The foundation upon which any cooperative rests is the economic need for it as a business enterprise. The existence of such a need cannot by itself provide the basis for a thriving cooperative. Not only mus.t the need exist, but the members or the promoters must through realistic and diligent...
The purpose of this study was to analyze and describe
the opinions and characteristics of black students enrolled
in Portland Community College.
Data were obtained through a random sampling of two
groups of subjects who were invited to participate in the
study as follows: (1) Black subjects were 109 students...
When the ambient temperature drops, air-source heat
pumps deliver less heating per unit of power input and
usually cannot provide for the heating load. Therefore,
dual-source heat pumps can offer an attractive alternative.
In the context of this work, a dual-source heat pump
operates as an air-source unit under normal...
Acoustic scanned holography is a method of lensless photography
which uses sound waves to construct the hologram and light waves to
reconstruct the image. The receiving transducer scans a plane area
containing the sound field generated or scattered from the objects. In
simultaneous source receiver scanning, both the source and...
Air temperatures and soil temperatures at the surface, two inches,
and four inches under a grass cover were recorded over a 93 day period.
These data were used along with other temperature data from bare soil
in the construction of three sets of models for the prediction of
maximum and...