Walden U. : A Working Paper

UNIVERSITY VISION Walden University envisions a distinctively different 21st-century learning community where knowledge is judged worthy to the degree that it can be applied by its graduates to the immediate solutions of critical societal challenges, thereby advancing the greater global good. UNIVERSITY MISSION Walden University provides a diverse community of career professionals with the opportunity to transform themselves as scholar/practitioners so that they may transform society. UNIVERSITY GOALS 1. To provide multicontextual educational opportunities for career learners. 2. To provide innovative, learner-centered educational programs that recognize and incorporate the knowledge, skills and abilities students bring into their academic programs. 3. To provide its programs through diverse processual learning approaches, all resulting in outcomes of quality and integrity. 4. To provide an inquiry/action model of education that fosters research and discovery, critical thinking, and results in professional excellence. 5. To produce graduates who are scholarly, reflective practitioners and agents of positive social change

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During the past several years, piracy off of the coast of Somalia increased, despite efforts of the international community to support piracy prosecutions in national and international courts

No-Merit Briefs Undermine the Adversary Process in Criminal Appeals

Appellate defense attorneys face a dilemma when faced with an appeal that has no obvious merit. No-merit briefs allow an attorney to forego an appeal when there is no apparent merit. In cases involving direct appeals from conviction, the cost of abandonment of the client far outweighs the benefits

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We analyse the response of an arbitrarily-accelerated Unruh-DeWitt detector coupled to a massless scalar field in Minkowski spacetimes of dimensions up to six, working within first-order perturbation theory and assuming a smooth switch-on and switch-off. We express the total transition probability as a manifestly finite and regulator-free integral formula. In the sharp switching limit, the transition probability diverges in dimensions greater than three but the transition rate remains finite up to dimension five. In dimension six, the transition rate remains finite in the sharp switching limit for trajectories of constant scalar proper acceleration, including all stationary trajectories, but it diverges for generic trajectories. The divergence of the transition rate in six dimensions suggests that global embedding spacetime (GEMS) methods for investigating detector response in curved spacetime may have limited validity for generic trajectories when the embedding spacetime has dimension higher than five.Comment: 30 pages. v3: presentational improvement. Published versio