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Explorer 14 Magnetron Sputterer (PVD-05) Standard Operating Procedure
Get PDFStandard Operating Procedure for the Explorer 14 Magnetron Sputterer (PVD-05) located at the Quattrone Nanofabrication Facility within the Singh Center for Nanotechnology at the University of Pennsylvaniahttps://repository.upenn.edu/scn_sop/1025/thumbnail.jp
Penn Library\u27s Ms. Codex 1642 - De las doze cargas (Video Orientation)
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Trust in Public Health Sources, COVID-19 Protective Behaviors, and the Attenuating Role of Behavioral Beliefs: A Dual Processing Study with a Longitudinal Representative Sample of U.S. Adults
Get PDFPublic distrust in official sources of COVID-19 information threatens to undermine engagement in recommended practices. Nonetheless, people with low trust may adhere if they believe recommended behaviors are effective. This set of longitudinal studies examines the interaction between behavioral beliefs and trust in official sources in their effects on recommended COVID-19 prevention behaviors (study 1: facemask wearing and social distancing; study 2: vaccination). Repeated measurement data were collected from a nationally representative sample of U.S. adults in May/June 2020 (T1; n=1074), July 2020 (T2; n=889), and April/June 2021 (T3; n=750). Lagged linear regressions found consistent negative interactions between trust and behavioral beliefs, either significant (T1-T2: facemask wearing B=-0.10, SE=0.04; T1-T3: social distancing B=-0.20, SE=0.06; T2-T3 vaccination B=-0.27, SE=0.10) or close to significant (T1-T3: social distancing B=-0.13, SE=0.08; T1-T3: facemask wearing B=-0.11, SE=0.06). These results support dual-processing models; among individuals who strongly believed in behavioral benefits, trust did not influence adherence
Penn Library\u27s Ms. Codex 1645 - Technical treatise on the painting of miniatures (Video Orientation)
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Penn Library\u27s Ms. Codex 1646 - Estado astrologico (Video Orientation)
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A Friendship Betrayed: The Jonathan Pollard Spy Case and American-Israeli Relations
Get PDFThis thesis explores the mysterious Pollard affair, a tense episode of espionage and diplomatic crisis that transpired during the mid-1980s, toward the tail end of the Cold War. The spying and subsequent capture of Jonathan Pollard, an American Jew, to benefit Israel led to a reckoning in the relationship between the American and Israeli governments, between the American Jewish community and Israel, and between the American Jewish community and the U.S. government. Although Israel and the United States had a close and enduring working relationship at the time, Pollard received a life sentence. He was released on parole in 2015, and his parole restrictions were lifted in 2020, after which he immigrated to Israel. This paper will argue that the greatest damage caused by the lengthy Pollard affair was that which was inflicted upon the American Jewish community’s relationship with Israel. The effects of the scandal on the government-to-government relationship, on the other hand, were not as profound. The espionage episode exacerbated a slowly growing willingness among American Jewry to openly criticize Israeli policies, something that the community had previously been quite reluctant to do. Understanding the ripple effects of the Pollard affair — both within the two governments, as well as among American Jews and Israelis — can shed light on the nature of the long-standing, close, and multi-faceted relationship between the two countries
Exploring the Beliefs about Training in Organizations: A Perspective from Chief Financial Officers
No full textBillions of dollars are spent each year on training the most important organizational asset: employees. However, employees are resigning from organizations at an unprecedented rate, citing the lack of developmental opportunities as one of the reasons. Understandably, organizational leaders want to identify the benefits and quantify measurable outputs resulting from training initiatives to ensure they receive a return on investment (ROI), but many training leaders are not successfully executing the task in a meaningful way relevant for chief financial officers (CFOs). As a result, training is often defunded during economic downturns or cost-savings initiatives and training data are not included in financial reporting mechanisms. The purpose of this study was to provide a body of research to advance awareness for CFOs on the value of training and the importance of the inclusion of training into organizational strategy. This study employed an exploratory qualitative study of 22 CFOs to gather empirical data on their beliefs about training, including what influenced their beliefs and what benefits they believed resulted from training. Participants also disclosed their levels of engagement with the Training function through the exploration of the relationship and the extent to which measurement and reporting on training occurred. Lastly, this study investigated the influences, including the beliefs of CFOs, that impacted the training budget. Four major findings resulted from this study that demonstrated complexities and challenges for CFOs and their relationships with training. First, CFOs acknowledged employees are an organizations’ most important asset, and CFOs identified that training can produce numerous benefits, including those that support the employee and the organization. Conversely, the second finding was that CFOs overlook the concrete value that results from training. As the third finding indicated, for CFOs to better realize the value of training, CFOs need clearer measurement metrics and reporting processes. To enable improved measurement and reporting, the fourth theme identified that overwhelming opportunity exists to bridge the relationship gap between CFOs and the Training function. These data can be leveraged by the Training function to strengthen the relationship with CFOs, leading to an increased awareness of the beliefs about training, opportunities for greater investment in training for continued employee growth and development, and stronger organizational performance. After all, CFOs and the Training function ultimately work toward the same goal: creating value for the organization
Climate Change, Differential Impacts on Women and Gender Mainstreaming: A Case Study of East Rapti Watershed, Nepal
Get PDFWomen and water share a great deal of nexus in several ways. However, women have still minimal control over the management of water resources, making them more vulnerable to climate change. This paper assesses how climate change impacts differently across different women groups using an intersectionality lens, thereby exploring the situation of gender mainstreaming in water sector in three communities, namely, Karaiya, Basauli, and Dadagaun in Khairahani Municipality located in the East Rapti watershed, Nepal. In this perception- based study, we conducted three key informant interviews and household interviews with 45 women of different castes, ages, communities, education levels, and occupations. The results showed that different groups of women perceive climate change and its impact differently. For instance, women engaged in agriculture are more aware of the impact of climate change and are affected more by it because of changing trends in rainfall and temperature resulting in water shortage and flooding. On the other hand, they experience more physical and mental stress because of a higher responsibility of both agriculture and household . Despite 80% of female involvement in water user committees, there is a gap in participation by all groups of women. Irrespective of literacy and work engagement, women of Karaiya and Basauli, were less aware and active than Dadagau in various water development and management activities because of time constraints, family background, lesser interest, and awareness. Therefore, more efforts are required to achieve significant progress in gender mainstreaming considering intersectionality in the water sector and climate change
Forward Kinematics and Control of a Segmented Tunable-Stiffness 3-D Continuum Manipulator
Get PDFIn this work, we consider the problem of controlling the end effector position of a continuum manipulator through local stiffness changes. Continuum manipulators offer the advantage of continuous deformation along their lengths, and recent advances in smart material actuators further enable local compliance changes, which can affect the manipulator\u27s bulk motion. However, leveraging local stiffness change to control motion remains lightly explored. We build a kinematic model of a continuum manipulator as a sequence of segments consisting of symmetrically arranged springs around the perimeter of every segment, and we show that this system has a closed form solution to its forward kinematics. The model includes common constraints such as restriction of torsional or shearing movement. Based on this model, we propose a controller on the spring stiffnesses for a single segment and provide provable guarantees on convergence to a desired goal position. The results are verified in simulation and compared to physical hardware
Collation Model for LJS 64: [Illustrations to Georg von Peurbach\u27s Novae theoricae planetarum].
Get PDFDiagrams, many with moving parts, designed to accompany the work Theoricae novae planetarum by 15th-century Austrian astronomer Georg von Peurbach, who taught at the universities in Padua and Ferrara. The diagrams demonstrate increasingly complex planetary motion. An early 17th-century inscription on the first flyleaf refers to an edition of Peurbach published in Venice in 1616.https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/1138/thumbnail.jp