Adaptive voting computer system

A computer system is reported that uses adaptive voting to tolerate failures and operates in a fail-operational, fail-safe manner. Each of four computers is individually connected to one of four external input/output (I/O) busses which interface with external subsystems. Each computer is connected to receive input data and commands from the other three computers and to furnish output data commands to the other three computers. An adaptive control apparatus including a voter-comparator-switch (VCS) is provided for each computer to receive signals from each of the computers and permits adaptive voting among the computers to permit the fail-operational, fail-safe operation

Method reduces computer time for smoothing functions and derivatives through ninth order polynomials

Analysis presented is an efficient technique to adjust previously calculated orthogonal polynomial coefficients for an odd number of equally spaced data points. The adjusting technique derivation is for a ninth order polynomial. It reduces computer time for smoothing functions

Creating a Digital Database and Manuals to Document our Extensive Collection of Historic Printmaking Equipment and Ephemera

We were inspired to do this research project after realizing the importance and significance of our extensive collection of historic printmaking equipment and ephemera. As scholars we felt that it would benefit our department as well as our community to document and share information about our printmaking materials. Thus far the primary focus of our research has been researching and building a database of information that is best suited to our goal. Our methodology included researching best practices to document this collection into a researchable database to share with the intellectual community. Once we identified software for the database, we were able to methodically embrace the best practices for accession, condition reports, and cataloguing. We have created an ongoing file which includes all pertinent information and history about individual pieces, collections, or groupings of pieces. Throughout the process, we have been using the condition reports to plan and schedule the restoration of the pieces; we have restored many of them. The documentation and final restoration of these items is one of the initiatives of our project. This project will be ongoing, but so far it has produced an inventory of over 500 artifacts that have been photographed, organized, and are methodically being processed into condition reports, catalogue cards, and excel files for the database. The final product is culminating into a researchable database that we are sharing with global scholars. Many of the pieces have a significant association with Southern commerce, publishing history, and print history; through documentation, they are becoming a valuable tool to connect the past with the present. An account of the significance of this collection will attract source archives, museums, scholars, and visiting artists, and will serve as a reference for historical research and future publications

Northwestern Railway Situation

What promises to be the most important corporate litigation that has or is likely to come before the Supreme Court for many years is involved in the various suits against the Northern Securities Company. To understand its full significance, it is desirable to recall something of the railroad history of the western states

Northwestern Railway Situation

What promises to be the most important corporate litigation that has or is likely to come before the Supreme Court for many years is involved in the various suits against the Northern Securities Company. To understand its full significance, it is desirable to recall something of the railroad history of the western states

The Northern Securities Decision

March 14 the Supreme Court of the United States decided one of the most important cases that has been before it for a number of years. The litigation referred to is the Northern Securities case. The question involved was whether the control of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific railway companies through the ownership of the majority of the stock of each of those companies by the Securities company violated the national anti-trust act. The majority of the Supreme Court held it did, but four of the judges dissented

“Thinspirations”: A Content Analysis of Pro- and Anti-Eating Disorder Social Networking Websites

individuals sharing ideas, interests, and problems and have the potential to alter human behaviors. According to Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project 80 percent % of internet users have looked online for information about any of 15 health topics such as a specific disease or treatment. Of those internet users, 34 percent % hav

The Detroit River Tunnel Between Detroit, Michigan, and Windsor, Canada

The history, engineering, and costs of the rail tunnel between Windsor and Detroit; Institution of Civil Engineers, Session 1910-1911, Part 3, Section 1: Paper 3915 (February 7th, 1911).https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/swoda-windsor-region/1003/thumbnail.jp

Authority of Allen v. Flood

In the case of Allen v. Flood, one of the Lords asked this interesting question, If the cook says to her master, \u27Discharge the butler or I leave you,\u27 and the master discharges the butler, does the butler have an action against the cook? This, Lord Shand said, was the simplest form in which the very question in Allen v. Flood could be raised.4 And, like the original question, it puzzled the judges and Lords very much to answer