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Peculiarly pleasant weather for US maize.
Continuation of historical trends in crop yield are critical to meeting the demands of a growing and more affluent world population. Climate change may compromise our ability to meet these demands, but estimates vary widely, highlighting the importance of understanding historical interactions between yield and climate trends. The relationship between temperature and yield is nuanced, involving differential yield outcomes to warm ([Formula: see text]C) and hot ([Formula: see text]C) temperatures and differing sensitivity across growth phases. Here, we use a crop model that resolves temperature responses according to magnitude and growth phase to show that US maize has benefited from weather shifts since 1981. Improvements are related to lengthening of the growing season and cooling of the hottest temperatures. Furthermore, current farmer cropping schedules are more beneficial in the climate of the last decade than they would have been in earlier decades, indicating statistically significant adaptation to a changing climate of 13 kg·ha-1· decade-1 All together, the better weather experienced by US maize accounts for 28% of the yield trends since 1981. Sustaining positive trends in yield depends on whether improvements in agricultural climate continue and the degree to which farmers adapt to future climates
A knowledge-based flight status monitor for real-time application in digital avionics systems
The Dryden Flight Research Facility of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Ames Research Center (Ames-Dryden) is the principal NASA facility for the flight testing and evaluation of new and complex avionics systems. To aid in the interpretation of system health and status data, a knowledge-based flight status monitor was designed. The monitor was designed to use fault indicators from the onboard system which are telemetered to the ground and processed by a rule-based model of the aircraft failure management system to give timely advice and recommendations in the mission control room. One of the important constraints on the flight status monitor is the need to operate in real time, and to pursue this aspect, a joint research activity between NASA Ames-Dryden and the Royal Aerospace Establishment (RAE) on real-time knowledge-based systems was established. Under this agreement, the original LISP knowledge base for the flight status monitor was reimplemented using the intelligent knowledge-based system toolkit, MUSE, which was developed under RAE sponsorship. Details of the flight status monitor and the MUSE implementation are presented
A user's guide for V174, a program using a finite difference method to analyze transonic flow over oscillating wings
The design and usage of a pilot program using a finite difference method for calculating the pressure distributions over harmonically oscillating wings in transonic flow are discussed. The procedure used is based on separating the velocity potential into steady and unsteady parts and linearizing the resulting unsteady differential equation for small disturbances. The steady velocity potential which must be obtained from some other program, is required for input. The unsteady differential equation is linear, complex in form with spatially varying coefficients. Because sinusoidal motion is assumed, time is not a variable. The numerical solution is obtained through a finite difference formulation and a line relaxation solution method
Effects of 3-d and 4-d-transition metal substitutional impurities on the electronic properties of CrO2
We present first-principles based density functional theory calculations of
the electronic and magnetic structure of CrO2 with 3d (Ti through Cu) and 4d
(Zr through Ag) substitutional impurities. We find that the half-metallicity of
CrO2 remains intact for all of the calculated substitutions. We also observe
two periodic trends as a function of the number of valence electrons: if the
substituted atom has six or fewer valence electrons (Ti-Cr or Zr-Mo), the
number of down spin electrons associated with the impurity ion is zero,
resulting in ferromagnetic (FM) alignment of the impurity magnetic moment with
the magnetization of the CrO2 host. For substituent atoms with eight to ten
(Fe-Ni or Ru-Pd with the exception of Ni), the number of down spin electrons
contributed by the impurity ion remains fixed at three as the number
contributed to the majority increases from one to three resulting in
antiferromagnetic (AFM) alignment between impurity moment and host
magnetization. The origin of this variation is the grouping of the impurity
states into 3 states with approximate "t2g" symmetry and 2 states with
approximate "eg" symmetry. Ni is an exception to the rule because a
Jahn-Teller-like distortion causes a splitting of the Ni eg states. For Mn and
Tc, which have 8 valence electrons, the zero down spin and 3 down spin
configurations are very close in energy. For Cu and Ag atoms, which have 11
valence electrons, the energy is minimized when the substituent ion contributes
5 Abstract down-spin electrons. We find that the interatomic exchange
interactions are reduced for all substitutions except for the case of Fe for
which a modest enhancement is calculated for interactions along certain
crystallographic directions.Comment: 26 pages, 10 figures, 2 table
Multidimensional Inverse Scattering of Integrable Lattice Equations
We present a discrete inverse scattering transform for all ABS equations
excluding Q4. The nonlinear partial difference equations presented in the ABS
hierarchy represent a comprehensive class of scalar affine-linear lattice
equations which possess the multidimensional consistency property. Due to this
property it is natural to consider these equations living in an N-dimensional
lattice, where the solutions depend on N distinct independent variables and
associated parameters. The direct scattering procedure, which is
one-dimensional, is carried out along a staircase within this multidimensional
lattice. The solutions obtained are dependent on all N lattice variables and
parameters. We further show that the soliton solutions derived from the Cauchy
matrix approach are exactly the solutions obtained from reflectionless
potentials, and we give a short discussion on inverse scattering solutions of
some previously known lattice equations, such as the lattice KdV equation.Comment: 18 page
Electromagnetic Moments of the Baryon Decuplet
We compute the leading contributions to the magnetic dipole and electric
quadrupole moments of the baryon decuplet in chiral perturbation theory. The
measured value for the magnetic moment of the is used to determine
the local counterterm for the magnetic moments. We compare the chiral
perturbation theory predictions for the magnetic moments of the decuplet with
those of the baryon octet and find reasonable agreement with the predictions of
the large-- limit of QCD. The leading contribution to the quadrupole
moment of the and other members of the decuplet comes from one--loop
graphs. The pionic contribution is shown to be proportional to (and so
will not contribute to the quadrupole moment of nuclei), while the
contribution from kaons has both isovector and isoscalar components. The chiral
logarithmic enhancement of both pion and kaon loops has a coefficient that
vanishes in the limit. The third allowed moment, the magnetic octupole,
is shown to be dominated by a local counterterm with corrections arising at two
loops. We briefly mention the strange counterparts of these moments.Comment: Uses harvmac.tex, 15 pages with 3 PostScript figures packed using
uufiles. UCSD/PTH 93-22, QUSTH-93-05, Duke-TH-93-5
Analysis of heating rates and forces on bodies subject to rocket exhaust plume impingement
Computer programs and engineering methods for calculating heating rates and forces in jet plume impingement problem
An integrated system dynamics - Cellular automata model for distributed water-infrastructure planning
PublishedJournal ArticleThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from IWA Publishing via the DOI in this record.© IWA Publishing 2016.Modern distributed water-Aware technologies (including, for example, greywater recycling and rainwater harvesting) enable water reuse at the scale of household or neighbourhood. Nevertheless, even though these technologies are, in some cases, economically advantageous, they have a significant handicap compared to the centralized urban water management options: It is not easy to estimate a priori the extent and the rate of the technology spread. This disadvantage is amplified in the case of additional uncertainty due to expansion of an urban area. This overall incertitude is one of the basic reasons the stakeholders involved in urban water are sceptical about the distributed technologies, even in the cases where these appear to have lower cost. In this study, we suggest a methodology that attempts to cope with this uncertainty by coupling a cellular automata (CA) and a system dynamics (SD) model. The CA model is used to create scenarios of urban expansion including the suitability of installing water-Aware technologies for each new urban area. Then, the SD model is used to estimate the adoption rate of the technologies. Various scenarios based on different economic conditions and water prices are assessed. The suggested methodology is applied to an urban area in Attica, Greece.This research has been co-financed by the European Union
(European Social Fund– ESF) and Greek national funds through the Operational Program
"Education and Lifelong Learning" of the National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF) -
Research Funding Program: THALES. Investing in knowledge society through the European
Social Fund. Hydropolis: Urban development and water infrastructure - Towards innovative
decentralized urban water management
pi-N charge exchange and pi(+)-pi(0) scattering at low energies
pi-N and pi-pi interactions near threshold are uniquely sensitive to the
chiral symmetry breaking part of the strong interaction. The pi-N sigma-term
value with its implications for nucleon quark structure and the recent
controversy concerning the size of the scalar quark condensate have renewed the
experimental interest in these two fundamental systems. We report new
differential cross sections for the reaction at 27.5 MeV
pion incident kinetic energy, measured between and
. Our results are in excellent agreement with the existing
comprehensive pi-N phase shift analysis. We also report on a Chew-Low analysis
of exclusive data at 260 MeV pion incident energy.Comment: Talk given by D. Pocanic at QULEN97, Osaka, 20-23 May 1997; 4 pages,
2 PostScript figures, writen in LaTeX 2e, uses packages "epsfig" and
"espcrc1
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