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Stabilization of the tilt motion during capillary self-alignment of rectangular chips
Get PDFCapillary self-alignment (CSA) has emerged as a convenient technique to assemble solid objects. In thistechnique a liquid droplet forces a mobile solid plate or chip to align with its counterpart on a solid substrate. It has been widely investigated for applications such as 3D microelectronics and assembly of optical components. It is now thought that it could be a solution for surface mounting and packaging technologies. For 3D microelectronics, where square or rectangular chips are used, it has been found that amongst the four displacement modes, i.e. shift, twist, lift and tilt, only the tilt mode was unstable (not restoring). In particular, tilting of a floating square or rectangular chip may trigger a direct contactbetween the plate and the pad that impedes alignment. In this text, an analysis of the tilt mode is firstpresented. Second, it is demonstrated that tilt can be stabilized by incorporating specific geometrical features such as lyophilic bands patterned on the substrate
Salvatore D\u27Angelo
No full textMy interest in sociology inspired me to take advantage of an internship opportunity available through the Adams Center for Law and Society at SU. With progress toward earning a BA degree in history already well underway, I became aware of the Adams Center around the time I began pursuit of my second major in sociology. I chose this field of study due to the emphasis it has on understanding social issues and social action. I was motivated to understand more of society’s influence on its marginalized members. My internship with Susquehanna Valley CASA (Court Appointed Speical Advocates for Children) provided me with experience in the field of marginalized and abused children caught up in the legal system. This has led me to an ever-increasing level of concern with the role of policy in their lives. My desire to pursue a graduate education in criminology and public policy grew from this valuable experience.
I was fortunate enough to participate in two internships with CASA during Summer 2014. One allowed me to participate as a research assistant, collecting and transferring data from the case files of CASA to a predictive analytics software called SPSS housed on campus. Coding all of the variables and locating the relevant information turned out to be a difficult and rewarding task. The second internship was as an office manager with an emphasis on transferring data from the case files into the casa manager system for tracking case outcomes. Both positions allowed me access to information on past and ongoing CASA volunteer cases. This information and the proximity the work put me to the CASA county case managers gave me a greater appreciation for social justice and the difficulties that it involves. The process that went into the acquisition of information for building a case file on a child was staggering.
As the summer ended and I maintained my CASA office manager internship, my knowledge of the cases and my functioning understanding of the case management system made me a valuable member of the CASA staff. As my work relationships with the county managers grew, so did my understanding of the scope of CASA’s mission to provide a voice for a segment of the population that has been largely silenced by a complicated legal system. The opportunities provided by the Adams Center not only furthered my interests in sociology and social policy, but also provided invaluable experience leading to a more clear understanding what I want to do in life and the kind of person I aspire to become. Currently, I’m awaiting responses from the graduate programs to which I have applied. I received my first acceptance letter last week and look forward to more. Thank you to the Adams Center and to Greater Susquehanna Valley CASA.https://scholarlycommons.susqu.edu/adams_scholars/1004/thumbnail.jp
Three Miles, Two Creeks: Local Pennsylvania History in the Classroom
Get PDFThis article describes an undergraduate history assignment at Susquehanna University, through which students create virtual museum exhibits on the local history of Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania. Students narrate and interpret the Penn’s Creek Massacre of 1755 and the Stump Massacre of 1768. The goal is to tell a cohesive story and offer a clear viewpoint on the events while adhering to the research and design standards used by public history professionals. The historical content of the assignment emphasizes the diversity and violence of the American frontier in the decades before the Revolutionary War. The exhibition format highlights the need to think carefully about audience, voice, and storytelling, three aspects of making history that are often disregarded in student research papers. The ultimate value of the assignment is its ability to increase students’ awareness of the manipulation involved in the process of historical interpretation, even as they attempt to “get it right.
The Role of Qing 情in the Huainanzi’s Ethics
Get PDFThrough an analysis of every instance of the term qing 情 in the text, this article explores the role of this concept in the ethical thought of the second-century b.c.e. text Huainanzi. The Huainanzi authors draw on several features of the semantic range of qing in the early Han dynasty to help support their overall argument that the text provides an exhaustive and authoritative account of how to effectively govern an empire. As part of this project, I argue that the authors also use qing to articulate the meta-ethical features of the cosmos and human beings that make ideal moral action possible, as well as to explain the process of how humans can cultivate themselves to the ideal state of sagehood. Understanding the role of qing in the Huainanzi is thus essential to understanding the text\u27s ethical content
Quantum Theory: Informational Foundations and Foils
No full textThis book provides the first unified overview of the burgeoning research area at the interface between Quantum Foundations and Quantum Information. Topics include: operational alternatives to quantum theory, information-theoretic reconstructions of the quantum formalism, mathematical frameworks for operational theories, and device-independent features of the set of quantum correlations. Powered by the injection of fresh ideas from the field of Quantum Information and Computation, the foundations of Quantum Mechanics are in the midst of a renaissance. The last two decades have seen an explosion of new results and research directions, attracting broad interest in the scientific community. The variety and number of different approaches, however, makes it challenging for a newcomer to obtain a big picture of the field and of its high-level goals. Here, fourteen original contributions from leading experts in the field cover some of the most promising research directions that have emerged in the new wave of quantum foundations. The book is directed at researchers in physics, computer science, and mathematics and would be appropriate as the basis of a graduate course in Quantum Foundations.https://scholarlycommons.susqu.edu/facultybooks/1044/thumbnail.jp
Celebrate Her for the Fruit of Her Hands: Studies in Honor of Carol L. Meyers
No full textCarol Meyers is renowned for her expertise in many fields: the use of social-science methodologies to understand the Bible and the world of Iron Age Israel; the archaeology of ancient Israel, especially important sites of the Second Temple period; and the study of women in the Bible and in ancient Israel. In this volume, some of Meyers s foremost scholarly peers honor her by offering essays that build on her work and depend on her expertise. For example, Norman K. Gottwald uses a social-scientific analysis to continue his groundbreaking work on the structure of the early Israelite confederacy; Eric Meyers discusses how certain Second Temple artifacts, such as ossuaries and bathing installations, might be used as markers of Jewish ethnicity; and Ross S. Kraemer, in conjunction with Jennifer Eyl, takes on the issue of how women are represented (or not) in Bible translators renderings of certain ambiguously gendered terms. Joining this community of Carol Meyers s peers are some of her most noted students, who also have contributed essays that speak to Meyers s many areas of interest and expertise and reflect what they have learned from her about, especially, the study of women in the Bible and in ancient Israel, and the application of social-scientific approaches to biblical studies. Moreover, as Meyers s work spans the millennium-long history of the Iron Age and the Second Temple period, so do the essays of Meyers s students, with offerings that consider some of the earliest texts in the Bible (Judges 5), as well as texts that come from the Second Temple archive of scrolls discovered at Qumran. The result is a collection of essays that are as richly multifaceted as is the work of the extraordinary scholar whose career they honor.https://scholarlycommons.susqu.edu/facultybooks/1047/thumbnail.jp