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THE CONSTITUTIONALITY OF TAKING A SPORTS FRANCHISE BY EMINENT DOMAIN AND THE NEED FOR FEDERAL LEGISLATION TO RESTRICT FRANCHISE RELOCATION
In 1985, two cities were in proceedings to each take over a sports franchises located within their respective cities. However, a number of constitutional limitations may prevent a city from taking sports franchises. This Note examines the constitutional public use, just compensation,right to travel and commerce clause limitations as applied to the taking of sports franchises by eminent domain. This Note concludes that eminent domain is an improper method of protecting cities\u27 interests in preventing the relocation of sports franchises. Consequently, it suggests that only carefully drawn federal legislation can protect a city\u27s interest in keeping its sports franchises without subjecting franchises to nonuniform and discriminatory treatment
Selected Readings on Ethnicity, Family and Community
Selected Readings on Ethnicity, Family and Community; compiled by Mary E. Kelly, Central Missouri State University, and Thomas W. Sanchez, University of Nebraska- Lincoln
Cosmological Constraints from the double source plane lens SDSSJ0946+1006
We present constraints on the equation of state of dark energy, , and the
total matter density, , derived from the
double-source-plane strong lens SDSSJ0946+1006, the first cosmological
measurement with a galaxy-scale double-source-plane lens. By modelling the
primary lens with an elliptical power-law mass distribution, and including
perturbative lensing by the first source, we are able to constrain the
cosmological scaling factor in this system to be ,
which implies for a flat
cold dark matter (CDM) cosmology. Combining with a cosmic microwave
background prior from Planck, we find = assuming a
flat CDM cosmology. This inference shifts the posterior by 1 and
improves the precision by 30 per cent with respect to Planck alone, and
demonstrates the utility of combining simple, galaxy-scale
multiple-source-plane lenses with other cosmological probes to improve
precision and test for residual systematic biases.Comment: 9 Pages, 7 Figures. Updated version as published in MNRA
Spin and orbital angular momentum of the proton
Since the announcement of the proton spin crisis by the European Muon
Collaboration there has been considerable progress in unravelling the
distribution of spin and orbital angular momentum within the proton. We review
the current status of the problem, showing that not only have strong upper
limits have been placed on the amount of polarized glue in the proton but that
the experimental determination of the spin content has become much more
precise. It is now clear that the origin of the discrepancy between experiment
and the naive expectation of the fraction of spin carried by the quarks and
anti-quarks in the proton lies in the non-perturbative structure of the proton.
We explain how the features expected in a modern, relativistic and chirally
symmetric description of nucleon structure naturally explain the current data.
The consequences of this explanation for the presence of orbital angular
momentum on quarks and gluons is reviewed and comparison made with recent
results from lattice QCD and experimental data.Comment: Lectures at Aligarh University (4th DAE-BRNS Workshop on Hadron
Physics, Feb 18-21, 200
Rapid, quantitative determination of bacteria in water
A bioluminescent assay for ATP in water borne bacteria is made by adding nitric acid to a water sample with concentrated bacteria to rupture the bacterial cells. The sample is diluted with sterile, deionized water, then mixed with a luciferase-luciferin mixture and the resulting light output of the bioluminescent reaction is measured and correlated with bacteria present. A standard and a blank also are presented so that the light output can be correlated to bacteria in the sample and system noise can be substracted from the readings. A chemiluminescent assay for iron porphyrins in water borne bacteria is made by adding luminol reagent to a water sample with concentrated bacteria and measuring the resulting light output of the chemiluminescent reaction
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