Virtual R&D Teams: A potential growth of education-industry collaboration

Introduction: With the advent of the global economy and high-speed Internet, online collaboration is fast becoming the norm in education and industry 1. Information technology (IT) creates many new inter-relationships among businesses, expands the scope of industries in which a company must compete to achieve the competitive advantage. Information systems and technology allow companies to coordinate their activities in distant geographic locations 2. IT is providing the infrastructure necessary to support the development of new collaboration forms among industry and education. Virtual research and development (R&D) teams represent one such relational form, one that could revolutionize the workplace and provide organizations with unprecedented levels of flexibility and responsiveness 3-4

A method to calculate inductance in systems of parallel wires

This paper gives a method that maps the static magnetic field due to a system of parallel current-carrying wires to a complex function. Using this function simplifies the calculation of the magnetic field energy density and inductance per length in the wires, and we reproduce well-known results for this case

Analysis of U.S. Senate Web Sites For Disability Accessibility

U.S. federal government web sites have increased significantly the level of services and information offered to various internal and external stakeholders. The Workforce Investment Act of 1998 amended Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which complemented the intent and aims of the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). As a result, federal agencies and departments were mandated to provide disabled stakeholders with access to key information from federal web sites. However, since this enactment, some federal web sites still do not meet fully the legal requirements to accommodate users with disabilities. Additionally, web sites of members of the U.S. Congress technically do not fall under regulation. Without regulation, non-adherence to accessibility standards by congressional web sites may result in poor or ineffective utilization by citizen consumers or other stakeholders with disabilities. The purpose of this study is to examine the accessibility statistics for a pseudo-random sample of 50 web sites of U.S. Senators. The main web page of each site was evaluated with an online web site analysis software tool – Truwex. Three factors were used to gauge the level of accessibility: criteria based on Section 508, WCAG 1.0 standards, and WCAG 2.0 standards. Results suggest that the vast majority of the U.S. Senate web sites do not meet the federal legal guidelines that otherwise are imposed on other U.S. governmental agencies and departments. Many of the sites contain consistent patterns of non-compliance, and some minor changes could result in increased accessibility for disabled stakeholders

Pushing the Margins: A Dynamic Model of Idiosyncrasy Credit in Top Management Team Behavior

Top management teams (TMT) behave both conventionally and unconventionally to implement strategic change in organizations. These behaviors are information used by organizational stakeholders to evaluate the TMT. However, because of limited cognitive resources, the cost of cognitive changes and the inherent variability of environments and relationships, stakeholders operate using the “latitude of norms,” which provides thresholds to measure the need for reappraisal and change. We explore this process of discontinuous reappraisals by reviewing past idiosyncratic credit literature and integrate it with expectancy violations theory to propose a theory of dynamic idiosyncratic credit. Both research and managerial implications are discussed

Letter, to Bill Kauffman and Warren Corman, from W.E. Keating, October 25, 1977

Letter discussing the 1977 Session of the Legislature and Senate Bill No. 130, Chapter 284 discussing historical preservation and Rarick Hall.https://scholars.fhsu.edu/rarick/1039/thumbnail.jp

Letter, to Gerald W. Tomanek, from George E. Emrich, November 12, 1976

Letter of solicitation from the Shaver Partnership for possible work on the new classroom and office building.https://scholars.fhsu.edu/rarick/1011/thumbnail.jp

Note, from Warren Corman, April 27, 1977

Note discusses funds for the new classroom building.https://scholars.fhsu.edu/rarick/1036/thumbnail.jp

Sheridan Hall: Card sent at Christmas time to donors of the renovation of Sheridan Coliseum

An appeal to be a sponsor of one of 850 seats in the performing arts center which would complete the goal of funding the renovation of Sheridan Coliseum.https://scholars.fhsu.edu/sheridan/1007/thumbnail.jp

Tomanek Hall: Program, Dedication of the Dalton/Kellerman Fountain

Dedication ceremony for the sculpture and the reflecting pool which stands in the courtyard of Tomanek Hall. The fountain honors two long-time registrars for FHSU, Standlee Dalton and James Kellerman.https://scholars.fhsu.edu/tomanek/1031/thumbnail.jp

Tomanek Hall: Memorandum, to Senator Gerald Karr, from President Edward Hammond, October 2, 1992

Highlighting the unique aspects of the physical sciences building.https://scholars.fhsu.edu/tomanek/1053/thumbnail.jp