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College Relations : A Total Recruiting Strategy, Donald Roderick Hunt

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Problem Statement

The MMH Corporation has a very experienced but older engineering population. It is management's desire to replace the engineering population as its members retire by two methods:

1. The recruitment of experienced engineers with key skills for various critical positions.

2. The development of an aggressive and effective College Relations Program targeted at key universities to attract a steady stream of new talent into the engineering populations.

Research Objectives

A. To determine what areas of a volatile marketplace MMH intends to compete in.

B. To determine what attracts the best new college graduates to a certain company as …

Laminar Flow In A Porous Pipe With One Plugged End, Pyne-Hwa Ku

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A steady laminar flow through a co-cylinder porous pipe with one plugged end was investigated theoretically to obtain velocity, pressure and shear stress distributions.

An integral momentum equation and the Darcy's law for flow through the porous wall were solved numerically by the Runge-kutta method.

As the fluid is injected from the outer wall into the porous tube, the fluid in the inner tube is accelerated from rest at the plugged end to a fully-developed velocity profile at the exit of the porous tube. It was found that the coefficient of the wall shear stress and the dimensionless pressure drop …

Fracture Energy And Tensile Behavior Of Concrete, Wen-Jinn Chiou

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Fracture behavior of concrete has been a subject of investigation for the past two decades. The need of understanding the complete tensile response of concrete is absolutely essential for theoretical modelling as well as design application of plain concrete structures.

In this study, attempts were made to investigate the validity of two important fracture parameters, namely, the fracture energy and the critical crack tip opening displacement. Three types of test specimen, dog- bone shaped tension specimen, notched beam and compact tension specimen, were investigated. These tests were conducted using the closed-loop MTS 810 strain-controlled testing system. For the uniaxial tension …

A Research Study To Determine The Characteristics And Attitudes Shared By Entrepreneurs And Intrapreneurs And The Similarities And Differences Between Them, Miguel A. Vargas

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The United States of America has been the mecca of many ventures for people with vision, goals and perseverance. The prosperity of our nation has been paved by individuals with great ambition, determination and insight, who have dared to take on a risk in owning a business enterprise.

This research study was conducted to determine the characteristics and attitudes of both entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs, as well as the similarities and differences between them.

For this study, a survey of entrepreneurs.was conducted through the use of questionnaires distributed to business owners located in the counties of Essex, Passaic and Hudson, in …

Comparison Of Several Manufacturing Techniques Used To Produce A Sterile Antibiotic Powder, Antonio Joseph Barberio

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There are several manufacturing processes (crystallization, spray drying, freeze drying, and closed crystallization) that are used to produce a sterile antibiotic powder. A pharmaceutical manufacturer is faced with the problem of deciding which process is best suited for their operations. The purpose of this thesis is to propose a comparison technique that might aid in a solution to this problem. In the first step of the comparison technique, a fixed rating is assigned to a number of different categories (i.e. initial cost of equipment, product purity, etc.) for each process. The fixed ratings were established from an industrial survey, and …

Realization And Implementation Of A Recursive Digital Convolution Algorithm In Cmos, Lik Tang Cheng

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This thesis describes the implementation of a digital convolver. A recursive digital convolution algorithm was realised and implemented by using CMOS circuitry. This thesis also gives a technical overview of current CMOS processing technologies as well as various novel CMOS logic circuit techniques.

Characterization Of Microorganisims After Feeding With Phenolic Compounds : Comparing A Domestic Sludge To An Industrial Sludge, Dianne Adamowitz

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This study examined the effects of phenolic compounds on the populations in mixed liquors obtained from two very different treatment plants: the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commissioners plant in Newark, and the Livingston, NJ municipal treatment plant. The dominant organisms were identified initially and after ten days exposure to phenol (100 ppm), and either 2-chlorophenol (20 ppm) or 2,6-dichlorophenol (10 ppm) in aerated batch reactors.

Results confirmed the remarkable similarity between the two mixed liquor populations, in spite of the significant differences in the operation of the two treatment plants.

Physical And Mechanical Properties Of A New Type Of Polymer Concrete, Kyan Bin Khoo

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A new type of Polymer concrete is an admixture of a special Latex, Portland cement and Sand. It has high bond strength, quick curing, durability and adequate strength. The Mechanical and Physical properties were investigated in this paper. Reinforcement with Glassfiber was done and its properties compared to those of control specimens. The heat generation in Polymer Concrete (PC) and its relationship with the properties of PC was also investigated.

A new type of Polymer concrete is an admixture of a special Latex, Portland cement and Sand. It has high bond strength, quick curing, durability and adequate strength. The Mechanical …

The Kinetics And Mechanism Studies Of A Polymer Powder Coating On Metal Surface By Cathodic Electrodeposition Process, Wen-Lin Wu

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A polymer dispersion of fluorocarbon with solid constent in the range of 10-25% were prepared from white powder polytetrafluorethylene (PTFE), emulsifier combination of dodecylbenzyldimetlyl sulfonium chloride and Trition N-150, and other components or additives. Such a fluorocarbon dispersion is very stable against coagulation and has a pH in the range of 8-10, which is especially suitable for powder coating purpose.

A new electrocoating technique, which is called cathodic electrodeposition powder coating method, was conducted in this study. This new coating method includes four steps: pretreatment, electrocoating, drying and baking. Two kinds of degreased metal substrates, aluminum and steel plates, were …

Preparation And Kinetic Study Of Immobilized Enzyme Catalyst, Sanjiv S. Kuray

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Degradation of commercially available immobilized Glucose Isomerase enzyme was studied in a batch reactor. Effect of shearing on the degradation was studied by comparing the performance of a basket type reactor ( with enzyme kept inside the stirrer) and ordinary batch reactor ( with enzyme kept outside the stirrer).

Invertase enzyme is available commercially in a free soluble form. It was coupled with a new kind of starch derivative. The coupling efficiency achieved was 8.7 % and the concentration of the immobilized enzyme was 718 U invertase per gram of starch. The deactivation of enzyme-starch gel was studied in a …

Sensitivity Analysis Of Linear Goal Programming On Priority Level Reordering, Fu-Chia Hor

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The purpose of this research is to study on the sensitivity analysis of priority level reordering of a goal programming model. Two approaches are presented in this study to handle this priority level reordering analysis. The first one is an algorithm to generate the solution of a similar problem with different priority level ordering of the original one utilizing the final solution tableau of the original problem. In doing so, calculation steps and time are saved tremendously.

The second approach is based on the fact that some goal programming problem of different priority level ordering has the same solution as …

The Contributions Of Linn Boyd Benton And Morris Fuller Benton To The Technology Of Typesetting And Typeface Design, Patricia Cost

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The relative obscurity of Linn Boyd Benton and Morris Fuller Benton, is investigated. The two men, father and son, made significant contributions to the technology of typesetting and to typeface design, yet they are not now well known in the industry. Linn Boyd Benton invented a pantographic punch-cutting machine, which he later modified to engrave matrices. This machine made the Linotype machine practical, since it took the tedium and great expense out of the making of Linotype 'mats.' Benton's machine was and still is used at the American Type Founders Company, and was copied for use at type founding companies …

Black & White Continuous Tone Printing Using Multiple Negative Working Plates, So That Each Plate Prints An Equal Segment Of A Determined Density Range, Frank C. Forti

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Continuous tone printing, either collotype or screenless lithography, are processes that are in limited use. The halftone method of reproduction is still the most economical way to reproduce a continuous tone original. This study dealt with the mechanism of screenless lithography, more specifically on how to make the use of negative working plates a feasible alternative to positive working plates. It is known that the positive working plate can print a longer range of tones than a negative working plate. So the main point of the experiment dealt with how to extend the range of a negative working plate. A …

Leading The Electronics Industry Into Total Automation, George P. Rossi

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The introduction of an automated PCB facility in today's technological society still includes a people-oriented facility. The main thrust should be to develop Artificial Intelligence, then the incorporation of LANS, CAD, ICAM, and CIM.

The ability to lace all the functions together is by far the biggest obstacle. The hardware of the equipment is not so much the obstacle to the chemical process and knowledge as the software. Software, which is the capability to talk from the computer to the equipment, is the greatest stumbling block because there is no standardization in the language format.

The method which a computer …

American Studies: Civil War, The Correlation Of Literature And History Studies In High School, Arlene Kellogg

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Courses in history can be nothing but memorizing facts, and courses in literature can be writing without roots . The author proposes a correlated curriculum for high school American literature and history, specifically in the Civil War time frame to change this situation.

The purpose of this curriculum, "American Studies: Civil War," is to make the history of our country live for the student, giving him/her a feeling for the mood of the times and motivating him/her to become politically active as a young citizen.

To validate the proposal, the author has interviewed experts in the fields of literature, history …

Family Album, Julie Gelfand

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The intent of this thesis is to photograph individuals in Rochester, New York devoted to improving the quality of their lives and the lives of others. In these photographs, I will attempt to combine both aesthetic and social concerns while investigating methods of self-expression through the documentary form.

The Photographic Snapshot, Michael Simon

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Electrochemical Reduction Of Quaternary Ammonium Salts, Rudolph K. Kapichak

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The electrochemical reduction of two highly hindered quaternary ammonium salts was attempted. The reductions were performed in hexamethylphosphoramide at a controlled potential using platinum electrodes. It was anticipated that these reductions would provide a route to the formation of anti-Bredt bridgehead olefins. This work is an extension of the work of Dubois, Monvernay and Lacaze who electrochemically reduced quaternary ammonium salts such as trimethyl-t-butylammonium iodide (XX).

Trimethy1-2,4,4-trimethy1-2-pentylammonium iodide (XXIII) was reduced to form 2,4,4-trimethyl-l-pentene (XXVI) and 2,2,4-trimethylpentane (XXV). The yields of the two runs of this reduction were 10% and 20% and in the first run of the reduction 75% …

Use Of Clay As A Landfill Liner, Mayur B. Desai

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The purpose of this thesis is to study the factors affecting efficient functioning of clay material for containment of landfill materials. The study of liner-leacheate interaction is done from the consolidation and vane shear tests on various clays having different activities, and chemicals that are typically found in a municipal solid waste leachate and a leachate collected from an active landfill.

An effort was made to study the use of Atterberg limits to predict the suitability of a clay as a landfill liner for a given waste environment. The study indicates that there is a decrease in permeability of bentonite …

Optimum Design Of Structures Subject To Buckling Constraints, Thomas G. Looby

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This thesis describes the optimal design of bar type planar truss structures subject to stress and buckling constraints. All of the structures considered are modeled using the direct stiffness finite element approach. A mathematical programming method incorporating a feasible directions routine is utilized to develop least weight designs for these conditions. The existing structural optimization programme CADOS which has successfully solved stress and deflection problems for this class of structures is adapted herein to treat local stability constraints based on Euler bucking criteria.In addition the optimization routine is modified to more effectively treat, infeasible starting designs. These modifications were tested …

My Pursuit Of A Successful Glass Business, Margery Pearl

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An Investigation Of Flexographic Duotone Reproduction With Variations In Press Pressure Settings, Hirohiko Itoh

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Improved print quality has been become an important issue for the flexographic printing method. This is especially true in the area of fine quality halftone reproduction. The nature of this printing method which uses elastic materials for its printing plate is difficult to control. The main issue is the control of the pressure between the plate and the substrate. Extensive research has been done to change the hardness and the structure of the plate, however, the pressure used to transfer ink still remains a critical factor in achieving good halftone quality. Although the critical pressure control of the impression from …

Dib On The Xerox Workstation, Chien-Kuo Chuang

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DIB - A Distributed Implementation of Backtracking is a general-purpose package which allows applications that use tree-traversal algorithms such as backtrack and branch-and-bound to be easily implemented on a multicomputer. The application program needs to specify only the root of the recursion tree, the computation to be performed at each node, and how to generate children at each node. In addition, the application program may optionally specify how to synthesize values of tree nodes from their children's values and how to disseminate information in the tree. DIB uses a distributed algorithm, transparent to the application programmer, that can divide the …

An Analysis Of Electronic Color Scanning Techniques For Application To The Dye Transfer Process, William Allan Six

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The dye transfer process is the photographic printing process used to produce the highest quality photographic prints to be submitted to printers for reproduction. Dye transfer prints are valued by advertising agencies for their highly saturated colors and ease of retouching. Photographers, museums, art galleries and collectors also value dye prints for the archival qualities. Dye transfer uses cyan, magenta, and yellow dyes to reproduce a color image. Photographic masking is used extensively for color correction, tone compression, and detail enhancement. The masks are projected with the original transparency to make continuous-tone separation negatives. Shallow-reliefgelatin positive-image matrices are made by …

A Study Of Need Achievement Motivation: Motivational Differences In A Private For Profit Hospital Versus A Non Profit Private Hospital Setting, Kenneth W. Mihill

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The subject of need achievement is of prime importance in today's industry . Motivating employees and using the resources the modern corporation has at its disposal have never been as important to industry as they are today . Unmotivated employees cost corporations heavily in terms of absenteeism and loss of productivity , which are then reflected in profits.

This research project concerns whether or not there are different levels of need achievement in a private non- profit hospital organization versus a private investor- owned (for profit) hospital organization . Three groups , each of 20 subjects, were studied . The …

Rose-Marie Hicks (Drac): A Photographic Documentation, Susan Myers

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A Suggested Personal And Family Care Curriculum For The Vocational Skills Centers Of The Special School District Of St. Louis County, Ruth Elaine Hellweg

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A Suggested Personal and Family Care Curriculum for the Vocational Skills Centers of the Special School District of St. Louis County is designed to provide an open entrance-open exit approach to developing skills for coping with specific activities of daily living. It is intended for use with handicapped students of all categories including BD, LD, MR, SH, and orthopedically handicapped and could be used with slow learners in any area. It is a task analyzed curriculum, written with measurable behavioral objectives to facilitate IEP formulation. Areas covered are grooming and hygiene, nutrition, food preparation, first aid, home health, safety, substance …

A Curriculum For The Teaching Of Writing At The Fifth Grade Level Using Cerebral Symmetry, Karen Sue Roth

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Children's writing doesn't just happen. The transferring of private thoughts onto paper is a fragile and complicated press. To make the best use of instructional time and assure the quality of children's writing experiences, this author upon reviewing the current research felt a writing program based on integrating the right and left modes of thinking in a non-threatening environment was necessary. This is a curriculum designed to involve both modes of perceiving. It allows for the right hemisphere modes by encouraging clustering, body movement, color, image making, and metaphoric thinking. It enhances the left hemisphere modes by providing exercises for …

Discrimination In The Assessment Process: The Role Of Professional Appraisal, Christopher G. Sansone

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The thesis Discrimination in the Assessment Process: The Role of Professional Appraisal by Christopher G. Sansone explores the complexities of property tax assessment and how disparities in appraisal practices contribute to inequities. It argues that many citizens lack an understanding of property taxation, making them vulnerable to unfair assessments. The study examines the historical evolution of property taxation, including taxpayer revolts that have shaped modern assessment policies. It highlights issues such as assessment discrimination against lower-income property owners, political influences on the appraisal process, and the impact of legislative and judicial decisions.

A key argument is that professional real estate …

One Actor/Director Among Millions, Jannell L. Robinson

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Jannell L. Robinson’s thesis explores the vital role of communication in theatre, both in acting and directing. The study highlights how directors must effectively convey their artistic vision to actors, designers, and stage managers to ensure a cohesive production. Through her experiences as an actress in Harold Pinter’s The Lover and Mark Medoff’s Healure, Robinson analyzes character development using the Stanislavski method, emphasizing emotional depth and psychological realism. She details her challenges and discoveries in portraying complex female roles, including the necessity of improvisation, physical commitment, and character backstory creation.

Robinson also examines her directorial process in staging A …