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An experimental investigation of the aerodynamics and cooling of a horizontally-opposed air-cooled aircraft engine installation
A flight-test based research program was performed to investigate the aerodynamics and cooling of a horizontally-opposed engine installation. Specific areas investigated were the internal aerodynamics and cooling mechanics of the installation, inlet aerodynamics, and exit aerodynamics. The applicable theory and current state of the art are discussed for each area. Flight-test and ground-test techniques for the development of the cooling installation and the solution of cooling problems are presented. The results show that much of the internal aerodynamics and cooling technology developed for radial engines are applicable to horizontally opposed engines. Correlation is established between engine manufacturer's cooling design data and flight measurements of the particular installation. Also, a flight-test method for the development of cooling requirements in terms of easily measurable parameters is presented. The impact of inlet and exit design on cooling and cooling drag is shown to be of major significance
Variable maternal nutrition and growth hormone treatment in the second quarter of pregnancy in pigs alter semitendinosus muscle in adolescent progeny
Maternal nutrition and growth hormone (GH) treatment during early- to mid-pregnancy can each alter the subsequent growth and differentiation of muscle in progeny. We have investigated the effects of varying maternal nutrition and maternal treatment with porcine (p) GH during the second quarter of pregnancy in gilts on semitendinosus muscle cross-sectional area and fibre composition of progeny, and relationships between maternal and progeny measures and progeny muscularity. Fifty-three Large White×Landrace gilts, pregnant to Large White×Duroc boars, were fed either 2·2 kg (about 35 % ad libitum intake) or 3·0 kg commercial ration (13·5 MJ digestible energy, 150 g crude protein (N×6·25)/kg DM)/d and injected with 0, 4 or 8 mg pGH/d from day 25 to 50 of pregnancy, then all were fed 2·2 kg/d for the remainder of pregnancy. The higher maternal feed allowance from day 25 to 50 of pregnancy increased the densities of total and secondary fibres and the secondary:primary fibre ratio in semitendinosus muscles of their female progeny at 61 d of age postnatally. The densities of secondary and total muscle fibres in semitendinosus muscles of progeny were predicted by maternal weight before treatment and maternal plasma insulin-like growth factor-II during treatment. Maternal pGH treatment from day 25 to day 50 of pregnancy did not alter fibre densities, but increased the cross-sectional area of the semitendinosus muscle; this may be partially explained by increased maternal plasma glucose. Thus, maternal nutrition and pGH treatment during the second quarter of pregnancy in pigs independently alter muscle characteristics in progeny.Kathryn L. Gatford, Jason E. Ekert, Karina Blackmore, Miles J. De Blasio, Jodie M. Boyce, Julie A. Owens, Roger G. Campbell and Phillip C. Owen
Punch-through jets in collisions at RHIC/LHC
High single and dihadron production is studied within a NLO pQCD parton
model with jet quenching in high energy collisions at the RHIC/LHC
energy. A simultaneous -fit to both single and dihadron spectra can be
achieved within a narrow range of energy loss parameter. Punch-through jets are
found to result in the dihadron suppression factor slightly more sensitive to
medium than the single hadron suppression factor at RHIC. Such jets at LHC are
found to dominate high dihadron production and the resulting dihadron
spectra are more sensitive to the initial parton distribution functions than
the single hadron spectra.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, proceedings for the 20th international conference
on ultra-relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions (QM2008), Jaipur, India,
February 4-10, 200
Scout motor performance analysis and prediction study /PAPS/
Scout motor performance analysis and predictio
Nuclear corrections in neutrino-nucleus DIS and their compatibility with global NPDF analyses
We perform a global chi^2-analysis of nuclear parton distribution functions
using data from charged current neutrino-nucleus deep-inelastic scattering
(DIS), charged-lepton-nucleus DIS, and the Drell-Yan (DY) process. We show that
the nuclear corrections in nu-A DIS are not compatible with the predictions
derived from l^+A DIS and DY data. We quantify this result using a
hypothesis-testing criterion based on the chi^2 distribution which we apply to
the total chi^2 as well as to the chi^2 of the individual data sets. We find
that it is not possible to accommodate the data from nu-A and l^+A DIS by an
acceptable combined fit. Our result has strong implications for the extraction
of both nuclear and proton parton distribution functions using combined
neutrino and charged-lepton data sets.Comment: 5 page
Neutrino Dimuon Production and the Strangeness Asymmetry of the Nucleon
We have performed the first global QCD analysis to include the CCFR and NuTeV
dimuon data, which provide direct constraints on the strange and anti-strange
parton distributions, and . To explore the strangeness
sector, we adopt a general parametrization of the non-perturbative functions satisfying basic QCD requirements. We find that the
strangeness asymmetry, as represented by the momentum integral , is sensitive to the dimuon data provided the
theoretical QCD constraints are enforced. We use the Lagrange Multiplier method
to probe the quality of the global fit as a function of and find
. Representative parton distribution sets spanning this
range are given. Comparisons with previous work are made.Comment: 23 pages, 4 figures; expanded version for publicatio
Nuclear PDFs from neutrino deep inelastic scattering
We study nuclear effects in charged current deep inelastic neutrino-iron
scattering in the frame-work of a chi^2 analysis of parton distribution
functions. We extract a set of iron PDFs and show that under reasonable
assumptions it is possible to constrain the valence, light sea and strange
quark distributions. Our iron PDFs are used to compute x_{Bj}-dependent and
Q^2-dependent nuclear correction factors for iron structure functions which are
required in global analyses of free nucleon PDFs. We compare our results with
nuclear correction factors from neutrino-nucleus scattering models and
correction factors for charged lepton-iron scattering. We find that, except for
very high x_{Bj}, our correction factors differ in both shape and magnitude
from the correction factors of the models and charged-lepton scattering.Comment: 25 pages, 10 figures; minor updates to match published versio
Programming the brain: common outcomes and gaps in knowledge from animal studies of IUGR
Available online 7 June 2016Abstract not availableDamien S. Hunter, Susan J. Hazel, Karen L. Kinda, Julie A. Owens, Julia B. Pitcher, Kathryn L. Gatfor
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