Book Review of Kenneth F. McCallion, Shoreham and the Rise and Fall of the Nuclear Power Industry

Review of Kenneth F. McCallion, Shoreham and the Rise and Fall of the Nuclear Power Industry (Praeger 1995). About the author, acknowledgements, foreword by Irving Like, index, preface, prologue, selected bibliography. LC 94- 32930; ISBN 0-275-94299-6 [221 pp. Cloth $55.00. 88 Post Road West, Westport CT 06881.

Jennifer Jacobs Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEPS) travels to England

The UNH’s Center for International Education grant provided financial support to accept a seminar invitation and to meet with colleagues at Nottingham University and Newcastle University, England about climate change and infrastructure. Upon my arrival in Birmingham on November 16, 2015 I was met by Dr. Jo Daniel at the Birmingham Airport. Jo is a colleague in UNH’s Civil and Environmental Engineering, and my research partner in infrastructure and climate research. She was on a Fulbright at Nottingham University since August. From that point forward, we began a whirlwind week of travel, meetings and many opportunities for cultural events

The High Energy Jets Framework

High Energy Jets provides an all-order description of wide-angle QCD emissions, resumming the leading-logarithmic contributions in the high-energy limit. In this contribution, we briefly summarise the approach and its implementation in a flexible Monte Carlo event generator. We discuss comparisons between HEJ and recent LHC data and then go on to probe the similarities and differences in the results obtained from High Energy Jets and other theoretical frameworks in inclusive dijet and W+dijet production.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, Contribution to the proceedings of the DIS 2012 conference (Bonn, March 2012

Interpretive Freedom: A Necessary Component of Article III Judging

As judges have debated the best method of constitutional and statutory interpretation, scholars have begun calling for increased constraints on the methodological freedoms of Article III judges. This Note rejects such proposals on constitutional grounds. Drawing upon the jurisprudence and scholarship on inherent powers, I argue that interpretive choice is an inherent judicial power. The drafting and ratification history of Article III demonstrates that the Framers expected federal judges to interpret the law. To accomplish this task, however, judges must have some methodological approach to help them prioritize interpretive evidence. Thus, imposition of a binding interpretive methodology upon federal judges would pose two constitutional problems. First, it would infringe the essential judicial function of interpretive deliberation. Second, it would prevent the judiciary as a whole from engaging in its most powerful constitutional check on the excesses of the political branches. Because interpretive freedom is necessary to the fulfillment of the Article III judicial function, that freedom must be considered an inherent power vested in all federal judges

A review of indirect searches for particle dark matter

The indirect detection of dark matter annihilation and decay using observations of photons, charged cosmic rays, and neutrinos offers a promising means of identifying the particle nature of this elusive component of the universe. The last decade has seen substantial advances in observational data sets, complemented by new insights from numerical simulations, which together have enabled for the first time strong constraints on dark matter particle models, and have revealed several intriguing hints of possible signals. This review provides an introduction to indirect detection methods and an overview of recent results in the field.Comment: 32 pages, 6 figures; invited review, accepted to Contemporary Physic

Catholic Social Teaching and American Legal Practice: A Practical Response

The author responds to Avery Cardinal Dulles\u27s essay and lecture Catholic Social Teaching and American Legal Practice, Fordham Urb. L.J., 277 (2002) (available at http://new.fordhamj.org/demonstration/dc/v30/27_30FordhamUrbLJ277(2002-2003).pdf). She provides a practical perspective on the applications of Catholic social teachings to the practice of law. She concludes that Catholic teachings and law intersect in two areas: in the lawyer\u27s discretion and in the lawyer\u27s professional interactions with others