William V. Moore

Case Study : William Neal Moore

William Neal Moore was indicted by a grand jury in Jefferson County, Georgia, for the April 2, 1974 malice murder and armed robbery of Fredger Stapleton, an elderly black man and the uncle of an acquaintance of Mr. Moore. At a hearing conducted before Judge Walter C. McMillan, Jr. in the Superior Court of Jefferson County on June 4, 1974, Mr. Moore waived trial by jury with respect to both guil...

V . S . Ramachandran and William Hirstein Three Laws of Qualia

Neurological syndromes in which consciousness seems to malfunction, such as temporal lobe epilepsy, visual scotomas, Charles Bonnet syndrome, and synesthesia offer valuable clues about the normal functions of consciousness and ‘qualia’. An investigation into these syndromes reveals, we argue, that qualia are different from other brain states in that they possess three functional characteristics...

Underhill Moore

Patenting of human genetic material v. bioethics: revisiting the case of John Moore v. Regents of the University of California.

Moore v. Regents of the University of California was one of the first cases internationally that dealt with the patenting of human genetic material. The case is closely related to the development of medicine and of biotechnology applied to medicine. These developments require the utilisation of human body parts, both for experiments and for transplant, and present certain major medico-legal pro...

Very few Moore Graphs

We prove here a well known result in graph theory, originally proved by Hoffman and Singleton, that any non-trivial Moore graph of diameter 2 is regular of degree k = 2, 3, 7 or 57. The existence (and uniqueness) of these graphs is known for k = 2, 3, 7 while it is still an open problem if there is a moore graph of degree 57 or not.