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Making color infrared film a more effective high altitude sensor
Infrared color film for remote sensors at high altitude
A system of regional agricultural land use mapping tested against small scale Apollo 9 color infrared photography of the Imperial Valley (California)
System of regional agricultural land use mapping tested against Apollo 9 color infrared photography of Imperial Valley, Calif
The Mariner 5 flight path and its determination from tracking data
Mariner 5 flight path and its determination from tracking dat
Use of ERTS-1 data to assess and monitor change in the Southern California environment
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First generation immigrant judgements of offence seriousness: evidence from the crime survey for England and Wales
This exploratory paper delves into differences and similarities in the rated seriousness of offences suffered by victims of different national origin. The issue is important because a mismatch between police and victim assessments of seriousness is likely to fuel discord. It was found that first generation immigrants did not differ in their rating of the seriousness of offences against the person from either the indigenous population or according to region of birth. However those of Asian origin rated vehicle and property crime they had suffered as more serious than did other groups about crimes they suffered. The anticipated higher seriousness rating of offences reported to the police r was observed for all groups. People of Asian origin reported to the police a smaller proportion of offences they rated trivial than did people in other groups. Analysis of seriousness judgements in victimization surveys represents a much-underused resource for understanding the nexus between public perceptions and criminal justice responses
An architecture for reliable distributed computer-controlled systems
In Distributed Computer-Controlled Systems (DCCS), both real-time and reliability
requirements are of major concern. Architectures for DCCS must be designed
considering the integration of processing nodes and the underlying communication
infrastructure. Such integration must be provided by appropriate software support
services.
In this paper, an architecture for DCCS is presented, its structure is outlined, and
the services provided by the support software are presented. These are considered in
order to guarantee the real-time and reliability requirements placed by current and
future systems
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Radiation-induced gain degradation in lateral PNP BJTs with lightly and heavily doped emitters
Ionizing radiation may cause failures in ICs due to gain degradation of individual devices. The base current of irradiated bipolar devices increases with total dose, while the collector current remains relatively constant. This results in a decrease in the current gain. Lateral PNP (LPNP) transistors typically exhibit more degradation than vertical PNP devices at the same total dose, and have been blamed as the cause of early IC failures at low dose rates. It is important to understand the differences in total-dose response between devices with heavily- and lightly-doped emitters in order to compare different technologies and evaluate the applicability of proposed low-dose-rate hardness-assurance methods. This paper addresses these differences by comparing two different LPNP devices from the same process: one with a heavily-doped emitter and one with a lightly-doped emitter. Experimental results demonstrate that the lightly-doped devices are more sensitive to ionizing radiation and simulations illustrate that increased recombination on the emitter side of the junction is responsible for the higher sensitivity
Confidentiality and public protection: ethical dilemmas in qualitative research with adult male sex offenders
This paper considers the ethical tensions present when engaging in in-depth interviews with convicted sex offenders. Many of the issues described below are similar to those found in other sensitive areas of research. However, confidentiality and public protection are matters that require detailed consideration when the desire to know more about men who have committed serious and harmful offences is set against the possibility of a researcher not disclosing previously unknown sensitive information that relates to the risk of someone being harmed.</p
Structure of the X-ray Emission from the Jet of 3C 273
We present images from five observations of the quasar 3C 273 with the
Chandra X-ray Observatory. The jet has at least four distinct features which
are not resolved in previous observations. The first knot in the jet (A1) is
very bright in X-rays. Its X-ray spectrum is well fitted with a power law with
alpha = 0.60 +/- 0.05. Combining this measurement with lower frequency data
shows that a pure synchrotron model can fit the spectrum of this knot from
1.647 GHz to 5 keV (over nine decades in energy) with alpha = 0.76 +/- 0.02,
similar to the X-ray spectral slope. Thus, we place a lower limit on the total
power radiated by this knot of 1.5e43 erg/s; substantially more power may be
emitted in the hard X-ray and gamma-ray bands.
Knot A2 is also detected and is somewhat blended with knot B1. Synchrotron
emission may also explain the X-ray emission but a spectral bend is required
near the optical band. For knots A1 and B1, the X-ray flux dominates the
emitted energy. For the remaining optical knots (C through H), localized X-ray
enhancements that might correspond to the optical features are not clearly
resolved. The position angle of the jet ridge line follows the optical shape
with distinct, aperiodic excursions of +/-1 deg from a median value of
-138.0deg. Finally, we find X-ray emission from the ``inner jet'' between 5 and
10" from the core.Comment: 10 pages, 5 figures; accepted for publication in the Astrophysical
Journal Letters. For the color image, see fig1.ps or
http://space.mit.edu/~hermanm/papers/3c273/fig1.jp
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