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State of the Library, 2010
Provides a summary of the last year at the UIUC University Library and looks ahead to future challenges and opportunitiesunpublishednot peer reviewe
Carpe Diem: Transforming Services in Academic Libraries
Amid a global economic crisis and spurred, in my country, by a great influx of funding intended to stimulate the economy quickly, librarians are confronted by other factors that could have transformative powers ??? if they choose to seize the opportunity. This paper focuses on the future of academic library services and the opportunities that await those who reject hunkering down in troubled times.unpublishednot peer reviewe
Orientation of particle attachment and local isotropy in diffusion limited aggregation (DLA)
We simulate 50 off-lattice DLA clusters, one million particles each. The
probability distribution of the angle of attachment of arriving particles with
respect to the local radial direction is obtained numerically. For increasing
cluster size, , the distribution crosses over extremely accurately to a
cosine, whose amplitude decreases towards zero as a power-law in . From this
viewpoint, asymptotically large DLA clusters are locally . This
contradicts previous conclusions drawn from density-density correlation
measurements [P. Meakin, and T. Viscek, Phys. Rev. A {\bf 32}, 685 (1985)]. We
present an intuitive phenomenological model random process for our numerical
findings.Comment: 10 pages, RevTex 3.0, 11-9
Evidence for the existence of new processes at energies above 2 times 10 11 eV
Cosmic ray flux measurements using calorimeter
Analyses of vaporization in liquid uranium bearing systems at very high temperatures
Liquid uranium bearing material as heat exchanger for hydrogen gas - vaporization analyses at very high temperature
Extended Defects in the Potts-Percolation Model of a Solid: Renormalization Group and Monte Carlo Analysis
We extend the model of a 2 solid to include a line of defects. Neighboring
atoms on the defect line are connected by ?springs? of different strength and
different cohesive energy with respect to the rest of the system. Using the
Migdal-Kadanoff renormalization group we show that the elastic energy is an
irrelevant field at the bulk critical point. For zero elastic energy this model
reduces to the Potts model. By using Monte Carlo simulations of the 3- and
4-state Potts model on a square lattice with a line of defects, we confirm the
renormalization-group prediction that for a defect interaction larger than the
bulk interaction the order parameter of the defect line changes discontinuously
while the defect energy varies continuously as a function of temperature at the
bulk critical temperature.Comment: 13 figures, 17 page
Minimum Wage Channels of Adjustment
The economic impact of the 2007-2009 increases in the federal minimum wage (MW) is analyzed using a sample of quick-service restaurants in Georgia and Alabama. Store-level biweekly payroll records for individual employees are used, allowing us to precisely measure the MW compliance cost for each restaurant. We examine a broad range of adjustment channels in addition to employment, including hours, prices, turnover, training, performance standards, and non-labor costs. Exploiting variation in the cost impact of the MW across restaurants, we find no significant effect of the MW increases on employment or hours over the three years. Cost increases were instead absorbed through other channels of adjustment, including higher prices, lower profit margins, wage compression, reduced turnover, and higher performance standards. These findings are compared with MW predictions from competitive, monopsony, and institutional/behavioral models; the latter appears to fit best in the short run.minimum wages, employment, labor market adjustments, labor market theories
Thermal finite-element analysis of space shuttle main engine turbine blade
Finite-element, transient heat transfer analyses were performed for the first-stage blades of the space shuttle main engine (SSME) high-pressure fuel turbopump. The analyses were based on test engine data provided by Rocketdyne. Heat transfer coefficients were predicted by performing a boundary-layer analysis at steady-state conditions with the STAN5 boundary-layer code. Two different peak-temperature overshoots were evaluated for the startup transient. Cutoff transient conditions were also analyzed. A reduced gas temperature profile based on actual thermocouple data was also considered. Transient heat transfer analyses were conducted with the MARC finite-element computer code
Joining techniques for fabrication of composite air-cooled turbine blades and vanes
Activated diffusion brazing studies of joining methods for composite air-cooled turbine blade and vane fabricatio
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