Electroweak Prospects for Tevatron RunII

The prospects of precision electroweak measurements from CDF and D0, using RunII data, is reviewed.Comment: 4 pages; to appear in the Proceedings for the ICHEP-02 Conference, Amsterda

Using Adult Baits to Manage Corn Rootworms and Improved Economic Thresholds for Corn Rootworm Traps

Corn Rootwonns have one generation per year and a strong preference for corn. You are familiar with the significance of their preference for corn. Other then local populations that have demonstrated extended diapause (a topic for another concurrent session), rootworm larval injury has only been of concern when com is planted after com (continuous corn). The most common tactic used by growers to protect continuous corn from larval injury is to apply an insecticide to the soil at planting. The second fact, that economically important corn rootwonns have only one generation per year, has generated interest in a second way insecticides might be used to avoid larval injury; the broadcasting of a foliar insecticide spray to kill adult corn rootworms before they lay their eggs. Northern and western com rootworms lay the majority of their eggs during August and early September. The eggs overwinter in the soil, and the damaging larval stage hatches the following June. If the adults were eliminated from a field before they laid their eggs, there would be no larvae to damage corn the following season

Ideologies Clashing: Corporations, Criminal Law, and the Regulatory Offence

This article explores the ideological dimensions of the current debate over the constitutional status of the regulatory offence. It contends that what animates this debate is an underlying conflict between competing liberal ideologies in which an emergent libertarian classical liberalism is increasingly undermining the dominance within legal discourse of a more statist-oriented pluralist liberalism. Moreover, it suggests that it is a debate which is closely connected to a more far-reaching ideological controversy over the future of the regulatory state. The article concludes by arguing that, within this debate, fundamental questions about the nature of corporate power and legal status are obscured, questions that a critical theory of the regulatory offence must confront

Personnel launch system autoland development study

The Personnel Launch System (PLS) Autoland Development Study focused on development of the guidance and control system for the approach and landing (A/L) phase and the terminal area energy management (TAEM) phase. In the A/L phase, a straight-in trajectory profile was developed with an initial high glide slope, a pull-up and flare to lower glide slope, and the final flare touchdown. The TAEM system consisted of using a heading alignment cone spiral profile. The PLS autopilot was developed using integral LQG design techniques. The guidance and control design was verified using a nonlinear 6 DOF simulation. Simulation results demonstrated accurate steering during the TAEM phase and adequate autoland performance in the presence of wind turbulence and wind shear

Criteria for virtual fibering

We prove that an irreducible 3-manifold whose fundamental group satisfies a certain group-theoretic property called RFRS is virtually fibered. As a corollary, we show that 3-dimensional reflection orbifolds and arithmetic hyperbolic orbifolds defined by a quadratic form virtually fiber. These include the Seifert Weber dodecahedral space and the Bianchi orbifolds. Moreover, we show that a taut sutured compression body has a finite-sheeted cover with a depth one taut-oriented foliation.Comment: 17 pages, 3 figures; new theorem 7.2; to appear in Journal of Topolog