We develop a general procedure for estimating the effective constitutive behavior of nonlinear dielectrics. The procedure is based on a variational principle expressing the effective energy function of a given nonlinear composite in terms of the effective energy functions of the class of linear comparison composites. This provides an automatic procedure for converting well-known information for...

Current Problems in Surgery keeps readers up-to-date on the latest surgical advances. Each month, this publication examines a single clinical problem or condition commonly seen by general surgeons. Issues also focus on topics in surgical research and emerging ideas in surgical subspecialties. Current Problems in Surgery is ideal for information too urgent to await book publication, yet too impo...

Privacy is an ancient concept, but its interpretation and application in the area of e-commerce are still new. It is increasingly widely accepted, however, that by giving precedence to consumer privacy bigger benefits can be reaped by all parties involved. There has been much investigation into the concept of privacy, legal frameworks for protecting this most impalpable of human values and, mor...

There is no universally accepted definition of privacy. It is variously referred to as a right or a privilege, a descriptive concept or a normative one, a question of secrecy or of control. Several efforts have been made to formally define privacy, but none are universally accepted. One definition that has had a lot of influence over the years, particularly on legal interpretations of privacy, ...

Fifty years ago, the Court in Griswold v. Connecticut invalidated Connecticut’s ban on birth control. The various opinions in Griswold were in many ways products of their time. For instance, none of the Justices focused on the implications of the Connecticut law for women’s equality. Constitutional sex discrimination law had yet to be developed—and the National Organization for Women had yet to...

In the 1800’s and early 1900’s, women were on the backend of the political system in the U.S. Women’s rights were very limited across the country, and the limitations of these rights were considered a norm [1]. In the 1960’s, a Texas woman named Sarah Weddington, saw firsthand the struggle that women in her generation faced. She faced a lot of discriminations both in her college years and durin...

When the World Trade Centre was destroyed in New York on 11 September 2001, I felt devastation for all the victims of this atrocity. This included the terrorist themselves as well as the families of the dead and injured and of the perpetrators. When America used this atrocity as a reason to attack Iraq I was very disturbed by the transposition of lines of blame to a country that had no direct l...

An enquiry into the present condition of the Persian province of Baluchistan, its antecedents and potentialities Disciplines Anthropology | Social and Behavioral Sciences This journal article is available at ScholarlyCommons: http://repository.upenn.edu/anthro_papers/138