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Org Sim Jr.: A 2-3 Hour Version of the 2-Day Blanchard/Murrell Organization Simulation
No full textFive years of successful development and use of the Blanchard/Murrell Organizational Simulation (Org Sin) led to the creation of the shortened version of the simulation in the summer of 1991 (Blanchard/Murrell. 1986). It had been used successfully in several other universities, in public and private business and in cross-cultural settings; however, the logistics of a full two-day simulation limited the applicability. University colleague and business partners wanted a version that could be conducted in less time, could he facilitated by one or two people and would require only one room, not the four’ needed for the full version
Life and experiences of George Washington Nichols
No full textTypescript of an account of some anecdotes from the life of George Washington Nichols (born 1859) of Salt Lake City. Author unknown; transcribed by Kenneth L. Seifert of Brigham City, April 25, 193
Prenatal care advice to see a dentist: results from a population-based study
No full textMeredith L. Vandermeer (Department of Public Health, Oregon State University), Kenneth D. Rosenberg (Office of Family Health, Oregon Department of Human Services), Alfredo P. Sandoval (Oregon Health & Science University).Title from PDF caption (viewed on August 14, 2020).This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Latino politics: identity, mobilization, and representation
No full textDue to the dramatic growth of the Latino population in America, in combination with the relative decline of the Anglo (non-Hispanic white) share, Latino Studies is increasingly at the forefront of political concern. With Latino Politics: Identity, Mobilization, and Representation, editors Rodolfo Espino, David L. Leal, and Kenneth J. Meier bring together essays from a number of leading scholars to address the ever-more important issues within the field. Providing an overview of issues surrounding Latino identity and political opinion—such as differences among Latino groups based on national origin, the importance of descriptive representation, and issues of competition and cooperation, particularly with reference to African Americans—the editors speak to the many fundamental debates ingrained in the discipline.
In addition to highlighting important contributions of the study of Latino politics to date, this volume suggests areas that have yet to be explored and, perhaps more importantly, demonstrates how the study of Latino politics relates to broader questions of American politics and society. Foregrounding debates in the overall discipline of political science, the collection will appeal to those who study Latino politics as well as those who are interested in understanding American politics and society with reference to Latino and "minority" concerns
Why Equality Matters
No full textKenneth L. Karst, a prolific author in the field of constitutional law, gave the fall quarter Sibley Law Lecture October 28.The UCLA law professor addressed the topic Why Equality Matters in his lecture, which was the 56th in the John A. Sibley Lecture Series.
A full summary of this event was published in the Advocate Magazine Volume 19, Issue 1, Spring 1983 on page 2: https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/advocate/vol19/iss1/1
Modification of nektonic fish distribution by piers and pile fields in an urban estuary
No full textLarge urban piers degrade habitat value for several estuarine benthic fish species by shading, but their effects on mobile nektonic species is less well understood due to sampling challenges. Dual Frequency Identification Sonar (DIDSON) allowed equal access to sampling in the water column of structured shaded and unshaded vs. open environments in both dark and light conditions by methods similar to video but without light. Sampling (n = 228, 5-minute transects) occurred under and around four large municipal piers of varying dimensions in the Hudson River estuary during day and night from summer and fall in 2007 - 2009. The distribution of small (5 - 25 cm in length) and large (25 – 850 cm) fishes were analyzed separately in recognition of functional guild differences. Small fishes occupied open water, shaded under-pier, and un-decked relict piling habitats, but were significantly more abundant during the day in open unshaded water than under adjacent piers or in piling habitats.. Small fish occurred under 3 of 4 piers of varying size and configuration at 10 - 20% of the median abundances of adjacent open water. However, while schools were rare under piers they could be very large, so that abundance greatly exceeded mean open water abundance variance so as to preclude confidence in differences among piers. The differences among habitats was not significant at night, and the difference among piers was also not significant at night. School membership for small fish appeared to mitigate adverse effects of shading and may influence scaling of their response to shading and could therefore influence pier design. Large (>25 cm) predatory fish were uncommon but responded similarly to habitat effects as did small fish. Habitats did not segregate fish by guild as small forage fish co-occurred in 65.8% of samples with large piscivores. Studies that provide species-specific and mechanistic interpretation of dynamic habitat use as well as further quantification of scaling effects could improve our understanding of how fishes respond to piers and other structures on urban shorelines.Peer reviewed
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Why Equality Matters
No full textKenneth L. Karst, a prolific author in the field of constitutional law, gave the fall quarter Sibley Law Lecture October 28.The UCLA law professor addressed the topic Why Equality Matters in his lecture, which was the 56th in the John A. Sibley Lecture Series.
A full summary of this event was published in the Advocate Magazine Volume 19, Issue 1, Spring 1983 on page 2: https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/advocate/vol19/iss1/1
Pseudo-state theory of surface ion neutralization
No full textThe theory of resonant charge transfer is refined to deal with the overlap between the ion orbital and substrate orbitals, to introduce new numerical methods for estimating the interaction and most significantly to construct pseudo-states to model realistic densities of states for substrates.PT: J; CR: ADURU S, 1988, SURF SCI, V205, P269 AMOS AT, 1989, ADV CHEM PHYS, V76, P335 AMOS AT, 1989, SOLID STATE COMMUN, V71, P449 BLOSS W, 1978, SURF SCI, V72, P277 BRAKO R, 1981, SURF SCI, V108, P253 BURROWS BL, 1984, Q APPL MATH, V42, P73 BURROWS BL, 1990, J PHYS A-MATH GEN, V23, P1101 CHADI DJ, 1975, PHYS STATUS SOLIDI B, V68, P405 HERMAN F, 1963, ATOMIC STRUCTURE CAL HOFFMAN AJ, 1953, DUKE MATH J, V20, P37 IHM J, 1980, PHYS REV B, V21, P4592 MUDA Y, 1980, SURF SCI, V97, P283 MUDA Y, 1988, NUCL INSTRUM METH B, V33, P388 MUDA Y, 1988, PHYS REV B, V37, P7048 MURRELL JN, 1985, CHEM BOND SULSTON KW, 1988, CHEM PHYS, V124, P411 SULSTON KW, 1988, PHYS REV B, V37, P9121 SULSTON KW, 1988, SURF SCI, V197, P555 WEAKLIEM PC, 1990, SURF SCI, V232, L219 WEISENDANGER R, 1990, SURF SCI, V232, P1 WILKINSON JH, 1965, ALGEBRAIC EIGENVALUE; NR: 21; TC: 5; J9: SURFACE SCI; PG: 10; GA: GB311Source type: Electronic(1
Institutions and Firms in Transition Economies
No full textPrepared for the Handbook Of New Institutional Economics, this chapter focuses on how the NIE has been used to understand transition and how the experience of transition can help inform the NIE. It first shows that the NIE, as an analytical tool, hardly played any role at all in early transition, but that strategies of transition might have been very different had they embodied the lessons of the NIE. Institutional lacunae are now presumed to underlie the deep recessions in the first post-communist years. Subsequently, however, institutional construction has been quick. This chapter presents evidence on the speed of construction and on variations across different types of institutions. It also examines the reactions of firms to the new institutions. Firm adjustment is slower than institutional construction. The contrast between law's use in transactions and problems in corporate governance suggests that complementarities between institutions are important and that new institutions cannot quickly negate the effects of past privatization policies. These conclusions reverberate with the process of Chinese reforms, which relied on transitional institutions and which had characteristics that would seem familiar to a practitioner of the NIE. The chapter concludes by emphasizing the lessons from transition for the NIE. The destruction of even very poor institutions can be costly. Institutional construction can proceed very quickly when there is consensus on change and the process of institutional development is supply driven. At the same time, increases in national income can lag institutional development, if firms are slow to react, which will especially be the case if the new institutions are far removed from existing ones, as is likely when changes are supply driven.At present, there is no generally accepted accounting of the institutional strengths and weaknesses of the transition economies. The first goal of the paper is to fill this gap by assessing current levels of institutional development. The second is to examine which types of institutional mechanisms make relatively strong contributions. Extensive empirical evidence shows that institutional quality in transition countries is roughly as expected given per capita incomes. Institutions are improving continuously. Given prevailing assumptions that the institutional situation is dismal, the developments giving rise to this surprising finding must be investigated more fully. This investigation begins by cataloging the mechanisms that could have improved institutional indexes. Then, evidence is examined on the relative strengths of each of these mechanisms. Formal institutions have contributed more than informal ones. The largest contributions have come from formal institutions separate from the state administrative structure. Political institutions, legal systems, and independent governmental agencies have been important.Institutions, transition, enterprises, firm boundaries, legal systems, transactional governance, corporate governance, China
Centrifuge modeling of the impact of local and global scour erosion on the monotonic lateral response of a monopile in sand
No full textCopyright © 2020 by ASTM International, 100 Barr Harbor Drive, PO Box C700, West Conshohocken, PA 19428-2959. The majority of offshore wind turbines are founded on large-diameter, open-ended steel monopiles. Monopiles must resist lateral loads and overturning moments because of environmental (wind and wave) actions, whereas vertical loads tend to be comparatively small. Recent developments in turbine sizes and increases in hub heights have resulted in pile diameters increasing rapidly, whereas the embedment length to diameter ratio (L/D) is reducing. Soil erosion around piles, termed scour, changes the soil strength and stiffness properties and affects the system's load resistance characteristics. In practice, design scour depths of up to 1.3D are routinely assumed during the turbine lifetime; however, the impact on monopiles with low L/D is not yet fully understood. In this article, centrifuge tests are performed to assess the effect of scour on the performance of piles with low L/D. In particular, the effect of combined loads, scour type (global, local), and depth are considered. A loading system is developed that enables application of realistic load eccentricity and combined vertical, horizontal, and moment loading at the seabed level. An instrumented 1.8-m-diameter pile with L/D = 5 is used. A friction-reducing ball-type connection is designed to transfer lateral loads to the pile without inducing any rotational pile-head constraint, which is associated with loading rigs in tests of this nature. Results suggest that vertical and lateral load interaction is minimal. Scour has a significant impact on the lateral load-bearing capacity and stiffness of the pile, leads to increases in bending moment magnitude along the pile shaft, and lowers the location of peak pile bending moment. The response varies with scour type, with global scour resulting in larger moments than local scour. The size of the local scour hole is found to have a significant impact on the pile response, suggesting that scour hole width should be explicitly considered in design
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