LA Times: People, people everywhere in China, and not enough to work

This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR School, Cornell University, pertaining to the effects of globalization on the workplace worldwide. Special emphasis is placed on labor rights, working conditions, labor market changes, and union organizing.CLW_2010_Report_China_LA_times_people.pdf: 13 downloads, before Oct. 1, 2020

Alien Comforts: The Languages and Foodways of Chinese Americans and Hawaiian Locals in U.S. Popular Culture

My project deals with how the grotesque and simplifying distortion of Chinese American and Hawaiian Local languages and foodways has been used to promote facile multiculturalist encounters and the ways in which contemporary writers from those ethnic groups have attempted to articulate other ethnic formulations free from what I call minstrel gestures. These writers instead valorize innovation and transformation over an adherence to past traditions already pillaged and stereotyped by hegemonic interests. This strategy—which I dub the creole relational mode—has worked to varying degrees of success in creating the possibilities for oppositional cultural formations. While these oppositional cultural formations are often liberating, they sometimes can obscure persistent interethnic tensions in U.S. culture. The project’s contribution to the existing scholarship lies in its central claim that language and food are invested with so much meaning in U.S. interethnic discourse because these two forms of difference are easily appropriated and internalized by individuals across otherwise rigidly constructed ethnic boundaries

The evaluation of an orientation handbook: "handbook of preliminary workshop activities".

Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston Universit

High Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor Projected Markets and Preliminary Economics

This paper summarizes the potential market for process heat produced by a high temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR), the environmental benefits reduced CO2 emissions will have on these markets, and the typical economics of projects using these applications. It gives examples of HTGR technological applications to industrial processes in the typical co-generation supply of process heat and electricity, the conversion of coal to transportation fuels and chemical process feedstock, and the production of ammonia as a feedstock for the production of ammonia derivatives, including fertilizer. It also demonstrates how uncertainties in capital costs and financial factors affect the economics of HTGR technology by analyzing the use of HTGR technology in the application of HTGR and high temperature steam electrolysis processes to produce hydrogen

Overview of Energy Development Opportunities for Wyoming

An important opportunity exists for the energy future of Wyoming that will • Maintain its coal industry • Add substantive value to its indigenous coal and natural gas resources • Improve dramatically the environmental impact of its energy production capability • Increase its Gross Domestic Product These can be achieved through development of a carbon conversion industry that transforms coal and natural gas to synthetic transportation fuels, chemical feedstocks, and chemicals that are the building blocks for the chemical industry. Over the longer term, environmentally clean nuclear energy can provide the substantial energy needs of a carbon conversion industry and be part of the mix of replacement technologies for the current fleet of aging coal-fired electric power generating stations

Using SA508/533 for the HTGR Vessel Material

This paper examines the influence of High Temperature Gas-cooled Reactor (HTGR) module power rating and normal operating temperatures on the use of SA508/533 material for the HTGR vessel system with emphasis on the calculated times at elevated temperatures approaching or exceeding ASME Code Service Limits (Levels B&C) to which the reactor pressure vessel could be exposed during postulated pressurized and depressurized conduction cooldown events over its design lifetime

Options for Kentucky's Energy Future

Three important imperatives are being pursued by

Engineering Proteins via Peptide Backbone Mutagenesis: The Effects of Thioamide Linkages on the Folding and Stability of Short Peptides

Thesis advisor: Jianmin GaoThe development of proteins/peptides as therapeutic agents has emerged as a promising area for drug design. Due to increased antibiotic resistance, search for novel antibiotics has become a primary area of interest within the pharmaceutical industry. Antimicrobial peptides have been a significantly desirable model due to their innate cytolytic effects and favorable interaction with the membranes of bacterial cells within the host. Thioxylated analogues of biologically active peptides have shown increased enzymatic stability and increased selectivity and potency. Thioamide linkages have thus been installed in a variety of short peptides, replacing the backbone amide linkage, in order to study the effects on peptide conformation and stability. Several bioanalytical tools were used in the analysis including circular dichroism spectroscopy, NMR, size-exclusion high performance liquid chromatography, and fluorescence. The mutation was well-accommodated within several systems, including Trpzip 4 and gramicidin A, and proved to have comparable, and in several cases, enhanced stability in comparison to the wild-type peptides.Thesis (MS) — Boston College, 2009.Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.Discipline: Chemistry

Integration of High Temperature Gas-cooled Reactor Technology with Oil Sands Processes

This paper summarizes an evaluation of siting an HTGR plant in a remote area supplying steam, electricity and high temperature gas for recovery and upgrading of unconventional crude oil from oil sands. The area selected for this evaluation is the Alberta Canada oil sands. This is a very fertile and active area for bitumen recovery and upgrading with significant quantities piped to refineries in Canada and the U.S Additionally data on the energy consumption and other factors that are required to complete the evaluation of HTGR application is readily available in the public domain. There is also interest by the Alberta oil sands producers (OSP) in identifying alternative energy sources for their operations. It should be noted, however, that the results of this evaluation could be applied to any similar oil sands area