Published Article / In this article we will describe the use of 3D medical image information of individual patients as well as selected patient populations, combined with CAE tools and processes, in the rapid product development of custom and standard implantable devices. The combination of medical image information with CAE methods such as CAD, RP, FEA and CFD, allows the engineer to develop implantable devices faster and better, with optimized designs tailored to the anthropometry of the targeted patient (population), using virtual instead of mechanical prototype testing. Case studies will be demonstrated for a variety of surgical fields such as orthopaedic, cranio-maxillofacial and cardiovascular surgery.

International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 25-28, 1999 / Riviera Hotel and Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada / To meet specific test and evaluation requirements, the Hardened Subminiature Telemetry and Sensor Systems (HSTSS) program is addressing the miniaturization and ‘G’ hardening of telemetry components. Two custom Integrated Circuits (ICs) are in development to support the design of miniature Pulse Code Modulation (PCM) systems with up to 128 analog input channels. This paper describes the design and development of the custom IC chips of the HSTSS Data Acquisition Chipset (DAC). The original requirements, the roll of the Integrated Product Team (IPT), design decisions, a discussion of the additional features, and practical limitations of the Data Acquisition Chipset will be covered.

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The starting point for a consideration of law in former colonies is often a law/custom binary whereby law is the formal legal system imposed during the colonial occupation and retained at independence, and custom the local law disrupted by colonialism. In most South Pacific small island countries, this dichotomy of law and custom has been formalized by the protection of custom by constitutional or statutory provisions. The protection of custom was carried out as a celebration of local culture at Independence, but the effect has been to stymie the development of local custom and to reinforce custom’s post-colonial subsidiary position relative to the formalized legal system. The Kingdom of Tonga avoided the indirect rule of late colonialism and as a result Tonga’s legal system was never dichotomized into law and custom. There was no constitutional protection of custom because custom was never characterized as something other than law. Although it is undeniable that the direction of the development of law in Tonga was impacted by the presence of the Imperial project in the region, the legal change that occurred was led by Tongans. The starting point for legal change in Tonga was, and continues to be Tongan legal traditions even though local custom has not been formally protected. This project considers the two human concepts of apology and the protection of reputation. In Tonga’s hierarchical society both concepts already represented important legal traditions when the formal British-style legal system was adopted. However, these legal traditions were not relegated to something ‘other’ than law. The former continued as an informal legal tradition that addressed legal harms not recognized by adopted legal traditions, while the latter was incorporated into the adopted formal legal system with provisions that continued to reflect the distinctive Tongan society. Both legal traditions have faced challenges recently. Apology was no longer recognized as an efficacious remedy for women in the case of domestic abuse. The protection of the inviolable reputations of the monarch and nobility was limited by the exercise of the constitutional right of the freedom of the press. In both cases Tongans chose to exercise adopted constitutional rights in order to limit what was perceived to be an abuse of the exercise of power in the hierarchical society. Because local legal traditions had not been preserved as something apart from Tongan law, this development did not signal the end of Tongan legal traditions. Rather, it demonstrated the continuing development of Tongan law. / Graduate

Master of Agribusiness / Department of Agricultural Economics / Vincent Amanor-Boadu / Farming is an important industry in the United States. The custom harvesting industry plays a major role in feeding the world. Schemper Harvesting is a family-owned and operated custom harvesting service that employs 20-25 seasonal workers and understanding how to manage a custom harvesting business professionally and efficiently is the key for its success. Today, there is data available through JDLink on John Deere combine performance beginning in year 2012. The purpose of this study is to examine the usefulness of this JDLink data to assess the efficiency of each of Schemper Harvesting’s seven combines, including machine efficiency and different combine operators. The goal is to determine how the data can improve Schemper Harvesting’s overall performance. Statistical methods were used to analyze Schemper Harvesting’s performance. The analysis indicated that fuel is a major expense and there are ways Schemper Harvesting can conserve fuel. This information may prove valuable in being able to operate a combine more efficiently and save money on expenses. Overall, the objective is to improve Schemper Harvesting’s performance, which results in higher profit without sacrificing quality. Precision technology is an added expense to the business. Being able to justify this expense with profit is the answer. Fuel, labor and machinery are the biggest inputs in the custom harvesting business. These costs related to production agriculture have increased the demand for precision agriculture to increase efficiency and profitability. In order to compensate for the investment in technology, it has been demonstrated that it pays for itself. Making correct use of precision technology adds to productivity. With experience, operators improve increasing their overall efficiency. Incentive plans can be utilized through this data. With the availability of data, the costs and benefits of precision technology can be further evaluated. Five of the seven combines are operated by family members and the other two by non-family employees. This study shows that the performance of the non-family employees was below that of family members. The initial assessment for this difference may be attributed to experience because all the family members have been operating combines for most of their lives. This implies that employing people with excellent performance experience records and/or a need to train non-family employees to help them understand the performance expectations at Schemper Harvesting. The results indicate that tracking operational output performance indicators, such as acreage and volume harvest should be completed so that they may be assessed in concert with the technical indicators such as time and fuel use. The study provides the potential benefits of using John Deere’s JDLink data service providing telematics information for its customers with the latest precision agriculture technologies.

This Diploma Thesis deals with the importance of customary law in contemporary international law. The thesis provides description of sources of international law, focused on custom as a necessary source of international law. Further the history of international law is described. Finally a brief summary of cases settled by International Court of Justice where customary international law was applied is provided. The task of the work is to provide evidence that the custom is still useful and used source of international law. As a proof of this statement a range of ICJ decisions is mentioned and the process of international law codification and progressive development is described.

A Mayotte, le droit privé régit la situation juridique civile des Mahorais fondant leur vie maritale sur les coutumes du mahr, la répudiation, la polygamie et le logement familial chez la femme mariée. Sa réforme insiste sur le réalisme dans la modernisation du droit régissant les rapports juridiques de ces derniers. Elle tend à focaliser ses sources sur une législation écrite qui respecte la lettre des dispositions du Code civil. Elle oriente le rapport de la coutume et de la loi sur leur concurrence et non leur complémentarité. Elle implique la primauté et l'établissement de l'exclusivité des sources écrites légiférées. Elle favorise une application ne distinguant pas les statuts civils d'appartenance des Mahorais. Elle aligne le statut civil établi par les coutumes sur le statut civil défini par les articles 75 et 34 de La Constitution en vigueur. Elle revient sur le maintien des droits coutumiers, rendant difficile, voire impossible leur exercice. Elle entraine des situations de non-droit et non-saisies par le droit. Le mariage de droit coutumier est rapproché du concubinage et non du mariage civil. L'intention matrimoniale des Mahorais n'est pas reconnue par le droit. / In Mayotte, the private law governs the civil legal situation of Mahorais basing their marital life on the customs of the mahr, the repudiation, the polygamy and the family housing at the married woman. Its reform emphasizes on the realism in the modernization of the law governing the legal reports of the latter. It tends to focus its sources on a written legislation which respects the letter of the clauses of the civil code. It directs the report of the custom and the law on their competition and not their complementarity. It involves the superiority and the establishment of the exclusivity of the legislated written sources. It promotes an application without distinguishing the civil statutes of membership of Mahorais. It aligns the civil statute established by the customs on the civil statute defined by articles 75 and 34 of the current Constitution. It returns on the preservation of the common laws, making difficult, even impossible their exercise. It entails situations of lawlessness and unapprised by the law. The marriage of common law is moved closer to the cohabitation and not to the civil wedding. The matrimonial intention of Mahorais is not recognized by the law.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T20:20:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Isabel Cristina Rodrigues.pdf: 1521611 bytes, checksum: 11070339612e8a8a4106dc40818b6315 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-11-09 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / This thesis is dedicated to the research of the relationship between memory, traditions and customs amongst a people, the Jê Meridional: the Kaingang of the Indigenous Land Faxinal, located in the municipality of Candido de Abreu, PR. The theoretical path which governs this study, makes its trail through historical and anthropological discussions in order to affirm that, the traditions of a people should be recognized- as the invention and reinvention of cultural practices, stemming from distinct origins which undergo constant renovations and redefinitions, resulting from the dynamics of history and daily life. The focus of analysis is centered on the way the Kaingang have developed their knowledge and practices, and reaffirmed their ethnical belonging in the relations they have come to establish in their world as well as in the world of the fog (whites), in other words, how they have build their territorialities / Esta tese é dedicada ao estudo da relação memória tradição costume entre um povo Jê Meridional: os Kaingang da Terra Indígena Faxinal, localizada no município de Cândido de Abreu-Pr. O percurso teórico que orienta este estudo trilha por discussões realizadas tanto na História quanto na Antropologia para afirmar que as tradições de um povo devam ser encaradas como práticas culturais inventadas e reinventadas a partir de cosmologias particulares que na dinâmica da vida cotidiana e da história, são constantemente atualizadas e ressignificadas. O foco de análise está centrado na maneira como esses Kaingang vêm construindo os seus saberes, suas práticas e reafirmando o seu pertencimento étnico nas relações que estabelecem tanto com o seu próprio mundo, quanto com o mundo dos fóg (brancos), ou seja, como constroem suas territorialidades

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T14:54:01Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Isabel Cristina Rodrigues.pdf: 1521611 bytes, checksum: 11070339612e8a8a4106dc40818b6315 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-11-09 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / This thesis is dedicated to the research of the relationship between memory, traditions and customs amongst a people, the Jê Meridional: the Kaingang of the Indigenous Land Faxinal, located in the municipality of Candido de Abreu, PR. The theoretical path which governs this study, makes its trail through historical and anthropological discussions in order to affirm that, the traditions of a people should be recognized- as the invention and reinvention of cultural practices, stemming from distinct origins which undergo constant renovations and redefinitions, resulting from the dynamics of history and daily life. The focus of analysis is centered on the way the Kaingang have developed their knowledge and practices, and reaffirmed their ethnical belonging in the relations they have come to establish in their world as well as in the world of the fog (whites), in other words, how they have build their territorialities / Esta tese é dedicada ao estudo da relação memória tradição costume entre um povo Jê Meridional: os Kaingang da Terra Indígena Faxinal, localizada no município de Cândido de Abreu-Pr. O percurso teórico que orienta este estudo trilha por discussões realizadas tanto na História quanto na Antropologia para afirmar que as tradições de um povo devam ser encaradas como práticas culturais inventadas e reinventadas a partir de cosmologias particulares que na dinâmica da vida cotidiana e da história, são constantemente atualizadas e ressignificadas. O foco de análise está centrado na maneira como esses Kaingang vêm construindo os seus saberes, suas práticas e reafirmando o seu pertencimento étnico nas relações que estabelecem tanto com o seu próprio mundo, quanto com o mundo dos fóg (brancos), ou seja, como constroem suas territorialidades

En l’absence d’autorité nationale, la majorité du peuple kurde a vécu selon un mode d’organisation social tribal régi par des coutumes. C’est donc en prenant les coutumes des sociétés tribales des Barzani comme exemple que nous allons montrer en quoi la coutume est le fondement de toute société tribale kurde. La confédération tribale Barzani regroupe sous son nom sept tribus (les Chérwâni, les Baroji, les Mazouri, les Dolamari, les Nazâri, les Harki-Bénagi et les Gardi) et est gérée par les cheikhs du village de Barzan, tout au nord du Kurdistan Irakien. La coutume des Barzani comprend l’ensemble des normes à la fois à l’origine des coutumes des Kurdes tribaux en général mais également les règles coutumières qui se sont développées selon l’évolution des conditions socio- économiques sous l’impact religieux des cheikhs de Barzan.Le mode de fonctionnement du pouvoir des cheikhs qui se donne pour objectif de garantir l’autonomie et la survie de la société tribale en s’appuyant sur la coutume et des principes de justice et de fraternité nous permet d’affirmer que la société tribale des Barzani peut être éventuellement comparée à un État.Parmi les Barzani le lien de parenté fondé sur la filiation patrilinéaire joue un rôle principal dans la vie sociale. La lignée avec à sa tête un chef est le segment le plus important dans un village et correspond à une unité du groupe agnatique composé de plusieurs familles. Au sein d’une lignée, les Barbes blanches, de par leur sagesse et leur grande connaissance des règles coutumières, sont respectées. Au sein de la famille de nature patriarcale, le père avait un pouvoir absolu sur les membres et les biens de sa famille. Une femme devait obéir à son mari, en respecter le prestige et la renommée notamment en faisant de l’hospitalité une valeur de la famille. De plus, la fidélité d’une femme envers son mari et la pureté des filles représentaient l’honneur de la famille. / In the absence of national authority, the majority of the Kurdish people live according to a familiar pattern of a social organisation governed by customs. Therefore, by taking the traditions of the Barzani tribal communities as an example; we will show how custom is the foundation of Kurdish tribal society.The tribal confederation of Barzani is made up of seven tribes (the Sherwani, the Baroji, the Mazouri, the Dolamari, the Nazari, the Harki-Benagi and the Gardi) which is managed by the sheikhs of the village of Barzan, in the far north of Iraqi Kurdistan.The custom of the Barzanis includes all tribal and societal norms which derive from the customs of tribes in general; and in particular, the customary rules developed according to the evolution of the socio-economic conditions under the religious impact of Barzani sheikhs.The functioning mode of sheikh’s powers aims to guarantee the autonomy and survival of tribal society, based on custom and the principles of justice and fraternity. Hence, it allows us to argue that the tribal society of Barzani can be compared to a state.Barzani kinship based on patrilineal descent plays a significant role in social life. The lineage headed by a chief is the most important segment in a village and corresponds to a unit of the agnatic group composed of several families. In a lineage, White Beards are considered to have the vast knowledge of customary rules and wisdom; henceforth, they are highly respected. The family was patriarchal, and the father had absolute power over the members and property of his family. A woman had to obey her husband and respect prestige and fame, primarily by making hospitality a family value. Besides, the fidelity of a woman to her husband and the purity of girls being the family's honour.