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Jurisdiction of the National Labor Relations Board

In the historic decisions in the Jones & Laughlin and companion cases sustaining the constitutionality of the National Labor Relations Act, the Supreme Court made no attempt to define or particularize the instances in which the invocation of the act by the Labor Board would constitute a valid exercise of the federal power. It contented itself with defining the limits of the Board's jurisdiction...

Mixing Board Versus Mouse Interaction In Value Adjustment Tasks

We present a controlled, quantitative study with 12 participants comparing interaction with a haptically enhanced mixing board against interaction with a mouse in an abstract task that is motivated by several practical parameter space exploration settings. The study participants received 24 sets of one to eight integer values between 0 and 127, which they had to match by making adjustments with...

Detecting Critical Situations in Railroad Traffic through On-Board Diagnostic Systems

The paper presents an application of an on-board recording system for critical situation detection in railroad transportation. The evaluation of the state of a rail vehicle is based on the signals recorded with the use of ORD (On-Board Recording Devices) devices. The main subject of interest are critical situations that can occur when the rail vehicle is in motion. The critical situation is any...

Report to National Cancer Advisory Board

1. Introduction The long-term goal of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) is to eliminate deaths and suffering due to cancer. There are ~1.4 million new cases of cancer each year and ~560,000 deaths in the United States alone. Fulfilling this goal demands a deeper understanding of the basis of cancer through research, and the application of this knowledge to develop more effective methods of pr...