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Economic Indicators of the College Station-Bryan MSA, June 2024
No full textThe Business-Cycle Index increased 0.3% from March 2024 to April 2024. The local unemployment rate for April 2024 was unchanged from March's value of 3.1%. Local nonfarm employment increased by 0.8% from March to April 2024. Inflation-adjusted taxable sales decreased by 3.6% from March 2024 to April 2024. Inflation-adjusted quarterly wage payments increased by 2.8% in the fourth quarter of 2023 compared to the previous quarter. Employment in the College Station-Bryan MSA was 12.6% higher by April 2024 than it was before the pandemic occurred
Standard By Seven: The Early Years Issue 2
No full textPublished in the 1980s?"Standard by Seven: The Early Years is a gen Blake's 7 anthology with fiction from its sister zine of Standard by Seven." (Fanlore.org wiki
3D Printing-Based Manufacturing Method for Biomass-Fungi Composites
Get PDFBiomass-fungi composites represent a sustainable material with applications in the construction and packaging industries. Currently, molding is used to manufacture biomass-fungi composite products. 3D printing of these composites would facilitate greater design flexibility for various construction and packaging applications.
This dissertation presents a novel 3D printing process for the manufacturing of products using these composites. It includes the mechanical processing and employing a printability aiding additive to facilitate 3D printing. Mechanical mixing was used to convert the loose, biomass-fungi material into a liquid slurry. Psyllium husk powder was used as a printability aiding additive that prevented phase segregation during the printing process thereby avoiding problems such as nozzle blocking. The appropriate amount of printability aiding additive was also determined by analyzing the print quality of mixtures varying in the content of this additive. The rheological properties of these mixtures have also been discussed. The effect of mixing process parameters (such as mixing time and mixing type) on fungal growth has been studied. Furthermore, this dissertation also presents the effects of printing process parameters (such as print speed and air pressure) on fungal growth. Lastly, the tensile and compressive strength data of these composites has been presented
The Importance of Community: Conceptualizing Health as Participation in the World
Get PDFThis project suggests how human health be understood as a function of participation in community by considering the current biomedical model, shortcomings of this model, and a conceptualization of health indexed to flourishing within community. I begin with an analysis of the biomedical model. I consider how the various features of the model, including its infamous reductionism and mechanism, have led to undesirable consequences as aspects of human health are disregarded. I contextualize the current biomedical model���s measure of health and suggest that such a standard fails to encompass all of human experience. I then discuss the history of health utilizing the work of Philip J. Van Der Eijk, illustrating historical conceptions of health to suggest that medicalization of the body and repudiation of the non-physical has failed to serve humans well. I suggest that a new conception of health will involve a reconsideration of what medicine has turned away from but without problematic implications. The final part of my paper considers health and sickness via community. I suggest that to be human is to be a member of community, and thus health can be understood via participation in the community. I draw upon the ideas of Wendell Berry and Hans-Georg Gadamer to suggest that healing is a restoration of an individual to community and normal function. I provide analysis for this perspective and highlight how this contrasts with current medicine, emphasizing the importance of membership within health. Once I show health to be a function of community, I conclude the paper by drawing conclusions and providing suggestions for how medicine can more fully undertake the practice of healing and allow for human flourishing