Summary report on current archaeological research supported by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies

Grants were awarded in September 1975, April and October 1976 and March 1977. Current lists are published in AIAS Newsletters twice annually

Demodulation system Patent

Development of demodulation system for removing amplitude modulation from two quadrature displaced data bearing signal

The Development of an Educational Program to Meet the Needs of the Adult Government Employee at Hill Air Force Base, Utah

Purpose The purpose of this study was two-fold: (1) to determine the educational needs of the personnel of the five directorates at Hill Air Force Base; and, (2) to design an educational program to meet those needs. Procedure This study consisted of three phases: Phase One. This phase consisted of identifying the behavioral items that we re us ed in developing the Q-Sort instrument. This was accomplished by a review of job requirement data, by an examination of Project Hy Production, and by personal interviews of the Air Base educational specialists. Phase Two. This phase consisted of the development of a Q-Sort instrument to be administered to a random sample of supervisory and non~supervisory personnel from each of the five directorates. The respondents ranked the Q-Sort items into seven categories which had been assigned numerical values by the researcher. Mean scores were computed for each statement. Rank order was then established by using the mean scores. The Spearman Rank Correlation Coefficient was used to determine the degree of agreement between the categories of respondents. Phase Three. This phase consisted of the development of the organizational structure of the total program. Included was a specific identification of the areas of knowledge that would best satisfy desired behavior, and an explanation of the general education phase of the total program. Findings 1. The behavioral items identified from the above indicated o sources were many and varied. Each emphasized the need for knowledge in English and mathematic skills. Knowledge of the myriad logistics processes were all mentioned as desired behavior. 2. The rankings by the supervisory and non- supervisory personnel of the vocational statements were also varied but a high level of agreement concerning the importance of the English and mathematics skills was evident. 3. A high level of agreement was evident between supervisory and non- supervisory personnel concerning their opinions of the importance of the Q-Sort items. The correlation coefficients ranged from .832 to .904 for the five directorates. 4. A core area and five specialty areas were developed from the information derived from the Q-Sort instrument. The combined core and specialty areas constituted the major for the total program. 5. The design of the total program was reversed, requiring the student to complete the major first then the general education requirements. The general education phase was designed to allow the student to complete it by independent-guided study. Conclusions 1. All personnel consider a knowledge of English skills highly important in the performance of their jobs. 2. Skill in the use of mathematics and statistics was considered to be of intermediate importance. 3. The personnel in each directorate ranked a knowledge of the vocational skills related to the activities they were currently performing as highly important. 4. There was considerable agreement between supervisory and non-supervisory personnel in their opinions of the importance of the behavioral statements. 5. The educational needs of the government employee could best be satisfied by incorporating the reverse plan and the independent-guided study philosophy into the design. Recommendations 1. A study similarly designed be made at another aIr materiel area to determine the level of agreement between the personnel at the base and those of the Ogden Air Materiel Area. 2. A similar study be made at other government entities to determine the educational needs of the employees of those installations. 3. This study be replicated in approximately five years to determine what changes should be made in this program. 4. A study designed to test the effectiveness of this program be made

Torts -- 1961 Tennessee Survey

The tort cases reported during the past year were of unusual interest. A number of them dealt with points of first impression in this state. Others represent developments of the law designed to bring it into harmony with changing conditions, as in the application of the res ipsa loquitur doctrine to the unexplained fall of an air-liner, or in the clarification of the duties of an automobile driver to a mere licensee in the vehicle. While the basic pattern for justice in the field of torts has been worked out by our courts with much care and wisdom, occasional modifications are needed. Developments are more feasible in tort law than in areas such as real property or con-tracts, for in the tort field there is less risk of upsetting arrangements entered into on the faith of an existing rule. As to torts, it is helpful to bear in mind that the courts have power to change their judge-made rules and often there is no necessity to wait for a statute with its usual attention to minutia. \u2

Torts -- 1964 Tennessee Survey

As usual, the Tennessee appellate courts decided a considerable number of tort cases last year, covering a wide variety of problems.There were no striking new developments. In fact, the two decisions which were awaited by the profession with the greatest interest, Kyker v. General Motors Corporation\u27 and Texas Tunneling Co. v. City of Chattanooga, tend to slow down some modem developments. In the Kyker case, it was indicated that manufacturers are not yet strictly liable in Tennessee, at least on warranty grounds, without privity of contract. In the Texas Tunneling case, a federal court undertaking to apply Tennessee law placed definite restrictions on liability for a merely negligent misrepresentation. Both of these decisions were regarded with satisfaction by the conservative minded; and in view of the fact that almost all of the new developments in tort law during the past decade have been to the advantage of plaintiffs, it may well be that the defendants are entitled to at least a temporary breathing spell in the areas involved in these two decisions

Designing for Schadenfreude (or, how to express well-being and see if you're boring people)

This position paper presents two studies of content not normally expressed in status updates—well-being and status feedback—and considers how they may be processed, valued and used for potential quality-of-life benefits in terms of personal and social reflection and awareness. Do I Tweet Good? (poor grammar intentional) is a site investigating more nuanced forms of status feedback than current microblogging sites allow, towards understanding self-identity, reflection, and online perception. Healthii is a tool for sharing physical and emotional well-being via status updates, investigating concepts of self-reflection and social awareness. Together, these projects consider furthering the value of microblogging on two fronts: 1) refining the online personal/social networking experience, and 2) using the status update for enhancing the personal/social experience in the offline world, and considering how to leverage that online/offline split. We offer results from two different methods of study and target groups—one co-workers in an academic setting, the other followers on Twitter—to consider how microblogging can become more than just a communication medium if it facilitates these types of reflective practice

Geology and Geohydrology of the East Texas Basin

The investigations in the East Texas Basin are part of the broader salt dome studies underway in the Gulf Coast Interior Salt Basin of Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi, constituting one regional element of the national Nuclear Waste Repository Program. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) aims to select one salt site for site-specific evaluation as a nuclear waste repository. This report focuses on the salt dome program in East Texas and outlines some preliminary conclusions reached on dome suitability during FY1980. The 1980 program to investigate the tectonic, geologic, and hydrogeologic stability of salt domes in the East Texas Basin was divided into four subprograms: 1. Subsurface geology. 2. Surficial geology, remote sensing, and geomorphology. 3. Hydrogeology. 4. Salt dome characteristics. Integration of the results from these four subprograms will determine the general suitability of salt domes in the East Texas Basin for further evaluation as a potential nuclear waste repository and will provide information on specific candidate domes in the East Texas Basin.Bureau of Economic Geolog