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In-flight testing of the space shuttle orbiter thermal control system
In-flight thermal control system testing of a complex manned spacecraft such as the space shuttle orbiter and the considerations attendant to the definition of the tests are described. Design concerns, design mission requirements, flight test objectives, crew vehicle and mission risk considerations, instrumentation, data requirements, and real-time mission monitoring are discussed. An overview of the tests results is presented
SAMP, the Simple Application Messaging Protocol: Letting applications talk to each other
SAMP, the Simple Application Messaging Protocol, is a hub-based communication
standard for the exchange of data and control between participating client
applications. It has been developed within the context of the Virtual
Observatory with the aim of enabling specialised data analysis tools to
cooperate as a loosely integrated suite, and is now in use by many and varied
desktop and web-based applications dealing with astronomical data. This paper
reviews the requirements and design principles that led to SAMP's
specification, provides a high-level description of the protocol, and discusses
some of its common and possible future usage patterns, with particular
attention to those factors that have aided its success in practice.Comment: 12 pages, 3 figures. Accepted for Virtual Observatory special issue
of Astronomy and Computin
An automated program for reinforcement requirements for openings in cylindrical pressure vessels
An automated interactive program for calculating the reinforcement requirements for openings in cylindrical pressure vessels subjected to internal pressure is described. The program is written for an electronic desk top calculator. The program calculates the required area of reinforcement for a given opening and compares this value with the area of reinforcement provided by a proposed design. All program steps, operating instructions, and example problems with input and sample output are documented
The long wavelength limit of hard thermal loop effective actions
We derive a closed form expression for the long wavelength limit of the
effective action for hard thermal loops in an external gravitational field. It
is a function of the metric, independent of time derivatives. It is compared
and contrasted with the static limit, and with the corresponding limits in an
external Yang-Mills field.Comment: 5 page
The employment effect in retail trade of California's 1988 minimum wage increase
In this paper, the authors study the outcome of an unusually clean natural experiment--California's large minimum wage increase of 1988. Two different approaches to evaluating the experiment result in the same conclusion: the textbook analysis of minimum wages holds true. In particular, the authors find that employment growth in California's low-wage retail trade industry was slowed by the minimum wage increase.
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