Showing papers by "Albion College published in 1982"

CEDATS: A cognitive experimental design and testing system

Abstract: CEDATS (cognitive experimental design and testing system) is a set of programs that allows students and instructors to easily create unique experiments even though they may have no experience with computers or knowledge of any programming language. Designs including up to six independent variables may be created, and from 24 to 31 stimulus presentation parameters may be manipulated or controlled. Responses and response times are recorded and printed and/or stored on disk.

On one-factorizations of compositions of graphs

Abstract: Let G[H] denote the composition of the graphs G and H. If G can be decomposed into one-factors and two-factors, H can be decomposed into one-factors, and H is not the empty graph on an odd number of vertices, then G[H] can be decomposed into one-factors.

A low cost neutron capture prompt gamma-ray analysis facility at a research reactor

Abstract: A low cost neutron capture prompt gamma activation analysis facility has been constructed at The University of Michigan's Pheonix Memorial Laboratory. Although the neutron beam used has a fairly large epithermal component (Cd ratio 7.1), background levels are low enough to result in satisfactory measurement of over 16 different elements. For the elements of greatest sensitivity (samarium, boron, gadolinium, and cadmium) minimum detectable levels of 3.6·10−5 to 1.4·10−5 gram for a one hour measurement are possible. The fast neutrons incident to the detector were found to be minimal. Estimates of up to 3 years of continuous operation before measurable damage is expected.

A New Curia Regis : The Judicature of the House of Lords in the 1620s

Abstract: On I9 March i 62 I the Lord Chancellor of England, Francis Bacon, Baron Verulam and Viscount St Albans, was charged with corruption by the House of Commons before the House of Lords. Eight weeks later the House of Lords was presented with a writ of error in a suit of common law involving land in Ireland. Later in the same session SirJames Cunningham, a Scottish adventurer, petitioned the House for help in his dispute with the Muscovy Company over rights to fish for Greenland whales. During the fall session of the same Parliament, SirJohn Bouchier tried to have the House alter a decision of Bacon's successor asjudge in Chancery. Finally, throughout the session the House, while enforcing its privileges, released the servants of various lords who were arrested during ordinary litigation. Thus, within one parliamentthat of i 62 1 the House of Lords received cases posing the problems that provided the history of the judicature of the House for the rest of the seventeenth century. Impeachments, appeals (both common law and equity), privilege claims, and causes not previously decided elsewhere were included in these instances, as were Englishmen, Irishmen and Scotsmen. The parliament of i 62 I was the first in which all such matters appeared together in the House of Lords. The definition of judicature usually included all of these disputes in the early seventeenth century. This communication will describe and analyse the judicature of the House of Lords in the I 620S in order to cast some light on the House's claim, which historians have accepted, to be, as a court, 'the Highest from whence others ought to draw their light... '.I An investigation of the House's judicature will also give an indication of what lords did with some of their time and energy during a parliament such a study is a step in the process of remedying the over-concentration of historians' attention on the House of Commons. However, this paper makes a modest claim because judicature was not the sole reason for a lord to come to a parliament, and the judicature of the I620S was only occasionally of great importance to the politics or the law of that decade. While the focus will be on the events of the I620S, the foundations were being laid for later developments, most importantly during the reign of Charles II and the nineteenth century. As a word, 'judicature' is not easily defined and men of the I62os did not use it consistently. Perhaps, short of a complete description of the House's activities, Sir