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EVS: Head-up or Head Down? Evaluation of Crew Procedure and Human Factors for Enhanced Vision Systems
Feasibility of an EVS head-down procedure is examined that may provide the same operational benefits under low visibility as the FAA rule on Enhanced Flight Visibility that requires the use of a head-up display (HUD). The main element of the described EVS head-down procedure is the crew procedure within cockpit for flying the approach. The task sharing between Pilot-Flying and Pilot-Not-Flying is arranged such that multiple head-up/head-down transitions can be avoided. The pilot-flying is using the head-down display for acquisition of the necessary visual cues in the EVS image. The pilot-not-flying is monitoring the instruments and looking for the outside visual cues
Spinning Q-balls in the complex signum-Gordon model
Rotational excitations of compact Q-balls in the complex signum-Gordon model
in 2+1 dimensions are investigated. We find that almost all such spinning
Q-balls have the form of a ring of strictly finite width. In the limit of large
angular momentum M_z their energy is proportional to |M_z|^(1/5).Comment: 10 page
The Case of HCO Isomers, Revisited: Solving the Mystery of the Missing Propadienone
To date, two isomers of HCO have been detected, namely, propynal
(HCCCHO) and cylclopropenone (c-HCO). A third, propadienone
(CHCCO), has thus far eluded observers despite the fact that it is the
lowest in energy of the three. This previously noted result is in contradiction
of the minimum energy principle, which posits that the abundances of isomers in
interstellar environments can be predicted based on their relative stabilities
- and suggests, rather, the importance of kinetic over thermodynamic effects in
explaining the role of such species.
Here, we report results of \textit{ab initio} quantum chemical calculations
of the reaction between H and (a) HCO, (b) HCO (both propynal and
propadienone), and (c) CHCHCO. We have found that, among all possible
reactions between atomic hydrogen and either propadienone or propynal, only the
destruction of propadienone is barrierless and exothermic. That this
destruction pathway is indeed behind the non-detection of CHCCO is further
suggested by our finding that the product of this process, the radical
CHCHCO, can subsequently react barrierlessly with H to form propenal
(CHCHCHO) which has, in fact, been detected in regions where the other two
HCO isomers are observed. Thus, these results not only shed light on a
previously unresolved astrochemical mystery, but also further highlight the
importance of kinetics in understanding the abundances of interstellar
molecules.Comment: ApJ, accepted: 14 pages, 2 figure
Axion Dark Matter and Cosmological Parameters
We observe that photon cooling after big bang nucleosynthesis (BBN) but
before recombination can remove the conflict between the observed and
theoretically predicted value of the primordial abundance of Li. Such
cooling is ordinarily difficult to achieve. However, the recent realization
that dark matter axions form a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) provides a
possible mechanism, because the much colder axions may reach thermal contact
with the photons. This proposal predicts a high effective number of neutrinos
as measured by the cosmic microwave anisotropy spectrum.Comment: 4 pages, one figure. Version to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett.,
incorporating useful comments by the referees and emphasizing that photon
cooling by axion BEC is a possibility, not a certaint
Regulation of human lung fibroblast alpha 1(I) procollagen gene expression by tumor necrosis factor alpha, interleukin-1 beta, and prostaglandin E2.
We investigated the participation of prostaglandin (PG) E2 in the regulation of the alpha 1(I) procollagen gene expression by tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF alpha), and interleukin-1 beta (IL-1 beta) in normal adult human lung fibroblasts. TNF alpha (100 units/ml) and IL-1 beta (100 units/ml) stimulated the production of PGE2 and caused a dose-dependent inhibition of up to 54 and 66%, respectively, of the production of type I procollagen. Preincubation of cultures with indomethacin partially reversed the inhibition of procollagen production induced by the cytokines. Cytokine-stimulated endogenous fibroblast PG accounted for 35 and 68% of the inhibition induced by TNF alpha and IL-1 beta, respectively. Steady-state mRNA levels for alpha 1(I) procollagen paralleled the changes in collagen production. The transcription rate of the alpha 1(I) procollagen gene was reduced by 58% by TNF alpha and by 43% by IL-1 beta. Cytokine-stimulated endogenous PG production accounted for half of these effects. These results indicate that TNF alpha and IL-1 beta inhibit the expression of the alpha 1(I) procollagen gene in human lung fibroblasts at the transcriptional level by a PGE2-independent effect as well as through the effect of endogenous fibroblast PGE2 released under the stimulus of the cytokines
Electron spin relaxation in paramagnetic Ga(Mn)As quantum wells
Electron spin relaxation in paramagnetic Ga(Mn)As quantum wells is studied
via the fully microscopic kinetic spin Bloch equation approach where all the
scatterings, such as the electron-impurity, electron-phonon, electron-electron
Coulomb, electron-hole Coulomb, electron-hole exchange (the Bir-Aronov-Pikus
mechanism) and the - exchange scatterings, are explicitly included. The
Elliot-Yafet mechanism is also incorporated. From this approach, we study the
spin relaxation in both -type and -type Ga(Mn)As quantum wells. For
-type Ga(Mn)As quantum wells where most Mn ions take the interstitial
positions, we find that the spin relaxation is always dominated by the DP
mechanism in metallic region. Interestingly, the Mn concentration dependence of
the spin relaxation time is nonmonotonic and exhibits a peak. This behavior is
because that the momentum scattering and the inhomogeneous broadening have
different density dependences in the non-degenerate and degenerate regimes. For
-type Ga(Mn)As quantum wells, we find that Mn concentration dependence of
the spin relaxation time is also nonmonotonic and shows a peak. Differently,
this behavior is because that the - exchange scattering (or the
Bir-Aronov-Pikus) mechanism dominates the spin relaxation in the high Mn
concentration regime at low (or high) temperature, whereas the DP mechanism
determines the spin relaxation in the low Mn concentration regime. The
Elliot-Yafet mechanism also contributes the spin relaxation at intermediate
temperature. The spin relaxation time due to the DP mechanism increases with Mn
concentration due to motional narrowing, whereas those due to the spin-flip
mechanisms decrease with Mn concentration, which thus leads to the formation of
the peak.... (The remaining is omitted due to the space limit)Comment: 12 pages, 8 figures, Phys. Rev. B 79, 2009, in pres
Extreme laser pulses for possible development of boron fusion power reactors for clean and lasting energy
Extreme laser pulses driving non-equilibrium processes in high density
plasmas permit an increase of the fusion of hydrogen with the boron isotope 11
by nine orders of magnitude of the energy gains above the classical values.
This is the result of initiating the reaction by non-thermal ultrahigh
acceleration of plasma blocks by the nonlinear (ponderomotive) force of the
laser field, in addition to the avalanche reaction that has now been
experimentally and theoretically manifested. The design of a very compact
fusion power reactor is scheduled to produce then environmentally fully clean
and inexhaustible generation of energy at profitably low costs. The reaction
within a volume of cubic millimetres during a nanosecond can only be used for
controlled power generation.Comment: 10 pages, 5 fugure
Compact Q-balls and Q-shells in a scalar electrodynamics
We investigate spherically symmetric non topological solitons in
electrodynamics with a scalar field self interaction U ~|\psi| taken from the
complex signum-Gordon model. We find Q-balls for small absolute values of the
total electric charge Q, and Q-shells when |Q| is large enough. In both cases
the charge density exactly vanishes outside certain compact region in the three
dimensional space. The dependence of the total energy E of small Q-balls on the
total electric charge has the form E ~ |Q|^(5/6), while in the case of very
large Q-shells E ~ |Q|^(7/6).Comment: 21 pages, 7 figure
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