This paper presents an analysis of the legal framework and regulatory approach of the United States (US) for preventing accidents in the development of the oil and gas resources of its outer continental shelf (OCS). Discussion is focused on prevention of major accidents which harm workers and the offshore and coastal environments, but also deals with some aspects of emergency response. Referenc...

A text can be considered as a one dimensional array of words. The locations of each word type in this array form a fractal pattern with certain fractal dimension. We observe that important words responsible for conveying the meaning of a text have dimensions considerably different from one, while the fractal dimensions of unimportant words are close to one. We introduce an index quantifying the...

s 2012 "Procedurally
generating
everything" Micah
Caunter
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Science) Advised
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Denise
Byrnes
(CS)


Draft: Please do not cite or quote without permission. Acknowledgments We are grateful for support for this study by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Economic Research Initiative on the Uninsured, funded through the University of Michigan. We are grateful for MEDSTAT for facilitating the use their data and DxCG Inc. for donating programming time to create the analytical files. We would like...