A Fond Farewell

With the graduation on May 22, 2004, two valued members of the law school faculty retired. Not only were they valued members of the faculty, but they were two of my personal friends. Because I had a significant role in their law school education and their hire onto the faculty, it is difficult to put into words my deep feelings about their departure. Therefore, I present this tribute with mixed emotion —happy for them but sad to see them depart

Application of computer techniques to some problems in linear viscoelasticity

Computer solutions in terms of molecular theories of linear viscoelasticit

The Doctrine of Misappropriation in Unfair Competition

The last fifty years have witnessed a tremendous surge in American businesses, both in number and in size. With this development, new methods of doing business have been devised. Although these methods are generally designed to increase competition in our economy, not all of them are considered ethical or fair. Some of these unfair or unethical practices are now controlled, within limitations, by the Federal Trade Commission. The remaining acts or practices must be controlled by other means within the framework of the law. The legal touchstone in such instances is unfair competition. One of the greatest problems in this area is the fact that these acts which are considered unfair are not easily catalogued or typed. They are limited in kind and method only by man\u27s ingenuity. Furthermore, any particular act is difficult to classify as fair or unfair. The line of demarcation between fair and unfair competition is seldom easy to draw. Subtlety rather than openness characterizes the encroachment upon the rights of a competitor legally in possession of the market. \u27 Probably the best statement on this matter was made by Mr. Justice Pitney in International News Service v. The Associated Press: Obviously, the question of what is unfair competition in business must be determined with particular reference to the character and circumstances of the business. The law of unfair competition has been developed to protect interests which are not given specific protection by other legal principles, such as patents, copyrights, trademarks or contracts, expressor implied. Our economy is one based on free competitive enterprise. Our public policy is designed to promote this competition. The law restrains this free competition only when some element of unfairness is added. In fact, it can well be said that it is no longer free competition when this element is present

Comment on “Biological interactions as determinants of distributions of benthic invertebrates within the substrate of stony streams” (Peckarsky)

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/109797/1/lno19812650981.pd

Hyperbolic manifolds with non-vanishing higher order Stiefel-Whitney classes

We show that there are infinitely many examples of cusped hyperbolic manifolds in high dimensions with non-vanishing (even) Stiefel-Whitney classes. Specifically, for every integer $n\geq 1$, there exist orientable hyperbolic manifolds $M$ of dimension $2n+2$ and greater such that $w_{2j}(M)$ is non-vanishing for all $0 \leq 2j \leq n$. We also show that such manifolds occur in every commensurability class of arithmetic hyperbolic manifolds of simplest type of the appropriate dimension, and thus are in some sense common

Size-frequency estimates of secondary production by Mysis relicta in Lakes Michigan and Huron

Data from five Great Lakes studies of Mysis relicta populations were reanalyzed to calculate secondary production estimates using the size-frequency method. Production estimates (P) ranged from 0.25 to 3.2 g dry weight m −2 yr −1 . Average annual biomass {xxB} and mean annual density (xxD) were 0.11–1.11 g dry weight/ m 2 and 25–434 animals/ m 2 , respectively. P:{xxB} ratios varied only between 2.2 and 3.3. Maximum and minimum biomass values within a study varied by a factor of 519 for one study but by less than 17 for the others. Highest estimates of P, {xxB} and {xxD} were calculated for collections from a 50-m station in Lake Michigan despite the larger populations suspected to be present at greater depths sampled in the other studies. These conservative estimates provide a basis for scaling trophic interactions involving M. relicta and emphasize findings by previous workers that night-time sampling with vertical net hauls is the best available technique for quantitative studies of M. relicta populations in the Great Lakes.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/42915/1/10750_2004_Article_BF00008100.pd

SPHERES flight operations testing and execution

Synchronized Position Hold Engage Reorient Experimental Satellites (SPHERES) is a formation flight testing facility consisting of three satellites operating inside the International Space Station (ISS). The goal is to use the long term microgravity environment of the ISS to mature formation flight and docking algorithms. The operations processes of SPHERES have also matured over the course of the first seven test sessions. This paper describes the evolution of the SPHERES program operations processes from conception to implementation to refinement through flight experience. Modifications to the operations processes were based on experience and feedback from Marshall Space Flight Center Payload Operations Center, USAF Space Test Program office at Johnson Space Center, and the crew of Expedition 13 (first to operate SPHERES on station). Important lessons learned were on aspects such as test session frequency, determination of session success, and contingency operations. This paper describes the tests sessions; then it details the lessons learned, the change in processes, and the impact on the outcome of later test sessions. SPHERES had very successful initial test sessions which allowed for modification and tailoring of the operations processes to streamline the code delivery and to tailor responses based on flight experiences.United States. Dept. of Defense. Space Technologies ProgramUnited States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Johnson Space Center ISS Operations TeamUnited States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Marshall Space Flight Center Astronaut OfficeUnited States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Johnson Space Center Reduced Gravity Offic