Investigation of strength of isolated vertebrae, phase IV Final technical report, 29 Oct. 1965 - 28 Oct. 1966

Dynamic strength measurements of human vertebrae under axial compressio

Investigation of strength of isolated vertebrae Quarterly report, 30 Jan. - 29 May 1966

Strength of human vertebrae under various static and dynamic load

Preparation and Properties of In-Situ Devices Using the SALD and SALDVI Techniques

One of the many advantages of Selective Area Laser Deposition (SALD) and Selective Area Laser Deposition Vapor Infiltration (SALDVI) is that they can be used to embed in-situ micro-sensors within macro-components. A single-point SiC/C thermocouple sensor embedded within a SiC macro-component and electrically insulated with silicon nitride layers has been demonstrated. In many applications, multi-point sensors within a single component are needed, e.g., in monitoring the temperature gradient and distribution at different positions. In this paper, multi-point thermocouple devices are demonstrated. The macro-component is a SiC bulk shape made by infiltrating vapor deposited silicon carbide into a silicon carbide powder bed using the SALDVI technique. Multiple SiC/C thermocouples are embedded in-situ in the SiC bulk shape using the SALD technique. The transient and steady state responses ofthe embedded thermocouples are compared to reference thermocouples probing the surfaces of the bulk shape.Mechanical Engineerin

Vested Rights and Zoning: Avoiding All-or-Nothing Results

In real estate development, courts and legislatures use the vested rights doctrine to determine whether local government should be allowed to enforce newly enacted zoning ordinances against landowners. As real estate development projects continue to increase in scope and expense, and as zoning regulations become more complex and sensitive to environmental awareness, the vested rights debate will remain a contentious issue in land use law. The three dominant vested rights rules in use today generally assume that vested rights protection requires an all-or-nothing result, forcing the debate to revolve almost solely around tuning: should vested rights protection be granted now or later? This outcome affords no compromise; either developers get all the protection from new regulations they want and local governments get no flexibility to adapt projects to evolving public interests, or local governments get all the flexibility they want, and developers risk losing their projects altogether. This Note critiques the three major approaches and suggests that one way to add more flexibility to the current vesting scheme is to expand or contract the scope of protection granted based on the breadth of developers\u27 disclosure

Appointed but (Nearly) Prevented from Serving: My Experience as a Grand Jury Foreperson

In summer 2003, I was a grand jury foreperson for the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas in Cleveland, Ohio. The service of this grand jury, and my tenure as foreperson, were unique in the annals of grand juries. We were selected and sworn in the same manner as any grand jury, but heard cases for only one day of our four-month term-the last day. In the interim, the prosecutor filed cases in two courts, seeking to discharge us, as being “tainted” by our supervising judge\u27s initial instructions about our duties and the law. I begin this essay with basic information about grand juries, then tell what happened to our grand jury, and conclude by reflecting on what I learned from this experience. My theme is the tension between the grand jury\u27s independence and the prosecutor\u27s desire to control it. The lesson I learned, intellectually and emotionally, is the depth and tenacity of the prosecutor\u27s assumption that he does control, and has the right to control, the grand jury process. I also learned some lessons about being a client, and believing in oneself and one\u27s principles

Not to Decide Is to Decide: The U.S. Supreme Court\u27s Thirty-Year Struggle with One Case about Competency to Waive Death Penalty Appeals

In 1995, the U.S. Supreme Court dismissed Rees v. Peyton, a case that had been on its docket since 1965. Rees was a death penalty case in which the petitioner sought to withdraw his petition for writ of certiorari so that he could be executed. The Court stayed the proceedings after Rees was found incompetent to waive his appeal, but the Court did not dismiss the case until after Rees died of natural causes. Rees pended in the Court during the terms of three Chief Justices. Even though the Court underwent major changes in personnel and philosophy during those years, the Court\u27s treatment of Rees was essentially the same-- to hold the case in abeyance. This article chronicles the extraordinary history of Rees in the U.S. Supreme Court for those thirty years

Childhood Abuse and Adult Murder: Implications for the Death Penalty

A jury that convicts a defendant of capital murder must then decide whether that defendant deserves a life sentence or death. Mitigating evidence is crucial to the defense at this stage because such evidence may provide the jury with a basis for imposing a life sentence. In this article, Professor Crocker argues that evidence that a defendant was abused as a child is paradigmatic mitigating evidence. A detailed presentation of the defendant\u27s childhood experience and a cogent explanation of its long-term repercussions will enable the jury to understand why the defendant committed the crime, perhaps allowing the jury to sympathize or empathize with the defendant. By humanizing the defendant, an effective presentation of evidence of childhood abuse may make the difference between a life and a death sentence. Despite its potential mitigating effect, evidence of childhood abuse is not always effectively presented to the jury. Professor Crocker identifies and discusses impediments in the death penalty system that account for this failure. She then proposes changes to the system that could ensure the proper presentation of evidence of childhood abuse. Professor Crocker concludes with a reflection on the moral tension within society that underlies the legal system\u27s difficulties: a tension between conflicting reactions that must be reconciled in the case where the child who has been abused and the adult who has committed murder are the same person

Crossing the Line: Rape-Murder and the Death Penalty

When a woman is raped and then murdered, it is among the most horrifying of crimes. It is also, often, among the most sensational, notorious, and galvanizing of cases. In 1964, Kitty Genovese was raped and murdered in Queens, New York. Her murder sparked soul-searching across the country because her neighbors heard her cries for help and did not respond: it made us question whether we had become an uncaring people. During the 1970s and 80s a number of serial killers raped and murdered their victims: including Ted Bundy in Florida and William George Bonin, the “Freeway Killer,” in Southern California. In the 1990s, the sexual assault-murder of seven-year-old Megan Kanka in New Jersey contributed to a firestorm of states passing sex offender notification statutes.Rolando Cruz was released from Illinois death row in 1995, after serving eleven years for a crime he did not commit: the rape and murder of ten-year-old Jeanine Nicarico. The crime itself sent shock waves through the Chicago metropolitan area and pressure to quickly solve it contributed to Cruz\u27s arrest and conviction. In each instance the rape-murder terrified us and made us want to impose the severest of punishments.This essay explores the validity of that conclusion by examining rape-murder as a category of death penalty cases, and by comparing the treatment of rape when it is the only crime to its treatment when it is the underlying felony in a felony-murder death penalty case

Alien Registration- Crocker, Mary L. (Gardiner, Kennebec County)

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