The ecological half-life of 137Cs was calculated individually for four symbiotrophic fungi species (Boletus edulis, Imleria badia, Suillus luteus, Paxillus involutus) at 10 sampling sites in the Chornobyl exclusion zone and Kyiv region. It found that maximum rate excretion from organisms is characteristic territory with levels soil contamination, i.e., a near Nuclear Power Plant. In areas low c...

INTRODUCTION ......................................................................................854 I. THEORIES AND CRITIQUES OF PUNITIVE DAMAGES ........................857 A. The History and Theories of Punitive Damages Awards ......... 857 B. Critiques of Punitive Damages ........................................... 860 II. THE SUPREME COURT’S PUNITIVE DAMAGES JURISPRUDENCE .......863 III....

Years ago, in a provincial town in eastern Germany, there lived a man whose only remarkable or distinguishing feature seemed to be his enduring loyalty and devotion to the state, proved by years of unstinting and reliable service. So regular in fact were his habits, so perfectly did he seem to mesh with the machinery of daily life, that the local townspeople set their clocks according to his co...

The paper considers self-addressed queries – queries speakers address to themselves in the aftermath of a filled pause. We study their distribution in the BNC and show that such queries show signs of sensitivity to the syntactic/semantic type of the sub-utterance they follow. We offer a formal model that explains the coherence of such queries.

A. Table of contents by sections: 1. Abstract (you’re reading this now) 2. Forward Z-Transforms: How do I compute z-transforms? 3. Inverse Z-Transforms: How do I “undo” a z-transform? 4. Transfer (System) Functions: What are they for? 5. Poles and Zeros: Transient and Frequency Responses 6. The Atlanta Airport: (Has he completely lost his mind?) 7. Half-Dozen Examples: This stuff is actually ve...