Development of the elevation drive assembly for orbiting solar observatory I (EYE)

The requirements for pointing accuracy, friction, and power for the elevation drive assembly of an orbiting space observatory are discussed briefly. A description of the components making up the assembly is presented. Special features requiring development testing prior to unit fabrication are more fully described together with a review of the test programs conducted and results obtained

Simulations of Spinodal Nucleation in Systems with Elastic Interactions

Systems with long-range interactions quenched into a metastable state near the pseudospinodal exhibit nucleation that is qualitatively different than the classical nucleation observed near the coexistence curve. We have observed nucleation droplets in our Langevin simulations of a two-dimensional model of martensitic transformations and have determined that the structure of the nucleating droplet differs from the stable martensite structure. Our results, together with experimental measurements of the phonon dispersion curve, allow us to predict the nature of the droplet. These results have implications for nucleation in many solid-solid transitions and the structure of the final state

Use of microwave satellite data to study variations in rainfall over the Indian Ocean

The University of Wisconsin Space Science and Engineering Center mapped rainfall over the Indian Ocean using a newly developed Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer (SMMR) rain-retrieval algorithm. The short-range objective was to characterize the distribution and variability of Indian Ocean rainfall on seasonal and annual scales. In the long-range, the objective is to clarify differences between land and marine regimes of monsoon rain. Researchers developed a semi-empirical algorithm for retrieving Indian Ocean rainfall. Tools for this development have come from radiative transfer and cloud liquid water models. Where possible, ground truth information from available radars was used in development and testing. SMMR rainfalls were also compared with Indian Ocean gauge rainfalls. Final Indian Ocean maps were produced for months, seasons, and years and interpreted in terms of historical analysis over the sub-continent

Producers' Use of Crop Borders for Management of Potato Virus Y (PVY) in Seed Potatoes

Potato virus Y (PVY) is a very serious problem throughout most major seed potato producing states. Seed potato producers in Minnesota and North Dakota were surveyed in early 2005 to assess their perception of the profitability and risks associated with using crop borders to manage PVY in seed lots. Five of the 23 producers responding (a 25% response rate) said they had used crop borders in 2004. These 23 producers entered 152 seed lots into state seed certification programs. On average, producers had less than 0.1 seed lots rejected for PVY based on summer inspection. The average number of seed lots rejected in winter trials was 1.7. Of the 152 seed lots, these producers said they had entered into state seed certification programs, they reported detailed information on 108 lots. Generations 1 and 2 were the most likely generations to be protected by a crop border. Of these 108 seed lots, 104 passed summer inspection for PVY. Seventy-four percent of the 89 lots sent in for the winter test were reported to have passed. The use of crop borders was significant in explaining whether a seed lot had passed the winter test or not. Thirty-one (97%) of the 32 seed lots that were planted within a crop border passed the winter test while 31 (54%) of the 57 seed lots that were not planted with a crop border passed the winter test. No relationship was found between the choice of border crop and passing the winter test. Producers also were asked to state their agreement or disagreement with several statements regarding their knowledge and opinions on use of crop borders.Crop Production/Industries,

Augustana Historical Society Publications Number 3

Table of Contents: Ernst W. Olson / Augustana Book Concern: Publishers to the Augustana Synod.--History of Its Activities since 1889, with Introductory Account of Earlier Publishing Enterprises -- Evald B. Lawson / Christina Nilsson’s Visit to Brockton, Mass., in November, 1870.--Pages from the Early History of the Oldest Swedish Lutheran Church in New Englandhttps://digitalcommons.augustana.edu/ahsbooks/1017/thumbnail.jp

Bacteriology of butter V. Studies on the microorganisms in churns

The utensils and equipment with which dairy products come in contact on farms and in dairy plants constitute a very important source of the microorganisms in these materials. Because their construction makes them especially difficult to clean, certain pieces of equipment are of much greater significance in this connection than others. In butter plants the churns are a particularly important source of organisms and, moreover, this contamination occurs subsequent to the pasteurization of the cream so that none of the organisms added by it are destroyed

Huts as Classrooms: A Memoir by Two Who Inhabited the Puckerbrush

The origins of the Appalachian Mountain Club’s educational programs at its huts in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, told by AMC’s first education director, John Nutter, and a former hut system manager, W. Kent Olson

Bacteriology of butter III. A method for studying the contamination from churns

A method for the study of the contamination from churns is suggested. It consists of allowing a small amount of an agar medium containing 2.5 percent air-dried agar to solidify in contact with the surface to be studied, the transferring of the agar preparation thus formed to a sterile petri dish and finally the counting of the colonies that develop on incubation. With surfaces nearly horizontal the agar is poured on, while with surfaces not nearly horizontal the medium is poured behind a glass plate held a short distance from the surface by a gasket. The results are expressed as the number of colonies developing per square centimeter of the agar preparations

Structural Studies of Mixed Glass Former 0.35Na2O + 0.65[xB2O3 + (1 – x)P2O5] Glasses by Raman and 11B and 31P Magic Angle Spinning Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopies

The mixed glass former (MGF) effect (MGFE) is defined as a nonlinear and nonadditive change in the ionic conductivity with changing glass former composition at constant modifier composition. In this study, sodium borophosphate 0.35Na2O + 0.65[xB2O3 + (1 – x)P2O5], 0 ≤ x≤ 1, glasses which have been shown to exhibit a positive MGFE have been prepared and examined using Raman and 11B and 31P magic angle spinning nuclear magnetic resonance (MAS NMR) spectroscopies. Through examination of the short-range order (SRO) structures found in the ternary glasses, it was determined that the minority glass former, B for 0.1 ≤ x ≤ 0.7 and P for 0.7 ≤ x ≤ 0.9, is “overmodified” and contains more Na+ ions than would be expected from simple linear mixing of the binary sodium borate, x = 1, and sodium phosphate, x = 0, glasses, respectively. Changes in the intermediate range order (IRO) structures were suggested by changes in the NMR spectral chemical shifts and Raman spectra wavenumber shifts over the full composition range x in the Raman and MAS NMR spectra. The changes observed in the chemical shifts of 31P MAS NMR spectra with x are found to be too large to be caused solely by changing sodium modification of the phosphate SRO structural groups, and this indicates that internetwork bonding between phosphorus and boron through bridging oxygens (BOs), P–O–B, must be a major contributor to the IRO structure of these glasses. While not fully developed, a first-order thermodynamic analysis based upon the Gibbs free energies of formation of the various SRO structural units in this system has been developed and can be used to account for the preferential formation of tetrahedral boron groups, B4, by the reaction of B3 with P2 groups to form B4 and P3 groups, respectively, where the superscript denotes the number of BOs on these units, in these glasses. This preference for B4 units appears to be a predominate cause of the changing modifier to glass former ratio with composition x in these ternary MGF glasses and appears to be associated with the large negative value of the Gibbs free energy of formation of this group