(2004). Resuscitation-promoting factors possess a lysozyme-like domain. This is an author-produced version of a paper published in Trends in Biochemical Sciences (ISSN 0968-0004). This version has been peer-reviewed but does not include the final publisher proof corrections, published layout or pagination. All articles available through Birkbeck ePrints are protected by intellectual property la...

Fick’s law expresses the proportionality of solute flux with respect to concentration gradient. Similar relations are Darcy’s law for the fluid flow in porous media, Ohm’s law for the electric flux and Fourier’s law for heat transfers. When introduced in the corresponding balance equations, these flux laws yield diffusion equations of parabolic character. Different attempts have been made to ob...

Universi ty of Sheffield, Sheffield, U.K. The author would like to acknowledge the financial support provided by the British Academy, Arts and Hum anities Research Board. Many of the points made with regard to the law of tort are equally applicable to its civil law equ ivalent, i.e., the law of de lict. The following labels are also used by Kennedy and Grubb. S ee I. Kennedy & A. G rubb , Medic...

this sentence is what a prominent english judge has said about the power of judges in dealing with cases in english law. an example of this power can be found in contractual terms for damages called penalties and liquidated damages. as it is expected, contracts are basically made to be performed and not to be avoided according to the whims of market fluctuation. however, the adherence to freedo...

Professor Korobkin examines and analyzes empirical contract law scholarship over the last fifteen years in an attempt to guide scholars concerning how empiricism can be used in and enhance the study of contract law. After defining the parameters of the study, Professor Korobkin categorizes empirical contract law scholarship by both the source of data and main purpose of the investigation. He th...

This study examines law enforcement dilemmas in child pornography possession investigations in which no offender was arrested. A mail survey of US law enforcement agencies identified a sample of Internet child pornography possession cases where no arrest was made. Telephone surveys with law enforcement investigators were used to collect casespecific data and information on dilemmas in these inv...

Abstract A fundamental quantity in the calculation of rain attenuation statistics is the specific attenuation (attenuation per unit distance). The power-law form of rain specific attenuation is very convenient and is commonly used. It is expressed as α R k ⋅ , where k and α are the power-law parameters, and R is the rain rate in mm/h. Limited number of power-law parameters were available in the...

Since the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) released their Electronic Crime Needs Assessment for State and Local Law Enforcement study results in 2001, several critical strides have been made in improving the tools and training that state and local law enforcement organizations have access to. One area that has not received much attention is the computer crime first responder. This paper focu...

Large graphs abound around us – online social networks, Web graphs, the Internet, citation networks, protein interaction networks, telephone call graphs, peer-to-peer overlay networks, electric power grid networks, etc. Many reallife graphs are power-law graphs. A fundamental challenge in today’s Big Data world is storage and processing of these large-scale power-law graphs. In this thesis, we ...

Should criminal law principles be applied to life insurance claims made by the beneficiaries of an insured person who commits suicide? Any discussion of the criminal law and the M'Naghten test of criminal responsibility, as sometimes used by the courts and recommended by the authors, obfuscates the resolution of contemporary issues.