Transducer measures force in vacuum environment

Transducer assembly measures force in a vacuum environment. The assembly consist of a standard capacitance probe and a torque beam. This transducer can be used in high-pressure as well as in low-pressure environments for static and dynamic force measurements

Zhat Ting Dere

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Method of lubricating rolling element bearings Patent

Solid lubricant applied to porous roller bearings prior to use in ultrahigh vacuu

Improved rolling element bearings provide low torque and small temperature rise in ultrahigh vacuum environment

Rolling element bearing with stainless steel races and rolling elements and a porous bronze cage successfully operates in ultrahigh vacuum environments at a low torque and with small temperature rise. All components are burnished in molybdenum disulfide

A REPRESENTATIVE MARKET MODEL OF FARMLAND BID PRICES

A land bid-price model is formulated which integrates asset pricing models form prior studies to illustrate the singular and joint effects of ordinary and capital gains taxes, growth of returns, diseconomies of size, and risk behavior on farmland prices. An application of the model to primary data from cash grains farms illustrates that the ceteris paribus effect of increased marginal tax rates on a perpetual, growing income stream is to increase its present value. Larger farms in higher marginal tax brackets are shown to have a competitive advantage over smaller, lower tax bracket farms.Land Economics/Use,

AGRICULTURAL LOAN REVIEW AND RISK RATING FOR COMMUNITY BANKS

Agricultural Finance,

Assessing nominal income rules for monetary policy with model and data uncertainty

Nominal income rules for monetary policy have long been debated, but two issues are of particular recent interest. First, there are questions about the performance of such rules over a range of plausible empirical models - especially models with and without rational inflation expectations. Second, there are questions about the performance of these rules in real time using the type of data is actually available contemporaneously to policymakers rather than final revised data. This paper determines optimal monetary policy rules in the presence of such model uncertainty and real-time data uncertainty and finds only a limited role for nominal output growth. JEL Classification: E5