Personal and impersonal passives in Seri

From the introduction: In this paper I will examine and discuss passive constructions in Seri. My purpose will be basically two-fold: first, to present descriptive and typological facts concerning these constructions. My second purpose is to discuss how these facts should be accounted for in an explicit grammar. The paper is divided into three major sections in which alternative treatments of these clauses are discussed. In order to compare these alternatives, I will make them explicit in terms of relational grammar (Perlmutter (1978a, 1978b, in press, to appear), Perlmutter and Postal (1977, in press a, in press b, to appear)). [...] I will argue in favor of the universal characterization of passives and impersonal passives proposed by Perlmutter and Postal (1977, to appear) and Perlmutter (1978a, 1978b)

Cosmology from Type Ia Supernovae

This presentation reports on first evidence for a low-mass-density/positive-cosmological-constant universe that will expand forever, based on observations of a set of 40 high-redshift supernovae. The experimental strategy, data sets, and analysis techniques are described. More extensive analyses of these results with some additional methods and data are presented in the more recent LBNL report #41801 (Perlmutter et al., 1998; accepted for publication in Ap.J.), astro-ph/9812133 . This Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory reprint is a reduction of a poster presentation from the Cosmology Display Session #85 on 9 January 1998 at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Washington D.C. It is also available on the World Wide Web at http://supernova.LBL.gov/ This work has also been referenced in the literature by the pre-meeting abstract citation: Perlmutter et al., B.A.A.S., volume 29, page 1351 (1997).Comment: 9 pages, 8 color figs. Presented at Jan '98 AAS Meeting, also cited as BAAS,29,1351(1997). Archived here in response to requests; see more extensive analyses in ApJ paper (astro-ph/9812133

Cardozo Launches the Perlmutter Center for Legal Justice

The Perlmutter Center for Legal Justice at Cardozo Law will be comprised of two components: The Perlmutter Forensic Science Educational Program, an ambitious legal education program in scientific evidence for practicing attorneys. The Perlmutter Freedom Clinic, seeking justice for the unjustly incarcerated, will fight wrongful convictions based on the misuse of scientific evidence and work to obtain clemency for individuals that have been unjustly incarcerated. The Center will be led by prominent civil rights attorney and criminal justice reform advocate Josh Dubin, who will serve as Executive Director. The Deputy Director will be Derrick Hamilton, a formerly incarcerated individual who studied law in prison and won his own exoneration after serving a 21-year sentence. Mr. Hamilton went on to lead the effort to exonerate five wrongfully incarcerated inmates.https://larc.cardozo.yu.edu/event-invitations-2022/1016/thumbnail.jp

Dean Melanie Leslie’s Office Hours

Join Dean Leslie and Josh Dubin, Executive Director of the Perlmutter Center for Legal Justice, and Derrick Hamilton, Deputy Director of the Perlmutter Center for Legal Justice, to to hear about the Freedom Clinic and their recent clemency work, as well as to ask questions about anything on your mind.https://larc.cardozo.yu.edu/event-invitations-2023/1000/thumbnail.jp

Cosmology under Milne's shadow

Based on the magnitude--redshift diagram for the sample of supernovae Ia analysed by Perlmutter et al. (1999), Davis & Lineweaver rule out the special relativistic interpretation of cosmological redshifts at a confidence level of 23 sigma. Here, we critically reassess this result. Special relativity is known to describe the dynamics of an empty universe, by means of the Milne kinematic model. Applying only special-relativistic concepts, we derive the angular diameter distance and the luminosity distance in the Milne model. In particular, in this model we do not use the underlying metric in its Robertson-Walker form, so our exposition is useful for readers without any knowledge of general relativity. We do however, explicitly use the special-relativistic Doppler formula for redshift. We apply the derived luminosity distance to the magnitude--redshift diagram for supernovae Ia of Perlmutter et al. (1999) and show that special relativity fits the data much better than that claimed by Davis & Lineweaver. Specifically, using these data alone, the Milne model is ruled out only at a 2 sigma level. Although not a viable cosmological model, in the context of current research on supernovae Ia it remains a useful reference model when comparing predictions of various cosmological models.Comment: 5 pages, 1 figure; a didactic article; matches the version accepted for publication in PAS

On the Reality of the Accelerating Universe

Two groups recently deduced the positive value for the cosmological constant, concluding at a high (>= 99%) confidence level that the Universe should be accelerating. This conclusion followed from the statistical analysis of dozens of high-redshift supernovae. In this paper this conclusion is discussed. From the conservative frequentist's point of view the validity of null hypothesis of the zero cosmological constant is tested by the classical statistical chi^2 test for the 60 supernovae listed in Perlmutter et al. 1999 (ApJ, 517, 565). This sample contains 42 objects discovered in the frame of Supernova Cosmology Project and 18 low-redshift object detected earlier. Excluding the event SN1997O, which is doubtlessly an outlier, one obtains the result: The probability for seeing a worse chi^2 - if the null hypothesis is true - is in the 5% to 8% range, a value that does not indicate significant evidence againts the null. If one excludes further five possible outliers, proposed to be done by Perlmutter et al. 1999, then the sample of 54 supernovae is in an excellent accordance with the null hypothesis. It also seems that upernovae from the High-z Supernova Search Team does not change the acceptance of null hypothesis. This means that the rejection of the Einstein equations with zero cosmological constant - based on the supernova data alone - is still premature.Comment: 11 pages, no figures, accepted for publication in Ap

Bruce Bryant, Released After 30 Years in Prison With the Help of the Perlmutter Center for Legal Justice at Cardozo Law, Visits and Thanks Cardozo Students

In an emotional visit to the Cardozo Law campus on April 26, two days after his release from prison, Bruce Bryant thanked students from The Perlmutter Forensic Science Freedom Field Clinic who helped him win clemency. A round of applause echoed through the hallway as he arrived with Josh Dubin, the executive director of The Perlmutter Center for Legal Justice at Cardozo Law.https://larc.cardozo.yu.edu/cardozo-news-2023/1014/thumbnail.jp