Nondestructive determination of cohesive strength of adhesive-bonded composites

Systematic plan determines vibration responses and modes of honeycomb composites, correlates vibrational responses of composite specimens varying in strength of cohesive bond, determines effects of thickness variation of the face sheet over the frequency range, optimizes the characteristics of the excitation transducer, and measures bond strength

Lifting-Body Progress Report

HL-10 and M-2F2 lifting body flight test

The inclusion of children in family interventions for psychosis

Parents who experience psychosis experience challenges in addition to those associated with being a parent. Their children are at risk for a range of negative outcome. Family interventions for psychosis have been found to be helpful in mitigating some of these outcomes and have a strong evidence base. Systemic literature has provided a raft of techniques to facilitate the inclusion of children in family therapy, though these are largely absent from the literature on family interventions for psychosis. This study used a three- round Delphi survey to investigate what is considered best practice when deciding whether, and how, to include children in their parents’ family intervention for psychosis amongst a group of experts. Findings demonstrated support for including children and suggested methods of facilitating their involvement in assessment, areas that should be attended to in sessions, adaptations that should be made, and organisational factors that support their inclusion. Their responses suggested that adult mental health services were well placed to meet some of the needs of these children. Consideration is given to items which did not have consensus and the clinical and research implications are described

Investigations with satellite data temperature retrievals

A method is presented for using satellite measurements to interpolate vertical temperature soundings between radiosonde stations. The method finds a set of coefficients, which when multiplied by corresponding measured radiance quantities, yield zero temperature error at a radiosonde station. This derived set of coefficients is then applied to satellite radiance measurements at places between radiosonde stations. The computations show, for example, that the average absolute error in the layer 1000-800 mbs is only 0.3K when the corresponding 'minimum-information' method error was 2.9K. The method may be most applicable to measurements from geostationary satellites, but should also be applicable to measurements from polar orbiting satellites under certain conditions