Knob linkage permits one-hand control of several operations

Electromechanical device with single knob provides one-hand control of numerous electrical or mechanical functions. The principle of this design may have application to remote-control switching devices

Seeking New Horizons: The Motivation Behind Volunteers Serving Overseas

This study concentrates on the motivation for volunteers to serve overseas. This study was conducted in Carrefour, Haiti, where about thirty college students volunteered for a one-week period. The research project sought to answer three research questions: 1) What drives a volunteer to become involved in a nonprofit? 2) How do volunteers in nonprofit organizations identify themselves? 3) How do volunteers’ perceptions of themselves change over the course of volunteering overseas? The articles reviewed focused on the emotions of the volunteers and how they identify themselves and others that they encounter. The globalization theory and the social-identity theory were utilized during this study. The themes that emerged were nostalgia and communication, both verbal and nonverbal between volunteers’ interactions with one another and with Haitians. These themes helped to understand what motivates a volunteer to serve overseas and what happens during these volunteer experiences to compel the individual to return multiple times. Although the research led to understanding the volunteer’s identity of themselves, the observations and results concluded that it is how the volunteer identifies with other’s that attract the volunteer to return

NASA and the challenge of ISDN: The role of satellites in an ISDN world

To understand what role satellites may play in Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN), it is necessary to understand the concept of ISDN, including key organizations involved, the current status of key standards recommendations, and domestic and international progress implementation of ISDN. Each of these areas are explained. A summary of the technical performance criteria for ISDN, current standards for satellites in ISDN, key players in the ISDN environment, and what steps can be taken to encourage application of satellites in ISDN are also covered

Impact upon location of basing point decision

Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University, 1950The Supreme Court rendered the famous or infamous Cement Decision in June 1948. To many American businessmen it was like the shot heard around the world. Dislocation of industry was one of the mildest results pictured. Time, money and the efforts of many individuals has been spent to inquire into the regional impact on location of the Basing Point Decision. In this thesis I have attempted to examine several regions, namely, New York, New England, Maryland, Cleveland, Chicago, and Pacific Northwest. Feeling that the sum of the whole is equal to its parts, I have attempted to draw conclusions from these rather limited facts. It has been felt that thes give the inquirer a very good sample from which to draw his predictions and conclusions. At all time the following limitations have to be considered: 1. The limitation of time. A problem of this nature needs at least ten years to develop the whole picture. 2. The size of the problem. It is entirely too big to be handled in a master's thesis. The above limitation of time is the only possible excuse, that it can be handled in a master's thesis. 3. The development of the problem has been retarded because of the abnormal market situation with demand being ahead of supply. The basing point system is of course an integral part of this problem. What it is and how it came about is explained in Chapters I and II. What the people who make it their business to delve in the realm of theory think is also and integral part of the question. As usual Hegel's dialectic must enter into any theoretical argument. It perhaps took place a little faster than he anticipated it ever doing so. This is an attempt at the third step. The amazing part of the theory seems to be that the two warring camps are not opposed. Rather they seem to agree in their conclusions. The major point of difference is that one feels that relocation is bad for the country, while the other feels that in the long run it will be good for the country. Those that feel it will be good also feel that centralization will take place and then decentralization, thus creating local monopolies. Those who favor the basing point system feel that these local monopolies will harm and hinder the development of the country in the long run. The results of the survey indicate that the overall picture will not be too bad, because the majority of the industry does not work on the basing point system. Those that do have to move, but it seems that the movement will be toward the market rather than away from it. All feel that if there is compulsory f.o.b. mill pricing that it will help their regions. From the surveys and the chapter on theory we are able to draw definite conclusions. There is a great deal of confusion that is harming the country. It should be cleared up by one of the agencies of the government, that is responsible. The results of this so called movement will hamper the small businessman instead of helping him. Instead of increasing competition it will be apt to lessen it. There will not be a great shift as was freely predicted. There are numerous reasons for this. The abnormal market situation is holding the shift back. The location fo industry has something more back of it then pricing policy. It is also a combination of various factors of cost. The industry will not locate where delivered costs are cheaper, but where the average costs it the lowest. There is apt to be a shift in the way of establishing brach plants, warehouses etc. There will not be the great building boom predicted because of the required shift in pricing policy. Some regions are apt to be hurt, mainly those that are uneconomic locations in the first place

Exploring Middle Childhood Reading Responses to Self-Selected Books: A Look at Evaluative and Emotional Responses, Developmental Stages and Personal Associations

The research for this study centered around three questions: 1. Do children respond emotionally and thoughtfully to the books they read, and are they able to explain these emotional and evaluative responses? 2. Does the book appeal to a child because it reflects the developmental stage of the child? 3. Does the book generate any personal associations for the child? Fifty children from a rural-suburban school district in western New York State took part in this study. The children were members of one fifth-grade and one second-grade literature-based classroom, which represent the beginning and ending ages of the middle childhood stage of development (ages 7 - 11). The students were invited to share with the researcher a self-selected book which they were currently reading or have recently finished reading. This study discovered that 98% of the children interviewed expressed an emotional response to their books which they could explain and all of the children had definitive opinions about their books which they could justify. The research also revealed that the self-selected books chosen reflected at least one characteristic of the child\u27s developmental stage. In addition, this research found that 78% of the children related a personal experience, association, or feeling with the book or characters

Alternative aboriginal economies: Martu livelihoods in the 21st century

book chapterIn the western deserts of Australia, hunting and gathering endures as an important social and economic activity. That foraging persists within the boundaries of developed industrialized nation states may come as a surprise to those who evaluate foraging as less profitable than agricultural, wage or market alternatives (or to those who see it as a somehow inferior economic mode, e.g., Morgan 1877). However, the tendency to dismiss foraging as a less viable mode of production may be an error given the evidence that foraging can sometimes be the best option within constraints (e.g., Tucker et al 2010, Kramer and Greaves, chapter 2, this volume). If this is the case in Australia, then the maintenance of foraging into the twenty-first century may be as much an economic decision as one aimed at maintaining social relations, identity and connections to traditional lands and practices

Coding Protocol: A Meta-Analysis of MCOMP and MCAP Curriculum-Based Measurement

The purpose of this document is to provide readers with the coding protocol that authors used to code 26 studies that met inclusion criteria for a meta-analysis. The focus of the meta-analysis was to determine the average correlations between MCOMP and MCAP curriculum-based measurement (CBM) and mathematics achievement criterion measures, as well as to determine the moderating factors of this relationship. Studies focused on grades 2 through 8 MCOMP, MCAP, and mathematics achievement. We coded 26 studies published between 2005 and 2021, including 15 peer-reviewed journal articles and 11 doctoral dissertations. Across studies, we coded variables such as basic study information, participant demographics, general CBM information (e.g., administration time of year, publisher), criterion measure information (e.g., state test, norm-referenced achievement measure, time of year), administration lag time between the CBM and criterion measure, and the correlation

Conservation or co-evolution? Intermediate levels of aboriginal burning and hunting have positive effects on kangaroo populations in Western Australia

pre-printStudies of conservation in small scale societies typically portray indigenous peoples as either sustainably managing resources, or forsaking long-term sustainability for short-term gains. To explain this variability, we propose an alternative framework derived from a co-evolutionary perspective. In environments with long histories of consistent interaction, we suggest that local species will frequently be well adapted to human disturbance; but where novel interactions are introduced, human disturbance may have negative environmental consequences. To test this co-evolutionary hypothesis, we examine the effect of Aboriginal burning and hunting on hill kangaroo (Macropus robustus) abundance. We find that hill kangaroo populations peak at intermediate levels of human disturbance, showing that in ecosystems characterized by long-term human- environmental interactions, humans can act as trophic mediators, resulting in patterns consistent with epiphenomenal conservation. Framing the question within this co-evolutionary perspective provides an explanation for the underlying mechanisms that drive environmental outcomes of subsistence practices