The Geostationary Orbit: Issues of Law and Policy

1979 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
pp. 444-461 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Gorove
Keyword(s):  
Solar Energy ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Geostationary Orbit ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Law And Policy ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Space Age ◽  
The U.S

The technological advances of the space age have opened the door toward the increasing utilization of the so-called “geostationary orbit” by satellites for telecommunication, broadcasting, and meteorological and other services. More recently, the possible utilization of the geostationary orbit by satellites to transmit solar energy to the earth has been seriously considered. The growing importance of the geostationary orbit reflected in these actual and potential uses, coupled with recent claims of sovereignty advanced by equatorial countries with respect to segments of the orbit, calls for an analysis of its international legal status and for a review of some of the U.S. policy issues.

scholarly journals Institutionalized Ambiguity in Legal Status: Managing Citizenship in the U.S. Imperial Rule of the Philippines

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katrina Quisumbing King
Keyword(s):  
Legal Status ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
The Political ◽  
Administrative Capacity ◽  
Law And Policy ◽  
State Actors ◽  
Political Realm ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Scholarly Attention ◽  
Do So

A perennial question in the scholarship of the state asks how states rule and expand their capacity to do so. Scholars have paid special attention to activities that rationalize and build administrative capacity, known as legibility projects. Alongside these projects, state actors also rule through ambiguous and unclear techniques that have been given less scholarly attention. I introduce the concept of institutionalized ambiguity in legal status to extend the study of state rule. I ask what generates ambiguity, what purposes it serves in law and policy, and what consequences it has for the management of populations. I propose an analytic approach that draws attention to equivocation in law as enabling classificatory debates and discretion in the political realm. To illustrate the purchase of institutionalized ambiguity in legal status, I analyze how, during the years of formal imperial rule (1898-1946), U.S. state actors debated the racial fitness and membership of Filipinos in the imagined U.S. nation. I consider the broader implications of this analysis for scholars of modern state formation and suggest that foundational conflicts over national identity can be institutionalized in law, in turn facilitating a range of contradictory, but co-existing, legally defensible policies.

scholarly journals Same-Gender Marriage: Implications for Social Work Practitioners

10.18060/8805 ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 416-432 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Fasbinder ◽  
Emily Monson ◽  
Darrel Montero ◽  
Jaime Sanders ◽  
Annie C. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Rhode Island ◽  
Cross Section ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Premarital Counseling ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Social Work Practitioners ◽  
Same Gender ◽  
The U.S

Notably, in 2013, Maryland, Rhode Island, Delaware, and Minnesota became the 10th, 11th, 12th, and 13th states, respectively, to legalize same-gender marriage. Without legal recognition or social support from the larger society, the majority of same-gender partnerships in the U.S. are denied privileges and rights that are considered basic for heterosexual marriages. This manuscript draws from a national cross section of published survey data from 1996 to 2013 reporting Americans’ attitudes regarding same-gender marriage and civil unions. Social work practitioners have broad opportunity to apply their skills to the critical needs facing same-gender partners. After an overview of the legal status of same-gender marriages and their accompanying social and policy issues, recommendations are provided that include identification of specific needs for premarital counseling of same-gender partners and ensuring sensitivity to the myriad challenges they face.

Rendez vous with Saturn's rings

1984 ◽  
Vol 75 ◽  
pp. 743-759 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kerry T. Nock
Keyword(s):  
Solar Energy ◽  
Electric Propulsion ◽  
Power Source ◽  
Propulsion System ◽  
Low Thrust ◽  
Ring Plane ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Total Impulse ◽  
Saturn's Rings

ABSTRACTA mission to rendezvous with the rings of Saturn is studied with regard to science rationale and instrumentation and engineering feasibility and design. Future detailedin situexploration of the rings of Saturn will require spacecraft systems with enormous propulsive capability. NASA is currently studying the critical technologies for just such a system, called Nuclear Electric Propulsion (NEP). Electric propulsion is the only technology which can effectively provide the required total impulse for this demanding mission. Furthermore, the power source must be nuclear because the solar energy reaching Saturn is only 1% of that at the Earth. An important aspect of this mission is the ability of the low thrust propulsion system to continuously boost the spacecraft above the ring plane as it spirals in toward Saturn, thus enabling scientific measurements of ring particles from only a few kilometers.

The Troubled Inheritance: The National Security Agency and the Obama Administration

2010 ◽  
pp. 241-256
Author(s):  
Matthew M. Aid
Keyword(s):  
Data Processing ◽  
National Security ◽  
Bush Administration ◽  
Intelligence Community ◽  
National Security Agency ◽  
Obama Administration ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
The U.S ◽  
The Coordinator ◽  
Signals Intelligence

This article discusses the National Security Agency under the Obama Administration. Upon his inauguration on January 20, 2009, Obama inherited from the Bush administration an intelligence community embroiled in political controversies. Of the sixteen agencies of the intelligence community, the National Security Agency (NSA) faced the greatest scrutiny from the new Obama administration and the Congress. NSA was the largest and the most powerful member of the U.S. intelligence community. Since its formation in 1952, NSA has managed and directed all U.S. government signals intelligence (SIGINT) collection. It is the collector and processor of communications intelligence (COMINT) and the primary processor of foreign instrumentation signals intelligence (FISINT). And since 1958, NSA has been the coordinator of the U.S. government's national electronics intelligence (ELINT) program. It has also the task of overseeing the security of the U.S. government's communications and data processing systems, and since the 1980s, NSA has managed the U.S. government's national operation security (OPSEC) program. In this article, the focus is on the challenges faced by the NSA during the Bush administration; the role played by the NSA during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq; and the challenges faced by the Obama administration in confronting a series of thorny legal and policy issues relating to NSA's eavesdropping program.

. . . the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age

1987 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard P. Hallion ◽  
Walter A. McDougall
Keyword(s):  
Political History ◽  
The Earth ◽  
History Of ◽  
Space Age

Government Officials, Academics, and the Process of Formulating U.S. National Security Policy Toward Africa

1990 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-20
Author(s):  
Larry W. Bowman
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
National Security ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Security Policy ◽  
Phone Call ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
The Government ◽  
Research Contract ◽  
The U.S

Relationships between U.S. government officials and academic specialists working on national security and foreign policy issues with respect to Africa are many and complex. They can be as informal as a phone call or passing conversation or as formalized as a consulting arrangement or research contract. Many contacts exist and there is no doubt that many in both government and the academy value these ties. There have been, however, ongoing controversies about what settings and what topics are appropriate to the government/academic interchange. National security and foreign policy-making in the U.S. is an extremely diffuse process.

scholarly journals Stratified citizenship, stratified health: Examining latinx legal status in the U.S. healthcare safety net

2019 ◽  
Vol 220 ◽  
pp. 49-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meredith Van Natta ◽  
Nancy J. Burke ◽  
Irene H. Yen ◽  
Mark D. Fleming ◽  
Christoph L. Hanssmann ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Legal Status ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
The U.S

Gravimetric Method for Calibrating Flow Meter

2014 ◽  
Vol 501-504 ◽  
pp. 2335-2337
Author(s):  
Xi Ming Zhang ◽  
Xue Li
Keyword(s):  
Solar Energy ◽  
Gravimetric Method ◽  
Correction Coefficient ◽  
Flow Meter ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Improve Measurement ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Experimental Errors ◽  
Lower Energy Density ◽  
Test Use

What the earth obtain the energy annually is ten thousand times of the earth energy consumption at present,but the solar energy has a lower energy density on the earth’s surface .solar energy is the main source of all energy The experimental research was conducted for the heating performance utilizing the solar-assisted heat pump experimental platform. Experimental errors will be caused to flow meter by different measured media and long time usage In order to improve measurement precision and reduce the experimental errors, this test use gravimetric method to calibrate the LZB glass rotor meter and MCE08-787 cumulative flow meter of indoors and outdoors pipes. The paper also presents flow correction coefficient to guarantee both the accuracy and reliability of the experimental results.

scholarly journals Planning and Development for a New Generation of Gas Turbine Propelled Ships in the U.S. Navy

1974 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Goldman ◽  
R. Peterson
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Gas Turbine ◽  
Aircraft Engines ◽  
World War ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Prime Movers ◽  
Plant Characteristics ◽  
Base Of Support ◽  
New Generation ◽  
The U.S

In the early 1970s, gas turbine technology had reached the stage where it became feasible to consider marinization of state-of-the-art aircraft engines. Approximately concurrently with these technological advances, the U.S. Navy had the need to project replacements for many of its conventionally propelled surface ships of World War II vintage. Characteristics of good fuel economy coupled with potentially viable reliability and maintenance characteristics conditioned the development of main and auxiliary gas turbine prime movers for ships. Ship design, therefore, was strongly influenced by previously unavailable power plant characteristics. New ships are building and others actively being designed to draw upon these technological advantages, and a broad base of support is being established to ensure the continued long range mobility of the U.S. Navy’s ships.

scholarly journals Application of Diffusion Research to Solar Energy Policy Issues

1979 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. David Roessner ◽  
David Posner ◽  
Floyd Shoemaker ◽  
Avraham Shama
Keyword(s):  
Solar Energy ◽  
Energy Policy ◽  
Policy Issues
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