The Cooperative Venture: Revisiting the Relationship Between the Royalty and Working Interest in Texas

Part I of this Comment defines the cooperative venture rule and the plain meaning rule as they are used by courts to interpret oil and gas leases. Part II, reviews and analyzes the cases adopting the cooperative venture rule in our neighboring states of Oklahoma, Louisiana and Arkansas, as well as some of the Texas cases where the plain meaning rule has been applied. Part III, discusses the concept of constructive production and how it should be incorporated into the cooperative venture rule. As part of that discussion, this Comment addresses some of the activities of an oil and gas company which would appear to fall outside of the definition of constructive production and, therefore, the cooperative venture. The Conclusion, summarizes the argument in favor of adopting the cooperative venture rule in Texas. The covenants found to be implicit in an oil and gas lease are beyond the scope of this comment; however, some of those covenants have clearly influenced the courts that have adopted the cooperative venture rule

A Components Approach to Intellectual Property in a Dynamic Technology Environment

This Article will address the protection of technological intellectual property in our current computer dominated business environment. The focus will be on copyright protection for computer programs. It should be noted that the concept of a components approach to computer program protection should be valid with patents, as well. Part II will discuss the federal statute dealing with copyright, Title 17. Part III will discuss two circuit court cases that have had a substantial impact on the treatment of copyright protection for computer programs. Part IV will discuss a components approach to protecting those intangible assets, suggesting that additional protection may be achieved at a component level

Large Deformation Behavior of Long Shallow Cylindrical Composite Panels

An exact solution is presented for the large deformation response of a simply supported orthotropic cylindrical panel subjected to a uniform line load along a cylinder generator. The cross section of the cylinder is circular and deformations up to the fully snapped through position are investigated. The orthotropic axes are parallel to the generator and circumferential directions. The governing equations are derived using laminated plate theory, nonlinear strain-displacement relations, and applying variational principles. The response is investigated for the case of a panel loaded exactly at midspan and for a panel with the load offset from midspan. The mathematical formulation is one dimensional in the circumferential coordinate. Solutions are obtained in closed-form. An experimental apparatus was designed to load the panels. Experimental results of displacement controlled tests performed on graphite-epoxy curved panels are compared with analytical predictions

Orbifold Resolution by D-Branes

We study topological properties of the D-brane resolution of three-dimensional orbifold singularities, C^3/Gamma, for finite abelian groups Gamma. The D-brane vacuum moduli space is shown to fill out the background spacetime with Fayet--Iliopoulos parameters controlling the size of the blow-ups. This D-brane vacuum moduli space can be classically described by a gauged linear sigma model, which is shown to be non-generic in a manner that projects out non-geometric regions in its phase diagram, as anticipated from a number of perspectives.Comment: 26 pages, 2 figures (TeX, harvmac big, epsf

Electronic Device Incorporating Memristor Made From Metallic Nanowire

An electronic device includes a first electrode, a second electrode and a nanowire connected between the first and second electrodes to allow electric current flow. The nanowire is made from a conductive material exhibiting a variable resistance due to electromigration. The nanowire is repeatably switchable between two states. A voltage clamp operates through feedback control to maintain the voltage across the nanowire and prevent thermal runaway

Bear River Watershed

A map outlining the drainage basin of the Bear River, Utah with topography and a satellite image as the base layers. This was produced by the Remote Sensing and GIS Laboratory, Department of Wildland Resources, Quinney College of Natural Resources in support of research conducted by faculty in the Department of Environment and Society in the same college

Great Salt Lake Watershed

A map outlining the drainage basin of the Great Salt Lake, Utah with shaded topography as the base layer. This was produced by the Remote Sensing and GIS Laboratory, Department of Wildland Resources, Quinney College of Natural Resources