Tiger beetles of Lower California

28 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.Includes bibliographical references (p. 27-28)

Decontamination of an Analytical Laboratory Hot Cell Facility

An Analytical Laboratory Hot Cell Facility at Argonne National Laboratory-West (ANL-W) had been in service for nearly thirty years. In order to comply with current DOE regulations governing such facilities and meet programmatic requirements, a major refurbishment effort was mandated. Due to the high levels of radiation and contamination within the cells, a decontamination effort was necessary to provide an environment that permitted workers to enter the cells to perform refurbishment activities without receiving high doses of radiation and to minimize the potential for the spread of contamination. State-of-the-art decontamination methods, as well as time-proven methods were utilized to minimize personnel exposure as well as maximize results

Design/Build/Mockup of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant Gas Generation Experiment Glovebox

A glovebox was designed, fabricated, and mocked-up for the WIPP Gas Generation Experiments (GGE) being conducted at ANL-W. GGE will determine the gas generation rates from materials in contact handled transuranic waste at likely long term repository temperature and pressure conditions. Since the customer`s schedule did not permit time for performing R&D of the support systems, designing the glovebox, and fabricating the glovebox in a serial fashion, a parallel approach was undertaken. As R&D of the sampling system and other support systems was initiated, a specification was written concurrently for contracting a manufacturer to design and build the glovebox and support equipment. The contractor understood that the R&D being performed at ANL-W would add additional functional requirements to the glovebox design. Initially, the contractor had sufficient information to design the glovebox shell. Once the shell design was approved, ANL-W built a full scale mockup of the shell out of plywood and metal framing; support systems were mocked up and resultant information was forwarded to the glovebox contractor to incorporate into the design. This approach resulted in a glovebox being delivered to ANL-W on schedule and within budget

Refurbishment of an Analytical Laboratory Hot Cell Facility

An Analytical Laboratory Hot Cell (ALHC) Facility at Argonne National Laboratory-West (ANL-W) was in service for nearly thirty years. In order to comply with DOE regulations governing such facilities and meet ANL-W programmatic requirements, a major refurbishment effort was undertaken. To place the facility in compliance with current regulations, all penetrations within the facility were sealed, the ventilation system was redesigned, upgraded and replaced, the master-slave manipulators were replaced, the hot cell windows were removed, refurbished, and reinstalled, all hot cell utilities were replaced, a lead-shielded glovebox housing an Inductive Coupled Plasma - Atomic Emission Spectrometer (ICP-AES) System was interfaced with the hot cells, and a new CO{sub 2} fire suppression system and other ALHC support equipment were installed

Demolition of an analytical laboratory hot cell facility for future refurbishment

An Analytical Laboratory Hot Cell Facility at Argonne National Laboratory-West (ANL-W) was in service for nearly thirty years. In order to comply with current DOE regulations governing such facilities and meet ANL-W programmatic requirements, a major refurbishment effort had to take place. Existing equipment was removed and disposed of, including working trays and supports, lead-follow manipulators, a steel metallographic cell, penetration plugs, and the cell ventilation exhaust system. The hot cell viewing windows were removed and sent to a contractor for refurbishment. Waste generation, minimization, characterization, and packaging issues were taken into account during planning and performance of the demolition activities

Exploiting the Bipartite Structure of Entity Grids for Document Coherence and Retrieval

International audienceDocument coherence describes how much sense text makes in terms of its logical organisation and discourse flow. Even though coherence is a relatively difficult notion to quantify precisely, it can be approximated automatically. This type of coherence modelling is not only interesting in itself, but also useful for a number of other text processing tasks, including Information Retrieval (IR), where adjusting the ranking of documents according to both their relevance and their coherence has been shown to increase retrieval effectiveness.The state of the art in unsupervised coherence modelling represents documents as bipartite graphs of sentences and discourse entities, and then projects these bipartite graphs into one–mode undirected graphs. However, one–mode projections may incur significant loss of the information present in the original bipartite structure. To address this we present three novel graph metrics that compute document coherence on the original bipartite graph of sentences and entities. Evaluation on standard settings shows that: (i) one of our coherence metrics beats the state of the art in terms of coherence accuracy; and (ii) all three of our coherence metrics improve retrieval effectiveness because, as closer analysis reveals, they capture aspects of document quality that go undetected by both keyword-based standard ranking and by spam filtering. This work contributes document coherence metrics that are theoretically principled, parameter-free, and useful to IR

Towards a quantum probability theory of similarity judgments

We review recent progress in understanding similarity judgments in cognition by means of quantum probability theory (QP) models. We begin by outlining some features of similarity judgments that have proven difficult to model by traditional approaches. We then briefly present a model of similarity judgments based on QP, and show how it can solve many of the problems faced by traditional approaches. Finally we look at some areas where the quantum model is currently less satisfactory, and discuss some open questions and areas for further work

The false spider mite, Brevipalpus lewisi McGregor-a potential pest of English walnut

Volume: 32Start Page: 93End Page: 9

The ecology of Symphyla

Volume: 25Start Page: 1End Page: 1