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Orbiter catalytic/noncatalytic heat transfer as evidenced by heating to contaminated surfaces on STS-2 and STS-3
During that portion of Space Shuttle orbiter entry when significant aerodynamic heat transfer occurs, the flow over the vehicle is in chemical nonequilibrium. The parameter which most significantly influences the level of surface heat transfer in such a flow field is the catalytic efficiency of the surface with respect to the recombination of dissociated oxygen atoms. Significant, and instantaneous, changes were observed in the level of heat transfer at several lower surface centerline locations on STS-2 and STS-3. This phenomenon apparently resulted from a sudden change in the surface catalytic efficiency at these locations due to contamination of the surface by metallic oxides. As a result, data obtained from affected measurements cannot be considered as benchmark data with which to attempt to characterize nonequilibrium heat transfer to the orbiter's lower surface centerline
More maximal arcs in Desarguesian projective planes and their geometric structure
In a previous paper R. Mathon gave a new construction method for maximal arcs in finite Desarguesian projective planes via closed sets of conics, as well as giving many new examples of maximal arcs. In the current paper, new classes of maximal arcs are constructed, and it is shown that every maximal arc so constructed gives rise to an infinite class of maximal arcs. Apart from when they are of Denniston type or dual hyperovals, closed sets of conics are shown to give maximal arcs that are not isomorphic to the known constructions. An easy characterisation of when a closed set of conics is of Denniston type is given. Results on the geometric structure of the maximal arcs and their duals are proved, as well as on elements of their collineation stabilisers
The quasi-molecular stage of ternary fission
We developed a three-center phenomenological model,able to explain qualitatively the recently obtained experimental results concerning the quasimolecular stage of a light-particle accompanied fission process. It was derived from the liquid drop model under the assumption that the aligned configuration, with the emitted particle between the light and heavy fragment, is reached by increasing continuously the separation distance, while the radii of the heavy fragment and of the light particle are kept constant. In such a way,a new minimum of a short-lived molecular state appears in the deformation energy at a separation distance very close to the touching point. This minimum allows the existence of a short-lived quasi-molecular state, decaying into the three final fragments.The influence of the shell effects is discussed. The half-lives of some quasimolecular states which could be formed in the Be and C accompanied fission of Cf are roughly estimated to be the order of 1 ns, and 1 ms, respectively
Risk, Resilience and Reward: Impacts of Shifting to Digital Sex Work
Workers from a variety of industries rapidly shifted to remote work at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. While existing work has examined the impact of this shift on office workers, little work has examined how shifting from in-person to online work affected workers in the informal labor sector. We examine the impact of shifting from in-person to online-only work on a particularly marginalized group of workers: sex workers. Through 34 qualitative interviews with sex workers from seven countries in the Global North, we examine how a shift to online-only sex work impacted: (1) working conditions, (2) risks and protective behaviors, and (3) labor rewards. We find that online work offers benefits to sex workers' financial and physical well-being. However, online-only work introduces new and greater digital and mental health risks as a result of the need to be publicly visible on more platforms and to share more explicit content. From our findings we propose design and platform governance suggestions for digital sex workers and for informal workers more broadly, particularly those who create and sell digital content
Experimental verification of minima in excited long-range Rydberg states of Rb_2
Recent theoretical studies with alkali atoms A excited to high
Rydberg states predicted the existence of ultra long-range molecular bound
states. Such excited dimers have large electric dipole moments which, in
combination with their long radiative lifetimes, make them excellent candidates
for manipulation in applications. This letter reports on experimental
investigations of the self-broadening of Rb principal series lines, which
revealed multiple satellites in the line wings. The positions of the satellites
agree quantitatively with theoretically-predicted minima in the excited
long-range Rydberg states of Rb.Comment: 3 figures, 5 pages in two-column forma
The social cognition of medical knowledge, with special reference to childhood epilepsy
This paper arose out of an engagement in medical communication courses at a Gulf university. It deploys a theoretical framework derived from a (critical) sociocognitive approach to discourse analysis in order to investigate three aspects of medical discourse relating to childhood epilepsy: the cognitive processes that are entailed in relating different types of medical knowledge to their communicative context; the types of medical knowledge that are constituted in the three different text types analysed; and the relationship between these different types of medical knowledge and the discursive features of each text type. The paper argues that there is a cognitive dimension to the human experience of understanding and talking about one specialized from of medical knowledge. It recommends that texts be studied in medical communication courses not just in terms of their discrete formal features but also critically, in terms of the knowledge which they produce, transmit and reproduce
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The Quality of Arizona Irrigation Water
This item is part of the Agricultural Experiment Station archive. It was digitized from a physical copy provided by the University Libraries at the University of Arizona. For more information, please email CALS Publications at [email protected]
Nonholonomic Ricci Flows: II. Evolution Equations and Dynamics
This is the second paper in a series of works devoted to nonholonomic Ricci
flows. By imposing non-integrable (nonholonomic) constraints on the Ricci flows
of Riemannian metrics we can model mutual transforms of generalized
Finsler-Lagrange and Riemann geometries. We verify some assertions made in the
first partner paper and develop a formal scheme in which the geometric
constructions with Ricci flow evolution are elaborated for canonical nonlinear
and linear connection structures. This scheme is applied to a study of
Hamilton's Ricci flows on nonholonomic manifolds and related Einstein spaces
and Ricci solitons. The nonholonomic evolution equations are derived from
Perelman's functionals which are redefined in such a form that can be adapted
to the nonlinear connection structure. Next, the statistical analogy for
nonholonomic Ricci flows is formulated and the corresponding thermodynamical
expressions are found for compact configurations. Finally, we analyze two
physical applications: the nonholonomic Ricci flows associated to evolution
models for solitonic pp-wave solutions of Einstein equations, and compute the
Perelman's entropy for regular Lagrange and analogous gravitational systems.Comment: v2 41 pages, latex2e, 11pt, the variant accepted by J. Math. Phys.
with former section 2 eliminated, a new section 5 with applications in
gravity and geometric mechanics, and modified introduction, conclusion and
new reference
Preliminary Analysis of STS-3 Entry Heat-Transfer Data for the Orbiter Windward Centerline
A preliminary analysis of heat transfer data on the space shuttle orbiter windward centerline for the STS-3 mission entry is presented. Temperature-time history plots for each measurement location and tabulated wall temperature and convective heating rate data at 21 selected trajectory points are included. The STS-3 flight data are also compared with predictions by two approximation methods for computing convective heat transfer rates in equilibrium air
Generation of spin currents via Raman scattering
We show theoretically that stimulated spin flip Raman scattering can be used
to inject spin currents in doped semiconductors with spin split bands. A pure
spin current, where oppositely oriented spins move in opposite directions, can
be injected in zincblende crystals and structures. The calculated spin current
should be detectable by pump-probe optical spectroscopy and anomalous Hall
effect measurement
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