury. This paper will review and advocate developments in this search for a universal or near-universal jurisdiction against a crime which once was seen as consecrated to patriotism but which is now seen as an inhuman, anarchistic act having, possibly, its own twisted validity for its perpetrator but, in truth, being perpetrated against all mankind

Historic Bays in International Law--An Impressionistic Overview

This paper takes up the traditional concept of historic bays as one time-honored basis for asserting national claims at the expense of the common high seas, which, however, unlike some of the more recent forms of decentralized enclosures, purports to rely on, or should rely on, a specific, objective, and clearly articulated definition, rather than on a subjective one