Research in millimeter wave techniques

A model 180-GHz radiometer, employing a Cassegrain feed geometry with a parabolic main reflector and a subreflector fed by a corrugated conical horn, was constructed and tested. An absorber-coated chopper is used to modulate the signal, which is down-converted in a cross-guide harmonic mixer. A 100-GHz source was used to evaluate mixer performance and to optimize system parameters. Preliminary results indicate a noise figure of approximately 20 db is being achieved. Preliminary design studies and on-going research plans are discussed

Social Ventures as Learning Laboratories

What we need now is entrepreneurship that creates greater long-term value while drawing on fewer resources and generating fewer destructive consequences.J. Gregory Dees, social enterprise, innovation, entrepreneurial innovation, social entrepreneurship, social ventures, social business, social entrepreneur, social entrepreneurs, environment, social learning, learning laboratory, Tennessee, business, Tennessee's Business

Deception and Mutual Trust: A Reply to Strudler

Alan Strudler has written a stimulating and provocative article about deception in negotiation. He presents his views, in part, in contrast with our earlier work on the Mutual Trust Perspective. We believe that Strudler is wrong in his account of the ethics of deception in negotiation and in his quick dismissal of the Mutual Trust Perspective. Though his mistakes may be informative, his views are potentially harmful to business practice. In this paper, we present arguments against Strudler's position and attempt to salvage the Mutual-Trust Perspective from his attack. Strudler's work reaffirms the need for a more pragmatic approach to business ethics. We close the paper with a renewed call for more constructive and practical approaches to business ethics research.Signaling; Negotiations; Business Ethics; Private Information

Promoting Honesty in Negotiation: An Exercise in Practical Ethics

In a competitive and morally imperfect world, business people are often faced with serious ethical challenges. Harboring suspicions about the ethics of others, many feel justified in engaging in less-than-ideal conduct to protect their own interests. The most sophisticated moral arguments are unlikely to counteract this behavior. We believe that this morally defensive behavior is responsible, in large part, for much undesirable deception in negotiation. Drawing on recent work in the literature of negotiations, we present some practical guidance on how negotiators might build trust, establish common interests, and secure credibility for their statements thereby promoting honesty We also point out the types of social and institutional arrangements, many of which have become commonplace, that work to promote credibility, trust, and honesty in business dealings. Our approach is offered not only as a specific response to the problem of deception in negotiation, but as one model of how research in business ethics might offer constructive advice to practitioners.Credibility; Business Ethics; Negotiations; Institutions

Shrewd Bargaining on the Moral Frontier: Toward a Theory of Morality in Pratice

From a traditional moral point of view, business practitioners often seem overly concerned about the behavior of their peers in deciding how they ought to act. We propose to account for this concern by introducing a mutual trust perspective, where moral obligations are grounded in a sense of trust that others will abide by the same rules. When grounds for trust are absent, the obligation is weakened. We illustrate this perspective by examining the widespread ambivalence with regard to deception about one's settlement preferences in negotiation. On an abstract level, such deception generally seems undesirable, though in many individual cases it is condoned, even admired as shrewd bargaining. Because of the difficulty in verifying someone's settlement preferences, it is hard to establish a basis for trusting the revelations of the other party, especially in competitive negotiations with relative strangers.Bargaining; Private Information; Business Ethics; Negotiations

A millimeter wave propagation experiment from the ATS-E spacecraft

Millimeter wave propagation experiment from Applications Technology Satellite-

Facing modern times : the revival of Japanese Lacquer Art 1890-1950

This study investigates the crisis of Japanese lacquer art after the 1868 Meiji Restoration, the subsequent period of Art Industry, its revival in the beginning of the 20th century and emancipation during the 1920s.LEI Universiteit LeidenHeinz M Kaempfer FundAsian Studie

Living and Learning Communities: One University\u27s Journey

University housing has the capacity to offer more than comfortable living spaces, and campuses across the U.S., including our own, are exploring models of residential learning communities that provide both academic and social support students while cultivating a strong sense of community. In this article, we describe our campus foray into offering a new residential learning community model. We explain its origins, its evolution, and the questions we face now that we have successfully created a second approach to living learning communities on our campus

Waardplanten van stengelaaltjes : veldonderzoek naar de waardstatus van akkerbouwgewassen, groenbemesters, vaste planten, voorjaarsbloemen en zomerbloemen voor Ditylenchus dipsaci rassen uit de bloembollen

Het stengelaaltje Ditylenchus dipsaci is in Nederland in bloembolgewassen een quarantaine organisme. Binnen de soort worden op basis van het waardplantbereik verschillende rassen onderscheiden. Rassen die in bloembollen voorkomen, zijn het tulpen-, narcissen-, hyacinten-, uien-, en knoflookras. Over de waardstatus van akkerbouwgewassen, vaste planten en groenbemesters voor de stengelaaltjes in bloembollen is echter weinig bekend. Doel van dit project was het waardplantbereik van het tulpen-, narcissen- en hyacintenras voor een aantal bloembol- en niet bloembolgewassen te bepalen. Daarnaast is de genetische variatie tussen populaties stengelaaltjes uit bloembollen, akkerbouwgewassen en vaste planten door middel van AFLP-analyse onderzocht. Deze analyse had het doel te bepalen of stengelaaltjes uit verschillende gewasgroepen op basis van genetische verschillen te onderscheiden zijn