This report summarizes the findings of an evaluation of the cross-flow pervaporation technology developed by ZENON Environmental, Inc. (ZENON). This evaluation was conducted under the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Superfund Innovative Technology Evaluation (SITE) Program. The ZENON pervaporation technology was demonstrated over a 5-day period in February 1995 at Naval Air Station N...

The work of managers is information-intensive. Managers receive a huge amount of information from a wide range of sources and use the information to make day-to-day decisions and to formulate longerterm strategies. Yet much remains to be learned about the information behavior of managers as a distinct user group. This article reports on how top managers acquire and use information about the ext...

Like blighted urban areas, indigenous nations in the U.S. often have abandoned underutilized commercial or industrial properties with potential environmental contamination within the confines of their reservations. Like urban brownfields, often contamination problems are discovered long after the responsible parties have disappeared. Financial incentives, tools, and risk-management techniques h...

Stakeholders who seek to reward or punish businesses for their environmental programs often cannot observe these organizations’ internal policies and operations. To address these informational problems, and signal their beyond-compliance environmental commitments, some businesses are participating in voluntary environmental programs (VEPs). This article examines whether business managers associ...

Organizational information practices can result in a variety of privacy problems that can increase consumers’ concerns for information privacy. To explore the link between individuals and organizations regarding privacy, we study how institutional privacy assurances such as privacy policies and industry self-regulation can contribute to reducing individual privacy concerns. Drawing on Communica...

Presence, the impression of being existent in artificially created places, is an important factor for achieving maximum experience in virtual environments (VEs) and hence in their use for experiments or therapy. To date, most clinical studies have used selfreport questionnaires or physiological measures to appraise the degree of presence. Some studies that have tested behavioral scales have use...

The purpose of this study was to characterize gait initiation of persons with leg amputation and determine whether prosthetic alignment was a critical parameter in the initiation process. Gait initiation was chosen for study because of the difficult neuromuscular demands placed on the body in negotiating the transition from stance to ambulation. In this investigation, ground reaction force data...

r s a T a a Electrochemical methods were developed for the deposition of nanosilicon onto a 3D virus-structured nickel current collector. This nickel current collector is composed of self-assembled nanowire-like rods of genetically modifi ed tobacco mosaic virus (TMV1cys), chemically coated in nickel to create a complex high surface area conductive substrate. The electrochemically deposited 3D ...

This paper provides an overview of the thermal and power challenges in emerging high performance computing platforms. The advent of new sophisticated applications in highly diverse areas such as health, education, finance, entertainment etc. is driving the platform and device requirements for future systems. The key ingredients of future platforms are vertically integrated (3D) die-stacked devi...

The need of taxonomy is vital for knowledge sharing. This need has been portrayed by through-life engineering services/systems. This paper addresses this issue by repair process taxonomy development. Framework for repair process taxonomy was developed followed by its implementation. The importance of repair process taxonomy has been highlighted.