Flow process in combustors

Fluid mechanical effects on combustion processes in steady flow combustors, especially gas turbine combustors were investigated. Flow features of most interest were vorticity, especially swirl, and turbulence. Theoretical analyses, numerical calculations, and experiments were performed. The theoretical and numerical work focused on noncombusting flows, while the experimental work consisted of both reacting and nonreacting flow studies. An experimental data set, e.g., velocity, temperature and composition, was developed for a swirl flow combustor for use by combustion modelers for development and validation work

Realism, heroines, Flaubert

Since Flaubert has been called le chef de l\u27ecole realiste , an attempt will be made in this thesis to show how he used realism in the treatment of heroines in his novels. The first chapter will be dedicated to realism itself, showing first how the movement began in France in the mid-nineteenth century before Flaubert and Balzac were considered realists, followed by a modern definition and characteristics, such as: truth, materialism, scientific approach, document­ary method, tediousness, mediocrity, sympathy with ordinary life and sociological features. The other four chapters will be dedicated to Flaubert\u27 s main heroines. Each chapter will have as its title the name of one of Flaubert\u27s novels and will deal with the main heroine of that particular novel. As is pointed out in this thesis, a realist must discover people he already knows in real life and portray them in novels as they exist rather than recompose them by synthesis. The main purpose of this thesis, therefore, will be to show that Flaubert was a realist because the heroines of his books are people he discovered and not characters which he created

A study of the effects of sex, starting age and grade level on arithmetic and reading performance in the fourth and sixth grades as determined by standardized test scores

It was the purpose of this study to determine the influences of (1) sex; (2) starting age; and (3) grade level on student performance in the fourth and sixth grades as measured by reading comprehension, reading vocabulary, arithmetic reasoning, arithmetic concepts, and arithmetic computations

Effect of swirl on premixed combustion

Combustion in a premixed swirl combustor composed of confined concentric jets (5 cm and 10 cm diameter) were studied. The inner flow is fuel and air; the outer flow is air. Both flows may contain swirl either in the same or opposite directions. The combustor operates at one atmosphere without preheat; methane and propane were used as fuels. Related analyses and experiments were also performed for water flows and isotherm air flows. In these studies, a number of important concepts regarding premixing/prevaporized, swirl stabilized combustion were developed. Some of the more significant are discussed

Make your cover letter as awesome as you are

Do you hate writing cover letters? Wondering how to get noticed among the applicant pool for that dream job? In this interactive workshop we will explore together how to use a job ad as a blueprint for an effective cover letter that is tailored to the interests of the hiring committee. We will address the development of specific examples from your experiences to illustrate your qualifications, as well as strategies for making edits to your existing template for each new application. Participants are encouraged to bring their resume and cover letter long with a job ad to the session. Our workshop is designed for new and experienced librarians alike. Takeaways from this session include: 1) analyzing a job ad to determine what you should address in your letter 2) making your letter complement and enhance your resume3) tips and tricks for writing a letter that will get you noticed. Let\u27s make your cover letter stand out

Will Boosting a Post Bring Them In?: Promoting Library Programs with Facebook Advertising

Facebook continues to be the most popular social media platform. Academic libraries have had some success using it as an outreach and marketing tool. However, few have taken advantage of Facebook’s advertising options, and most have only focused on increasing engagement and page likes. This paper investigates the effectiveness of using Facebook advertising for the promotion of specific library programs and services. The results of two advertising campaigns, one promoting a workshop series, the other promotion a one-on-one reference service, were analyzed to determine if usage of these programs was increased through advertising. While the advertising campaigns did have a notable impact on Facebook traffic driven to the libraries’ website, they did not have a demonstrable impact on the targeted programs

Disentangling Flight Risk from Dangerousness

There is a growing national consensus about the urgent need to shrink the population of pretrial detainees and to fix our broken money bail system. Even as scholars and reformers are showing renewed interest in pretrial detention and bail, however, they have neglected a fundamental pretrial problem: the conflation (by judges and in statutes) of flight risk and danger. Reformers have offered up an array of proposals and increasingly sophisticated risk assessment tools that promise to improve judicial decision-making, but many of these tools merge flight risk and danger in ways that reinforce problematic legislative and judicial practices. This Article identifies the legal and practical reasons that judges must evaluate flight risk independently of danger. Federal and state constitutions and statutes include detention and bail provisions that require judges to make separate determinations of flight risk and dangerousness. There are also compelling policy arguments for separating flight from danger. First, combining risks may cause judges to overestimate both kinds of risks. Second, forcing separate analyses of pretrial risks may provide judges with much-needed political cover (alleviating pressure to detain). In addition, isolating the two types of risks offers an opportunity to improve judicial accountability and system legitimacy. Finally, the conditions of release that judges employ to mitigate flight risk are different from those that are used to manage danger. Disentangling flight risk from dangerousness will be a critical piece of efforts to improve pretrial decision-making and reduce unnecessary pretrial detention

Crimes of Suspicion

Requiring that officers have suspicion of specific crimes before they seize people during stops or arrests is a fundamental rule-of-law limitation on government power. Until very recently, the Supreme Court studiously avoided saying whether reasonable suspicion for street and traffic stops must be crime specific, and lower courts are sharply divided as a result. Statements made in Kansas v. Glover that the Fourth Amendment requires reasonable suspicion of a “particular crime” or of “specific criminal activity” may reflect an effort to rehabilitate this foundational principle, but crime specificity was not the Court’s focus in Glover. Meanwhile, Fourth Amendment scholars, even those closely focused on the nuances of probable cause and reasonable suspicion, have mostly ignored these developments. Police capitalize on this uncertainty, routinely conducting stops that are not tethered to any particular crime of suspicion. Even when the crime-control stakes for these general suspicion stops are low, they can lead to police violence. The deaths of Elijah McClain and Freddie Gray can be traced back to street stops based only on this sort of formless, general suspicion. This Article develops a comprehensive case for a Fourth Amendment crime-specificity requirement applicable to street and traffic stops. The historical case is strong: the Framers clearly expected probable cause of a particular crime of suspicion for seizures, at least for elites, and those requirements have largely been preserved for arrests. It is also complicated. These formal rules developed alongside regular practices, which persisted long into the twentieth century before being held unconstitutional, of arresting those in poor and minority communities based on status or general suspicion. After marshaling historical evidence about arrests and crime specificity, this Article undertakes a thorough review of modern stop cases that raise these questions and analyzes relevant policy arguments. The impulses that often lead the Court to defer to law enforcement interpretations of suspicious facts in Fourth Amendment cases, do not apply to this question of law. The crime of suspicion is a bright line, drawn by the legislature into the criminal code, and it is a line that police officers are already expected to know. In practice, a robust crime-specificity requirement must be paired with decriminalization efforts. Otherwise, the current bloat of American criminal codes may limit the practical impact of a crime-specificity requirement. Officers already exploit low-level offenses to conduct stops and intrusive Fourth Amendment searches. But there is potential here to rein in problematic street enforcement. During encounters where police are not quite sure of what (if any) crime they suspect, a crime-specificity rule requires that they remain in information-gathering mode and develop more specific suspicion before laying hands on a suspect. It is a requirement that makes space for de-escalation, for investigating alternative interventions, or for officers to walk away

Plated wire random access memories

A program was conducted to construct 4096-work by 18-bit random access, NDRO-plated wire memory units. The memory units were subjected to comprehensive functional and environmental tests at the end-item level to verify comformance with the specified requirements. A technical description of the unit is given, along with acceptance test data sheets