International Trade and Economic Development Strategy: Can Foreign Direct Investment Be Predicted?

This study identifies factors that might be used by the state to better target foreign industries and countries that are more likely to be seeking investment opportunities in the U.S

Peer Mentors and Writing Center Tutors: What our collaborations taught us about serving the SJSU Freshmen Students

The Library Outpost, a satellite office of the campus’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library, seeks ways to reach out to First Year students who are new to writing research papers. One of our goals is to meet the First Year students on their own turf. Since the Peer Mentors and Writing Center tutors have peer relationships with the First year students, we want to learn how we can collaborate with them to provide services to the First year students. We surveyed the Peer Mentors and Writing Center Tutors to assess their perceptions of their own research skills, and their students’ research needs to guide the services and workshops offered by the Library Outpost

International trade and economic development: Can foreign direct investment be predicted?

It would appear obvious that not all countries and industries are equally good business recruitment targets for the state’s economic development efforts. However, partly due to data limitations, little detailed research has been done to clarify how a state might direct its recruitment strategies to those industries and countries more likely to be seeking foreign direct investment (FDI) opportunities within the United States. This paper is a move toward rectifying this deficiency.

Operational performance of vapor-screen systems for in-flight visualization of leading-edge vortices on the F-106B aircraft

A flight research program was undertaken at the NASA Langley Research Center to apply the vapor-screen technique, widely used in wind tunnels, to an aircraft. The purpose was to obtain qualitative and quantitative information about near-field vortex flows above the wings of fighter aircraft and ascertain the effects of Reynolds and Mach numbers over the angle-of-attack range. The hardware for the systems required for flight application of the vapor-screen technique was successfully developed and integrated. Details of each system, its operational performance on the F-106B aircraft, and pertinent aircraft and environmental data collected are presented

Inventory Investment, Internal-Finance Fluctuation, and the Business Cycle

macroeconomics, inventory investment, internal-finance fluctuation, business cycle

OAK Fund Annual Report: 2017-2018

2018 Annual Report of the OAK FundThe Open Access to Knowledge (OAK) Fund at Texas A&M underwrites publication charges for scholarly journal articles, book chapters, and monographs published in open access publications in order to encourage the shift to publishing Texas A&M’s research that is free of subscription barriers and support the transition of scholarship towards open science models1 that can help meet Texas A&M’s strategic goals. Major outcomes for 2017-2018: (1) the OAK Fund distributed funds to 300 faculty, staff and graduate students from 13 colleges/research organizations and five campuses, (2) the OAK Fund supported the publication fees for 77 articles and two book chapters for a total amount of funding distributed of $105,842. In the past we received a number of communications from TAMU faculty concerning ineligible coauthors, so we made two procedural changes to address these concerns: (1) amended the OAK Fund eligibility rules to allow for support of graduate student authors, and (2) amended the OAK Fund eligibility rules to allow for support of non-TAMU coauthors when a TAMU author is the lead author on the paper as evidence by authorship sequence or corresponding author

Segmentation of Chesapeake Bay: a representative exercise

The goal of the CRC/RANN Waste Water Program is to provide the tools to management agencies which will enable them to make sound quantitative decisions on the siting of future sewage outfalls and the upgrading or elimination of existing sewage treatment plants. Obviously, the available funds do not permit extensive field studies at every possible outfall site. Therefore, some system is needed which will allow data to be transferred from one area to other areas within the Bay which have similar characteristics. A system of segmentation ., as suggested by Dr. D. W. Pritchard, was chosen by the Scientific Management Advisory Committee as the appropriate vehicle to achieve this transferability of the data. The following sections describe the philosophy for segmentation., the criteria to be used and two examples of the segmentation process using the Patuxent and Elizabeth River Estuaries as models