Electrodynamics panel presentation

The Plasma Motor Generator (PMG) concept is explained in detail. The PMG tether systems being used to calculate the estimated performance data is described. The voltage drops and current contact geometries involved in the operation of an electrodynamic tether are displayed illustrating the comparative behavior of hollow cathodes, electron guns, and passive collectors for current coupling into the ionosphere. The basic PMG design involving the massive tether cable with little or no satellite mass at the far end(s) are also described. The Jupiter mission and its use of electrodynamic tethers are given. The need for demonstration experiments is stressed

Panel Presentation: Securities Regulation and Corporate Responsibility

What I want to do is talk about the big picture, as John suggested, and consider the likely spillover effects of Sarbanes-Oxley. I want to do this in a discretely administrative law-oriented way, taking two themes that were very visible and driving forces behind the legislation. The first, as Mary suggested in her opening remarks, is a question about federalism. It has been common for the last twenty years, at least, to trot out - as John just did - a distinction between federal and state spheres of competency. The SEC is on the disclosure side, while the substance of corporate law (e.g., the mechanics of how decisions are made) is left to the states. I don\u27t think you can read either the text or the music of Sarbanes-Oxley and think that this is much of a viable distinction anymore. If Congress really believed in the importance of that distinction as a matter of policy, Sarbanes-Oxley would be a very, very different statute

PMNCH Knowledge Summary 23: Human Rights & Accountability

Panel presentation for the Global Maternal Health Conference, held in Tanzania in January 2013, organised by Kate Sabot Presentation Outline (1) Overview of PMNCH (2) Overview of Knowledge Summary Process (3) KS 23 Highlight

Why U.S. corporations should get out of South Africa

Paper based on a panel presentation to African Studies Association meeting Nov. 3 1978

Adoption, Blood and Culture in the Middle East

This is an unpublished presentation given at the 1998 annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association (Panel on Fictive Kinship). The version made available in Digital Common was supplied by the author

Material Performance: Presentation/panel discussion

Paper given at Uppsala Konstmuseum, Swede

Estimation of Disproportions in Patent Activity of OECD Countries Using Spatio-Temporal Methods

The article contains a presentation of possibility of using panel-based sample and modelling based on this sample as methods of determining indicators of patent activity. The research was conducted with the help of data from European countries. Results in association with used methodology, which takes into account modern approach to stationary and cointegration for panel-based samples, indicate the usefulness of applied methods.patent activity, panel model, decomposition of intercept.

Polymer-stabilized sialylated nanoparticles : synthesis, optimization, and differential binding to influenza hemagglutinins

During influenza infection, hemagglutinins (HAs) on the viral surface bind to sialic acids on the host cell's surface. While all HAs bind sialic acids, human influenza targets terminal α2,6 sialic acids and avian influenza targets α2,3 sialic acids. For interspecies transmission (zoonosis), HA must mutate to adapt to these differences. Here, multivalent gold nanoparticles bearing either α2,6- or α2,3-sialyllactosamine have been developed to interrogate a panel of HAs from pathogenic human, low pathogenic avian, and other species' influenza. This method exploits the benefits of multivalent glycan presentation compared to monovalent presentation to increase affinity and investigate how multivalency affects selectivity. Using a library-orientated approach, parameters including polymer coating and core diameter were optimized for maximal binding and specificity were probed using galactosylated particles and a panel of biophysical techniques [ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy, dynamic light scattering, and biolayer interferometry]. The optimized particles were then functionalized with sialyllactosamine and their binding analyzed against a panel of HAs derived from pathogenic influenza strains including low pathogenic avian strains. This showed significant specificity crossover, which is not observed in monovalent formats, with binding of avian HAs to human sialic acids and in agreement with alternate assay formats. These results demonstrate that precise multivalent presentation is essential to dissect the interactions of HAs and may aid the discovery of tools for disease and zoonosis transmission