MEMS: Another fast-moving target for the compounds to track

AbstractMEMS are the manipulative little devices that have wormed their way to the top of the list of interesting “new” technologies this fall. When looking into the increasing number of MEMS initiatives, one conjectures that their popularity is because MEMS offer systems designers the opportunity to marry the “smaller, faster, smarter” philosophy with old fashioned facts of mechanical and human life

Proving they can take the heat

AbstractA technology update on the progress and promises of high temperature electronics, highlighting unprecedented international cooperation, and featuring two major U.S. catalyst agencies, NASA's Lewis Research Center and the US Air Force's Wright Laboratory

Anadigics' consumer volume savvy

AbstractAdvanced technology professionals grasp the concepts surrounding the construction of the international communications infrastructure, but even they may not realize the growing importance of the GaAs technology that makes it work. Anadigics (Warren, New Jersey), one of the world's leading GaAs MMIC manufacturers, has had its hard hat on straight from the time the infrastructure blueprints were first conceived. In this profile of Anadigics, and in the accompanying interview with Anadigics' co-founder and CEO, Ron Rosenzweig, TFR takes a behind the scenes look at how Anadigics reached true high volume production status and what it takes to succeed in this unprecedented global industry

Human Trafficking as a Threat to the Security of Americans

Human trafficking is a transnational crime that allows traffickers to abuse victims physically and mentally, as well as stripping them of their human rights. The United Nations theory of human security and Mendelsohn\u27s theory of victimology provided a conceptual framework to examine the harm that people endure from human trafficking. The purpose of this qualitative multiple-case study was to explain how human trafficking threatens the security of people and communities. Reviewing data from the Department of State concerning trafficking led to the investigation of youth exploitation, the use of technology in advancing the growth of human trafficking, the health concerns of victims of communities, and the possible uses of money made by traffickers. The primary guiding question for this study asked, How does human trafficking threaten the safety of people who live in communities and the security of those communities throughout the United States? Data were collected from articles and current information published by government agencies, news media, and non-governmental organizations. Data were analyzed after coding for themes and patterns using Braun and Clarke\u27s 6-step thematic analysis procedure. Findings indicate that victims live in fear, have lost their lives, are operating in plain sight but not recognized as victims, and endanger people living in local communities. The implications for positive social change include recommendations for collaboration among all stakeholders at the local level where traffickers operate in vulnerable communities, increase training of local law enforcement and healthcare personnel in identifying victims properly, and the development of awareness programs that reach people in local communities

Romantic relationship dissolution and health outcomes

The purpose of this study was to test the prospective association between perceived social support and mental and physical health outcomes following a romantic breakup. Additionally, I tested whether an individual’s dependence on his or her partner prior to their relationships’ termination moderated the degree to which perceived social support buffered individuals from negative health outcomes following romantic relationship dissolution. I drew on an extant dataset that included 97 individuals who experienced a romantic breakup at some point during the study’s 9-month duration. All participants completed baseline measures of mental and physical health as well as perceived social support during the first six months of their romantic relationships. They also completed measures of romantic relationship dependence every two weeks up until reporting their relationship’s termination. Upon breakup, participants completed assessments of mental and physical health. Consistent with the limited research documenting a prospective link between perceived social support and mental health (and study hypothesis), social support and relationship dependence interacted to predict mental health following a breakup (controlling for baseline mental health, sex, and breakup initiator status). Results are discussed in the context of the broader social support literature and a framework for future studies on this topic is provided.Human Development and Family Science

Beauty and Truth: Re-defining Legal Artistry's Normative Aspirations

Abstract Judges are responsible for creating case law, and each case is important, because each develops (in theory) the body of law as a whole. Each judgment should be able to meet the definition of 'art' that I will set out and apply in this thesis. Where a judgment meets that test of art, it will be successful in relaying the 'truth' of the law in a rich, lasting and forceful manner. It is important for case law to relay the truth of the law in such a way because case law's function is to communicate and reinforce social values by recognising and applying universal principles of justice and fairness to situations that arise from social life. In summary, this thesis examines whether the each of the main cases that have developed the duty of care test in negligence meets the criteria in the definition of art set out in this work, so that they may be called works of art. Each of the relevant cases will be evaluated to see: whether each embodies a 'system of rules and principles' (rules and principles being separate concepts) as these relate to the duty of care test; and whether each may be called beautiful. For, a work of art is one that incorporates all of these aspects: rules, principles and beauty. I will define what art is, and I will describe art's function in the world. I will explore and define the concept of truth, as it relates to this thesis, and I will attempt to make clear the analogy between truth as Idea (in the Greek sense) and the law as Idea. Further, I will look at the context in which the judicial opinion is created, and I will consider the responsibilities judges have to reason by analogy under the doctrine of precedent. Then, I will consider the concept of beauty itself, and how it affects us as those who experience the work. Finally, I will show that the concept of 'duty of care' in negligence, leading up to and culminating in Lord Atkin's dictum in Donoghue v Stevenson (1932) AC 562 (HL), has been developed by judges so that only 50% of the cases considered meet the test of: a system of rules and principles governing that particular aspect of the law; and beauty. Thus, only the cases that meet the test will be considered to be successful in conveying the truth of the law (and allowing us to access that truth) in a rich, lasting and forceful manner, because this is art's function in the world

Imagining the Canadian Agrarian Landscape: Prairie Settler Life Writing as Colonial Discourse

 Focusing on southern Alberta, my paper discusses the power of settler life writing to replace Indigenous conceptions of the prairies with colonial visions. Pioneer memoirs promote myths of the prairie as a fertile utopian environment or as a hostile frontier. By accentuating their labour and their social status, pioneer life writers support their claims of entitlement to colonize land.

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