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Faculty and staff
BOOKS
Farley Grubb, economics, Runaway Servants, Convicts and
Apprentices Advertised in the Pennsylvania Gazette, 1728-1796,
Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1992.
Susan Amert, foreign languages and literatures, In A Shattered
Mirror: The Later Poetry of Anna Akhmatova, Stanford University
Press, 1992.
PUBLICATIONS
Steven S. Hegedus, energy conversion, and Edward A. Fagen,
electrical engineering emeritus, "Characterization of a-Si:H and
a-SiGe:H p-i-n and Schottky Junction by Admittance Circuit
Modeling," in IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, vol. 39, no.
10, October 1992.
Melbourne R. Carriker, marine studies emeritus, "Prismatic Shell
Formation in Continuously Isolated (Mytilus edulis) and
Periodically Exposed (Crassostrea virginica) Extrapallial spaces:
Explicable by the Same Concept?," in American Malacological
Bulletin, vol. 9, no. 2, pages 193-197, 1992.
Theodore E.D. Braun, foreign languages and literatures,
"Incorporation and Structure: Two Models for Teaching Ethics in
Content Courses," in Proceedings of the First Global Village
Conference, Feb. 7-10, 1990, Edward R. Sunshine, editor, Miami
Shores, Barry University, 1992.
Michael F. Middaugh, institutional research and planning, and
David E. Hollowell, administration, "Developing Appropriate
Measures of Academic and Administrative Productivity as Budget
Support Data for Resource Reallocation Decisions," in Higher
Education Management, vol. 4, no. 2, pages 164-178, July 1992.
Lalita A. Manrai, Carter Broach and Ajay K. Manrai, business
administration, "Advertising Appeal and Tone: Implication for
Creative Strategy in Television Commercials," in Journal of
Business Research, vol. 24, no. 1, pages 43-58.
Timothy K. Barnekov and Steven W. Peuquet, urban affairs and
public policy, with graduate student Marjorie Eldridge, The
Impact of Boys and Girls Club Facility, prepared in cooperation
with The Boys and Girls Clubs of Delaware, August, 1992.
Marcia Peoples Halio, English, a review of "The American Heritage
Electronic Dictionary," in Computers and the Humanities, vol. 25,
pages 84-86, 1992; and a review of "The Student Edition of
Wordbench," in Computers and the Humanities, vol. 26, pages
79-80, 1992.
PRESENTATIONS
Alan Scott Andres, "Nitrate Contamination of Ground and Surface
Waters, Coastal Sussex County, Delaware," at National Ground
Water Association Focus Eastern Conference on Eastern Regional
Ground Water Issues, Oct. 14, Boston. Presentation to be
published in conference proceedings.
Barry R. Morstain, urban affairs and public policy, "Assessment
Change: The Dilemma Remains," at annual International Personnel
Management Association conference, June 9, Baltimore.
Kelvin W. Ramsey, Delaware Geological Survey, "Discovery By
Accident: The Smyrna Fossil Site," at Delaware Mineralogical
Society, Oct. 12.
Steven Peuquet, urban affairs and public policy, panel moderator,
"Who's Obtaining Credit and Who's Not: Recent Research Findings,"
at conference on Credit to the Community, Oct. 2, Wilmington.
Several faculty and students affiliated with the Center for
Composite Materials made presentations at the Seventh Technical
Conference, American Society for Composites, Oct. 13-15, at Penn
State University: S.G. Advani, mechanical engineering, with
student T.L. Luce and post doctoral student M.V. Bruschke,
"Effective In-Plane Permeability of Multi-Layered RTM Preforms";
J.W. Gillespie Jr., mechanical engineering, with student S.T.
Holmes, "Three-Dimensional Thermal Analysis for Sequential
Resistance Welding of Large-Scale Components"; Gillespie with
student S.M. Andersen, "Design, Analysis and Hydotesting of a
Composite-Aluminum Cylinder Joint for Pressure-Hull
Applications"; Gillespie and R.C. Don, composites center, with A.
Ortona of Alenia and students Holmes and K. Tackitt, "Ultrasonic
and Acoustic Emission Sensing for Process Control of the Fusion
Bonding of Thermoplastic Composites"; R.B. Pipes, Robert L.
Spencer Professor of Engineering, with students D.W. Coffin, T.S.
Creasy, S.F. Shuler and P. Simacek, "More on the Rheological
Behavior of Collimated Fiber Thermoplastic Composite Materials";
A. Parvizi-Majidi, mechanical engineering, and T-W. Chou, Jerzy
L. Nowinski Professor of Mechanical Engineering, with post
doctoral student P. Pluvinage, "Experimental Characterization and
Damage Modeling of 2-D Woven and 3-D Braided SiC/SiC Composites";
Parvizi-Majidi with student K.R. Stull, "Fracture Toughness
Characterization of SiC/SiC and C/SiC Composites" and with
student B. LaMattina, "Fabrication and Tensile Behavior of 3-D
Angle-Interlock Woven Composites"; Chou with post doctoral
student P.G. Karandikar, "Growth and Moduli Reductions in
Nicalon-CAS Composites Under Static Fatigue and Cyclic Fatigue";
and J.R. Vinson, H. Fletcher Brown Professor of Mechanical
Engineering, "Analysis and Optimization of Composite Honeycomb
Sandwich Cylindrical Shells."
Robert Bethke, English, "Popular Verse Across Borders:
Resurrections of Robert Service's The Cremation of Sam McGee," at
American Folklore Society annual meeting, Oct. 14, Jacksonville.
Thomas E. Pickett, geology, "The Flowering of Geologic Art in
W.P. Blake's 1858 Report of Geological Reconnaissance in
California," at Geological Society of America meeting, Oct. 27,
Cincinnati.
Barbara Gates, English, "Revisioning Darwin, With Sympathy," at
International Society for the Study of European Ideas, Aug. 28,
Aalborg, Denmark; and "Tea, Sympathy and Natural History," at
Society for Science and Culture meeting, Oct. 11, Atlanta.
James E. Swasey, Longwood Program, "Improving Communications," at
American Association of Botanical Gardens and Arboretum,
Mid-Atlantic regional meting, Sept. 15, Kensington, Md.
Dean C. Lomis, International Center emeritus, "Macedonia: The
Tinderbox of the Balkans," at Columbia University Faculty Club,
Oct. 10, New York City, and "The Armenian Genocide: Hitler's
Direction to the Jewish Holocaust," at Diaspora Conference, Oct.
17, Atlanta.
Katharine Young, science and culture, "Perceptual Modalities of
the Medical Body: The Disposition of Pain, Propriety and
Pleasure," at American Folklore Society meetings, Oct. 15,
Jacksonville.
Frederic M. Stiner Jr. with Ichiro Shiina, visiting scholar from
Chuo-Gakuin University, and M. Susan Stiner of Villanova
University, "Using Bitnet for International Accounting Education:
A Japan-USA Study," at Seventh International Conference on
Accounting Education, Oct. 10, Arlington, Va.
Richard T. Sylves, political science and international relations,
"Emergency Preparedness and Response on the Delaware: The Cast of
the Presidente Rivera Oil Spill," at 17th annual Hazards Research
and Applications Workshop, July 12-15, University of Colorado,
Boulder.
Veronica Eid, foreign languages and literatures, "Language,
Customs and Children in an International Move," at Delaware
Valley Relocation Council Fall Forum, Oct. 27, Greenville, Del.,
and "Jean Anouilh's Antigone: Its Classical Heritages," at
Delaware Theatre Company's fall seminar, Sept. 19, Wilmington.
Kenneth Koford, economics and political science, "A Competitive
Equilibrium Model of Legislatures," at Center in Political
Economy, Washington University, Oct. 15, St. Louis.
Joanna Moore, arts and science advisement center, and student
advisers Robin Beads and Eleesha Lewis, "Building Bridges:
Advising Minority Students on Predominantly White Campuses," at
16th national conference, National Academic Advising Association,
Oct. 11-14, Alanta.
Lalita A. Manrai, Carter Broach and Ajay K. Manrai, business
administration, "Program Induced Contextual Effects in Processing
of Embedded Commercials: An Integrated Conceptual Model," at
American Psychological Association annual convention, August,
Washington, D.C.