In the presence of spontaneous symmetry breaking, the alignment of the vacuum with respect to the gauge group is often controlled by quadratically divergent operators in the low energy non-linear sigma model. In principle the magnitudes and signs of these operators can be changed by making different assumptions about the ultraviolet physics, but in practice all known ways of regulating these th...

Reverse engineering involves extracting high-level information from existing code. Reverse engineering is a crucial part of software maintenance since a maintainer needs to understand the code before attempting any modiication. Many eeorts have been made to automatically extract higher-level design information from the code to facilitate various maintenance activities. But many of them are limi...

II. REVERSE ENGINEERING IN TRADITIONAL MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES.....................................................................................1582 A. A Legal Perspective on Reverse Engineering ..........................1582 B. An Economic Perspective on Reverse Engineering .................1585 C. Anti-Plug-Mold Laws: An Exception to Reverse Engineering Rules?................................