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Study for the indicial load effects on multistage space vehicle systems. volume iii- a description of the computer programs employed annual summary report, 21 jun. 1963 - 20 aug. 1964
Documentation of computer programs used to study load effects on multistage space vehicle system
User's manual for a Fortran IV program for computing flutter boundaries of flat panel arrays in supersonic flow
Fortran IV program manual for computing flutter boundaries of flat panel arrays in supersonic flo
Deriving Information Requirements from Responsibility Models
This paper describes research in understanding the requirements for complex information systems that are constructed from one or more generic COTS systems. We argue that, in these cases, behavioural requirements are largely defined by the underlying system and that the goal of the requirements engineering process is to understand the information requirements of system stakeholders. We discuss this notion of information requirements and propose that an understanding of how a socio-technical system is structured in terms of responsibilities is an effective way of discovering this type of requirement. We introduce the idea of responsibility modelling and show, using an example drawn from the domain of emergency planning, how a responsibility model can be used to derive information requirements for a system that coordinates the multiple agencies dealing with an emergency
Responsibility modelling for civil emergency planning
This paper presents a new approach to analysing and understanding civil emergency planning based on the notion of responsibility modelling combined with HAZOPS-style analysis of information requirements. Our goal is to represent complex contingency plans so that they can be more readily understood, so that inconsistencies can be highlighted and vulnerabilities discovered. In this paper, we outline the framework for contingency planning in the United Kingdom and introduce the notion of responsibility models as a means of representing the key features of contingency plans. Using a case study of a flooding emergency, we illustrate our approach to responsibility modelling and suggest how it adds value to current textual contingency plans
A computer program for calculating external thermal-radiation heat loads and temperatures of spacecraft orbiting the planets or the moon
Computer program for computation of thermal radiation heat loads and temperatures of spacecraft orbiting planets or moo
Realizability of the Lorentzian (n,1)-Simplex
In a previous article [JHEP 1111 (2011) 072; arXiv:1108.4965] we have
developed a Lorentzian version of the Quantum Regge Calculus in which the
significant differences between simplices in Lorentzian signature and Euclidean
signature are crucial. In this article we extend a central result used in the
previous article, regarding the realizability of Lorentzian triangles, to
arbitrary dimension. This technical step will be crucial for developing the
Lorentzian model in the case of most physical interest: 3+1 dimensions.
We first state (and derive in an appendix) the realizability conditions on
the edge-lengths of a Lorentzian n-simplex in total dimension n=d+1, where d is
the number of space-like dimensions. We then show that in any dimension there
is a certain type of simplex which has all of its time-like edge lengths
completely unconstrained by any sort of triangle inequality. This result is the
d+1 dimensional analogue of the 1+1 dimensional case of the Lorentzian
triangle.Comment: V1: 15 pages, 2 figures. V2: Minor clarifications added to
Introduction and Discussion sections. 1 reference updated. This version
accepted for publication in JHEP. V3: minor updates and clarifications, this
version closely corresponds to the version published in JHE
Effects of concurrent intravenous morphine sulfate and naltrexone hydrochloride on end-tidal carbon dioxide
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Respiratory depression, a potentially fatal side-effect of opioid-overdose, may be reversed by timely administration of an opioid antagonist, such as naloxone or naltrexone. Tampering with a formulation of morphine sulfate and sequestered naltrexone hydrochloride extended release capsules (MS-sNT) releases both the opioid morphine and the antagonist naltrexone. A study in recreational opioid-users indicated that morphine and naltrexone injected in the 25:1 ratio (duplicating the ratio of the formulation) found MS-sNT reduced morphine-induced euphoric effects vs intravenous (IV) morphine alone. In the same study, the effects of morphine + naltrexone on end-tidal carbon dioxide (EtCO<sub>2</sub>), a measure of respiratory-depression, were evaluated and these data are reported here.</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>Single-center, placebo-controlled, double-blind crossover study. Non-dependent male opioid users were randomized to receive single IV doses of placebo, 30 mg morphine alone, and 30 mg morphine + 1.2 mg naltrexone. EtCO<sub>2 </sub>was measured by noninvasive capnography.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>Significant differences in EtCO<sub>2 </sub>least-squares means across all treatments for maximal effect (E<sub>max</sub>) and area under the effect curve (AUE<sub>0-2</sub>, AUE<sub>0-8</sub>, AUE<sub>0-24</sub>) were detected (all p ≤ 0.0011). EtCO<sub>2 </sub>E<sub>max </sub>values for morphine + naltrexone were significantly reduced vs morphine alone (42.9 mm Hg vs 47.1 mm Hg, p < 0.0001) and were not significantly different vs placebo (41.9 mm Hg). Median time to reach maximal effect (TE<sub>max</sub>) was delayed for morphine + naltrexone vs morphine alone (5.0 h vs 1.0 h).</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>Results provide preliminary evidence that the naltrexone:morphine ratio within MS-sNT is sufficient to significantly reduce EtCO<sub>2 </sub>when administered intravenously to non-dependent male recreational opioid-users. Further studies with multiple measures of respiratory-function are warranted to determine if risk of respiratory depression is also reduced by naltrexone in the tampered formulation.</p
Black holes and a scalar field in an expanding universe
We consider a model of an inhomogeneous universe including a massless scalar
field, where the inhomogeneity is assumed to consist of many black holes. This
model can be constructed by following Lindquist and Wheeler, which has already
been investigated without including scalar field to show that an averaged scale
factor coincides with that of the Friedmann model. In this work we construct
the inhomogeneous universe with an massless scalar field, where we assume that
the averaged scale factor and scalar field are given by those of the Friedmann
model including a scalar field. All of our calculations are carried out in the
framework of Brans-Dicke gravity. In constructing the model of an inhomogeneous
universe, we define the mass of a black hole in the Brans-Dicke expanding
universe which is equivalent to ADM mass if the mass evolves adiabatically, and
obtain an equation relating our mass to the averaged scalar field and scale
factor. As the results we find that the mass has an adiabatic time dependence
in a sufficiently late stage of the expansion of the universe, and that the
time dependence is qualitatively diffenrent according to the sign of the
curvature of the universe: the mass increases decelerating in the closed
universe case, is constant in the flat case and decreases decelerating in the
open case. It is also noted that the mass in the Einstein frame depends on
time. Our results that the mass has a time dependence should be retained even
in the general scalar-tensor gravitiy with a scalar field potential.
Furthermore, we discuss the relation of our results to the uniqueness theorem
of black hole spacetime and gravitational memory effect.Comment: 16 pages, 3 tables, 5 figure
Geometrical Ambiguity of Pair Statistics. I. Point Configurations
Point configurations have been widely used as model systems in condensed
matter physics, materials science and biology. Statistical descriptors such as
the -body distribution function is usually employed to characterize
the point configurations, among which the most extensively used is the pair
distribution function . An intriguing inverse problem of practical
importance that has been receiving considerable attention is the degree to
which a point configuration can be reconstructed from the pair distribution
function of a target configuration. Although it is known that the pair-distance
information contained in is in general insufficient to uniquely determine
a point configuration, this concept does not seem to be widely appreciated and
general claims of uniqueness of the reconstructions using pair information have
been made based on numerical studies. In this paper, we introduce the idea of
the distance space, called the space. The pair distances of a
specific point configuration are then represented by a single point in the
space. We derive the conditions on the pair distances that can be
associated with a point configuration, which are equivalent to the
realizability conditions of the pair distribution function . Moreover, we
derive the conditions on the pair distances that can be assembled into distinct
configurations. These conditions define a bounded region in the
space. By explicitly constructing a variety of degenerate point configurations
using the space, we show that pair information is indeed
insufficient to uniquely determine the configuration in general. We also
discuss several important problems in statistical physics based on the
space.Comment: 28 pages, 8 figure
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