Data catalog series for space science and applications flight missions. Volume 4A: Descriptions of meteorological and terrestrial applications spacecraft and investigations

The National Space Science Data Center (NSSDC) provides data from and information about space science and applications flight investigations in support of additional studies beyond those performed as the principal part of any flight mission. The Earth-orbiting spacecraft for investigations of the earth and its atmosphere is discussed. Geodetic tracking data are included in this category. The principal subject areas presented are meteorology and earth resources survey, and the spacecraft selection is made according to those subjects. All experiments on board the spacecraft are described. No attempt is made to reference investigations that are related to the above disciplines, but that are described in other volumes of this series

On QCD and Effective Locality

In a recent paper it was shown how quark scattering in a quenched, eikonal model led to a momentum-transfer dependent amplitude expressed in terms of Halpern's functional integral; and how the requirement of manifest gauge invariance converted that functional integral into a local integral, capable of being evaluated with precision by a finite set of numerical integrations. We here prove that this property of "effective locality" holds true for all quark processes, without approximation and without exception.Comment: Expanded and Revised in REVTeX 4.1, 14 pages, follow-on work of Eur. Phys. J. C65, pp.395-411 (2010) or arXiv:0903.2644v2 [hep-th

KINEMATIC ANALYSIS OF THE VOLLEYBALL BACK ROW JUMP SPIKE

The purpose of this study was to identify and describe the kinematic characteristics of the volleyball one-foot and two-foot back row jump spikes. Eight elite male players participated in this study. Two Peak high-speed cameras (120Hz) were synchronised to record the spiking action. The results indicated that the one-foot spike had a greater approach, centre of mass (CM) velocity, a greater horizontal CM velocity at takeoff and a shorter spiking time than that of the two-foot spike. The swing leg of the one-foot jump spike also played an important role in contributing fo~wardm omentum to the jump during the support phase. This study provides information for coaches in teaching the volleyball one-foot and two-foot back row jump spike

Analytic, Non-Perturbative, Gauge-invariant QCD: Nucleon Scattering and Binding Potentials

Removal of the quenched approximation in the mechanism which produced an analytic estimate of quark-binding potentials, along with a reasonable conjecture of the color structure of the nucleon formed by such a binding potential, is shown to generate an effective, nucleon scattering and binding potential. The mass-scale factor on the order of the pion mass, previously introduced to define transverse imprecision of quark coordinates, is again used, while the strength of the potential is proportional to the square of a renormalized QCD coupling constant. The potential so derived does not include corrections due to spin, angular momentum, nucleon structure, and electroweak interactions; rather, it is qualitative in nature, showing how Nuclear Physics can arise from fundamental QCD.Comment: 25 pages, 3 figures in REVTeX. The fifth of a series on Non-Perturbative QCD (Eur. Phys. J. C65, 395 (2010) or arXiv:0903.2644 [hep-th], arXiv:1003.2936 [hep-th], arXiv:1103.4179 [hep-th] and arXiv:1104.4663 [hep-th].

Sodium vacancy ordering and the co-existence of localized spins and itinerant charges in NaxCoO2

The sodium cobaltate family (NaxCoO2) is unique among transition metal oxides because the Co sits on a triangular lattice and its valence can be tuned over a wide range by varying the Na concentration x. Up to now detailed modeling of the rich phenomenology (which ranges from unconventional superconductivity to enhanced thermopower) has been hampered by the difficulty of controlling pure phases. We discovered that certain Na concentrations are specially stable and are associated with superlattice ordering of the Na clusters. This leads naturally to a picture of co-existence of localized spins and itinerant charge carriers. For x = 0.84 we found a remarkably small Fermi energy of 87 K. Our picture brings coherence to a variety of measurements ranging from NMR to optical to thermal transport. Our results also allow us to take the first step towards modeling the mysterious ``Curie-Weiss'' metal state at x = 0.71. We suggest the local moments may form a quantum spin liquid state and we propose experimental test of our hypothesis.Comment: 16 pages, 5 figure