Power spectrum analysis of staggered quadriphase-shift-keyed signals

Mathematical analysis of power spectrum of outputs from high-reliability communication system is used to determine system bandwidth. Analysis provides mathematical relationships of signal power spectrum at output of hard limiter for any type of baseband pulse input subjected only to output parameter constraints

Frequencies and modes for shells of revolution (FAMSOR)

Using stiffness matrix and lumped-mass representation specified number of natural frequencies are obtained using inverse iteration method. Mode shapes for each frequency are also obtained. These frequencies and mode shapes can be found in reasonable periods of computer time utilizing this code

Insect and Mite Pests of Field Corn.

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The Morality of Corporate Persons

This essay provides a genealogy of corporate personhood as it exists currently in US law and places moral personhood in a similar genealogical context. This treatment demonstrates that the two are inextricably intertwined in both conception and institutionalized practices. We would do well to dismantle both; meanwhile, however, corporate personhood\u27s implicit illiberal notion of collective mentality and responsibility may suggest possibilities for establishing collective counterforces to oppose activities of transnational for-profit corporations and mitigate their devastating political, economic, and environmental effects upon actual people and the ecosystems upon which we depend

Asceticism/Askēsis: Foucault\u27s Thinking Historical Subjectivity

In the Introduction to The Use of Pleasure Foucault calls his work an askēsis, an exercise of oneself in the activity of thought. The living substance of philosophy, Foucault writes, is the essay, which should be understood as the assay or test by which, in the game of truth, one undergoes changes, and not as the simplistic appropriation of others for the purpose of communication. Foucault\u27s work, then, does not simply report to us his conclusions or theories. Foucault is not primarily interested in imparting information. What he offers instead is a kind of exercise book

Queer Economies

Queer defies categorization and resists preset developmental trajectories. Practices of queering identities emerged near the end of the twentieth century as ways of resisting normalizing networks of power/knowledge. But how effective are queer practices at resisting networks of power/knowledge (including disciplines) that are not primarily normalizing in their functioning? This essay raises that question in light of expanding neoliberal discourses and institutions which, in some quarters at least, themselves undermine normalized identities in favor of a proliferation of personal styles susceptible to governance through market forces. Special attention is given to Security, Territory, Population and The Birth of Biopolitics in this analysis

Review of Johanna Oksala\u27s Foucault on Freedom

Johanna Oksala has produced a provocative reading of Michel Foucault\u27s work on the issues of freedom and resistance to normalizing oppression. Although many commentators have contended that Foucault\u27s historicization of subjectivity leads to metaphysical determinism and eliminates the very possibility of freedom in human life, Oksala argues that his radical rethinking of both bodies and freedom largely escapes the simplistic criticisms routinely put forward since the early 1980s. She does subject Foucault\u27s work to criticisms of her own, however. While the title of her book leads the reader to expect a tight focus on the question of freedom, much of the text is actually devoted to an explication of Foucault\u27s account of subjectivity, culminating in a discussion of his work in ethics, and it is in this late work where Oksala finds serious flaws in Foucault\u27s thought