Staged implementation of an agent based advanced gas-cooled reactor condition monitoring system

This paper introduces iMAPS, the intelligent monitoring assessment panel system used by nuclear electricity generator British Energy in the UK. A multi-agent system design was chosen for this system and the paper describes why this technique was chosen and shows how this will allow the project to meet the short-term goals of the sponsor whilst providing a foundation for a plant-wide analysis system. Experience of building the initial stage of this system is also included, along with observations on the agent-based approach. The system was developed by the Institute for Energy and Environment at the University of Strathclyde and is in use by British Energy Generation

Graphite core condition monitoring through intelligent analysis of fuel grab load trace data

As a graphite core ages, there is an increased requirement to monitor the distortions within the core to permit safe continued operation of the station. In addition to existing monitoring and inspection, new methods of providing information relating to the core are being investigated

The anaesthetist and the World Health Organization Surgical Safety Checklist

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Deployment of ITS: A Summary of the 2010 National Survey Results

This report presents summary results of the 2010 ITS Deployment Tracking survey, the most recent survey conducted by the ITS Deployment Tracking Project. The U.S. Department of Transportation and its member agencies, including the Research and Innovative Technology Administration, have pursued a research and development agenda, the Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) Program, designed to integrate the latest in information technologies to improve the safety, mobility, and reliability of surface transportation modes. Within metropolitan areas, implementation of these advanced technologies has been accomplished by a variety of state and local transportation and emergency management agencies as well as the private sector. In order to measure the rate of ITS deployment within the nation s largest metropolitan areas, the ITS Deployment Tracking Project has conducted a nationwide survey of state and local transportation and emergency management agencies nearly every year since 1997. The results presented in this report are intended to be a summary of the entire database from the 2010 survey. Access to the complete survey results and previous national surveys are available on-line at http://www.itsdeployment.its.dot.gov. The website also provides access to survey results in the form of downloadable reports, including a survey summary for each survey type and fact sheets. Nearly 1,600 surveys were distributed to state and local transportation agencies in 2010. A total of seven (7) survey types were distributed including: Freeway Management, Arterial Management, Transit Management, Transportation Management Center (TMC), Electronic Toll Collection (ETC), Public Safety Law Enforcement, and Public Safety Fire/Rescue. Among other things, the data collection results indicate that ITS has moved from being experimental to mainstream and interest in continuing investments in ITS continues to be very strong. When asked about future deployment plans, one-third to three-fourths of the different agency types report they will expand current deployments and about half are planning to invest in new technologies over the next three years

Theoretical Study of Oxocyclohexadienylidene Isomers: Electronic Structures and Molecular Properties

The molecular properties and electronic structures for three isomers of oxocyclohexadienylidene were investigated using multiconfiguration SCF (MCSCF) wave functions. The ground electronic states of the ortho and para isomers are the open shell triplet, whereas the meta isomer has a singlet ground state with significant open shell character. The structural features of the ground states of all three isomers are close to the quinoid type structure. Several molecular properties such as the electron spin density, electron affinity (EA), acidity and bond dissociation energy for the three isomers and/or their corresponding radicals are also considered and are compared with experimental values. In particular, the MCSCF(8,8)/6-31+G* electron spin densities for both ortho and para isomers are very close to the experimental values of the phenoxyl radical

QCD(1+1) with massless quarks and gauge covariant Sugawara construction

We use the Hamiltonian framework to study massless QCD$_{1+1}$, i.e.\ Yang-Mills gauge theories with massless Dirac fermions on a cylinder (= (1+1) dimensional spacetime $S^1\times \R$) and make explicite the full, non-perturbative structure of these quantum field theory models. We consider $N_F$ fermion flavors and gauge group either \U(N_C), \SU(N_C) or another Lie subgroup of \U(N_C). In this approach, anomalies are traced back to kinematical requirements such as positivity of the Hamiltonian, gauge invariance, and the condition that all observables are represented by well-defined operators on a Hilbert space. We also give equal time commutators of the energy momentum tensor and find a gauge-covariant form of the (affine-) Sugawara construction. This allows us to represent massless QCD$_{1+1}$ as a gauge theory of Kac-Moody currents and prove its equivalence to a gauged Wess-Zumino-Witten model with a dynamical Yang-Mills field.Comment: 11 pages, ESI 110 Minor changes (including title); version to appear in Phys. Lett.

α,2-, α,3-, and α,4-Dehydrophenol Radical Anions: Formation, Reactivity, and Energetics Leading to the Heats of Formation of α,2-, α,3-, and α,4-Oxocyclohexadienylidene

We have regiospecifically generated the α,2-, α,3-, and α,4-dehydrophenoxide anions by collisional activation of o-, m-, and p-nitrobenzoate. The α,2 and α,4 isomers also were synthesized by reacting o-benzyne radical anion with carbon dioxide and electron ionization ofp-diazophenol. All three dehydrophenol radical anions were differentiated from each other and identified by probing their chemical reactivity with several reagents. Each isomer was converted to phenoxide and its corresponding quinone as well. Thermochemical measurements were carried out on all three radical anions and their hydrogen-atom affinities, proton affinities, and electron binding energies are reported. These measured quantities are combined in thermodynamic cycles to derive the heats of formation of each of the radical anions and their corresponding carbenes (i.e., α,2-, α,3-, and α,4-dehydrophenol). These results are compared to MCQDPT2, G3, G2+(MP2), and B3LYP calculations and experimental data for appropriate reference compounds

Concert recording 2022-10-02

[Track 1]. Grand duo concertant, op. 48. I. Allegro con fuoco ; II. Andante con moto ; III. Ronda, Allegro / Carl Maria von Weber -- [Track 2]. Impromptu: duo for clarinet and marimba / William A.R. May -- [Track 3]. Sonata in E-flat major, op. 120, no. 2. I. Allegro amabile ; II. Allegro appassionato ; III. Andante con moto, Allegro / Johannes Brahms -- [Track 4]. Adoration / Florence Price ; arr. Larkin Sanders -- [Track 5]. Blue skies / Irving Berlin ; arr. R. Percival