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    Behavioural changes and their control during starvation in the tsetse fly, Glossina morsitans

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    A program for calculating optimum dimensions of alpha radioisotope capsules exposed to varying stress and temperature

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    Method and computer program for calculating creep and optimizing dimensions of capsules filled with alpha-emitting radioisotopes and exposed to varying stress and temperatur

    Supersymmetry on Jacobstahl lattices

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    It is shown that the construction of Yang and Fendley (2004 {\it J. Phys. A: Math.Gen. {\bf 37}} 8937) to obtainsupersymmetric systems, leads not to the open XXZ chain with anisotropy Δ=1/2\Delta =-{1/2} but to systems having dimensions given by Jacobstahl sequences.For each system the ground state is unique. The continuum limit of the spectra of the Jacobstahl systems coincide, up to degeneracies, with that of the Uq(sl(2))U_q(sl(2)) invariant XXZ chain for q=exp(iπ/3)q=\exp(i\pi/3). The relation between the Jacobstahl systems and the open XXZ chain is explained.Comment: 6 pages, 0 figure

    Investigation of fast initialization of spacecraft bubble memory systems

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    Bubble domain technology offers significant improvement in reliability and functionality for spacecraft onboard memory applications. In considering potential memory systems organizations, minimization of power in high capacity bubble memory systems necessitates the activation of only the desired portions of the memory. In power strobing arbitrary memory segments, a capability of fast turn on is required. Bubble device architectures, which provide redundant loop coding in the bubble devices, limit the initialization speed. Alternate initialization techniques are investigated to overcome this design limitation. An initialization technique using a small amount of external storage is demonstrated

    Characterization of the Torsional Piezoelectric-like Response of Tantalum Trisulfide Associated with Charge-Density-Wave Depinning

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    We have studied the frequency and voltage dependence of voltage-induced torsional strains in orthorhombic TaS3 [V. Ya. Pokrovskii, et al, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 206404 (2007)] by measuring the modulation of the resonant frequency of an RF cavity containing the sample. The strain has an onset voltage below the charge-density-wave (CDW) threshold voltages associated with changes in shear compliance and resistance, suggesting that the strain is associated with polarization of the CDW rather than CDW current. Measurements with square-wave voltages show that the strain is very sluggish, not even reaching its dc value at a frequency of 0.1 Hz, but the dynamics appear to be very sample dependent. By applying oscillating torque while biasing the sample with a dc current, we have also looked for strain induced voltage in the sample; none is observed at the low biases where the voltage-induced strains first occur, but an induced voltage is observed at higher biases, probably associated with strain-dependent CDW conductance.Comment: 11 pages, including 3 figures, to be published in Phys. Rev. B (Rapid Comm.

    Boundary changing operators in the O(n) matrix model

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    We continue the study of boundary operators in the dense O(n) model on the random lattice. The conformal dimension of boundary operators inserted between two JS boundaries of different weight is derived from the matrix model description. Our results are in agreement with the regular lattice findings. A connection is made between the loop equations in the continuum limit and the shift relations of boundary Liouville 3-points functions obtained from Boundary Ground Ring approach.Comment: 31 pages, 4 figures, Introduction and Conclusion improve

    Radiation effects on silicon third quarterly progress report, dec. 1, 1964 - feb. 28, 1965

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    Radiation effect on silicon - introduction rates of vacancy-phosphorus defect and divacancy in p-type material for solar cell applicatio
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