Spenser and the Historical Revolution: Briton Moniments and the Problem of Roman Britain

Curran argues that, since Roman Britain is a key to understanding the historiographical debates of Edmund Spenser\u27s time, the Roman Britain section of Briton Moniments in The Faerie Queene needs to be examined. It is here that Spenser acknowledged the direction historiography was taking, and saw how this new trend altered the relation between history and glory

Galvanic Liquid Applied Coating Development for Protection of Steel in Concrete

Corrosion of reinforcing steel in concrete is a major problem affecting NASA facilities at Kennedy Space Center (KSC), other government agencies, and the general public. Problems include damage to KSC launch support structures, transportation and marine infrastructures, as well as building structures. A galvanic liquid applied coating was developed at KSC in order to address this problem. The coating is a non-epoxy metal rich ethyl silicate liquid coating. The coating is applied as a liquid from initial stage to final stage. Preliminary data shows that this coating system exceeds the NACE 100 millivolt shift criterion. The remainder of the paper details the development of the coating system through the following phases: Phase I: Development of multiple formulations of the coating to achieve easy application characteristics, predictable galvanic activity, long-term protection, and minimum environmental impact. Phase II: Improvement of the formulations tested in Phase I including optimization of metallic loading as well as incorporation of humectants for continuous activation. Phase III: Application and testing of improved formulations on the test blocks. Phase IV: Incorporation of the final formulation upgrades onto large instrumented structures (slabs)

The importance of spirituality in caring for patients

Key points: According to the GMC, attention to spiritual issues is expected as part of a medical assessment. 1. Spirituality is hard to define precisely but it can be understood as what gives meaning and purpose and a sense of connectedness to life. 2. Religion and spirituality overlap but are distinct and there are non-religious as well as religious approaches to spirituality. 3. Serious illness and injury may challenge patients’ spirituality and clinicians need to be sensitive to this and provide or arrange support as appropriate to meet their spiritual needs. 4. Training to address these issues is in its infancy in the UK, though nursing research has identified key competencies than can be applied to medicine, too. 5. The present challenges in the NHS mean we need to pay particular attention to organisational issues related to spirituality

Arcjet cathode phenomena

Cathode tips made from a number of different materials were tested in a modular arcjet thruster in order to examine cathode phenomena. Periodic disassembly and examination, along with the data collected during testing, indicated that all of the tungsten-based materials behaved similarly despite the fact that in one of these samples the percentage of thorium oxide was doubled and another was 25 percent rhenium. The mass loss rate from a 2 percent thoriated rhenium cathode was found to be an order of magnitude greater than that observed using 2 percent thoriated tungsten. Detailed analysis of one of these cathode tips showed that the molten crater contained pure tungsten to a depth of about 150 microns. Problems with thermal stress cracking were encountered in the testing of a hafnium carbide tip. Post test analysis showed that the active area of the tip had chemically reacted with the propellant. A 100 hour continuous test was run at about 1 kW. Post test analysis revealed no dendrite formation, such as observed in a 30 kW arcjet lifetest, near the cathode crater. The cathodes from both this test and a previously run 1000 hour cycled test displayed nearly identical arc craters. Data and calculations indicate that the mass losses observed in testing can be explained by evaporation

Statistical view of legal and capital markets determinants

Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2010.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references.Prior authors have concluded that case-specific determinants, such as the number of professionals involved in a given case or the lead attorney's hourly rate, are the principal determinants of variance in professional fees and expenses in US corporate restructurings. The implication has been that less proximate variables, such as the availability of credit, the cost of capital or coincident economic conditions, are not relevant to predictive models. While we do not question the relevance of case-specific factors we question the practicality of models that rely exclusively on such factors in order to predict future fees and expenses. Our hypothesis is that both case-specific and less proximate variables are relevant to the determination of professional costs in bankruptcy, since we believe that variables belonging to each of these categories can act as frictions to the refinancing process or otherwise inform the court's determination as to the efficacy of refinancing, thereby impacting the complexity and duration of the restructuring process. Our results are less than conclusive, since our data is limited. However, the data that we have gives us reason to believe that the addition of non-case predictors may improve the accuracy of case-specific models; in some instances, these non-case-specific predictors even displace case specific predictors (via a screen for statistical significance). Our analysis indicates that this improvement is more pronounced when the data is sorted for Section 364 financing. Our goal is to complement the on-going analysis of professional fees and expenses so that it might better account for the potential impact of non-case factors and thereby yield a more accurate and practical predictive model.by John P. Curran, Jr.S.M

Arcjet thermal characteristics

The performance of water-cooled and radiation cooled arcjet thrusters operating on both 1:2 nitrogen/hydrogen mixtures at 1 to 2 kW and on pure hydrogen at 1 to 4 kW are compared. To investigate the effects of test facility background pressure on performance, data were taken for both thruster operating on nitrogen/hydrogen mixtures at facility background pressures nominally at 0.20 Pa and 20 Pa. It is shown that increasing the background pressure decreased the thruster performance, and simple pressure area corrections alone could not account for observed degradation in performance