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Satellite Power System (SPS) mapping of exclusion areas for rectenna sites
The areas of the United States that were not available as potential sites for receiving antennas that are an integral part of the Satellite Power System concept are presented. Thirty-six variables with the potential to exclude the rectenna were mapped and coded in a computer. Some of these variables exclude a rectenna from locating within the area of its spatial influence, and other variables potentially exclude the rectenna. These maps of variables were assembled from existing data and were mapped on a grid system
Spin and Orbital Splitting in Ferromagnetic Contacted Single Wall Carbon Nanotube Devices
We observed the coulomb blockade phenomena in ferromagnetic contacting single
wall semiconducting carbon nanotube devices. No obvious Coulomb peaks shift was
observed with existing only the Zeeman splitting at 4K. Combining with other
effects, the ferromagnetic leads prevent the orbital spin states splitting with
magnetic field up to 2 Tesla at 4K. With increasing magnetic field further,
both positive or negative coulomb peaks shift slopes are observed associating
with clockwise and anticlockwise orbital state splitting. The strongly
suppressed/enhanced of the conductance has been observed associating with the
magnetic field induced orbital states splitting/converging
Unexpected phase locking of magnetic fluctuations in the multi-k magnet USb
The spin waves in the multi-k antiferromagnet USb soften and become quasielastic well below the antiferromagnetic ordering temperature TN. This occurs without a magnetic or structural transition. It has been suggested that this change is in fact due to dephasing of the different multi-k components: a switch from 3-k to 1-k behavior. In this work, we use inelastic neutron scattering with tridirectional polarization analysis to probe the quasielastic magnetic excitations and reveal that the 3-k structure does not dephase. More surprisingly, the paramagnetic correlations also maintain the same clear phase correlations well above TN (up to at least 1.4TN)
A classical statistical model for distributions of escape events in swept-bias Josephson junctions
We have developed a model for experiments in which the bias current applied
to a Josephson junction is slowly increased from zero until the junction
switches from its superconducting zero-voltage state, and the bias value at
which this occurs is recorded. Repetition of such measurements yields
experimentally determined probability distributions for the bias current at the
moment of escape. Our model provides an explanation for available data on the
temperature dependence of these escape peaks. When applied microwaves are
included we observe an additional peak in the escape distributions and
demonstrate that this peak matches experimental observations. The results
suggest that experimentally observed switching distributions, with and without
applied microwaves, can be understood within classical mechanics and may not
exhibit phenomena that demand an exclusively quantum mechanical interpretation.Comment: Eight pages, eight figure
Habitat conversion and global avian biodiversity loss
The magnitude of the impacts of human activities on global biodiversity has been documented at several organizational levels. However, although there have been numerous studies of the effects of local-scale changes in land use (e.g. logging) on the abundance of groups of organisms, broader continental or global-scale analyses addressing the same basic issues remain largely wanting. None the less, changing patterns of land use, associated with the appropriation of increasing proportions of net primary productivity by the human population, seem likely not simply to have reduced the diversity of life, but also to have reduced the carrying capacity of the environment in terms of the numbers of other organisms that it can sustain.
Here, we estimate the size of the existing global breeding bird population, and then make a first approximation as to how much this has been modified as a consequence of land-use changes wrought by human activities. Summing numbers across different land-use classes gives a best current estimate of a global population of less than 100 billion breeding bird individuals. Applying the same methodology to estimates of original land-use distributions suggests that conservatively this may represent a loss of between a fifth and a quarter of pre-agricultural bird numbers. This loss is shared across a range of temperate and tropical land-use types
A Case Study Exploring the Perceived and Actual Person-Environment Fit of Teacher Aspirants in Agricultural Education
This study assessed the factors that led students who did not participate in secondary agricultural education programs to the agricultural education teaching major. Findings indicated that these participants were motivated to pursue an agricultural education degree because of their passion for agriculture and youth, and affinity for people and the job. Parents and friends were their biggest influences in pursuing a degree in agricultural education. Their greatest perceived strengths were content knowledge in agriculture, leadership skills, and ability to persevere; their greatest perceived limitation was lack of experience in a secondary agricultural education program. Unfortunately, none of the students secured employment as agriculture teachers. Because these findings are more subjective and personal (P) in nature, future research should investigate more objective measures of the demands from teachers in the workforce (i.e., environment-E)
High magnetic field studies of the Vortex Lattice structure in YBa2Cu3O7
We report on small angle neutron scattering measurements of the vortex
lattice in twin-free YBa2Cu3O7, extending the previously investigated maximum
field of 11~T up to 16.7~T with the field applied parallel to the c axis. This
is the first microscopic study of vortex matter in this region of the
superconducting phase. We find the high field VL displays a rhombic structure,
with a field-dependent coordination that passes through a square configuration,
and which does not lock-in to a field-independent structure. The VL pinning
reduces with increasing temperature, but is seen to affect the VL correlation
length even above the irreversibility temperature of the lattice structure. At
high field and temperature we observe a melting transition, which appears to be
first order, with no detectable signal from a vortex liquid above the
transition
No Evidence for Orbital Loop Currents in Charge Ordered YBaCuO from Polarized Neutron Diffraction
It has been proposed that the pseudogap state of underdoped cuprate
superconductors may be due to a transition to a phase which has circulating
currents within each unit cell. Here, we use polarized neutron diffraction to
search for the corresponding orbital moments in two samples of underdoped
YBaCuO with doping levels and 0.123. In contrast to
some other reports using polarized neutrons, but in agreement with nuclear
magnetic resonance and muon spin rotation measurements, we find no evidence for
the appearance of magnetic order below 300 K. Thus, our experiment suggests
that such order is not an intrinsic property of high-quality cuprate
superconductor single crystals. Our results provide an upper bound for a
possible orbital loop moment which depends on the pattern of currents within
the unit cell. For example, for the CC- pattern proposed by Varma,
we find that the ordered moment per current loop is less than 0.013 for
.Comment: Comments in arXiv:1710.08173v1 fully addresse
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