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Omnidirectional acceleration device Patent
Omnidirectional liquid filled accelerometer design with liquid and housing temperature compensatio
Space flight research relevant to health, physical education, and recreation: With particular reference to Skylab's life science experiments
Data collected in the Skylab program relating to physiological stresses is presented. Included are routine blood measures used in clinical medicine as research type endocrine analyses to investigate the metabolic/endocrine responses to weightlessness. The daily routine of physical exercise, coupled with appropriate dietary intake, sleep, work, and recreation periods were considered essential in maintaining the crew's health and well being
Method for repair of thin glass coatings
A method of repairing cracks or damaged areas in glass, in particular, glass coatings provided on tile. The method includes removing the damaged area using a high speed diamond burr drilling out a cavity that extends slightly into the base material of the tile. All loose material is then cleaned from the drilled out cavity and the cavity is filled adjacent the upper surface of the coating with a filler material including chopped silica fibers mixed with a binder. The filler material is packed into the cavity and a repair coating is applied by means of a brush or sprayed thereover. The repair includes borosilicate suspended in solution. Heat is applied at approximately 2100 F. for approximately five minutes for curing the coating, causing boron silicide particles of the coating to oxidize forming a very fluid boron-oxide rich glass which reacts with the other frits to form an impervious, highly refractory layer
Active Sticks: a New Dimension in Controller Design
A smart stick controller was built which actively produces a force to interact with the subject's hand and to aid in tracking. When the human tracks in this situation, the man-machine system can be viewed as the combination of two closed loop feedback paths. The inner loop occurs as a result of a tactile information channel effecting the man-controller interaction through force with this stick in the active mode (the stick generates a force) and the passive mode (the stick not generating a force) are reported. The most noteworthy observation is a significant increase in apparent neuromotor bandwidth and consequently better tracking performance
Additive for zinc electrodes
A zinc electrode for alkaline cells includes up to about ten percent by weight of Ba(OH)2.8H2O with about five percent being preferred. The zinc electrode may or may not be amalgamated with mercury
Connectionist Theory Refinement: Genetically Searching the Space of Network Topologies
An algorithm that learns from a set of examples should ideally be able to
exploit the available resources of (a) abundant computing power and (b)
domain-specific knowledge to improve its ability to generalize. Connectionist
theory-refinement systems, which use background knowledge to select a neural
network's topology and initial weights, have proven to be effective at
exploiting domain-specific knowledge; however, most do not exploit available
computing power. This weakness occurs because they lack the ability to refine
the topology of the neural networks they produce, thereby limiting
generalization, especially when given impoverished domain theories. We present
the REGENT algorithm which uses (a) domain-specific knowledge to help create an
initial population of knowledge-based neural networks and (b) genetic operators
of crossover and mutation (specifically designed for knowledge-based networks)
to continually search for better network topologies. Experiments on three
real-world domains indicate that our new algorithm is able to significantly
increase generalization compared to a standard connectionist theory-refinement
system, as well as our previous algorithm for growing knowledge-based networks.Comment: See http://www.jair.org/ for any accompanying file
Fragment isospin distributions and the phase diagram of excited nuclear systems
Fragment average isospin distributions are investigated within a
microcanonical multifragmentation model in different regions of the phase
diagram. The results indicate that in the liquid phase versus is
monotonically increasing, in the phase coexistence region it has a rise and
fall shape and in the gas phase it is constant. Deviations from this behavior
may manifest at low fragment multiplicity as a consequence of mass/charge
conservation. Characterization of the "free" and "bound" phases function of
fragment charge reconfirms the neutron enrichment of the "free" phase with
respect to the "bound" one irrespectively the localization of the
multifragmentation event in the phase diagram.Comment: 23 pages, 12 figure
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