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An Annotated List of Phytophagous Insects Collected on Immature Black Walnut Trees in Southern Illinois
An annotated list of phytophagous insects on immature black walnut in southern Illinois was compiled between 26 April, 1974, and 9 October, 1975. Approximately 300 species, in 10 orders, were collected by hand-picking and sweeping. Notes taken on the various species included types of feeding damage, instars present, predators and parasites, and distribution in southern Illinois. Lepidoptera (about 80 species collected) were responsible for the majority of damage observed
A functional video-based anthropometric measuring system
A high-speed anthropometric three dimensional measurement system using the Selcom Selspot motion tracking instrument for visual data acquisition is discussed. A three-dimensional scanning system was created which collects video, audio, and performance data on a single standard video cassette recorder. Recording rates of 1 megabit per second for periods of up to two hours are possible with the system design. A high-speed off-the-shelf motion analysis system for collecting optical information as used. The video recording adapter (VRA) is interfaced to the Selspot data acquisition system
Retrograde Accretion and Merging Supermassive Black Holes
We investigate whether a circumbinary gas disc can coalesce a supermassive
black hole binary system in the centre of a galaxy. This is known to be
problematic for a prograde disc. We show that in contrast, interaction with a
retrograde circumbinary disc is considerably more effective in shrinking the
binary because there are no orbital resonances. The binary directly absorbs
negative angular momentum from the circumbinary disc by capturing gas into a
disc around the secondary black hole, or discs around both holes if the binary
mass ratio is close to unity. In many cases the binary orbit becomes eccentric,
shortening the pericentre distance as the eccentricity grows. In all cases the
binary coalesces once it has absorbed the angular momentum of a gas mass
comparable to that of the secondary black hole. Importantly, this conclusion is
unaffected even if the gas inflow rate through the disc is formally
super--Eddington for either hole. The coalescence timescale is therefore always
, where is the secondary black hole mass and
the inflow rate through the circumbinary disc.Comment: 8 pages, 4 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS. Movies of the
simulations can be found at:
http://www.astro.le.ac.uk/users/cjn12/RetroBinaryMovies.htm
Perturbations of Dark Solitons
A method for approximating dark soliton solutions of the nonlinear
Schrodinger equation under the influence of perturbations is presented. The
problem is broken into an inner region, where core of the soliton resides, and
an outer region, which evolves independently of the soliton. It is shown that a
shelf develops around the soliton which propagates with speed determined by the
background intensity. Integral relations obtained from the conservation laws of
the nonlinear Schrodinger equation are used to approximate the shape of the
shelf. The analysis is developed for both constant and slowly evolving
backgrounds. A number of problems are investigated including linear and
nonlinear damping type perturbations
Methods of editing cloud and atmospheric layer affected pixels from satellite data
Subvisible cirrus clouds (SCi) were easily distinguished in mid-infrared (MIR) TIROS-N daytime data from south Texas and northeast Mexico. The MIR (3.55-3.93 micrometer) pixel digital count means of the SCi affected areas were more than 3.5 standard deviations on the cold side of the scene means. (These standard deviations were made free of the effects of unusual instrument error by factoring out the Ch 3 MIR noise on the basis of detailed examination of noisy and noise-free pixels). SCi affected areas in the IR Ch 4 (10.5-11.5 micrometer) appeared cooler than the general scene, but were not as prominent as in Ch 3, being less than 2 standard deviations from the scene mean. Ch 3 and 4 standard deviations and coefficients of variation are not reliable indicators, by themselves, of the presence of SCi because land features can have similar statistical properties
Environmental Studies at Newton Lake, Illinois: Tasks 4, 5, and 7
ID: 8658; issued March 1, 1991INHS Technical Report prepared for Marathon Oil Compan
Methods of editing cloud and atmospheric layer affected pixels from satellite data
The location and migration of cloud, land and water features were examined in spectral space (reflective VIS vs. emissive IR). Daytime HCMM data showed two distinct types of cloud affected pixels in the south Texas test area. High altitude cirrus and/or cirrostratus and "subvisible cirrus" (SCi) reflected the same or only slightly more than land features. In the emissive band, the digital counts ranged from 1 to over 75 and overlapped land features. Pixels consisting of cumulus clouds, or of mixed cumulus and landscape, clustered in a different area of spectral space than the high altitude cloud pixels. Cumulus affected pixels were more reflective than land and water pixels. In August the high altitude clouds and SCi were more emissive than similar clouds were in July. Four-channel TIROS-N data were examined with the objective of developing a multispectral screening technique for removing SCi contaminated data
Abundance Measurements of Titan's Stratospheric HCN, HCN, CH, and CHCN from ALMA Observations
Previous investigations have employed more than 100 close observations of
Titan by the Cassini orbiter to elucidate connections between the production
and distribution of Titan's vast, organic-rich chemical inventory and its
atmospheric dynamics. However, as Titan transitions into northern summer, the
lack of incoming data from the Cassini orbiter presents a potential barrier to
the continued study of seasonal changes in Titan's atmosphere. In our previous
work (Thelen et al., 2018), we demonstrated that the Atacama Large
Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is well suited for measurements of
Titan's atmosphere in the stratosphere and lower mesosphere (~100-500 km)
through the use of spatially resolved (beam sizes <1'') flux calibration
observations of Titan. Here, we derive vertical abundance profiles of four of
Titan's trace atmospheric species from the same 3 independent spatial regions
across Titan's disk during the same epoch (2012 to 2015): HCN, HCN,
CH, and CHCN. We find that Titan's minor constituents exhibit large
latitudinal variations, with enhanced abundances at high latitudes compared to
equatorial measurements; this includes CHCN, which eluded previous
detection by Cassini in the stratosphere, and thus spatially resolved abundance
measurements were unattainable. Even over the short 3-year period, vertical
profiles and integrated emission maps of these molecules allow us to observe
temporal changes in Titan's atmospheric circulation during northern spring. Our
derived abundance profiles are comparable to contemporary measurements from
Cassini infrared observations, and we find additional evidence for subsidence
of enriched air onto Titan's south pole during this time period. Continued
observations of Titan with ALMA beyond the summer solstice will enable further
study of how Titan's atmospheric composition and dynamics respond to seasonal
changes.Comment: 15 pages, 16 figures, 2 tables. Accepted for publication in Icarus,
September 201
Plant cover, soil temperature, freeze, water stress, and evapotranspiration conditions
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Plant cover, soil temperature, freeze, water stress, and evapotranspiration conditions
There are no author-identified significant results in this report
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