Termination And Discipline Procedures, Disputes Procedures & Work Evaluation

This series of paper examines industrial issues from a nonprofit management perspective

Biblical Warrior Integration Connecting Veterans and Civilians in Oakland Baptist Church

As a small, less than a 150-member church, located close to Robins Air Force Base in Georgia, Oakland Baptist Church struggles to fully integrate veterans and civilians within the congregational setting. The author studied biblical postwar rituals and used them to design the Biblical Warrior Integration model to enhance the relational connectivity between veterans and civilians. It was congregation-based and relationship-focused. It helped to heal misunderstandings and neglect between veterans and civilians. Also, it was biblically based and reflected a modern application of biblical postwar rituals identified within the biblical text. Thirty of the 150 members of Oakland Baptist Church were veterans, COVID-19 restrictions limited the number of participants and the methods used. The author conducted a survey of the adult population of the church to determine the relational connectivity between the veterans and the civilians. Then, he interviewed fifteen veteran participants to help them express their warrior experiences. Next, some of the veteran participants volunteer to produce a short veteran testimony that the author posted on the church’s Facebook page. The congregation members viewed the veteran testimonies to hear and better understand the warrior experiences of the veterans. Finally, the author captured the church’s response to its veterans with an exit survey. Though the Biblical Warrior integration project only focused on one of the biblical postwar rituals, storytelling, the project enhanced the relational connectivity between veterans and civilians in Oakland Baptist Church

Silicon device performance measurements to support temperature range enhancement

Semiconductor power devices are typically rated for operation below 150 C. Little data is known for power semiconductors over 150 C. In most cases, the device is derated to zero operating power at 175 C. At the high temperature end of the temperature range, the intrinsic carrier concentration increases to equal the doping concentration level and the silicon behaves as an intrinsic semiconductor. The increase in intrinsic carrier concentration results in a shift of the Fermi level toward mid-bandgap at elevated temperatures. This produces a shift in devices characteristics as a function of temperature. By increasing the doping concentration higher operating temperatures can be achieved. This technique was used to fabricate low power analog and digital devices in silicon with junction operating temperatures in excess of 300 C. Additional temperature effects include increased p-n junction leakage with increasing temperature, resulting in increased resistivity. The temperature dependency of physical properties results in variations in device characteristics. These must be quantified and understood in order to develop extended temperature range operation

Barbara J. Bachmann; Henry Branch Howe, Jr.

Obituaries for Barbara J. Bachmann, Ph.D. 1924-1999, and Henry Branch Howe, Jr. Ph D. 1924-1998

Silicon device performance measurements to support temperature range enhancement

Characterization results of a MOS controlled thyristor (MCTA60P60) are presented. This device is rated for 60A and for an anode to cathode voltage of -600 V. As discussed in the last report, the MCT failed during 500 V leakage tests at 200 C. In contrast to the BJT (bipolar junction transistor), MOSFET, and IGBT (insulated gate bipolar transistor) devices tested, the breakdown voltage of the MCT decreases significantly with increasing temperature

Subcritical Flow at Open Channel Structures Open Channel Expansions

Analyzing the hydraulics of open channel constrictions has been modified to allow the analysis of energy loss in open channel expansions. The modified technique has been compared with previous methods of analysis using data collected in the laboratory on open channel expansions with vertical walls, and triangular-shaped baffles. Also, a design procedure for such baffled outlet structures has been developed

Genetic and phenotypic variation among fox squirrels in eastern North Carolina

The longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill) ecosystem serves as habitat for the eastern fox squirrel (Sciurus niger L) in the southeastern United States and has been reduced in size and fragmented. Fragmentation often leads to loss of genetic diversity and an increase in population structure of species. To determine if this is happening in the fox squirrels of North Carolina, five microsatellite loci and phenotypic variation were used to compare geographic variation among fox squirrel populations. Fox squirrels showed a low level of population subdivision indicated by FST values of 0.010 to 0.017. In contrast, FIS values were higher (0.222 to 0.230) indicating that inbreeding could be causing a loss of genetic diversity. Linear regression showed a positive correlation between individual weight and longitude and ANOVA analysis revealed squirrels were significantly heavier and shorter west of 78°W longitude, which runs just east of Wilmington N.C. North Carolina fox squirrels were found to be less heterozygous than those of the Midwestern United States, and one locus (FO-41) showed a major decrease in heterozygosity since 1983. Future management of fox squirrels should focus on maintaining habitat and population numbers sufficient to avoid inbreeding. Introducing individuals from other areas may help to increase overall genetic diversity which should also conserve the overall fitness of North Carolina's fox squirrels as it has with other species

Sanitary examination of the water supplies of the Vigo County schools

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Mainstreaming Gender and Complexity: An Introduction for Research Design

Gendered approaches to risk management are relevant to male, female and non-binary identities, from all areas, including marginalised communities and are a central concern in meeting the Hub’s goal of making urban development resilient to multiple disasters in ways that enhance equity and social justice. The Hub strategy is to mainstream gender into all aspects of research, impact and capacity building activity. The Hub’s Gender Champion will support this process through advising City and Research College teams on: (1) Making our research gender sensitive: how gender and other forms of social discrimination and difference can be highlighted in research methods, analysis and dissemination for impactful changes. (2) Making project management gender sensitive: how the ways in which we undertake research (employing staff, staff development, research roles and leadership) can enable gender and other equity. The Hub takes coproduction and leadership by city partners seriously as agents for transition and impact of themselves. For this reason, we do not pre-determine content for gender strategy. However, the vision of the Gender Champion, who will strongly influence this, encourages three entry points for mainstreaming. These entry points, presented in this article, should be considered during project design and implementation through MEL systems for both research and management. We present these now to indicate the trajectory of gender sensitive research within the Hub

Silicon device performance measurements to support temperature range enhancement

The results of the NPN bipolar transistor (BJT) (2N6023) breakdown voltage measurements were analyzed. Switching measurements were made on the NPN BJT, the insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) (TA9796) and the N-channel metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET) (RFH75N05E). Efforts were also made to build a H-bridge inverter. Also discussed are the plans that have been made to do life testing on the devices, to build an inductive switching test circuit and to build a dc/dc switched mode converter