Alternatives for Measuring Hazardous Waste Reduction

PTI Project number 233U-4913FRHWRIC Project Number 89006

The Uniform Commercial Code—SB 122

Senate Bill 122, enacting the Uniform Commercial Code in Washington, was passed during the recent legislative session. The effective date of the new statute is June 30, 1967. Since 1952, when the Uniform Commercial Code [hereinafter cited as UCC] was first proposed by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws and the American Law Institute, it has been enacted by forty-one states, the District of Columbia, and the Virgin Islands. It is now much easier to list the-states which have not enacted it. These are: Alabama, Arizona, Delaware, Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Dakota, South Carolina, and Vermont. As this modern replacement for the older uniform commercial laws and for the hodge-podge of anachronisms which constituted the pre-Code law of personal property security was adopted across the country, Washington became an isolated area of commercial law obsolescence. We were still trying to carry on jet-age commerce with horse-and-buggy law—with nineteenth century sales and negotiable instruments principles, with warehouse receipts and bills of lading statutes prepared some sixty years ago, with no determinable legal system for a multimillion dollar letter of credit business, and with a jerry-built complex of secured-transactions law. The 1965 Washington legislature is to be commended for once again bringing this state into the mainstream of American commercial law

US Activity with the OLYMPUS satellite

Future communication systems will move toward the 20 to 30 GHz frequency range for wider bandwidth and reduced interference, and will use small earth terminals. The ESA satellite OLYMPUS is scheduled for launch this June and will be ready for use in October. OLYMPUS has 12, 20, and 30 GHz beacons. Virginia Tech and Michigan Tech are working with NASA/JPL on an OLYMPUS experiment and hardware development program. OLYMPUS beacons provide coverage of the east coast of the US sufficient for attenuation measurements. The planned hardware for the OLYMPUS experiments is illustrated. The components of the experiment are summarized. A block diagram level overview of a typical channel is given and one of the four RF front ends is shown

Transbasin water transfers

Presented at the 2001 USCID water management conference, Transbasin water transfers on June 27-30, 2001 in Denver, Colorado.To view the abstract, please see the full text of the document

Digital demodulator-correlator

An apparatus for demodulation and correlation of a code modulated 10 MHz signal is presented. The apparatus is comprised of a sample and hold analog-to-digital converter synchronized by a frequency coherent 40 MHz pulse to obtain four evenly spaced samples of each of the signal. Each sample is added or subtracted to or from one of four accumulators to or from the separate sums. The correlation functions are then computed. As a further feature of the invention, multipliers are each multiplied by a squarewave chopper signal having a period that is long relative to the period of the received signal to foreclose contamination of the received signal by leakage from either of the other two terms of the multipliers

Mobile satellite propagation measurements and modeling: A review of results for systems engineers

An overview of Mobile Satellite Service (MSS) propagation measurements and modeling is intended as a summary of current results. While such research is on-going, the simple models presented here should be useful to systems engineers. A complete summary of propagation experiments with literature references is also included