Ethics as a risk management strategy: the Australian experience

This article addresses the connection of ethics to risk management, and argues that there are compelling reasons to consider good ethical practice to be an essential part of such risk management. That connection has significant commercial outcomes, which include identifying potential problems, preventing fraud, the preservation of corporate reputation, and the mitigation of court penalties should any transgression arise. Information about the legal position, examples of cases, and arguments about the potential benefits of ethics are canvassed. The orientation of this article is essentially Australian. It is hoped that it may provide some insights of value to other countries

Preparation of technical reports

This is a brief article that was prepared and distributed to his students by the late Dr. Ronald Francis, of the Photographic Science department in the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences at RIT. It is included here in his memory and to continue to serve students of photographic sciences into the future

Waste in machine shop operations

Thesis (M.B.A.)--Boston Universit

Mass transfer into cylindrical liquid films measurement of liquid diffusivities

This thesis was undertaken to augment and validate the previous work of Ratcliff and Reid(7) in the area of diffusion of immiscible liquids. Their novel approach to this particular problem of liquid diffusion led the author to consider an experimental technique that has been used in gas-liquid studies. A short vetted-wall column was used to determine the rate of mass transfer of benzene and toluene into thin cylindrical films of water. A general analytical solution for the rate of mass transfer has been derived and is given below. This solution was checked using the system benzene-water. G=3.63(Π(ρω-ρβ)g/μl)1/6 R2/3 L1/2 D1/2AB Q1/3 CRo The calculated diffusivity from the experimental results for the system benzene-water with the author\u27s above derived equation gave a result which was approximately thirteen percent lower than that reported by Ratcliff and Reid(7) in their study of the same system using spherical films of water. The system toluene-water was also studied and data is presented

Boiling heat transfer in the presence of electric fields

The effects of a non-uniform, radial D.C. electric field on the natural convection and nucleate boiling regimes in saturated pool boiling and on the peak heat flux phenomenon were determined for trichlorotrifluoroethane, carbon tetrachloride, dichloromonofluoromethane and chloroform using as a heat transfer surface a 0.02 inch diameter platinum wire. Bubble departure diameters for the nucleate boiling region were measured by photographic means as a function of the electric field intensity at the heat transfer surface. The application of an electric field was found to have a significant effect on the natural convection mode of heat transfer and also the peak heat flux phenomenon. Three fold increases in the peak heat flux are not uncommon. The high dielectric constant fluids exhibit a greater increase in heat transfer per unit electric stress. The experimental increases in the peak heat flux phenomenon were quantitatively and mechanistically explained by the model of an electrically stabilized Helmholtz-Taylor hydrodynamic condition. The use of an equivalent electric field postulation was found to be useful for interpreting data obtained using non-uniform electric fields. Complete boiling curves were obtained for the four fluids as a function of the electric field intensity at the heat transfer surface

A History of Intercollegiate Baseball at Eastern Illinois University from 1904 to 1962

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On the conceptual nature of hybrid adverbials in Isu

We review Kießling’s (2011) assessment of the emergence of hybrid adverbials from serial verb constructions in Isu of Bantoid and the Narrow Grassfield group of East Benue Congo. He posits two paths, preverbal and postverbal, that coverb elements follow as they abandon verbal properties pertaining to syntax, morphology, and tone. Our focus rests on whether this impressive array of grammatical change might reflect a particular system of semantic concepts. We contend that one lens through which to view such a system consists of a merger of Dixon’s secondary concept types and Nuyts’ hierarchy of categories conveying clausal modification. To support our contention, we apply the resulting system of semantic concepts to Isu preverbal hybrid adverbials, finding eight conceptual types oriented toward characterization of grammatical subject. Despite the highly tentative nature of this effort, results align with a similar range of conceptual types that occur as preverbs in West Benue Congo Yoruboid and Edoid, which have also grammaticalized from verbs