Negligence: Duties of Railroad-Landowner toward Frequent Trespasser: Limitations on Rights of Trespasser

Biophysics of a Trespasser

Why were Hodgkin and Huxley so disappointed with their work? Through a brilliant train of thought that considered the linearity of the current-voltage curve and the relative amplitudes of ionic and gating currents (Hodgkin and Huxley, 1952), they concluded that the Na 1 current which drives the action potential passes through a channel—defined as a pore that passes ions at high rates compared t...

Omnidirectional Thermal Imaging Surveillance System Featuring Trespasser and Faint Detection

This paper proposed an efficient omnidirectional thermal imaging surveillance system featuring trespasser and faint detection. In this thermal imaging system, the omnidirectional scenes in a monitored site such as old folks home, nursing home, hospital etc. are first captured using a thermal camera attached to a custom made hyperbolic IR (infrared radiation) reflected mirror. The captured scene...

Trespasser Detection and Categorization using Unattended Ground Sensors(UGS)

Unattended ground sensors (UGS) are widely used to monitor human activities, such as pedestrian motion and detection of intruders in a secure region. Efficacy of UGS systems is often limited by high false alarm rates, possibly due to inadequacies of the underlying algorithms and limitations of onboard computation. In this regard, this paper presents a waveletbased method for target detection an...

The determinants of train fatalities: keeping the model on track

This paper addresses the determinants of three types of railroad related fatalities: trespasser fatalities, those at grade crossings, and those involving passengers and employees. Of particular interest are the effects of railroad deregulation (the Staggers Act) on railroad related fatalities. Models are developed using specification error analysis and seemingly unrelated regression. Deregulati...

Duties of Care and the Constitution: A Negligence Model of Individual Rights