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- A general correlation for heat transfer during saturated boiling with flow across tube bundles
- INTRODUCTION Heat exchangers consisting of bundles of horizontal tubes with boiling on the outer surface of the tubes are widely used in the industry. Examples are refrigerated liquid coolers and kettle reboilers. The boiling liquid may be flowing upwards or downwards. The outer surfaces of the tubes may be...
- Research articles 2007-09-01
- Voluntary approaches to environmental problems: exploring the rise of nontraditional public policy.
- Government reliance on voluntary programs represents a significant shift in public policy: moving from command and control regulations to market based mechanisms. This article explores the determinants of Voluntary Remediation Programs VRPs in the American States. During the 1980s and 1990s, 44 states adopted VRPs to facilitate remediation of existing...
- Research articles 2007-05-01
- Chart of the Day: Amazingly Consistent Job Numbers
- -35, -83, -88, -67, -47, -51, -51 That's the change in payrolls from the establishment survey for each month since January. These famously volatile numbers have seemingly turned a new leaf in 2008. In fact, the rolling seven-month standard deviation was the lowest on record in...
- Articles 2008-08-01
- A tale of two gate-sharing plans: the National Football League and the National League, 1952-1956
- 1. Introduction Gate-sharing rules reflect the tension within a professional sports league. While most industries are characterized by winnowing the weak, modern sports leagues often prefer to maintain weak clubs. One method of helping teams in small cities survive is through crosssubsidization, typically achieved through revenue sharing. Many...
- Research articles 2007-04-01
- Competitive balance and conference realignment: the case of big 12 football
- Abstract: Past research has indicated that an effort to achieve greater competitive balance has been one factor in conference realignments within college athletics. The purpose of this study was to determine if greater levels of competitive balance in football were realized after the Big 8 conference merged with four...
- Research articles 2007-03-22
- DeMille Honored by American Physical Society.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-16 November 2006-YALE UNIVERSITY: DeMille Honored by American Physical SocietyC1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:14112006 New Haven, Conn. -- David DeMille, professor of physics at Yale University, will be honored with the Francis M. Pipkin Award from the American Physical Society...
- Research articles 2006-11-16
- Subjective economic risk to beneficiaries in notional defined contribution accounts
- ABSTRACT This article aims to quantify the aggregate subjective economic risk to which beneficiaries would be exposed if a retirement pension system based on notional account philosophy were introduced. We use scenario generation techniques to make projections of the factors that determine the real expected internal rate of return...
- Research articles 2006-09-01
- Superb smoothness in North Dakota: careful mixing and strategic scheduling result in a successful runway
- Hector International Airport in Fargo, N.D., is the largest commercial airport in the state, serving two commercial carriers, six fixed-base operators, air cargo, and a North Dakota Air National Guard base supporting F-16 fighter planes. Hector's 2005 Runway 18-36 reconstruction was the largest runway project in North Dakota history. ...
- Research articles 2006-08-01
- MAILBAG
- Spichiger Table Forgot Metropolitan SectionReading "60 Years and Still Going Strong" (James O. Spichiger, May 2006, p. 42) was a trip down memory lane for me.I probably joined ASQ in 1955 as part of the requirement to pass Ellis Ott's class at Rutgers. So I wasn't there at the founding...
- Research articles 2006-07-01
- You can't predict disaster, but you can anticipate risks
- As you pick among the wreckage of your portfolio, you might be asking, "How could I have known my fund would be hit this hard?" Strictly speaking, you couldn't have. Life is full of uncertainties. Even when you cross the street, you can get smacked by the express bus to...
- Research articles 2006-06-16
- Individual investors, electronic trading and turnover
- ABSTRACT We examine how changes in individual investors' cost for information and trading costs affect stock turnover, i.e., the portion of outstanding stock that trades during a specific period of time. We also test how individual investors with relatively short investment horizons affect turnover. We find that stock turnover...
- Research articles 2006-05-01
- How fast should young heifers grow?
- Byline: Kim Bower-Spence If you sat on the nose of one of the Mount Rushmore presidents, you probably couldn't tell what the formation was supposed to be. You have to look at the sculpture from a distance for the enormous features to blend into a face. ...
- Research articles 2006-03-05
- The performance of agricultural market advisory services in corn and soybeans
- For a subscription fee, agricultural market advisory services provide specific pricing advice to farmers, such as when and what amount to hedge in the futures market or sell in the cash market. Additional reasons cited by farmers for subscribing to advisory services include market information, market analysis, and assistance with...
- Research articles 2006-02-01
- Sorenson Best Paper Award Recipient: ANALYSIS OF SYSTEM-WIDE INVESTMENT IN THE NATIONAL AIRSPACE SYSTEM: A PORTFOLIO ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK AND AN EXAMPLE
- ABSTRACT In this paper, the authors review the FAA's current program investments and lay out a preliminary analytical framework to undertake projects that may address some of the noted deficiencies. By drawing upon the well developed theories from corporate finance, an analytical framework is offered that can be used for...
- Research articles 2006-01-01
- The short supply of tall people: competitive imbalance and the National Basketball Association
- In recent years a wealth of literature has been offered examining the economics of professional team sports. Much of this work follows in the neoclassical tradition, employing the standard assumptions and focusing primarily on the impact of individual decision making. The purpose of this work is to show that the...
- Research articles 2005-12-01
- Voting rights violated in South Dakota
- Melmer, David Indian Country Today Lakota Times 11-02-2005 PIERRE, S.D. -- A county in South Dakota has been found in violation of the Voting Rights Act because of redistricting that keeps American Indian voters in the minority in three districts, in a...
- Research articles 2005-11-02
- Voting rights violated in South Dakota
- Melmer, David Indian Country Today Lakota Times 11-02-2005 PIERRE, S.D. -- A county in South Dakota has been found in violation of the Voting Rights Act because of redistricting that keeps American Indian voters in the minority in three districts, in a violation of the "one-person/one-vote" rule. U.S. District...
- Research articles 2005-11-02
- The simple analytics of a pooled annuity fund
- ABSTRACT This article provides a formal analysis of payout adjustments from a longevity risk-pooling fund, an arrangement we refer to as group self-annuitization GSA. The distinguishing risk diffusion characteristic of GSAs in the family of longevity insurance instruments is that the annuitants bear their systematic risk, but the pool...
- Research articles 2005-09-01
- Trade got what it expected--slight hog herd growth.
- USDA's numbers matched up well with pre-report trade expectations. The biggest deviation was in the Sept.-Nov. farrowing intentions, which were lower than expected. The lack of expansion plans moving forward gave the report a slightly friendly read for deferred futures. The 1% increase in the breeding...
- Research articles 2005-07-02
- Measurement of the coherent neutron scattering length of [.sup.3]He
- By means of neutron interferometry the s-wave neutron scattering length of the [.sup.3]He nucleus was re-measured at the Institut Laue-Langevin ILL. Using a skew symmetrical perfect crystal Si-interferometer and a linear twin chamber cell, false phase shifts due to sample misalignment were reduced to a negligible level. Simulation calculations suggest...
- Research articles 2005-05-01
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