Pre-Employment Orientation, an Adjunct to Recruiting

Traditionally, GAO has recruited its professional staff from all over the world for assignments in Washington, D.C., and in the regional offices. A recent issue of The GAO Review listed new staff member from the London School of Economic the University of Puerto Rico, and campuses throughout the United States. This diversity of employee affords GAO an ever-broadening per pe live; helps insure objective approach to issues; helps GAO avoid tilted, hackneyed, parochial thinking; and promote creative problemsolving. The selection process, while beneficial to the organization, can create difficulties for the candidate

Women and Dao in Gao Xingjian’s works

Drawing on the existing scholarly studies that have gone beyond the misogynist paradigm, such as those by Mabel Lee, Gilbert Fong, Terry Siu-han Yip, Kwok-kan Tam, and Mary Mazzilli, I intend to explore the connection between the Zen Buddhist comprehension of Dao and the representation of women in Gao Xingjian’s novels and plays. As desire and sexual relationships play a very crucial part in the realm of Zen, the role of women is inevitably bound up with self-awareness and self-reflection, which are enshrined by Gao Xingjian as necessary on the path toward individual enlightenment. According to Gao, even if women’s roles are socially and culturally constructed or sometimes become a privileged trope of defying social convention, the truth that emerges from secular life often incorporates the spirituality into women’s unique biological and psychological construction, immune to men’s full understanding but inexorably furnishing a way leading to the state of Zen

Studies on type material of Bryoerythrophyllum yichunense C.H. Gao (Musci, Pottiaceae) from China

Type material of Bryoerythrophyllum yichunense C.H. Gao has been studied. It is considered as Leptodontium flexifolium (With.) Hampe in Lindb

QCD corrections to double J/\psi production in e+e- annihilation at \sqrt{s}=10.6 GeV

Next-to-Leading-Order(NLO) QCD corrections to double J/psi production in e^+e^- annihilation at sqrt{s}=10.6 GeV are calculated. We find that they greatly decrease the cross section, with a K factor (NLO/LO) ranging from -0.31 to 0.25 depending on the renormalization scale. Although the renormalization scale dependence indicates a large uncertainty, when combined with the NLO QCD corrections to J/psi + eta_c production, it can explain why the double J/psi$ production could not be found at B factories while the J/psi + eta_c production could, despite the fact that cross section of the former is larger than that of the latter at LO by a factor of 1.8.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, use revtex

A simple algorithm for decoding Reed-Solomon codes and its relation to the Welch-Berlekamp algorithm

A simple and natural Gao algorithm for decoding algebraic codes is described. Its relation to the Welch-Berlekamp and Euclidean algorithms is given.Comment: 7 pages. Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Information Theor

Space program: Space debris a potential threat to Space Station and shuttle

Experts estimate that more than 3.5 million man-made objects are orbiting the earth. These objects - space debris - include whole and fragmentary parts of rocket bodies and other discarded equipment from space missions. About 24,500 of these objects are 1 centimeter across or larger. A 1-centimeter man-made object travels in orbit at roughly 22,000 miles per hour. If it hit a spacecraft, it would do about the same damage as would a 400-pound safe traveling at 60 miles per hour. The Government Accounting Office (GAO) reviews NASA's plans for protecting the space station from debris, the extent and precision of current NASA and Defense Department (DOD) debris-tracking capabilities, and the extent to which debris has already affected shuttle operations. GAO recommends that the space debris model be updated, and that the findings be incorporated into the plans for protecting the space station from such debris. GAO further recommends that the increased risk from debris to the space shuttle operations be analyzed