Recent controversies in campaign finance have generated concerns that wealthy donors will dominate the political landscape, with Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission1 and McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission2 standing as the high-water marks in the U.S. Supreme Court’s jurisprudential turn towards deregulation. This short Essay puts this case law in perspective by briefly explain...

The Oligochaeta forms an important part of the macroinvertebrates inhabiting sediments of lotic ecosystems. It has an important role in the cycling of matter and energy transfer in these environments. The aim of this study is to analyse limnological variables, their influence on the structure and diversity of benthic oligochaete taxocenosis in a stretch of the Upper São Francisco River and its ...

We review some work done by us calculating matrix elements for Kaons. Emphasis is put on the matrix elements which are relevant to predict nonleptonic Kaon CP violating observables. In particular, we recall our results for the B̂K parameter which governs the K0 − K0 mixing and update our results for εK including estimated all-higher-order CHPT corrections and the new results from recent analytic...

A list of the Tettigoniidae (Orthoptera) of the East Usambara Mountains is presented and 16 new species are described from East Africa. A total number of 29 Tettigoniidae species is recorded for the East Usambara Mountains. New species are described from the Shimba Hills in Kenya, coastal Tanzania from the Kazimzumbwi forest reserve, Mt Kilimanjaro, the East and West Usambara and Uluguru Mounta...

Field population densities of Ditylenchus dipsaci associated with shoot tissue of Phlox subulata were monitored during two consecutive growing seasons and intervening periods of overwintering and plant storage. The population density increased significantly through four peaks during the first growing season, and decreased significantly during storage at 5-7 C or overwintering in the field. Duri...

We pursue the analysis of a set of generalized DGMLY sum rules for the electromagnetic chiral parameters at order e2p2 and discuss implications for effective Lagrangians with resonances. We exploit a formalism in which charge spurions are introduced and treated as sources. We show that no inconsistency arises from anomalies up to quadratic order in the spurions. We focus on the sum rules associ...

Two new genera and five new species of spider flies (Diptera: Acroceridae) are described from the Neotropical Region. A new genus of Philopotinae (Neophilopota brevirostris Schlinger gen. et sp. n.) is described from Mexico, while an unusual new species of Sphaerops Philippi, 1865 (Acrocerinae: Sphaerops micella Schlinger sp. n.) is described from Chile. A new Panopinae genus near Lasia Wiedema...

0-7803-7542-4/02 $17.00 © 2002 IEEE SP1.3 ITC INTERNATIONAL TEST CONFERENCE TESTING THE TESTER Rochit Rajsuman Advantest America R & D Center, Inc. 3201 Scott Boulevard Santa Clara, CA, 95054 The end use of a tester is to test ICs; hence, it is imperative that the tester itself should function correctly. A broad strategy is employed to detect and remove component level faults from various hardw...

Two new species of the genus Vosmaeropsis are described: V. recruta sp. nov. and V. complanatispinifera sp. nov., both from the Brazilian coast. These species possess arrow-shaped large diactines in their skeletons, which are being described for the first time in Vosmaeropsis. In addition, the latter species presents another remarkable character: the apical actines of its atrial tetractines is ...