The use of developable surfaces in ship design is of engineering importance because they can be easily manufactured without stretching or tearing, or without the use of heat treatment. In some cases, a ship hull can be entirely designed with the use of developable surfaces. In this paper, a method to create a quasi-developable B-spline surface between two limit curves is presented. The centreli...

This article outlines a history of rulings and beliefs about addiction in Judaism, covering alcohol and substance use and addiction, in the context of a brief account of the development of the status of addiction. It examines the prevalence of alcohol and substance use and abuse among Jews, including a discussion of some of the difficulties in estimating prevalence and of factors involved in ch...

Recent technological advancements such as cloud based digital video recording services and advertisement-skipping services are threatening copyright holders’ business models more than ever. This paper introduces an economic model to analyze court rulings on the personal fair use of video recording technologies. Although personal video recorders might have been beneficial for copyright holders i...

OBJECTIVE To describe the daily work practice under the threat of defensive medicine among obstetricians and gynecologists. STUDY DESIGN A prospective cross-sectional survey of obstetricians and gynecologists working at tertiary medical centers in Israel. RESULTS Among the 117 obstetricians and gynecologists who participated in the survey, representing 10% of the obstetricians and gynecolog...

The second Rehnquist Court has remained unchanged in composition for 8 yr, resulting in a large temporally stable database. This paper reports on a mathematically objective analysis of this ensemble of rulings aimed at extracting key patterns and latent information. Although the rulings of a nine-justice Court require representation in nine dimensions, smaller spaces describe the Court's action...