Variably called bias-based policing, racial profiling, or Driving While Black or Brown, the phenomenon of apparent disparate treatment of minorities by police has received considerable attention from the media, academics, politicians, and government organizations in recent years. A common contention is that the history of racial discrimination in the U.S. combined with practices employed by loc...

Two experts on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff Monday recommended tha t all nuclear power plants buDt by Babcock and WDCOI, manufacturers of the Three Mile Island plant, be shut down temporarily. "I believe there exists a considerable m1amatch between operator training, operator experience and the B&W _hlne," said Edson Case at a staff briefing for the NRC commiuioners. But Case's...

Title: T h e role of orbit errors in processing of satellite altimeter da t a The problem of radial orbit errors in processing of satellite altimeter data is largely due to the inaccuracy of the gravity model which is required for the computation of the trajectory of the spacecraft. A commonly used technique for removing these errors consists of minimizing the crossover differences of profiles ...

Although the antifibrinolysin test as originally described (1) is only qualitative in nature (2), it has proved valuable in the study of infections caused by the f8-hemolytic streptococcus. However, the results obtained by different investigators have been difficult to interpret primarily because of failure to control the various factors participating in the fibrinolysin-antifibrinolysin reacti...

A T the Conference between the Voluntary Hospitals Commission and representatives of the local Voluntary Hospital Committees, held at the Ministry of Health, Lord Onslow, who was in the chair, explained that the object of the Government, of the Commission, and of the local Committees was to maintain intact the voluntary system, and he had been charged by Sir Alfred Mond especially to emphasise ...

Edgar Barker, of Edgeware-road, surgeon, examined by Mr. Baily.? Am a member of the College of Surgeons; know Mr. Henry Keith Stewart; liave attended him professionally ten or twelve years. He had epileptic fits. The effect produced was gradual destruction of his mental capacity; it now amounts to total unsoundness of mind, and he is totally incapable of taking care of himself or his property. ...

Commission 10 aims at the study of various forms of solar activity, including networks, plages, pores, spots, fibrils, surges, jets, filaments/prominences, coronal loops, flares, coronal mass ejections (CMEs), solar cycle, microflares, nanoflares, coronal heating etc., which are all manifestation of the interplay of magnetic fields and solar plasma. Increasingly important is the study of solar ...