Lawyers and the Nuclear Debate

The volume under review constitutes a valuable and exciting contribution to the whole nuclear debate. Its distinctiveness, perhaps, lies in the format. A mix of more formal and prepared papers, less formal papers, interventions and discussions provides an interesting example of the genre. While one is clearly not dealing with an academic treatise, the style of the compilation enhances the feeling of acute concern, spontaneity and the sense of the contemporary significance of the whole enterprise

Stereospecific four-bond phosphorus-phosphorus spin couplings in phosphazenyl-phosphazenes

Four-bond phosphorus-phosphorus coupling constants have been measured from the 31P NMR spectra of phosphazenylcyclophosphazenes. Their magnitude appears to be related to the conformation adopted by the phosphazenyl-group relative to the phosphazene ring

The Discovery Rule: Fairness in Toxic Tort Statutes of Limitations

The costs associated with the disposal of toxic waste can be classified in two ways. The first category is made up of environmental losses such as the contamination of rivers, lakes, and ground water with the resulting destruction of aquatic life, wildlife, and vegetation and includes expenses incurred in cleanup. The second category is comprised of losses sustained by individuals and includes both property damage and physical injury resulting from direct or indirect contact with hazardous wastes. Injured individuals have two options in their pursuit of compensation: statutory and common law. This Article argues that statutory recourse is not only inadequate but also often precludes common law means of redress. The first section addresses the shortcomings of third-party restitution under past and present legislation. The remaining sections outline the problems and inequities of statutes of limitations in the adjudication of hazardous waste torts

The Discovery Rule: Fairness in Toxic Tort Statutes of Limitations

The costs associated with the disposal of toxic waste can be classified in two ways. The first category is made up of environmental losses such as the contamination of rivers, lakes, and ground water with the resulting destruction of aquatic life, wildlife, and vegetation and includes expenses incurred in cleanup. The second category is comprised of losses sustained by individuals and includes both property damage and physical injury resulting from direct or indirect contact with hazardous wastes. Injured individuals have two options in their pursuit of compensation: statutory and common law. This Article argues that statutory recourse is not only inadequate but also often precludes common law means of redress. The first section addresses the shortcomings of third-party restitution under past and present legislation. The remaining sections outline the problems and inequities of statutes of limitations in the adjudication of hazardous waste torts

The Discovery Rule: Fairness in Toxic Tort Statutes of Limitations

The costs associated with the disposal of toxic waste can be classified in two ways. The first category is made up of environmental losses such as the contamination of rivers, lakes, and ground water with the resulting destruction of aquatic life, wildlife, and vegetation and includes expenses incurred in cleanup. The second category is comprised of losses sustained by individuals and includes both property damage and physical injury resulting from direct or indirect contact with hazardous wastes. Injured individuals have two options in their pursuit of compensation: statutory and common law. This Article argues that statutory recourse is not only inadequate but also often precludes common law means of redress. The first section addresses the shortcomings of third-party restitution under past and present legislation. The remaining sections outline the problems and inequities of statutes of limitations in the adjudication of hazardous waste torts

The Discovery Rule: Fairness in Toxic Tort Statutes of Limitations

The costs associated with the disposal of toxic waste can be classified in two ways. The first category is made up of environmental losses such as the contamination of rivers, lakes, and ground water with the resulting destruction of aquatic life, wildlife, and vegetation and includes expenses incurred in cleanup. The second category is comprised of losses sustained by individuals and includes both property damage and physical injury resulting from direct or indirect contact with hazardous wastes. Injured individuals have two options in their pursuit of compensation: statutory and common law. This Article argues that statutory recourse is not only inadequate but also often precludes common law means of redress. The first section addresses the shortcomings of third-party restitution under past and present legislation. The remaining sections outline the problems and inequities of statutes of limitations in the adjudication of hazardous waste torts

Microtutoring in higher education: the development and evaluation of a programme of skills

The prime concern of the study is with the development and evaluation of a short in- service course suitable for teachers in Higher Education. The aim of the course is to introduce and allow tutors to practice the pedagogic skills relevant to encounters with students engaged in independent and individualised modes of teaching and learning such as assignments, projects, contract learning, practical work and research. The study is firmly grounded in principles reviews of staff development, theories derived from thorough of instruction, and microencounter theory and techniques. In exploring this novel area of study, the new generic term, microtutoring, is defined. The research approach is firmly based in the descriptive, case study, course evaluation tradition with some experimental research integrated within the overall design. A detailed description is given of the development of observable skills and the design of instruments for their detection and measurement. The clustering of skills into the meaningful and highly relevant dimensions of structure, directness, centredness, control, cognitive level and appropriateness is described. A full account is given of the formative evaluation of the course and the data and results derived from summative evaluation are processed and discussed. Further development and research in relation to both course and skills is identified and prioritised. Experimental results suggest that it is possible to cause significant changes to the tutorial skills, dimensions and style of a tutor in a predetermined direction. It also seems that these changes are independent of the extent of prior teaching experience possessed by the tutor

Phase transitions and vortex dynamics in superconducting island arrays

In this thesis, we use superconducting island arrays as a platform for studying vortex motion and quantum phase transitions. We investigate superconducting vortex dynamics and lattice structures in superconducting arrays by performing electrical transport measurements on Nb island arrays on Au at milli-kelvin temperatures and finite fields. At low fillings, we observe anomalous vortex dynamics that we attribute to a history dependent dissipative force as the vortex moves through the lattice. At higher fillings, vortex-vortex interaction becomes significant and is dominated by collective vortex motion. We find that the transition from pinned to vortex lattice flow is split into two transitions as the filling is shifted from the commensurate filling regime, where the vortex lattice has strong crystalline order, to an incommensurate filling, where the vortex lattice no longer matches potential wells of the SNS array. We find that this behavior is consistent with domain wall motion in a polycrystalline vortex lattice at commensurate fillings. Superconducting island arrays can also be used to study phase transitions. Previous work in our group found that the onset of superconductivity in Nb islands was strongly dependent on the island spacing in the array. Performing follow up measurements, we find that the critical island temperature increases as the underlying Au is made thicker, indicating that this effect is dependent on the strength of electrical interactions between islands and is not due to normal metal suppression. Performing measurements on individual islands, we find that the vast majority of 260nm islands undergo a transition at temperatures far lower than those in island arrays, to the extent that they cannot be observed in a Helium 4 cryostat, and that there is a broad distribution of island critical temperatures observed. This suggests that the onset of superconductivity in rare ordered regions plays a significant role the onset of superconductivity in both the arrays samples and single islands. Lastly, we present work studying the superconductor to insulator transition in Sn island arrays on graphene as well as the technical difficulties involved