The majority of U.S. states disenfranchise formerly incarcerated individuals because their poverty by conditioning re-enfranchisement on the full payment legal financial obligations. This Note discusses practice wealth-based criminal disenfranchisement where inability to pay obligations, including fines, fees, restitution, interest payments, court debts, and other economic penalties, prohibits ...

Vehicle sharing services make travel more convenient, but increase traffic, pollute the environment, and negatively impact existing markets. To achieve a high societal welfare, public authorities regulate vehicle sharing. However, it remains unclear whether these regulations work efficiently without unexpected influences on seemingly unrelated aspects of fleet service structure. We study decisi...

0-7803-7952-7/03/$17.00  2003 IEEE. Abstract – Attitude control refers to controlling the pitch and roll of a mobile robot. As environments grow more complex and cues to a robot’s pose sparser it becomes easy for a teleoperator to lose situational awareness. Information from separated attitude displays may be difficult to integrate with an ongoing navigation task and lead to errors. In this pa...

When an attitude changes from A1 to A2, what happens to A1? Most theories assume, at least implicitly, that the new attitude replaces the former one. The authors argue that a new attitude can override, but not replace, the old one, resulting in dual attitudes. Dual attitudes are defined as different evaluations of the same attitude object: an automatic, implicit attitude and an explicit attitud...

The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) upholds policies prohibiting practices that deliberately hasten death. We find these policies overly restrictive and unreasonable. We argue that under specified circumstances it is both reasonable and morally sound to allow for treatments that may deliberately hasten death; these treatments should be part of the NHPCO guidelines. Bro...

We consider constructive techniques for joint route and transmit power assignment in asynchronous multi-hop wireless networks. A constrained optimization problem is formulated to maximize power efficiency of the network while enforcing a minimum signal to interference ratio at each link to ensure desired end-to-end QoS. Numerical comparisons suggest that allowing a controlled level of interfere...