Self-adjusting multisegment, deployable, natural circulation radiator Patent

Development and characteristics of natural circulation radiator for use with nuclear power plants installed in lunar space station

Staff Retention in Small Non-Profit Organizations

This study is an exploratory analysis of employee perceptions affecting staff recruitment, staff retention and job satisfaction in the small, human service non-profit organization. The study uses a human resource framework to address staff retention and provides conceptual guidance for advancing understanding about staff retention in the non-profit human services sector. The statistical findings are, however, inconclusive without further rigorous examination. A three category typology based on job recruitment factors, job retention factors, and job satisfaction is initially presented to define the strategies. Select dimensions of both intrinsic and extrinsic factors are explored in the recruitment stage of employee decision-making and compared and contrasted in the retention stage of employee decision-making as it relates to the employees\u27 current employer. In addition, several factors of employee job satisfaction are also explored. Based on relevant literature and an original employee survey that was administered to two small non-profit organizations, the study offers a beginning framework for small non-profit organizations to consider in successful staff retention

Querying Edith Windsor, Querying Equality

This essay is the second in a series exploring the implications of the recent landmark Supreme Court case, United States v. Windsor. Specifically, the essay intends to “sound some skepticism…about the majority opinion…and especially the vision of equality articulated by it.” This discussion was inspired by Meg Penrose’s article, UNBREAKABLE VOWS: SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AND THE FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT TO DIVORCE, published in Volume 58:1. The series is meant to serve as an open forum for scholars and practitioners to weigh in on one of the most significant Supreme Court decisions of the 21st century

Querying Edith Windsor, Querying Equality

This essay is the second in a series exploring the implications of the recent landmark Supreme Court case, United States v. Windsor. Specifically, the essay intends to “sound some skepticism…about the majority opinion…and especially the vision of equality articulated by it.” This discussion was inspired by Meg Penrose’s article, UNBREAKABLE VOWS: SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AND THE FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT TO DIVORCE, published in Volume 58:1. The series is meant to serve as an open forum for scholars and practitioners to weigh in on one of the most significant Supreme Court decisions of the 21st century

Queer/Religious Friendship in the Obama Era

In Queer/Religious Friendship in the Obama Era, Jeff Redding delves into the politics of Proposition 8 and gay marriage more broadly. He urges self-identified queers to use their electoral defeat to reconsider both substantive political goals and coalitions. The Article rejects the conventional norms and metrics of identity politics in the U.S., which typically urge power and dignity through inclusion and accommodation of differences within mainstream institutions. Of course, in the Prop 8 debate, this means rejecting civil unions as inferior and insisting on access to marriage. Redding rejects this norm, instead contending that civil unions should be viewed as a potentially queer space, not unlike the personal law regimes utilized by some religious minorities in other countries. The development of recognition pluralism in the U.S. can both provide queers with some agency and dignity, while also building a kind of legal regime that is more encouraging of legislative spaces protective of queer interests. Queer/Religious Friendship also urges innovative and previously unthinkable alliances, urging for instance that queers build coalitions with religious minorities who also seek to carve spaces outside of state regulation

The biology and ecology of Oreochromis mossambicus (Peters, 1852)(Pisces:Cichlidae) in the Sepik River, Papua New Guinea : with reference to the management of the fishery

The introduced species Oreochromis mossambicus was studied to determine biological and ecological factors which may underly the rapid initial distribution of the species from its introduction in the 1950's to the relatively low catch rates experienced in recent years. Actual yield, determined from catch statistics for all species, was significantly lower than theoretical yield, based on formulae developed from other similar river systems. The importance of O. mossambicus to the fishery was indicated by the proportional contribution of this species to the catch (approximately 50%). Fluctuations in catch may be related to changes in water levels with a significant decrease in O. mossambicus catch as the water levels rose and this species moved onto the floodplain areas. Analysis of stomach contents revealed a predominance of diatom species, algae and flocculent detritus. There were some differences in diatom species consumed between sites and season although the general food quality was thought to be good based on monthly condition factors. Reproductive traits were similar to those found in other areas. Females incubated the fertilised eggs orally and behavioural differences were noted from changes in sex ratios and mean size caught each month. Condition of females was significantly lower during the dry season post spawning which could relate to the behavioural trait of mouthbrooding when females do not feed. Mean fecundity was low (475 per 100g body weight) and there was evidence of bimodal peaks in spawning activity which corresponded to rising and falling water levels. Growth throughout the year was not significantly affected by the potential changes in food availability created by the degree of floodplain inundation and an increase in allochthonous food sources. Scale rings were found to be fonned bi-annually and may correspond to increased feeding prior to spawning. CPUE varied between sites but was low overall and von Bertalanffy growth parameters indicated that males reached a larger maximum size than females over the same time period (L∞ = 35 and 26.56 respectively). Total mortality was relatively high (Z = 0.56/yr) but figures may relate to local conditions only since many habitats and environmental conditions would be represented in a river of the size of the Sepik. The potential impact of proposed introductions of fish to the river are discussed with regard to management issues

What American Legal Theory Might Learn from Islamic Law: Some Lessons About \u27The Rule of Law\u27 from \u27Shari\u27a Court\u27 Practice in India

In 2010, voters in the state of Oklahoma passed a constitutional amendment that prohibits the Oklahoma courts from considering Sharia Law. A great deal of the support for this amendment and similar (ongoing) legal initiatives appears to be generated by a deep-seated paranoia about Muslims and Islamic law that has taken root in many parts of the post-9/11 United States. This Article contends that the passage of this Oklahoma constitutional amendment should not have been surprising given that it is not only right-wing partisans who have felt the need to strictly demarcate and police the boundaries of the American legal system, but also liberal partisans too. Indeed, this Article argues that certain modes of American liberal legal thought actually facilitate the anti-shari\u27a mania currently sweeping the United States. As a result, an adequate response to this mania cannot simply rely on traditional, American-style, liberal legal theorizing. Indeed, as this Article argues and explains, some extant American liberal understandings of \u27law,\u27 \u27legal systems,\u27 and \u27the rule of law\u27 are eminently inappropriate resources in the struggle against American forms of reactionary parochialism because these liberal understandings are themselves deeply compromised by their own forms of parochialis