O n March 31, 2015, the Supreme Court issued its much anticipated (some would say dreaded) decision in Armstrong v. Exceptional Child Center, Inc. 1 A 5-4 majority (Justice Scalia, joined by Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Alito, Thomas and Breyer) concluded that health care providers have no right to sue States under the Supremacy Clause for prospective relief against Medicaid rate cuts all...

Many prominent jurists and scholars, including those with outlooks as diverse as Chief Justice John Roberts and Cass Sunstein, have recently advocated a “minimalist” approach to opinion writing at the Supreme Court. They assert that the Court should issue narrow, fact-bound decisions that do not resolve much beyond the case before it. I argue that minimalism, as employed by the current Supreme ...

An Unified Power Flow Controller (UPFC) is a typical Flexible AC Transmission System (FACTS) device playing a vital role as a stability aid for large transient disturbances in an interconnected power system.This paper deals with the design of Feedback Linearising Controller (FBLC) for UPFC.The disturbances are created in the SMIB system and the results are simulated.The results proved the supre...

Birds arose from their dinosaur ancestors and took to the skies over 100 million years ago. Since that time, birds have become abundant at high elevation, they have acquired the ability to migrate over the world’s highest mountains, and they have even found reason to soar over 11,000 m above sea level (18). These anecdotal observations alone may convince some of an avian supremacy at elevation....

abstract main objective of this paper is the investigation the effect of support policies of government on income risk of poultry producers in iran for the 1989-2006. ccv index was used to investigate amount of variation that cause each support policies (market price support, support of agricultural inputs, outputs insurance) on income risk variation of producers. the results of this study show...