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Apparatus analysis and preliminary design of low gravity porous solids experiment for STS Orbiter mid-deck
The apparatus analysis laboratory equipment design and fabrication and the preliminary design of the Combustion of Porous Solids Experiment for operation in the mid-deck area of the Shuttle are described. The apparatus analysis indicated that the mid-deck region of the STS was a feasible region of the Shuttle for operation. A sixteen tube concept was developed with tubes of 75 cm length and up to 5.6 cm accommodated. The experiment is viewed by IR sensors and a 16 mm camera. Laboratory equipment was designed and fabricated to test the parible injection, mixing and venting concepts. This equipment was delivered to NASA/LeRC. A preliminary design was made for the experiment based upon the apparatus analysis. The design incorporated results from the Phase ""O'' Safety Review. This design utilizes a closed tube concept in which the particles are stored, injected and burned with no coupling to the Shuttle environment. Drawings of the major components and an assembly are given. The electronics are described for the experiment. An equipment list is presented and an experiment weight estimate is determined. The mission operation requirements are outlined
Intimate Partner Violence in Urban, Rural, and Remote Areas: An Investigation of Offense Severity and Risk Factors
This study compared the severity of intimate partner violence (IPV) and the relationship between risk factors for IPV and overall risk judgements of future IPV in urban, rural and remote areas. IPV risk assessments conducted by the Swedish police between 2010 and 2014 in urban (n = 564), rural (n = 456), and remote (n = 196) areas were examined. Rurality was associated with the severity of IPV reported, as well as the presence of risk factors and their relationship to overall risk judgements. Cases in remote areas included more severe IPV as well as more risk factors
Costs of sea dikes – regressions and uncertainty estimates
Failure to consider the costs of adaptation strategies can be seen
by decision makers as a barrier to implementing coastal protection measures.
In order to validate adaptation strategies to sea-level rise in the form of
coastal protection, a consistent and repeatable assessment of the costs is
necessary. This paper significantly extends current knowledge on cost
estimates by developing – and implementing using real coastal dike data –
probabilistic functions of dike costs. Data from Canada and the Netherlands
are analysed and related to published studies from the US, UK, and Vietnam in
order to provide a reproducible estimate of typical sea dike costs and their
uncertainty. We plot the costs divided by dike length as a function of height
and test four different regression models. Our analysis shows that a linear
function without intercept is sufficient to model the costs, i.e. fixed
costs and higher-order contributions such as that due to the volume of core
fill material are less significant. We also characterise the spread around
the regression models which represents an uncertainty stemming from factors
beyond dike length and height. Drawing an analogy with project cost overruns,
we employ log-normal distributions and calculate that the range between 3x
and x∕3 contains 95 % of the data, where x represents the corresponding
regression value. We compare our estimates with previously published unit
costs for other countries. We note that the unit costs depend not only on the
country and land use (urban/non-urban) of the sites where the dikes are being
constructed but also on characteristics included in the costs, e.g. property
acquisition, utility relocation, and project management. This paper gives
decision makers an order of magnitude on the protection costs, which can help
to remove potential barriers to developing adaptation strategies. Although
the focus of this research is sea dikes, our approach is applicable and
transferable to other adaptation measures
Initial Results from the CHOOZ Long Baseline Reactor Neutrino Oscillation Experiment
Initial results are presented from CHOOZ, a long-baseline reactor-neutrino
vacuum-oscillation experiment. Electron antineutrinos were detected by a liquid
scintillation calorimeter located at a distance of about 1 km. The detector was
constructed in a tunnel protected from cosmic rays by a 300 MWE rock
overburden. This massive shielding strongly reduced potentially troublesome
backgrounds due to cosmic-ray muons, leading to a background rate of about one
event per day, more than an order of magnitude smaller than the observed
neutrino signal. From the statistical agreement between detected and expected
neutrino event rates, we find (at 90% confidence level) no evidence for
neutrino oscillations in the electron antineutrino disappearance mode for the
parameter region given approximately by deltam**2 > 0.9 10**(-3) eV**2 for
maximum mixing and (sin(2 theta)**2) > 0.18 for large deltam**2.Comment: 13 pages, Latex, submitted to Physics Letters
Limits on Neutrino Oscillations from the CHOOZ Experiment
We present new results based on the entire CHOOZ data sample. We find (at 90%
confidence level) no evidence for neutrino oscillations in the anti_nue
disappearance mode, for the parameter region given by approximately Delta m**2
> 7 x 10**-4 eV^2 for maximum mixing, and sin**2(2 theta) = 0.10 for large
Delta m**2. Lower sensitivity results, based only on the comparison of the
positron spectra from the two different-distance nuclear reactors, are also
presented; these are independent of the absolute normalization of the anti_nue
flux, the cross section, the number of target protons and the detector
efficiencies.Comment: 19 pages, 11 figures, Latex fil
Search for neutrino oscillations on a long base-line at the CHOOZ nuclear power station
This final article about the CHOOZ experiment presents a complete description
of the electron antineutrino source and detector, the calibration methods and
stability checks, the event reconstruction procedures and the Monte Carlo
simulation. The data analysis, systematic effects and the methods used to reach
our conclusions are fully discussed. Some new remarks are presented on the
deduction of the confidence limits and on the correct treatment of systematic
errors.Comment: 41 pages, 59 figures, Latex file, accepted for publication by
Eur.Phys.J.
Sexuality and Affection among Elderly German Men and Women in Long-Term Relationships: Results of a Prospective Population-Based Study
This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.The study was funded by the German Federal Ministry for Families, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (AZ 314-1722-102/16; AZ 301-1720-295/2), the Ministry for Science, Research and Art Baden-Württemberg, and the University of Rostock (FORUN 989020; 889048)
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