We urge all undergraduates to vote for all three of the blanket tax changes proposed in Friday's all-school referendum. The total combined amount of the increases would be very slight—$2.75—virtually nothing in terms of the benefits the organizations concerned could turn back to the students in the form of the enhanced health and utility of these SA groups. The benefits would come in the form o...

"Mind power is God power! Mind power is money-getting p o w e r ! " e x c l a i m e d D r . Frederick J. Eikerenkoetter aka Reverend Ike as he dazzled a full house in Hamman Hall Friday with a discourse on his doctrine of the "Science of Living" and Green Power. In town this weekend for a g i a n t r e v i v a l Rev. Ike appeared on campus as a guest of Dr. Bill Martin of the sociology departme...

We studied the influence of visual feedback on the tactual perception of both speed and spatial period of a rotating texture. Participants were placed in a situation of perceptual conflict concerning the rotation speed of a cylindrical texture. Participants touched a cylindrical texture of gratings rotating around its axis at a constant speed, while they watched a cylinder without gratings rota...

A new generation of storage systems exploit decreasing storage costs to allow applications to take snapshots of past states and retain them for long durations. Over time, current snapshot techniques can produce large volumes of snapshots. Indiscriminately keeping all snapshots accessible is impractical, even if raw disk storage is cheap, because administering such large-volume storage is expens...

by Spencer Greene R e c e n t n e w s t h a t t h e University's Board of Governors will be considering South-Afr icarelated investments prompted a mixed reaction f rom Rice faculty members last week. Professors w h o spoke to the Thresher expressed a general air of caution, many describing the issue as "complex" and declining fur ther comment without detailed study of the subject. Several, how...

Leptospira are spirochete bacteria distinguished by a short-pitch coiled body and intracellular flagella. Leptospira cells swim in liquid with an asymmetric morphology of the cell body; the anterior end has a long-pitch spiral shape (S-end) and the posterior end is hook-shaped (H-end). Although the S-end and the coiled cell body called the protoplasmic cylinder are thought to be responsible for...

CD = dimensionless mean drag coefficient, 2F D= fU meanD F D = drag force per unit spanwise length on the cylinder and plate, Nm 1 D = diameter of the cylinder, m E = dimensionless Young’s modulus, E = fU mean f = dimensionless oscillation frequency of the plate, f D=Umean Re = Reynolds number, fUmeanD= Umean = mean velocity at the left boundary of the channel, ms 1 V = dimensionless dilatation...

in order to comply with stringent pollutant emissions regulations, a detailed analysis of the engine combustion and emission is required. in this field, computational tools like cfd and engine cycle simulation play a fundamental role. therefore, the goal of the present work is to simulate a high speed di diesel engine and study the combustion and major diesel engine emissions with more details,...

Brown, who is general campaign chairman, said that more than $9 million has already been secured in pre-announcement contributions and commitments. Of that amount, some $6,120,000 represents i n d i vidual gif ts and pledges f rom members of Rice University's Board of ^Governors, through its Governors' Nucleus Fund. The remaining $3 million of the total $9,381,597 campaign nucleus was obtained ...