Sex Offenses: The British Experience

Swedish architectural modernism is intimately tied to thedevelopment of the welfare state, where the roles and work ofarchitects largely followed governmental building policies. Thepolitical and economical crisis of the late 1960s and 1970swas particularly devastating for Swedish architecture as theshortcomings of the welfare state were partly blamed on thearchitecture profession. This paper is a study of the NationalBoard of Public Building (KBS)—a Governmental agencyin charge of providing office space for State institutions—and its ambition to rationalise its organisation and buildingconstruction. KBS’ developments during the late 1960sand early 1970s redefined the role of the architect throughquestioning the organisation of the building industry, theprocess of design, and the role of the State in building. In1967, a larger reorganisation of KBS was prompted by theGovernment’s implementation of a new budgeting systemcalled program budgeting, which besides being a financialsteering mechanism also served as a planning system inwhich the strict cost-effectiveness of the agencies programswere measured. KBS’s response to the enforced changesresulted in the launching of an official architectural theory in1968, the so-called “KBS structure philosophy,” that at largewas a pragmatic structuralist approach to building. It wasdeveloped through rigorous investigations during the 1960s andsubsequently realized, in assimilation with program budgeting,with great force and conviction. The analysis suggests thatKBS, and its consultant architects, responded to the State’sdemand to rationalize the process of building which in turn ledto significant changes of the role of the architect, and furtherrestrained architecture’s dependency on rational means-endsdecision-making, favouring economic perspectives of building.QC 20140617</p

High efficient square-wave oscillator operator at high power levels

A square-wave oscillator circuit containing only simple resistor-capacitor combinations and transistors operates with high efficiency at relatively high power levels

Automatic water inventory, collecting, and dispensing unit

Two cylindrical tanks with piston bladders and associated components for automatic filling and emptying use liquid inventory readout devices in control of water flow. Unit provides for adaptive water collection, storage, and dispensation in weightlessness environment

Reply to Comment by Galapon on 'Almost-periodic time observables for bound quantum systems'

In a recent paper [1] (also at http://lanl.arxiv.org/abs/0803.3721), I made several critical remarks on a 'Hermitian time operator' proposed by Galapon [2] (also at http://lanl.arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0111061). Galapon has correctly pointed out that remarks pertaining to 'denseness' of the commutator domain are wrong [3]. However, the other remarks still apply, and it is further noted that a given quantum system can be a member of this domain only at a set of times of total measure zero.Comment: 3 page

Palladium, platinum, and gold distribution in serpentinite seamounts in the Mariana and Izu-Bonin forearcs: evidence from Leg 125 fluids and serpentinites

Palladium, platinum, and gold were analyzed for 20 interstitial water samples from Leg 125. No Pd or Pt was detected in fluids from serpentinite muds from Conical Seamount in the Mariana forearc, indicating that low-temperature seawater-peridotite interaction does not mobilize these elements into the serpentinizing fluids to levels above 0.10 parts per billion (ppb) in solution. However, Au may be mobilized in high pH solutions. In contrast, fluids from vitric-rich clays on the flanks of the Torishima Seamount in the Izu-Bonin forearc have Pd values of between 4.0 and 11.8 nmol/L, Pt values between 2.3 and 5.0 nmol/L and Au values between 126.9 and 1116.9 pmol/L. The precious metals are mobilized, and possibly adsorbed onto clay mineral surfaces, during diagenesis and burial of the volcanic-rich clays. Desorption during squeezing of the sediments may produce the enhanced precious metal concentrations in the analyzed fluids. The metals are mobilized in the fluids probably as neutral hydroxide, bisulfide, and ammonia complexes. Pt/Pd ratios are between 0.42 and 2.33, which is much lower than many of the potential sources for Pt and Pd but is consistent with the greater solubility of Pd compared with Pt in most natural low-temperature fluids