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Kaiser-Frazer news story
No full textBy Gene M. 'Brown The Willys assets to be Tl1r Kats::l'-Frazer Corp. will buy by Kaiser Manufacturing Corp.• an nd Motors Inc., for existing Kaiser-Frazer subsidiary
estimated 62.300.000. lIccord-include net property. inventOries.
to an agreement announced plants and equipment. Not innight.
The acquisition makes cluded are c:lsh. securities. prethe
fourlh largest automo-payment and receivables. IH.: manufacturer in the world. The agreement gives Kaiser-Unde\' terms 01 the plan. Willys Frazer production facilities to mes a Kaiser-Frazer subsid-place studebaker in fourth posi1"'1. Edgar F. Kaiser. son 01 tion behind the big three auto
J. Kaiser. and president of manufacturers-General Motors
, called the trans-Ford and ChrYsler. Previously, as
tion the lan,cst of its kind in separate manufacturers. Kaiser
history of the automotive in-was ranked eighth and Willys
combmed total sales 01 ninth.
two companies are 1unning at Funds ' to finance the
rate of 600.000,000 II year. action camf-from varied sources.
assets are valued at Henry J. Kaiser Co. put up 250.000,000. 600,000, while 20,000,000 in a term loan ng Willys employment contracts Bank of America. National Trust
retain the services of prmci-and Savmgs Associl\tion.
1 officers for a minimum of two At the same ~t1me, Mr.
Ir.. "provided they render satis-reported that 11is company's
c ')ry ser.'ice," to the Reconstruction Finance
Ward ,\1. Canaday has been Corp. would be reduced. The?m:ine components. aircraft forg to remain as president and R. F. C. had lent Kaiser-Frazel,mgs and aircraft landing gear., n "f Willy!; Motors Coi·p., 48,417,000 . 11<; of Feb. 28. A cashrlane>' ; th F'a Irc 11 -eSI.
.' e 1 'ld d I,UO~ldH\IY. _ aymcnt of $15,OOO.00u be 119-F cargo planes; Wright
":i91 de to the R. F. C. to reduce thc nautical-designed R-130(} Mr. Kaiser said. engines, sectiom for the La.p.khee"'.' P2V-5 Neptune Bomber, e1p('tl'lln
Kaisci ~mphaslzed that thC\eqUiPment. components ase. Will m no way alter the Boeing B-52A and oth'er t mdepedent operations ofIitems.
two companies. All that will Ward , ... Ca d
t h . , \ .VL. na a~' assured
, e said. I~ mutual purchas-holders and th W·II I .
·l· . f ' e I vs abO!
tcr U tI IzatlOn 0 tools and that "the manufactu'I' d Ir" m .. . .., 'lIb'e carned
Uloment and .,a, mgs ' 0\ el-Wlllv· pI'oducls . . WI e an sa e unmterruptedly." immediate l'rsult of the Stateme~t be d
.'11 b . tl y ana ay
t \II em·le com-:\1[' C ' .
tal structure As soon . I. anaday said the main
. .. son for sal f W'l
stockholders approve the f . e 0 I lys was a which they are ('xpected to 0 ,~aPltal for expansion.
. Wlllys-Overl nd" h
t a special meeting April 24. "has m' a .. e reporteser-Frazer Corp. will have total prod t~de substantlfll progress assets of nearly a quarter of a largeUCl ·O!~tnd sa.les .m the face
billion dollars. . ,111: Y caPltahzed compt
.• < • tlOn .and can normally expect Wllh s as. ets to bc purchased m-contmue to operate on an d ude plants in Toledo; "I[ay\\'ood. ing scale. ascen
".; A.nderson, lr;d., and Pon-"However. although the ::\Ilch. Foreign as~cmbly value has steadily increased. es .of the company are dIrectors recognize that,
tlng 111 BelgIUm, the Nether-of requirements for Denmark. India. Ireland. working capital. inherent in la of South Africa, Indonesia. volume production, and for 0, Australia lind Brazil. creased capital for Impi'ovempl1t< I Kaiser adds its own,rlomcstic and additIOns to plant and mach
• facilities to the Willvs and new tools, commonoperatrs its main plant in holders .have not had income Run. Mich .. and has others cause Willys-Oyerland has not
Delroit and Dowap,iac, ,Mich.; bce~ able to pay dividends." adyside. Ohio; San Leandro and . :r.::alser Manufacturing. the cllmond, Calif.; and Na~hua sldiary that Will purchase
H.-as well' as in Holland: has agr~ed to set aside
I. Japan and :'-1exiro. cent of Its earnml2's befo]
. . to retIre the loan made by Both In Defense Work America. While the two companirs will Willys \\'as formed earlv te independently. purchase century by thc latc J ohn N. illys gives Kaiser-Frazer a The Willys Americar was the
line 'of automobiles and standard passenger vehicle it vehicles. It can sell the duced until it made the Aero J and Jeep in the lo\\,-last year.
fields; it has the expensive Kalser-Fra;o:er was formed the ujJper-middle price World Wa~ II by indust and a medium-priced Aero H~l1lY J. Kaiser a;:!.d former Chrys
s. The Jeep station wagons Ie: a~d Wil!ys p;ecut!ve John tho Jeep give the company a FlazeL
1mI' of utility vehiclrs. Will) s-Overland will l'ralize an
. . estimated 517 a -hare on'll 2795 compames are hel\\'i,IY in-I,04 sllarcs' of co~mm ts k' .in
def .. . . . on S oC out
Ih J rnse :' Ol k. Willys slandinlt'. Rumors of thp pendiTIlZ: e , eep flS "rll as a Wide deal spnt Willys stock with
Une nouvelle classe d'opérateurs de Teager-Kaiser multidimensionnels basée sur les dérivées directionnelles d'ordre supérieur
No full textThis work aims at introducing some energy operators linked to Teager-Kaiser energy operator and its associated higher order versions and expand them to multidimensional signals. These operators are very useful for analyzing oscillatory signals with time-varying amplitude and frequency (AM-FM). We prove that gradient tensors combined with Kronecker powers allow to express these operators by directional derivatives along any n-D vector. In particular, we show that the construction of a large class of non linear operators for AM-FM multidimensional signal demodulation is possible. Also, a new scalar function using the directional derivative along a vector giving the ”sign” of the frequency components is introduced. An application of this model to local n-D AM-FM signal is presented and related demodulation error rates estimates. To show the effectiveness and the robustness of our method in term of envelope and frequency components extraction, results obtained on synthetic and real data are compared to multi-dimensional energy separation algorithm and to our recently introduced n-D operator
Comptonization of the cosmic microwave background by relativistic plasma
No full textWe investigate the spectral distortion of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) caused by relativistic plasma. Within the Thomson regime, an exact analytic expression for the photon scattering kernel of a momentum power-law electron distribution is given. The ultra-relativistic Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) decrement measures the electron number and not the energy content. On the other hand, the relativistic SZ increment at higher frequencies depends strongly on the spectral shape of the electrons. We calculate the expected Comptonization due to the energy release of radio galaxies, which we estimate to be 3 × 1066 erg Gpc-3. We investigate Comptonization from (a) the part of the released energy which is thermalized and (b) the relativistic, remnant radio plasma, which may form a second, relativistic phase in the inter galactic medium, nearly unobservable for present day instruments (presence of so called 'radio ghosts'). We find a thermal Comptonization parameter due to (a) of y = 10-6 and (b) an optical depth of relativistic electrons in old radio plasma of τrel < 10-7. If a substantial fraction of the volume of clusters of galaxies is filled with such old radio plasma the SZ effect based determination of the Hubble constant is biased to lower values. Finally, it is shown that a supra-thermal population of electrons in the Coma cluster would produce a signature in the Wien-tail of the CMB, which is marginally detectable with a multifrequency measurement by the Planck satellite. Such a population is expected to exist, since its bremsstrahlung would explain Coma's recently reported high energy X-ray excess
Plan Announced
No full textBy Cene M. 'Brown The Willys assets to be" Kaiser-Frazer Corp. will buy by Kaiser Manufacturing Corp~VillY,,-Ove"I;nd Motors, Inc., for existing Kaiser-Frazer subsidiary. est.mated 600.000,000 a year. action came~from varied sources.
bined assets are valued at Henry J. Kaiser Co. put up 250.000.000. 600.000. while 20.000.000 in a term loan f
m~ Willys employment contracts Bank of America. National Trust
n.d r('tain the services of princi-and Savings Association.
)f 1 officers for a minimum of two At the same , tlme. Mr.
I'a s, "providrd they render satis-reported that l1is company's debt!
C ,)I'Y service." to the Reconstruction Financc
Ward ,\11. Canaday has been Corp. would be reduced. The~ngine components. aircraft sked to remain as president and R. F. C. had lent Kaiser-Frazel,mgs and aircraft landing gear. . n "f Willys Motors Corp .. 48.417.000 as of Feb. 28. A cash . . g ed C-L3B assault II'
L'UOSldIlU'Y . --__>.lane; the Fairchild-designed
) . , . ayment of 15,OOO.00u will be 119-F cargo planes; Wrij1;ht to the R. F. C. to reduce the nautical-designed R-130(} a :\1[1'. Kaiser said. e~::!ines. sections for the LoCli:l'leed
~1r. Kaiser emphasi d th t th P~V-5 Neptune Bomber. e);dI'nT'lir
. .. ze a eleq\llpment. components Ichase Will m no way altcr thc Boeing B-5~A d .
.M.ft_t I'nd d t' ~ an other
epc en operatIOns Ofjitems companies. All that will W~rdM Ca °d
h .'d' t \ . n~ a~' assured stock
e sal.l~ mu ual purchas-holders and the Willv.S 1 . Iter utilizatIOn of tools and that "the rna f t' abol f
t d . " nll ac U1 e and sale an sa\'Ings In over-Willy:; pl'oduct ·'11 b .
. . . .s WI e carned unmterruptedly."
immediate r('sult of the Statcme~t be d
will be in the com-~f' C y ana ay
I structurl' Ac soon • I. lmaday s!\ld the main
. .,. son for s 1 f W'
stockholders appro\'e the' . a e 0 Illys was a which they arc rxpccted to of .\~~~al for expansion. t a special meetin~ April 24. "has :nYo-Overland,'.' he report.,,,
Frazer Corp. will have total product~~~ substantial progress ts of nearly a quarter of a l' '. and sales In the face
billion dollars alge, highly capltall7.ed comp~
'. .. . tlOn . and can normally expect Wlll~ s as,CLS to bl' purchased 1Il-C'ontmue to operate on an ascend ude plants 1Il Tolcdo; ~lay\\'ood. mg scale.
lif.; Anderson. lno., and Pon-"However. althou~h the . :Mlch. Foreign as~cmbly, value has steadily increased. tiCS .of the comp,my areidlrectors recognize that. tmg m BelgIUm. the Nether-of requirements for
Denmark. India. Ireland, working capital. inherent in la of South Africa. Indonesia, volume production. and for Australia ~nd Brazil. creased capital for impi'oven
Kaiser adds its own..domestic ~nd additIOns to plant and mach
faciliti('s to the Willvs and new tools. commonoperatrs its main plant in holders .have not had income Run. Mich .. and has others cause W Ill~'s-O\'erland has not ". and Dowa~iac. "2'-rich.; bcc~ able to pay dividends." . Ohio; San Leandro and . Kaiser ~1anufacturing. the
d. Calif.; and Na,huH sidiary that Will purchase ,~
H.-as well as in Holland: has agreed to set aside 85 ael, Japan and MexiC'O cent ?f Its earnmgs before tax
. . to retire the loan made by Tran Both In Defense Work America. s While the t\\'o companies will Willys was formed earlv in te independently. purchase century by the late John N W gives Kaiser-Frazer a The Willys AmericaI' was the
line of automobiles and standard passenger vehicle it vehicles. It can sell the duced until it made the Aero J and Jeep in the lo\\,-last ye,ar.
fields; it has the expensive K.alser-Fra·zer was formed
the uIJper-middle price World War II by indus and a medium-priced Aero!Henry J. Kaiser and former The Je~p station wagons lIe:' a~d ,Willysr'~ecUti\'e
tho Jeep give the company a \Flazel.. ...~" ".
Ime of utility vehicles. Wilb s-Overland will rrali7.e
. . estimated ~17 a 'hal' ·t· 2 ot 1 compames. are I I .' of " e onctockI s
h('arilv in--04 ,7
B 1 d . S 1al es common 1Il cfense . W'll'\'~s standmg. Rumors of the
work I ., the .Jeep as well as a wiele deal srnt Willys stock sh
The Kaiser.Frazer Corporation ,Kaiser Manufacturing Corporation, cOl11plcted negotiations to pur.\which will be re-named the Willya Willys-Overland Motors. Inc., Motors Corporation. and which a prIce estimated at 62.300.-1will have its headquarters in
it was announced last night. \iTOledo. Negotiat~ns had been known to The Kaiser company \\'111 take going on since late last month, . oYer all the Willys plants. inventhat time Kaiser-Prazer was \tories and manufacturing facilias
one of ~everal companies ties. had approached Willys-Over-MI'. c anaday said the purchaser with merger proposals. would assume certain liabilities
''\'ard M. Canaday. chairman and"·besides paying the purchase price of Willys-Overland. saict.\Of 17 a afternoon, TIle plan is now share on the 2,795.704 outstanding submitted to the company' Ii shares of Willys common stock, ._ .'_'._'''ft ..o Iafter retirement of pre-ferred added that a special' stock. payment of remaining Jia.of stockholders would bel bllities. and reJIer\'es for contiri.
on April 24. He said the plan gencies. ed fol' full continuity of hisl The Kaise present manufacturing sume all ~out.standlng WllIys5 and distributing Sys-IOverland elilployinent contractt', ,retain the !'en'ice'< Of principal
AccoY"~'clg to Mr. Canady. thejofficers for at least two vear .'.. nd and sale of WillYScontinue the present be carried on by thefranchises.
Willys-Overland plans to to investments, using partroeeeds of the sale to purshares
of Its common stock Oct. 15, when it expects to on plans for retiring the inof stockholders who do not
rem&in under these con-
After weeks of merger talk, Frazer Corp., this week agreed to Willys-Overland Motors, Inc., for an
r
mated 15,000.000 in return for 1 50,000 shares (If class A Kaiser ~1'lIlu
facturing stock.
Kaiser (Birth, 1890-02-12)
No full textAddress: Cincinnati Hospital1103/Pg.27/1890/W M/Unknown/U S/Unknown/Unknown/T. E. H. McLean, Supt.Original record filed in drawer labeled 'JOY-KAISER'
Acoustic radiation due to scattering of T-S wave by the mean-flow distortion induced by steady local suction
No full textSubstantial sound waves can be generated by boundary-layer instability modes when the latter are scattered by a rapid mean-flow distortion. This is a rather generic mechanism and operates when an oncoming T-S wave is scattered by a steady local suction slot. This paper focuses on this problem by extending a recently developed Local Scattering Theory (Wu & Dong, J. Fluid Mech. submitted), where a so-called transmission coefficient, defined as the ratio of the T-S wave amplitude downstream of the scatter to that upstream, is introduced to characterize the effect of a local scatter on boundary-layer instability and transition. As in the earlier work, the mathematical formulation is based on triple-deck formulism, but in order to accommodate the acoustic far field, which was not considered in the paper mentioned, the unsteady terms in the upper deck, which play a leading-order role in radiation, are retained, and the influence of the radiated sound on the near-wall perturbation is included. The upper deck equation for the pressure is the Helmholtz equation rather than the Laplace equation. This leads to a modified pressure-displacement relation, which is coupled with the linearized boundary-layer equations in the lower deck. Discretization of the whole system formulates a generalized eigenvalue problem, which is solved numerically. It is found that suction suppresses oncoming T-S waves, and this effect increases with the suction velocity and the slot width. The directivity is ndependent of the flow parameters only when the Mach number is low. The intensity of the radiated sound in general increases with the frequency, the suction velocity and the width of the suction slot. Interestingly, for O(1) suction velocities, the radiated sound is very weak, indicating that the gain of stabilizing effect does not cause aeroacoustic penalty
Extension of the Swiss Lateglacial tree-ring chronologies
No full textFossil wood finds reveal a high resolution paleoclimatic proxy record of Lateglacial and Early Holocene. Eighty-one
buried fossil pine stumps have been excavated on the construction site (Gaenziloo) of the A4-highway tunnel through
Uetliberg near Zurich (Switzerland). The trees were buried during their lifetime by loamy alluvia washed down from
the upper part of the slopes. The stumps have remained well preserved for more than 13,500 years. The cross sections
of the trunks were analyzed dendrochronologically. The sections were dated by 14C, and 14C age vs. ring number were
obtained from decadal sample segments.
Three floating chronologies were built. They cover a time span of 428 years in the Mid-Allerød (GAEALLCH_A),
561 years in the Late-Allerød (GAEALLCH_D) and 212 years in the Younger Dryas (GAEYD_A). Visual
synchronization, t-values, percentages of parallel variation (‘Gleichlaeufigkeit’) and radiocarbon wiggle matching
(14C age determinations on a decadal scale) as well as a check by the program Cofecha support the validity of the
resulting chronologies.
The two Allerød-chronologies from Gaenziloo were linked with two chronologies from Daettnau (DAEALCH_1
and DAEALCH_2) published by Kaiser, K.F. (1993. Beitra ̈ ge zur Klimageschichte vom Hochglazial bis ins fru ̈ he
Holoza ̈ n, rekonstruiert mit Jahrringen und Molluskenschalen aus verschiedenen Vereisungsgebieten. Ziegler Druck-
und Verlags-AG, Winterthur. 206pp). They extend the existing floating Swiss chronology in the Late-Allerød by a total
of 186 years. Unfortunately independent chronology GAEYD_A does not overlap with the actual absolute chronology
developed by the tree-ring laboratory of the University of Hohenheim (Friedrich, M. et al., 2004. The 12,460 year
Hohenheim oak and pine tree-ring chronology from Central Europe – A unique annual record for radiocarbon
calibration and paleo-environment reconstructions. Radiocarbon 46(3), 1111–22.)
Embedding Heterostructured α‐MnS/MnO Nanoparticles in S‐Doped Carbonaceous Porous Framework as High‐Performance Anode for Lithium‐Ion Batteries
No full textIn this work, the synthesis of α-MnS/MnO/S-doped C micro-rod composites via a simple sulfidation process is demonstrated, starting from a Mn-based metal-organic framework. The resulting heterostructured α-MnS/MnO nanoparticles (8±2 nm) are uniformly embedded into the S-doped carbonaceous porous framework with hierarchical micro-/meso-porosity. The combination of structural and compositional characteristics results in the promising electrochemical performance of the as-obtained composites as anode materials for lithium-ion batteries, coupled with high reversible capacity (940 mAh at 0.1 A ), excellent rate capability as well as long cycling lifespan at high rate of 2.0 A for 2000 cycles with the eventual capacity of ∼300 mAh . Importantly, in situ X-ray diffraction studies clearly reveal mechanistic details of the lithium storage mechanism, involving multistep conversion processes upon initial lithiation
Microbiome analysis and confocal microscopy of used kitchen sponges reveal massive colonization by Acinetobacter, Moraxella and Chryseobacterium species
No full textAbstractThe built environment (BE) and in particular kitchen environments harbor a remarkable microbial diversity, including pathogens. We analyzed the bacterial microbiome of used kitchen sponges by 454–pyrosequencing of 16S rRNA genes and fluorescence in situ hybridization coupled with confocal laser scanning microscopy (FISH–CLSM). Pyrosequencing showed a relative dominance of Gammaproteobacteria within the sponge microbiota. Five of the ten most abundant OTUs were closely related to risk group 2 (RG2) species, previously detected in the BE and kitchen microbiome. Regular cleaning of sponges, indicated by their users, significantly affected the microbiome structure. Two of the ten dominant OTUs, closely related to the RG2-species Chryseobacterium hominis and Moraxella osloensis, showed significantly greater proportions in regularly sanitized sponges, thereby questioning such sanitation methods in a long term perspective. FISH–CLSM showed an ubiquitous distribution of bacteria within the sponge tissue, concentrating in internal cavities and on sponge surfaces, where biofilm–like structures occurred. Image analysis showed local densities of up to 5.4 * 1010 cells per cm3, and confirmed the dominance of Gammaproteobacteria. Our study stresses and visualizes the role of kitchen sponges as microbiological hot spots in the BE, with the capability to collect and spread bacteria with a probable pathogenic potential.</jats:p
Measuring industry-science links through inventor-author relations: A profiling method
No full textIn this pilot study we examine the performance of text-based profiling in recovering a set of validated inventor-author links. In a first step we match patents and publications solely based on their similarity in content. Next, we compare inventor and author names on the highest ranked matches for the occurrence of name matches. Finally, we compare these candidate matches with the names listed in a validated set of inventor-author names. Our text-based profile methodology performs significantly better than a random matching of patents and publications, suggesting that text-based profiling is a valuable complementary tool to the name searches used in previous studies.innovation; industry-science links; text-based profiling;
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