The Evolving Role of the Towing Tank

1979 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karl L. Kirkman
Keyword(s):  
Scale Effects ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Model Tests ◽  
Profound Change ◽  
Towing Tank ◽  
Design Cycle ◽  
Sailing Yacht ◽  
Changing Role ◽  
Economic Considerations

The towing tank has been used regularly to attempt to refine sailing yacht forms almost since its introduction as a Naval Architectural tool. Unfortunately, the yachtsman's affair with tank testing has run hot and cold based upon misunderstandings of the correct role of model testing and economic considerations. Recent research work has caused profound change in the method for using the tank for design assistance, but the tank retains a necessary and economically suitable place in the design cycle if properly used. The paper explains the changing role of the tank and appropriate means of using model tests in light of our contemporary understanding of scale effects.

The changing role of the dental dean

1969 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 355-360
Author(s):  
JA DiBiaggio
Keyword(s):  
Changing Role

Integrating Socio-Economic Considerations into Biosafety Decisions: The Role of Public Participation

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lindsey Fransen ◽  
Antonio La Vina ◽  
Fabian Dayrit ◽  
Loraine Gatlabayan ◽  
Dwi Andreas Santosa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Participation ◽  
Economic Considerations

Convergence of Corporate Governance Models

2004 ◽  
pp. 129-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Tretyakov
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Institutional Environment ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
Commodity Markets ◽  
Legal Systems ◽  
National Institutions ◽  
Governance Models ◽  
Changing Role

The article focuses on the analysis of the process of convergence of outsider and insider models of corporate governance. Chief characteristics of basic and intermediate systems of corporate governance as well as the changing role of its main agents are under examination. Globalization of financial and commodity markets, convergence of legal systems, an open exchange of ideas and information are the driving forces of the convergence of basic systems of corporate governance. However the convergence does not imply the unification of institutional environment and national institutions of corporate governance.

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