Way Forward on Healthcare?

In the wake of a remarkable visit from Pope Francis, is it time to ask, WWFD? What would Francis do with our half-fixed, highly fragmented healthcare system? [excerpt

Will They Read It?

The Pennsylvania Health Care Plan Saves Money, But Will Legislators Take Time to Read the Bill? Al the new year begins, it\u27s time to hitch up our britches and take a look at how things are going with healthcare insurance reform. [excerpt

Medicare at Fifty Needs to Grow

In America everybody has a healthcare story. A bill impossible to read, an inscrutable additional charge, trouble getting insurance, trouble keeping it, a friend or family member who\u27s fallen between the coverage cracks. [excerpt

Charge assignments in multiple-U(1) gauge theories

We discuss the choice of gauge field basis in multiple-U(1) gauge theories. We find that there is a preferred basis, specified by the charge orthogonality condition, in which the U(1) gauge fields do not mix under one-loop renormalization group running.Comment: 7 pages, LaTe

Display system software for the integration of an ADAGE 3000 programmable display generator into the solid modeling package C.A.D. software

A software system that integrates an ADAGE 3000 Programmable Display Generator into a C.A.D. software package known as the Solid Modeling Program is described. The Solid Modeling Program (SMP) is an interactive program that is used to model complex solid object through the composition of primitive geomeentities. In addition, SMP provides extensive facilities for model editing and display. The ADAGE 3000 Programmable Display Generator (PDG) is a color, raster scan, programmable display generator with a 32-bit bit-slice, bipolar microprocessor (BPS). The modularity of the system architecture and the width and speed of the system bus allow for additional co-processors in the system. These co-processors combine to provide efficient operations on and rendering of graphics entities. The resulting software system takes advantage of the graphics capabilities of the PDG in the operation of SMP by distributing its processing modules between the host and the PDG. Initially, the target host computer was a PRIME 850, which was later substituted with a VAX-11/785. Two versions of the software system were developed, a phase 1 and a phase 2. In phase 1, the ADAGE 3000 is used as a frame buffer. In phase II, SMP was functionally partitioned and some of its functions were implemented in the ADAGE 3000 by means of ADAGE's SOLID 3000 software package

Limitations of B-meson mixing bounds on technicolor theories

Recent work by Burdman, Lane, and Rador has shown that B-meson mixing places stringent lower bounds on the masses of topgluons and Z' bosons in classic topcolor-assisted technicolor (TC2) models. This paper finds analogous limits on the Z' bosons of flavor-universal TC2 and non-commuting extended technicolor models, and compares the limits with those from precision electroweak measurements. A discussion of the flavor structure of these models (contrasted with that of classic TC2) shows that B-meson mixing is a less reliable probe of these models than of classic TC2.Comment: 6 pages, LaTeX; added a reference; added references and discussio

Recent Legal Literature

McKelvey: Handbook of the Law of Evidence (2nd ed., rev.); Wigmore: A Supplement to a Treatise on the System of Evidence in Trials at Common Law, Containing the Statues and Judicial Decisions. 1904-1907.; Wood: Modern Business Corporations, including the organization and management of private corporations, with financial principles and practices.

Recent Legal Literature

Demarest: Hints for Forensic Practice. A Monograph on Certain Rules appertaining to the Subject of Judicial Proof; Wills: An Essay on the Principles of Circumstantial Evidence, Illustrated by Numerous Cases; Hughes: Procedure; Its Theory and Practice; Hill: Lincoln the Lawye

Space Station Spartan study

The required extension, enhancement, and upgrading of the present Spartan concept are described to conduct operations from the space station using the station's unique facilities and operational features. The space station Spartan (3S), the free flyer will be deployed from and returned to the space station and will conduct scientific missions of much longer duration than possible with the current Spartan. The potential benefits of a space station Spartan are enumerated. The objectives of the study are: (1) to develop a credible concept for a space station Spartan; and (2) to determine the associated requirements and interfaces with the space station to help ensure that the 3S can be properly accommodated