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Resonant systems for dynamic evaluation of pressure transducers
Tests were conducted with contrived inlet modulated sinusoidal pressure generator to study possible use in calibrating pressure sensors. Results indicate concept is feasible and applicable to transducer evaluation
X-ray Variability and Period Determinations in the Eclipsing Polar DP Leo
An analysis of ROSAT observations for the eclipsing magnetic cataclysmic
binary DP Leo provides constraints on the origin, size, temperature,
variability and structure of the soft X-ray emission region on the surface of
the white dwarf. These data, when combined with prior observations, show a
progression of approximately 2 degrees per year in the impact position of the
accretion stream onto the white dwarf. One explanation for the observed drift
in stream position is that a magnetic activity cycle on the secondary produces
orbital period oscillations. These oscillations result in an orbital period
which cycles above and below the rotational period of the nearly synchronous
white dwarf. The accretion stream and X-ray emission regions are modeled to fit
the observational data. A distance to the system is also calculated. [An
erroneous value for the cyclotron luminosity, included in an earlier paper
version of the preprint, is corrected here.]Comment: uuencoded PostScript file (25 pages) + 8 figures available by
anonymous ftp to ftp.astro.psu.edu (in the directory /pub/robinson), to
appear in ApJ, PSU preprint 1994-1
Study of fast response thermocouple measurement of temperatures in cryogenic gases
Thermocouples fabricated from uninsulated small diameter wire have fast reproducible response times. The thermocouple is thermally isolated from its supports by making the leads of sufficient length so that the heat conduction down the leads is small and assuming that the leads adjacent to the junction are subjected to the same thermal conditions
The Productivity Impact of Skills in English Manufacturing, 2001: Evidence from Plant-Level Matched Data
Microeconomic analyses of productivity for the UK have generally not been able to control for the quality of the labour input, primarily due to data availability, and yet the supply of suitably skilled labour is thought to be a major contributing factor to productivity levels. This paper combines the Annual Respondents Database with the Employers’ Skills Survey for 2001, which allows for a more detailed analysis of the role of skills in determining plant level productivity. Using an augmented Cobb-Douglas production function, the analysis shows that plants experiencing skills shortages were generally less productive than those who did not perceive a skills gap, having controlled for industry and regional effects. In more detail, the analysis reveals some interesting results: the impact that skills gaps have on productivity vary by industry, and higher qualifications do not always result in higher productivity, although innovative plants are seen to be on average 5 per cent more productive, as a result of their more qualified workforce.
Resonant systems for dynamic transducer evaluations Final report
Resonant systems for dynamic transducer evaluation
The Transmission Property of the Discrete Heisenberg Ferromagnetic Spin Chain
We present a mechanism for displaying the transmission property of the
discrete Heisenberg ferromagnetic spin chain (DHF) via a geometric approach. By
the aid of a discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger-like equation which is the
discrete gauge equivalent to the DHF, we show that the determination of
transmitting coefficients in the transmission problem is always bistable. Thus
a definite algorithm and general stochastic algorithms are presented. A new
invariant periodic phenomenon of the non-transmitting behavior for the DHF,
with a large probability, is revealed by an adoption of various stochastic
algorithms.Comment: 16 pages, 7 figure
Meteorological data collection via ERTS-A data retransmission facilities
The author has identified the following significant results. Two meteorological data acquisition systems were built to support hydrometeorological programs related to flow forecasting. Data errors were detected in the stream level formation; these errors were caused by sensor difficulties
Static solutions from the point of view of comparison geometry
We analyze (the harmonic map representation of) static solutions of the
Einstein Equations in dimension three from the point of view of comparison
geometry. We find simple monotonic quantities capturing sharply the influence
of the Lapse function on the focussing of geodesics. This allows, in
particular, a sharp estimation of the Laplacian of the distance function to a
given (hyper)-surface. We apply the technique to asymptotically flat solutions
with regular and connected horizons and, after a detailed analysis of the
distance function to the horizon, we recover the Penrose inequality and the
uniqueness of the Schwarzschild solution. The proof of this last result does
not require proving conformal flatness at any intermediate step.Comment: 41 page
A 128K-bit CCD buffer memory system
A prototype system was implemented to demonstrate that CCD's can be applied advantageously to the problem of low power digital storage and particularly to the problem of interfacing widely varying data rates. 8K-bit CCD shift register memories were used to construct a feasibility model 128K-bit buffer memory system. Peak power dissipation during a data transfer is less than 7 W., while idle power is approximately 5.4 W. The system features automatic data input synchronization with the recirculating CCD memory block start address. Descriptions are provided of both the buffer memory system and a custom tester that was used to exercise the memory. The testing procedures and testing results are discussed. Suggestions are provided for further development with regards to the utilization of advanced versions of CCD memory devices to both simplified and expanded memory system applications
The Global Star Formation Rate from the 1.4 GHz Luminosity Function
The decimetric luminosity of many galaxies appears to be dominated by
synchrotron emission excited by supernova explosions. Simple models suggest
that the luminosity is directly proportional to the rate of supernova
explosions of massive stars averaged over the past 30 Myr. The proportionality
may be used together with models of the evolving 1.4 GHz luminosity function to
estimate the global star formation rate density in the era z < 1. The local
value is estimated to be 0.026 solar masses per year per cubic megaparsec, some
50% larger than the value inferred from the Halpha luminosity density. The
value at z ~ 1 is found to be 0.30 solar masses per year per cubic megaparsec.
The 10-fold increase in star formation rate density is consistent with the
increase inferred from mm-wave, far-infrared, ultra-violet and Halpha
observations.Comment: 10 pages, 2 figures, Astrophysical Journal Letters (in press); new PS
version has improved figure placemen
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