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Evaluation of a high temperature adhesive for fabricating graphite/PMR-15 polyimide structures
Tests are conducted to measure shear strength, shear modulus and flatwise tensile strength of the A7F (amide-imide modified LARC-13) adhesive system. An investigation is also conducted to determine the effect of geometric material parameters, and elevated temperature on the static strength of standard joints. Single-lap and double-lap composite joints, and single, double and step lap composite to metal joints are characterized. A series of advanced joints consisting of preformed adherends, adherends with scalloped edges and joints with hybrid interface plies are tested and compared to baseline single and double-lap designs
Variation in actual relationship among descendants of inbred individuals
In previous analyses, the variation in actual, or realized, relationship has been derived as a function of map length of chromosomes and type of relationship, the variation being greater the shorter the total chromosome length and the coefficient of variation being greater the more distant the relationship. Here, the results are extended to allow for the relatives' ancestor being inbred. Inbreeding of a parent reduces variation in actual relationship among its offspring, by an amount that depends on the inbreeding level and the type of mating that led to that level. For descendants of full-sibs, the variation is reduced in later generations, but for descendants of half-sibs, it is increased
Climate Ready Estuaries - COAST in Action: 2012 Projects from Maine and New Hampshire
In summer 2011 the US EPAâs Climate Ready Estuaries program awarded funds to the Casco Bay Estuary Partnership (CBEP) in Portland, Maine, and the Piscataqua Region Estuaries Partnership (PREP) in coastal New Hampshire, to further develop and use COAST (COastal Adaptation to Sea level rise Tool) in their sea level rise adaptation planning processes. The New England Environmental Finance Center worked with municipal staff, elected officials, and other stakeholders to select specific locations, vulnerable assets, and adaptation actions to model using COAST. The EFC then collected the appropriate base data layers, ran the COAST simulations, and provided visual, numeric, and presentation-based products in support of the planning processes underway in both locations. These products helped galvanize support for the adaptation planning efforts. Through facilitated meetings they also led to stakeholders identifying specific action steps and begin to determine how to implement them
Two hard spheres in a pore: Exact Statistical Mechanics for different shaped cavities
The Partition function of two Hard Spheres in a Hard Wall Pore is studied
appealing to a graph representation. The exact evaluation of the canonical
partition function, and the one-body distribution function, in three different
shaped pores are achieved. The analyzed simple geometries are the cuboidal,
cylindrical and ellipsoidal cavities. Results have been compared with two
previously studied geometries, the spherical pore and the spherical pore with a
hard core. The search of common features in the analytic structure of the
partition functions in terms of their length parameters and their volumes,
surface area, edges length and curvatures is addressed too. A general framework
for the exact thermodynamic analysis of systems with few and many particles in
terms of a set of thermodynamic measures is discussed. We found that an exact
thermodynamic description is feasible based in the adoption of an adequate set
of measures and the search of the free energy dependence on the adopted measure
set. A relation similar to the Laplace equation for the fluid-vapor interface
is obtained which express the equilibrium between magnitudes that in extended
systems are intensive variables. This exact description is applied to study the
thermodynamic behavior of the two Hard Spheres in a Hard Wall Pore for the
analyzed different geometries. We obtain analytically the external work, the
pressure on the wall, the pressure in the homogeneous zone, the wall-fluid
surface tension, the line tension and other similar properties
Dielectric function and plasmons in graphene
The electromagnetic response of graphene, expressed by the dielectric
function, and the spectrum of collective excitations are studied as a function
of wave vector and frequency. Our calculation is based on the full band
structure, calculated within the tight-binding approximation. As a result, we
find plasmons whose dispersion is similar to that obtained in the single-valley
approximation by Dirac fermions. In contrast to the latter, however, we find a
stronger damping of the plasmon modes due to inter-band absorption. Our
calculation also reveals effects due to deviations from the linear Dirac
spectrum as we increase the Fermi energy, indicating an anisotropic behavior
with respect to the wave vector of the external electromagnetic field
Molar mass and solution conformation of branched alpha(1 - 4), alpha(1 - 6) Glucans. Part I: Glycogens in water
Solution molar masses and conformations of glycogens from different sources (rabbit, oyster, mussel and bovine) were analysed using sedimentation velocity in the analytical ultracentrifuge, size-exclusion chromatography coupled to multi-angle laser light scattering (SEC-MALLS), size-exclusion chromatography coupled to a differential pressure viscometer and dynamic light scattering. Rabbit, oyster and mussel glycogens consisted of one population of high molar mass (weight averages ranging from 4.6 x 106 to 1.1 x 107 g/mol) as demonstrated by sedimentation velocity and SEC-MALLS, whereas bovine glycogen had a bimodal distribution of significantly lower molar mass (1.0 x 105 and 4.5 x 105 g/mol). The spherical structure of all glycogen molecules was demonstrated in the slopes of the Mark-Houwink-Kuhn-Sakurada-type power-law relations for sedimentation coefficient (s20,wo), intrinsic viscosity ([Ă·]), radius of gyration (rg,z) and radius of hydration (rH,z), respectively, and was further supported by the Ăïżœ (=rg,z/rH,z) function, the fractal dimension and the Perrin function. The degree of branching was estimated to be ĂąËÂŒ10% from the shrinking factors, gĂąâŹÂČ (=[Ă·]branched/[Ă·]linear) and also h (=(f/fo)branched/(f/fo)linear), respectively, where (f/fo) is the translational frictional ratio, consistent with expectation. Ă© 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved
The loss of earnings capability from disability/health limitations: Toward a new social indicator
Infra-red fixed points in supersymmetry
Model independent constraints on supersymmetric models emerge when certain
couplings are drawn towards their infra-red (quasi) fixed points in the course
of their renormalization group evolution. The general principles are first
reviewed and the conclusions for some recent studies of theories with R-parity
and baryon and lepton number violations are summarized.Comment: 5 pages Latex with 2 figures embedded as eps files Talk given at
WHEPP6, Chennai, India, January 3-15, 2000, to appear in special issue of
Praman
Longitudinal multivariate tensor- and searchlight-based morphometry using permutation testing
Tensor based morphometry [1] was used to detect
statistically significant regions of neuroanatomical
change over time in a comparison between 36 probable
Alzheimer's Disease patients and 20 age- and sexmatched
controls. Baseline and twelve-month repeat
Magnetic Resonance images underwent tied spatial
normalisation [10] and longitudinal high-dimensional
warps were then estimated. Analyses involved univariate
and multivariate data derived from the longitudinal
deformation fields. The most prominent findings were
expansion of the fluid spaces, and contraction of the
hippocampus and temporal region. Multivariate measures
were notably more powerful, and have the potential to
identify patterns of morphometric difference that would
be overlooked by conventional mass-univariate analysis
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