Peeking Behind the Robes: A Not-so-Flattering Look at Medicare's Administrative Law Judges

A second look at the second law

It is commonly argued that the spectacular increase in order which has occurred on Earth does not violate the second law of thermodynamics because the Earth is an open system, and anything can happen in an open system as long as the entropy increases outside the system compensate the entropy decreases inside the system. However, if we define ‘‘X-entropy’’ to be the entropy associated with any d...

General bias and Administrative Law Judges: is there a remedy for Social Security disability claimants?

A New Look at the So-Called Trammel of Archimedes

1. INTRODUCTION. STANDARD TRAMMEL. Figure 1a shows a line segment of fixed length whose ends slide along two perpendicular axes. It can be realized physically as a sliding ladder or as a sliding door moving with its ends on two perpendicular tracks. During the motion, a fixed point on the segment traces an ellipse with one quarter of the ellipse in each quadrant (Figure 1b), so this device is c...

The Necessity of Prior Notice in Administrative Decisions by looking at French law

The right to be heard as one of the main elements of the principle of right of defense,is one of the important rights that, particularly in recent decades, has been taken into consideration in administrative law, and plays a special role in protecting the rights and interests of citizens affected by administrative decisions. It should be noted that this principle and the necessity of its observ...

Another Look at “Just-So” Oscillations

We take another look at “Just-So” solar neutrino oscillations and characterize them by the energy at which the distance-varying angle is π/2. The SuperKamiokande spectrum can be fit with an energy in the range of 9-12 MeV. In this case, the pp neutrinos are reduced to half the standard solar model prediction and Be neutrinos must make up a significant part of the gallium signal, in contrast to ...