The Unconstitutionality of Consolidated Planning Boards: Interlocal Planning Under New York Law

This Article will examine the nature and constitutionality of consolidated planning boards in light of the broad powers actually granted them. The issues surrounding the constitutionality of consolidated planning boards begs, yet again, Chief Justice Marshall\u27s question respecting the extent of the power granted to the state governments. The question is whether a municipality may abdicate its power to regulate land within its own boundaries by delegating it to a separate planning entity

CdWO4 scintillating bolometer for Double Beta Decay: Light and Heat anticorrelation, light yield and quenching factors

We report the performances of a 0.51 kg CdWO4 scintillating bolometer to be used for future Double Beta Decay Experiments. The simultaneous read-out of the heat and the scintillation light allows to discriminate between different interacting particles aiming at the disentanglement and the reduction of background contribution, key issue for next generation experiments. We will describe the observed anticorrelation between the heat and the light signal and we will show how this feature can be used in order to increase the energy resolution of the bolometer over the entire energy spectrum, improving up to a factor 2.6 on the 2615 keV line of 208Tl. The detector was tested in a 433 h background measurement that permitted to estimate extremely low internal trace contaminations of 232Th and 238U. The light yield of gamma/beta, alpha and neutrons is presented. Furthermore we developed a method in order to correctly evaluate the absolute thermal quenching factor of alpha particles in scintillating bolometers.Comment: 8 pages 7 figure

Performances of the Italian seismic network, 1985-2002: the hidden thing

Seismic data users and people managing a sesimic network are both interested in the potentiality of the data, with the difference that the former look at stability, the second at improvements. In this work we measure the performances of the Italian Telemetered Seismic Network in 1985-2002 by defining basic significant parameters and studying their evolution during the years. Then, we deal with the geological methods used to characterise or to plan a seismic station deployment in a few cases. Last, we define the gain of the network as the percentage of located earthquakes with respect to the total recorded earthquakes. By analysing the distribution of non-located ("missed") earthquakes, we suggest possible actions to take in order to increase the gain. Results show that completeness magnitude is 2.4 in the average over the analysed period, and it can be as low as 2.2 when we consider non-located earthquakes as well. Parameters such as the distance between an earthquake and the closest station, and the RMS location decrease with time, reflecting improvements in the location quality. Methods for geologic and seismological characterisation of a possible station site also proved to be effective. Finally, we represent the number of missed earthquakes at each station, showing that nine stations control more that 50% of all missed earthquakes, and suggesting areas in Italy where the network might be easily improved.Comment: 17 pages, 1 table, 11 figures. Submitted to Annals of Geophysic

Modelli di interpretazione della storia in Vico e Schiller

Notwithstanding the scarce evidence of a direct influence of the Vichian conception of history on Schiller's works, there are many commonalities between the historical visions elaborated by the two authors. In this essay, the author examines the parallel conceptions of rhetoric, as the key to an integral humanist knowledge, and as an alternative to Cartesian rationalism; the author also carries out an analysis of the discontinuities between Vico's cyclical representation of the historic evolution, and the Schillerian idea of the accomplishment of history as a cultural reinforcement of a primitive naivety

«Machen Sie mich nicht reich. Geben Sie mir nur so viel, als man braucht, wenn man nicht gehorchen, und nicht befehlen will». Strategie del possesso nella «Betschwester» di Christian Fürchtegott Gellert: [«Do not make me rich. Give me only so much as one needs when one does not want either to obey or to command». Strategies of possession in Christian Fürchtegott Gellert’s «The Prayer Sister»]

As in all Gellert’s comedies, the characters of the The Prayer Sister (1745) aspire to both material well-being and an ideal spiritual happiness. The impulse to possession, which encompasses the sphere of reality as well as that of the symbolic, is an ambivalent, contradictory force. The aim of self-affirmation through wealth is coherent with bourgeois dynamism. The consequent exposure to the loss of a moral compass, however, corresponds to a drainage of the vital force which impels the logic of wish. This study deals with these themes both in Gellert’s theatre and in his essays