Northampton Community College

About: Northampton Community College is a education organization based out in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Poison control. The organization has 3410 authors who have published 4582 publications receiving 130398 citations. The organization is also known as: Northampton County Area Community College.

Apparatus for electroplating

Abstract: A continuous strip is electrolytically coated in an electrolytic coating bath using a thin flexible or resilient dielectric wiping blade to wipe bubbles of hydrogen from the surface, sever dendritic material, if such is present as the coating thickens, and to remove a surface layer of partially depleted electrolytic solution, replacing with fresh solution and to stabilize strip portions extending between support rolls. The resilient dielectric wiper blade is preferably used with perforated anodes which allow fresh electrolytic solution to flow into the space between the anodes and the strip surface after being expelled by passage of the strip past the wiping blade. The orifices in the anode may be differentially sized to eliminate cavitation behind the wiping blades. The wiping blades may be chevron shaped to increase the wiping effect and pumps may be used to increase the flow of electrolytic solution into and out of the space between the anodes and the strip. Chevron shaped wiping blades may be used to increase the wiping effectiveness and continuous movable wiping blades may be used to provides additional wiping surface as the original wiping surface wears down. The wiping blades may also be angularly oriented with respect to the strip to increase the wiping effectiveness.

Pension Fund Dynamics and Gains/Losses Due to Random Rates of Investment Return

Abstract: A simple model for defined benefit pension plans with independent and identically distributed rates of investment return and a stationary membership is considered. Three methods of adjusting the normal cost as gains or losses arise are compared, and a suitable choice of amortization or spread period is made. We also investigate the evolution in time of the first and second moments of the pension fund and contribution levels.

Obstacles to foreign direct investment in Russia

Abstract: Explores the obstacles facing trans‐national corporations (TNC) considering FDI in Russia. Dunning (1994) suggests that countries’ abilities to attract and exploit the potential economic benefits of inbound FDI vary according to their national political, economic and legal cultures, traditions and infrastructures, together with the economic objectives and policies pursued by host governments. This paper seeks to make use of Dunning’s model, in exploring the obstacles to FDI in modern Russia, and their implications for TNCs. The papers’ findings suggest that Russia’s relative lack of success in attracting FDI and exploiting its potential benefits during the 1990s can be attributed to her national infrastructural factors and government policies, as Dunning’s model suggests. Russia’s ability to attract a larger share of FDI in future seems likely to be constrained by national ambivalence towards the benefits of FDI, together with the political and economic realities of her current situation.

Choosing a testing method to deliver reliability

Abstract: are exhibited in which each kind of testing is superior.

Autoregressive rates of return and the variability of pension contributions and fund levels for a defined benefit pension scheme

Abstract: A mathematical model is described which facilitates the comparison of different pension funding methods. Real investment rates of return on the pension fund are assumed to be represented by an autoregressive model for the corresponding force of interest. Expressions for the moments of the contribution rate and fund level are then derived. This leads to a discussion of methods of funding which are optimal in the sense of the period for spreading surpluses and deficiencies which should be chosen in order to reduce the variability of both contributions and fund levels.