New on the CPR Training Calendar

The final roundup: highlights from six more sessions at CPR's Annual Meeting, as well as the date for the next one. Also, details on two new online continuing legal education series, a live New York City training, and awards for the CPR Institute and Alternatives.     

CPR honored by mediation organization

In the biggest summer rundown of CPR events ever in Alternatives, details are provided on an honor for CPR, training, meetings, and committees. Also: a recap of Business Mediation Congress, which was held in Vienna     

Final call for reservations: Next month's corporate leadership awards dinner

Last call for next month's Corporate Leadership Awards Dinner in NYC honoring Microsoft Corp. and its general counsel, Brad Smith. Also, details about CPR's new website; the free International Dispute Negotiation podcasts, and a call for nominations for the 2008 CPR Institute Awards for Excellence in ADR.     

Lord Woolf leads 2007 list of CPR award winners

A full report on last month's CPR Awards for Excellence in ADR, along with Los Angeles and New York training dates for spring.     

A comparison of selected domestic arbitration rules

Alternatives provides another rules comparison table, focusing on last year's revisions to the CPR Institute, American Arbitration Association, and JAMS domestic arbitration rules.     

Registration open for next month's 30th anniversary annual meeting

More on the CPR Institute's Annual Meeting next month; an online continuing legal education program featuring ethics credit is scheduled for year‐end filers in December, and more.     

Impact of Chimney-draught Conditions on Combustion and Emission Behavior of a Wood-burning Stove

Pollutants from combustion in wood-burning stoves are influenced by many factors, including the exhaust gas system. This is responsible for the air supply due to the draught generated. Contrary to results reported in literature the experiments in this study show no effect on temperature related to increasing air supply and a total dust decreasing at higher draughts. The results also show no significant impact of the draught on gaseous emissions (CO/OGC/NO_x). The most significant loss was determined at thermal efficiency, which lost up to 13 % absolute with increasing draught.     

Reaction and Coloration of Glasses with Hydrogen

The reaction of NBS 710 glass with hydrogen at 500°C and the resulting coloration of the glass have been studied using optical spectroscopy. Initially the reaction leads to the reduction of iron from ferrous to ferric state which subsequently combines with sulfur resulting in the formation of FeS. The origin of the color centers is proposed to be related to the formation of FeS.     

Scalable Parallel Algorithms for Geometric Pattern Recognition

This paper considers a variety of geometric pattern recognition problems on input sets of size n using a coarse grained multicomputer model consisting of p processors with Ω(n/p) local memory each (i.e., Ω(n/p) memory cells of Θ(log n) bits apiece), where the processors are connected to an arbitrary interconnection network. It introduces efficient scalable parallel algorithms for a number of geometric problems including the rectangle finding problem, the maximal equally spaced collinear points problem, and the point set pattern matching problem. All of the algorithms presented are scalable in that they are applicable and efficient over a very wide range of ratios of problem size to number of processors. In addition to the practicality imparted by scalability, these algorithms are easy to implement in that all required communications can be achieved by a small number of calls to standard global routing operations.