100% RAG: Architectural Education | Historians and Critics, Volume 2, Number 6

100% RAG: Architectural Education | Historians and Critics, Syracuse School of Architecture, Student Newspaper, Volume 2, Number 6. Student newsletter from student contributors of Syracuse School of Architecture in 1977

Universal Rights and Wrongs

This paper argues for the important role of customers as a source of competitive advantage and firm growth, an issue which has been largely neglected in the resource-based view of the firm. It conceptualizes Penrose’s (1959) notion of an ‘inside track’ and illustrates how in-depth knowledge about established customers combines with joint problem-solving activities and the rapid assimilation of new and previously unexploited skills and resources. It is suggested that the inside track represents a distinct and perhaps underestimated way of generating rents and securing long-term growth. This also implies that the sources of sustainable competitive advantage in important respects can be sought in idiosyncratic interfirm relationships rather than within the firm itself

Simultaneous Comparison of RF Probe Techniques for Determination of Ionospheric Electron Density

Three radio-frequency( RF) probe techniques--standingw ave impedancep robe, plasma frequency probe, and resonance rectification probe--have been simultaneously flown on rockets for ionospheric measurements. The results of the three probes are compared to establisht he relationshipsa mong them. The impedancep robe and plasma frequency probe measurements are in general agreement with each other and with other independent measurements. A model of antenna-ionosphericin teraction is used that neglects ion sheath and magnetic field effects. The resonance rectification probe shows resonance effects including peaks.and minimums that are a function of probe dc bias. The frequency of the dominant resonance peak does not correspond to the plasma frequency but is near a lower frequency of an impedances eriesr esonancea s measuredb y the plasmaf requencyp robe

Rocket-Borne Radiometric Measurements of OH in the Auroral Zone

An Astrobee D rocket carrying a dual-channel radiometer (1.40- to .1.65-gm and 1.85- to 2.12-gm spectral band passes) was launched on March 6, 1972, at 0200 LT from Poker Flat, Alaska.T he spectrabl and passews ere chosens o that the lower (v -- 2, 3, 4, 5) and upper (v -- 7, 8, 9) vibrational levels of OH in the .Av -- 2 sequence could be monitored simultaneously. Launch criteria were established from groundsbased radiometric observations that indicated a steady.night airglow of 240 kR• in the 1.40- to 1.65-gm band pass 2 hours prior to and throughou•tt he flight. Altitude profiles of OH emissionw ere derived from data •from both channelasn d showO H to be layered,p ea\u27l•v olumee missionosc curringa t 83.5k m. Under the asSUmptionth at H + O• ,--) OH* + •02is the principal productionm echanism, synthetics pectraw ere integratedo ver the instruments pectralr esponsec haracteristicos f th.e two radiometer channels. At altitudes above 83 km, quenching due to the reaction OH*.+ O --) O2+ H is evident,w hichr equiresa n atomico xygenc oncentrationo f 10• cm- a at 83\u27k m, increasingto 8 X 10• cm- aa t 88 k

Measurements of 1.5- to 5.3-μm Infrared Enhancements Associated With a Bright Auroral Breakup

A Paiute-Tomahawk sounding rocket containing a 1.5- to 5.3-•m cryogenically cooled spectrometer was flown into a very bright (IBC III +) auroral breakup from Poker Flat, Alaska. The main emission features at 2.8, 4.3, and 5.3 um were all found to be enhanced owing to the larg•e energy input to the atmosphere associated with the aurora. The most prominent enhancement occurred in the 4.3-Urn feature which is identified as emission from the C02 (v•) band. The maximum of the peak spectral radiance of this feature was observed at a rocket altitude of 92 km and had a value of about 130 MR/•m, which is nearly 2 orders of magnitude greater than that for an undisturbed atmosphere. By comparing upleg and downleg data, it was ascertained that the time constant for this excitation/radiation process is longer than 5 min. It is concluded that the excitation process involves vibrational excitation of nitrogen followed by collisional radiance v-v transfer to C02, which then radiates at 4.3 •m. The 5.3- and 2.8-um features are attributed to radiation from fundamental and firstovertone NO bands

The Role of Market and Technical Information Generation in New Product Development

Firms are investing an increasing amount of time and resources to gather information about market and technology in new product development (NPD). Yet there lacks a consistent understanding of whether such costly information generation activities can improve product outcomes. More importantly, it is unclear how the benefit of market information and technical information generation may differ and how they may jointly impact new product performance. This study examines the role of market and technical information generation in NPD in three ways: (1) It contrasts the effects of market and technical information generation on product outcomes; (2) It identifies conditions that moderate the effects of market and technical information generation and further investigates how the moderating effects differ for these two types of activities; (3) It examines the joint effect of market and technical information generation to understand potential synergies between them. Using survey data at the NPD project level, we find that market information generation has an inverted U-shaped effect on new product advantage, whereas the effect of technical information generation follows a U-shape. Furthermore, these effects are moderated differently by two conditions: a firm’s R&D intensity that influences a NPD project’s need for different types of information, and the use of multi-disciplinary teams that affects the degree to which information can be shared and utilized to improve product design. The findings provide important implications for organizational learning and shed light on how to manage information generation activities to achieve NPD success

Altitude Profiles of Infrared Radiance of O3 (9.6 μm) and CO2 (15 μm)

The infrared spectrum of the upper atmospheric emissions between 7 and 23 vm has been measured with two spectrometers carried to high altitude by sounding rockets. Radiance profiles of 03(9.6 vm) and C02(15 vm) radiations have been obtained to nearly 100 and 750 kin, respectively