Leong and Silva have likened the sexually violent predator (SVP) laws to fictional serial slashers in horror movies. Like Jason in Friday the 13th, these cannot be vanquished and reappear in sequel after sequel, meaner and naughtier. The latest episode of the SVP trilogy premiered on January 22, 2002, in the chambers of the U.S. Supreme Court. The analogy with serial slasher movies, although on...

This Article explores the institutional characteristics of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and places the court’s role in context. The most important institutional question facing the court today involves choosing between two approaches to implementing its special role in the patent system—in one, the court acts as a “decider” of cases, and in the other, it acts as a “manager”...

When/(z) is given by a known power series expansion, it is possible to construct the power series expansion for/(z; p) = e~p:f(z). We define popl to be the value of p for which the expansion for/(z; p) converges most rapidly. When/(z) is an entire function of order 1, we show that pofl is uniquely defined and may be characterized in terms of the set of singularities z, = I/o, of an associated f...

Today, quality is part of our practice. Anaesthetists are involved in a medical science and want to be excellent at it. Anaesthetists are also involved in departmental organisation and are providers of care, a service to the patients. Quality is a method to obtain efficiency (efficacy and economical advantages). We consider our patients no longer as such, but as health-customers. Anaesthetists ...

Standard practice in linguistics often obscures the connection between theory and data, leading some to the conclusion that generative linguistics could not serve as the basis for a cognitive neuroscience of language. Here the foundations and methodology of generative grammar are clarified with the goal of explaining how generative theory already functions as a reasonable source of hypotheses a...

abstract. According to the research principles of the tradition established by Noam Chomsky, one should always try to get rid of construction speciic rules. In Bare Phrase Structure he has carried this out to the extreme for the basic generative component now known as X-bar-syntax. Based on this example, we will examine the dialectics between speciic rules and conditions on rules or principles....

Abstract. How can FOSS GIS support generative economy processes in small settled communities? The paper answers this question by proposing a toolbox made up of specific open geospatial data that be processed through GIS. These consist maps, accompanied numerical values.The information collected is intended to lay the foundations for an open-access manual procedures creation database. This manua...

Active learning has been increasingly applied to screening functional materials from existing databases with desired properties. However, the number of known deposited in popular such as ICSD and Materials Project is extremely limited consists just a tiny portion vast chemical design space. Herein, we present an active generative inverse method that combines deep autoencoder neural network adve...