Development and Validation of Preenlistment Screening Composites for Army Enlisted Personnel

Prepared for: US Army Recruiting Command Program Analysis and Evaluation Directorate Research and Studies Divisionhttp://archive.org/details/developmentvalid56zimmNAN

Historical factors associated with past environments influence the biogeography of thermophilic endospores in Arctic marine sediments

Selection by the local, contemporary environment plays a prominent role in shaping the biogeography of microbes. However, the importance of historical factors in microbial biogeography is more debatable. Historical factors include past ecological and evolutionary circumstances that may have influenced present-day microbial diversity, such as dispersal and past environmental conditions. Diverse thermophilic sulphate-reducing Desulfotomaculum are present as dormant endospores in marine sediments worldwide where temperatures are too low to support their growth. Therefore, they are dispersed to here from elsewhere, presumably a hot, anoxic habitat. While dispersal through ocean currents must influence their distribution in cold marine sediments, it is not clear whether even earlier historical factors, related to the source habitat where these organisms were once active, also have an effect. We investigated whether these historical factors may have influenced the diversity and distribution of thermophilic endospores by comparing their diversity in 10 Arctic fjord surface sediments. Although community composition varied spatially, clear biogeographic patterns were only evident at a high level of taxonomic resolution (>97% sequence similarity of the 16S rRNA gene) achieved with oligotyping. In particular, the diversity and distribution of oligotypes differed for the two most prominent OTUs (defined using a standard 97% similarity cutoff). One OTU was dominated by a single ubiquitous oligotype, while the other OTU consisted of ten more spatially localised oligotypes that decreased in compositional similarity with geographic distance. These patterns are consistent with differences in historical factors that occurred when and where the taxa were once active, prior to sporulation. Further, the influence of history on biogeographic patterns was only revealed by analysing microdiversity within OTUs, suggesting that populations within standard OTU-level groupings do not necessarily share a common ecological and evolutionary history

Otomatisasi Sistem Buka-tutup Atap Rumah Teleskop Dan Pengontrol Kelembaban Udara Menggunakan Raspberry Pi 3

Telah dirancang suatu sistem otomatisasi untuk buka tutup atap rumah serta pengontrol kelembaban udara menggunakan Raspberry Pi 3, motor DC, SHT30, limit switch, Fan dan Solenoid door lock. Tujuan utama dari perancangan sistem ini ialah untuk merancang sebuah sistem otomatisasi buka tutup atap rumah teleskop dan pengontrol kelembaban udara yang ada di dalam rumah teleskop. Sistem ini bekerja ketika mendapat input perintah dari user baik untuk membuka atap, menutup atap, maupun mengukur dan mengontrol suhu dan kelembaban di dalam rumah teleskop. Saat mendapat perintah buka atau tutup maka relay akan aktif sehingga motor akan membuka ataupun menutup atap. Demikian juga saat pengontrolan suhu dan kelembaban SHT akan mengukur suhu dan kelembaban dan hasil pengukurannya akan ditampilkan pada LCD ( Layar Monitor). Sistem otomatisasi  ini dapat bekerja dengan baik seperti yang diharapkan, baik dalam hal membuka dan menutup atap serta pengontrolan Suhu dan Kelembaban. Kata Kunci : Raspberry pi3, Sensor SHT30, Python, Motor DC

Follow-up Study of Recruitment of College-Bound Students Through Use of the ACT Assessment File

Final ReportThe purpose of the present study was to: 1) further evaluate the methodology employed in the pilot studies for using ACT records in targeting college-bound young people for recruiting, and 2) develop mail-out .materials and identify ACT selection criteria that may be used to target students with other skills or interests. This effort was divided into three tasks. Task 1 involved a follow-up evaluation of the pilot studies, including: l)a .content analysis of comments made by recruiters who had processed leads resulting from the pilot studies, and 2) an examination of the relationships between demonstrated interest and responses to iterns in the Student Profile Section of the ACT assessment file. Task 2 consisted of comparing the target-specific approach (i.e., tailoring mail campaign materials for a target group with specific aptitudes or interests) with the geineral approach, currently in use , of mailing general information regarding Army educational assistance to all students participating in the ACT program. Materials were developed in Task 3 to extend the target-specific approach to other specialized skill/aptitude areas. The results of log-linear analyses indicated that the general approach was more effective in generating testers and enlistees among the general college- bound population, but was less effective in generating interest for foreign language students. The target-specific approach effectively generated interest among language students, bringing in high-mental-aptitude students for testing, yet it was not highly effective in producing enlistments. However,a cost-effectiveness analysis, showing only a modest cost increase for targeted recruiting, supports this approach, particularly for hard-to-fill military occupational specialties.Research and Studies Division, Program Analysis and Evaluation DirectorateNaval Postgraduate Schoo

Application of functional principal component analysis in race walking: an emerging methodology

This study considered the problem of identifying and evaluating the factors of individual performance during race walking. In particular, the study explored the use of functional principal component analysis (f-PCA), a multivariate data analysis, for assessing and classifying the kinematics and kinetics of the knee joint in competitive race walkers. Seven race walkers of international and national level participated to the study. An optoelectronic system and a force platform were used to capture three-dimensional kinematics and kinetics of lower limbs during the race walking cycle. Functional principal component analysis was applied bilaterally to the sagittal knee angle and net moment data, because knee joint motion is fundamental to race walking technique. Scatterplots of principal component scores provided evidence of athletes' technical differences and asymmetries even when traditional analysis (mean ± s curves) was not effective. Principal components provided indications for race walkers' classification and identified potentially important technical differences between higher and lower skilled athletes. Therefore, f-PCA might represent a future aid for the fine analysis of sports movements, if consistently applied to performance monitoring

Abundance of Delta Resonances in 58Ni+58Ni Collisions between 1 and 2 AGeV

Charged pion spectra measured in 58Ni-58Ni collisions at 1.06, 1.45 and 1.93 AGeV are interpreted in terms of a thermal model including the decay of Delta resonances. The transverse momentum spectra of pions are well reproduced by adding the pions originating from the Delta-resonance decay to the component of thermal pions, deduced from the high transverse momentum part of the pion spectra. About 10 and 18% of the nucleons are excited to Delta states at freeze-out for beam energies of 1 and 2 AGeV, respectively.Comment: 14 pages, LaTeX with 3 included figures; submitted to Physics Letters

Migration, Racism and the Hostile Environment: Making the Case for the Social Sciences

Cite as: Social Scientists Against the Hostile Environment (SSAHE)(2020). Migration, racism and the hostile environment : Making the case for the social sciences. London. https://acssmigration.wordpress.com/report/

Stopping and Radial Flow in Central 58Ni + 58Ni Collisions between 1 and 2 AGeV

The production of charged pions, protons and deuterons has been studied in central collisions of 58Ni on 58Ni at incident beam energies of 1.06, 1.45 and 1.93 AGeV. The dependence of transverse-momentum and rapidity spectra on the beam energy and on the centrality of the collison is presented. It is shown that the scaling of the mean rapidity shift of protons established for AGS and SPS energies is valid down to 1 AGeV. The degree of nuclear stopping is discussed; the IQMD transport model reproduces the measured proton rapidity spectra for the most central events reasonably well, but does not show any sensitivity between the soft and the hard equation of state (EoS). A radial flow analysis, using the midrapidity transverse-momentum spectra, delivers freeze-out temperatures T and radial flow velocities beta_r which increase with beam energy up to 2 AGeV; in comparison to existing data of Au on Au over a large range of energies only beta_r shows a system size dependence