84 research outputs found
Evidence - Wiretapping - Extension Telephones
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has outlined the prohibitive reach of the wiretap statute as encompassing mechanical invasions over telephone extensions and listening on an extension without the consent of the communicating parties.
Commonwealth v. Murray, 423 Pa. 37, 223 A.2d 102 (1966)
Life Estates - Power to Consume - Remainderman
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, applying common law rules of construction, has decided that a life tenant in personalty with the power to consume is accountable to the remainderman for the increased value of the bequeathed property.
Moltrup Estate, 424 Pa. 161, 225 A.2d 676 (1967
Trade Regulations - Group Boycott - Restraint of Trade
joint refusal to deal resulting in an exclusion of traders from the competitive market is a per se violation of section 1 of the Sherman Act.
United States v. General Motors Corp., 384 U.S. 127 (1966)
A LC-MS/MS confirmatory method for determination of chloramphenicol in real samples screened by competitive immunoassay
A new liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometric (LC-MS/MS) method was developed to confirm chloramphenicol (CAP) residues in foods of animal origin and in urine samples, which were earlier found positive under the screening analysis, performed by competitive enzyme-linked immunoassay (ELISA) technique. The developed LC-MS/MS method was applied to four non-compliant samples from 2008 to 2012; giving concentrations of CAP residues from 1.18 to 3.68 ÎŒg kgâ1. All samples, qualified positive by ELISA, were confirmed with the LC-MS/MS technique and found to be non-compliant. The effectiveness of the confirmatory method was proven by participating in a successful proficiency test in year 2010. Both LC-MS/MS and ELISA methods were validated according to the European Union 2002/657/EC decision. The decision limit of the confirmatory method was determined as 0.02 ÎŒg kgâ1 for CAP in each validated matrix, while the detection capability of the screening test was 0.15 ÎŒg kgâ1
The future of cardiovascular stents: bioresorbable and integrated biosensor technology
Cardiovascular disease is the greatest cause of death worldwide. Atherosclerosis is the underlying pathology responsible for two thirds of these deaths. It is the ageâdependent process of âfurring of the arteries.â In many scenarios the disease is caused by poor diet, high blood pressure, and genetic risk factors, and is exacerbated by obesity, diabetes, and sedentary lifestyle. Current pharmacological antiâatherosclerotic modalities still fail to control the disease and improvements in clinical interventions are urgently required. Blocked atherosclerotic arteries are routinely treated in hospitals with an expandable metal stent. However, stented vessels are often silently reâblocked by developing âinâstent restenosis,â a wound response, in which the vessel's lumen renarrows by excess proliferation of vascular smooth muscle cells, termed hyperplasia. Herein, the current stent technology and the future of biosensing devices to overcome inâstent restenosis are reviewed. Second, with advances in nanofabrication, new sensing methods and how researchers are investigating ways to integrate biosensors within stents are highlighted. The future of implantable medical devices in the context of the emerging âInternet of Thingsâ and how this will significantly influence future biosensor technology for future generations are also discussed
Real-time Emotional State Detection from Facial Expression on Embedded Devices
From the last decade, researches on human facial
emotion recognition disclosed that computing models built on
regression modelling can produce applicable performance.
However, many systems need extensive computing power to be
run that prevents its wide applications such as robots and smart
devices. In this proposed system, a real-time automatic facial
expression system was designed, implemented and tested on an
embedded device such as FPGA that can be a first step for a
specific facial expression recognition chip for a social robot. The
system was built and simulated in MATLAB and then was built
on FPGA and it can carry out real time continuously emotional
state recognition at 30 fps with 47.44% accuracy. The proposed
graphic user interface is able to display the participant video and
two dimensional predict labels of the emotion in real time
together.The research presented in this paper was supported partially by the Slovak Research and Development Agency under the research projects APVV-15-0517 & APPV-15-0731 and by the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic under the project VEGA 1/0075/15
Consent, wantedness, and pleasure: Three dimensions affecting the perceived stress of and judgements of rape in sexual encounters
Participants conflate consent and wantedness when judging situations as rape (Peterson & Muehlenhard, 2007). Pleasure might also affect how such situations might be appraised by victims, perpetrators, and jurors. In four experiments, participants read vignettes describing sexual encounters that were consensual or not, wanted or unwanted, and pleasurable or not pleasurable. Participants judged
whether they thought each situation described rape and how
distressing they thought the encounter would be. Wantedness affected perceived distress when consent was given.
Wantedness and pleasure also influenced whether participants considered the situation rape
in non-consensual scenarios. In additional experiments, we analysed the results by gender, manipulated perspective (being the subject or initiator of the encounter), levels of aggression, and compared the results to a group of participants who had viewed an anti-abuse campaign. Male
participants and those higher in benevolent sexism were more likely than women to utilise pleasure and wantedness in judging whether situations described rape. Perspective and viewing the media campaign did not significantly affect judgements of rape. Our results have implications for models of the consequences of consent, wantedness, and pleasure of sex, and important implications for educational programmes aimed at reducing sexual assault and training for
those involved in criminal justice
Perfectionism and achievement goals in young Finnish ice-hockey players aspiring to make the Under-16 national team
Research on perfectionism suggests that is it useful to differentiate between perfectionistic strivings and perfectionistic concerns. Regarding the 2 x 2 achievement goal framework, the usefulness of this differentiation was recently demonstrated in a study with university student athletes (Stoeber, Stoll, Pescheck, & Otto, 2008, Study 2), in which it was found that perfectionistic strivings were associated with mastery-approach and performance-approach goals and perfectionistic concerns with mastery-avoidance, performance-approach, and performance-avoidance goals. Because the study was largely exploratory and only used non-elite athletes, the aim of the present research was to replicate and extend these findings by investigating a sample of 138 young, elite ice-hockey players, while adding further measures of perfectionism and using structural equation modelling (SEM) to confirm the relationships between perfectionistic strivings, perfectionistic concerns,and the 2 x 2 achievement goals. The SEM results showed that, in elite athletes also, perfectionistic strivings are associated with mastery-approach and performance-approach goals, whereas perfectionistic concerns are associated with masteryavoidance,
performance-approach, and performance-avoidance goals. Our findings corroborate the importance of differentiating between perfectionistic strivings and perfectionistic concerns when studying perfectionism in sports, because
only perfectionistic concerns (and not perfectionistic strivings) are associated with maladaptive patterns of achievement goals
AC loss in ReBCO pancake coils and stacks of them: modelling and measurement
Many applications of ReBCO coated conductors contain stacks of pancake coils.
In order to reduce their high AC loss, it is necessary to understand the loss
mechanisms. In this article, we measure and simulate the AC loss and the
critical current, I_c, in stacks of pancake coils ("pancakes"). We construct
stacks of up to 4 pancakes and we measure them by electrical means. We also
obtain the anisotropic field dependence of J_c from I_c measurements of the
tape. This J_c is the only input to the simulations, together with the coil
dimensions. After validating our computations with the measurements, we
simulate stacks of many pancakes, up to 32. We found that the AC loss in a
stack of (four) pancakes is very high, two orders of magnitude larger than for
a single tape. A double pancake behaves as a single one with double width but a
stack of more pancakes is very different. Finally, we found that a 2-strand
Roebel cable reduces the AC loss in a stack of pancakes but not in a single
pancake. In conclusion, the AC loss in stacks of pancakes is too high. However,
our simulations are useful to predict the AC loss and optimise the coil design,
reducing the AC loss.Comment: 34 pages, 18 figures. All figures are modified; figures 3, 7 and 10
are new. Text thoroughly revised and extende
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