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A comparison of the domestic satellite communications forecast to the year 2000
The methodologies and results of three NASA-sponsored market demand assessment studies are presented and compared. Forecasts of future satellite addressable traffic (both trunking and customer premises services) were developed for the three main service categories of voice, data and video and subcategories thereof for the benchmark years of 1980, 1990 and 2000. The contractor results are presented on a service by service basis in two formats: equivalent 36 MHz transponders and basic transmission units (voice: half-voice circuits, data: megabits per second and video: video channels). It is shown that while considerable differences exist at the service category level, the overall forecasts by the two contractors are quite similar. ITT estimates the total potential satellite market to be 3594 transponders in the year 2000 with data service comprising 54 percent of this total. The WU outlook for the same time period is 2779 transponders with voice services accounting for 66 percent of the total
Coordinated aircraft and ship surveys for determining impact of river inputs on great lakes waters. Remote sensing results
The remote sensing results of aircraft and ship surveys for determining the impact of river effluents on Great Lakes waters are presented. Aircraft multi-spectral scanner data were acquired throughout the spring and early summer of 1976 at five locations: the West Basin of Lake Erie, Genesee River - Lake Ontario, Menomonee River - Lake Michigan, Grand River - Lake Michigan, and Nemadji River - Lake Superior. Multispectral scanner data and ship surface sample data are correlated resulting in 40 contour plots showing large-scale distributions of parameters such as total suspended solids, turbidity, Secchi depth, nutrients, salts, and dissolved oxygen. The imagery and data analysis are used to determine the transport and dispersion of materials from the river discharges, especially during spring runoff events, and to evaluate the relative effects of river input, resuspension, and shore erosion. Twenty-five LANDSAT satellite images of the study sites are also included in the analysis. Examples of the use of remote sensing data in quantitatively estimating total particulate loading in determining water types, in assessing transport across international boundaries, and in supporting numerical current modeling are included. The importance of coordination of aircraft and ship lake surveys is discussed, including the use of telefacsimile for the transmission of imagery
Semitransparent organic photovoltaic cells
We demonstrate semitransparent, small molecular weight organic solar cells employing a thin silver/indium tin oxide compound cathode with a maximum transmission of (60±6)%(60±6)% averaged over the visible spectral range and with a power conversion efficiency, ηp = (0.28±0.03)%ηp=(0.28±0.03)% under simulated, AM1.5G, 1 sun illumination. By increasing the Ag thickness, an average transmission of (26±3)%(26±3)% is achieved with ηp = (0.62±0.06)%ηp=(0.62±0.06)%, a value approximately half of that obtained for the same structure employing a conventional, reflective, and thick Ag cathode. A semitransparent tandem organic solar cell with ηp = (0.48±0.02)%ηp=(0.48±0.02)% and an average transmission of (44±4)%(44±4)% is also demonstrated. Semitransparent organic photovoltaic cells have potential uses as tinted and power-generating thin-film coatings on architectural surfaces, such as windows and walls. The use of a transparent top electrode also significantly simplifies the design of tandem cells, relaxing requirements for the placement of different absorbing materials at the maxima of optical fields introduced by reflective cathodes.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/87783/2/233502_1.pd
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Convergence of the Magnus series
The Magnus series is an infinite series which arises in the study of linear
ordinary differential equations. If the series converges, then the matrix
exponential of the sum equals the fundamental solution of the differential
equation. The question considered in this paper is: When does the series
converge? The main result establishes a sufficient condition for convergence,
which improves on several earlier results.Comment: 11 pages; v2: added justification for conjecture, minor
clarifications and correction
How Big Can Anomalous W Couplings Be?
Conventional wisdom has it that anomalous gauge-boson self-couplings can be
at most a percent or so in size. We test this wisdom by computing these
couplings at one loop in a generic renormalizable model of new physics. (For
technical reasons we consider the CP-violating couplings here, but our results
apply more generally.) By surveying the parameter space we find that the
largest couplings (several percent) are obtained when the new particles are at
the weak scale. For heavy new physics we compare our findings with expectations
based on an effective-lagrangian analysis. We find general patterns of induced
couplings which robustly reflect the nature of the underlying physics. We build
representative models for which the new physics could be first detected in the
anomalous gauge couplings.Comment: 40 pages, 11 figures, (dvi file and figures combined into a uuencoded
compressed file), (We correct an error in eq. 39 and its associated figure
(9). No changes at all to the text.), McGill-93/40, UQAM-PHE-93/03,
NEIPH-93-00
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Reactive direction control for a mobile robot: A locust-like control of escape direction emerges when a bilateral pair of model locust visual neurons are integrated
Locusts possess a bilateral pair of uniquely identifiable visual neurons that respond vigorously to
the image of an approaching object. These neurons are called the lobula giant movement
detectors (LGMDs). The locust LGMDs have been extensively studied and this has lead to the
development of an LGMD model for use as an artificial collision detector in robotic applications.
To date, robots have been equipped with only a single, central artificial LGMD sensor, and this
triggers a non-directional stop or rotation when a potentially colliding object is detected. Clearly,
for a robot to behave autonomously, it must react differently to stimuli approaching from
different directions. In this study, we implement a bilateral pair of LGMD models in Khepera
robots equipped with normal and panoramic cameras. We integrate the responses of these LGMD
models using methodologies inspired by research on escape direction control in cockroaches.
Using ‘randomised winner-take-all’ or ‘steering wheel’ algorithms for LGMD model integration,
the khepera robots could escape an approaching threat in real time and with a similar
distribution of escape directions as real locusts. We also found that by optimising these
algorithms, we could use them to integrate the left and right DCMD responses of real jumping
locusts offline and reproduce the actual escape directions that the locusts took in a particular
trial. Our results significantly advance the development of an artificial collision detection and
evasion system based on the locust LGMD by allowing it reactive control over robot behaviour.
The success of this approach may also indicate some important areas to be pursued in future
biological research
Causal propagation of geometrical fields in relativistic cosmology
We employ the extended 1+3 orthonormal frame formalism for fluid spacetime
geometries , which contains the Bianchi field
equations for the Weyl curvature, to derive a 44-D evolution system of
first-order symmetric hyperbolic form for a set of geometrically defined
dynamical field variables. Describing the matter source fields
phenomenologically in terms of a barotropic perfect fluid, the propagation
velocities (with respect to matter-comoving observers that Fermi-propagate
their spatial reference frames) of disturbances in the matter and the
gravitational field, represented as wavefronts by the characteristic 3-surfaces
of the system, are obtained. In particular, the Weyl curvature is found to
account for two (non-Lorentz-invariant) Coulomb-like characteristic eigenfields
propagating with and four transverse characteristic eigenfields
propagating with , which are well known, and four
(non-Lorentz-invariant) longitudinal characteristic eigenfields propagating
with |v| = \sfrac{1}{2}. The implications of this result are discussed in
some detail and a parallel is drawn to the propagation of irregularities in the
matter distribution. In a worked example, we specialise the equations to
cosmological models in locally rotationally symmetric class II and include the
constraints into the set of causally propagating dynamical variables.Comment: 25 pages, RevTeX (10pt), accepted for publication by Physical Review
Management of Anticoagulant and Thrombolytic Agents in Deep Venous Thrombosis
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/68445/2/10.1177_153857448201600101.pd
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