PROPERTY Mortgages, Liens, and Security: Provide Restrictions and Forms for Lien Waivers and Release

The Act makes null, void, and unenforceable any waiver of a right to claim a lien in advance of furnishing labor, services, or materials. Further, any lien waiver executed after commencement of a project, whether to induce a progress payment or final payment, must substantially follow the forms set forth in the Act. Within thirty days after entering into a lien waiver conditional on payment, an unpaid contractor must file an Affidavit of Nonpayment or else such amounts owed shall be deemed paid in full and the condition of payment satisfied

CRIMES AND OFFENSES Offenses Against Public Administration: Provide Definition of Bribery of a Public Official or Employee

The Act expands the class of people subject to the offense of bribery and provides a new definition of bribery. Public officials, whether elected or appointed, or employees of the state, any county or municipality or any agency, authority, or entity thereof, are subject to the Act. The Act provides that a public official or employee commits bribery when she solicits, accepts, or agrees to receive a thing of value by inducing the reasonable belief that the thing will influence her performance of any official action

CRIMES AND OFFENSES Offenses Against Public Administration: Provide Definition of Bribery of a Public Official or Employee

The Act expands the class of people subject to the offense of bribery and provides a new definition of bribery. Public officials, whether elected or appointed, or employees of the state, any county or municipality or any agency, authority, or entity thereof, are subject to the Act. The Act provides that a public official or employee commits bribery when she solicits, accepts, or agrees to receive a thing of value by inducing the reasonable belief that the thing will influence her performance of any official action

Fabric and Soft Materials Composites for Bio-Inspired Adhesives and Prosthetics

Adhesives have long been designed around a trade-off between adhesive strength and releasability. Within this spectrum, specialized materials have been designed to maximize adhesive ability for a given application. To overcome this trade-off, a new adhesive paradigm is required. Biologically inspired adhesives have been of interest over the past two decades, because organisms are seen using their adhesive pads to achieve high adhesive forces, while maintaining releasability and reusability. Many biological organisms possess microscopic fibrillar features on their toe-pads, which enables climbing. While much effort has been spent attempting to mimic these features, ultimately high force capacities have not been achieved. Recently, a new framework has been introduced which states that a specific surface morphology is not necessary for creating high force capacity, easy release adhesives. This framework states that for shear adhesives to achieve high force capacity, the ratio of contact area to compliance in the loading direction, A/C, must be increased. In this thesis we focus on expanding this framework to quantitatively understand both compliance and area, for a wide range of adhesive materials and geometries, and across a wide range of substrates with varying roughness. To increase the functionality of high strength, reusable adhesives, we have developed a new adhesive configuration which supports normal loading as well as shear loading. Finally, we expand to a new field, biological prosthetic materials, and develop fabric-based composites which are extremely tough, strong, and flexible, while containing water. The foundation of the work presented in this thesis is based upon an analytical model developed to calculate the compliance of fabricated adhesives (Chapter 2). Combining this knowledge with the previously developed scaling theory allows a high degree of accuracy in calculating force capacity. While this method works well for smooth surfaces such as glass, it assumes that the nominal pad area is equal to the true area of contact, which is not true on rough surfaces. A model is developed to calculate the true area of contact based on surface roughness and adhesive materials properties (Chapter 3). The results of this model demonstrate that there is an optimum pad modulus for any given surface roughness to achieve maximum stress capacity. In some situations, high strength and easy release adhesives are required in normal loading situations. We develop a new adhesive configuration which enables shear adhesives to support normal loads (Chapter 4). This method results in a six-fold increase in normal force capacity. This provides tolerance in adhesives applications, greatly improving the commercial utility of these adhesives. Finally, we use techniques learned from the fabrication of adhesives to develop composites from polyampholyte gels and glass fiber fabrics (Chapter 5). These materials exhibit enhanced properties over the controls, including extremely high toughness and strength, while maintaining flexibility and containing water. A general mechanism is explained that results in these improved properties, opening up opportunities to develop enhanced composites from fabrics and soft materials in other fields

PROPERTY Mortgages, Liens, and Security: Provide Restrictions and Forms for Lien Waivers and Release

The Act makes null, void, and unenforceable any waiver of a right to claim a lien in advance of furnishing labor, services, or materials. Further, any lien waiver executed after commencement of a project, whether to induce a progress payment or final payment, must substantially follow the forms set forth in the Act. Within thirty days after entering into a lien waiver conditional on payment, an unpaid contractor must file an Affidavit of Nonpayment or else such amounts owed shall be deemed paid in full and the condition of payment satisfied

Critical performativity in the field: Methodological principles for activist ethnographers

© The Author(s) 2017. It has been proposed that engagement with activism might make critical organizational scholarship more relevant to practitioners. However, there is a lack of systematic inquiry into how such engagement might be undertaken, which this article redresses. We propose activist ethnography as a suitable methodological framework for critical organizational scholarship, drawing on organizational ethnography, militant ethnography, and participatory action research, to construct a theoretical framework which we use to analyze four ethnographic vignettes of our own experiences of research with activists. Our contribution is to (a), assess the methodological challenges and opportunities of engagement with activism, (b) give an account of our own experiences as activist ethnographers for others to learn from, and (c) propose strategies whereby the challenges of academic activism might be negotiated and the opportunities maximized

Associations between the peer group and sex-role orientations among college-age men

Because research has identified that sex role orientation is flexible in response to environmental factors such as the peer group, the current study attempted to investigate whether sex-role orientation varies as a function of the peer group, operationalized by the type of institution (single-sex vs. co-educational) one attends. Using the Bern Sex Role Inventory (BSRI) as a measure of sexrole endorsement, researchers sampled male participants attending a small, single-sex, Mid-western liberal arts institution and male participants from a small, co-educational, Mid-western liberal arts institution. Sex-role orientations were differently distributed at the two institutions. Specifically, more masculine individuals were observed at the single-sex institution and more feminine individuals were observed at the co-educational institution. Implications and suggestions for future research will be discussed

Stellar Oxygen Abundances.V.Abundances of Two Hyades Dwarfs Derived from the 6300 Angstroms [OI] Line

We present observations of the 6300 Å [O I] spectral region in two cool Hyades dwarfs, vB 79 and vB 25. We derive a mean iron abundance, [Fe/H]˜+0.11, in good agreement with recent analyses of F and G Hyades dwarfs. The O abundance derived from spectrum synthesis, [O/H]˜+0.15, is between the values deduced by Garcia Lopez et al. (1993, ApJ, 412, 173; [O/H]=-0.05 to -0.10) and King (1993, Ph. D. Dissertation, University of Hawaii; [O/H]=+0.26), who employed the 7774 Å O I triplet in hotter Hyades dwarfs. An accounting of differences between these two 7774 Å analyses is given. Our [O I]-based determination suggests the Hyades O abundance itself is super-solar, though [O/Fe]˜0.0; however, systematic errors as large as 0.10-0.15 dex cannot be ruled out. The Hyades giants show an unexpected ˜0.23 dex O deficit relative to our dwarf value. While some suggestive evidence for non-standard nuclear processing and mixing in the Hyades giants may exist, we find it unconvincing. Rather, model atmosphere deficiencies or [O I] -region blending features that are still unrecognized by laboratory and theoretical efforts may contribute to the giant-dwarf O discrepancy. Finally, our high O abundance is marginally consistent with values claimed to provide a solution to the Hyades Li problem from standard stellar models. However, it is not clear that these models do in fact reproduce the extant Li data. Our Li abundance upper limit for vB 25 is at least 0.5 dex lower than the abundances of two tidally locked binaries of similar Teff. Standard stellar models of uniform composition and age are not able to reproduce such scatter in Li

NERVA irradiation program, GTR test 21. Volume 4 - Effect of radiation on structural materials tested at cryogenic and elevated temperatures

Effect of radiation on structural materials for NERVA engine tested at cryogenic and elevated temperatures - Vol.