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Introducing the Bulletin of Atmospheric Science and Technology
The rapid technological development of the past few decades has allowed for an unprecedented
wealth of data about ourselves and our planet. The cost reduction of space platforms, the
microelectronic revolution and the nearly exponential increase in computer power have been
generating novel opportunities to explore and understand the world around us. Tools and
theoretical approaches, capable of putting together all the insights we may possibly gain from
all these new streams of data in a multidisciplinary framework, are still being developed. We
are hence faced with both a unique challenge and an opportunity to make a significant progress
in many scientific fields, first and foremost in the atmospheric and climate sciences.
We are pleased to announce here the launch of the Bulletin of Atmospheric Science and
Technology (BAST), a new peer-reviewed journal which is meant to bridge this gap in the broad
area of the atmospheric sciences. The journal encourages a cross-disciplinary approach with an
emphasis on new sensor technologies and systems, combined observational and modeling
techniques, innovative numerical methods, data analysis, and retrieval techniques. BAST offers
a platform to share new ideas and fresh developments to stimulate research activities focusing on
urban, coastal, marine, rural, and mountain environments. Particular attention will be given to
cross-disciplinary studies, especially those involving citizens for the collection of crowd-sourced
data and those devoted to the characterization of uncertainties and homogenization of methods.
BAST aims at connecting weather and climate communities using both observational and
modeling approaches, creating a forum hosting discussion and brainstorming activities. The
journal also hopes to attract contributions reporting approaches or techniques from other
scientific fields that can be applicable to atmospheric sciences, as well as contributions where
technological developments are discussed alongside with their scientific and societal impacts.
In this sense BAST will provide a new platform to support the technological revolution towards
a climate-smart society through the collection and exploitation of big data. The journal will
give visibility to international experiments and projects in atmospheric science and technology,
illustrating preliminary or consolidated results from these initiatives. Additional fields of
interest are : environmental protection; observation, understanding, and modeling of hazardous
and extreme events and mitigation of their impacts; development of new sensing tools
integrating satellite information with surface or airborne measurements; operation of unmanned
and remotely piloted air vehicles equipped with sensors of small size and weight,
especially remote sensors, pushing electro-optical-mechanical components towards a continuously
increasing miniaturization.
Research articles, Review articles, Technical reports, Brief reports, Letters and News are
welcome. While keeping the focus of the journal on scientific research, the “Bulletin” format
provides appropriate visibility to contributions from the operational side, i.e., meteorological
services and private companies developing sensors and products of interest to the atmospheric
science and technology community. Below we provide a more detailed description of the topics
that will be emphasized and fostered in BAST
Remote sensing/global change. A special bibliography
The first portion of this bibliography contains citations (with abstracts, when available) to unclassified literature contained in the NASA STI Database. These citations also appeared in issues of the abstract journal 'Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports (STAR)', or in other announcement products offered by the NASA STI Program. The citations appear in ascending accession number order. A second section provides several indexes to the citations. They are subject term, personal author, report number, and accession number. The citations are included for the following disciplines as they relate to remote sensing and global change: astronautics, engineering, geosciences, life sciences, mathematical and computer sciences, social sciences, and space sciences
Current Discourse Space in Sino-American Economic News on “The Belt and Road”
To unveil the covert relation between cognitive perceptions and language use, and to probe into the cognitive mechanism revealed by news discourses, the authors set out to analyze the economic news semantically and textually, in an attempt to grasp a preliminary picture of different cognitive patterns of the Chinese and Americans on “The Belt and Road” (B&R), drawing insights on how people from different cultural backgrounds interpret B&R and its promotion, based on the current discourse space (CDS) analysis. The findings show that the variation of CDS frame applied in both Chinese and American news reports exists in dynamic linguistic representations, which sheds light on the substantial roles that mass media plays in affecting news readers’ perceiving manners or cognitive patterns. The authors emphatically claim that the promotion of B&R still has a long way to go until it reaches the highland of positive and objective social cognitive perceptions embedded in people from various backgrounds. This research provides evidences to identify interdependencies between particular CDS models that allow inferences about the CDS frames of a certain situation evoked by the news agencies and their discourse writers from different cultural backgrounds and from different political stances
Special Libraries, April 1961
Volume 52, Issue 4https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1961/1003/thumbnail.jp
Southwest Research Institute assistance to NASA in biomedical areas of the technology
Significant applications of aerospace technology were achieved. These applications include: a miniaturized, noninvasive system to telemeter electrocardiographic signals of heart transplant patients during their recuperative period as graded situations are introduced; and economical vital signs monitor for use in nursing homes and rehabilitation hospitals to indicate the onset of respiratory arrest; an implantable telemetry system to indicate the onset of the rejection phenomenon in animals undergoing cardiac transplants; an exceptionally accurate current proportional temperature controller for pollution studies; an automatic, atraumatic blood pressure measurement device; materials for protecting burned areas in contact with joint bender splints; a detector to signal the passage of animals by a given point during ecology studies; and special cushioning for use with below-knee amputees to protect the integrity of the skin at the stump/prosthesis interface
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