Successful Naval Strategy in the Pacific: How We Are Achieving It. How We Can Afford It

In his classic review of modern strategic thinkers, Peter Paret wrote that successful strategic thought is inevitably highly pragmatic. This fact gives the history of strategy its unique rhythm of alternating success and failure. The innovations of one generation decline into the dogma of the next. The insights that assure success in one era become the blinders that bring failure a generation later

Sexual Harassment In The Workplace: Europe

Rebecca McDonald returned to her office in Leverkusen Germany still angry from her meeting with Bertina Knies in Human Resources.  Rebecca had presented an open-and-shut sexual harassment complaint, clearly supported both by company policies and the Law,  and Frau Knies had not only refused to do anything about it, but had not very politely insinuated that the whole thing was Rebecca’s fault.  The next step would probably be to appeal to Human Resources back in Detroit, since the Germans clearly had no understanding of the way things should work in a modern society

PROPOSED END OF PEANUT QUOTA PROGRAM: ECONOMIC EFFECTS ON VIRGINIA PRODUCERS

Agricultural and Food Policy, Crop Production/Industries,

Efficiencies of ingestion and assimilation by an invertebrate predator using C and P dual isotope labeling

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In Memoriam : W. Thomas Edmondson (1916–2000)

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Study of Surface Tension, Natural Evaporation, and Subcooled Boiling Evaporation of Aqueous Surfactant Solutions

The relation between surface tension and surfactant concentration and its effect on solution evaporation under natural convection and subcooled pool boiling is examined through experimental methods. Aqueous solutions of sodium lauryl sulfate (SLS), ECOSURFTM EH-14, and ECOSURFTM SA-9 are used in this study. SLS is an anionic surfactant while EH-14 and SA-9 are environmentally-friendly nonionic surfactants. Surfactants, surface active agents, are known to affect evaporation performance of solutions and are studied in relation to water loss prevention and heat dissipation. Surfactants could be useful under drought conditions which present challenges to water management on a yearly basis in arid areas of the world. Recent water scarcity in the greater Los Angeles area, south eastern Africa nations, eastern Australia and eastern Mediterranean countries has highlighted the cost of water loss by evaporation. Surfactants are studied as a potential effective method of suppressing evaporation in water reservoirs and lowering associated human suffering and costs. Surfactants are also studied as performance enhancers for the working fluid of heat dissipation devices, such as pulsating heat pipes used for electronics cooling. Some surfactants have been shown to lower thermal resistances and friction pressure in such devices and thereby increase their efficiency

Good Professor Edmondson

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The effect of forced ventilation with high moisture air on bulk loads of snap beans

Snap beans (Phaseolus Vulgaris) often experience loss of quality during transport to market. An apparatus designed to simulate conditions encountered by snap beans during transport was used in this study. Efforts were made to establish the effectiveness of forced ventilation with high moisture air in reducing this loss of quality. The study consisted of six tests. Each test was conducted as follows. Freshly harvested beans were used to fill two containers. One received forced air ventilation; the other did not. After 24 hours, the beans were removed and evaluated in terms of texture, color, and moisture content. The weight lost during the 24 hour period was also determined. During the tests, the psychrometric properties of the ventilating and surrounding air were determined. The temperature of the beans in each container was also measured. Forced ventilation with high moisture air was found to be highly effective in cooling beans, without excessive dehydration. The parameters used as indicators of quality were not shown to be significantly improved by the use of forced ventilation under the conditions experienced during this study

Hypolimnetic metabolism in Lake Washington: Relative effects of nutrient load and food web structure on lake productivity

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The Roles of Architect and Contractor in Construction Management

For the architect and building contractor the most significant aspect of modern commercial construction may not be the design but rather the management, consisting of coordination and administration, of large-scale building projects. Despite the importance of construction management, especially in mammoth and complex projects such as New York\u27s World Trade Center, legislatures have been slow to respond to the needs and practices of the construction industry. Although the skills involved indicate that the role of construction manager is more appropriately assumed by a contractor, the laws of several states provide that only a licensed architect can take responsible charge of construction. Legislatures should recognize that the performance of construction management may include the assumption of some obligations traditionally assigned by law to the exclusive domain of the architect. Moreover, it would appear from a cursory view of actual practices that professionals other than architects are acting in the role of construction manager. If legislatures are concerned with the actual needs and practices of the architectural profession, and their enacting of licensing statutes indicates that such is the case, legislatures should clarify the various licensing statutes to take account of these adjustments in the architect\u27s role in construction