T. S. Eliot on a CD-ROM: A narrative of the production of a CD

The authors developed a CD-ROM for use in the classroom, the computer lab, the library, or the personal computers of students and faculty. The subject of the CD is an interart study of music, art, and literature, specifically T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land. the authors trace their process of formulating the idea and conceptualizing the project. They also detail the initial stages of the project, including the time-intensive efforts of getting permissions for the materials. For the technology portion, they describe how the components were digitized, integrated, and tested. Finally, they discuss how they manufactured and marketed the product, closing with some evaluative comments.John K. Boaz is Emeritus Associate Vice President for Administrative Services and a former Director of Forensics in the Department of Communication at Illinois State University. He edited a serial for several years for the American Forensic Association and the Speech Communication Association, Championship Debates and Speeches, and he has most recently edited The Adlai E. Stevenson Memorial Lecture Series: The First Twenty five Years, 1966–1991 published by the University Press of America.Mildred M. Boaz, a modern British literature specialist, is Professor of English and Chair of the Department of English at Millikin University. She has published on T. S. Eliot in The Centennial Review and The Journal of Aesthetic Education. She was also a contributor to the Modern Language Association's volume on Approaches to Teaching Eliot's Poetry and Plays.Both are members of the T. S. Eliot Society.     

Changes in mental status of elderly patients in age-integrated and age-segregated hospital milieus.

Studied the effects of age-segregated hospital environments on cognitive functioning of 55 aged, male psychiatric patients. Changes in performance on mental status and responsiveness measures during the 1st 3 wk. after admission were compared for patients randomly assigned to an age-segregated custodial, age-integrated custodial, and a therapy ward. Ss placed in the age-integrated custodial ward and in the therapy ward showed significantly greater improvement in responsiveness and mental status than Ss placed in the age-segragated custodial ward. Effects of ward placement cut across all diagnostic groups. The therapeutic potential of age-integrated patient environments is discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Autofrettage—Stress distribution under load and retained stresses after depressurization

There is a long-standing interest in developing a capability to predict the distribution of retained stresses in thick-walled tubes after the removal of an internal pressure—post-autofrettage. In this paper, four different methods of calculating such stresses are presented and compared. The methods presented are based on the following assumed yield criteria and deformation conditions: (1) Tresca's yield criterion, (2) Tresca's yield criterion × 2/√3, (3) Mises' yield criterion in plane-stress, and (4) Mises' yield criterion in plane-strain.     

Internal union dynamics during a strike: A quasi-experimental study.

Hypothesized that union members on strike will (a) give a higher evaluation of the union and of the leadership, (b) evaluate the benefit package more highly after the strike, (c) become more militant against the employer during the strike, (d) report more willingness to participate in union activities, and (e) show more intraunion cohesion during the strike. Random samples of members of 9 local unions (3 each from Ford, General Motors, and Chrysler) were surveyed on 4 occasions: before the 1976 bargaining, during the strike at Ford, after settlement of the national contract, and 7 mo after the strike ended. Usable responses from a questionnaire totaled 1,182 (405 strikers, 777 nonstrikers). With the exception of greater intraunion cohesion during the strike, all hypotheses were confirmed. (18 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

A field study of employees' attitudes and behaviors after promotion decisions.

The impact of promotion decisions on equity, commitment, and behavioral outcomes was examined in a field setting. Workers in a service company who submitted their candidacy for promotion to either department or division heads were compared with their noncandidate counterparts (total N?=?191). Ss completed surveys after promotion decisions were made. In addition, measures of the Ss' lateness and absence before and after the promotion were available. Data analyzed by level of position (department vs division) and promotion decision (promoted, not promoted, and control) indicated that promotions resulting from self-initiated candidacies might actually produce undesirable outcomes. Failure to get a promotion was associated with feelings of inequity, a decrease in commitment, and an increase in absenteeism; positive promotion decisions increased commitment. Theoretical and organizational implications are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

ARMA spectral estimation based on partial autocorrelations

This paper presents a new method for estimating the coefficients of autoregressive moving-average parameters of stationary time series. The method is based on computing the sample autocorrelations of the given time series and fitting an ARMA model so as to approximate the partial autocorrelations in a least-squares sense. When the given time series are characterized by spectral zeroes near the unit circle, they tend to have relatively long sequences of nonzero partial autocorrelations; hence the new method is especially effective in such cases. This paper contains a derivation of all necessary mathematical details, as well as several numerical examples illustrating the performance.     

Freeze concentration of milk and saline solutions in a liquid–solid fluidized bed: Part I. Experimental

Fluidized bed freeze concentration is a novel technique that uses a fluidized bed heat exchanger (FBHE) to concentrate liquids through the process of freeze concentration. Ice formed on the cooled surface of the vertical heat exchanger is removed by particles fluidized inside the FBHE. In this paper, the operating conditions are reported for freeze concentration of saline solutions and milk in FBHE. The operation was tested with equilateral 4 mm and then 5 mm particles at different bed porosities, cooling rates and NaCl and milk concentrations. Experiments with NaCl solutions showed that the 5 mm particles were more aggressive than 4 mm in removing ice from the heat exchanger wall. Whilst particle size was considered responsible for this, the particle shape could have played a major role. A theoretical analysis on effect of FBHE parameters showed the size of particles to exert influence on FBHE performance. The result from experiments with skim milk and whole milk maintained the conclusions formed previously with NaCl experiments with regard to the effect of tested parameters on operational stability. However, the ice formed from milk was more difficult to remove than the ice formed from NaCl solutions. Whole milk showed even more resistance to ice removal. Skim milk was freeze concentrated from 13% to 27% TS content in these experiments. Installing a wash screen further improved the purity of separated ice.