A 7.6m /25-ft/ extreme environments simulator

Stainless steel cylindrical simulation chamber permits testing equipment under extreme cold, high partial vacuums, and intense solar radiation. Applications include heat balance and temperature distribution studies, investigations of subsystem interactions, tests of attitude control equipment and sensors, and acceptance tests of complete systems

Symbolic interaction as the basis for rhetorical theory

Dissertation (Ph.D.)--University of Kansas, Speech and Drama, 1972

Securities Acts - Antifraud Provisions - Pension Plans - Sale of Security

The United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois has held that an employee\u27s acquisition of an interest in a union\u27s collectively bargained, defined-benefit pension plan, which was both involuntary and noncontributory, involved the sale of a security subject to the antifraud provisions of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Daniel v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters, 410 F. Supp. 541 (N.D. Ill. 1976)

A Call to Political and Social Activism: The Jeremiadic Discourse of Maria Miller Stewart, 1831-1833

This essay identifies the rhetorical strategies of Maria Miller Stewart’s Boston anti-slavery discourse as jeremiads that connected her religious, moral, political and social lamentations of the American democratic system and called her audiences to aid in the desensitizing of slavery and America prejudice. When she attempted to establish a common ground, the aim of Stewart’s jeremiads was to make her audiences conscious of the numerous social and political grievances within the African-American community. Stewart’s jeremiadic discourse called for the deterioration of American racism and sexism and provided an agency that constituted a form of resistance

“I am an Anarchist”: The Social Anarchism of Lucy E. Parsons

A determined advocate of socialism anarchism, Lucy E. Parsons believed that inequities in society stemmed from unequal power relations between government and the people. Parsons delivered powerful orations and had an enormous influence in world history in general and US labor history in particular. This essay raises two issues: Parsons’ view of human nature and the degree to which her ideas were rooted in a theory of historical progress. She maintained a staunch commitment to establishing and maintaining collective freedom and her allegiance was demonstrated by her perpetual critiques of any form of domination or subordination of the working class perpetrated by government

Evaluation of Adult Cottonwood Leaf Beetle, \u3ci\u3eChrysomela Scripta\u3c/i\u3e (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), Feeding Preference for Hybrid Poplars

Foliage from the Leuce section of Populus was rejected for feeding by Chrysomela scripta adults in a choice test involving 12 hybrid poplar clones. Adults showed a feeding preference for the foliage from the Tacamahaca clones when compared to the Aigeiros clones