Very high frequency digital rangine system

Digital ranging system measures slant range /from 500 feet to 200 nautical miles/ and provides digital range readout during range tracking between any two airborne vehicles

State lottery revenue: the importance of game characteristics

Previous studies find state lottery sales are significantly influenced by socioeconomic characteristics of the population. We extend this literature by examining how the overall expected value, the top prize, and the total combinations influence sales after controlling for these other socioeconomic factors. We perform our empirical analysis on an unparalleled set of data that includes information for 135 on-line lottery games in the United States. Our results show that sales are significantly influenced the top prize amount and odds of winning it, but that sales are not significantly affected by the expected value of the remaining lower prizes.Gambling industry

School Safety and Violence Prevention Programs as Seen Through the Eyes of Instructional Staff and Students

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Characteristics of Three-Node Smoothing Element under Penalty Constraints

The project is based upon research of Tessler et al. (1994) on an improved variational formulation for post-processing stress predictions in Finite Element Analysis. The methodology, called Smoothing Element Analysis (SEA), employs a three-node smoothing finite element. The present effort focused on verifying the basic constant strain criterion for the three-node smoothing element subject to a set of internal penalty constraints. The convergence characteristics of the element are assessed by first deriving the constrained form of the assumed element stress and stress gradient fields, and then by verifying the validity of the constant strain criterion once the element penalty constraints are explicitly imposed. The analytical investigation is carried out with the use of the symbolic manipulation code 'Mathematica'

First Amendment Standards for Government Subsidies of Artistic and Cultural Expression: A Reply to Justices Scalia and Rehnquist

May an opera house limit its productions to operas, or must it also show rock musicals? May a municipal theater devote an entire season to Shakespeare, or is it required to book any potential producer on a first come, first served basis? \u27 As Professor Kenneth Karst observed in his comment on Southeastern Promotions, the Court\u27s majority answered these questions with silence. The failure of the Court to respond to Justices Scalia and Rehnquist is puzzling, because in both cases their questions are easily answered. ... None of these answers, however, would have required a different result in Arkansas Writers\u27 Project or in Southeastern Promotions.Thus, although the examples employed by Justices Scalia and Rehnquist may have been irresistible, these examples were not counter examples, because the conclusions they assumed were perfectly consistent with the results reached by the Court\u27s majority in both cases. An appreciation of this consistency is important not only in connection with those two cases in particular, but also in connection with he larger question of government support for the arts in general.The purpose of this Essay is to promote such an appreciation, and its thesis is this. First, the first amendment does impose standards by which courts may evaluate the constitutionality of government subsidies of cultural and artistic expression. Second, those standards do permit the government to be selective about the recipients of its largess,provided the government uses appropriate criteria in making its selections. Third, some criteria, though appropriate, must nevertheless undergo strict scrutiny. And, fourth, in many cases such criteria will withstand strict scrutiny, although the criteria in Arkansas Writers\u27Project and Southeastern Promotions did not