ADR and the Courts: An Update

For well over a decade now, Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) and all its variations have been hailed in rhetoric and anecdote as the Prince Charming to a court system in distress. The author briefly examines three kinds of ADR programs: those that take place inside the court (which are sometimes called court-annexed programs ), those that occur inside the administrative agency (or agency-annexed programs, only a small portion of whose product may come before the courts), and negotiated regulations, some of which (despite all good efforts) continue to be challenged on review

“For the United States”: Government Lawyers in Court

Wald provides a largely impressionistic view of governmental layering in court

Editor\u27s Column

As the editor of the Journal I find it challenging to oversee publication in many different areas of psychiatry. From cognitive therapy to consultation for the treatment of burned children I know, or quickly learn the more intricate details of the field. In compiling this issue, I was particularly struck by the number of articles focusing on Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, an area of our field to which I have had limited exposure in my first two years of training

OFMTutor: An operator function model intelligent tutoring system

The design, implementation, and evaluation of an Operator Function Model intelligent tutoring system (OFMTutor) is presented. OFMTutor is intended to provide intelligent tutoring in the context of complex dynamic systems for which an operator function model (OFM) can be constructed. The human operator's role in such complex, dynamic, and highly automated systems is that of a supervisory controller whose primary responsibilities are routine monitoring and fine-tuning of system parameters and occasional compensation for system abnormalities. The automated systems must support the human operator. One potentially useful form of support is the use of intelligent tutoring systems to teach the operator about the system and how to function within that system. Previous research on intelligent tutoring systems (ITS) is considered. The proposed design for OFMTutor is presented, and an experimental evaluation is described

Handbook of Higher Twist Distribution Amplitudes of Vector Mesons in QCD

We give a summary of existing results on higher twist distribution amplitudes of vector mesons in QCD. Special attention is payed to meson mass corrections which turn out to be large. A ``shopping list'' is presented of most important nonperturbative parameters which enter distribution amplitudes.Comment: Talk presented by V.M. Braun at 3rd workshop ``Continuous Advances in QCD'', Minneapolis, MN, USA, April 16--19, 1998; 17 pages, 2 figures, requires sprocl.sty (included

WHO OWNS NATURAL RESOURCES IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA?

Property rights are social definitions; they exist as long as the society is willing to enforce them. If enforcement is missing, they cease to exist. The reasons for changes might be market conditions, popular sentiments, scientific knowledge, new technologies, lobbying, or legal battles. Biotechnologies are already having profound effects on how we organize property rights for natural resources. Resource rights change as our understandings and sentiments change. This paper presents a general overview of property rights in natural resources, with particular reference to water and land and emphasizing that rights are what a society is willing to grant and enforce. If companies, individuals, groups, or the state are not managing and stewarding resources in sustainable ways, their authority should be challenged. Rights are social inventions, and society can abrogate them.Right of property--Canada, Right of property--United States, Natural resources--Canada--Management, Natural resources--United States--Management, Natural resources--Social aspects--North America, Tenure systems--North America, Resource /Energy Economics and Policy,