Coming into the Anthropocene [PDF]
, 2015 This essay reviews Professor Jonathan Cannon’s Environment in the Balance. Cannon’s book admirably analyzes the Supreme Court’s uptake of, or refusal of, the key commitments of the environmental-law revolution of the early 1970s.
Purdy, Jedediah
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Air vehicle simulator: an application for a cable array robot [PDF]
, 2005 The development of autonomous air vehicles can be an expensive research pursuit. To alleviate some of the financial burden of this process, we have constructed a system consisting of four winches each attached to a central pod (the simulated air vehicle)
Carnie, Ryan +4 more
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US assessments of Japanese ground warfare tactics and the Army’s campaigns in the Pacific theaters, 1943-45: lessons learned and methods applied [PDF]
, 2009 The article examines the evolution of US intelligence assessments of the Imperial Japanese Army's tactical methods during the Pacific War, and explains how the resulting perceptions influenced the development of American doctrine for fighting the ...
Ford, D
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Indian Days and Burmese Nights: Flying Beaufighters in Southeast Asia with 177 RAF Squadron [PDF]
, 2012 This narrative is part of a longer one of personal reminiscences of my experiences in the RCAF during the Second World War and only concerns my operational tour flying Beaufighters with 177 Squadron, Royal Air Force, in Southeast Asia from early March ...
Brown, A. Sutherland
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“Do Not Kill Guinea Pig before Setting up Apparatus”: The Kymograph's Lost Educational Context [PDF]
, 2016 The objects of science education are transformed, degraded and disappeared for many reasons, and sometimes take other things with them when they go. This close reading of an undergraduate physiology laboratory report demonstrates how the kymograph was ...
Kwan, Alistair Marcus
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Flying Desert Rat: The Combat Career of Squadron Leader Bert Houle [PDF]
, 2012 Albert Houle is a Canadian whose war, while not totally unique for a Canadian fighter pilot in World War Two, was certainly far from the norm. His entire combat career was fought in North Africa, Sicily and Italy.
Evans, Christopher
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The Legal Status of Gibraltar: Whose Rock is it Anyway? [PDF]
, 1994 This Note argues that the right to self-determination, as expressed in Resolution 1514, empowers the people of Gibraltar with the right to determine their own destiny.
Lincoln, Simon J.
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Skin friction measuring device for aircraft [PDF]
, 1980 A skin friction measuring device for measuring the resistance of an aerodynamic surface to an airstream is described. It was adapted to be mounted on an aircraft and is characterized by a friction plate adapted to be disposed in a flush relationship with
Bellman, D. R., Montoya, L. C.
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The Failure of Agency-Forcing: The Regulation of Airborne Carcinogens Under Section 112 of the Clean Air Act [PDF]
, 1985 Professor Graham analyzes section 112 of the Clean Air Act, a provision intended by Congress to achieve ambitious regulatory ends by constraining agency discretion.
Graham, John D.
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