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Seals and Sealing Handbook
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 648

Seals and Sealing Handbook

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-06-13
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  • Publisher: Elsevier

Seals and Sealing Handbook, Sixth Edition provides comprehensive coverage of sealing technology, bringing together information on all aspects of this area to enable you to make the right sealing choice. This includes detailed coverage on the seals applicable to static, rotary and reciprocating applications, the best materials to use in your sealing systems, and the legislature and regulations that may impact your sealing choices.Updated in line with current trends this updated reference provides the theory necessary for you to select the most appropriate seals for the job and with its 'Failure Guide', the factors to consider should anything go wrong. Building on the practical, stepped approa...

The New Academic Generation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 264

The New Academic Generation

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1998-05-29
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  • Publisher: JHU Press

Higher education researchers Martin Finkelstein, Robert Seal, and Jack Schuster focus on the changing face of American academe, as women, foreign-born, and minority scholars enter the professorate in large numbers. Considering this trend, the authors argue that the next generation will usher in an era of dramatic changes and that the long-term implications of these changes will be profound. 7 illustrations.

To Retire or Not?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 187

To Retire or Not?

Colleges and universities across the country face huge challenges as their faculties age, their budgets stagnate, and mandatory retirement becomes a thing of the past. In To Retire or Not? the nation's foremost authorities on retirement policy and practice provide a critical assessment of academic labor markets and retirement patterns, explaining how to adjust pension and other incentive programs to ensure proper replenishment of intellectual and human capital. Case studies vividly illustrate how to predict the need for special retirement programs, how to structure voluntary early-out benefit plans, and how age-based retirement incentives work in practice. Recent legal decisions are assessed...

The Faculty Factor
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 585

The Faculty Factor

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-11
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  • Publisher: JHU Press

In an academy squeezed hard by formidable pressures, what is the future of the faculty? Over the past 70 years, the American university has become the global gold standard of excellence in research and graduate education. The unprecedented surge of federal research support of the postWorld War II American university paralleled the steady strengthening of the American academic profession itself, which managed to attract the best and brightest educators from around the world while expanding the influence of the "faculty factor" throughout the academic realm. But in the past two decades, escalating costs and intensifying demands for efficiency have resulted in a wholesale reshaping of the acade...

The American Faculty
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 602

The American Faculty

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008-12-15
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  • Publisher: JHU Press

Higher education is becoming destabilized in the face of extraordinarily rapid change. The composition of the academy's most valuable asset—the faculty—and the essential nature of faculty work are being transformed. Jack H. Schuster and Martin J. Finkelstein describe the transformation of the American faculty in the most extensive and ambitious analysis of the American academic profession undertaken in a generation. A century ago the American research university emerged as a new organizational form animated by the professionalized, discipline-based scholar. The research university model persisted through two world wars and greatly varying economic conditions. In recent years, however, a ...

American Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 571

American Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-01-31
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  • Publisher: JHU Press

Now in its fifth edition! An indispensable reference for anyone concerned with the future of American colleges and universities. Whether it is advances in information technology, organized social movements, or racial inequality and social class stratification, higher education serves as a lens for examining significant issues within American society. First published in 1998, American Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century offers a comprehensive introduction to the complex realities of American higher education, including its history, financing, governance, and relationship with the states and federal government. This thoroughly revised edition brings the classic volume completely up to...

Knowledge and Money
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 670

Knowledge and Money

This book explains how market forces are profoundly affecting finance, undergraduate education, basic research, and participation in regional and national economic development at American universities.

Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 912

Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1995
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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House Documents
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 980

House Documents

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1870
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 908

Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1972
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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