Design of the Galileo remote science pointing actuators

This paper describes the two actuators developed for pointing the remote science instruments from the spinning Galileo spacecraft. Details of the key elements are presented together with their design features and developmental difficulties. Four techniques used for power and signal transfer across the actuators' rotating joints are also discussed

Leading-edge vortex research: Some nonplanar concepts and current challenges

Some background information is provided for the Vortex Flow Aerodynamics Conference and that current slender wing airplanes do not use variable leading edge geometry to improve transonic drag polar is shown. Highlights of some of the initial studies combining wing camber, or flaps, with vortex flow are presented. Current vortex flap studies were reviewed to show that there is a large subsonic data base and that transonic and supersonic generic studies have begun. There is a need for validated flow field solvers to calculate vortex/shock interactions at transonic and supersonic speeds. Many important research opportunities exist for fundamental vortex flow investigations and for designing advanced fighter concepts

Letter from Henry F. Osborn to John Muir, 1905 May 18.

AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY,77th STREET AND EIGHTH AVENUENEW YORK,18 May, 1905. DEPARTMENT OFVERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGYMy dear friend Muir: I enclose copy of a review of a book by the greatest authority in Europe on the subject of mountain formation, namely,Penck of Vienna, which delighted me because of its confirmation of your theories, which, as you know, have been held by some geologists to be extreme. We are all doing finely. Can you not come out and spend a week with us at Garrison this summer, any time before the 1st of August? Yours faithfully, [illegible]Mr. John Muir

Structural petrology of the Val Verde tonalite, southern California

Micrometric analyses of the Val Verde tonalite were made on samples taken along a line extending from the border of the intrusive to a point 5 miles out in the intrusive. An attempt was made to evaluate sampling errors and to determine variation in mineralogic composition and radioactivity. The border of the intrusive was found to be more sodic and higher in radioactivity than the central part, and this is thought to be due to assimilation of quartz-biotite schist. Inclusions in the tonalite are believed to be xenoliths of gabbro and quartz-biotite schist. Petrofabric analyses of the schist country rock and the tonalite indicate that : (1) the schist was deformed primarily by rotation of mineral grains about a horizontal axis; (2) during intrusion of the tonalite a gneissoid structure developed in it parallel to the contact with the country rock with a linear element lying in the plane of foliation and paralleling the dip; (3) later stresses directed parallel to the strike of the foliation caused rotation of mineral grains in the tonalite about an axis parallel to the dip. The orientation of the minerals in the tonalite is thus believed to be due to a combination of magmatic flow and post-magmatic deformation

Letter from Henry F. Osborn to John Muir, 1904 Oct 5.

AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY,77TH STREET AND EIGHTH AVENUE.NEW YORK, 5 October, 1904.DEPARTMENT OFVERTEBRATE PALAEONTOLOGYMy dear Mr. Muir:On our return from a wonderful trip abroad we find your letter of July 16th. I write to say that we are all well and happy. Our older daughter, Virginia, is engaged to be married, and we are looking forward to this event with great interest. My older son is a senior at Princeton, and the second son enters there next year.I enjoyed your letter intensely. The picture of your journeys fills me with envy. I often recall the passage which you quoted to us from Goethe,Keep not standing, fixed and rooted, Briskly venture, briskly roam.One reason I should like to live to be a hundred years old is to be able to see more of the planet than I am likely to. My chief duty now seems to be to publish the results of the wonderful discoveries we are making in the West. You will find popular articles of mine in the September and November Century.Do come and see us on top of the mountain at Castle Rock. It is still wilder and more in the forest than Wing and Wing.With warmest greetings from Mrs. Osborn, and trusting you will pardon a typewritten letter, I amAlways faithfully yours,[illegible]Mr. John Muir.0345

Identification of Critical Elements That Deter TQM Program Success

This thesis reviews the Total Quality Management (TQM) program initially developed in Japan after World War II and its entry into the United States during the early Eighties. TQM was incubated in Japan and matured into a viable program. TQM offered those who implemented the program improved quality products and improved cooperation between management and the workers for accomplishing common goals and objectives . The program focused on product quality and the belief that customer satisfaction is of key importance. United States managers were searching for improved management programs to motivate workers, improve production and increase sales and profits . Global competitiveness was beginning to show on management\u27s bottom line and something had to happen quickly . When the TQM program became prominent in the United States management believed they had a management program that was simple and easy to implement . Armed with the belief that if the program is successful in Japan it would be successful in the United States. Initial research on TQM programs in the United States indicated success was not as prevalent as in Japan . The question asked was why are enterprises in the United States encountering problems in the implementation of TQM? This thesis focused on identification of critical elements that deter TQM program success. Research indicated t here were key elements that are essential to successful implementation of TQM. A TQM program will fail if the following elements are not properly used in the implementation process. The elements are management commitment, willingness to make cultural changes, empowering employees, permitting employees to participate in the decision making process, continuing extensive employee training and satisfying the customer

Apparitional Economies: Spectral Imagery in the Antebellum Imaginaton

Apparitional Economies is invested in both a historical consideration of economic conditions through the antebellum era and an examination of how spectral representations depict the effects of such conditions on local publics and individual persons. From this perspective, the project demonstrates how extensively the period’s literature is entangled in the economic: in financial devastation, in the boundaries of seemingly limitless progress, and in the standards of value that order the worth of commodities and the persons who can trade for them. I argue that the space of the specter is a force of representation, an invisible site in which the uncertainties of antebellum economic and social change become visible. I read this spectral space in canonical works by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, and Walt Whitman and in emerging texts by Robert Montgomery Bird, Theophilus Fisk, Fitz James O’Brien, and Edward Williams Clay. Methodologically, Apparitional Economies moves through historical events and textual representation in two ways: chronologically with an attention to archival materials through the antebellum era (beginning with the specters that emerge with the Panic of 1837) and interpretively across the readings of a literary specter (as a space of lack and potential, as exchange, as transformation, and as the presence of absence). As a failed body and, therefore, a flawed embodiment of economic existence, the literary specter proves a powerful representation of antebellum social and financial uncertainties