Married to Sustainability: The SDG Wedding Cake Framework as a Tool for Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility

If anything can be said about the future, it is that nothing is certain. In this acceleratingly dynamic reality, stability and certainty are among the greatest assets a leader can have. The opportunity to secure long term stability is something that few would pass up. Broadly speaking, corporate leaders must be acutely aware of global market forces, government regulation, and their own power in the marketplace to create cogent predictions about the future. This paper is designed for the burgeoning corporate leader that is looking to craft their strategic position on corporate social responsibility (CSR), or the savvy one looking to enhance their existing approach. In short, this paper will explore how existing frameworks for global sustainable development can be utilized to create comprehensive CSR strategies that appreciate the interrelatedness of global issues. By following the framework presented, corporations will be better equipped to stabilize a disrupted market in their favor. The SDG Wedding Cake Framework provides an avenue for corporations to reconsider their resiliency strategy. By adopting a corporate strategy that considers SDGs, international corporations will be equipped with a robust decision-making framework that will better prepare them in times of crisis and will drive sustainable profitability in the long run

A study of the afterglow of an R-F excited mercury discharge

The short duration afterglow of an r-f discharge in mercury has been examined versus ground state mercury atom density and r-f power. The intensity of the 5771, 5462, 4360, 4079, 4047, 3907, 3651/56, 3342, and 3127/32Å atomic mercury lines were observed to decay as a function of time after the shut off of the active discharge. At temperatures below 333⁰K, all atomic lines decayed exponentially, and no molecular emission was observed. From 333⁰K to 423⁰K, the atomic lines were observed to decay rapidly initially, then exhibit an enhancement effect in intensity which was produced by metastable atom collisions, and finally, the intensity decayed with a small time constant. Above 433⁰K, molecular emission begins to become effective because of the increased ground state atom density, and the overall intensity of the atomic lines is observed to decrease, but the intensity of the lines still exhibited an enhancement effect. Above 473⁰K, molecular emission becomes dominate, and the molecular emission robs the atomic line spectra of energy. From the comparison of theory and result of the experiment, the coefficient of ambipolar diffusion (De) fro the electron can be calculated. The average value calculated is De = 991 cm²/sec. Also, the average value of the lifetime of the metastable 6³P₂ state of mercury can be calculated Tm = 47 microseconds --Abstract, page [i]

Integrating population dynamics into mapping human exposure to seismic hazard

Disaster risk is not fully characterized without taking into account vulnerability and population exposure. Assessment of earthquake risk in urban areas would benefit from considering the variation of population distribution at more detailed spatial and temporal scales, and from a more explicit integration of this improved demographic data with existing seismic hazard maps. In the present work, "intelligent" dasymetric mapping is used to model population dynamics at high spatial resolution in order to benefit the analysis of spatio-temporal exposure to earthquake hazard in a metropolitan area. These night- and daytime-specific population densities are then classified and combined with seismic intensity levels to derive new spatially-explicit four-class-composite maps of human exposure. The presented approach enables a more thorough assessment of population exposure to earthquake hazard. Results show that there are significantly more people potentially at risk in the daytime period, demonstrating the shifting nature of population exposure in the daily cycle and the need to move beyond conventional residence-based demographic data sources to improve risk analyses. The proposed fine-scale maps of human exposure to seismic intensity are mainly aimed at benefiting visualization and communication of earthquake risk, but can be valuable in all phases of the disaster management process where knowledge of population densities is relevant for decision-making

The Becoming Subject of Dementia

In this paper we analyse the becoming subject of dementia, as it is made to appear within the contexts of nation-building and everyday life. Insights yielded from this analysis suggest the importance of time to recognition of normalcy, and to the meaning of being a person

Fiber Optic Detection of Ammonia Gas

Bathochromic shifts accompanying the formation of several bivalent metallic complexes containing 5-(4’-dimethylaminophenylimino) quinolin-8-one (L1), and 7-chlore-5(4’-diethylamino-2-methylphenylimino) quinolin-8-one (L2) ligands in ethanol solutions were evaluated by VIS-NIR spectroscopy. The [L1-Cu-L1] sulphide complex was selected as a reagent for further tests on optical fibres. Samples of multimode siloxane-clad fused-silica fibre were sensitized by diffusing an ethanol/chloroform solution of the dye into the cladding polymer, and tested by VIS-NIR optical spectroscopy (12 cm long fibre sections), and optical time domain reflectometry (OTDR; 20 ns laser pulses, wavelength 850 nm, 120 m long fibre sensitized within the interval 104–110 m). A well-resolved absorption band of the reagent could be identified in the absorption spectra of the fibres. After exposure to dry ammonia/nitrogen gas with increasing ammonia concentration (0–4000 ppm), the short fibre samples showed subsequent decay of NIR optical absorption; saturation was observed for higher ammonia levels. The concentration resolution r ? 50 ppm and forward response time t90 ? 30 sec were obtained within the interval 0–1000 ppm. The OTDR courses showed an enhancement of the back-scattered light intensity coming from the sensitized region after diffusion of the initial reagent, and decay after exposure to concentrated ammonia/nitrogen gas (10000 ppm)

Radiation Heat Transfer in Thermal Argon Plasma with Iron Vapors

The objective of this paper consists of approximate calculations of thermal radiation heat transfer in ar-gon arc plasma with admixtures of iron vapors. As a mathematical tool, the P1-approximation has been used. To simplify the calculations, the frequency dependence of absorption coefficients has been handled by means of Planck and Rosseland averaging methods. Calculations has been performed for isothermal cylindrical plasma of various radii (0.01 to 10 cm) in temperature range 1 000 – 30 000 K