This report presents a novel Advanced Multi-Effect Distillation (AMED) method that can enable the production of substantial quantities of low-cost desalinated water using waste heat from high temperature reactors (HTRs). Conventional MED systems can currently compete with reverse osmosis desalination in areas where energy costs are relatively low, such as the Middle East. Because AMED can perfo...

Placed in the context of China’s transitional economy, this paper studies the role of different economic, institutional and managerial factors in accelerating or hindering hightechnology firms’ pace of strategic adaptation toward a higher level of technology orientation. Drawing on a unique longitudinal data of firms in the Zhongguancun Science Park (China’s Silicon Valley) from 2000 to 2003, w...

Two commercially available progestogen products for cattle, melengestrol acetate (MGA) and norgestomet (SMB), were evaluated for their ability to induce synchronized estrus in anovulatory ewes. Seasonally anestrous ewes (n = 232) were randomly assigned to one of seven treatments: 1) control (C); 2) MGA only (OMGA; .3 mg of MGA/d); 3) MGA+zeranol (RMGA; 2.5 mg of zeranol); 4) MGA+PG-600 (PMGA; 4...

I presume that I do not need to write about the rationale for improving physician relations. Although, publicly, healthcare leaders tell me that they serve at the pleasure of the board, privately, they tell me that they serve at the pleasure of the medical staff as well. At an ACHE seminar I led in 2005, “Practical Strategies for Engaging Physicians,” one hospital CEO confided: “If I have a pro...

Conventional Polaroid time-of-flight (TOF) sonars provide object range measurements, but their wide beam widths limit the object bearing accuracy. We describe a first-order model that predicts the TOF readings from an object at given range, bearing, and reflecting strength produced by the Polaroid 6500 series sonar ranging module connected to a 600 series electrostatic transducer. The model pro...

We present techniques for characterization, modeling and generation of workloads for cloud computing applications. Methods for capturing the workloads of cloud computing applications in two different models benchmark application and workload models are described. We give the design and implementation of a synthetic workload generator that accepts the benchmark and workload model specifications ...

Grounded Theory (GT) is an innovative research methodology, consisting of three prevailing traditions: Classic, Straussian, and Constructivist GT. Despite arising from the same root, and sharing a number of the original methodological techniques, Classic, Straussian, and Constructivist GT have nevertheless diverged to such an extent that they are neither homogenous nor interchangeable methodolo...

This study examines the effects of governance mechanisms on CEO dismissal in different corporate cultures: manipulative (firms sued for financial misreporting) versus normal (non-sued firms). The findings show that, following the discovery of wrongdoings, “seemingly independent” boards are less effective in replacing the CEOs, whereas banks and blockholders increase the likelihood and lead to m...

This study examined “new CEO dismissal”, i.e., a new CEO is dismissed within three years after succession. Based upon agency theory and human capital theory, we argue that new CEO dismissal may represent a correction to an inappropriate CEO selection and accordingly, succession contexts that tend to lead to an inappropriate CEO selection will increase the likelihood of new CEO dismissal. With a...

Article history: Received 17 September 2013 Received in revised form 1 March 2014 Accepted 11 March 2014 Available online 19 March 2014 Most studies consider chief executive officer (CEO) turnover from the firm's perspective. In this paper, I suggest that the labor market conditions for CEOs affect turnover outcomes. I use CEOs' positions on corporate executive and director networks to assess t...