High effectiveness contour matching contact heat exchanger

There is a need in the art for a heat exchanger design having a flexible core providing contour matching capabilities, which compensates for manufacturing tolerance and distortion buildups, and which accordingly furnishes a relatively uniform thermal contact conductance between the core and external heat sources under essentially all operating conditions. The core of the heat exchanger comprises a top plate and a bottom plate, each having alternate rows of pins attached. Each of the pins fits into corresponding tight-fitting recesses in the opposite plate

Examining the Personal and Institutional Determinants of Research Productivity in Hospitality and Tourism Management

The transition toward a post-capitalist knowledge-oriented economy has resulted in an increasingly competitive academic environment, where the success of faculty is dependent on their research productivity. This study examines the personal and institutional determinants of the quantity and quality of the research productivity of hospitality and tourism management faculty in US institutions. A survey of 98 faculty found that a different set of determinants impact the quantity and quality aspects of research productivity. Also, institutional determinants were found to play a larger role, indicating the need for administrators to strive for a culture that is supportive of and an infrastructure that is conducive to their faculty’s research success. The authors use the field of hospitality and tourism management as a case study to develop a holistic and cohesive framework for knowledge worker productivity that can guide the evaluation, hiring, and development of researchers

Place, space, and family: A rhetorical analysis of the resistance rhetoric of Judy Bonds

This thesis examines the ways that rhetorics of resistance can operate in contemporary social conditions. I do this specifically by examining the rhetoric of Judy Bonds, an environmental justice activist who opposed mountaintop removal (MTR) mining in Appalachia. I utilize a qualitative rhetorical approach to examine 34 instances of Bonds’ discourse as well as my own autoethnographic reflections focused on my work with Mountain Justice, a regional anti-MTR activist organization. Pairing the constant comparative method with principles of ideological criticism, informed by theories of place, voice, memory, and narrative, forms this qualitative rhetorical approach. The postmodern turn allows for the multiple, unique, instances of rhetoric to be viewed as fragments of discourse. That is to say that, while each instance of rhetoric is evaluated as having unique properties, the postmodern turn allows for overarching themes and discourses to emerge. Bonds’ rhetoric reveals a unique use of discourses of space, place, and a queered rhetoric of family and family values. Further research may explore the creation of an archive of Bonds’ rhetoric, ways that the image of the cyborg and assemblage theory might illuminate identity relationships in rhetoric of resistance, images of a utopian future for Appalachia, and performances of memorialization within environmental justice movements. Ultimately, though, this research points toward the need to complicate an understanding of the ways that certain tropes and metaphors are deployed as discrete, and rather view them as implicating one another and operating simultaneously within an instance of rhetoric

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW-COMMERCE CLAUSE-FREEDOM OF PRESS-AMENABILITY OF NEWSPAPER TO SHERMAN ANTI-TRUST ACT

Until a competing radio station appeared on the scene in 1948, defendant newspaper was the only medium for mass advertising available in the Lorain, Ohio area. In an effort to regain its monopoly position and eliminate the radio station as a competitor, defendant inaugurated a policy of refusing to accept custom from advertisers who employed the services of its rival. Both the newspaper and the radio station received news dispatches, advertising copy, payments, and other materials from sources outside Ohio, but neither had any appreciable audience beyond the borders of the state. In a civil action brought by the United States under sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act, the district court enjoined defendant from continuing its attempted monopolization. On appeal to the Supreme Court, held, affirmed. Defendant\u27s activities came within the scope of the federal commerce power. Furthermore, the First Amendment gives newspapers no immunity from injunction under the anti-trust laws. Lorain Journal Co. v. United States, 342 U. S. 143, 72 S.Ct. 181 (1951)

Trends in Labor Management Issues at Historically Black Colleges and Universities

The mobilization of workers through unionization has deep historical roots within American society; more so in the northern regions thanin the southern region of this country.Despite these historical roots,some sectors of the American population (i.e., minorities in general and AfricanAmericans in particular) who have experienced various forms of discrimination have not fully participatedin the unionization movement. This is especially true of the faculty in historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). As a result of thevarious forms of discriminationthat not only denied them meaningful participation in the labor market but restricted their economic success, and the segregation that resulted from the stereotypic views of racial minorities, the fact that HBCU faculty do not mobilize effectively on collegecampusthrough unionizationis troubling. In fact, on some HBCUcampuses, faculty have no mechanism to participate in the governance of their own university. With the survival and destiny of HBCUs at stake, HBCU facultymust be proactive and engaged to create their own representative voice

System availability management technique for reliability and maintainability analysis

Method for total system availability analysis is based on numerical prediction of the reliability, maintainability, and availability of each function system. It incorporates these functional-system estimates into an overall mathematical model

REGULATION OF BUSINESS--ROBINSON-PATMAN ACT--DEFENSES OF IN PARI DELICTO AND CHANGED MARKET CONDITIONS

A group of businessmen in Santa Rosa, New Mexico, organized a boycott against all bread except that baked by plaintiff, the sole baker in Santa Rosa, to induce him not to move his bakery out of town; plaintiff agreed to this plan. Defendant, who sold in interstate commerce, thereupon halved his bread prices in Santa Rosa while maintaining them in other towns, in order to defeat the boycott and preserve the town as a market. Plaintiff brought an action for treble damages under section 2(a) of the Robinson-Patman Act for injuries suffered from this price discrimination. The federal district court gave judgment for defendant on the ground that plaintiff was in pari delicto, and was affirmed by the court of appeals. On certiorari, the Supreme Court remanded to the court of appeals for reconsideration in the light of the Kiefer-Stewart case, which had recently held, on different facts, that a plaintiff\u27s equal fault under the Sherman Act is not a defense. Held, defendant has no defenses; remanded for a new trial to ascertain whether there was the requisite lessening of competition. The Kiefer-Stewart case is controlling to deny the defense of in pari qelicto even where plaintiff\u27s wrong induced defendant\u27s violation. Furthermore, a boycott participated in by a plaintiff is not a changed condition affecting the market of the kind which may justify a price discrimination. Moore v. Mead Service Co., (10th Cir. 1951) 190 F. (2d) 540

WILLS-ASSERTION OF RIGHTS UNDER MORTMAIN STATUTE AS VIOLATION OF NO-CONTEST CLAUSE

An action was brought by an executor for construction of a will, made five months before testator\u27s death, which attempted to make bequests to various charities. The bequests were invalid under the terms of the Ohio mortmain statute because the will was executed less than a year before death. A no-contest clause in the will declared that any person attacking it in any way would be barred from any beneficial interest, but there was no gift over in the event of such a contest. The charitable gifts were in the residuary clause, and there was no substitutionary gift in the event that the charitable bequest failed. The probate court held the bequests to the charities invalid, declaring that the property passed to testator\u27s son and daughter by intestacy. On appeal, held, affirmed. Since the gifts to the charities were void and not merely voidable under the statute, the action by the children did not amount to a contest in violation of the no-contest provision. Kirkbride v. Hickock, 155 Ohio St. 293, 98 N. E. (2d) 815 (1951)

Stigma and Disclosure of Chronic Pain in Higher Education: A Qualitative Study

Students with chronic pain represent an overlooked population in higher education institutions, due to the barriers their conditions present and the stigma associated with chronic pain. There is existing research examines treatment of elderly populations and best practices for university students with disabilities, facing discrimination. This study sheds light on a gap in the existing research, where a niche population of students in chronic pain navigated disclosure issues and stigma in the academic environment. The purpose of the qualitative research study was to examine how anticipated or experienced stigma associated with chronic pain conditions influenced disclosure of chronic pain for students in higher education. The researcher used Charmaz’s constructivist grounded theory as the model, and the instrument was a semi-constructed interview. Participants for the interview were selected based on answers to a preliminary survey. The researcher created a conceptual framework from the emergent themes