Regulating supreme court recusals

This article presents a critical analysis of the approach of the U.S. Supreme Court to recusal motions aimed at one of the Justices of the Court. The catalyst was the controversy arising from the weekend duck-hunting trip of U.S.Vice-President Richard Cheney and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, after which Justice Scalia denied a motion to recuse himself from a pending case in which his hunting partner, Mr Cheney, was a party. This startling decision is final and conclusive since the Supreme Court refuses to intervene in such decisions. Such an approach by the Court is untenable and contrasts starkly with that of the House of Lords, which did not shrink from disqualifying Lord Hoffmann on grounds of bias in the Pinochet case. A comparative study of comparable common law jurisdictions exposes the U.S. Supreme Court as an island of isolation over this issue. It also provides accessible solutions that are disarming in their simplicity. The particular responses that are commended in this article are formalized self-regulation and substitution

Algorithms for aircraft trim analysis on ground 13; AIAA-96-350513;

In the analysis of aircraft dynamics far up and13; away flight, the general practice consists of trimming13; the aircraft for a specific maneuvers at a specified13; Altitude and Mach number. In this paper conditions for13; Quasi-steady equilibrium are motivated for aircraft13; dynamics in the ground roll phase. Algorithms for13; implementation of these conditions are also described.13; By use of these algorithms, the locus of trim points is13; obtained for a comprehensive take-off maneuvers of a13; delta wing aircraft beginning with ground roll,13; followed by rotation and ending in lift-off. This result13; is compared with approximate calculations wherein the13; landing gear states are ignored and linear13; aerodynamics is assumed. The exact result is also13; compared with the simulation of the take-off13; maneuvers in a pilot in the loop simulator.13

Engaging students in ethical debates

This case study outlines an investigation into the acceptance of a new pedagogical paradigm aiming to engage and inspire students in ethical and entrepreneurial activit

Study of Charm Baryons with the BaBar Experiment

We report on several studies of charm baryon production and decays by the BaBar collaboration. We confirm previous observations of the $\Xi_c^{'0/+}$, $\Xi_c(2980)^+$ and $\Xi_c(3077)^+$ baryons, measure branching ratios for Cabibbo-suppressed $\Lambda_c^+$ decays and use baryon decays to study the properties of the light-quark baryons, $\Omega^-$ and $\Xi(1690)^0$.Comment: 8 pages, 5 postscript figues, contributed to the Proceedings of ICHEP200

Bias and the informed observer: A call for a return to Gough

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Modification of Newton's law of gravity at very large distances

We discuss a Modified Field Theory (MOFT) in which the number of fields can vary. It is shown that when the number of fields is conserved MOFT reduces to the standard field theory but interaction constants undergo an additional renormalization and acquire a dependence on spatial scales. In particular, the renormalization of the gravitational constant leads to the deviation of the law of gravity from the Newtons law in some range of scales $r_{min} r_{max}$ acquires a new constant value $G^{prime}sim Gr_{max}/r_{min}$. From the dynamical standpoint this looks as if every point source is surrounded with a halo of dark matter. It is also shown that if the maximal scale $r_{max}$ is absent, the homogeneity of the dark matter in the Universe is consistent with a fractal distribution of baryons in space, in which the luminous matter is located on thin two-dimensional surfaces separated by empty regions of ever growing size

How markets react to earnings announcements in the absence of analysts and institutions evidence from the Saudi market

How stock markets react to news is an established area of research. We examine the behaviour of the Saudi Stock market in response to earnings announcements where there are no analysts’ forecasts, with the aim of examining the efficiency of the market. The SSM seems to underreact to positive news for the first five days and then reactions tend to strengthen in the following weeks, indicating the presence of a post–earnings announcement drift, or PEAD. At the same time, the SSM overreacts to negative news in the first five days and then reverses its direction and reports an upward post-earnings announcement drift. The individually dominated market combined with the absence of analysts’ forecasts is the main explanation for this underreaction to positive news and overreaction to negative news

Interaction of agents and environments

A new abstract model of interaction between agents and environments considered as objects of different types is introduced. Agents are represented by means of labelled transition systems considered up to bisimilarity. The equivalence of agents is characterised in terms of an algebra of behaviours which is a continuous algebra with approximation and two operations: nondeterministic choice and prefixing. Environments are introduced as agents supplied with an insertion function which takes the behaviour of an agent and the behaviour of an environment as arguments and returns the new behaviour of an environment. Arbitrary continuous functions can be used as insertion functions, and we use functions defined by means of rewriting logic as computable ones. The transformation of environment behaviours defined by the insertion function also defines a new type of agent equivalence--- insertion equivalence. Two behaviours are insertion equivalent if they define the same transformation of an environment. The properties of this equivalence are studied. Three main types of insertion functions are used to develop interesting applications: one-step insertion, head insertion, and look-ahead insertion functions