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Spaceborne memory organization, an associative data acquisition system, phase II Final report, Apr. - Dec. 1966
Spaceborne memory organization, associative data acquisition system design, and data compression technique
Spaceborne memory organization, phase 1 Final report
Application of associative memories to data processing for future space vehicle
Spaceborne memory organization Interim report
Associative memory applications in unmanned space vehicle
Community Detection as an Inference Problem
We express community detection as an inference problem of determining the
most likely arrangement of communities. We then apply belief propagation and
mean-field theory to this problem, and show that this leads to fast, accurate
algorithms for community detection.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figure
The literature of low g propellant behavior
Annotated bibliography on low-g liquid propellant behavio
Report from space plasma science
Space plasma science, especially plasma experiments in space, is discussed. Computational simulations, wave generation and propagation, wave-particle interactions, charged particle acceleration, particle-particle interactions, radiation transport in dense plasmas, macroscopic plasma flow, plasma-magnetic field interactions, plasma-surface interactions, prospects for near-term plasma science experiments in space and three-dimensional plasma experiments are among the topics discussed
Significant reduction in arc frequency biased solar cells: Observations, diagnostics, and mitigation technique(s)
A variety of experiments were performed which identify key factors contributing to the arcing of negatively biased high voltage solar cells. These efforts have led to reduction of greater than a factor of 100 in the arc frequency of a single cell following proper remediation procedures. Experiments naturally lead to and focussed on the adhesive/encapsulant that is used to bond the protective cover slip to the solar cell. An image-intensified charge coupled device (CCD) camera system recorded UV emission from arc events which occurred exclusively along the interfacial edge between the cover slip and the solar cell. Microscopic inspection of this interfacial region showed a bead of encapsulant along this entire edge. Elimination of this encapsulant bead reduced the arc frequency by two orders of magnitude. Water contamination was also identified as a key contributor which enhances arcing of the encapsulant bead along the solar cell edge. Spectrally resolved measurements of the observable UV light shows a feature assignable to OH(A-X) electronic emission, which is common for water contaminated discharges. Experiments in which the solar cell temperature was raised to 85 C showed a reduced arcing frequency, suggesting desorption of H2O. Exposing the solar cell to water vapor was shown to increase the arcing frequency. Clean dry gases such as O2, N2, and Ar show no enhancement of the arcing rate. Elimination of the exposed encapsulant eliminates any measurable sensitivity to H2O vapor
Bose Glass in Large N Commensurate Dirty Boson Model
The large N commensurate dirty boson model, in both the weakly and strongly
commensurate cases, is considered via a perturbative renormalization group
treatment. In the weakly commensurate case, there exists a fixed line under RG
flow, with varying amounts of disorder along the line. Including 1/N
corrections causes the system to flow to strong disorder, indicating that the
model does not have a phase transition perturbatively connected to the Mott
Insulator-Superfluid (MI-SF) transition. I discuss the qualitative effects of
instantons on the low energy density of excitations. In the strongly
commensurate case, a fixed point found previously is considered and results are
obtained for higher moments of the correlation functions. To lowest order,
correlation functions have a log-normal distribution. Finally, I prove two
interesting theorems for large N vector models with disorder, relevant to the
problem of replica symmetry breaking and frustration in such systems.Comment: 16 pages, 7 figure
Preliminary results of flight tests of vortex attenuating splines
Flight tests have been conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of a wingtip vortex attenuating device, referred to as a spline. Vortex penetrations were made with a PA-28 behind a C-54 aircraft with and without wingtip splines attached and the resultant rolling acceleration was measured and related to the roll acceleration capability of the PA-28. Tests were conducted over a range of separation distances from about 5 nautical miles (n. mi.) to less than 1 n. mi. Preliminary results indicate that, with the splines installed, there was a significant reduction in the vortex induced roll acceleration experienced by the PA-28 probe aircraft, and the distance at which the PA-28 roll control became ineffective was reduced from 2.5 n. mi. to 0.6 n. mi., or less. There was a slight increase in approach noise (approximately 4 db) with the splines installed due primarily to the higher engine power used during approach. Although splines significantly reduced the C-54 rate of climb, the rates available with four engines were acceptable for this test program. Splines did not introduce any noticeable change in the handling qualities of the C-54
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