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Effective potential for nonrelativistic non-Abelian Chern-Simons matter system in constant background fields
We present the effective potential for nonrelativistic matter coupled to
non-Abelian Chern-Simons gauge fields. We perform the calculation using a
functional method in constant background fields to satisfy Gauss's law and to
simplify the computation. Both the quantum gauge and matter fields are
integrated over. The gauge fixing is achieved with an -gauge in the
limit. Divergences appearing in the matter sector are regulated via
operator regularization. We find no corrections to the Chern-Simons coupling
constant and the system experiences conformal symmetry breaking to one-loop
order except at the known value of self-duality. These results agree with
previous analysis of the non-Abelian Aharonov-Bohm scattering.Comment: 17 pages in Tex (phyzzx), UdeM-LPN-TH-94-200, CRM-219
A study of stress-free living bone and its application to space flight
Observations of animals and human subjects in weightless space flight (Skylab and COSMOS) document altered bone metabolism. Bone metabolism is affected by a number of local and systemic factors. The calcification and growth of transplanted bone is independent of local muscle, nervous, and mechanical forces; therefore, transplanted bone would provide data on the role of local vs. systematic factors. Bone metabolism in living transplanted bone, devoid of stress, was investigated as a possible tool for the investigation of countermeasures against disuse bone loss. An animal model using Sprague-Dawley rats was developed for transplantation of femur bone tissue on a nutrient vascular pedicel. The long term course of these implants was assessed through the measure of regional and total bone mineral, blood flow, and methylene diphosphonate (MDP) uptake. Clomid, an estrogen agonist/antagonist, was shown to protect bone from disuse loss of minerals by retarding trabecular and cortical resorption
Accurate determination of ambient temperature at burial depth for high voltage cable ratings
Studies of the nucler equation of state using numerical calculations of nuclear drop collisions
A numerical calculation for the full thermal dynamics of colliding nuclei was developed. Preliminary results are reported for the thermal fluid dynamics in such processes as Coulomb scattering, fusion, fusion-fission, bulk oscillations, compression with heating, and collisions of heated nuclei
Alien Registration- Leblanc, Eva M. (Madison, Somerset County)
https://digitalmaine.com/alien_docs/6452/thumbnail.jp
Sustainability Education at the University of Dayton
To prepare for this Researched Argument writing assignment, I completed a research proposal that involved drafting a research question and creating a general timeline for conducting reseach leading up to this project\u27s final submission. I then analyzed ten different sources through creating an annotated bibliography that examined the credibility, content, and relevance of each resource in relation to my paper\u27s topic. In addition to collecting resouces, I personally attended SAP events and interviewed the SAP student leader in order to understand the innerworkings of sustainability education at the University of Dayton. I then composed a draft that was analyzed by my professor and reviewed by my peers before the project\u27s final submission.
Editor\u27s note: For this paper, the author received the English 200 Excellence in Writing Award ($100 prize)
Cruelty to the Mentally ILL: An Eighth Amendment Challenge to the Abolition of the Insanity Defense
This Comment addresses the present gap in insanity-defense laws
created by the defense’s abolition and offers an Eighth Amendment
based remedy. Part I reviews the history and evolution of the insanity
defense in Anglo-American law. It then describes how four states
have statutorily abolished the defense. It concludes with a discussion
of Clark v. Arizona, the Court’s most recent decision on the
constitutionality of the insanity defense. Part II turns to the Eighth
Amendment, examining its historical understanding and the
contemporary evolving-standards-of-decency analysis, through which
the Court assesses the constitutionality of modern-day punishments.
Part II concludes with a discussion of Robinson v. California and Powell v. Texas, two non-death-penalty Eighth Amendment decisions
that illustrate contrasting approaches to Eighth Amendment
interpretation.
Part III examines the Court’s recent Eighth
Amendment death-penalty jurisprudence, focusing on two decisions
involving mentally deficient offenders, Roper v. Simmons and Atkins v.
Virginia, where the Court expanded the Eighth Amendment to
protect two groups—minors and the mentally retarded—against the
imposition of capital punishment. Part IV argues that these recent
precedents are sufficiently analogous, legally and factually, to the
insane-offender context; therefore, the Court should apply the rules
and reasoning of these decisions to the issue of punishing the insane.
Part V then applies the Roper and Atkins Eighth Amendment analyses
to the issue of criminal punishment for otherwise insane offenders,
the end result of abolishing the insanity defense. Part V concludes
that under these new precedents, abolition of the insanity defense
results in unconstitutionally excessive punishments, in violation of
the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution. Accordingly, this
Comment concludes that the safeguard against this constitutional
violation—the affirmative insanity defense—merits constitutional
protection
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