In the absence of congressional action to reinstate the federal ban on assault weapons, tort litigation offers an alternative strategy for regulating what have become the weapons of choice in mass shootings. However, opportunities to bring successful claims are limited. To prevail, plaintiffs must show that their suit fits within exceptions to the broad immunity from tort actions that Congress ...

1. Introduction By any measure, the communication sector is important. The combined revenues of the U.S. telephone and postal industries are larger than military spending for that country, and almost three times higher than the revenues of the airline industry. (Table 1, taken from Odlyzko (2000), gives further comparisons.) The sector has been expanding for many centuries. The postal service a...

The discipline of ergonomics, or human factors engineering, has made substantial contributions to both the development of a science of safety, and to the improvement of safety in a wide variety of hazardous industries, including nuclear power, aviation, shipping, energy extraction and refining, military operations, and finance. It is notable that healthcare, which in most advanced societies is ...

In Europe, seaports, chemical industry complexes, metal mining areas, military complexes that are installed in large areas and regions, refered as megasites. these soil, groundwater surface water usually contaminated with a wide variety of pollutants.

A central problem confronting all West European economies after World War I! was that of Americanization. How far should European industry be reconstructed in the image of the United States, unquestionably the dominant economic and military power of the postwar world? To contemporaries on both sides of the Atlantic, Americanization of industry meant above all mass production -the high-volume ma...

Exploitation of the global Information and Communications Technology (ICT) supply chain is a growing security concern for government and industry. This paper frames the key elements of global ICT supply chain security and its importance to government as well as private sector companies, and the development of a comprehensive strategy for education, training, and awareness of the U.S. Department...

By textile science incorporating with electronic industry, developed textile products start to take part in different areas such as industry, military, space, medical etc. for health, protection, defense, communication and automation. Electronic textiles (e-textiles) are fabrics that contain electronics and interconnections with them. In this study, two types of base yarns (cotton and acrylic) ...

Maritime domain security relies on the ability to build a comprehensive awareness of maritime activity. Although it is still in the developmental stages situational awareness is the prerequisite of maritime domain security. Today technological developments such as space‐based systems, over‐the‐horizon radar, and near‐ shore and harbour acoustics can be incorporated into...

Unmanned ground vehicles are one of the enlightening ideas that will shape our future by providing enhanced safety and improved mobility. Although the development of prototypes is still going on, we are now assisting to demonstrations that witness the real applicability of the early concepts. T HE history of Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) developed in the last 20-25 years. In fact, although th...