Enabling Product Development and Other Life Cycle Processes

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Prospects for Professional Art and STEM Collaborations to Create STEAM Programs and Projects

Would STEAM project and program resources be better utilized through collaboration between STEM and Arts professionals or from creating STEAM from within the Arts and STEM disciplines organically? Four hundred nineteen STEM and Arts professionals from academia and industry were surveyed for their thoughts and opinions regarding STEAM, creating a unique data set. The data was analyzed using descriptive statistics and the inferential methods T-test, Chi-Squared and Multivariate Regression. Respondents reported a very small number of STEM (11%) and Arts (18.9%) professionals they know studied both STEM and Arts perform both equally in their careers. The majority of the STEM and Arts professionals they know either mostly or completely specialize within their respective career paths. Arts (92.3%) and STEM (82.6%) professionals reported they are receptive to collaborating for STEAM if approached, but approximately 66% of STEM and 59% of Arts respondents didn’t reach out. STEM and Arts professionals agree on many of the factors that make a collaboration successful. Selection of members with certain characteristics was reported as highly important to a successful collaboration. The number one reason for collaborating is because they wanted to. The number one reason for not collaborating was not being asked. The implication is collaboration is better than organic development of STEAM within a discipline. A successful STEAM Collaboration will be guided by a transdisciplinary convener who can initiate and facilitate important activities, such as vetting potential members, and cultivate over time the development of a transdisciplinary STEAM collaboration

Non-local dispersal

We consider a model of spatial spread that has applications in both material science and biology. The classical models are based upon partial differential equations, in particular reaction-diffusion equations. Here the dispersal term is given in terms of an integral operator and we restrict ourselves to the scalar case

Legal forms for common use in Georgia : embracing over four hundred approved precedents, for affidavits, agreements, bills of sale, deeds, notes, etc., etc., also, forms in judicial proceedings, arbitrations, attachments, orders, process, pleading, probate of deeds, rules, wills, etc., etc., with others to guide attorneys, magistrates, justices of the Inferior Court, constables, sheriffs, ordinaries, clerks, etc., etc., in the many duties required of them by law : to which is added an appendix containing the statutory provisions as to county officers, magistrates, and elections, the rules of court, and the Constitution of Georgia

Excerpt from the preface: The object of the present volume is to furnish the legal profession, magistrates, county officers, and private citizens of this State, with a plain, accurate, and complete Form Book, which shall be cheap in price, and convenient in size, and so arranged that any one, however ignorant of such formulas, can use it when the occasion presents itself. Added to the forms, in the body of the work, are such directions and suggestions as it was supposed would be useful. In the Appendix are the statutory enactments of our State in regard to county .officers, magistrates, taxes, and elections, together with the rules of Court and the Constitution of Georgia. As it would have altered the plan of the work to have attempted to digest the laws upon subjects not treated of, or to have added annotations of judicial decisions, it has not been done, although it no doubt would have proven an addition to the work. If need be, this could be added to any future edition. The original edition was published in Macon in 1853, met with a ready sale,- and was soon exhausted. This success led the author of the work to entertain the idea of another edition, and he had prepared some matter for it, but sold the copyright in 1854 to the present proprietor, without finishing the preparation necessary for it. This, and his decease in 1856, made it necessary for the present editor to complete the work. The reader is not expected to care much as to the paternity of the work, and hence no mark has been fixed by which the labors of the two compilers can be separated; the comparison of the two editions will, however, easily distinguish them. The forms given are such as have been approved by our Supreme or Superior Courts, or taken from the best books of precedents, and, in some cases, from models furnished by cases in Court, drawn by practitioners of the best position. Many of them were used in the office of my father for thirty years, in his extensive practice in Milledgeville and Macon, and his correctness and research will no doubt guaranty them in the estimation of the people of Georgia, among whom he he had so many warm personal friends and admirers. Albany, Georgia, July 1st, 1858.https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/historic_treat/1003/thumbnail.jp

IT Enabled Enterprise Transformation: Perspectives Using Product Data Management

Implementing a new information technology (IT) system often requires an enterprise to adopt many changes in order to exploit the full set of capabilities generated by the new system. However, the new IT system itself can often act as a barrier to change rather than as an enabler. The challenge in making sure that the new IT system serves as an enabler, rather than a barrier, to change requires the concurrent performance of three sets of activities with the aim of exploiting the synergies among them: redesign processes, develop and implement the system through a mix of internal talent and external suppliers, and involve the user community. Product Data Management (PDM) technology represents a substantial portion of the rather sizeable investment by industry in IT systems over the last decade. The selection, development, and deployment of PDM solutions were studied in the context of the aerospace industry, wherein data management (DM) is critical due to high product complexity and long system life cycles. A study of current PDM-related implementation experiences in nine different aerospace company sites highlights the difficulty in reaching PDM technology's full potential to deliver customer value. The timing of system implementation, the creation and composition of the team, and a willingness to overcome organizational inertia are the three most important factors in developing a solution that meets an organization’s needs. All three factors and the interactions across them are highlighted in the two case studies focusing on two companies designated as Aero Company and Space Company, respectively

A New Seismic Stratigraphy in the Indian-Atlantic Ocean Gateway Resembles Major Paleo-Oceanographic Changes of the Last 7 Ma

The exchange of water masses between the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic constitutes an integral interocean link in the global thermohaline circulation. Long‐term changes in deep water flow have been studied using seismic reflection profiles but the seismic stratigraphy was poorly constrained and not resolved for the time period from the late Miocene onward. Here we present results from International Ocean Discovery Program Site U1475 (Agulhas Plateau) located over a sediment drift proximal to the entrance of North Atlantic Deep Water into the Southern Ocean and South Indian Ocean. Site U1475 comprises a complete carbonate‐rich stratigraphic section of the last ~7 Ma that provides an archive of climate‐induced variations in ocean circulation. Six marker reflectors occurring in the upper 300 m of the drift are identified here for the first time. The formation of these reflectors is mainly due to density changes that are mostly caused by changes in biogenic versus terrigenous sediment deposition. Synthetic seismograms allow age assignments for the horizons based on biostratigraphy and magnetostratigraphy. Prominent reflectors are related to late Pleistocene glacial/interglacial variability, the middle and early Pleistocene transitions, and the onset of the northern hemisphere glaciation. A peculiar early Pliocene interval (~5.3–4.0 Ma) bounded by two reflectors is characterized by fourfold elevated sedimentation rates (>10 cm/kyr) and the occurrence of sediment waves. We argue that this enhanced sediment transport to the Agulhas Plateau was caused by a reorganization of the bottom current circulation pattern due to maximized inflow of North Atlantic Deep Water

A New Seismic Stratigraphy in the Indian-Atlantic Ocean Gateway Resembles Major Paleo-Oceanographic Changes of the Last 7 Ma

The exchange of water masses between the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic constitutes an integral interocean link in the global thermohaline circulation. Long‐term changes in deep water flow have been studied using seismic reflection profiles but the seismic stratigraphy was poorly constrained and not resolved for the time period from the late Miocene onward. Here we present results from International Ocean Discovery Program Site U1475 (Agulhas Plateau) located over a sediment drift proximal to the entrance of North Atlantic Deep Water into the Southern Ocean and South Indian Ocean. Site U1475 comprises a complete carbonate‐rich stratigraphic section of the last ~7 Ma that provides an archive of climate‐induced variations in ocean circulation. Six marker reflectors occurring in the upper 300 m of the drift are identified here for the first time. The formation of these reflectors is mainly due to density changes that are mostly caused by changes in biogenic versus terrigenous sediment deposition. Synthetic seismograms allow age assignments for the horizons based on biostratigraphy and magnetostratigraphy. Prominent reflectors are related to late Pleistocene glacial/interglacial variability, the middle and early Pleistocene transitions, and the onset of the northern hemisphere glaciation. A peculiar early Pliocene interval (~5.3–4.0 Ma) bounded by two reflectors is characterized by fourfold elevated sedimentation rates (>10 cm/kyr) and the occurrence of sediment waves. We argue that this enhanced sediment transport to the Agulhas Plateau was caused by a reorganization of the bottom current circulation pattern due to maximized inflow of North Atlantic Deep Water

Infinite-range Ising ferromagnet in a time-dependent transverse field: quench and ac dynamics near the quantum critical point

We study an infinite range ferromagnetic Ising model in the presence of a transverse magnetic field which exhibits a quantum paramagnetic-ferromagnetic phase transition at a critical value of the transverse field. In the thermodynamic limit, the low-temperature properties of this model are dominated by the behavior of a single large classical spin governed by an anisotropic Hamiltonian. Using this property, we study the quench and AC dynamics of the model both numerically and analytically, and develop a correspondence between the classical phase space dynamics of a single spin and the quantum dynamics of the infinite-range ferromagnetic Ising model. In particular, we compare the behavior of the equal-time order parameter correlation function both near to and away from the quantum critical point in the presence of a quench or AC transverse field. We explicitly demonstrate that a clear signature of the quantum critical point can be obtained by studying the AC dynamics of the system even in the classical limit. We discuss possible realizations of our model in experimental systems.Comment: Revtex4, 10 pages including 10 figures; corrected a sign error in Eq. 32; this is the final published versio