Letter from the office of Hart, Ball and Hart of Buffalo, New York to William R. Allen of St. Catharines

Letter (4 pages, handwritten) from the office of Hart, Ball and Hart of Buffalo, New York to William R. Allen of St. Catharines elaborating on the specifications of the hot water heating for the residence of Mr. Woodruff, July 17, 1876.

Los sistemas Jurídicos y la teoría del razonamiento judicial: una lectura de H.L. A. Hart

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Hydropower Energy Simulation Using Mike 11 Model; A Case Study In South Germany's Small Run-Of-River Hydropower Plants

Renewable energy production is a basic supplement to stabilize rapidly increasing global energy demand and skyrocketing energy price as well as to balance the fluctuation of supply from non-renewable energy sources at electrical grid hubs. The European energy traders, government and private company energy providers and other stakeholders have been, since recently, a major beneficiary, customer and clients of Hydropower simulation solutions. The relationship between rainfall-runoff model outputs and energy productions of hydropower plants has not been clearly studied. In this research, association of rainfall, catchment characteristics, river network and runoff with energy production of a particular hydropower station is examined. The essence of this study is to justify the correspondence between runoff extracted from calibrated catchment and energy production of hydropower plant located at a catchment outlet; to employ a unique technique to convert runoff to energy based on statistical and graphical trend analysis of the two, and to provide environment for energy forecast. For rainfall-runoff model setup and calibration, MIKE 11 NAM model is applied, meanwhile MIKE 11 SO model is used to track, adopt and set a control strategy at hydropower location for runoff-energy correlation. The model is tested at two selected micro run-of-river hydropower plants located in South Germany. Two consecutive calibration is compromised to test the model; one for rainfall-runoff model and other for energy simulation. Calibration results and supporting verification plots of two case studies indicated that simulated discharge and energy production is comparable with the measured discharge and energy production respectively.

The Apple of His Ire: For monologist Mike Daisey, the death of Steve Jobs was another defining moment in a remarkable career

Monologist Mike Daisey ’96 had been targeting Apple and Steve Jobs for a year. Then Jobs died and Daisey’s show was changed once again.

O debate entre Hart e Fuller: uma controvérsia envolvendo veículos no parque

A debate occurred in 1958 at the Harvard Law Review has become a landmark for contemporary philosophy of law. Still under the philosophical and moral impact of the Second World War, Herbert L. A. Hart published his version of legal positivism whitin the article entitled Positivism and the Separation of Law and Moral. The answer came from Lon Fuller’s Positivism and Fidelity to Law – A Reply to Prof. Hart. Much of the debate took place over a seemingly prosaic exemple: a rule prohibiting vehicles from a park. With this exemple, Hart argued that rules have a core of clear aplications, but this core meaning would be sorrounded by a penumbra of uncertainty. Fuller uses a counter-exemple to instist that legal language, by itself, cannot determine a certain outcome: it is necessary to understand the purpose for wich the rule was suppose to serve. This paper analyses this controversy from its most important features: i) the connection between legal philosophy and philosophy of language; ii) the possibility of legal interpretation; iii) and the different possibles points of view for the analysis of law. This paper argues that the study of these features sheds light on the problems we encounter in contemporary philosophy of law, especialy with regard to theories of legal argumentation and its relation with legal langague and legal interpretation.

Uso da medida de risco Foster e Hart para estimação de retornos: aplicação ao mercado de ações brasileiro

Neste trabalho busca-se investigar empiricamente, no caso brasileiro, o comportamento da medida de risco de Foster e Hart, sua capacidade de estimação de retornos e se ela pode ser usada como indicador do momento do mercado. Esta medida é de fácil assimilação e cálculo, respeita axiomas de coerência, sendo indiferente a aversão ao risco dos agentes e mensurada na mesma unidade dos retornos. Encontram-se evidências de que o risco reage a momentos de estresse do mercado e da existência de um relacionamento positivo com retornos futuros.

Proposta di traduzione di un capitolo di The To-Do List di Mike Gayle

Scopo principale del seguente elaborato è quello di fornire una possibile traduzione di un capitolo dell’opera di Mike Gayle, The To-Do List. Al fine di contestualizzare e rendere più comprensibile, specie per un lettore italiano, la proposta di traduzione in questione, verranno descritti dapprima l’autore ed il genere letterario al quale appartiene il libro, quindi la trama del libro stesso. Seguirà il commento della traduzione, nel quale si evidenzieranno alcuni degli elementi particolarmente difficili da rendere in italiano – talvolta dal punto di vista lessicale, più spesso dal punto di vista culturale. La scelta di affrontare l’opera di Gayle nasce soprattutto dall’interesse verso uno dei corsi svolti all’università, grazie al quale ho avuto l’occasione di scoprire, in lingua inglese, il genere letterario comunemente chiamato Chick Lit; The To-Do List, che appartiene a quella che potremmo definire come “Chick Lit maschile”e che presenta moltissimi riferimenti alla cultura britannica, rappresentava la fonte perfetta per mettermi alla prova ed effettuare una traduzione che fosse, oltre che fedele al testo originale, comprensibile e immediata per un ipotetico lettore italiano.

Let the Sun Shine In: Open Government and the Public's Right-to-Know in Montana's 1972 Constitution - Mike Meloy "In the Crucible of Change"

Abstract to be posted.