Comment on Jobs and Profits in Steel

[Excerpt]As Tom DuBois and Jack Metzgar point out in their articles, the American steelworker is approaching an important crossroads. In the next decade, the enormous changes the steel industry started in the late seventies will continue at a greater pace. How steelworkers and their union will respond to these developments is still unclear, but already it has caused a major rejection by the local union presidents of a contract supported by the entire International Executive Board. This division over the direction of the union is not likely to disappear soon

Combinatorial Identities for Incomplete Tribonacci Polynomials

The incomplete tribonacci polynomials, denoted by T_n^{(s)}(x), generalize the usual tribonacci polynomials T_n(x) and were introduced in [10], where several algebraic identities were shown. In this paper, we provide a combinatorial interpretation for T_n^{(s)}(x) in terms of weighted linear tilings involving three types of tiles. This allows one not only to supply combinatorial proofs of the identities for T_n^{(s)}(x) appearing in [10] but also to derive additional identities. In the final section, we provide a formula for the ordinary generating function of the sequence T_n^{(s)}(x) for a fixed s, which was requested in [10]. Our derivation is combinatorial in nature and makes use of an identity relating T_n^{(s)}(x) to T_n(x)

Rural workers would benefit from unemployment insurance modernization

Rural workers stand to benefit from the modernization of unemployment insurance (UI) to cover part-time workers, which is an opportunity for states under the American Reinvestment and Recovery Plan (ARRA). Rural workers are more likely to work part-time, and many states that do not provide UI benefits to part-time workers have higher than average proportions of rural residents

Navigating the teen years: promise and peril for northern New Hampshire youth

This report provides a snapshot of how youth are doing in Carroll, Coos, and Grafton counties and describes some of the difficulties they and their communities face as they negotiate the transition to adulthood. The study is based on data from several agencies that collect county- and community-level information about youth, as well as from interviews with individuals working with youth in each of the three counties

Protection of serially connected solar cells against open circuits by the use of shunting diode Patent

Maintaining current flow through solar cells with open connection using shunting diod