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The Application of Blakely v. Washington in Minnesota: An Analysis of State v. Shattuck and State v. Houston
The Application of Blakely v. Washington in Minnesota: An Analysis of State v. Shattuck and State v. Houston
Home as a Site of State-Corporate Violence: Grenfell Tower, Aetiologies and Aftermaths
Focusing on the aftermaths and consequences of the Grenfell Tower fire, this article reveals the factors which combined to produce a fire that could have such devastating effects. Further, it delineates the discrete ways in which distinct types of harms â physical, emotional and psychological, cultural and relational, and financial and economic â continue to be produced by a combination of State and corporate acts and omissions. Some of these harms are readily apparent, others are opaque and obscured. It concludes by showing how failures to mitigate these factors constitute one manifestation of the more general phenomenon of âsocial murderâ
Global hydrodynamic analysis of the molecular flexibility of galactomannans
In the past, intrinsic viscosity and sedimentation velocity analyses have been used separately to assess the conformation and flexibility of guar and locust bean gum galactomannans based on worm-like chain and semi-flexible coil models. Publication of a new global method combining data sets of both intrinsic viscosity and sedimentation coefficient with molecular weight, and minimising a target (error) function now permits a more robust analysis. Using this approach, values for the persistence length of (10 ñ 2) nm for guar and (7 ñ 1) nm for locust bean gum are returned if the mass per unit length ML is floated as a variable. Using a fixed mass per unit length based on the known compositional data of each galactomannan yields a similar value for Lp in both cases, (8 ñ 1) nm for guar and (9 ñ 1) nm for locust bean gum, with combined set of data yielding (9 ñ 1) nm: within experimental error the flexibilities of both galactomannans are very similar. é 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved
The Shifting Imaginaries of Corporate Crime
This article begins by setting out an analysis of the process of conventionalizing corporate crime that arises from the symbiotic relationship between states and corporations. Noting briefly the empirical characteristics of four broad categories of corporate crime and harm, the article then turns to explore the role of the state in its production and reproduction. We then problematize the role of the state in the reproduction of corporate crime at the level of the global economy, through the âcrimes of globalizationâ and âecocide,â warning of the tendency in the research literature to oversimplify the role of states and of international organizations. The article finishes by arguing that, as critical academics, it is our role to ensure that corporate crime is never normalized and fully conventionalized in advanced capitalist societies
The importance of physical, social and contextual elements of the social-servicescape on customer affect and repurchase intentions
ASIC-based tachometer without mechanical transducer for induction machines
A classical method for angular position and speed estimation in adjustable speed drives uses an incremental shaft encoder and an electronic circuit. This paper presents SLESS, a tachometer without mechanical transducer implemented on an ASIC using sensorless speed estimation technique. The ASIC is intended to serve as part of an integrated solution developed for fuzzy speed regulation and vector control of induction motors
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Mediating punitiveness: understanding public attitudes towards work-related fatality cases
This paper concerns an empirical investigation into public attitudes towards work-related fatality cases, where organizational offenders cause the death of workers or members of the public. This issue is particularly relevant following the introduction of the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 into UK law. Here, as elsewhere, the use of criminal law against companies reflects governmental concerns over public confidence in the lawâs ability to regulate risk. The empirical findings demonstrate that high levels of public concern over these cases do not translate into punitive attitudes. Such cases are viewed rationally and constructively, and lead to instrumental rather than purely expressive enforcement preferences
Theory of ac electrokinetic behavior of spheroidal cell suspensions with an intrinsic dispersion
The dielectric dispersion, dielectrophoretic (DEP) and electrorotational (ER)
spectra of spheroidal biological cell suspensions with an intrinsic dispersion
in the constituent dielectric constants are investigated. By means of the
spectral representation method, we express analytically the characteristic
frequencies and dispersion strengths both for the effective dielectric constant
and the Clausius-Mossotti factor (CMF). We identify four and six characteristic
frequencies for the effective dielectric spectra and CMF respectively, all of
them being dependent on the depolarization factor (or the cell shape). The
analytical results allow us to examine the effects of the cell shape, the
dispersion strength and the intrinsic frequency on the dielectric dispersion,
DEP and ER spectra. Furthermore, we include the local-field effects due to the
mutual interactions between cells in a dense suspension, and study the
dependence of co-field or anti-field dispersion peaks on the volume fractions.Comment: accepted by Phys. Rev.
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