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  ROMAN - LoveToKnow Article on ROMAN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
In the royal laws execration (sacratio capitis, sacer esto) was a common sanction; but in the Tables it occurs only once pure and simple, and that with reference to an offence that could be committed only by a patrician, material loss caused by a patron to his client (paironus, si clienti fraudem faxsit, sacer esto).
But the conception of the law seems to indicate that its original purpose must have been rather to impose a penalty on the father and confer a benefit on a son in potestate, by declaring him ipso jure free from it on a certain event, than to place difficulties in the way of his emancipation.
For daughters and grandchildren the pontifical jurists by a casuistic interpretation of the said law held one mancipation to be in all cases enough to extinguish the patria potestas.
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 MSN Encarta - Marie Curie
The Curies shared the 1903 Nobel Prize in physics with a colleague, and Marie Curie was awarded the 1911 Nobel Prize in chemistry.
Curie was born Maria Skłodowska on November 7, 1867, in Warsaw, Poland, and her nickname while growing up was Manya.
Marie Curie went on to study the chemistry and medical applications of radium, and in 1911 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry in recognition of her work in discovering radium and polonium and in isolating radium.
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 REGAL - Online Information article about REGAL
Jupiter, in presence of ten witnesses, representatives probably of the ten curies of the bridegroom's tribe, and was known as farreum or confarreatio.
Law of Property.'-The history of the early Roman community, like many other primitive communities, is marked by the disintegration of the genies and the growth of property individual property.
A daughter who had passed into the hand of a husband during her father's lifetime of course could have no share in the latter's inheritance, for she had ceased to be a member of his family.
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 AllRefer.com - Curie (Physics, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Pierre Curie's early work dealt with crystallography and with the effects of temperature on magnetism; he discovered (1883) and, with his brother Jacques Curie, investigated piezoelectricity (a form of electric polarity) in crystals.
In 1895 she married Pierre Curie and engaged in independent research in his laboratory at the municipal school of physics and chemistry where Pierre was director of laboratories (from 1882) and professor (from 1895).
She was made director of the laboratory of radioactivity at the Curie Institute of Radium, established jointly by the Univ. of Paris and the Pasteur Institute, for research on radioactivity and for radium therapy.
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 romanlaw
For the monarchy, the king was the chief authority on the law.
The king was the commander in chief, the chief priest (and in this capacity the principle authority on the law), and the supreme magistrate.
When the monarchy was overthrown, the ability of the king to say what the law was passed to the college of priests and augers, the pontifs, whose chief priest, the pontifex maximus, was consulted on law in the trial procedure of the early republic.
www.utdallas.edu /~mjleaf/romanlaw.html   (5233 words)

  
 Vitrification of Low-Activity Radioactive Waste Streams and a High-Level Radioactive Waste Stream in Support of the ...
Both LAW and HLW melter feed slurries were evaporated, calcined, and then melted at 1150°C. The LAW and HLW glasses were heat-treated per a modeled centerline cooling curve for the LAW canister and HLW canister, respectively.
LAW waste is composed of the tank waste liquids (and dissolved salt cake) and contains the bulk of the tank waste chemicals and certain radionuclides (e.g., cesium, technetium, strontium, and transuranics) that must be mitigated prior to immobilizing the waste.
LAW is a mixed, characteristic, and listed waste regulated under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 (RCRA), and must meet certain treatment standards and performance standards for on-site disposal of the final waste form.
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 Marie and Pierre Curie
Marie and Pierre Curie's pioneering research was again brought to mind when on April 20 1995, their bodies were taken from their place of burial at Sceaux, just outside Paris, and in a solemn ceremony were laid to rest under the mighty dome of the Panthéon.
Marie Curie thus became the first woman to be accorded this mark of honour on her own merit.
Marie Curie was a woman, she was an immigrant and she had to a high degree helped increase the prestige of France in the scientific world.
nobelprize.org /physics/articles/curie   (8102 words)

  
 Low Dose Radiation Research Program
Curie it indicated the existence of two new elements instead of one.
The Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (Public Law 83-703) is passed by Congress that further authorizes the AEC to conduct research on the biological effects of ionizing radiation.
This law provides for the Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA), formerly the AEC, to engage in and support environmental, biomedical, physical, and safety research related to the development of energy resources and utilization technologies; the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is also established under Public Law 93-438.
lowdose.tricity.wsu.edu /timeline.htm   (4625 words)

  
 Nature of Radiation
The degree of radioactivity or radiation producing potential of a given amount of radioactive material is measured in Curies (Ci).
The curie which was originally defined as that amount of any radioactive material which disintegrates at the same rate as one gram of pure radium.
The concentration of radioactivity, or the relationship between the mass of radioactive material and the activity, is called "specific activity." Specific activity is expressed as the number of curies or becquerels per unit mass or volume.
www.ndt-ed.org /EducationResources/CommunityCollege/Radiography/Physics/nature.htm   (1861 words)

  
 The Biography of Marie Curie - Page 4
The biography of Marie Curie continues with the death of Pierre Curie, widowhood, and the Langevin affair.
The Curie's main competition was the team of New Zealander Ernest Rutherford and Frederick Soddy in England.
Marie and Pierre Curie were still the world's leading experts on radioactivity; in fact, it was Marie who invented the term "radioactivity." Public pressure in France prompted the government to give the Curies money for research.
www.hypatiamaze.org /marie/c_bio_p4.html   (1120 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Related Items - Curie, Marie
MSN Encarta - Related Items - Curie, Marie
Curie, unit of measurement named for the Curies
Polonium is in group 16 (or VIa) of the periodic table (Periodic Law).
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 energy and matter aim 1
Curie, Marie (1867-1934) was a Polish-born French scientist who, with her husband Pierre Curie (1859-1906) was an early investigator of radioactivity.
Madame Curie went on to study the chemistry and medical applications of radium, and was awarded the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry in recognition of her work in isolating the pure metal.
Marie took over his post at the Sorbonne, becoming the first woman to teach there, and concentrated all her energies into research and caring for her daughters (one of whom, Irène, was to later marry Frédéric Joliot and become a famous scientist and Nobel prizewinner).
www.chemcool.com /biography/curie.htm   (731 words)

  
 Science and Learning in France. 1917. Chemistry (Mineralogy) to Mathematics.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The learned and systematic study of law, though never entirely broken off in the Middle Ages, begins virtually for the modern world with the revival of the study of Roman Law under Irnerius at the University of Bologna, in the second half of the 1000s A.
In the École Coloniale (Paris) are given courses in general colonial law, in the law of China, Indo-China, Algeria, Tunis, occidental and equatorial Africa, and in Mohammedan law.
Criminal law is now everywhere becoming recognized as dependent on Criminal Science in general (or Criminology), and thus presents many common problems of theory and method in all countries.
www.ku.edu /carrie/specoll/AFS/library/3-FF/SLF/prof3.html   (7813 words)

  
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The total radionuclide inventory in curies in the tank farms is 417 million curies.
While the radioactivity in Saltstone increases to 20 million curies, the bulk of cesium continues to be sent to DWPF to be made into glass.
The bottom line is that the curies that would be left behind are not detrimental to the groundwater, an intruder, or the public.
www.srs.gov /general/outreach/srs-cab/mtgsums/2003/wm/050603wm.htm   (2383 words)

  
 PPPL develops detection system to boost anti-terror efforts
“Law enforcement officials would tell us what materials they might be looking for and we would tailor the configuration to detect those materials,” said Gentile.
At tollbooths or in police cruisers on the turnpike, the system would be tuned to recognize, but not sound an alarm on radioactive material from legal uses such as medical radioisotopes.
Once a unit is in place, it would be up to law enforcement officials to devise an alerting system.
www.eurekalert.org /features/doe/2002-06/dppl-pdd060602.php   (879 words)

  
 Medicine & Global Survival   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Military and law enforcement activity in the US to prevent terrorism may indeed be useful, if the civil and human rights of suspects are protected and if attempts by other agencies to rectify just grievances are also supported.
Specific elements of proposals for the secondary prevention of bioterrorism, such as training of medical personnel in treatment of victims and improved public health surveillance for emerging infectious diseases no matter what their source, are also useful, particularly in the face of severe underfunding of public health services in the US [7].
But coupling public health and medical efforts to military and law enforcement efforts to prevent bioterrorism carries with it a long series of problems, many of them similar to previous efforts for prevention initiated without adequate consideration of the nature of the threat and of the consequences of the response.
www.ippnw.org /MGS/V6N2Editorial.html   (2220 words)

  
 IEER Publications: High-Level Dollars, Low-Level Sense
These laws established that each state was responsible for assuring adequate disposal capacity for the commercial low-level radioactive waste that was generated within its borders.
Furthermore, according to law, such a state "shall be liable for all damages directly or indirectly incurred by [the waste generators] as a consequence of the failure of the State to take possession of the waste."
The approach embodied by federal law for commercial low-level wastes forces taxpayers at the state level to take on liabilities in an area where corporate and federal governmental failures have led to considerable problems.
www.ieer.org /pubs/highlv3k.html   (1847 words)

  
 Re: What is the Law of Conservation based on? And who wrote it?
Credit for the law of Conservation of Energy is given to the German scientists Robert Mayer (1814-1878) and Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1894).
The discovery of radioactivity in the 1890's was a giant challenge to the law.
To answer your question: The law of conservation of energy is consistent with Maxwell's laws of electromagnetism, first written down by James Clerk Maxwell in 1873.
www.madsci.org /posts/archives/dec97/873934666.Ph.r.html   (381 words)

  
 Mailing List complex-science@necsi.org Message 5466
Law of magnetism and temperature (Curies Law) (M=1/t)
I don't know why power laws are so ubiquitious but we have some hints.
Suppose you are working with an exponential and that you plot it.
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 'The Textbook Letter' for November-December 1999: 'Editor's File'
Holt displays a picture of Madame Curie standing alone, and the adjacent blurb says: "In 1903, Marie Curie and her husband received the Nobel Prize in physics for the discovery of radioactivity.
Then Holt misrepresents the Nobel Prize that Marie Curie received in 1911, falsely accords the credit for "discovering radium and polonium" to Marie Curie alone, and refuses to consider why "her husband" didn't share in the 1911 prize.
Though Holt has reduced Pierre Curie to a nameless nobody, he was in fact a first-rate scientist and a renowned member of the faculty of the Municipal School of Industrial Physics and Chemistry in Paris.
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 Joliot-Curie, Frédéric and Irène
March 17, 1956, Paris), French physical chemists, husband and wife, who were jointly awarded the 1935 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for their discovery of new radioactive isotopes prepared artificially.
They were the son-in-law and daughter of Nobel Prize winners Pierre and Marie Curie.
Irène Curie from 1912 to 1914 prepared for her baccalauréat at the Collège Sévigné and in 1918 became her mother's assistant at the Institut du Radium of the University of Paris.
www.britannica.com /nobel/micro/305_82.html   (1380 words)

  
 Warsaw Voice - Curies' Curiosities
The laboratory equipment from the late 19th and early 20th centuries as well as the diorama of the shed housing Maria's and Pierre's laboratory show how basic the conditions were in which they conducted their experiments.
The Curies did not have to wait long for fame and success.
The exhibition finishes with photographs of the official ceremony of carrying the Curies' ashes to the Pantheon in 1995.
www.warsawvoice.pl /archiwum.phtml/9286   (291 words)

  
 1999 ANNUAL REPORT
The compact was established in June of 1993 when the Governor of Texas signed into law legislation establishing a low-level radioactive waste compact with Maine and Vermont.
Under current law, the Authority is required to site a low-level radioactive waste disposal facility in Hudspeth County.
Once a construction authorization request is submitted, by law, NRC will have three years to perform its review, conduct a public hearing, and reach a construction authorization decision by an independent Licensing Board.
www.state.me.us /dhhs/eng/rad/annual1999.htm   (6457 words)

  
 IEER | COGEMA: Above the Law?
Bataille acknowledged that the section of the law dealing with foreign fuel, while clear on the subject of the status of nuclear waste after reprocessing, is not precise enough in addressing the fate of the nuclear material before reprocessing.
At the time [of the enactment of the law] what the legislator [Bataille] wanted was very clear: the continuation of the reprocessing activities, while at the same time preventing the La Hague plant from becoming the 'nuclear dump' of Europe.
As the author of the law, I declare that the spirit of the law is being flouted by this practice.
www.ieer.org /reports/cogema/report.html   (6052 words)

  
 tmi
The before-mentioned 106 million curies, upper-limit release estimate represents the results of my original analysis and assessment of the radioactivity releases in the accident that was submitted to the Court in June 1993, namely, my June 19, 1993 report.
For the case of the lower-limit release estimate, namely, 25 million curies, the maximum doses in the TMI area are calculated to be of the order of 30 to 300 millirads (0.03 to 0.3 rads) within about 2½ miles from the plant.
A public court of law condemning a person, thereby destroying his professional reputation, without that person being informed of charges against him, without the Court giving him a hearing, and without providing him with a process to defend his works, and his person, hence his reputation, is plainly unjust.
www.technidigm.org /C5001/tmi.htm   (11968 words)

  
 Expt. VI-4 Atomic Transformations?
During 1900 the Curies collected beta radiation, β, in an electroscope gathering evidence that beta rays, like electrons, are also composed of negatively charged particles.
Pierre Curie carried a warm, glowing sample of Radium around in his pocket to show people.
Marie Curie kept a glowing sample as a night light beside her bed.
homepage.mac.com /dtrapp/ePhysics.f/labVI_4.html   (1261 words)

  
 Long-Term Stewardship, Nevada Test Site
Because NTS was used for both atmospheric and underground nuclear testing, DOE has stated that it is not possible to fully define the level of residual contamination that remains from the atmospheric testing program.
The U.S. Air Force is proposing an indefinite public land withdrawal for the TTR and the Nellis Range, and while only a small fraction of the 3.1 million acres that encompasses these ranges is contaminated, restricted public access to both ranges is maintained.
Under federal law (P.L. 99-606), the Air Force must obtain congressional approval for the renewal of the Nellis Range by the year 2001.
www.state.nv.us /nucwaste/nts/steward.htm   (4188 words)

  
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As the ILV is filled with waste, the available curie inventory is being filled at the same rate.
The actual plus projected curies to be disposed are less than the PA limits except for I-129 forecasted waste streams.
Goldston concluded by noting that CAB Recommendation 94 was extremely valuable to SRS since confirms that using scientific/technical criteria and system engineering approaches will extend the life expectancy of the existing vaults approximately an additional 15 years and at a significant cost savings.
www.srs.gov /general/outreach/srs-cab/mtgsums/2000/wm/3900wm.html   (1521 words)

  
 Nat' Academies Press, Improving the Regulation and Management of Low-Activity Radioactive Wastes: Interim Report on ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The substantial volume increase beginning in 2000 is the result of large amounts of slightly contaminated soils, debris, and rubble that Envirocare of Utah began receiving in that year.
As noted by the Board on Radioactive Waste Management at the outset of this study (see Chapter 1), the radiological hazard of LAW is typically much less than that for spent nuclear fuel or high-level reprocessing waste, but the hazard may persist for very long periods.
While the regulatory system was devel- oped primarily to control radiological risks of LAW the focus of this report—non- radiological hazards are also important.
www.nap.edu /books/0309090911/html/25.html   (4998 words)

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