Self-healing fuse

Fast-acting current limiting device provides current overload protection for vulnerable circuit elements and then re-establishes conduction path within milliseconds. Fuse can also perform as fast-acting switch to clear transient circuit overloads. Fuse takes advantage of large increase in electrical resistivity that occurs when liquid metal vaporizes

Examination of Pre-Service and In-Service School-Based Agricultural Educators International Professional Development Experience in Malaysia

Globally competent educators and learners are needed to develop a globally competent workforce and society. To address this need, pre-service and in-service school-based agricultural education teachers from Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin embarked on a four-week international professional development experience in Malaysia (i.e. #AgEd2Malaysia) learning and interacting with Malaysian life skills pre-service educators. Three institutions: Pennsylvania State University, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, and Hawkeye Community College engaged six pre-service and six in-service school-based agricultural education teachers from the United States with their counterparts in Malaysia. #AgEd2Malaysia participants were exposed to agricultural education, production agriculture, policy, religion, and culture in Malaysia. While experiences are important, reflection on those experiences is when true growth occurs. United States pre-service and in-service school-based agricultural education teachers utilized the TIPS (Thing, Idea, People, and Self) reflective journaling method to gain insight into the theme of each day. Journal entries were coded and themes were analyzed. The primary purpose of this study was to describe daily experiences of pre-service and in-service SBAE teachers from the United States participating in a four-week professional development experience in Malaysia. United States pre-service and in-service school-based agricultural education teachers identified growth in pedagogy, curriculum content, cultural awareness, self-awareness, and more as a result of the international professional development experience

Time, Space, and Sanctity in the Early South English Legendary

This thesis studies one of the earliest extant and most important manuscripts of the extensive and widely circulated Middle English hagiographical collection conventionally known as the South English Legendary. Asserting that the organisational principles of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 108 are no less conscious than later SEL manuscripts and are in fact frequently more complex and involved in MS L than in other SEL manuscripts, this thesis offers a detailed reading of MS L’s structure and compositional templates. Moreover, rather than seeking to force MS L to conform to “normal” SEL patterns, this thesis examines MS L on its own terms. Arguing that MS L is not merely an early, erratic witness to the evolution of the SEL, the thesis demonstrates that MS L is part of a branch of the SEL stemma that includes Winchester College 33A. With special emphasis on the legend of Sancta Crux, a new approach to MS L’s texts is presented based upon the Bakhtinian narrative theories of the chronotope, heteroglossia, and dialogism. In addition, I argue that MS L adheres to liturgical or “horizontal” time far more than scholars previously have suggested and that it also incorporates spiritual or “vertical” time in a number of its texts. Furthermore, the characteristics of “recreation,” “re-creation,” “naming,” and “re-naming” in MS L’s texts are discussed in relation to medieval church dedication practices and modernist literary theory, particularly that of Gertrude Stein. I also conjecture a possible audience for MS L and discuss intrinsic and extrinsic textual communities

Forage Yield and Carbohydrate Content of Underground Parts of Grasses As Affected By Clipping

The experimental sites were located on the Fort Hays Kansas State College farm about 2.5 miles west of Hays. Three plots were staked out in May, 1951, in relatively6 pure stands of each of the grasses to be studies. Two plots consisted of 9 square meter quadrats each and one contained 5 quadrats. The short grass area had not been grazed for about 10 years and the western wheat grass and big bluestem relict areas had never been grazed by domestic livestock. The control quadrats were clipped about 0.5 inch above the soil in the late all of each year in order to obtain yield

Ministry in Medicine: Patient Perceptions of Healthcare Professionals Praying in the Workplace

In the United States healthcare system, many patients practice prayer which causes healthcare providers to navigate the boundaries of patient-practitioner relationship when considering offering to pray with their patients. Practitioners should have the freedom to offer prayer to their patients because of the healing and calming properties of prayer. This study examines how patients respond when practitioners offer to pray with them, whether patients consider religion when selecting a healthcare provider, and if prayer from a provider with a religious affiliation different from their own impacts the desire for patients to accept prayer

Stereoselective synthesis of five- and six-membered carbocycles via Matteson homologation/ring closing metathesis

The Matteson homologation is found to be a versatile tool for the stereoselective synthesis of polyunsaturated alkyl boronic esters, which are excellent precursors for the construction of five- and six-membered carbocycles via ring-closing metathesis. The high diversity of the Matteson reaction allows for the preparation of highly substituted cyclic boronic esters, which are also suitable for further homologations

Self-healing fuse development

The mercury-filled self-healing fuses developed for this program afford very good protection from circuit faults with rapid reclosure. Fuse performance and design parameters have been characterized. Life tests indicate a capability of 500 fuse operations. Fuse ratings are 150 v at 5, 15, 25 and 50 circuit A. A series of sample fuses using alumina and beryllia insulation have been furnished to NASA for circuit evaluation