Aeronautical engineering: A continuing bibliography with indexes, supplement 100

This bibliography lists 295 reports, articles, and other documents introduced into the NASA Scientific and Technical Information System in August 1978

Abstracts on Radio Direction Finding (1899 - 1995)

The files on this record represent the various databases that originally composed the CD-ROM issue of "Abstracts on Radio Direction Finding" database, which is now part of the Dudley Knox Library's Abstracts and Selected Full Text Documents on Radio Direction Finding (1899 - 1995) Collection. (See Calhoun record https://calhoun.nps.edu/handle/10945/57364 for further information on this collection and the bibliography). Due to issues of technological obsolescence preventing current and future audiences from accessing the bibliography, DKL exported and converted into the three files on this record the various databases contained in the CD-ROM. The contents of these files are: 1) RDFA_CompleteBibliography_xls.zip [RDFA_CompleteBibliography.xls: Metadata for the complete bibliography, in Excel 97-2003 Workbook format; RDFA_Glossary.xls: Glossary of terms, in Excel 97-2003 Workbookformat; RDFA_Biographies.xls: Biographies of leading figures, in Excel 97-2003 Workbook format]; 2) RDFA_CompleteBibliography_csv.zip [RDFA_CompleteBibliography.TXT: Metadata for the complete bibliography, in CSV format; RDFA_Glossary.TXT: Glossary of terms, in CSV format; RDFA_Biographies.TXT: Biographies of leading figures, in CSV format]; 3) RDFA_CompleteBibliography.pdf: A human readable display of the bibliographic data, as a means of double-checking any possible deviations due to conversion

Passive acoustic monitoring for assessment of natural and anthropogenic sound sources in the marine environment using automatic recognition

In the marine environment, sound can be an efficient source of information. Indeed, several marine species, including fish, use sound to navigate, select habitats, detect predators and prey, and to attract mates. Therefore, all the abiotic, biotic and manmade sounds that comprise the soundscape, have the potential to be used to assess and monitor species and marine environments. Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) involves the use of acoustic sensors to record sound in the environment, from which relevant ecological information can be inferred. This thesis studied marine soundscapes, with special attention on fish communities, anthropogenic noise, and applied several methods to analyse acoustic recordings. Most of the focus was on the Tagus estuary, where the presence of two highly vocal species is known: the Lusitanian toadfish (Halobatrachus didactylus) and the meagre (Argyrosomus regius). Azorean and Mozambique soundscapes were also analysed. Several methods were applied to extract information and to visualize soundscape characteristics, including sound recognition systems based on hidden Markov models to recognize fish sounds and boat passages. Analysis of several types of marine environments and time scales showed several advantages and disadvantages of different methods. The use of sound pressure level on different frequency bands allowed the quantification of daily and seasonal patterns. Ecoacoustic indices appear to be cost-effective tools to monitor biodiversity in some marine environments. Using automatic recognition, vocal rhythms (diel and seasonal patterns) and vocal interactions among individuals were also characterized. Furthermore, boat noise effects on fish were studied: we encountered impacts on the audition, vocal behaviour and reproduction. Overall, we used PAM as a tool to remotely assess and monitor soundscapes, biodiversity, fish communities’ seasonal patterns, fish behaviour, species presence, and the effect of anthropogenic noise aiming to contribute for the management and conservation of marine ecosystems

Modeling EMI Resulting from a Signal Via Transition Through Power/Ground Layers

Signal transitioning through layers on vias are very common in multi-layer printed circuit board (PCB) design. For a signal via transitioning through the internal power and ground planes, the return current must switch from one reference plane to another reference plane. The discontinuity of the return current at the via excites the power and ground planes, and results in noise on the power bus that can lead to signal integrity, as well as EMI problems. Numerical methods, such as the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD), Moment of Methods (MoM), and partial element equivalent circuit (PEEC) method, were employed herein to study this problem. The modeled results are supported by measurements. In addition, a common EMI mitigation approach of adding a decoupling capacitor was investigated with the FDTD method

Aeronautical Engineering - A special bibliography with indexes /supplement 1/

Annotated reference bibliography on aeronautical engineering document

Growth and characterisation of single-crystal fibres for sensing applications

The laser heated pedestal growth technique has been successfully employed to grow pure and doped sapphire crystal fibres for characterisation as suitable sensor materials. Source materials used were polycrystalline and crystalline sapphire rods while fibres with typical diameters in the range 80 - 170 mm were grown. Pure sapphire fibres, both a- and c-axis, were found to grow easily with no complications such as melt instability. C-axis fibre growth was readily initiated while a-axis fibres required an appropriate a-axis oriented seed crystal. Dip-coating has been used to prepare suitably coated sapphire source rods for growth into doped fibres. Doped fibres grown included Cr3+:, Er3+:, Er3+:Yb3+: and Yb3+:Er3+:Al2O3. Er3+:Yb3+:Al2O3 fibres have been prepared with approximately equal concentration of both dopants while a 10:1 Yb3+ to Er3+ concentration ratio was used for preparing Yb3+:Er3+:Al2O3 fibres. Ruby fibres were also found to grow easily although brownish-green deposits have been observed on some of these fibres. Large transmission losses have been found in fibres with these deposits. Acid cleaning was not effective in removing these deposits, suggesting that they have diffused beneath the surface of the fibres. This was attributed to the condensation of chromium oxide on the fibre surface during growth. Growth of rare earth-doped fibres was initially problematic due to the constant breaking-off of the crystallising fibres from the melt. This was thought to be due to the flexibility of the small diameter source fibres used as well as the high concentration levels of doping. Replacing these small fibres with larger source rods thus permitted RE-doped fibres with relatively good optical quality to be grown. Fibres were grown with typical growth rates of 0.5 - 1 mm/min