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Quality Advocacy and the Code of Professional Responsibility, The Ethics of Dilatory Motion Practice: Time for Change
One of the goals of the adversary system is to secure the just, speedy, and inexpensive determination of every action. Chief Judge Edelstein maintains that a restriction on dilatory motion practice is needed to secure this goal. To that end he proposes an amendment to the Code of Professional Responsibilities, the United States Judicial Code, and the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
Mass-to-light ratios of ellipticals in LCDM
We use the mass-to-light gradients in early-type galaxies to infer the global
dark matter fraction, f_d=M_d/M_*, for these systems. We discuss implications
about the total star formation efficiency in dark-matter halos and show that
the trend of with mass produces virial mass-to-light ratios which
are consistent with semi-analitical models. Preliminary kurtosis analysis of
the quasi-constant M/L galaxies in Romanowsky et al. seems at odd with Dekel et
al. simulations.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures. To appear in Proceedings of XXIst IAP Colloquium,
"Mass Profiles & Shapes of Cosmological Structures" (Paris, 4-9 July 2005),
eds G. A. Mamon, F. Combes, C. Deffayet, B. Fort (Paris: EDP Sciences).
Figure enlarged with respect the proceeding format, minor changes.
Collaboration website at http://www.astro.rug.nl/~pns/pns_team.htm
Search for Electromagnetic Counterparts to LIGO-Virgo Candidates: Expanded Very Large Array
This paper summarizes a search for radio wavelength counterparts to candidate
gravitational wave events. The identification of an electromagnetic counterpart
could provide a more complete understanding of a gravitational wave event,
including such characteristics as the location and the nature of the
progenitor. We used the Expanded Very Large Array (EVLA) to search six galaxies
which were identified as potential hosts for two candidate gravitational wave
events. We summarize our procedures and discuss preliminary results.Comment: 4 pages; to appear in the New Horizons in Time Domain Astronomy,
Proceedings of IAU Symposium 285, eds. R. E. M. Griffin, R. J. Hanisch & R.
Seama
Fluctuation characteristics of the TCV snowflake divertor measured with high speed visible imaging
Tangentially viewing fast camera footage of the low-field side snowflake
minus divertor in TCV is analysed across a four point scan in which the
proximity of the two X-points is varied systematically. The motion of
structures observed in the post- processed movie shows two distinct regions of
the camera frame exhibiting differing patterns. One type of motion in the outer
scrape-off layer remains present throughout the scan whilst the other, apparent
in the inner scrape-off layer between the two nulls, becomes increasingly
significant as the X-points contract towards one another. The spatial structure
of the fluctuations in both regions is shown to conform to the equilibrium
magnetic field. When the X-point gap is wide the fluctuations measured in the
region between the X-points show a similar structure to the fluctuations
observed above the null region, remaining coherent for multiple toroidal turns
of the magnetic field and indicating a physical connectivity of the
fluctuations between the upstream and downstream regions. When the X-point gap
is small the fluctuations in the inner scrape-off layer between the nulls are
decorrelated from fluctuations upstream, indicating local production of
filamentary structures. The motion of filaments in the inter-null region
differs, with filaments showing a dominantly poloidal motion along magnetic
flux surfaces when the X-point gap is large, compared to a dominantly radial
motion across flux-surfaces when the gap is small. This demonstrates an
enhancement to cross-field tranport between the nulls of the TCV low-field-side
snowflake minus when the gap between the nulls is small.Comment: Accepted for publication in Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusio
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