Financial fragility and regional economic growth

An examination of the potential link between local financial problems and regional economic growth, discussing how the health of the financial sector can affect economic performance when credit markets are segmented along regional lines.Credit ; Regional economics

Does small business need a financial fix?

An evaluation of several proposals that would promote additional lending to the small business sector, some through direct government intervention and others by changing existing regulations to promote the market's allocation of credit. The authors argue that market-oriented initiatives are the preferred approach for improving a small-business credit crunch.Small business

Letter from the Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum to Otto Amsler

A letter to Otto Amsler thanking him for donating an insignia of the 82nd Division, American Expeditionary Forces from World War I.https://digitalcommons.northgeorgia.edu/alumni/1007/thumbnail.jp

Ionization Of H And He+ By Electrons And Positrons Colliding At Near-threshold Energies

Ionization cross sections for the four combinations of electrons and positrons on H and He+ have been calculated at energies near the threshold for ionization using the classical trajectory Monte Carlo method. In addition, charge-exchange (positronium formation) cross sections have been calculated for the positron-impact collisions. The ionization cross sections compare well with the predictions of the Wannier and Klar models and experimental observations. Our results indicate that the Wannier-type threshold behavior may extend to higher energies than was previously thought. In addition, we have calculated two of the collision parameters, the angle and the relative separation between the escaping particles, used in the Wannier and Klar models, and find good agreement with the values predicted by these theories. © 1986 The American Physical Society

Electron Loss From Helium Atoms By Collisions With Fully Stripped Ions

Electron-loss cross sections have been calculated for fully stripped ions with charge states +1 to +100 colliding with helium atoms in the energy range 100 1000 kev/amu. The classical-trajectory Monte Carlo method was used along with a model of the helium atom with two active electrons. The reactions studied were single and double ionization, single- and double-electron capture, and electron capture plus ionization. Cross sections for the single-electron-removal reactions agree well with experimental data. Double-electron-removal cross sections are in qualitative agreement with experimental results. The n-level distributions following electron capture show that the electron-capture plus ionization and double electron-capture processes are peaked at a lower n level relative to single-electron capture. © 1988 The American Physical Society

Ion Scattering From State-selected Rydberg Atoms

Classical-trajectory Monte Carlo calculations have been performed for collisions of protons with state-selected hydrogenic Rydberg atoms. The examples investigated were Rydberg atoms in the n=10, l=9 level with ml=0 and 9. The collision velocity range was 0.1 to 1.0 a.u. (2.2x107 to 2.2x108 cm/s). The ionization cross sections were found to be relatively insensitive to changes in the ml levels. However, the charge-transfer cross sections showed considerable enhancement if the Rydberg electron is orientated in a plane which is parallel to the direction of the incident projectile. © 1983 The American Physical Society

The Effects of Slots and Flaps on Lateral Control of a Low-wing Monoplane as Determined in Flight

This paper presents the results of flight tests made to determine the effect of slots and flaps on the lateral control of a low-wing monoplane. Maximum angular accelerations in roll and yaw produced by sudden application of the ailerons and maximum accelerations in yaw produced by sudden application of the rudder during gliding flight were recorded for the following wing arrangements: (a) no auxiliary device; (b) full-span slots; (c) plain flaps; (d) flaps and full-span slots; (e) wing-tip slots. Rolling- and yawing-moment coefficients were derived from the accelerations. The full span slots and the flaps each had about the same influence on the aileron rolling moments. At values of the lift coefficient obtainable with the plain wing, the effect of these devices was negligible. At the higher lift coefficients obtainable with these devices, the rolling-moment coefficients increased slightly but, despite this increase, the aileron effectiveness progressively decreased with increasing lift coefficient, owing to the corresponding reduction in air speed. In the range covered by the tests, the effectiveness of the controls was appreciably reduced by the wing-tip slots. The adverse yawing moment of the ailerons experienced at the large lift coefficients obtained with the flaps was appreciably less than at similar lift coefficients obtained with either full-span or wing-tip slots. The yawing moments produced by the rudder were only slightly affected by the use of the auxiliary devices. The airplane was found to be laterally unstable with all combinations tested. Because of the angular velocities acquired in the time taken to deflect the ailerons the rolling moments recorded in flight were only about two thirds the values that would have been obtained with the wing restrained as in wind-tunnel tests

Double Electron Transitions In Collisions Between Multiply Charged Ions And Helium Atoms

A semiclassical model for He is applied to the study of multiply charged ions colliding with He at intermediate energies. Single and double-electron capture and ionisation and capture-ionisation reactions are studied for incident-ion charge states q=+1 to +50 at 1 MeV amu-1. For charge states q\u3eor approximately=+10, single electron capture is found to be dominated by a two-electron transition in which one electron is captured and the other is ionised