Controlled intermittent interfacial bond concept for composite materials

Concept will enhance fracture resistance of high-strength filamentary composite without degrading its tensile strength or elastic modulus. Concept provides more economical composite systems, tailored for specific applications, and composite materials with mechanical properties, such as tensile strength, fracture strain, and fracture toughness, that can be optimized

Evidence for new unidentified TeV gamma-ray sources from angularly-correlated hot-spots observed by independent TeV gamma-ray sky surveys

We have examined the directional cross-correlation of statistical `hot-spots' between a Northern Sky TeV Gamma Ray Survey by the Milagro Observatory and a similar survey by the Tibet Array. We find the directions of these hot-spots are angularly uncorrelated between the two surveys for large angular separations (Delta theta > 4 degrees), but there appears to be a statistically significant correlation between hot-spot directions for Delta theta < 1.5 degrees. Independent simulations indicate the chance probability for the occurrence of this correlation is approximately 10^-4, implying the existence of one or more previously unobserved TeV gamma-ray sources in these directions. The data sets are consistent with both point-like sources or diffuse sources with extent of 1 - 2 degrees.Comment: 12 pages, 2 figures, 3 tables. Submitted to Astrophysical Journal Letter

Reading Deconstruction, Deconstructive Reading

Deconstruction—a mode of close reading associated with the contemporary philosopher Jacques Derrida and other members of the Yale School —is the current critical rage, and is likely to remain so for some time. Reading Deconstruction / Deconstructive Reading offers a unique, informed, and badly needed introduction to this important movement, written by one of its most sensitive and lucid practitioners. More than an introduction, this book makes a significant addition to the current debate in critical theory. G. Douglas Atkins first analyzes and explains deconstruction theory and practice. Focusing on such major critics and theorists as Derrida, J. Hillis Miller, and Geoffrey Hartman, he brings to the fore issues previously scanted in accounts of deconstruction, especially its religious implications. Then, through close readings of such texts as Religio Laici, A Tale of a Tub, and An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, he proceeds to demonstrate and exemplify a mode of deconstruction indebted to both Derrida and Paul de Man. This skillfully organized book, designed to reflect the both/ and nature of deconstruction, thus makes its own contribution to deconstructive practice. The important readings provided of Dryden, Swift, and Pope are among the first to treat major Augustan texts from a deconstructive point of view and make the book a valuable addition to the study of that period. Well versed in deconstruction, the variety of texts he treats, and major issues of current concern in literary study, Atkins offers in this book a balanced and judicious defense of deconstruction that avoids being polemical, dogmatic, or narrowly ideological. Whereas much previous work on and in deconstruction has been notable for its thick prose, jargon, and general obfuscation, this book will be appreciated for its clarity and grace, as well as for its command of an impressively wide range of texts and issues. Without taming it as an instrument of analysis and potential change, Atkins makes deconstruction comprehensible to the general reader. His efforts will interest all those concerned with literary theory and criticism, Augustan literature, and the relation of literature and religion. G. Douglas Atkins is professor of English at the University of Kansas. He is the author of The Faith of John Dryden. Deconstruction has become famous for the opacity of its prose and ideas. Atkins goes a long way towards clarifying that opacity. . . . Moreover, he does all of this in really quite lucid prose, something which the French tradition of the many important continental deconstructionists seems to preclude. —Choice Presents straightforward explications that illuminate the works...Offers insights into Pope\u27s poetry. —Library Journal Both in style and in content, this is a remarkable book. Reading Deconstruction/Deconstructive Reading is extraordinarily concise, but for the purpose of precise communication, not obfuscation or opaqueness. —Review Places the poems in the light of deconstruction and, in the reading of \u27Duniciad IV,\u27 places deconstruction in the light of Pope. The book is a delight to re-read. —Choicehttps://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_comparative_literature/1009/thumbnail.jp

Quests of Difference: Reading Pope\u27s Poems

In this eminently readable book, G. Douglas Atkins continues the efforts undertaken in Reading Deconstruction/Deconstructive Reading to open eighteenth-century texts to the insights of recent critical theory. Through close readings of most of Pope’s major poems, Atkins demonstrates how the powerful theoretical movement known as deconstruction enriches, challenges, and significantly modifies our understanding of the work of the greatest poet of the eighteenth century. The first full-scale deconstructive study of Augustan poetry, Quests of Difference at once offers a fresh and compelling reading of Pope and makes an important contribution to constructive criticism. Though it will be of particular interest and importance to specialists in both eighteenth-century studies and criticism and theory, Quests of Difference is written with the general reader in mind. All readers will appreciate the intelligence and balance of Atkin’s approach as well as the clarity, informality, and grace that distinguish his writing. G. Douglas Atkins is professor of English at the University of Kansas.https://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_english_language_and_literature_british_isles/1026/thumbnail.jp

Using Simulation to Predict the Financial Effect of Hospital Management Policies Under a Prospective Reimbursement

Recent legislation by Medicare restricts its reimbursement per patient according to the patient\u27s particular type of disease. The reimbursement is based on a set of Diagnosis Related Groups (DRG\u27s), which categorizes patients into disease classifications. As a result, hospitals must make efficiency gains and managers must look for new ways to provide quality care while containing costs. A simulation technique was developed by which the financial results of particular administrative policies can be predicted. Patient billing data were collected over a three-month period and analyzed for the purpose of simulating length of stay and resource consumption per cost center. Regression analysis were used to approximate departmental costs as a function of length of stay and to estimate total cost as a function of certain departmental costs. Distribution-fitting techniques were used to determine the method of random generation for independent variables. The simulation model was run with two embellishments to illustrate how policies are interjected and results are interpreted