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Space simulation and radiative property testing system and method Patent
Development of method and equipment for testing heat radiative properties of material under controlled environmental condition
ERTS-1 imagery use in reconnaissance prospecting: Evaluation of commercial utility of ERTS-1 imagery in structural reconnaissance for minerals and petroleum
The author has identified the following significant results. This study was performed to investigate applications of ERTS-1 imagery in commercial reconnaissance for mineral and hydrocarbon resources. ERTS-1 imagery collected over five areas in North America (Montana; Colorado; New Mexico-West Texas; Superior Province, Canada; and North Slope, Alaska) has been analyzed for data content including linears, lineaments, and curvilinear anomalies. Locations of these features were mapped and compared with known locations of mineral and hydrocarbon accumulations. Results were analyzed in the context of a simple-shear, block-coupling model. Data analyses have resulted in detection of new lineaments, some of which may be continental in extent, detection of many curvilinear patterns not generally seen on aerial photos, strong evidence of continental regmatic fracture patterns, and realization that geological features can be explained in terms of a simple-shear, block-coupling model. The conculsions are that ERTS-1 imagery is of great value in photogeologic/geomorphic interpretations of regional features, and the simple-shear, block-coupling model provides a means of relating data from ERTS imagery to structures that have controlled emplacement of ore deposits and hydrocarbon accumulations, thus providing a basis for a new approach for reconnaissance for mineral, uranium, gas, and oil deposits and structures
Recharge unit provides for optimum recharging of battery cells
Percent recharge unit permits each cell of a rechargeable battery to be charged to a preset capacity of the cell. The unit automatically monitors and controls a rechargeable battery subjected to charge-discharge cycling tests
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Occurrence, distribution and bibliography of the medicinal leech Hirudo verbana Carena, 1820 (Hirudinea, Hirudinidae) in Sicily (Italy)
The occurrence of the medicinal leech Hirudo verbana in the inland waters of Sicily has been lately overlooked. In the present note, the occurrence and distribution of this species is reviewed based both on the review of the available literature data and field collecting. Although a noteworthy reduction in the distribution range of the species seems to have taken place in Sicily in the course of the XX century, Hirudo verbana was confirmed to be still present in several sites located both within and out of Natura2000 sites. The Sicilian populations of the species should be included in the frame of the monitoring activities established by the Article 17 of the EU Council Directive 92/43/EEC (“Habitats Directive”)
Search for methylamine in high mass hot cores
We aim to detect methylamine, CHNH, in a variety of hot cores and
use it as a test for the importance of photon-induced chemistry in ice mantles
and mobility of radicals. Specifically, CHNH cannot be formed from atom
addition to CO whereas other NH-containing molecules such as formamide,
NHCHO, can. Submillimeter spectra of several massive hot core regions were
taken with the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope. Abundances are determined with
the rotational diagram method where possible. Methylamine is not detected,
giving upper limit column densities between 1.9 6.4 10
cm for source sizes corresponding to the 100 K envelope radius. Combined
with previously obtained JCMT data analyzed in the same way, abundance ratios
of CHNH, NHCHO and CHCN with respect to each other and
to CHOH are determined. These ratios are compared with Sagittarius B2
observations, where all species are detected, and to hot core models. The
observed ratios suggest that both methylamine and formamide are overproduced by
up to an order of magnitude in hot core models. Acetonitrile is however
underproduced. The proposed chemical schemes leading to these molecules are
discussed and reactions that need further laboratory studies are identified.
The upper limits obtained in this paper can be used to guide future
observations, especially with ALMA.Comment: 14 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in A&
Realistic simulations of Au(100): Grand Canonical Monte Carlo and Molecular Dynamics
The large surface density changes associated with the (100) noble metals
surface hex-reconstruction suggest the use of non-particle conserving
simulation methods. We present an example of a surface Grand Canonical Monte
Carlo applied to the transformation of a square non reconstructed surface to
the hexagonally covered low temperature stable Au(100). On the other hand,
classical Molecular Dynamics allows to investigate microscopic details of the
reconstruction dynamics, and we show, as an example, retraction of a step and
its interplay with the surface reconstruction/deconstruction mechanism.Comment: 9 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in Surf. Rev. and
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