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Milton Keynes - preliminary estimates of regional traffic flows in 1981
The Milton Keynes Development Corporation and their planning
consultants have asked the College Transport Group to investigate the
scale of likely regional traffic flows into and out of Milton Keynes.
At this stage the emphasis is on providing information for the preparation
of a Master Plan for the city itself, rather than detailed traffic
estimates for planning transport systems in the surrounding region.
Population estimates for 1981 have been obtained from County
Councils for areas within a 20 mile radius of the new city, and the
proportions attracted to Milton Keynes for work and shopping assessed
using gravity model techniques. Separate estimates have been made of
work journeys from the city to regional employment and to London.
Possible upper and lower limits to these forecasts are included to
account for many uncertainties in the absolute and relative growth of
population, employment and shopping opportunities in the city itself and
in the surrounding region. The results are presented as traffic flews
into and out of octant sectors around the city. Flows to the east are
greater than to the west with work trip flows of the order of 2,500 person
trips each way in the most heavily loaded sectors. A 1981 city population
of 150,000 is likely to produce at least 1,500 daily commuters to London
using the fast rail service, with an additional 200 commuters from the region
using Milton Keynes railway station
Faintest Galaxy Morphologies from WFPC2 Imaging of the Hawaii Survey Fields
We present very deep WFPC2 images in the F814W filter of two Hawaii
Survey fields, SSA13 and SSA22. Using these data with previous ground-based
imaging and spectroscopy, we compare the colors, star-forming properties and
morphologies of the faintest galaxies with a reference sample of bright nearby
galaxies and analyze the changes in field galaxy morphology with magnitude. Our
principal result is the identification of a new morphological class of
``chain'' galaxies at the faintest magnitudes. Based on limited spectroscopy,
we tentatively conclude that these are linearly organized giant star-forming
regions at and, if this is correct, that these are large galaxies
in the process of formation.Comment: 18 pages + 1 table of text as 1 LaTeX file (uses aastex style macros:
aaspp.sty, flushrt.sty) plus 1 uuencoded compressed tar file of 12 PostScript
figures (Figs. 3-9, 16-17, and 21-23). The remaining gray-scale plots are
available by anonymous ftp at
ftp://hubble.ifa.hawaii.edu/pub/preprints/plates To appear in the October
1995 Astronomical Journa
Sending multiple RTP streams in a single RTP session
This memo expands and clarifies the behavior of Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) endpoints that use multiple synchronization sources (SSRCs). This occurs, for example, when an endpoint sends multiple RTP streams in a single RTP session. This memo updates RFC 3550 with regard to handling multiple SSRCs per endpoint in RTP sessions, with a particular focus on RTP Control Protocol (RTCP) behavior. It also updates RFC 4585 to change and clarify the calculation of the timeout of SSRCs and the inclusion of feedback messages
An Extremely Luminous Galaxy at z=5.74
We report the discovery of an extremely luminous galaxy lying at a redshift
of z=5.74, SSA22-HCM1. The object was found in narrowband imaging of the SSA22
field using a 105 Angstrom bandpass filter centered at 8185 Angstroms during
the course of the Hawaii narrowband survey using LRIS on the 10 m Keck II
Telescope, and was identified by the equivalent width of the emission
W_lambda(observed)=175 Angstroms, flux = 1.7 x 10^{-17} erg cm^{-2} s^{-1}).
Comparison with broadband colors shows the presence of an extremely strong
break (> 4.2 at the 2 sigma level) between the Z band above the line, where the
AB magnitude is 25.5, and the R band below, where the object is no longer
visible at a 2 sigma upper limit of 27.1 (AB mags). These properties are only
consistent with this object's being a high-z Ly alpha emitter. A 10,800 s
spectrum obtained with LRIS yields a redshift of 5.74. The object is similar in
its continuum shape, line properties, and observed equivalent width to the
z=5.60 galaxy, HDF 4-473.0, as recently described by Weymann et al. (1998), but
is 2-3 times more luminous in the line and in the red continuum. For H_0 = 65
km s^{-1} Mpc^{-1} and q_0 = (0.02, 0.5) we would require star formation rates
of around (40, 7) solar masses per year to produce the UV continuum in the
absence of extinction.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures, Latex with emulateapj style file; to appear in
the Astrophysical Journal (Letters
EXERCISE IS MEDICINE® ON CAMPUS: A NATIONAL ANALYSIS AND ASSESSMENT OF COMMUNITY IMPACT
Introduction: The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) founded the Exercise is Medicine® on Campus (EIM-OC) initiative, which calls upon colleges and universities to promote physical activity on their campuses. The distribution of EIM-OC programs across the U.S. has not been reported. In addition, the impact that EIM-OC programs have on community-level physical activity prevalence is unknown. The purpose of my thesis was to evaluate and enhance the EIM-OC initiative to promote physical activity and overall health in the U.S. Methods: Recognized EIM-OC programs in the U.S. (n=131) were described based on local, county, state, and regional-level variables. Local variables included recognition level, school population, presence of a kinesiology-related degree, type of on-campus health care services, presence of a medical school on campus, as well as city population. County-level variables included population and designation of metro or non-metro county. The state and ACSM region that the program was in was also collected. Using a cross-sectional study design, physical activity prevalence of 1,296 eligible U.S. counties was predicted by the presence of an EIM-OC program among other health factors using multivariate linear regression. Results: Thirty-seven U.S. states had an EIM-OC program, while 27 states had a gold level program. Eighty-six percent of EIM-OC programs had a kinesiology-related degree program, with 76% of programs having student centered health services. School (p=0.21), city (p=0.14), and county (p=0.32) populations did not differ between recognition levels. Nearly 90% of total and gold EIM-OC programs were in metropolitan counties and 10% were in non-metropolitan counties. Adjusted multivariate regression modelling indicated that bronze (p=0.89), silver (p=0.07), and gold (p=0.67) level EIM-OC programs were not significant predictors of county-level physical activity prevalence. However, when accounting for other health factors (e.g., smoking, education, rurality), the model explained 78% of the variability in county-level physical activity prevalence (pDiscussion:Collectively, these results indicate that colleges and universities of all sizes can use EIM-OC to successfully promote physical activity on their campuses. Further promotion to help increase frequencies of participating EIM-OC campuses in states, regions, and non-metro areas across the U.S. is warranted
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