STELAR: An experiment in the electronic distribution of astronomical literature

STELAR (Study of Electronic Literature for Astronomical Research) is a Goddard-based project designed to test methods of delivering technical literature in machine readable form. To that end, we have scanned a five year span of the ApJ, ApJ Supp, AJ and PASP, and have obtained abstracts for eight leading academic journals from NASA/STI CASI, which also makes these abstracts available through the NASA RECON system. We have also obtained machine readable versions of some journal volumes from the publishers, although in many instances, the final typeset versions are no longer available. The fundamental data object for the STELAR database is the article, a collection of items associated with a scientific paper - abstract, scanned pages (in a variety of formats), figures, OCR extractions, forward and backward references, errata and versions of the paper in various formats (e.g., TEX, SGML, PostScript, DVI). Articles are uniquely referenced in the database by journal name, volume number and page number. The selection and delivery of articles is accomplished through the WAIS (Wide Area Information Server) client/server models requiring only an Internet connection. Modest modifications to the server code have made it capable of delivering the multiple data types required by STELAR. WAIS is a platform independent and fully open multi-disciplinary delivery system, originally developed by Thinking Machines Corp. and made available free of charge. It is based on the ISO Z39.50 standard communications protocol. WAIS servers run under both UNIX and VMS. WAIS clients run on a wide variety of machines, from UNIX-based Xwindows systems to MS-DOS and macintosh microcomputers. The WAIS system includes full-test indexing and searching of documents, network interface and easy access to a variety of document viewers. ASCII versions of the CASI abstracts have been formatted for display and the full test of the abstracts has been indexed. The entire WAIS database of abstracts is now available for use by the astronomical community. Enhancements of the search and retrieval system are under investigation to include specialized searches (by reference, author or keyword, as opposed to full test searches), improved handling of word stems, improvements in relevancy criteria and other retrieval techniques, such as factor spaces. The STELAR project has been assisted by the full cooperation of the AAS, the ASP, the publishers of the academic journals, librarians from GSFC, NRAO and STScI, the Library of Congress, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

РАСЧЕТ ПАРАМЕТРОВ ЩЕБНЕОЧИСТИТЕЛЬНЫХ МАШИН

The authors offer model pattern and mathematical tools to calculate productivity and other parameters of railway ballast cleaners allowing to enhance designing of devices and subassemblies.Авторы статьи взамен ранее применявшихся методик расчета производительности и других параметров щебнеочистительных машин предлагают свою модельную схему и свой математический аппарат. Достигаемые при этом результаты позволяют качественно улучшить проектирование заявленных в техническом задании механизмов и узлов

Synthesis and Hydrothermal Study of (Na,K)M2(PO4)3 (M = Ti, Zr, Hf) Solid Solutions

(Na,K)M2(PO4)3 (M = Ti, Zr, Hf) continuous solid solutions were synthesized by sol-gel and solidstate methods. Cation-exchange reactions in the NaM2(PO4)3–KM2(PO4)3–NaCl–KCl–H2O systems were studied at T = 723 – 973 K and p = 100–200 MPa. The concentration dependences of unit cell parameters of the studied phosphates were found. The sodium/potassium distribution coefficients in the phosphate-fluid systems were functions of the solid solution compositions, that is, the systems behave nonideally. The excess volumes and excess Gibbs functions of solid solutions mixing were fitted to thirdorder polynomials and described in terms of the Margules model. From the comparison of the results obtained Ti-, Zr-, and Hf-systems, we made the conclusion that the titanium phosphates show greater nonideality than zirconium and hafnium phosphates and lower thermodynamic stability to decomposition to double phosphates at high pressures and temperatures

The open XXZ and associated models at q root of unity

The generalized open XXZ model at $q$ root of unity is considered. We review how associated models, such as the $q$ harmonic oscillator, and the lattice sine-Gordon and Liouville models are obtained. Explicit expressions of the local Hamiltonian of the spin ${1 \over 2}$ XXZ spin chain coupled to dynamical degrees of freedom at the one end of the chain are provided. Furthermore, the boundary non-local charges are given for the lattice sine Gordon model and the $q$ harmonic oscillator with open boundaries. We then identify the spectrum and the corresponding Bethe states, of the XXZ and the q harmonic oscillator in the cyclic representation with special non diagonal boundary conditions. Moreover, the spectrum and Bethe states of the lattice versions of the sine-Gordon and Liouville models with open diagonal boundaries is examined. The role of the conserved quantities (boundary non-local charges) in the derivation of the spectrum is also discussed.Comment: 31 pages, LATEX, minor typos correcte

Noncompact SL(2,R) spin chain

We consider the integrable spin chain model - the noncompact SL(2,R) spin magnet. The spin operators are realized as the generators of the unitary principal series representation of the SL(2,R) group. In an explicit form, we construct R-matrix, the Baxter Q-operator and the transition kernel to the representation of the Separated Variables (SoV). The expressions for the energy and quasimomentum of the eigenstates in terms of the Baxter Q-operator are derived. The analytic properties of the eigenvalues of the Baxter operator as a function of the spectral parameter are established. Applying the diagrammatic approach, we calculate Sklyanin's integration measure in the separated variables and obtain the solution to the spectral problem for the model in terms of the eigenvalues of the Q-operator. We show that the transition kernel to the SoV representation is factorized into a product of certain operators each depending on a single separated variable.Comment: 29 pages, 12 figure

Модернизация скребково-цепного устройства щебнеочистительных машин

Increase in productivity of modern track machines leads to power growth of actuators’ drives. The article offers a way towards modernization of a chain scraper working body of the new generation of ballast cleaners. The developed techniques and the comparative results of the calculations before and after modernization, leading to power gain, show the advantages of the proposed engineering solutions.Повышение производительности современных путевых машин ведет к росту мощности приводов исполнительных устройств. В статье предлагается один из способов модернизации цепного скребкового рабочего органа путевых щебнеочистительных машин нового поколения. Разработана методика и приведены сравнительные результаты расчётов до и после модернизации, исходя из которых явно прослеживается энергетический выигрыш предлагаемого технического решения

Gold-plated Mode of CP-Violation in Decays of B_c Meson from QCD Sum Rules

The model-independent method based on the triangle ideology is implemented to extract the CKM-matrix angle gamma in the decays of doubly heavy long-lived meson B_c. We analyze a color structure of diagrams and conditions to reconstruct two reference-triangles by tagging the flavor and CP eigenstates of D^0 meson in the fixed exclusive channels. The characteristic branching ratios are evaluated in the framework of QCD sum rules.Comment: 11 pages, RevTeX4 file, 4 eps-figure