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Communicating with Elected Officials

ITE JOURNAL / DECEMBER 2005 ONE OF THE MOST FRUSTRATING aspects of being a transportation professional, especially one with an engineering background, is the seeming reluctance of elected officials to readily accept the recommendations of highly qualified technical staffs. This feature is intended to help transportation technical staffs better understand the context within which elected officia...

Radiation Recoil from Highly Distorted Black Holes

We present results from numerical evolutions of single black holes distorted by axisymmetric, but equatorially asymmetric, gravitational (Brill) waves. Net radiated energies, apparent horizon embeddings, and recoil velocities are shown for a range of Brill wave parameters, including both even and odd parity distortions of Schwarzschild black holes. We find that a wave packet initially concentra...

Additional contributions from: Nobel Symposium 162 - Microfluidics

Nanofluidic systems, with critical dimension of 10~100nm, are ideal model system for various types of nanoporous membranes. Artificially fabricated nanofluidic channels and nanopores have been successfully used for studying fundamental molecular / fluidic transport behaviors in nanoscale, yet there is much potential to take advantage of nanofluidic systems for real-world engineering application...

Administrative expenses under OASDI.

Costs of administering old-age, survivors, and disability insurance (OASDI) are of interest both to specialists in income maintenance and to the general public. This article presents a summary of these expenses compared with several important bases: Contribution income, benefit payments, and taxable payroll. An index is developed and used to analyze changes in administrative expense levels from...