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Design integration and noise studies for jet STOL aircraft. Task 7A: Augmentor wing cruise blowing valveless system. Volume 1: System design and test integration
Exploratory design studies conducted to establish the configuration of an augmentor wing vruise blowing (valveless) system in a 150-passenger STOL airplane were reported in NASA CR-114570. Those studies have been updated to incorporate the results of static rig, flow duct, and wind tunnel tests. Minor adjustments in duct flow velocity, flap length, and blowing nozzle geometry were incorporated to provide airplane characteristics that minimize takeoff gross weight and achieve sideline noise objectives for an advanced commercial STOL airplane
Tree Stock, Structure and Use of Common Woody Species of a Town Neighboring Forest Reserve in Tanzania: Implication for Managing Carbon Accumulation
Town neighboring forests in the tropics suffer high human pressure owing to unregulated harvest to supply domestic energy and equipment. Although this causes considerable source of income among communities, it poses significant deforestation, thus, jeopardizing carbon accumulation potentials of most of the forests. This study therefore assessed the stock, structure and use of common woody species in a town neighboring forest reserve to elucidate the reserveâs carbon accumulation potential amid pressures from surrounding communities. It was found out that the structure of the forest had been altered following unregulated tree harvest. There were selective harvesting and removal of valued timber trees, and key species that otherwise are responsible in regulating the ecosystem functioning of the reserve. It was apparent that the unregulated harvest is likely to jeopardize the ecosystem functioning and carbon accumulation potential of the reserve. Thus, to manage the reserve sustainably, awareness education on forest biodiversity conservation among surrounding local communities is recommended. We also recommend exploration of the reserve for ecotourism potentials. This might stimulate ecotourism activities in the area and provide an alternative source of income among the local population. This would add value and sense of ownership and stimulate self-mobilization for protection of the reserve
The Politics of Service Delivery Reform
This article identifies the leaders, the supporters and the resisters of public service reform. It adopts a principalâagent framework, comparing reality with an âidealâ situation in which citizens are the principals over political policy-makers as their agents, and policy-makers are the principals over public service officials as their agents. Reform in most developing countries is complicated by an additional set of external actors â international financial institutions and donors. In practice, international agencies and core government officials usually act as the âprincipalsâ in the determination of reforms. The analysis identifies the interests involved in reform, indicating how the balance between them is affected by institutional and sectoral factors. Organizational reforms, particularly in the social sectors, present greater difficulties than first generation economic policy reforms
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Folding pathway of an Ig domain is conserved on and off the ribosome.
Proteins that fold cotranslationally may do so in a restricted configurational space, due to the volume occupied by the ribosome. How does this environment, coupled with the close proximity of the ribosome, affect the folding pathway of a protein? Previous studies have shown that the cotranslational folding process for many proteins, including small, single domains, is directly affected by the ribosome. Here, we investigate the cotranslational folding of an all-ÎČ Ig domain, titin I27. Using an arrest peptide-based assay and structural studies by cryo-EM, we show that I27 folds in the mouth of the ribosome exit tunnel. Simulations that use a kinetic model for the force dependence of escape from arrest accurately predict the fraction of folded protein as a function of length. We used these simulations to probe the folding pathway on and off the ribosome. Our simulations-which also reproduce experiments on mutant forms of I27-show that I27 folds, while still sequestered in the mouth of the ribosome exit tunnel, by essentially the same pathway as free I27, with only subtle shifts of critical contacts from the C to the N terminus
JWST/MIRI coronagraphic performances as measured on-sky
Characterization of directly imaged exoplanets is one of the most eagerly
anticipated science functions of the James Webb Space Telescope. MIRI, the
mid-IR instrument has the capability to provide unique spatially resolved
photometric data points in a spectral range never achieved so far for such
objects. We aim to present the very first on-sky contrast measurements of the
MIRI's coronagraphs. In addition to a classical Lyot coronagraph at the longest
wavelength, this observing mode implements the concept of the four quadrant
phase mask for the very first time in a space telescope. We observed single
stars together with a series of reference stars to measure raw contrasts as
they are delivered on the detector, as well as reference subtracted contrasts.
MIRI's coronagraphs achieve raw contrasts greater than at the smallest
angular separations (within ) and about further out (beyond
). Subtracting the residual diffracted light left unattenuated by the
coronagraph has the potential to bring the final contrast down to the
background and detector limited noise floor at most angular separations (a few
times at less than ). MIRI coronagraphs behave as expected from
simulations. In particular the raw contrasts for all four coronagraphs are
fully consistent with the diffractive model. Contrasts obtained with
subtracting reference stars also meet expectations and are fully demonstrated
for two four quadrant phase masks (F1065C and F1140C). The worst contrast,
measured at F1550C, is very likely due to a variation of the phase aberrations
at the primary mirror during the observations, and not an issue of the
coronagraph itself. We did not perform reference star subtraction with the Lyot
mask at F2300C, but we anticipate that it would bring the contrast down to the
noise floor.Comment: submitted to A&
Bringing emotion to work: Emotional intelligence, resistance, and the reinvention of character
This article centrally examines the sociological significance of emotional intelligence (EI) as a nascent managerial discourse. Through developing a three-way reading of the writers Richard Sennett, Daniel Goleman, and George Ritzer, it is contended that EI can be understood to signal ânew rulesâ for work involving demands for workers to develop moral character better attuned to the dynamics of the flexible workplace - character that is more âintelligentâ, adaptive, and reflexive. Furthermore, it is argued that while EI appears in some important respects to open the scope for worker discretion, it might also signal diminished scope for worker resistance. However, ultimately, the case of EI is used to problematise recent discussions of worker resistance - to suggest the possibility of âresistantâ worker agency exercised through collusion with, as well as transgression of, corporate norms and practices
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