U.S. Law for Civil Lawyers

The book is not only a useful reference for foreign legal practitioners, but also includes an extremely interesting theory of comparison. It revisits the notion of “foreign law” and elaborates a method to allow foreign lawyers to understand and overcome the gaps between legal cultures. Numerous examples, concrete practical tips and checklists as well as the translation of all important legal terms into German and French offer ideal orientation. Each chapter includes “practice tips,” which serve the aim of guiding non-U.S. lawyers in their first steps into practising U.S. law. Contents Chapter 1: U.S. Law as Foreign Law | Chapter 2: Federal Civil Litigation | Chapter 3: Civil Procedure Brief Drafting Strategy | Chapter 4: U.S. Arbitration Law and Practice | Chapter 5: Aspects of United States Application of International Maritime Law: A Focus on Jurisdictional, Procedural and Substantive Issues Unique to the U.S. System | Chapter 6: Contracts—Drafting and Content | Chapter 7: The Back to Back Contract. The Birth of a New Contract Type

Ideal Angular Orientation of Selected 64-Channel Multi Beam Lidars for Mobile Mapping Systems

Lidar technology is thriving nowadays for different applications mainly for autonomous navigation, mapping, and smart city technology. Lidars vary in different aspects and can be: multi beam, single beam, spinning, solid state, full 360 field of view FOV, single or multi pulse returns, and many other geometric and radiometric aspects. Users and developers in the mapping industry are continuously looking for new released Lidars having high properties of output density, coverage, and accuracy while keeping a lower cost. Accordingly, every Lidar type should be well evaluated for the final intended mapping aim. This evaluation is not easy to implement in practice because of the need to have all the investigated Lidars available in hand and integrated into a ready to use mapping system. Furthermore, to have a fair comparison; it is necessary to ensure the test applied in the same environment at the same travelling path among other conditions. In this paper, we are evaluating two state-of-the-art multi beam Lidar types: Ouster OS-1-64 and Hesai Pandar64 for mapping applications. The evaluation of the Lidar types is applied in a simulation environment which approximates reality. The paper shows the determination of the ideal orientation angle for the two Lidars by assessing the density, coverage, and accuracy and presenting clear performance quantifications and conclusions.

Building Orientation as the Primary Design Consideration for Climate Responsive Architecture in Urban Areas

Orientation is a design parameter that plays a major role in climate responsive architecture and helps achieve comfort within the built environment. However, it is difficult to achieve an ideal orientation, especially in urban context. The main aim of this paper is to develop alternate strategies to overcome the challenges faced in designing as per preferred orientation and then derive a set of tools that can help decide the orientation of a building on site both under normal and congested site conditions. Thereafter, the inferences from the paper can act as references for choosing an optimum orientation for placement of buildings in warm humid climate. It can act as a significant pedagogical guideline for students of architecture in deciphering solutions for a climate responsive design in a simplified manner. The results can also be utilised for future research in formulating similar tools for other climatic regions.

Learning Orientations of Adolescent Dropouts in Sewing Skill Training at BPRSR Yogyakarta

the quality of human resources. Learning orientation contributes to determining the learning outcomes of an educational process. This research paper aims to discover the learning orientation of adolescent dropouts in attending sewing skill training at BPRSR Yogyakarta. This study was a qualitative research using the phenomenological approach conducted at BPRS Yogyakarta. The subject of this study were adolescent dropouts who became participants in sewing skill training. Observation, deep interview, and documentation study were used to collect the data in this research. The result showed that there were three types of participants learning orientations: 1) Skill assignment goal 2) Certificate goal 3) spending time detention goal. Learning orientation affected participants learning outcomes, therefore not ideal orientation needs mental and motivation mentoring.

Federalism and Gender Equality

Despite the enormous literature on federalism in constitutional design, and the growing attention to gender equality in constitutional design, there has been remarkably little attention paid to the interaction between the two. This article seeks to provide a summary of the existing literature on this intersection, to apply the insights of that literature to the case of Myanmar, and to offer a contribution concerning the theoretical connections between federalism and gender equality. The analysis generates four primary conclusions. First, federalism is inherently neither good nor bad for gender equality: it all depends on the details of the federal system and the context in which they are applied. Second, there are, nonetheless, some guidelines that can be gleaned from the experiences of countries around the world about the design elements that can make federalism more or less useful for promoting gender equality under different conditions. Third, applying these elements in the case of Myanmar suggests that women's organisations might make common cause with the ethnic minority groups that are negotiating with the government and the army over federalism issues because the women share with these groups certain goals with respect to federal systems. And fourth, there is a connection between gender and federalism, not at the pragmatic or design level, but at the theoretical level. This connection concerns the type of (ideal) orientation that is required of citizens in a federal system and the ways in which that orientation might be valuable for gender equality. It is, then, the character of federal citizens, rather than the federal system itself, that could be inherently beneficial to gender equality.

Solar Analysis Using Building Information Modelling with the Glass Box Method in Jakarta

The utilisation of Building Information Modelling (BIM) focuses more on the Schematic Design or Technical Design phase, while the Preliminary or the Conceptual design is pretty much skipped. This paper shows that a simple model could utilise BIM to gain rich information about solar radiation to give ideal orientation in Preliminary phase. On this case, a spot in Jakarta is analysed with Glass Box method to depict the ideal orientation that receive a minimum solar radiation in a year span.

Machine Vision for Surface Roughness Assessment of Inclined Components

Many researchers have so far used machine vision and digital image processing for grabbing images of machined surfaces, improving their quality by pre-processing and then analysed them for evaluation of surface finish with a reasonable success. An attempt has been made in this work to capture the images of the surfaces with varying inclinations covering both the sides. The ideal orientation of the surface (flat and horizontal) is found by observing the variation in optical roughness parameters estimated from the grey level co-occurrence matrix as the angle of inclination changes. It is observed that the variation of roughness parameters with respect to angle of inclination also depends on the surface roughness of the component. The optical roughness values obtained by machine vision approach are then subsequently compared with the conventional Ra as obtained by stylus method and the analysis is presented.

Self-association of an indole based guanidinium-carboxylate-zwitterion: formation of stable dimers in solution and the solid state

The indole based zwitterion 2 forms stable dimers held together by H-bond assisted ion pairs. Dimerisation was confirmed in the solid state and studied in solution using dilution NMR experiments. Even though zwitterion 2 forms very stable dimers even in DMSO, their stability is lower than of an analogous pyrrole based zwitterion 1. As revealed by the X-ray crystal structure the two binding sites in 2 cannot be planar due to steric interactions between the guanidinium group and a neighbouring aromatic CH. Hence the guanidinium moiety is twisted out of planarity from the rest of the molecule forcing the two monomers in dimer 2·2 to interact in a non-ideal orientation. Furthermore, the acidity of the NHs is lower than in 1 (as determined by UV-pH-titration) also leading to less efficient binding interactions.