This article explores a crucial moment in American legal history, known as the Lochner era, in which the rise of freedom of contract was sharp enough to defeat equity concerns, and then argues that a second rise of the freedom of contract has recently been developed by the Supreme Court in the domain of arbitration agreements. It contends that this second rise is not only a revival of Lochneris...

A hand-held, battery-powered Fourier transform infrared spectroradiometer weighing 12.5 kg has been developed for the field measurement of spectral radiance from the Earth's surface and atmosphere in the 3-5-µm and 8-14-µm atmospheric windows, with a 6-cm(-1) spectral resolution. Other versions of this instrument measure spectral radiance between 0.4 and 20 µm, using different optical materials...

FOREWORD The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has published material on different policy considerations in the introduction of nuclear power, primarily addressed to top level decision makers in government and industry in Member States. Several Member States and experts recommended to the IAEA to address the aspects of an integrated approach to nuclear power programme planning and to se...

Limp materials like textiles, leather, porous tissues, meat and fish fillets do represent challenges in automation. A universal gripping principle that is usable for all these materials is not known. This paper describes a new gripping principle based on a novel Coanda effect ejector meeting these challenges. This ejector allows the construction of a slim, plate-shaped vacuum gripper with multi...

1 Introduction Although many legal experts thought this would be impossible we are very close in creating an algorithm for automated norm analysis from legal texts. This algorithm makes use of invariant linguistic structures at the syntactical level that characterises specific normative expressions in natural language. Since the algorithm has not been realised and tested completely jet, we will...

If physics at the Planck scale requires new conceptions of spacetime, renormalizable field theories may generically develop significant violations of Lorentz invariance in the low energy sector. The little recognized “Lorentz Fine Tuning Problem” comes from logarithmic loop corrections which are not suppressed to the enormous extent commonly assumed. Finetuning of parameters at the Planck scale...

As semiconductor technology scales down, leakage-power becomes dominant in the total power consumption of LSI chips. We propose a compiler technique to turn off functional units that are expected to be idle for long periods of time for reducing leakage-power using fine grain power gating technique. Also, we propose a hybrid technique which combines a compiler and hardware based technique to max...

This paper performs a comparison between two approaches to weight the relevance of extracted non-taxonomic relations found in domain corpora. The first approach computes the relevance according to the verb absolute frequency. The second approach computes the relevance according to the verb frequency and uniqueness in each corpus using tf-dcf relevance index, an index that takes into account the...