The art of SME export marketing: a case study

In this paper, it is proposed that integrating arts and culture into international trade missions will stimulate arts and crafts, as well as SME exports. It can also help to package trade missions so that they appeal to a wider audience and build SMEs’ relationships with international partners. Arts and cultural organisations – as well as individual artists – share features and interests with other SMEs. A case study illustrates that by piggy-backing on each others’ unique skill sets, industry, tourism and the arts can together successfully contribute to trade missions that promote a region and the products produced there. Lessons that the primary author has learnt from organising and participating in numerous trade missions are used to develop a framework that could potentially be utilised to develop similar programmes. The results should be of value to policy-makers, export development organisations, arts and cultural development organisations, and individual SME managers and artists

Eclipsing Binary Stars from Space

We have begun a programme to obtain high-precision photometry of bright detached eclipsing binary (dEB) stars with the Wide field InfraRed Explorer (WIRE) satellite. Due to the small aperture of WIRE only stars brighter than V=6 can be observed. We are collecting data for about a dozen dEB targets and here we present preliminary results for three of them. We have chosen dEBs with primary components of B and early A type. One of our aims is to combine the information from the light curve analyses of the eclipses with asteroseismic information from the analysis of the pulsation of the primary component.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures. To appear in conference proceedings for IAU Symposium No. 240: Binary Stars as Critical Tools & Tests in Contemporary Astrophysics, eds. W. Hartkopf, E. Guinan & P. Harmane

Selected pages from Fairy tales / by Hans Andersen; illustrated by Kay Nielsen

197 p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm. publication date [19--]. Some of the pages in this document were selected as part of a class project for Professor Garth Bond’s History of the Book seminar, Spring 2012.https://lux.lawrence.edu/selections/1015/thumbnail.jp

Submerged Arc Furnace, an Alternative for Smelting of Sponge Iron?

The paper describes the pattern of the conventional submerged are pig iron furnace and the influence and consequences of introducing preheated and prereduced charge. The features of the ELKEM prereduction process are presented and the theoretical philosophy of the process as compared to other direct reduction processes is discussed. It is found of importance that prereduction in rotary kiln is not carried so far as to create problems due to agglom-eration and ring-formation of the feed, the last port of the reduction can more favourably be completed in the electric furnace. Experience and operating results fronz installations at Highveld and Skopje are reported. Form-ation of fines in the kiln and accumulation of fines in the electric furnace have proven to be major obstacles. The paper emphasizes consequently the importance of mater-ial strength and advocates the use of sintered pellets. A simple shaft sintering equipment of E Mem Spigerverket design is presented. On basis of experience from smelting of FeNi from calc-ined, hot fed oxide ores in submerged arc furnaces and some preliminary smelting tests in Elketn—Spigerverket al s' Research Center at Kristiansand, Nonvay, the paper proposes submerged arc smelting technics for smelting of sponge iron to crude steel as an alternative to open arc furnaces to use (semi-steel) in a continuous process. Pilot tests indicate that the chemistry could be easily controlled, procedures and design for industrial install-ation will have to be developed