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New Laboratory and Pilot Techniques Applied at Mintek in Aid of Furnace Containment System Designs

containment perspective, either an insulating or a conductive design philosophy can be applied, irrespective of the raw material being processed. In the initial stages of a project, desktop studies are ... associated with incorrect selection of a design philosophy and/or furnace containment system components, it is prudent to conduct tests on laboratory and pilot scale and to transfer the knowledge gained to

Expanding Opportunities: Promoting Accessible Higher Education for Non-Traditional Learners

problems which have no regard for political, socioeconomic, or cultural boundaries. This is a direct outcome of my time in the military and Fujimoto: What advice would you give to other non-traditional

BRAZILIAN NSDI TEN YEARS LATER: CURRENT OVERVIEW, NEW CHALLENGES AND PROPOSITIONS FOR NATIONAL TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING

Cartographic data represents the main and basic component of a Spatial Data Infrastructure. SDI, in turn, has the role of supporting, with strategic information, the most diverse political and

Criticality in Bulk Metallic Glass Constituent Elements

. The compositions of BMGs typically include four to six elements. Various political and geological factors have recently led to supply disruptions for several metals, including some present in BMG

Disputing the Wreckage: Ideological Struggle at the Vietnam Veterans Museum

. These early reports, and the Memorial itself, helped initiate what political elites had long avoided: an ideological struggle over the meaning of the Vietnam War, the symbolic political function of ... '. On the contrary, the Memorial provides a locus of ideological struggle, revealing the political nature of the current rejntegrative phase of Vietnam 's "social d ra m a '3 as various ideological blocs

Women for Peace or Women's Liberation? Signposts from the Feminist Archives

LibERATioN? SiqNposTs From t He F eminist ARchivEs Jenny B rown For RsdsTOckiNqs Understanding the essence of what makes a good political organizer is especially vital to feminists at a time when our most ... encompasses a key body of social change activist experience (i.e. revolutionary “practice”)—with successes and failures to analyze—on the political questions of “gender and war.” Feminism, after all, revived in

Vietnam Generation Newsletter, Volume 1, Number 3

, for the Study of Soc. Change. UC Berkeley Dr. Jean Bethke Elshtain Political Science Dept. Vanderbilt University Dr. David Hunt Co-Chairman Wiliam Joiner Center History Dept. Univ. of Mass, at ... Australian National University Jock Reynolds Executive Director Washington Project for the Arts Dr. Robert Slabey English Dept. University of Notre Dame Dr. Nancy Wegersma Political Science & Economics

Artificial Meat Industry: Production Methodology, Challenges, and Future

has been the public’s perceptions of cultured meat. Occasionally, a few limit this to a question of consumer acceptability. However, this issue should be phrased generally, to include more political and ... cultured meat to include the associated political, social, and institutional ramifications. These concerns are mutually reinforcing, and they must be examined concurrently. Numerous arguments favoring

The compatibility of metadata available at VGI systems with the metadata profile employed at the Brazilian National Spatial Data Infrastructure (INDE-BR)

assessing VGI content for several purposes, especially on those relative to official database updating, because this volunteered information could promote social, economic and political development of certain

Three Lessons and A Question: Experiencing the Year 2020 on Capitol Hill

political landscape change. During my year on the Hill, I have had Brian Schatz of Hawaii, serving alongside an excellent and committed group of environment issues. Along the way, I have communication styles ... political campaign where she trained and organized volunteers to engage with the public on policy-related issues. Influenced by her Rust Belt upbringing, Malara has policy interests in translating research to

First Blood Redrawn

Rambo is a veteran. Infact, they have been so conditioned to expect trouble from the opposite end of the political spectrum — counterculture war protesters — that they mistake Rambo for one. Isolated and ... from the many individual veterans with whom we share the movie theater, and onto a few more distant political and military decision makers. This Rambo. then, rehabilitates the reputation of the Vietnam

Point Blank: Shooting Vietnamese Women

is accomplished is to depict women's battles as divorced from explicitly nationalist or political struggles and instead link them to more short-term, self-contained, even personal activities. So, for ... example Co Bao’s political motivations for working against a communist Vietnamese government in Rambo are explained through her continuation ofher father's work, not out of any conclusions she might have

Building Connections at TMS2020

, shared examples of how this philosophy plays out in the development of materials and castings for Tesla. “What sets us apart is, when we’re doing design selection, we design specially produced don’t

Breaking Ranks: GI Antiwar Newspapers and the Culture of Protest

recently begun to question and challenge authority and to see this challenge as a legitimate exercise of popular political will, the reality of military life ran counter to their notions of the fundamental ... political perspective. During the Vietnam war, hundreds of underground or alternative publications produced by individuals, college groups, and organizations that identified with the Left, gave voice to

"Our Men in Vietnam": Black Media as a Source of the Afro-American Experience in Southeast Asia

chronological, and illustrate changes in the thinking of some black soldiers as the political environment in which they operated changed around them. In your July issue, I read the story on PFC Milton L. Olive ... also the evidently different political orientation of this young man when contrasted with some of the essays from earlier periods in the conflict. Consider also that American troops were being withdrawn

Vietnam Generation Newsletter, Volume 3 Number 2

to p ic s in clu d e the representation of political figures and topics in the writing ofthe U.S. and Canada, the political attitudes of an author and their effect on his or her writing, the hidden ... political and economic assumptions within a work or an oeuvre or a literary movement, political satire, the dramatics or rhetoric of revolution, the revolutionary as heroine or hero, political change

Dismembering the Anzac Legend: Australian Popular Culture and the Vietnam War

culture’s responses to, and its interpretations and evaluations of. particular social and political crises. D evelopm ent o f new narratives, or substantial m odifications to existing m yths, signal areas o f ... an as the site of disruption to the failure o f the nation and specifically its Governm ent to em body and protract its otherwise ju st political will.2 Indeed in some Vietnam films individual soldiers

Introductory Comments

obvious m ilitary and political spheres. If Vietnam as event and/or cultural subject is the 1960s’ watershed (or even the product o f the crises o f 1960s culture) it is often held to be, then Australia’s ... Vietnam W ar Peter Edwards’ “The Australian Government and Involvement in the Vietnam W ar”, a ju diciou s gleaning o f the m ajor political and m ilitary events, discusses the parallels and differences o f

Southeast Asian Parent Empowerment: The Challenge of Changing Demographics in Lowell, Massachusetts

the demand for political representation and empowerment as the means to resolve the challenge of changing demographics facing the city. A B rIeF HisTORy of LoweII The town of Lowell was established in ... constellation of factors, including the emergence of new industries fueled by high technology research at Massachusetts-based universities and the political muscle of the Massachusetts congressional delegation

Hegemony and the GI Resistance: Introductory Notes

Vietnam: Covering the War in an Age ofTechnology ,” Cultural Critique 3(1986): 46-78. 3 Harry W. Haines , “ They Were Called and They Went: The Political Rehabilitation of the Vietnam Veteran ,” in L ... series, and novels and— most importantly— in the public rituals central to our national political life. And that hope guides the writers whose essays are presented in this special issue of Vietnam