The United States Supreme Court has restricted attorneys from considering the gender and race of potential jurors in their use of peremptory challenges—the practice by which jurors may be removed from a jury without explanation or evidence of potential bias. We propose that forbidding peremptories based on social category information not only fails to decrease biased jury selection, but also en...

K e y w o r d s C r y p t o g r a p h y , Data security, Information theory, Secret sharing scheme. 1 . I N T R O D U C T I O N In 1987, I to et al. [1] desc r ibed a genera l m e t h o d of secret shar ing cal led Secret Sharing Scheme (SSS) which allows a m a s t e r key to be sha red among a finite set of p a r t i c i p a n t s in such a way t h a t on ly ce r ta in prespecif ied subse ts o...

The improving effect of rate promoters has been investigated by experiments at pilot plant scale in conditions close to the operating conditions of the top zone of a typical hot potassium carbonate industrial packed bed absorber. The evaluation of promoter enhancement factor has been done by successive experiments with absorption of CO2 into water, into carbonate solution and into promoted carb...

This paper describes the application of prototyping and rapid development techniques to the support of real Operations when meeting a specific military requirement. The Exclusion Zone Model (EZM) has been selected as a Case Study as it illustrates how the techniques can be applied, while highlighting the problems encountered by developers operating in a highly reactive environment.

The majority of the electricity generated in the United States is produced by steamdriven turbine-generators. A very important step in this power generation process is the condensation of exhaust steam from the final, low-pressure turbine. When the steam condenses, the rapid decrease in vapor-to-liquid specific volumes creates a vacuum at the turbine outlet (monitored as turbine backpressure) t...

Recent technological advances in protection, control and optimization are enabling a more automated power system. This paper proposes the use of these technologies towards an integrated and seamless infrastructure for protection, control and operation. This infrastructure is the basis for accommodating and providing robust solutions to new problems arising from the integration of renewables, na...

By measuring the halothane concentrations in samples of air from three different operating theatres during routine operating lists the pattern of spread of the waste anaesthetic gases has been demonstrated. The results show that in all the theatres there was a spread of halothane from its point of escape from the anaesthetic circuit to all parts of the theatre air. A turbulent flow ventilation ...

BACKGROUND Gun pressurization in total knee arthroplasty (TKA) may result in better cement penetration than hand packing, leading to fewer tibial plate failures. We compared cement intrusion characteristics between vacuum mixing and gun pressurization versus hand mixing and packing in the proximal tibia among patients undergoing TKA. METHODS We analyzed 6-week radiographs from 77 consecutive ...