MARKETING STRATEGIES FOR THE NEW MILLENNIUM

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Unemployment in Omaha in Relation to the Armour Closing

On September 29, 1967, Armour and. Company announced that effective six months from that date, the Omaha Armour plant would be closed, displacing a labor force of approximately 2, 200 workers. This statement, announcing the closing of the third meatpacking firm in Omaha within the past two years, was startling and indicative of far- reaching consequences for Omaha, its people and economy. Numerous social agencies, along with the Chamber of Commerce and the Nebraska Employment Service, became involved in joining together in a united effort through the development of their own organization-- ACT, the Armour Coordinating Team. ACT is an ad hoc committee designed to assess and coordinate support for solution to the anticipated problems inherent in a mass lay-off

Surviving Job Loss: Paper Makers in Maine and Minnesota

Root and Park examine the plight of long-tenured workers displaced from two paper mills—their paths to reemployment, retirement decisions, and the personal struggles they confront.https://research.upjohn.org/up_press/1255/thumbnail.jp

Creating Discursive Spaces to Promote Productive Discourse and Dissuading Sectarianism in Online Political Enclaves on TikTok

Over the last ten years social media has emerged as a major space for political discussion and the dissemination of information. On open platforms such Twitter, TikTok, and Instagram, algorithms personalize each user’s experience and tailor the posts they see to their specific interests and tastes. What this eventually leads to are echo chambers or discursive enclaves centered around anything from history to mental illness to extreme political ideologies. Within these enclaves, users almost exclusively see and interact with content that aligns with their group’s interest, and in the case of political enclaves this can and does lead to further radicalization and a distancing from productive discourse. While productive discourse is difficult in these situations, it is not impossible. In the following thesis, I demonstrate my attempt to take an active role in examining these unique discursive spaces that are forming to develop a method for both observing and circulating constructive content within such a space. In particular, I will be detailing my experience participating and circulating content within a leftist political enclave that has formed on TikTok, a video sharing platform similar to Twitter but instead of brief text-based posts, users share and interact with brief, 1–3-minute video clips. In order to perform this task, I created my own TikTok account geared towards sharing clips from scholarly lectures given by influential leftist scholars. Lengthy and complex lectures were broken down by individual argument and circulated online within the existing leftist community on TikTok. The overarching goal of the project was to create a space within an already existing online community where productive content can be shared and productive conversations can be had. The thesis begins as a semi-autoethnographic account of the development of the digital media experiment in order to demonstrate how the methods of such a project developed through my personal experience on social media. Following the introduction is a description of the theory that guides the background of the project and finally I conclude with the results of the project

Omaha Unemployment Feasibility Study: Final Report

The research reported here was designed to test the feasibility of a practical approach to the reduction of unemployment, particularly among Negroes. The need for the particular kind of emphasis used in this approach was recently stated by the director of the U.S. Employment Service in pointing out the need to obtain more understanding of the things that make the community tick, that keep it from solving its problems, and that lead to the discovery of the real barriers to coordination..

A study of the organization of school districts served by the Dickinson County Community High School

Call number: LD2668 .R4 1963 R78

Emerging neurotechnologies for lie-detection: promises and perils

Detection of deception and confirmation of truth telling with conventional polygraphy raised a host of technical and ethical issues. Recently, newer methods of recording electromagnetic signals from the brain show promise in permitting the detection of deception or truth telling. Some are even being promoted as more accurate than conventional polygraphy. While the new technologies raise issues of personal privacy, acceptable forensic application, and other social issues, the focus of this paper is the technical limitations of the developing technology. Those limitations include the measurement validity of the new technologies, which remains largely unknown. Another set of questions pertains to the psychological paradigms used to model or constrain the target behavior. Finally, there is little standardization in the field, and the vulnerability of the techniques to countermeasures is unknown. Premature application of these technologies outside of research settings should be resisted, and the social conversation about the appropriate parameters of its civil, forensic, and security use should begin

Bioethics and the Brain

Microelectronics and medical imaging are bringing us closer to a world where mind reading is possible and blindness banished - but we may not want to live there. New ways of imaging the human brain and new developments in microelectronics are providing unprecedented capabilities for monitoring the brain in real time and even for controlling brain function. The technologies are novel, but some of the questions that they will raise are not. Electrical activity in the brain can reveal the contents of a person\u27s memory. New imaging techniques might allow physician to detect devastating diseases long before those diseases become clinically apparent. And researchers may one day find brain activity that correlates with behavior patterns such as tendencies toward alcoholism, aggression, pedophilia, or racism. But how reliable will the information be, how should it be used, and what will it do to our notion of privacy? Meanwhile, microelectronics is making access to the brain a two-way street. The same electrical stimulation technologies that allow some deaf people to hear could be fashioned to control behavior as well. What are the appropriate limits to the use of this technology? Ethicists are only now beginning to take note of these developments in neuroscience

Laser Welding of Complex Phase and Dual Phase Advanced High Strength Steels - The Effects that Welding has on Microstructure and Formability

To assist in the successful applications of tailor-welded assemblies made from advanced high strength steel (AHSS), there needs to be a thorough understanding of how laser welding process parameters influences the weld cross-section profile, mechanical properties, global formability and local formability performance of the base metal. This study investigates microstructure formability correlation of fiber laser welds of an un-coated complex phase (CP) AHSS and a hot dipped galvannealed (HDGA) dual phase (DP) AHSS. Both steels were developed to have a minimum tensile strength of 980 MPa, a minimum yield strength of 590 MPa and a minimum total elongation of 12% in the material’s transverse direction - 90° to the material’s rolling direction. Tensile tests, limiting dome height (LDH) tests, bi-axial stretch tests, forming-strain analyses, and hole expansion tests (HET) were used to compare base metal (BM) samples to laser welded samples. The LDH and bi-axial stretch tests showed that, for both materials, the global formability of the welded samples was lower than that of the base metal. For the CP 980 steel, observations during global formability were correlated to the martensitic dominant regions within the weld’s heat affected zone (HAZ). The welds resisted strain during forming, forcing the surrounding material to accommodate for the restriction. The failure propagated through the path which had the highest about of strain. For the CP steel, this path was through the BM, perpendicular to the welds. Hole expansion tests (HET) showed that the welds significantly decreased the local formability of the BM. Failure during HET initiated in, and propagated along, the weld HAZ. This was correlated to the microstructures created in the HAZ which were more sensitive to edge stretch failure as compared to the microstructure of the BM. For the DP 980 steel, observations during global formability tests were correlated to the larger soft region within the weld’s HAZ. During forming, strain localized in this zone and caused the material to fail. The failure propagated along the length of the weld which was the path containing the highest about of strain. HET showed that the welds only slightly decreased the local formability of the BM. The failure during HET initiated, and propagated, in the BM rather than the weld. This was correlated to the microstructures created in the HAZ which were less sensitive to edge stretch failure as compared to the microstructure of the BM