There Is No Basis Ambiguity in Everett Quantum Mechanics

The Everett-interpretation description of isolated measurements, i.e., measurements involving interaction between a measuring apparatus and a measured system but not interaction with the environment, is shown to be unambiguous, claims in the literature to the contrary notwithstanding. The appearance of ambiguity in such measurements is engendered by the fact that, in the Schroedinger picture, information on splitting into Everett copies must be inferred from the history of the combined system. In the Heisenberg picture this information is contained in mathematical quantities associated with a single time.Comment: 17 pages, no figures. Minor typographical change

Developing 2010 High-Resolution Impervious Cover Estimates for Selected Towns in the Piscataqua Region Estuaries Partnership: Final Report

Estimates of 2010 impervious cover (New Hampshire) and 2011 impervious cover (Maine) were generated to extend the coverage of previous work in Rockingham and Strafford Counties, New Hampshire, to include all of the Piscataqua Region Estuaries Partnership (PREP) footprint. The newly mapped area comprised the town of Alton in Belknap County, New Hampshire, the towns of Brookfield, Wakefield, and Wolfeboro in Carroll County, New Hampshire, and the towns of Acton, Berwick, Eliot, Kittery, Lebanon, North Berwick, Sanford, Shapleigh, South Berwick, Wells, and York in York County, Maine1. With these new data, standardized, high resolution impervious cover estimates are now available for the entire PREP watershed. Impervious features covered 3,026 acres (2.7%) in the New Hampshire towns and 13,612 acres (4.9%) in the Maine towns, with a total of 16,637 (4.3%) acres mapped in the entire study area. As expected, the more urbanized towns of Kittery (11.3%), Sanford (7.9%), Eliot (7.0%), and York (6.2%) contained the highest percentage of impervious cover

Separation of lymphocytes by electrophoresis under terrestrial conditions and at zero gravity

Electrophoretic mobility (EPM) of human peripheral lymphocytes were examined with the following objectives: To determine differences in EPM of lymphocytes under immuno-stimulated and immuno-suppressed states. To define the conditions necessary for the separation of lymphocyte sub-populations in normal and pathological conditions; To investigate immunological active, charged chemical groups on lymphocyte surfaces; and to investigate pathophysiological mechanisms of immune responsiveness, as reflected by alterations in EPM. To evaluate the potential of lymphocyte electrophoresis as: (1) a means of monitoring the immune status of kidney transplant recipients, (2) in predicting the outcome of kidney transplants, and (3) as a method for separation of lymphocyte sub-populations, the EPM was studied for unfractionated human peripheral lymphocytes and of populations enriched with T and "B" cells from normal adults, hemodialysis patients and kidney transplant recipients