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Variations in the Skull of the Bearded Seal
Fourteen measurements taken on 260 skulls are described and analysed using variance,
covariance, reduced major axes, and discriminant functions. No sexual variation
is found. Changes in relative growth with age are demonstrated and discussed. Skulls
from the Atlantic adult population are shown to be significantly larger than those from
the Pacific in most dimensions. An important exception, nasal breadth, is significantly
smaller. Differences in the regression coefficients between the Atlantic and Pacific
populations are probably not significant, but some differences in position of the
regression lines are highly significant. The results are compared with those of some
previous authors and the boundaries between the populations considered. The recognition
of E. b. nauticus for the Pacific population is justified
Thoriated nickel bonded by solid-state diffusion method
Solid-state diffusion bonding in an inert-gas atmosphere forms high-strength joints between butting or overlapping surfaces of thoriated nickel. This method eliminates inert-phase agglomeration
Glass bead shot peening retards stress corrosion failure of titanium tanks
Rigidly controlled shot peening retards the incompatibility between titanium alloys and nitrogen tetroxide in rocket-propellant storage tanks. This sets up a residual compressive stress in the surface of a material which reduces tensile stresses in the material fibers, alleviating stress corrosion
SNAP-8 post shutdown gamma radiation approximations
Detector responses were calculated for normalized sources in the Perkins and King energy group structure for a SNAP 8 power system on a NASA space station. Gamma decay rates were then calculated by using an expanded, updated list of isotopic decay data, and from these, actual detector responses were found for the SNAP 8 system. The results indicate that energy-dependent calculations must be made to determine decay gamma dose rates for actual reactor configurations. A simplified method for making these calculations has been devised
Efficient AUC Optimization for Information Ranking Applications
Adequate evaluation of an information retrieval system to estimate future
performance is a crucial task. Area under the ROC curve (AUC) is widely used to
evaluate the generalization of a retrieval system. However, the objective
function optimized in many retrieval systems is the error rate and not the AUC
value. This paper provides an efficient and effective non-linear approach to
optimize AUC using additive regression trees, with a special emphasis on the
use of multi-class AUC (MAUC) because multiple relevance levels are widely used
in many ranking applications. Compared to a conventional linear approach, the
performance of the non-linear approach is comparable on binary-relevance
benchmark datasets and is better on multi-relevance benchmark datasets.Comment: 12 page
Shock transmission in coupled beams and rib stiffened structures
Shock transmission in a simple coupled beam structure and in a ring-stringer stiffened cylinder is investigated experimentally and analytically using wave transmission and statistical energy analysis concepts. The use of the response spectrum to characterize the excitation provided to a simple beam by a force pulse is studied. Analysis of the transmission of a dilatation wave in a periodically stiffened plate indicates that the stiffeners are fairly transparent to the wave, but some of the dilatational energy is scattered into bending at each support
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