Liquid Fuels Trust Board: Review and Commentary

Report for the EnergyScape Research Programme NIWA Scienc

Alien Registration- Hooper, George A. (Robbinston, Washington County)

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Understanding the Contribution of Direct Use of Gas to New Zealand’s Future Energy Efficiency Objectives

A report produced for the Gas Association of New Zealand. Includes 2008 Addendu

Impact of HR practices on the quality management systems of manufacturing organizations

Human resource is the most valuable and critical resources in the knowledge era. The success or failure of any organization depends on the human resource of that organization. Therefore the human resource management must be at a very high level to successfully manage an organization, This research investigates the impact of HR practices on quality management systems of manufacturing organizations of Sri Lanka. Literature identify the importance of HR practices such as skill development, rewards, recognition, teamwork, empowerment, motivation and employee participation for quality management systems implementation and maintaining in quality management system. This study is based on the primary data collected from Sri Lankan manufacturing organizations which belong to selected industrial sectors. The six HR practices were investigated in this research. Conceptual framework is developed and data collected through a questionnaire. Results indicated that, skill development system and communication play a main role m successful implementation of a quality management system while performance appraisal and skill development plays a main role in enhancing the performances of implemented quality management system. The performance appraisal is the most influencing HR practice for the quality management systems. According to the analyzed results, main role of HR department is to train the employees and second main role is to motivate the employees. The CEO's and Board of directors' main role is identified as facilitating. Limitations and areas for further research are also identified

Propagation of Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Ray Nuclei in Cosmic Magnetic Fields and Implications for Anisotropy Measurements

(Abridged) Recent results from the Pierre Auger Observatory (PAO) indicate that the composition of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) with energies above $10^{19}$ eV may be dominated by heavy nuclei. An important question is whether the distribution of arrival directions for such UHECR nuclei can exhibit observable anisotropy or positional correlations with their astrophysical source objects despite the expected strong deflections by intervening magnetic fields. For this purpose, we have simulated the propagation of UHECR nuclei including models for both the extragalactic magnetic field and the Galactic magnetic field. Assuming that only iron nuclei are injected steadily from sources with equal luminosity and spatially distributed according to the observed large scale structure in the local Universe, at the number of events published by the PAO so far, the arrival distribution of UHECRs would be consistent with no auto-correlation at 95% confidence if the mean number density of UHECR sources $n_s >~ 10^{-6}$ Mpc$^{-3}$, and consistent with no cross-correlation with sources within 95% errors for $n_s >~ 10^{-5}$ Mpc$^{-3}$. On the other hand, with 1000 events above $5.5 \times 10^{19}$ eV in the whole sky, next generation experiments can reveal auto-correlation with more than 99% probability even for $n_s <~ 10^{-3}$ Mpc$^{-3}$, and cross-correlation with sources with more than 99% probability for $n_s <~ 10^{-4}$ Mpc$^{-3}$. In addition, we find that the contribution of Centaurus A is required to reproduce the currently observed UHECR excess in the Centaurus region. Secondary protons generated by photodisintegration of primary heavy nuclei during propagation play a crucial role in all cases, and the resulting anisotropy at small angular scales should provide a strong hint of the source location if the maximum energies of the heavy nuclei are sufficiently high.Comment: 17 pages, 15 figure

Plasma Physics

Contains reports on five research projects.United States Atomic Energy Commission (Contract AT(30-1)-1842

Dark Matter Disc Enhanced Neutrino Fluxes from the Sun and Earth

As disc galaxies form in a hierarchical cosmology, massive merging satellites are preferentially dragged towards the disc plane. The material accreted from these satellites forms a dark matter disc that contributes 0.25 - 1.5 times the non-rotating halo density at the solar position. Here, we show the importance of the dark disc for indirect dark matter detection in neutrino telescopes. Previous predictions of the neutrino flux from WIMP annihilation in the Earth and the Sun have assumed that Galactic dark matter is spherically distributed with a Gaussian velocity distribution, the standard halo model. Although the dark disc has a local density comparable to the dark halo, its higher phase space density at low velocities greatly enhances capture rates in the Sun and Earth. For typical dark disc properties, the resulting muon flux from the Earth is increased by three orders of magnitude over the SHM, while for the Sun the increase is an order of magnitude. This significantly increases the sensitivity of neutrino telescopes to fix or constrain parameters in WIMP models. The flux from the Earth is extremely sensitive to the detailed properties of the dark disc, while the flux from the Sun is more robust. The enhancement of the muon flux from the dark disc puts the search for WIMP annihilation in the Earth on the same level as the Sun for WIMP masses < 100 GeV.Comment: 7 pages, 4 figures, added a short paragraph to the discussion section, conclusions unchanged, published versio