Ethical Dimensions of Dyadic Communication for Chairs

At the center of a Chairpersons responsibilities is their dyadic relations with others. Perhaps more than any other university position, the Chairperson facilitates their duties through one-on-one relationships with students, administrators, staff, and other faculty. These dyadic relationships often create ethical dilemmas because the decisions that must be made in in the context of one dyadic relationship can conflict with another dyadic relationship. This discussion will be facilitated by two presenters: One is a Chairperson of 7 Communication faculty, and the other is an Adjunct Professor in a department of 5 faculty in the Department of Academic Enrichment and Learning. Both presenters will raise various ethical dimensions of dyadic relationships of Chairs, including: advising, registering students for courses, assigning teaching duties, allocating funding, evaluating performance, and selecting channels of communication

Optical stark effect in the 2-photon spectrum of NO

A large optical Stark effect has been observed in the two-photon spectrum X(2)Pi yields A(2)Sigma(+)_ in NO. It is explained as a near-resonant process in which the upper state of the two-photon transition is perturbed by interactions with higher-lying electronic states coupled by the laser field. A theoretical analysis is presented along with coupling parameters determined from ab initio wave functions. The synthetic spectrum reproduces the major experimental features

Magnetosonic solitons in a dusty plasma slab

The existence of magnetosonic solitons in dusty plasmas is investigated. The nonlinear magnetohydrodynamic equations for a warm dusty magnetoplasma are thus derived. A solution of the nonlinear equations is presented. It is shown that, due to the presence of dust, static structures are allowed. This is in sharp contrast to the formation of the so called shocklets in usual magnetoplasmas. A comparatively small number of dust particles can thus drastically alter the behavior of the nonlinear structures in magnetized plasmas.Comment: 7 pages, 6 figure

The Broiler-Corn Ratio: Is it an Indicator of Fattened Broiler Profits?

As consumers eat healthier and obesity concerns increase, the poultry industry continues growth in sales and revenues. Data reflect ten years of broiler prices, exports, egg and chick production, cold storage stocks, company earnings and stock price. Expected results suggest a broiler-corn ratio is an indicator of company profits.Livestock Production/Industries,

Economic evaluation of the treatment of grade II haemorrhoids : a comparison of stapled haemorrhoidopexy and rubber band ligation.

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A Comparative Assessment of the Broiler:Corn Ratio and Its Impact on Broiler Processors' Profitability

Input prices for broiler production, particularly corn, are becoming increasingly volatile due to increasing competition for corn from ethanol and biofuels production suggesting volatility in poultry profits will follow indicator of profits relating feed input prices and broiler meat output prices, such as a Broiler:corn ratios. Total chicken exports, total chicken ready-to-cook production, number of eggs set, number of chicks placed, and cold storage chicken inventory are used to estimate. Utilizing a distributed lag model, seventeen years of data for three Broiler:corn ratios, broiler exports, egg set, chick placements, cold storage stocks, and ready-to-cook broiler production were utilized to estimate stock share price for four major broiler producers.Demand and Price Analysis, Livestock Production/Industries,

Alternative Model Selection Using Forecast Error Variance Decompositions in Wholesale Chicken Markets

Although Vector Autoregressive models are commonly used to forecast prices, specification of these models remains an issue. Questions that arise include choice of variables and lag length. This article examines the use of Forecast Error Variance Decompositions to guide the econometrician’s model specification. Forecasting performance of Variance Autoregressive models, generated from Forecast Error Variance Decompositions, is analyzed within wholesale chicken markets. Results show that the Forecast Error Variance Decomposition approach has the potential to provide superior model selections to traditional Granger Causality tests.broiler markets, DAGs, forecasting, market structure, VAR, Agribusiness, Demand and Price Analysis, Livestock Production/Industries, Risk and Uncertainty, C53, D4, L1, Q00,

Shuttle/TDRSS modelling and link simulation study

A Shuttle/TDRSS S-band and Ku-band link simulation package called LinCsim was developed for the evaluation of link performance for specific Shuttle signal designs. The link models were described in detail and the transmitter distortion parameters or user constraints were carefully defined. The overall link degradation (excluding hardware degradations) relative to an ideal BPSK channel were given for various sets of user constraint values. The performance sensitivity to each individual user constraint was then illustrated. The effect of excessive Spacelab clock jitter on the return link BER performance was also investigated as was the problem of subcarrier recovery for the K-band Shuttle return link signal

'Square peg- round hole': the emerging professional identities of HE in FE lecturersworking in a partner college network in south-west England

The professional status of further education lecturers has been widely debated and contested within the published literature. This article presents the results of a series of semi-structured interviews undertaken with a small sample of college lecturers working within a partner college network in south-west England. Regardless of the level of the higher/further education teaching the lecturers identities remain strongly rooted in their role as teachers and commitment to supporting learners attain their educational ambitions. The lecturers’ identities were in a state of flux due to the dual demands of their employer (the college) and collaborating institution (the university). Their shifting identities may only be mediated through wider recognition being afforded to the role of a higher education lecturer working in a further education college from their managers, universities and supporting bodies. Keywords: professional identity; higher education; further educatio

Ionization And Charge Exchange In Multiply-charged-ion-helium Collisions At Intermediate Energies

A Bohr classical model for He is applied to multiply charged ions colliding with He at intermediate energies. Reactions studied are single-electron capture, single and double ionization, and electron-capture ionization for projectile charge states q=1+ to 100+, and the energy range E=1-5 MeV/amu. The dominant electron-removal collision process is single ionization. For the higher-charge-state ions, single-charge exchange is found to be primarily due to transfer ionization, a two-electron process where one electron is ionized and the other is captured by the projectile. For low-charge states, the single- and double-ionization cross sections are close to the expected q2 and q4 scaling. The calculations are in reasonable agreement with available experimental data. © 1987 The American Physical Society