\u27Green\u27 manufacturing: A life cycle inventory of the automotive paint process and protocols for industry application.

In response to growing interest in \u27green\u27 vehicles, Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) and Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) concepts can quantify the automobile\u27s environmental impacts. Potential benefits include Design-for-Environment (DfE) opportunities, increased manufacturing efficiencies, and future application to consumer-based eco-rating systems. Detailed and up-to-date LCI data for general application by LCI practitioners does not exist at this time for the majority of Manufacturing/Assembly processes in North America, including the automotive paint process. With an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) industry partner\u27s commitment to a publicly available LCI database (i.e., NREL LCI Database), however, a representative vehicle assembly facility was selected for completion of a paint process LCI. A detailed LCI reference dataset was developed to include materials, energy, and emissions associated with the Pretreatment, E-coat, and Top Coat paint unit processes. The challenges and industry realities of completing the LCI enabled a detailed set of guidelines to be developed, adapting existing protocols to the specifics of the manufacturing paint process. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Paper copy at Leddy Library: Theses & Major Papers - Basement, West Bldg. / Call Number: Thesis2005 .A53. Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-01, page: 0386. Thesis (M.A.Sc.)--University of Windsor (Canada), 2005

Signatures for Solar Axions/WISPs

Standard solar physics cannot account for the X-ray emission and other puzzles, the most striking example being the solar corona mystery. The corona temperature rise above the non-flaring magnetized sunspots, while the photosphere just underneath becomes cooler, makes this mystery more intriguing. The paradoxical Sun is suggestive of some sort of exotic solution, axions being the (only?) choice for the missing ingredient. We present atypical axion signatures, which depict solar axions with a rest mass max ~17 meV/c2. Then, the Sun has been for decades the overlooked harbinger of new particle physics.Comment: To appear in the proceedings of the 6th Patras Workshop, Zurich 5-9 July 201

Solar X-rays from Axions: Rest-Mass Dependent Signatures

The spectral shape of solar X-rays is a power law. The more active the Sun is, the less steep the distribution. This behaviour can be explained by axion regeneration to X-rays occurring ~400km deep into the photosphere. Their down-comptonization reproduces the measured spectral shape, pointing at axions with rest mass m_a~17 meV/c2, without contradicting astrophysical-laboratory limits. Directly measured soft X-ray spectra from the extremely quiet Sun during 2009 (SphinX mission), though hitherto overlooked, fitt the axion scenario.Comment: To appear in Proceedings of the 5th Patras Axion Workshop, Durham 200

Transforming literacy teaching : a teacher's experience of implementing critical literacy and philosophy for children in a grade three South African classroom.

Philosophy for Children (P4C) and Critical Literacy (CL) are orientations that embrace a socio-cultural perspective to literacy by including the life-worlds of children. They also encourage meta-cognitive thinking by encouraging children to explore written texts. The focus of this qualitative project research was to explore the impact of implementing CL and P4C in a Grade Three classroom using a Community of Enquiry, and the stimulus of a picturebook, The Tunnel by Anthony Browne, (1989). The researcher explored the impact of this intervention on the teacher as well as the children. The data collection consisted of the teacher’s reflective journal, transcripts from six Communities of Enquiry and the children’s creative writing and artwork in the form of picturebooks. The data collection indicated two main findings. Firstly, teaching in the CoE required a different discourse for the teacher. Secondly, the children’s experience of literacy was enriched by adopting a socio-cultural perspective that enabled them to explore and critique their worlds. The overall positive results indicate that implementing these two approaches enriched the children’s creative, critical and collaborative thinking, while improving relationships in the classroom. Further research could help to broaden and develop the scope of this study as it was a small-scale study in a private, middle class school in Johannesburg

Thissavros Hydropower Plant Managing Geotechnical Problems in the Construction

The Thissavros hydropower and pumped storage project on the Nestos river in northern Greece involved construction of a 172 m high rockfill dam and an underground power house with 300 MW installed capacity. Bedrock at the site consists of gneiss with complex geological structure and complicated hydrogeological conditions. On the right abutment, the dam partially rests on a large landslide and the toe of another large landslide extends into the plunge pool from the left bank. Initial excavations activated the dormant slides. Unloading, buttressing and drainage successfully stabilized the landslides. Core material for the dam is a silty sand and required special precautions in design and construction. Starting with an extremely rapid reservoir filling the dam has performed highly satisfactorily. The power house had to be excavated in a relatively unfavorable geological orientation but application of structural discontinuity analysis avoided wedge failures

Application of Multiprotocol Medical Imaging Communications and an Extended DICOM WADO Service in a Teleradiology Architecture

Multiprotocol medical imaging communication through the Internet is more flexible than the tight DICOM transfers. This paper introduces a modular multiprotocol teleradiology architecture that integrates DICOM and common Internet services (based on web, FTP, and E-mail) into a unique operational domain. The extended WADO service (a web extension of DICOM) and the other proposed services allow access to all levels of the DICOM information hierarchy as opposed to solely Object level. A lightweight client site is considered adequate, because the server site of the architecture provides clients with service interfaces through the web as well as invulnerable space for temporary storage, called as User Domains, so that users fulfill their applications' tasks. The proposed teleradiology architecture is pilot implemented using mainly Java-based technologies and is evaluated by engineers in collaboration with doctors. The new architecture ensures flexibility in access, user mobility, and enhanced data security

Potential for measurement of the tensor electric and magnetic polarizabilities of the deuteron in storage-ring experiments with polarized beams

Measurement of the tensor electric and magnetic polarizabilities of the deuteron is of great interest, especially in connection with the possibilities of COSY and GSI. These polarizabilities can be measured in storage rings by the frozen spin method providing a disappearance of g-2 precession. This method will be used in the planned deuteron electric-dipole-moment experiment in storage rings. The tensor electric polarizability of the deuteron significantly influences the buildup of the vertical polarization in the above experiment. The spin interactions depending on the electric dipole moment, the tensor electric polarizability, and main systematical errors caused by field misalignments have very different symmetries. For the considered experimental conditions, the sensitivity to the deuteron EDM of $1\times10^{-29} e\cdot$cm corresponds to measuring the both of tensor polarizabilities with an accuracy of $\delta\alpha_T\approx\delta\beta_T\approx5\times10^{-42}$ cm$^3$. This conservative estimate can be improved by excluding the systematical error caused by the field instability which is negligible for the measurement of the tensor polarizabilities. To find the tensor magnetic polarizability, the horizontal components of the polarization vector should be measured.Comment: 11 pages, the extended version of the paper prepared for the Proceedings of 19th International Spin Physics Symposium (September 27 - October 2, 2010, Julich, Germany