A portable, low-cost flight-data measurement and recording system

The design of and the experience with an inexpensive, hand-portable, onboard data system used to record four parameters in the final portion of the landing approach and touchdown of an airplane are described. The system utilized a high-quality audio tape recorder and amateur photographic equipment with accessory circuitry rather than specialized instrumentation to given satisfactory results

Image [&] Narrative journal editorship (in 2 issues) - The story of things: reading narrative in the visual

Based on the conference convened by Carson & Miller to accompany their project The Story of Things, these two journal issues of Image [&] Narrative explore the relationship between narrative and the visual. Issue 1: ‘Introduction’, Carson & Miller Part 1 – Telling the Story of Things ‘Relating Stories’, Dr. Patricia Allmer ‘Scrapbook (a visual essay)’, Carson & Miller Part 2 – Object as Catalyst: the Potential for Narrative within the Artefact ‘Artefacts and Anecdotes’, Prof. Karen Bassi ‘Ephemeral Art: Telling Stories to the Dead’, Dr. Mary O’ Neill ‘Belongings’, Lucy May Schofield & Sylvia Waltering Issue 2: ‘Introduction’, Carson & Miller Part 1 – Visualising the Remembered Narrative: Archetype, Biography, Autobiography ‘Rephrased, Replaced, Repainted: visual anachronism as a narrative device’, Gyöngyvér Horváth ‘Lost Children, the Moors & Evil Monsters: the photographic story of the Moors Murders’, Helen Pleasance ‘Read You Like A Book: Time and Relative Dimensions in Storytelling’, Mike Nicholson Part 2 – Authoring and Reading the Sequential Narrative: Linear and Non-Linear Approaches ‘The Pre-Narrative Monstrosity of Images: how images demand narrative’, Dr. William Brown ‘Towards Ephemeral Narrative’, Jacqueline Butler & Gavin Parry ‘Signification Under Sentence: examining how the juxtaposition of verse with film affects narrative’, Dr. Pete Atkinso

The Impact of Pictorial Display on Operator Learning and Performance

The effects of pictorially displayed information on human learning and performance of a simple control task were investigated. The controlled system was a harmonic oscillator and the system response was displayed to subjects as either an animated pendulum or a horizontally moving dot. Results indicated that the pendulum display did not effect performance scores but did significantly effect the learning processes of individual operators. The subjects with the pendulum display demonstrated more vertical internal models early in the experiment and the manner in which their internal models were tuned with practice showed increased variability between subjects

Chemotactic Turning Behaviour of Tubularia Spermatozoa

1. The movements of Tubularia spermatozoa in the vicinity of micropipettes filled with extracts of female hydranths, which chemotactically attract the spermatozoa, have been recorded by multiple-flash photomicrography. 2. When a spermatozoon turns in response to a chemotactic stimulus, the flagellum continues to beat, with a highly asymmetrical pattern of bending, during the turn. 3. The magnitude of the turn, particularly the duration of the period of asymmetrical beating, is variable, but each spermatozoon is only able to make turns in one direction, relative to its own body. 4. Most of the behaviour of these spermatozoa may be explained if the turning mechanism is activated when the spermatozoon detects a decreasing concentration of the chemotactant

A New S-S' Pair Creation Rate Expression Improving Upon Zener Curves for I-E Plots

To simplify phenomenology modeling used for charge density wave (CDW)transport, we apply a wavefunctional formulation of tunneling Hamiltonians to a physical transport problem characterized by a perturbed washboard potential. To do so, we consider tunneing between states that are wavefunctionals of a scalar quantum field. I-E curves that match Zener curves - used to fit data experimentally with wavefunctionals congruent with the false vacuum hypothesis. This has a very strong convergence with electron-positron pair production representations.The similarities in plot behavior of the current values after the threshold electric field values argue in favor of the Bardeen pinning gap paradigm proposed for quasi-one-dimensional metallic transport problems.Comment: 22 pages,6 figures, and extensive editing of certain segments.Paper has been revised due to acceptance by World press scientific MPLB journal. This is word version of file which has been submitted to MPLBs editor for final proofing. Due for publication perhaps in mid spring to early summer 200

In defence of global egalitarianism

This essay argues that David Miller's criticisms of global egalitarianism do not undermine the view where it is stated in one of its stronger, luck egalitarian forms. The claim that global egalitarianism cannot specify a metric of justice which is broad enough to exclude spurious claims for redistribution, but precise enough to appropriately value different kinds of advantage, implicitly assumes that cultural understandings are the only legitimate way of identifying what counts as advantage. But that is an assumption always or almost always rejected by global egalitarianism. The claim that global egalitarianism demands either too little redistribution, leaving the unborn and dissenters burdened with their societies' imprudent choices, or too much redistribution, creating perverse incentives by punishing prudent decisions, only presents a problem for global luck egalitarianism on the assumption that nations can legitimately inherit assets from earlier generations – again, an assumption very much at odds with global egalitarian assumptions