136 research outputs found
Development of a KSC test and flight engineering oriented computer language, Phase 1
Ten, primarily test oriented, computer languages reviewed during the phase 1 study effort are described. Fifty characteristics of ATOLL, ATLAS, and CLASP are compared. Unique characteristics of the other languages, including deficiencies, problems, safeguards, and checking provisions are identified. Programming aids related to these languages are reported, and the conclusions resulting from this phase of the study are discussed. A glossary and bibliography are included. For the reports on phase 2 of the study, see N71-35027 and N71-35029
Aloft: A Language Oriented to Flight Engineering & Testing
A high order computer language called ALOFT has been developed for the checkout and operation of complex space oriented equipment such as the proposed NASA Space Shuttle. The flexibility of the language makes it equally suited for use with existing launch vehicles such as Saturn, Titan, etc. and space systems such as Space Station, Viking, etc. With such flexibility it can be assumed that the language will be equally acceptable to future vehicles, space experiments, etc.
Flexibility is obtained by making the language independent of any test system and providing for the user to define a wide variety of words and functions, This later capability also makes it independent of the device it is testing.
The paper describes the language and its syntax. It also shows its ability to operate in a multidiscipline environment independent of the test system
Levels of adenosine deaminase in some experimental animal tumours and the possible therapeutic effect of the ADA inhibitor 2-deoxy-coformycin.
The intracellular adenosine deaminase activities (ADA) in 12 different experimental animal tumours were measured. Unlike the leukaemic lymphoblasts of man, those of two spontaneous rat leukaemias did not have elevated levels of the enzyme. Very high levels were found in a rat plasma-cell tumour (IR 461) and an attempt was made to treat such tumours with the specific enzyme inhibitor, 2-deoxy-coformycin. The shortage of this drug prevented a systematic study, but a daily dose of 8 mg/kg had a significant inhibitory effect on the growth of tumours
Sulfur reduction in sediments of marine and evaporite environments
Transformations of sulfur in sediments of ponds ranging in salinities from that of normal seawater to those of brines saturated with sodium chloride were examined. The chemistry of the sediment and pore waters were focused on with emphasis on the fate of sulfate reduction. The effects of increasing salinity on both forms of sulfur and microbial activity were determined. A unique set of chemical profiles and sulfate-reducing activity was found for the sediments of each of the sites examined. The quantity of organic matter in the salt pond sediments was significantly greater than that occurring in the adjacent intertidal site. The total quantitative and qualitative distribution of volatile fatty acids was also greater in the salt ponds. Volatile fatty acids increased with salinity
Development of a test and flight engineering oriented language. Phase 1: Oral presentation material
The material used in an oral presentation of the phase 1 study effort is given. Phase 1 was directed at the examination of existing related languages and their applications
Linear theory of unstable growth on rough surfaces
Unstable homoepitaxy on rough substrates is treated within a linear continuum
theory. The time dependence of the surface width is governed by three
length scales: The characteristic scale of the substrate roughness, the
terrace size and the Ehrlich-Schwoebel length . If (weak step edge barriers) and ,
then displays a minimum at a coverage , where the initial surface width is reduced by a factor
. The r\^{o}le of deposition and diffusion noise is analyzed. The
results are applied to recent experiments on the growth of InAs buffer layers
[M.F. Gyure {\em et al.}, Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 81}, 4931 (1998)]. The overall
features of the observed roughness evolution are captured by the linear theory,
but the detailed time dependence shows distinct deviations which suggest a
significant influence of nonlinearities
Nonmonotonic roughness evolution in unstable growth
The roughness of vapor-deposited thin films can display a nonmonotonic
dependence on film thickness, if the smoothening of the small-scale features of
the substrate dominates over growth-induced roughening in the early stage of
evolution. We present a detailed analysis of this phenomenon in the framework
of the continuum theory of unstable homoepitaxy. Using the spherical
approximation of phase ordering kinetics, the effect of nonlinearities and
noise can be treated explicitly. The substrate roughness is characterized by
the dimensionless parameter , where denotes the
roughness amplitude, is the small scale cutoff wavenumber of the
roughness spectrum, and is the lattice constant. Depending on , the
diffusion length and the Ehrlich-Schwoebel length , five regimes
are identified in which the position of the roughness minimum is determined by
different physical mechanisms. The analytic estimates are compared by numerical
simulations of the full nonlinear evolution equation.Comment: 16 pages, 6 figures, to appear on Phys. Rev.
Beyond Blobs in Percolation Cluster Structure: The Distribution of 3-Blocks at the Percolation Threshold
The incipient infinite cluster appearing at the bond percolation threshold
can be decomposed into singly-connected ``links'' and multiply-connected
``blobs.'' Here we decompose blobs into objects known in graph theory as
3-blocks. A 3-block is a graph that cannot be separated into disconnected
subgraphs by cutting the graph at 2 or fewer vertices. Clusters, blobs, and
3-blocks are special cases of -blocks with , 2, and 3, respectively. We
study bond percolation clusters at the percolation threshold on 2-dimensional
square lattices and 3-dimensional cubic lattices and, using Monte-Carlo
simulations, determine the distribution of the sizes of the 3-blocks into which
the blobs are decomposed. We find that the 3-blocks have fractal dimension
in 2D and in 3D. These fractal dimensions are
significantly smaller than the fractal dimensions of the blobs, making possible
more efficient calculation of percolation properties. Additionally, the
closeness of the estimated values for in 2D and 3D is consistent with the
possibility that is dimension independent. Generalizing the concept of
the backbone, we introduce the concept of a ``-bone'', which is the set of
all points in a percolation system connected to disjoint terminal points
(or sets of disjoint terminal points) by disjoint paths. We argue that the
fractal dimension of a -bone is equal to the fractal dimension of
-blocks, allowing us to discuss the relation between the fractal dimension
of -blocks and recent work on path crossing probabilities.Comment: All but first 2 figs. are low resolution and are best viewed when
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