2021 Labor Day Pow Wow

A photo of the annual Labor Day Pow Wow, which, as of 2021, is in its 40th year here at Pacific’s Stockton campus.https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/pac-2021/1016/thumbnail.jp

أوهام الإمام سفيان بن عيينة في الأسانيد

Misconception of narrators is one of the major reasons which influence the soundness of Hadīth and Invalidate the Narrators. Imam Sufyan bin oyaynah was one of the renowned and indulgent Muslim scholars of Hadīth. But sometimes, in narrating Hadīth he misinterprets and goes in contradiction to other narrators.&#x0D; This article attempts to analyze narrations of Imām Sufyan bin Oyaynah in which he misapprehends Hadīth chains. This study employed a critical and comparative research methodology for investigating misapprehend the Hadīth narrated by Imām sufyan. This study will contribute in the field of Hadīth and its sciences and will be beneficial for researchers and scholars of Hadīth.</jats:p

Utvecklingen av ett medelstort ICT-företags belöningssystem i ljuset av kontingensteorin

The aim of this work is to help a mid-sized ICT-company, "Alfa", reach its goals by finding solutions and recommendations for the implementation of a reward system, using modem theories regarding reward systems. The study is done as a case study. The research problems are: What kind of reward systems could be used to best suit a mid-sized ICT-company like Alfa? What aspects need to be considered in order to implement the most working solution possible for Alfa? The research problems are answered using literature review and two qualitative studies at the case company. The qualitative studies were executed as interviews of the personnel as well as participating observation and reading the company's documentation. The focus of the observation and interviews were how the case company is functioning in the light of Lawler's contingency theory and how the reward system is perceived to work by the personnel as well as the personnel's expectations of a new reward system. The literature review consists of depicting characters of expert- and project organizations, different forms of reward systems and theories about contingency with a focus on expert- and project organizations, as well as justice in reward systems and examples on reward systems in use and why it is so difficult to implement reward systems for ICT-companies. The objectives of this work were met. It is important that the reward system is compatible with other aspects of the organization such as the strategy and goals. Alfa must first and foremost clarify its strategy. On Alfa effort should be put on developing intrinsic rewards as they best influence the internal motivation in this expert organization but also performance pay is needed to boost productivity. The reward system should support cooperation and meet the criteria of perceived justice. Special rewards and "smorgasbords" can be implemented to better reward individual performance. For best results and perceived functionality the personnel should participate in the implementation of the reward system

Hopewell Beneficial CO2 Capture for Production of Fuels, Fertilizer and Energy

For Phase 1 of this project, the Hopewell team developed a detailed design for the Small Scale Pilot-Scale Algal CO2 Sequestration System. This pilot consisted of six (6) x 135 gallon cultivation tanks including systems for CO2 delivery and control, algal cultivation, and algal harvesting. A feed tank supplied Hopewell wastewater to the tanks and a receiver tank collected the effluent from the algal cultivation system. The effect of environmental parameters and nutrient loading on CO2 uptake and sequestration into biomass were determined. Additionally the cost of capturing CO2 from an industrial stack emission at both pilot and full-scale was determined. The engineering estimate evaluated Amine Guard technology for capture of pure CO2 and direct stack gas capture and compression. The study concluded that Amine Guard technology has lower lifecycle cost at commercial scale, although the cost of direct stack gas capture is lower at the pilot scale. Experiments conducted under high concentrations of dissolved CO2 did not demonstrate enhanced algae growth rate. This result suggests that the dissolved CO2 concentration at neutral pH was already above the limiting value. Even though dissolved CO2 did not show a positive effect on biomass growth, controlling its value at a constant set-point during daylight hours can be beneficial in an algae cultivation stage with high algae biomass concentration to maximize the rate of CO2 uptake. The limited enhancement of algal growth by CO2 addition to Hopewell wastewater was due at least in part to the high endogenous CO2 evolution from bacterial degradation of dissolved organic carbon present at high levels in the wastewater. It was found that the high level of bacterial activity was somewhat inhibitory to algal growth in the Hopewell wastewater. The project demonstrated that the Honeywell automation and control system, in combination with the accuracy of the online pH, dissolved O2, dissolved CO2, turbidity, Chlorophyll A and conductivity sensors is suitable for process control of algae cultivation in an open pond systems. This project concluded that the Hopewell wastewater is very suitable for algal cultivation but the potential for significant CO2 sequestration from the plant stack gas emissions was minimal due to the high endogenous CO2 generation in the wastewater from the organic wastewater content. Algae cultivation was found to be promising, however, for nitrogen remediation in the Hopewell wastewater