The “secondary effects” doctrine allows municipalities to zone, or otherwise regulate, sexually oriented businesses like strip clubs. Negative “secondary effects” (externalities) justify limiting First Amendment protection of speech conducted inside strip clubs. We utilize a repeat sales regression model of housing prices to estimate the causal effect of strip clubs on nearby residential proper...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVE In June 2009 the World Health Organization announced influenza pandemic caused by A/H1N1/v virus. It became crucial to recognize new cases of A/H1N1/v infection. An effective screening diagnostic procedure was needed for patients suffering from influenza-like symptoms for making an initial diagnosis and analyzing epidemiological pattern of infection. We used a strip t...

Several methods have been used in wound closure after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). In this study, the safety and efficacy of one of these methods, Steri-Strip S is compared with the traditional intracuticular suture method. Eighty-one patients undergoing CABG were prospectively randomized into two groups according to the method of skin closure: Steri-Strip S group and traditional sut...

Discrete tomography deals with image reconstruction of an object with finitely many gray levels (such as two). Different approaches are used to model the raw detector reading. The most popular models are line projection with a lattice of points and strip projection with a lattice of pixels/cells. The line-based projection model fits some applications but involves a major approximation since the...

In a hot strip mill, the strip is cooled by spraying water from top and bottom on the RunOut Table (ROT), before the strip is coiled. The desired mechanical properties and metallurgical structure of the strip is achieved by controIling the cooling rate and temperature of the strip on the ROT. This paper describea a novel real time simulator for ROTs. The simulator has been implemented in parall...

Ivan A. Larkin†and L. S. Levitov‡ †Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S3 7RH, UK ‡Center for Materials Science & Engineering, Physics Department, MIT, Cambridge, MA-02139 Abstract The incompressible Quantum Hall strip is sensitive to charging of localized states in the cyclotron gap. We study the effect of localized states by a density functional approach an...

Anchor plates may be made of steel plates, precast concrete slabs, poured concrete slabs, timber sheets and so forth. In this study, uplift resistance of strip anchor plates embedded in cohesion less soils was assessed by conducting previous works. The previous experimental works mentioned that behavior of horizontal strip anchor plates embedded in cohesion less soil has been assessed by small-...

Performance of a helical antenna designed for 2.4-GHz WLAN is experimentally investigated in terms of impedance matching. A section of the helical wire near the antenna feed point is replaced by a simple triangular copper strip. By deploying such technique, impedance matching can be achieved. Overall return loss is below −14 dB across entire WLAN frequency range. Moreover, overall return loss d...

this paper is concerned with investigations into the effect of tension between the stands of the finishing mill on width control in a hot rolling process. an analysis is given to predict satisfactorily the variation in width due to spreading and also due to strip tension between the stands. wusatowskis model which is developed to give an account of spreading is specified and a similar model to ...

A simple technique, based on the recently developed elastic strip analysis (ESA)[1] of bi-harmonic equation for moments and deflections simply supported rectangular plates from finite series expression suggested valid displacement function method, is applied to skewed rhombic plates. The formulation uses a characterization load area contributed by shorter diagonal longer obtain fractions in fou...