Symposium: Brown v. Board of Education and Its Legacy: A Tribute to Justice Thurgood Marshall, Learning Together: Justice Marshall\u27s Desegregation Opinions

In this Article, Professor Marcus examines the influence of Justice Thurgood Marshall on the Supreme Court\u27s current school desegregation agenda. Justice Marshall was part of the majority in desegregation cases during his earlier years on the high Court subsequently, however, his role became one of dissenter. Professor Marcus analyzes the divisive issues facing the Court in desegregation litigation, Marshall\u27s positions on such issues, and his legacy to the Court in this area. Finally, the Article assesses the vitality of this legacy in light of two Supreme Court decisions issued after Justice Marshall\u27s retirement

Forward: Is There a Threat to Judicial Independence in the United States Today?

This foreword gives a brief background on the panel discussion to ensue, which illustrates the dilemma surrounding the external pressure public criticism places on judges and how it affects judicial independence

Moving Boundary Transport Phenomena in Selective Area Laser Deposition Process

The overall selective area laser deposition process was modeled using the two-layer, three dimensional solid phase heat transfer with the moving boundary condition considered, gas phase mass transfer, and film growth coupled equations. A modified front-tracking finite difference method was used to solve the moving boundary heat conduction in thick deposits. The results correlate with the experimental observations.Mechanical Engineerin

Flat-plate heat pipe

Flat plate (vapor chamber) heat pipes were made by enclosing metal wicking between two capillary grooved flat panels. These heat pipes provide a unique configuration and have good capacity and conductance capabilities in zero gravity. When these flat plate vapor chamber heat pipes are heated or cooled, the surfaces are essentially isothermal, varying only 3 to 5 C over the panel surface

Laser extensometer

A drift compensated and intensity averaged extensometer for measuring the diameter or other properties of a substantially cylindrical sample based upon the shadow of the sample is described. A beam of laser light is shaped to provide a beam with a uniform intensity along an axis normal to the sample. After passing the sample, the portion of the beam not striking said sample is divided by a beam splitter into a reference signal and a measurement signal. Both of these beams are then chopped by a light chopper to fall upon two photodiode detectors. The resulting ac currents are rectified and then divided into one another, with the final output being proportional to the size of the sample shadow

A Jang Equation Approach to the Penrose Inequality

We introduce a generalized version of the Jang equation, designed for the general case of the Penrose Inequality in the setting of an asymptotically flat space-like hypersurface of a spacetime satisfying the dominat energy condition. The appropriate existence and regularity results are established in the special case of spherically symmetric Cauchy data, and are applied to give a new proof of the general Penrose Inequality for these data sets. When appropriately coupled with an inverse mean curvature flow, analogous existence and regularity results for the associated system of equations in the nonspherical setting would yield a proof of the full Penrose Conjecture. Thus it remains as an important and challenging open problem to determine whether this system does indeed admit the desired solutions.Comment: 31 page