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SeaWorld/Busch Gardens Environmental Excellence Award
No full textSince 1993, the Anheuser-Busch Adventure Parks have recognized the outstanding efforts of K-12 students and teachers across the country who are working at the grassroots level to protect and preserve the environment. Available to K-12 school groups that have outstanding environmental projects. Eight schools will receive 5,000. Educational levels: Primary elementary, Intermediate elementary, Middle school, High school, Graduate or professional
Joshua Davis: Author of Spare Parts
No full textCitation: K-State First (2016). Joshua Davis: Author of Spare Parts [Flier]. Manhattan, Kansas: K-State First.Flyer advertising Joshua Davis's author talk at Kansas State University
Steven Johnson Author Talk Poster
No full textK-State Book NetworkA poster advertising an author talk by Steven Johnson at Kansas State University on September 3, 2014. Steven Johnson's book "The Ghost Map" was the 2014-2015 common book
Chain-length dependence of free-radical termination rate deduced from laser single-pulse experiments
No full textTermination rate coefficients of free-radical polymerization are accessible from SP-PLP studies where monomer conversion induced by a laser single pulse is measured with a time resolution of microseconds. Previous experiments with 2,2-dimethoxy-2-phenylacetophenone (DMPA) acting as the initiator revealed that upon variation of the DMPA concentration, the resulting monomer conversion vs. time traces intersect. A detailed kinetic analysis of this unexpected type of behavior is presented. It turns out that such crossings occur in situations Where k(t) is chain-length dependent and, at the same time. the primary initiator-derived free-radical species differ in reactivity toward the monomer. As is known from the literature, this difference in radical reactivity is particularly pronounced with DMPA, which photo-decomposes to a propagating and to a non-propagating free radical. Modeling of the crossing behavior opens a novel route for determining chain-length dependent k(t). Results for methyl acrylate (MA) and styrene homopolymerizations at low degrees of monomer conversion, to a maximum of are presented. The decrease of k(t) with chain length is modeled via an exponential function. The dependence is significantly larger for styrene. The exponents derived from simulation studies via PREDICI® are in excellent agreement with corresponding data reported by Olaj et al. for styrene and by de Kock for methyl acrylate
Der gutgläubige Eigentumserwerb beweglicher Sachen in rechtsvergleichender Sicht mit der DDR
No full textBusch K-P. Der gutgläubige Eigentumserwerb beweglicher Sachen in rechtsvergleichender Sicht mit der DDR. Bielefeld; 1974
Simulation as a Tool for Feasibility Studies about PIP-SEC Experiments
No full textAdvanced homo- and copolymerization models have been used to perform a feasibility study on the potential of pulse-initiated polymerization (PIP) experiments for ethene (co)polymerizations. An application of PIP experiments directly to the ethene homo-polymerization appears not as a very promising strategy to derive the homo-propagation rate coefficient k(p) of ethene. This failure can be attributed to the special characteristics of high temperature size exclusion chromatographs, being required to determine the molecular weight distribution (MWD) of polyethylene. PI copolymerizations appear as an interesting alternative to provide access to the homo-propagation rate coefficient of ethene. Most advantageous in this strategy is the fact that even a simple convergence contemplation (using a variation in monomer composition) yields the ethene home-propagation rate coefficient k(p). Simply aiming at this coefficient, there is no necessity of knowing the detailed kinetic parameters of the copolymerization. In a further part, the extended kinetic information being available about branching processes in ethene polymerizations was used to test for the potential influence of a slower propagation rate of secondary macroradicals on the PIP structure in MWDs. Even at the significant level of branching present in ethene homopolymerizations still a PLP structure inside the MWD remains observable, assuming retardation up to an extend of almost two orders of magnitude. In order to perform these studies a kinetic model was designed explicitly accounting for the formation of secondary macroradicals by transfer. The kinetic; information about branching being available in literature, was adopted toward this scheme
Anheuser-Busch: A System-Wide Resource Conservation Program
No full textAnheuser-Busch has been an EPA Climate Wise Program partner since 1997. Through the company's participation in the program-a voluntary industrial energy efficiency initiative in which companies work to turn energy efficiency and environmental performance into a corporate asset-Anheuser-Busch has implemented a comprehensive set of energy efficiency improvements and waste reduction projects. In November of 1998, Anheuser-Busch received the Climate Wise Partner Achievement Award for its excellence in the areas of Leadership, Innovation, Action Planning and Results. This paper provides an overview of Anheuser-Busch's broad-based efforts in energy efficiency and pollution prevention
When Have All the Graduates Gone?: Internal Cross-State Migration of Graduates in Germany 1984-2004
No full textThe present paper analyzes the out-migration of graduates to other German states or abroad based on the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). Applying duration analysis, it can be shown that, ten years after graduation, slightly more than seventy percent of the graduates still live in the state where they completed their studies. The parametric estimation model identifies personal characteristics that are highly correlated with out-migration and permanent residence respectively. The analysis confirms previous results that nonresident students exhibit a significantly higher emigration propensity than resident fellows.Brain drain, nonresident students, fiscal externalities, duration analysis, GSOEP
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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